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10 October 2026 · 12:00 – 14:00

Oram Awards presents: Radio Jam – Composing and improvising with Radio 

Gut Level

Tune into the airwaves as a collective instrument in this hands-on workshop led by sound artist and radio specialist Dr Magz Hall. Whether you are a musician, sound artist, or an adventurous beginner, you will learn to manipulate portable radios and we will compose, rehearse, and perform a collaborative sound piece together.  Drawing inspiration from avant-garde pioneers like John Cage and Magz Halls EVP project, Dead Radio, we will explore the sonic potential of inter-station static, heterodyne whistles, and fleeting broadcast fragments.Through deep listening exercises, extended antenna techniques, and graphic scoring, the workshop transforms unpredictable radio frequencies into a structured, improvised ensemble performance. Radios will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own radio receiver. 

Bio Dr Magz Hall is an Oram Award-winning and Ivor Novello nominated sound and radio artist, and practice based researcher who makes expanded radio art. Her practice combines immersive audio, micro-broadcasting, and site-specific sculpture often tied to environmental themes as well as playing with the whole radio spectrum. A founder of Resonance FM she has a practice based PhD in expanded radio art from UAL, and has run Radio Arts workshops which span Collaborative Art installations, DIY transmission, Micro broadcasting, Mini FM, building Dream Vessels, Book and Tree radio transmitters, radio appropriation, antenna building, sound recording and mixing and many others

https://magzhall.com/

Ticket price £10 / £5 low wage/ discount

Limited to 10 places

Time: 2pm – 4pm

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Getting there

  • Stops: High Street (HS3) (80 m, 30 30A X30 120 120K); Arundel Gate (AG3) (95 m, 24 25 785); High Street (HS2) (97 m, 6 181 779) (Stops: NaPTAN, Department for Transport (OGL v3); lines: bustimes.org / Bus Open Data (OGL v3))
  • Sheffield Rail Station 500 m away, tram at Cathedral 110 m away (Stops: NaPTAN, Department for Transport (OGL v3); lines: bustimes.org / Bus Open Data (OGL v3))
  • Parking: Arundel Gate 160 m (OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL))
  • Cycle parking 40 m, EV charger 370 m (OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL))
  • About 3 min walk from the city centre (190 m, straight-line estimate) (Straight-line estimate at 5 km/h; streets are longer)
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  • Can I get there and back? Put your postcode into the tool below for the last bus and tram, the walk home, and the car parks. (Timetables: Bus Open Data Service (Department for Transport). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.)

Around the venue

  • Air quality within WHO guideline (PM2.5 1.6, PM10 6.8 µg/m³, sensor 2.2 km away) (Air quality: Sensor.Community (ODbL, indicative) and DEFRA UK-AIR (OGL v3))
  • Defibrillator 170 m, toilets 60 m (OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL))
  • No storm overflow discharging within 1 km (Storm overflows: Yorkshire Water (CC BY 4.0))

Can I get there and back

The last bus and tram, the walk, what is recorded about step-free access and the car parks.

  • Nearest defibrillator Defibrillator 170 m away · 24/7
  • Nearest toilets Toilets 60 m away · free
  • Nearest cycle parking Cycle parking 40 m away · free · 6 spaces · Sheffield City Council
  • Nearest EV charger EV charger 370 m away · Franklin Energy /Sheffield City Council

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