"The Bird's Nest" adapts Eugene Sue's 19th C. serial novel for the radio. This live radio play is a preview of next Thursday's live show at Zebulon. Tune in internet stream to watch video and hear audio.

Composer and trombonist Christopher McIntyre has been developing a number of large ensemble projects in the past few years, both as a leader and collaborator. Several of them will fill Roulette\'s stage during this event, including TILT Brass Band, Lotet and Ne(x)tworks. A thread that carries through each group is both technical and spiritual: mapping the space between composition and improvisation. In the process of making pieces for these bands, an immersive and colorful aesthetic has emerged in McIntyre\'s work.

Tonight\'s program offers a full evening of this repertoire, as well as new works commissioned by Roulette with support from the Jerome Foundation and performed by an impressive array of new music�s heaviest-hitters, including Joan La Barbara, Cornelius Dufallo, Miguel Frasconi, Peter Evans and Nate Wooley.

The first half of the performance features scores written for the composer/performer band Ne(x)tworks. The set includes the premiere of Herkimer, a hybrid multimedia score of cellular and strategic notation. Ne(x)tworks is Joan La Barbara (voice,) Stephen Gosling (piano,) Kenji Bunch (viola,) Yves Dharamraj (cello,) Cornelius Dufallo & Ariana Kim (violins,) Shelley Burgon (harp,) Miguel Frasconi (glass instruments,) Peter Evans (trumpet) and McIntyre (trombone.) free103point9's Tianna Kennedy will assist with the technical infrastructure of the piece.

Members of the McIntyre-led ensembles TILT Brass Band and Lotet, along with some very special guests, join forces on the second half to perform a set of isomorphic musical structures. Grouped in pairs, the instrumentation on hand fuses the timbral bliss of TILT with the low frequency undulations of Lotet\'s live-electronics. With: Nate Wooley & CJ Camerieri (flugel horn & trumpet,) Curtis Hasselbring & Joe Fiedler (trombones,) Ron Caswell, Joe Exely (tubas,) Charles Waters (bass clarinet,) Colin Stetson (bass saxophone,) Kato Hideki, John King (electronics,) Ryan Sawyer, Mick Rossi (percussion) and McIntyre (trombone & conductor.) Visit Chris's website for more info.

Fall events are at The New Roulette Performance Space - 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets). Performances begin at 8:30pm. Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242 Admission: $15 / Location One, Harvestworks and DTW members, Students & Seniors: $10 Roulette members: free.

Featuring The Bird's Nest's DJs.

Giant Ear_ January 2007 Playlist
Monthly online radio show from New York Society for Acoustic Ecology

1. Res Extensa by Gabriel Paiuk 38’25” Selections from Bogota soundscapes, a series of soundscape studies of locations throughout the city of Bogotá by Colombian architect/artist/musician Mauricio Bejarano.
2. Plaza De Bolivar 6’57”
3. Domingo 4’36”
4. Tren De Paso 3’00”
5. Parque De Usaquén 6’40”
6. Viernes Santo 4’49”
7. Hora 0/00 3’16”
8. Carrera 7a 3’22”
9. La Estacion 4’58”
10. Shunyata, an improvisation by Brian Moran (electronics) and Matt Hannafin (percussion), recorded outdoors in a backyard in Brooklyn.
11. A Walk Through L by Dan Warburton. A composition based on field recordings made by Warburton during a walk around Fairhaven Lake, Lytham, Lancashire, England on April 9th 2003.

Friday afternoon broadcast of a piece made from Matthew Ostrowski's AIRtime residency at free103point9 Wave Farm in Oct., 2006. His description:

A Theory of Meaning
How is it that we see something when we hear something? How does language actually _work_? This is a miracle I can barely understand when an actual person is speaking to me: I hear a series of noises which activate my imagination, see things that aren't there, empathize with people that I can't see (or don't even exist). On the radio it's even more perplexing. There is no visible speaker, utterances emerge from a machine in one's living room, but yet we follow a story, imagine a person who utters these mysterious noises we call language, and understand their ideas. With no human contact, language, a force larger than we are, works.

"A Theory of Meaning" is a radio play for speakers who don't exist.

Art’s Birthday 2007: Adore and be still. 100 years of radio

free103point9 will air two web streams: one will pick up the entire Kunstradio "Art's Birthday Party" feed, and another will simultaenously air a feed from various free103point9 Transmission Artists to contribute to Kunstradio's feed.

Art's Birthday Party is a celebration in memory of Robert Filliou who declared, on January 17 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years ago when someone dropped a dry sponge into a pail of water. After Filliou's death in 1987, some artists began to celebrate Art's Birthday in the spirit of his concept of "The Eternal Network" or "La Fete permanente". The Birthday parties took place in different cities across the world, and artists were asked to bring birthday presents for Art – works that could be shared over the network.

On Christmas 1906, on the other hand, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden undertook the very first radio broadcast of voice and music. Luckily, he had the foresight to time his experiment exactly, its 100th anniversary practically coinciding with the 1,000,044th birthday of Art.

free103point9 joins this coordinated international broadcast from Kunstradio in Austria. January 17th, 2007 from 20:00 - 24:00 CET, 19:00 - 23:00 GMT.

Giant Ear))) playlist, 01.21.07
From New York Society for Acoustic Ecology.
Curated by Ricardo Arias.
1. R. Murray Schaffer. On Acoustic Ecology (1973) 20:24
2. Ricardo Arias. Civitella Ranieri Castle, Umbertide, Umbria, Italy (July 2004) _Morning_10:30_Noon_3:00_Night_10:30_Night+Village party_3:30
3. Mauricio Alvarez. Sounds of the birds of Colombia (excerpts from three CDs documenting the avian populations present in the eastern mountain range of the Colombian Andes. (~30:00)
4. David Behrman. Sound for a Film by Robert Watts (1968) 20:24
5. Francizco López. La Selva (1997) (first 20 minutes)

Gigantic ArtSpace [GAS] and free103point9 are pleased to present [silence], a exhibition focused on artists' uses of and responses to silence - as manifested in sculpture, in installation, in composition, in works on paper, and in time-based practices. The works on view address the futility of the chase, the beauty of absence, and the rich potential of an empty signal. Works from: Matthew Burtner, Jeroen Diepenmaat, Michael Graeve & Christoph Dahlhausen, Pablo Helguera, Douglas Henderson, Pierre Huyghe, Tarikh Korula & Tianna Kennedy, David La Spina, LoVid, Juan Matos Capote, Lee Ranaldo, Douglas Repetto, Michelle Rosenberg, Stephen Vitiello, and James Woodfill. Curated by Dylan J. Gauthier and Galen Joseph-Hunter.

Opening reception: Wednesday, January 31, 6-9 pm at Gigantic Art Space, 59 Franklin Street, New York, NY 10013.
Opening night performances from Mathew Burtner 7 & 8 pm. With Ian Epps, Aaron Halley, Tom Mulligan, and Jeremy Slater.
Sound program: A Call for Silence, curated by Nicolas Collins. Courtesy Sonic Arts Network.
Saturday performance series: 4:33 pm featuring Michelle Nagai (2/10), Michael Graeve with Tianna Kennedy (2/17), and 31 Down (2/24).

ABOUT THE WORKS

By compounding the energy of the FM signal, Matthew Burtner's performance Study 1.0 (feedback) for radio transceiver revisits the artist's childhood in Alaska and his ensuing focus on open communication in unoccupied places. David La Spina will present photographs of Burtner's performance at the opening reception - a sort of residual, feedback hum of the opening night.

Juan Matos Capote combines painting, sculpture, and field recordings in Series H, a study of accumulation, absence, and the nature of that which is imagined but unpronounced.

In Jeroen Diepenmaat's pour des dents d'un blanc éclatant et saines. dead birds are reunited with their lost birdsong through the preservational power of phonography.

Michael Graeve and Christoph Dahlhausen create an inaudible, synesthetic feedback loop between two divergent but thematically similar art practices with their minimalist cadavre-exquise, Dialog 1.2.

Pablo Helguera presents new work gleaned from the series Dead Languages Conservatory, last words from all-but-lost languages.

Douglas Henderson exhibits a series of sculptures involving ultra low-level sound components, water, and the visual language of sine-waves.

Pierre Huyghe's Partition de silence (Score of silence) is a transcription of Cage's silent masterwork 4'33” (1952) into a flute sonata achieved via a sound-to-MIDI converter program.

Tarikh Korula and Tianna Kennedy will create a recording stylus in an attempt to unlock the Archeoacoustic sound dormantly sealed in found and historic objects around New York City.

Hearing Red continues the collaborative LoVid's work in blurring sensory boundaries through the use of electrical signals and synaesthetic output: in this case, a pure "Red" video signal is played as "sound" through a speaker, taking its form from the frequency of the video signal.

Lee Ranaldo's 4 organs combines thematic and visual data from Robert Smithson and Steve Reich to reach a third, distended point between the suspension of their respective oeuvres.

Douglas Repetto will realize a new version of the installation, puff bang reverb, a kinetic sculpture and semi-accurate, two-dimensional hyper-zoom, which exposes the secret life of displaced air molecules.

Michelle Rosenberg will present a new series of Ornamental Headphones that reassess our collective, compulsive culture of listening.

Stephen Vitiello's Trio, employs low-frequency sine tones to force the surface of a number of speakers to pulse and vibrate in patterns visible to the eye yet inaudible to human ears.

James Woodfill's film 60hz derives its subject from the constant and pervasive flow of electricity throughout our environment to alter our perceptions of time and movement.

CD release for The Dust Dive Flash's "Tens of Thousands" CD, plus Radio 4x4: Tune (In))) with 31 Down + Anna Friz + Todd Merrell + Tom Roe, and solo performances from Todd Merrell, Joshua Fried, and a performance from ben owen + gil arno. Donation at the door for musicians tba.

THE DUST DIVE FLASH CD RELEASE
Release show for Tens of Thousands CD from The Dust Dive Flash. All songs written and performed by Laura Ortman (violin, vocals, electric guitar, piano, chord organ, casio) of The Dust Dive. CD recorded by Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans, etc.).

RADIO 4x4 TUNE (IN)))
No amplified sound; audience members will get loaned radios with headphones to choose to listen to the four individual performances or the mixed group performance on five radio channels. The performers will each use radio frequencies in this performance: 31 Down (receiving phone calls via web) + Anna Friz (performing by phone from Montreal) + Todd Merrell (using shortwave receptions) + Tom Roe (using FM, AM, police scanner, and other frequencies). Friz will be phoning in "a live outdoor transmission for story, instruments, and weather," from Canada. A phone number will be available to call-in to the 31 Down portion of the performance. And Merrell and Roe will add the sounds of the local frequencies.

RADIO WONDERLAND
Shoes, steering wheel, boombox, laptop: turning live radio into recombinant funk. From Joshua Fried: remixer, performance artist and the youngest composer in Schirmer's American Music in the 20th Century.

TODD MERRELL SOLO PERFORMANCE
Since 1978, Todd Merrell has been fascinated with the imperceptible environment of electromagnetic radiation that shortwave radio and processing can capture, and transform into an immersive, musical environment. "The focus of the work is not on acheiving any particular musical moment, but on the ephemerality of sonic transformation itself. Unlike compositions that utilize radio in part for its referential or signifying qualities, [Merrell] is more in the minimalist tradition of relying on the primacy of the material itself. The work is a celebration of the radio as material and of the belief that minutiae and limited systems can yield rich results. Merrell studied music composition and voice at Berklee College of Music, and with composer James Sellars of the Hartt School. His works have been performed by The New York Festival Of Song, Chicago A Capella, and double bassist Robert Black of Bang On A Can Allstars.

ben owen + Gill Arno

free103point9 Dispatches for sale
free103point9 Audio Dispatch series available for sale at Black & White Gallery during the entire show.

Frequencies (a series of exhbitions and events taking place February 2 - March 5, 2007) is artist Jordon Schranz's curatorial debut, which was inspired by the culmination of experiences and people encountered during five years of touring and performing within the avant-rock and free-jazz scenes. He owes much to his partnership with artist/musician Marie Evelyn, and to Steve Trimboli of Goodbye Blue Monday -- who have helped greatly in the conceptualization and creation of this show.

Frequencies is about connectedness -- a scene, a community.

Frequencies is an experiential and holistic exhibition which captures facets of the DIY community and extends outside the physical bounds of the gallery -- referencing both "public art" and "life as art" movements. It questions the artist-viewer vs. musician-audience relationships, and thus the cognitive division between visual art and music, gallery and rock venue. The Black & White Gallery in Williamsburg will be visually and functionally converted into an experimental music space; and over twenty performances will take place within and outside the gallery throughout the month, further blurring the division between staged performance and living art. Additional venues -- including Goodbye Blue Monday, Cake Shop, Glasslands, free103point9 Project Space, The Tank @ Collective:Unconscious, The Tooth, and Raven's Den -- will serve both as galleries and as concrete manifestations of the intangible music community.

Other "frequencies" contributors include: Ahnfinod, Amy Bagwell, Blaise Siwula, Brian Osborne, Cakes of Light, Cake Shop, Carolina Caycedo, Carrie Villines, Chris Lawson, Coloursounds (Adam Kriney), Daniel Carter, Deborah Johnson, Diana Nowitsky, Drayton Sawyer Gang, Dysrhythmia, the eASTERN sEABOARD, Extra Life (Charlie Looker), free103point9, Ganung Sari, George Steeltoe Ensemble, Glasslands, Goodbye Blue Monday (Steve Trimboli), Gregory Reynolds, Hundred Eyes, ID M Theftable, James Smith, Jason Ajemian, Jason Smallwood, Jay Dunbar, Jen Campbell, Jim Wright, John Mitchell, Jordanna Kalman, Jordon & Marie, Jordon Schranz, Joy Kennedy, Julianna Barwick, Kate Henderson, The KillMeTrio, Lara Kohl, Lauren Luloff, Lay All Over It, Magnets for Teeth, Maria Chavez, Marie Evelyn, Matt Hart, Matt Mottel, Matt Varvil, Mercat, Mike Pride, Mothguts, Nate Plotkin, Necking, Orbis Tertius, Pendu Sound Recordings (Todd Brooks), Quaker Meeting, QUIVERS, Raven's Den, Rebecca Clemencia Adams, Robert Whitman, ROTC, Serge FJ Levey, Shawn L. Smith, Sparks, Spin-17, Stanley Ruiz, Talibam!, The Tank @ Collective:Unconscious, This Frontier Needs Heroes, Tianna Kennedy, Todd Rosenbaum, Tom Vanderwall, Tony Miller, The Tooth / Houndstooth, Travis Laplant, Tyler Baum, Unicornicopia, Violence Jazz, Violent Raid (M.V. Carbon), and Who Cares How Long You Sink.

"Memory Fountain," site-specific installation by Michael Dominick, will continue in the outdoor space.