Glowlab is pleased to announce Psy.Geo.Conflux 2004, the second in an annual series dedicated to current artistic and social investigations in psychogeography (the study of the effects of the geographic environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals). Part festival and part conference, it brings together visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the city. Events will take place throughout the city, with a headquarters located at Participant Inc., 95 Rivington St. between Orchard and Ludlow. The Conflux headquarters will serve as a place for participants and visitors to meet, pick up maps and schedules, and attend lectures. All events will be free and open to the public. Psy.Geo.Conflux 2004 will feature a full program of events from Thursday through Sunday, including experimental walks using altered maps and navigational aids; high-tech drifts through the city using wearable computing devices; a human-scale chess game to take place in Times Square; a walking presentation of an urban documentary project commissioned by the New Museum of Contemporary Art; a series of temporary installations, lectures, audio and video works and more. free103point9 organized the following events in the conflux:

FREE103POINT9 RADIO LAB at Participant, Inc., 95 Rivington St., Manhattan. 2 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Thursday, May 13, 2004 Panel Discussion :: speak :: Tianna Kennedy, moderator (free103point9) Tom Roe (free103point9) Michelle Nagai neuroTransmitter Lex Bhagat Matt Bua Topic: Transmission as a creative medium, how transmitters work, and the history of broadcasting. Participants will learn about government regulations and prohibitions, the history of pre-regulated radio and unlicensed uses, and will discuss issues such as access to the airwaves and discuss radio's agitprop history and its relationship to the Situationist roots of psychogeography.

EC(h)O_bklyn_04, part of EC(h)OLOCATOR, will be a four-day project during which composer Michelle Nagai will invite participants, whether casual passerby, temporary listeners or artists involved directly in the project, to join her for soundwalks, field recording derives and Deep Listening exercises, throughout the four-day period. These recordings will provide the sound material for her radio broadcast and live performance to be held the final day of the Conflux. Times/locations: May 13: Noon-3 p.m.: Private Blindfolded Soundwalks at Bedford Ave. + N. 7th St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn; 4-5:45 p.m.: Field Recording Extravaganza #1 at Grand St. + Bushwick Ave., East Williamsburg, Brooklyn; 7:45-9 p.m.: Public Soundwalk at N. 7th St. + Kent Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn. May 14: 4-5:45 p.m.: Field Recording Extravaganza #2 at Broadway + Havemeyer St., Brooklyn; 7:30-9:30 p.m.: Private Blindfolded Soundwalks at Wythe Ave. + Grand St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn; 10 p.m.-mid: Public Soundwalk at N. 7th St. + Bedford Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn. May 15: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: Field Recording Extravaganza #3 at McCarren Park, Bedford Ave at Lorimer St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn; 2-3:30 p.m.: Private Blindfolded Soundwalks at Norman Ave + Manhattan Ave., Greenpoint, Brooklyn; 4-5 p.m.: Public Soundwalk at Morgan Ave. at L train stop, East Williamsburg/Bushwick, Brooklyn. May 16: 4-6:30 p.m.: Live Radio Broadcast with recordings from all weekend on free103point9 Online Radio, www.free103point9.org, and at Radioo at www.radioo.org.

BANDSHELL GHOST will be organized by sound artist, Lex Bhagat with help from Tianna Kennedy. This project addresses the question: Can a building have a ghost? For this radiophonic haunting, Bhagat will create a 3-4 hour wandering collage of interviews, sound culled from documentaries about the Tompkins Square riots and park renovations, and archival sound from concerts. BION will broadcast the collage from a nearby transmission location. The Ghost will be a radio-body composed of several receivers occupying the location where the Bandshell once stood. Alexis Bhagat with neuroTransmitter. May 15, 7-10 p.m. at Tompkins Square Park, Avenue A at E. 7th St., Manhattan.

OF THE BRIDGE will be performed by Matt Bua, Matt Mikas, Tom Roe and the Williamsburg Bridge, all of whom live and work next to, or are, the Williamsburg Bridge. The performance will combine found sounds from around the bridge and contact mics on the bridge to embellish its own unique soundscape. The trio produced an LP/CD called "Of The Bridge" that received NYSCA distribution funding. Live performance Sun. May 16 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at free103point9 Gallery, Second Floor, 97 S. 6th St., btw Bedford Ave. + Berry Ave., next to the Williamsburg Bridge in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Tune in to live webstream from 2 to 6 p.m. on free103point9 Online Radio at www.free103point9.org. SECOND FLOOR: free103point9 flyer retrospective with flyers and posters from 1997 through 2004 from Kayrock, Violet Hopkins, Matt Bua, Matt Mikas, Tom Roe, and others.

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