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HEAR Now is the audio equivalent of a film festival for fans, performers and producers of contemporary audio story-telling in all its forms: live and scripted solo performances, multi-voiced performance, classic radio drama, experimental narrative, and much more.

This four-day Festival offers a multi-faceted program showcasing the many forms of audio fiction and sound art story-telling in theaters and other “listening” venues. HEAR Now presents audio fiction programs that exemplify traditions of craftsmanship, as well as aesthetic and technological innovation.

The 2017 HEAR Now Festival will again be a gathering place where the work of master storytellers is celebrated and shared.

Audio drama, audiobooks, recorded, and live story-telling -- sketches, poetry, spoken word -- alongside academic papers, juried competitions, and presentations on the physics of sound, as well as performance workshops, will round out this intensive listening event for the 2017 Hear Now Festival.

The following schedule is still ’under construction’ and subject to updates prior to June 6, 2017.
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Chris Romero

Cvrtains Virtual Reality Demos

Christopher Romero is a long time practitioner of the interacktive teknologickals. He studied Poetics at New College of California with Robert Duncan and was recently published in Sensitive Skin magazine. He plays Balinese Gamelan, electronic percussion and electric/acoustic strings. As a solo artist he has created two albums of material : “Pretty Sketchy” and “Some Are”. He produced two DVDs (“3 Films By Elias Romero” and “Ramayana”) and conceived, produced and created projections for the shadow puppet play Wayang Jataka.

Professionally he has lead the technical production teams at Nickelodeon Online (nick.com), Worldwide Biggies (Princess Bride Game, American Girl Virtual Word), FunGoPlay (connected online virtual world), Adoptive (Yale Medicine application servers), HolojamVR (COO) and Amplify (Associate Director of Front End Development). In VR he developed code and UX for Flock, a HolojamVR piece that premiered at the Festival of Storytelling, a demo for the CEO of Ikea, a model of an airport for a phobia reduction game, and designed the world and wrote code on CVRTAIN.