On Air - On Site : 48 Hours of Radio Art

Airing on May 24th 10:00 CEST
Elsewhere
Genre: Electroacoustic music
Duration: 15 min
"Elsewhere" is an electroacoustic sound work that deals with sounds in our environment, bringing up questions about sound pollution and "natural" soundscapes. In the forest close to where I live, the city of Stockholm has put up signs to inform me that this is one of the more silent places you can find. The most apparent sound to me is still the motorway in the distance and the occasional airplane above me. For this piece, I recorded sound from this area and combined it with other processed recordings and synthetic sound in an attempt to recreate the soundscape from memory. Not aiming for an exact reconstruction, but rather to artificially create stylized representations of birdsong, wind noise and airplanes, this method opened up the possibility to extend the sounds beyond reality, to escape this place and go somewhere else.

The audio work that was originally broadcasted as part of Radiophrenia 2025 has been reworked specifically for On Air - On Site.

Featuring:

Wilma Hultén

Wilma Hultén (b. 1996) is a Swedish composer and sound artist based in Stockholm. She has earned her Bachelor’s degree in electroacoustic composition from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. In her practice, she explores timbre and the perceptual grouping of sound, aleatoric techniques, spectral density, monotonous repetitiveness and slowly changing processes that let the music unfold on its own terms. With sound itself as the main inspiration, her music often conveys a sense of resting stability. Her music has been released on Möller Records, XKatedral and Laikatonal.

https://wilmahulten.github.io

22-24 May 2026 - 48hours of Radio Art