Tune-in at 90.7-FM or on wgxc.org for a special live performance by free103point9 Transmission Artists Laura Ortman and Bryan Zimmerman, who perform as solo performers and as part of a band called The Dust Dive. The last Dust Dive album was produced by Sebadoh's Jason Lowenstein. They come from Brooklyn, NY to the WGXC Hudson studio to perform.

From a Stylus magazine of one of their records:
"Your appreciation may very well pivot on how you feel about the vocals: telescoped layers of radioed-in voices that foreground (and even obscure) Zimmerman’s winding, circular prose. Opaque vocal production and a reluctance to conform lyrics to any sort of metrical or melodic structure contributes to the diaristic and timeless (in the “time is barely moving” sense of the word) tenor of the record. This is not to say the vocals (think Thurston Moore doing Syd Barrett), while lyrically-driven, lack musical lyricism. What’s remarkable to me is that the songs achieve an essentially literary/poetic effect through musical technique. Throughout, the simultaneous lyrical threads come to engender a sort of punk-folk motet, giving props to the abstractions attendant to the act of memory. Zimmerman creates linguistic dirt bike paths through tall-grass prairies, touring backyard forts and vagrant mental monuments commemorating the sublimated tools and leavings of a Midwestern exurban childhood desire: hand-fashioned crawdad fishing tools, midnight tailgating parties, gagging on the smell of perfume/makeup in church, Playboys stolen from dad's shed, Suzuki crotch-rockets, plastic ghetto blasters with AC/DC and Run DMC tapes, tadpoles with extra digits. We are given an endless inventory of artifacts and a quietly unfolding obsession to connect the dots to nothing (but not Nothing) in particular, bitter-sweetly celebrating an un-zoned freedom of manageably human scale. " (Excerpt of review by William Fields.)

Sib (Sounds-in-between) Radio Gowanus is a four-hour special program featuring compositions especially commissioned for the Sib Radio narrowcast exhibititon (Postcards From Gowanus Exhibition, March 17-20 2010, Cabinet Gallery, Gowanus, New York City).

Tune in to WGXC 90.7-FM on Saturday, April 16 for a special day spent with guest artists Zach Layton with Bradford Reed. Zach Layton is a guitarist, composer, curator, improviser, teacher and new media artist based in Brooklyn with an interest in biofeedback, generative algorithms, free improvisation and the unconscious. He has performed and exhibited at The Kitchen, ISSUE Project Room, PS1, Sculpture Center, Transmediale Berlin, Roulette and many other venues internationally and around NYC. He has collaborated with Vito Acconci, the Joshua Light Show, Andrew Lampert, Bradley Eros, Alex Waterman, Luke Dubois & Matthew Ostrowski (Fair Use Trio), Tristan Perich, MV Carbon, Jessie Stead and many other artists, musicians, filmmakers and friends. His duo with Bradford Reed "Minerals" explores polyrhythmic layers of improvised tonalities.

Bradford Reed is an American multi-instrumentalist, experimental luthier, and member of avant-garde band King Missile III. He is proficient at such instruments as drums, guitar, melodica, piano, and synthesizer. In the 1980s he invented the pencilina, a custom-made string instrument.

Radius Sketchpad premieres on free103point9's WGXC 90.7-FM. Sketchpad is an ongoing monthly program presented by the Chicago-based platform, Radius. This month features Michael Woody's Numbers Stations 1 and 2, originally produced for Radius, and is followed by a playlist of works selected by the artist.

Tune in for a live broadcast, on WGXC 90.7-FM, from artist Phillip Stearns. This 90 minute live broadcast will feature an interview, live performance, and conversation around the Bent festival, for which Stearns serves as Curator.

Writes Stearns, "My work lies at the intersection of art, philosophy, and science, spanning a variety of disciplines, drawing upon a multiplicity of mediums. Through installation, audio, video, circuit sculpture, writing, photography, performance art, music composition, and agriculture, my work explores the dynamic relationship that exists between technology and society. A technological practice---its tools, bodies of knowledge, systems of meaning, and methods of thought---entail a complex of supporting economic structures, political machines, power relations, and social implications.

Identifying modes of cultural production and ideology recorded on the surface of technology and embedded within its tools; fostering creativity as opposed to productivity; and exploiting the limitations imposed on a system to expose alternate possibilities are integral to my artistic practice. I view electronics as complex artificial living systems, organisms existing within interconnected economies and ecosystems. Accepting the alien language of electronics as familiar and natural, and in essence human, lifts the veil of mythology surrounding modern technological tools---their origins and applications---allowing a glimpse at the economic and political dynamics restructuring society according to specific ideologies. The driving force within my work comes from an oscillation between an intense fascination with technological objects and a deep skepticism towards modern applications of technology, especially in the creation of closed circuits of production/consumption. The dynamics of society and the environment emerge as central concerns. What are the implications of applying contemporary technological thinking to more primitive techniques and technologies as new starting points for re-conceptualizing the present and re-imagining the future?"

Tune in to WGXC 90.7-FM on Saturday, April 30 for a special day spent with guest artists Tony Martin and Margot Farrington.

Margot Farrington is a poet/storyteller/performer whose work encompasses both traditional and experimental modes. She is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Flares And Fathoms (Bright Hill Press). Her poems have been anthologized, and on-line archives featuring her work include the websites of the American Academy of Poets, and a 2010 reading and interview via Art On Air International Radio. She has performed independently at The West Kortight Centre, Huron Club at Soho Playhouse, and the Tenement Museum, among others. In tandem with visual artist Tony Martin, she has performed at such venues as RPI/EMPAC, Miller Theater at Columbia University, and the Optosonic Tea Series at the Experimental Intermedia Center.

A founder of art works using light, Tony Martin has, since the 1960's, created seminal new media works. As early as 1968, Howard Wise called his work "cybernetic" for the way he applied information processes. In his works Well and Interaction Room, the electronic systems were the interface between the viewer and the event and process of the sculpture or installed environment. He created the electronic and optical configurations for these in his own studio, and when necessary, commissioned help from the new generation of engineers and scientists forging new ways and methods.

A painter from the outset, Martin has also devoted himself to using pure processes of light and simultaneous projected imagery in motion. The legendary visual compositions produced at the San Francisco Tape Music Center and Bill Graham's Fillmore West, stand as early testament to his love of "painting in time," and to his involvement with music from an early age. Exhibitions of his paintings at the Batman and Boreas Galleries coincided with the multi-media work. While many artists have focused on narrative video Martin has been steadfast in pursuing a life-time goal of providing an active role for the individual viewer within specific light environment situations. Martin has worked intensively with such composers as Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, and David Tudor.