2025 Sound Series
@ the Block House
Saturday August 2-16, 2025
Live recording and broadcasting every Friday and Saturday from Governors Island
︎Deli Radio
︎Bridge Street Sound
︎Earth Life
Deli Radio at the Block House is presented through the Institute for Public Architecture as part of its current programmatic theme, Living Laboratory, a seasonal initiative that explores the intersection of public space, community, and experimentation. In this context, Deli Radio proposes a temporary communal site for transmission, one that does not solely engage with architecture as the design of physical structures or material forms, but rather as a means of constructing shared memory and everyday ritual.
Rooted in the ethos of the neighborhood corner store, Deli Radio draws on the pre-digital role of these sites and how radio functioned within them. Across cultures, corner stores continue to be key spaces for collective listening and gathering. Deli Radio builds on this legacy by considering the corner store as a space of both intimacy and spontaneous encounter, a place where you might hear a new sound while ordering something familiar.
Over two weeks, Deli Radio will activate multiple spaces within the IPA’s Block House—including the garden, library, and kitchen—to host a series of recordings, broadcasts, and open gatherings. These programs will explore the relational nature of music, architecture, food, and public space as overlapping forms of cultural practice that hold memory and shape our human experience. In collaboration with IPA Summer Fellow Chong Gu’s mobile and transformable structure CARRY, as well as structural botanic and edible interventions by Zacarías González, this programming series will pair sound and spatial practice through temporary and agile activation.
Deli Radio and IPA invite participation from the broader public, welcoming proposals in a range of formats to be recorded, shared, and transmitted from Governors Island. Submit proposals directly at https://www.deliradio.nyc/
Deli Radio will host live recording sessions and broadcast a series of programs every Friday and Saturday from 5-8pm during the duration of their residence, with public activations every Saturday.
Rooted in the ethos of the neighborhood corner store, Deli Radio draws on the pre-digital role of these sites and how radio functioned within them. Across cultures, corner stores continue to be key spaces for collective listening and gathering. Deli Radio builds on this legacy by considering the corner store as a space of both intimacy and spontaneous encounter, a place where you might hear a new sound while ordering something familiar.
Over two weeks, Deli Radio will activate multiple spaces within the IPA’s Block House—including the garden, library, and kitchen—to host a series of recordings, broadcasts, and open gatherings. These programs will explore the relational nature of music, architecture, food, and public space as overlapping forms of cultural practice that hold memory and shape our human experience. In collaboration with IPA Summer Fellow Chong Gu’s mobile and transformable structure CARRY, as well as structural botanic and edible interventions by Zacarías González, this programming series will pair sound and spatial practice through temporary and agile activation.
Deli Radio and IPA invite participation from the broader public, welcoming proposals in a range of formats to be recorded, shared, and transmitted from Governors Island. Submit proposals directly at https://www.deliradio.nyc/
Deli Radio will host live recording sessions and broadcast a series of programs every Friday and Saturday from 5-8pm during the duration of their residence, with public activations every Saturday.
PROGRAM
TIME
Saturday, August 2, 2025
DELI IN THE KITCHEN
Our communal residency kitchen turns into a deli - of sounds, smells, and stories.
Live broadcasting with June Canedo de Souza and Daniel Santos, featuring a spatial installation by IPA Summer Fellow Chong Gu.
Our communal residency kitchen turns into a deli - of sounds, smells, and stories.
Live broadcasting with June Canedo de Souza and Daniel Santos, featuring a spatial installation by IPA Summer Fellow Chong Gu.
3:00 - 7:00 PM
SYNAPTIC ISLAND
Join us for a nightwalk led by IPA Summer Fellow Kii Kang, with musical performance by MIZU.
More information here.
Join us for a nightwalk led by IPA Summer Fellow Kii Kang, with musical performance by MIZU.
More information here.
8:00 - 9:00 PM
Saturday, August 9, 2025
DELI IN THE GARDEN
The radio station has flourished into a garden!
Live broadcasting with June Canedo de Souza and Daniel Santos, featuring a spatial installation by IPA Summer Fellow Chong Gu.
The radio station has flourished into a garden!
Live broadcasting with June Canedo de Souza and Daniel Santos, featuring a spatial installation by IPA Summer Fellow Chong Gu.
3:00 - 7:00PM
PUBLIC JOY! AND OTHER FEELINGS
We transition from day to evening as the screen begins to glow - bring your own picnic blankets and join us for a public screening in the park.
We transition from day to evening as the screen begins to glow - bring your own picnic blankets and join us for a public screening in the park.
8:00 - 9:00PM
Saturday, August 9, 2025
DELI IN THE HOUSE
Join us for the closing party of Deli Radio at the Block House - with sound activation by Bridge Street Sound.
Join us for the closing party of Deli Radio at the Block House - with sound activation by Bridge Street Sound.
5:00 - 10:00PM
