Hey Gang:
After years of nurturing it at the SWL Fest, 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.
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