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project, Phantom Radio, is a library of radio memories and aims
to describe and collate music’s circulation through people’s
lives. The collection of memories highlights very personal voices, and how
they also speak toward collective experiences. The entries were initally
acquired through a mass-call for submissions early in 2005, and have been
sent from around the globe, from a diversity of age groups (the earliest
memory dates from 1945). This was done by requesting people send in stories
of events in their lives linked to particular songs – how a song intervened
through a form of public broadcast, whether that be radio or other means,
to embed itself on the event. Through such work the relation between music
and memory is highlighted, creating recognition as to the particular nuance
and potency of music to partially forge memory itself, where it becomes
hard to know where the song ends and where the memory begins. |
The
project is ongoing and welcomes further contributions. If you have a radio
memory to share, please feel free to send
your story, when and where it happened, and it'll be added to the library.
Thank you in advance for your interest and for your story. |
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