On Monday, at precisely 9.02am, in the grainy interstice between the Today programme and Start the Week, the airwaves suddenly filled with a jittery, sampled maelstrom of fragmented interviews, yawns, technical glitches, level checks and incongruous out-takes – John O'Mahony, the Guardian
Open Air was a series of audio artworks by five artists, broadcast to mark the launch of Open – a collaborative open call for ideas by Artangel and BBC Radio 4.
Each artist was given three minutes of airtime straight after the nine o'clock news. At a time when listeners would not be expecting to experience an audio artwork, the airwaves were disrupted each day of a working week. At 11am on the Saturday that followed, there was an omnibus broadcast featuring all five pieces plus interviews with the artists.
Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay is known for his work The Clock (2010), a 24-hour-long looped video collaged from scenes of clocks from films and television programmes that functions to tell the time.
The first in the series of interventions, Marclay's work is another feat of crafted montage-making. Familiar Radio 4 voices combine and compete in not-so-familiar ways.
This work was originally broadcast at 09:02 Monday 25 March 2013 and is also available to listen to on Soundcloud and on BBC Radio 4's website. The full series is available as a playlist.
