Where is “Moradio”?Locality, presence and non-presence in

“post-radio” practice

Sam Coley and Paul Long

• PRESENTATION:

• Origins and character of Moradio

• The ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘where’ of Moradio

• (POST) Radio practices in production and consumption

• A new relation with the audience

A context for radio practice

• UK Radio terrain & Birmingham

• ‘Local’ stations – BBC WM (PSB), Heart, Galaxy, BRMB (commercial)

• Present ‘physically’ but programmed globally

• Music dominated

Locality

Making ‘space’ for Moradio

• The makers – BCU and community

• Online – present in name only

• Identity of station and space

• From streaming to self-selection ‘menu’

• Local interactions and action

• Slideshows visualise audio

• Hyper-local?

Hearing Moradio

• Post-radio = ?

• No regulation, no temporal limits

• Liberation from ratings – beyond formulae and focus group

• Audio qualities and experiment

‘Listening’ to Moradio

• From listener to contributor

• ‘The valuable listener’ – hyper individual

• Present and non-present communities in communication

• Sustainability through usability