Six Pack Radio is a compact, networked, concert concept - a portable FM radio/ PR system for live concerts and installations, conceived and directed by Per Platou, and produced by Motherboard.

Six off-the-shelf micro-FM senders are used to transmit audio signals from a 'mixing board' to six battery-driven mono-radios. The cable-free mono-radios are placed according to the specific location at hand to achieve the desired acoustic expression of the concert. The practical, light-weight, cable-free aspects of these radios make it possible to set up Six Pack Radio relatively rapidly in diverse, in- and outdoor venues. Diverse eclectic sound sources; live instruments, vocals, modulated samples and environmental sounds are processed and distributed as a live mix to the six radios as a real-time musical composition is performed. Collaborations with local musicians and radio stations (including eventual pirate radio stations) are desirable, as well as net radio collaborations. Live radio noise/sound will make each event unique, with sounds from local FM stations blending into prepared tracks/channels, as the 6 little radios will become the physical mixing desk.

These concerts can therefore extend, when appropriate, beyond the intimate setting that the short range micro-senders impose. Collaborations with both local and net radio stations may include both the transmission of audio signals as sound material, and the transmission of the concert on local radio. A supplementary part of the Six Pack Radio concept includes lectures on the history and development of the micro FM, radio art and net radio movements, and the mpepe.fm webpage will host a number of links to historic and DIY websites.

While the main focus of Six Pack Radio is on making music and direct communication with the immediate public, the global aspect cannot be ignored. Radio is intensely more accessible to people on a global basis than the Internet, and, after all, air is still free in 2003!