M&A Architecture Radio
Materials & Applications stewards Los Angeles’s only terrestrial architecture radio program on 96.7 KGAP-LP FM. With support from Lookout FM, we broadcast curated programming centering on architecture, art, and critical practices from our antenna in Burbank, CA.
M_A Architecture Radio publishes issues of audio contributions—podcast episodes, field recordings, dance tracks, interviews, experiments, etc—about the built environment.
If you are out of range, you may browse M_A Architecture Radio online below, where you’ll find a curated archive of projects that we are broadcasting via our radio tower, as well as works that are exclusive to our website due to profane content.
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About K-GAP 96.7
KGAP (96.7 FM) is an architecture radio station run by Materials & Applications and broadcasting from the hills of Burbank, California.
In 2013, Materials & Applications and fourteen non-profit arts and culture organizations applied to the Federal Communications Commission to run a Low Power FM signal in Los Angeles, California. In 2021, M_A erected our first-ever radio antenna in the backyard of a Burbank home. (If you’re driving through the area, tune in to 96.7 KGAP to check it out!) M_A fills this channel with a schedule of art and architecture programming. In collaboration with Lookout FM (run by Cameron Stallones and Sam Rowell), KGAP features programs that fill in gaps in architectural programming by prioritizing the voices and perspectives of those most marginalized in the practice and discourses of architecture and art.
KGAP is made possible by the dedication of our M_A Radio Working Group, which over the years has included Isabel Kuh, Alyssa Lopez, Dami Olufowoshe, Lena Pozdnyakova, Colton Strauss, and Mats Swenson, and collaborators Clay Leander, Emma Price, and Gabriel Fries-Briggs.
About Lookout FM
LOOKOUT FM is a new independent FM radio network in Los Angeles. Broadcasting in Burbank on 96.7FM KGAP and Hollywood on 99.1FM KZUT, LOOKOUT FM is an observatory: curated audio programming with a wide outlook: varied perspectives on the world expressed through music, documentaries, lectures, poetry, and discussion. Partnered with voices from the Indigenous community, the music community, the arts community, and the academic community, LOOKOUT FM offers long-term perspectives on that which lasts: nature, and the arts.