Weekly webcast presented by Radio Ruido focusing on audio collage/live improv. This week's show features a live performance by Sky Wrecks (Christy Edwards and Allie Alvarado) + Matty Mcdermitt + Tianna Kennedy. Radio Ruido on the decks.

"The Birds Nest" radio show streams live from the Empty Vessel, a floating artspace in the Gowanus Canal. Tonight's program features various offerings from Portland film and video artists, plus a live performance by solo guitarist Random Cutting. Random Cutting, Gretchen Hogue, Tyler Nolan, Cat Solen, Vladimir, Vanessa Renwick, Tara Jane O'Neil, and Shawna Ferreira will all be a part of the show. Birds Nest radio show streams live from the Empty Vessel, a floating artspace in the Gowanus Canal. Stumptown Girls is a 90-minute program of short films by female filmmakers from Portland, Oregon. The program highlights the DIY, collaborative spirit that this city has grown famous for, featuring an ecclectic selection of work ranging from Cat Solen¹s music video for Bright Eyes to Vladimir¹s handmade viewmaster movies; from Vanessa Renwick¹s collaboration with Portland musician Tara Jane O¹Neil to Shawna Ferreira¹s psychedelic video creations. Stumptown Girls promises to be a night chock full of surprises, inspiration, and good old northwestern spunk! After the films, solo guitarist Random Cutting will play a live show on the boat.

This regular online radio show features live performances from artists visiting free103point9's Wave Farm, a transmission arts park in Upstate New York. Giancarlo Bracchi's June 24th set will include a live performance and DJ set.

North Guinea Hills with host Radio Ruido: live improv + audio collage.

"Campfire Sounds" is a weekend-long camp out. Avant-folk performers from throughout the Northeastern United States gather at the 30-acre Wave Farm for special performances in a rural setting. This year there is a main stage, and a second stage in the woods without electricity for acoustic performances. As always, after hours, everyone will gather around the campfire for acoustic sounds late into the night.

Friday, July 14 6-10:30 P.M.:
Impromptu acoustic performances around the campfire. Camping fee $15 for Friday and Saturday night.

6-9:30: DJ Tom Roe
9:30-10:30: Sophea Lerner (Helsinki, Finland) "one of the frogs in the pond"
10:30 on: gather round the campfire near the pond, everyone is welcome to play (without electricity)

Saturday, July 15 2-11 P.M.:
Live performances begin. Food served all afternoon and evening. Performances from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m., then acoustic performances around the campfire.

IN THE POND
2 p.m.: Forest City Dust Dive (solo set near the pond/campfire)
Bryan Zimmerman gets in the pond for a performance, perhaps with others.

SECOND STAGE, UP IN THE WOODS, AROUND LARGE TREE (batteries only)
3 p.m.: Stars Like Fleas

MAIN STAGE
noon-2 p.m.: DJ Spirit + Free
4-4:35 p.m.: Melanie Moser
DJ Tom Roe between sets
4:55-5:30: The Dust Dive
5:50-6:25: Latitude/Longitude
6:45-7:20: Stars Like Fleas
7:40-8:10: Bunnybrains
DJ Ryan Sawyer between sets
8:30-9: Gown
9:20-10: Samara Lubelski
10:20-11: MV + EE with The Bummer Road
after 11 p.m., mics move to the campfire by the pond, for open mic, anything goes sans electricity

Sunday July 16
Brunch served, possibly followed by a noonish acoustic performance by Latitude/Longitude up in the woods around the giant tree.

SECOND STAGE, UP IN THE WOODS, AROUND LARGE TREE (batteries only)
noonish: Latitude/Longitude

General Information

PARKING: Park in the large field near the road. Walk in and check your camping reservation at the concession stand.

CAMPERS PITCHING TENTS: Place your tent in the shade (just west of a tree) unless you are seeking a hot morning wake up call from the sun. The woods are the best place for a tent without a 5:30 a.m. wake up call from the sun. PLEASE do not setup tent on the Wave Farm main meadow.

FOOD: Pesto pasta on Friday night; eggs Saturday morning, PB+J and hummus sandwiches, fruit, cold potato soup, veggie burgers and meat burgers Saturday night; and pancakes Sunday morning. Beverages too. Diner within walking distance.

SERVICES: Port-a-let on property, near concession stand. Pond for swimming.

ANIMALS: You may want to bring bug spray/sauce. Definitely check for ticks. Be alert in the woods for the bear. (These bears are not aggressive, but of course close encounters should be avoided. Please keep an eye out if you are exploring paths in the forest.) Dogs are allowed (no biters, please).

PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES: After the schedule performances on Friday and Saturday night, the mic around the campfire will be open all night, playing to the radios around the property and the internet all over the world.

BRING: Balls (soccer field for playing), grills, bug spray, shoes that can get wet/muddy, flashlights, fishing poles (catch and release bass), etc.

NOISE: Sound carries in unexpected ways around here, please consider that late night noise might disturb a neighbor.

PROPERTY BOUNDARIES: Please respect the Wave Farm property boundaries (see map on back), so that these summer events may continue for years to come.

KEEP WAVE FARM BEAUTIFUL: Please use the ample trash and recycling cans so we can keep the Wave Farm beautiful.

DO NOT: Move tiki torches (fire hazard).


Campfire Sounds is made possible, in part, by the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and with public funds from the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by the Greene County Council on the Arts.

Jesse Selengut's Noir plays mysterious electronic groove-oriented jazz straight from the dark heart of Brooklyn. Matt Mikas hosts this afternoon edition of his New and Used show playing new and vintage recordings and hosting live music at the free103point9 Project Space.

free103point9 is pleased to present three transmission installation works by artists 31 Down, Paul Davies, and Tarikh Korula, as part of this year's Bushwick Art Project festival. Transmission Arts is defined as a conceptual umbrella that unites a community of artists and audiences interested in transmission ideas and tools. Transmission practices harness, occupy and/or respond to the airwaves that surround us. There is an inherent "liveness" to this work. In a performance-based setting, audience members are newly engaged, becoming participants rather than passive viewers and listeners. Installation or sculptural transmission works are often dependent on the present, reacting to whatever occupies the surrounding frequencies in a single instance, or changing that information by adding new signals to the spectral environment.

31 Down, Wanderlost

31 Down is a Brooklyn-based theatre group that uses radio transmission to expand the traditional boundaries of the performance stage. In Wanderlost, 31 Down tackles personal privacy issues and the paranoia surrounding new technologies by eavesdropping on live police scans to search for clues in the world of the dispatcher. Employing the central motif of a 1940s-style detective radio program featuring the fictional case of missing nightclub singer Helen Tremble, Wanderlost creates a tension between fact and fiction.

Paul Davies, Prayer Antenna

As part of his ongoing series, "Religious Technological Artifacts," New York-based Canadian artist Paul Davies presents Prayer Antenna. In the form of an ornately ordained helmet that has the appearance of a porcupine with antennae quills, Prayer Antenna is fitted with sufficient surveillance technology to receive signals from the gods. As Davies writes, "The Prayer Antenna allows visitors, or 'supplicants,' to put their heads into the helmet to receive sounds in the right ear from the God of the Right Shoulder, and in the left ear from the God of the Left Shoulder."

Tarikh Korula, Chop 10

Exploiting the techniques of current commercial radio practice, Chop 10 re-mixes a live, dynamic assemblage of commercial radio streams as a commentary on the current state of regulated radio. As Chop 10 moves from one Arbitron-rated Top Ten radio station in New York City to the next, the hyper "scan" makes it impossible to discern any single station's content, resulting in a jumpy, never-ending parody of commercial radio.

Wanderlost, Prayer Antenna, and Chop 10 were first shown as part of the exhibition Airborne co-organized by free103point9 and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, spring 2005.

Schedule

TRANSIENT DAY :: PHOTO LAB
05:00 pm Craig Colorusso
05:30 pm Judd Greenstein
06:00 pm Mechanique(s)
06:30 pm Miya Masaoka
07:00 pm Richard Chartier (line)
07:45 pm Keith Fullerton Whitman (kranky)

TRANSIENT NIGHT :: PHOTO LAB
09:15 pm Katamine
09:45 pm Stars Like Fleas (praemedia)
10:30 pm Change The Station
11:15 pm Mon.Key.Pod
12:30 am David Linton, Charles Cohen & Matty Ostrowski Trio
12:30 am Nate Boyce
01:15 am Lance Blisters
02:30 am Harkness AV Salon

NEW MEDIA PROGRAM
04:00 pm Heather Delaney
04:00 pm Geoffrey Bell
04:00 pm Leah Beeferman & Michelle Higa
04:00 pm Jared Lamenzo, Maya Marinelli & Liubo Borissov
04:00 pm Jessica Findley
04:00 pm Gregory Shakar
04:00 pm Ernesto Klar
04:00 pm Phoenix Perry
04:00 pm Nomad
04:00 pm Christina Graf
04:00 pm Marie-Christine Katz
04:00 pm free103point9
04:00 pm Aki Sasamoto & Dan St. Claire
04:00 pm Laura Cavalieri
04:00 pm Jake Klotz
04:00 pm Douglas Henderson
04:00 pm Gaby Steiner & Raphael Zwyer
04:00 pm Jamie Burkart
04:00 pm FeedTank
04:00 pm Christina Vantzou
04:00 pm Marta Lwin
04:00 pm Chris Klapper
04:00 pm Nemo Hoffman 04:00 pm Patrick Aloysius Gallagher
04:00 pm Jerry Hoyt
04:00 pm Rafael Fuchs
04:00 pm Suneet Sethi
04:00 pm Jean Haluska
04:00 pm Zohar Kfir
04:00 pm Tristan Perich

VIDEO PROGRAM - A
04:00 pm Nurit Bar-Shai & Kleoni Manoussakis: The Subway Show
04:00 pm Adi Shniderman & Merav Ezer: Air Condition
04:00 pm Antonin De Bemels: Light Body Corpuscles
04:00 pm Ido Fluk: Polar Bears
04:00 pm Beth Warshafsky: Anthrodance variation #1
04:00 pm Rotem Tashach: 3-O
04:00 pm Jamie Hitchings: Video Quilt
04:00 pm Jean-Gabriel Periot: DIES IRAE
04:00 pm Kleoni Manoussakis: The Rescue Boat
04:00 pm Guy Ben-Ner
04:00 pm Benton-C Bainbridge

SONANCE DAY :: FLOOR 3 :: AREA A
06:00 pm Richard Garet, Ian Epps, Shimpei Takeda, Andy Graydon, MPLD & Ben Owen
07:00 pm Calmer (polyvibe)
07:30 pm Benoit Pioulard (kranky)
08:10 pm Landau Orchestra (merck records)
09:10 pm Helios (type records)
09:55 pm Praveen (percussion lab)

SONANCE NIGHT :: FLOOR 3 :: AREA A
10:15 pm Bubblyfish
11:00 pm Machinedrum (merck records)
11:45 pm Lusine (ghostly international)
12:45 am Insideout & Camea (clink recordings)
01:45 am Ryan Elliott (spectral sound)
03:15 am Ryan Crosson (m-nus)
04:30 am Hakan Lidbo (force tracks)

VIDEO PROGRAM - B
04:00 pm Torsten Z. Burns and Darrin Martin: I am Today's Lesson Plan
04:00 pm Ernest Gusella: Video-Taping
04:00 pm Nate Boyce: Dual Ghoul
04:00 pm Vibeke Sorensen: Panini Stickers
04:00 pm Steina & Doris Cross: Lilith
04:00 pm Tom DeWitt, Vibeke Sorensen and Dean Winkler: Tempest
04:00 pm Phyllis Baldino: 19 Universes / My Brother
04:00 pm Takeshi Murata: Monster Movie
04:00 pm Ed Emshwiller: Sunstone (Exerpt)
04:00 pm Scott Stark: Shape Shift

MODULATION :: FLOOR 3 :: AREA B
10:30 pm Handshake (chaise)
11:15 pm RJ Valeo (type records)
12:00 am David Last (goosehound)
01:00 am Nicholas Sauser (goosehound)
02:15 am Tim Xavier (ltd-400)
03:30 am Nick AC (robots)
04:45 am Wolf + Lamb (wolf + lamb)
06:00 am eVa & Igal (loft-n-space)

VIDEO PERFORMERS
04:00 pm Lovid
04:30 pm Robert Dennis
05:00 pm Adam Kendall
08:10 pm Ilan Katin
09:10 pm Camy Lee
10:15 pm Chika
10:30 pm Paris Treantafeles
11:00 pm Josh Ott
11:30 pm Chika
11:45 pm Eric Dunlap
12:15 am Ilan Katin
01:00 am Josh Ott
03:30 am Jon Lippincott
04:30 am Vade
06:00 am Chika

INTONATION DAY :: FLOOR 3 :: AREA C
08:00 pm Vortex & Adam Kendall
08:30 pm David First
09:00 pm Fair Use Trio
09:30 pm Ray Sweeten
10:00 pm Bruce Tovsky

INTONATION NIGHT :: FLOOR 3 :: AREA C
11:00 pm Morgan Packard vs superDraw (microcosm music)
11:30 pm Sawako (12k)
12:15 am Pandatone (neo ouija)
01:00 am Ezekiel Honig (microcosm music)
01:45 am Khonnor (type records)
02:30 am DJ Rhyzome

VIDEO PROGRAM - C
ITP DIGITAL MARKET
04:00 pm The Loud Objects (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Amit Pitaru (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Heather Dewey-Hagborg (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Ariel Efron (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Christian Croft (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Marta Lwin (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Michael DelGaudio (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Jou Youn Paek, Leif Krinkle & Gabe Barcia-Columbo (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Ryan Holsopple (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Giana Gonzalez (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Ernesto Rios (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Toshiaki Ozawa, Mushon Zer Aviv & David Nolen (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Mike Reger (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Rocio Barcia (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Langdon Crawford (itp showcase)
04:00 pm Chetan Mangat (itp showcase)

ABOUT FREE103POINT9
(www.free103point9.org)

free103point9 is a non-profit media arts organization focused on establishing cultivating Transmission Arts. This genre includes experimental practices in radio art, video art, light sculpture, and installation and performance utilizing the wireless spectrum. free103point9 programs include transmission-based public performances and exhibitions, an experimental music series, an online radio station and distribution label, an education initiative, and an artist residency program and study center.

Founded in 1997 in Brooklyn, NY as a microcasting artist collective, free103point9's mobile operations made airtime available to community voices, local bands, and most significantly to a group of under-served artists shaping conceptual works specifically for radio transmission. Today free103point9 maintains two locations in New York. free103point9 Wave Farm (Hudson Valley/Catskill Region) is a 30 acre property home to a summer performance series, artist residencies, skill shares, and special Online Radio performances. The Wave Farm Study Center, opening in 2007, will house reading, listening, and viewing libraries; a performance/gallery spaces; a recording studio; and future artists-in-residence. The free103point9 Project Space, located in Brooklyn, provides a vital meeting place for transmission artists and audiences.

ABOUT BUSHWICK ART PROJECT
(www.bushwickartproject.org)

The Bushwick Art Project (BAP), a non-profit organization, is dedicated to the advancement and promotion Electronic Music, New Media, and Digital Art. Drawing from regional and international talents, BAP Events and Curated Programs serve as creative laboratories where existing and emerging artists support and influence each other through the free exchange of ideas and technical resources.

Our mission is to expose artists to the cutting edges of creative expression by hosting events that highlight the use of new technologies in art and music. We import talent from around the world to influence and inspire the amazing range of talents located within our own community. Our goal is to establish a creative front in the heart of the post industrial zone of Bushwick, an open forum for artists to expand their creative vision and express their ideas through the innovative use of technology and all the artistic mediums.

live_feed brings you hybrid cuisine from the foodradio_network presents live_feed
new radio kitchen cooked up by members of the Food Radio Network to explore the culture politics and creativity of food through new forms of live radio.
http://hybridradio.org/livefeed/
livefeed (at) hybridradio (dot) org
Marco Pollini Spaghetti Dinner
SUN 23 JUL :: 23:00-01:00 UTC
19:00-21:00 new york :: 24/07 09:00-11:00 sydney :: 01:00-03:00 rome

Performance by Stuck Pigs Squealing Theatre (Australia) in collaboration with NYC based artists Oliver Butler, Jason Craig, Jessica Jeliffe, and Mac Wellman.

Live webstream on free103point9 Online Radio.

A new collaborative laboratory bringing together the work of Australian company Stuck Pigs Squealing and NYC based artists Mac Wellman and Ontological-Hysteric Incubator friends including Oliver Butler, Shannon Sindelar, Morgan Murphy, Jason Craig and Jessica Jelliffe. $10 recommended donation. To make a reservation email boxoffice@ontological.com.

Part of Incubator residency program.

free103point9 is pleased to present an afternoon and evening of outdoor experimental sound performance at Wave Farm in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. Internationally recognized artists Matthew Burtner, Nicolas Collins, and Scanner will each map and respond to the local environs—both physical and ephemeral. The performances will take place on a meadow. Audience members are encouraged to bring blankets; picnic provisions will be available on site. Matthew Burtner
The work of composer and sound artist Matthew Burtner explores environmental systems (ecoacoustics), technological embodiment, and extended polyrhythmic and noise-based musical systems. His instrumental and computer music is performed widely and he tours regularly with the metasaxophone, an augmented computer instrument of his own creation. A native of Alaska, he currently teaches composition and computer music at the University of Virginia, where he is associate director of the VCCM Computer Music Center. Burtner’s Studies for Radio Transceiver question the nature of the radio medium and the role it plays in forming the content of a musical system.

Nicolas Collins
New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins studied with Alvin Lucier and worked for many years with David Tudor. "The first guy to take a computer onto a bar stage" (in the words of George Lewis), Collins combines cutting edge and trailing spine technologies into performances that explore found sound material, acoustic phenomena and musical interaction. His 1985 Devil's Music (one of the first compositions to make use of live sampling) grabbed fragments of radio broadcasts, ham transmissions and cell phone conversations and wove them live into a post-disco, pre-mashup homage to John Cage's Imaginary Landscape No. 4.

Former Artistic Director of STEIM (Amsterdam) and a DAAD Composer-in-Residence in Berlin, Collins teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is editor-in-chief of Leonardo Music Journal. His book, "Handmade Electronic Music - the Art of Hardware Hacking", will be published by Routledge in 2006.

Scanner
From British artist Scanner’s (Robin Rimbaud) early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his explorations traverse the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. Scanner has performed and created works internationally including SFMOMA USA, Hayward Gallery London, Pompidou Centre Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Tate Modern London and the Royal Opera House London.

ALSO FEATURED


AURICLE by MICHELLE ROSENBERG

Michelle Rosenberg has developed a series of works that identify different ways of listening. Auricle is a mobile parabolic sound reflector. This Auricle (pictured above), was first installed in Socrates Sculpture Park in 2005. It amplified lower frequencies such as traffic sounds best to listeners standing in the focus point of the curve with adjustable plastic semi-spheres that include openings for ear placement. At Wave Farm, Auricle will amplify voices, leaves rustling in the wind, and other Spectral Garden activities. www.michellerosenberg.com


Spectral Garden is made possible, in part, by the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and with public funds from the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by the Greene County Council on the Arts.


Wave Farm Summer Events 2006

Every last Sunday of the month tune in to Giant Ear))) for field recordings and soundscape works based on field recordings sent in from all over the world, and interviews and live sound events. This month's open call for July 30th's show is for Wind Powered works as there seem to be some Wind Farm debates and protests blowing through NYC this month. Works are due by July 23rd. Repeat play on Aug. 6.
Please send (preferably MP3s) to lemurz66@yahoo.com via www.dropload.com Please include your name, the length of the recording, and where the recording is from. More info on the NYSAE and past Giant Ear))) playists can be found at: www.nyacousticecology.org

31 Down radio theater’s "Metronoma," a haunted sound portrait of evil and isolation. Evoking the solace of a long walk with H.P. Lovecraft in a bitter New England forest of the 1930's. The simple ticking of a tube-powered metronome conjures unearthly visions as insanity takes hold of the world of an aging writer. A hauntingly disturbing music score lies beneath 31 Down's clinically dexterous use of technological antiquities in this glimpse into the mind of one of pulp's most notorious imaginations.

Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio on Fri. Aug. 4 and Fri. Aug. 11 at 10 p.m. May be a video stream too.

Produced by free103point9 transmission artists 31 Down.

Watch preview, and more information at http://www.31down.org

Thu-Sats, 8 p.m., Fridays also at 10 p.m. $17 adults, $12 students.

"Terrifically disturbing,"
—Sam Thielman, Backstage

Electronic and vocal wizards Freddie Mas play live on air from the free103point9 Project Space in Brooklyn. Brought to you by The Birds Nest with interstitial DJ'ing and a possible radio play.

Stephanie Rothenberg + Kristi Meal + Jeannine Giffear
Inspired by WWII propaganda broadcasters Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally, "The Zero Hour" brings you a live radio transmission investigating the mysterious white noise invading the "All America City" of Buffalo, NY. Broadcast from the storefront of Rustbelt Books in Allentown and the Abright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, listeners on the streets wear Pan-O-matic's special state-of-the-art tinfoil headgear to hear the transmission.
August 4, 6-10 p.m.
August 5, 8-10 p.m.
Part of Buffalo Infringement Festival
http://infringebuffalo.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/IF06/IF06

free103point9 presents a special day of radio art and performance on the Wave Farm grounds. Festival activities will feature microradio and nature walks, outdoor sound installations, unique mobile transmissions, and live music performance. Among the presented projects and events is a Microradio Sound Walk lead by members of the New York Society of Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE), sonic installations by Melissa Dubbin + Aaron S. Davidson, Lily Gottlieb-McHale, Jeff Feddersen, Michelle Rosenberg and , and the project Signal-to-Pink Transmissions by Karin Bolendar featuring FM transmissions activated by the participation of Pink, a Nigerian Dwarf goat. Dharma Dailey from Prometheus Radio Project will also hold a workshop. Also, Todd Merrell + Patrick Jordan will give a radio performance, and New York City-based rock band Lycaon Pictus will perform. Plus, Damian Catera will beam in a webcast to Wave Farm from the free103point9 Project Space in Brooklyn.

2:30-3:30 p.m.: RADIO WORKSHOP by DHARMA DAILEY
Dharma Dailey from the Prometheus Radio Group puts on a radio workshop.

MICRORADIO SOUND WALK by NYSAE

Microradio Sound Walk is a multiple transmitter sound piece and walking tour of local airwaves utilizing broadcast and computer technology to create a soundscape on a single FM frequency that responds to both the architecture and sonic phenomena of a specific space. Consisting of multiple transmission stations situated along a loosely defined walking path, listeners 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 an area's local airwaves. 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.

The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology is a NY metropolitan chapter of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, a membership organization dedicated to exploring the role of sound in natural habitats and human societies, and promoting public dialog concerning the identification, preservation, and restoration of natural and cultural sound environments. It is the hope of NYSAE to explore and create an ongoing dialog regarding an aural experience that is specific to New York City. www.nyacousticecology.org



2-10 p.m.: LAST & LOST TRANSMISSIONS by MELISSA DUBBIN + AARON S. DAVIDSON

In Last & Lost Transmissions artists Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson focus on lost and found messages. In Last Transmissions, the artists rebroadcast an amalgam of final messages made by individuals—a disc-jockey signing off one last time or a lost sailor’s plea, creating an opening into divergent narratives. In Lost Transmissions, the artists collect and rebroadcast, radio messages that have been lost during the process of transmission.
http://www.free103point9.org/artist.php?artistID=24




3-4 p.m.; 6-7 p.m. (leaving on the quarter hour so: 3:00, 3:15, 3:30, 3:45 & 6:00, 6:15, 6:30, 6:45): CAR HARP by LILY GOTTLIEB-MCHALE

Car Harp is a specialized Aeolian harp installed on top of a car. It is a wind powered string instrument and is controlled by the speed of the car. It plays harmonics, adding notes as the speed increases. The strings are miked and the sound is transmitted through the car radio.




2-10 p.m.: EARTHSPEAKER by JEFF FEDDERSEN

EarthSpeaker is an installation of multiple units of an outdoor sonic sculpture. Each unit is a large, solar-powered, electro-acoustic speaker, which absorbs sunlight during the day and at emits sounds at dusk. For Radio Festival, Feddersen will install a prototype of EarthSpeaker, being completed during his August AIRtime residency at Wave Farm. A forthcoming permanent installation will inaugurate free103point9 Wave Farm's Transmission Sculpture Garden.

EarthSpeaker has received additional support from the Eyebeam artist in residency program, with fabrication support from Glide, Inc. (www.glide-inc.com), a design and technology resource based in Brooklyn, New York.
http://www.zaftig.org




2-10 p.m.: AURICLE by MICHELLE ROSENBERG

Michelle Rosenberg has developed a series of works that identify different ways of listening. Auricle is a mobile parabolic sound reflector. This Auricle (pictured above), was first installed in Socrates Sculpture Park in 2005. It amplified lower frequencies such as traffic sounds best to listeners standing in the focus point of the curve with adjustable plastic semi-spheres that include openings for ear placement. At Wave Farm, Auricle will amplify voices, leaves rustling in the wind, and other Radio Festival activities. www.michellerosenberg.com




2-8:30 p.m.: SIGNAL-TO-PINK TRANSMISSIONS by KARIN BOLENDER

Signal-to-Pink Transmissions (...and the "Can We Sleep in Your Barn Tonight?" MYSTERY TOUR). Writes Bolender"“
George Washington had wooden teeth
but I've got wooden bones.
They float in the livesome dark, where owls and
possums haunt the high-up and rough-hewn
crossbeams. Different kinds of light come through
the cracks. Lows and brays shake down these nested
beams from deep inside. Hey there, there's hay in the black heart that rolls and
burns, a million tiny green flames. Can we sleep here? Can we sing and gut-string
and beat out on the threshing floor what may be
this dying barn's last dream? And carry what we gather in the night away, down
the highway to Dooms,Virginia, like seeds? Can we?

These are some of the questions writ in the warp and woodgrain of the "Can We Sleep in Your Barn Tonight?" MYSTERY TOUR, which will constellate in and around the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia circa June 3-11, 2006. This journey involves a wandering, roadside movement of a fluctuating band of artists and barnyard inhabitants-musicians, poets, a goatmother named Pink, and the spotted she-asses Aliass and Passenger, among others. In this traveling assemblage of beings and perceptions, the adventure seeks to embody both an investigation of troubled idylls and a rollicking wake for what's hidden and endangered in the present Appalachian landscapes-most especially in the old wooden barns that are quite literally subsiding, along with their unwritten languages and ways of knowing, as they go by the wayside of interstates, suburban development, and industrial agribusiness. So, it is in hopes of some last contact with the flickering, fading woods, fox operas and box turtles, and half-buried myths of cedar groves and agricultural relics that the MYSTERY TOUR will pass, on foot and hoof, through the valley to the summit of a Shenandoah mountain town called Dooms. While the passage itself is significant, what may be more vital to the ultimate project of the MYSTERY TOUR is what unfolds in the night-barns: in the indeterminate plays between all the creatures present, as we seek to fathom (through acoustical presence and musical, lyrical improvisation with stringed instruments, woodwinds, drums, and whatever else is along) what's in the motes, seeds, and oak-beams of these spaces' own wilder creaks and hums, and those of our own hides and bones.

As a way to explore and celebrate possibilities for crossbeam connections amidst the myriad pychoacoustical energies of rural realms, Signal-to-Pink Transmissions is excited to bring the recordings gathered in the course of the "Can We Sleep in Your Barn Tonight?" MYSTERY TOUR to the Radio Festival at Wave Farm on August 5, 2006. In keeping with the notion of presence in place as key, Pink, the MYSTERY TOUR's Nigerian Dwarf goat, will roam and graze around the Wave Farm over the course of the event, taking in the sights, sounds, and smells of the place as she broadcasts the recordings and some live-mixed material from a small transmission-wagon. And so the sounds plucked and twanged from the living mud of Virginia's harrowed fields and grassy edges (and from underground, too, in America's oldest show cave), will mesh in the airwaves with the green-light beams and summer oscillations of the Wave Farm's fertile transmission-arts atmosphere.

5 p.m.: LIVE RADIO PERFORMANCE by ANNA FRIZ

Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist who divides her time between Montreal and Toronto. For the past eight years she has predominantly created self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. She creates dynamic, atmospheric works equally able to reflect upon public media culture or to reveal interior landscapes. Friz has presented installation and performance works across Canada and in international media art contexts such as the Third Coast Audio Festival, Chicago; Digitales, Brussels; Club Transmediale, Berlin; Ars Electronica, Linz; die Akademie der Künste, Berlin; the Fifth International Biennial of Radio, Mexico City; and Arte Nuevo Interactiva, Yucatan. She has produced numerous original radio works for independent radio across Canada and the U.S., and for public radio in Canada, Austria, Germany, Denmark, and Mexico. Anna is a doctoral candidate in the Communications and Culture programme at York University, Toronto. http://www.free103point9.org/artist.php?artistID=25


6 p.m.: LIVE RADIO PERFORMANCE by TODD MERRELL + PATRICK JORDAN

Between what we can hear and what we can see are frequencies that surround us every day. They come from electrical systems in ships, the sun, cars, weather patterns, the subway, radio, and countless other sources. Every day, every hour, and everywhere, they change. Using a single sideband shortwave receiver and electronics, Todd Merrell will search the airwaves for the electrical fingerprints of Wave Farm on August 5, 2006, and transform these electromagnetic waves into an immersive, musical soundscape, an impression of what Wave Farm sounds and feels like electrically and musically, on that day, in that hour.
Todd Merrell creates immersive, otherworldly, musical soundscapes from electromagnetic radiation in the atmosphere and earth, using single sideband shortwave receivers and electronics. He has performed solo and collaborated with Aidan Baker, Pilotram, Casey Block, Lou Rossi, Patrick Jordan, Craig Colorusso, etc., and performed at numerous venues, including Knitting Factory, Issue Project Room, and Galapagos Art Space. His solo album 'Neptune' was released in February 2006 on Dreamland Recordings in Australia, and his work will appear on 'Compiled Sounds Vol. 1' on Transient Frequency in New York.
www.toddmerrell.com

Patrick Jordan works with with single sideband shortwave receivers and a variety of media, and has collaborated with Todd Merrell, Aidan Baker, Jake Bell, and Dan Gardopee, among others. His frequent collaborations with Todd Merrell have garnered critical praise from The New Art Examiner, P-Form Performance Art Magazine, and The Hartford Advocate.

7 p.m.: LIVE RADIO PERFORMANCE by DAMIAN CATERA

Damian Catera is an electro-acoustic composer/guitarist, sound installation creator and media artist. Catera's work reflects interests in sound-based composition/ improvisation, transmission, and socio-political critique. Recently he's been performing improvised "deCompositions" for live electronics, radio, and guitar. Catera's "deCompositional" process consists of an expanded instrument system, which samples and probabilistically processes live sound with algorithms, which he wrote in the MAX/ MSP programming environment. The end product is a constantly evolving, machine-improvised soundscape that is distinct in each implementation. Catera's sound installations reflect his interest in site-specific sound manipulation and surveillance, which he achieves with software also written in the MAX/ MSP programming environment. Catera has performed improvised solo guitar/ radio/ computer-based pieces abroad and in the U.S. including New York venues the Knitting Factory, the Kitchen, and The Cooler among many others. He has also performed in the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Slovakia. In March of 2000 he performed in the "La Primavera en Habana" festival in Cuba. During the spring of 1999, Catera toured the United States with Japanese sound artist and Zeni Geva guitarist K.K. Null. http://www.free103point9.org/artist.php?artistID=11


8 p.m.: Lycaon Pictus will perform a set of their songs.

"Brooklyn art-punks Lycaon Pictus once would've fit just fine on Ralph Records, though how their deranged dirges creepy-crawl though post-nuclear slime owes as much to Pere Ubu as to Tuxedomoon.” -Chuck Eddy, Village Voice



Radio Festival is made possible, in part, by the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts; and with public funds from the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by the Greene County Council on the Arts.


Wave Farm Summer Events 2006

live_feed: hybrid cuisine from the new radio kitchen.
A foodradio_network event hosted by Andrew Burrell and the Sydney College of the Arts Hybrid Radio Research Group. Thus breakfast radio event incorporates live feeds from Adelaide and San Francisco and a public breakfast event in a Sydney gallery. This event is part of a three week long exhibition and event program - "Aural Degustation, Tasty Bites to Feed the Ears" at the SCA Galleries, in the Sydney suburb of Rozelle.

::::Destructo Swarmbots (PublicGuilt Records) [ http://www.destructoswarmbots.com/ ] [live video][ http://www.publicguilt.com/ds-northsix.mpg ] [live video][ http://www.publicguilt.com/DS-northsix2.mpg ] Functioning as a 2 piece, but occasionally appearing as a solo act, DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS has toured extensively, including two US tours(one in support of Italy’s ZU) and a European tour in support of New Jersey’s avant-hip hop act, DÄLEK, which saw DS joining DÄLEK and German legends, FAUST, on stage for an 8 man performance at the Bad Bonn Kilbi festival in Dudingen, Switzerland. DS has also shared the stage with GUAPO, THE BUG, DONNA SUMMER, HANIN ELIAS, ODDATEEE, and THE NEW FLESH. DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS has released a self-titled, tour only CD and the full length, “2” available on Creepy Dog Eyes. They also remixed the ISIS song, “From Sinking”, which appears on ISIS Oceanic Remixes Vol. 4 LP available on Robotic Empire and the Japanese edition available on Daymare Recordings, which collects all 4 LPs together as a 2CD set. DS recently collaborated with Baltimore’s DRUMMACHINEGUN for a release which will see the light of day in 2005. DS member, Mike Mare, is also one half of the group MUNG, whose forthcoming debut, "Dididau," is slated to be mixed by Hans Joachim Irmler of FAUST.
::::ConstantMauk [ http://myspace.com/constantmauk ] ConstantMauk is Kelly Nourse of Harm Stryker [ http://harmstryker.org ]. Constant Mauk explores the depths of minimalism in noise and feedback based manipulation, incorporating lo-fi devices such as micro-cassette recorders with unconventional mixing techniques.
::::Harm Stryker [ http://harmstryker.org ] Harm Stryker is Kelly Nourse (aka ConstantMauk), & Kenneth Yates. Harm Stryker needs no introduction.
::::Insects with Tits [ http://myspace.com/insectswithtits ] If you'd hooked up a transducer to the key at the end of Ben Franklin's kite it might have sounded something like this: A slowly gathering storm filled with birdish chirps in the upper-mid and a pea-soup fog of bristling drone, until everything erupts into the kind of cleansing rain Travis Bickle dreamed of. Dark ambience is the focus but not the rule, as there's an earthy beauty inside these howling machines. Cells divide, electromagnetism radiates, blood pumps, gravity pulls. It's noise music, yes, but the kind that envelops and keeps you company on lonely evenings. Insects with Tits is Roger Smith of Chefkirk & Kenneth Yates of Harm Stryker, both of Virginia. Their project is an experiment, like the best things in life-- a politically and socially explicit venture with a focus on vegan action.
::::Chefkirk [ http://tibprod.com/chefkirk.html ] Chefkirk is Roger Smith (Insects With Tits) a combination of improvised drone and harsh electronics squeezed from a minimal arsenal of glitchy instruments and feedback loops. The ever prolific Chefkirk, given the amount of releases he has produced since the inception of Chefkirk in 2003 has released records on TibProd, AudioBot, Brise-Cul, ScratchNSniff Entertainment, Retinascan, Carbon Records, 804noise and others. Chefkirk is a socially and politically charged venture, focusing mostly on the issue of animal rights. This theme shows up frequently in Chefkirk releases in some form or another, whether it's through quotes, artwork, or other abstract conceptions that promote the ethical treatment of animals. More information about 804noise and other upcoming events please visit http://804noise.org/events.html