Wave Farm Early Days features sounds from our earliest years as free103point9 including overnight transmissions, live performances from the free103point9 Project Space, and the free103point9 Dispatch Series.

Wave Farm began in March 1997, founded by three artists: Greg Anderson, Violet Hopkins, and Tom Roe, as a microcasting collective in Brooklyn, NY called free103point9. The group was an active participant in the U.S. microradio movement, an activist and advocacy effort that helped create this country’s low-power FM radio service, which provides a licensing opportunity for small broadcasters operating transmitters of 100 watts or less.

From 1997 to 2004 free103point9 transmitted and ran a venue for performance and experimental sound in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, first from Hope Street and then South 6th Street. The “free103point9 Project Space” was home to a lively roster of artists working in noise, free jazz, electronic composition, and other experimental fringe genres.

free103point9's Dispatch Series (2001 - 2012) were released as CDs, LPs, CSs, Catalogues, Artists' Multiples, and Downloads that featured commissioned transmission artworks, and recordings from previous free103point9 events, and special artists projects. Learn more here.