free103point9 celebrated its 8th anniversary with Tune(In))) Brooklyn featuring Sudden Infant, CJMJS, Sawako, Ian Epps, neuroTransmitter, Damian Catera, Ben Owen + Andy Graydon, Tianna Kennedy + Tyler Nolan, Trevor Healey + Patrick Holmes, Imaginary Folk, 31 Down, Matt Bua, Matt Mikas + Tom Roe, Andrew Barker + Jessica Pavone + Jesse Dulman + Christopher McIntyre and others.

Sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc free103point9's Tune(In))) is a silent concert, with performers playing into transmitters rather than amplifiers. Attendees listen to performances on radio with headphones. (Radios available for purchase at the door, $8.)

88.7-FM
Video projection of activities at the free103point9 Gallery.
8 p.m.: archived free103point9 recording from last eight years:
Carlos Giffoni, "untitled" from Tune(In))) 03.01.03;
Matt Valentine + Erika Elder, ""Contemporary Mountain Hymns and Microtonal Sun Ragas" from Tune(In))) 03.01.03.
8:45-9:30: Tianna Kennedy + guest
9:30-10:15: CJMJS: Christopher McIntyre (trombone and G3 laptop) + Michael Schumacher (G4 laptop)
10:15-11 p.m.: Matt Mikas + Tom Roe + Daniel Carter + Tony Flynn
11 p.m.-11:30: Tianna Kennedy + Tyler Nolan
11:30 p.m.-12:15 a.m.: Imaginary Folk: Peter Evans, trumpet; Jessica Pavone, viola; Brandon Seabrook, banjo; and Amie Weiss, violin.
12:15-12:30 a.m.: Tianna Kennedy + guest
12:30-1:15 a.m.: Andrew Barker + Jesse Dulman + Christopher McIntyre + Jessica Pavone + Charles Waters.

89.3-FM
Performers on First Floor, with audio streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio, www.free103point9.org.
8 p.m.: archived free103point9 recording from last eight years:
Transmaniacon MC, "Klipshow" from Tune(In))) 03.01.03 (35 min.);
Scanner, entire set from Tune(In))) The Kitchen 04.22.04 (30 min);
9 p.m.: Radio Ruido
9:30 p.m.: Matt Pass
10 p.m.: Radio Ruido
10:15 p.m.: Sawako
10:45 p.m.: Radio Ruido
11 p.m.: Ian Epps
11:30 p.m.: Radio Ruido
11:45 p.m.: Ben Owen + Andy Graydon
12:15 a.m.: DJ Kelly Kombat

91.9-FM
Performers on First Floor streamed live on Radioo, www.radioo.org.
8 p.m.: archived free103point9 recording from last eight years.
Tatsuya Nakatani + Vic Rawlings + Ricardo Arias, from Assembled 06.26.04 (45 mins).
8:45-9:15: Matt Bua
9:15 p.m.: 31 Down
10-10:15: Matt Bua
10:15 p.m.: Damian Catera
11-11:15: Matt Bua
11:15 p.m.: neuroTransmitter
mid-12:15: Matt Bua
12:15 a.m.: Sudden Infant

99.9-FM
Archived free103point9 performances from the last eight years.
8 p.m.- 9:05 p.m.: "Radio 4x4 at 'Rock's Role (After Ryoanji)'" DVD
9:05 p.m.-9:15 p.m.: "Of The Bridge" DVD
9:15-10:20 p.m.: "Kids Discover Radio visits free103point9" 04.24.99.
10:20-1 a.m.: "Tune(In))) The Kitchen" footage from Rob Hall, 04.22.04.

103.9-FM
Archived free103point9 performances from the last eight years.
Performances from Damian Catera and others from the "International Night of Noise" 06.01.01; WTC benefit Sept., 2001; Michael Przytarski's free103point9 recordings of Emil Beaulieau 09.25.01, Ortho 2001, A Thousand Points of Light, Monotract 06.01.01, Bunny Brains 06.01.01, others.

1610-AM Tune(In))) Brooklyn information channel:
Tune your radios to this informational channel for instructions on how to Tune(In))) as you enter the space.
31 Down is creating this instructional programming with sound effects and script by Ryan Holsopple and voice by Heidi McElligott. This instructional programming will also play on all channels at 8 p.m. EST, when the event begins.


Biographies of performers

89.3-FM
performance in East River Bar

8 p.m.: archived free103point9 recording from last eight years:
Transmaniacon MC, "Klipshow" from Tune(In))) 03.01.03 (35 min.);
Scanner, entire set from Tune(In))) The Kitchen 04.22.04 (30 min);

9 p.m.: Radio Ruido
Radio Ruido is the nom de guerre of Brooklyn artist Thomas Mulligan. In addition to transmitting experimental sound work with free103point9, he has performed live with the audio-visual collective Dimmer and designed sound for the bilingual performance group Teatro Chinampa. He has recently exhibited at Deitch Projects, Participant, Inc., and the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore.

9:30 p.m.: Matt Pass
Matt Pass is vocal sounder tapping medieval and moderne, sculpting sounds through voice, delay, distortion, tape manipulation and homemade instruments, combining elements of chant, choral clustered, ethnics and analog electronicisms.

10 p.m.: Radio Ruido

10:15 p.m.: Sawako
Sawako Kato is a Japanese sound artist currently living in New York City. Aside from sound work, she has also been involved with video and magazine publishing. In 2002, she graduated from Keio University, SFC in Japan, where she studied computing culture, as well as sound design with Christopher Penrose. Sawako has performed live in Europe, the USA, and Japan, with people such as Christophe Charles, Oval, V/VM, Olivia Block, Kuwayama/Kijima, TWIN (Howard Stelzer, Jason Talbot, and Brendan Murray), Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura,Taku Sugimoto, Yoshihiro Hanno, Astro Twin (Utah Kawasaki and Ami Yoshida), Carl Stone, Andrew Deutsch, Alan Licht, Hypo, Bus Ratch, Bernard Gal, Mike Bullock, Koura, and many others.

10:45 p.m.: Radio Ruido

11 p.m.: Ian Epps
Ian Epps is a Sonic/Visual Artist, customizing his life and belongings, in Brooklyn, NY. He has played performances alongside and in collaboration with Rafael Toral, Ogurusu Norihide, Kenneth Kirschner, Mountains (Koen Holtkamp & Brendon Anderegg), Takeshi Mitsuhashi, Richard Devine, EVOL, Dave Gross & Liz Tonne, Richard Zvonar, Joe McPhee, Andrew Deutsch, Pauline Oliveros, and collectively with Dan Walsh and Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer) under the name "the Computers."

11:30 p.m.: Radio Ruido

11:45 p.m.: Ben Owen
free103point9 transmission artist Ben Owen works with projected slide film manipulations and experimental electro-acoustic sound composition. His collaborative projects are with Ting Ting Jahe and tiptip, and he has created radio transmission works with free103point9 and broadcastatic. Owen is the curator of Seasonal - a series of listening environments that includes performance, installation, internet radio program Home Listening, and the mp3 composite Addenda. Interested in the theme of organic instability and decay, first investigated with stone lithography printmaking, Owen's practice continues to explore these ideas as relating to listening, response, and performance. Writes Owen, “The momentary existence of sound that happens without the guidance of the composer- sounds captured from locations and phenomena are a focus of his recordings and performance. These sound-fields are arranged both as raw captures and digitally processed fragments as a continuation of the fragility of mark making. The creation of tools- modified electronics, acoustic material, and computer are extensions of the composer’s active and passive hand.”

12:15 a.m.: DJ Kelly Kombat
DJ Kelly "Kombat" Benjamin is a long-time microradio activist, having run 87X in Tampa, Florida for several years in the mid-'90s. He is freelance journalist and was a recent Tampa City Council candidate. He has appeared on the free103point9 LP/CD "Constructive Engagement" and has DJ'd at many free103point9 events over the past eight years.


91.9-FM
performance in East River Bar

8 p.m.: archived free103point9 recording from last eight years.
Tatsuya Nakatani + Vic Rawlings + Ricardo Arias, from Assembled 06.26.04 (45 mins).

8:45: Matt Bua
Matt Bua received his BFA from East Carolina University (North Carolina). In addition to drawings, Bua makes films, videos, installations and performance art pieces. He has been included in exhibitions at Jessica Murray Projects, Smack Mellon (Brooklyn); Palm Beach Museum of Contemporary Art (Lake Worth, FL). He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

9:15 p.m.: 31 Down
31 Down is a live radio theater project that includes live music, sound effects, and dramatic script. Ryan Holsopple performs as Mike Sharpie, the crossword-solving detective. This episode finds Mike in search of something that he lost. 31 Down are free103point9 Transmission Artists, and have released tracks on free103point9's Radio Action I and II, and Tune(In))) CDs. Their Noise Noir CD is free103point9 Audio Dispatch 16.
For Tune(In))) Brooklyn, 31 Down in "...my last .45"
Mike Sharpie walks down the steps into his own grave. Designed and developed by Ryan Holsopple, Mirit Tal, and Shannon Sindelar. Thanks to Matt Bua and Ontological-Hysteric Theater Outside/Input.

10 p.m.: Matt Bua

10:15 p.m.: Damian Catera
Damian Catera is an electroacoustic composer/guitarist, sound installation creator and media artist. Catera's work reflects interests in sound based composition/ improvisation, transmission and sociopolitical critique. He has toured the US and Europe twice and has also presented work in Latin America and Asia. Recently he's been performing improvised "deCompositions" for live electronics, radio and guitar and also participated in the New Sound New York sound art exhibit during the spring of 2004. In recent years, Catera has performed improvised solo guitar/ radio/ computer based pieces abroad and in the US in New York area venues like the Knitting Factory, the Kitchen and The Cooler. He has also performed live radio broadcasts on free103point9 and WFMU. Catera toured Europe in December of 2001, and May of 2002 performing in the Czech Republic, Germany , Poland and Slovakia. In March of 2000 he performed in the "La Primavera en Habana" festival in Cuba . During the spring of 1999, he toured the United States with Japanese sound artist and Zeni Geva guitarist K.K. Null. Damian also composed two interactive pieces for the NYU New Music Ensemble during 2002 and 2003.

11 p.m.: Matt Bua

11:15 p.m.: neuroTransmitter
Founded in 2001, nT is a radio collaborative utilizing analog communication technologies. Working specifically with radio machinations, neuroTransmitter propels signals through urban membranes and cellular formations. To complement their fixed and mobile frequency performances, nT creates radio-sonic installations, produces music, and converts utilitarian objects into radio transmission and receiving devices. neuroTransmitter has created visual works, performed, and broadcasted live on local bandwiths in public spaces and galleries throughout New York City; Columbus, Ohio; Helsinki, Finland; Aarhus, Denmark; and Madrid, Spain. nT is currently a collaborative-in-residence with the research and development program at Eyebeam Atelier, NYC.

midnight: Matt Bua

12:15 a.m.: Sudden Infant
Since 1989 Joke Lanz and his companions have spread their incredible sounds and actions in many tours across Europe, USA, Japan, Taiwan and Switzerland. Working in the area of experimental and free music, Sudden Infant is building up complex noise compositions, using unconventional sound sources, lo-fi electronics and turntables. Sudden Infant’s music has a humorous and highly improvised character. It’s a fragmented field of sound that comes to it’s own autonomy.


88.7-FM
Video projection.
8 p.m.: archived free103point9 recording from last eight years:
Carlos Giffoni, "untitled" from Tune(In))) 03.01.03;
Matt Valentine + Erika Elder, ""Contemporary Mountain Hymns and Microtonal Sun Ragas" from Tune(In))) 03.01.03.

8:45 p.m.: Tianna Kennedy + guest
Tianna Kennedy's work explores lo-fi/neglected sounds in the form of field and home/band-practice recordings. In 2003-4 Kennedy collaborated with Michelle Rosenberg on a sound sculpture installation in Beacon, NY based on early hearing aid technology; with Laura Kohl on a soundscape of a Rock and Roll camp for girls in Portland, OR; with Great Small Works for a sound event at PS122; and with Autonomedia/Chronoplastics for the Sound Generation Benefits held at Experimental Intermedia and OfficeOps. Kennedy also hosts a monthly improvisatory broadcast. She has a history in cello performance and can be found playing cello/mandolin/guitar/bass/vox or recording with various New York and Nottingham bands including Polygraph, Iran, Hannah Marcus, Laura Hannah, Doug Shepherd, Matt Bua, The Reynolds, Great Bear, Seachange, Wolves! (of Greece), Bee and Flower, K, I Am Spartacus, 66 Watts, etc. She currently working on an MA in Performance Studies at NYU, and has written for liveartmagazine and Reckless Sleepers.

9:30 p.m.: CJMJS: Christopher McIntyre (trombone) + Michael Schumacher (G4 laptop)
Christopher McIntyre: Minnesota-native and current New York City resident Christopher McIntyre (CJM) leads a multi-faceted career in the performing arts. He participates in a variety of settings performing on trombone, most actively as an improviser in acoustic and live-electronic environments. Current and past projects include TILT brass band (co-leader), mixed composer/performer ensemble Ne(x)tworks, various Gold Sparkle Band projects, Charlie Waters Quartet, ellipsis brass trio, Kitchen House Blend, and King Korette. He has worked with many renowned composers and improvisers such as Dave Ballou, Kitty Brazelton, Daniel Carter, Anthony Coleman, Marty Ehrlich, Kato Hideki, John King, Joan La Barbara, Michael J. Schumacher, Elliott Sharp, Charles Wuorinen, and Lois V. Vierk. His penchant for artistic exploration has led to projects in a diversity of style and media, ranging from Javanese Gamelan and Haitian Kompa to music theater and performance art.
Michael Schumacher: Piano studies with Seymour Bernstein, John Ogdon, Shigeo Neriki Composition studies with Stan Applebaum, Bernhard Heiden, John Eaton, Vincent Persichetti and La Monte Young. Degrees in Composition from Indiana University, Bloomington (1982) and The Juilliard School (1988) Musical Experience: Composer, Pianist, Guitarist, Teacher, Studio Engineer, Concert Producer and Curator, Computer Music Programmer (Max/MSP, Super Collider, CSound) In 1996, with Ursula Scherrer, founded Studio Five Beekman, a sound and intermedia gallery. With Liz Gerring, founded Diapason, a sound and intermedia gallery, in April, 2001. Schumacher is a recipient of the Foundation of Contemporary Performance Arts fellowship of 2001.

10:15 p.m.: Matt Mikas + Tom Roe + Daniel Carter + Tony Flynn
One of the legendary masters of creative music. Born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania in 1945. Principal instruments: Alto and tenor saxophones, flute, trumpet, clarinet. He has performed with: Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Billy Bang, William Parker, Roy Campbell, Sabir Mateen, Sonic Youth, Simone Forti, Joan Miller, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Nayo Takasaki, Earl Freeman, Dewey Johnson, Nami Yamamoto, Matthew Shipp, Billy Martin, John Medeski, Wilber Morris, Denis Charles, MMW (Medeski, Martin, & Wood), Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Options, Spring Heel Jack, Yo La Tengo, Federico Ughi, Raphé Malik, Sam Rivers, Sunny Murray, Hamiet Bluiett, Bob Moses, Jaco Pastorius, Enrico Rava, David S. Ware, Steve Swell, Matt Lavelle, Karl Berger, Don Pate, Gunter Hampel, David Grubbs, the No Kneck Blues Band, Alan Silva, Susie Ibarra, Steve Dalachinsky, D.J. Logic, Margaret Beals, Douglas Elliot, Butch Morris, TEST, Other Dimensions In Music, One World Ensemble, Saturnalia String Trio, Levitation Unit, Wet Paint.
Matt Mikas is free103point9's Operations Manager and a sound artist with a history of involvement with microradio, nightclub entertainment, and museum exhibition. A sonic anthropologist, Mikas uses turntables alternately as a historian and performer. In January 2000 he curated the sound program for Dave Hickey’s "Ultralounge" at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa and Tune(In))) (2003), a one-night installation featuring over sixty sound artists performing live into six radio transmitters. "Of The Bridge," a collaboration with Matt Bua and Tom Roe, premiered in "Brooklyn!" (2001) at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. Mikas’s current project Interactive Audio Response Kit is a musical composition and listening tool created for two identical LPs. He has spoken on independent media actions at the Grassroots Radio Conference, the New York Poetry Project, among others.
Tom Roe is free103point9's Program Director, and a sound transmission artist sometimes known as DJ Dizzy. He co-founded microradio stations 87X in Tampa, FL and free103point9 in Brooklyn, NY. Roe performs with transmitters using multiple bands (FM, CB, walkie-talkie), as well as prepared CDs, vinyl records, and various electronics. He has also written about music for The Wire, Signal to Noise, and The New York Post, among others. Roe's writing about Free Jazz in New York recently appeared in The Wire's 20th Anniversary publication Undercurrents (Continuum). His collaboration with Matt Bua and Matt Mikas, Of The Bridge, premiered in Brooklyn! (2001) at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. Roe’s Constructive Engagement, featuring manipulated recordings from recent political protests and Of The Bridge, both received funding from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. He co-curated Tune(In))) (2002), a one-night installation featuring over sixty sound artists performing live into six radio transmitters. Roe has also spoken on panels for Fairness and Accuracy in Media, the Grassroots Radio Conference, Anarchist Forum, and NYC Grassroots Media Conference.

11 p.m.: Tianna Kennedy + Tyler Nolan

11:30 p.m.:Imaginary Folk: Peter Evans, trumpet; Jessica Pavone, viola; Brandon Seabrook, banjo; and Amie Weiss, violin.
Brandon Seabrook plays banjo and is a guitarist in the klezmer circuit, a member of both Naftule's Dream and Paul Brody's ensemble Sadawi. The Beat Circus has created a musical landscape which is part circus, part Roaring 20s, part klezmer, and part

12:15: Tianna Kennedy + guest

12:30-1:15 a.m.: Andrew Barker + Jesse Dulman + Christopher McIntyre + Jessica Pavone + Charles Waters.
Andrew Barker, percussionist, composer, and improvisor, has been performing and recording in a variety of contexts  since age 11.  Along with saxophonist/composer Charles Waters, Andrew is a founding member of the Atlanta-born new music ensemble, Gold Sparkle Band.  He is also a member of William Parker's "Little Huey Creative Orchetsra," and Chris Jonas' "The Sun Spits Cherries" quartet. Since moving from Atlanta, Ga. to New York City in 1997, Andrew held the drum chair for several months with trumpeter Roy Campbell Jr.'s quintet, "TAZ" in a weekly engagement at the legendary Harlem jazz club, the Lenox Lounge.  In addition, Andrew has performed with MacArthur Foundation award winner Ken Vandermark, saxophonist / composer John Zorn, Assif Tsahar's Zoanthropic Orchestra, violinist Mat Maneri, pianist Myra Melford, and the legendary bassist of the "Revolutionary Ensemble,"  Sirone (Norris Jones), Andrew's mentor. Most Recently, Andrew has performed with pianist Matthew Shipp, Butch Morris' Conduction Orchetsra, ," guitarist Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and recorded with legendary saxophonist Sonny Simmons.  Andrew also performed at the 2002 Vision Festival in NYC with William Parker and the "Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra," the Rob Brown Quartet, and with the Gold Sparkle Trio.
Charles Waters began his early music training in the Baptist Church singing, playing hand bells and piano.  In school, he played alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones and finally studied clarinet and bass clarinet with Eugene Kavadlo of the Charlotte Symphony. In 1994, along with drummer Andrew Barker, trumpeter Roger Ruzow, and saxophonist Rob Mallard, Waters formed the experimental jazz group Gold Sparkle Band. The group became an underground sensation, touring and recording extensively during the first four years. During these early years on the road, GSB studied an array of new jazz styles in Chicago and New York.  These two distinct styles were then further blended at home in Atlanta to create the unique telepathic approach the group still uses.  Since 1998, when Waters and Barker moved to New York City, the group has continued to perform and develop its special approach to vanguard jazz and new music.  Initially working with such avant-garde luminaries as William Parker, Matthew Shipp and Daniel Carter, Gold Sparkle began to fully absorb the fiery free-improvisational styles of late-90’s free jazz in New York City.
Jesse Dulman studied composition with Kitty Brazelton from 1997-1999 at LaGuardia High School of Music and Arts and the Performing Arts where Brazelton has been BMI Foundation's Composer-In-Residence since 1996.

Below, watch and listen to video shot by Kelly Benjamin, of the performance of Daniel Carter + Matt Mikas + Tony Flynn + Tom Roe.