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Tune in this afternoon to conversations between Gregory Whitehead and 2025 Wave Farm Radio Art Research Fellows Luna Galassini and Bill Corrigan.

In the first hour, Gregory and Luna discuss her work as a Fellow focused on works of transmission art originating in New Mexico and the broader Southwest. Luna's research is informed by ongoing archival exploration of mining and labor history in New Mexico, including historic field recordings, public radio interviews with downwinders and from inside the American Indian Movement's occupation of the Shiprock semiconductor plant, and educational radio programs on New Mexico's rivers, water rights, and land grants. Luna Galassini is a musician and artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her performances explore the somatic qualities of sound and the vernacular range of the voice through improvisation with found objects, handmade oscillators and receivers, and traditional instruments exploited for their resonant potential as speaker objects.

In the second hour, Gregory and Bill discuss Bill's Fellowship research focused on the idea of navigation of the airwaves via the not-entirely-metaphorical medium of water. Bill Corrigan is a sound archivist, musician, researcher and writer. Starting as a freeform DJ at Ann Arbor’s WCBN-FM, he has been digging into radio stations and archives across the United States, from Detroit’s WDET to Charlottesville’s WTJU, and has undertaken research and preservation activities at the Pacifica Radio Archives and the Library of Congress.

Gregory Whitehead is an audio artist, radiomaker, text/sound poet, playwright and media philosopher. A key figure in the resurgence of radio art since the 1980s, he has created radio artworks, plays and experimental features for the BBC, Radio France, Deutschland Radio, Australia's ABC, NPR, and other broadcasters.