RADIO & AUDIO
Em has been a radio broadcaster for over 10 years. Her radio journey began at RTRFM in Western Australia where she presented a weekly current affairs program called The Mag, exploring topics from local arts and culture through to politics and science. From here, she joined the Golden Apples of the Sun collective — a “small informed and passionate group of music-lovers who present sounds ‘anchored’ in the loosest possible way to folk, psych and electronica. From melody, beats, field recordings and atmospherics full of thematic elements and explore reference points – Wyrd and Pastoral – Hauntological and Hypnagogic – new and vintage – [Golden Apples is] a launchpad to sub-genres.
LISTEN - Golden Apples of the Sun Archive
Em produced, curated and presented a podcast for WAM called Wide Open Road: The West Australian Music Podcast, celebrating the stories of people from WA’s music scene over the years.
LISTEN: https://open.spotify.com/show/5eHEXCT0jmZWxeX9nxntIX
In 2024/25, while she was living in Berlin, Em presented a monthly program on Tempelhoferfeld Radio called Travelling Circuits featuring pastoral, experimental and atmospheric sounds across the folk diaspora.
LISTEN: https://thfradio.de/de/shows/travelling-circuits
Collage/risograph print A3. Em Burrows 2025
New Forest Collage Radio (NFCR)
In 2024, Em and Jeremy Segal began a creative project entitled Collage Radio. Its first iteration was a sound work entitled New Forest Collage Radio which they created during the New Forest National Park Authority Artist Residency. NFCR was a spatial radio station in the gallery at spudWORKS (Sway) broadcasting poems written and read by Estelle Philips, Hannah Buckingham, Lisa Gardner, and Robbie Steen, songs, music and interviews with community members, as well as field recordings made in the area. Visitors were invited to pick up a radio and explore the field.
With the material gathered during this residency, Em and Jeremy also produced several radio shows for Tower Radio and a 2 hour episode for RTR2 (linked below). Collage Radio continues to evolve.
READ MORE: https://www.spud.org.uk/emburrows
In 2025, Em and Jeremy created 5 episodes of collage radio for broadcast on RTRFM’s digital platform, RTR2.