KPFK pays homage to Albert Einstein on what would have been his 83rd birthday in this special presentation of the News & Public Affairs Department of KPFK on March 14, 1962. Sharing anecdotes and reading excerpts from the works of the physicist and mathematician are Upton Sinclair, professor Julius Sumner Miller, Jimmy Durante, Herschel Bernardi, and Edward G. Robinson. From Pacifica Radio Archives.

Weekly update on radio news about radio waves. Radio news about radio waves, for Oct. 13-20. Show begins with a report on pirate radio during the U.S. government shutdown. The Federal Communications Commission currently has no enforcement division, to react to complaints about pirate radio. We listen to a few websites with information about illicit activity on the airwaves. "PiratesWeek," a weekly audio report about shortwave and FM pirate radio activity comes from upstate New York's Ragnar Daneskjold, although he posts much less often every fall. Even when he doesn't post the weekly show that airs on many FM, shortwave, and internet stations, he does post audio files of pirate stations, and his Twitter feed is full of broadcast alerts. Pirate Radio Central (blackcatsystems.com/radio/pirate.html) also hosts a lively message board with information about shortwave pirates, numbers stations, utility stations, and more. Free Radio Cafe also has a lively forum, and includes solar weather and a way to upload QSL cards. The show also includes an interview with Rhizome's Executive Director Heather Corcoran discussing the technology-based arts organization's past, present, and future. Rhizome is based in New York City, inside the New Museum. Also, Jennifer Waits in radiosurvivor.com reports about the California Historical Radio Society archiving a treasure trove of materials related to radio history on its YouTube channel. The show also announces the winners of the Third Coast 2013 Richard H. Driehaus radio story awards. And the show features "The Muezzins of Mali," new field recordings by Myke Dodge Weiskopf of ShortWaveMusic.

Episode 901 of weekly experimental new music show, by folks formerly behind Staalplaat. Click on title for playlist 901. tracklist for Vital Weekly 901: 0000 Tune 0014 Arovane - Scrai-n 0326 Forgotten Birds - She Goes 0631 Hydrus - Micronaut 0942 Dalot - Night Owl 1245 Surface Hoar - Warm Velvet Mystery 1550 Hybernation - Ring Bolt 1856 Tangents - Youth/Slide/Fire 2158 Staplerfahrer - The Four Elements 2504 Hans Castrup - Untitled 2805 Taming Power - 19-2-01 3104 Lucio Capece - Das Temperierte Berner Munster 3408 Pick-up 3713 Frederic Nogray - Vaccobons Et Malfactours 4014 Bionulor 4306 Marcus Maeder - Topographie Sinusoidale 4611 Krampusø - Kuldi Sjor 4914 Franck Vigroux 5221 Christian F. Schiller & Helmut Schafer - Schlagschatten 5533 Jaap Blonk 5840 Tune

Live performances at Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson, NY are streamed live at wgxc.org, and occasionally broadcast live on WGXC 90.7-FM. Live webstream for this show available from Wave Farm and WGXC at http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/spottydog.mp3.m3u and rebroadcast at midnight (the same night) Sat., Oct. 19 on WGXC 90.7-FM. Ed Askew grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, leaving in the early 60s to attend Yale University in nearby New Haven. A painter, he earned a degree in fine arts. After graduation, he taught briefly at a private suburban high school before returning to New Haven. He arrived just in time to take part in the town’s burgeoning music scene, which also spawned future ESP artists Erica Pomerance and Bill Horowitz. His original musical instrument was the Martin Tipple, which he describeds as a”10-stringed instrument shaped like a baritone ukulele.” For several months circa 66-67, he was in a psychedelic folk band called Gandalf And The Motorpickle, who played at the Exit Coffeehouse, which was located in the basement of a Methodist church. Not long after Askew left the Gandalf group, ESP signed him and released the album that has become known as Ask The Unicorn. Little Eyes was recorded immediately following the poorly selling debut. Made with little more than Ed’s voice and the stunningly modern arrangements of his beloved Martin Tipple, all the songs were recorded in one continuous take. Little Eyes is as grand, sad and beautiful a statement as can be expressed. His off key lilt hangs like a seductive pink mist, and settles deeply; you’ll hear these songs long after they are over. The few concerts which Askew did play were self-promoted affairs. With no organized tours, and hardly any press support from ESP, Ed’s two albums soon descended into hardly-seen-or-heard obscurity status, before finally finding re-release in the past few years. http://www.dragcity.com/artists/ed-askew Trummors is a duo (now in Saugerties) formed by Anne Cunningham, a songwriter and Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature, and David Lerner, formerly of Ted Leo & The Pharmacists. Using primarily acoustic instruments, Trummors harken back to the warm sounds of close-harmony duos, country-rock, and seventies pop, while also incorporating elements of psychedelic folk including harmonium drones and finger style guitar. http://trummors.tumblr.com/

Pacifica Foundation has released a Request for Proposals to run Pacifica station WBAI in New York City via a Local Management Agreement, with a Nov. 6 deadline, according to a story in radiosurvivor.com.

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

4 a.m.: "The RAIN Report" and "Amateur Radio Relay League Audio Report." This week, "The RAIN Report" features, "some thoughts from ARRL President, Kay Craigie/N3Kn from the 2013 Hamvention." This week, from ARRL, "In this week’s report: ARRL VEC’s responds to the lifting of the Government Shutdown; ARRL Designates Six Regional ARRL Centennial Events, and Scouts take to the air for this weekend for the Jamboree On The Air." Plus shortwave sounds, recordings of pirate radio stations, and more.

5 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, the Voice of Russia, Radio Havana Cuba, and NHK World Radio Japan.

5:30 a.m.: "Glenn Hauser's World of Radio" DX and station news countries all over the world.

6 a.m.: "Amateur Radio Newsline" This week: "Ham radio responds as a major cyclone hits India and an earthquake hits the Philippines; the IARU Monitoring Service says that Russia is again intruding into 15 meters; Sweeden gives its hams access to 472 kilohertz; AMSAT to celebrate 30 years of manned ham radio in space operations and a bit of early DX history from down-under."

6:30 a.m.: "This Week in Radio News" from host Tom Roe at Wave Farm's WGXC. This week: "Roundup of the week's radio news about radio waves. The Federal Communication Commission reopened in the United States this week, after 16 days without an enforcement division tracking pirate radio. Non-profit organizations applying for low-power FM stations during the FCC's Oct. 15-29 application window may be bewildered by the process that was interrupted by the shutdown, and this show features reports from Radiosurvivor.com, Broadcast Law Blog, and REC Networks about the LPFM application window in the U.S. SWLing.com considers the "record" pirate radio activity during the shutdown on shortwave bands. Meanwhile, Pacifica Radio considers leasing out WBAI's airwaves in New York City, the House stenographer shouts out on C-Span during the shutdown vote, and Edward Snowden discusses his leaks in Moscow. Plus, this week in radio history with Nixon's anti-drug song edict, and Groucho Marx. Author Douglas Kahn is interviewed by Galen Joseph-Hunter about his new book, "Earth Sound Earth Signal," a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day."

Songs with whistles are featured, plus other whistle blowers.

From host Paul Fischer, through Pacifica Radio. "This episode has been updated with sound to reflect final deal in congress to raise debt limit/end govt shutdown...to allow some time to negotiate on new spending, taxes and sequester details. And did you know that while the rest of the government was shut down....the House Committee on Investigations...the one headed by Darryl Issa... was actually holding hearings on IRS implementation of Obamacare...and using part of the hearing to keep asking about the IRS looking into tea party applications for tax exemptions. A look at your tax dollars not at work this week....told through narration, music and soundbites." Serum Kurt Vile +Sore Eros Jamaica Plain EP. Care In The Community 2013 03:06 Mystery Disease MGMT MGMT. Columbia 2013 04:08 Love Is Lost (Remix) David Bowie ( Hello Steve Reich Remix by James Murphy for the DFA) The Next Day ( Original). Columbia 2013 10:21 Watered Down Swearin Surfing Strange. Salinas 2013 02:58 Professional The Weeknd Kissland. Republican 2013 06:08 How You Say Factory Floor Factory Floor. DFA 2013 06:25 Invisible The Blow The Blow. Kanine 2013 03:07 Still Life OneOhTrix Point Never R Plus Seven. Warp 2013 04:53 Misery Is A Communicable Disease ( Radio Edit) Vessel single. Liberation Technologies 2013 04:38 Don't Apply Compression Gently Courtney Barnett A Sea of Split Peas Double EP. Marathon 2013 03:37 Drooler Palehound Bent Nail. Exploding In Sound 2013 03:05 Sticks and Stones Crystal Stilts Nature Noir. Sacred Bones 2013 02:16 I'm The Man, That Will Find You Connan Mockasin Caramel. Mexican Summer 2013 05:01 Twisted (Reissue) Lambert, Hendricks and Ross Lambert, Hendricks and Ross: The Beat Generation. Hallmark 2011 02:16 Additional Credits This program has been updated andcontains soundbites of Sen pres pro tem and Sens Reid and McConnell announcing final agreement on deal to end shutdown/raise debt ceiling...reaction from Sen. Ted Cruz... Pres. Obama, Senator Bob Corker, Speaker Boehner,...Sens. Ayotte, McCain, Schumer, Graham, Durbin (Face, MTP. This Week).. Bob Schieffer.. "I've Never Seen Anything Like This"... Chmn Darryl Issa's House Investigations Committee holds hearing on IRS implementation of Obamacare...asks questions about Tea Party tax exemptions... Sara Hall Ingram, IRS-Obamacare Office Dir...questioned by Representatives Scott Desjarlais, Elijah Cummings, Michelle Lojan Grisham, Troy Gowdy.. Veterans Adm, Eric Shinseki, House testimony govt shutdown/ debt ceiling impact on veterans... Tea Party House member, Tim Huelskamp of Kansas on why debt ceiling limit is no big deal.. Senator Elizabeth Warren on government shutdown and debt ceiling fight.... from C-Span, media and political websites..for illustrative, analysis and commentary purposes

Galen Joseph-Hunter talks with Douglas Kahn, author of "Earth Sound Earth Signal." The book is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through the first telephone; he then traces the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer space, through detailed discussions of musicians, artists and scientists such as Alvin Lucier, Edmond Dewan, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Robert Barry, Joyce Hinterding, and many others.

From Wikipedia: "William Basinski (born 1958) is an avant-garde composer based in New York. He is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist. Basinski is best known for his four-volume album "The Disintegration Loops" (2002–2003), constructed from rapidly decaying twenty-year-old tapes of his earlier music." This show samples "The Disintegration Loops" and other works, ahead of his Oct. 26 performance at RPI's EMPAC.

Saturday afternoon show live from WGXC's Acra studio, featuring Wave Farm Artist-in-Resident Aliza Simons. "The Tip Of The Crest Of The Bridge" consists of sixteen artist-built low-power FM transmitters. Each transmitter broadcasts a small segment of audio on loop. Together, these audio segments create an overarching sound collage and narrative story constructed from the seventy community radio stations visited by Simons in 2009 and 2010 while living in Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Argentina, Ecuador and the Canadian Arctic.

Rebroadcast of program about computer hacking, wireless systems, and more from 2600 magazine aired first on WBAI in New York City.

This edition features works from the new framework:seasonal release, issue #6, autumn 2013, by Petra Kapš (OR Poiesis), Kim Walker, Mathieu Ruhlmann, David Velez, and Sawako, as well as new works by Matt Wellins and Lethe.

Live performance at Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson, NY streamed live at wgxc.org, and broadcast live on WGXC 90.7-FM. Live webstream for this show available from Wave Farm and WGXC at http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/spottydog.mp3.m3u and on WGXC 90.7-FM. More information here about Evan Corey Levine. Stephen Bluhm, Jonathan Talbott, and Stuart Quimby join in on vocals, violin, and flute respectively.

After midnight, things can get scary on the radio.

This is the 20th year of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's media analysis radio show, hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall, and Peter Hart. This week: "Simone Campbell on shutdown; Jo Ellen Green Kaiser on 'Where is your Plan B?'"

eteam will be joined by drummer Bobby Previte and writer Andrea Kleine for a reading of "Buzz Cut" that will incorporate Elements of the video "The back up tapes from Moon and Mars" together with live electronic sounds and spoken words. The novella is an account of eteam's visits to the towns of Moon and Mars in Pennsylvania, which eteam views as if they were simulated environments On Earth, a training ground for eventual living on the planet Mars and Earth's satellite, the Moon. Live performances at Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson, NY are streamed live at wgxc.org, and occasionally broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM. Live webstream for this show available from Wave Farm and WGXC at http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/spottydog.mp3.m3u and rebroadcast at midnight (the same night) Mon., Oct. 21 on WGXC 90.7-FM.