Turn out for Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM’s karaoke contest fundraiser at Half Moon in Hudson on Friday, May 10th. The evening will be hosted by Karaoke Amanda of WGXC show "Dim the Lights with Jenny and Amanda" with proceeds from ticket sales benefitting WGXC.

The contest’s theme is communication, so all songs related to dialing, radio, phone, internet, fax, and more are eligible. Choose your tune and sing it for our guest judges Arielle and Gloria of WGXC show "Las Brujas Bilingues" and DJ Paddy Boom of WGXC show "Vinyl Freedom" to win prizes.

Prizes include tickets to the Negativland + SUE-C, Matmos with Rodney Alan Greenblat opening show at the Greenville Drive-In and other goodies.

Doors are at 7pm and karaoke contest begins at 8pm. If you can’t turn out in person, tune in for a live broadcast of the event on the FM dial or online.

A co-presentation of Upstate Films, PlayTime, and Wave Farm in anticipation of a major live event at the Greenville Drive-in. Since childhood, David “The Weatherman” Wills has recorded and reported on anything that grabs his attention. When he and friends Richard Lyons and Mark Hosler formed Negativland, it soon became a collage of sounds and visuals, both ordinary and extraordinary. The group’s work is so expansive and unique that it cannot help but push boundaries of sound, media, propaganda, and perception. (Ryan Worsley, US, 2022, 99m). More information and tickets at https://www.upstatefilms.org/stand-by-for-failure-w-film-director-ryan-worsley-and-negativlands-mark-hosler-via-skype-sonic-wave-weekly-close-up

“Few artists have logged as many hours on the battlefield of fair use, let alone questioned as persistently the associated legal constraints around intellectual property, as Negativland, whose sonic, visual and performance appropriations and parodies have challenged eyeballs, eardrums and moral standards alike since the late 1970s.” — The Wire

Performances from Aaron Dilloway, C. Lavender, and John Wiese, in celebration of the Rozart Mix record release.

Side One: Rozart Mix (John Cage) Recorded Live, October 23, 2021 at the John Cage Trust at Bard College, Red Hook, NY.
Side Two: Variations of a Single Rozart Tape (A. Dilloway) Recorded August 3, 2021 at Tarker Mills, Oberlin, OH.
Co-presented by Wave Farm and the John Cage Trust. This realization of Rozart Mix was made possible with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Anthony B. Creamer III, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

In keeping with Cage's score, a minimum of 88 tape loops were employed. The tape loops ran on 12 reel-to-reel decks positioned in various rooms and floors of the John Cage Trust building, winding up stairs and around furniture. Visitors, who registered in advance for scheduled indoor sessions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were immersed in a kinetic and audible drawing. Outdoors, visitors were welcomed with hot cider for an durational stereo mix of the installation, which was also streamed online at wavefarm.org/listen. A live FM radio broadcast took place on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM from 4 - 6 p.m.

As in the first performance of Rozart Mix in 1965 at Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the content on the tape loops included field recordings as well as voices; however, in this new iteration, the sound materials were sourced from the over 100 volunteer programmers who contribute programming on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The event served as a culminating celebration of WGXC's 10th Anniversary year.

Advance Record Release Tickets available at: https://www.theavalonlounge.com/show-calendar/rozart-mix-release-with-aaron-dilloway-c-lavender-john-wiese.