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This is one of the first things I found when I moved to Portland, and still one of the coolest: A pirate radio station/community art project operating out of an old laundromat in downtown.

Upstairs was a laptop with an iTunes playlist set to shuffle, composed of music that'd been donated by community members, the songs that get stuck in people's head, or the songs they find inspirational, or found sound from their daily lives. On the roof was a transmitter, broadcasting to a couple block radius. And the ground floor was full of radios tuned to 96.7 FM, the station's frequency, so visitors to the installation could listen to the music.

They also hosted other things in the space, like the semi-weekly Come In, We're Not Ready open stage, where people would make sets and props out of cardboard and act out parts of their day. I also got to be part of Bit Torrent: Bring Us Together, a "movement piece" about democracy and file sharing where we turned the intersection next to the building into a bit torrent client.

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community art , portland , travelers and record , red 76