Known for his electronic sound constructions featuring short wave radio noise, John Duncan arrives at the Gramercy Theater with a secret plan. In our interview he describes his desire to create what he has not heard before, expresses delight that the L.A. band Airway was invited to the festival, but he won't elaborate on the project of the day. We'll play you a segment and can verify that the vocalizations you hear were made by people wearing no clothes and the only illumination in the theater was mobile phone screens.

Joan LaBarbara speaks at length about her observations and ultimately her composition and performance for the Italian Futurist noise instruments--the Intonarumori--of Luigi Russolo that were re-constructed by composer/historian Luciano Chessa for a Performa 2009 event at New York's Town Hall. Then we feature an excerpt from her multi-track vocal work performed solo at this mini-festival of noise curated by Mike Kelley and produced by Mark Beasley (26 minutes).