Night Train

Abstract

Book chapter discussing relational radio listening at night time. ‘Nachtschichten’ is a publication resulting from and evaluating a project into long durations on the radio, funded by the practice-based arm of the Swiss National Fond, DORE (Do REsearch), together with University of the Arts, Zürich. Voegelin’s chapter evaluates 5 works produced as part of the project, by reflecting on her own listening through the night. It brings a phenomenological perspective to radiophonic discourse, working from a ‘close-listening’ over long durations, to an interrogation of time experience in night-time radio. It articulates the intersubjectivity and nonchronology of radiophonic time, as it plays out away from the day time schedule. It forms part of Voegelin’s sustained research into radiophonic practices: ora : voyages into listening and writing - monthly broadcast on Resonance104.4fm, co-hosted with Daniela Cascella, since 2013; Audio Art on the Radio symposium, (co-organiser/chair), Zürich, 2009; and A short history of radio listening, chapter in ‘On Listening’, CRiSAP l RGAP, 2013