The Conduction Series: Live Collaborative Transmission Art across Borders

The Conduction Series is a collaborative live radio broadcast produced by sound and transmission artists across the Americas on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The collective comes together on the first Friday of every month at 3:02pm ET using a custom web audio platform. Emphasizing live interactivity and media archaeological methods, our work explores the possibilities of remote sonic collaboration at scale and across borders. This paper discusses the history of and motivation behind our project, and the mixed methods we employ that place the development of bespoke network audio software in conversation with ongoing creative practices in live performance.