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Histories, guides and background from the Antenna Theater archive
Antenna Theater Journal
Four decades of audio-driven, walk-through and site-specific theater, told through the productions, the places and the ideas behind them. New pieces are added here as they are published.
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Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening: A Practice of Hearing Everything
Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening: her definition, the Sonic Meditations of 1971, the 1988 Fort Worden cistern recording and the Rensselaer center.
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Marinship Sausalito History: The Wartime Shipyard and What It Left Behind
Marinship Sausalito history: the 1942 shipyard, its 93 ships, Marin City, the walkout and James v. Marinship, and the waterfront that grew in its shell.
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The History of Ventriloquism, from Belly-Speakers to Charlie McCarthy
The history of ventriloquism: Greek belly-speakers, the Witch of Endor, the 1772 debunkers, London’s vocal illusionists, the late dummy and Edgar Bergen.
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The History of the Wexner Center for the Arts: Ohio State’s Laboratory and Its Famous Grid
The history of the Wexner Center for the Arts: Hopkins Hall’s gallery, the 1982-83 competition, Eisenman’s grid, the leaks, the 2005 repair and the residencies.
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The History of the MIT Media Lab: Machines, Artists and the Cube
The history of the MIT Media Lab: Negroponte’s machine group, Wiesner’s arts council, the Pei building made with artists, the Cube, the sponsors and 2019.
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The History of Pirate Radio: From Offshore Ships to Low-Power FM
The history of pirate radio: Radio Caroline’s ships, the 1967 ban, Kantako and Free Radio Berkeley, the FCC’s 2000 low-power FM order and the 2011 law.
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Etienne Decroux and Corporeal Mime: A Theatre of the Body Alone
Etienne Decroux and corporeal mime: Copeau’s school, the veiled face, the studio rules, Barrault and Marceau, New York, and his Bay Area students.
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Complicite’s The Encounter: A Play Heard Through Headphones
Complicite’s The Encounter: Loren McIntyre’s 1969 story, the binaural head, Edinburgh to Broadway, the Special Tony for sound and the 2020 stream.
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Aquatic Park San Francisco History: From Black Point Cove to the Maritime Museum
Aquatic Park San Francisco history: Black Point Cove, the rowing clubs, the Municipal Pier, the WPA Bathhouse and its murals, the Maritime Museum and the ships.
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Alcatraz Occupation History: Indians of All Tribes on the Rock, 1969 to 1971
Alcatraz occupation history, 1969 to 1971: Indians of All Tribes, Richard Oakes and LaNada War Jack, Radio Free Alcatraz, the removal and what it changed.
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Robert Lepage and Ex Machina: Theatre Built From Machines
Robert Lepage and Ex Machina: the Repère cycles, The Dragons’ Trilogy, Needles and Opium, Seven Streams of the River Ota and the Met’s 40-ton Machine.
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Magic Theatre San Francisco: From a Berkeley Bar to Fort Mason and Sam Shepard
Magic Theatre San Francisco, from John Lion’s 1967 Ionesco in a Berkeley bar to Fort Mason in 1977, Sam Shepard’s premieres and a 1977 performance art season.