NPR: Neighborhood Public Radio

NPR, or Neighborhood Public Radio is an artists collective and community radio project founded in 2004 by multimedia artists and educators Lee Montgomery, Jon Brumit and Michael Trigilio. Acting as a traveling band of guerilla broadcasters, NPR personnel have hosted thematic broadcasts from San Francisco to Serbia, including a stint at the 2008 Whitney Biennial. What is Neighborhood Public Radio? Imagine a storefront community radio station open to you. You get access to the airwaves regardless of your qualifications or message. We caught up with the founders of the now-decentralized NPR team, in Oakland, Chicago and San Diego to talk about the technical, social and political aspects of broadcasting, and about their tattoos. As a special treat for our listeners we thought it would be fun to ask Lee, Jon and Michael to create a new Audio-Art piece for our Podcast series. The idea was simple. They would each create a composition that was no more than 5 minutes long, and we would layer all three parts together to create a single new work. Visit the link at the bottom to hear the results.

You can listen to NPR: Neighborhood Public Radio online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

NPR: Neighborhood Public Radio is an episode from Latest Audio Salon Podcasts from the Exploratorium.

The episode duration depends on the source podcast feed and may not always be available.

This episode was published on Jul 3, 2009.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Latest Audio Salon Podcasts from the Exploratorium when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.