The Saturday symposium begins with a tribute to San Francisco radio, which played a major role in the circulation of New Age music. This session will highlight the shows Music from the Hearts of Space and Will Noffke’s New Horizons . Next, Kat Epple will be in conversation, with excerpts from Photonos . After a lunch break, we reconvene with a session on Continuum , the dance and meditation school of Emilie Conrad, which fostered New Age musicians like Michael Stearns, Kevin Braheny Fortune, and Larkin . Larkin will be in conversation and will perform, with visuals by Ken Jenkins . These sessions will be led by Prof. Jacob Smith (Northwestern University), whose new book Bridge to an Unseen Shore is the first in-depth cultural history of New Age music and is based on extensive interviews with musicians and artists in the genre. The afternoon continues with Steven Halpern in conversation and a screening of Jeanette Stobie’s Lightstream . The final presentation of the day is by renowned author Erik Davis ( TechGnosis , High Weirdness ) and Megan Phipps .