((audience)) and The New School (School of Media Studies and Parsons Urban) present PARALEKTRONOIA a two-day festival of radio art.

PARALEKTRONOIA begins with an eponymous performative lecture by pioneering German electronic artist Felix Kubin. Musician and “compositional linguist” Chris Mann opens. A reception will follow.
As Kubin as described it:

The electro­paranoiac phenomenon has left its mark on the lives of numerous electronic pioneers. Russian­born Léon Theremin not only invented the theremin, but also invented an infamous bugging device for the KGB. And Joe Meek, an eccentric British music producer, locked himself, at times armed, in his studio in order to keep the origin of his sound effects secret. A “paralectronic” artist has a mental radio with hypersensitive antennas. ­

In order to track down instances of "paralektronoia", Kubin interviewed inventors and musicians who research the effects of invisible oscillations on the psyche using field recordings and radiophonic experiments. The work includes interviews with artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff on Electronic Voice Phenomena and with scientist Stefan Andriopoulos on media and occultism, as well as excerpts of conversations with Alvin Lucier, Lionel Marchetti, Asmus Tietchens, Mika Vainio, and Dr. Hannes Maier, a physicist and neuro­otologist, among others.