Nevarez and Tevere’s research interests lie in the intersection between music and civic action/responsibility and historical moments that resonate through musical instrumentation and rhythmic/melodic traditions.

The presentation will focus on the idea of public as it pertains to their research and projects in the following ways: In considering public plazas and city parks as a stages in which various enunciative acts transpire; As a site of intervention - into systems of daily transportation, urban space, the street, and the public and private institutions that administrate such spaces; The public and the airwaves and the so-called public governing body that regulate the broadcast spectrum. From 2001 to 2008 Nevarez and Tevere, under the collaborative name neuroTransmitter, had engaged in an artistic practice that considered new possibilities for the broadcast spectrum as discursive public space. Much of the focus of the work was mining the histories, technology, and materiality of radio. Since then, Nevarez and Tevere, have been investigating the content of radio, particularly the commingling of music, dissent and public fora as subject of their work. Over the past two years various projects have taken this into account as the two have produced works that focus on musical archives, lyrics and performance, and they have worked in direct collaboration with musicians.