On Air Fest 2019, Audio Culture Festival, is Back in Brooklyn – March 1-3rd
A celebration of content creation that’s strictly for the ears has an official home in NYC.
On Air Fest 2019 is this week, the third year for the unique festival where audio fans and creators are converging to explore the art of sound and storytelling.
Buzzfeed’s Ashley C. Ford leads “Animal Meditations” on Saturday, March 2nd during On Air Fest.
Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad, Roxane Gay, Amber Tamblyn, Tina Brown, and Jenna Wortham will be among the headliners of On Air Fest 2019. All told, the festival will showcase over 50 performances, conversations, listening parties, art installations, and live podcasts, which will all take place at Brooklyn’s Wythe Hotel from March 1 to March 3rd.
Festival passes range from $79-199, and can be purchased online here.
According to Scott Newman, founder and creative director of work x work, the agency presenting On Air Fest, the event’s intent is to “create a magical space for sharing new ideas and experiences.” The organizers goal is to elevate the work of a new generation of creators gravitating towards audio, and help to drive creativity with provocative, iconic and unexpected programming.
Highlights of On Air Fest 2019 include:
- U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith hosts a live recording of her new public radio segment and podcast The Slowdown followed by a Dear Poetry session, where Smith will help audience members solve personal problems by prescribing specific poems or poem excerpts. (Friday, March 1st, 10:00 am ET)
- Become a cicada with BuzzFeed’s Ashley C. Ford: Ashley C. Ford will lead the audience in a live rendition of “Animal Meditations,” a guided sonic experience transporting attendees into the mind of an animal.
- The Machine of Unfamiliars, an art installation by Nick van der Kolk, creator of Love + Radio. A suite in the Wythe Hotel will be transformed into an installation where guests are immersed in an automated generator of the hundreds of secrets of strangers that Nick has recorded over the past eight years.
- Hot Pod Editor Nick Quah interviews Dan Taberski, host of Missing Richard Simmons and Surviving Y2K, on how Taberski creates unforgettable audio.
- A Radiotopia listening party with the creative minds behind Criminal, The Kitchen Sisters Present, Everything Is Alive, The Truth, Radio Diaries and ZigZag playing clips and answering questions and sharing cutting room floor treasures.
- Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad will sit down with Tape’s Mooj Zadie for a live episode of the profile show about the people who make radio.
- Tina Brown interviews author and actress Amber Tamblyn for Brown’s podcast TBD with Tina Brown.
- Musicians Peter Silberman and Nicholas Principe create an enveloping soundscape in an intimate Wythe Hotel guest room for guests to enjoy for minutes or hours.
- Roxane Gay interviewed by Design Matters host Debbie Millman: This conversation recorded live for Debbie Millman’s Design Matters Podcast, will touch on Gay’s creative process, the contemporary writing landscape and an inside look at her latest projects.
- Dozens more sessions with some of the world’s most innovative podcast, media, and entertainment brands including VICE News, Radiotopia, CBC Podcasts, Science Friday, Artforum, ESPN 30 for 30 Podcasts and more.
See the full schedule here.
Presenting sponsors and media partners for On Air Fest include: Mastercard, ESPN 30 for 30, Simplecast, Acast, Freshbooks, Stitcher, Hot Pod and WNYC.
Full Coordinates for On Air Fest 2019:
WHEN: March 1 – March 3, 2019
WHERE: Wythe Hotel (80 Wythe Ave. at N.11th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
WHO: Audio makers, artists and storytellers, the podcast industry and listeners are invited to gather, network and be inspired by the art of sound.
On Air Fest 2018 from work x work on Vimeo.
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