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41 Alleys

2025

sound installation

“41 Alleys” is a site-specific radio project that reactivates a dormant frequency adjacent to Golden Star Radio, the first Chinese-language station in North America once located at 850 Grant Avenue, where a ghost sign remains. It draws from stories of Golden Star broadcasters embedding messages from immigrants to loved ones overseas. Field recordings from Chinatown’s 41 alleys are composed based on a graphic score of all the overlaid alleys. 41 red radios installed throughout Wentworth Alley amplify these sonic transmissions, collapsing the intimate space of radio with Chinatown’s shared geography. Sound moves through this network, channeling legacies of survival. “41 Alleys” asserts radio as alterity tech, where frequencies encode resistance to fascism, xenophobia, and genocidal border regimes. The print serves as both archive and template for future activation. Created for the Edge on a Square 2025 Festival,  “41 Alleys” flexes the power of ‘alternate’ being, where shadow selves far from being hidden, are exactly where we transmit. 

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