Listen Up, London; Tune in to 104.4FM and You Might Hear British Folk, Indian Classical Music or Improv ? It's the Sound of the Capital's Newest Radio Station Experimenting

Steward, Sue, The Evening Standard (London, England)

Byline: SUE STEWARD

IS London ready for art radio? Does London know or even care about art radio? It is too late for conjecture: Britain's first art radio station, Resonance FM, has a 12-month licence and is already on air. If you live within a 5km radius of its Bankside transmitter and stray to the fringes of the FM waveband, you will enter a world unlike anything else on the dial; you could occasionally imagine you'd hit interference from your local minicab radio.

That's the idea, says project co-ordinator Ed Baxter, who describes the station as "a laboratory for experimentation", "an archive for the new, the undiscovered and the forgotten" and "an invisible …

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Publication information: Article title: Listen Up, London; Tune in to 104.4FM and You Might Hear British Folk, Indian Classical Music or Improv ? It's the Sound of the Capital's Newest Radio Station Experimenting. Contributors: Steward, Sue - Author. Newspaper title: The Evening Standard (London, England). Publication date: May 16, 2002. Page number: 52. © Not available. COPYRIGHT 2002 Gale Group.

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