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Radio has long been considered obsolete in its use as a news informant and music broadcaster. However, it is vitally important that we recognize its use as the great, postmodern electroacoustic instrument, theoretically greater than the theremin in its scope of possible sound production and undeniably more valuable in its societal value.

The transmissions are, in and of themselves, a broad scope of musical experiences aside from the genres literally heard from the speakers. Electroacoustic improvisation is perhaps the primary one: the use of technology makes it an electroacoustic experience unlike any other; the improvisation evident in the unpredictable nature of broadcasting. Radio, since its inception, has been sound collage in its truest sense. As a collection of these sounds, it may be suggested this album is a field recording for the modern technological age.

This aspect, the one of intentional broadcast, is yet only a part of its whole possible use.

When these human sounds are broadcast, they are inevitably coupled with the totally inhuman sounds of static and noise, the latter defined as "unwanted electrical signals that harm the quality of something." Dismissing the most truly natural sound that can possibly be heard through the radio is foolish. Noise is only as disruptive to intentional broadcasts as the broadcasts are to noise.

Our contemporary experience of radio has clearly changed, but it need not be for the worse. While the age of radio as a distributor of information for the whole of society has long ended, its dawn rises as the logical conclusion for the postmodern experience.

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released October 9, 2015

AM was recorded live and produced by Our Contemporary Experience on September 20th, 2015. The only instrument involved in its production was a radio.

AM is dedicated to Henry Jacobs
(10/09/1924 - 09/25/2015)

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"It is harder to be radical and experimental in contemporary music because our contemporary experience of music is itself radical and experimental."

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