Mattern_RadioCity

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Radio City: Sound, Space and the CityShannon Mattern

wordsinspace.net


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A city...is not a flattenable graph.

In a city, networks overlap upon

other networks

(Friedrich Kittler, The City is a Medium,

New Literary History27:4 (1996): 719)

Brian McGrath/Skyscraper Museum, Manhattan Timeformations, 2000


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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929

Willis Polk, Hallidie Building, 1917-18


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Archigram

Plug-In City, 1964


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Pirate radio: transmitter, microwave link, antennae,

transmission and studio sites; records, record shops,

studios, dub plates; turntables, mixers, amplifiers,

headphones; microphones; mobile phones, SMS, voice;reception technologies, reception locations, DJ tapes; drugs;

clubs, parties; flyers, stickers, posters

[A]s all the various elements organize in combination withinthe sound, across the city, through a jumble of available

media, there is also a sense in which the polyphony

traversing the signal echoes a wider sense of connective

disjuncture as a crucial term of composition The media

ecology is synthesized by the broke-up combination of parts

Matthew Fuller, Media Ecologies


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