Analog back

After a couple of weeks of iTunesing it, I'm back with an analogue collage of trains, planes, automobile crashes, scanned frequencies, Donald Byrd, Matthew Shipp, and more.

AV Festival stream last week; bits for Scanner for Barcelona this week

Last week I neglected to blog about how the show was being simulcast in England as part of the AV Festival 2008. (You can download the file here.) This week's show is also for a European festival, this one in Barcelona. I'm collaborating with Scanner, and the show this week will be real bare bones, just some minimal files to get the overseas collaboration started.

New DJ show

Sorry about all the re-runs lately, but I'm back with a new DJ show today with Daniel Carter + Arthur Doyle, Pauline Oliveros, SparkleProjects (Andrew Barker, Charles Waters and Matt Lavelle), and more.

Mixing like its 1999

Old-tyme collage like it was 4 a.m. in Williamsburg in 1999. A lull and a loud.

The War of the War of the Worlds

Replayed the Halloween broadcast "The War of the War of the Worlds" where I remix the Orson Wells radio play of the H.G. Wells story with reporting from current conflicts around the world. Click here to listen.

Slurry

Today not quite a curry, but definitely slow and spicy, sorta collage largely based on Stars of the Lid but also itself. And different amounts of Steve Reich, Beastie Boys, Blondie, morse code, parrot-talk, live FM, shortwave static, and much more.

Radio 4x4s

Three Radio 4x4 performances were featured today:

*Gabriel Burian-Mohr + David Matorin + David Galbraith + Andrew Neumann for "Rock's Role (After Ryoanji)" at Art in General from a free103point9 DVD.

*Ben Owen + Tianna Kennedy + Michelle Nagai + Todd Merrell at the Guggenheim Museum, August 2007.

*Steve Boyle + Tom Roe + Angel Neveraz + Valerie Tevere at Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.

Radio 4x4 is a free103point9 project where four sound artists perform into four FM transmitters set to four different frequencies. Boomboxes, clock radios and other receivers are spread around the listening space, each tuned to one of the four frequencies. Audiences are meant to walk among the different radio receivers, "mixing" the signals.

New releases

Back after a few weeks of wackiness, and off and on dizziness, with some long, atmospheric new releases:

Thick Wisps, "Organ Accumulator" from self-released Thick Wisps CD
Jackie-O Motherfucker, "Sun Ray Harvester" from Changes LP (Ectastic Peace)
Kevin Frenette Four, "Combinatorial Mathematics" from Connections CD (Fuller Street Music)
With Kevin Frenette (gtr), Andy McWain (piano), Todd Keating (bass), and Tatsuya Nakatani (drums).
Temperatures, "YMIR side one" from Heat Rentention LP
Mammal, "Repulsion" from Lonesome Drifter CD (Animal Disguise)

Animals pt. 1

Today, animal-themed songs, in preparation for a show at Wave Farm next month.

in the new studio

The new studio isn't nearly ready yet, but the last couple of weeks I have been testing out what sounds will come out of it. Sorry for all the hiccups, but some new ideas are percolating.

dub n plus day

Today was a little Mad Professor, The Upsetters, and Husker Du and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. And others stuff to go along. Last week Dizziness brought the drum machine to the new 338 Berry St. free103point9 space in Brooklyn, the first live show there on free103point9 Online Radio.

Last week and this

Sorry about no post last week, I played some drones, you can hear them at http://www.free103point9.org/audioarchives/song/000/song000196.php. This week was a Kurt Vonnegut requiem. Alas, no recording exists.

Morse code sounds

It was gonna be a DJ set today, but my morse code intro just kept replicating itself, eventually with a Bunnybrain beat.

Scanning the storms

Lots of trouble on the transmissions today, looks like an electrical storm is on the horizon.

A whale of a show

Whales are back in the Hudson river this week. It used to be the East River, actually, back in the late '90s real-beam days.

Echoing noises and perhaps screaming interruptions

Today Echo will sing along with the sounds.

new records this week

New releases sent to free103point9 will be featured this week.

New releases

Hey there. Today Dizziness will play some new releases from Drop the Lime, Parts + Labor, and others. Sorry I haven't posted the last couple of weeks, they were both collages/collisions of sound shows.

Lawrence Lessig remix

This week it's a remix/mash-up of Lawrence Lessig's keynote address from the Berlin hacker conference 23C3, "On Free, and the Differences between Culture and Code." Followed by Captain and Bookworm's tribute to those who passed in 2006, from last week's "After the Polka" on free103point9 Online Radio.

Today its a little bit baroque?

Hmm? I don't know, I'm mid-way through, and its a little bit instrumental DJ noisy baroque set?

Free Radio Olympia panel instead

No Dizziness today, instead a panel discussion from the Free Radio Olympia collective called "The Case for Free Radio in the 21st Century." It is taken from the Northwest Community Radio Summit a few weeks back.

Radio Lab lecture at Brown

This week I'm playing the lecture on transmission art I gave at Brown University: "free103point9 Program Director and Transmission Artist Tom Roe will present a Radio Lab workshop as well as discuss his work with Joe Milutis's students in The Department of Modern Culture & Media at Brown University. Roe discusses free103point9's early history, and microcasting history in the United States in the 1990s, as well as exploring transmission art and playing brief examples of performances from free103point9's Tune (In))) The Kitchen with Scanner, Gregory Whitehead, Thurston Moore, Michelle Nagai, and others."

Off again

Sorry, no show last week for Thanksgiving, and no show this week for a final trip to the hospital for Echo and her mom. I will be back live next week. "War of the War of the Worlds" will be repeated today.

Ghost haunts show today

No show today, as Dizziness is pre-empted for "Dutch Days Radio Hour," which is part of "Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost."

DJ set today

What is it called, the DJ vamp, extending an opening of a track as a tease? We are waiting for our baby Echo here at Wave Farm, and waiting some more, it seems. So I'll do a DJ set that is all about waiting for the pay off.