Memoriver Radio is popping up at Heavy Manners Record Fair on Saturday, April 19 from 12–6 PM. Free admission.
We’re recording spontaneous stories, poems, reflections, and conversations from participants—especially about music, memory, and whatever else wants to come through. Swing by our table and say a few words between crate-digging or flipping through records.
📍1200 N Alvarado St Unit D, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Memoriver is a floating audio zine—part radio art, part ephemeral archive. Each pop-up invites you to share something personal, poetic, playful, or simply present. Slow, come-and-go. This project is a part of Shapeless Clouds.
Last year, I temporarily installed an audio archiving project at the Confluence, a gathering hosted by the School for the Ecocene. A few years ago, I’d been part of this alternative, DIY PhD school during a time when I felt called to explore storytelling through sound. I spent that session immersed in listening—paying attention to subtle details, arranging fragments of voice diaries and ambient sound into loose narratives. What stayed with me wasn’t just the technical production of assembling stories, but the deeper pull toward expression itself—toward the unspoken, the intuitive, the unconventional.
Then last year, I began Shapeless Clouds—which has evolved into a project for practicing and studying how memories weave into art, and I had gone into exploring physical formats. After a year focused mostly on art books and zines, I felt the quiet urge to return to audio (and quite honestly, video too).
I reopened my old project list. There it was: notes and ideas and a plan, still without a name. I journaled, seeing what remained resonant and what else I wanted to explore. I named it Memoriver Radio, imagining memories as rivers. It’s still forming, so this is current shape:
Memoriver Radio is an audio zine that drifts from place to place. It's part radio art, part ephemeral archive, offering a floating recording space for sharing stories, fragments, poems, and sound experiments in a soft, unfolding moment. Each session becomes part of a living, sonic tapestry--an informal oral history shaped by those who pass through. Wander in. Speak. Listen.
Whether you're reflecting on a memory, reading something you love, or just curious to play with sound, there's no one way to participate. Memoriver Radio is slow and come-and-go.
For each pop-up, a guest co-host is invited to bring their questions and collaborative ideas. Sometimes they guide conversation, sometimes they just hold space. Each one brings their own texture, so the pop-up sessions--and the day--always unfold a little differently.
Let me know if you plan to stop by! I’ve met some of you at zine fests and would love to re-connect. :) Hope to chat with you there!