Lutruwita/Tasmania based radio queens Sisters Akousmatica (Phillipa Stafford and Julia Drouhin) promote expanded radio projects that explore the radical possibilities of transmission since 2016. They create curatorial, artistic and written projects which are concerned with collective radio practices, auditory-spatial exploration and the potential of emergent art forms to support and promote socio-cultural and gender minorities in the field of sound arts. They currently broadcast a monthly show called Radio Art Library at Edge Radio 9.3FM for women and non-binary artists who will receive a customrisoprint QSL card with a prototype of an hyper-local transmitter and herbs seeds.
Sisters Akousmatica produce large-scale public transmission projects, retreats, workshops, publications and commissions with organisations such as Castlemaine State Festival, Liquid Architecture, Next Wave Festival, Hobiennale, Mona Foma, Junction Festival, The Channel, Signal, Radiophrenia, ACCA, Vitalstatistix’s Adhocracy, JRM Paris, Fair-Play, RealTime, Doing Feminism/Sharing the world (ARC project with Dr Anne Marsh), Island Magazine, Auricle, ICMA-Array and Radical Networks Berlin. Sisters Akousmatica and 3CR were awarded the CBAA Excellence in Music Programming award at the 2017 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Conference.
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