Noise! is a sound performance festival started in 2005. free103point9 curates for the second year. Each year the "Incubator" program at Ontological Theater hosts a Noise! festival, a three-night multi-arts event designed to promote interest in new forms of sound art. The festival will feature short compositions and performances by established and emerging artists.

Each evening opens with a Radio 4x4 as the audience enters the theater. Radio 4x4 is a free103point9 collaborative radio transmission performance. Four simultaneous audio performances are separately sent through FM transmitters to radios positioned throughout a performance space. Each radio receives only one of the signals, so that the audience becomes an active collaborator in the performance, "mixing" the audio feeds by moving about the space among the four signals. Other artists will perform each evening.

Thursday, May 8
Curated by Tianna Kennedy
Opens with Radio 4x4 with Tianna Kennedy + Mark Anderson + Jordi Wheeler + Tyler Nolan
Lith (Jordi Wheeler)
Diamond Terrifier (featuring Sam Hillmer from the Zs)
Dome Theater (Forrest Gillespie directing "Fucked for Real")

Friday, May 9
Curated by Tom Roe
Opens with Radio 4x4 with Giancarlo Bracchi + Tom Roe + Slink Moss + Michael Garafalo.
Bunnybrains
Michael Garafalo (Latitude/Longitude)
Giancarlo Bracchi
Tom Roe

Saturday, May 10
Curated by Damian Catera
Opens with Radio 4x4 with Damian Catera + () + Tom Roe + John Baird
Skyline
Damian Catera
Andrea Parkins

Watch and listen to video and audio LIVE from Noise! and Experimental Music at Ontological Theater May 8-10, 2008. Refresh browser if image or audio freezes.

Open house for Catskill Community Center's newly renovated Welcome Center with a performance from the Catskill Drum and Bugle Corp. free103point9's Dharma Dailey and Liza Dichter will host information about the new FM community radio station free103point9 is bringing to Greene and Columbia counties. Learn how to do radio interviews, and find out how to get involved in the future FM station. The Greene/Columbia community radio project will start online in the fall, and allow local residents to take the mic, and also air local high school sports, town council meetings, shows for students and parents, seniors, gardeners, and more. At the community center May 10 free103point9 will set up a small radio "studio," and Dailey and others will teach radio journalism skills. In the gym meet CCC program facilitators, and other community groups, and learn more about what the Community Center has to offer. In the gallery, Susan Wides and Fawn Potash will also be showing their photography and mixed-media artwork. Upstairs, children will be able to make art and crafts projects, and take them home for Mother's Day. 5-9 p.m.

Tianna Kennedy will present a series of Radio Lab workshops at the International High School at Prospect Heights. The workshops will introduce students to tips and techniques for recording and editing audio, conducting interviews, webstreaming, and podcasting. Recorded student interviews will be part of a 9 min DVD in collaboration with freeDIMENSIONAL for Zero 1 (SJ01) festival in San Jose June 4-8. About International High School: The International High School @ Prospect Heights empowers recent immigrant students by teaching them fluency in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding English through a rigorous curriculum that is language rich, interdisciplinary, and project based. Students learn to think critically, navigate societal constructs, and prepare for college and other education after high school. Students, staff and families create a caring school environment that promotes collaboration, cross-cultural interaction, and appreciation of diversity. Above all, International High School students become successful contributing members of society and conscientious global citizens of the future. http://www.ihsph.org/

About freeDIMENSIONAL: freeDimensional engages in a particular style of networking that builds on existing resources in the art, media and entertainment sectors in order to engage and financially underwrite direct actions necessary to help culture workers-in-distress and use their stories to illustrate critical, contemporary issues. Art and creativity are often commodified without acknowledgment of the social issues they represent, and thus the relation between culture and society erodes. freeDimensional seeks to strengthen this relation by taking practical steps to ensure individual safety, raise awareness and instigate change. http://www.freedimensional.org/about/index.html

About Zero One Festival: ZER01: The Art and Technology Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring culture on the edge of artand technology. The organization convenes artists and technologists, showcases their collaborative efforts,sponsors artistic initiatives and presents the resulting work to the public. ZER01 is the producer of 01SJ, A Global Festival of Art on the Edge that consists of groundbreaking installations, interactive performances and new cinema. http://01sj.org/

Part of City of Hudson Summer Concert Series. Eight shows. A range of sites and sounds starting May 31 at the Waterfront and ending September 6 at the Fountain Park at 7th Street. Experimental. Rock. Jazz. Circus. Kids Rock. Reggae. Punk. Films. Performance. Fun. Diversity! Free admission. Performances from Neg-Fi, Family of Love, Slink Moss Orchestra, Norman Douglas, Bunnybrains, Franklin's Mint, Hexual Ceiling, and DJ Tom Roe at the Hudson Waterfront Park.

Part of City of Hudson Summer Concert Series. Eight shows. A range of sites and sounds starting May 31 at the Waterfront and ending September 6 at the Fountain Park at 7th Street. Experimental. Rock. Jazz. Circus. Kids Rock. Reggae. Punk. Films. Performance. Fun. Diversity! Free admission. LoVid presents "Wirefull Flags" multi-media event after the fireworks at Hudson's Parc Park. Wirefull Flags: Flags have been used for thousands of years to communicate without words. They can be used to show unity or can express independence and individuality. More recently, electrical wiring has become important for non-verbal communication. Now wires form a network that spans the globe and unifies while allowing individual expression and exploration. This summer, LoVid is presenting a series of Wirefull Interventions, where people have an opportunity to interact with the physical substance of electronic communication, wires. For Wirefull Flags (June 14, 2008 in Hudson, NY), audience will have an opportunity to create their own flags, which they will hang from wires that connect to one of LoVid's sound and video producing instruments. The audience will hold these wires to fly their flags and will simultaneously contribute their individual bodies' electrical signals into a collaborative creation of sound and video.

Radio Action III is a special program for Radio Web MACBA and the next free103point9 Audio Dispatch CD Release. RWM is a radio-phonic project on the MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona) website that explores the possibilities of the internet and radio as spaces of synthesis and exhibition. Radio Action III features five-minute sounds works conceptually tied to 'Radio' as instrument or theme, composed by free103point9 Transmission Artists working in collaborative teams. The resulting program will premiere on RWM on June 18. Works by:
31 Down & Matt Bua
Damian Catera
Alexis Bhagat & Sophea Lerner
Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson
The Dust Dive & Latitude/Longitude
Joshua Fried & Todd Merrell
Anna Friz & Tianna Kennedy
LoVid & Michelle Rosenberg, with Howard Huang
Michelle Nagai with Kenta Nagai
neuroTransmitter
radio_ruido & ben owen
Tom Roe & Scanner

Join free103point9, in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix and Socrates Sculpture Park, for a summertime "drive-in," leaving the car at home and incorporating audience participation. "Cinema On Air" features an evening of projected silent video works, selected from the EAI Collection, accompanied by two simultaneous sound performances heard through radio headphones. Take a seat in the park, tune-in to either of the two live soundtracks, watch the works in silence, or sample all three experiences.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their own radios and headphones. A limited number of radios with headphones will be available on site. (This event will conclude Socrates' Summer Solstice program, which begins at 5 p.m. Cinema On Air will begin at sunset.)

"On discussing the relationship between sound, image, audience, and the poetic moment in cinema, Maya Deren describes a scenario in which a person looks out of a window onto the street while listening to the activity taking place in the room behind them. Here the observer gathers images happening in one direction andsounds happening in another. “...What relates these two moments is your position in relation to the two of them... you stand by the window and have a sense of afternoon, which is neither the children in the street, nor the women talking behind you, but a curious combination of both..."

Motion pictures are fundamentally a collage comprised of still images. These frames are often times accompanied by a sequence of sounds. The audience collects the images through eye sight and the sounds through hearing. In this sense, the audience is the locus of cinema. Tonight's program develops within the audience, in the area where disparate components come together. The park is now an urban drive-in, abandoning the car and embracing the radio, where the edges of the screen are contrasted by the expanse of the night's sky, suggesting the difference between framing and limitlessness. Images recorded years ago are projected onto a screen, with bodies and places recreated in a new location, flattened from three to two dimensions. Opposite the screen, the lights along the New York City skyline are glowing, the variations in luminance demonstrating the distance from building to building. Soundtracks are created live as the performers play to the silent films and videos. Each sound is happening for the first time, and is displaced from one location to another through the process of transmission. Tonight the park serves as the quintessential movie theater; the meeting place for disparate components, where the audience can 'stand by the window and have a sense of afternoon'. " - Sarah Margaret Halpern, concept and program selection.

Cinema On Air program:

Part I. Live soundtracks performed by Damian Catera and ben owen.

Backyard Economy I, Martha Rosler, 1974, 3:26 min, color, silent. (Included on Super-8 Shorts)

Backyard Economy II (Diane Germain Mowing), Martha Rosler, 1974, 6:32 min, color, silent. (Included on Super-8 Shorts)

Digging Piece, Vito Acconci, 1970, 10 min, color, silent, Super 8 film on video

Two Stage Transfer Drawing (Returning to a Past State), Dennis Oppenheim, 1971, 3 min, color, silent. (Included on Program Six)

A Feedback Situation, Dennis Oppenheim, 1971, 3:02 min, color, silent. (Included on Program Six)

3 Stage Transfer Drawing, Dennis Oppenheim, 1972, 3:07 min, color, silent. (Included on Program Six)

Sun in Your Head (Television Decollage), Wolf Vostell, 1963, 7:10 min, b&w, silent. (Included on Fluxfilm Anthology, published by Re:Voir.)

Hearts, Barbara Buckner, 1979, 11:56 min, color, silent. (Included on Barbara Buckner: Selected Works I)

Some Manipulations, Jud Yalkut, 1969, 3:10 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video

TV Cello Premiere, Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, 1971, 7:25 min, color, silent. (Included on Video Synthesizer and "TV Cello" Collectibles)

Part of City of Hudson Summer Concert Series. Eight shows. A range of sites and sounds starting May 31 at the Waterfront and ending September 6 at the Fountain Park at 7th Street. Experimental. Rock. Jazz. Circus. Kids Rock. Reggae. Punk. Films. Performance. Fun. Diversity! Free admission. Performers include Mambo KiKongo, DJ Tom Roe, and others at Hudson's Waterfront Park.