Stephanie Acosta

Fleeting Components Ep. 1- Radio Aktiv's Sonic Deep Map fleeting-components.tumblr.com/episodes Fleeting Components is a micro doc series following the experimental radio broadcasting platform, RADIUS through it's year long series, GRIDS. The GRIDS series consists of four mobile commissioned radio broadcasts at four different Chicago geographical locations throughout the 2014 calendar year. Radius Ep 48 - theradius.us/grids Sonic Deep Map consists of various recorded materials gathered at the Case Pyhäjoki camp for artists, theorists, scholars, cultural producers, and activists that responded to the threat of nuclear power in Pyhäjoki, Finland. Case Pyhäjoki, organized by Mari Keski-Korsu, Pixelache, Hai Art, and the Finnish Bio Art Society among others, took place during August 2013 for two weeks. During Case Pyhäjoki, Radio Aktiv learned about the small town in Finland that is facing possible construction of a nuclear power plant.

Fleeting Components Ep. 2 - Ethan Rose's HUM fleeting-components.tumblr.com/episodes Fleeting Components is a micro doc series following the experimental radio broadcasting platform, RADIUS through it's year long series, GRIDS. The GRIDS series consists of four mobile commissioned radio broadcasts at four different Chicago geographical locations throughout the 2014 calendar year. Radius Ep 51 - theradius.us/grids Hum responds specifically to the Jefferson Substation, an electrical substation that is located just outside the loop of downtown Chicago. The step down transformers at the Substation emit an audible 60 cycle hum. This rich harmonic drone permeates the surrounding city blocks. For this site-specific radio broadcast, installation, and performance, Rose assembled a small choir of vocalists who will be positioned at a near distance to the transformers. The choir hums the overtone series in harmony with the transformer’s buzz.

Fleeting Components Ep. 3- Kristen Roos' Electrosmog fleeting-components.tumblr.com/episodes Fleeting Components is a micro doc series following the experimental radio broadcasting platform, RADIUS through it's year long series, GRIDS. The GRIDS series consists of four mobile commissioned radio broadcasts at four different Chicago geographical locations throughout the 2014 calendar year. Radius Ep 54 - theradius.us/grids Electrosmog is concerned with themes of electromagnetism and material processes which sonify inaudible events. Using an electrosmog high frequency receiver, Roos captures sounds produced by mobile phones, wireless phones, wifi, microwaves, and other electronic devices (between 800 MHz - 2.5 GHz). Important to electrosmog is that wifi operates on the same frequency as a microwave oven (2.4GHz), and when modulated into audible frequencies, wifi sounds like pops and clicks and a microwave creates a deep drone.

Fleeting Components Ep. 4- Amanda Gutiérrez's Giants Are Sleeping fleeting-components.tumblr.com/episodes Fleeting Components is a micro doc series following the experimental radio broadcasting platform, RADIUS through it's year long series, GRIDS. The GRIDS series consists of four mobile commissioned radio broadcasts at four different Chicago geographical locations throughout the 2014 calendar year. Radius Ep 57 - theradius.us/grids Amanda Gutiérrez Giants Are Sleeping aims to reflect the identity, transformation, and ownership of one Chicago electrical substation. Exploring the relationship between human memory and architecture, the installation pairs an interview with Kenneth Corrigan, a bookseller who inhabited the abandoned electrical substation in 1984, with a charcoal animation that uses substation photo archives as its main reference. Drawing techniques are the vehicle to convey symbolic connections that link the historical aspects of these buildings, while the radio becomes the narrative’s voice over.