TONE FIELD HORIZON

TONE FIELD HORIZON is a performance-installation for the Wave Farm Art Park, as well as a simultaneous radio transmission mixed live from the various points that make up the field. The project uses the Art Park as a spatial instrument. Neumann will install five remote stations, each consisting of a loudspeaker and a microphone. He will use his software instrument Room Tone Generator [RTG] to generate finely tuned tonalities that blend into the nearfield environment. During a culminating public program, on-site audiences will experience the tones in the environment (RTG within an ecosystem) expanding spatiality. Listening gets a tonal anchor for focusing attention as the visitors move through the different acoustic arenas. As visitors walk around the Wave Farm Art Park they experience the shifting acoustic horizon in relation to how close or far they are from the various RTG speakers. The microphones will pick up the altered environment. For off-site radio audiences, all five feeds will be mixed together and output for stereo broadcast over WGXC 90.7-FM and wavefarm.org/listen. This tele-audience will experience a very different acoustic horizon, an all-at-once conglomerate from the different locations.

Every Monday at 7:30 p.m. No previous singing experience is required. For most of us, our voice is our most important medium of expression. With this voice we can sing, we can praise, we can express joy or pain, and we can teach. But often, our relationship with our voice becomes disconnected. We underestimate the effect our voice has on our bodies and our lives. This workshop is a doorway into reconnecting with your voice and expressing yourself more fully. Through a series of simple tones, or notes sung for long periods, we gently begin to observe the relationships between the voice, the body, the breath, and the self. This workshop is not affiliated with any spiritual practice. All people are welcome, and no singing experience is required. There is a short introduction and instruction, followed by 30 minutes of a guided toning series, and open discussion afterward (optional). Open to the public, but donations are graciously accepted. Facilitated by teacher/composer/musician Sean Cronin. Information at tonesingingworkshop@gmail.com.

Join La Leche League for meet-ups and support for nursing families at the Hudson Area Library. Whether you are pregnant, caring for a newborn, nursing, pumping, supplementing, weaning, or beyond – all are welcome!

Dates/Times: Wednesdays, April 10, May 8, June 12, and August 14, 4 – 5:30pm

Location: In person, Hudson Area Library Community Room

Registration: Visit “La Leche League Columbia Greene NY” on Facebook or contact a leader to confirm meeting times.

Sandbar Park (9 Lindenwald Ave.) in Stuyvesant Falls, NY. Columbia County plans to replace the historic Stuyvesant Falls Bridge (a single-lane bridge) with a large 2-lane design that does not suit the context or the needs of our community. The proposed replacement is guaranteed to increase vehicle speeds on Route 25A. We want a SAFE plan! The residents of Stuyvesant are broadly calling for a halt in the consulting engineers’ work and the implementation of a community-based bridge design process. Join us to help save the historic Stuyvesant Falls Bridge!

Every Monday at 7:30 p.m. No previous singing experience is required. For most of us, our voice is our most important medium of expression. With this voice we can sing, we can praise, we can express joy or pain, and we can teach. But often, our relationship with our voice becomes disconnected. We underestimate the effect our voice has on our bodies and our lives. This workshop is a doorway into reconnecting with your voice and expressing yourself more fully. Through a series of simple tones, or notes sung for long periods, we gently begin to observe the relationships between the voice, the body, the breath, and the self. This workshop is not affiliated with any spiritual practice. All people are welcome, and no singing experience is required. There is a short introduction and instruction, followed by 30 minutes of a guided toning series, and open discussion afterward (optional). Open to the public, but donations are graciously accepted. Facilitated by teacher/composer/musician Sean Cronin. Information at tonesingingworkshop@gmail.com.

transmitter2ears

transmitter2ears is a live performance/installation with two parabolic speakers, binaural microphones, radio transmission, and a synthesizer. Together they form an audio-feedback loop, open to the sounds of the environment. A performer/musician equipped with binaural microphones interacts with the audio-field of the highly directive speakers. In this site-specific performance, Fabian Lanzmaier and Andreas Zißler (Vienna) work with audio reflections, directional sound beams and specific resonances, turning the landscape of the Wave Farm Art Park into an instrument.

1:10 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Live Performance
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Installation

In-person guests:
As the sounds are highly dependent on the location, visitors are invited to wander around and listen from different positions. Note, either Andreas or Fabian will be wearing binaural microphones in their ears feeding the performance (so talking directly to them during the first hour will interrupt the project.)

Radio listeners:
You will be hearing the sounds picked up by the artist’s binaural microphones, and via the radio broadcast experiencing "perspective" of the performer. 

Every Monday at 7:30 p.m. No previous singing experience is required. For most of us, our voice is our most important medium of expression. With this voice we can sing, we can praise, we can express joy or pain, and we can teach. But often, our relationship with our voice becomes disconnected. We underestimate the effect our voice has on our bodies and our lives. This workshop is a doorway into reconnecting with your voice and expressing yourself more fully. Through a series of simple tones, or notes sung for long periods, we gently begin to observe the relationships between the voice, the body, the breath, and the self. This workshop is not affiliated with any spiritual practice. All people are welcome, and no singing experience is required. There is a short introduction and instruction, followed by 30 minutes of a guided toning series, and open discussion afterward (optional). Open to the public, but donations are graciously accepted. Facilitated by teacher/composer/musician Sean Cronin. Information at tonesingingworkshop@gmail.com.

Every Monday at 7:30 p.m. No previous singing experience is required. For most of us, our voice is our most important medium of expression. With this voice we can sing, we can praise, we can express joy or pain, and we can teach. But often, our relationship with our voice becomes disconnected. We underestimate the effect our voice has on our bodies and our lives. This workshop is a doorway into reconnecting with your voice and expressing yourself more fully. Through a series of simple tones, or notes sung for long periods, we gently begin to observe the relationships between the voice, the body, the breath, and the self. This workshop is not affiliated with any spiritual practice. All people are welcome, and no singing experience is required. There is a short introduction and instruction, followed by 30 minutes of a guided toning series, and open discussion afterward (optional). Open to the public, but donations are graciously accepted. Facilitated by teacher/composer/musician Sean Cronin. Information at tonesingingworkshop@gmail.com.

Every Monday at 7:30 p.m. No previous singing experience is required. For most of us, our voice is our most important medium of expression. With this voice we can sing, we can praise, we can express joy or pain, and we can teach. But often, our relationship with our voice becomes disconnected. We underestimate the effect our voice has on our bodies and our lives. This workshop is a doorway into reconnecting with your voice and expressing yourself more fully. Through a series of simple tones, or notes sung for long periods, we gently begin to observe the relationships between the voice, the body, the breath, and the self. This workshop is not affiliated with any spiritual practice. All people are welcome, and no singing experience is required. There is a short introduction and instruction, followed by 30 minutes of a guided toning series, and open discussion afterward (optional). Open to the public, but donations are graciously accepted. Facilitated by teacher/composer/musician Sean Cronin. Information at tonesingingworkshop@gmail.com.

Every Monday at 7:30 p.m. No previous singing experience is required. For most of us, our voice is our most important medium of expression. With this voice we can sing, we can praise, we can express joy or pain, and we can teach. But often, our relationship with our voice becomes disconnected. We underestimate the effect our voice has on our bodies and our lives. This workshop is a doorway into reconnecting with your voice and expressing yourself more fully. Through a series of simple tones, or notes sung for long periods, we gently begin to observe the relationships between the voice, the body, the breath, and the self. This workshop is not affiliated with any spiritual practice. All people are welcome, and no singing experience is required. There is a short introduction and instruction, followed by 30 minutes of a guided toning series, and open discussion afterward (optional). Open to the public, but donations are graciously accepted. Facilitated by teacher/composer/musician Sean Cronin. Information at tonesingingworkshop@gmail.com.

Calling all radionauts, wave artists, transmission enthusiasts, and utopists!

This participatory workshop (conducted via Zoom) introduces you to the realm of spectrum management: the overlapping forces of law, politics, economics & technology that shape the landscape of the electromagnetic spectrum, and thereby the lives of the citizens within it. Up and down the electromagnetic field, we communicate, express our selves, and forge relationships. Our very personhood is therefore bound up in our access to spectrum and its regulation.

For 125+ years, the sheer immaterial strangeness of the radio spectrum has mounted challenge after challenge to the “commonsense” around which our world is ordered: property, territory, the greater good. For, at heart, what *is* spectrum? Is it an invisible continent? common utility? precious natural resource? transcendent ether? Each analogy naturalizes certain ideas about how spectrum can and ought to be used. But our language misleads us.

Together, workshop “articipants” will form a citizens’ assembly of sorts, deliberating these themes. We take in a global view, considering not only the regulatory environment in the US, but also Indigenous legal challenges to spectrum auctions in Aotearoa New Zealand & Turtle Island, grassroots spectrum autonomy in Latin America, and the claims to spectrum by its more-than-human users. We’ll experiment with language and listening to renovate our understanding of spectrum and recover its strangeness. As citizens of spectrum, we will negotiate a “radio treaty” (a ‘treaty’ being, in essence, a score) that professes what rights—and mutual obligations—we might claim to guide our radioventures. Across these prompts, articipants will have the option to submit personal reflections and creative responses to be included in a collaborative radioplay.

Now as ever, the spectrum is a proving ground for some of the most urgent political re-calibrations of our time: the rights and powers of corporate bodies, the nature of the democratic nation-state, Indigenous sovereignty and decolonial governance, overlapping sovereignties within shared territorial environments. In deliberating together over the radio spectrum, may we also find a way to walk together on the earth.

Please register to secure your spot and receive perusal materials in advance of the workshop (though this preparation is not a strict prerequisite for attendance; come as you are).

REGISTER HERE!

Celeste Oram is a composer with equal investments in radiophonic and transmission art, as well as live musical performance in the experimental and classical realms. Oram’s work explores the histories and micro-cultures of musical practice itself, as well as its socio-political entanglements. Her radiophonic pieces employ radio technologies (sometimes DIY) as a musical instrument in the pursuit of richly contrapuntal sonic textures. Often Oram’s work engages with the histories and cultures of both public and amateur radio, and their entwined development with colonialism and nation-building—especially in her home country Aotearoa New Zealand. Recent compositions for live performance span instrumental and vocal concert music, polyphonic songs, music for period Baroque instruments, experimental music-theatre, and orchestral music for dance-theater. Much of Oram’s musical language is rooted in a studied investment in early music, revivifying historical musical languages via experimental approaches. https://celesteoram.com/

Calling all radionauts, wave artists, transmission enthusiasts, and utopists!

This participatory workshop (conducted via Zoom) introduces you to the realm of spectrum management: the overlapping forces of law, politics, economics & technology that shape the landscape of the electromagnetic spectrum, and thereby the lives of the citizens within it. Up and down the electromagnetic field, we communicate, express our selves, and forge relationships. Our very personhood is therefore bound up in our access to spectrum and its regulation.

For 125+ years, the sheer immaterial strangeness of the radio spectrum has mounted challenge after challenge to the “commonsense” around which our world is ordered: property, territory, the greater good. For, at heart, what *is* spectrum? Is it an invisible continent? common utility? precious natural resource? transcendent ether? Each analogy naturalizes certain ideas about how spectrum can and ought to be used. But our language misleads us.

Together, workshop “articipants” will form a citizens’ assembly of sorts, deliberating these themes. We take in a global view, considering not only the regulatory environment in the US, but also Indigenous legal challenges to spectrum auctions in Aotearoa New Zealand & Turtle Island, grassroots spectrum autonomy in Latin America, and the claims to spectrum by its more-than-human users. We’ll experiment with language and listening to renovate our understanding of spectrum and recover its strangeness. As citizens of spectrum, we will negotiate a “radio treaty” (a ‘treaty’ being, in essence, a score) that professes what rights—and mutual obligations—we might claim to guide our radioventures. Across these prompts, articipants will have the option to submit personal reflections and creative responses to be included in a collaborative radioplay.

Now as ever, the spectrum is a proving ground for some of the most urgent political re-calibrations of our time: the rights and powers of corporate bodies, the nature of the democratic nation-state, Indigenous sovereignty and decolonial governance, overlapping sovereignties within shared territorial environments. In deliberating together over the radio spectrum, may we also find a way to walk together on the earth.

Please register to secure your spot and receive perusal materials in advance of the workshop (though this preparation is not a strict prerequisite for attendance; come as you are).

REGISTER HERE!

Celeste Oram is a composer with equal investments in radiophonic and transmission art, as well as live musical performance in the experimental and classical realms. Oram’s work explores the histories and micro-cultures of musical practice itself, as well as its socio-political entanglements. Her radiophonic pieces employ radio technologies (sometimes DIY) as a musical instrument in the pursuit of richly contrapuntal sonic textures. Often Oram’s work engages with the histories and cultures of both public and amateur radio, and their entwined development with colonialism and nation-building—especially in her home country Aotearoa New Zealand. Recent compositions for live performance span instrumental and vocal concert music, polyphonic songs, music for period Baroque instruments, experimental music-theatre, and orchestral music for dance-theater. Much of Oram’s musical language is rooted in a studied investment in early music, revivifying historical musical languages via experimental approaches. https://celesteoram.com/

Every Monday at 7:30 p.m. No previous singing experience is required. For most of us, our voice is our most important medium of expression. With this voice we can sing, we can praise, we can express joy or pain, and we can teach. But often, our relationship with our voice becomes disconnected. We underestimate the effect our voice has on our bodies and our lives. This workshop is a doorway into reconnecting with your voice and expressing yourself more fully. Through a series of simple tones, or notes sung for long periods, we gently begin to observe the relationships between the voice, the body, the breath, and the self. This workshop is not affiliated with any spiritual practice. All people are welcome, and no singing experience is required. There is a short introduction and instruction, followed by 30 minutes of a guided toning series, and open discussion afterward (optional). Open to the public, but donations are graciously accepted. Facilitated by teacher/composer/musician Sean Cronin. Information at tonesingingworkshop@gmail.com.

Local musician Abby Lappen leads participants in songs, stories, and fun moves during this joyful storytime. All are welcome!

Date/Time: Thursdays, September 19 – December 19, 4 – 5pm
(except October 31 for Halloween and November 28 for Thanksgiving)

Location: In person, Hudson Area Library Community Room

Registration: Registration is appreciated, but not required.
Email: youth@hudsonarealibrary.org
Phone: call 518-828-1792 x101.

Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz, authors of But Will You Love Me Tomorrow: An Oral History of the ‘60s Girl Groups (named best of 2023 by Rolling Stone, NPR, Variety), present a brief history of the girl group sound along with a reading and Q&A about all things girl groups.

Date/Time: Thursday, September 26, 6pm
Location: In person, Hudson Area Library Community Room
Registration: Reserve a seat by emailing programs@hudsonarealibrary.org or call 518-828-1792 x101

The Alan Skerrett Scholarship Fund Committee would like to announce a showing of Alan’s photography collection. The exhibit, to honor the legacy of Alan Skerrett which includes many of his original works, will be located in the gallery space directly in front of the library at Columbia-Greene Community College, and will hang from Friday September 27, 4 pm through October 14 (Indigenous Peoples’ Day), available to the public during the hours the college is open.

Light refreshments served. There will be an opportunity to share brief remarks on thoughts and memories of Alan at around 5 pm.

The event is to further increase the public’s attention to the scholarship, which is meant for a student majoring in human services or psychology, and who has demonstrated a commitment to social justice in our community. Information can be found here on the Columbia-Greene Community College website

Every Monday at 7:30 p.m. No previous singing experience is required. For most of us, our voice is our most important medium of expression. With this voice we can sing, we can praise, we can express joy or pain, and we can teach. But often, our relationship with our voice becomes disconnected. We underestimate the effect our voice has on our bodies and our lives. This workshop is a doorway into reconnecting with your voice and expressing yourself more fully. Through a series of simple tones, or notes sung for long periods, we gently begin to observe the relationships between the voice, the body, the breath, and the self. This workshop is not affiliated with any spiritual practice. All people are welcome, and no singing experience is required. There is a short introduction and instruction, followed by 30 minutes of a guided toning series, and open discussion afterward (optional). Open to the public, but donations are graciously accepted. Facilitated by teacher/composer/musician Sean Cronin. Information at tonesingingworkshop@gmail.com.

Local musician Abby Lappen leads participants in songs, stories, and fun moves during this joyful storytime. All are welcome!

Date/Time: Thursdays, September 19 – December 19, 4 – 5pm
(except October 31 for Halloween and November 28 for Thanksgiving)

Location: In person, Hudson Area Library Community Room

Registration: Registration is appreciated, but not required.
Email: youth@hudsonarealibrary.org
Phone: call 518-828-1792 x101.

This summer, CLC is hosting a series of programs where participants can learn more about and try land management techniques in a supportive environment so that you can feel comfortable implementing them at home!

This series of workshops is ideal for those who are already actively managing their land, those who would like get to started, and those interested in learning more about how CLC manages the properties we care for.

This workshop at Overmountain will focus on ecologically compatible cattle grazing in a wetland ecosystem.