I had the URL wrong: http://www.megapolisfestival.org
On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:48 AM, David Goren wrote: > Pardon the somewhat off topic message: > > After years of nurturing it at the SWL WinterFest in Kulpsville, I'm taking a > version of my shortwave listening event aka the Listening Lounge aka The > Shortwave Shindig on the road to the Megapolis Festival in Baltimore, MD on > Saturday evening May 15th from 10 pm until dawn. If anyone is in the area, > I'd love to see some familiar faces. Festival admission is low, about $10.00 > and runs from Friday to Sunday. > > http://www.megapolifestival.org > http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Shortwave-Shindig/238065562301?ref=ts > > The festival is aimed towards radio documentarians and sound > artists/composers, many of whom also attend the annual Third Coast Audio > Festival in Chicago. > > Here's the official description: > > The Shortwave Shindig is an overnight immersion in the wavering, crackly > sonics of the shortwave radio spectrum. Every day we stride through a stew of > signals: our bodies vibrating imperceptibly to a riot of ouds, harmoniums, > raving preachers, propaganda, secret messages, electronic squawks, and beeps. > We lack only the transistors and diodes to be able to decode them. With a > phalanx of receivers and gossamer strands of antennae, the Shortwave Shindig > invites listeners to decipher the distant and elusive sounds of the shortwave > bands. > > 10pm-Midnight: Mercy, So Much Noise. > A crisp and creamy mix of real-time and archival shortwave audio. > > Midnight-3 am: Whammy Bar. > The shortwave radio spectrum between 2 and 30 Megahertz provides accessible, > constantly morphing aural textures that have a rich history of use by sound > artists and musicians, both experimental and pop. After a review of some of > this work, via recordings and live performances, we will collectively craft > new soundscapes incorporating receiver improvisations and post-production > techniques. Listeners are encouraged to bring laptop-based production gear to > make their own pieces. > > 3am- dawn: The Thin Gray Line. > As dawn approaches, we'll track the movement of the sharp edge dividing > darkness from light around the world, briefly enhancing the reception of > low-powered domestic and regional stations from Africa, the Middle East, > India, Asia, and Latin America. This segment will combine live on-site > monitoring, (atmospheric conditions permitting), a global network of > web-based receivers and archival audio. > > Schedule and segment length subject to change. Several shortwave radios will > be available for tuning; participants are encouraged to bring a shortwave > radio if they have one. > > David Goren is a radio producer and audio archivist who has been messing > around with shortwave sound for almost 40 years. > ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- > > Order your WRTH 2009: > http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 > ---[End Commercial]----------------------- > ________________________________________ > Hard-Core-DX mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx > http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ > _______________________________________________ > > THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed > and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License > published by Michael Stutz at > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
