tactics for community radio towards a radio without programming
1 Always give the wrong time, date, weather and news report.
2 Constantly change your broadcasting frequency.
3 Do any technical repairs, regular cleanings, planning for shows, committee meetings, training
sessions, etc. on the air.
4 Say what another station is saying at the same time. If they complain, tell them you�re a
ventriloquist.
5 Insist on the global installation of radio parking meters. The more you stay tuned to only one
station the more you have to pay.
6 Have an “Upside Down Week”, where all shows would be found in a different time slot.
7 Have a “Search Week” where all shows would not be found.
8 Have a “Traffic Jam” where stations in different cities broadcast each otherââ?¬â?¢s traffic reports instead
of their own.
9 Play the accordion: go from one watt to full power in one watt per day increments and back down
again.
10 Keep all faders up and play the entire record library of the radio station and then get rid of it.
11 Keep all faders down and wait for a phone call.
12 Fill your program with nothing.
13 Empty your program of everything.
14 Give your guest the controls and put yourself at the guest spot.
15 Dissect the equipment of your radio station into its component parts: transistors, capacitors,
integrated circuits, etc. and send one out to each of your listeners.
16 Go as fast as the technology you�re using. Carry your words to your listeners by running.
The list of tactics is open to contributions by others, if you would like to add to the list please
write to .
From “Christof Migone – Sound Voice Perform”, Errant Bodies Press/Museet for Samtidkunst, Roskilde, 2005, p.67.
Previously unpublished, written in 1992-1994 and used in a section of the lecture performance “Recipes for Disaster:
post-digital voice tactics” presented in 1997 at the Recycling the Future event organized by Kunstradio in Vienna, Austria.
Revised in 2004.

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