From Free Cooperation Conference at SUNY Buffalo, April 25, 2004. In 1932, Bertolt Brecht claimed that the "radio is one-sided when it should be two-. It is purely an apparatus for distribution, for mere sharing out. So here is a positive suggestion: Change the apparatus over from distribution to communication. The radio would be the finest possible communication apparatus in public life, a vast network of pipes." From Free Cooperation Conference at SUNY Buffalo, April 25, 2004. In 1932, Bertolt Brecht claimed that the "radio is one-sided when it should be two-. It is purely an apparatus for distribution, for mere sharing out. So here is a positive suggestion: Change the apparatus over from distribution to communication. The radio would be the finest possible communication apparatus in public life, a vast network of pipes." Unfortunately, over the seventy-four years since Brecht's treatise little has changed in radio usage, quite the opposite, the radio waves have been hijacked by corporate entities, largely with the aid of the Federal Communications Council (FCC), a governmental group once intended to protect independent radio programming. However, the history of radio is global, diverse and contentious. Radio presents a history of corporate power, civil intervention, revolutionary resistance, community advocacy. It is these various histories that will be addressed by the participants of "Experiments in Radio Topographies," in which participants will be asked to investigate and then discuss these histories in a dispersed format, rather than a centralized panel and audience discussion. The panel action will be transmitted live on the free103point9 Online Radio. neuroTransmitter and Ricardo Miranda Zuniga: Experiments in Radio Topographies