Radio Healer performs indigenous re-imagined ceremonies with electronic and acoustic instruments. To prepare for ceremony, Radio Healer artists produce software and aesthetically symbolic electronic ceremonial tools that are designed to mediate the collective's live performances of moving images and sound. Radio Healer applies indigenous intercultural knowledge systems such as Chicano rasquache, Lowriding, and Native American adaptive reuse traditions for the design, construction, and practice of their tools. These practices demonstrate extemporaneous adaptations of foreign cultural artifacts and materials, as well as the use of local materials to innovate functional and aesthetic musical instruments that encode Radio Healer's indigenous discourse. All the electronic instruments featured on this page were constructed through hacking via circuit-bending, appropriation, salvaging, coding, recycling, adaptive reuse, and improvisation. As these implements mediate visual, sonic, perfromative and discursive complexity, they also demonstrate Radio Healer's self-determination.
