Come learn how to make live audio and video available on a web site at Cairo Library/Town Hall. We’ll cover basic recording set ups, some simple tricks to get good sound, and a few of the easiest and most reliable software options iPhone, Skype, and Twittercam. Use your new chops on your own website or join the WGXC Audio Army to help cover town meetings, concerts, and other local events. RSVP dharma@wgxc.org or call 518.589.6442.

Monday 9.21.09 6:30 to 7:50 p.m. at Cairo Public Library and
Wednesday 9.16.09, 6:30 to 7:50 p.m. at Catskill Community Center
and
Saturday 9.26.09 at Germantown Community Farm Fall Party and Skill Share
(by donation. see full schedule at www.germantowncommunityfarm.blogspot.com.)

WGXC offers these workshops as part of OneWebDay’s Technology Service Week. Learn more at http://www.OneWebDay.org

WGXC co-sponsors the annual Fall Skill Share at the Germantown Community Farm. Several workshops will train area folks to be local radio reporters, to create live web streams of local town meetings, and interviewing skills. More information tba. Organized by Germantown Community Farm. Live webstream on www.WGXC.org WGXC Online Radio.

free103point9 is once again delighted to be an invited participant of Friendly Fire at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair. This year, free103point9 will celebrate our Transmission Arts contribution to PAJ A Journal of Performance and Art (Edited by Bonnie Marranca, MIT Press) with two special events on Saturday, October 3, 2009.

2-3 p.m. Journal Signing: Contributors to this 22-page feature will be present to sign copies of PAJ 93.
3-4 p.m. Performance: Transmission-based sound performances from Brett Ian Balogh (radiophonic landscapes created by interleaving multiple broadcasts in a live, improvised performance) and Tarikh Korula.

The NY Art Book Fair is Printed Matter's annual fair of contemporary art books, art catalogs, artists' books, art periodicals, and 'zines offered for sale by over 150 international publishers, booksellers, and antiquarian dealers. Admission to the fair is free. Visit the link below for up-to-date details about the fair, Thursday night preview, and benefit party.

15th annual Columbia County Council on the Arts event, Oct. 9-18 in various Hudson locations. WGXC is official radio station of the ArtsWalk, and will provide several live web streams of ArtsWalk events, and make other recordings including interviews with artists, and others involved.

WGXC WEB STREAMS

Fri. Oct. 9 at Spotty Dog
6 p.m. Millay Colony writers Melissa Sandor and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi; visual artists Sabeen Raja, Darren Floyd; and composer Thomas Smith /8:30 p.m. Yukari Roja, Jackson Emmer & Trevor Wilson.

Sat. Oct. 10 at Cannonball Factory
1:30-4:30 writers Philip Gefter, Dave King, Karen Schoemer

Sat. Oct. 10 at Jason's Upstairs
4 p.m.-midnight Slinky Armadillo Art and Music Kids Show; Tommy Sharp; Experiencing Echo with Chelle Mayer and Andrew Joffe; UpStage Productions presents an exerpt from "Gypsy"; Robin O'Herin; Cathy Johanson; Chavisa Woods; HVAPA Belly Dancers & Steve Collins; NoBody Parts (Damara & Ngonda); Hudson City Ramblers; DJ Dizzy

Sun. Oct. 11 at Cannonball Factory
2-4 p.m. with Bindlestiff Circus

Thu. Oct. 15 at Spotty Dog
7 p.m. Hudson Talbott reading/Frank Cuthbert performing from "River of Dreams"

Fri. Oct. 16 at Cannonball Factory
5:30-6:30 p.m. Abby Lappen, Barbara Cobb, Peter Tenerowicz

Fri. Oct. 16 at Marianne Courville Gallery
6 p.m. literary reading incl. Sam Truitt, Irene Mitchell, Mary-Beth Hughes (if internet connection)

Sat. Oct. 17 at Musica
noon-4 p.m. Ngonda Badilla, Damara Rose

Sat. Oct. 17 at Cannonball Factory
1-7 p.m. Carole Maso, Kate McLeod, HVAPA Ballet, Ampersand

Sat. Oct. 17 at Savoia
5-9 p.m. bands by Musica Evan Randall, Mama Lama, Yukari Roja, Bella’s Bartok

Sun. Oct. 17 at Cannonball Factory
1-3:30 p.m. music

Sun. Oct. 18 at Spotty Dog
7 p.m. reading with Rebecca Wolf, Wayne Koestenbaum

The Columbia County ArtsWalk presents local musicians and dancers all day from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. Curated by Slink Moss. List of performers tba soon. WGXC is official radio station of the Columbia County ArtsWalk.

LIVE webstream from Studio Cyclops in Brooklyn. Radio Ruido hosts NYC artists Teleseen and Megman. TELESEEN aka Gabriel Cyr builds abstract dub soundscapes into complexly layered feilds of ambience that have their roots as much in of post-modern theories of space and structure as they do in the works of artist like Sly and Robbie and Scientist. MEGMAN aka Omega Man is Manny Oquendo a producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist living in the Boogie Down Bronx. MegMan is currently DJ and beat architect with groundbreaking Hip Hop innovators Anti-Pop Consortium.

Triangulation, in conjunction with Fotofono and "Das Kleine Field Recording Festival" presents: Richard Garet; Patrick McGinley; Ben Owen; Gill Arno
http://radioruidotriangulation.blogspot.com/
http://www.m-i-c-r-o.net/mpld/fotofono/fotofono.html
http://dkfrf.wordpress.com/

free103point9 presents its annual fall festival of radio art and experimentation presented during three nights and one afternoon featuring radio installation, performance, theater, walks, and a transmitter building workshop, with live video web streams. This year's festival features Tony Martin's installation and instrument Light Pendulum, which will be on view preceding each evening performance, as well as performed on Saturday night.

RADIO THEATER: Thursday, October 22, 8 p.m. $7-10
RADIO SPACE: Friday, October 23, 8 p.m. $7-10.
RADIO LAB: Saturday, October 24, Noon – 4 p.m. $50 registration fee (includes transmitter kit & lunch.)
RADIO WALKS: Saturday, October 24, 4:30 & 6 p.m. Free
RADIO LIGHT PENDULUM: Saturday, October 24, 8 p.m. Free

Featuring works, performance, and presentations from: 31 Down, Brett Ian Balogh, Jason Grote, Andy Gunn, Tony Martin, Mudboy (Raphael Lyon), murmer, Michelle Nagai, New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, Radio Wonderland, rise set twilight, and Tom Roe.

31 Down radio theater’s RED over RED is a brutal collision of radio silence and an airplane plummeting to earth. Communication between an air traffic controller and a loner pilot disintegrates in this erotic tale of death. This is a mysterious and moody work of sonic destruction about a pilot and the nosedive.

Jason Grote presents original radio plays from WFMU's Acousmatic Theater Hour; plays created by Grote, Karinne Keithley, and others to be featured.

Mudboy (Raphael Lyon): IS:IS is a live performance by Mudboy channeling Philip K Dick's The Martian Time Slip. Part of the Impossible Duets series of compositions.

RADIO SPACE
Friday, October 23, 8 p.m. $7-10 sliding scale.

murmer: Patrick McGinley (aka murmer) is an American-born sound and performance artist who has lived and worked in Europe since 1996. In 2002 he co-founded framework, an organization that produces a weekly radio show on London's resonance104.4fm. His work concentrates on the framing of sounds from our environment which normally pass through our ears unnoticed and unremarked, but which out of context become unrecognizable, alien and extraordinary: crackling charcoal, a squeaking escalator, a buzzing insect, or one’s own breath.

rise set twilight's (Cross)Talk Radio employs vintage AM radios, tuned to "empty" bands between stations and at the ends of the dial, to create feedback with each other. The resulting sounds are be combined with field recordings and projections to create enveloping blankets of noise and light.

Radio Wonderland: Joshua Fried turns the very bits and bytes of commercial culture into the driving backbeat to our dance of independence. In this developing solo, Fried abstracts live FM radio with laptop, electrified shoes hit with sticks, and a computer-hacked steering wheel (from a Buick 6).

RADIO LAB
Saturday, October 24, Noon – 4 p.m. $50 registration fee (includes transmitter kit & lunch.)

free103point9 Radio Labs provides workshop participants with technical skills and contextual background to consider and utilize the transmission spectrum for creative expression. This workshop will address four main topics: the history of broadcasting; how transmitters work; online transmission tools; and transmission arts as a creative medium. Workshop participants will join Andy Gunn (free103point9 & Prometheus Radio Project), and Tom Roe (free103point9) for a transmitter-building workshop. Each participant will complete the workshop with a low-power FM radio transmitter of their own. This workshop is limited to 12 participants. There is a $50 materials fee (includes lunch). Please contact gjh [at] free103point9.org with questions. Secure your spot by submitting your registration fee via PayPal:

RADIO WALKS
Saturday, October 24, Noon 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Free
Presented in collaboration with Art in Odd Places 2009: SIGN, an annual festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.

4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Scratch Track Brett Ian Balogh.

Artist Brett Ian Balogh hits the streets of Manhattan, transmitting the sounds of the street as he makes his way along 14th. In tow is a red wagon outfitted with a specially-constructed tonearm that converts the grooved palimpsest of the street into a sonic texture that is broadcast over FM radio. The broadcast represents an infiltration of the personal spaces created by isolating technologies such as car interiors and earbuds, reminding us that there is a street beneath our feet.

6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.: free103point9 Radio Fest Mobile Soundwalk for Art in Odd Places 2009 New York Society for Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE).

Members of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE) will lead public soundwalks involving mobile broadcasting equipment. The public (soundwalkers) will use small FM receivers and headsets to tune in to multiple, simultaneous broadcasts from three mobile broadcasting units (carried by NYSAE members) all broadcasting different material on the same frequency starting from three different (Madison Square, Washington Square, Tompkins Square) parks north and south of 14th street. The different broadcasts will be a mix of several elements, pre-recorded nature sounds, historical soundscapes, and live broadcasts of the walk itself. The walkers will be lead, meandering across and around 14th street, eventually converging/colliding their broadcast perimeters separating again –hearing their own walk and hearing the other walk simultaneously. Walkers will also be able to hear the soundscape over their headphones as they walk and listen to the broadcast, experiencing a sort of hyper-reality through physical presence in the soundscape, the sounds of the broadcast and the overlapping of the broadcasts when the broadcast areas collide. The walks will all begin at the same time and are timed to strategically overlap. The approach to the end of the walk is marked by the eventual reception of a broadcast from the Ontological Theater location. The groups then all arrive at the prescribed time at St. Mark’s church and enter the theater for the evening’s performances and installation presentations. Total time for the walk will be approx. 60-90 minutes.

RADIO LIGHT PENDULUM
Saturday, October 24, 8 p.m. Free

8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.: Light Pendulum Reception
Join us for a toast in celebration of Tony Martin���s Light Pendulum

Tony Martin: A founder of art works using light, Tony Martin has, since the 1960's, created seminal new media works. Light Pendulum is a new work that is controlled by site-specific environmental conditions including light, sound, and motion. Light Pendulum functions both as a stand-alone kinetic sculpture as well as a temporal instrument used in a performance-based setting. Light Pendulum is comprised of a six-inch diameter glass pendulum suspended with nylon line from the installation space ceiling. An LED pin-light is installed at the top of the line. The pendulum’s motion is caused by the earth’s rotation and conditions of air movement. A large parabolic mirrored dish is installed directly underneath the pendulum. Receptors and sensors are positioned at the center of the dish. These receptors function as photocells, photovoltaic cells, and other signal and current producing and regulating components.

Light Pendulum is made possible, in part, with funds from Harpo Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts.

9:00 p.m.
Artist Michelle Nagai performs Long Summer with Tony Martin's Light Pendulum.

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.

Author Tony Fletcher, who has a house nearby on the Western side of the river, stops by Hudson for a book reading at 5 p.m. at Spotty Dog Books & Ale and then spins a DJ set from 8-10 p.m. at Jason's Upstairs Bar. Both events just a block away from each other are free and will be streamed live on WGXC Onlin Radio at www.WGXC.org.

Fletcher will read from "All Hopped Up and Ready To Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77," to be published by W.W. Norton on October 26. "From Tony Fletcher comes an incisive history of New York’s seminal music scenes and their vast contributions to our culture. Fletcher paints a vibrant picture of mid-twentieth century New York and the ways that its indigenous art, theater, literature and political movements converged to create such unique music. With great attention to the colorful characters behind the sounds, from trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie to Tito Puente, Bob Dylan and the Ramones, he takes us through bebop, the Latin music scene, the folk revival, glitter music, disco, punk and hip-hop, as it emerged from the neighborhood streets of Harlem, East and West Village, Brooklyn, Bronx, and Queens. All the while, Fletcher goes well beyond the history of the music to explain just what it was about these distinctive, New York sounds that took the entire nation by storm."

Recordings of live sets from the Diapason Sound Gallery + Electronic Music Foundation presention "Soundset Salutations 2009" with performances from Francisco Meirino; Suzanne Thorpe; Alexei Borisov and Anton Nikkilä; Pekka Airaksinen; and Richard Garet. More information: http://www.emfproductions.org

Giant Ear))) Playlist: 'Cricket Crawl' by Florence Blanchard, an event that took place in New York on September 12, 2009; A baby woke up in the middle of the night and was fed; A short lesson in how to listen to pre-natal ultrasound; an excerpt from the film 'Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance' (Daigoro makes a choice between a toy and his father's sword); 'I am the Walrus' from Lol Coxhill's album 'Ear of the Beholder' on Dandelion records; Place Lane and Play School Opening by acclivity, a member of freesound.org; 'Die-opening school day' by Jean Francois Cavro, soundtransit.nl; some thoughts about kids in Marrakech; childern's song from 'Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance'; 'We don't have no slippers' by acclivity of freesound.org; Riga Arsenal by Maksim Shentelev a.k.a. MyYu (soundtransit.nl); Children playing in Osaka Hirano Shrine by Jean Francois Cavro (soundtransit.nl); an excerpt from a Russian film '17 Moments of Spring'; Giggling French Girls by acclivity (freesound.org); WC Fields in The Bank Dick; Classroom Ambiance by dobroide (freesound.org); 'a bird-like singing child and birds' by Lasse-Marc Riek (sountransit.nl); WC Fields, from the film 'Golf Specialist'; 'hello mammie chocolate' by Frank Geeraert (soundtransit.nl); Casablanca kids playing police and thiefs; Kids Club 1 and 2 by acclivity (freesound.org); Children's Playground in Seoul, South Korea by sazman (freesound.org); 'pigeon and child' by dobroide (freesound.org); children playing in a swimming pool in Fort Myers by John Hopkins (soundtransit.nl); Extra classroom noise by Andrea Callard (http://www.andreacallard.com/); sounds from El Tajin, Mexico; Yi Er San Si Wu Liu Qi Ba by Matthias Kispert (soundtransit.nl); Brooklyn crickets.

NYC based improvisors Bryan Eubanks and Andrew Lafkas work out territories with open circuit electronics and double-bass extrapolations.

Radio Ruido with sound artist Maria Papadomanolaki.

An evening of poetry, music, and video featuring: Coleen Murphy Alexander + Brenda Coultas + Frank Cuthbert + Brian Dewan + Stephen Elliott + Nick Flynn + Lex Grey + Jared Handelsman + Peter Head + Kim Jaye + Rachel Levitsky + Timothy Liu + Paul McMahon + Daniel Nester + Loni Pont + George Quasha + Michael Ruby + Ira Sher + Violet Snow + Sparrow + Christopher Stackhouse + Charles Stein + Studio Stu + Hudson Talbott + The Unbearables, as well as works available by the Garden Goddesses in support of in support of WGXC: Hands-on Radio in Greene and Columbia Counties.

The "Garden Goddesses" are a group of working artists who garden in Catskill and the surrounding areas. Members have been meeting for just under a year at each other's homes, studios, and gardens. Although the artists work in various media including music, painting, photography, poetry, and sculpture. Their love of gardening and their pioneering spirits bring them together to reflect on their work, their gardens, and how they influence each other. At the November 14th benefit the Garden Goddesses will exhibit works by "the goddesses" and photos of them in their gardens, that will be for sale in support of WGXC. This installation is a glimpse into the personal worlds of the artists and the forces that drive them creatively and spiritually. The Garden Goddesses include Victoria Brill, Alice Caulfield, Sasha Chermayeff, Tasha Depp, Lex Grey, Ruth Leonard, Portia Munson, Dina Palin, Fawn Potash, Erica Potrzeba, and Cate Woodruff.

Catskill WGXC Sound-Voice Benefit is organized by Sam Truitt, with Fawn Potash, and Paul Smart.

WGXC is a community-run media project, re-envisioning radio as an innovative platform for local participation. Our inclusive programming connects diverse voices, and distributes information across the public spectrum in New York's Greene and Columbia counties. This multi-faceted project will be much more than just a radio station. With studios in Catskill and Hudson, WGXC activities will include special exhibitions and events, workshops and media training for youth and adults, a news blog with writing and photography, and a local calendar of events, meetings, and other resources.

WGXC volunteers are working hard to launch a 3,300-watt community radio station. More than 78,000 people throughout Greene and Columbia counties will be able to receive the signal on 90.7-FM. WGXC received its license from the FCC and a grant from the US Commerce Dept that will cover 50 percent of our equipment needs. We now need to raise matching funds in order to get on the air. Join us on November 14 and help launch WGXC-FM.

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