Infrastructural Futures: A Durational Radio Broadcast

Infrastructural Futures uses Vinay Gupta’s Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps as a loose structural framework. This framework will be crossed with a RPG style narrative to plot and structure the audio submissions. The result will be an emergency broadcast into the void. The future of the world is at stake. The public must be warned.

As part of Infrastructural Futures, I am presenting four audio works under the umbrella title ‘Sonic Material’. The spoken words and sounds are an extension to the body-material worlds I create. Taking the unique language that a material transmits, these works become a mixture of material soundscapes, that mingle with the words and phrases I obsessively collect and combine, letting them rub up against each other, constructing them into type of ‘sonic material’. Some of the audio works embrace the voice alone, but speak to us of these body-material worlds.

Infrastructural Futures is a durational radio broadcast, hosted by Sluice State Emergency Management Agency in partnership with LungA School & Seyðisfjörður Community Radio in Iceland, for the Sluice Expo ‘World Building’ Programme, and runs from 22 - 25 May, 2025.

Seyðisfjörður Community Radio is a shared digital and analogue broadcasting platform located in the village of Seyðisfjörður on the east-coast of Iceland - hosted, nurtured and initiated by an open-ended international community.

Tune in and listen to the broadcast from 9am (GMT), Friday 23 May until Sunday 25 May 2025, either online via the link below on Sluice, or via Seyðisfjörður Community Radio. If you happen to be in Seyðisfjörður, then please tune in on FM 107.1

Each days programme will be approximately 7 hours, beginning at 9am (GMT), and will be interspersed with live elements.

For further details, and to view the full Sluice Expo programme, and to access the radio schedule, visit

sluice.info/events/seydisfjordur

seydisfjordurcommunityradio.net

Below is a recorded extract from the first of three broadcasts transmitted from Iceland on 23 May 2025, featuring the four audio works by Cos Ahmet, starting with an introduction: