Schmedule
Except otherwise noted, all events require a weekend festival pass.
- Pre-festival sponsored events
- Friday, 24 Apr, 2009
- Saturday, 25 Apr, 2009
- Sunday, 26 Apr, 2009 (until closing reception)
- Post-festival sponsored events
Pre-festival sponsored events
| Thursday, 23 Apr, 2009 – 7pm A Media Archaeology of Boston @ Carpenter Center for Visual Arts | Main Lecture Hall 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Free admission |
Friday, 24 Apr, 2009
| 10am (in NYC) MEGAPOVAN Mobile listening transport from NYC –> Boston Presented by Ladio (RSVP Required) Tickets: $45 round trip |
| 6:30pm – midnight Opening night and registration -> Sponsored by 90.3 WZBC-FM Performances by: THE LOTHARS RADIO WONDERLAND DIE SCHRAUBER BOSTON TYPEWRITER ORCHESTRA PEACE, LOVING @ Massasoit Elks Lodge, 55 Bishop Allen Dr., Cambridge Tickets: $10 regular / $7 students / Free for weekend pass-holders |
Saturday, 25 Apr, 2009
| 9am – 6pm MEGAPOLIS HQ Registration table and installations by: Laura Vitale Ann Hepperman, Kara Oehler, & Jason Cady Gang Clan Mafia Deb Todd Wheeler & David O’Brien (sponsored by AIR) 31 Down Radio Theater Karen I. Westphalen Lisa Abbatomarco & Noé Cuéllar @ Pierre Menard Gallery upstairs, 10 Arrow St, Cambridge (Lisa and Noé’s installation can be found in the Democracy Center, 45 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge) |
| 9:30am – 11am DAYTIME SESSIONS Internal Urban Landscapes – Sarah Yahm Creating a Third Reality: The Visual in Sound Art – New School Faculty & Students UpRightDown – Laura Silver RSVP Required Sonic Ethnography, or Documentary without Words: From Field Recordings to Recording Fields Circuit Twisting: DIY Physical Interfaces – David Nunez (RSVP Required) |
| 10:30am, 11am & 11:30am An Unlikely Monument – Dirk Adams (3 repeated tours) Departs from Pierre Menard Gallery outside, 10 Arrow St., Cambridge |
| 11:30am – 1pm DAYTIME SESSIONS Performances by Doktor Q and Tyler Mains Lost Film Fest – Scott Beibin WFMU’s Free Music Archive – Liz Berg & Jason Sigal Your Phone is Your Mic – Laura Kwerel & Walker Mettling DIY Contact Microphone – Laura Vitale (RSVP Required) Unsound Mind (RSVP Required) |
| 1pm – 2pm Lunch break – on your own |
| 2pm – 3:30pm GREGORY WHITEHEAD -> Sponsored by Transom.org @ Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall (Harvard Graduate School of Design), 48 Quincy St., Cambridge Tickets: $5 / Free for weekend pass-holders |
| 4pm – 5:30pm DAYTIME SESSIONS How Art and Music Can Change the World – Mecca Normal Creating a Third Reality: The Visual in Sound Art – New School Faculty & Students Ten-Thirty-One – Ann Hepperman & Kara Oehler (RSVP Required) Lost Film Fest – Scott Beibin Your Phone is Your Mic – Laura Kwerel & Walker Mettling (Easy/Uncomplicated/Elemental) Electro-Acoustic Instrument Building – Vic Rawlings (RSVP Required) Cassette Collage Experiment – Andrew Conner Live?Die?Kill? – Karen Michel |
| 5:30pm – 7pm Dinner break – on your own |
| 7pm – 8:30pm THIRD COAST FESTIVAL LISTENING ROOM -> Sponsored by the Public Radio Exchange Presented by Julie Shapiro & Sean Cole @ Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall (Harvard Graduate School of Design), 48 Quincy St., Cambridge Tickets: $10 regular / $7 students / Free for weekend pass-holders |
| 9pm – 1am RADIO 4X4 & SATTERDAYNITEDANCEPARTYEAH! -> Sponsored by 90.3 WZBC-FM RADIO 4X4: MEGAPOLIS – FREE103POINT9 Followed by… A performance by JAVELIN Then… DJed musics supplied by PRINCIPAL HAND & WZBC’S GEORGE K @ Massasoit Elks Lodge, 55 Bishop Allen Dr., Cambridge Tickets: $10 regular / $7 students / Free for weekend pass-holders |
| 12:30am – breakabreakadawn AUDIO SLUMBER PARTY – LADIO RSVP Required |
Sunday, 26 Apr, 2009
| 10am – 4pm MEGAPOLIS HQ Registration table and installations by: Laura Vitale Ann Hepperman, Kara Oehler, & Jason Cady Gang Clan Mafia Deb Todd Wheeler & David O’Brien (sponsored by AIR) 31 Down Radio Theater Karen I. Westphalen @ Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow St., Cambridge |
| 10:30am – noon DAYTIME SESSIONS Logan’s Walk: Urban Cartography in the Flyzone – Pejk Malinovski & Ian Gray Not just for Writers’ Al-maniacs: Thinking Poetically about Radio – Dennis Conrow & Jesse Dukes DIY Contact Microphone – Laura Vitale (RSVP Required) Cassette Collage Experiment – Andrew Conner Audio (De)construction – Gregory Whitehead (RSVP Required) |
| noon – 1pm Lunch break – on your own |
| 1pm – 2:30pm DAYTIME SESSIONS Collective Improvisational Music Workshop – Bhob Rainey & Vic Rawlings Not just for Writers’ Al-maniacs: Thinking Poetically about Radio – Dennis Conrow & Jesse Dukes Sonic Ethnography, or Documentary without Words: From Field Recordings to Recording Fields Circuit Twisting: DIY Physical Interfaces – David Nunez (RSVP Required) Audio (De)construction – Gregory Whitehead (RSVP Required) |
| 3pm – 4pm CAMPFIRE STORY – GANG CLAN MAFIA @ Pierre Menard Gallery upstairs, 10 Arrow St, Cambridge |
| 4pm – 5:30pm CLOSING RECEPTION Featuring selections of works created during the festival weekend @ Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow St., Cambridge |
| 6pm MEGAPOVAN Presented by Ladio Mobile listening transport from Boston –> NYC RSVP Required |
Post-festival sponsored events
| Sunday, 26 Apr, 2009 – 8pm Performances by: Giuseppe Ielasi (Milan, Italy) with Renato Rinaldi Brendan Murray (Somerville MA USA) Presented by Non-Event @ Elk’s Lodge, 55 Bishop Allen Dr., Cambridge Tickets are $5 with a Megapolis weekend pass ($10 without) |
| Tuesday, 28 Apr, 2009 – 7:30pm RELIQUARY OF LABOR Presented by Gene Gort & Ken Steen @ Axiom Gallery, 141 Green St, Jamaica Plain, Boston Tickets are $7 with a Megapolis weekend pass ($10 without) |
| Wednesday, 29 Apr, 2009 – 7pm RADIO LAB LISTENING PARTY Presented by Jad Abumrad @ Museum of Science, Boston Tickets are $10 |
