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Galen Joseph-Hunter is joined live in the Catskill studio first by Keith Sanborn to preview his upcoming broadcast and exhibition at Nonchalant gallery and then by Wave Farm Artist-in-Residence Hans Kuzmich, who will discuss his residency project and upcoming Saturday public performance and broadcast.

In the 4 p.m. hour, Keith Sanborn previews Dreadful Penny Dreadful, a 6.1 audio video installation, and nearly three hour radio broadcast that dares to violate every remaining shred of “good taste” using the vehicle of Brecht and Weil’s much-abused “Moritat von Mackie Messer,” aka “Mack the Knife.” Over 200 versions collide, taking you from its origins in Weimar Berlin to the multiple travesties of Rat Pack Vegas and the many imitators of each on East Block TV and in cheesey Jersey nightclubs. Further stops along the way include Midwestern High School chorus practice and performances of ivy college a capella groups, not to mention jazz improvisation sessions, talent shows, and rockers doing high Kultur! A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

In the 5 p.m. hour, current Wave Farm artist-in-residence, Hans Kuzmich, discusses Three Transmissions from a Carceral State, a live performance and radio broadcast bringing together three sound archives connected to the history of imprisonment in Upstate New York. The first set of recordings derives from a practice of listening to the electromagnetic and acoustic environments of active and decommissioned prisons in Wave Farm’s vicinity. The second set draws on Wave Farm’s archive of radio programs highlighting the analysis of imprisoned people, their families, and communities. Finally, a third set of recordings engage with contemporary abolitionists organizing in Upstate New York. The three sound archives will be mixed in real time to evoke the prison as a physical structure and a discursive site. Listening to its past, present, and future, the project seeks to contribute to the abolitionist imagining of imprisonment’s afterlife.