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Today's show opens and closes with works from Gregory Whitehead, with "Radio Degree Zero" starting things off, and "Adioradio" ending the show. Then tune in fro works from New American Radio, a weekly national series, from 1987-1998, now in the Wave Farm radio art archives. First tune in for Erik Belgum's 1995 work "Bounced Around" is featured. "Bounced Around" tells the story of a head-on collision between an idealistic law student and a veteran policeman. It is another exploration of what Belgum calls "polyphonic storytelling," a technique that reveals multiple narrative aspects simultaneously. And also tune in to hear Jon Brumit's 2004 work "Catch & Release: Critical Mass." Neighborhood Public Radio is a project led by Lee Montgomery, Linda Arnejo, Michael Trigilio, and Jon Brumit that creates short-term microbroadcasting stations in communities and supports community and artist-created content for broadcast. The projects name, acronym, and even logo are intended as critiques of National Public Radio, making the argument that truly non-commercial and community-based programming can be more powerful and meaningful to people than corporate-sponsored public content. During the 2004 installation of NPR at the Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco, artist Jon Brumit hosted a regular program called "Catch & Release," which featured content gleaned from the streets of the neighborhood, as well as interviews and performances by artists and musicians, musings on garbage and revenge, and a live broadcast from Critical Mass in San Francisco. In this, the first episode, Brumits remote transmitter wasnt working so he presented recordings taken from the streets on his Broadcast Bike, a bike modified with a drainpipe to function essentially as a large phono cartridge on the street, amplifying the sounds of potholes and other street textures, as well as recordings from a Honda Civic Brumit modified to become a percussion instrument/traveling performance. - Described by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2020/2021, Jess Speer.