As a Radio Art Research Fellow, Luna Galassini will contribute works of transmissions art originating in New Mexico and the broader Southwest. She will continue archival research that began as an exploration of mining and labor history in New Mexico, and soon expanded to include extant audio archives of historic field recordings, public radio interviews with downwinders and from inside the American Indian Movement's occupation of the Shiprock semiconductor plant, and educational radio programs on New Mexico's rivers, water rights, and land grants. She will focus especially on KUNM's Radio Performance Project, initiated and curated by Ned Sublette, a collection spanning documentary, radio play, long-form field recording, and experimental composition--including a 1979 performance of Alvin Lucier's "Music on a Long Thin Wire," broadcast for five straight days and nights from the roof of the Winrock Shopping Center in Albuquerque. Galassini will also contribute contemporary works to Wave Farm's archive, including artists working with shortwave transmission, low-power community radio, tape collage, performance works using analog broadcast equipment, and contributions from the DIY community of Very Low Frequency enthusiasts drawn to New Mexico's dark sky parks and quiet expanses.

Luna Galassini is a musician and artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her performances explore the somatic qualities of sound and the vernacular range of the voice through improvisation with found objects, handmade oscillators and receivers, and traditional instruments exploited for their resonant potential as speaker objects. As an independent researcher, she is interested in the translation of the electromagnetic spectrum into audible tones; in the nature of energy work and vibrational healing, particularly as it intersects with her day job as a bodyworker; and in the ecology and history unique to New Mexico, including its vast rural expanses, its troubled sites of extraction, and the aesthetic mythologies that obscure its political and cultural complexity. She has performed both solo and in ensembles at Cocoon (Santa Fe), Wave Archive (Tucson), High Desert Soundings, CO-OPt (Lubbock TX), ICA Santa Fe, the New Mexico Museum of Art, Human Resources, No Name Cinema (Santa Fe), Coaxial, and The Box (Los Angeles). Her video work has been exhibited at No Name Cinema, Currents 826, and REDCAT. She is a co-founder of Santa Fe Noise Ordinance, an experimental concert series that has hosted the Chacon/Nakatani/Santisteven trio, White Boy Scream, Twig Harper, Zachary James Watkins, and the Santa Fe Intertribal Noise Symposium, among many others.