Audio Interference

"We wanted it to have a kind of handmade look...it seemed like it would be better than a curtain and a potted plant, which had been the usual for a public access program." -- Deedee Halleck

In this episode, Sabine Bernards talks to Deedee Halleck about the origins and history of Paper Tiger TV, the community media collective that became a pioneer in video art and public access television. You will also hear clips from some of Paper Tiger's early episodes.

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"Bail is often described as incarceration's front door, because if you can't afford it, you're going to jail." - Peter Goldberg

In this week's episode of Audio Interference, we will speak with some of the people spearheading criminal justice reform work here in New York City. First, we will look at how bail is used as a tool to criminalize poverty. Then, we will speak with two of the organizers behind the campaign to close Rikers Island Jail. Interviewees include (in order):

Rachel Foran, Managing Director of the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund

Peter Goldberg, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund

Melody Lee, Director of Strategy and Campaigns at the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice

Myaisha Hayes, Lead Organizer for the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice

Learn more at:

https://brooklynbailfund.org/

http://www.closerikers.org/

Music used in this episode:

"Piazza y nieve" by L.D.I.

Untitled Track by Kil Kare

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"I think that people are going to see reflected in this so much from their own life and from the contemporary world, more than we want there to be." - Brad Duncan.

 

On today's show, Rob Smith speaks to Brad Duncan, one of the curators of Finally Got The News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979, which runs from January 26 - May 14, 2017 at Interference Archive. While the exhibition is focused on the '70s, it's concerns are still relevant today.

 

You can learn more about left history of the 1970s and beyond on Brad's blog: http://radicalarchive.tumblr.com

 

Music includes: "Liam Rides a Pony" and "The Itis," both by Polyrhythmics from the album Octagon, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

Based on a work at http://www.needledrop.co/wp/artists/polyrhythmics/

 

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"There is a kind of magic to sitting down and knowing that if someone wanted to, they could hear my voice right now." - Mike Clemow

 

Radio Free Gowanus is a pop-up radio station broadcasting during the Gowanus Open Studios, every October.  In this episode, Louise Barry speaks to the station's founder, sound artist Mike Clemow.  This episode features excerpts from the RFG podcast, including a beatboxing performance by Adam Matta and a handbell performance by Brooklyn Bells.  You can find out more about Radio Free Gowanus, or listen to the full podcasts, at www.radiofreegowanus.org.

 

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To mark the occasion of the launch of Season 2 of Audio Interference, we  hosted a panel discussion on the use of podcasts as propaganda and community building tools.  The event was held at Interference Archive on October 4, 2016.  Panelists included:

 

-Julie Golia, Director of Public History at Brooklyn Historical Society and co-host and producer of Flatbush + Main

-Zaheer Ali, Oral Historian at Brooklyn Historical Society and co-host and producer of Flatbush + Main

-Aaron Lakoff, curator and host of Rebel Beat

-Kaitlin Prest, creative director and host of The Heart, a podcast and art project exploring love, bodies, gender and sexuality distributed by Radiotopia by PRX

-Tennessee Jane Watson, a reporter, artist and educator, who produces audio documentaries, oral histories, sound installations and youth media projects

-Mark Winston Griffith, Executive Director at Brooklyn Movement Center and co-host and co-producer of The Third Rail.

 

The panel was moderated by Louise Barry, one of the creators of Audio Interference.  

 

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"People are afraid and disappointed and in some cases heartbroken, and it's not enough anymore to sit at home and donate a small amount of money or buy a t-shirt.  Coming out and being around your community and participating with them is necessary."  - Janina Larenas

 

In this episode, we look at two projects mobilizing people for resistance during Trump's presidency.  First, Louise Barry and Vero Ordaz talk to information workers gathered for a strategy session at Interference Archive.  Next, Lani Hanna talks to artist Janina Larenas about her project, Print Organize Protest. Learn more at www.printorganizeprotest.org.

 

Produced by Interference Archive.

 

Music:  "Forget About Tomorrow" by Eyelids, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

"The main idea is to empower people who are observers, and provide them with tools to become participants in the political realm." - Cleo Barnett, The Amplifier Foundation

In this week's episode, we take a close look at activist art produced by the Amplifier Foundation. We speak with Cleo Barnett from the Foundation about their history, current projects, as well as some of her favorite activist stickers they've recently made. Be sure to stick around for the end of this episode, where Cleo will share with us her recipe for wheat paste, used to adhere political posters to a wall or surface.

 

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"I was born and raised here, and the fact that I went to college, I'm a working professional, and I can't come back to my own community and buy a house, is a very big problem."

In this week's episode, we look at the struggle for housing here in Brooklyn. We speak with Jean Stevens, Esq., a housing attorney at Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, about affordable housing and tenant associations. Later on in the episode, we hear from neighborhood residents about what brought them to the Brooklyn Community Forum on Anti-Gentrification and Displacement held at the Brooklyn Museum.

 

Music: "Mercurial Vision" and "Cat's Eye" by Blue Dot Sessions, "Marimba Motivation" by Dave Depper.

 

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“The songs really are some of the most direct expression of the collective voice of the movement.”  - Silvia Federici

 

For this week's episode, Charlie Morgan and Louise Barry interviewed Silvia Federici about Italian music in the 1960s and the Wages for Housework campaign.

 

Music:

 

"Prendiamoci La Città" by Pino Masi.

 

"Per i morti di Reggio Emilia" by Fausto Amodei

 

"O cancellier che tieni la penna in mano"

 

"La ballata della Pinelli" by Pino Masi

 

"Avete mai guardato" by Amalia Goffredo

 

All these songs are from records held at Interference Archive.  Likewise, copies of The Power of Women are also held at the archive, along with Tap Dance - the newspaper put out by the New York Wages for Housework campaign - and Lotta Continua.

 

For images of the newspapers and records, and links to more information, visit our blog: www.interferencearchive.org/blog

 

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"It was extremely traumatic...mothers didn't send their kids to school, people didn't go to work, because of these raids." - Tania Mattos

UnLocal is a New York-based legal services organization, which works with immigrant communities to provide legal representation, education, and advocacy.  UnLocal's collaboration with Mobile Print Power was included in the recent Interference Archive exhibition, Soñamos Sentirnos Libres: Under Construction.  In this episode, Brooke Shuman talks to Michele Lampach, Executive Director of UnLocal, and Tania Mattos, the Outreach Coordinator.

 

You can learn more about UnLocal by visiting their website: www.unlocal.org.  For more information about UnLocal's collaboration with Mobile Print Power and Interference, check out Audio Interference 13: Mobile Print Power.

Music: "Diagonally Talking Echoes" by Dustin Wong, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

 

Produced by Interference Archive.