free103point9 presents Mobile49 + free103point9 = Radio Walk: with Matt Bua, Max Goldfarb, and Tom Roe as part of a benefit event for Denniston Hill.

Max Goldfarb's M49, is a retrofit radio-utility truck (a Grumman Kurbmaster stepvan), which has been outfitted for mobile radio transmission and other additional applications. In this site-specific transmission for live performance, listeners are guided down a path by radio receivers extending from the M49 lab across the Denniston Hill property.

Listen! is our inaugural programming at the Hill. The co-curators, Josh Druckman of the Outlier Inn and kara lynch, invited artists and artist groups to contribute works to this event and encouraged them to consider the vast natural resources of its location in the Catskills mountains. Set between the Hudson and Delaware rivers, our proximity to New York City that has historically made this area a seasonal destination. In this context, the curators asked artists to consider what it means that people come to Sullivan County for 'peace and quiet' and how their sonic interventions at Denniston Hill could expand our thinking about 'quiet' vs 'noise' and how people produced audio experiences relate to those we have 'in nature'. The responses were overwhelming with projects created specifically for the site, as well as others adapted to this environment. We are pleased to host over twenty-four projects, the work of local, regional and international artists that demonstrate the diversity of sound art and performance. This event begins at 2p on Saturday, August 23 and continues throughout the evening. Food and beverages will be available with a buffet meal served from 2-5p. The musical performances begin at dusk. Out of town guests are welcome to camp overnight. The benefit event is open to the public with a suggested $25 donation. Denniston Hill is located at 43 Dennison Hill Road Woodridge, NY just off Old Glen Wild Road. Featured artists/groups: Brian Anderson, Sabrina Artel, Sanford Biggers, Sara Budde + Michael Chambers, Seth Cluett, Marcelline Delbecq, R. Luke DuBois + Lesley Flanigan, Josh Druckman, Nicholas Emmet, Joe Fioramonte, Nick Forte, "free103point9 + Mobile49 = Radio Walk" with Matt Bua, Max Goldfarb, and Tom Roe, Chris Kubik, Stephanie Loveless + E. E. Miller, k lynch, Violetta Mahon - commissioned by Jennifer Walshe, Zeljko McMullen, Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, Kenta Nagai, neuroTransmitter, Mendi + Keith Obadike, Pauline Oliveros, Will Rahilly, Runaway, Michael J. Schumacher, Micah Silver, Matt Smith, Stephen Vitiello, Patrick Walsh, Wet Ropes, and Joe Winter.

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. Afternoon show for kids plus music on the theme of Animals including Bindlestiff Circus, The Ping Pongs, Animental, and Wolfman Jason at Hudson's Waterfront Park.

free103point9 is pleased to host, Voices of America, a participatory Internet radio project that reflects on the media spectacle of the 2008 US Presidential Election through the lens of the Voice of America Radio Network, a US government broadcasting service intended for an international audience. The new site and custom application will launch in late August, 2008. Here's how it will work:

* RECORD up to one minute samples of election coverage on an over-the-air Voice of America station
* UPLOAD and TAG your recordings
* DOWNLOAD from the searchable pool of available recordings
* REMIX the broadcasts and UPLOAD them back to the website
* LISTEN to the recordings and remixes online anytime or to the radio broadcast at the Audacity of Desperation exhibition at the Sea and Space Gallery in Los Angeles on Election Day

http://www.voanews.com
http://desperationexhibition.blogspot.com/
http://www.seaandspace.org/

Voices of America (VoA) is created by Lee Azzarello and Sarah Kanouse. VoA is happy to be a participant in The UnConvention, a project of Art Through Technical Alternatives, Carleton College, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, University of Minnesota Institute for New Media Studies, and the Walker Art Center.

Click here to listen to an interview with Sarah Kanouse about this project on Mediageek.

This panel, organized by critic and author Paul Smart, brings together Benjamin Krevolin, board president of the Dutchess County Council on the Arts, Norm Magnusson, known for his allegoric paintings, his faux historic roadside signs, and his Funism.com website, Tom Roe, founder of Wave Farm in Greene County and a leading proponent of the new Transmission Arts movement, currently on view at the SUNY Purchase's Neuberger Museum. Also on the panel are Sparrow, author/poet/critic, Robert The, Kingston-based conceptual and book artist with a background in philosophy, Christina Varga, Woodstock gallery owner and Brian Wallace, curator at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY-New Paltz. The panel will be streamed live on free103point9 Transmission Art Radio via a link at www.free103point9.org, or tune in by pasting http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/vanbrunt.mp3.m3u into your media player. Part of "Hudson Valley Invitation exhibition, a broad range of media and styles are represented reflective of the multiplicity of points of view held by artists in the Valley. Our region is close to one of the preeminent art capitals of the world and the artists here, many of whom show their work in New York City, are well aware of the currents of contemporary art. Some chose to go with the flow, others chose to follow their own compass. All of which makes for a fertile and fascinating panorama, well worth knowing better.

Participating artists include: Chris Albert, John Allen, Emil Alzamora, Gabe Brown, Robert Brush, Richard Butler, Richard Deon, Laura Moriarty, Alison Moritsugo, James Murray, Franc Palaia, Jaanika Peerna, Fawn Potash, Lyndon Preston, Eliza Pritzker, Molly Rausch, Angelika Rinnhofer, Robert Rodriguez, Jr., Christie Scheele, Charlotte Schulz, Michael Sibilia, Ed Smith, James Westwater, Eleanor White, Tony Moore, Simon Draper, Rieko Fujinami, Lowell Handler, Matt Harle, Thomas Huber, Peter Iannarelli, Gary Jacketti, Steven Jennis, Grace Knowlton, D.Dominick Lombardi, Susan Magnus, and Norm Magnusson.

Where are we? A simple enough question, but one not easily answered when it comes to mapping the current art scene. Especially in a region that’s part of a larger art world whose topology is in flux. The Hudson Valley Invitational at Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon this month is an attempt to indicate some of the more important artistic markers around here. With one work each from over 30 artists, the exhibition doesn’t claim to be an exhaustive survey. Many more eminently worthy artists could have been added had the gallery’s space allowed. Nevertheless, by presenting a healthy sampling of compelling works by talented artists, the Hudson Valley Invitational serves as an interesting point of departure for further exploration of our local art environment. The idea for the Hudson Valley Invitational came out of the suspended plans for a regional art fair devised by Robert Curcio of Curcio Projects and Carl Van Brunt, owner and director of the Van Brunt Gallery. Assisting in the current show are Jennifer Mackiewicz, co-curator, Bart Bridger Woodstrup, who has compiled a selection of local video artists’ work and Paul Smart, critic and author, who has put together a panel on the Present and Future of the Arts in the Hudson Valley.

Giant Ear))) live from the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology igloo. NYSAE members Jonny Farrow, Edmund Mooney, and Andrea Polli chat about their recent excursion to San Francisco to perform in the Project>Soundwave festival and meet up with the newly formed Bay Area Sound Ecology group. Plus hear sounds from performances, soundwalks, and other eclectic SF sounds.

free103point9 Radio Labs provide students with technical skills and contextual background to consider and utilize the transmission spectrum for creative expression. Workshops address four main topics: the history of broadcasting; how transmitters work; online transmission tools; and transmission arts as a creative medium. On September 27th, join Tianna Kennedy (free103point9); and Maka Kotto (Prometheus Radio Project), and Kaya Weisman (Germantown Community Farm) for a transmitter building workshop, discussion, and screening of "Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad" (Corrugated Films.) A 90-minute documentary, "A Little Bit of So Much Truth" captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.

RESCHEDULED: DATE CHANGED, NEW DATE ANNOUNCED SOON.
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. The Dangling Success jazz band performs at 7th Street Fountain Park. Special opening act tba.

Show postponed due to Tropical Storm Hanna. Tentatively rescheduled for Sun. Sept. 28, 3-6 p.m.

The Van Vorst Park Soundwalk is an interactive sound art piece by Damian Catera which simultaneously uses the park as a musical score and instrument. The public is invited to experience the piece through portable headset radios as they walk through a loosely defined route within the park. The piece operates with three limited-range low power FM transmitters which are situated along the route. Each transmitter plays a component of the sound composition which is broadcast on a single frequency. As listeners move through the park, with their radios tuned to the project frequency, the piece shifts and transitions between the separate components. In this enhanced environment, the listener becomes an active and crucial participant in the realization of the piece.

The Van Vorst Park Soundwalk is co-sponsored by the Jersey City Museum and supported, in part, by a NJ Arts Council Fellowship. Transmission architecture in collaboration with free103point9. See Microradio Sound Walk for more information.

Join us in celebrating some exciting news!
Commencing in January, free103point9 will be in residence at the Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church. This partnership is being formalized to foster a mutually complimentary and inspiring collaboration, which began in 2006 with participation in the Ontological’s second Noise! festival, a program of their acclaimed Incubator series. With free103point9 transitioning from eleven years of city programming out of a small studio space in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn; this partnership is an exiting leap into a venue superbly equipped for performance and exhibition.

Join us in raising a glass to the exciting events planned for the coming year and the publication of pieces by and about Richard Foreman in PAJ volume 90, Stick around for the first evening of NYC Radio Festival 2008: Radio Theater featuring work by 31 Down and Japanther (8 p.m., free admission). Each year free103point9 will organize several events produced at and in association with the Ontological Theater including:

Noise!: a three-night multi-arts spring festival designed to promote interest in new forms of sound art.

Radio Festival NYC: a three-night to one-week fall festival featuring radio art and experimentation, manifesting in performance, installation, and presentations.

Radio Labs: Seasonal workshops provide participants with the technical skills and historical/theoretical grounding pertinent to transmission media in hopes of fostering creative expression within and with the transmission spectrum.

About Ontological Theater
Artistic Director Richard Foreman founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in 1968 with a mission to make high-quality, intellectually resonant work for a large and diverse audience. Foreman's "total theater" unites elements of the performing arts, visual art, music composition, philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature to produce a unique result. Core programming consists of Foreman's theater pieces with over 50 original shows created in the last 40 years. In addition, the theater focuses on fostering the work of emerging artists who follow in Foreman’s compositional performance-making footsteps through its Incubator programming. http://www.ontological.com

About free103point9
free103point9 is a non-profit arts organization, with locations in upstate New York and New York City, focused on establishing and cultivating the genre Transmission Arts. This genre encompasses a diversity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum. Transmission art is generally a participatory live-art or time-based art, and often manifests as radio art, video art, light sculpture, installation, and performance. free103point9 activities support and promote artists exploring transmission mediums for creative expression. free103point9's programs include public performances and exhibitions, an online radio station, the free103point9 Transmission Artists, an artist residency program, grant opportunities, a distribution label, an education initiative, a sculpture garden, a study center, and an online archive. http://www.free103point9.org