# Event Details - **Event Name**: Avant Radio Festival - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 13 Nov, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Sun, 15 Nov, 2026 at 05:00 pm (-05:00) - **Event Description**: WAVE FARM and WFMU and ARTxFM are teaming up to bring you a weekend focused on the creative and experimental nature of radio.About this EventEarly Bird Registration: $175Early Bird Student Registration: $140Early Bird Deadline: September 15Regular Registration: $195Friday November 131-2 PM: Opening Reception: Registration, coffee and general hobnobbery and fistbumping with other radio heads.2:00 PMDorit Chrysler: Theremin Workshop with Dorit Chryslerlimit 15 participants, extra cost for materials ($35)The Art of Playing the Theremin - Everything you ever wanted to know about the theremin! Dorit Chrysler will guide you through tips and tricks during this workshop. You will learn technical and practical aspects in how to approach this mysterious instrument. Theremins will be provided for each session. Sessions are limited to 15 players. Calibration, positioning, exercises, repertoire, woowoo - and no touching!2:00 PMPaul Bame: Update on the FCC Translator Window and LPFM AllocationsPaul Bame of Prometheus Radio offers the latest info on the FCC's latest translator windowand LPFM allocations.3:00 PMCollege Radio MeetingAll attendees from college radio stations are invited to compare notes and discuss issues related to university broadcast operations.5:00 PMRaw Power: Radio Remotes for the MassesIn a new era of political repression and corporate consolidation where mainstream media becomes less reliable, Democracy will depend on communities building new methods of sharing and distributing information. In this workshop, the DJs of ART FM will lead participants through the steps of developing their own online signal, allowing them to broadcast their voices, ideas,and musical selections live and loud from wherever they may be in the world. Includes demonstrations from WXOX DJs in their various remote locations.5:00 PMRadio as Collage: From Freeform Broadcasting to Spoken-WordComposition, 1990–PresentVicki Bennett, working as People Like Us, has been making radio since1990, using broadcasting as a space for collage, sustained listening,experimentation, and unconventional forms of storytelling. Herpractice has moved between DJing, live and improvised broadcasting,commissioned spoken-word works, and large-scale acts of radiocuration. This presentation traces that history, including herlong-running DO or DIY program, the 2016 WFMU residency Optimized!,and Radio Boredcast, the extraordinary 744-hour continuous onlinebroadcast she curated for AV Festival in 2012. Vicki will also discussher composed radio works for WDR and Deutschlandradio, including NoOne Is an Island, I Can Fly, and Changing Your Mind. Moving betweenfound sound, music, speech, and archival material, these worksapproach radio as a durational and relational form.Do or DIY with People Like Us: Playlists and Archives7:00 PM Tour of WFMU: Tour of WFMU's Magic Factory, including the massive record library and the black velvet gallery.8:00 PMPerformance/Demo: Demon BoxDeveloped by Eternal Research, the Demon Box transforms the hidden electromagnetic world into sound, signal, light and data. It captures frequencies from everyday electronics like phones, drills, and TVs, then converts them into audio signal, MIDI data, and control voltage.9:00 PMPerformance: Radio WonderlandJoshua Fried, performing as Radio Wonderland, transforms livecommercial radio into a funky electronic collage. His softwarecreations include The Re-Shuffler, which deploys slices of radioacross a rhythmic and melodic grid to create instant techno. TheRe-Esser extracts the sibilance and plays those S, T, and K soundslike a drum machine, while Anything Kick morphs slowed-down radio intoa bass drum to shake the dance floor.9:30 PMPerformance by Laenz: Laenz is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY, working within radiophonic textures and caliginous dance music.Saturday November 149:30AMHearty White: Homemade Radio Theater with Hearty WhiteHomemade Radio Theater or How to Make Bad TV on the Radio, with WFMU spiritual leader and master of voices, philosophy and foley, Hearty White9:30 AMThe Collaborative Ecology of Radio at Wave FarmIn this presentation, Wave Farm Co-Directors Bianca Felix Biberaj and Meredith Kooi travel through a selection of projects presented by Wave Farm to explore how making radio can be a way of collaborating with nature and its fundamental forces including electromagnetism, time, and a place’s flora and fauna.11:00 AMFull Group Session: Radio Is Not A Container with Anna FrizRadio art practitioners have long sought to transform radio from an apparatus of information diffusion to an apparatus of communication, and to expand beyond the logics of the programming grid and engage with the conditions and ecologies of wirelessness in new ways. This presentation offers a brief overview of radio art from the early radio experiments and emergent stations to contemporary international practices.Anna Friz is a radio, sound, and media artist and scholar, who began making radio on CiTR FM Vancouver, Canada in 1993, and since then has created radiophonic works for extensive international broadcast, installation, or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. Anna is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, and won the Karl Sczuka Prize for Radio Art in 2024. Her radio artworks have been commissioned by national public radio in Canada, Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, Denmark, and Spain, and heard on public and independent airwaves all over the world. Recent presentations include The Lab (San Francisco), The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (USA), Sonandes Bienal Internacional de Arte Sonoro (La Paz, Bolivia), Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro (Valparaíso, Chile), Bienal Sur (Argentina), Heroines of Sound Festival (Berlin), Donaueschinger Musiktage 2024, and Radio Art Zone (Esch-Zur-Alzette, Luxembourg). Anna is currently Associate Professor in the Film and Digital Media Department at University of California, Santa Cruz.1:30 PMKen + Andy36 Years of Experimental Comedy: Co-hosts Andy Breckman and KenFreedman discuss their long running comedy experiment, their greatestsuccesses, and most hilarious failures.1:30 PM40 Watts From Nowhere (Documentary Film on Pirate Radio)Sue Carpenter built a 40-watt FM station in 1995 and ran it out of herapartment in Los Angeles, exploiting a ruling that allowed hundreds oflow-power illegal radio operators to proliferate throughout thecountry, giving birth to the legal LPFM movement. This is Carpenter'sdocumentary on KBLT, which took on a life of its own, drawing MazzyStar to headline a benefit concert and the Red Hot Chili Peppers toplay live in her living room. Presented as part of ARF’s radio art andmedia education program, followed by a moderated discussion.3:00 PMWorkshop: Inductive Listening with Zach PoffLimit 12 participants ($30)Zach Poff is a New York area media artist, educator, andmaker-of-things. His artwork is rooted in open systems that eschewindividual authorship in favor of collaborative or generative models.At ARF, Zach will facilitate a hands-on workshop titled "InductiveListeners." We will build inductive coils to plug into soundrecorders, then go on a walk around the neighborhood to listen to theradio emissions of the infrastructure. Participants should bring alaptop, wired headphones, and, if possible, a sound recorder that isnot a phone.3:00 PMNeon Icon: Syndicating Experimental ProgrammingGroundbreaking and spellbinding, you have created an exceptional pieceof experimental audio, and this workshop will help get it out there!Looking to platforms such as Pacifica Audioport and Public RadioExchange, the DJs of WXOX will help you format, distribute, andpublicize your program for airplay on noncommercial stationsnationwide!4:00 PMPresentation: Babette Thomas: The Children of The Waves of AfricaIn this presentation, Babette Thomas will present on their dissertation research about WAFR (Waves of Africa), a Black Power community radio station that ran from 1971 to 1976 in Durham, North Carolina. They'll be specifically focusing on , and situating it within the context of other Black Power movement social programs geared towards Black children.Babette Thomas is a radio producer, media artist and PhD candidate in the departments of Black Studies and American Studies at Yale University. They are also the co-host of the award-winning podcast, Gender Spiral.5:00 PM Audience BuildingWFMU Station Manager, Ken Freedman, discusses the tools and strategiesthat have expanded WFMU's audience and have allowed the station'srevenue to grow from $50k to $3m per year. Ken will also update theAudience Engine project and describe station opportunities for usingthe tool.8:00 PM Negativland + SUE-CSignificantly Less DeceptiveExtra $5 for workshop registrantsNegativland + SUE-C present Significantly Less Deceptive: Legendarysound collage group Negativland and live cinema visual artist SUE-Ccollaborate to bring you their latest audio-visual performance aboutour minds, our current realities, and the evolving forms of media andtechnology that orchestrate our perceptions.9:30 PM Negativland + SUE-C Q&ANegativland's Mark Hosler, Jon "Wobbly" Leidecker, and SUE-C take yourquestions on their incredible legacy of media jamming and sampledelicart.Sunday November 1510:00 AMAll Together Now: Activating the EASHurricanes, earthquakes, and nuclear war—thanks to the Emergency AlertSystem, radio broadcasters have a fast and efficient system fordealing with natural emergencies. Developing a similar rapid-responsenetwork for political and societal emergencies is the goal of thisclosing-day workshop. Riding the heels of impromptu radio nationwidebroadcasts following the invasion of Ukraine and the M**der of BreonnaTaylor, this session will focus on building a network of stations andaudio practitioners who can quickly and creatively respond to globalevents through coordinated action.10:00 AMSupplemental MediaTik Tok, Twitch, Print, etc.12:00 PMFull Group Session: Looking to the FutureWhere do we go from here?What are the possibilities?What is this for?ARF AccommodationsThe Avant Radio Festival takes place at WFMU’s Monty Hall, and Art House Productions, both located in downtown Jersey City, near the Paulus Hook neighborhood:Monty Hall is located at 43 Montgomery Street in Jersey City, NJArt House Productions is located at 345 Marin Boulevard in Jersey City, NJThe two venues are a five minute walk from one another. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/4340f950-a977-11f1-ad57-411ed296ae31-rimg-w1200-h699-dcf8f8f8-gmir.jpg Nearby Hotels:Sonesta Simply SuitesSonesta Simply Suites is our preferred hotel for festival attendees. Mention Avant Radio Festival when booking to receive the festival rate. ReservationsCanopy by Hilton(Canopy is the closest hotel to both venues, and is across the street from Art House Productions.)Guest ReservationsResidence Inn by Marriott Jersey CityMarriott.comHyatt House Jersey Cityhttps://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-house/en-US/lgaxj-hyatt-house-jersey-cityAirbnbs in downtown Jersey CityAirbnd.comLess Expensive Hotels which are 20-30 minutes away:Chelsea Pines Inn , New York CityChelsea Pines InnHotel Indigo, New York Cityhttps://www.ihg.com/hotelindigo/hotels/us/en/new-york/nycwl/hoteldetailHarmony Suites, Secaucus, NJhttps://www.harmonysuites.com/ - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/jersey-city/avant-radio-festival/100001988767832122 - **Event Categories**: art, workshops, festivals, entertainment, comedy, spoken-word, concerts, performances, meetups, music, it, live-music, fine-arts, trips-adventures, storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - presented_by: Wave Farm, WFMU, and ARTxFM Present - Duration: 3 hours - Location: Monty Hall - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 7.67, max: 195, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Jersey City - **state**: NJ - **country**: United States - **location**: Monty Hall - **lat**: 40.7164309 - **long**: -74.0363688 - **full address**: Monty Hall, 43 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Avant Radio Festival - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/f47697fb11ddda22c22e85f21973be41f11c29c0a8d763af5134265b72b869ea-rimg-w940-h470-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1781530298 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Avant Radio Festival being held? - **A:** Avant Radio Festival takes place on Fri, 13 Nov, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Sun, 15 Nov, 2026 at 05:00 pm at Monty Hall, 43 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Avant Radio Festival? - **A:** Avant Radio Festival is organized by WFMU. - **Q**: What has been the experience of attendees at WFMU's events? - **A:** Attendees have given WFMU a rating of 5/5 based on reviews from early attendees on AllEvents. WFMU has a verified profile on AllEvents where you can read reviews and explore their upcoming events. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Avant Radio Festival is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Jersey City, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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