This lecture and presentation was held on Sunday, 26 February 2023, at SONOHR.

In this masterclass John Coburn and Tim Shaw present Wild Radio, a practice which encourages communities to consider familiar places (their homes, streets, cities, villages and woodlands) afresh. Using the richness of radio to bring disparate communities of people together. Drawing on their collaborations with rural communities in the North East of England they describe how they have supported people to listen to, record and broadcast their shared sonic environments. By using different listening technologies to capture the sounds of their communities (social, environmental, geological sounds) Wild Radio encourages people to rediscover their immediate sound-worlds.

John Coburn is the founder of Wild Museum, a collaboration of artists, researchers & educators based in the North East of England. Wild Museum produce creative programmes with communities and organisations across the UK, exploring changing human relationships with place, people and the natural world. John is the co-owner of Duke’s Hagg, an ancient and post-industrial woodland in Northumberland.

Tim Shaw is an artist working with sound, light and communication media. Presenting work through perfor- mances, installations and sound walks Tim is interested in how listening environments can be constructed or explored using a diverse range of techniques and technologies. Tim is a Lecturer in Digital Media at Newcastle University and the co-curator of the Walking Festival of Sound.

wild-museum.com