Radio Meditation by Jasper Marsalis is an autonomous system for ever-evolving sonic meditation inspired by Pauline Oliveros’ Tuning Meditation (a collective exercise where participants tune and detune vocal tones in response to others) and Luigi Russolo’s pioneering noise instruments, the piece sonorises a returning conversation in between a radio, tuned on BBC Radio 3, and a microcomputer. The latter, capturing spectral photographs of the radio’s output at random intervals, crossfades them in oscillations, generating a mutating soundscape of orchestrated chance, an ‘improvised chord of 2048 voices’. Tuning, such as “in tune” or “out of tune”, suggests a relation to consensus, but because Radio Meditation is constantly changing that consensus is in flux.

Jasper’s Radio Meditation was presented as a sound installation within the cyclical sonic programme of the exhibition Ellipse and Ellipsis, curated by Vittoria de Franchis at Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, London in 2025.

The release, co-published with Axis Axis, features an excerpt from Radio Meditation recorded during the opening night of the exhibition and includes a special edition of 33 copies, each including an individual photograph by Jasper Marsalis.

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