Author: Han Wen

I was recording the convenience store outside my window at 1am, and the electronic ding of the cash register hit the wobbly chain of the roller shutter, creating a damp copper bell in my headphones.It turns out that silence is not a vacuum, but the embryo of sound. I picked up a 1987 desk clock…

For the group radio theatre project, I was responsible for the Foley sound production. Before starting, I read the script and marked which scenes needed specific sound effects. For example, a rainy night, the opening of an old wooden door, the clash of cups and saucers while drinking coffee. My task was to make sure…

I was browsing through the list of programmes on Resonance FM, and randomly clicked on “The Out of Language Experience” under the Garden.Something.Meeting section.This accidental choice made me appreciate the unique charm of radio art – its ability to break the boundaries of time and space and achieve a wonderful blend of cultures. What struck…

The book Radio and sound experimental mentions: “Though the radiophonic voice is “disembodied,” the body is never totallyThough the radiophonic voice is “disembodied,” the body is never totally absent from radio, while it is often radically disfigured, transformed, mutated.The body is neither purely natural nor purely textual, but rather the primal symbolic system that articulates…

There are many core elements of radio art, such as vocals, background music, sound effects, and ambient noise.They interact with each other and create atmosphere and meaning, and in class we listened to a number of examples of radio art, each showing a different style of sound narrative. I was most interested in the category…

The foley technique is integral to sound artwork.It can customise sounds for specific sound needs or images, making the artwork more natural and immersive.Before preparing for foley, we should think about and design a list of all the scenes that require foley.Based on this, we should start to prepare the props, set up the microphone…