April 25th, 2023
Useful Radio at the Smithsonian Museum
Sunday April 30, 2023, 11:00am-12:30pm EDST.
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Baird Auditorium, 10th St. and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington DC 20560.
USEFUL RADIO, part 2
Taking a deep dive into Rick Prelinger‘s radio listening archives as well as our own, me and my long time collaborator Jeff Kolar will be creating a live show that composes across shortwave, UHF and VHF, from air traffic control to citizen’s band, from encrypted security systems to emergency scanners. Employing live and sampled radio signals together with radiophonic and electronic instruments, we tune in to the ordinariness, the urgencies, and the intimacies of everyday radio communications, exploring the musicality of this transmission ecology.
Hosted by Walter Forsberg, Alison Reppert Gerber, Dave Walker of the Smithsonian Library and Archives, the event takes place at the Baird Auditorium at the Smithsonian.
Part of the Radio Preservation Task Force conference at the Library of Congress, April 27-30, 2023.
Full conference schedule here (conference is free and open to the public!)
