Radio Yak: Magz Hall

Radio Yaks: A Soundproof series in which eminent producers and sonic luminaries from around the world share audio they’re crazy about, and tell us why.

Magz Hall is a sound and radio artist, teacher, and co-founder of Radio Arts. Her work explores the artistic potential of radio and it's use beyond conventional settings. Taking as her point of departure a hypothetical future characterised by vacant airwaves, Magz Hall's work re-imagines radio's utopian potential.

For Radio Yak, she chooses five pieces that variously explore psychic life and reflect on conscious and unconscious human experience.

Dream Vessels IMAGE: DREAM VESSELS (SUPPLIED: MAGZ HALL)
Magz Hall's sound work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, the British Museum and the Sainsbury Centre. She is a senior radio lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University. She co-runs Radio Arts, an artist led group who promote radio art and the Expanded Radio Research Group. She was awarded a practice-based PhD from Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRISAP) University of the Arts London entitled: Radio After Radio: Redefining Radio Art in the Light of New Media Technology through Expanded Practice.

Magz' playlist:

Deep Swimmer - Holy Mountain Productions, BBC Radio 4, 2016

Dream Vessels - Magz Hall, radio installation, V&A, 2016

The Stone Tape - Somethin' Else, BBC Radio 4, 2015

AllEco - Louise Harris, Resonance 104.4fm, Borealis Festival Radio Bergan , Radiophrenia CCA Gallery Glasgow, Phonic FM, Wave Farm’s WGXC-FM and via Radio Arts Gallery, 2015

Sex and the Cyborgs - Anna Louise Walter, student winner of Canterbury Christchurch University Kent Creative Radio Award, 2016