Wednesday April 26 * 7pm * TICKETS

London, UK-based record label & audio archivist Death Is Not The End makes a rare trip across the pond to meet radio producer (and archivist behind the Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map) David Goren, for an evening of talks & performances exploring the sounds of pirate radio culture from London & NY.

For 9 years and counting, Death Is Not The End (otherwise known as audio archivist Luke Owen) has been building a formidable collection of crumbling blues, pirate radio hauntology, spiritual music, ghost folk and dusty proto jazz - sharing it on his regular NTS Radio show and via his eponymous label. His work has been championed by the likes of The Guardian & New Yorker and across open-minded national & international radio.

David Goren is an award-winning radio producer and audio archivist based in Brooklyn whose work at times blurs the line between audio documentary and sound art. Grounded in intensive monitoring of international broadcast culture, he examines radio’s ability to create and support community over both short and long distances. David released The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map in July 2018 which was featured in The New Yorker's  "Talk of the Town."  In April 2018 David produced  “Outlaws of the Airwaves, The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD"  for the Lost Notes podcast and in 2019  “NYC's Pirates of the Air"  for the BBC World Service. He ’s lectured on pirate radio in New York City as part of the Fall 2019 Franke Lectures at Yale University. In 2021, The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map became a partner of the Library of Congress'  Radio Preservation Task Force. In July 2022, David mounted “Irradiant Waves” a transmission arts piece recreating NYC’s pirate radio 6 transmission zones in a contained space at the Hacker’s on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference.

Tracing Neighborhoods in the Sky: The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map
Every day in Flatbush, Brooklyn invisible clouds of illegal radio signals cluster over West Indian neighborhoods. From clandestine studios tucked behind storefronts, Konpa, Soca and Reggae DJs transform time and space; mixing the sounds from ancestral lands with the thump and struggle of a new home. Listeners wield their antennas like dowsing rods, catching the elusive vibrations of crucial music and news rarely found on the legal side of the dial. Tracing Neighborhoods draws on eight years of recordings, photos, interviews and the Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map (BPRSM) an interactive online multimedia repository of Brooklyn’s multifaceted pirate radio culture: a homegrown phenomenon at once aesthetically vibrant, culturally empowering, and undeniably illegal. Using a radio-like tuning interface that can access and filter over 350 sound clips by Culture/Nationality, Language, Religion and Music , the BPRSM showcases the stations’ cultural resonance and sonic diversity, preserving their content for exploration and future access by the community.