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In the 9 a.m. hour, we are pleased to present José Alejandro Rivera's Blue Ecology for Future Memory, the most recent composition for Radio Amnion: Sonic Transmissions of Care in Oceanic Space, which is a multi-year sound art project for the waters of Earth, organized by artist Jol Thoms.

Antonina Nowacka's vocal ceremony for Radio Amnion summons and praises what is sacred of waters and what is mysterious of their depths and abilities. It's difficult to think or speak in any way 'rationally' after experiencing her unique ineffable soundworld. WIth waves of nonlocal resonance ocean iterates a borderless beauty, a tidal pattern of nonlinear flows cycling in every direction across and through this Ocean planet.

Grounded in the liquid depths of aquatic histories of loss, regeneration, thirst, and gift ocean crashes on the shores of our listening bodies, quenching a longing for a fluid harmony in the un/known. Feel the overwhelming joy and subtle dread that this hymn arises from and attests to: a sublimity from one of the most exceptional experimental vocal artists practicing today.

Radio Amnion commissions and relays new compositions by contemporary artists more than 2kms deep with/in the Pacific Ocean. During each full moon, far beyond human perception, the abyssal waters of Cascadia Basin resonate with the deep frequencies and voices of invited artists. All transmissions are relayed in the sea through a submerged neutrino telescope experiment’s calibration system and available at radioamnion.net during the three days of each full moon. Beginning February 2023, Wave Farm Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears will also broadcast each new composition.

Radio Amnion was initiated by artist and researcher Jol Thoms in 2019, submerged into the Ocean in 2020, and came to operation in June of 2021—all due to a remarkable invitation from Prof. Elisa Resconi of the SFB1258. Radio Amnion is a partnership with the SFB1258 Neutrino and Dark Matter Group at the Technical University of Munich and in collaboration with Ocean Networks Canada at University of Victoria, British Columbia, CA.

Plus, for Julian Assange’s birthday, on July 3, banner drops are being organized worldwide to demand his release after 11 years of confinement. The U.S. wants to prosecute him for his role at WikiLeaks in working with Chelsea Manning to release videos showing American soldiers killing civilians in Iraq. Pippa Bartolotti of Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace and the United National Anti-War coalition talks with WOOC's Mark Dunlea about the banner drop on the Hudson River Way pedestrian bridge over 787 in Albany at 4 p.m. on the 3rd.

The "WGXC Morning Show" is a radio magazine show featuring local news, interviews with community leaders and personalities, reports on cultural issues, a rundown of public meetings and local and regional events, with weather updates, and more about and for the community, made mostly through volunteers in the community through WGXC. The Catskill Makers Syndicate produce the "Better Weather" for the show. Rob Gelles produces the Columbia County history segment "Rob Around The County" and "This Month in History" for the show. Interview segments from Justin Maiman are often heard on this show, as our movie updates from Jenny Ghetti and Amanda Lees. Interviews by hosts of the "WGXC Afternoon Show" also get played back here occasionally. And Jack Sencabaugh contributes the "Backtracks in Time" segment about local history. Some reports come from our partner station, WOOC-LP in Troy, out of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Tom Roe also cuts up local and national news with songs and sounds for the show. The show begins each day with local headlines, weather, and previews of community events. Also tune in for national headlines from the Public News Service on WGXC. Sometimes national, state, or local press conferences, meetings, or events are also broadcast live here. Saturdays the show features weekly episodes of the "I Have Seen Niagara" serial.