The Other Spectrum

About this event

The UCR Department of Music presents:

The Other Spectrum

A Transmission Art Performance by Anna Friz and Jeff Kolar

Amy Skjerseth, Event Coordinator

Thursday, November 19, 2026

7:00 pm

Performance Lab ARTS 166

Anna Friz and Jeff Kolar have collaborated together for more than a decade on various musical and radiophonic projects around the world. The Other Spectrum explores the terrain of what Rick Prelinger calls “useful radio”, or the multi-directional bands of the radio spectrum where people and devices engage in labor, logistics, policing and surveillance, safety, recreation, overhearing, and more. Taking a deep dive into Rick Prelinger’s radio listening archives as well as their own, Anna and Jeff create a radiophonic world that traverses historical and live shortwave, UHF and VHF bands; from air traffic control to citizen’s band, from encrypted security systems to emergency scanners. Employing actual and sampled radio together with electronic instruments, the artists tune and detune the ordinariness, the urgencies, and the intimacies of everyday radio communications, exploring the musicality and the geographies of transmission ecologies.

ADMISSION

Free and open to the public.

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BIOS

Anna Friz is a radio, sound, and media artist and scholar. Her research often concerns themes of transmission ecologies and the intimacies of signal space; environment, land and infrastructures; time perception and durational performance; and critical fictions. She specializes in self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. Anna is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, and won the Karl Sczuka Prize for Radio Art in 2024. She has presented work internationally since 1998 and her radio artworks have been commissioned by national public radio in Canada, Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, Denmark, and Spain, and heard on public and independent airwaves all over the world. Recent venues include The Lab (San Francisco), The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (USA), Sonandes Bienal Internacional de Arte Sonoro (La Paz, Bolivia), Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro (Valparaíso, Chile), Bienal Sur (Argentina), Heroines of Sound Festival (Berlin), Donaueschinger Musiktage 2024, Radio Art Zone (Esch-Zur-Alzette, Luxembourg). Anna is currently Professor of Sound in the Film and Digital Media Department at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Jeff Kolar is a composer, sound artist, and founder of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform established in 2010. His work has been exhibited internationally at The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Museum of Arts and Design, CTM Festival for Adventurous Music (Berlin, Germany), Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro (Valparaíso, Chile), Radio Revolten Radio Art Festival (Halle Saale, Germany), and reviewed in The New York Times, The Wire Magazine, Red Bull Music Academy, and more. His work has been commissioned by ORF Kunstradio (Vienna, Austria), Deutschlandradio Kultur (Berlin, Germany), Ràdio Web MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), and aired on independent radio stations all over the world.

INFORMATION

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