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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.

free103point9 volunteers, and anyone who would like to become a free103point9 volunteer is invited to this meeting. free103point9 Program Director Tom Roe will demonstrate how free103point9 streams audio and video, what problems to monitor during webcasts, how to use radio transmitters with free103point9 events. Please contact Tom at tr at free103point9 dot org if you would like to attend, or watch and listen online.
Audio and video of this volunteer meeting will be streamed at http://www.free103point9.org/volunteer.php.

Weekly "Triangulation" show from Radio Ruido at the free103point9 Project Space. Co-curated with Marie Evelyn. This week the doors are open to the public for a show that is part of the "frequencies" show at the Black & White Gallery in Brooklyn.
Performers:

The Holy Experiment
Brooke Gillespie

Skeletons +The Kings of All Cities
As a co-founding member of Shinkoyo records, Ohio-bred/Brooklyn-based Matt Mehlan retains that label’s core ideals of collaboration, experimentation, and unpredictability with his Skeletons project. Beginning in Oberlin, Ohio as a solo act with help from an eclectic cast of collaborators (classically-trained trombonists, punk rock drummers, a junkyard boy's choir).

Mialessot and Old Ghost

DJ Mangoon
Interstitial sounds.

Audio/video web stream begins 7 p.m., performances begin at 8 p.m. at www.free103point9.org. 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.

These are the artists -- they're in bands, performing and recording their own music. They run their own labels with a focused aesthetic not based on a throw-away capitalist society. They fashion their cover art in celebration of the unique, handmade object. They run clubs, venues, and performance spaces, cultivating audiences peripheral to the corporate-run industry. They play music that lies outside the perimeter, expanding and challenging notions of sound, composition, and performance. They make videos, curate and promote concerts, and run independent radio stations. They create the clothes and the posters. They build the stage. They make it happen.

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 gallery interior 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. These 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.

Frequencies 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.

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

Watch video of Mialessot and Old Ghost performance at this show below.

Join us for presentations on free103point9 (Galen Joseph-Hunter and Tom Roe) and by free103point9 Transmission Artists (31 Down and Tianna Kennedy) along with Brad Borevitz at dorkbot's February meeting.

31 Down radio theater: Pay-Phone Theater (free103point9 Transmission Artist)
represented by Mirit Tal and Shannon Sindelar
31 Down is a theater company that uses radio and network technologies as the backbone for their storytelling in performances and installations. 31 Down has provided a TRIXBOX server (based on Asterisk) for free103point9: transmission arts. Transmission Artists with free103point9 now have access to an open source PBX for use in their artwork. Mirit Tal and Shannon Sindelar, of 31 Down, will introduce the use of this server in their upcoming theater projects, including the subway pay-phone mystery installation, Canal Street Station, opening this March. http://www.31down.org

Brad Borevitz: The State of the Union
Lamenting the triumph of iconicity over rhetoricity in political speech, Brad Borevitz created the State of the Union project to consider if evidence for this assertion exists in the language of the the yearly address which stands as a controlled sample over the course of U.S. history. The website provides searchable access to the corpus of all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2007, and uses visualization software which allows a user to explore how specific words gain and lose prominence over time. State of the Union focuses on the relationship between individual addresses as compared to the entire collection of addresses, highlighting what is different about each document. From this information, users are invited to try and understand the connection between politics and language -- between the state we are in, and the language which names it and calls it into being. http://www.onetwothree.net/

Tianna Kennedy (free103point9 Transmission Artist)
Tianna's artistic endeavors are collaborative explorations of human/information interaction with an emphasis on the transmission of affect. Though her work often takes shape via sound recording, web-streaming, and radio technologies, her focus inevitably returns to the people involved in the process(es). For her presentation at dorkbot, Tianna will talk about the paradoxical role of nostalgia in the avant-garde of sound technology. Along the way she'll touch on edison's gramophone, Sir Oliver Lodge's Etheric experiments, and her collaborator, Tarikh Korula's own recent archaeoacoustic stylus, which is supposed to retrieve latent ambient historical sound trapped in objects at the moment of their production. http://www.free103point9.org/artist.php?artistID=10

About free103point9
free103point9 is a non-profit arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating Transmission Arts. This genre includes experimental practices in radio art, video art, light sculpture, and installation and performance utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum. With locations in Upstate and Brooklyn, New York, free103point9 activities support and promote artists exploring transmission frequencies for creative expression. free103point9 programs include 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. www.free103point9.org

About dorkbot
dorkbot-nyc is a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students, scientists, and other interested parties from the new york area who are involved in the creative use of electricity. dorkbot meetings are free and open to the public. Since we started dorkbot-nyc in 2000 many other dorkbots have sprung up around the world. See them all at: http://dorkbot.org

Live performance series as part of [silence] show at Gigantic ArtSpace [GAS]. Performances at 4:33 p.m. on Saturdays at the Manhattan gallery, streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.

Untitled Sit: Watch Your Baby Not the Clock
Untitled Sit is the generic label for a series of compositions originally devised for performance in private homes. Each work is centered around the presence of a still and silent seated figure, the composer. Audience members are invited to join the composer in sitting. While the composer does follow a precise and unique score for each performance, no visible or audible performance act takes place. Instead, there is a free-form exchange of sensory information encouraged between performer, viewer and environment. The score for Untitled Sit: Watch Your Baby Not the Clock draws on Nagai's current occupation as a new mother.

Brooklyn-based composer Michelle Nagai utilizes sound, physicality and concept to create site-specific performances, installations, radio broadcasts, dances, walks and other interactions that address the human state in relationship to its setting. These works and activities explore the exchange of perception between performer and audience/viewer. Nagai recognizes transmission, reception and “limbo” as continuously shifting, highly interactive states of being. She engages these states in her working process in order to open up the field of perception and action beyond that which she is herself capable of comprehending, making or doing.

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).

Click here for more information about the exhibition [silence].

DJ Joerg Lohse of thing.net brings his eclectic mix of recent IDM and electronica to Triangulation. Online audio and video stream at www.free103point9.org.

Live performance series as part of [silence] show at Gigantic ArtSpace [GAS]. Performances at 4:33 p.m. on Saturdays at the Manhattan gallery streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.

[silence], is an 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. See Also:
[silence]
4:33pm Michelle Nagai
4:33pm 31 Down