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On this episode of the Radio Art Hour, we’ll listen to radio works spanning five decades, from 1979 to 2022, all originally broadcast on KUNM Albuquerque. This episode was produced by 2025 Radio Art Research Fellow Luna Galassini.

Overnight Dreamform by Marisa Demarco began as a collaborative broadcast in 2020: eight hours of programming from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. featuring live performances designed to coincide with the distinct phases of an eight hour sleep cycle. Performers for that first edition included musicians Tahnee Udero, Carlos Santistevan, Dylan McLaughlin, Ryan Dennison, Hannah Colton, and Demarco herself. The morning after the broadcast, Demarco invited call-ins from listeners describing their dreams during the broadcast. Those call-in recordings were meant to be included in a 2021 edition of the broadcast, but the pandemic interrupted that plan. Instead, Demarco returned to the experiment in 2022, this time broadcasting the full eight hours as a solo performer, using instruments, voice, and ambient sound collected over her years of work as a radio reporter.

We’ll listen to a new mix of Overnight Dreamform by Demarco that includes those listener call-ins and excerpts from 2020 and 2022’s broadcasts, all condensed into a 32-minute microcosm of the sleep cycle.

Also on this Radio Art Hour, a work first broadcast in 2003 for KUNM’s Aether Fest: Canto a la muerte, a radio poem by Anabella Solano based on the work of bilingual Zapotec poet Irma Pineda; and a duo performance from the 1979 season of the Radio Performance Project: The 54th Light Poem for Ian Tyson, a partially improvised mantra-poem performed by its author Jackson Mac Low and Ned Sublette.