Harvestworks is please to participate in the 2022 IRCAM -NYU Forum. The Fall 2022 IRCAM Forum will be held at New York University (NYU) and hosted by the NYU Music Technology and Music Theory & Composition programs from September 30 to October 3, 2022.
This new composition/performance by Kamari Carter is an immersive city soundscape mixing real-time live Police and EMS audio with that of The Conet Project, a collection of over 130 Shortwave Number Station Recordings curated into a comprehensive five disk compilation by British record label Iridal-Discs.
During the performance the artist will reroute the EMS and Police broadcast signals of New York City nearest Governors Island and playfully manipulate the ethereal nature of both the live and pre-recorded radio signals from the Conet Project, amplifying two separate sets of opaque transmissions. The Conet Project shortwave recordings are an amalgamation of radio transmissions, train station lullabies, lo-fi radio interviews, instructions, and static infused counting exercises. Unlike other pirate shortwave broadcasts, these eerie transmissions would alternate for years without any pause scheduled at seemingly random times throughout the years, leading many to believe that these broadcasts were a government operate espionage system, used to contact central intelligence agencies.
