Listen to Radio Aktiv’s “Sonic Deep Map” (2014)
This installment of Radio Aktiv’s “Sonic Deep Map” was made for recent transmission on Chicago via Radius’s GRIDS series.
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GRIDS Episode 48: Radio Aktiv “Sonic Deep Map”
Here are some images of the recent transmission of the Sonic Deep Map that Radio Aktiv (Bonnie Fortune, Antye Greie-Ripatti, Brett Bloom) made. It was made to continue our support of people, like Pro Hanhikivi, who are fighting to stop the building of an unnecessary and unneeded nuclear power […]
This summer we were part of a deeply inspiring camp of artist, activists, and researchers called Case Pyhäjoki in Pyhäjoki, Finland. We’ve written about it here and here. The camp was focused on bringing people together to talk about a nuclear power plant proposed for this rural […]
We haven’t done one of these in a while but we return this week with some links related to climate change, nuclear power, oceans, and plastic. (It’s all connected.)
Here, fresh from the Internet:
Jellyfish are apparently causing problems at power plants, especially nuclear power plants, when they get caught in the water […]
Radio Aktiv in the Audible Dwelling
On September 8, Sunday, the first broadcast was made of the Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map, a radio show created for broadcast made up of various recorded material gathered at the Case Pyhäjoki camp for artists, theorists, scholars, cultural producers, and activists to respond to the threat of nuclear power in […]
“Kiitos” is Finnish for “thank you.” This short report is of a project we realized with Daniela Canila at Case Pyhäjoki, in Pyhäjoki, Finland, and initially posted here.
As the group at Case Pyhäjoki has gotten to know Pyhäjoki better, and the local struggle to save Hanhikvi […]
NOTE: This post was made by our new friend Antye Greie on the Case Pyhäjoki web site.
Mythological Quarter, Martin Howse and AGF hum with the environment and create following sound piece at Hanhikivi bay, the very original place where the nuclear power plant (NPP) is planned.
We used SAMPLR to layer 6 hums. […]
We are busy preparing to travel to Pyhäjoki, Finland next week for a two week intensive gathering called “Case Pyhäjoki — Artistic reflections on nuclear influence 1.” We have been making a “powerless powerpoint”—a slide presentation that can work without electricity—to introduce our work and experience working at the intersections of art, ecology and activism. […]
A MQ friend, JP Goguen, library and information scientist by day and wild world enthusiast in his off hours, has a new foraging project. Goguen has been using social media to share information about wild plants–their names, what they look like, and when to forage them. He posts about wild “weeds” like garlic […]
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
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