NIL HEARD

Nothing was performed. Everything was received.

NIL HEARD is operator log shorthand for I listened at the scheduled time and nothing arrived.

The idea

An electronic record made from shortwave radio we received ourselves — time signals, weather fax, station markers and the empty band between them. No third-party audio, anywhere. The score is code: the same seed renders the same music, to the sample.

The Reception Log

Every reception that feeds the record is logged the moment it is made, with its provenance — frequency, mode, the UTC minute, the kind of receiver that heard it — and will be playable here. The archive is being built.

The record

A record is in progress. It will be named and dated when the last master is finished, and not before.

station
NIL HEARD
reception log
building
record
in progress
on air
not yet
qrv
standing by

Receiver operators, takedown, anything else: log@nilheard.com