Radius Sketchpad is an ongoing monthly program on WGXC 90.7-FM presented by the Chicago-based platform, Radius. This month features Harold Schellinx's Seventy Seconds, and is followed by a playlist of works selected by the artist.

Things just keep happening over, and over again. With appearances from Wily E. Coyote, Fibber McGee and Molly, and others.

From the Radia network, The School of Creative Radio TEA FM from Zaragoza has developed a new radio documentary based on the works and sounds made by Daphne Oram (Dec 31th 1923 - Jan 5th 2003) British composer and electronic musician. She was the creator of the "Oramics" technique for creating electronic sounds. Developed in documentary form, we will cross the sounds created by her "Oramics Machine" and we will talk with people close to her and her work. In 1959 she installed her Oramics Studios for Electronic Composition in Tower Folly, a converted oast house at Fairseat, near Wrotham, Kent. Her output from the studio, mostly commercial, covered a far wider range than the Radiophonic Workshop, providing background music for not only radio and television but also theatre and short commercial films. She was also commissioned to provide sounds for installations and exhibitions. Other work from this studio included electronic sounds for Jack Clayton's 1961 horror film The Innocents, concert works including Four Aspects and collaborations with opera composer Thea Musgrave and Ivor Walsworth.
With the voice and talent of: Isabel Aparicio, Daniel Canelo, Mar Gonzalez, Manuel Alcaine, Miguel Deza, Reyes Casasnovas and Carlos Berdiel.
Music & FX: Daphne Oram, TEA FM FX gallery, BBC and MEC Sound Archive.
Script and production: Chuse Fernandez.
A TEA FM production. Recorded on TEA FM-CTA Studios on January 2012. www.teafm.net

This special afternoon broadcast features AIRtime visiting artists eteam. eteam is a collaboration of Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, who are part-time residents of Greene County. Tune in for artist interviews and a special playlist in advance of eteam's midnight broadcast of their project The Cruise on the "WGXC Saturday Afternoon Show."

The Cruise is based on an eight-week long performance eteam did in 2010 at Smack Mellon Gallery, for which the gallery had been transformed into the tea room of a cruise liner. Parts of the room were equipped with tables and chairs, a buffet and an automated piano. On the wall was a projection of two large portholes showing the wake the moving vessel left behind as she crossed the oceans.

Writes eteam, "On a cruise ship those who are hired have to stay on the job at least until the next harbor is reached, yet some still leave their job earlier. A man named Jack is an example of that. During his first week onboard, he suddenly disappeared without leaving any traces. He was replaced by a woman who had been working in another area of the ship before. For the next seven weeks, while she was cleaning the tea room daily from noon – 2 p.m., serving tea and sandwiches as a waitress from 2-5 p.m., and cleaning the dishes from 5-6 p.m. for most parts of the day in solitude, she was gliding into a habit where every task she performed was based on numbers. Numbers of footsteps, numbers of words spoken, tea drinkers who appeared, non tea drinkers who weren’t present, cuts and chops that were necessary to prepare the sandwiches, waves that passed, temperatures that dropped, gravity that pulled etc. She called this system 'my stats'."

Eteam became fascinated. They returned to the tea room almost on a daily basis and started observing her. Based on these observations and the log the waitress kept, eteam wrote a script that covered 6 days onboard the ship. Each day follows the same routine. Every day is identical in the amounts of words thought, but different in the combination of letters these words use.

The 3.5 hour monologue presented here was recorded with Maja Sweeny at EMPAC in Troy.

Live performance from Hudson Valley musicians Chris Neumann, Ki Light, Ian Solomon and, Ray Longstar. Live webstream for this, and most, shows at Spotty Dog Books & Ale available from free103point9 and WGXC at http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/spottydog.mp3.m3u. This show will be broadcast live on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM.

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

Live musical performances from past free103point9 include Thurston Moore, Stars Like Fleas, Animal Collective, !!!, Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp, Matt Valentine and Erika Elder, and others.

Free jazz performances from the free103point9 archives include historic figures such as Daniel Carter, Cooper Moore, William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, and others. This show will feature some of those recordings.

Noise performers, and sound artists who have performed on free103point9 over the years will be featured. Artists such as Ben Owen, Marina Rosenfeld, John Wiese, Bunnybrains, Lightning Bolt, Forcefield, Radio Shock, Matt Bua, Damian Catera, Radio Ruido, and many others.

Irish musician performs.

For the first day of spring we will look at the radio news headlines, plus some of the radio-related workshops and panel discussions at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, last weekend. The show will also track the reaction, after the weekend when "This American Life" announced they were retracting an episode with monologist Mike Daisey. who made up facts in his story on the radio show. Plus, we will debut new transmission art from Dichroics, a Brooklyn-based band that includes former The Dust Dive frontman Bryan Zimmerman and his radio samples, and Darin Mickey on theremin. A dichroic filter, thin-film filter, or interference filter is a very accurate color filter used to selectively pass light of a small range of colors while reflecting other colors. Used before a light source, a dichroic filter produces light that is perceived by humans to be highly saturated (intense) in color.

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