DESCRIPTION:
Radio Transmission Orchestra (RTO) is a completely mobile, multi-channel sound installation that combines pirate radio-broadcast, urban guerrilla art, free speech and public performance.

RTO is a made up of 5 low powered, short range FM transmitters and 20 battery powered FM alarm clock radios. Fourteen artists have developed works for RTO and since the Spring of 2006, RTO has participated in three international festivals of art and music, travelled to five countries with over a dozen installations in both public and private spaces.

Participating Artists:
Cooper Baker
Aaron Drake
David Earle
Caleb Epps
Adam Fong
Thadeus Frazier-Reed
Clint Haycraft
Stina Hanson
Art Jarvinen
Lewis Keller
Joe Kudirka
Eric Lindley
Marc Nimoy
James Orsher
Luke Taylor

Notable installations/performances/press (chronological order)

Featured on 91.5 KUSC during the program Arts Alive

Newtown Arts SoniTrek - Pasadena California

Provflux 2006 - Providence Rhode Island

Uninvited guest at the 2006 commencement ceremony for the Rhode Island School of Design on a 1971 Schwinn 10-speed

LOOM Studio Gallery - Providence Rhode Island

Darmstadt Internationales Fereienkurse Für Neue Musik - Darmstadt Germany
part of "Phonien" with Manos Tsangaris, Johannes Sistermans and Franz Martin Olbrisch

Schloss Tübingen - Tübingen Germany

Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park - London England

Cold Storage - Los Angeles California

Soundwalk 2006 - Long Beach California

International Computer Music Conference - New Orleans Louisiana

Featured on the Hessiches Rundfunk during the Darmstadt Ferienekurse 2006