de-fen-es-tra-tion (dee-fen-uh-STRAY-shun)
n. the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
We’ve all been tempted to throw things out the window – but what we’re talking about now is throwing out the obstacles that keep your creativity from a larger audience. With defenestration, we’re taking the art of sharing to a whole new technological level!
It’s well established that the Internet is growing in importance as a delivery platform for content, and WHRO has always taken advantage of our website to offer national content and our own locally produced programming on an expanded and on-demand basis. Now we’re using the technology to spotlight the extraordinary talent of our members and friends, with a website innovation we’re calling defenestration.
It isn’t a radio program, or a TV program, or even a podcast. It’s a compilation of videos, audio recordings, paintings, poetry, sculpture, weaving - any creative endeavor that can be shared with visitors to our website will find a place on defenestration. If your band has a video, defenestration is the place to put it. If there’s no video, that’s where we’ll put slides of paintings, sculptures or tapestries. If you’ve recorded one of your poems, we’ll air that as well – or we can put up a slide so visitors can read it themselves. However you’ve expressed your own special gifts, we want to show them off!
In short, defenestration is an opportunity to share your creativity with whro.org’s many visitors – and a chance for you to see and hear the different artistic perspectives of members of the community. It’s a continuous 24/7 variety show – with you as the stars!
By the way, if defenestration on public radio sounds familiar, you may be one of our longtime listeners who remember a show of the same name that aired many years ago. It was hosted by Carol Taylor, an 89.5FM announcer who was only too happy to throw the rules of conventional radio out the window. Thanks to pioneers like Carol, quality alternative music and serious artistic expression found a home on public radio, and opened the airwaves to programs like Rollie Radio, Out of the Box and Gyroscope. Carol would love what technology is making possible today, and we’re excited to add to her legacy with this new innovation.
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