Campfire Sounds 2008

Campfire Sounds is an annual avant folk festival organized by free103point9. "Free folk" bands perform each year at an upstate New York venue. This year "Campfire Sounds" is this Saturday, July 26, from 4-8 p.m. at Hudson Waterfront Park, with free admission and avant folk performances from MV & EE with The Golden Road, Latitude/Longitude, The Dust Dive, and Samara Lubelski. The Dust Dive and Latitude/Longitude open the show with a collaborative set, performing their songs in broader arrangements, including drums. This year's show is Part of City of Hudson Summer Concert Series, eight shows with a range of sites and sounds from May 31 to September 6 in Hudson, New York. Pictured above: Latitude/Longitude during Campfire Sounds 2006, photo by David La Spina.

Radio 4x4 at Noise! Festival plus Bunnybrains

This is an excerpt of the Radio 4x4 performance by Tom Roe, Giancarlo Bracchi, Michael Garafalo, and Slink Moss Friday, May 9, opening the Noise! festival that night at Ontological Theater in Manhattan. Radio 4x4 is a free103point9 project with four performers each performing into an FM transmitter, rather than a PA or amplifier. Instead, radios are spread around the space, tuned in randomly to the four "stations" with performances. This is from a YouTube video from Slink Moss.


And this is from Bunnybrains performance that same night at Noise!

Hudson Summer Concert Series

Hudson's Slink Moss has put together the Hudson Summer Concert Series, and free103point9 is co-sponsoring the series of eight free shows this summer in parks in the city of Hudson, New York. Slink writes, "A range of sites and sounds starting May 31 at the Waterfront and ending September 6 at the Fountain Park at 7th Street. Experimental. Rock. Jazz. Circus. Kids Rock. Reggae. Punk. Films. Performance. Fun. Diversity!" about the series. free103point9 will attempt to air each show live on free103point9 Online Radio. Here are the dates and performers:

*May 31: Bunnybrains, Family of Love, Franklin Mint, Hexual Ceiling, Neg-Fi, Norman Douglas, Tom Roe, and Slink Moss Orchestra.

*June 14: LoVid presents "Wirefull Flags" multi-media event after the fireworks.

*June 28: Mambo KiKongo, and DJ Tom Roe.

*July 12: J+H Projections (Bill Morrison and Laurie Olinder of Ridge Theater) plus live drums.

*July 26: free103point9's Campfire Sounds with The Dust Dive, Latitude/Longitude, Samara Lubelski, and MV & EE with the Golden Road.

*Aug. 9: Big Blue Big Band.

*Aug. 23: Bindlestiff Circus; The Ping Pongs, and Wolfman Jason.

*Sept. 6: The Dangling Success.

free103point9 Online Radio Top 40 for May 2008

free103point9 Online Radio Top 40 for May 2008

1. The Roy Campbell Ensemble, Akhenaten Suite (Aum Fidelity)
2. Tall Firs, Too Old To Die Young (Ecstatic Peace)
3. civyiu kkliu + ilya monosov, cartolina postale (Winds Measure Recordings)
4. The Beige Channel, Enjoy Victoria Bay! (Happy New Year Recordings)
5. Rob Brown Ensemble, Crown Trunk Root Funk (Aum Fidelity)
6. Annea Lockwood, A Sound Map of the Danube (Lovely Music, Ltd.)
7. Sic Alps, A Long Way Around To a Shortcut (Animal Disguise)
8. Robert Ashley, Concrete (Lovely Music, Ltd.)
9. Jason Willet, The Sounds of Megaphone Unlimited (mT6records.com
With Jad Fair, Eye Yamatsuka, and others.
10. Various artists, Infinite Limbs (Infinite Limbs)
Family of Love, Teeth Mountain, and others.
11. autistic daughters, uneasy flowers (Kranky)
12. critikal, graphorrea (zeromoon.com)
13. Kenneth Gaburo, Maledetto Antiphony VIII (Pogus Productions)
14. asher-ubeboet, cell memory (Winds Measure Recordings)
15. Cristian Amigo, Kingdom of Jones (innova)
16. Radio Ruido, "False Rosetta" 2x7" (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 032)
17. Simon Wickham-Smith, love & lamenation (Pogus Productions)
18. White Rainbow, Prism of Eternal Now (Kranky)
19. Verdun, Two Archipelagos LP (eyland.org)
20. Latitude/Longitude, "Solar Filters/Mother Evening" 7" (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 031)
21. Jeff Martin + Evan Shaw, Piano Music (Barnyard Records)
22. Frank Rothkamm, just 3 organs (just.3.organs.frank.rothamm.com)
23. Barnyard Drama, I'm a Nawg (Barnyard Records)
24. Lori Freedman & Scott Thompson, Plumb (Barnyard Records)
25. Tatsuya Nakatani, Primal Communication (H&H)
26. Jeff Martin + Colin Fisher, Little Man on thr Boat (Barnyard Records)
27. Cloudland Canyons, Silver Tongued Sisyphus (Kranky)
28. William Parker + Hamid Drake, First Communion/Piercing the Veil 2xCD (Aum Fidelity)
29. Temperatures, Ymir LP (Heat Retention)
30. Mt. Wilson Repeater (Eastern Fiction)
31. Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet, Inner Constellation (Nemu)
Bruce Eisenbeil + Jean Cook + Nate Wooley + Aaron Ali Shaikh + Tom Abbs + Nasheet Waits.
32. Faking Trains, Instructions (Faking Trains)
33. Scott Smallwood, Electrotherapy (Deep Listening)
34. David Watson, Fingering an Idea (XI Records)
35. Stars Like Fleas, The Ken Burns Effect (Talitres)
36. Mike Wexler, Sun Wheel (Amish)
37. David S. Ware Quartet, Renunciation (Aum Fidelity)
38. Jeff Arnal + Dietrich Eichmann, LP (Broken Research)
39. Pauline Oliveros + Miya Masaoka, Koto Accordion (Deep Listening)
40. Theo Angell, Dearly Beloved (Amish)
Scott Smallwood, Desert Winds: Six Windblown Sound Pieces and Other Works (Deep Listening)
To submit CDs, LPs, CSs, etc. for consideration of airplay on free103point9 Online Radio, mail to:
free103point9
5622 Route 23
Acra, NY 12405

Distant stations and home entertainment hi-jinks

Week Two of BYOTV welcomes Brooklyn, NY’s free103point9 into the airspace with a collection of works from their affiliated transmission artists! Founded in 1997, free103point9 is a nonprofit arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating the genre Transmission Arts. This genre encompasses a diversity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum. Several transmission artists are featured in this week of BYOTV, expect exciting orchestrations of/in the electromagnetic environment! From shortwave symphonies in Tom Roe’s Snowstorm and Todd Merrell’s analog elegy The Last Transmission to Tianna Kennedy and Chad Laird’s Frankensteinian foray 18 19 20, LoVid’s CCRT Transcontinental Streaming Performance and other works, these transmissions are high-intensity!

Also! eClECTiC ELeCTRoNiCs!! On Saturday April 5th, 7pm and FREE!!

The Video Gentlemen will host their first “in-studio” event as part of BYOTV. A live showcase entitled Eclectic Electronics, this event will unfold in real-time. Improvisation and suspense await…anything could happen! Bring your own TV or use one in the gallery to tune in to the broadcast! Audience members can call-in to ask questions! The guests this eve are the audio-visual artists behind such local and regional acts as Instinct Control, Disjunct and Warning Broken Machine. Tonight, unfathomable televisual trajectories are explored as home entertainment systems are turned inside out, short-circuited and rewired to reveal new audio-visual capabilities. Pursuing circuit-bending and other vernacular electronic arts, Portland’s Ryan Dunn, Eugene’s Don Haugen and special guests engage in discussion and demonstration of these curious pursuits

Stars Like Fleas at Wave Farm

Stars Like Fleas July 2006 performance at free103point9's Wave Farm in Acra, New York.

Marievel Knievel YouTube video from Wave Farm performance

Below is Marievel Knievel's remix of a video Joe Milutis shot of her performance at Tune(Out)))side at Wave Farm. "I synched up the live (pre-transmitter) audio I recorded at Tune(Out)))side this past summer with the video he took of my performance that day," she writes. Click below to watch YouTube video:

free103point9 spring Radio Labs in NYC

free103point9 is pleased to announce several public Radio Lab workshops providing participants with technical skills and historical/theoretical grounding pertinent to transmission media in hopes of fostering creative expression within and with the transmission spectrum. All workshops will have audio and video streamed live on the free103point9 website for those who cannot attend in person. More information: http://free103point9.org/radiolab/

The spring 2008 Radio Lab program is made possible, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Brooklyn Arts Council JPMorgan Chase Regrant Program. For more information about free103point9 and its programs in New York City and upstate New York please vist: www.free103point9.org


Grassroots Media Conference
Sunday, March 2, 2008. Hunter College, Manhattan

The NYC Grassroots Media Coalition is working to re-imagine issues of access to, control of, and power over our media system. On the occasion of the fifth-annual GRMC. free103point9 is pleased to present a Radio Lab workshop about using Open Source software to integrate telephony into radio, web and e-mail applications lead by Lee Azzarello and Ryan Holsopple. In addition, free103point9 will air live webstreams of many of the workshops at the NYC GRMC. Conference schedule and registration information: http://nycgrassrootsmedia.org
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Transmission Tools for Artists
Monday, March 10, 2008. 7-9 p.m. 338 Berry St., Brooklyn

Lead by Tom Roe and Sarah Halpern, this workshop will cover an introduction to transmission tools and practices, as well audio and video streaming applications. Artists intersted in informing their works with transmission tools and practices can get practical advice on how to use antennae, transmitters, and other devices. Free admission and live video web stream at www.free103point9.org.


What is Transmission Art?
Monday, April 14, 2008. 7-9 p.m. 338 Berry St., Brooklyn

Join Tianna Kennedy, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Alice Planas for an introduction to the free103point9 Transmission Art Archive project. This archive will serve as a resource for practicing artists to identify their works within the context of an emerging community of Transmission Art and provide an extensive resource to artists, curators, students, and academics researching emerging practices in Media Art and Experimental Sound with respects to the topic of transmission. Free admission and live video web stream at www.free103point9.org.


Artist/Activist Seminars
Monday, May 12, 2008. 7-9 p.m. 338 Berry St., Brooklyn

Join reprentatives from free103point9, August Sound Coalition, The Change You Want to See Gallery, and others for a seminar focused on spectrum use for artistic and activist projects. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss independent project ideas and organize future support networks to assist in seeing their ideas to fruition. Free admission and live video web stream at www.free103point9.org.

free103point9 Transmission Art Archive

A participatory online initiative toward defining the genre.

The winter months are a time for self-reflection: it is sometimes useful to pause and ask, "what does it all mean, anyway? Who am I, what is it that I am doing, and, for that matter, what motivates my activities," so that you might then face the spring with renewed purpose and vigor (at least until the e-mail piles up).

Well, here at free103point9, we're also taking a self-reflexive moment to consider such questions; only, 'we' are, for the most part, 'you,' and we need your help. As a reminder, free103point9 is a non-profit arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating the genre Transmission Arts. free103point9 activities support and promote artists exploring transmission mediums for creative expression. free103point9 defines "Transmission Arts" as a conceptual umbrella that unites a community of artists and audiences interested in transmission ideas and tools. This genre encompasses a diversity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum. Transmission art is generally a participatory live-art or time-based art, and often manifests as radio art, video art, light sculpture, installation, and performance.

New technologies constantly emerge as mediums for artistic practice and thus, bring forth a reconsideration of terms and redrawing of territories. RFID, WiFi, WiMAX, networked objects, reactive spaces, distributed actions, and psycho-geographic interventions are amongst a few contemporary artistic strategies and technologies that touch the borders of what once encompassed free103point9's scope for "Transmission Arts." Furthermore, there is always room for stretching non-technological conceptual definitions of "Transmission Arts.”

In light of such ongoing developments, free103point9 recognizes the need to engage a practice of inquiry that reaches beyond it's own organizational limits of understanding. We are inviting practitioners and supporters involved with transmission ideas and activities to expand or challenge our articulation of Transmission Arts. Please help us expand our practices and galvanize our community by taking a few minutes to share your experience with us. The project is outlined below.

Thank you for your time and your contributions to this exciting project!!
Congenially,
the free103point9 staff:
Galen Joseph-Hunter, Tianna Kennedy, Tom Roe, Lee Azzarello, and Sarah Halpern. Also Alice Planas, our wonderful volunteer whose efforts helped jumpstart this initiative.

P.S. A quick reminder that free103point9 is currently accepting applications for the AIRtime Residencies (deadline April 1, 2008) at Wave Farm. To apply http://www.free103point9.org/airtime/

Project Description: free103point9 Transmission Art Archive

free103point9 is in the process of building an archive identifying contemporary works within the genre of Transmission Arts.

This archive will serve as a resource for practicing artists to identify their works within the context of an emerging community of Transmission Art. Additionally this archive can aid the work of curators and scholars researching emerging practices in Media Art and Experimental Sound with respects to the topic of transmission. The Archive Project will be structured in two tiers:

1. The first tier will be a collection of primary source material contributed by and consisting of works from contemporary practicing artists, self-identified as working with topics related to transmission. We are inviting contemporary artists whose practice addresses transmission in form, content, or strategy to contribute examples of their work to this archive. Rather than wait for the definitions to be coined by theorists and historians, we ask that practicing artists self-identify with or challenge our existing notion of transmission with your work. Tell us about your work, how it relates to Transmission Arts, and how you respond to this term.

To submit your work for inclusion in free103point9's archive of Transmission Arts (contemporary artist and works), please submit the following text to archive@free103point9.org with a subject header (Transmission Works) by the deadline March 15, 2008:
• Artist statement and links/documentation to specific works with titles and description of works. (500 word max)
• A response to, or definition of, the term "Transmission Arts.” (500 word max) Historical works and artist cited as influences. (500 word max)

2. The second tier of this archive will seek contributions from artist, curators, writers, and researchers to reflect, critique, consider, and respond to specific issues and topics related to transmission. We are inviting artists, scholars or curators working with New Media, Sound, Performance, Inter-media, Conceptual Art, Video, Installation, Social Activism, or Collective Strategies to identify artists (historical or contemporary) relevant to a discussion of Transmission Arts and to interject and engage in a larger discussion on Transmission Arts as a genre.

To learn more about this conversation, please submit a short bio (300 word max) with a general inquiry to archive@free103point9.org subject heading (Transmission Arts Discussion) by March 15, 2008.

Off The Grid

Off The Grid
03.30 - 06.01.08
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.

Off The Grid will feature works that subvert and circumvent conventional infrastructures and are interested in alternatives to corporate and commercial applications and proprietary refinement of communication technologies. Installations will be on view inside the Neuberger Museum of Art and across the SUNY Purchase College campus and include works by Matt Bua; Brett Bloom; Benjamin Cohen, Dylan J. Gauthier, and Stephan Stanford; ecoarttech; eteam; Max Goldfarb; Tovey Halek and Madalyn Warren; Louis Hock; Nina Katchadourian; Kristin Lucas; Joe McKay; Trevor Paglen; Seth Weiner; and Bart Woodstrup.

Co-presented by the Neuberger Museum of Art and free103point9. Curated by Jacqueline Shilkoff (Neuberger Museum) and Galen Joseph-Hunter, Tianna Kennedy, Tom Roe (free103point9).

More free103point9 videos on YouTube

Looks like Joe Milutis has been busy uploading more videos from Wave Farm performances:

Stars Like Fleas forest performance at Wave Farm, 2006. Filmed with Vidster cam.



Bryan Zimmerman of The Dust Dive performs from pond at free103point9 Wave Farm. Filmed with Vidster.



"Car Harp" installation at Wave Farm Radio Festival 2006 by Lily Gottlieb-McHale. Filmed with Fisher-Price Vidster Camera.



"Sing Sun Room" Wave Farm sculpture installation by Matt Bua.



Then three videos, not shot by Milutis, of Juan Matos Capote live at "DJ Mangoon Presents," at free103point9's Brooklyn studio at 338 Berry Street on December 5th, 2007. (Playing the DIY "Pink Oscillator," a circuit bent Omnichord and pedals.)





And Thick Wisps perform live in the Brooklyn free103point9 studio on 10-31-2007.

Lecture to explore transmission art

From Westchester.com:

The Purchase College New Media program and the Neuberger Museum of Art are co-sponsoring a lecture by Tianna Kennedy and Tom Roe, founders of free103point9, a non-profit arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating the Transmission Art genre.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be presented on December 5 at 6:30 p.m. in the Neuberger Museum. Kennedy and Roe will track the history of free103point9’s activities and define Transmission Art practices. Their talk will provide a foundation for audiences in anticipation of the upcoming “Off the Grid” exhibition at the Neuberger Museum, which will be co-curated by the Museum and free103point9. The exhibit will be on view from March 30 to July 1, 2008. Transmission art is generally a participatory live-art or time-based art, and often manifests as radio art, video art, light sculpture, installation and performance. This genre encompasses a diversity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum. Programs by free103point9 include public performances and exhibitions, an online radio station, the free103point9 Transmission Artists, an artist residency program, a distribution label, an education initiative, a sculpture garden, a study center, and an online archive.

The Off The Grid exhibition will assemble media works by contemporary artists making social and ecological responsible art. Installed inside the Neuberger Museum of Art and across the Purchase College campus, visitors will encounter installations that are non-regulated, fluid, and composed of accessible, sustainable materials, often incorporating participatory elements, which augment the works themselves. Purchase College, State University of New York, is located at 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, N.Y. For more information, call 914-251-6100.

More recent free103point9 performances on YouTube

Joe Milutis' footage of Matt Bua's "Sing Sun Room" at Wave Farm:




Thick Wisps, 10.31.07 at free103point9's 338 Berry St. studio in Brooklyn.




Jonny Farrow, Edmund Mooney, and Andrea Williams at free103point9's Tune(Out)))side 07.07.07 at Wave Farm in Acra, New York.




Marie Evelyn and others at Tune(Out)))side 070707 at Wave Farm via Joe Milutus.




Sarah Margaret Halpern and others at Tune(Out)))side 070707 at Wave Farm via Joe Milutus.





"Talking Trees" children's opera by Slink Moss at Wave Farm 092207.




Guitar Trips/Doug Anson/Purple Haze Society pt. 1 at "Animals" show at Wave Farm 082507.




Guitar Trips/Doug Anson/Purple Haze Society pt. 2 at "Animals" show at Wave Farm 082507.

Radio, Art and Freedom of Thought

free103point9's Tianna Kennedy was recently at CKUT's Redefining Media: Media Democracy and Community Radio conference in Montreal. Her panel, "Radio, Art and Freedom of Thought" also featured CKUT's Kathy Kennedy and Charlotte Scott. There is audio of all three presentations here:
http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/newsnet@ckut.ca/1193-4-20071025-RadioArt1tianna.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/newsnet@ckut.ca/1193-4-20071025-RadioArt2kathy.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/newsnet@ckut.ca/1193-4-20071025-RadioArt3charolette.mp3

EarthSpeaker, nocturnal audio sculptures

From Tony Canonico in Neural:

Jeff Feddersen, author of EarthSpeaker, is an artist with a well rounded background, mainly specialised on the dynamics (nowadays pretty blended) between music and informatics. His favourite subjects of research are nature and the technologies developed around energetic sustainability. EarthSpeaker is a set of outdoor installations (sculptures) which interact with and within the environment by grabbing solar energy during daytime and releasing sound emissions from sunset on. Feddersen's project is at free103point9's Wave Farm in Acra (New York), and the first prototype of EarthSpeaker was built in 2006 at Eyebeam Center labs. Thanks to his 'nocturnal audio sculptures,' he seems to put up a sort of robotic representation of life-environment interaction and its seemingly simple cybernetic cycle. Just like the vegetal system, EarthSpeaker absorbs solar power thanks to the built-in solar panels and releases amplified VLF (very low frequency) sounds coming from outer space lightening and human generated waves (i.e.: geophones) by its own integrated speakers. A complete input/output cycle exploits the invisible and infinitesimal capabilities of our environment, redefining at the same time its semiotic borders through new representations of life.

free103point9 performances on YouTube

Daniel Carter, Matt Mikas, Tony Flynn and Tom Roe at free103point9 Project Space, Brooklyn, 03.12.05:


Sunburned Hand of the Man at Wave Farm, 08.04.07:


Mialessot & Old Ghost at free103point9 Project Space, Brooklyn, 02.06.07:


Evolution Revolution at Wave Farm, 08.25.07:

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.

Conflux festival, day 1

From Regine in We Make Money Not Art:

A few notes from Conflux Festival day one which runs until Sunday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The HQ is at the gallery The Change You Want to See, a space for projects at the intersection between art, activism and academia.

Christina Ray introduced this edition of the annual festival for psychogeography by reminding that it started in 2003 when a bunch of friends decided to set up an event where they would invite other people to come and explore the city with them. Conflux gathers artists and also people who wouldn't call themselves artists such as architects, activists, researchers, etc. This year there are over 100 artists selected. I'm not going to blog everything, just a few projects i particularly liked.

Here's my pick of the day:

free103point9/31 Down Radio Theater (Ryan Holsopple, you might remember his pay phone murder mystery project, Canal Street Station) presented Supplied by the Public which is currently working as Conflux radio station. The content of the radio station is made of calls from participants of the festival.

The calls (from public phones, cell phones, home phones) are streamed in real time over the Internet. The stream is also broadcast on a low power FM transmitter to the local area of the event for people to listen to via a wireless radio. The calls are archived and will repeat when no active calls are being broadcast. The project is inspired by Max Neuhaus's telephone/radio work, Public Supply (1966).

OPEN CALL: Transmission Sculpture Garden

Artists are invited to submit proposals for the free103point9 Wave Farm Transmission Sculpture Garden. This is a three-part application process. The review panel will be comprised of members of free103point9’s staff and Advisory Board of distinguished artists, critics, and curators.
Submission Guidelines Phase I
Postmark Deadline September 30

Artists are encouraged to visit Wave Farm before submitting a proposal. See free103point9 Wave Farm for dates and details about upcoming events.

Artist Name:

Artist Contact Information:

Artist Resume / CV:

Artist Statement:
Please describe your artistic practice in a brief statement not exceeding 300 words.

Preliminary Project Description:
Please describe your proposed project in a brief statement not exceeding 500 words. Proposals selected by the review panel will be invited to submit a comprehensive proposal in order to assess feasibility based on installation schematics and program funding.

Past Project Work Samples:
Please include work samples relating to two or three past projects. Work samples should be submitted in electronic formats including jpegs, PDFs, QuickTime, MP3s, etc. Please do NOT submit slides.

Submission Address:
info@free103point9.org (subject: Transmission Sculpture Garden Proposal: Artist Name)
or
free103point9 Wave Farm
Transmission Sculpture Garden Proposals
5662 Route 23
Acra, NY 12405


Phase II
(Notification: October 31, 2007)

Up to five projects, selected in Phase I, will be invited to submit a second comprehensive proposal that includes detailed installation schematics and an itemized budget.

Phase III
(Notification: January 15, 2008)

Selected projects will either be scheduled for installation, funding permitting, or free103point9 will work with selected artists to secure project funding to enable installation at a future date.

The free103point9 Wave Farm Sculpture Garden is supported, in part, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Individual Artists and Electronic Media and Film Programs of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by the Greene County Council on the Arts.

For more information see:
http://www.free103point9.org/sculpturegarden.php

free103point9 summer events at Wave Farm

Tune in or turn out to Wave Farm events this summer

July 7: Tune (Out)))side
Over 30 performers playing into FM transmitters

July 21: Summer Winds
Artists using air or wind in performances.

Aug. 3-5: Campfire Sounds
Weekend avant-folk festival with camping.

Aug. 25: Animals
Performers using "animals" as a theme.

Oct. 13: Radio Festival
Unique radio art performances.


At all performances:

Wave Farm Transmission Sculpture Garden

Inaugural installations by Matt Bua and Jeff Feddersen. Special Wave Farm installations for 2007: Works by LoVid, Douglas Repetto, Michelle Rosenberg, Tianna Kennedy and Tarikh Korula, and Giancarlo Bracchi.

More details below.

Wave Farm
free103point9 Wave Farm
5662 Route 23
Acra, NY 12405
(518) 622-2598
http://www.free103point9.org/wavefarm.php

free103point9 Wave Farm is located on 30 pastoral acres in the northern foothills of Catskill Mountain Park, 120 miles north of New York City. The property features ponds, meadows, walking paths through a mature pine forest, and mountain views. Situated within the spectacular Hudson Valley, Wave Farm programs include artist residencies, a study center, a transmission sculpture garden, and a performance and exhibition series.

WAVE FARM TRANSMISSION SCULPTURE GARDEN
http://www.free103point9.org/sculpturegarden.php
The Wave Farm Transmission Sculpture Garden provides a unique opportunity for artists to conceive of and realize a long-term outdoor transmission-based installation open to the public in a retreat-like rural setting. Artists are invited to submit proposals for sculptural works that incorporate the transmission spectrum in concept or practice. Artists are encouraged to consider recycled materials in their work and utilize renewable energy sources (if power is required). Works will be installed within the 15-acre evergreen forest, situated throughout already the established
walking paths, at Wave Farm. Coinciding with free103point9 tenth anniversary celebration, free103point9's Transmission Sculpture Garden will open July 7, 2007, with inaugural installations by Jeff Feddersen and Matt Bua.

Jeff Feddersen: EarthSpeaker
EarthSpeaker is an installation of multiple units of an outdoor sonic sculpture. Each unit is a large, solar-powered, electro-acoustic speaker, which absorbs sunlight during the day and emits low frequency sounds at dusk.

Matt Bua: Sing Sun - Room
Sing Sun - Room is a customized extension built onto an existing mobile home located on the Wave Farm property. This gazebo-like structure harnesses natural elements (wind, water, and solar) to create a site-specific installation where live-sound is composed based on the surrounding environmental conditions.


SPECIAL WAVE FARM INSTALLATIONS FOR 2007
http://www.free103point9.org/wavefarm.php
LoVid, "7105"
The earthwork, "7105," is a large-scale planting of the self-seeding annual Radio Calendula. These orange quill-like flowers bloom from early summer until frost and are positioned so to create the numbers 7105, which become visible from from the birds-eye vantage point of the Wave Farm Study Center.

Douglas Repetto, "puff bang reverb"
"puff bang reverb" is a kinetic sculpture and semiaccurate, two-dimensional hyper-zoom, which exposes the secret life of displaced air molecules. "puff bang reverb" was originally commissioned by Festival Rümlingen 2005 and recently re-installed for the exhbition [silence], 2007, co-organized by free103point9 at Gigantic ArtSpace in Manhattan.

Michelle Rosenberg, "Auricle"
"Auricle" is a mobile parabolic sound reflector. It amplifies the Wave Farm waterfall to listeners standing in the focus point of the curve with adjustable plastic semi-spheres that include openings for ear placement.

"free103point9: Selected Works"
A video compilation featuring selected recordings from ten years of free103point9 archives. Compiled and edited by Giancarlo Bracchi.

Tianna Kennedy and Tarikh Korula, "Restored Archeoacoustic Recording Kit and Documentation"
Restored recording stylus, circa 1930. Kennedy and Korula performed a series of experiments in Red Hook Brooklyn (Winter 2007). Archeoacoustic research is concerned with extraction of historic, environmental sound from found objects. Exhibited in [silence], Gigantic ArtSpace, 2007.


TUNE (OUT)))SIDE 2007
http://www.free103point9.org/event.php?eventID=1168
July 7, 2007 : 3pm - 9pm
$5 admission
This outdoors variation of free103point9's Tune(In))) event features artists playing directly into five FM transmitters at free103point9's Wave Farm. No sound is amplified. Attendees tune in with radio headphones as they explore 30 acres of meadows, forests, and ponds.

Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.

CHANNEL ONE (entrance stage)
Marina Rosenfeld
Todd Merrell
Chris Forsyth
Matt Bua
Edmund Mooney + Jonny Farrow
Marievel Knievel
Mara Barenbaum

CHANNEL TWO (under large tree in the forest)
ben owen is curating this channel.
Gill Arno
Richard Garet
Scott Allison
Andy Graydon
ben owen
Michael Farley
Andy Hayleck

CHANNEL THREE (stage near the ponds)
Giancarlo Bracchi is curating this channel.
Mudboy
Elliot Sharp
Blues Control
Bunnybrains
QXW: Ron Rosenmon + Kyle Lapidus
Giancarlo Bracchi + Juan Matos Capote

CHANNEL FOUR (DJ booth)
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Radio Ruido
Tom Roe
Tianna Kennedy
Sarah Margaret Halpern
John Morton
Oh My Fucking God: Jamie from Bunnybrains with Shemika Moody

CHANNEL FIVE
"free103point9: Selected Works"
A video compilation featuring selected recordings from ten years of free103point9 archives. Compiled and edited by Giancarlo Bracchi.



SUMMER WINDS
http://www.free103point9.org/event.php?eventID=1166
July 21, 2007 : 1pm - 8pm
$5 admission

Artists using wind instruments, breath, or air. Performances will take place throughout Wave Farm, both in the fields near Wave Farm's ponds, and in the forest. Free jazz, sound art, installations and other forms of wind will blow.

Audio and video web streams for this show available at www.free103point9.org.

Performers include:

Tintinnabulate - an ensemble of improvising artists founded by Pauline Oliveros at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2005. Performers often include Jonas Braasch, Alex Chechile, Pauline Oliveros, Elizabeth Panzer, Charles Veasey, Jefferson Pitcher, C. Ryder Cooley, Mike Bullock, Dan Valente, and Bart Woodstrup. The lineup for this show is not yet set.

Stars Like Fleas (Brooklyn) - In contrast to similarly free-mindedgroups currently fusing folk, noise, electronics, and as in the works of Marcel Dzama (who created the cover art for their last record) Stars Like Fleas stands out for the delicate way they commingle the disturbing, harsh and confrontational with something undeniably direct, sincere, silly, joyous and unashamedly romantic. Their set will play to the theme of wind and air.

Hassay, DeChellis, Nakatani Trio
- Gary Hassay (sax) + Dan DeChellis (piano, synth) + Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion).

Sparkle Projects - Members of the Gold Sparkle Band, with special guests.

DizzySparkle - Tom Roe with members of the Gold Sparkle Band.

Kenta Nagai + Michelle Nagai

Christopher McIntyre and others. - "Simultaneous installation-style solo and ensemble performances scattered around Wave Farm."



CAMPFIRE SOUNDS 2007
http://www.free103point9.org/event.php?eventID=1167
August 3, 2007 : 5pm - August 5, 2007 : 1pm
Camp overnight for $18. $7 admission.

free103point9's Campfire Sounds is a two-day avant folk festival on 30 acres at free103point9's Wave Farm in upstate New York. Enjoy views of the Catskill Mountains with ponds, streams, fields, and forests. Food/beverages sold. This year will be the third annual Campfire Sounds show at Wave Farm.

Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.

FRIDAY AUG. 3
6-9 p.m.

DJ Dizzy

Mike Tamburo (PA)

Coal Hook
Featuring Ron Schneiderman (of Sunburned Hand of the Man, Aethr Myth'd, Massachusetts) and Jørgen Teller (Belgium).

SATURDAY, AUG. 4

Shawn Onsgard (Brooklyn)

Kim Cascone (California)

Sunburned Hand of the Man (MA)

MV & EE with the Golden Road (Vermont)

Samara Lubelski (NYC)

Franklin Mint (Ulster County, NY)
Phil Franklin of Sunburned Hand of the Man plus others.

Dan Matz (Philadelphia)
Matz is a member of Windsor for the Derby.

The Dust Dive Flash (Laura Ortman, Brooklyn)

The Dust Dive (Brooklyn)

Latitude/Longitude (Brooklyn)



ANIMALS
http://www.free103point9.org/event.php?eventID=1181
August 25, 2007 : 2pm - 8pm
$10 admission

Artists performing works on the theme of "Animals." Curated by Slink Moss. A portion of the proceeds goes to Animal Kind.

Audio and video streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.

Performers include:

Evolution Revolution
- From Albany Times Union: "Led by the one and only reel-to-reel tape manipulator Jason Martin, the band not only sings Martin's quirky fauna-friendly anthems, but the floating membership of musicians also regularly performs in animal costumes, too."

Dan Saxton Bunny
- From Justin Stewart review in The Wire of Bunny Brains set at "Campfire Sounds 2006" at Wave Farm: "Beefheart disciples...feral freak-act...head-scratching mindfuck circus show."

Latitude/Longitude
Brooklyn-based free103point9 Transmission Artists Michael Garofalo and Patrick McCarthy began performing as Latitude/Longitude in 2004. Teasing melodies out of prepared and alternately tuned guitars while electronics murmur in a nest of instrument cables at their feet, the duo weave electro-acoustic dream songs from cross-circuit chaos.

S.M.O. (Slink Moss Orchestra)
- From Mark Guarino, Daily Herald: "Moss is an enigma, with a persona more in line with voodoo wildman Screamin' Jay Hawkins and T. Rex.... Vocally, Moss is Buddy Holly without the hiccups."

Guitar Trips
- From Mike Wood in foxy digitalis: "Guitar Trips is New Yorker Doug Anson, who makes a joyful solo noise on his axe, creating bluesy, trippy sound loops with plenty of sonic paths to follow. The lo-fi, recorded in a bedroom feel adds to the richness, as if this is a series of improvs done quietly, out of sight and only for self-satisfaction."

Flaming Fire
- "Well, at least some of the kooks have stuck it out in New York City and they are in Flaming Fire, an awesomely kooky, theatrical band singing songs of biblical plagues and Egyptian sexual practices. Picture the Butthole Surfers, the Residents, the Manson Family, and the B-52s all running amok in a Kenneth Anger film."
-Meg Sneed, Vice.

Animental
- Animental is an outlet for expression in its purest form, drawing inspiration from animals. Animental explores the ideas of innate reactions and behavior of animals vs. the programmed or acceptable actions of the human animal. It hopes to empower the individual who is performing as well as transport the audience to another realm of reality. Inspiration, freedom, hope, creativity, individuality, power, and feminism are things Animental hopes to transpire. We use sound, costumes, movement, storytelling, props, lights and what ever else the participants and performers bring.

Melanie Moser
- "Adult contemporary psych."

Owl

Cabinet of Natural Curiosities



RADIO FESTIVAL 2007
http://www.free103point9.org/event.php?eventID=1230
October 13, 2007 : 2pm - 8pm
$5 admission

The public component of a weekend long artist retreat including the free103point9 Transmission Artists and 2007 AIRtime residents, Radio Festival features a series of afternoon workshops and evening performances.

free103point9 Online Radio June 2007 Top 40

1. Mike Tamburo, Language of the Birds and Other Fantasies box set (New American Folk Hero)
2. Ting Ting Jahe, 18(16) (Winds Measure Recordings)
3. Jeff Arnal + Dietcich Eichmann, LP (Broken Research)
4. Chris Forsyth + Nate Wooley, The Duchess of Oysterville (Creative Sources Recordings)
5. William Parker + Hamid Drake, Summer Snow (Aum Fidelity)
6. David S. Ware Quartet, Renunciation (Aum Fidelity)
7. Uncle Woody Sullender + Greg Davis, The Tempest is Over (Dead CEO)
8. Joseph Nechvatal, Viral Symph0ny (iea)
With Matthew Underwood, Andrew Deutsch, and Stephane Sikora.
9. Jonas Braasch, Global Reflections (Deep Listening)
10. Seejayno, Sedainty (Shinkoyo/Here See/Skulls of Heaven/
11. Andy Graydon, At Bay (Winds Measure Recordings)
12. Tripwire, Looking in My Ear (Creative Sources)
13. William Parker + Hamid Drake, First Communion/Piercing the Veil 2xCD (Aum Fidelity)
14. Annea Lockwood, Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World (Pogus)
15. Droopy Septum, Howling Lands, Whispering Leaves (NAFH)
16. The Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama, Singing Songs of Praise (CaseQuarter)
17. The Dust Dive Flash, Tens of Thousands (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 029)
18. Albrecht Maurer + Norbert Rodenkirchen, Hidden Fresco (Nemu)
19. (), "Autecicadas/ocean_db_crash_nue" 7" (Parentheismusic.com)
20. Ignaz Schick + Jorg Maria Zeger + Burkhard Beins with Keith Rowe and with Charlwmagne Palestine, Perlonex Tensions (Nexsound)
21. Eliane Radigue, Jetsun Mila (Lovely Music)
22. Various artists, Selections from Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost (free103point9)
With Michelle Nagai, Edmund Mooney, Andrea Polli, Mike Hallenbeck, Ryan Holsopple, Renee Ridgway, Jonathan Zalben, Hanneke de Feijter, Saskia Janssen, Kaisu Koski, and others.
23. USA Is A Monster + Mudboy/USA Is A Monster + Kites, split CD (self)
24. Mike Tamburo + Ken Camden, Menken and Maas (NAFH)
25. Bob Lukomski + Hajji Majer + Thomas Lail, In the Motherheart of God the Father (Homestijl)
26. The Cutest Puppy in the World, Apotrope (NAFH)
27. Destructo Swarmbots, Clear Light (Public Guilt)
28. Andy Futreal, like twilight bleeding 3" CD (NAFH)
29. Mudboy, LP Bootleg(breadandanimals.com)
30. Eric Carbonara, Seven Pieces for Solo Guitar (Nada Sound Studio)
31. Edmund Mooney, Happy Trails (self)
32. Harm Stryker, Harm Stryker 3" CDr (Public Guilt)
33. Matt Weston, Resistance Cruisers 3" CD (7272 Music)
34. Parts & Labor, Escapers One (Broklyn Beats)
35. Yesterday in Parliament, Ritual Foxy: Tip it Up (Fenland Hi-Brow)
36. J. Crouse, guitar readouts (self)
37. Mouthus, For the Great Slave Lakes (Threelobed)
38. Robert Horton, Sleep, Wake, Hope and Then (NAFH)
39. MPLD, Lapse Phaser (self)
40. Lawrence Blatt, Out of the Woodwork (LMB)

free103point9 Online Radio is available around the clock. Programming includes live feeds from the free103point9 Project Space in Brooklyn, the free103point9 Wave Farm in upstate New York, and from performances and events from all over the world. The radio station plays many different styles, especially transmission works, but also field recordings, dub, turntablism, avant folk, free jazz, noise, generative sound, and other fringe styles. Many special live shows feature organizations such as the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, Squidco, Screw Music Forever, and others. Tune in at www.free103point9.org.

We play transmission works, plus other experimental sounds. Send submissions for airplay to free103point9, 5662 Route 23, Acra, NY 12405. (Do not e-mail mp3s, or links to mp3s, it will be a waste of your time. Mailed submissions will be considered.)