Wave Farm's 2022 Residency Program applications are due Feb. 1, and other important New Year updates.

View this email in your browser Wave Farm news for January 2022: With hope that the 2022 calendar will bring brighter days ahead, this update serves as a reminder for upcoming deadlines, as well as announces a free, four-part Radio Deprogramming Workshop in February led by current Radio Artist Fellow, Andy Stuhl. We hope you will join us! Additional deadlines within the month: Apply by Feb. 1, for a Wave Farm Residency, which in 2022 is focused on collaborating duos creating new transmission art works. International radio and sound artists are invited to submit work, by Jan. 31, to Short Waves / Long Distance 2022, a redux of a program we ran five years ago, updated this time around now in collaboration with Montez Press Radio!  In the new to WGXC's Program Schedule arena we are pleased to announce new shows from Anaïs Duplan and Kurt Gottschalk coming to your 2022 airwaves as well as the return of the live partner stream from Avalon in Catskill. Wishing everyone a fruitful and healthy year ahead.  Guidelines and Application Now Available Wave Farm Residency Program 2022 Application Deadline: February 1, 2022 In 2022, the Wave Farm Residency Program will thematically focus on artists working as duos. We believe something very special happens with two collaborating artists are given dedicated time, space, and resources to work together with uninterrupted focus, and Wave Farm looks forward to a dedicated season supporting this theme, especially on the heels of the isolation imposed by the pandemic. Applicants are invited to propose visual and sonic projects that fall within the Transmission Arts genre. Employing the electromagnetic spectrum, Transmission Art encompasses work in participatory live art or time-based art such as radio, video, light, installation, and performance, as well as a multiplicity of other practices and media, informed by an intentional act of transmission through space (often the airwaves). Please visit https://wavefarm.org/ta/about for more information. While in-residence, artists are also provided with hands-on opportunities to interact with, and broadcast on, Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM, a creative community radio station serving over 78,000 potential listeners in New York's Upper Hudson Valley, and international listeners online. In 2022, each individual Wave Farm Artist-in-residence will receive a $500 artist fee. Women, gender non-comforming people, and people of color are encouraged to apply. Learn More + Apply Guidelines and Application Now Available Short Waves / Long Distance Open Call Wave Farm in Partnership with The Shortwave Shindig, Winter SWL Fest, and Montez Press Radio Wave Farm, Montez Press Radio, and The North American Shortwave Association are pleased to announce “Short Waves / Long Distance,” an open call for works exploring the sonics of the shortwave radio spectrum (2-30 mHz), and the experience of long distance listening. The call is in conjunction with the 35th Anniversary of the Winter Shortwave Listener’s Fest and Wave Farm’s 25th Anniversary, both of which will be celebrated in 2022. Selected works will be: Featured as part of a two-hour segment from 11pm-1am (EST, UTC -5) during David Goren's Shortwave Shindig held during the SWL Fest's Zoom Conference on Friday evening March 4, 2022 Broadcast live worldwide on shortwave via WRMI (Radio Miami International) Broadcast live on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York's Upper Hudson Valley Streamed on Montez Press Radio, March 25, 2022, 2-4 p.m. (EST, UTC -5) Archived online at wavefarm.org, and shortwaveology.net Submission Deadline: January 31, 2022 Submission Guidelines and Instructions: Submissions are welcomed from all genres. Both pre-existing and newly created works are eligible. Please note: Works submitted to the 2017 Open Call are ineligible, regardless of their selection status. Works should not exceed ten minutes in duration. Shortwave Listening Resources: Shortwave Receivers Online: KiwiSDR, Global Tuners, WebSDR Frequency Guides and Schedules: Short-Wave.info, ShortwaveSchedule.com Receiver Reviews and Listening Tips: SWLing.com, DXing.com Shortwave History: On the Short Waves, The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive Artists seeking additional ways to record shortwave sounds are encouraged to contact David Goren for guidance at shortwaveology@mac.com.   Learn More + Apply Registration now open for Radio Deprogramming Workshop with Andy Stuhl Monday Evenings in February, on Zoom Join Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2021/22 Andy Stuhl for this four-part, free workshop series taking place on Monday evenings in February. Email info@wavefarm.org to register. What is the nature of the programming that radio programmers do? How did radio practices take shape early on under the idea that it was a programmable medium? What does the work of broadcast programming have to do with other types, namely computer programming, that today construct complex new media systems? What can we do about the growing sense that these media are trying to program us -- to track and adjust our behaviors toward commercial and political ends? In this workshop, we will experiment with proposals for what it might mean to deprogram media, starting from but not confining ourselves to radio. In the mid-1990s, artist Christof Migone's Radio Naked generated a set of "tactics for community radio towards a radio without programming." Radio Naked's twenty-two prompts constitute a "manifesto that naively impels the radio programmer to dispense (or at least question) all of the conventions and expectations of what radio should sound like." If programming, at its extremes in automated commercial stations, aims to standardize and solidify schedules and formats, then deprogramming media would require us not simply to ignore those routines but to make their hidden contours audible or visible in the process of transgressing them. Drawing on Migone's work for form and inspiration, workshop participants will first examine lineages in radio history and in transmission art that can contribute to a definition of deprogramming radio, then develop their own prompts to serve as micro-interventions either in radio or in other media of their choosing. Subsequent sessions will give participants opportunites to discuss and help refine each other's interventions, to produce collaborative audio realizations of the textual prompts (as with the corpus of sound versions added in 2012 for Radio Naked), and to plan possible avenues for carrying out or presenting the collective interventions. Schedule: Mondays in February 2022, 5 p.m. EST (UTC-5:00). Sessions will run 90 min. and be conducted via Zoom. Remote Session 1: Overview, discussing programming in radio/media history, setting up deprogramming. On your own: Close listening to the Radio Deprogramming Workshop Listening Syllabus, including Radio Naked. Remote Session 2: Discussion of Radio Naked and working toward a definition for media deprogramming. On your own: Choosing a media context and drafting prompts for intervention. Small groups and "office hours" meetings: Discuss and revise prompts with other participants. Remote Session 3: Presenting prompts, discussing production ideas for audio versions. On your own: Producing audio versions of others' prompts. Remote Session 4: Special Guest: Christof Migone. Listening to audio versions, reflecting on process, discussing ideas for staging or presenting the collective work. Email info@wavefarm.org to register or inquire. Register Now Back on wavefarm.org/listen! We are so pleased that the live stream from the Avalon Lounge is up and running again! Avalon is a live music venue and dance club with a Korean kitchen and Soju/Sake/Beer/Wine/Cider bar. They have three interconnected spaces - their bar room, an upstairs lounge with additional seating and pool table, and a performance room/dance floor. Events in their performance space may be enjoyed in person (per COVID-protocols) or remotely via the Avalon Wave Farm partner stream at wavefarm.org/listen. Please visit https://www.theavalonlounge.com/show-calendar for the latest schedule of events. Photo: Alon Koppel Photography New to your WGXC 90.7-FM Radio Dial! The Future is Sited in a Barren Wasteland Produced by Anaïs Duplan. 5th Tuesday of the month from 10 a.m. to 10:59 a.m. The Future Is Sited in a Barren Wasteland is a conglomeration of tunes by contemporary, experimental Black and brown musicians, musings on the future, original poems, readings of letters from host Anaïs Duplan's friends, and interviews. Playing into the points of intersection between wellness practices, theories of liberation, and the avant-garde, these transmissions will survey a range of sounds from around the world and bring together poetry and theory, music, and speech. Talk Radio: A quarterly hour of abstract utterances designed to unbridle any umbrage. Hosted by Kurt Gottschalk. 5th Wednesday of the month from 11 a.m. to 11:59 a.m. Talk Radio is a radio show that utilizes talking to make radio. It considers words as sound, sound as communication, communication as art and art as words. Talk Radio is like a fortress made of phonemes and phrases in a land where nonsensical sentences, syntax and syllables live free. Your charitable contributions to Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM make a world of difference, now more than ever!   Wave Farm remains tirelessly committed to making the airwaves a participatory medium. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. These activities are made possible, in part, from state and federal art grants, foundation support, earned income derived from studio rentals and special curatorial/consulting engagements, and from private, tax-deductible, support from individuals like you. Listeners, attendees, and collaborators support provides a critical piece to keeping Wave Farm programs afloat, especially WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears, and we are grateful to the many individuals who have shown their generosity past, present, and future.   BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER! or, if you prefer MAKE A ONE-TIME GIFT 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 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE; the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation; the T. Backer Fund; the Joseph Family Charitable Trust; and hundreds of other generous individual donors, including WGXC Sustaining Supporters, who provide critical monthly support to Wave Farm's radio station WGXC 90.7-FM.    .         Copyright © 2022 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Guidelines are posted now for Wave Farm's 2022 Residency Program, MAAF for Artists, a "Short Waves / Long Distance" Broadcast Open Call and more!

View this email in your browser Wave Farm news in December: What a year! We are still riding high from the stellar works created by Wave Farm 2021 Artists-in-residence, WGXC programmers, this year's Radio Art Fellow, and the truly breathtaking Rozart Mix (Stay tuned for a record release.) We are so grateful to those of you who have already shown generous support to the Wave Farm Year-end Capital Campaign, getting us closer to being solar powered and outfitted with a new FM transmitter in the New Year. For those still considering charitable giving in 2021, please keep Wave Farm in mind! Our December e-mail missive is focused on opportunities for you! Apply for a Wave Farm Residency, which in 2022 is focused on collaborating duos. Apply for MAAF Funding, Wave Farm's regrant partnership with NYSCA that supports New York State Media Artists and Organizations. International radio and sound artists are invited to submit work to Short Waves / Long Distance 2022, a redux of a program we ran five years ago, updated this time around now in collaboration with Montez Press Radio!  There are lots of opportunities to listen too! The Conduction Series is a new monthly radio broadcast that we are excited about, and we are thrilled to have Jahnessa Hope Mackey back on the WGXC airwaves Sunday mornings with Slap of Reality. Christof Migone's annual December 12 event -AND- is coming up and will be a treat for both ears and eyes. For those looking for thinking and learning opportunities a final reminder that the Rethinking Residencies Symposium is next week and registration is free and open to all. Wishing everyone a peaceful conclusion to 2021, and a fruitful and healthy year ahead. - Wave Farm Guidelines and Application Now Available Wave Farm Residency Program 2022 Application Deadline: February 1, 2022 In 2022, the Wave Farm Residency Program will thematically focus on artists working as duos. We believe something very special happens with two collaborating artists are given dedicated time, space, and resources to work together with uninterrupted focus, and Wave Farm looks forward to a dedicated season supporting this theme, especially on the heels of the isolation imposed by the pandemic. Applicants are invited to propose visual and sonic projects that fall within the Transmission Arts genre. Employing the electromagnetic spectrum, Transmission Art encompasses work in participatory live art or time-based art such as radio, video, light, installation, and performance, as well as a multiplicity of other practices and media, informed by an intentional act of transmission through space (often the airwaves). Please visit https://wavefarm.org/ta/about for more information. While in-residence, artists are also provided with hands-on opportunities to interact with, and broadcast on, Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM, a creative community radio station serving over 78,000 potential listeners in New York's Upper Hudson Valley, and international listeners online. In 2022, each individual Wave Farm Artist-in-residence will receive a $500 artist fee. Women, gender non-comforming people, and people of color are encouraged to apply. Learn More + Apply Guidelines and Application Now Available Media Arts Assistance Fund Wave Farm in Partnership with NYSCA EMF MAAF for Artists For individual artists, MAAF provides support for the completion and/or public presentation of new works in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. Grant awards assist artists in completing new work, reaching public audiences, and advance artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts. New York State Artists may apply for up to $7,500 to support the completion and/or public presentation of a new or recently completed media artwork. Program Timeline Application Deadline: July 1, 2022 Notification: August 31, 2022 Public Announcement of Grantees: September 2022 Project Period September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2023 Final Report Deadline: October 31, 2023 Women, gender non-comforming people, and people of color are encouraged to apply. Learn More + Apply MAAF Forward Fund for Organizations For organizations, MAAF provides funds to support technical strategies for online development as well as to hire outside consultants to support organizational and professional development. Eligible organizations have missions specific to the media arts, dedicate the majority of their programming to technology as an art form, and are current NYSCA grantees. Priority will be given to Electronic Media and Film organizations. Applications from multi-disciplinary organizations that incorporate art and technology will be considered on a case-by-case basis. NYSCA supported organizations may apply for support in two categories  Technical Strategies for Online Development Outside Consultants for Organizational Development A maximum request for each application is $2,500. Organizations may submit one request per application deadline. Each application must be for a separate and distinct request. Application Deadlines Spring: May 1, 2022  Fall: October 1, 2022 Learn More + Apply Guidelines and Application Now Available Short Waves / Long Distance Open Call Wave Farm in Partnership with The Shortwave Shindig, Winter SWL Fest, and Montez Press Radio Wave Farm, Montez Press Radio, and The North American Shortwave Association are pleased to announce “Short Waves / Long Distance,” an open call for works exploring the sonics of the shortwave radio spectrum (2-30 mHz), and the experience of long distance listening. The call is in conjunction with the 35th Anniversary of the Winter Shortwave Listener’s Fest and Wave Farm’s 25th Anniversary, both of which will be celebrated in 2022. Selected works will be: Featured as part of a two-hour segment from 11pm-1am (EST, UTC -5) during David Goren's Shortwave Shindig held during the SWL Fest's Zoom Conference on Friday evening March 4, 2022 Broadcast live worldwide on shortwave via WRMI (Radio Miami International) Broadcast live on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York's Upper Hudson Valley Streamed on Montez Press Radio, March 25, 2022, 2-4 p.m. (EST, UTC -5) Archived online at wavefarm.org, and shortwaveology.net Submission Deadline: January 31, 2022 Submission Guidelines and Instructions: Submissions are welcomed from all genres. Both pre-existing and newly created works are eligible. Please note: Works submitted to the 2017 Open Call are ineligible, regardless of their selection status. Works should not exceed ten minutes in duration. Shortwave Listening Resources: Shortwave Receivers Online: KiwiSDR, Global Tuners, WebSDR Frequency Guides and Schedules: Short-Wave.info, ShortwaveSchedule.com Receiver Reviews and Listening Tips: SWLing.com, DXing.com Shortwave History: On the Short Waves, The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive Artists seeking additional ways to record shortwave sounds are encouraged to contact David Goren for guidance at shortwaveology@mac.com.   Learn More + Apply New to your WGXC 90.7-FM Radio Dial! The Conduction Series First Friday of the Month from 4:10 p.m. to 5 p.m. Artists, educators, and students from CU Boulder, UC Santa Cruz, and SUNY Buffalo come together to create a monthly live radio series using the platform “Mezcal” developed by August Black, and airing on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. This month's broadcast features August Black, Jason Sanford, Betsey Biggs, Teri Rueb, Max Goldfarb, Andy DiLallo, Jason Geistweidt, Anna Friz, Nima Bahrehmand, and Biyi Wen. Slap of Reality Sundays from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Your Sunday "Slap of Reality"! Jahnessa Hope Mackey brings the heat with her top music picks and hot topics of the week. Call in to request your favorite songs and share how you feel about the hot topics of the week. Live from the WGXC Hudson Studio. Alt Space Loop (Seoul), Arraymusic (Toronto), Avatar (Québec), CRiSAP (London UK), Errant Bodies Press (Berlin), FADO (Toronto), Radius (Chicago), Resonance Extra (London UK), squint _ _ _ _ _ _ press (Québec/Toronto), Wave Farm (Acra NY), Western University  (London ON), Zone Sound Creative (Taipei) present The second in a series of twelve annual events taking place on December 12 from 12 noon to midnight (EST). Each year the event will move through each word of the 12-word phrase ‘you and I are water earth fire air of life and death’ and activate the word of the year in myriad ways. This year the word is ‘and’, consequently the focus is on repetitions, conjunctions, and duos. Last year it started with ‘you’, this year we connect you to anything and everything that you are together-with. Or, we get stuck in the very act that ‘and’ opens up, into the enormity that the so-what-next that ‘and’ implies. ‘And’ is all possibilities in a nutshell. For the full program go to -AND- or you and I are water earth fire air of life and death. Organized by Christof Migone. Rethinking Residencies Symposium Three days of conversations, lectures, and videos on visual art residencies. Wednesday, December 8, 3 - 4:30 p.m.  Thursday, December 9,  2- 5 p.m. Friday, December 10, 2 - 6:30 p.m. Online, Free with registration The Rethinking Residencies Symposium invites artists, curators, scholars, and residency organizations worldwide to come together to address residency programs as critical sites of production within the field of visual arts. The symposium will consider existing scholarship and cultivate new thinking about the history, institutional structures, and conditions of visual art residencies. Founded in 2014, Rethinking Residencies is the first network of New York-based artist and curator residency programs, and the symposium will be its most extensive event to date. The 16 member institutions of Rethinking Residencies generate knowledge and resources, anchored together in cooperation and collaboration. The Rethinking Residencies Symposium will result in a digital publication that will launch in Spring 2022. Recorded videos of the symposium will also be permanently available online in January 2022. Rethinking Residencies members are Abrons Art Center, Eyebeam, Fire Island Artist Residency, Flux Factory, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Queens Museum, Pioneer Works, Recess, Shandaken Projects, EFA Project Space’s SHIFT Residency, Triangle, Wave Farm, Wave Hill and W.O.W. Project. The Rethinking Residencies Symposium is organized in partnership with the Vera List Center For Art and Politics at The New School and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.   Your charitable contributions to Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM make a world of difference, now more than ever!   Wave Farm remains tirelessly committed to making the airwaves a participatory medium. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. These activities are made possible, in part, from state and federal art grants, foundation support, earned income derived from studio rentals and special curatorial/consulting engagements, and from private, tax-deductible, support from individuals like you. Listeners, attendees, and collaborators support provides a critical piece to keeping Wave Farm programs afloat, especially WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears, and we are grateful to the many individuals who have shown their generosity past, present, and future.   BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER! or, if you prefer MAKE A ONE-TIME GIFT 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 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE; the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation; the T. Backer Fund; the Joseph Family Charitable Trust; and hundreds of other generous individual donors, including WGXC Sustaining Supporters, who provide critical monthly support to Wave Farm's radio station WGXC 90.7-FM.    .         Copyright © 2021 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

With your help we'll go solar in 2022 and replace the WGXC FM transmitter!

View this email in your browser Wave Farm has secured 50 percent of the funds needed to go solar and acquire a new FM transmitter. Big news from Wave Farm! As the annual calendar winds down, we are reflecting back on a year of extraordinarily powerful and productive programs and looking forward to the year ahead. 2022 will not only mark Wave Farm's 25th Anniversary, but will also frame a renewed investment in and commitment to future experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. We are thrilled to announce a year-end Capital Campaign to support Wave Farm operations, including electrical service at the WGXC 90.7-FM tower site, going solar in 2022. In conjunction, this campaign will also support the acquisition of a new WGXC-FM transmitter. The price tag for the entire effort is $100,000. Thanks to a longtime supporter of WGXC in Western MA., who wishes to remain anonymous, we are already 50 percent of the way there. We are now starting the permitting process with the Town of Cairo, and with your committed year-end support we will be able to move forward, dramatically cutting utility costs in the long term, and doing our part to reduce Wave Farm's carbon footprint. Contributions are fully tax-deductible and are encouraged in a variety of ways: Donate online at wavefarm.org/support  Send a check to Wave Farm PO Box 13, Acra, NY 12405 Gift stock (your tax-deductible gift will reflect the stock's value at the time of the donation, with zero capital gains) by contacting galen@wavefarm.org for details. Or, you can pledge your support now and contribute in 2022. Please contact galen@wavefarm.org to make arrangements. Working with SunCommon (Rhinebeck, NY) solar panels installed on the Wave Farm Study Center roof (see rendering above and schematic below) will offset 100% of the Study Center usage including the WGXC Acra studio and property installations, as well as offset the electrical draw related to 90.7-FM at our leased American Tower site, thanks to remote net metering. DONATE Your charitable contributions to Wave Farm make a world of difference, now more than ever!   Wave Farm remains tirelessly committed to making the airwaves a participatory medium. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. These activities are made possible, in part, from state and federal art grants, foundation support, earned income derived from studio rentals and special curatorial/consulting engagements, and from private, tax-deductible, support from individuals like you. Support from listeners, attendees, and collaborators provide a critical piece to keeping Wave Farm programs afloat, especially WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears, and we are grateful to the many individuals who have shown their generosity past, present, and future.   DONATE 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 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE; the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation; the T. Backer Fund; the Joseph Family Charitable Trust; and hundreds of other generous individual donors, including WGXC Sustaining Supporters, who provide critical monthly support to Wave Farm's radio station WGXC 90.7-FM.    .         Copyright © 2021 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Acra, NY—Wave Farm announced today fifteen artist grantees for the 2021 Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF), a regrant partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts. MAAF Grantees: Lily Baldwin, Johann Diedrick, Jonathan González, Lemon Guo & Mengtai Zhang, Valérie Hallier, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts, Mev Luna, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, Laura Nova, Suneil Sanzgiri, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, SOBBETH, Yeseul Song, and Eric Souther.

The Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) supports electronic media and film organizations, as well as individual artists, in all regions of New York State. For individual artists, MAAF provides support for the completion and/or public presentation of new works in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. Grant awards assist artists in completing new work, reaching public audiences, and advance artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts.

NYSCA Electronic Media & Film Program Director, Karen Helmerson, said "Now more than ever, this investment of public funds strengthens the advancement of a diverse creative culture through new technology and emerging fields, bringing new opportunity for artists and audiences alike." Wave Farm Executive Director Galen Joseph-Hunter said, “The 2021 application pool was one of the most competitive to date, and Wave Farm is delighted to be able to support these fifteen outstanding projects that represent the media arts landscape across New York State.” The deadline for the 2022 Media Arts Assistance Fund for Artists will be announced this fall. Grantees are selected through a competitive panel process. Detailed information about the 2021 MAAF projects is available below.

The New York State Council on the Arts is dedicated to preserving and expanding the rich and diverse cultural resources that are and will become the heritage of New York’s citizens. The Council believes in artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure, and the rights of all New Yorkers to access and experience the power of the arts and culture, and the vital contribution the arts make to the quality of life in New York communities. http://arts.ny.gov

Wave Farm is a non-profit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Major activities include the Wave Farm Artist Residency Program and Archive; a Transmission Art Installation Park; Wave Farm Radio, including WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears, a creative community radio station based in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley; a Fiscal Sponsorship program; and the Media Arts Assistance Fund in partnership with NYSCA Electronic Media/Film. https://wavefarm.org

GRANTEES AND PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS

Lily Baldwin—Quick Slice (New York County)

Quick Slice is a short film and installation about an unsuspecting intimacy between strangers, inspired by choreographer Netta Yerushalmy’s PARAMODERNITIES project. The film's narrative follows nine lonely New Yorkers who converge over a quick slice inside a casual, non-committal community hub— the pizza shop. When a “contaigent” enters, dance turns inconsequential moments into idiosyncratic gestures, toggling between task and choreography, disrupting expectations around physical expression. A subtle, disorientating use of editing techniques and photographic devices manipulating time craft a visceral and sonically rich dreamscape. As an installation, Quick Slice will scale to respective environments, utilizing available architecture and unsuspecting surfaces. MAAF funds will be used to support the final edit, and additional post-production needs like color correction and a final sound mix.

Johann Diedrick—Prelude to Wake (Kings County)

Johann Diedrick's Prelude to Wake is an urgent, mournful, and world-building sonic performance that centers the loss of ourselves and environments due to climate change. The work is performed by a fictional character named “The Sound Collector” who collects buried vibrations and releases them from material through an ancient technological device. Combining field recordings, original composition, and generative audio techniques, Prelude to Wake stages an encounter between the audience, a past that we are losing due to catastrophe, and what may exist in the future. MAAF funding will support producing a professionally recorded version of Prelude to Wake, to be released as a record and zine that contains an original speculative sci-fi story that accompanies the recording.

Jonathan González—The Smallest Unit Is Each Other (New York County)

The Smallest Unit Is Each Other struggles for otherwise narratives regarding our interspecies planetary horizons ahead. Otherwise as in undergirded by Sylvia Wynter’s “Third Event”, wherein a third human evolution can mobilize our storytelling capacities out of familiar colonial paradigms of catastrophe, and Kamau Brathwaite’s request for poetry that breaks with this pentameter. Otherwise visualities, auralities, and stories that affirm life are presented against the backdrop of transnational calls to course correct our existence in this six-part film of animation, archival materials, interviews, speculative geographies and original screen performances, organized by “SIDE” in the form of a cassette tape. With MAAF support the film will be expanded upon to compose an interactive installation at BRIC Arts for an exhibition series on 'Landscape.'

Lemon Guo & Mengtai Zhang—Diagnosia (Rensselaer County)

Exploring the potential of VR (Virtual Reality) as a tool for transplanting secondhand memories, Diagnosia aims to connect the audience to social issues via a sensorial immersion and embodiment in the memories of people who experienced it first hand. Diagnosia portrays Mengtai’s memories of being incarcerated in a military-operated Internet addiction camp in Beijing in 2007, where internet addiction and other youth issues were treated as a severe mental disorder with sometimes violent means. By tracing the lineage of “Internet addiction” in China’s cultural context, the work discusses how societies can create or manifest pathologies as a tool for social control. MAAF funds will support the final postproduction of this work.

Valérie Hallier—PPPP: Public Portrait & Primal Power (New York County)

PPPP is composed of a screaming booth and a phone application with Augmented and Virtual Reality components. Inspired by the French Medieval “crieur public”—a socio-political interface between the king and “his” people—PPPP connects individuals with their own power. Also inspired by popular photo booths, it allows visitors to perform privately in a public setting. The artwork takes a fundamental yet repressed human expression to generate visuals seen inside and outside of the booth, or on one’s smartphone. In addition to self-empowerment, PPPP promotes mental health by offering catharsis. It reclaims each individual’s power by manifesting, during the time of a scream, a visual impact in both the virtual and the physical world, thus inspiring us to activate our untapped resources. MAAF funding will support the completion of PPPP enabling outdoor installation.

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko—Chameleon (Kings County)

Chameleon is an experimental visual album grown from the radical queer feminist genre of the biomythography originated by Audre Lorde. This film is an investigation of the fractal process of queer archival story telling and practice. Initially as a project of documenting movement research for performance, the film became a project of its own that intervenes into the psychic hold of the protagonist’s past. Broken into five distinct confessional/autobiographical poems: Linoleum, Stank, Entertainer, Wake, and Effigy (all written by Kosoko), each poem acts as a chapter depicting and rewriting the specific moments of the performer’s life. The short will tour film festivals starting in 2021 then continue screening in community-based events and through online distribution supported by MAAF. Forthcoming screenings include New York Live Arts, The MAD Museum, Toronto Indie Film Festival among others.

Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts—We Are They (Kings County)

We Are They is an experimental documentary video that combines interviews with Filipino health care workers reflecting on their battles with the Covid-19 crisis in the Little Manila neighborhood of Elmhurst Queens, with music and dance informed by traditions from the Philippines. The Filipino heroine “Tandang Sora,” a Florence Nightingale-like figure, calls attention to the lineage of care labor and sacrifice that so often defines the Philippine diaspora. Collaborators in this project include: filmmaker Diana Diroy, composer Will Simbol, and choreographer Joyelle Cabato. MAAF funding will support both online screenings as well as public screenings situated at important sites in the community the film honors: the Filipino community of New York City.

Mev Luna—Far from the distance we see (Kings County)

This medium length video essay touches on the formation of the Texas prison system, its complex relationship with México and agriculture, and how these carceral facilities served as a model for the U.S., through the experiences of one individual– the filmmaker’s late father. Building on a five year body of work that spans performance, writing, and installation, this experimental piece weaves together audio interviews with family members, archival images, exteriors of several Texas prison units captured on dashcam, and landscapes that morph and become 3D simulations. MAAF funding will support project completion, including 3D modeling and sound design.

Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga—FinTech for the Precariat (Kings County)

FinTech for the Precariat is a wandering world application set in a fantastic cityscape populated by Greed, Lust, Gluttony, Envy, gig workers and 12 voices from New York City's financial spectrum. The user wanders about the environment to encounter the creatures that live in it and the financial perspectives and realities of individuals - from financial brokers to recent college grads to computer programmers and cultural workers. It has been projected that the 2020s will be the decade of the FinTech Revolution. This Marketing hyperbole is on the heels of many such revolutions that are sold on the promises of democratization and wealth. FinTech for the Precariat, questions who ultimately will these technologies serve? MAAF funding will support the completion and public interactive presentation.

Laura Nova—Delicious Memories (New York County)

Delicious Memories is a media art installation informed by an intergenerational storytelling workshop/ performance that brings together older and younger New Yorkers to tell and connect stories utilizing craft and interactive technology. The installation stitches delicious stories together into a sonic multisensory communal tablecloth embroidered with cotton and conductive thread. When touched, the tablecloth amplifies recorded audio stories. Led by artists Laura Nova and Kristen Diekman, the participants who worked together virtually spring 2021 will gather around the table and share their stories in-person in Seward Park, the oldest municipal park in the U.S. and the "living room" of the Lower East Side. MAAF funds will support the completion of Delicious Memories and its presentation to the public.

Suneil Sanzgiri—Golden Jubilee (Kings County)

Golden Jubilee takes as its starting point scenes of the filmmaker’s father navigating a virtual rendering of their ancestral house in Goa, India, created using the same technologies of surveillance that mining companies use to map locations for iron ore in the region. A tool for extraction and exploitation becomes a method for preservation. The film will be presented as a multi-channel, mixed media installation at Pioneer Works, bringing together questions of home, belonging, disappearance and memory as materialized, with MAAF support, in the fragmented 3D printed re-creations of relics from the artist’s ancestral house in India, ceramic sculptures created from those 3D prints, and the videos that accompany the sculptures.

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky—How to build a wall and other ruins (New York County)

How to build a wall and other ruins—which gets its impetus from the debates around the engineering feats of Inkan architecture at Ingapirca—reimagines labor and its documentation through a multi-channel video installation which includes interviews with engineers, anthropologists, historians and YouTube "experts" about their theories of how Inkans built Ingapirca’s walls. Outlandish theories that are scientistic in nature are exposed for what they are: misinformation campaigns that seek to intellectually re-colonize the descendants of Inkans whose structures and technology are worthy of deep study and respect. The interviews are juxtaposed with a video-performance, in which a brigade of Ecuadorian women build a wall in Cañar, Ecuador using recycled materials. The work does not pretend to be factual; it is a proposal. It asks, lucidly: What can Inka technology teach us today? MAAF funding will support the installation’s completion including post-production editing and sound engineering.

SOBBETH—Our Place In The Sun (Columbia County)

Our Place in the Sun is a once-in-a-lifetime documentary of real-time gender transition, psychic transformation and climate collapse, shot on location in the ruins of Florida’s post-war mythology. A hybrid take on the “Tropical Entropic,” the work is an experimental landscape film which takes a nonlinear turn into speculative fiction. Suggesting improvisation as one antidote to a world controlled by algorithm, the film’s central themes are intentionally echoed in its rich experimental score. MAAF funding will support composers fees, a 5.1 mix, and other post-production costs.

Yeseul Song—Listening to Sunken Forest (New York County)

Listening to Sunken Forest is a large-scale interactive spatial installation and auditory archive of the unique ecosystem of the Sunken Forest Preserve, a small, rare and slowly-disappearing ecological system on the Fire Island in NY. The project records, archives, and recreates the forest through auditory senses with a mission of sharing the environmental urgency through an artistic and immersive interactive experience. The installation is also accessible to low-vision and blind visitors. MAAF funding will enable the completion of the project that involves audio field recording, sound design assistance, and iterative installation prototyping.

Eric Souther—Frequencies of Deep Time (Allegany County)

Frequencies From Deep Time explores changes of geological time in Western New York, change that forms strata in the rock formations of gorges like Watkins Glen and Letchworth State Parks. Souther is interested in the stories the formations can tell of the co-evolution of life and minerals, of humans and non-humans, and their entanglement with one another and the land. He developed custom software that uses sound waves to augment three-dimensional forms animating the geological landscapes. Oscillations work as an audio-visual metaphor for change across deep time and provide a way to perform across an incomprehensible length of time. MAAF funding will support the completion of sound design and distribution initiatives including festival applications.

For more information about the The New York State Council on the Arts in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) visit https://wavefarm.org/grants/maaf-artists.

August Black followed by Kamikaze Jones at Wave Farm this month. Stop by Wave Farm for tours and a performance during Upstate Art Weekend, and more.

View this email in your browser Wave Farm news in August: Our first artist-in-residence for this month, August Black, is on-site and is working on a new software platform for live radio collaboration. Throughout his time at Wave Farm he'll be engaging folks near and far for experiments that are shared live on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM. See below for details.  Later this month, Kamikaze Jones joins us to create Over and Out, an experimental radio play that mines the history of—and utilizes—CB radio to sonically investigate the underrepresented legacies of gay cruising culture in the trucker community.  As the month draws to a close, we are thrilled to be participating in the mammoth UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, which includes 61 participants and spans from Garrison to Chatham on the east side of the Hudson River, and from Windsor to Acra on the west. Plan your journey soon, and include Wave Farm in your itinerary. We'll be open for drop-in visitors Saturday-Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. But most noteworthy, is Jen Kutler's Sonified Physiological Indicators of Empathy, a durational performance and broadcast on Saturday, August 28 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. More information is below. Finally, reel-to-reel tape machines needed! Do you have any? We are looking to borrow, rent, or possibly purchase properly working reel-to-reel machines (stereo OR mono) for use in Aaron Dilloway's performance of John Cage’s Rozart Mix presented by Wave Farm and the John Cage Trust at Bard College in October. Can you help? If so contact info@wavefarm.org. Thank you! Coming in September.. stay tuned next month for an announcement of the 2021/2022 Wave Farm Radio Arts Fellow, as well as a ton of new shows coming to WGXC-FM Radio for Open Ears. We are currently wrapping up our biannual application review, and can't wait to share details about all the new programmers and shows coming to your airwaves soon! Wave Farm Artist-in-Residence: August Black Jul 30, 2021 - Aug 09, 2021 At the heart of August Black's residency period is a prototypical web application that aims to catalyze new forms of live interactive radio for the purpose of growing communities, making speculative acoustic situations, and enabling grassroots initiatives. The software allows multiple constituents to fluidly participate in broadcast-like scenarios through their mobile devices at the flick of their thumbs. It works in a browser, requires no downloads, and is meant to be frictionless, quick, and easy. Black will host workshops on-site with the software, solicit ideas and interaction from the local community, and conduct radio experiments outside the studio with various local and remote participants. August Black is a hybrid practitioner of art, design, and engineering. He builds instruments in hardware and software for the sake of enabling expressive spaces of potential acoustic and interactive outcomes. august.black   Workshop: Tuesday, August 3, 2021. Inquire about participating at info@wavefarm.org.  Radio Broadcasts: Tune in at WGXC 90.7-FM in NY's Upper Hudson Valley, or at wavefarm.org/listen from anywhere. Mon. August 2, 2021 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. Footsteps as Radio Sculpture. Custom cell phone footwear gives a parabolic shape to near-ground recordings as Black walks Wave Farm. Mon. August 2, 2021 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Radio collage with Steve Bradely. Black and Bradley will juxtapose and mix with cicada drone samples, the chirps and whistles of radio communication, narrative anecdotes about the BROOD X and other pertinent topics.   Tues. August 3, 2021 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. Participants in the August 3 workshop bring what they've learned live to WGXC's airwaves. Wed. August 4, 2021 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Migrant Detention Radio, a live one-hour radio conversation using Black's software platform, about migrant detention in the U.S. with visual artist Eliseo Ortiz and historian Jessica Ordaz, will be live from Otay Mesa and Denver, CO. Thurs. August 5, 2021 11 a.m. - noon Black reunites an old radio show he had on Radio Orange in Vienna with Rupert Huber. Huber will play tracks from an Alm on the Altausee lake while Black goes shopping. Other collaborators may join in the fun. Thurs. August 5, 2021 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. Hudson Back-to-Back, participants in the August 3 workshop reunite outside the WGXC Hudson Studio. Starting back-to-back for a live radio collaboration as they explore the sounds of the city each following a unique trajectory. Sat. August 7, 2021 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. On the Saturday Afternoon Show, Black is interviewed by Tom Roe about his work during the residency and presents a finished radio art work drawing from the week's experiments. Wave Farm Artist-in-Residence: Kamikaze Jones Aug 13, 2021 - Aug 22, 2021 Over and Out is an experimental radio play that mines the history of—and utilizes—CB radio to sonically investigate the underrepresented legacies of gay cruising culture in the trucker community. CB radio in the United States has historically subversive connotations: primarily as a tool to evade police detection during the 1973 oil crisis, in which a nationally mandated speed limit hindered truck drivers’ productivity and earnings. CB radios were further implemented as a means of organizing blockades to protest the speed limit and, concurrently, to discreetly facilitate sex work. The implicit risks of chance homosexual encounters on the open road (exposure, arrest, persecution) were significantly reduced by the ‘misuse’ of these devices. For this piece, in addition to the manipulation of archival and field recordings, Kamikaze will quite literally ‘cruise the airwaves’ of the Hudson Valley and incorporate the raw recordings of his encounters to explore the innately queer hauntologies and dissident materialities of CB radio. How does CB radio, an arguably outmoded tool that is nevertheless still used today, continue to inform sexual ideologies? Has the lineage of these technologies moved further away from—or closer to—a homosocial syntax? To what extent have these devices permanently sculpted the semiotics of queer consciousness? It is Kamikaze’s objective to immerse himself in these conceptual inquiries as both an active participant and a sonic medium, to receive and transmit some of the spectral mysteries that exist within these obscured correspondences. Kamikaze Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose work often explores extended vocal technique, queer hauntologies, and ritualized erotic transcendence. His recent practice has been focused on cultivating both sonic and sculptural sanctuary for the ghosts of public sex. He is a co-founder of The Anchoress Syndicate, a poetry and performance collective based in New York City.    Radio Broadcast: Tune in at WGXC 90.7-FM in NY's Upper Hudson Valley, or at wavefarm.org/listen from anywhere. August 21, 2021 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.  Wave Farm during UPSTATE ART WEEKEND! Founded in 2020 by Helen Toomer of STONELEAF RETREAT to celebrate the cultural vibrancy of Upstate New York, UPSTATE ART WEEKEND connects people and places, building a community that not only visits for the weekend, but explores the Hudson Valley throughout the year. Its second expanded edition, takes place from August 27-29, 2021, and incorporates sixty-one participants in the Hudson Valley. This three-day self-directed, accessible event connects tourists and locals alike, with art and the outdoors, celebrating the cultural vibrancy of Upstate New York.  #58 in the map above, Wave Farm's Acra campus on 29-acres featuring 10 site-specific Property Installations will be open on Saturday August 28 and Sunday August 29 from noon - 6 p.m. for guided tours.  On Saturday, August 28 from 1 - 6 p.m. Jen Kutler will present Sonified Physiological Indicators of Empathy, a durational performance and broadcast. Kutler will perform sound works created from physiological data collected and analyzed for markers of empathetic response to curated sounds. Wave Farm visitors are invited to be participants. A subject is outfitted with sensors reading electrodermal activity, breath, and heart rate. The subject is then exposed to clips of site-specific audio in ten second intervals separated by ten seconds of silence. As the data is collected, it is given synthetic voices and processing. The timbres and textures draw from Wave Farm Radio streams to create immersive soundscapes. Visit Wave Farm during Upstate Art Weekend Saturday August 28, noon - 6 p.m. Jen Kutler's Sonified Physiological Indicators of Empathy (1 - 6 p.m.) Sunday August 29, noon - 6 p.m. Wave Farm / WGXC Acra 5662 Route 23 Acra, NY 12405 Directions at https://wavefarm.org/wf/about/contact-locations https://www.upstateartweekend.org Reel-to-reel Tape Machines Needed Do you have any? We are looking to borrow, rent, or possibly purchase properly working reel-to-reel machines (stereo OR mono) for use in Aaron Dilloway's performance of John Cage’s Rozart Mix presented by Wave Farm and the John Cage Trust at Bard College in October. Can you help? If so contact info@wavefarm.org. Thank you! In case you missed it... Listen to the radio artworks created by Wave Farm's July artists-in-residence. Defiant Masculinity July 2021, 2:57:00 min. KHONSU X and Titan Defiant Masculinity is a radio theatre production born out of The Broken Bois Series–a compilation of transmissions exploring how social constructs of masculinity have been historically warped by media. Through dissonance, intermodulation, and resonance, the play follows a trans-man and his trusty radio as he traverses a sea of cultural influences. A three-hour soundscape developed during the Wave Farm Residency, incorporating five nights of live broadcasts and recording sessions with WGXC listeners guided by curated audio prompts.  Listen here. Image Broadcast June 2021, 1:51:00 min. Neo Gibson and Charles Stobbs Image Broadcast, focuses on FM’s material nature, the broadcast suspends visual works in air, allowing them to interface with the sonic and visual landscape of the residency’s location. The broadcast is made visible through the use of a real–time “waterfall” spectrogram read-out. Listen here. Your charitable contributions to Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM make a world of difference, now more than ever!   Wave Farm remains tirelessly committed to making the airwaves a participatory medium. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. These activities are made possible, in part, from state and federal art grants, foundation support, earned income derived from studio rentals and special curatorial/consulting engagements, and from private, tax-deductible, support from individuals like you. Listeners, attendees, and collaborators support provides a critical piece to keeping Wave Farm programs afloat, especially WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears, and we are grateful to the many individuals who have shown their generosity past, present, and future.   BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER! or, if you prefer MAKE A ONE-TIME GIFT Wave Farm programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE; the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation; the T. Backer Fund; the Joseph Family Charitable Trust; and hundreds of other generous individual donors, including WGXC Sustaining Supporters, who provide critical monthly support to Wave Farm's radio station WGXC 90.7-FM.    .         Copyright © 2021 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

KHONSU X and Titan followed by Neo Gibson and Charles Stobbs at Wave Farm this month. Yvette Janine Jackson joins Wave Farm's Board, and much more.

View this email in your browser The 2021 Wave Farm Artist Residency Program is off to a great start, and if you missed June's projects see below. This month we welcome KHONSU X and Titan followed by Neo Gibson and Charles Stobbs. There is still time to register for KHONSU X and Titan's Defiant Masculinity workshop and broadcast series taking place July 2 - 4, 2021. Also notable this month, we are delighted to welcome artist and educator Yvette Janine Jackson to the Wave Farm Board of Directors. Wave Farm is also pleased to announce a partnership with New American Radio; a live online radio stream of this important archive is now available at wavefarm.org/listen, and a weekly radio broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM will premiere soon. Finally, we are thrilled to announce that Wave Farm has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts for our 2021/2022 Radio Artists Fellowship Program; and, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has just announced a grant to Wave Farm in support of an ambitious schedule of artist projects commencing this fall and extending through 2022. Read on for details regarding all of the above! Wave Farm Artist-in-Residence: KHONSU X and Titan Jul 02, 2021 - Jul 11, 2021 Defiant Masculinity is a radio theatre production born out of The Broken Bois Series–a compilation of transmissions exploring how social constructs of masculinity have been historically warped by media. Through dissonance, intermodulation, and resonance, the play follows a trans-man and his trusty radio as he traverses a sea of cultural influences. A three-hour soundscape will be developed during the Wave Farm Residency, incorporating five nights of live broadcasts and recording sessions with WGXC listeners guided by curated audio prompts. The final product should be a puzzle left unsolved, spurring the mind to continual thought and dialogue about how masculinity presents in our world today through diverse male perspectives. Titan and Khonsu X formed the Broken Bois Collective in 2019, after months of traveling cross-country with only FM-radio for entertainment. Over pundits and disco, a white trans-kid from Schoharie County, and a Black transman from central Pennsylvania combined their creative practices, finding radio as the coagulant. Using storytelling, poetry, music, and cultural commentary, they focused their joint practice on the production of artworks that seek to revolutionize understandings of masculinity. Outside of the studio, Titan and Khonsu X can be found tending radical land projects, producing Clubhouse Radio on WGXC, and playing with their beloved pitbulls. brokenboiscollective.tumblr.com Workshop: Register at http://bit.ly/defiantmasculinity to participate in KHONSU X and Titan's Workshop and Broadcast series July 2 - July 4, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. EDT. Radio Broadcasts: Tune in at WGXC 90.7-FM in NY's Upper Hudson Valley, or at wavefarm.org/listen from anywhere. July 2, 2021 3:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. July 3, 2021 3:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. July 4, 2021 3:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. July 10, 2021 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Wave Farm Artist-in-Residence: Neo Gibson and Charles Stobbs Jul 16, 2021 - Jul 25, 2021 Image Broadcast, focuses on FM’s material nature, the broadcast will suspend visual works in air, allowing them to interface with the sonic and visual landscape of the residency’s location. In addition to images produced on site, the broadcast will contain a number of images from various participants, whose inclusion in the broadcast is informed by research conducted during and prior to the residency. The broadcast will be made visible through the use of a real–time “waterfall” spectrogram read-out. Neo Gibson is a musician, releasing music under the alias 7038634357. Charles Stobbs is a part-time lecturer. Together they have produced radio broadcasts and installations under their own names, and as Maitre D'. Previously they have been hosted by Veronica, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, and Montez Press Radio. Recently, their work has prioritized the compression and translation of non-audible sensory data into sound. This sound is prized, but only as the outcome of an intentionally organized process of transmission. Their interest in FM radio lies in sharing the experience of moving through the material bubble of that transmission’s radius. waiting-all-my.life Radio Broadcasts: Tune in at WGXC 90.7-FM in NY's Upper Hudson Valley, or at wavefarm.org/listen from anywhere. July 22, 2021 12:10 a.m. - 12:25 a.m.  July 23, 2021 12:10 a.m. - 12:25 a.m.  July 24, 2021 12:10 a.m. - 12:25 a.m.  July 24, 2021 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Yvette Janine Jackson Joins Wave Farm's Board of Directors Yvette Janine Jackson is a composer and installation artist who brings attention to historical events and social issues through her radio operas.  She established the Radio Opera Workshop, an adaptable ensemble, to experiment with sound and narrative performance. Yvette’s work has been featured at Fylkingen, MuseumsQuartier Tonspur Passage, Borealis Festival, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and in residence at Stockholm Elektronmusikstudion.  Her album Freedom, produced by the Fridman Gallery, debuted as Contemporary Album of the Month in the January 2021 issue of The Guardian.  Yvette is an assistant professor in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry in the Department of Music and teaches for the Theater, Dance & Media program at Harvard University. http://yvettejackson.com   Wave Farm Board of Directors, July 2021 Iliya Fridman, President Director, Fridman Gallery; Managing Partner, Fridman Law Group Maximilian Goldfarb, Vice-President Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo, State University of New York Laura Kuhn, Treasurer Director, The John Cage Trust John Anderson, Secretary Author, "Radio's Digital Dilemma: Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century" (Routledge) Anna Friz Assistant Professor Film & Digital Media, University of California Santa Cruz Yvette Janine Jackson Assistant Professor Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry, Harvard University Eliel Mamousette Associate Architect, BestPass; Principal, Eliel Mamousette Consulting Galen Joseph-Hunter, Ex-officio Executive Director, Wave Farm New American Radio Archive A partnership of New American Radio and Wave Farm. In its ten years as a weekly national series, 1987-1998, New American Radio (NAR) commissioned and distributed over 300 original works: conceptual new drama, associational documentary, language explorations, sonic meditations, environmental compositions, musical explorations and works that pioneer new dimensions in acoustic space. Wave Farm is thrilled to be partnering with New American Radio to ensure these works remain available to listeners today and into the future through this streaming online radio channel, a weekly radio show on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM, and a forthcoming online archive. New American Radio was organized by Helen Thorington, Executive Producer and Regine Beyer, Associate Producer. A special thanks to both Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green for their generous support and collaboration of this partnership, and their contribution to the field at large! National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Grant support to Wave Farm programs 2021-2022   In its second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2021, the National Endowment for the Arts announced more than $88 million in recommended grants to organizations in all 50 states and jurisdictions. Included was support to Wave Farm's Radio Artist Fellowship program September 2021 - May 2022.  On June 29, 2021 the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced $3.8 million will be granted to 50 museums and arts organizations from 20 states, the District of Columbia and Canada, whose programs and exhibitions reflect our current times and rethink existing structures and systems. Included is a two-year grant to Wave Farm supporting artist-driven initiatives focused on connecting, collaboration, and community building, that are aligned with the crises currently facing our nation. In response to the isolation resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Wave Farm’s 2022 Residency Program will have a specific focus on collaborating artists who have not been able to work together in the same physical space. In direct conversation with the need to address racial inequality, artist Yvette Janine Jackson’s Destination Freedom, which takes one inside the cargo hold of a tall ship transporting Africans to the Americas, will be revisited, reconstructed, and installed as a new permanent sonic and visual work on the Wave Farm grounds. In acknowledgment of the urgency of the climate crisis, we will install Peter Courtemanche and Anna Friz’s Solar Radio, an environmental installation that employs bio-electric sensors to observe and reveal the state of the natural world. Wave Farm will launch this new dynamic period of activity with a long envisioned collaboration between Wave Farm and the John Cage Trust: Rozart Mix realized by artist Aaron Dilloway at the John Cage Trust, a durational installation at and broadcast from the John Cage Trust at Bard College, Annandale, NY, October 23, 2021.  In case you missed it... Listen to the radio artworks created by Wave Farm's June artists-in-residence. Live Streaming June 2021, 13:24 min. sTo Len Centered around conversations with streams and rivers, sTo Len used divining rods, fishing rods, hydrophones, contact mics, and radio transmitters to connect with the local waterways of Greene County, NY through sound rituals. Len visited with the streams near Wave Farm during his residency and documented the journey. Listen here. Image: Alon Koppel Photography. The Black Garden Project June 2021, 1:09:35 min. Temar France The Black Garden Project is a documentary radio play that takes music and sound texts (interviews, field recordings, recorded lectures, etc.) into a critical investigation of black queer life ecologies. The program will specifically examine the process of creating nourishing spaces for black people in institutions of higher education. Inspired by stories of activism in response to anti-black and indigenous racism on college campuses, this piece will poetically mix elements of newspaper theater with radio interference to gesture towards the ephemeral instability and impossibility of structuralizing nourishing spaces for black life in the contemporary world while exploring the simultaneous capacity of radio to enact real structural connections through vulnerable Black communities that are creating new sites for black resistance politics, black life gardens, and futures. Listen here. A final reminder... MAAF for Artists applications are due today by 11:59 p.m. EDT.   NYSCA Electronic Media/Film in Partnership with Wave Farm For individual artists, MAAF provides support for the completion and/or public presentation of new works in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. Grant awards assist artists in completing new work, reaching public audiences, and advance artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts. Opportunity: MAAF for Artists New York State Artists may apply for up to $7,500 to support the completion and/or public presentation of a new or recently completed media artwork. Program Timeline Application Deadline: July 1, 2021 Notification: August 31, 2021 Project Period September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2022 Final Report Deadline: October 31, 2022 Read more and apply. Your charitable contributions to Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM make a world of difference, now more than ever!   Wave Farm remains tirelessly committed to making the airwaves a participatory medium. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. These activities are made possible, in part, from state and federal art grants, foundation support, earned income derived from studio rentals and special curatorial/consulting engagements, and from private, tax-deductible, support from individuals like you. Listeners, attendees, and collaborators support provides a critical piece to keeping Wave Farm programs afloat, especially WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears, and we are grateful to the many individuals who have shown their generosity past, present, and future.   BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER! or, if you prefer MAKE A ONE-TIME GIFT Wave Farm programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE; the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation; the T. Backer Fund; the Joseph Family Charitable Trust; and hundreds of other generous individual donors, including WGXC Sustaining Supporters, who provide critical monthly support to Wave Farm's radio station WGXC 90.7-FM.    .         Copyright © 2021 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

sTo Len and Temar France are at Wave Farm. Fellowship Applications are due June 30. deadline. Apply to MAAF by July 1. Type A's "Barrier" is here!

View this email in your browser There is so much to communicate this month! First of all, an enormous thank you to the over 220 people who secured tickets to come celebrate WGXC's 10th Anniversary at the Greenville Drive-in. The dramatic weather wasn't enough to keep most of you away, and the night was an extraordinary vaccinated emergence from the solitude of the last 14 months, as well as a wonderful celebration of WGXC's multiplicity of sounds and participants. Thank you! You'll find links to documentation including the photo booth images at wgxc.org/drivein, and we'll be adding more in the coming days. Important deadlines for artists! Please take note: June 30 is the deadline for the September 2021 - May 2022 Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship open to radio artists and scholars living and working in the U.S. The Fellowship includes a $15,000 stipend. July 1 is the deadline for MAAF for Artists. New York State artists may apply for up to $7,500 to support the completion and/or public presentation of a newly created media artwork. We couldn't be more thrilled to welcome the first of our 2021 Resident Artists this month. sTo Len will be at Wave Farm June 4-13, 2021, and Temar France will be here June 18 - 27, 2021. Finally, we are very excited to announce a new installation at Wave Farm. Type A's Barrier positions 20 custom cast Jersey Barriers to emulate the shape of an audio waveform of S.O.S. Read on for details regarding all of the above! Call for Applications to the Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship 2021/2022 Engagement Period: September 2021 - May 2022 Stipend: $15,000 Location: Remote (w/ three visits to Wave Farm in Acra, NY) * Application Deadline: June 30, 2021 Notification: July 2021 Wave Farm is delighted to announce a third year of the Radio Artist Fellowship, a nine-month, part-time engagement for a radio scholar and artist living and working in the United States. The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe. The Fellowship will also include communication with mentors Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead. *Details of the Wave Farm visit schedule will be determined in collaboration with the selected artist, with consideration given to any ongoing travel restrictions related to COVID-19. Duties and Responsibilities: Part 1: Radio Art Archive Work (September 2021 - January 2022) Part 2: Community  Engagement (February - March 2022) Part 3: Radio Art Creation (April - May 2022) Fellowship Benchmarks: Weekly Meetings: with Wave Farm staff. Monthly Check-ins with Mentors for feedback on archive additions and the Fellow’s original radio artworks. Culminating Public Program: a live radio broadcast featuring the Fellowship artist and mentors in conversation reflecting on works created and archive selections. Eligibility: The Radio Artist Fellowship program opportunity is open to individual radio artists and scholars whose primary residence is in the United States. (Note: applications from collaborative teams are not eligible.) The Fellowship stipend will appear as “Other Income” on 1099s issued in conjunction with tax years 2021 and 2022. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply. Wave Farm’s Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE (aka the Greene County Council on the Arts.) Learn More + Apply MAAF for Artists 2021 NYSCA Electronic Media/Film in Partnership with Wave Farm For individual artists, MAAF provides support for the completion and/or public presentation of new works in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. Grant awards assist artists in completing new work, reaching public audiences, and advance artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts. Opportunity: MAAF for Artists New York State Artists may apply for up to $7,500 to support the completion and/or public presentation of a new media artwork. Program Timeline Application Deadline: July 1, 2021 Notification: August 31, 2021 Project Period September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2022 Final Report Deadline: October 31, 2022 Eligibility notes: MAAF supports new work. For public presentation support requests for a recently completed media artwork, the completion date of the project must fall within January 2020 - June 30, 2021. For completion support for an in-progress media artwork, the proposed project must be in the final stages of creation, and ready for completion by the MAAF project period end date of August 31, 2022. Artists must reside in New York State. Funding may not be used for travel expenses outside of New York State. Applicants must demonstrate media art to be the core discipline of the submitted work; in order to be eligible for support, cross or multi-disciplinary work must demonstrate media art to be the primary discipline. Sound artworks are eligible. Electronic music projects are not eligible.  For the purpose of this grant, in FY2021, MAAF is not able to support non-fiction, narrative documentary works. See Independent Documentary Association's Grants Directory for Nonfiction Film for listing of funding opportunities. MAAF does not support episodic work, such as a web series or podcast. Applicants who have received, or have a pending application for support from NYSCA’s Individual Artists program may not apply for MAAF Artist support for the same project. Applicants who receive other NYSCA Regrant support through a local arts council, NYFA, etc. (where funds have originated from NYSCA) may not apply for MAAF Artist support for the same project. The applicant must have all rights to distribute and exhibit the work as proposed. Student works are not eligible. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis for career artists who may have returned to school for postgraduate work. Learn More + Apply Wave Farm Artist-in-Residence: sTo Len Jun 04, 2021 - Jun 13, 2021 Centered around conversations with streams and rivers, sTo Len will use divining rods, fishing rods, hydrophones, contact mics, and radio transmitters to connect with the local waterways of Greene County, NY through sound rituals. Len will visit with the streams near Wave Farm during his residency and document the journey. Live Streaming will live stream on the internet in spontaneous events, and a final audio collage will be presented for FM broadcast at the culmination. sTo Len is a genre fluid artist with interests in printmaking, installation, sound, video and performance. The cross-disciplinary nature of Len's work often centers around collaborations with bodies of water that transform waste into art materials and the public commons into an art studio and performance space. His sound work incorporates contact mics, analog effect pedals, cassette players, samplers, solar panels, drum machines, household appliances, and the đàn bầu, a one-string Vietnamese instrument. sTo Len is based in Queens, NY with familial roots in Vietnam and Virginia, and his work incorporates these bonds by connecting issues of their history, environment, traditions and politics. Len was recently the first artist in residence at AlexRenew Wastewater Treatment facility in Alexandria, VA and is a member of Works on Water, a group of artists and activists working with and about water in the face of climate change and environmental justice concerns. stoishere.com Radio Broadcasts: Tune in at WGXC 90.7-FM in NY's Upper Hudson Valley, or at wavefarm.org/listen from anywhere. June 5, 2021 10 p.m. - midnight June 11, 2021 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. June 12, 2021 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Wave Farm Artist-in-Residence: Temar France Jun 18, 2021 - Jun 27, 2021 The Black Garden Project is a documentary radio play that takes music and sound texts (interviews, field recordings, recorded lectures, etc.) into a critical investigation of Black queer life ecologies. The program will specifically examine the process of creating nourishing spaces for Black people in institutions of higher education. Inspired by stories of activism in response to anti-Black and indigenous racism on college campuses, this piece will poetically mix elements of newspaper theater with radio interference to gesture towards the ephemeral instability and impossibility of structuralizing nourishing spaces for Black life in the contemporary world while exploring the simultaneous capacity of radio to enact real structural connections through vulnerable Black communities that are creating new sites for Black resistance politics, Black life gardens, and futures. Temar France is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose research-based practice considers Black feminist ecologies, queer world-making, sexuality, and healing. Their recent work focuses on radio broadcast and live performance, combining interviews, field recordings, poetry, and music to construct and amplify narratives that explore questions about Black queer ecological succession, community, and rebellion. France is currently in graduate school at Brooklyn College studying performance and interactive media art. temarfrance.com Radio Broadcast: Tune in at WGXC 90.7-FM in NY's Upper Hudson Valley, or at wavefarm.org/listen from anywhere. June 26, 2021 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Barrier 2021 Type A The Barrier project was originally intended as a response to the climate of fear, panic, protectionism and the imposition of perceived safety that characterized the American urban landscape during the years following the attacks of September 11, 2001. At that time the Jersey Barrier quickly became the ad hoc solution for low cost "hardening" of designated urban sites from attack. This simple form insinuated itself into the environment without grace or apology, affecting the ways in which the population was permitted to circulate. In contrast, Type A realized the Jersey Barrier’s potential for grace while maintaining its authority to dictate behavior. Each Barrier piece is an identical, curved Jersey barrier that describes a 60º radius designed to offer flexible, site-specific installation options. Its aestheticized curved form — which does not exist in the industry — is organic, rhythmic and alluring whether installed to emphasize flow or fracture. Barrier addresses sculpture’s ability to aggressively affect the viewer's relationship to the space in which it is installed. In plainer words, Barrier blocks and hinders. It raises inconvenience to the level of ultimatum. Previous installations of Barrier have addressed the object’s function as additive architecture, at times harmonizing formally with the structural environment in which it is installed, at other times dividing it. For the Wave Farm Barrier installation, Type A realizes a form which functions in ways that other installations have not. Barrier at Wave Farm takes the shape of an audio waveform of S.O.S. This installation becomes a glyph, a physical representation of language. Because the barriers are fragments that have fixed size and shape, the installation is a simplified representation of this waveform, effectively transforming information into something more aesthetically driven. This loss of clarity speaks to the non-utilitarian nature of art as something that cannot — or will not — convey ideas clearly. Barrier is on-view by appointment at Wave Farm. Contact info@wavefarm.org to schedule a tour of Wave Farm's 10 current installations.  Above photos: Courtesy Type A. Watch a three-day installation, sped up to 9 1/2 minutes! Your charitable contributions make a world of difference, now more than ever!   Wave Farm remains tirelessly committed to making the airwaves a participatory medium. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. These activities are made possible, in part, from state and federal art grants, foundation support, earned income derived from studio rentals and special curatorial/consulting engagements, and from private, tax-deductible, support from individuals like you. Listeners, attendees, and collaborators support provides a critical piece to keeping Wave Farm programs afloat, and we are grateful to the many individuals who have shown their generosity past, present, and future.   BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER! or, if you prefer MAKE A ONE-TIME GIFT Wave Farm programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE; the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation; the T. Backer Fund; the Joseph Family Charitable Trust; and hundreds of other generous individual donors, including WGXC Sustaining Supporters, who provide critical monthly support to Wave Farm's radio station WGXC 90.7-FM.          Copyright © 2021 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Turn-out for a very special night of film, live performance, and celebration all projected onto the big screen and transmitted to your car radio!

View this email in your browser Just one month from today!!! WGXC 10th Anniversary Drive-in Event May 26, 2021: 7:30 pm- 11pm Greenville Drive-In 10700 Route 32 | Greenville, New York 12083 Reserve A Parking Spot Now Let's celebrate WGXC's 10th Anniversary together at the Greenville Drive-in! We're planning this event to scale as needed in terms of where we are with physical gathering. Either way, we think it will be an epic exploration of the number 10! Wear your most festive attire and bring your favorite radio for the LoveShack photo and recording booth. Most importantly come ready to celebrate. Schedule: 7:30 p.m.: Arrival 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Get your portrait taken by Bryan Zimmerman, record Station IDs and sweet nothings at the LoveShack with your concierges Donna and Honey of the Donna and Honey's Love Motel: A radio romance and rock and roll show, and interior by Becca Van K! 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Get Your Concessions! (Cocktails at the bar, Snack Bar goodies available.) 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Program NOTE: All performances and DJ sets will be projected onto the Drive-in screen and transmitted to your car radio. Entire program runs 110 minutes. Here's the line-up: Film Program Powers of Ten (1977), Charles and Ray Eames (09:00 min.) 103 Hudson River Crossings (2021), Heath Iverson. (Movies on the Radio) (01:00 min.) 10 Minute Performances and DJ Sets LunarMoss (formerly of the LunarMoss radio show), a micro-meditation on time's most agreeable measurement: the decade; conveyed thru sound as catalyst and contingent summation of collective memory. Jess Speer, will perform live with 10 sound sources, all celebrating WGXC, Wave Farm, and radio, with a special community-brewed Radio Witch full moon spell for the continued success of WGXC. Jeff Economy (Snackpoint Charlie) and Alanna Medlock (There There), 10 Movements through Undiscovered Countries. Jen Kutler (Wave Farmacy) and Quintan Ana Wikswo, a work of 10 texts, 10 videos, and 10 variated sensor response. Mayuko Fujino (Your Voice Touches My String), 10 tracks of single-stringed instruments, one string at a time. Anna Friz, 10-band Radio: Variations with one- and two- way radio, from deep inside the dial. Are there (still) little people who live inside your radio? DJ Var (Friday Night Vibes Session), 10 years of happiness. Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), 10 songs in 10 minutes. Battlefield Earth (Battlefield Earth) adds exponential sources until a deka is reached. Brian Dewan, WGXC filmstrip (2014/2021) Big thank you to our artists and volunteers, those not mentioned above include Alon Koppel, Gus Turner, Nick D'Amore, Lysa Opfer, Matt Hill, Tim Light, Jess Puglisi, and Carmen Borgia, as well as WGXC's 10th Anniversary Year Sponsors:    Reserve A Parking Spot Now Incident Report Dispatch 001:  F.T.Marinetti & Pino Masnata's "La radia"  Poster and cutouts by Mayuko Fujino April 23 - May 2, 2021 Incident Report 348 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534 Wave Farm fills The Flow Chart Foundation’s “Incident Report l” windows LED scroll with a text from F.T.Marinetti & Pino Masnata's "La radia" Futurist Manifesto of October, 1933. It’s presented along with cutouts made from discarded plastic bags and a poster designed by Mayuko Fujino on the occasion of WGXC’s tenth anniversary. TEXT INCLUDED IN SCROLL Wave Farm Radio Incident Report Dispatch 001: F.T.Marinetti & Pino Masnata's "La radia" Futurist Manifesto of October, 1933  Brought to you by WGXC: Radio For Open Ears, 90.7-FM. La radia must not be 1. theater because radio has killed the theater already defeated by sound drama La radia must not be 2. cinema because cinema is dying (a) from rancid sentimentalism of subject matter (b) from realism that involves even certain simultaneous syntheses (c) from infinite technical complications (d) from fatal banalizing collaborationism (e) from reflected brilliance inferior to the self-emitted brilliance of radio-television La radia must not be 3. books because the book which is guilty of having made humanity myopic implies something heavy strangled stifled fossilized and frozen (only the great freeword tableaux shall live, the only poetry that needs to be seen) Wave Farm Radio Incident Report Dispatch 001: F.T.Marinetti & Pino Masnata's "La radia" Futurist Manifesto of October, 1933  Brought to you by  WGXC: Radio For Open Ears, 90.7-FM. La radia abolishes 1. the space and stage necessary to theater including Futurist synthetic theater (action unfolding on a fixed and constant stage) and to cinema (actions unfolding on very rapid variable simultaneous and always realistic stages) La radia abolishes 2. time La radia abolishes 3. unity of action La radia abolishes 4. dramatic character La radia abolishes 5. the audience as self-appointed judging mass systematically hostile and servile always against the new always retrograde La radia shall be 1. Freedom from all point of contact with literary and artistic tradition. Any attempt to link la radia with tradition is grotesque La radia shall be 2. A new art that begins where theater cinema and narrative end La radia shall be 3. The immensification of space. No longer visible and framable the stage becomes universal and cosmic La radia shall be 4. The reception amplification and transfiguration of vibrations emitted by living beings living or dead spirits dramas of wordless noise-states La radia shall be 5. The reception amplification and transfiguration of vibrations emitted by matter. Just as today we listen to the song of the forest and the sea so tomorrow shall we be seduced by the vibrations of a diamond or a flower La radia shall be 6. A pure organism of radio sensations La radia shall be 7. An art without time or space without yesterday or tomorrow. The possibility of receiving broadcast stations situated in various time zones and the lack of light will destroy the hours of the day and night. The reception and amplification of the light and the voices of the past with thermionic valves will destroy time La radia shall be 8. The synthesis of infinite simultaneous actions La radia shall be 9. Human universal and cosmic art as voice with a true psychology-spirituality of the sounds of the voice and of silence La radia shall be 10. The characteristic life of every noise and the infinite variety of concrete/abstract and real/dreamt through the agency of a people of noises La radia shall be 11.  Struggles of noises and of various distances that is spatial drama joined with temporal drama La radia shall be 12. Words in freedom. The word has gradually developed into a collaborator of mime and gesture. The word must be recharged with all its power hence an essential and totalitarian word which in Futurist theory is called word-atmosphere. Words in freedom children of the aesthetics of machines contain an orchestra of noises and noise-chords (realistic and abstract) which alone can aid the colored and plastic word in the lightning-fast representation of what is not seen. If he does not wish to resort to words in freedom the radiast must express himself in that freeword style which is already widespread in avant-garde novels and newspapers that typically swift quick synthetic simultaneous freeword style La radia shall be 13.  Isolated word repetitions of verbs in the infinitive La radia shall be 14. Essential art La radia shall be 15. Gastronomic amorous gymnastic etc. music La radia shall be 16. The utilization of noises sounds chords harmonies musical or noise simultaneities of silence all with their graduations of appoggiatura crescendo and decrescendo which will become strange brushes for painting delimiting and coloring the infinite darkness of la radia by giving squareness roundness spheric in short La radia shall be 17. The utilization of interference between stations and of the birth and evanescence of the sounds La radia shall be 18. The delimitation and geometric construction of silence La radia shall be 19. The utilization of the various resonances of voice or sound in order to give a sense of the size of the place in which the voice is uttered. The characterization as the silent as semisilent atmosphere that surrounds and colors a given voice sound or noise La radia shall be 20. The elimination of the concept or the illusion of an audience which has always had even for books a deforming and damaging influence. Wave Farm Radio Incident Report Dispatch 001: F.T.Marinetti & Pino Masnata's "La radia" Futurist Manifesto of October, 1933. Brought to you by WGXC: Radio For Open Ears, 90.7-FM. Reveil – SC8 Off Grid May 1, 2021: midnight - May 2, 2021 1 a.m. 25 hour live radio broadcast! Wave Farm Radio: WGXC 90.7-FM and Standing Wave Radio For more information:  soundtent.org/reveil   Reveil is a 24+1 hour radio broadcast following sunrise around the earth on Dawn Chorus Day. It is constructed from live audio feeds sent in by streamers at daybreak. Reveil brings together sounds of places from domestic to remote and in between. Produced from a temporary station at Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe, Reveil 8 will be accompanied by a programme of live performances, walks, artist talks and workshops, appearing on-site and on-line. Program and schedule. Listen on Resonance Extra (UK broadcast partner), Wave Farm WGXC (US broadcast partner) and participating stations.  Streams hosted on the Locus Sonus soundmap. To follow the expanded radio event in full: soundtent.org/reveil Reveil SC 8 is a project of Soundcamp with the Acoustic Commons network: Full Of Noises, Locus Sonus, CONA, HMU, Cyberforest. In partnership with Wave Farm WGXC (NY), Resonance (London), and participating stations. It relies on the creative input of further collaborating organisations, and the generous work of artists who deliver the real-time streams. With the Support of Arts Council England, Southwark Neighbourhood Fund and the Creative Europe Programme of  the European Union, and additional donations from private contributors. Image shows: stream setup on the Island of Frioul, as part of the Creative Technical Workshop #1 at Locus Sonus, Aix-Marseille in January 2020;  soundcamp on Jeju Island by Jiyeon Kim and Gangil Yi (Weather Report), May 2015. Your charitable contributions make a world of difference, now more than ever!   Wave Farm remains tirelessly committed to making the airwaves a participatory medium. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. These activities are made possible, in part, from state and federal art grants, foundation support, earned income derived from studio rentals and special curatorial/consulting engagements, and from private, tax-deductible, support from individuals like you. Listeners, attendees, and collaborators support provides a critical piece to keeping Wave Farm programs afloat, and we are grateful to the many individuals who have shown their generosity past, present, and future.   BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER! or, if you prefer MAKE A ONE-TIME GIFT Wave Farm programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE; the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation; the T. Backer Fund; the Joseph Family Charitable Trust; and hundreds of other generous individual donors, including WGXC Sustaining Supporters, who provide critical monthly support to Wave Farm's radio station WGXC 90.7-FM.          Copyright © 2021 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Acra, NY—Wave Farm announced today the artists and projects selected for the 2021 Wave Farm Residency Program. This year the program will focus on new radio artworks intended for FM broadcast. The 2021 program received a total of 114 submitted proposals, originating from 12 countries and 25 U.S. states. Each selected artist (or collaborating artists) will live and work on-site at the Wave Farm Study Center for ten days during the residency season, which spans June through October.

In 2021, Wave Farm welcomes sTo Len (Glendale, NY); Temar France (Queens, NY); KHONSU X (Harrisburg, PA) and Titan (Gilboa, NY); Neo Gibson (Jackson Heights, NY) and Charles Stobbs (New York, NY); August Black (Boulder, CO); Kamikaze Jones (Norwalk, CT); Claire Serres (Paris, France); Sadie Woods (Chicago, IL); Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson (Pittsburgh, PA); and Quintron (New Orleans, LA).

The Wave Farm Residency Program provides artists with a valuable opportunity to concentrate on new transmission artworks and conduct research about the genre using the Wave Farm Study Center resource library. This year applicants were asked to propose a specific radio art project, which they will complete while in residence and premiere on Wave Farm's full-power FM radio station: WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears.

Wave Farm Executive Director Galen Joseph-Hunter said, “This year we are focusing on works explicitly made for FM broadcast. During the COVID-19 pandemic we were reminded of the unique power and presence of terrestrial radio. Throughout the past year, so many listeners, new and old, expressed their deep gratitude for independent and experimental content on their FM dial via Wave Farm's WGXC-FM. In response, we are especially thrilled to support these ten artists/collaborations who approach FM radio with both creativity and a healthy sense of adventure; and, we look forward to bringing the resulting 10 new radio artworks to public audiences in New York's Upper Hudson Valley and across the globe.”

WAVE FARM RESIDENCY PROGRAM SELECTED ARTISTS AND PROJECTS
(in chronological order)

sTo Len (Glendale, NY)—Live Streaming
June 4-13, 2021
Centered around conversations with streams and rivers, sTo Len will use divining rods, fishing rods, hydrophones, contact mics, and radio transmitters to connect with the local waterways of Greene County, NY through sound rituals. Len will visit with the streams near Wave Farm during his residency and document the journey. Live Streaming will live stream on the internet in spontaneous events, and a final audio collage will be presented for FM broadcast at the culmination.

sTo Len is a genre-fluid artist with interests in printmaking, installation, sound, video and performance. The cross-disciplinary nature of Len's work often centers around collaborations with bodies of water that transform waste into art materials and the public commons into an art studio and performance space. His sound work incorporates contact mics, analog effect pedals, cassette players, samplers, solar panels, drum machines, household appliances, and the đàn bầu, a one-string Vietnamese instrument. sTo Len is based in Queens, NY with familial roots in Vietnam and Virginia, and his work incorporates these bonds by connecting issues of their history, environment, traditions and politics. Len was recently the first artist in residence at AlexRenew Wastewater Treatment facility in Alexandria, VA and is a member of Works on Water, a group of artists and activists working with and about water in the face of climate change and environmental justice concerns. stoishere.com

Temar France (Queens, NY)—The Black Garden Project
June 18 - 27, 2021
The Black Garden Project is a documentary radio play that takes music and sound texts (interviews, field recordings, recorded lectures, etc.) into a critical investigation of black queer life ecologies. The program will specifically examine the process of creating nourishing spaces for black people in institutions of higher education. Inspired by stories of activism in response to anti-black and indigenous racism on college campuses, this piece will poetically mix elements of newspaper theater with radio interference to gesture towards the ephemeral instability and impossibility of structuralizing nourishing spaces for black life in the contemporary world while exploring the simultaneous capacity of radio to enact real structural connections through vulnerable Black communities that are creating new sites for black resistance politics, black life gardens, and futures.

Temar France is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose research-based practice considers black feminist ecologies, queer world-making, sexuality, and healing. Their recent work focuses on radio broadcast and live performance, combining interviews, field recordings, poetry, and music to construct and amplify narratives that explore questions about black queer ecological succession, community, and rebellion. France is currently in graduate school at Brooklyn College studying performance and interactive media art. temarfrance.com

KHONSU X (Harrisburg, PA) and Titan (Gilboa, NY)—Defiant Masculinity
July 2 - 11, 2021
Defiant Masculinity is a radio theatre production born out of The Broken Bois Series–a compilation of transmissions exploring how social constructs of masculinity have been historically warped by media. Through dissonance, intermodulation, and resonance, the play follows a trans-man and his trusty radio as he traverses a sea of cultural influences. A three-hour soundscape will be developed during the Wave Farm Residency, incorporating five nights of live broadcasts and recording sessions with WGXC listeners guided by curated audio prompts. The final product should be a puzzle left unsolved, spurring the mind to continual thought and dialogue about how masculinity presents in our world today through diverse male perspectives.

Titan and Khonsu X formed the Broken Bois Collective in 2019, after months of traveling cross-country with only FM-radio for entertainment. Over pundits and disco, a white trans-kid from Schoharie County, and a Black transman from central Pennsylvania combined their creative practices, finding radio as the coagulant. Using storytelling, poetry, music, and cultural commentary, they focused their joint practice on the production of artworks that seek to revolutionize understandings of masculinity. Outside of the studio, Titan and Khonsu X can be found tending radical land projects, producing Clubhouse Radio on WGXC, and playing with their beloved pitbulls. brokenboiscollective.tumblr.com

Neo Gibson (Jackson Heights, NY) and Charles Stobbs (New York, NY)—Image Broadcast
July 16-25, 2021
Image Broadcast, focuses on FM’s material nature, the broadcast will suspend visual works in air, allowing them to interface with the sonic and visual landscape of the residency’s location. In addition to images produced on site, the broadcast will contain a number of images from various participants, whose inclusion in the broadcast is informed by research conducted during and prior to the residency. The broadcast will be made visible through the use of a real–time “waterfall” spectrogram read-out.

Neo Gibson is a musician, releasing music under the alias 7038634357. Charles Stobbs is a part-time lecturer. Together they have produced radio broadcasts and installations under their own names, and as Maitre D'. Previously they have been hosted by Veronica, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, and Montez Press Radio. Recently, their work has prioritized the compression and translation of non-audible sensory data into sound. This sound is prized, but only as the outcome of an intentionally organized process of transmission. Their interest in FM radio lies in sharing the experience of moving through the material bubble of that transmission’s radius. waiting-all-my.life

August Black (Boulder, CO)—Radio Research
July 30 - August 9, 2021
At the heart of August Black's residency period is a prototypical web application that aims to catalyze new forms of live interactive radio for the purpose of growing communities, making speculative acoustic situations, and enabling grassroots initiatives. The software allows multiple constituents to fluidly participate in broadcast-like scenarios through their mobile devices at the flick of their thumbs. It works in a browser, requires no downloads, and is meant to be frictionless, quick, and easy. Black will host workshops on-site (covid permitting) with the software, solicit ideas and interaction from the local community, and conduct daily radio experiments outside the studio with various local and remote participants (TBD).

August Black is a hybrid practitioner of art, design, and engineering. He builds instruments in hardware and software for the sake of enabling expressive spaces of potential acoustic and interactive outcomes. august.black

Kamikaze Jones (Norwalk, CT)—Over and Out
August 13 - 22, 2021
Over and Out is an experimental radio play that mines the history of—and utilizes—CB radio to sonically investigate the underrepresented legacies of gay cruising culture in the trucker community. CB radio in the United States has historically subversive connotations: primarily as a tool to evade police detection during the 1973 oil crisis, in which a nationally mandated speed limit hindered truck drivers’ productivity and earnings. CB radios were further implemented as a means of organizing blockades to protest the speed limit and, concurrently, to discreetly facilitate sex work. The implicit risks of chance homosexual encounters on the open road (exposure, arrest, persecution) were significantly reduced by the ‘misuse’ of these devices. For this piece, in addition to the manipulation of archival and field recordings, Kamikaze will quite literally ‘cruise the airwaves’ of the Hudson Valley and incorporate the raw recordings of his encounters to explore the innately queer hauntologies and dissident materialities of CB radio. How does CB radio, an arguably outmoded tool that is nevertheless still used today, continue to inform sexual ideologies? Has the lineage of these technologies moved further away from—or closer to—a homosocial syntax? To what extent have these devices permanently sculpted the semiotics of queer consciousness? It is Kamikaze’s objective to immerse himself in these conceptual inquiries as both an active participant and a sonic medium, to receive and transmit some of the spectral mysteries that exist within these obscured correspondences.

Kamikaze Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose work often explores extended vocal technique, queer hauntologies, and ritualized erotic transcendence. His recent practice has been focused on cultivating both sonic and sculptural sanctuary for the ghosts of public sex. He is a co-founder of The Anchoress Syndicate, a poetry and performance collective based in New York City. instagram.com/kamikazejoness

Claire Serres (Paris, France)—Serpentine waves
August 27 - September 5, 2021
Serpentine waves is a live incantation in front of microphones, combining lyrical voices, whistle, spoken words, and breathing. This poem as sensual as it is monstrous, relates the molt of the mythological snake woman, the wyvern demoness. In this performance, the voice is a vehicle between our outer and inner worlds, a crossroads to explore desire in a deep airwaves dance. A live radio performance, Serpentine waves, will be performed outside the studio, outdoors, with a public audience.

Claire Serres is an artist performer, vocalist and radio director. Most of her practice talk about transformation, gesture and improvised voice. She plays and records the lovsong series, contextuals ballads for the street, museums, and radios in Europe. Since 2020, she has composed for a choir of women. ligie.org

Sadie Woods (Chicago, IL)—The People’s Radio
September 7 - 16, 2021
The People’s Radio explores radio as a technology developed and pioneered by the U.S. military industrial complex as political warfare and public radio as a conduit for Black expressive culture and radical imagination. This broadcast is created from a variety of sources, including cultural media, ephemeral and symbolic sounds, political speeches like "Power Anywhere Where There’s People" by Fred Hampton, excerpts from Motown’s sister label Black Forum releases like "Black Spirits: Festival of New Black Poets in America," and oral histories propelled through Black music. The People’s Radio emphasizes resistance during times of social unrest in aims to recuperate and make legible repressed histories, reminding us of the political dimensions under the surface of Black life.

Sadie Woods is an award winning post-disciplinary artist, independent curator, and deejay. Woods' work focuses primarily on social movements, cultural memory, and producing collaborations within communities of difference. Woods received her BA from Columbia College and MFA from The School of the Art Institute. She is a 2020 recipient of the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Esteemed Artist Award, the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Petty Biennial, Faculty at the School of the Art Institute and Curator for Bond Creative Advisors at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center. sadiewoods.com

Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson (Pittsburgh, PA)—BLACKBODY, WHITE NOISE
September 24 - October 3, 2021
BLACKBODY, WHITE NOISE is an experimental noise radio art composition using two vacant structures and sound reproduction technology. Each structure will bear a single hole allowing sunlight to penetrate and reflect throughout the interior space. During the course of the residency records of temperature, movement and shape will be documented. The collected data will compose a sonic relationship with excerpts from Frantz Fanon’s highly acclaimed literary work, “Black Skin, White Mask.” This project sets out to suggest and translate a correlation between the life of the Sun and struggles against the age of enlightenment and environmental racism. Sounds selected will portray a common ancient narrative and a new future, solar language.

Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson is a conceptual sound artist. His works attend to patterns and forms in sound and space, using deep listening techniques and reproduction technologies for engaging sonic influences and reforming social self awareness. He calls this artistic practice “Sonarcheology.” A creative art practice merging improvisational listening with environmental archeology. By way of this method the art attempts to relisten to the interrelationships between sound and shape, sonic information and sonic place…or what he calls “the ancestry of sound.”

Quintron (New Orleans, LA)—On The 1s
October, 2021
With On The 1s, Quintron continues to explore "audio mirrors" of the external world, in real-time. On The 1s will collect traffic-data input (microphones plus online traffic data), which will then be transformed into analog synth “music” for radio broadcast throughout the day. The project will do for traffic what Weather Warlock did for the weather at Wave Farm.

Quintron has been inventing electronic gadgets and creating genre-defying noise, soundscape, and house rocking dance music in New Orleans for over 20 years, much of it in collaboration with artist / puppeteer Panacea Theriac aka "Miss Pussycat." He is a Grammy-nominated song writer with dozens of full-length albums, as well as a frequent collaborator with a wide swath of the American musical landscape, including The Oblivians, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, and New Orleans RnB legend Ernie K-Doe.

In 1999, Quintron helped to foster a DIY analog synth revival with a patented instrument called the DRUM BUDDY, a light activated analog drum machine which creates murky, low-fidelity, rhythmic patterns. These experiments eventually led to Quintron's focus on a weather-controlled drone synthesizer called Weather Warlock and a website devoted to streaming its music called Weather For The Blind. weatherfortheblind.org

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