com_muni_port is a portable radio broadcast unit created for short range pedestrian broadcasting. com_muni_port models itself after historical military, scientific, and media-related mobile communication devices. Yet, to distinguish it from many of its predecessors, com_muni_port activates the local, and functions as a tool for information dissemination and public participation.

com_muni_port is a self-contained backpack transmitter unit used for broadcasting ‘on the fly’. While itinerant, its transmission range is determined and limited by the plateaus and canyons of urban space - its dispatch is an invisible membrane of suspended audio whose radius moves with the user.

com_muni_port consists of an FM transmitter, CD player, microphone, headphones, and multi-channel mixer, all powered by a battery pack. Its portability renders its use within political demonstrations and marches, by mapping audio frequency within a city, and spontaneous interviewing and broadcasting. We see it as having myriad communicatory and interventionary functions, all in one unit.

Founded in 2001, nT is a radio collaborative utilizing analog communication technologies. Working specifically with radio machinations, neuroTransmitter propels signals through urban membranes and cellular formations.

To complement their fixed and mobile frequency performances, nT creates radio-sonic installations, produces music, and converts utilitarian objects into radio transmission and receiving devices. neuroTransmitter has created visual works, performed, and broadcasted live on local bandwiths in public spaces and galleries throughout New York City; Columbus, Ohio; Helsinki, Finland; Aarhus, Denmark; and Madrid, Spain. nT is currently a collaborative-in-residence with the research and development program at Eyebeam Atelier, NYC.

For more information: http://www.neurotransmitter.fm/