This is the legendary 1978 samizdat recording of "Audience," starring Václav Havel (1936-2011) as Vanek and Pavel Landovský as Sládek. It was recorded by folk singer Vladimír Merta in his Prague appartment in 1978 and published by the Šafrán label, ran from Upsalla, Sweden, by Czech exiles Jirí Pallas and Jaroslav Hutka, both signatories of the Charter 77. The LP was unofficially circulated in Czechoslovakia and many Czechs knew parts of the play by heart after 1978, despite the fact any Havel publication was banned in the country since the 1968 Soviet invasion. Havel himself was briefly imprisoned in 1978 and continuously from June 1979 to January 1984. This is a rare example of a record which proved dangerous for its authors, as well as for the entire Soviet system. Czech record company Bonton officially published the recording for the first time in 1990, soon after Havel became president of Czechoslovakia in December 1989. Václav Havel and Pavel Landovský in "Audience" (as it is titled in Czech) belongs to a trilogy of partly autobiographical one-act plays also known as the Vanek Trilogy, comprising Audience (1975), Protest (1978) and Mistake (1983), based on Havel’s experience of being forced to work in a brewery and under constant harassment from the Communist regime. Taking place in the brewery’s office, Audience is a meeting between the brewery’s manager Sládek and employee Vanek. While the manager is clearly opening too many beers and inducing into binge drinking, it is less clear what he wants from Vanek, though it ultimately transpires he has a deal to offer: a promotion agaisnt informations on Vanek’s political activities.

Enter 2013 via sound.

This show will preview the 2013 Quadrantid meteor shower, which will be seen in the sky in the early morning hours of Jan. 3, 2013. Also, a preview of transmission arts programming in January on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM, and preview of some of the year's biggest radio art events. The show will feature the open call for the May 17-20 Trans-X Transmission Art Symposium in Toronto, Canada, and other radio events in 2013. New sounds from Mike Shiflet, Hugo Paquete, Brian Eno rare tracks, and more.

Larry Fader talks about his book 120'0"; it's a previously unpublished two-hour conversation with composer John Cage. Then artist and writer Matthew Rose talks about the unbound book of art postcards he curated, "A Book About Death," in a re-broadcast of a WV 2009 interview with him. From the Pacifica Radio Network.

When Grey can no longer keep himself awake after 52 hours on the air, Matt hooks him up to a "Neurographic Interface Module" that will allow him to host the show from inside his dreams. Download for airplay through Radio4All.

Micah Moses's "Cinema Terrorisme" is an audio sigil using cut up methods and collage in order to distill the horror of modern existential malaise into substantiate energy mass. There is no moral value expressed in Cinema Terrorisme. Everything you hear has been alchemically remapped into a new order of relational aesthetics. More information is available on the Cinema Terrorisme blog at http://cinematerrorisme.blogspot.com/

Musical performances. 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 on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM at midnight Sat., Jan. 5, and again at 11 p.m.

Luca Sigurtà made several releases on labels like Fratto9, Creative Sources, Afe Records, Dokuro, Lisca, Tulip, Karl Schmidt Verlag. He played and he recorded with To Live And Shave In LA, Andy Ortmann, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Praying for Oblivion, Claudio Rocchetti, UR, Der Einzige, Sanair, Fhievel, xNoBBq, ecc. Forthcoming releases in fall 2012 split with legendary american noise band Panicsville and a release in collaboration with Francisco Lopez. On stage he uses tapes, analogical sources and electronic stuff of any sort.

Alexander Turnquist is an acclaimed guitarist/composer who plays 12-string acoustic finger-style.

Loren Dent is a Brooklyn-based aural architect, musician, and producer and founding member of the critically acclaimed orchestral rock group, Purchase New York.

Hillary went to the hospital. Putin signed the law banning Americans from adopting Russian Orphans. Congress's report on what went wrong in Benghazi. How the lack of a Farm Bill almost resulted in hiking milk prices to 8 dollars a gallon. and oops! The Republican-controlled House passed the fiscal cliff bill..then "forgot" to pass an aid bill for Sandy victims..and left it to the next Congress. Told thru narration, music and soundbites. Hosted by Paul Fischer.

Two hours of shortwave radio-oriented programming, starting with solar weather, news on meteor showers and ham radio, and other reports. Other reports include:

5:15 a.m.: "The RAIN Report: "The conclusion of Frank Beafore, WS8B's 2012 Hamvention talk on 'Physics & the 1st Antenna' (p.2, 12 mins)."

5:30 a.m., "The Shortwave Report" with host Dan Roberts and international news via shortwave radio. This week's show features stories from NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, China Radio International, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.

6 a.m.: "Glenn Hauser's World of Radio"

6:30 a.m.: "Amateur Radio Newsline" The FCC begins work to create a new Citizens Broadband Service; the ARRL asks the FCC to create a new low frequency band from 472 to 479 kHz as Ireland gives that same spectrum to its ham radio community; the 2013 International DX convention finds a new home at the Visalia California Convention Center and the transistor reaches age 65. Find out the details as we ring in the New Year with Amateur Radio NewslineT report number 1847.

"The Shadow" radio theatre show debuted on CBS Jan. 5, 1932. Eighty years later we listen to shadows and go "Shadow Dancing" with Andy Gibb. Listen to old episodes, songs about shadows from Sonic Youth ("Shadow of a Doubt"), Tom Petty ("Shadow of a Doubt [A Complex Kid]"), The Magnetic Fields ("Love in the Shadows"), Yo La Tengo ("Shadows"), Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin ("Me and My Shadow"), Britney Spears ("Shadow"), Yeah Yeah Yeahs ("Little Shadow"), Elvis Costello ("Complicated Shadows"), Joni Mitchell ("Shadows and Light"), Lonnie Liston Smith ("Shadows"), and others.

Live from the Catskill Community Center. Host Matt Bua will take calls and suggestions, and accepts walk-in guests live at the Catskill Community Center. Literally "open air"waves for you to take part in. Also weather radio, solar weather, the WGXC Ski Report, and more. Feel free to call in 518-291-WGXC. Tweet song requests @WGXC.

From free103point9 in upstate New York, a story of sound effects, subverting a documentary-style radio with bits of radio theatre created entirely of sound effects. Music from Spike Jones, Rufe Davis, and Dymaxion, with fake commercials, and more.

"Framework," the show about field recordings, acoustic ecology, and found sounds, is on holiday break. This repeat edition of framework:afield, produced in the U.S. by Katie Gately, was first aired on 2008.01.20. For more information see http://www.fionamoocow.com.

A survey of the year ahead in radio, including the low-power FM application window in October, and the FCC's current consideration of lowering prison phone call rates, and increasing minority ownership of broadcast stations. There will also be previews of radio art events such as "Deep Wireless" in Toronto in May, Art's Birthday broadcasts around the world Jan. 17, and other events. And this show will preview free103point9 Transmission Art events in 2013, including a week-long Scanner special in February, and live events at Wave Farm in the summer. New recordings from Lorn ("On Thin Ice"), and Mike Shiflet will also be aired, and a rare John Cage television appearance, and more new sounds. Plus reports on local and international shortwave radio, solar weather, and more.

Interview with Jim Goettler about the upcoming opportunity for non-profits to apply for new low-power FM licenses available in some areas for non-profit organizations. The Federal Communications Commission has set an October, 2013 deadline for groups applying for low-power FM stations. Goettler is a non-profit consultant, community organizer, and national political activist, and former board member for several nonprofits, including Reclaim the Media, and is a past president of the board of the Seattle Folklore Society. Hosted by Mike McCormick. "Mind Over Matters" airs on KEXP 90.3-FM in Seattle.

Presented as a special series broadcast at 7 p.m. on the first three Saturdays in January, The Status of Sound: Writing histories of sonic art was a day-long conference at the Graduate Center City University of New York on November 30, 2012. free103point9 is delighted to share the following presentations and discussions from this lively and important conference with WGXC audiences:

Saturday, January 5, 2012, 7 p.m.:
Sound Practice: Working Across Disciplines
Moderator: Meredith Mowder, Doctoral Student, Art History, The Graduate Center
"Sound Art/Music: Performing Nam June Paik's Early Compositions" Miki Kaneda, MoMA, Ph.D., Music (Ethnomusicology), University of California Berkeley
"Valie Export and the Sexual Politics of Sound" Amalle Dublon, Doctoral Student, Literature (with Certificate in Feminist Studies), Duke University
"The Other Side of Time: Vibration, Mythscience, and the Tapes of DJ Screw" David Michael Perez, M.A. History of Art with Honors, Goldsmiths, London
"Physical Memories: The Audio-visual Assemblages, of Oneohtrix Point Never" Hisham Awad, M.A., in Aural and Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, London

Saturday, January 12, 2012, 7 p.m.:
Recording Sound: Theorizing Sonic Art
Moderator: Lauren Rosati, Doctoral Student, Art History, The Graduate Center
"Ephemeral, Immersive, Invasive: Sound as Curatorial Theme, 1966-2006" Seth Cluett, Doctoral Candidate, Music Composition, Princeton University
"Out of Earshot, Out of Mind, The Tribulations of Object-oriented Sound" Rahma Khazam, Doctoral Candidate, Art and Aesthetics, Unversite de la Sorbonne, Paris
"Vibrant Matter: Sound Art and Locational Determinacy" Charles Eppley, Doctoral Student, Art History, Stony Brook University
"Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music from Eastern Europe in the 1960s" David Crowley, Professor, Royal College of Art, London

Saturday, January 19, 2012, 7 p.m.:
Keynote Roundtable Discussion
Dr. Christoph Cox, Professor of Philosophy, Hampshire College
Dr. David Grubbs, Associate Professor at the Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College
Dr. Brandon Joseph, Professor of Art History, Columbia University
Marina Rosenfeld, Professor of Music and Sound, Bard College


The Status of Sound is sponsored by the PhD program in Art History, John Rewald Endowment of the PhD Program in Art History and the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center. free103point9 extends a special thank you to Andrew Cappetta, Kendra Sullivan, Sarah Resnick, and Katherine Carl for making this broadcast possible.

Brian Dewan answers George Quasha's question "What is art" or "what is music?" with some radio theatre, followed by a discussion. Recorded at Wave Farm, during a live version of Quasha's "art is?" Quasha records artists answering the question, and this version was recorded live on WGXC 90.7-FM.

Preview of events in radio art in 2013, plus radio-controlled drones, pirates, open calls, and more. New music from Mike Shiflet, others.