Radius Sketchpad is an ongoing monthly program on WGXC 90.7-FM presented by the Chicago-based platform, Radius. This month features Andy Ortmann's Rape of Nanking, originally produced for Radius, and is followed by a playlist of works selected by the artist.

Voder Deth Squad is the result of years of casual and serious cross-country collaboration between L.A. based M. Geddes Gengras and Hudson's Jeremy Kelly. Deep explorations of timbre and serious synthesizer worship create a continuity between Gengras' hurriedly lush moogscapes and Kelly's grittier, classically minded sound art, settling into a valley of infinite astral expansion. Voder Deth Squad's first album was just released. More information about the release is available here.

Artists Thomas Lail and Patrick Weklar of soundBarn in Valatie perform on WGXC. soundBarn is the experimental sound project of Thomas Lail and Patrick Weklar. soundBarn has been mining the possibilities of extreme guitar for years and the single long-form track of their new CD Valentine on Tape Drift Records finds the duo creating fields of sonic sprawl. Recorded live in the soundBarn-- their performance space/ studio at a turn of the century, rural, orchard in Valatie, NY-- soundBarn’s Thomas Lail and Patrick Weklar play prepared and altered guitars, overprocess signals and pile loops of sound to orchestrate an arching instrumental tale of creation and destruction.

soundBarn has recently collaborated with Albany Sonic Arts to stage expanded performances of composer Rhys Chatham’s famed Guitar Trio. soundBarn’s Weklar and Lail have been collaborating for over twenty years and were founding members of Upstate New York’s long-ago post-punk band, The Fauves.

The soundBarn-- a joint project of soundBarn and artist/gallerist Tara Fracalossi-- serves both as home for the duo and to host experimental music performances. soundBarn Press publishes limited editions of experimental writings and poetry complementing and furthering the commitment of The soundBarn to new and experimental forms. soundBarn Press inaugurated its publications with Lail’s May 08/ Feb 10, forthcoming publications include poetry by musician/visual artist/writer and founding member of rock band Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo and poetry/writings by artist James Cullinane.

Tune in for a live broadcast, on WGXC 90.7-FM, from transmission artist Damian Catera. Damian Catera is an electro-acoustic composer/guitarist, sound installation creator and media artist. Catera's work reflects interests in sound-based composition/ improvisation, transmission, and socio-political critique. Recently he's been performing improvised "deCompositions" for live electronics, radio, and guitar. Catera's "deCompositional" process consists of an expanded instrument system, which samples and probabilistically processes live sound with algorithms, which he wrote in the MAX/ MSP programming environment. The end product is a constantly evolving, machine-improvised soundscape that is distinct in each implementation. Catera's sound installations reflect his interest in site-specific sound manipulation and surveillance, which he achieves with software also written in the MAX/ MSP programming environment. Catera has performed improvised solo guitar/ radio/ computer-based pieces abroad and in the U.S. including New York venues the Knitting Factory, the Kitchen, and The Cooler among many others. He has also performed in the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Slovakia. In March of 2000 he performed in the "La Primavera en Habana" festival in Cuba. During the spring of 1999, Catera toured the United States with Japanese sound artist and Zeni Geva guitarist K.K. Null.