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
Episode 16 of If The House Could Speak, the LOOKOUT FM x Villa Aurora broadcast collaboration, is now available for listening in our archive. The next edition will air this Thursday, April 23, beginning at 12 PM PDT and, as always, will play continuously for a full 24 hours.
This week we are featuring Feuchtwanger Refreshed, an ongoing collaboration between USC's School of Dramatic Arts MFA Dramatic Writing Program, USC Libraries, and Villa Aurora through which graduate playwrights and their instructors present short scenes inspired by archival holdings and writings from USC's Feuchtwanger Memorial Library.
This Valentine’s Day, Los Angeles will experience an unprecedented public art event: Attune 1.0, a free sound and light public art experience unfolding across ten locations simultaneously, including Long Beach, Santa Monica, Altadena, and more. For those of you unable to make it out, or those of you around the world that may want to participate, LOOKOUT FM will be broadcasting the preformances right here online and at KFQM 101.5 FM in Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica. More info here!
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.