Damian Catera will perform "Hacking Apart The American Airwaves During A Period of Corporate Fascism and Declining Empire" for the "Unauthorized Access" show at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia April 7-21, 2006.

Live Performance: “Hacker Secrets Revealed” Curated by Jolanta Gora-Wita, Abraham Lubelski. This live secure direct showcase will involve the latest available technologies for penetration - testing, or ethical hacking in order to help audience to observe and identify the creative process of security of computers, networks and websites by trying to ethically hack into them.

Damian Catera's performs from free103point9 Project Space in Brooklyn, New York to the Hermitage Museum in Russia. Catera's performance will come some time between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. EST on April 7. Video and audio of Catera's performance will be available at www.free103point9.org.
The advent of radio in the US during the early part of the 20th century ushered in a new period of mass brainwashing never before seen in history. Suddenly, literacy was a non-factor in the dissemination of information and propaganda blended potently with entertainment. An entire population was mobilized for war with an enemy (Nazi Germany), which was an ally only a few years earlier, while the mass imprisonment of innocent Japanese-Americans was systematically legitimized with the help of this powerful new medium.
In the early 21st century, American radio is still a powerful mass brainwashing tool. The rise in right- wing talk radio mobilizes a new generation to accept the corporate fascist agenda of militarized world domination while the smattering of 'left' oriented programming creates an illusion of pluralism and democracy.
In this improvised performance, three live radios will be sampled and randomly manipulated with algorithms, which I wrote in the MAX/MSP programming environment. In the resulting real-time montage, the dialectical tools of order and chaos will be used to unearth the not so hidden subtext of an empire in decline--perhaps its last gasps for control. The voice of America's fear and paranoia turned back on itself through the decentralized medium of web radio.
exhibition home page:
http://www.hackersinternational.com/access/
page with projects:
http://hackersinternational.com/access/projects.html
page with my complete description:
http://hackersinternational.com/access/catera.htm

The "Brooklyn Poster Show" is an exhibition in appreciation of poster art and a tribute to its role in the forming of culture and the beautification of our streets.

Featuring posters by, from and for: Arthur Arbit, Alice Wetterlund, Oneida, Aron Wahl, Brothers Reverend, Eliesha Grant, Frank Macias, free103point9, Fritz Donnelly, big A little a, Glass House Gallery, Jen Black, the Tall Boys, John Greiner, Kayrock Screen Printing, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lazlo Dog, M.A. Zbyszynski, Melissa Brown, Roxy Pain, Mighty Robot, Mysterious Monster, Rubulad, Sadek Bazaraa, Sean Langon, the Liars, Sophia Knapp, Chris Millstien, Twisted Ones, Violence Grows, and many more in a continuously changing installatiion of posters from and about some of the scene in Brooklyn.

Opening reception Friday, April 7, 6 to 9 p.m.
Hours: Fridays, Saturdays 2-8 p.m.
Sunday Noon to 5 p.m.

free103point9's Galen Joseph-Hunter and Tom Roe led a workshop on the history of microcasting, how transmitters work, and transmission mediums for creative expression to RPI's Radio Practices, Broadcasting Ethics, and MFA students. Co-organized by RPI's Kathy High and Steve Pierce.

free103point9 is pleased to present a special evening at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York. Galen Joseph-Hunter and Tom Roe will present free103point9 activities and discuss Transmission Arts, followed by a performance from Tom Roe using multiple bands (FM, CB, walkie-talkie). The program will conclude with a screening of Making Waves, a film about microradio (four stars from Film Threat).

Anyone who would like to intern or volunteer at the free103point9 Wave Farm this summer is welcome to come out to this informal meeting. A tour of the premises will be included with an explanation of the new studio center construction which is about to begin. Folks attending will also learn about web streaming, recording, and other free103point9 practices.

For more information, please contact free103point9 Executive Director Galen Joseph-Hunter at gjh @ free103point9.org.
See free103point Volunteer and Intern web page for more information. Interning at Wave Farm
The free103point9 Wave Farm in upstate New York is currently looking for interns. Work will include audio archiving, web streaming live shows, planning and preparing for next season's public programs, and work with the free103point9 residency program and with residents. Wave Farm is located in Greene County, New York, near Albany, Woodstock, and Hudson, New York. Wave Farm hosts online radio shows, public performances, recording projects, and other functions.

This is the third in a series of skill sharing sessions for audio artists and others. This one will focus on building FM transmittters. Participants should register ahead of time to assure a tranmitter kit for themselves Register by e-mailing Galen Joseph-Hunter at gjh @ free103point9.org. All levels of skill are welcome to break out the bread boards for these Audio Electronics Skill Shares.

Hosted by Dharma Dailey of Prometheus Radio Project, and Tom Roe from free103point9.

Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.

Part of free103point9 Radio Lab education project.

This workshop is open to the public free of charge. Please email info @ free103point9.org to register.

The trio of ngh, (), and Rhiannon Gibbs are special guests on Radio Ruido's weekly show live from the free103point9 Project Space in Brooklyn. ngh is DJ North Guinea Hills (turntables), Gibbs (cello), and () is Jeremy Slater (laptop).

Anyone who would like to volunteer for free103point9 should attend this meeting. Tianna Kennedy will lead a discussion about the various volunteer projects currently under way at free103point9, including archiving, sound engineering at live shows, live show production, online radio show production, free103point9 Radio Lab education program, and others.

E-mail Tianna Kennedy at tk at free103point9.org for more information.

"The Bird's Nest" radio show presents a double bill of bands: Imaginary People and Moth (Sam from Zs), plus interstitial DJ'ing. Tune In!

New And Used with Third Border Friday April 21st live from free103 Project Space in Williamsburg. Third Border will be playing a live set. Show starts at 10 p.m.

Matt Mikas' monthly online radio show features Third Border, with Ben Miller (gtr, formerly Destory All Monsters) and Pinky Weitzman (viola/violin). Live audio and video web stream.

This workshop focused on the history of microcasting, how transmitters work, and transmission mediums for creative expression. Students in Mark Hunter's "20th Century Performance" class at Cornell College presented their own transmission works at the conclusion of the Radio Lab.

Projects included:
Cut Them Open: Jess Dunne, Sarah Goldman, Cassie P-Holec, and Shakey-P
Freeing the Natural Voice: Julie Albertson, Kris Longley-Postema, Charlie Thurston, and Eric Wilson
Evolution: Four Ise

Join Damian Catera and Jeff Thompson for an evening of new performance works for real sound. This performance event coincides with the current show "Into The Air," an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by Alfonso Cantú and Todd Rosenbaum. Catera, who recently performed in the "Unauthorized Access" exhibit for the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia will debut two new improvised works for radio and guitar. Thompson, who is making his Brooklyn debut, will weave alluring live soundscapes with found and prepared objects.

Both performances streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.

Free admission. Hogar Collection Gallery is pleased to present ¨Into the Air¨, March 17 – May 1, 2006, an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by Alfonso Cantú and Todd Rosenbaum, with an opening reception on Saturday, March 18 from 6-9 pm. The works in the exhibition find a commonality in their depicitons of the sky, clouds, objects spinning out of control, explosions, metaphors of creation and destruction, as well the stories they tell of ephemerality and exisitence. They seem to travel into the fragile space where things verge on being out of control yet exist in a space of complete harmony.

Alfonso Cantú’s work is a process of reconfiguring and transforming the history, design, function, and value of the objects and materials around us in everyday life. The forms he creates oscillate between the symbolic/functional significance of what the original object is and the alternate meanings that can be produced by the cultural / art historical context that contain their design. His interest is to enhance and expose the underlying elements of states of temporality that exist within architectural elements, domestic objects and materials. In essence, how their representation and recontextualization resonates in our experience of the space they / we inhabit. Cantú will be showing large color pencil drawings on paper that depict pedestal fans spinning out of control in the sky as if in a catastrophic situation that is in it’s final moments of existence and is getting ready to wisp away, like the clouds that it agitates. He will also be showing new sculptures using fans as an inspiration. He has recently participated in the Bronx Museum - Artists In the Marketplace program, was awarded a NYFA grant for sculpture and received his MFA from Rutgers University and a MA at Goldsmiths College in London.

Todd Rosenbaum’s work engages tragedy, comedy, harmony, creation, destruction and the fragility of existence. Using depictions of skyscapes that are filled with clouds and explosions either at the precise moment of night’s change to day, or at the center of the vacuum of deep space at the instant of the beginning of “time”. They are subversive scenes in that it is uncertain if they are violent or serene. Clouds at times are either hiding what we “think” is happening on the other side, or they could be the effect of tremendous explosions. Explosions that pose a question that is either subversively “political” in the idea that they evoke war and destruction or they can be seen as subversively “religious” in that they speak of the creation of the grand cosmos. The true explanation is not revealed, leaving the question as mysterious or sublime as the experience we witness. Rosenbaum will be showing comic book-like gouache paintings on paper as well as, steel and cotton mobiles, ” floating cloud masses”, that flutter in the air”. He is the co-director of Hogar Collection Gallery and also received his MFA from Rutgers University.

Listen to monthly show on free103point9 Online Radio last Sunday of the month, 7-9 p.m.
Things you will Hear on this month's Giant Ear))):
NYSAE member, Michelle Nagai, interviews Elliot H., M.S., the Senior Scientist for Auditory Research at E•A•R / Aearo Technologies and Nancy Nadler, Director of Development for the League for the Hard of Hearing.
Bent Festival 2006---and sometimes we like noise! An excerpt from a workshop with Nic Collins on the art of hardware hacking.
NYSAE member, Andrea Wiiliams interviews Geoff Zink and Todd Brooks, senior consultants at ARTEC and we take a really retro sci-fi looking decibal reader used for the acoustic planning and design of performance halls out to the cacauphonous streets of NYC. http://www.artecconsultants.com/index.html
HSDOM - Live-mix of the NYSoundmap from the Surge event at Participant Inc. Gallery, March 28, 2006.
Peter Cusak: London Sounds, Mystified.

New Adventures in Sound Art is pleased to launch the 5th annual Deep Wireless festival, a month-long celebration of radio art including new commissions, special radio broadcasts, artist residencies, performances and sound installations, as well as the Radio Without Boundaries conference and workshops for radio and sound artists and enthusiasts.

Performances and workshops from Anna Friz, Matt Mikas, Tianna Kennedy, Tetsuo Kogawa, Evolution Control Committee, Trevor Wishart, Kathy Kennedy, and many others streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.

free103point9 Online Radio Deep Wireless schedule:

Tune in for these events:
May 11, 18 and 25- 2-2:30 p.m. EDT (-4GMT) these will be shows that will be focusing on the Deep Wireless artists-in-residence including interviews and performances.

May 28, 6-7 p.m. - For this live-to-air closing night show, John Oswald and Mark Gunderson will bring together a "band" of Toronto celebrities from all walks of life (politics, food, literature, music, you name it..) to take audience requests for their musical favourites and throw these into a sound mix rich in discussion and debate.

May 26, 6 p.m. -10 p.m.- An evening of performances, complete with live music and theatre and soundscapes, written by Gregory Whitehead and performed by Anna Friz, Richard Lee, Christine Duncan and Richard Windeyer alongside world premieres of radio works Debashis Sinha, Micheline Roi, Christian Nicolay and Damiano Pietropaolo commissioned through the Deep Wireless commissioning programme with CBC Radio's "Out Front" and Charles Street Video as well as a world premiere by Trevor Wishart. Directed by Darren Copeland and Mark Cassidy, "Radio Theatre" promises to deal a heavy dose of provocative listening.
Kathy Kennedy’s Sonic Choreographies are multi-track pieces for 5.1 surround sound composed almost entirely of the composer's voice, creating an immersive and deeply personal environment. Kennedy will also improvise live over some of the soundscapes. From lilting melodies to haunting auralities, the concert hall is transformed into a space within the human voice.

May 27 9 a.m. -11 p.m.:
9 a.m.-5 p.m. - "Radio with Boundaries" conference sessions with the radio art DJ providing in-between radio and commentary.
6 p.m.-10 p.m. An evening of performances, complete with live music and theatre and soundscapes, written by Gregory Whitehead and performed by Anna Friz, Richard Lee, Christine Duncan and Richard Windeyer alongside world premieres of radio works Debashis Sinha, Micheline Roi, Christian Nicolay and Damiano Pietropaolo commissioned through the Deep Wireless commissioning programme with CBC Radio's "Out Front" and Charles Street Video as well as a world premiere by Trevor Wishart. Directed by Darren Copeland and Mark Cassidy, "Radio Theatre" promises to deal a heavy dose of provocative listening.
The Evolution Control Committee brings from San Francisco a newly revised version of their classic Thimbletron performances featuring normal kitchen appliances (toaster, blender, microwave, etc.) that are circuit-bent to change and twist your popular media appetite.

May 28, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.:
9am - 6pm - "Radio with Boundaries" conference sessions with the radio art DJ providing in-between radio and commentary.
Click on "more information" below for complete details.

Molemouth: waves upon the westernmost cliffs of the enlightenment. Field recordings from a recent voyage to Portugal by a birdsnest scribe as he transports a Bahian relic to a very dangerous art party. Plus, interstitial DJ'ing.

free103point9 is pleased to present a special installation for this year’s Observatori festival. Works by the 18 members of free103point9’s Transmission Artists will be on view in the form of sound sculpture, video, and sound works transmitted on an FM frequency at the festival. Surge, the online exhibition of web-based transmission works will also be featured in collaboratio with Rhizome.

Fri. May 5, 6 p.m. Spain/noon EDT:
Presentation about transmission arts by Galen Joseph-Hunter.

Sat. May 6, 4:30 p.m. Spain/10:30 a.m. EDT:
Presentation about "Surge," free103point9/Rhizome online exhibition by Galen Joseph-Hunter.

Sat. May 6, 5 p.m. Spain/11 a.m. EDT:
Live performance from Tom Roe.

All programs aired live on free103point9 Online Radio.
free103point9 Transmission Artists include: 31 Down, Alexis Bhagat, Matt Bua, Damian Catera, Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson, The Dust Dive, Joshua Fried, Anna Friz, Tianna Kennedy, LoVid, Matt Mikas, Michelle Nagai, neurotransmitter, Ben Owen, Radio Ruido, Michelle Rosenberg, and Scanner.

Video Works featured by: Damian Catera, Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson, LoVid, and neurotransmitter.

"Ornamental Headphone" installation on view by Michelle Rosenberg.

Surge is an online exhibition of web-based projects selected from an open call for submissions. Surge includes works by artists 31 Down, Abe Linkoln and Marisa Olson, Angel Nevarez and Alex Rivera, NYSAE (New York Society for Acoustic Ecology), Jimpunk, and Leslie Sharpe. The featured projects employ new media tools to both conceptually and formally address different possibilities for transmission art online. Some consider the nature of signals as they move through the ether; others appropriate forms of wireless transmission, such as the military’s aerial ‘drone’ or the programming language AsCii, to propose new kinds of digital communication. Surge is co-presented by free103point9 and Rhizome.

Four nights of noise at the Ontological Theater.
Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio each night.

Thursday:
Paul Steven Ray
G. Lucas Crane
Pause + Radio Ruido (free103point9)
Improvisations from two turntablists.
Morgan Packard with Joshue Ott and superDraw

Friday:
Reclusion thus Sacrifice
Ezekiel Honig with Joshue Ott and superDraw
Skyline:
Damian Catera (free103point9) + John Baird create an uncategorizable exploration of groove/noise/improv dialectical synergy.
Jonathan Zalben

Saturday:
Civyiu Kkliu
John Moran...and his neighbor Saori
Matt Bua (free103point9) + Naval Cassidy:
Suitcase entrails + live video recapping.
Ray Sweeten

Sunday:
Rara Avis
Matt Mikas (free103point9) + Derek Morton:
"Transmissions from Radio Free Albemuth": Noisescapes featuring readings from Philip K Dick's final novel.
George Steeltoe Ensemble

$7 per night or $20 all four nights.
Curated by Brandon Pane and Morgan von Prelle Pecelli in association with free103point9.
Affiliated labels: Microcosm Music, Heat Retention Records.

Live noisetape vs circular media mix webstream.
Radio Ruido hosts “Triangulation,” a weekly Online Radio show live from the free103point9 Project Space in Brooklyn, New York. This week special guest is Mangoon.

Biweekly free103point9 Online Radio show live from free103point9 Project Space in Brooklyn.
Live set in studio:
The Outcasts of Poker Flat played by Tianna Kennedy (Stars like Fleas, Charter Oak) and Jordi Wheeler (The Occassion) and maybe others. Plus interstitial DJ'ing.

North Guinnea Hills / Radio Ruido/ Rhizome:three-sided freeform tagteam live from the free103point9 Project Space on free103point9 Online Radio. Three DJs slice and dice it.

free103point9 Online Radio simulcasts Neighborhood Public Radio live from San Francisco.

3 p.m.: Sarah Filley from Southern Exposure's "Between the Walls" exhibition.
4 p.m.: International Socialist Organization.
4:30: "Bewitched, Buddhist, and Bewildered" w/guest Tony Trigilio (Ginsberg & Buddhism).
5 p.m.: "Our Penultimate Year" - Jarred McAdams & Julia Christensen.
5:30: Frank Prattle w/ Zefrey.
6 p.m.: Cesar Ascarrunz.
7 p.m.: Karaoke Memorial - Katina Papson.
7:30 Standard Deviation (and Infinite Regression) w/ Bentropy 8 p.m.: Dee Dee Russell.
9 p.m.-mid: DJ Milton Parker.

Giant Ear))) webcast radio at http://www.free103point9.org Last Sunday of every month, 7-9 p.m. (EDT) Musician, Composer, and Sound Artist, MIYA MASAOKA, is interviewed by NYSAE member Andrea Williams.
We will be playing "For Birds, Planes, & Cello," a continous filed recording with cello, Composed by Miya Masaoka, cello performed by Joan Jeanrenaud, and field recording by Marcos Fernandes and Miya Masaoka. This mesmerizing piece premiered at the Headlands Center for the Arts in California, 2004. The CD can be found on Miya's label, Solitary B. Miya's label and information on her upcoming performance at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on June 5 can be found at http://www.miyamasaoka.com/
Other works of harmony - two or more sounds that just sound pleasing together where they are found in the world.
Part 2 of Nic Collins' Hardware Hacking Workshop from Bent Fest 2006 -- Get your dispensable battery powered radios ready!

OPEN CALL for SOUNDS! For May 28 show, please send in your field-recordings of Harmony: two or more different sounds that just sound pleasing together right where they are found in the world. Send in your file, CD, or minidisc with info on the recording to: lemurz66@yahoo.com or mail to: Giant Ear))) 154 W. 9th St. #1 Brooklyn, NY 11231

Microradio Sound Walk is a experimental media art event and walking tour of Buffalo’s airwaves utilizing transmission tools to create a soundscape that responds to both the architecture and sonic phenomena of the space surrounding Hallwalls.

Microradio Sound Walk consists of three transmission stations–“Local Frequencies,” “Environmental Nature,” and “Social Spaces” –situated along a loosely defined route inside the new Hallwalls space at the former Asbury Delaware Church and branching out throughout the immediate neighborhood. Participants who encounter radios or are lent radios with headphones proceed through the route in the order of their choosing, as they move farther away from one station and grow closer to the next, the signal they receive too will shift. This sonic progression maps the spatial qualities of the airwaves and provides a tangible example of their ubiquitousness.

Three artists, 31 Down, Matt Bua, and Radio Ruido, are placed roughly equidistant from one and other. Each will microcast his signal on the same FM frequency. As visitors take the Microradio Sound Walk the three signals fade in and out depending on the listeners’ movement.

View a QuickTime excerpt of the event Local Frequencies – 31 Down

31 Down's station will be focused on the local airwaves themselves. Using radios, wireless microphones, cell phones, walkie-talkies and scanners as well as locating Bluetooth and WIFI signals, this "Local Frequency" station will feature works that make use of the local airwaves by sampling and 'playing' them back.

Formed in 2001 by Ryan Holsopple, 31 Down is a radio-transmission based theater company from Brooklyn, New York. The vision of the company lies in the hybridization of modern technologies with older technologies, systems, established genres, and forms. The theater company uses radio transmissions, wireless devices, and home security technology to expand and contract traditional theatrical spaces.

Recent projects include: wwwSomnambulator as part of Surge, an online transmission exhibition presented by Rhizome and free103point9; Wanderlost as part of Airborne, presented by free103point9 and The New Museum for Contemporary Art, Spring, 2005.

www.31down.org

Environmental Nature – Matt Bua

In Environmental Nature, Matt Bua will use contact microphones to wire the Hallwalls environment. Some microphones will be easily spotted while others will be concealed. The signals activated by the audience will produce one element of this sound walk montage.

Matt Bua makes drawings, films, videos, installations, and performance art pieces. Bua’s “Suitcase Orchestra” is a self-contained, partly/fully automated sound creator, which uses precariously prepared instruments, animal talk, electronics, and motors. His frequent collaborations with Jesse Bercowetz take form in large-scale fantastical, sometimes aggressive, spaces that redefine and re-imagine found objects as functional elements in architecture.

Bua has shown work internationally at exhibition and public spaces including: the University Museum at Albany, New York; Grizedale Arts, Cumbria, England; Art Omi, New York; Cambridge Art Council Gallery, Massachusetts; and Feigen Contemporary, Masiimo Audiello, Brooklyn Museum, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Derek Eller Gallery, Governor's Island, and Jessica Murray Projects in New York City.

www.overcoat.org

Social Spaces – Radio Ruido

Performed by Radio Ruido, the third and final FM station concentrates on Social Spaces in order to highlight the discursive properties of radio. This will include site-specific works that explore a phenomenological approach to the 'sound walk,' or work which focus on physicality of the performance area, local histories, idiosyncratic voices, audience interaction/play, and storytelling.

Radio Ruido encompasses radio projects initiated by artist Tom Mulligan. Working both solo and in collaboration, these projects entail both composed installations as well as various improvised live sound situations. Often site-specific in content, they seek to challenge conventional concepts of radio as well as exploring and challenging the physicality of the performance space.

He is currently hosting Triangulation, a weekly Online Radio show Tuesdays live from the free103point9 Project Space in Brooklyn, New York. The ongoing focus has been presenting a live forum for experimental sound cultures.

Radio Ruido has performed live with the audio-visual collective Dimmer and designed sound for Teatro Chinampa. He has recently exhibited at Deitch Projects, White Box, and Participant, Inc., in New York; at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore; and the Center for Contemporary Art Ujadowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland.

www.free103point9.org/artist.php?artistID=4

Microradio Sound Walk premiered in 2004 with free103point9 transmission artists Damian Catera, Matt Mikas, Michelle Nagai and Tom Roe. It was presented in conjunction with Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City, a three-day event in New York City that highlighted the diverse ways artists, technical innovators and activists are using communication technologies to generate urban experiences and public voice. In May 2005, free103point9 presented its second Microradio Sound Walk at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland.