The Other Spectrum

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The UCR Department of Music presents:

The Other Spectrum

A Transmission Art Performance by Anna Friz and Jeff Kolar

Amy Skjerseth, Event Coordinator

Thursday, November 19, 2026

7:00 pm

Performance Lab ARTS 166

Anna Friz and Jeff Kolar have collaborated together for more than a decade on various musical and radiophonic projects around the world. The Other Spectrum explores the terrain of what Rick Prelinger calls “useful radio”, or the multi-directional bands of the radio spectrum where people and devices engage in labor, logistics, policing and surveillance, safety, recreation, overhearing, and more. Taking a deep dive into Rick Prelinger’s radio listening archives as well as their own, Anna and Jeff create a radiophonic world that traverses historical and live shortwave, UHF and VHF bands; from air traffic control to citizen’s band, from encrypted security systems to emergency scanners. Employing actual and sampled radio together with electronic instruments, the artists tune and detune the ordinariness, the urgencies, and the intimacies of everyday radio communications, exploring the musicality and the geographies of transmission ecologies.

ADMISSION

Free and open to the public.

Though admission is free, a ticket is required. One ticket per person will be distributed at the venue one hour before the concert. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.

PARKING

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