TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE
Tom Roe
Tom Roe Portrait. Photographed by David La Spina. (Jul 15, 2006)
Amplify conversation about pirate radio and night radio.. Photo from Zoom feed. (Oct 25, 2023)
Tom Roe and Galen Joseph-Hunter at Audio Buffet 2019. Photographed by Thatcher Keats. (Aug 03, 2019)
Wave Farm 1997-2017: Tom Roe. Photographed by David La Spina. (Oct 21, 2017)
Tom Roe and Echo Roe perform at Radio Revolten. Photographed by Marcus-Andreas Mohr. (Oct 07, 2016)
Image of Tom Roe taken at the free103point9 Project Space on December 15, 2004 during a show featuring What's Yr Damage?, Byron House, Haves + Thirds, Limp Lungs, and R.L.. Photographed by free103point9. (Dec 15, 2004)
Image taken at the Radio Lab education class presented by free103point9 as part of Flux Factory's "Technology Initiative". Photographed by free103point9. (Aug 01, 2004)
Great Small Works: The Fourth Radio Cabaret Flier. Courtesy Brian Dewan. (Nov 25, 2003)
Breakdown flyer. (Apr 19, 2003)
Breakdown flyer. (Apr 19, 2003)
Breakdown (AD009) Cover.
One of the original founders of free103point9, which is now Wave Farm, Tom Roe is a sound transmission artist who performs with transmitters and receivers using multiple bands (FM, CB, walkie-talkie), as well as prepared CDs, vinyl records, and electronics. He has written about music for The Wire, Signal to Noise, and The New York Post, among others. His writing appeared in Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music (2002). Roe has led many "Radio Lab" education lectures and workshops, speaking about how to perform with transmitters and the history of radio performance and microcasting at venues such as Columbia University, Brown University, Brooklyn College, Flux Factory, The Kitchen, NYU's ITP Program, Kids Discover Radio in East Harlem, Grassroots Media Conference at The New School, RPI University in Troy, and other locations.
Roe's Donald Drumpf Theatre was a radio theatre program with sounds culled from the previous week, about a fictional, theatrical presidency. It ran weekly from January 2016 to January 2021 and was broadcast by over forty stations across the U.S. His program Turn On The News is the weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. Tom Roe served as Wave Farm's Artistic Director from 2002 - 2024.