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Through a series of prompts inspired by John Cage’s Chance Operations, this workshop led by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow, Desiree Mwalimu-Banks and presented in collaboration with the John Cage Trust, explores radio broadcasting as a vehicle for the intentional transmission of healing frequencies through the use of sound, light, and electromagnetic waves.

Electric and magnetic fields have been used in medicine for the treatment of pain, and wound healing for decades. Pulsed radio frequency energy fields, a technique where radio frequency oscillations are gated at a rate of pulses per second or hertz, is used for the treatment of wound, bone, soft tissue healing, and the elimination of cancerous cells. Through aquaphotomics and near-infrared spectroscopy, sound can be used to identify water’s biological origins and potentially change its functionality.

Considering the studies of Dr. Masaru Emoto’s water experiments as a metric for our human absorption of sound frequencies, how can radio broadcasts intentionally use telluric, aquatic, and stellar sound waves to organize and optimize the morphogenic fields of its listeners and practitioners?

How might radio “match” the energy signatures of the natural world to the energy signatures of its listeners? What effect might the recorded vibroacoustic sounds of honeybees, or the clicks, whistles, and pulsed calls of whales, for instance, have on the organization of coherent energy fields in humans? How can the radio spectrum positively impact the global morphogenic resonance of our planet?

Participants will have opportunities to engage in practices of deep listening, while experimenting with making and exchanging sounds from a range of frequencies derived from naturally occurring sounds. Individual pieces will be gathered on a live digital wall that allows users to contribute to a collective transmission work, comprised of both audio and visual interpretations in real time.

This workshop invites listeners and sound practitioners to traverse the ley lines of this cosmometric expedition, while in conversation with the archival works of John Cage, and a varied assemblage of sound transmission materials.

The workshop will culminate with a live radio broadcast on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears in NY’s Upper Hudson Valley and streamed online at wavefarm.org/listen.