Cassette tapes and short wave interferences as a musical instrument.

My first contact with electronic music came from a radio set, more specifically the interferences that could be heard between LW, MW stations, or even better, SW stations.

As a child, I’d spend hours fiddling with the radio dial in search of modulations. As an adult, I record these frequencies, I archive them. I give them a worthy sepulchre: audio cassettes. Then I bring them back to life in concert, using cassette players at variable speeds, filtered and modified by effects pedals. These frequencies are enhanced by being imprecise. They promise a song but don’t deliver it. They are clothed in silence without being mute. They are unfrequented but peopled by ghosts… They live. JPRRR

Jean-Philippe Renoult (JPRRR) is a radio producer and sound artist. Since 2016 he has been using cassette tapes and shortwave radio interferences as material for the ongoing performance series « Unfrequented Frequencies ».. He is interested in exploring new and old uses of radio frequencies and antennas.

Bird-Renoult - Quand ça fait ding ding di gue dong

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