Podcast #147 – Prison Radio Exhibit and a High School Station in a Band Room

On this week’s episode we venture to prison and to a very unusual high school radio station. Members of the artist collective Provisional Island (Heidi Ratanavanich, Eileen Shumate, and Michael McCanne) speak with us about their prison-radio-themed exhibit, An Electric Kite, which is on view at the historic site/museum Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia through at least fall, 2018. The installation incorporates a low power radio transmission as well as a visual components.

Additionally, Jennifer shares her tour of VCS Radio at Vacaville Christian Schools in Vacaville, California. The high school radio station is part of the school’s music program and has many unusual elements. Not only is it a low power FM (LPFM) station, but it also broadcasts in HD and is housed in the band room. It also has secret Morse Code and carrier current broadcasts.

Show Notes

• Radio Survivor Inaugurates Podcast (Radio World)
• Behind the Scenes of the Radio Survivor Podcast (YouTube)
• Provisional Island
• Eastern State Penitentiary
• Eastern State’s An Electric Kite exhibit page
• Provisional Island’s An Electric Kite page
• The iPod of Prison (The New Yorker)
• Whatever Happened to the Phone Phreaks? (The Atlantic)
• Early Hackers’ Supersecret Spyware: Toy Whistles (Slate)
• Maurice Chammah’s “Guerrilla Radio” article (The Marshall Project)
• Radio Survivor Podcast #94: The High School Radio Station That Went HD
• Radio Station Visit #144: KVCB-LP at Vacaville Christian Schools
• KVCB-LP/VCS Radio
• VCS Radio Conservatory
• VCS Radio Symphony performance of Modern Times (YouTube)
• National High School Radio Network

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