Incubations is an evening of three works-in-progress by writer/performance artist/filmmaker Andrea Kleine: The Life of A Rabbit (a book), A Tree Eats A Rock (a performance), and We Want To Be Ready (a microbudget feature film). Each piece is about nature and personal horrors and the weirdness of performing. Maybe they are all the same piece. Featuring music by Bobby Previte on a 1980s synthesizer he found at the dump.

This event is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. A Tree Eats A Rock was developed in part during a Baryshnikov Arts Residency, taking place at Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY.

Andrea Kleine is a novelist, performance artist, and filmmaker. Her recent evening-length performances were commissioned by New York Live Arts and The Chocolate Factory Theater. Her feature-length nonfiction film, The End Is Not What I Thought It Would Be, created in isolation during the pandemic, premiered at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival and is currently streaming. She is the author of the novels EDEN (HMH/Mariner, 2018), a finalist for the 2018 Publishing Triangle Award for LGBTQ fiction; and CALF (Soft Skull Press, 2015), a Publishers Weekly Best Fiction Book of 2015. She lives in Claverack, NY.

This event is Pay What You Wish; suggested donation of $10 to support Wave Farm Radio: WGXC 90.7-FM.

Join us in the WGXC Catskill Studio on Saturday, October 24th from 2pm to 3pm for an Artist Talk and Live Broadcast from Wave Farm's inaugural Spatial Artist-in-Residence, Qiujiang Levi Lu.

While in residence, Lu will work on Tangible Soundscape, a spatial sound installation and compositional experiment that redefines magnetic tape as a two-dimensional recording surface. Instead of treating tape as a linear medium that stores sound in a single forward-moving direction, Lu works with it as spatial material that can be cut, shaped, arranged, and drawn across a flat plane.

Qiujiang Levi Lu 卢秋江 is an experimental musician, media artist, and composer whose work explores the body as a site of sonic transformation. Through custom electroacoustic instruments, feedback systems, and cyborg-like bodily augmentations, Lu creates performances and installations that merge ritual, noise, intimacy, and embodied technology. Drawing from Chinese lineages while engaging queerness, spirituality, and body dysmorphia, Lu’s practice invites audiences into physical and unstable modes of listening. Their work has been presented internationally at MATA Festival, send + receive, High Zero, IRCAM Forum, Inkonst, Zagreb Music Academy, and Temple DongJingYuan, with commissions and support from TAK Ensemble, Popebama, Luke Helker, NEW INC, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks, The New School, and ElektronmusikStudion Stockholm. Lu is a lecturer in music at the University of Pennsylvania and holds degrees from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and Stony Brook University.

In this workshop at the WGXC Catskill Studio, participants will assemble their own pocket sized Community Portal transmission instruments for ancestral play and communication, inspired by ghost boxes, electronic spirit communication, and water and listening-based knowledge practices across the artist Natan Diacon-Furtado’s own Quaker, Sephardic Jewish, West African, Native Brazilian, settler, arrivant, and Indigenous ancestries. Sounds and messages received through these instruments during the workshop will be recorded and broadcast on WGXC as a collaborative sound collage.

Participants will also learn about the pcb antenna designs that receive and transmit radio waves in most of the “smart” objects in our lives and use this new knowledge to design and make tarot and oracle inspired antennas for their own pocket portals.

The pocket portal instruments and the process for making oracle antennas has been designed in collaboration with Fun Stuff Design, an industrial design studio specialized in novel sustainable materials and sustainable product development. Participants will each receive a case designed by Fun Stuff Design and Natan Diacon-Furtado to protect their pocket portals on whatever journeys come next.

Workshop registration fee: $25
Materials fee: $45

Register here.

Natan Diacon-Furtado (all pronouns) is a collaborative artist and designer of visionary engineering projects that expand notions of ancestry and self through play. Trained as an anthropologist and architect, they are currently a doctoral candidate in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, USA. They have been the subject of two solo museum shows, at the Aomori Contemporary Art Centre and Indiana University’s Wiley House Museum, with additional exhibitions at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Delft Architectural Biennial, and Buenos Aires Biennale of Architecture. In addition, their design work has been named one of the ‘World’s Greatest Places’ by TIME Magazine.

Julian Goldman is a designer and artist focused on the point at which novel technology and materials touch society. Dierdre Shea is an object designer with a background in ceramics, industrial design, novel materials, and the craft of manufacturing. She is interested in using her discipline to understand and develop meaningful, sustainable relationships between humans and products to reform and replace systems of mass production and material consumption.

This program is made possible, in part, by the The Oliver S. and Jennie R. Donaldson Charitable Trust.

WAVE FARM and WFMU and ARTxFM are teaming up to bring you a weekend focused on the creative and experimental nature of radio.

We invite fellow radio makers, station staff and volunteers, engineers, and enthusiasts to join us in Jersey City for performances, workshops, and conversations around experimental potentials of radio and the ways that creativity can serve our communities and listenership. FM, LPFM, and internet stations from across the East Coast and beyond are welcome.

SCHEDULE:

Friday November 13

1:00 PM 

Opening Reception

2:00 PM

Theremin Workshop with Dorit Chrysler

2:00 PM

Update on the FCC Translator Window and LPFM Allocations with Paul Bame 

3:00 PM

College Radio Meeting

5:00 PM

Raw Power: Radio Remotes for the Masses with ART FM / WXOX

5:00 PM

Radio as Collage: From Freeform Broadcasting to Spoken-Word with Vicki Bennet

7:00 PM

Tour of WFMU

8:00 PM

Performance/Demo: Demon Box

9:00 PM

Performance: Radio Wonderland (Joshua Fried)

9:30 PM

Performance: Laenz

Saturday November 14

9:30AM

Homemade Radio Theater with Hearty White

9:30 AM

The Collaborative Ecology of Radio with Wave Farm Co-Directors Bianca Felix Biberaj and Meredith Kooi

11:00 AM

Radio Is Not A Container with Anna Friz

1:30 PM

36 Years of Experimental Comedy with Andy Breckman and Ken

1:30 PM

Screening: 40 Watts From Nowhere (Documentary Film on Pirate Radio)

3:00 PM

Inductive Listening Workshop with Zach Poff

3:00 PM

Neon Icon: Syndicating Experimental Programming with WXOX

4:00 PM

The Children of The Waves of Africa with Babette Thomas

5:00 PM 

Audience Building with WFMU 

8:00 PM 

Negativland + SUE-C: Performance and Q&A

Sunday November 15

10:00 AM

All Together Now: Activating the EAS

10:00 AM

Supplemental Media

12:00 PM

Full Group Session: Looking to the Future

More information, full schedule and descriptions, and registration here!

This hands-on workshop explores soil as a medium for listening, transmission, and vibration. Participants will build simple soil microphones using piezoelectric contact microphones coupled to metal rods and plates, creating inexpensive instruments for hearing vibrations that travel through earth, plants, stones, roots, and other materials. We will also be building simple preamps for these microphones and exploring how electronics work.

Together, we will experiment with different forms of mechanical coupling, amplification, and resonance, including metal probes for listening at different depths and resonant plates that increase the surface area through which vibrations can be collected. Components will be protected with dipped latex coatings, allowing participants to experiment with temporary placement in soil and damp environments.

Alongside construction, the workshop introduces basic principles of contact microphones, impedance, vibration, amplification, and field recording. We will conclude by taking the microphones outside for a collective listening session, comparing how different materials, depths, and locations shape what can be heard. No previous electronics, soldering, or audio experience is required. Each participant will leave with a functioning soil microphone and preamp for continued experimentation and field recording.

Workshop registration fee: $25
Materials fee: $45
Click here to register!

ABOUT CHLOE ALEXANDRA THOMPSON
Chloe Alexandra Thompson is a Cree interdisciplinary artist, composer, and creative technologist whose work approaches sound as a relational and embodied medium. Her practice moves between spatial audio, field recording, synthesis, installation, performance, and experimental technologies to investigate how listening can create relationships between bodies, environments, and technical systems.

Her work considers acoustic ecology alongside Indigenous approaches to listening, attending to vibration, resonance, and environmental sound as forms of knowledge that exceed language. Through installations and participatory listening situations, Thompson creates conditions for encountering sound not simply as representation, but as a material event moving through air, water, architecture, bodies, and land.

She is a current Onassis ONX Studio member and has participated in residencies and programs with Pioneer Works, Eyebeam, MIT Open Documentary Lab with the Indigenous Screen Office of Canada, HERVISIONS x Arebyte, and Yucca Valley Material Lab.