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How much the National Security Administration is monitoring phone calls of U.S. citizens, and others around the world, was in the news this week. The team at 2600 on "Off The Hook" talk to the lawyer suing the government over the Verizon phone records being released to the government. Also, an entomologist talks cicada sounds, and Glenn Jones gets grilled on the BBC.

The Federal Communications Commission announced a window will open on October 15, 2013, and close at 6:00 pm EDT on October 29, 2013, to apply for low-power FM licences.

Turn your dial, or dial in your phone, to this show about the sounds and songs of dialing. We'll learn "How to Dial a Rotary Phone," "Dial M for Murder," and order a dial wand. Songs from The Kinks ("Around The Dial"), The Replacements ("Left of the Dial"), Morrissey ("Dial-A-Cliche"), Scanner ("Turning The Dial"), and others. "Deal Dial Tone" radio play from 31 Down is also included.

Wave Farm Artists-in-residence Zach Poff and N.B.Aldrich speak with Tom Roe about their work, as well as a special playlist created by Poff and Aldrich focusing on sounds beyond the limits of perception including: David Dunn's insect recordings, the micro improvisations of Jeph Jerman and Greg Davis, the raw contact-mic verite of Toshiya Tsunoda, and electromagnetic recordings from Alvin Lucier & Christina Kubisch. From "Saturday Afternoon Show" June 15, 2013.

From host Max Schmid. From Pacifica Radio.

International radio and media show. The show is produced jointly by PCJ in Taiwan and Canada. Producer/Presenter: Keith Perron.

"Albert Camus: A Centenary Celebration," from Mark Torres and the Pacifica Radio Archives.

Live webstream right now, click on or paste the following into "open stream" or "open url" in media player:
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Diane Cluck will be accompanied by cellist Isabel Castellvi. Rebecca Martin, from Kingston, opens. Live webcast begins shortly after 8 p.m. on free103point9 Online Radio and goes live on WGXC 90.7-FM at 9:30 p.m. in the "Battlefield Earth" timeslot, with Dan Seward hosting from his record store in Hudson.

From Wikipedia: Diane Cluck is an American singer-songwriter. She describes her music as "intuitive folk."

Three headlines from Free Speech radio News:
• House Intelligence Committee holds hearing on NSA operations
• Lawsuit challenges surveillance of Muslims in NYC
• Scores detained and hundreds missing in Turkey as Justice Ministry mull social media censorship House Intelligence Committee holds hearing on NSA operations National intelligence officials appeared before the House Intelligence Committee today to speak about the formerly secret programs used to gather telephone metadata and online communications. NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander called the programs "critical" to the Intelligence community's ability to protect the nation. One of the operations Gen. Alexander discussed was the gathering of online data under the 702 program, also known via leaks to the Guardian as PRISM. "Under the 702 program, the U.S. government does not unilaterally obtain information from the servers of U.S. companies. Rather, the U.S. companies are compelled to provide these records by U.S. law, using methods that are in strict compliance with that law". Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders, which are classified and are supposedly limited to targets believed to be at least 51% foreign. As for the monitoring of calls of US persons, Deputy Attorney General James Cole explained the Fourth Amendment does not apply to telephony metadata. "There was a case quite a number of years ago by the Supreme Court that indicated that tel records, phone records like this that don't include any content, are not covered by the Fourth Amendment because people don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in who they called and when they called. That's something you show to the phone company. That's something you show to many, many people within the phone company on a regular basis." Officials defended the importance of the programs and emphasized the distinction between U.S. persons with privacy rights and persons who are neither US citizens nor legal permanent residents and are physically located outside of the U.S. Witnesses were limited to Obama administration officials and did not include any privacy rights advocates. Lawsuit challenges surveillance of Muslims in NYC In New York, civil liberties attorneys have filed a lawsuit against the NYPD's Muslim surveillance program arguing it unconstitutionally targets Muslims based on their religion. Salim Rizvi reports from New York City. The lawsuit, which names New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence David Cohen as defendants, calls for an end to the city's Muslim surveillance program. It says the NYPD spying program targeting Muslims is discriminatory and violates the rights of Muslims to freely exercise their religion. The plaintiffs include a young Muslim working for a charity, a cleric, and an Islamic Center. Hamid Hassan Raza is a cleric in a Brooklyn Mosque and a plaintiff in the lawsuit: "Because of our knowledge and fear that the NYPD is spying on us, I have for years taped the sermons I give because I am afraid that an NYPD officer or an informant will misquote me or take a portion of a sermon out of context." In 2011 and 2012, the Associated Press revealed the widespread surveillance program targeting Muslims in the New York area, which included infiltration in mosques, monitoring of sermons, Islamic book shops, restaurants, and other public places. The NYPD admits that the surveillance has not led to any terrorism case, but insists that the progam is legal and required for keeping Americans safe. Salim Rizvi FSRN, New York City. Scores detained and hundreds missing in Turkey as Justice Ministry mull social media censorship In Turkey, anti-terrorism squads swept through major cities and detained about 100 people suspected of involvement in anti-government protests. Meanwhile, the justice ministry is drafting a law to restrict social media in the country. FSRN's Jacob Resneck has the story. Turkey's semi-official news agency says police raided the homes of those suspected of inciting violence in the political unrest that's rocked Turkey for nearly three weeks. Precise numbers were not available but the Istanbul Bar Association says it's received reports that about 450 people now missing and believed to have been swept up in the dragnet. Rights groups have complained of heavy-handed police tactics including the indiscriminate use of tear gas on crowds assembling in public areas. But Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hit back today saying police are within their rights to use force and vowed to increase their power to intervene to break up demonstrations. This comes as the Justice Ministry announced it was studying ways to restrict social media in the country. Twitter and Facebook have been widely used by activists and protesters. Demonstrators have complained that Turkish broadcast media practice self-censorship and mislead their audience over the true extent of the political unrest now believed to be the largest challenge to the government during its decade in power. Jacob Resneck, Free Speech Radio News.

We may still be live from John Doe, or live from Acra at Wave Farm.

Episode 886 of weekly experimental new music show, by folks formerly behind Staalplaat. Click on title for playlist 886. tracklist for Vital Weekly 886: 0000 Tune 0014 Yokotsuka Yuuya - Awakening 0316 A Guide To Reason - Heroin 0617 Sebastian Zangar - Love Will Never Tear Us Apart 0923 Mark Tamea - Niuafo'ou Sojourn 1225 Seaworthy & Taylor Deupree - Winter 1526 Illuha - Interstices III 1834 Pas Musique - Something Indescribable 2137 Marsen Jules - The Endless Change Of Colour 2440 Bruno Duplant & Darius Ciuta - (G)W(3) 2741 Freiband - Mutatis Mobilis 3046 Kine 3348 Orphax 3656 Gerritt Wittmer 3957 Michael Adamis - Whimpering 4307 Juji Hirose - Solo 1 4614 Vultures 4923 Toshimaru Nakamura - Nimb #49 5227 Tune

Songs from "Trout Mask Replica" and other records.

Artists using radio as an instrument are featured.

Former professor at the University of Calgary, Dr. Carmen Boulter talks about her four-part documentary series in production titled "The New Atlantis" which investigates the Bosnian pyramids and the Russian pyramids currently being built. Boulter has traveled to Egypt 26 times and is the director, producer, and writer of the documentary series "The Pyramid Code." This series has aired in 34 countries, it describes how the Great Pyramid served as an energy generator. It was built on intersecting leylines, constructed from specific materials and is now thought to have harnessed and stored power created by the interaction of sunlight on water moving through passageways to build a charge using large crystal structures. Dr. Boulter is the author of Angels and Archetypes: An Evolutionary Map of Feminine Consciousness. This show airs on WBAI, and is distributed by Pacifica Radio.

Anna Friz, Jonny Farrow, Jeff Kolar, Peter Speer, and Stephen Germana perform in this transmission from Chicago. This edition: "Forbidden Planet II," a continuation of the performance NRRF B Radio did for Trans-X Transmission Art Symposium in Toronto in May, 2013. Live webstream 7-10 p.m. ET (-4 UTC, 6-9 p.m. Chicago time), rebroadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM at midnight.

From Free Speech Radio News: "In the wake of revelations about the US government’s sweeping surveillance practices, some of the biggest companies that hand over private Internet and phone data to the government, including Google and Yahoo, are challenging a ban on releasing more details to the public about what information they’ve given to the government. As many legal experts, members of Congress and privacy advocates join this call for transparency and question the constitutionality of these spying programs, President Obama and the leaders of the FBI and NSA are speaking out in their defense. FBI Director Robert Mueller told a Senate Committee Wednesday that the programs are legal and have sufficient oversights, and said any move toward transparency would be “educating our enemies.” On Capitol Hill, FSRN’s Alice Ollstein reports."

Works from the composer are featured.

Do not call during rebroadcast. Off The Hook, from the hacker zine 2600, airs every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ET in New York City on WBAI 99.5 FM, and is rebroadcast the next morning at 5 a.m. on WGXC and free103point9 Online Radio. It is simulcast online via streaming MP3 and via shortwave on WBCQ The Planet at 5110 KHz. Join #offthehook on irc.2600.net to chat during the show. Email show at oth [at] 2600.com Do not call during the 5 a.m. rebroadcast. This week: "Off The Hook" hosts attend the Bradley Manning trial, and tell their stories.

Washington Irving's story of a Catskills man who falls asleep in the mountains for a generation, and wakes up in a very different world. Told through songs by the David Bromberg Band, Al Jolson, and others. Plus, Brian Dewan tells the story from the porch of Rip Van WInkle Motor Lodge in Catskill, for Max Goldfarb's "Deep Cycle" project.

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 rebroadcast on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM at midnight (the night of the show), Fri., June 21, 2013.

Vikesh Kapoor's debut album with producer Adam Selzer (M. Ward, the Decemberists, Langhorne Slim) is due in 2013.
Liv Carrow is a Hudson based singer-songwriter and member of Pocatello.

From "Democracy Now!": "In a major victory for the community radio movement after a 15-year campaign, the Federal Communications Commission has announced it will soon begin accepting applications for hundreds of new low-power FM radio stations in October. This means nonprofits, labor unions and community groups have a one-time-only chance this year to own a bit of the broadcast airwaves. It is being heralded as "the largest expansion of community radio in United States history." We’re joined by two guests: Jeff Rousset, the national organizer of the Prometheus Radio Project, which has led the campaign to challenge corporate control of the media and open up this space on the dial, and Ramón Ramírez, the president of PCUN, the largest Latino organization in Oregon. In 2006, Prometheus Radio Project helped PCUN establish the low-power FM station "Movement Radio," which has helped inform farmworkers about labor rights, as well as the larger Latino community about immigration reform efforts, health issues and other community-related topics. The FCC’s short application window for new stations will run from October 15 to October 29. "This is a one-shot opportunity," Rousset says. "The work that we do over the next four months will really help shape the course of this country’s media landscape for the next 40 years.""

X-Day, July 5th, the date of cosmic deliverance for all SubGeniuses, is zooming up on us. Get ready to board the Xist pleasure saucers with this soothing soundtrack.

The composer's work is featured.

"A Community of Voices" radio show available from Pacifica Radio. "What if I were to say that radio is on the decline? Local commercial radio, as well as non-profit community radio, is becoming a lost medium, as powerful corporation tighten their grip and gain control." Guest is Kevin McKinney, director of documentary, "Corporate.FM."

Report from "Democracy Now!" with interviews with representatives from the Prometheus Radio Project, about low-power-FM. Plus, other stories about the efforts to legalize local broadcasting.

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 rebroadcast on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM at midnight (the night of the show), Sat., June 22, 2013.

Noise show. Clothen Djinn is William Rees - viola/electronics + Sandy Gordon - percussion. World Lines is Logan Visscher (Hudson, NY). Synthetiv Vision is Kenji Garland.

From Free Speech Radio News: "President Barack Obama nominated James Comey today to be the new director of the FBI. Comey was the deputy attorney general for President George W. Bush, and in that role signed off on the Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. If confirmed, he would lead another federal agency accused of illegal surveillance practices. The announcement comes amid new revelations about the US government’s spying powers, including documents leaked to the Guardian that show the government does at times collect domestic US communications without a warrant. On Capitol Hill, FSRN’s Alice Ollstein reports."

Works from the composer are featured.

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" Hosted from Chicago by Hap Holly, KC9RP. This week: "Chris Testa, KD2BMH updates his White Box SDR Radio project."

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

6 a.m.: "Glenn Hauser's World of Radio" DX and station news about: Afghanistan and non, Antarctica and non, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greece, Guam, Guatemala, Korea South, Myanmar, New Zealand, Oman, Palau, Peru, St. Pierre & Miquelon, Sri Lanka, Swan Island, Taiwan non, USA, and Uzbekistan.

6:30 a.m.: "Amateur Radio Newsline" This week: "Hams in Poland reach agreement with government on mutual aid in time of crisis; South Africa ham radio rules correction remains on hold; Canada makes powerline interference information contacts available on the Web; UK hams may soon loose access to several UHF bands and Major Edwin Armstrong is honored by his hometown."

Jerry Seinfeld, Woody Allen, and Bob Newhart weigh in on Superman, plus songs from Charlie Parker ("Superman), Donovan ("Sunshine Superman"), The Kinks ("[Wish I Could Fly Like] Superman"), The Flaming Lips "("Waitin' for A Superman"), Laurie Anderson ("O Superman"), Aaron Tippin ("Honky-Tonk Superman"), Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson ("Superman"), R.E.M. ("Superman"), and others.

"Please Assist Us With Transmission." Hopefully, there will be a signal to get through from Catskill this week, so anyone can contribute to the show in many ways on "Open Air." (Last week's show was diverted to Acra at the last moment.) Harry hosts this week (Matt Bua is out), a this live transmission art show about local transmissions from the Catskill Community Center. You make up the show with stories, phone calls, messages, requests, further information, and more. Please help be a part of the show. Stop by the Catskill Community Center in person. Call in at 518-219-WGXC. Tweet requests @WGXC. Skype calls at WGXCfm. Talk on Channel 6 on CB radio, we are tuning in. Features include solar weather, shortwave news, and more.

Call 518-219-WGXC or Skype calls at WGXCfm to talk on the air.

"Radia" is an international network of stations interested in creative and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show for the rest. This week, from Radio Student (Ljubljana, SI), Luka Prinčič and "Fragments from a Deviant.” Various materials – sonic and textual – were manipulated, processed and edited into a collage of dis/appearing messages and references. The materials: * Deviantovi fragmenti [Fragments from a Deviant] #24 (050510): Keith Jarret in conversation with machines; * Deviantovi fragmenti [Fragments from a Deviant] #33: Explicite Hriste; * Deviantovi fragmenti [Fragments from a Deviant] #35: Christian Sexuality; * Undulation of Oud & Nature is the Steppe from “Nova deViator presents Leopoldina Istanbul (from contract to ritual)”; * Luka Prinčič live sound performance at RŠ44, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana; * “switch” by Luka Prinčič (unpublished); Luka Prinčič is a musician, sound designer and media artist who worksand lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. http://deviator.si

This edition of framework:afield has been produced in the UK and Italy by Felicity Ford and Valeria Merlini for the Tuned City Festival. For more information see http://www.tunedcity.net.

A report from "Democracy Now!" about low-power FM, and the Federal Communications Commission's Oct. 15 application deadline to start new community radio stations. Plus, "Free Speech Radio News" reports on the latest government surveillance reports.

Live performance recorded Tue., June 18 at John Doe Books & Records.

Joseph Kramer's "Porous Notion: Index Fragments and Interpretations." "Radius Sketchpad" is an ongoing monthly radio program produced specifically for free103point9 and WGXC.

A recount of all the revelations of government surveillance recently. Plus news from the Bradley Manning trial, and new radio art, and more. Hosted by Tom Roe live from Wave Farm.

Mash-up news show from host Paul Fischer: "The House voted this week to ban abortions nationwide after 20 weeks. The Republican sponsor of the bill became the latest Republican to suggest raped women don't get pregnant. The Wisconsin state senate rammed thru legislation making ultrasounds mandatory before a woman can get an abortion. The Senate Armed Services Committee marked up a bill to address sexual assaults in the military...but rejected a provision to take reporting rapes and assaults outside the military chain of command. For added context...a flashback to the Senate hearing on private contractors jn Iraq who forced raped women into binding arbitration to settle their cases." In The Summertime Mungo Jerry Electronically Tested. Dawn 1971 03:30 Man ( Radio Edit) Neko Case ft. M. Ward The Worse Things Get....... ANTI 2013 03:32 My Man Billie Holiday ( Toro Y Moi Remix) Verve Remixed: The First Ladies. Verve 2013 03:57 I Don't Care ( I'm A Man) Austra Olympia. Domino 2013 01:13 The Bride Natasha Khan (BFL) and Toy single. SpeedyWunderground 2013 04:40 Something About You Dornik single. PMR 2013 03:47 Got Me Wondering Now Parquet Courts single. What's Your Rupture 2013 01:58 Dark and Stormy Hot Chip single. Domino 2013 04:57 Sad History Month (Radio Edit) Fat History Month single. Ranch 2013 06:26 Every Weekday Camera Obscura Desire Lines. 4AD 2013 04:09 Echo or Encore Eleanor Friedberger Personal Record. Merge 2013 04:50 Fool Proof Smith Westerns Soft Will. Mom+Pop 2013 04:28 Illusion Majical Cloudz Impersonator. Matador 2013 04:28 Can You Get To That Mavis Staples One True Vine. ANTI 2013 02:52 Bring The Noize (Radio Edit) M.I.A. Matangi. NEET/Interscope 2013 03:23 Homage Feist ft. Timbre Timbre X. Arts and Crafts 2013 04:04 Fool of Me Say Lou Lou ft. Chet Faker single. A Deux 2013 04:43 Oh, Come On ( Radio Edit) The Julie Ruin Run Fast. TJR 2013 02:25 Additional Credits This program contains soundbites, including... House Speaker,, John Boehner, explaining House vote on June 18th to ban abortions after 20 weeks nationwide....Wisconsin State Senate votes to require women to get ultrasounds before an aborrtion..Congressman Trent Franks, R-Ariz, asserts raped women don't get pregnant, Reps Zoe Loefgren D Ca, Jerry Nadler D NY disagree,Franks explains what he meant, Jeb Bush on immigrants being more "fertile" ..Sen. Armed Services Committee marks up bill to deal with rape in the military and rejects taking complaints out of the military chain of commands....Sens Gillebrand, Inhoffe, Chmn. Levin, McCaskill, Ayotte....Gillebrand argues one last time for taking rape complaints out of the military chain of command, Army Secy, John McHugh, Sen. Al Franken from 2009 hearing on private contractors forcing raped employees to settle in mandatory binding arbitration..questions women who was assaulted and wanted to go to court and a witness who claims mandatory binding arbitration is better.....from C Span, political and media websites...for illustrative,analysis and commentary purposes.

Anna Friz, Jonny Farrow, Jeff Kolar, Peter Speer, and Stephen Germana perform in this transmission from Chicago. This edition: "Forbidden Planet II," a continuation of the performance NRRF B Radio did for Trans-X Transmission Art Symposium in Toronto in May, 2013. Rebroadcast from June 19, 2013.

Radio Survivor reports that WBAI may have laid off its entire staff, and is on the brink of financial disaster.

Several performances and talks from Canadian radio artist are featured here, mostly collaborations with free103point9. Includes "The Joy Channel," about transmitting feelings, "Somewhere a Voice is Calling" for Art's Birthday 2013, keynote speech at Trans-X Transmision Arts Symposium 2013, and other recordings.

Alexis Goldstein on foreclosure crisis; Deepa Kumar on NYPD Muslim spying.