Delta Listening: Open Wave-Receiver workshop with Shortwave Collective

Build your own simple radio receiver in this one-day workshop.

We will work with a basic set of materials—wire, clips, tent pegs, and chosen or found objects—to build an ‘Open Wave-Receiver’. Once the receivers are build, participants become co-researchers and experimenters, attaching their radios to metal structures as makeshift antennas and searching for signals, looking to listen for transmissions from near and far.

Participants are encouraged to bring/scavenge some scraps to customise the radio:
– Something flat and non-conductive, around A5 size.
– A tube (also non-conductive), the size and shape of a toilet paper tube.
– Small pieces of metal or mineral.

• No experience necessary! The workshops have a feminist ethos and are designed as inclusive spaces to question and create together.
• Tickets €25, limited to 25 participants
• You can take your Open Wave-Receiver home to experiment with forever!
• We aim to keep this event accessible. If the ticket price is a barrier, email ash@worm.org for a discount code (limited availability)
  – NB This workshop takes place at TENT Rotterdam, not at WORM

Shortwave Collective is an international, feminist artist group, interested in creative uses of radio. We meet regularly to discuss feminist approaches to amateur radio and the radio spectrum as artistic material, sharing resources, considering DIY approaches and inclusive structures. You can check out pictures from their last workshop with WORM here!

About Delta Listening
Delta Listening is a series of performance-based events, workshops and radio broadcasts that foreground listening as a creative and critical practice. Delta Listening brings together artists and researchers to reflect on the role listening plays in our relationships to each other and to our environments.

Convened by Brandon LaBelle and Ash Kilmartin, Delta Listening is named for Rotterdam’s location in the Rhine/Meuse/Scheldt delta, and the idea of listening as an agent of change: Delta being a symbol for variation. We invite audiences to listen for and with difference.