Écoutez en direct de Percé sur la fréquence 87.5 FM ou sur l’Internet via wavefarm.org/listen
DISCO 3000 est une émission de radio clandestine hebdomadaire produite par Andrew O’Connor dans le quartier Parkdale à Toronto. L’émission est diffusée tous les jeudis soirs à partir du studio maison d’O’Connor. Cette année la Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie accueille DISCO 3000 le jeudi 2 septembre 2021 de 22h à minuit.
DISCO 3000 is a weekly free form radio program hosted and produced by Andrew O’Connor as part of his long running clandestine radio project Parkdale Pirate Radio. The show is broadcast every Thursday night from Andrew’s home studio to the radios of Parkdale, in Toronto, but for this year’s la Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie DISCO 3000 will be broadcasting live from Percé Thursday night from 10-12. Tune your radios in Percé to 87.5FM to catch this special edition of DISCO 3000 or stream it live at https://wavefarm.org/listen
Andrew O’Connor is an independent radio producer, and sound artist based in Toronto. His work reflects an interest in sound, storytelling, and transmission, and explores these ideas through formal broadcast radio as well as installation art, sound design, and pirate radio. Andrew’s work has been featured across the CBC Radio network, syndicated internationally as well as featured in the Radiophrenia Festival at the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art, and the UK International Radio Drama Festival. Andrew currently hosts and produces a weekly pirate radio show called DISCO 3000 on his long running, clandestine radio project Parkdale Pirate Radio. Andrew’s work in radio dates back some twenty years, and has extended beyond standard broadcast radio into gallery pieces, installations and sound design. This work has been presented at festivals across North America including Megapolis in Baltimore, the Third Coast Filmless Festival at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the Vancouver New Music Festival, and at the Open Ears festival of Music and Sound. Through this work Andrew has been invited to be a visiting faculty member at the Banff Centre for the Arts, received a commission from the Klondike Institute for Art and Culture for their yearly thematic series The Natural & The Manufactured, helped create the award winning theater project BOBLO and had his work included in the anthology ‘Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves’ published in 2011.
