radio uncertainty
micro-FM radio station
Provincetown, Massachusetts
When you scroll through the FM dial and hear the sounds of ocean waves and whale songs blending with the crackle of radio static, you know the program is about to begin.
Some of our programs
Radio Rice’s Whale - writer Philip Hoare and researcher Tommy Tucker delve into the concept of "home" for the endangered Rice's whale, a species that resides year-round in the Gulf of Mexico.
Black Care- LaRissa Rogers and Aden Choate read Calvin Warren’s text Black Care and discuss about collectivizing care.
Radio uncertainty - an open radio gathering for anyone without a place to go on Christmas day. All emotions welcome zone.
Featuring sound works by Karen Werner and Sasha Wortzel.
´Time and the Town´- collective live reading from Mary Heaton Vorse’s bedroom at the Mary Heaton Vorse House. M. Heaton Vorse was a journalist, labor activist, and novelist in Provincetown from 1906 to the 70s’
´Knots´- read by Maya and henry from R.D. Laing's book describing the "knots" inherent to the bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy.
Fish Stories - local fishing histories from Provincetown, Cape Cod, with fisherman Jacques Macara and Laura Shabott.
Bells bells bells - listening to Jay Critchley‘s bell collection and a symphony with Jay and Tinja
Delroy, Giulio, and Oscar talk about friend love, masculinity, and grandmothers.
Syncronicity machine - Amy and Tinja build a sycronicity machine powered by queer yearning.
Bad Whale - music by Sara, Vicky and Dawn
Provincetown on a budget? with artist and facilities director Jerome Greene.
A talking program - improvised night talk with Sara Stern, Cassie Packard and Pat Kearns.
Jesus' Son - Molly Anders, Lindsay K. Miles and Niyi Ademoroti read and discuss a story from Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son.
installation view, radio uncertainty (2024)
radio installation with cardboard, ocean-found objects and radio equipment
From a refuge during the AIDS crisis to its changing shorelines, Provincetown has always lived with uncertainty. With its fragile signal and intimate reach, radio uncertainty reflected the town’s spirit of survival and care.
Bell program on SoundCloud