BuildingSound is a radio program produced by the Institute for Advanced Architecture for the Independent Media Center, Los Angeles, to bebroadcast on the last Monday of every month from 4 to 6pm PST on killradio.org, and archived below.

Building Soundexplores radio as a medium for experimental architectural representation and dialog. Collectivelyproduced by individuals with diverse approaches to and interests in architecture, the programsituates itself at the confluence of a broad array of disciplines and styles.

March 28,2005 : Interview. An interview with Los Angeles architect and curator, Fritz Haeg. Locatedin the garden of his house and recorded binaurally. Headphones are recommended for maximum spatialeffect.
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February 28, 2005 :Lecture 3. Katherine Hayles discusses her body of work in a talk delivered to the UCLA Design |Media Arts department. This material follows nicely from that in the December 2004 'Extensions'program.
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January 31, 2005 : Technical Difficulties. The scheduled program failed to air dueto technical difficulties. Instead listeners heard the day's news and a lecture by SlavojZizek.

December 27, 2004 : Extensions. Ted Krueger on perceptual prosthetics; LisaParks on satellite art; Paul Sermon on telematic space. Lectures from the Biennial of Electronic Arts Perth and Institut für Theorie der Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich.
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October25, 2004 : Memorials Redux. Replay of May 2003's show "Memorials" to remember JacquesDerrida, who died on October 8. A talk by Derrida in New York shortly after September 11, 2001 on"The Work of Mourning" was incorporated into the show.
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September 27,2004 : thai land Report from Bangkok by Savinee Buranasilapin and Tom Dannecker of thingsmatter.com, recent news concerning spaceand politics in Thailand, some excerpts of a recent publicpresentation of work in Thailand by R&SieArchitects from Paris; and music by the ThaiElephant Orchestra, Futon, Christian Hausswolff, ChinaDolls, as well as some Thai boxingmusic.
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August 30,2004 : RNC Alternates between a live webcast on a-noise - covering the Poor People's March outside the Republican NationalConvention - and articles about temporary architecture installed in New York City, which dampen thevoice of public dissent while amplifying the Republican Party's message. Recorded live.
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July 26, 2004: Walls The July 9 decision by the International Court of Justice that the 650 km long wallthat Israel is constructing violates international law. Runs 2 and a half hours.
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June 28,2004 : LA Guide An audio guide of some of Los Angeles's better-known landmarks through theCelebrity Intermediary, Doron Sadja.
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May 31, 2004: The Public Domain We look at the public domain as a constructed and contested space, globalin structure but locally experienced. Two lawyers (Madhavi Sunder and Anupam Chander) discussintellectual property with Superflex (from Denmark) and audience at Superflex's "Self-Organize/Guarana Power" exhibition at the Redcat Gallery.
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May 1,2004 : Presentation. Radio performance as presentation at "Architecture's Media, Messages,and Modes" conference at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.
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April 30,2004 : Exhibition. Radio installation at "Architecture's Media, Messages, and Modes"exhibition at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.
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April 26,2004 : Year 1. Excerpts from the first year of Building Sound.
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March 29,2004 : Traffic 3. This month, Building Sound investigates the maintenance ofLos Angeles'freedom mythology by listening both to those agencies entrusted with keeping traffic moving as wellas to representations of the freeways and streets. Material includes "Reyner Banham Loves LosAngeles;" "The Italian Job;" "Play It As It Lays;" an interview with a representative fromCalTrans; a representative from ATSAC; a guide to the current exhibition at the CLUI by SteveRowell; and some comments from Ed Dimendberg's lecture "The Kinetic Icon:Reyner Banham and theInvention of Los Angeles."
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February 23,2004 : Art XOR Architecture. This month, we listen to Dave Hickey lecture about thisrelationshipat the level of practice, concluding that architecture is not art. A few comments inthe news from an architect, museum director, and public radio announcer refocus the show towardsmuseum design. Finally, Chris Burden, a contemporary artist who flirts with architecture andengineering, describes one of his own art works that explores the boundaries of the museum.Additional music from artists who feature in Dave Hickey's writings has been chosen - Chet Baker,Lou Reed, Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings, Bob Wills, Liberace, Duke Ellington, and more.
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January 26,2004 : Lecture 2. Natalie Jeremijenko. Excerpts from two lectures with messages from theBureau of Inverse Technology's Uphone Anti-terror line.
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December 29,2003 : Traffic 2. a radio play "Pigs in Blankets" written and produced by Andrew Choate; aninterview with a former Orange County traffic engineer; archival audio from mid-century engineeringpublic relations; excerpts of traffic news across the dial; and sound from Edgar Varese, LaurieAnderson, Dionne Warwick, Dave Dudley, Nurse with Wound, Beck, Dean Elliott and the Futurist,Luigi Russolo
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November 24,2003 : Electronic Cafe. two pioneers of telematic art, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitzdiscussing nearly three decades of their work, including the creation of the Electronic Cafe International - the world's first "wired" cafe. Ina networked world, where the Internet is second nature,they provide a rare look at early attemptsat place-making by using (many now forgotten) communication technologies in order to create newcontexts for interaction.
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October27, 2003 : Lecture 1. Aaron Betsky on "The Importance of Nothing" (low quality) with musicfrom Dead Meadow, The Deviants, Forest, Les Sinners, The Druids of Stonehenge, Quasi, TheMinutemen, The Magic Plants, The Twighlighters, Menace, My Bloody Valentine, The Outsiders, TigerTrap, Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano, and Jess & James.
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September29, 2003 : Traffic. a partial genealogy of traffic control as heard through historicalanecdotes, movie summaries, product datasheets, government documents, newspaper clippings, popularmusic, statistics, and excerpts from fictional writing.
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August 25,2003 : Found Material 1. a reconstruction of conversationsbetween the Reynolds MetalsCompany and a selectionof architects (Walter Gropius, Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier,Philip Johnson, Miesvan der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and more) a half-century ago in locations worldwide.
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July 28,2003 : Institutions: Los Angeles 1. surveys four separate organizations through interviewsconducted in varying locations in the city. With: Matthew Coolidge from The Center for Land Use Interpretation,Edie Pereira and Michael Pinto from CITYworksLosAngeles, Mark Allen from the Los Angeles Art &Technology Hacker's Club, and Frank Escher from the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.
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June 30,2003 : Rendition 1. a reading of excerpts from Lebbeus Woods' 1997 book, "RadicalReconstruction". Also: features sound work from Toshiya Tsunoda's "Extract from field recordingarchive #1" also released in 1997 on WrK; and recitations from Los Angeles poet, AaronBradford.
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May 26, 2003: Memorials. Sources include lectures by Daniel Libeskind and Jacques Derrida; James Cutler;Hans Butzer; Nayanika Mookherjee; Robert Ivy; Mary Fitch and the archinect.com messageboard. Musicfrom the Prodigy, the New York Art Quartet, Explosions in the Sky, Pink Floyd, Die Form, Suicide,and Bob Bellerue.
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