June 26th, 12:00 noon PST to June 27, 12:00 noon PST

Series start of If the house could speak - a special broadcast series presented by Villa Aurora & LOOKOUT FM airing every two weeks beginning June 26th on KFQM, 101.5 FM in the Pacific Palisades and online at http://lookout.fm.

In January of 2025 the Palisades Fire came within feet of Villa Aurora. Miraculously, the house survived, and with it the radio transmitter that broadcasts from there throughout the Santa Monica Mountains and the beaches below.

This series explores the voices, past and present, that reverberate at Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger’s former home. For the past 30 years, Villa Aurora has been an artist residence, a place where exile and expression meet, where history and contemporary events converge.

During the process of rebuilding and awaiting our artists’ return, we will be broadcasting newly produced, archival and historical footage for you to listen to and maybe wonder: Is this really only a house or, like Carl Jung suggests, can the composition of a room induce the realization of new truths?

Each episode of if the house could speak will be broadcast on a loop for 24 hours with no interruption. The first episode will air Thursday, June 26th beginning at 12 PM Pacific Daylight Time. For our listeners across the world, that corresponds to 7 PM Coordinated Universal Time.

Stay tuned!

Episode 1

We are starting of the series with Marta Feuchtwanger’s own account of the Bel Air Fire that threatened to swallow the house and its library in 1961. In this chapter from her Interviews with Lawrence Weschler, Marta remembers what it was like and how the books have been saved during this time.

Recording courtesy of the UCLA Department of Special Collections.

Feuchtwanger Refreshed: THE FIRE LAST TIME

Marta’s introduction will be followed by three pieces written by student playwrights of the MFA Dramatic Writing Program at USC. Three pieces that take on different perspectives on home as a place and as a sanctuary for the displaced, resilience and finding uplift in times of desperation.

Presented by USC Feuchtwanger Memorial Library and Villa Aurora, performed at the Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum.

The Fire Creates Its Own Storm From the Heat - by Eliza Kuperschmid

About LOOKOUT FM

LOOKOUT FM is a West Coast terrestrial radio home for the broadcast of "transmission art:" experimental audio composition, modern serials, data sonification, radio plays, multi-day compositions, and radio-centric performances. Their licensed stations in Burbank, Hollywood, and Pacific Palisades function as FM exhibition spaces where radio art is presented without regard to constraints of time, structure, or commercial consideration.