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    This document discusses the intersection of sound, space, and the city through various technologies and architectural forms. It explores how radio transmission networks overlapped with other networks in the city and created a complex media ecology. Examples are given of pirate radio systems in the past that used a combination of transmitters, links, antennas, studios, and reception technologies to broadcast music across the city in a disjunctive but connected way, mirroring the wider sense of composition within the urban soundscape.

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    This document discusses the intersection of sound, space, and the city through various technologies and architectural forms. It explores how radio transmission networks overlapped with other networks in the city and created a complex media ecology. Examples are given of pirate radio systems in the past that used a combination of transmitters, links, antennas, studios, and reception technologies to broadcast music across the city in a disjunctive but connected way, mirroring the wider sense of composition within the urban soundscape.

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    Mattern RadioCity

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    Shannon Mattern
    This document discusses the intersection of sound, space, and the city through various technologies and architectural forms. It explores how radio transmission networks overlapped with other networks in the city and created a complex media ecology. Examples are given of pirate radio systems in the past that used a combination of transmitters, links, antennas, studios, and reception technologies to broadcast music across the city in a disjunctive but connected way, mirroring the wider sense of composition within the urban soundscape.

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    Radio City: Sound, Space and the City

    Shannon 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 History 27:4 (1996): 719)

    Brian McGrath/Skyscraper Museum, Manhattan Timeformations, 2000

    Via MakingMaps.net

    Via LNL

    Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929 Willis Polk, Hallidie Building, 1917-18

    Archigram Plug-In City, 1964

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    Via NYTimes

    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 within the 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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