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This May I’ll be blogging for Provflux, a “weekend-long event … part festival and part conference” that will “take place throughout Providence to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the city.”

Metaradio > Providence, my contribution to Provflux, is a live audioblog to which I publish snippets of commercial radio in real time. I record Providence radio stations off my car radio to the blog using an audioblogging-enabled cell phone while driving around the city.

Maps featuring US Geological Survey and 2000 US Census data, as well as satellite imagery contextualize the audio posts alongside text posts featuring my research into the stations’ formats, and the projected identities of their listeners. This journey, as published on the Metaradio blog forms a cartographic representation of Providence, illuminating the contestational space between the airwaves and lived reality.

This project builds on Metaradio > Troy, the audioblog on which I’ve been working sporadically this semester.

Anyhow — very exciting.

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