Fellow Survivors: 

When the grid goes dark and the End Times finally come what will it sound like? 

The 6 radioactively-charged contributors to this latest installment of the ROAM audiozine, who were hand-selected by curator Laura Relyea of Vouched Books, each tackle this question in a different way by harnessing the twin powers of Sound and the Written Word. 

ROAM in the Ruins is a genetically mutated take on the traditional literary reading or audiobook. Part post-apocalyptic radio drama and part avant garde audio experiment, these aural dispatches from imaginary disaster zones explore what life might sound like during the apocalypse and how humanity might reconstitute civilization in the wake of such a catastrophe. 

Those familiar with Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds broadcast or Cormac McCarthy’s The Road will know exactly what we’re going for. 

ROAM in the Ruins premiered as a live broadcast + communal listening experience at The Big House on Ponce on Day Zero, i.e. Sunday, November 23, 2014.                           

Many thanks to all of our atom-splitting contributors for making this episode of ROAM such an explosive experience. Catch y’all under the mushroom cloud. 

Devin Brown
Tyler Gobble
Brian Oliu
Alexis Pope
Laura Relyea
Mike Young

ROAM In The Ruins

Year in ROAM: A Scrumptious Slice of 2014

ROAM had a big 2014: 10 uniquely themed audiozines crafted by 70 sound artists. 

And now for your ear-smacking pleasure the aural chefs at Café ROAM have simmered, flash-fried, slow-cooked, and blanched the very choicest of last year’s cuts into one everlasting gobstopper of a listening experience: Year in ROAM. Clocking in at just over 25 delectable minutes, this meal is for your ears to feast on. 

The auricular sommeliers at ROAM selected these submissions from the smorgasbord of 2014’s offerings: Sounds of love and dreaming, travel and nature, family, comedy, spirituality, fear and the end times. Year in ROAM is an All-You-Can-Hear buffet, so mind the sneeze guards, strap on a feedbag, and get ready to gorge your ears on these scrumptious sonic slices. Mmm, mmm!

INGREDIENTS: Dereck Higgins, Meredith Kooi, Wil Wright, Daniel Clay, Madeline Adams, Graham Patrick Ulicny & Sarah Bohling, Chris White, Joe Dames, A. E. Paterra, Jim Schroeder, Alexis Pope, Mike Young, Devin Brown, Ben Coleman, John Hannah, Meta Gary, Will Fussell, Orenda Fink, Ross Politi, Tim Kasher, DJ & Ice, Ian Cone, Thomas Stuart & Laraaji. 

THANK YOU to each and every amazingly talented ROAMer. THANK YOU for sharing your big beautiful ears and exploring sound so deeply with us.  

If you would like to learn more about the ROAM process, check out the testimonials: http://roamtransmissions.tumblr.com/testimonials


Year In ROAM

One day from The Cryptophonic Tour at Historic Oakland Cemetery, Stephen Key at AM1690 interviews Pam (Oakland) and Doc (ROAM) about what audiences can expect on Saturday May 2nd from 2-7pm. 

You can hear ROAMs in this interview by Mason Brown, Cole Alexander and Zumi Rosow. 

You can still get pre-sale tickets here: http://bit.ly/CL_CryptoTour

Invite you friends here: http://bit.ly/ROAMwithUs
Visit Oakland Cemetery: http://www.oaklandcemetery.com/
#ROAMoakland

Crypto-interview with ROAM / Oakland AM 1690

With the sixth installment of ROAM for the Holidaze, we asked our contributing artists to send an aural holiday greeting card; a collage that sonically summed up 2015. We wanted to hear harvested sounds married to found elements, captured melodies and original compositions. The 50 minute audio time capsule you hear now is signed, sealed and delivered to your ears on this, the first day of 2016. Happy ROAM year!

A huge thank you to the artists that participated in this year’s compilation!

Contributors:
Nik Fackler
Ben Coleman
Wil Wright
Dereck Higgins
AE Paterra
Katie Robertson
Cole Alexander & Zumi Rosow
Colin Mee
Chris White
Dave Hughes
Madeline Adams
David Matysiak
Jeff Kolar
Zopi Kristjanson
Chris Yonker
Derek Pressnall
Dave Bonawits

ROAM For The Holidaze 6: A Greeting Card for your Eardrums

Happy Nearly New Year, ROAMers!

As the new year approaches we come closer to the threshold that divides us from Then and Now. It is a time where we look back to preserve just as we look forward to divest.   

The two-faced Janus looks both forward and backward, blessed with a double-vision that allows for seeing into the future and the past at the same time. Here at ROAM, we believe that sound recording and manipulation allow sound scientists to create new hybrid soundforms that are capable of replicating the Janus’s peculiar visual enhancement but for the ears instead of the eyes.

In this seventh installment of our ROAM for the Holidaze compilation we unveil the fruits of some of the greatest examples of this type of soundform cultivation. Listening both forward and backward as present memories give way to future nostalgias, our contributors share intimate moments, fantasies, nightmares, and the joys of making a racket.

Won’t you lend us your ears for the latest in this sonically satisfying holiday tradition?

HUGE THANKS to our collaborators (in the order they appear):
Todd Fink. Derek Pressnall, Dave Hughes, Sam Martin, Dereck Higgins, Jordan Noel, Madeline Adams, Beije, Magicicada, Cole Alexander & Zumi Rosow, Katie Robertson, Clyde Petersen, Zopi Kristjanson, Wil Wright, & Longmont Potion Castle.

Headphones required. [Champagne bottle pop SFX]

Formed in 2009, ROAM is an experimental podcast series that features themed found sound collages gathered from artists across the world.

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