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Radius highlights Episode 79: Peter Speer Elegy JW in the next program of our ongoing SKETCHPAD Series produced for Wave Farm. The program features a re-broadcast of previous Radius Episodes, and is followed by an audio playlist selected by the featured artist.

Radius SKETCHPAD broadcasts Saturday, September 23, 2017 from 2pm - 3pm EST on WGXC (90.7-FM) in Greene and Columbia counties in New York, USA.

Audio Cassette Tape 0026: Peter Speer “Indian Boundary Park”

Author: Peter Speer

Title: Indian Boundary Park

Performer: Peter Speer

Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Publisher: Patient Sounds; PS100

Release date: 2018

Pages: None

Dimensions: 4in x 2.75in

Cover: Cardstock with jewel case

Physical description: Cassette Tape; 60 min.

Binding: None

Process: Digital print

Color: Color

Edition size: None

Edition number: None

ISBN: None

Notes: Synthesizer performance patches, recorded at home in Chicago, 2016 - 2017. Drawings by Michael Milano. For Jess, Henry, Bob Snyder & Robb Drinkwater.

Peter Speer Elegy JW 21:45

Statement:

Rubber mallets striking a safety rail, a city bus pausing at an intersection, a passenger plane leaving Chicago heading south: Elegy JW observes sounds of daily life, toil, and progress through the otherworldly vantage of a hydrophone submerged within the depths of a placid lagoon. Under the water’s surface, these sonic hallmarks of waking life are transformed into the stuff of dreams… like a familiar book whose words keep falling onto the floor and have begun to sing. They reverberate, merge, and fade—lingering only long enough to be given a second thought before moving on to a place we are not yet invited.

Elegy JW is a participatory performance of reflection. It invites its audience to engage with the boundary between these two worlds (that within the lagoon, and that exterior to the lagoon) by channeling thoughts into hammer strikes on the lagoon’s guard rail, and listening as the sound of these impacts unmoor themselves from time and ripple through the water within unseen waves below. Amidst this percussion, the rumbling of the city passes by in waves of traffic, at the edge of earshot, marking time in a blur of drone and hiss… whispering like a crowd that does not want to be heard.

Radius Episode 79 hosts Peter Speer. Peter Speer is a interdisciplinary artist, musician, and educator based in Chicago. His work incorporates performance, recording, and sound installation, and focuses on the quiet stillness at the center of loud fast things. He is an instructor in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Sound Department, and is a regular contributor to the city’s experimental electronic-music community.

Radius extends an invitation to attend the Radius Fundraiser Concert feat. Coppice / Peter Speer / Jeff Kolar / APHWK&K / Trousseaux at The Empty Bottle. The event is a benefit celebration to support Radius' new 2016 GROUND Series, which is a three-part, site-specific commissioned radio series that focuses on radio’s direct physical connection to the Earth. All proceeds from the Radius Fundraiser Concert will directly fund commissioned artists and production fees of the GROUND Series.

When:

Tuesday May 17, 2016 at 9:00 PM CST Buy Tickets RSVP on Facebook

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