RADiO iN AMBiENCE PART 2: NOiNO

NOiNO (James Bailey, Matthew Poulakakis and Jamie Todd) delighted this evening's PiNG audience with two sets of richly layered soundscapes. Using various radio broadcasts as their source material, NOiNO manipulated the signals, exploiting their compositional possibilities with passages that drifted from pure ambience to eerie between-station noise. For most of the audience, the result was a satisfying sonic journey across the airwaves of the radio art universe. After an especially long day in an inner city high school, though, the noise element was more than I was up for. While I enjoyed the ambient sections more, overall I was glad to have made the trip downtown to hear my friends from NOiNO make their contribution to the Deep Wireless festival.