Unfrequented Frequencies

At 5pm – a live performance from Jean-Phillipe Renoult employing radio glitches and short wave interferences as a musical instrument streamed to us direct from Paris.

Unfrequented Frequencies is a solo improvisation by JPRRR, who uses shortwave radio interference as the basis for live performances.

“My first contact with electronic music came from a radio set, more specifically the interferences that could be heard between SW stations. As a child, I spent hours fiddling with the radio dial looking for modulations. As an adult, I record these frequencies, I archive them on audio cassettes. Then I bring them back to life by playing the cassettes at different speeds, filtering them and changing them with effect pedals.”

These frequencies are enhanced by being imprecise. They are surrounded in silence without being silent. They are unfrequented, but alive…