Send all general inquiries by email to contact[@]megapolisfestival.org and you’ll hear back from a MEGAPOLIS director. See our more extensive Contact page to consider other strange peoples behind the MEGAPOLIS Festival.

But WHAT IS IT? Well, the MEGAPOLIS Festival is a celebration of the craft of DIY audio creation and experimentation. Artists, documentarians, musicians, urban planners, radio producers, scientists, educators, and fans come together to share secrets on producing and presenting challenging audio works online, on-air, and on the stage.

The inaugural festival occurred in Cambridge, MA on Apr 24-26, 2009, and the second festival went down in Baltimore, MD on May 14-16, 2010. Peruse the site for some of these archives including: live radio theatre from the giant brains of Gregory Whitehead and Felix Kubin, circuit-building workshops for building your own weird instruments and contact mics, a bicycle-powered 8-track player, a performance by a typewriter orchestra, and lots more.

The word Megapolis (more commonly Megalopolis) was first used to describe the Boston-Washington corridor as a single giant urban organism. For many living in the BosWash Megapolis today, Chinatown buses are like public transportation and the brief stretches of forest between cities are simply large parks. The massive infrastructural integration and enormous size means there’s an unparalleled potential for collaboration and creative exploration. The MEGAPOLIS Festival examines the sonic landscape of this sprawling urban environment, showcasing artists and documentarians from all over the region, and focusing performances, workshops, and presentations around one particular mega-neighborhood. Events are scattered throughout in small galleries, outdoor spaces, and even friends’ living rooms, so you’re not just a passive audience, you’re actively adding context to what’s coming into your ears.