[HCDX] OT: Shortwave Listening Event

[David Goren <dbgoren@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pardon the somewhat off topic message:

After years of nurturing it at the SWL WinterFest in Kulpsville, I'm taking a version of my shortwave listening event aka the Listening Lounge aka The Shortwave Shindig on the road to the Megapolis Festival in Baltimore, MD on Saturday evening May 15th from 10 pm until dawn. If anyone is in the area, I'd love to see some familiar faces. Festival admission is low, about $10.00 and runs from Friday to Sunday.

http://www.megapolifestival.org
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Shortwave-Shindig/238065562301?ref=ts

 The festival is aimed towards radio documentarians and sound artists/composers, many of whom also attend the annual Third Coast Audio Festival in Chicago.

Here's the official description:

The Shortwave Shindig is an overnight immersion in the wavering, crackly sonics of the shortwave radio spectrum. Every day we stride through a stew of signals: our bodies vibrating imperceptibly to a riot of ouds, harmoniums, raving preachers, propaganda, secret messages, electronic squawks, and beeps. We lack only the transistors and diodes to be able to decode them. With a phalanx of receivers and gossamer strands of antennae, the Shortwave Shindig invites listeners to decipher the distant and elusive sounds of the shortwave bands.

10pm-Midnight: Mercy, So Much Noise. 
A crisp and creamy mix of real-time and archival shortwave audio.

Midnight-3 am: Whammy Bar.
The shortwave radio spectrum between 2 and 30 Megahertz provides accessible, constantly morphing aural textures that have a rich history of use by sound artists and musicians, both experimental and pop. After a review of some of this work, via recordings and live performances,  we will collectively craft new soundscapes incorporating receiver improvisations and post-production techniques. Listeners are encouraged to bring laptop-based production gear to make their own pieces.

3am- dawn: The Thin Gray Line. 
As dawn approaches, we'll track the movement of the sharp edge dividing darkness from light around the world, briefly enhancing the reception of low-powered domestic and regional stations from Africa, the Middle East, India, Asia, and Latin America. This segment will combine live on-site monitoring, (atmospheric conditions permitting), a global network of web-based receivers and archival audio.

Schedule and segment length subject to change. Several shortwave radios will be available for tuning; participants are encouraged to bring a shortwave radio if they have one.

David Goren is a radio producer and audio archivist who has been messing around with shortwave sound for almost 40 years.
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