WGXC-90.7 FM

WGXC's 10th Anniversary Year

Feb 01, 2021 - Dec 31, 2021
Brian Dewan performance at the WGXC 10 Anniversary Drive-In

Brian Dewan performance at the WGXC 10 Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Brian Dewan's WGXC Filmstrip at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Brian Dewan's WGXC Filmstrip at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Galen Joseph-Hunter (May 26, 2021)

DJ Var Performance at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

DJ Var Performance at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Jeff Economy (May 26, 2021)

Drive-In Screen view

Drive-In Screen view. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Exterior View of the Love Shack at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Exterior View of the Love Shack at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Jeff Economy and Alanna Medlock at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Jeff Economy and Alanna Medlock at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Jess Speer Performs at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Jess Speer Performs at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Late Night at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Late Night at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Peter Speer (May 26, 2021)

Lunar Moss performs at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Lunar Moss performs at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Mayuko Fujino at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Mayuko Fujino at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Powers of Ten at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Powers of Ten at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Quintan Ana Wikswo performs at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Quintan Ana Wikswo performs at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Stage and Screen View of Stephin Merritt performance at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Stage and Screen View of Stephin Merritt performance at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Stage View of Alanna Medlock, Jeff Economy, and Jess Speer

Stage View of Alanna Medlock, Jeff Economy, and Jess Speer. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Stage View of Jess Speer Performance at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Stage View of Jess Speer Performance at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Stephin Merritt Sound Check at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Stephin Merritt Sound Check at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Galen Joseph-Hunter (May 26, 2021)

Thatcher Keats speaks at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Thatcher Keats speaks at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

View from the Drive-In Screen at the WGXC 10th Anniversary

View from the Drive-In Screen at the WGXC 10th Anniversary. Photographed by Jeff Economy (May 26, 2021)

WGXC 10th Anniversary Anna Friz Performance Screen View

WGXC 10th Anniversary Anna Friz Performance Screen View. Photographed by Galen Joseph-Hunter (May 26, 2021)

WGXC 10th Anniversary Brian Dewan Performance

WGXC 10th Anniversary Brian Dewan Performance. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In Aerial View

WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In Aerial View. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event Aerial as Attendees Arrive

WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event Aerial as Attendees Arrive. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In Intro Video

WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In Intro Video. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

WGXC 10th Anniversary Sign at the Greenville Drive-In

WGXC 10th Anniversary Sign at the Greenville Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

WGXC On The Air at the 10th Anniversary Drive-In

WGXC On The Air at the 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 26, 2021)

Stephin Merritt performs at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In

Stephin Merritt performs at the WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 25, 2021)

WGXC 10th Anniversary Anna Friz Performance

WGXC 10th Anniversary Anna Friz Performance. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 25, 2021)

DJ Var Performance at the Greenville Drive-In

DJ Var Performance at the Greenville Drive-In. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (May 21, 2021)

WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event Banner

WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event Banner. Greenville Drive-in Photograph © Beth Schneck Photography. WGXC Poster created by Mayuko Fujino. (Apr 16, 2021)

WGXC 10th Anniversary Poster

WGXC 10th Anniversary Poster. Designed by Mayuko Fujino (Mar 29, 2021)

In 2021 Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM celebrates 10 years of creative, adventurous, experimental, community radio for open ears on the Upper Hudson Valley's FM dial. Join us for a series of celebratory events on-air and in-person throughout the year:

February 26, 2021, 7 - 9:00 p.m.: Anniversary Broadcast: WGXC Awards
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen
Ten years ago, at 2 p.m. on February 26, 2011, with mere minutes to spare, WGXC powered on, transmitting 3,300 watts out to the Upper Hudson Valley on 90.7-FM. A large boisterous group assembled at the Catskill Community Center to celebrate. There, WGXC's first programmers took to the mic to introduce their shows and perform live on-air as part of the first ever WGXC broadcast. Join us ten years later for a very special ceremonious broadcast in honor of this official 10th Anniversary day.

April 23 - May 7, 2021: Wave Farm Incident Report Dispatch 001
Incident Report, 348 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534
F.T. Marinetti & Pino Masnata's La radia Futurist Manifesto of October, 1933 (Published in "Gazzetta del Popolo,") is on view along with a 10th Anniversary print designed by Mayuko Fujino.

April 24, 2021 Noon - April 25, 2021 Noon: DRONE AT HOME
Video livestream on Twitch / Basilica Website (Noon – 10 p.m. EDT)
24-hour audio livestream on Wave Farm’s Standing Wave Radio (Noon – Noon EDT) | LISTEN HERE
FM Radio Broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM in NY’s Upper Hudson Valley (Noon – 6 a.m. EDT) | SCHEDULE HERE
For the past 7 years, 24-HOUR DRONE presented with Le Guess Who? has kicked Basilica Hudson’s season into bloom as a sacred wake-up call for the building in her winter hibernation. With all large gatherings still on hold due to COVID-19, this year we will bring DRONE to the airwaves in collaboration with Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears.
Both organizations, Basilica and Wave Farm, will each invite five sound artists to contribute a 60-minute performance. Assembled, this newly commissioned 10-hour drone program will be the featured content for DRONE AT HOME 2021. Highlights from past 24-HOUR DRONE event archives will flesh out the rest of the 24-hour online broadcast.

May 26, 2021, 7:30 - 11:00 p.m.: WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event!
Greenville Drive-In 10700 New York Highway 32, Greenville, NY 12083.
Tickets at wavefarm.simpletix.com

Let's celebrate WGXC's 10th Anniversary together at the Greenville Drive-in! We're planning this event to scale as needed in terms of where we are with physical gathering. Either way, we think it will be an epic exploration of the number 10! Wear your most festive attire and bring your favorite radio for the LoveShack photo and recording booth. Most importantly come ready to celebrate.

Schedule:

  • 7:30 p.m.: Arrival
  • 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Get your portrait taken by Bryan Zimmerman, record Station IDs and sweet nothings at the LoveShack with your concierges Donna and Honey of the Donna and Honey's Love Motel: A radio romance and rock and roll show, and interior by Becca Van K!
  • 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Get Your Concessions! (Cocktails at the bar, Snack Bar goodies available.)
  • 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Program
NOTE: All performances and DJ sets will be projected onto the Drive-in screen and transmitted to your car radio. Entire program runs 110 minutes.
Here's the line-up:

Film Program
Powers of Ten (1977), Charles and Ray Eames (09:00 min.)
10 (Happy Birthday WGXC!) (2021), Heath Iverson. (Movies on the Radio) (01:00 min.)

10 Minute Performances and DJ Sets
  1. LunarMoss (formerly of LunarMoss), a micro-meditation on time's most agreeable measurement: the decade; conveyed thru sound as catalyst and contingent summation of collective memory.
  2. Jess Speer, Jess Speer will perform live with 10 sound sources, all celebrating WGXC, Wave Farm, and radio, with a special community-brewed Radio Witch full moon spell for the continued success of WGXC.
  3. Jeff Economy (Snackpoint Charlie) and Alanna Medlock (There There), 10 Movements through Undiscovered Countries
  4. Jen Kutler (Wave Farmacy) and Quintan Ana Wikswo, a work of 10 texts, 10 videos, and 10 variated sensor response.
  5. Mayuko Fujino (Your Voice Touches My String), 10 tracks of single-stringed instruments, one string at a time
  6. Anna Friz10-band Radio: Variations with one- and two- way radio, from deep inside the dial. Are there (still) little people who live inside your radio?
  7. DJ Var (Friday Night Vibes Session), 10 years of happiness
  8. Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), 10 songs in 10 minutes
  9. Rancho Thatchmo, Ruminations.
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  11. Brian DewanWGXC filmstrip (2014/2021)
Big thank you to our artists and volunteers, those not mentioned above include Alon Koppel, Gus Turner, Nick D'Amore, Lysa Opfer, Matt Hill, Tim Light, Jess Puglisi, and Carmen Borgia, as well as WGXC's 10th Anniversary Year Sponsors:

August 7, 2021, Audio Buffet 2021 and Programmer Picnic
WGXC 90.7-FM, wavefarm.org/listen
Wave Farm's sixth annual Audio Buffet and WGXC Programmer Picnic will take place on Saturday August 7, 2021. In 2015, Pauline Oliveros and IONE donated the 32-channel mixing board they once traveled the world with to Wave Farm. Their generous and meaningful donation serves as the fulcrum for the Audio Buffet event, where dozens of acoustic and electronic sound artists come together for a live collaborative and improvisational radio performance on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM from 2 - 4 p.m. The broadcast is followed by a WGXC Programmer Picnic.

Performing artists include: Jen Kutler, Quintan Ana Wikswo, electr(on)ic chakra, Craig Chin, Chris Funkhouser, Al Margolis, Senem Pirler, Jimmy Garver, Tom Roe, Lucas Brode, Jack Schoonover, PG Six, Mayuko Fujino, Paulus van Horne, Nathan Cervoni, Jeff Economy, Andrew Madey, and Adam Tinkle. More info.

October 23, 2021: John Cage’s Rozart Mix, realized by artist Aaron Dilloway
The John Cage Trust 1309 Annandale Road Red Hook, NY 12571
Newly realized by former Wave Farm Residency Artist Aaron Dilloway, the installation at the John Cage Trust will be an expansive, multi-level, visual, and sonic work, with collaborating tape players including Rosie Actor-Engel, Twig Harper, C. Lavender, Quintron, Robert Turman, and John Wiese. In keeping with Cage's score, a minimum of 88 tape loops will be employed. The tape loops will be made to run on 12 reel-to-reel decks positioned in various rooms and floors of the John Cage Trust building, winding up stairs and around furniture. Visitors will be immersed in a kinetic and audible drawing. As was the case in the first performance of Rozart Mix in 1965 at Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the content on the tape loops will include field recordings as well as voices; however, in this new iteration the sound materials will be sourced from the over 100 volunteer programmers who contribute programming on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. This event serves as a culminating celebration of WGXC's 10th Anniversary year. More information at wavefarm.org/rozartmix.

A big thank you to our 10th Anniversary Underwriters!

Image Note: Greenville Drive-in Photograph © Beth Schneck Photography