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Today on the "WGXC Afternoon Show," we feature 2021 work WE ARE AWAKE: Mixtape for Resistance by Ginger Dunnill during the 4 p.m. hour and then during the 5 p.m. hour, an excerpt from the work Codesbeing performed today in UC Boulder by current Wave Farm Artists-in-Residence Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe as part of the Wave Farm-UC Boulder Exchange. This is followed by tracks by Gladstone Deluxe.

About WE ARE AWAKE: Mixtape for Resistance by Ginger Dunnill
Airing on Radio Coyote, an online and FM station conceived by Diné composer, performer and installation artist Raven Chacon, Broken Boxes is a recurring show in which Ginger Dunnill presents interviews and a wide variety of other sounds arising from her practice as a multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer. For the fifth episode of the show's run on Radio Coyote, Dunnill reworked a live set she had performed as DJ Miss Ginger at a 2017 exhibition and concert called the Art of Indigenous Resistance. The resulting hour-long composition interleaves music, interview clips, and Dunnill's recordings of water protectors at Oceti Sakowin Camp. If this broadcast mixtape presents a departure in form for Broken Boxes, which is also the name of a podcast Dunnill hosts, then it resounds the deeply intersectional approach to soundwork that the show maintains. Dunnill writes that the "work I create through Broken Boxes aims to archive the stories of radical and vibrant human beings existing in collective growth, who are aligning through the intersection of resisting contemporary colonization, heteronormativity and patriarchy." "WE ARE AWAKE" puts sonic collage and transmission toward the task of producing an energized vehicle for resurgent solidarities among these various lines of resistance.

Artists featured in the mixtape include: unknown singer ("Water Song"), Alas, Kinnie Starr, anonymous freestylers (live onsite at Sacred Stone), Aisha Fukushima, Angel Haze, Rebel Diaz, Mob Bounce, A Tribe Called Red, Saul Williams, Tanya Tagaq, Legends & Lyrics / Leanne Simpson, Nneka, Buffy Sainte Marie, Aceyalone, Wake Self, Audiopharmacy, Mr. Lif and Thievery Corporation, Trevor Hall, Lyla June, and Kumu Hina (chant onsite at Mauna Kea) - Described by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2021/2022, Andy Stuhl.

About Codes by Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe
Codes is a newly-founded collaboration between Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe that features an audio-visual durational performance using data extracted from live police scanner transmissions as a primary material for musical exploration. Deriving from Carter’s research-oriented practice revolving heavily around policing, incarceration, Black aesthetics, and surveillance, and Deluxe’s haptic, Afrological and techno-inspired analog compositional strategies, Codes works towards a synthesis of both schools of thought, and seeks to elevate the obfuscated.

Kamari Carter is a New York-based artist primarily working with sound, video, installation, and performance. His practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception and the concept of conversation and social science, he seeks to expand narrative structures through sonic stillness. Carter’s work has been exhibited at such venues as Automata Arts, MoMA, Mana Contemporary, RISD Museum, Flux Factory, Lenfest Center for the Arts, and Wave Hill and has been featured in a range of major publications including ArtNet, Precog Magazine, LevelGround, and WhiteWall. Carter holds a BFA in Music Technology from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University. Kamari Carter is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City.

Gladstone Deluxe is a New York-based artist working with percussion and electronics. As a percussionist, Gladstone is interested in how conceptions and politics of time are embodied, and can bleed into the social topography of a culture through rhythmic performance. As a technologist, they develop systems for the augmentation and amplification of percussive messages. His experimental approach towards composition and interface design is a collision of the spiritual and the cybernetic. In 2023, Deluxe released EPs with Black Techno Matters and is / was. Films that Deluxe scored were shown at the British Film Institute, a STARZ television premiere, the Hawai’i International Film Festival, and more. He’s appeared in galleries like The Warhol Museum, Rubin Foundation, Chashama, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and clubs throughout the U.S. In 2024, he will collaborate with Moog Synthesizers, Sō Percussion, Attacca Quartet, and more. Gladstone also keeps busy as the timbales player for Las Mariquitas, which was recently featured in Rolling Stone.

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The "WGXC Afternoon Show" is considered partially station-run with Saturday’s emphasis being on radio art and art on the radio and Sunday’s show is called "Li Le, Li Tan," which focuses on promoting Haitian language, music, arts, and culture.

Segments featured on the show include "Better Weather” on weekdays produced by the Catskill Makers Syndicate, "Las Brujas Bilingues" produced by Arielle and Gloria, "Food Segment" by Tepper B.T., "The Ag Report" by Brendan Donegan, and "Nature Calls: Conversations from the Hudson Valley” hosted by Jean Thomas and Tim Kennelty, and produced by the Master Gardeners of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene and Columbia counties with science-based information about gardening and all things nature in New York's Hudson Valley. Also featured are the segments "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills" hosted by Miriam Atkin, "Cool Katts: Some cat-tastic and meow-mazing music" by DJs Electro Kitty and Meow Meow Kitty, "The Conduction Series," and the quarterly "Shaker Show" produced by Shaker Museum.

Tune in for previews of upcoming interesting events in the Hudson Valley with "The Month Ahead with Chosen Family Zine" from Mike Amari, an event organizer for Opus 40, Basilica, and others; and Liam Singer; the owner of The Avalon Lounge in Catskill, NY and a member of Wave Farm's Board of Directors. And for previews of agriculture-related events, tune in "The Month Ahead at Cornell Cooperative Extension with Deven Connolly."

Also featured are movie updates from Jenny Ghetti and Amanda Lees from their show "Dim The Lights" as well as interviews by hosts of the "WGXC Morning Show," Justin Maiman from his "Ginger Radio Hour," and other WGXC shows.

Philip Grant and Tom Roe bring you the weekly "WGXC Congressional Report," with reports about the representatives and candidates of New York's 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Congressional Districts on Mondays, and Tom Roe also cuts up local and national news with songs and sounds for the show.

Some reports come from our partner station, WOOC-LP in Troy, out of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. 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.

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