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Radiospace is a sonic environment in which an audio signal from a radio is captured, manipulated, and re-diffused in real-time, by means of a computer program written in Max/MSP. The program’s algorithmic behavior and the unpredictable signal from the radio ensure that new configurations of sound are continuously output as long as the program is running, never repeating and never looping. Created to function as the basis for a sound installation, Radiospace has also been presented as a concert work, premiered at the Seattle Art Museum on June 20, 2004, and subsequently performed at events in Shanghai and Beijing. A recording of the work was produced on August 23, 2004, at the Hotel Sofitel Hyland in Shanghai, China, for broadcast on Doug Haire’s long running new music program Sonarchy Radio, heard weekly on KEXP in Seattle. The recording, lasting 29 minutes and 53.137 seconds, was first aired on October 17, 2004. A CD of this recording is being released on July 23, 2009. Jutta Friedrichs helped with the cover layout and design. Lawrence Li wouldn’t take a translation credit on the CD cover, so he takes one here! The album artwork was generated by applying similar algorithmic techniques to photographs of neon signs along East Nanjing Road near the Sofitel Hyland. Further investigation of these processes has led to a body of visual artwork, excerpts of which were exhibited as 29 Giraffes from July 23-August 9, 2009, at in Shanghai (the opening s
