Signal Magazine is the South Side and University of Chicago radio station, for which I am editor and co-founder. I am the primary layout designer, and I also organize photoshoots and act as one of the editors for writing and photography that is submitted to the magazine.

About Signal: After Radio Silence

Nowadays, radio, among other “retro” technologies, enchants many of us with its vintage allure. We choose real DJs’ picks rather than Spotify algorithm’s perfect playlists, the same as we choose to hold a hand-printed film photograph over its digital counterpart. After a long break, Signal magazine and these technologies are back. 

  Signal seeks to go beyond this contemporary obsession with the “old days” to explore what radio–as a sonic space, a unique technology, and a complex organization–has to offer. What sort of community does it create inside and outside of the DJ booth? Will it be an inspiration to contemporary multidisciplinary artists? Can we find a new radio sound and a way to write about it?

Established after COVID dealt a critical hit to the radio station, along with breaking our silence, Signal will focus on expanding our community by incorporating different aspects of contemporary culture that connect back to radio, music, and sound and by utilizing the intersection of the retro and the modern, both with sound technology and the past and present of WHPK.