Posted by: Justin Grotelueschen on May 29, 2005 10:25 PM | Comments (0)

I can't think of anyone better to wrap up (in essence) the conference than Anna Friz, proprietor of the Harvey Christ Radio Hour and frequent performer this weekend as a member of the Deep Wireless Radio Theatre Performance troupe. She's an eloquent speaker and a longtime student and now teacher in traditional and experimental radio transmissions. And she's running a pirate radio station, Spidona, out of this very hotel (actually, she refers to herself as a "squatter", in that she grabs a section of the radio frequency that no one uses). She's an artist in residence here, hanging out with ghosts and making random noises for the neighborhood to hear at 87.7 and 108 FM. Anna is bold in her work in that she doesn't often know who is hearing her transmissions, taking solace in the fact that someone may randomly stumble upon it, or not. So if you're in Anna's neighborhood -- and you may never know what neighborhood Anna is hanging out in, or where she's at -- consider yourself lucky.

One of her recent projects, the Automated Prayer Machine, was propped up by the 60+ people who called a phone number and left a prayer, any prayer, on an answering machine. She then took a 12-watt transmitter on the road in Europe and played accordion (along with her co-hort on violin) to play a mishmash of these prayers in 12-watt glory out of different venues.

My live recorded excerpt of some Anna audio.

We're winding down -- some roadmovies yet tonight, and a special workshop with Chris Brookes tomorrow. Even though the conference is ending, the discussion will still continue...

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