My first public performance with my SP-555 was a super fun collaboration with Greg Bem as EMBARREGG for uncarbopo (unpoetry meets Carbonation Press) at Casa del Xolo in Fremont. The event was celebrating a new release by Eric M. Acosta: Carbonation Press 004: underbelly. I provided ambient soundscapes underneath Greg’s spoken word reading of ‘Bright & Cruel’ using my…

Excited to be speaking this Saturday for the performance series Foolish Oracle about a cool story I encountered at my job as the Digital Storyteller for the Washington State History Museum! It’s about the Unemployed Citizens League, a radical political and mutual aid collective of unemployed workers formed right here in Seattle during the Great…

I was invited back by Residencia São João and radio collaborator Andrew O’Connor to help set up a pirate radio station at the fazenda! For Rádio Livre São José, I played some sweet Seattle tunes, talked abortion rights with Operação Milhas pela Vida das Mulheres. I’ll upload some of the sound files as soon as…

I had a great time teaching my DIY noise maker spring box workshop for SOMSOCOSMOS at Residência São João in Brazil! Here’s the recipe I used, yum yum. Check out this video of the workshop to get an idea: We used Altoid tins, covered them in springs, and stuck a lil’ contact mic in there to…

As part of my residency at Residência São João / Somsocosmos, I gave presentation about the history of Pirate Radio as tool for activism, and the possibilities for mesh wireless networks—communication networks made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology (essentially wifi pirate radio)—as a present and future tool for decentralized, off-grid communication.…