Wednesday 4/16 10:30-11:50, HACU 284: Powerful Frequencies: Cultural History of Radio, Sound, and Power will host a guest lecture by an award-winning radio producer and archivist, David Goren as part of our regular class, in the recital hall of the Music and Dance Building.

Mr. Goren will talk about his archival project: Brooklin Pirate Sound Map. The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map (BPRSM) traces the lingering connections between unlicensed radio broadcasting and Brooklyn's local neighborhood culture in the digital age. This ongoing archival audio project explores the conditions that allow stations to operate openly and illegally, the needs of their audiences and their effect on licensed stations.

David Goren is an award-winning radio producer and audio archivist based in Brooklyn whose work blurs the line between audio documentary and sound art. Grounded in intensive monitoring of international broadcast culture, he examines radio’s ability to create and support community over both short and long distances. In 2003, he founded the Shortwave Shindig, a multi-hour live mix incorporating spoken word, musical performance, radio tuning, and archival sound. He is also one half of the shortwave radio jam band, The Propagations, with Ned Sublette. As a field recordist, audio editor and sound designer, he has created programming for the BBC World Service, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Studio 360, The Wall Street Journal magazine, NPR’s Lost and Found Sound series, On the Media, Afropop Worldwide and many others as well as audio-based installations for Proteus Gowanus gallery, the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective, and CONA gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2016, he was an artist-in-residence at Wave Farm, a center for the Transmission Arts. David released The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map in July 2018 which was featured in The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town." He produced the Greyhound Diaries documentary for the BBC World Service released in November 2018 and selected as a BBC Radio Four “Pick of the Week.’ In April 2018 David released “Outlaws of the Airwaves, The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD" for the Lost Notes podcast and in 2019 “NYC's Pirates of the Air" for the BBC World Service. He presented "Tracing Neighborhoods in the Sky" about pirate radio in New York City as part of the Fall 2019 Franke Lectures at Yale University.

http://www.davidgoren.net

This guest lecture is supported by the Ethics and Common Good Grant, free, and open to the Hampshire College community. All Hampshire Community members are welcome, but please respect the fact that this lecture is part of our regular class activities; please arrive before the class starts at 10:30 and plan to stay for the whole event ending at 11:50, to minimize distractions.