OPEN CALL: Polar Radio

r a d i o q u a l i a have just began broadcasting a new FM radio
station in Antarctica. 'Polar Radio' is Antarctica's first ever artist-run radio station. It transmitted its first programme on FM on 29 December 2006. Polar Radio is part of a series of projects run by I-TASC - the Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation.

Do you have a song, a message, or a sound that you want broadcast in
Antarctica? We are looking for your music, sound art, radio plays, radio
documentaries, and any phonically interesting artefacts you have to
broadcast on Antarctica first artist-run radio station. There is a
supply plane leaving for Antarctica from Cape Town on 11 January. We
plan to have a shipment of CDs sent on that supply plane. We are now
looking for CDs of:
- music of all different kinds
- radio art
- radio plays
- audio documentaries
- audio books
- archived news reports
- investigative journalism
- podcasts
- any other audio material you would like to have broadcast in Antarctica
If you have sonic material you want broadcast, please make a CD and send it to:
Siphiwe Ngwenya / I-TASC
c/- Pitch Black Productions, 7 Prince Street Gardens, Cape Town 8001, South Africa
Deadline: Jan. 10, 2007
The best formats to send are:
- audio CDs
- MP3 CDs