Startalk is a generative sound broadcast informed by the geographic locations of black independent radio stations in America throughout history and their respective frequencies. This work (or patch) is an improvised set of communications between archived broadcast program snippets, tones, and field recordings from each station's relative location. Startalk is a continuation of a series of constellation pieces, integrating networks of black autonomous spaces into the process of composing music and long-form sound works.

Samples from archival recordings heard in Startalk are from the following stations: KPRS 103.3 FM (Kansas City, MO), WUFO 1080 AM (Buffalo, NY), WJLB 97.9 FM (Detroit, MI), WERD 860 AM (Atlanta, GA), WVON 1690 AM (Chicago, IL), WLIB 1190 AM (New York City, NY), and WHUR 96.3 FM (Washington D.C.).

Samples from The History of WERD by Harold Lamar (1989) are from the WERD Oral History Interviews Collections, courtesy of: Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System.