OPEN CALL: Giant Ear)))_Fantastic Places

Sound designers and sound artists are often asked to create realistic sonic environments for places that they've never experienced. This requires some serious shapeshifting and mindbending skills. For this month's Giant Ear))) we would like to celebrate these skills by requesting the truly fantastical. Please send in: (Option 1) A piece composed for a place that you may never be able to go to physically as a person. Altering the sound to convince listeners of the place is encouraged. Or (Option 2) Send in a recording/composition of yourself actually in an actual fantastic place. Fantastic! Please send your field-recording based work as an MP3 (via e-mail, FTP or www.sendspace.com) to Andrea Williams at lemurz66@yahoo.com By April 2, 2009. "Fantastic Places," hosted by Andrea Williams and Edmund Mooney, will be webcast on free103point9 Online Radio 7-9 p.m. in April on Sunday (date TBA). Giant Ear))) is the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology's weekly, two-hour radio show webcasting recordings of the NYC soundscape, (wo)man-on-the-street public interest interviews, live on-site sound explorations, special guests, and more. New show updated each month, show airs weekly Sundays at 7 p.m.

free103point9 Online Radio Top 40 for November 2008

Releases with top airplay on free103point9 Online Radio:

1. Evidence, Receiver (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 035)
2. Escape Mechanism, Emphasis Added (Recombinations)
From Jon Nelson of "Some Assembly Required."
3. Various artists, Autoradio-guide (Transit-Wellen)
With tracks from neuroTransmitter, Reboot.fm, Tetsuo Kogawa.
4. Various artists, Radio Action III (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 034)
With free103point9 Transmission Artists including Scanner, Joshua Fried, Anna Friz, Tianna Kennedy, LoVid, Todd Merrell, The Dust Dive, and others.
5. Eri Yamamoto, Duologue (Aum Fidelity)
6. Francisco Lopez, Conops (GD Stereo)
7. Asher-Ubeboet, Cell Memory (Winds Measure Recordings)
8. Windsor for the Derby, How We Lost (Secretly Canadian)
9. Black Taj, Beyonder (Amish)
10. Ricardo Arias + Miguel Frasconi + Keiko Uenishi, Object (eh?40)
11. Jack Wright + Alban Bailly, The Harmony of Contradictions (Sort Of)
12. Matmos, Supreme Balloon (Matador)
13. MV & EE, Ragas of the Culvert LP (Heroine Celestial Agriculture)
14. Jim McAuley, The Ultimate Frog (Drip Audio)
15. New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, Giant Ear))) Inside/Out NYC (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 036)
With tracks from Ben Owen, Michelle Nagai, Andrea Williams, Jonny Farrow, David Watson, Edmund Mooney, and others.
16. Liturgy, Immortal Life LP (Infinite Limbs)
17. Matt Weston, Not to Be Taken Away (7272music)
18. Miya Masaoka, While I Was Walking, I Heard a Sound... (Solitary B)
19. Bill Dixon, 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (Aum Fidelity)
20. Sic Alps, A Long Way Around a Shortcut (Animal Disguise)
21. Embarker, Embarker LP (Malleablerec.com)
22. Brian Osborne + Marc Zajack, split LP (HRR/DF)
23. Tactical Sound #5, Voice(s) of God(s) (freematterfortheblind.com)
With Alexis Bhagat, Gregory Whitehead, Christopher DeLaurenti, Greta Byrum, and others.
24. Various artists, Introductions (thelandof.org)
With My Fun, Asher, others.
25. John Berndt, The Private Language Problem (Sort Of)
26. Shot x Shot, Let Nature Square (High Two)
27. Bird Show, Bird Show (Kranky)
28. Embarker, (the sayer) 3" CD (Heat Retention)
29. Jen Baker, Blue Dreams (Dilapidated Barns)
30. Cakes of Light, Save Your Self LP (Heat Retention)
31. Martin Hesselmeier + Karin Lingman, SARoskop (Kunsthochschule)
32. Cristian Amigo, Kingdom of Jones (Innova)
33. Barnyard Drama, I'm a Navvy (Barnyard Records)
34. Deerhunter, Microcastle (Kranky)
35. The Peggy Lee Band, New Code (Drip Audio)
36. Chubby Behemoth, Global DX 7" (Infinite Limbs)
37. Johann Johannsson, Fordlandia (4AD)
38. Raglani, Of Sirens Born (Kranky)
39. Gary War, New Raytheonport LP (Shwwply/Disaro)
40. Boduf Songs, How Shadows Chase the Balance (Kranky)

To get airplay for your release send it to:
Wave Farm, 5662 Route 23, Acra, NY 12405

Ecotone Radio

A new program debuts today (Thursdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.) on free103- point9 Online Radio from DJ Pause called "Ecotone Radio." An ecotone is the transitional area between two different ecosystems. Its the place where grassland becomes dune, jungle becomes desert, city becomes suburb. An ecotone can be a slow crossfade or a jagged splice. Ecotone radio seeks to explore the overlaps and disjunctions between competing musical ecosystems, the dialouges, wars, orgies, transmigrations, spats, group meditations, flash floods, reincarnations, and identity crisises that happen when different spheres of activity meet each other. Covering genres as broad as reggae, bassline, dub, dancehall, cosmic jazz, ragga, reggaeton, ragga-jungle, calypso, kwaito, dub-step, minimal, kuduro, electroacoustic, down-tempo, highlife, ambient, manzuma, hiplife, noise, hiphop, grime, breaks, bass, IDM, post punk, steppers, gnawa, bhangra, qawalli, free jazz, garage, soul jazz, soca, free improv, microhouse, two-step, cumbia, ghetto tech, kwela, hyphy, soul, breakcore, maghrebi, electro, and countless others that have yet to be imagined. We will use the zero-sum solution of the dj mixer to examine how musical ideas are mashed up and reinterperated through post-colonial cultural transmission, and geographic and sonic overlap.

Today's playlist:
"Fire Burn"- Churchical Chants of the Nyabingi
"Yayayay Yayayaya" Black Blood & Thembi(Biram Records 7")
"Can I Come Back For More?" Eddie Quansah(Island Records 7"
"Dancin' & Prancin'" Candido (SalSoul Records 7")
"Hot Mud" Afrique(Mainstream Records "7)
"Senegal"-Seven Roots (RKM Records 7")
"Nabali Misere" Comp. Mayulana Mayoni Orchestra(Zerbi Records 7")
"Samba/Falable Lewe" King Sunny Ade and His African Beats(Island LP)
"Indodo Yejazi Elimnyama" Amaswazi Emvelo, The Indestructable Beat of Soweto(Sanchie)
"Anye"-Shewandagne Hailu
"Pursuit" African Head Charge, Shrunken Head(On-U Sound double LP)
"Sibingelela Ufosatu" The Clover Choir, South African Trade Union Choirs(Rounder LP)
"That Haiku" Medium Medium, The Glitterhouse(JEM Records LP)
"Oya"Olutanji, Drums of Passion
"Jah Shall Reign" The Twinkle Brothers, Rasta Surface(Jah Shaka LP)
"Down For Jah Love" Judy Green(Dubwise 10")
"Free Up The Herb" African Simba(Reality Shock Records 10")
"Victory" Dandie Lion (Concious Sounds 10")
"Chill Out" Black Uhuru(Island Records LP)
"Zombie Zones" Dennis Bovell
"Making History" Linton Kwesi Johnson
"Try a Thing" White Mice(Intellec 7")
"Soundboy's Ashes Get Chopped Up and Snorted" Shackelton(Skull Disco 12")
"Nitemarz" Hijak(Tectonic 10")
"Skeng" The Bug featuring Skepta (Hyperdub 12")
"Lahore & Marsielle" Muslimgauze(Staaplaat CD)
"There 4 me" The Shape of Broad Minds, Craft of the Lost Art

free103point9 Online Radio Top 40 for January 2008

free103point9 Online Radio Top 40 for January 2008

1. Latitude/Longitude, "Solar Filters/Mother Evening" 7" (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 031)
2. Radio Ruido, "False Rosetta" 2x7" (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 032)
3. Pauline Oliveros + Miya Masaoka, Koto Accordion (Deep Listening)
4. Jeff Arnal + Dietrich Eichmann, LP (Broken Research)
5. Willing, Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake (Evolving Ear)
6. David S. Ware Quartet, Renunciation (Aum Fidelity)
7. Mike Wexler, Sun Wheel (Amish)
8. Charalambides, Likeness (Kranky)
9. William Basinski, shortwavemusic (Musex International)
10. Stars Like Fleas, The Ken Burns Effect (Talitres)
11. The SB LP, (Qbico 54)
12. Theo Angell, Dearly Beloved (Amish)
13. Annea Lockwood, Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World (Pogus)
14. Duane Pitre/Pilotram Ensemble, Organized Pitches Ocurring in Time (Important)
15. Walter & Sabrina, We Sing for the Future (Danny Dark Records)
16. Todd Merrell + Aidan Baker + Patrick Jordan, Nagual (ArchivedCD 41)
17. The Peeesseye, Mayhem in the Mansion (Evolving Ear)
18. Scott Smallwood, Electrotherapy (Deep Listening)
19. David Watson, Fingering an Idea (XI Records)
20. Tom Heasley + Toss Panos, Passages (Full Bleed Music)
21. Scott Smallwood, Desert Winds: Six Windblown Sound Pieces and Other Works (Deep Listening)
22. Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet, Inner Constellation (Nemu)
Bruce Eisenbeil + Jean Cook + Nate Wooley + Aaron Ali Shaikh + Tom Abbs + Nasheet Waits.
23. Robert Ashley, Now Eleanor's Idea (Lovely Music)
24. Manpack, Sticky Wic (digitalis)
25. William Parker + Hamid Drake, First Communion/Piercing the Veil 2xCD (Aum Fidelity)
26. Tatsuya Nakatani, Primal Communication (H&H)
27. Cloudland Canyons, Silver Tongued Sisyphus (Kranky)
28. White Rainbow, Prism of Eternal Now (Kranky)
29. Phantom Limb & Bison, Phantom Limb & Bison (Evolving Ear)
30. Fond of Tigers, Release the Saviours (Drip Audio)
31. Timeless Pulse Quintet, Timeless Pulse Quintet (Mutable)
32. Temperatures, Ymir (Heat Retention) LP
33. Basalt Fingers, Basalt Fingers (Three Lobed Recordings)
Ben Chasny, Elisa Ambrogio, and Brian Sullivan.
34. butcher/muller/van der schyff, way out northwest (Drip Audio)
35. Tony Wilson 6tet, Pearls Before Swine (Drip Audio)
36. Wilson/Lee/Bentley, Escondido Dreams (Drip Audio)
37. Illuminea, Out of Our Mouths (High Two)
38. Ting Ting Jahe, 18(16) (Winds Measure Recordings)
39. Garrett Phelan, Black Brain Radio (Ninepoint)
40. Mammal, Lonesome Drifter (Animal Disguise)

To submit CDs, LPs, CSs, etc. for consideration of airplay on free103point9 Online Radio, mail to:
free103point9
5622 Route 23
Acra, NY 12405

free103point9 Top 40 for December 2007

free103point9 Online Radio Top 40 for December 2007

1. Todd Merrell + Aidan Baker + Patrick Jordan, Nagual (ArchivedCD 41)
2. The SB LP, (Qbico 54)
3. Stars Like Fleas, The Ken Burns Effect (Talitres)
4. Radio Ruido, "False Rosetta" 2x7" (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 032)
5. Latitude/Longitude, "Solar Filters/Mother Evening" 7" (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 031)
6. William Basinski, shortwavemusic (Musex International)
7. David Watson, Fingering an Idea (XI Records)
8. Annea Lockwood, Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World (Pogus)
9. White Rainbow, Prism of Eternal Now (Kranky)
10. David S. Ware Quartet, Renunciation (Aum Fidelity)
11. Jeff Arnal + Dietrich Eichmann, LP (Broken Research)
12. Timeless Pulse Quintet, Timeless Pulse Quintet (Mutable)
13. Tatsuya Nakatani, Primal Communication (H&H)
14. The Peeesseye, Mayhem in the Mansion (Evolving Ear)
15. Charalambides, Likeness (Kranky)
16. Willing, Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake (Evolving Ear)
17. Manpack, Sticky Wic (digitalis)
18. Cloudland Canyons, Silver Tongued Sisyphus (Kranky)
19. Phantom Limb & Bison, Phantom Limb & Bison (Evolving Ear)
20. Illuminea, Out of Our Mouths (High Two)
21. Scott Smallwood, Desert Winds: Six Windblown Sound Pieces and Other Works (Deep Listening)
22. Temperatures, Ymir (Heat Retention) LP
23. Scott Smallwood, Electrotherapy (Deep Listening)
24. Duane Pitre/Pilotram Ensemble, Organized Pitches Ocurring in Time (Important)
25. William Parker + Hamid Drake, First Communion/Piercing the Veil 2xCD (Aum Fidelity)
26. Mammal, Lonesome Drifter (Animal Disguise)
27. Robert Ashley, Now Eleanor's Idea (Lovely Music)
28. Ting Ting Jahe, 18(16) (Winds Measure Recordings)
29. Cadaver In Drag, Raw Child (Animal Disguise)
30. Various artists, Songs Most Likely to Succeed Class of 2007 (Radio One New Zealand)
31. Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, glass vs grass (jdw/conc)
32. Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet, Inner Constellation (Nemu)
Bruce Eisenbeil + Jean Cook + Nate Wooley + Aaron Ali Shaikh + Tom Abbs + Nasheet Waits.
33. Zavoloka, Viter (Kvitnu)
34. Normal, Love (High Two)
35. The Kevin Frenette 4, Connections (Fuller Street Music)
Kevin Frenette + Andy McWain + Todd Keating + Tatsuya Nakatani.
36. Various artists, Sweet Earth Flower: A tribute to Marion Brown (High Two)
37. Walter & Sabrina, We Sing for the Future (Danny Dark Records)
38. Shelf Life, Ductworks (Public Eyesore)
39. Garrett Phelan, Black Brain Radio (Ninepoint)
40. Basalt Fingers, Basalt Fingers (Three Lobed Recordings)
Ben Chasny, Elisa Ambrogio, and Brian Sullivan.

To submit CDs, LPs, CSs, etc. for consideration of airplay on free103point9 Online Radio, mail to:
free103point9
5622 Route 23
Acra, NY 12405

free103point9 Online Radio November Top 40

free103point9 Top 40 for November 2007

1. Stars Like Fleas, The Ken Burns Effect (Talitres)
2. David Watson, Fingering an Idea (XI Records)
3. The Kevin Frenette 4, Connections (Fuller Street Music)
Kevin Frenette + Andy McWain + Todd Keating + Tatsuya Nakatani.
4. Charalambides, Likeness (Kranky)
5. Willing, Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake (Evolving Ear)
6. Cloudland Canyons, Silver Tongued Sisyphus (Kranky)
7. Jeff Arnal + Dietrich Eichmann, LP (Broken Research)
8. Scott Smallwood, Desert Winds: Six Windblown Sound Pieces and Other Works (Deep Listening)
9. Temperatures, Ymir (Heat Retention) LP
10. Tatsuya Nakatani, Primal Communication (H&H)
11. Mammal, Lonesome Drifter (Animal Disguise)
12. Timeless Pulse Quintet, Timeless Pulse Quintet (Mutable)
13. Cadaver In Drag, Raw Child (Animal Disguise)
14. My Fun, Carte Postale (thelandof.org)
15. David S. Ware Quartet, Renunciation (Aum Fidelity)
16. Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet, Inner Constellation (Nemu)
Bruce Eisenbeil + Jean Cook + Nate Wooley + Aaron Ali Shaikh + Tom Abbs + Nasheet Waits.
17. Ting Ting Jahe, 18(16) (Winds Measure Recordings)
18. Duane Pitre/Pilotram Ensemble, Organized Pitches Ocurring in Time (Important)
19. William Parker + Hamid Drake, First Communion/Piercing the Veil 2xCD (Aum Fidelity)
20. White Rainbow, Prism of Eternal Now (Kranky)
21. Phil Minton + Yagihashi Tsukasa + Sato Yukie + Higo Hiroshi, Nippara * Tokyo (Austin Record)
22. Ironing, Pocket Almanac (Hymn)
23. Scott Smallwood, Electrotherapy (Deep Listening)
24. Tripwire, Looking in My Ear (Creative Sources)
25. Phantom Limb & Bison, Phantom Limb & Bison (Evolving Ear)
26. Giraffe, Hear Here (self)
27. Shelf Life, Ductworks (Public Eyesore)
28. Annea Lockwood, Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World (Pogus)
29. William Parker + Hamid Drake, Summer Snow (Aum Fidelity)
30. Thick Wisps, Thick Wisps (self)
31. Manpack, Sticky Wic (digitalis)
32. Al Margolis/If Bwana, An Innocent Abroad (Pogus)
33. The Peeesseye, Mayhem in the Mansion (Evolving Ear)
34. Felix Werder, Electronic Music (Pogus)
35. Alabrecht Maurer Trio Works, movietalks (JazzHausMusik)
36. Various artists, Songs Most Likely to Succeed Class of 2007 (Radio One New Zealand)
With Matthew Underwood, Andrew Deutsch, and Stephane Sikora.
37. Chris Forsyth + Nate Wooley, The Duchess of Oysterville (Creative Sources Recordings)
38. Robert Ashley, Now Eleanor's Idea (Lovely Music)
39. Albrecht Maurer + Norbert Rodenkirchen, Hidden Fresco (Nemu)
40. Vampire Hands, Virgin Dust American Life (Freedom From)

Just added:

The SB LP, (Qbico 54)
Todd Merrell, Nagual (ArchivedCD 41)
Various artists, Sweet Earth Flower: A tribute to Marion Brown (High Two)
Normal, Love (High Two)
Illuminea, Out of Our Mouths (High Two)

To submit CDs, LPs, CSs, etc. for consideration of airplay on free103point9 Online Radio, mail to:
free103point9
5622 Route 23
Acra, NY 12405

OPEN CALL: Field recordings for free103point9 Online Radio

free103point9 Online Radio is seeking field recordings and acoustic ecology tracks for airplay. free103point9 Online Radio airs a "Field Recordings" show every Sunday at 10 a.m. ET, and also incorporates submitted performances throughout regular programming. CDs, LPs, and other formats sent for airplay will be stored in the Wave farm Study Center Library and available to the public. In addition, free103point9 is planning a series of field recordings performances in the summer of 2008 and looking for possible performers and presenters.

Please send recordings for airplay consideration to:
free103point9 Wave Farm
5662 Route 23
Acra, NY 12405

New free103point9 website

The new free103point9 web site is up now. We're sure there are still some kinks to be worked out, but there's also many new features that are working fine. Lots of new audio and video files of past events, made possible, in part, through a Digitization grant administered by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. You can also add your event to the calendar, to get listed among many other great radio art and experimental events from around the world. Please let us know if anything doesn't work in the comments.

free103point9 Online Radio October 2007 Top 40

free103point9 Online Radio
October 2007 Top 40

1. Mammal, Lonesome Drifter (Animal Disguise)
2. Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet, Inner Constellation (Nemu)
Bruce Eisenbeil + Jean Cook + Nate Wooley + Aaron Ali Shaikh + Tom Abbs + Nasheet Waits.
3. Temperatures, Ymir (Heat Retention) LP
4. Phantom Limb & Bison, Phantom Limb & Bison (Evolving Ear)
5. Timeless Pulse Quintet, Timeless Pulse Quintet (Mutable)
6. Shelf Life, Ductworks (Public Eyesore)
7. David S. Ware Quartet, Renunciation (Aum Fidelity)
8. The Kevin Frenette 4, Connections (Fuller Street Music)
Kevin Frenette + Andy McWain + Todd Keating + Tatsuya Nakatani.
9. Alabrecht Maurer Trio Works, movietalks (JazzHausMusik)
10. Beardtongue, untitled (self)
11. Chris Forsyth + Nate Wooley, The Duchess of Oysterville (Creative Sources Recordings)
12. William Parker + Hamid Drake, Summer Snow (Aum Fidelity)
13. Tripwire, Looking in My Ear (Creative Sources)
14. Willing, Brotherhood of the Backwards Handshake (Evolving Ear)
15. Phil Minton + Yagihashi Tsukasa + Sato Yukie + Higo Hiroshi, Nippara * Tokyo (Austin Record)
16. Vampire Hands, Virgin Dust American Life (Freedom From)
17. Cadaver In Drag, Raw Child (Animal Disguise)
18. Giraffe, Hear Here (self)
19. William Parker + Hamid Drake, First Communion/Piercing the Veil 2xCD (Aum Fidelity)
20. Ting Ting Jahe, 18(16) (Winds Measure Recordings)
21. Jeff Arnal + Dietcich Eichmann, LP (Broken Research)
22. Thick Wisps, Thick Wisps (self)
23. If Bwana, Radio Slaves (Monochrome Vision)
24. Felix Werder, Electronic Music (Pogus)
25. David Watson, Fingering an Idea (XI Records)
26. MV & EE with the Bummer Road, Green Blues (Ecstatic Peace)
27. Duane Pitre/Pilotram Ensemble, Organized Pitches Ocurring in Time (Important)
28. Destructo Swarmbots, Clear Light (Public Guilt)
29. Robert Ashley, Now Eleanor's Idea (Lovely Music)
30. Ironing, Pocket Almanac (Hymn)
31. Meri von KleimSmid, Have a Spinach Salad (Latibulum)
32. Annea Lockwood, Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World (Pogus)
33. Harm Stryker, Harm Stryker 3" CDr (Public Guilt)
34. The Peeesseye, Mayhem in the Mansion (Evolving Ear)
35. Various artists, ...a tidal wave of air & a subtle shift in landmarks (Passive Consumer)
36. Joseph Nechvatal, Viral Symph0ny (iea)
With Matthew Underwood, Andrew Deutsch, and Stephane Sikora.
37. Jonas Braasch, Global Reflections (Deep Listening)
38. Seejayno, Sedainty (Shinkoyo/Here See/Skulls of Heaven/BOC Sound Laboratories)
39. Albrecht Maurer + Norbert Rodenkirchen, Hidden Fresco (Nemu)
40. Eliane Radigue, Jetsun Mila (Lovely Music)

To submit CDs, LPs, CSs, etc. for consideration of airplay on free103point9 Online Radio, mail to:
free103point9
5622 Route 23
Acra, NY 12405