free103point9 and WGXC 90.7-FM are pleased to present a live broadcast of "John Cage’s Empty Words," a 12-hour, overnight event during which participants will collectively experience a rare recorded performance by John Cage of "Empty Words" (1974), a marathon text drawn from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau. "Empty Words" is one of Cage’s most sustained and elaborate moves toward the “demilitarization” of language, in four parts: Part I omits sentences, Part II omits phrases, and Part III omits words. Part IV, which omits syllables, leaves us nothing but a virtual lullaby of letters and sounds. More information is available at http://johncage.org/empty_words.html.

This event is part of the worldwide celebration of John Cage’s Centennial Year. It is a co-production of the John Cage Trust, New Albion Records, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets for this event are extremely limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, contact the John Cage Trust at (845) 835-8022 or emartin@johncage.org.

Dark Russian is inspired by the unspeakable and hushed by loquaciousness. John Snyder and Kali Malone experiment with their voices, guitars, percussion, and cassette loops- discovering the varied ways in which existence transcends flesh.

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 may also air later on WGXC 90.7-FM.

Boblo Island Redux is a half hour collage of scenes and sounds from theatre project currently in development at The Theatre Center in Toronto Canada. The project centers around Boblo Island a piece of land in the Detriot river with an incredible history, now virtually abandoned and the future sight of an elite gated community the island was once the last stop on the underground railroad, used for rum running during prohibition, and for decades was the home of a large amusement park that now lies in ruins. Through the magic of radio waves Boblo Island Redux explores parts of this history and the traces of memory they leave behind. Boblo Island Redux was produced by Andrew O'Connor, text by Erin Brandenburg, performed by Erin Brandenburg and Gordon Bolan, music by Andrew Penner, Gordon Bolan, and Detroit Time Machine.

AIRtime visiting artist Jeff Kolar hosts live from Wave Farm in Acra. Based in Chicago, IL, Kolar's work includes cross-platform collaboration, low-powered radio, and live performance. Jeff is also the administrator of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform, who presents a monthly radio program for free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM. Write's Kolar: "My recent work investigates technology-specific topics including computer system alerts, hardware hacking, and the AM/FM/unlicensed spectrum. It is my intention to explore the overlaps between analog and digital audio systems. Using remix and live phonographic techniques, my work openly accepts transmission accidents, circuit feedback, and physical interferences."

Presented for the Undergroundzero Festival, in association with free103point9, Habits of Imagination is an outdoor public installation/performance using live broadcast radio and audience interaction in a celebration of John Cage’s one hundredth birthday.

Directed by Shannon Sindelar; Sound Design by Erik T. Lawson; Text by Frank Boudreaux; Performed by Lindsay Mack and T. Ramon Campbell.

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

Tune into free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM for a special radio iteration of George Quasha's expansive art is/Speaking Portraits project. This program will feature "radio portraits" in-process and broadcast live from the free103point9 Wave Farm Study Center and WGXC's Acra studio including Jim Holl, Susan Wides, Suzy Sureck, Anthony Martin, Peter Wexler, Julie Hedrick, Brian Dewan, Tom Roe, eteam, Rebecca Wolf, and others.

"art is … what?” Quasha’s ongoing video work of “speaking portraits” puts this impossible, but inevitable, question before artists themselves, who let us in on their private space of art definition. Since 2002, he has filmed around 1000 artists of all kinds (including sculptors, painters, filmmakers, video artists, poets, composers, performance artists, dancers, potters, etc.) in 11 countries (and 24 languages!). The result is an ongoing and constantly changing work called art is/music is/poetry is, which has been internationally exhibited in museums and galleries, primarily as installations, screened either as projections or on one or more monitors. You can see multiple volumes online at quasha.com/art-is.

Now, for the first time, art is will be created live and unedited for radio, where Quasha interacts with Hudson Valley artists of various kinds as he asks them to say what, in their view, art or music or poetry actually is. In his own view there is no “right” answer, but only the ideas artists themselves work from, either implicitly or explicitly. Many artist say that they don’t know what art is, but in the process of discussing it they discover that, often to their own surprise, they know very well what it is. What if art is different for every person? In a culture that tries to define things in the abstract, this could spur us to think very differently about art and how it works in our lives and in society at large. In art is the question comes alive in the moment as if asked for the first time.