Performance of Tree Frog Radio by Ben Donoghue - Making Waves

Today's episode is from a live performance of Tree Frog Radio by Ben Donoghue that took place on February 1, 2025. Tree Frog Radio in the Northern Gulf Islands is an unique underground FM radio initiative in British Columbia that uses trees as antenna masts for localized radio broadcasts – expanding a rural island community’s boundaries of the possible. In this radio art performance interviews and field recordings about Tree Frog Radio were mixed together using loopers and feedback systems in order to blur the space between audio documentary, drone and noise.  Online listeners experienced a special video feed of the performance while in-person audiences got to wander the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River and both listen to the audio on a localized radio broadcast and visit Ben Donoghue in a small studio performing on a modular synthesizer.  Following the performance the two audiences joined together in a discussion about the performance and to learn more about Tree Frog Radio from its founders and members who were in attendance. Visit NAISATube channel for a video version of this radio episode.