

Giovanna Boffa, a radio host and curator from Chicago, shares fresh music from the Midwest and across the world on New Voices. Each segment will feature a local artist who will delve into their sound and inspirations. Surprise! I'm not done here, this keeeeps on going! This fifth segment of Giovanna Boffa's New Voices program highlights new music from Chicago but and probably mostly from beyond. It also features an interview with Hali Palombo—an FM radio host, composer, visual artist and filmmaker from Chicago whose work often weaves the absurdity and mundane beauty of Illinois into records, short films, drawings and paintings. Palombo is an avid practitioner of “plunderphonics”: sampling existing musical/aural works and intertwining them into something brand new, whether it’s shortwave radio and CB radio samples, wax cylinder audio, and field recordings taken from Midwestern points of interest.

