Margherita Brillada is a sound artist, artistic researcher and radio maker-curator based in The Hague. She is currently a research associate at the Institute of Sonology and a PhD candidate at the ACPA University of Leiden (NL), with a practice-oriented research project entitled “Re-thinking Radio Art: Community Radio and WebRadio”. On Air – On Site is the first outcome of this practice-oriented research project, resulting in an experimental web radio based in Den Haag, collaborating with West Den Haag and the Institute of Sonology.
By re-thinking radio as a social-public space for artistic involvement and as an exhibition space for experimental sound art, the project attempts to articulate a specific “radio poetics” according to the sonic dimension intrinsic to the medium. Her practice encompasses soundscape compositions, woven with a rich tapestry of elements, including voices, found samples, and both raw and processed field recordings.
Producing radio artworks in search of new synergies between pure abstraction and storytelling, she pays particular attention to the urban soundscape and the anthropogenic presence in public spaces, emphasising the role of the disembodied and acousmatic voice in the radiopohonic context. To collect the sound materials for her compositions, in her practice, she include as an exploration in situ of site-specific spaces with different field recording techniques.
