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Saturday, March 9, 2013 local almanac

Mar 09, 2013 12:01 am
WGXC audio clips for Saturday, March 9
WGXC Ski Report (1:05)
Free Speech Radio News faces fiscal deadline (2:33)
Radio News: AG Holder Responds to Rand Filibuster About Drones (with Rand Paul, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, White House press briefing, and Fox News audio) (5:25)

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Solar Weather
There is a slight chance for minor radio blackouts March 9-11, according to NOAA. The sunspot region in question has a history of radio blackout activity.

Night Sky
Skyandtelescope.com reports, The comet PanSTARRS are visible this week shortly after sunset with binoculars or a wide-field telescope, according to skyandtelescope.com.

Weather right now


[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="128"] Cairo: High 28F; low 19F.[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="125"] Catskill: High 25F; low 18F.[/caption]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAR LEFT:The temperature on the far left is from the Hawthorne Valley Farm Weather Page.
MIDDLE TEMP: Cairo from Weather Underground page.
FAR RIGHT: Catskill from Weather Underground page.

Local weather forecast
Today's forecast is specific to Acra, in Greene County:
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 42, and a low around 17.
Sunday: Increasing clouds, with a high near 46, and a 20 percent chance of isolated showers after 4 a.m. Low around 33.
Monday: Scattered showers, mainly after 7 a.m., with a high near 48, and a low around 38.

Sunrise today: 6:17 a.m.
Sunset today: 5:56 p.m.

Length of the day: 11 hrs., 39 min.

WGXC Programming

On Saturdays free103point9 Online Radio airs on WGXC 90.7-FM, bringing transmission arts to the airwaves in the Hudson Valley, in New York. Tune in Sat., March 2:

Midnight – 12:05 a.m.: "News: FSRN No More?"

12:05 a.m. – 2 a.m.: "Radio Stew: Crank Sturgeon, Al Margolis, World Lines"
Live performances from Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson from March 8, 2013.

2 a.m. - 3:15 a.m.: "Bob's Slacktime Funhouse: Adventures in Dentures"
Collage.

4 a.m. – 5 a.m.: "Radio Radio: Stephen Erickson"
Radio documentarian.

5 a.m. – 7 a.m.: "Shortwave Hours: Velveeta"
Two hours of shortwave radio-oriented programming, starting with solar weather, news on meteor showers and ham radio, and other reports. This week: China is accused of jamming VOA and BBC shortwave broadcasts, we tune in clips. Other reports include:
5:15 a.m.: "The RAIN Report" "A 1998 interview with audio groundbreaker Bob Heil, K9EID"
5:30 a.m., "The Shortwave Report" with host Dan Roberts and international news via shortwave radio. This week's show features stories from NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, Spanish National Radio, and the Voice of Russia.
6 a.m.: "Glenn Hauser's World of Radio"
6:30 a.m.: "Amateur Radio Newsline" Scientists say Solar Cycle 24 may have two separate peaks; APRS found to extend the range of underground communications; a United Kingdom ham finds a long abandoned satellite that has come back to life; Last Man Standing to feature an episode with ham radio and Amateur Radio Newsline opens the nominating season for the 2013 Young Ham of the Year Award.

7 a.m. – 8 a.m.: "Saturday Morning Serial: Dialing"
Turn your dial, or dial in your phone, to this show about the sounds and songs of dialing. We'll learn "How to Dial a Rotary Phone," "Dial M for Murder," and order a dial wand. Songs from The Kinks ("Around The Dial"), The Replacements ("Left of the Dial"), Morrissey ("Dial-A-Cliche"), Scanner ("Turning The Dial"), and others. Plus, radio theatre from 31 Down ("Dead Dial Tone").

8 a.m. – 10 a.m.: "Open Air: 20130309"
Anyone can contribute, in many ways, to "Open Air." Matt Bua hosts live from the Catskill Community Center. This is a live transmission art show about local transmissions. As many local frequencies, signals, and transmissions will be mixed in. Check in on CB radio, weather radio, shortwave, scanners, cell phones, strings-and-cups, or whatever else we can tune in. You make up the show with stories, phone calls, messages, requests, further information, and more. WGXC Program Director Shannekia McIntosh will call in and explain the new WGXC program schedule after 9 a.m. Please help be a part of the show. Stop by the Catskill Community Center in person. Call in at 518-219-WGXC. Tweet requests @WGXC. Skype calls at WGXCfm. Talk on Channel 6 on CB radio, we are tuning in. Features include solar weather, shortwave news, and more.

10 a.m. - 11 a.m.: "Radia: Cecilia Hultman"
International network of radio art stations in 13 countries interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show for all the others. This week's episode of "Radia" is "Oro," a sound piece by Cecilia Hultman (b. 1985) for Radio Nova and Radia, which takes its title from the Swedish word for unrest.

10:30 a.m. - 11 a.m." "Radio Wonderland"
Joshua Fried remixes New York City radio from his Brooklyn apartment every Saturday on 90.7-FM in the Hudson Valley.

11 a.m. – noon: "Rodolphe Alexis"
This regular edition of show about field recordings and acoustic ecology features Jim Haynes, Sala, Matthew Sansom, David Velez, Rodolphe Alexis, and selections from the Aporee Soundmaps.

Noon – 1 p.m.: "Issue Project Room Radio: Mind Over Mirrors"
Hosted by Eve Essex, originally aired Jan. 14, 2013 on ARTonAIR.org. "Issue Project Room Radio" will air on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM at 2 p.m. the second Saturday of the month in 2013. Mind Over Mirrors, AKA Jaime Fennelly, performs here in a concert produced by Issue Project Room in November 2012. Part of Fennelly's two-night residency at Brooklyn exhibition space, in this set he was accompanied by renowned choreographer and long-time collaborator Miguel Gutierrez. After four years of constant collaboration, trans-continental performance, cohabitation, and detritus exorcising from 2001-2004 as their duo Sabotage and the early formative years of The Powerful People, this evening marks the first time Fennelly and Gutierrez had performed together in over eight years.

1 p.m. – 2 p.m.: "Issue Project Room Radio: Che Chen and Sherlock Terry"
Hosted by Eve Essex. Originally aired Feb. 4, 2013 on ARTonAIR.org. "Issue Project Room Radio" will air on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM at 2 p.m. the second Saturday of the month in 2013. For this new work, commissioned by Issue Project Room and premiered on September 8, 2012, Chen and Terry have devised customized instruments that feature large numbers of strings (as many as 80 on a single instrument) arranged according to highly redundant tuning schemes designed to maximize on the occurrence of string sympathy. These instruments- modified autoharps and a lapsteel guitar- are designed to reveal the subtle interactions of closely tuned strings as they sound and decay. Plucked single notes surrounded by halos of sympathetic vibration, chords made of shifting, sustained drones and cascading, harp-like washes of sound are made possible through playing techniques both borrowed and invented. Compositionally, this piece is intended to create an unhurried, focused listening experience, an immersive sound environment that lends itself easily to a slowing of sense perception. Structurally, it borrows much from what is known in North Indian classical music as the alap, the slow, preliminary stage of an improvisation in which the notes of the scale (raga) are gradually introduced one at a time.

2 p.m. – 3 p.m.: "Issue Project Room Radio: Poetry Out Loud"
Hosted by Eve Essex via ARTonAIR.org. "Issue Project Room Radio" will air on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM at 2 p.m. the second Saturday of the month in 2013. "Poetry Out Loud" was a series of ten LPs released between 1969 and 1977 as a magazine of oral poetry. The driving forces behind Poetry Out Loud were two couples: Peter and Patricia B McGarry (Harleman), from Topeka, Kansas, and Klyd and Linda Watkins, from Nashville; this is word-as-sound art, a heavy trip. On May 4th, 2012, ISSUE Project Room presented a rare live performance with the Watkins, along with special guests Tom Carter, Keith Connolly and Dave Nuss. The set starts with an opening instrumental track by Messages. Part of Issue Project Room's "Littoral" series, the event celebrated Poetry Out Loud's 2012 re-release by De Stijl records.

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.: "Human Machine: 20130309"
"Human Machine" is a program that presents projects, sounds, performance and research on the subject of the increasing convergence of humans and technology produced by Max Goldfarb and Jeremy Kelly in alternating weeks. This week, Kelly creates.

4 p.m. – 6 p.m.: "Saturday Afternoon Show: Victoria Estok, Steve Lambert"
The work of Victoria Estok and Steve Lambert, two sound artists. They will be live at the Wave Farm Study Center in Acra, NY with host Tom Roe.

6 p.m. – 7 p.m.: "PiratesWeek: Zimbabwe Shut Down"
After the Weekly Presidential Radio Address, Robert Mugabe's government in Zimbabwe shuts down pirate radio station, according to the International Radio Report and the show also takes a look at Federal Communications Commission activities in the United States. ‭Off Air Recordings include the stations of: The Crystal Ship, Wolverine Radio, Undercover Radio, Black Arrow Radio, Southern Music Radio. We look at the Solar Max update. Plus reports on LPFM, and Chinese jamming of english language broadcasts. And, at Winterfest Saturday the inductees for 2013 were announced for the NAPRHOF.

7 p.m. – 9 p.m.: "Catskill Community Center / WGXC Open Mic"
Matt Bua hosts an open mic, a chance for anyone to have their say. Come down to the Catskill Community Center to participate, or listen on-air. Anyone is invited to sing a song, read a poem, tell a story, or just say something in front of the open mic.

9 p.m. – 10 p.m.: "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?: Beyond 30-Second Soundbites"
News mash-up show from host Paul Fischer, who worked on Dan Rather's staff. This week: Beyond 30-Second Soundbites.

10 p.m. – 11 p.m.: "Love Letters from SCOPE New York 2013"
This sound work series consists of five minute love letters installed in the unisex bathroom in the basement of the New York City's landmark 33rd Street Post Office on the occasion of SCOPE New York 2013. Recognized for its influential voice in the emerging art market, SCOPE New York 2013 features 55 international galleries alongside 20 Breeder Program galleries, selected by curatorial panel. This year the fair is located at the landmark venue of Skylight at Moynihan Station. Artists and works include: Chistine Edwards Love poem with strings, Maya Hayuk The inspiration, Nick Stolle When I you, I will you, Sam Sebren xoxombss, Matt Bua xoxombss, Chloe Bass love letter, terry dame love letter master, happy tears noone, Sara Shaoul aliens on the moon, Rainer Judd love letter, Rainer Judd Homage to Leanord Cohen's " I'm Your Man" , Rainer Judd mind on lock down, Rainer Judd follow, Mitch Miller STE-004, Willian Hough love letter as toilet paper 1&2, Sara Mednick Love Letter, Craig Smith Monk Chance Event Parrallel Lines, Wolfy Part II Spank that Collage.

11 p.m. – 11:59 p.m.: "Some Assembly Required: Don Joyce"
Episode 08 of the mash-up show with host Jon Nelson, with 2001 Don Joyce (Negativland) interview about his album, "We'll Be Right Back" and three tracks by Negativland.

Midnight – 12:05 a.m.: "Radio News: Radio Pledge Drives"
WGXC begins its spring pledge drive this week, WFMU continues theirs, and Resonance FM just completed there fund drive. A report.

12:05 a.m. – 2 a.m.: "Radio Stew: Live from Wave Farm"
Recordings made at Wave Farm in Greene County, NY. Included: Stars Like Fleas' "Early Riser," works by Matt Bua, and others.

2 a.m. – 4 a.m.: "Last/Lost Transmissions"
Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson compile historic last and lost transmissions.

4 a.m. – 5 a.m.: "Exploration: 2013 Comets"
Discussion of the comets in the skies in 2013. Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku

5 a.m. – 5:30 a.m.: "Klipshow"
Transmaniacon MC's radio remix for free103point9.

5:30 a.m. – 6 a.m.: "CounterSpin: Mark Weisbrot, Kevin Gosztola"
This is the 20th year of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's media analysis radio show, hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall, and Peter Hart. This week: Mark Weisbrot on Hugo Chavez, Kevin Gosztola on Bradley Manning.
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