Wave Farm and CREATE IN PROCESS present Soundshare, a space for audio/sound artists to gather, share, and collaborate. Participants are invited to the WGXC Catskill Studio to share pre-recorded or live works in a welcoming and communal space. All are welcome to come listen and discuss, though sharing is limited to four participants. Come meet fellow creatives, musicians, and performers!

These gatherings are free, but RSVP is required, whether sharing work or attending as a listener. Please submit requests to present work through the RSVP form. Participants will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Each participant will have up to five minutes to share, and fifteen minutes of questions and offerings from the group.

Please bring a prepared dish and join us for a potluck following the sharing + feedback!

If sharing prerecorded work, participants should bring audio files on a thumb drive, laptop, or phone with adapters to ⅛” cable. If sharing work live, please email meredith@wavefarm.org to discuss technical needs. Please note that whether live or prerecorded, the work needs to be 5 minutes or less.

Join us at Verbatim Text Sound Expo on Friday, October 3rd for a performance from Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow Elisa Harkins.

Elisa Harkins (Cherokee, Muscogee) is an artist, singer, electronic music composer, and curator whose work is concerned with the body, language revitalization, and Indigenous music. From 2020 to 2024, she created and hosted Mvhayv (Teacher) Radio on 99.1 WQRT in Indianapolis, Indiana, an all-Indigenous radio program that featured Indigenous musicians across genres, from experimental sound artists and language keepers to powwow groups and black metal artists.

Harkins has exhibited and performed at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Getty, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, MoMA, Spoleto Festival USA, and REDCAT. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital Award, and her work has been commissioned and performed by the Kronos Quartet as part of the Three Bones program at Carnegie Hall.

In addition to her artistic practice, Harkins presents lectures, artist talks, and workshops throughout the United States and Canada on Indigenous music, language revitalization, and contemporary art. Harkins is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and of Cherokee descent and lives and works on the Muscogee Reservation in Oklahoma.

Wave Farm is having a Yard Sale! Turn out to the Catskill Studio for some rare finds and useful gear. We'll have:

Local Waves at The Local is a free series at The Local curated by Mike Amari/Chosen Family in partnership with Wave Farm's WGXC featuring Hudson Valley artists performing original music.

Near Divine or Merely Rhyme is the debut solo record from Kingston songwriter Nic Panken . Born in Brooklyn, he has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, performing on NPR's Tiny Desk, at Newport Folk Festival and Austin City Limits as lead singer in NYC band Spirit Family Reunion. He'll be performing with his full band.

"We need to think small. We need to think local. When all the music ever created is a swipe away on your phone, it's easy to miss the incredible original artists who are making and releasing music right here in the Hudson Valley. This series will serve as an expansion of the Local Waves radio show I co-created with WGXC (which plays all new, local music every Friday 8pm) to further highlight these acts with a free, monthly concert in a fantastic venue at The Local. I hope that folks will use this series as a way of discovering new artists, and getting to know their neighbors in the process." - Mike Amari

More about Local Waves here.

RSVP for the October 14th show here.

Join us in the WGXC Catskill Studio on Saturday, October 24th from 2pm to 3pm for an Artist Talk and Live Broadcast from Wave Farm's inaugural Spatial Artist-in-Residence, Qiujiang Levi Lu.

While in residence, Lu will work on Tangible Soundscape, a spatial sound installation and compositional experiment that redefines magnetic tape as a two-dimensional recording surface. Instead of treating tape as a linear medium that stores sound in a single forward-moving direction, Lu works with it as spatial material that can be cut, shaped, arranged, and drawn across a flat plane.

Qiujiang Levi Lu 卢秋江 is an experimental musician, media artist, and composer whose work explores the body as a site of sonic transformation. Through custom electroacoustic instruments, feedback systems, and cyborg-like bodily augmentations, Lu creates performances and installations that merge ritual, noise, intimacy, and embodied technology. Drawing from Chinese lineages while engaging queerness, spirituality, and body dysmorphia, Lu’s practice invites audiences into physical and unstable modes of listening. Their work has been presented internationally at MATA Festival, send + receive, High Zero, IRCAM Forum, Inkonst, Zagreb Music Academy, and Temple DongJingYuan, with commissions and support from TAK Ensemble, Popebama, Luke Helker, NEW INC, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks, The New School, and ElektronmusikStudion Stockholm. Lu is a lecturer in music at the University of Pennsylvania and holds degrees from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and Stony Brook University.

Turn out on Thursday, October 29th at 7pm Upstairs at the Avalon Lounge for the closing edition of “Breaking the Algorithm IRL"! This month’s event features a discussion with Liam Singer, proprietor of Avalon Lounge, and a DJ set. Entry by donation. See you there!

"Breaking the Algorithm IRL" is a monthly series presented by Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM as part of our Local Waves initiative and the show "Local Waves in Conversation." Part conversation led by Mike Amari of Chosen Family and part DJ set by a WGXC volunteer, the series highlights local artists, musicians, venue owners and bookers, and record label owners.

In this workshop at the WGXC Catskill Studio, participants will assemble their own pocket sized Community Portal transmission instruments for ancestral play and communication, inspired by ghost boxes, electronic spirit communication, and water and listening-based knowledge practices across the artist Natan Diacon-Furtado’s own Quaker, Sephardic Jewish, West African, Native Brazilian, settler, arrivant, and Indigenous ancestries. Sounds and messages received through these instruments during the workshop will be recorded and broadcast on WGXC as a collaborative sound collage.

Participants will also learn about the pcb antenna designs that receive and transmit radio waves in most of the “smart” objects in our lives and use this new knowledge to design and make tarot and oracle inspired antennas for their own pocket portals.

The pocket portal instruments and the process for making oracle antennas has been designed in collaboration with Fun Stuff Design, an industrial design studio specialized in novel sustainable materials and sustainable product development. Participants will each receive a case designed by Fun Stuff Design and Natan Diacon-Furtado to protect their pocket portals on whatever journeys come next.

Workshop registration fee: $25
Materials fee: $45

Register here.

Natan Diacon-Furtado (all pronouns) is a collaborative artist and designer of visionary engineering projects that expand notions of ancestry and self through play. Trained as an anthropologist and architect, they are currently a doctoral candidate in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, USA. They have been the subject of two solo museum shows, at the Aomori Contemporary Art Centre and Indiana University’s Wiley House Museum, with additional exhibitions at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Delft Architectural Biennial, and Buenos Aires Biennale of Architecture. In addition, their design work has been named one of the ‘World’s Greatest Places’ by TIME Magazine.

Julian Goldman is a designer and artist focused on the point at which novel technology and materials touch society. Dierdre Shea is an object designer with a background in ceramics, industrial design, novel materials, and the craft of manufacturing. She is interested in using her discipline to understand and develop meaningful, sustainable relationships between humans and products to reform and replace systems of mass production and material consumption.

This program is made possible, in part, by the The Oliver S. and Jennie R. Donaldson Charitable Trust.