Calling all sound-makers, radio-lovers and Neighborhood talent!! WGXC invites you to take part in the maiden voyage of the in-process studio at the Catskill Community Center. We'll be broadcasting live from the event including these performances and workshops:
•Leon Dewan will give an on air demonstration of the Swarm-a -tron
•Bradford Reed will play a set earlier on his 1st Pencilina.
•Harry Matthews - inventor of the Helmet-o-phone
•Dharma Dailey and Brian will play some folk/blue grass classics and old timee tunes
•Carmen Borgia- Baritone Ukulele Big book of Songs
•Rob Hervey- Didjereedoo drones
•Matt Bua- table top 2x4 prepared guitar
•Peter Krug- Americana Encyclopedic Gems


Come to:
• make a one of a kind musical Instrument
• perform on air with your new fabulous "made-up" band
• retire your favorite old t-shirt to the Studio wall of fame
• bring a toy to circuit bend and make it do what it never thought it could
• make a poster for your dream band
• learn to be a WGXC town recorder / town reporter
• experience musical play-doh

This event will celebrate the launch of youth programs out of WGXC's forthcoming studio space at the Catskill Community Center.

In conjunction with the Bing Bang Boing (Radical Instruments of Sound and Vision) Exhibition at the Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main Street Catskill.

Hong-Kai Wang's I Am Not A Very Good Extemporaneous Speaker; In Fact, I Am No Speaker At All (2011) is the third and final element of a three-part broadcast, presented as part of the research exhibition and experiment, Dear Pratella, which investigates the critical potential of sound-based art in various social, spatial, temporal, and discursive contexts. For more information, visit www.dearpratella.org.

Soong May-Ling, aka Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, began the second paragraph of a historic speech on February 18, 1943 with the statement, “I am not a very good extemporaneous speaker; in fact, I am no speaker at all.” With this speech, Soong May-Ling was the first Chinese national and second woman to address both houses of the U.S. Congress. Though Madame Chiang may have later faded into obscurity, at this pivotal moment, she spoke on behalf of the Chinese cause in a lobbying and fundraising campaign during World War II. She delivered a well-received speech articulated with empathetic, politically nuanced-words. I am not a very good extemporaneous speaker… attempts to reenact this perhaps obscure historical event by reconstructing its specific social space through recording and listening – attempting to translate its historicity as well as investigating its contemporary resonance. Participants in the recording nevertheless took turns performing the roles of both speaker and audience, further complicating the aspects of communication translated across time, space, and bodies. In listening to this reenactment and recording, against our own contemporary situation and in now retrospective reflection, what are the multiple meanings we may parse from this speech act? How might we now hear and reflect on the given social space of the recording, its historical referent, as well as the space of our own listening?

Hong-Kai Wang is a Taiwanese artist based in New York. She primarily works with sound as a conceptual means to investigate social relations and to explore the construction of new social space in everyday life. Wang studied art and politics at the National Taiwan University, followed by a master’s degree in Arts and Media Studies at the New School in New York. She has exhibited and performed internationally and will represent the Taiwan Pavilion in the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).