MISSION
LOOKOUT FM is a West Coast terrestrial radio home for the broadcast of "transmission art:" experimental audio composition, modern serials, data sonification, radio plays, multi-day compositions, and radio-centric performances. Our fully licensed stations in Burbank, Hollywood, and Pacific Palisades function as FM exhibition spaces where radio art is presented without regard to constraints of time, structure, or commercial consideration.
Radio is a public utility, and as such should be a platform for public art. We aim to foster an interest in artistic and abstract uses of the public airwaves among the diverse communities of Southern California and beyond. Our goal is to encourage artists to create and broadcast original works on the FM electromagnetic spectrum in Los Angeles by providing the necessary context and support for transmission-based projects.
PROJECTS
The LOOKOUT FM artist residency commissions ambitious, large-scale, original artworks for radio broadcast. Our latest resident, poet and polymath Will Alexander, alongside musicians Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney, has adapted his 2011 play “Conduction in the Catacombs” for the radio.
LOOKOUT FM and the Villa Aurora are collaborating on a new series called If the House Could Speak. Listen to the latest episode in the archive.
LOOKOUT FM broadcast a site specific performance by Villa Aurora artist-in-residence Biliana Voutchkova at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Listen to it here.
LOOKOUT FM broadcast a site specific performance by Villa Aurora artist-in-residence Biliana Voutchkova at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Listen to it here.