KOOPt is a low-powered FM radio installation housed in and hosted by CO-OPt Research + Projects in Lubbock, TX. The installation is site-specific and only accessible by listening within approximately 150 feet of the gallery door.
KOOPt radio can be accessed 24/7 by tuning a traditional radio to 89.9 FM near CO-OPt Research + Projects at 4202 Boston Ave, Lubbock, Texas. Listeners are invited to listen through a car radio while driving by the gallery or pull into the CO-OPt parking lot and park to experience the broadcast more fully.
The work featured on KOOPt has been created with the limitations of low-power FM transmission in mind. Electrical and broadcast interference endemic to the medium, as well as audio-focus as determined by listener position and means, dramatically alter the effect of the work, maximizing ambiguity between intention and accident. The pieces presented on KOOPt tend toward the long-form and textural rather than traditionally musical.
