Contact microphone performance: A 30-minute live performance using a homemade piezo disc contact microphone (made in the June Wave Farm sensor-building workshop taught by N.B. Aldrich and Zach Poff), a Line 6 amplifier with a built-in loop system, and a tibetan singing bowl. The singing bowl will be explored using the contact microphone, and the resulting sounds will be amplified and looped through the Line 6. Live looping and overdubbing will be used to create layers of the emerging sounds and explore more possibilities of the sounds generated by the contact mic. I’ll also use the built-in effects of the Line 6 amplifier, such as phaser, reverb, echo, tremolo, and wah, to manipulate the emerging sounds.

Science, re-mixed: A 2-3 hour live broadcast for one of the late night programs on WGXC, centering around the theme of “remixing” science--both in a literal sense and in a conceptual sense. I’ll play around with educational material such as instructional videos, as well as audio from current scientific research reports. I’ll also include scientific sources that are for the layperson, such as Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and other documentary videos about science. These educational and research sources will be mashed-up with contrasting audio from youtube videos about topics that lie in the “fringe” of science--people talking about things like paranormal events, UFOs, conspiracies, occult ideas, psychedelics, schizophrenia. I will also throw into the mix audio of animal sounds, such as bird calls from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology website. There will be a arc to the broadcast that consists of starting with more instructional and formal science-related audio, which will gradually crescendo into a storm of all the fringe and pseudo-scientific material. It will end with organic sounds, such as the bird calls and animal sounds that I will find on the internet.