Turn out on Thursday, October 23rd at 7pm Upstairs at the Avalon Lounge for the next edition of “Breaking the Algorithm IRL,” a new monthly series presented by Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM as part of our Local Waves initiative and the show "Local Waves in Conversation." Part conversation led by Mike Amari of Chosen Family and part DJ set by a WGXC volunteer, the series highlights local artists, musicians, venue owners and bookers, and record label owners. This month’s event features a discussion with Matthew O'Neill of non-profit and label Panther Mountain Sound as well as WGXC show "Panther Mountain Sound." DJ set by Yeshi of "NORMLRadio."

Bill Corrigan is a sound archivist, musician, researcher and writer. Starting as a freeform DJ at Ann Arbor’s WCBN-FM, he has been digging into radio stations and archives across the United States, from Detroit’s WDET to Charlottesville’s WTJU, and has undertaken research and preservation activities at the Pacifica Radio Archives and the Library of Congress. He has made sounds for interdisciplinary ensembles Underword and the Llano Estacado Monad Band, and currently performs duets within the Resuscianne group. He is presently puzzling over the aesthetics of democratic participation, the rhetorics and putative realities of archival neutrality, and the fictive dimensions of documentary recordings. His work for Wave Farm promises to provide an instruction in navigation through the airwaves via the not-entirely-metaphorical medium of water.

As a Radio Art Research Fellow, Luna Galassini will contribute works of transmissions art originating in New Mexico and the broader Southwest. She will continue archival research that began as an exploration of mining and labor history in New Mexico, and soon expanded to include extant audio archives of historic field recordings, public radio interviews with downwinders and from inside the American Indian Movement's occupation of the Shiprock semiconductor plant, and educational radio programs on New Mexico's rivers, water rights, and land grants. She will focus especially on KUNM's Radio Performance Project, initiated and curated by Ned Sublette, a collection spanning documentary, radio play, long-form field recording, and experimental composition--including a 1979 performance of Alvin Lucier's "Music on a Long Thin Wire," broadcast for five straight days and nights from the roof of the Winrock Shopping Center in Albuquerque. Galassini will also contribute contemporary works to Wave Farm's archive, including artists working with shortwave transmission, low-power community radio, tape collage, performance works using analog broadcast equipment, and contributions from the DIY community of Very Low Frequency enthusiasts drawn to New Mexico's dark sky parks and quiet expanses.

Luna Galassini is a musician and artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her performances explore the somatic qualities of sound and the vernacular range of the voice through improvisation with found objects, handmade oscillators and receivers, and traditional instruments exploited for their resonant potential as speaker objects. As an independent researcher, she is interested in the translation of the electromagnetic spectrum into audible tones; in the nature of energy work and vibrational healing, particularly as it intersects with her day job as a bodyworker; and in the ecology and history unique to New Mexico, including its vast rural expanses, its troubled sites of extraction, and the aesthetic mythologies that obscure its political and cultural complexity. She has performed both solo and in ensembles at Cocoon (Santa Fe), Wave Archive (Tucson), High Desert Soundings, CO-OPt (Lubbock TX), ICA Santa Fe, the New Mexico Museum of Art, Human Resources, No Name Cinema (Santa Fe), Coaxial, and The Box (Los Angeles). Her video work has been exhibited at No Name Cinema, Currents 826, and REDCAT. She is a co-founder of Santa Fe Noise Ordinance, an experimental concert series that has hosted the Chacon/Nakatani/Santisteven trio, White Boy Scream, Twig Harper, Zachary James Watkins, and the Santa Fe Intertribal Noise Symposium, among many others.

Attention Hudson Valley, Capital Region, and Western Mass Musicians and Sound Artists! Send in your tracks for WGXC airplay!

We are pleased to announce our second Local Waves call for local music and sounds to air on WGXC 90.7-FM. Wave Farm is working with Chosen Family to deepen our local music library for on-air use. Tracks air during the weekly "Local Waves" show on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and Friday nights from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. or 10 a.m. to 12 a.m., as well as many other times throughout the WGXC program schedule.

Send your files for airplay on WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears! Put "LOCAL WAVES" in the subject line of the email to music@wgxc.org and include a Bandcamp link with download code or mp3s (320 kbps).

Please Note: Registration is now full. If you'd like to be placed on a waiting list, please contact info@wavefarm.org

Develop sound skills to share your story through best practices for recording, editing, and live radio.

• First Thursdays of the month, 6 - 8 p.m. February - November 2025
• WGXC Catskill Studio 393 Main Street Catskill, NY 12414
• Registration limited to 15 participants per session. No experience required.
• Instructor: Jen Kutler, Wave Farm Technical Director
• Questions: Email Meredith Kooi, meredith@wavefarm.org

February 6, 2025: Basic Audio Concepts 

Session objectives include an overview of common and useful terms related to acoustic, electronic, and digital ecologies, with a technical focus on audio transduction and microphone varieties. Additional topics for discussion include psychoacoustics—the branch of science studying the psychological responses associated with sound—with a focus on physical spatial considerations and panning/width in recording.

March 6, 2025: Filters

Session objectives include an introduction to common concepts related to filters in audio production, including frequency response, polar pattern, and equalization. Participants will also learn about The Fletcher Munson Curve, frequency masking, and infrasound, and how to apply these concepts to your work. We will also consider recording height and how to address unwanted plosives and sibilance.

April 3, 2025: Considering Loudness when Recording

Session objectives include strategies for achieving desired “depth” in your recordings. Topics include gain staging, dynamic range, compression, and the concept of distance in recording, including reverb and distortion.

May 1, 2025: Editing Bootcamp

Editing bootcamp! We will cover hotkeys, fades, matching takes, punching in/out, layering tracks, and bus processing. Participants will learn shortcuts for quicker and better edits, as well as bulk import/export strategies.

June 5, 2025: Creative processing

Session objectives include strategies for creating your own audio effects (FX). Topics include delays, filters, autopan, and time stretching. Participants will learn about sequences FX and FX automation in order to achieve the sounds you are imagining.

July 3, 2025: Multitrack Mixing

Session objectives include strategies for mixing multitrack sessions for full height, width, and depth without murkiness. The goal of this session is to understand how to make multiple tracks fit together in a mix. Attendees will participate in critical listening for frequency range, dynamics, and headroom.

August 7, 2025: The Physical Components of Recording Audio

Session objectives include an overview of crucial care and maintenance of recording equipment to ensure longevity of your tools, including a hands-on introduction to soldering and light electronic repairs.

September 4, 2025: The Intangible Components of Recording Audio

Session objectives include discussions about analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion and digital audio processing. Specific topics will include block size, sample rate, bit depth, compression, streaming, and physical media. Additional topics include how best to manage computer resources in large sessions, latency for high track count, and CPU intensive processing.

October 2, 2025: Understanding Monitoring Sources and Taking it to the Stage

Session objectives include a conceptual overview of possible monitoring sources: speakers, headphones, and subwoofers, as well as the impacts of the space or room on your recording quality. Additional topics will include techniques for recording live performance, including ringing out microphones, PA system safety, microphone techniques, and streaming.

November 6, 2025: Taking It to the Field

Session objectives include field recording tools, principles, refinement, and processing.

Jen Kutler is a multidisciplinary artist and Technical Director of Wave Farm. Kutler modifies found objects that are cultural signifiers of power, gender, queerness, and intimacy to create atypical instruments and sculptures. Her performances feature many of her instruments incorporated with immersive field recordings to explore common and discrepant experiences of familiar social tones in immersive sound and media environments. You can learn more about her at jenkutler.com.

Wave Farm programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the Greene County Cultural Fund; the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation; and hundreds of other generous individual donors, including WGXC Monthly Supporters, who provide critical monthly support to Wave Farm's radio station WGXC 90.7-FM. A special acknowledgment to the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation for their support of the the All Things Audio workshop series.

Turn out on Thursday, November 20th at 7pm Upstairs at the Avalon Lounge for the next edition of “Breaking the Algorithm IRL,” a monthly series presented by Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM as part of our Local Waves initiative and the show "Local Waves in Conversation." Part conversation led by Mike Amari of Chosen Family and part DJ set by a WGXC volunteer, the series highlights local artists, musicians, venue owners and bookers, and record label owners. This month’s event features a discussion with poet, writer, and vocalist Karen Schoemer (Day for Nights, Sky Furrows).

On Saturday November 22nd from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., authors, broadcasters, poets, and community members will come together live on-air on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears to celebrate freedom of speech and freedom to create. Stop by the WGXC studio to witness the broadcasts and head over to Left Bank Ciders to gather with others to listen to the broadcast and converse. Or, tune your radio dial to 90.7-FM or hop online at wavefarm.org/listen.

Organized by the Northern Spy Reading Series and WGXC, Celebrating Freedom of Expression On Air is taking place in conjunction with Fall of Freedom, a nationwide call for creative resistance initiated by artist Dread Scott, playwright Lynn Nottage, and many other artists, writers, filmmakers, and cultural producers.

As a 2025 Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow, Fabiana writes: "Streaming from an intimate interest in Alien Sound, drawing on what Kodwo Eshun discusses in More Brilliant Than the Sun as Alien Music, I propose writing an essay, culminating on a short book, that uses Tendayi Sithole’s The Black Register, Sun Ra’s MythScience, and Eshun’s concept of Alien Music as an experimental lens to explore how sonic practices articulate modes of Black and Indigenous aesthetic-world-making through vibration as epistemology, transmission, and formless formation. I will focus on the works of Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe (Codes), the ANANSI Revolutionary Collective and SUNJIR0, and Celeste Oram’s TERRA RADIA workshop—all of whom engage with sound as an insurgent force that unsettles hegemonic temporal structures of listening, technology, and registry. Throughout this article, I will explore the breaks where Alien Sound is transmitted (and listened to, dislocated, created, destroyed)—where nothing is fixed in tradition, space, or temporality, but instead dislocated from any origin—proposing sound as a fugitive method of synthetic recombination."

Fabiana Gibim is a performance artist, editor, and curator from the border of Brazil and Paraguay, born into the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous Nation. Her work explores concepts of sonic art in relation to the epistemology of vibration. She is interested in radical archives—both sound and printed matter—and dedicates herself to creating imaginary archives that experiment with the concept of “formless formation.” She is also the editor and founder of the São Paulo-based radical press, Sobinfluencia, working collaboratively with over 200 contributors and having published over 40 books and more than 50 mixed-media posters. She is co-founder of the Nocturnal Lab, laboratory of investigations on sound and night.

Fabiana was a special curator at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, where she received the prestigious John D. and Rose H. Jackson Award for outstanding work in artistic curation. Her efforts culminated in curating the exhibition “Art, Protest & The Archives” at Yale from 2023 to 2024. In 2023, she was a finalist for the Prêmio Jabuti (the "Tortoise Prize"), the most traditional literary award in Brazil, given by the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL), for her work as the editor of the first book ever written in history, the Mesopotamian long poem “Inana.” Currently, Fabiana lives between Brazil and New York, investigating sound, collage, radio work, and writing about sonic experimentalism.