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Deja Vudu is dedicated to the investigation of alien cosmogony through sound and radio art. The show is interested in the ecology where alien epistemologies dissolve the capillary control of what can be heard, transmitted, and known; envisioning fugitive frequencies as a formless formation, a rigorous but anti-disciplinary method.

This episode centers on the first-ever reading of Jason Mohaghegh's Collector of Turns, performed live by the author himself. Around that reading, the program treats radio as a porous membrane between the built and the improvised, folding together handmade circuitry, sub-auditory transmission, and speculative sound practice to unsettle the boundary between instrument, body, and signal. Featured material moves between Maria Thrän and Samuel Hertz's Aeolian Radio, the CCRU-adjacent transmissions of Orphan Drift, Yuri Bruscky's sound art, shortwave intercepts, archival ethnomusicology recordings, and electrical-storm field recordings... interference, resonance, and many other mysteries.

Feature

Jason Mohaghegh — live reading of Collector of Turns (premiere)

Soma (Lyra 8 & Pulsar 23) — "Session, July 8" (Chordata1 Sound, 2023)

2–3. Field recordings via the Locus Sonus open microphone network — Electrical Storm, London, night of 18–19 July 2017: Maria Papadomanolaki (Stamford Brook); Andre Louis (Kilburn); SoundCamp with Stave Hill Ecological Park, "Made Ground" (Rotherhithe); Grant Smith (Loughborough Junction)

Z.M. Dagar — recording from the UW Ethnomusicology Archives, June 11, 1977

UW Ethnomusicology Archives — archival recording 62-7.3

UW Ethnomusicology Archives — "Joe speaks of hags, sea creatures, selkies, imagination…"

Disinformation — "Stargate" (1996), paired with Semiconductor's "Brilliant Noise" (2007)

The "Wow! Signal" — narrowband radio signal recorded by Jerry R. Ehman, August 15, 1977

Shortwave intercept — tribal chanting on 4430 kHz

Popol Vuh — narration of the Maya creation myth

Reza Negarestani — "On the Practical Necessity of Having Demons," Session 4 (CCRU files)

Radio Togo, Lomé (circa 1973) — shortwave broadcast on 5.047 MHz, received in Ancaster, Ontario

Haba Haba Group — "Sitgol #1"

Weird Studies — Episode 36, "On Hyperstition"

Orphan Drift — "radius-suck 04" (CCRU files)

Orphan Drift — "radius-suck 12" (CCRU files)

Orphan Drift — "nomo2" (CCRU files)

HTNM Panel — "New Ecologies of Mind," with Yuk Hui and Luciana Parisi, "Instrumentality, or The Origin of Techno-Logic"

Disinformation & Bruce Gilbert — "National Grid" (1st remix, 1997)

Sadie Plant — "Where To with Cyberfeminism," CTM 2014: Sound, Gender, Technology

Pulsar 23 — "Ornament 8: A Wildly Generative Patch," Episode 4 (Chordata1 Sound, 2023)

Yuri Bruscky — "Estudo para Púrpura," from Sismografias de Vizinhanças, Vol. II

Tatiana Drummond Moura (Taticocteau) — "Entre Nada e Lugar Nenhum," from Sismografias de Vizinhanças, Vol. II

Soma (Pulsar 23 & Lyra 8) with COSMOS + OpenTheremin — "Pulstherya" (June 2026)

Maria Thrän & Samuel Hertz — "Aeolian Radio," recorded at Onassis ONX Studios, New York (Transmission Ecologies Ep. 39)