From Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson with Sally Ann Duke. 'Flugor' is the third piece in a series written for retuned recorders with electronic manipulations. The composition explores a magnitude of notes within a very limited range.

Long Distance Sitting Piece: Untitled Sit for Your Aetheric Body
By Michelle Nagai
For a network of 11 European-based art radio stations and free103point9.

This work is one in a series of sitting pieces. A collection of (usually live) performance works, these sitting pieces share several common themes, one of which is the presence of the performer and the listener in one "space" together. This broadcast's subtitle, Untitled Sit, is the generic label for a series of compositions originally devised for live performance in private homes. Each work, created and performed by the composer, is centered around the presence of a still and silent seated figure in close physical proximity to the audience. Variations on the basic form are permitted, and in all cases, a free-form exchange of sensory information is encouraged between performer, viewer and environment. This is an interactive radio broadcast.

Tom Roe hosts an FM transmitter workshop live on free103point9 Online Radio. Watch video and audio from Wave Farm as he explains how transmitters and antennae work, and how anyone can set up a micro radio station.

This show is part of free103point9's Tenth Anniversary Celebration March-Oct., 2007.

Part of Deep Wireless festival.
8 pm at The Drake Hotel Underground 1150 Queen Street W., Toronto TICKETS: PWYC ($5 suggested)
Reserve your tickets by calling 416-910-7231.

The Ambient Ping presents Radio in Ambience once again. Listen to Toronto/Berlin sound artist Robert Hoare and the Halifax duo Stephen Kelly and Eleanor King as they coax the radio ether into an outer-worldly electro ambient chill.

free103point9 transmission artist Anna Friz and Eric Leonardson stop by Wave Farm for a live performance. Video and audio stream available at www.free103point9.org.

"Dancing walls stir the prairies"

Anna Friz + Eric Leonardson

"Sleep on, nothing remains. Dancing walls stir the prairies
and America drowns itself in machinery and lament.
I want the powerful air from the deepest night
to blow away flowers and inscriptions from the arch
where you sleep..."

-Federico Garcia Lorca, 1929

Anna Friz and Eric Leonardson are two sound/radio artists who live across the Great Lakes from one another: Anna in Toronto, Eric in Chicago. These cities are often called "sister cities": two large North American metropolitan cities that sprawl across the lakeshore and landscape; two cities that are similar in the way that Western cities often are, and nonetheless very different in history and character.

We propose to listen below the the newly-armed border rising between the two countries, below the surface of the map, below the opposing rhetorics of Fortress North America and calls for the U.S. to build a concrete wall between the two countries. We listen instead for the rhythms of daily movement in our respective places, and seek to enunciate the sounds in the cities that we hear and that haunt our dreams. In this we begin to play together, to mingle field recordings and music to create modulations of these two places. In so doing we conjure a third, composite, imagined city that resonates somewhere between the two geographical locations.

Anna Friz favours instruments that breathe and oscillate; employing accordion, concertina, harmonica, theremin, radio samples, ambient field recordings, and voice to conjure unusual sonic spaces. For Eric Leonardson instruments lie in the detritus of everyday life. He employs a self-made instrument that he calls the Springboard, an electroacoustic percussion instrument made from inexpensive and readily available materials. Applying his percussion skills to the rich enharmonic timbres of coil springs, plastic combs, pocket radio and crude wooden daxophones, Leonardson's work has been described as "...ritualistic music, electronically synthesized industrial vibrations miraculously created with ordinary household objects...."—Carol Burbank, Chicago Reader

Join us for our first volunteer meeting at free103point9's new New York City-based space at 338 Berry St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (between S. 3rd and S. 4th Sts., on the second floor). This shared studio will be used for Radio Labs, online radio shows, artist meetings and performances, as well as volunteer work. 338 Berry St. is also a project of the August Sound Collective, a group of independent sound/ transmission artists, journalists, and musicians.

Phone 917-297-1537 to be let in the door upon your arrival.

Karlheinz Stockhausen's classic work _Kontakte_ will be presented by Kevin Austin (Montreal) in its original 4-channel version, a rare treat, alongside _Figures de la Nuit / Faces of the Night_ by Francis Dhomont and other works included on the newly released Deep Wireless 4 radio art compilation CD. _Kontakte_ predates many trends in electronic music by decades and was produced at the famous WDR studios in Koln, Germany in 1959.

Francis Dhomont's lush bilingual radiophonic work _Figures de la Nuit / Faces of the Night_ was commissioned by CKLN, Toronto in 1991 for the radio program Transfigured Night hosted by David Olds. This concert will be spatialized by NAISA artistic director Darren Copeland. Free CD with admission.

Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio, www.free103point9.org.

The fifth annual Radio Without Boundaries conference makes Deep Wireless an internationally sought after destination for those with a general interest in radio and transmission art or even those who just want something more from radio. The 2007 confirmed all-star line-up of radio art illuminaries include: Hans Urlich Werner, R. Murray Schafer, microradio guru Tetsuo Kogawa, US radio art satirist Gregory Whitehead, and Deep Wireless resident artists Harmon e. Phraisyar, Eleanor King and Stephen Kelly. Two day Conference admission gets you into May 25 and 26 performances for free.

Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio, www.free103point9.org. DATES: May 25 - 27 TIMES: 9 am to 5 pm TICKET PRICES $150 / $130 (students/community radio programmers) Early Bird discount: take of $20 if you register before March 1st! VENUE: Ryerson Student Centre, Alumni Room, 55 Gould Street, Toronto For more information: 416-910-7231 or naisa@naisa.ca

From Zachary Watkins. Field recordings, organ, tape loops and tuned feed back. Computer noise, piano and 60Hz. hum. Recorded time and place, with overlapping memories and a dangerous bamboo stick fight. Zachary Watkins studied composition at Cornish College and Electronic Music at Mills College. Zachary was awarded a Mills Research Grant and was recently awarded the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for Composition for his piece Suite for String Quartet. He has been commissioned by clarinetist Beth Fleenor, Cornish College of the Arts, Trio Metrik and the sFSoundGroup. Zachary recently performed at the 2006 International Computer Music Conference with his band The Pink Canoes. During October of 2006, Zachary was an artist in residence at the Espy Foundation.

DJ Pause is guest turntabilist this week on Radio Ruido's "Triangulation" show from Brooklyn.
INTRO > Damian Catera - deComposition REDHOOK v.1 - Radio deComposition - HarshHouse
ENTER > DJ PAUSE > live chaos on deck:
1) Barrington Levy & Beenieman - Under mi Sensi - 7"
2) Peego & Fatman w/ King Tubby All-stars - CRANK ANGLE - Firehouse 7"
3) mash up... Tubby's Pressure Soundes 85-89...Firehouse revolution 12"
4) Sly & Robbie - Computer Malfunction - 7"
5) Sizzla - Define Yourself - Ixat/ Duplate Music 7"
6) Tippa Lee & Rappa Robert - Too Bright - Roots Tradition 7"
7) Bong-Rah - fiyahhwrkkxx drop breakcore - vampireyouth
8) Duppy vs. Snake - Chopstick Dubplate MX
9) Group Doesh - Guitar music from the Western Sahara
10) Sonde - Face B - dub version - Percepts 10"
TAG TEAM : RADIO RUIDO >>
11) Haj Mohammed Damciri - Irabbi Lward - Tichkaphone- (Morocco)
12) Hamza el Din - Hoi to Irkil Fagiu - Nonesuch Explorer - (Nubia)
13) Ali Khencheli - Kijuna men Ain Mlila/Quand nous - (Algeria)
14) Andrew Deutsch - Loop 2 - Loops over Land (USA)
15) Sussan Deyhim & Shirin Neshat - Fervor 1/Fervor 2 - Turbulent (Morocco)
OUTRO > DJ PAUSE :
16) Teleseen - Xion Gate : Pendle Coven remix - Percepts
17 ) Rhythm & Sound - Simeyah - (Sleeparchive remix)

Tonight's talk will be an informal discussion of the genre of transmission art as well as a sampling of tianna kennedy's past and future projects. It's free! Come visit with us!

A night of free radio and free music: free103point9 transmission artist Anna Friz favours instruments that breathe and oscillate; employing accordion, concertina, harmonica, theremin, radio samples, ambient field recordings, and voice to conjure unusual sonic spaces. For Chicago sound artist Eric Leonardson instruments lie in the detritus of everyday life. He employs a self-made instrument that he calls the Springboard, an electroacoustic percussion instrument made from inexpensive and readily available materials. Joining them will be a duo with legendary saxophonist Jack Wright and percussionist Andrew Drury. Members of the NYSAE, Edmund Mooney, Andrea William and Andrea Callard will play field recordings. Performances will be streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.

Co-hosted by The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE), a membership organization dedicated to exploring and promoting public dialog concerning sound in NYC, free103point9 is a nonprofit arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating the genre Transmission Arts by promoting artists who explore ideas around transmission as a medium for creative expression. Anna Friz and Eric Leonardson

ANNA FRIZ is a sound and radio artist who divides her time between Montreal and Toronto. Since 1998 she has predominantly created self-reflexive radio art for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. She also employs instruments and electronics to create dynamic, atmospheric works equally able to reflect upon public media culture or to reveal interior landscapes. Anna is a free103point9 transmission artists. ERIC LEONARDSON has been performing in Chicago since 1982. He creates sound for theater, film, and live performance with an invented instrument he calls the Springboard. Leonardson's work has been described as "...ritualistic music, electronically synthesized industrial vibrations miraculously created with ordinary household objects...."—Carol Burbank, Chicago Reader

Jack Wright and Andrew Drury
JACK WRIGHT has been a bold saxophonist, originally focused on free jazz and now largely using the instrument simply to create sound. Either on tour or organizing the next one, he has played in virtually every venue available to experimental improvised music in the US, and many in Europe as well. In 1982 he began Spring Garden Music as a vehicle for organizing an improvisational music community, and he currently plays with about fifty partners in Europe and the US. As a musical explorer his music ranges widely in vocabulary, depending on the situation and partners, yet always somehow identifiable as his own. These days he is playing mostly alto and soprano saxophones, in every possible direction, sometimes even recognizable as such. He lives in Easton, which enables him to commute easily to NYC and Phila. He is also increasingly active in Europe, touring both sides of the Atlantic with European musicians. He has released 35 recordings, samples of which are available at his website: www.springgardenmusic.com

ANDREW DRURY percussion http://www.andrewdrury.com/bio.html

Special guest Maria Chavez joins Radio Ruido for a live webcast.

May 2007 Giant Ear)))
"In Memoriam"
Hosted by Todd Shalom
1. Charles Morrow, "Anurae" (2:38)
2. Sean Clute, "Outside Your View" (4:08)
3. Susanna Carlisle, "Illuminations" (4:35)
4. Nick Fox-Gieg, "Elegy" (1:43)
5. Christopher Edwards, "Traffic" (5:13)
6. Glen Bach, "Bridge Elegy" (3:17)
7. Arc Minute, "Bola" (5:38)
8. Randall Potts, "Song for Dying" (0:45)
9. Marcelo Radulovich, "Miel" (18:27)
10. Rodrigo Cienfuegos, "Farewell" (1:58)
11. PSBEUYS, "Farewell" (5:35)
12. Nick Mariette, "Binaural Tooth Extraction" (14:20)
13. Stuart Sperling, "WTC Site October 5, 2001 (excerpt)" (27:44)
14. Matthew Sansom and Jim Harold "Last 30min (excerpt)" (14:32)

Jarrad Powell is a composer whose work involves a variety of media, including chamber music, music for theater and dance, and sound installation. Powell is an Associate Professor at Cornish College of the Arts and is also Director of Gamelan Pacifica in Seattle. Jarrad Powell has an interest in the music of Asia, and is especially noted for his work with gamelan. He was born in Montana in 1948 and studied music from an early age, including piano, percussion, and guitar. He received his M.A. in music composition from Mills College, where he studied with Anthony Braxton, Conlon Nancarrow, David Rosenboom, Pauline Oliveros and Larry Polansky and received the prestigious Paul M. Henry Award for excellence in music composition. He has also studied Javanese gamelan extensively with a number of teachers, including K.R.T. Wasitodiningrat, Endo Suando, Antonius Sutrisna, Supardi, and Sri Djoko Rahardja. Mr. Powell has been a faculty member at Cornish College of the Arts since 1987, where he is currently Associate Professor. He is also Director of Gamelan Pacifica, Artistic Director of the Seattle Creative Orchestra, and co-director of Composer/Choreographer: new dialogues dance, music, media. He has recorded for What Next? Recordings, Periplus, Mode Records, New Albion, O.O. Discs, and the Leonardo Music Journal.

Radio Ruido hosts this show live from Brooklyn, often with guest turntablists.

The final presentation of the Rome stop on the Summer 2007 tour of the Subliminal History of New York State, shape note singing and story telling of truer than true stories about Rome, NY.

Radio Ruido's "Triangulation" show, and ben owen's "Radio Home Listen" show both originate this week from free103point9's new Brooklyn home at 338 Berry St. in Brooklyn. "Triangulation" will include special guest Giancarlo Bracchi aka DJ Mangoon. Tune in for experimental sounds, and watch video live from free103point9 Online Radio at www.free103point9.org.

Many thanks to all of the extraordinary folks who helped out: Jean Cook, Fran Spiegel, Takashi Murata, Tarikh Korula, Mara Barenbaum, Roshan Abraham, Ryosuke Takasaki, Mark Anderson, Cameron Hull, Sarah Margaret Halpern, Tristen Shepherd, and Owen Agnew. It was a terrific weekend. - Galen Joseph-Hunter, Tianna Kennedy, and Tom Roe.

Current free103point9 volunteers and others who would like to become free103point9 volunteers are invited to help work on the future Wave Farm Study Center. Volunteers are also urged to perform on live audio and video web stream of the barn-raising. free103point9 will put up volunteers at Wave Farm, feed everyone, and coordinate rides for those coming from New York City. Please contact Tom Roe at tr @ free103point9. org for more information.

Peformances from:
1 p.m.: DJ Dizzy
3 p.m.: Miloh

This show is part of free103point9's Tenth Anniversary Celebration March-Oct., 2007.

Tonight's guest composer, Stephen Fandrich, presents "Polos" for piano. "Polos" is made of harmonies and gestures inspired by the concept of harmonic space. Stephen Fandrich is a piano soloist, improviser and composer as a member of the group Monktail Creative Music Concern, as well as a vocalist and overtone singer as a member of Gamelan Pacifica. He is also founder and director of the Seattle Harmonic Voices.

Artist Carrie Dashow and shape note singer and composer Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg of the Society for a Subliminal State will bring their touring community art, video, and music project, the Subliminal History of New York State to six towns and cities along the Erie Canal this June and July.
This show is culminating performance of the Lockport stop on the Subliminal History of New York State tour of the Route of Progress. A participatory performance featuring shape note singing and storytelling. All present join in the performance to tell the subliminal history of the town. Tune in to live webcast.

Selections from a year's worth of combing the record stores and online radio show archives - collecting the Mighty Food Song - 400 and running.

The playlist will include special treats such as: "Snap Crackle Pop," The Rolling Stones (Rice Crispies advertisement); "Porcupine Pie," Neil Diamond; "Sushi Girl," The Tubes (Chuck's favorite); "Girl in the Chinese Restaurant"; The Fly Ashtray, "Maximum Consumption," The Kinks; "Chips, Chicken and Banana," Jo Jo and the Fugitives; "Hot Dogs," Blind Lemon Jefferson, and more.

"Life is a minestrone. Death is a cold lasagna...suspended in deep freeze." - 10cc

Presented in the spirit of George Carlin, who said there was nothing more American than "getting drunk and blowing shit up," here's a playlist of contemporary protest songs for your holiday party! Celebrate the freedom to speak, dance, and burn things--whether it's flags, burgers, bottlerockets, or CDRs!

Tune in for an audio stream of 31 Down's current production: Universal Robots on free103point9 Online Radio 8 - 9:30 p.m.

Radio Theater Presents: Universal Robots.

31 Down returns this summer with a hypnotic sound and image collage inspired by the lives and works of the Brothers Capek, who coined the term robot in the 1920s with their famous science-fiction play, R.U.R. Universal Robots examines the role of technology's advancement in a modern day society in search of utopia. The play fuses dark foreshadowing excerpts from R.U.R. with several other works from the canon of Karel and Josef Capek and the last year of their lives.

The company includes the work and assistance of Ryan Holsopple, Mirit Tal, Shannon Sindelar, Jon Luton, Shauna Kelly, Thom Sibbitt, Jonathan Valuckas, Kelly Tuohy, Justin Tolley, Mike Radosta, Tara Fawn, Benjamin Brown and DJ Mendel. http://31down.org/upcoming.html

Experience Universal Robots in person:
June 28--July 7. No performance Sunday. All shows at 8:00 p.m.
$17/$12 student admission
At the Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church
131 East 10th Street, NYC

Tickets available through Theatermania: 212-352-3101 and at http://www.ontological.com

Presented in association with the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator and developed with the facilities and support of Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre's Digital Performance Institute artist residency program http://www.digitalperformance.org/

Installations and projects from LoVid, Douglas Repetto, Tianna Kennedy and Tarikh Korula, and Michelle Rosenberg are on view at Wave Farm during all public events summer/fall 2007 and by appointment. Email info @ free103point9.org or phone 518-622-2598 to schedule a visit.

Tune(Out)))side:
This outdoors variation of free103point9's Tune(In))) event features artists playing directly into five FM transmitters at free103point9's Wave Farm. No sound is amplified. Attendees tune in with radio headphones (provided) as they explore 30 acres of meadows, forests, and ponds. $5 admission.

Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio. Five channels:

CHANNEL ONE
(entrance stage)
Tianna Kennedy
Todd Merrell
Chris Forsyth
Matt Bua
Edmund Mooney + Jonny Farrow + Andrea Williams
Marievel Knievel
Mara Barenbaum

CHANNEL TWO
(under large tree in the forest)
Gill Arno
Richard Garet
Scott Allison
Andy Graydon
ben owen
Michael Farley
Andy Hayleck
Koen Holtkamp
Bruce Tovsky
Ilya Monosov
Curated by ben owen.

CHANNEL THREE
(stage near the ponds)
Mudboy
Elliot Sharp + Shou Wang
Blues Control
Bunnybrains
QXW
Thick Wisps
Curated by Giancarlo Bracchi.

CHANNEL FOUR
(under the silver sail)
Marina Rosenfeld
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Radio Ruido
Tom Roe
Sarah Margaret Halpern
Oh My Fucking God
Marisa Olson

CHANNEL FIVE
free103point9: Selected Works
A video compilation featuring selected recordings from ten years of free103point9 archives. Compiled and edited by Giancarlo Bracchi.

Join us in celebrating Sing Sun Room coinciding with Tune(Out)))side 2007.

The inaugural work in the Wave Farm Sculpture Garden, Sing Sun ­ Room is an interactive sound sculpture and installation by artist Matt Bua. The project employs an existing mobile home located on the Wave Farm property and creates a custom addition or outgrowth, which functions as a gazebo space that harnesses various elements (wind, water, and solar) in order to transfer them into sound. Wind: Part of the structure wall will be built with embedded whistle technologies, which react to various amounts of wind. Sections of the walls may be opened and closed in order to control or ?play? thematic groupings such as Unison pitches and specific tones.  

Water/Rain: Water/Rain: By devising an acoustic system, which reacts to rain fall, the structure will have a precipitation-reactive voice.

Solar/Sun: The exterior of the structure will be outfitted with custom solar panels; the energy collected will be translated into sound. This technology is based on the solar inventions of Nikola Tesla, who is credited along with Guiglielmo Marconi as having invented radio.Other sounds will be made using experiments of Alessandro Volta, Michael Faraday and others. 

During the planning and construction process Bua will meet with a group of local teens interested in contemporary art and renewable energy practices. Through a series of workshops, the group will learn about individual expression while working collaboratively on visual and sound-based art.  

www.free103point9.org/artist.php?artistID=22
www.overcoat.org


Sing Sun Room Blog

Special guest Che Chen (of True Primes) will perform a DJ set this week on Radio Ruido's "Triangulation."
Che Chen is one half of the band, True Primes, as well as a solo performer who uses stringed instruments, winds, reeds, tape machines, synthesizers, film projections and generally whatever's handy in works heavily influenced by his interest in ritual and folk musics from around the world. True Primes, his duo with singer/percussionist, Rolyn Hu, has an album called We Have Won out on Locust, and Chen has an artist's book due out on the Phaserprone imprint this summer. He is also the editor of O Sirhan, O Sirhan , a private press zine devoted to the presentation of artist's archival materials ranging from musical scores and writings to photographs, drawings, films and videos. OSOS also features interviews and articles on artists and musicians that have so far included Henry Flynt, Jorge Boehringer, Bruce McClure, Mary Halvorson, Animal Collective, Devendra Banhart, Deerhoof, Edie Tsong, Sir Richard Bishop, Mark Gergis, and others. O Sirhan, O Sirhan #2 zine+DVD is due out in Fall of 2007.