Visual design and consultation by Jan N. Desrosiers

Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist who divides her time between Toronto and Montreal. For the past six years she has predominantly created self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. Anna has broadcast and performed across Canada, and in the US, Mexico, and Europe. She is working on a Ph.D in Communications and Culture at York University, Toronto.

Abstract

Who are the people in the radio?

When I was young, I half-believed that the voices emanating from the radio were the voices of the little people who lived inside. Turn on the radio, the little people begin to talk; change the station and they change their voices. I imagined the radio people waited inside while the radio was off, ever ready to perform at the click of the dial. who are the people in your radio? returns to 1950, to a world of the future as imagined by the past; when television was about to take over as the new mass medium of choice, and when there were still groups of little people in the radio, living, working, fighting, and sowing the seeds of mutiny.