02 — The Subwave Project

Broadcasting From a Lighthouse

Marit runs Fyrtårn Radio, a Subwave station streamed from a decommissioned lighthouse on the Norwegian coast. We sent her our interview link; she recorded her answers between gales.

Q&A: Marit, Fyrtårn Radio

Subwave: Why run your own station instead of just making playlists?
Marit: A playlist is a museum. A station is a lighthouse — it is on, it sweeps, someone is keeping it. My listeners don't tune in for the songs. They tune in because the light is on.
Subwave: What does self-hosting on Icecast give you that the big platforms don't?
Marit: Nobody can take it away. The mount point is mine, the archive is mine, the listeners connect to my machine in my lighthouse. If every music platform disappeared tomorrow, Fyrtårn would still be on air.

Recorded & transcribed with submag interviews

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