Betsey Biggs

International collective of sound and transmission artists broadcasting monthly. Each broadcast 58 minutes.

The Conduction Series -- a play on the word ‘conduction,’ meaning both ‘music director’ and ‘signal carrier’ (heat or electrical) -- is a collaborative live radio broadcast produced by ten sound and transmission artists across the Americas on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The collective comes together on the first Friday of every month at 3:02pm ET using a custom web audio platform. Emphasizing live interactivity and media archaeological methods, our work explores the possibilities of remote sonic collaboration at scale and across borders.

Each month a different member serves as the 'conductor' of the show, coming up with a prompt or (in)formal score for the broadcast. Our work is recreational in manner, centering on playful prompts and scores to organize our improvisations. Our work is also re-creational, usually somewhat (but not entirely) composed of playfully re-contextualized archival audio which re-creates and re-ambiguates the archive into more questioning, utopian, playful possibilities. We also think of what we do as geospatial audio, both in terms of input (our ten participants broadcast live from across the Americas) and output (our radio show can likewise be heard live on radio stations across the Americas, making it a kind of macro-spatialized sound.)

In roughly four years, we have made almost fifty broadcasts, producing more than 2,000 minutes of live content that is syndicated on radio stations across the Americas.

Performances

Listen to all regular broadcasts on The Conduction Series project website.

2025: Art’s Birthday international radio event, broadcast worldwide. 60 minutes.

2024: Monteaudio Radio Festival 2024, Montevideo, Uruguay. Untitled Abstraction #1. 60 minutes.

2023: Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasglow, Scotland. Selected broadcasts featured over several days at sound art festival.

2021: ORF Kunstradio broadcast, Austrian National Radio, Vienna, Austria. Reality Triangle with August Black, Anna Friz, Rupert Huber, Jen Kutler, and Tom Sherman.