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

Part II: Soundwalk, Screening, Symposium

12pm - 2pm: SOUND WALK

Visitors to the symposium and members of the New School community are invited to open up their ears to the sounds of Greenwich Village with a brief sound walk.

As Hildegard Westerkamp has described:

A soundwalk is any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment. It is exposing our ears to every sound around us no matter where we are. A soundwalk can be done alone or with a friend (in the latter case the listening experience is more intense and can be a lot of fun when one person wears a blindfold and is led by the other). It can also be done in small groups, in which case it is always interesting to explore the interplay between group listening and individual listening by alternating between walking at a distance from or right in the middle of the group. A soundwalk can furthermore cover a wide area or it can just centre around one particular place. No matter what form a soundwalk takes, its focus is to rediscover and reactivate our sense of hearing.

((audience)) curator, Alexis Bhagat, will lead one larger group on a meandering sound walk around the Village departing at 12:15 to the Hudson River and back to the New School. Volunteers will lead groups of 4 people to Washington Square Park for blindfolded sound walks, departing until 1:30.

2pm – 3:30pm: ((AUDIENCE SCREENING))

((audience)) presents a screening of stereo radio plays by seminal radio artists Gregory Whitehead, Felix Kubin, and Anna Friz. This screening will include Gregory Whitehead’s Potato God Scarecrow, a humorous, free associating radio rumination; Kubin’s Raum für Telemagnetische Medien, a piece on ghosts and electricity (using source material from Paralektronoia); and Anna Friz’s The Clandestine Transmissions of Pirate Jenny, the tale of a radio pirate transmitting from inside the black box of radio technology. Total run time of the radio plays is 66 minutes.((audience)) curators, Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati, will give a brief talk and respond to questions after the screening.

4-6pm: DISCUSSION & RESPONSE

Albert Glinsky, composer and author of Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, Branden Joseph, Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University, and featured artist, Felix Kubin, will discuss the topics raised in Kubin's Paralektronoia lecture, followed by a moderated discussion with the audience.