This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, NHK World Radio Japan, the Voice of Russia, and Spanish National Radio.

Do not call during rebroadcast. Off The Hook, from the hacker zine 2600, airs every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ET in New York City on WBAI 99.5 FM, and is rebroadcast at 7 a.m. Saturdays on WGXC and Wave Farm Radio. It is simulcast online via streaming MP3 and via shortwave on WBCQ The Planet at 5110 KHz. Join #offthehook on irc.2600.net to chat during the show. Email show at oth [at] 2600.com. Do not call during the rebroadcast. Rebroadcast from Nov. 26, 2014, with hosts discussing police scanners and other technology in the Ferguson, Missouri decision and protests.

The Department of Homeland Security says that ham radio is an important part of its new Emergency Communications Plan; NASA to sponsor $5 million Cube Quest Challenge; the Northern California DX Foundation announces a major contribution to the January 2015 Navassa Island DXpedition; estate of former ham makes $1.4 million bequest to journalism school; Fun Sat One celebrates its first year in space and where are all the pay phones going in the Big Apple.

This edition of Other Music features a recording from the November 6, 2014 performance "Michael Century Solo Piano and Accordion" at EMPAC (Troy, NY). The broadcast program features Johann Sebastian Bach: "Overture (Partita) in the French Style" and selections of Preludes and Fugues from "The Well Tempered Keyboard (Clavier);" Morton Feldman: "Palais de Mari;" Terry Riley: "Keyboard Study 2 for accordion and digital delays;" and Karl Stockhausen: "Interval, from For Times to Come." The program presents a broad vista of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach in counterpoint to an unusual selection of compositions by some of the leading voices in creative music from the mid-20th century.

Radia Show 504: Datscharadio Audiokomposter from Reboot FM (Berlin, Germany). "Radia" is an international group of stations, including Wave Farm and WGXC, interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show for the rest. This week: "From a 100 days broadcast on the Landesgartenschau Gießen, datscharadio brought back an archive with audiofiles in a state of digital decomposition. the show takes three different depositories of audio material and traverses them to present an impossible algorithmic summary, a auto-montage of an already diverse ethnopoetic collection of todays garden cultures in an average mid size town in Germany. By Pit Schultz (with Gabi Schaffner) for reboot.fm" http://datscharadio.de

Radio show about found sounds, field recordings, and acoustic ecology. This regular edition features works by Mike Bullock, Gilles Aubry, Desmond Knight, Lawrence English with Stephen Vitiello, recordings from the documentary film "Song from the Forest," and a framework introduction recorded in France by Espaces Sonores.

Radia Show 504: Datscharadio Audiokomposter from Reboot FM (Berlin, Germany). "Radia" is an international group of stations, including Wave Farm and WGXC, interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show for the rest. This week: "From a 100 days broadcast on the Landesgartenschau Gießen, datscharadio brought back an archive with audiofiles in a state of digital decomposition. the show takes three different depositories of audio material and traverses them to present an impossible algorithmic summary, a auto-montage of an already diverse ethnopoetic collection of todays garden cultures in an average mid size town in Germany. By Pit Schultz (with Gabi Schaffner) for reboot.fm" http://datscharadio.de

Five and a half hours of words by and about William S. Burroughs, on the 100th anniversary of this birth in 1914.

Settle in for a few hours of riveting and wise discussions ranging from novelty basketballs to doll shoes to tapes by Floralplasm, Roan Linden, Cave Bears, Special People, Thomas Gerendás, Joe Bastardo & Howard Stelzer, Death’s Dynamic Shroud.wmv, Drophead vs. Silent Land Time Machine, Mincemeat Or Tenspeed, Cenote Glow, Sunroom, Hello Keller, QBLA, Wizards Tell Lies, Jaques Le Shot, and Xunholm.

The first of two conversations with the late Shel Epstein/K9APE from host Hap Holly, KC9RP.

Episode two of "The Cutty Strange," a feature on the work of San Francisco Bay Area-based composer and artist Ryan Page. Produced by Daniel Steffey and Nick Wang, The Cutty Strange focuses on select Bay Area artists with music rooted in the avant-garde, functioning in the world of do-it-yourself and community organization, presented in the style of radio melodramas and operas of days past and present.

((audience)), The School of Media Studies and Parsons Urban present PARALEKTRONOIA a two-day festival of radio which includes a lecture/presentation by German sound artist Felix Kubin; a conversation between Kubin and Albert Glinsky (author of Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage) with a response from art historian Branden Joseph; a sound walk; and a “screening” of selected radio plays by Kubin, Anna Friz and Gregory Whitehead.

December 4, 2014 8 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.: PERFORMANCE

PARALEKTRONOIA begins with a performative lecture by pioneering German electronic artist Felix Kubin. Musician and “compositional linguist” Chris Mann opens. A reception will follow.

The electro-paranoiac phenomenon has left its mark on the lives of numerous electronic pioneers. Russian-born Léon Theremin not only invented the theremin, but also invented an infamous bugging device for the KGB. And Joe Meek, an eccentric British music producer, locked himself, at times armed, in his studio in order to keep the origin of his sound effects secret. A “paralectronic” artist has a mental radio with hypersensitive antennas. - Felix Kubin

In order to track down instances of "paralektronoia", Kubin interviewed inventors and musicians who research the effects of invisible oscillations on the psyche using field recordings and radiophonic experiments. The work includes interviews with artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff on Electronic Voice Phenomena and with scientist Stefan Andriopoulos on media and occultism, as well as excerpts of conversations with Alvin Lucier, Lionel Marchetti, Asmus Tietchens, Mika Vainio, and Dr. Hannes Maier, a physicist and neuro-otologist, among others.

December 6, 2014 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.: SOUND WALK

Visitors to the symposium and members of the New School community are invited to open up their ears to the sounds of Greenwich Village with a brief sound walk.

A soundwalk is any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment. It is exposing our ears to every sound around us no matter where we are. A soundwalk can be done alone or with a friend (in the latter case the listening experience is more intense and can be a lot of fun when one person wears a blindfold and is led by the other). It can also be done in small groups, in which case it is always interesting to explore the interplay between group listening and individual listening by alternating between walking at a distance from or right in the middle of the group. A soundwalk can furthermore cover a wide area or it can just centre around one particular place. No matter what form a soundwalk takes, its focus is to rediscover and reactivate our sense of hearing. -- Hildegard Westerkamp

((audience)) curator, Alexis Bhagat, will lead one larger group on a meandering sound walk around the Village departing at 12:15 to the Hudson River and back to the New School. Volunteers will lead groups of 4 people to Washington Square Park for blindfolded sound walks, departing until 1:30.

December 6, 2014 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: ((AUDIENCE SCREENING))

((audience)) presents a screening of stereo radio plays by seminal radio artists Gregory Whitehead, Felix Kubin, and Anna Friz. This screening will include Gregory Whitehead’s Potato God Scarecrow, a humorous, free associating radio rumination; Kubin’s Raum für Telemagnetische Medien, a piece on ghosts and electricity (using source material from Paralektronoia); and Anna Friz’s The Clandestine Transmissions of Pirate Jenny, the tale of a radio pirate transmitting from inside the black box of radio technology. Total run time of the radio plays is 66 minutes.((audience)) curators, Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati, will give a brief talk and respond to questions after the screening.

December 6, 2014 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.: DISCUSSION & RESPONSE

Albert Glinsky, composer and author of Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, Branden Joseph, Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University, and featured artist, Felix Kubin, will discuss the topics raised in Kubin's Paralektronoia lecture, followed by a moderated discussion with the audience. - Reprinted with the permission of ((audience)).