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Audio Buffet: Marjorie Van Halteren and Gregory Whitehead

Jul 11, 2025: 3pm - 5pm
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Marjorie Van Halteren

Marjorie Van Halteren. Courtesy of the artist.

Produced by many contributors.

Marjorie Van Halteren was born in Detroit, Michigan, graduating from the University of Michigan in Speech and Theatre, later completing an MA in performance studies from NYU. She lived in New York for the first part of her adult life, where she was a radio producer as an independent and for WNYC New York Public Radio. She shared in three Peabody Awards for her work in creative documentary and live radio, and as the Artistic Director of The Radio Stage, she commissioned and produced a dozen original plays from New York playwrights. Her work has appeared on Radiophrenia, Glasgow, BBC Radio 3 and 4, WDR, Radio Netherlands, NPR and Studio 360 in the US. She has lived in the North of France since 1992, and is a member of Muzzix collective in Lille, France. She records, composes, sings, and plays electronic instruments and objects, solo, as well as in collaboration with other musicians and performers. Her latest solo piece is “Can’t Draw, Can’t Paint.” www.electroacousticalpoeticalsociety.com

The Electroacoustical Poetical Society (or EAPS) is a group of six sound poets (four in the US, two in Europe) that agree on a single “prompt,” each then making an individual work in response. Marjorie describes its purpose as “promoting the magic that words, voices, languages, instruments, noises and all manner of sounds make together, written, improvised or dreamed – in defiance of genres and categories…words, sounds, silences, thoughts on equal footing. ” The latest program “Accumulation” is the eighth edition to date. https://eaps.mixlr.com/

Poets: Ilaria Boffa (Italy,) Tony Brewer and Brian Price (Indiana), Joan Schuman (California), Marjorie Van Halteren (France), Gregory Whitehead (Massachusetts).

Sounds, songs, and radio art from a variety of contributors. Tune in for something you've never heard before with familiar classics and transmission art mixed in.