THE CONDUCTION SERIES
#51 AUDIO TERMINTES
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This Friday September 5 // 14:02 hs Uruguay
1:02 pm MT / 3:02 pm ET
WGXC 90.7-FM - Radio for Open Ears
wavefarm.org/listen
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Midnight Saturday 13th
KVCU Radio 1190 in Denver, Colorado
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Below the sound of music, below incidental rhythms and clashes of everyday world is the underground of sonic textures heard, overheard, felt, and remembered. This is the secretive terrain of termites who labour in the dark places, deconstructing, regenerating, munching and mulching.
The Audio Termites obey no borders, and bore into the passageways where melodies linger and earworms cling to life There is no ceremony to this, no grand pronouncement. Just the work of steady decomposition and shared digestion - nomads that persist, swarm, and collectively move on.
They are scattered across vast distances but they meet on the airwaves. Hudson Valley. Argentina. Vancouver. Valparaiso. Distance is just another frequency to tune through. They construct invisible architectures in real-time, each termite gnawing at their local frequencies while listening to the collective mound being built across thousands of miles.
Every first Friday at 3:02 Eastern, the colony awakens. Not 3:00. Not 3:05. 3:02. In apartments, studios, and makeshift broadcast stations, individual termites begin their work. Some lay down rhythmic foundations like the steady chewing through heartwood. Others deposit melodic pheromone trails for the group to follow, audible trophallaxis.
They digest archives, field recordings, electronic textures, and fleeting voices. The tunnels they carve channel not air but magnetism. They communicate through listening rather than instruction, sensing the collective direction through the accumulated mulching into their own constructions.
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* Image slide 2 = Beaumont machine, for digging tunnels into soft rock. By Broux, P.
Published in Paris by Librairie Illustrée, Marpon & Flammarion, n.d. [after 1883]
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