Shortwave goes to Rotterdam! The wonderful WORM and A Tale of a Tub invited us to lead a 2-day workshop over 26-27 October (2024). We spent the first day at the arts and culture space WORM, where we gave a presentation about our collective work and then built Open Wave-Receivers with 20 particants. The second day took place at A Tale of a Tub, an arts organisation in the former laundry of a 1920's Dutch housing estate, where we were able to test our radios on the roof. Afterwards, we went to a nearby stadium at greyline and extended our antennas with the enormous sporting infrastructure. The air was dominated by a sound we called 'the Rotterdam Hum' - a sort of highly textured waving sound - but we also heard Turkish football, talk radio in Russian, and music that was described as 'chipmunk disco'. We then went live on Radio WORM to talk about our findings with the organisers and a few workshop participants: upload upcoming!

We're fresh from a workshop with Multitrack, a charity working in improving accessibility in the audio industry, hosted at the luscious Dalston Curve Garden in London! It turned out to be a gorgeous day, and we had a romp building radios with particularly unconventional materials, such as using the rings on our fingers as antennae. A wide range of signals were overlapping in the air that day: local talk radio, the odd waves from communications equipment, two sports stations on top of one another, among others.