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Iacon perform 'The Golden Age Of Static' / The performance

Radio Iacons golden age of static explores an analogue escape from some of the traditional constraints that performers and audiences face alike. By performing via the airwaves, transmitting to over one hundred second hand radios of different ages and design, ranging from modern to retro, resulting in differing degrees of tone, EQ, warmth and volume, creating a new listening experience. Usually sound artists or musicians within a concert environment are bound by the performance template of having a PA with all the leads & wires that are necessary to support this. The PA produces sound from a single direction/two way split, which could be considered a limitation on the audio experience of the audience i.e. a two-dimensional stationary sound. The Golden Age of Static is a performance that stretches the audience's experience as well as the performers. Instead of the audience experience being non-interactive and docile, facing in a single direction for the whole event, audience members are invited to participate by bringing there own portable radios, engaging with the sound, moving around the venue. Hearing a wide variety of radio transmissions will alter the whole listening experience, the sound will evolve and mutate as you meander through the unfolding dynamic sonic adventure.

The Golden Age of Static also reaches beyond the realms of a sonic experience. As well as the aesthetic impact of a hundred radios Radio Iacon are working with visual artists, animators, film makers and image manipulators, exploring the themes of radio, broadcast, interference and static. The sound performance will be enhanced by an installation of projections, old TV's, cameras and monitors.