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.

Wave Farm IT Consultant Opportunity

Engagement Type: Consultant
Contract Terms: Annual (terms tbd)
Schedule: Set by consultant, including on-call for emergency outages, and on-site work
Compensation: Hourly compensation with the option for retainer arrangement

Wave Farm seeks a technician to maintain and troubleshoot organizational IT infrastructure including network management, hardware, and systems administration.

Wave Farm, an international transmission arts organization that operates WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears. Wave Farm is based in New York’s Hudson Valley with brick and mortar locations in Acra, Catskill, and Leeds, NY.

The IT Consultant will install, configure, and troubleshoot hardware, software, and peripheral system components through on-site and remote support. They will monitor and troubleshoot backups, interfaces to equipment, software, and organizational systems including:

Internet

• WiFi networks at all Wave Farm locations, including static IP and DNS

Hardware

• Storage, OS, and software updates (ensuring compatibility)
• New hardware acquisitions

Software

• WGXC broadcast automation (Radiologik) and other organizational platforms and tools (Logmein, etc.) customizing in conjunction with other organizational systems
• Vendor communication as needed

Cloud-based Productivity and Collaboration Tools

• Support organizational leadership in management of Wave Farm’s Google Workspace, Airtable, Dropbox, Zoom, etc.

Cybersecurity

• Support organizational leadership in management of Wave Farm’s password management
• Advise the organization on security issues and implement ways to protect the organization from potential hacks and other IT-related risks

Qualifications
Ideal applicants have expertise in Mac OS, but are also proficient in Windows and Linux when needed. Applicants should have a strong understanding of networking fundamentals including understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, and firewall configurations in a Mac environment. Scripting skills, including AppleScript and shell scripting, are preferred. Successful candidates conduct themselves with professionalism and have a proclivity for detailed documentation, strong problem solving and communication skills, and a commitment to Wave Farm’s mission and programs.

Interested parties should send a brief letter of interest and resume to info@wavefarm.org.