Voidwave is an ongoing radio show that features work from artists who use experimental sound, performance, field recordings, spoken word, and other disobedient audio speculations – adventures into sound and conversations with the people who made them. Embedded in these sounds are rebelliousness and longing, hunger for new subversive futures, irreverence, determined perseverance, uncompromising politics, and includes a celebration of lineages that spans across time and the globe. Voidwave is a web of experimental voices, sounds, and interviews with a focus on work by femme, queer, and non-conforming folx.
LISTEN to some of our previous radio Program Archives!! Voidwave currently plays on dublab and Kchung in Los Angeles and was previously featured on verge.fm based in Ohio.
ICONS are LINKS to previous shows & info on Instagram!
Voidwave is a collaboration by multidisciplinary artists Melissa Vogley Woods in Ohio, Liz Roberts in Berkeley, and Kim Zumpfe and Katya Urban in Los Angeles, with occasional collaborators to produce the shows. Voidwave was started by Melissa, Liz, and Gina Osterloh as an extension of their band Fistgig. All graphics, text, and design is created by Melissa.
I currently (sort of) direct the show, but this could change, as I totally welcome change. I was originally invited by Gina to create two Voidwave shows. These featured my own sound works and sound poems, as well as works created in collaboration with Linda Franke. These episodes were followed by an invitation by all of these fabulous people to join the co-production of Voidwave. My vision of Voidwave is to create a broader view into what and who constitutes experimental sound practices historically and in contemporary practice, beyond the common canons of sound art.
Kim Zumpfe 