Wave Farm is delighted to announce that Jess Speer (Asheville, NC) will serve as the 2020/2021 Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship. During her engagement, September 2020 - May 2021, Speer will make weekly additions to the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. She will also create original radio artworks for broadcast, and conduct workshops and listening sessions with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public.

Jess Speer is an artist, radio DJ, librarian, teacher, and mother living in Asheville, NC. As a librarian and artist, she explores questions about permanence, presence, history, mindfulness, mortality, and access to information and ideas. Speer has collected over 800 records, many of which include sound effects, field recordings, spoken word and documentary works, and mines this collection for both broadcast and live performances. By collecting records and making field recordings, she attempts to create an archive of sorts, to gather time, history and experience together. Performing with them, over broadcast and in live events, brings that history to life and shares it, while also embodying the ephemerality that’s at the heart of history, truth, nature, and human beings. She is the host of the weekly radio show (and sometimes performance) Ecstatic Listening on WSFM-LP AshevilleFM. More at jessicaspeer.info.

We are constantly surrounded by waves, vibrations, transmissions, traveling invisibly through and around us and carrying messages: information, 24-hour news feeds, talk shows, rock shows, data streams, conspiracy theories, sad songs, bad songs, operating systems, all of them whizzing around us. How many bummer vibes have passed through your home today, even without being picked up by a receiver?

You are invited to be part of a counter-spell.

The Radio Witch Moon Hotline is accepting messages for the moon to be broadcast on the Full Moon each month on WGXC 90.7 FM in Acra, NY and streaming online at wavefarm.org. Dial 518-302-6067 and leave your message for the moon.

In 2021 Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM celebrates 10 years of creative, adventurous, experimental, community radio for open ears on the Upper Hudson Valley's FM dial. Join us for a series of celebratory events on-air and in-person throughout the year:

February 26, 2021, 7 - 9:00 p.m.: Anniversary Broadcast: WGXC Awards
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen
Ten years ago, at 2 p.m. on February 26, 2011, with mere minutes to spare, WGXC powered on, transmitting 3,300 watts out to the Upper Hudson Valley on 90.7-FM. A large boisterous group assembled at the Catskill Community Center to celebrate. There, WGXC's first programmers took to the mic to introduce their shows and perform live on-air as part of the first ever WGXC broadcast. Join us ten years later for a very special ceremonious broadcast in honor of this official 10th Anniversary day.

April 23 - May 7, 2021: Wave Farm Incident Report Dispatch 001
Incident Report, 348 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534
F.T. Marinetti & Pino Masnata's La radia Futurist Manifesto of October, 1933 (Published in "Gazzetta del Popolo,") is on view along with a 10th Anniversary print designed by Mayuko Fujino.

April 24, 2021 Noon - April 25, 2021 Noon: DRONE AT HOME
Video livestream on Twitch / Basilica Website (Noon – 10 p.m. EDT)
24-hour audio livestream on Wave Farm’s Standing Wave Radio (Noon – Noon EDT) | LISTEN HERE
FM Radio Broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM in NY’s Upper Hudson Valley (Noon – 6 a.m. EDT) | SCHEDULE HERE
For the past 7 years, 24-HOUR DRONE presented with Le Guess Who? has kicked Basilica Hudson’s season into bloom as a sacred wake-up call for the building in her winter hibernation. With all large gatherings still on hold due to COVID-19, this year we will bring DRONE to the airwaves in collaboration with Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears.
Both organizations, Basilica and Wave Farm, will each invite five sound artists to contribute a 60-minute performance. Assembled, this newly commissioned 10-hour drone program will be the featured content for DRONE AT HOME 2021. Highlights from past 24-HOUR DRONE event archives will flesh out the rest of the 24-hour online broadcast.

May 26, 2021, 7:30 - 11:00 p.m.: WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event!
Greenville Drive-In 10700 New York Highway 32, Greenville, NY 12083.
Tickets at wavefarm.simpletix.com

Let's celebrate WGXC's 10th Anniversary together at the Greenville Drive-in! We're planning this event to scale as needed in terms of where we are with physical gathering. Either way, we think it will be an epic exploration of the number 10! Wear your most festive attire and bring your favorite radio for the LoveShack photo and recording booth. Most importantly come ready to celebrate.

Schedule:

• 7:30 p.m.: Arrival
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Get your portrait taken by Bryan Zimmerman, record Station IDs and sweet nothings at the LoveShack with your concierges Donna and Honey of the Donna and Honey's Love Motel: A radio romance and rock and roll show, and interior by Becca Van K!
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Get Your Concessions! (Cocktails at the bar, Snack Bar goodies available.)
• 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Program

NOTE: All performances and DJ sets will be projected onto the Drive-in screen and transmitted to your car radio. Entire program runs 110 minutes.
Here's the line-up:

Film Program
Powers of Ten (1977), Charles and Ray Eames (09:00 min.)
10³ Hudson River Crossings (2021), Heath Iverson. (Movies on the Radio) (01:00 min.)

10 Minute Performances and DJ Sets

1. LunarMoss (formerly of LunarMoss), a micro-meditation on time's most agreeable measurement: the decade; conveyed thru sound as catalyst and contingent summation of collective memory.
2. Jess Speer, Jess Speer will perform live with 10 sound sources, all celebrating WGXC, Wave Farm, and radio, with a special community-brewed Radio Witch full moon spell for the continued success of WGXC.
3. Jeff Economy (Snackpoint Charlie) and Alanna Medlock (There There), 10 Movements through Undiscovered Countries
4. Jen Kutler (Wave Farmacy) and Quintan Ana Wikswo, a work of 10 texts, 10 videos, and 10 variated sensor response.
5. Mayuko Fujino (Your Voice Touches My String), 10 tracks of single-stringed instruments, one string at a time
6. Anna Friz, 10-band Radio: Variations with one- and two- way radio, from deep inside the dial. Are there (still) little people who live inside your radio?
7. DJ Var (Friday Night Vibes Session), 10 years of happiness
8. Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), 10 songs in 10 minutes
9. Battlefield Earth (Battlefield Earth) adds exponential sources until a deka is reached.
10. Brian Dewan, WGXC filmstrip (2014/2021)

Big thank you to our artists and volunteers, those not mentioned above include Alon Koppel, Gus Turner, Nick D'Amore, Lysa Opfer, Matt Hill, Tim Light, Jess Puglisi, and Carmen Borgia, as well as WGXC's 10th Anniversary Year Sponsors:

August 7, 2021, Time tba: Audio Buffet 2021 and Programmer Picnic
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen

October 2021: John Cage’s Rozart Mix, realized by artist Aaron Dilloway
The John Cage Trust 1309 Annandale Road Red Hook, NY 12571
A durational installation at and broadcast from the John Cage Trust at Bard College. Details to be announced. Stay tuned!

And more to be announced, and a big thank you to our 10th Anniversary Underwriters confirmed so far!

Image Note: Greenville Drive-in Photograph © Beth Schneck Photography

Engagement Period: September 2021 - May 2022
Stipend: $15,000
Location: Remote (w/ three visits to Wave Farm in Acra, NY) *
Application Deadline: June 30, 2021
Notification: July 2021

Wave Farm is delighted to announce a third year of the Radio Artist Fellowship, a nine-month, part-time engagement for a radio scholar and artist living and working in the United States. The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe. The Fellowship will also include communication with Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

A definition of Radio Art: Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources.

The Fellowship will combine remote work with three on-site visits to Wave Farm’s research library and radio studios.* Located in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a nonprofit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears is a full-power, creative community radio station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The WGXC program schedule features original content by over one-hundred volunteer programmers, and commits significant daytime listening hours to radio art and experimental sound.

*Details of the Wave Farm visit schedule will be determined in collaboration with the selected artist, with consideration given to any ongoing travel restrictions related to COVID-19.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Part 1: Radio Art Archive Work (September 2021 - January 2022)

The first five months of the fellowship, are focused on additions to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive. (See wavefarm.org/radio/archive) The archive is an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. From September to January, the fellow will identify a minimum of one new work each week, preparing audio with introductions and back announcements for broadcast, as well as written work descriptions, and artist biographies. Where possible the fellow will also record an interview with the artist about their selected work. Each week the Fellow’s newest addition to the Archive will be broadcast on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. These works and interviews will also be integrated into Wave Farm’s nationally syndicated “The Radio Art Hour.”

Part 2: Community  Engagement (February - March 2022)

The fellow will design and lead two workshops (or listening sessions) with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public. A successful model in 2020/2021 was constructed around the fellow identifying a single radio artwork and included three parts: 1) group listening and discussion 2) conversation with the artist behind the work  3) Participants creating their own radio artworks in response.

Part 3: Radio Art Creation (April - May 2022)

The Fellow will create their own original radio artwork(s) for broadcast, including a contribution to the Radia network, of which Wave Farm is a member (See radia.fm).

Fellowship Benchmarks:

• Weekly Meetings: with Wave Farm staff.
• Monthly Check-ins with Mentors for feedback on archive additions and the Fellow’s original radio artworks.
• Culminating Public Program: a live radio broadcast featuring the Fellowship artist and mentors in conversation reflecting on works created and archive selections.

To Apply:
Please send the following to info@wavefarm.org by June 30, 2021:

1. 1. Letter of Interest: a one-page statement introducing your work as a radio scholar and artist demonstrating your personal interest in radio broadcast as a creative medium.
   2. Radio Art Archive Sample: Please prepare one example of a work you would add to the online archive and broadcast series (this should be a work by another artist, not your work). Please include:

• • • A one- or two-paragraph biography of the artist you have selected.
    • A one- or two-paragraph description of the radio artwork.
    • A mp3 (192 kbps, constant bitrate, 44.1kHz) audio file prepared for radio broadcast presentation that includes brief introductory remarks in your voice (identify yourself in the intro as well), the radio artwork itself, and a back announcement at the end telling radio listeners what they have just heard.
    • Please note that Wave Farm may broadcast these submissions in the future.

1. 1. Your Own Radio Art Work Samples: Please provide links to two work samples of your own radio work.
   2. Resume / C.V.

Eligibility: The Radio Artist Fellowship program opportunity is open to individual radio artists and scholars whose primary residence is in the United States. (Note: applications from collaborative teams are not eligible.) The Fellowship stipend will appear as “Other Income” on 1099s issued in conjunction with tax years 2021 and 2022. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Wave Farm’s Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE (aka the Greene County Council on the Arts.)

https://wavefarm.org/radio/archive/fellowship

Wave Farm is delighted to announce that Jess Speer (Asheville, NC) will serve as the 2020/2021 Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship. During her engagement, September 2020 - May 2021, Speer will make weekly additions to the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. She will also create original radio artworks for broadcast, and conduct workshops and listening sessions with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public.

Jess Speer is an artist, radio DJ, librarian, teacher, and mother living in Asheville, NC. As a librarian and artist, she explores questions about permanence, presence, history, mindfulness, mortality, and access to information and ideas. Speer has collected over 800 records, many of which include sound effects, field recordings, spoken word and documentary works, and mines this collection for both broadcast and live performances. By collecting records and making field recordings, she attempts to create an archive of sorts, to gather time, history and experience together. Performing with them, over broadcast and in live events, brings that history to life and shares it, while also embodying the ephemerality that’s at the heart of history, truth, nature, and human beings. She is the host of the weekly radio show (and sometimes performance) Ecstatic Listening on WSFM-LP AshevilleFM. More at jessicaspeer.info.

We are constantly surrounded by waves, vibrations, transmissions, traveling invisibly through and around us and carrying messages: information, 24-hour news feeds, talk shows, rock shows, data streams, conspiracy theories, sad songs, bad songs, operating systems, all of them whizzing around us. How many bummer vibes have passed through your home today, even without being picked up by a receiver?

You are invited to be part of a counter-spell.

The Radio Witch Moon Hotline is accepting messages for the moon to be broadcast on the Full Moon each month on WGXC 90.7 FM in Acra, NY and streaming online at wavefarm.org. Dial 518-302-6067 and leave your message for the moon.

In 2021 Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM celebrates 10 years of creative, adventurous, experimental, community radio for open ears on the Upper Hudson Valley's FM dial. Join us for a series of celebratory events on-air and in-person throughout the year:

February 26, 2021, 7 - 9:00 p.m.: Anniversary Broadcast: WGXC Awards
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen
Ten years ago, at 2 p.m. on February 26, 2011, with mere minutes to spare, WGXC powered on, transmitting 3,300 watts out to the Upper Hudson Valley on 90.7-FM. A large boisterous group assembled at the Catskill Community Center to celebrate. There, WGXC's first programmers took to the mic to introduce their shows and perform live on-air as part of the first ever WGXC broadcast. Join us ten years later for a very special ceremonious broadcast in honor of this official 10th Anniversary day.

April 23 - May 7, 2021: Wave Farm Incident Report Dispatch 001
Incident Report, 348 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534
F.T. Marinetti & Pino Masnata's La radia Futurist Manifesto of October, 1933 (Published in "Gazzetta del Popolo,") is on view along with a 10th Anniversary print designed by Mayuko Fujino.

April 24, 2021 Noon - April 25, 2021 Noon: DRONE AT HOME
Video livestream on Twitch / Basilica Website (Noon – 10 p.m. EDT)
24-hour audio livestream on Wave Farm’s Standing Wave Radio (Noon – Noon EDT) | LISTEN HERE
FM Radio Broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM in NY’s Upper Hudson Valley (Noon – 6 a.m. EDT) | SCHEDULE HERE
For the past 7 years, 24-HOUR DRONE presented with Le Guess Who? has kicked Basilica Hudson’s season into bloom as a sacred wake-up call for the building in her winter hibernation. With all large gatherings still on hold due to COVID-19, this year we will bring DRONE to the airwaves in collaboration with Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears.
Both organizations, Basilica and Wave Farm, will each invite five sound artists to contribute a 60-minute performance. Assembled, this newly commissioned 10-hour drone program will be the featured content for DRONE AT HOME 2021. Highlights from past 24-HOUR DRONE event archives will flesh out the rest of the 24-hour online broadcast.

May 26, 2021, 7:30 - 11:00 p.m.: WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event!
Greenville Drive-In 10700 New York Highway 32, Greenville, NY 12083.
Tickets at wavefarm.simpletix.com

Let's celebrate WGXC's 10th Anniversary together at the Greenville Drive-in! We're planning this event to scale as needed in terms of where we are with physical gathering. Either way, we think it will be an epic exploration of the number 10! Wear your most festive attire and bring your favorite radio for the LoveShack photo and recording booth. Most importantly come ready to celebrate.

Schedule:

• 7:30 p.m.: Arrival
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Get your portrait taken by Bryan Zimmerman, record Station IDs and sweet nothings at the LoveShack with your concierges Donna and Honey of the Donna and Honey's Love Motel: A radio romance and rock and roll show, and interior by Becca Van K!
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Get Your Concessions! (Cocktails at the bar, Snack Bar goodies available.)
• 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Program

NOTE: All performances and DJ sets will be projected onto the Drive-in screen and transmitted to your car radio. Entire program runs 110 minutes.
Here's the line-up:

Film Program
Powers of Ten (1977), Charles and Ray Eames (09:00 min.)
10³ Hudson River Crossings (2021), Heath Iverson. (Movies on the Radio) (01:00 min.)

10 Minute Performances and DJ Sets

1. LunarMoss (formerly of LunarMoss), a micro-meditation on time's most agreeable measurement: the decade; conveyed thru sound as catalyst and contingent summation of collective memory.
2. Jess Speer, Jess Speer will perform live with 10 sound sources, all celebrating WGXC, Wave Farm, and radio, with a special community-brewed Radio Witch full moon spell for the continued success of WGXC.
3. Jeff Economy (Snackpoint Charlie) and Alanna Medlock (There There), 10 Movements through Undiscovered Countries
4. Jen Kutler (Wave Farmacy) and Quintan Ana Wikswo, a work of 10 texts, 10 videos, and 10 variated sensor response.
5. Mayuko Fujino (Your Voice Touches My String), 10 tracks of single-stringed instruments, one string at a time
6. Anna Friz, 10-band Radio: Variations with one- and two- way radio, from deep inside the dial. Are there (still) little people who live inside your radio?
7. DJ Var (Friday Night Vibes Session), 10 years of happiness
8. Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), 10 songs in 10 minutes
9. Battlefield Earth (Battlefield Earth) adds exponential sources until a deka is reached.
10. Brian Dewan, WGXC filmstrip (2014/2021)

Big thank you to our artists and volunteers, those not mentioned above include Alon Koppel, Gus Turner, Nick D'Amore, Lysa Opfer, Matt Hill, Tim Light, Jess Puglisi, and Carmen Borgia, as well as WGXC's 10th Anniversary Year Sponsors:

August 7, 2021, Time tba: Audio Buffet 2021 and Programmer Picnic
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen

October 2021: John Cage’s Rozart Mix, realized by artist Aaron Dilloway
The John Cage Trust 1309 Annandale Road Red Hook, NY 12571
A durational installation at and broadcast from the John Cage Trust at Bard College. Details to be announced. Stay tuned!

And more to be announced, and a big thank you to our 10th Anniversary Underwriters confirmed so far!

Image Note: Greenville Drive-in Photograph © Beth Schneck Photography

Engagement Period: September 2021 - May 2022
Stipend: $15,000
Location: Remote (w/ three visits to Wave Farm in Acra, NY) *
Application Deadline: June 30, 2021
Notification: July 2021

Wave Farm is delighted to announce a third year of the Radio Artist Fellowship, a nine-month, part-time engagement for a radio scholar and artist living and working in the United States. The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe. The Fellowship will also include communication with Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

A definition of Radio Art: Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources.

The Fellowship will combine remote work with three on-site visits to Wave Farm’s research library and radio studios.* Located in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a nonprofit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears is a full-power, creative community radio station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The WGXC program schedule features original content by over one-hundred volunteer programmers, and commits significant daytime listening hours to radio art and experimental sound.

*Details of the Wave Farm visit schedule will be determined in collaboration with the selected artist, with consideration given to any ongoing travel restrictions related to COVID-19.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Part 1: Radio Art Archive Work (September 2021 - January 2022)

The first five months of the fellowship, are focused on additions to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive. (See wavefarm.org/radio/archive) The archive is an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. From September to January, the fellow will identify a minimum of one new work each week, preparing audio with introductions and back announcements for broadcast, as well as written work descriptions, and artist biographies. Where possible the fellow will also record an interview with the artist about their selected work. Each week the Fellow’s newest addition to the Archive will be broadcast on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. These works and interviews will also be integrated into Wave Farm’s nationally syndicated “The Radio Art Hour.”

Part 2: Community  Engagement (February - March 2022)

The fellow will design and lead two workshops (or listening sessions) with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public. A successful model in 2020/2021 was constructed around the fellow identifying a single radio artwork and included three parts: 1) group listening and discussion 2) conversation with the artist behind the work  3) Participants creating their own radio artworks in response.

Part 3: Radio Art Creation (April - May 2022)

The Fellow will create their own original radio artwork(s) for broadcast, including a contribution to the Radia network, of which Wave Farm is a member (See radia.fm).

Fellowship Benchmarks:

• Weekly Meetings: with Wave Farm staff.
• Monthly Check-ins with Mentors for feedback on archive additions and the Fellow’s original radio artworks.
• Culminating Public Program: a live radio broadcast featuring the Fellowship artist and mentors in conversation reflecting on works created and archive selections.

To Apply:
Please send the following to info@wavefarm.org by June 30, 2021:

1. 1. Letter of Interest: a one-page statement introducing your work as a radio scholar and artist demonstrating your personal interest in radio broadcast as a creative medium.
   2. Radio Art Archive Sample: Please prepare one example of a work you would add to the online archive and broadcast series (this should be a work by another artist, not your work). Please include:

• • • A one- or two-paragraph biography of the artist you have selected.
    • A one- or two-paragraph description of the radio artwork.
    • A mp3 (192 kbps, constant bitrate, 44.1kHz) audio file prepared for radio broadcast presentation that includes brief introductory remarks in your voice (identify yourself in the intro as well), the radio artwork itself, and a back announcement at the end telling radio listeners what they have just heard.
    • Please note that Wave Farm may broadcast these submissions in the future.

1. 1. Your Own Radio Art Work Samples: Please provide links to two work samples of your own radio work.
   2. Resume / C.V.

Eligibility: The Radio Artist Fellowship program opportunity is open to individual radio artists and scholars whose primary residence is in the United States. (Note: applications from collaborative teams are not eligible.) The Fellowship stipend will appear as “Other Income” on 1099s issued in conjunction with tax years 2021 and 2022. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Wave Farm’s Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE (aka the Greene County Council on the Arts.)

https://wavefarm.org/radio/archive/fellowship

Wave Farm is delighted to announce that Jess Speer (Asheville, NC) will serve as the 2020/2021 Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship. During her engagement, September 2020 - May 2021, Speer will make weekly additions to the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. She will also create original radio artworks for broadcast, and conduct workshops and listening sessions with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public.

Jess Speer is an artist, radio DJ, librarian, teacher, and mother living in Asheville, NC. As a librarian and artist, she explores questions about permanence, presence, history, mindfulness, mortality, and access to information and ideas. Speer has collected over 800 records, many of which include sound effects, field recordings, spoken word and documentary works, and mines this collection for both broadcast and live performances. By collecting records and making field recordings, she attempts to create an archive of sorts, to gather time, history and experience together. Performing with them, over broadcast and in live events, brings that history to life and shares it, while also embodying the ephemerality that’s at the heart of history, truth, nature, and human beings. She is the host of the weekly radio show (and sometimes performance) Ecstatic Listening on WSFM-LP AshevilleFM. More at jessicaspeer.info.

We are constantly surrounded by waves, vibrations, transmissions, traveling invisibly through and around us and carrying messages: information, 24-hour news feeds, talk shows, rock shows, data streams, conspiracy theories, sad songs, bad songs, operating systems, all of them whizzing around us. How many bummer vibes have passed through your home today, even without being picked up by a receiver?

You are invited to be part of a counter-spell.

The Radio Witch Moon Hotline is accepting messages for the moon to be broadcast on the Full Moon each month on WGXC 90.7 FM in Acra, NY and streaming online at wavefarm.org. Dial 518-302-6067 and leave your message for the moon.

In 2021 Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM celebrates 10 years of creative, adventurous, experimental, community radio for open ears on the Upper Hudson Valley's FM dial. Join us for a series of celebratory events on-air and in-person throughout the year:

February 26, 2021, 7 - 9:00 p.m.: Anniversary Broadcast: WGXC Awards
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen
Ten years ago, at 2 p.m. on February 26, 2011, with mere minutes to spare, WGXC powered on, transmitting 3,300 watts out to the Upper Hudson Valley on 90.7-FM. A large boisterous group assembled at the Catskill Community Center to celebrate. There, WGXC's first programmers took to the mic to introduce their shows and perform live on-air as part of the first ever WGXC broadcast. Join us ten years later for a very special ceremonious broadcast in honor of this official 10th Anniversary day.

April 23 - May 7, 2021: Wave Farm Incident Report Dispatch 001
Incident Report, 348 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534
F.T. Marinetti & Pino Masnata's La radia Futurist Manifesto of October, 1933 (Published in "Gazzetta del Popolo,") is on view along with a 10th Anniversary print designed by Mayuko Fujino.

April 24, 2021 Noon - April 25, 2021 Noon: DRONE AT HOME
Video livestream on Twitch / Basilica Website (Noon – 10 p.m. EDT)
24-hour audio livestream on Wave Farm’s Standing Wave Radio (Noon – Noon EDT) | LISTEN HERE
FM Radio Broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM in NY’s Upper Hudson Valley (Noon – 6 a.m. EDT) | SCHEDULE HERE
For the past 7 years, 24-HOUR DRONE presented with Le Guess Who? has kicked Basilica Hudson’s season into bloom as a sacred wake-up call for the building in her winter hibernation. With all large gatherings still on hold due to COVID-19, this year we will bring DRONE to the airwaves in collaboration with Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears.
Both organizations, Basilica and Wave Farm, will each invite five sound artists to contribute a 60-minute performance. Assembled, this newly commissioned 10-hour drone program will be the featured content for DRONE AT HOME 2021. Highlights from past 24-HOUR DRONE event archives will flesh out the rest of the 24-hour online broadcast.

May 26, 2021, 7:30 - 11:00 p.m.: WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event!
Greenville Drive-In 10700 New York Highway 32, Greenville, NY 12083.
Tickets at wavefarm.simpletix.com

Let's celebrate WGXC's 10th Anniversary together at the Greenville Drive-in! We're planning this event to scale as needed in terms of where we are with physical gathering. Either way, we think it will be an epic exploration of the number 10! Wear your most festive attire and bring your favorite radio for the LoveShack photo and recording booth. Most importantly come ready to celebrate.

Schedule:

• 7:30 p.m.: Arrival
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Get your portrait taken by Bryan Zimmerman, record Station IDs and sweet nothings at the LoveShack with your concierges Donna and Honey of the Donna and Honey's Love Motel: A radio romance and rock and roll show, and interior by Becca Van K!
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Get Your Concessions! (Cocktails at the bar, Snack Bar goodies available.)
• 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Program

NOTE: All performances and DJ sets will be projected onto the Drive-in screen and transmitted to your car radio. Entire program runs 110 minutes.
Here's the line-up:

Film Program
Powers of Ten (1977), Charles and Ray Eames (09:00 min.)
10³ Hudson River Crossings (2021), Heath Iverson. (Movies on the Radio) (01:00 min.)

10 Minute Performances and DJ Sets

1. LunarMoss (formerly of LunarMoss), a micro-meditation on time's most agreeable measurement: the decade; conveyed thru sound as catalyst and contingent summation of collective memory.
2. Jess Speer, Jess Speer will perform live with 10 sound sources, all celebrating WGXC, Wave Farm, and radio, with a special community-brewed Radio Witch full moon spell for the continued success of WGXC.
3. Jeff Economy (Snackpoint Charlie) and Alanna Medlock (There There), 10 Movements through Undiscovered Countries
4. Jen Kutler (Wave Farmacy) and Quintan Ana Wikswo, a work of 10 texts, 10 videos, and 10 variated sensor response.
5. Mayuko Fujino (Your Voice Touches My String), 10 tracks of single-stringed instruments, one string at a time
6. Anna Friz, 10-band Radio: Variations with one- and two- way radio, from deep inside the dial. Are there (still) little people who live inside your radio?
7. DJ Var (Friday Night Vibes Session), 10 years of happiness
8. Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), 10 songs in 10 minutes
9. Battlefield Earth (Battlefield Earth) adds exponential sources until a deka is reached.
10. Brian Dewan, WGXC filmstrip (2014/2021)

Big thank you to our artists and volunteers, those not mentioned above include Alon Koppel, Gus Turner, Nick D'Amore, Lysa Opfer, Matt Hill, Tim Light, Jess Puglisi, and Carmen Borgia, as well as WGXC's 10th Anniversary Year Sponsors:

August 7, 2021, Time tba: Audio Buffet 2021 and Programmer Picnic
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen

October 2021: John Cage’s Rozart Mix, realized by artist Aaron Dilloway
The John Cage Trust 1309 Annandale Road Red Hook, NY 12571
A durational installation at and broadcast from the John Cage Trust at Bard College. Details to be announced. Stay tuned!

And more to be announced, and a big thank you to our 10th Anniversary Underwriters confirmed so far!

Image Note: Greenville Drive-in Photograph © Beth Schneck Photography

Engagement Period: September 2021 - May 2022
Stipend: $15,000
Location: Remote (w/ three visits to Wave Farm in Acra, NY) *
Application Deadline: June 30, 2021
Notification: July 2021

Wave Farm is delighted to announce a third year of the Radio Artist Fellowship, a nine-month, part-time engagement for a radio scholar and artist living and working in the United States. The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe. The Fellowship will also include communication with Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

A definition of Radio Art: Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources.

The Fellowship will combine remote work with three on-site visits to Wave Farm’s research library and radio studios.* Located in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a nonprofit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears is a full-power, creative community radio station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The WGXC program schedule features original content by over one-hundred volunteer programmers, and commits significant daytime listening hours to radio art and experimental sound.

*Details of the Wave Farm visit schedule will be determined in collaboration with the selected artist, with consideration given to any ongoing travel restrictions related to COVID-19.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Part 1: Radio Art Archive Work (September 2021 - January 2022)

The first five months of the fellowship, are focused on additions to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive. (See wavefarm.org/radio/archive) The archive is an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. From September to January, the fellow will identify a minimum of one new work each week, preparing audio with introductions and back announcements for broadcast, as well as written work descriptions, and artist biographies. Where possible the fellow will also record an interview with the artist about their selected work. Each week the Fellow’s newest addition to the Archive will be broadcast on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. These works and interviews will also be integrated into Wave Farm’s nationally syndicated “The Radio Art Hour.”

Part 2: Community  Engagement (February - March 2022)

The fellow will design and lead two workshops (or listening sessions) with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public. A successful model in 2020/2021 was constructed around the fellow identifying a single radio artwork and included three parts: 1) group listening and discussion 2) conversation with the artist behind the work  3) Participants creating their own radio artworks in response.

Part 3: Radio Art Creation (April - May 2022)

The Fellow will create their own original radio artwork(s) for broadcast, including a contribution to the Radia network, of which Wave Farm is a member (See radia.fm).

Fellowship Benchmarks:

• Weekly Meetings: with Wave Farm staff.
• Monthly Check-ins with Mentors for feedback on archive additions and the Fellow’s original radio artworks.
• Culminating Public Program: a live radio broadcast featuring the Fellowship artist and mentors in conversation reflecting on works created and archive selections.

To Apply:
Please send the following to info@wavefarm.org by June 30, 2021:

1. 1. Letter of Interest: a one-page statement introducing your work as a radio scholar and artist demonstrating your personal interest in radio broadcast as a creative medium.
   2. Radio Art Archive Sample: Please prepare one example of a work you would add to the online archive and broadcast series (this should be a work by another artist, not your work). Please include:

• • • A one- or two-paragraph biography of the artist you have selected.
    • A one- or two-paragraph description of the radio artwork.
    • A mp3 (192 kbps, constant bitrate, 44.1kHz) audio file prepared for radio broadcast presentation that includes brief introductory remarks in your voice (identify yourself in the intro as well), the radio artwork itself, and a back announcement at the end telling radio listeners what they have just heard.
    • Please note that Wave Farm may broadcast these submissions in the future.

1. 1. Your Own Radio Art Work Samples: Please provide links to two work samples of your own radio work.
   2. Resume / C.V.

Eligibility: The Radio Artist Fellowship program opportunity is open to individual radio artists and scholars whose primary residence is in the United States. (Note: applications from collaborative teams are not eligible.) The Fellowship stipend will appear as “Other Income” on 1099s issued in conjunction with tax years 2021 and 2022. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Wave Farm’s Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE (aka the Greene County Council on the Arts.)

https://wavefarm.org/radio/archive/fellowship

Wave Farm is delighted to announce that Jess Speer (Asheville, NC) will serve as the 2020/2021 Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship. During her engagement, September 2020 - May 2021, Speer will make weekly additions to the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. She will also create original radio artworks for broadcast, and conduct workshops and listening sessions with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public.

Jess Speer is an artist, radio DJ, librarian, teacher, and mother living in Asheville, NC. As a librarian and artist, she explores questions about permanence, presence, history, mindfulness, mortality, and access to information and ideas. Speer has collected over 800 records, many of which include sound effects, field recordings, spoken word and documentary works, and mines this collection for both broadcast and live performances. By collecting records and making field recordings, she attempts to create an archive of sorts, to gather time, history and experience together. Performing with them, over broadcast and in live events, brings that history to life and shares it, while also embodying the ephemerality that’s at the heart of history, truth, nature, and human beings. She is the host of the weekly radio show (and sometimes performance) Ecstatic Listening on WSFM-LP AshevilleFM. More at jessicaspeer.info.

We are constantly surrounded by waves, vibrations, transmissions, traveling invisibly through and around us and carrying messages: information, 24-hour news feeds, talk shows, rock shows, data streams, conspiracy theories, sad songs, bad songs, operating systems, all of them whizzing around us. How many bummer vibes have passed through your home today, even without being picked up by a receiver?

You are invited to be part of a counter-spell.

The Radio Witch Moon Hotline is accepting messages for the moon to be broadcast on the Full Moon each month on WGXC 90.7 FM in Acra, NY and streaming online at wavefarm.org. Dial 518-302-6067 and leave your message for the moon.

In 2021 Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM celebrates 10 years of creative, adventurous, experimental, community radio for open ears on the Upper Hudson Valley's FM dial. Join us for a series of celebratory events on-air and in-person throughout the year:

February 26, 2021, 7 - 9:00 p.m.: Anniversary Broadcast: WGXC Awards
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen
Ten years ago, at 2 p.m. on February 26, 2011, with mere minutes to spare, WGXC powered on, transmitting 3,300 watts out to the Upper Hudson Valley on 90.7-FM. A large boisterous group assembled at the Catskill Community Center to celebrate. There, WGXC's first programmers took to the mic to introduce their shows and perform live on-air as part of the first ever WGXC broadcast. Join us ten years later for a very special ceremonious broadcast in honor of this official 10th Anniversary day.

April 23 - May 7, 2021: Wave Farm Incident Report Dispatch 001
Incident Report, 348 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534
F.T. Marinetti & Pino Masnata's La radia Futurist Manifesto of October, 1933 (Published in "Gazzetta del Popolo,") is on view along with a 10th Anniversary print designed by Mayuko Fujino.

April 24, 2021 Noon - April 25, 2021 Noon: DRONE AT HOME
Video livestream on Twitch / Basilica Website (Noon – 10 p.m. EDT)
24-hour audio livestream on Wave Farm’s Standing Wave Radio (Noon – Noon EDT) | LISTEN HERE
FM Radio Broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM in NY’s Upper Hudson Valley (Noon – 6 a.m. EDT) | SCHEDULE HERE
For the past 7 years, 24-HOUR DRONE presented with Le Guess Who? has kicked Basilica Hudson’s season into bloom as a sacred wake-up call for the building in her winter hibernation. With all large gatherings still on hold due to COVID-19, this year we will bring DRONE to the airwaves in collaboration with Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears.
Both organizations, Basilica and Wave Farm, will each invite five sound artists to contribute a 60-minute performance. Assembled, this newly commissioned 10-hour drone program will be the featured content for DRONE AT HOME 2021. Highlights from past 24-HOUR DRONE event archives will flesh out the rest of the 24-hour online broadcast.

May 26, 2021, 7:30 - 11:00 p.m.: WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event!
Greenville Drive-In 10700 New York Highway 32, Greenville, NY 12083.
Tickets at wavefarm.simpletix.com

Let's celebrate WGXC's 10th Anniversary together at the Greenville Drive-in! We're planning this event to scale as needed in terms of where we are with physical gathering. Either way, we think it will be an epic exploration of the number 10! Wear your most festive attire and bring your favorite radio for the LoveShack photo and recording booth. Most importantly come ready to celebrate.

Schedule:

• 7:30 p.m.: Arrival
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Get your portrait taken by Bryan Zimmerman, record Station IDs and sweet nothings at the LoveShack with your concierges Donna and Honey of the Donna and Honey's Love Motel: A radio romance and rock and roll show, and interior by Becca Van K!
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Get Your Concessions! (Cocktails at the bar, Snack Bar goodies available.)
• 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Program

NOTE: All performances and DJ sets will be projected onto the Drive-in screen and transmitted to your car radio. Entire program runs 110 minutes.
Here's the line-up:

Film Program
Powers of Ten (1977), Charles and Ray Eames (09:00 min.)
10³ Hudson River Crossings (2021), Heath Iverson. (Movies on the Radio) (01:00 min.)

10 Minute Performances and DJ Sets

1. LunarMoss (formerly of LunarMoss), a micro-meditation on time's most agreeable measurement: the decade; conveyed thru sound as catalyst and contingent summation of collective memory.
2. Jess Speer, Jess Speer will perform live with 10 sound sources, all celebrating WGXC, Wave Farm, and radio, with a special community-brewed Radio Witch full moon spell for the continued success of WGXC.
3. Jeff Economy (Snackpoint Charlie) and Alanna Medlock (There There), 10 Movements through Undiscovered Countries
4. Jen Kutler (Wave Farmacy) and Quintan Ana Wikswo, a work of 10 texts, 10 videos, and 10 variated sensor response.
5. Mayuko Fujino (Your Voice Touches My String), 10 tracks of single-stringed instruments, one string at a time
6. Anna Friz, 10-band Radio: Variations with one- and two- way radio, from deep inside the dial. Are there (still) little people who live inside your radio?
7. DJ Var (Friday Night Vibes Session), 10 years of happiness
8. Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), 10 songs in 10 minutes
9. Battlefield Earth (Battlefield Earth) adds exponential sources until a deka is reached.
10. Brian Dewan, WGXC filmstrip (2014/2021)

Big thank you to our artists and volunteers, those not mentioned above include Alon Koppel, Gus Turner, Nick D'Amore, Lysa Opfer, Matt Hill, Tim Light, Jess Puglisi, and Carmen Borgia, as well as WGXC's 10th Anniversary Year Sponsors:

August 7, 2021, Time tba: Audio Buffet 2021 and Programmer Picnic
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen

October 2021: John Cage’s Rozart Mix, realized by artist Aaron Dilloway
The John Cage Trust 1309 Annandale Road Red Hook, NY 12571
A durational installation at and broadcast from the John Cage Trust at Bard College. Details to be announced. Stay tuned!

And more to be announced, and a big thank you to our 10th Anniversary Underwriters confirmed so far!

Image Note: Greenville Drive-in Photograph © Beth Schneck Photography

Engagement Period: September 2021 - May 2022
Stipend: $15,000
Location: Remote (w/ three visits to Wave Farm in Acra, NY) *
Application Deadline: June 30, 2021
Notification: July 2021

Wave Farm is delighted to announce a third year of the Radio Artist Fellowship, a nine-month, part-time engagement for a radio scholar and artist living and working in the United States. The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe. The Fellowship will also include communication with Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

A definition of Radio Art: Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources.

The Fellowship will combine remote work with three on-site visits to Wave Farm’s research library and radio studios.* Located in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a nonprofit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears is a full-power, creative community radio station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The WGXC program schedule features original content by over one-hundred volunteer programmers, and commits significant daytime listening hours to radio art and experimental sound.

*Details of the Wave Farm visit schedule will be determined in collaboration with the selected artist, with consideration given to any ongoing travel restrictions related to COVID-19.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Part 1: Radio Art Archive Work (September 2021 - January 2022)

The first five months of the fellowship, are focused on additions to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive. (See wavefarm.org/radio/archive) The archive is an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. From September to January, the fellow will identify a minimum of one new work each week, preparing audio with introductions and back announcements for broadcast, as well as written work descriptions, and artist biographies. Where possible the fellow will also record an interview with the artist about their selected work. Each week the Fellow’s newest addition to the Archive will be broadcast on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. These works and interviews will also be integrated into Wave Farm’s nationally syndicated “The Radio Art Hour.”

Part 2: Community  Engagement (February - March 2022)

The fellow will design and lead two workshops (or listening sessions) with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public. A successful model in 2020/2021 was constructed around the fellow identifying a single radio artwork and included three parts: 1) group listening and discussion 2) conversation with the artist behind the work  3) Participants creating their own radio artworks in response.

Part 3: Radio Art Creation (April - May 2022)

The Fellow will create their own original radio artwork(s) for broadcast, including a contribution to the Radia network, of which Wave Farm is a member (See radia.fm).

Fellowship Benchmarks:

• Weekly Meetings: with Wave Farm staff.
• Monthly Check-ins with Mentors for feedback on archive additions and the Fellow’s original radio artworks.
• Culminating Public Program: a live radio broadcast featuring the Fellowship artist and mentors in conversation reflecting on works created and archive selections.

To Apply:
Please send the following to info@wavefarm.org by June 30, 2021:

1. 1. Letter of Interest: a one-page statement introducing your work as a radio scholar and artist demonstrating your personal interest in radio broadcast as a creative medium.
   2. Radio Art Archive Sample: Please prepare one example of a work you would add to the online archive and broadcast series (this should be a work by another artist, not your work). Please include:

• • • A one- or two-paragraph biography of the artist you have selected.
    • A one- or two-paragraph description of the radio artwork.
    • A mp3 (192 kbps, constant bitrate, 44.1kHz) audio file prepared for radio broadcast presentation that includes brief introductory remarks in your voice (identify yourself in the intro as well), the radio artwork itself, and a back announcement at the end telling radio listeners what they have just heard.
    • Please note that Wave Farm may broadcast these submissions in the future.

1. 1. Your Own Radio Art Work Samples: Please provide links to two work samples of your own radio work.
   2. Resume / C.V.

Eligibility: The Radio Artist Fellowship program opportunity is open to individual radio artists and scholars whose primary residence is in the United States. (Note: applications from collaborative teams are not eligible.) The Fellowship stipend will appear as “Other Income” on 1099s issued in conjunction with tax years 2021 and 2022. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Wave Farm’s Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE (aka the Greene County Council on the Arts.)

https://wavefarm.org/radio/archive/fellowship

Wave Farm is delighted to announce that Jess Speer (Asheville, NC) will serve as the 2020/2021 Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship. During her engagement, September 2020 - May 2021, Speer will make weekly additions to the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. She will also create original radio artworks for broadcast, and conduct workshops and listening sessions with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public.

Jess Speer is an artist, radio DJ, librarian, teacher, and mother living in Asheville, NC. As a librarian and artist, she explores questions about permanence, presence, history, mindfulness, mortality, and access to information and ideas. Speer has collected over 800 records, many of which include sound effects, field recordings, spoken word and documentary works, and mines this collection for both broadcast and live performances. By collecting records and making field recordings, she attempts to create an archive of sorts, to gather time, history and experience together. Performing with them, over broadcast and in live events, brings that history to life and shares it, while also embodying the ephemerality that’s at the heart of history, truth, nature, and human beings. She is the host of the weekly radio show (and sometimes performance) Ecstatic Listening on WSFM-LP AshevilleFM. More at jessicaspeer.info.

We are constantly surrounded by waves, vibrations, transmissions, traveling invisibly through and around us and carrying messages: information, 24-hour news feeds, talk shows, rock shows, data streams, conspiracy theories, sad songs, bad songs, operating systems, all of them whizzing around us. How many bummer vibes have passed through your home today, even without being picked up by a receiver?

You are invited to be part of a counter-spell.

The Radio Witch Moon Hotline is accepting messages for the moon to be broadcast on the Full Moon each month on WGXC 90.7 FM in Acra, NY and streaming online at wavefarm.org. Dial 518-302-6067 and leave your message for the moon.

In 2021 Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM celebrates 10 years of creative, adventurous, experimental, community radio for open ears on the Upper Hudson Valley's FM dial. Join us for a series of celebratory events on-air and in-person throughout the year:

February 26, 2021, 7 - 9:00 p.m.: Anniversary Broadcast: WGXC Awards
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen
Ten years ago, at 2 p.m. on February 26, 2011, with mere minutes to spare, WGXC powered on, transmitting 3,300 watts out to the Upper Hudson Valley on 90.7-FM. A large boisterous group assembled at the Catskill Community Center to celebrate. There, WGXC's first programmers took to the mic to introduce their shows and perform live on-air as part of the first ever WGXC broadcast. Join us ten years later for a very special ceremonious broadcast in honor of this official 10th Anniversary day.

April 23 - May 7, 2021: Wave Farm Incident Report Dispatch 001
Incident Report, 348 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534
F.T. Marinetti & Pino Masnata's La radia Futurist Manifesto of October, 1933 (Published in "Gazzetta del Popolo,") is on view along with a 10th Anniversary print designed by Mayuko Fujino.

April 24, 2021 Noon - April 25, 2021 Noon: DRONE AT HOME
Video livestream on Twitch / Basilica Website (Noon – 10 p.m. EDT)
24-hour audio livestream on Wave Farm’s Standing Wave Radio (Noon – Noon EDT) | LISTEN HERE
FM Radio Broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM in NY’s Upper Hudson Valley (Noon – 6 a.m. EDT) | SCHEDULE HERE
For the past 7 years, 24-HOUR DRONE presented with Le Guess Who? has kicked Basilica Hudson’s season into bloom as a sacred wake-up call for the building in her winter hibernation. With all large gatherings still on hold due to COVID-19, this year we will bring DRONE to the airwaves in collaboration with Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears.
Both organizations, Basilica and Wave Farm, will each invite five sound artists to contribute a 60-minute performance. Assembled, this newly commissioned 10-hour drone program will be the featured content for DRONE AT HOME 2021. Highlights from past 24-HOUR DRONE event archives will flesh out the rest of the 24-hour online broadcast.

May 26, 2021, 7:30 - 11:00 p.m.: WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event!
Greenville Drive-In 10700 New York Highway 32, Greenville, NY 12083.
Tickets at wavefarm.simpletix.com

Let's celebrate WGXC's 10th Anniversary together at the Greenville Drive-in! We're planning this event to scale as needed in terms of where we are with physical gathering. Either way, we think it will be an epic exploration of the number 10! Wear your most festive attire and bring your favorite radio for the LoveShack photo and recording booth. Most importantly come ready to celebrate.

Schedule:

• 7:30 p.m.: Arrival
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Get your portrait taken by Bryan Zimmerman, record Station IDs and sweet nothings at the LoveShack with your concierges Donna and Honey of the Donna and Honey's Love Motel: A radio romance and rock and roll show, and interior by Becca Van K!
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Get Your Concessions! (Cocktails at the bar, Snack Bar goodies available.)
• 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Program

NOTE: All performances and DJ sets will be projected onto the Drive-in screen and transmitted to your car radio. Entire program runs 110 minutes.
Here's the line-up:

Film Program
Powers of Ten (1977), Charles and Ray Eames (09:00 min.)
10³ Hudson River Crossings (2021), Heath Iverson. (Movies on the Radio) (01:00 min.)

10 Minute Performances and DJ Sets

1. LunarMoss (formerly of LunarMoss), a micro-meditation on time's most agreeable measurement: the decade; conveyed thru sound as catalyst and contingent summation of collective memory.
2. Jess Speer, Jess Speer will perform live with 10 sound sources, all celebrating WGXC, Wave Farm, and radio, with a special community-brewed Radio Witch full moon spell for the continued success of WGXC.
3. Jeff Economy (Snackpoint Charlie) and Alanna Medlock (There There), 10 Movements through Undiscovered Countries
4. Jen Kutler (Wave Farmacy) and Quintan Ana Wikswo, a work of 10 texts, 10 videos, and 10 variated sensor response.
5. Mayuko Fujino (Your Voice Touches My String), 10 tracks of single-stringed instruments, one string at a time
6. Anna Friz, 10-band Radio: Variations with one- and two- way radio, from deep inside the dial. Are there (still) little people who live inside your radio?
7. DJ Var (Friday Night Vibes Session), 10 years of happiness
8. Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), 10 songs in 10 minutes
9. Battlefield Earth (Battlefield Earth) adds exponential sources until a deka is reached.
10. Brian Dewan, WGXC filmstrip (2014/2021)

Big thank you to our artists and volunteers, those not mentioned above include Alon Koppel, Gus Turner, Nick D'Amore, Lysa Opfer, Matt Hill, Tim Light, Jess Puglisi, and Carmen Borgia, as well as WGXC's 10th Anniversary Year Sponsors:

August 7, 2021, Time tba: Audio Buffet 2021 and Programmer Picnic
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen

October 2021: John Cage’s Rozart Mix, realized by artist Aaron Dilloway
The John Cage Trust 1309 Annandale Road Red Hook, NY 12571
A durational installation at and broadcast from the John Cage Trust at Bard College. Details to be announced. Stay tuned!

And more to be announced, and a big thank you to our 10th Anniversary Underwriters confirmed so far!

Image Note: Greenville Drive-in Photograph © Beth Schneck Photography

Engagement Period: September 2021 - May 2022
Stipend: $15,000
Location: Remote (w/ three visits to Wave Farm in Acra, NY) *
Application Deadline: June 30, 2021
Notification: July 2021

Wave Farm is delighted to announce a third year of the Radio Artist Fellowship, a nine-month, part-time engagement for a radio scholar and artist living and working in the United States. The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe. The Fellowship will also include communication with Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

A definition of Radio Art: Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources.

The Fellowship will combine remote work with three on-site visits to Wave Farm’s research library and radio studios.* Located in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a nonprofit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears is a full-power, creative community radio station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The WGXC program schedule features original content by over one-hundred volunteer programmers, and commits significant daytime listening hours to radio art and experimental sound.

*Details of the Wave Farm visit schedule will be determined in collaboration with the selected artist, with consideration given to any ongoing travel restrictions related to COVID-19.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Part 1: Radio Art Archive Work (September 2021 - January 2022)

The first five months of the fellowship, are focused on additions to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive. (See wavefarm.org/radio/archive) The archive is an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. From September to January, the fellow will identify a minimum of one new work each week, preparing audio with introductions and back announcements for broadcast, as well as written work descriptions, and artist biographies. Where possible the fellow will also record an interview with the artist about their selected work. Each week the Fellow’s newest addition to the Archive will be broadcast on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. These works and interviews will also be integrated into Wave Farm’s nationally syndicated “The Radio Art Hour.”

Part 2: Community  Engagement (February - March 2022)

The fellow will design and lead two workshops (or listening sessions) with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public. A successful model in 2020/2021 was constructed around the fellow identifying a single radio artwork and included three parts: 1) group listening and discussion 2) conversation with the artist behind the work  3) Participants creating their own radio artworks in response.

Part 3: Radio Art Creation (April - May 2022)

The Fellow will create their own original radio artwork(s) for broadcast, including a contribution to the Radia network, of which Wave Farm is a member (See radia.fm).

Fellowship Benchmarks:

• Weekly Meetings: with Wave Farm staff.
• Monthly Check-ins with Mentors for feedback on archive additions and the Fellow’s original radio artworks.
• Culminating Public Program: a live radio broadcast featuring the Fellowship artist and mentors in conversation reflecting on works created and archive selections.

To Apply:
Please send the following to info@wavefarm.org by June 30, 2021:

1. 1. Letter of Interest: a one-page statement introducing your work as a radio scholar and artist demonstrating your personal interest in radio broadcast as a creative medium.
   2. Radio Art Archive Sample: Please prepare one example of a work you would add to the online archive and broadcast series (this should be a work by another artist, not your work). Please include:

• • • A one- or two-paragraph biography of the artist you have selected.
    • A one- or two-paragraph description of the radio artwork.
    • A mp3 (192 kbps, constant bitrate, 44.1kHz) audio file prepared for radio broadcast presentation that includes brief introductory remarks in your voice (identify yourself in the intro as well), the radio artwork itself, and a back announcement at the end telling radio listeners what they have just heard.
    • Please note that Wave Farm may broadcast these submissions in the future.

1. 1. Your Own Radio Art Work Samples: Please provide links to two work samples of your own radio work.
   2. Resume / C.V.

Eligibility: The Radio Artist Fellowship program opportunity is open to individual radio artists and scholars whose primary residence is in the United States. (Note: applications from collaborative teams are not eligible.) The Fellowship stipend will appear as “Other Income” on 1099s issued in conjunction with tax years 2021 and 2022. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Wave Farm’s Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE (aka the Greene County Council on the Arts.)

https://wavefarm.org/radio/archive/fellowship

Wave Farm is delighted to announce that Jess Speer (Asheville, NC) will serve as the 2020/2021 Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship. During her engagement, September 2020 - May 2021, Speer will make weekly additions to the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. She will also create original radio artworks for broadcast, and conduct workshops and listening sessions with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public.

Jess Speer is an artist, radio DJ, librarian, teacher, and mother living in Asheville, NC. As a librarian and artist, she explores questions about permanence, presence, history, mindfulness, mortality, and access to information and ideas. Speer has collected over 800 records, many of which include sound effects, field recordings, spoken word and documentary works, and mines this collection for both broadcast and live performances. By collecting records and making field recordings, she attempts to create an archive of sorts, to gather time, history and experience together. Performing with them, over broadcast and in live events, brings that history to life and shares it, while also embodying the ephemerality that’s at the heart of history, truth, nature, and human beings. She is the host of the weekly radio show (and sometimes performance) Ecstatic Listening on WSFM-LP AshevilleFM. More at jessicaspeer.info.

We are constantly surrounded by waves, vibrations, transmissions, traveling invisibly through and around us and carrying messages: information, 24-hour news feeds, talk shows, rock shows, data streams, conspiracy theories, sad songs, bad songs, operating systems, all of them whizzing around us. How many bummer vibes have passed through your home today, even without being picked up by a receiver?

You are invited to be part of a counter-spell.

The Radio Witch Moon Hotline is accepting messages for the moon to be broadcast on the Full Moon each month on WGXC 90.7 FM in Acra, NY and streaming online at wavefarm.org. Dial 518-302-6067 and leave your message for the moon.

In 2021 Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM celebrates 10 years of creative, adventurous, experimental, community radio for open ears on the Upper Hudson Valley's FM dial. Join us for a series of celebratory events on-air and in-person throughout the year:

February 26, 2021, 7 - 9:00 p.m.: Anniversary Broadcast: WGXC Awards
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen
Ten years ago, at 2 p.m. on February 26, 2011, with mere minutes to spare, WGXC powered on, transmitting 3,300 watts out to the Upper Hudson Valley on 90.7-FM. A large boisterous group assembled at the Catskill Community Center to celebrate. There, WGXC's first programmers took to the mic to introduce their shows and perform live on-air as part of the first ever WGXC broadcast. Join us ten years later for a very special ceremonious broadcast in honor of this official 10th Anniversary day.

April 23 - May 7, 2021: Wave Farm Incident Report Dispatch 001
Incident Report, 348 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534
F.T. Marinetti & Pino Masnata's La radia Futurist Manifesto of October, 1933 (Published in "Gazzetta del Popolo,") is on view along with a 10th Anniversary print designed by Mayuko Fujino.

April 24, 2021 Noon - April 25, 2021 Noon: DRONE AT HOME
Video livestream on Twitch / Basilica Website (Noon – 10 p.m. EDT)
24-hour audio livestream on Wave Farm’s Standing Wave Radio (Noon – Noon EDT) | LISTEN HERE
FM Radio Broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM in NY’s Upper Hudson Valley (Noon – 6 a.m. EDT) | SCHEDULE HERE
For the past 7 years, 24-HOUR DRONE presented with Le Guess Who? has kicked Basilica Hudson’s season into bloom as a sacred wake-up call for the building in her winter hibernation. With all large gatherings still on hold due to COVID-19, this year we will bring DRONE to the airwaves in collaboration with Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears.
Both organizations, Basilica and Wave Farm, will each invite five sound artists to contribute a 60-minute performance. Assembled, this newly commissioned 10-hour drone program will be the featured content for DRONE AT HOME 2021. Highlights from past 24-HOUR DRONE event archives will flesh out the rest of the 24-hour online broadcast.

May 26, 2021, 7:30 - 11:00 p.m.: WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event!
Greenville Drive-In 10700 New York Highway 32, Greenville, NY 12083.
Tickets at wavefarm.simpletix.com

Let's celebrate WGXC's 10th Anniversary together at the Greenville Drive-in! We're planning this event to scale as needed in terms of where we are with physical gathering. Either way, we think it will be an epic exploration of the number 10! Wear your most festive attire and bring your favorite radio for the LoveShack photo and recording booth. Most importantly come ready to celebrate.

Schedule:

• 7:30 p.m.: Arrival
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Get your portrait taken by Bryan Zimmerman, record Station IDs and sweet nothings at the LoveShack with your concierges Donna and Honey of the Donna and Honey's Love Motel: A radio romance and rock and roll show, and interior by Becca Van K!
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Get Your Concessions! (Cocktails at the bar, Snack Bar goodies available.)
• 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Program

NOTE: All performances and DJ sets will be projected onto the Drive-in screen and transmitted to your car radio. Entire program runs 110 minutes.
Here's the line-up:

Film Program
Powers of Ten (1977), Charles and Ray Eames (09:00 min.)
10³ Hudson River Crossings (2021), Heath Iverson. (Movies on the Radio) (01:00 min.)

10 Minute Performances and DJ Sets

1. LunarMoss (formerly of LunarMoss), a micro-meditation on time's most agreeable measurement: the decade; conveyed thru sound as catalyst and contingent summation of collective memory.
2. Jess Speer, Jess Speer will perform live with 10 sound sources, all celebrating WGXC, Wave Farm, and radio, with a special community-brewed Radio Witch full moon spell for the continued success of WGXC.
3. Jeff Economy (Snackpoint Charlie) and Alanna Medlock (There There), 10 Movements through Undiscovered Countries
4. Jen Kutler (Wave Farmacy) and Quintan Ana Wikswo, a work of 10 texts, 10 videos, and 10 variated sensor response.
5. Mayuko Fujino (Your Voice Touches My String), 10 tracks of single-stringed instruments, one string at a time
6. Anna Friz, 10-band Radio: Variations with one- and two- way radio, from deep inside the dial. Are there (still) little people who live inside your radio?
7. DJ Var (Friday Night Vibes Session), 10 years of happiness
8. Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), 10 songs in 10 minutes
9. Battlefield Earth (Battlefield Earth) adds exponential sources until a deka is reached.
10. Brian Dewan, WGXC filmstrip (2014/2021)

Big thank you to our artists and volunteers, those not mentioned above include Alon Koppel, Gus Turner, Nick D'Amore, Lysa Opfer, Matt Hill, Tim Light, Jess Puglisi, and Carmen Borgia, as well as WGXC's 10th Anniversary Year Sponsors:

August 7, 2021, Time tba: Audio Buffet 2021 and Programmer Picnic
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen

October 2021: John Cage’s Rozart Mix, realized by artist Aaron Dilloway
The John Cage Trust 1309 Annandale Road Red Hook, NY 12571
A durational installation at and broadcast from the John Cage Trust at Bard College. Details to be announced. Stay tuned!

And more to be announced, and a big thank you to our 10th Anniversary Underwriters confirmed so far!

Image Note: Greenville Drive-in Photograph © Beth Schneck Photography

Engagement Period: September 2021 - May 2022
Stipend: $15,000
Location: Remote (w/ three visits to Wave Farm in Acra, NY) *
Application Deadline: June 30, 2021
Notification: July 2021

Wave Farm is delighted to announce a third year of the Radio Artist Fellowship, a nine-month, part-time engagement for a radio scholar and artist living and working in the United States. The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe. The Fellowship will also include communication with Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

A definition of Radio Art: Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources.

The Fellowship will combine remote work with three on-site visits to Wave Farm’s research library and radio studios.* Located in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a nonprofit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears is a full-power, creative community radio station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The WGXC program schedule features original content by over one-hundred volunteer programmers, and commits significant daytime listening hours to radio art and experimental sound.

*Details of the Wave Farm visit schedule will be determined in collaboration with the selected artist, with consideration given to any ongoing travel restrictions related to COVID-19.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Part 1: Radio Art Archive Work (September 2021 - January 2022)

The first five months of the fellowship, are focused on additions to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive. (See wavefarm.org/radio/archive) The archive is an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. From September to January, the fellow will identify a minimum of one new work each week, preparing audio with introductions and back announcements for broadcast, as well as written work descriptions, and artist biographies. Where possible the fellow will also record an interview with the artist about their selected work. Each week the Fellow’s newest addition to the Archive will be broadcast on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. These works and interviews will also be integrated into Wave Farm’s nationally syndicated “The Radio Art Hour.”

Part 2: Community  Engagement (February - March 2022)

The fellow will design and lead two workshops (or listening sessions) with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public. A successful model in 2020/2021 was constructed around the fellow identifying a single radio artwork and included three parts: 1) group listening and discussion 2) conversation with the artist behind the work  3) Participants creating their own radio artworks in response.

Part 3: Radio Art Creation (April - May 2022)

The Fellow will create their own original radio artwork(s) for broadcast, including a contribution to the Radia network, of which Wave Farm is a member (See radia.fm).

Fellowship Benchmarks:

• Weekly Meetings: with Wave Farm staff.
• Monthly Check-ins with Mentors for feedback on archive additions and the Fellow’s original radio artworks.
• Culminating Public Program: a live radio broadcast featuring the Fellowship artist and mentors in conversation reflecting on works created and archive selections.

To Apply:
Please send the following to info@wavefarm.org by June 30, 2021:

1. 1. Letter of Interest: a one-page statement introducing your work as a radio scholar and artist demonstrating your personal interest in radio broadcast as a creative medium.
   2. Radio Art Archive Sample: Please prepare one example of a work you would add to the online archive and broadcast series (this should be a work by another artist, not your work). Please include:

• • • A one- or two-paragraph biography of the artist you have selected.
    • A one- or two-paragraph description of the radio artwork.
    • A mp3 (192 kbps, constant bitrate, 44.1kHz) audio file prepared for radio broadcast presentation that includes brief introductory remarks in your voice (identify yourself in the intro as well), the radio artwork itself, and a back announcement at the end telling radio listeners what they have just heard.
    • Please note that Wave Farm may broadcast these submissions in the future.

1. 1. Your Own Radio Art Work Samples: Please provide links to two work samples of your own radio work.
   2. Resume / C.V.

Eligibility: The Radio Artist Fellowship program opportunity is open to individual radio artists and scholars whose primary residence is in the United States. (Note: applications from collaborative teams are not eligible.) The Fellowship stipend will appear as “Other Income” on 1099s issued in conjunction with tax years 2021 and 2022. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Wave Farm’s Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE (aka the Greene County Council on the Arts.)

https://wavefarm.org/radio/archive/fellowship

Wave Farm is delighted to announce that Jess Speer (Asheville, NC) will serve as the 2020/2021 Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship. During her engagement, September 2020 - May 2021, Speer will make weekly additions to the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. She will also create original radio artworks for broadcast, and conduct workshops and listening sessions with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public.

Jess Speer is an artist, radio DJ, librarian, teacher, and mother living in Asheville, NC. As a librarian and artist, she explores questions about permanence, presence, history, mindfulness, mortality, and access to information and ideas. Speer has collected over 800 records, many of which include sound effects, field recordings, spoken word and documentary works, and mines this collection for both broadcast and live performances. By collecting records and making field recordings, she attempts to create an archive of sorts, to gather time, history and experience together. Performing with them, over broadcast and in live events, brings that history to life and shares it, while also embodying the ephemerality that’s at the heart of history, truth, nature, and human beings. She is the host of the weekly radio show (and sometimes performance) Ecstatic Listening on WSFM-LP AshevilleFM. More at jessicaspeer.info.

We are constantly surrounded by waves, vibrations, transmissions, traveling invisibly through and around us and carrying messages: information, 24-hour news feeds, talk shows, rock shows, data streams, conspiracy theories, sad songs, bad songs, operating systems, all of them whizzing around us. How many bummer vibes have passed through your home today, even without being picked up by a receiver?

You are invited to be part of a counter-spell.

The Radio Witch Moon Hotline is accepting messages for the moon to be broadcast on the Full Moon each month on WGXC 90.7 FM in Acra, NY and streaming online at wavefarm.org. Dial 518-302-6067 and leave your message for the moon.

In 2021 Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM celebrates 10 years of creative, adventurous, experimental, community radio for open ears on the Upper Hudson Valley's FM dial. Join us for a series of celebratory events on-air and in-person throughout the year:

February 26, 2021, 7 - 9:00 p.m.: Anniversary Broadcast: WGXC Awards
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen
Ten years ago, at 2 p.m. on February 26, 2011, with mere minutes to spare, WGXC powered on, transmitting 3,300 watts out to the Upper Hudson Valley on 90.7-FM. A large boisterous group assembled at the Catskill Community Center to celebrate. There, WGXC's first programmers took to the mic to introduce their shows and perform live on-air as part of the first ever WGXC broadcast. Join us ten years later for a very special ceremonious broadcast in honor of this official 10th Anniversary day.

April 23 - May 7, 2021: Wave Farm Incident Report Dispatch 001
Incident Report, 348 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534
F.T. Marinetti & Pino Masnata's La radia Futurist Manifesto of October, 1933 (Published in "Gazzetta del Popolo,") is on view along with a 10th Anniversary print designed by Mayuko Fujino.

April 24, 2021 Noon - April 25, 2021 Noon: DRONE AT HOME
Video livestream on Twitch / Basilica Website (Noon – 10 p.m. EDT)
24-hour audio livestream on Wave Farm’s Standing Wave Radio (Noon – Noon EDT) | LISTEN HERE
FM Radio Broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM in NY’s Upper Hudson Valley (Noon – 6 a.m. EDT) | SCHEDULE HERE
For the past 7 years, 24-HOUR DRONE presented with Le Guess Who? has kicked Basilica Hudson’s season into bloom as a sacred wake-up call for the building in her winter hibernation. With all large gatherings still on hold due to COVID-19, this year we will bring DRONE to the airwaves in collaboration with Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears.
Both organizations, Basilica and Wave Farm, will each invite five sound artists to contribute a 60-minute performance. Assembled, this newly commissioned 10-hour drone program will be the featured content for DRONE AT HOME 2021. Highlights from past 24-HOUR DRONE event archives will flesh out the rest of the 24-hour online broadcast.

May 26, 2021, 7:30 - 11:00 p.m.: WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event!
Greenville Drive-In 10700 New York Highway 32, Greenville, NY 12083.
Tickets at wavefarm.simpletix.com

Let's celebrate WGXC's 10th Anniversary together at the Greenville Drive-in! We're planning this event to scale as needed in terms of where we are with physical gathering. Either way, we think it will be an epic exploration of the number 10! Wear your most festive attire and bring your favorite radio for the LoveShack photo and recording booth. Most importantly come ready to celebrate.

Schedule:

• 7:30 p.m.: Arrival
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Get your portrait taken by Bryan Zimmerman, record Station IDs and sweet nothings at the LoveShack with your concierges Donna and Honey of the Donna and Honey's Love Motel: A radio romance and rock and roll show, and interior by Becca Van K!
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Get Your Concessions! (Cocktails at the bar, Snack Bar goodies available.)
• 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Program

NOTE: All performances and DJ sets will be projected onto the Drive-in screen and transmitted to your car radio. Entire program runs 110 minutes.
Here's the line-up:

Film Program
Powers of Ten (1977), Charles and Ray Eames (09:00 min.)
10³ Hudson River Crossings (2021), Heath Iverson. (Movies on the Radio) (01:00 min.)

10 Minute Performances and DJ Sets

1. LunarMoss (formerly of LunarMoss), a micro-meditation on time's most agreeable measurement: the decade; conveyed thru sound as catalyst and contingent summation of collective memory.
2. Jess Speer, Jess Speer will perform live with 10 sound sources, all celebrating WGXC, Wave Farm, and radio, with a special community-brewed Radio Witch full moon spell for the continued success of WGXC.
3. Jeff Economy (Snackpoint Charlie) and Alanna Medlock (There There), 10 Movements through Undiscovered Countries
4. Jen Kutler (Wave Farmacy) and Quintan Ana Wikswo, a work of 10 texts, 10 videos, and 10 variated sensor response.
5. Mayuko Fujino (Your Voice Touches My String), 10 tracks of single-stringed instruments, one string at a time
6. Anna Friz, 10-band Radio: Variations with one- and two- way radio, from deep inside the dial. Are there (still) little people who live inside your radio?
7. DJ Var (Friday Night Vibes Session), 10 years of happiness
8. Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), 10 songs in 10 minutes
9. Battlefield Earth (Battlefield Earth) adds exponential sources until a deka is reached.
10. Brian Dewan, WGXC filmstrip (2014/2021)

Big thank you to our artists and volunteers, those not mentioned above include Alon Koppel, Gus Turner, Nick D'Amore, Lysa Opfer, Matt Hill, Tim Light, Jess Puglisi, and Carmen Borgia, as well as WGXC's 10th Anniversary Year Sponsors:

August 7, 2021, Time tba: Audio Buffet 2021 and Programmer Picnic
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen

October 2021: John Cage’s Rozart Mix, realized by artist Aaron Dilloway
The John Cage Trust 1309 Annandale Road Red Hook, NY 12571
A durational installation at and broadcast from the John Cage Trust at Bard College. Details to be announced. Stay tuned!

And more to be announced, and a big thank you to our 10th Anniversary Underwriters confirmed so far!

Image Note: Greenville Drive-in Photograph © Beth Schneck Photography

Engagement Period: September 2021 - May 2022
Stipend: $15,000
Location: Remote (w/ three visits to Wave Farm in Acra, NY) *
Application Deadline: June 30, 2021
Notification: July 2021

Wave Farm is delighted to announce a third year of the Radio Artist Fellowship, a nine-month, part-time engagement for a radio scholar and artist living and working in the United States. The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe. The Fellowship will also include communication with Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead.

A definition of Radio Art: Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources.

The Fellowship will combine remote work with three on-site visits to Wave Farm’s research library and radio studios.* Located in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a nonprofit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears is a full-power, creative community radio station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The WGXC program schedule features original content by over one-hundred volunteer programmers, and commits significant daytime listening hours to radio art and experimental sound.

*Details of the Wave Farm visit schedule will be determined in collaboration with the selected artist, with consideration given to any ongoing travel restrictions related to COVID-19.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Part 1: Radio Art Archive Work (September 2021 - January 2022)

The first five months of the fellowship, are focused on additions to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive. (See wavefarm.org/radio/archive) The archive is an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. From September to January, the fellow will identify a minimum of one new work each week, preparing audio with introductions and back announcements for broadcast, as well as written work descriptions, and artist biographies. Where possible the fellow will also record an interview with the artist about their selected work. Each week the Fellow’s newest addition to the Archive will be broadcast on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. These works and interviews will also be integrated into Wave Farm’s nationally syndicated “The Radio Art Hour.”

Part 2: Community  Engagement (February - March 2022)

The fellow will design and lead two workshops (or listening sessions) with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public. A successful model in 2020/2021 was constructed around the fellow identifying a single radio artwork and included three parts: 1) group listening and discussion 2) conversation with the artist behind the work  3) Participants creating their own radio artworks in response.

Part 3: Radio Art Creation (April - May 2022)

The Fellow will create their own original radio artwork(s) for broadcast, including a contribution to the Radia network, of which Wave Farm is a member (See radia.fm).

Fellowship Benchmarks:

• Weekly Meetings: with Wave Farm staff.
• Monthly Check-ins with Mentors for feedback on archive additions and the Fellow’s original radio artworks.
• Culminating Public Program: a live radio broadcast featuring the Fellowship artist and mentors in conversation reflecting on works created and archive selections.

To Apply:
Please send the following to info@wavefarm.org by June 30, 2021:

1. 1. Letter of Interest: a one-page statement introducing your work as a radio scholar and artist demonstrating your personal interest in radio broadcast as a creative medium.
   2. Radio Art Archive Sample: Please prepare one example of a work you would add to the online archive and broadcast series (this should be a work by another artist, not your work). Please include:

• • • A one- or two-paragraph biography of the artist you have selected.
    • A one- or two-paragraph description of the radio artwork.
    • A mp3 (192 kbps, constant bitrate, 44.1kHz) audio file prepared for radio broadcast presentation that includes brief introductory remarks in your voice (identify yourself in the intro as well), the radio artwork itself, and a back announcement at the end telling radio listeners what they have just heard.
    • Please note that Wave Farm may broadcast these submissions in the future.

1. 1. Your Own Radio Art Work Samples: Please provide links to two work samples of your own radio work.
   2. Resume / C.V.

Eligibility: The Radio Artist Fellowship program opportunity is open to individual radio artists and scholars whose primary residence is in the United States. (Note: applications from collaborative teams are not eligible.) The Fellowship stipend will appear as “Other Income” on 1099s issued in conjunction with tax years 2021 and 2022. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Wave Farm’s Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE (aka the Greene County Council on the Arts.)

https://wavefarm.org/radio/archive/fellowship