LOCO COOL Radio Project
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Listen to a Loco Cool audio program
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Date: Spring 2002
Location: 4741 S. Damen
We own a small watt radio transmitter as a community radio initiative that enables the dissemination of stories, actions, and larger projects between peoples of the neighborhoods we work in. This initiative was built from LOCO COOL, an audio project in the Back of the Yards by Steve Ciampaglia and Kerry Richardson for the Stockyard Institute. LOCO COOL was a composite of audio works that explored the development of experimental narratives and formatting with youth through writing and by teaching participants the technical components of working in audio and radio production. Narratives were shared and broadcast via FREE RADIO from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on Tuesday afternoons. It established an important relationship with the Experimental Sound Studio as well, Chicago's premiere multi-audio production facility. Radio and audio production has and continues to provide the singularly, most consistent, high quality content and in turn capitalizes on the youth's identification with radio and music while disseminating works to a host of outlets (radio stations, galleries, museums and public spaces).