2020 Individual Artist Grantees Announced The New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media & Film Program in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF)

Acra, NY—Wave Farm announced today fifteen artist grantees for the 2020 Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF), a regrant partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program. Grantees were named in two categories: Completion Support and Distribution/Exhibition Support.

MAAF Grantees: James Autery; Bob Bellerue; Caitlin Berrigan; Mariangela Ciccarello; Mike Crane; Michael Gitlin; Nicolas Jenkins; Emily Lobsenz; Michael McCanne, in collaboration with Jamie Weiss; Idrissou Mora-Kpai; Britt Moseley; Robert Nideffer; Stephanie Rothenberg; Woody Sullender; and Jingjing Tian.

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, distribution and exhibition 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 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 2020 application pool was the largest to date, and Wave Farm is delighted to be able to support these fifteen outstanding projects that represent the diversity and direction of the media arts landscape in New York State.”

The annual deadline for the Media Arts Assistance Fund for Artists is January 15. Grantees are selected through a competitive panel process. Detailed information about the 2020 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, Transmission Art Archive, WGXC 90.7-FM, and the Media Arts Assistance Fund in partnership with NYSCA EMF. http://wavefarm.org

GRANTEES AND PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS

James Autery—Mantra
Columbia County, Completion Support
Mantra is a contemplative work documenting ten artists: Guya Fletcher, Angela and Jennifer Chun, Chris Fitzwate, Reggie Madison, Juliet Gentile, Sandra Koponen, Sheena Wells, Sita Gomez, and Philip Howe. The film portrays the meditative state many artists experience while making art. Shot entirely in slow motion and black and white, Mantra is accompanied with a score by Australian composer Austin Buckett. MAAF funding will support sound engineering and post-production editing of this experimental documentary.

Bob Bellerue—Radioactive Desire
Completion Support, Queens County
Radioactive Desire is a multi-dimensional sound work by Bob Bellerue, for chamber instruments, pipe organ, percussion, electronics, and homemade speaker objects. Working with skilled musicians in a guided improvisation, sound from their instruments is fed into Bob's feedback systems and amplified via resonant metal objects that have speaker drivers attached to them. These speaker instruments are used to make rich reverberant feedback, and can also be used to amplify the sounds of the instruments. Percussion played with bows and rolling spheres creates textures and rhythms and modulates the feedback, and the entire acoustic space is harnessed for its particular idiomatic sound. MAAF funds will support the completion of Radioactive Desire as a live public presentation, a recording, and 2xLP album.

Caitlin Berrigan—Imaginary Explosions, Episode 3
Completion Support, Kings County
Contemporary science blurs with art and fiction in Imaginary Explosions as queer-feminist scientists interpret volcanic activities across place and time, cooperating with the desires of the mineral earth to simultaneously erupt all volcanoes. Artists and scholars whose real-life work pushes the limits of science and culture depict fictionalized versions of themselves in this video work and collaborate on the narratives. Improvised from scientific research and visits to active volcanoes, Imaginary Explosions is speculative fiction that explores possible presents and futures to think beyond the framework of the human. The video takes place at an Icelandic geothermal energy plant where heat from volcanic vents is transformed into electricity. It is the site of an experiment in carbon dioxide capture, where the CO2 gas is liquefied, injected into volcanic basalt in the earth, and remineralized into calcite. Ethics of disturbance, contamination, and geoengineering are explored. MAAF funding will support 3D modeling and animation, sound design, and color grading.

Mariangela Ciccarello—Calypso
Completion Support, Kings County
Calypso iis a medium length experimental narrative film that explores intersections between female desire and a patriarchal classical legacy. Two young women traverse Naples during the course of a day: Angela intends to leave the city of her birth, Paola plans to stay. Both are theater actresses, preparing a production of The Odyssey. Rehearsing and discussing their roles releases them into a parallel world where dream and desire intertwine, pushing the two friends to free themselves from society’s masks on and off the stage. MAAF funding will support the film’s post-production.

Mike Crane—Futures
Completion Support, Kings County
Futures is an experimental short fiction film outlining the psychological profile of an arson investigation, narrated by Constance DeJong. Recorded in the Needle Trades Auditorium, located in Manhattan's Garment District, a remotely operated camera performs a forensic scan of the space and the two WPA murals that line the walls. MAAF funding will support the necessary tools for completion and distribution, including 5.1 surround sound mix, color grading, and DCP authoring.

Michael Gitlin—The Night Visitors
Completion Support, Dutchess County
The Night Visitors is a 60-minute experimental documentary that explores some aesthetic, theoretical and social questions about moths. While the film examines moths as organisms, with fascinating life histories, staggering biodiversity, and a functional importance as indicators of climate change and habitat degradation, its approach is not primarily entomological. Rather, the film is drawn to moths as aesthetic beings and as carriers of meaning. The Night Visitors proposes a kind of radical interspecies engagement that asks us to find a way into the inner life of these other creatures, whose way of being is so incommensurably different from our own. MAAF funding will support color correction and a 5.1 sound mix.

Nicolas Jenkins—Inverse/ The Future is Often A Step Behind
Distribution Support, New York County
Inverse/ The Future is Often A Step Behind is a multi-part experimental documentary project that weaves together the lives of a diverse group of people who celebrate difference by challenging the mainstream assimilation of LGBTQIA+ identity. Experimental in approach, the project takes form as a three-part immersive video installation that vividly combines stories, interviews, and portraits. Inverse foregrounds fluidity and change; both of gender and sexuality and our understandings around them. MAAF funding will support Jenkins touring exhibition of this new work in New York and beyond.

Emily Lobsenz—The Clock
Distribution Support, New York County
The Clock is a futurist short film that opens in 2040 when Earth’s become a feminist utopia. Dr. Octavia shows Mel how to use the Abortion App on her Clock. This biometric device, invented by Octavia gives women precise control over their reproductive system. When Mel pries into the history of the Clock's invention, she tears open the dark secrets of Octavia’s tragic sacrifices in sparking this new world order. The Clock explores reproductive justice, ecological order, and the moral quandaries of technological innovation amidst sisterhood’s bonds as it dances between apocalyptic and playful. It is a standalone film, but is also the basis for a dramatic TV series that was inspired by Lobsenz's experiences as a female athlete, her conversations with an abortion provider from China and feminist titans of futurist literature Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin. The short will tour film festivals starting in 2020 then continue screening in community-based events and through online distribution supported by MAAF.

Michael McCanne, in collaboration with Jamie Weiss—A Minor Figure
Completion Support, Kings County
A Minor Figure is a short film that recreates the story of a left-wing Japanese radical arrested in New Jersey in 1988 with homemade time bombs. Mixing elements of documentary and noir, the film follows the protagonist as he drifts through the United States, confronted by the complex banality of the country he is supposed to hate and the memories of a revolution that never materialized. The film tells this story through audio fragments, shots of roadside Americana, and pieces of evidence, taken from the real arrest, and examines how those who try to shape the flow of history are so often lost to its currents. MAAF funding will support the film’s sound design, 5.1 mix, and voice-over recording as well as the preparation of a cinema package for festival submissions.

Idrissou Mora-Kpai—America Street
Distribution Support, Tompkins County
What makes a neighborhood feel like home? And what happens to that feeling when the neighborhood is threatened by gentrification and horrific violence by outsiders? Idrissou Mora-Kpai explores these questions through a focus on the predominantly African-American neighborhood of East Side in Charleston, South Carolina. Mora-Kpai gives particular attention to the efforts of corner-store owner, Joe Watson, and his allies to maintain a strong sense of solidarity in the face of poverty, looming displacement, and resurgent racist aggression. The film includes footage shot over three months in 2015, with which Mora-Kpai not only illuminates the demanding daily work of community building but also provides an intimate perspective on two killings that brought national attention to the city at that time. Joe Watson’s store is located on America Street, an apt name for a place long shaped by developments of vital significance well beyond the immediate focus of this film. MAAF funding will support the release and distribution of the film through digital promotion and screenings throughout New York State and beyond.

Britt Moseley—Buena Vista
Completion Support, Queens County
Buena Vista is a cinematic live feed video performance shown in theatrical settings and gallery installations. Onstage, video equipment is used to study the interiors of fish tanks and buckets that house miniature dioramas created out of everyday materials such as soap, Pepto-Bismol, oils, and ketchup. The narrative of the show is the creation myth of a planet and a journey through that new place. Alongside these galactic visuals, a live electronic score is composed and performed by Sean Petell. MAAF funding will enable the completion of the Buena Vista into a full-length work that will be exhibited in full or in partial segments in both theatrical venues and art galleries.

Robert Nideffer—12 Years in Azeroth
Distribution Support, Rensselaer County
12 Years in Azeroth: A Case Study is a web-based book/3D action adventure game scheduled to be released pseudonymously and episodically. It's written from the point of view of an anthropologist conducting an ethnographic analysis of the text's central character, who's spent more than a decade immersed in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, and who unlike many of those around him has great difficulty drawing boundaries between his physically and computationally mediated realities. It's primarily played from the protagonist's point of view, since he's the one responsible for authoring the companion game component. The project explores such topics as community, mediation, race, class, gender, identity, relationships, work, play, life, and death, and spans several disciplinary genres including sociology, anthropology, game studies, and new media arts. The project’s first public release is planned for the Whitney Museum's Artport in late 2020/early 2021. MAAF funding will support the technical expenses related to hosting this computationally demanding web-based project running in real-time.

Stephanie Rothenberg—Aphrodisiac in the Machine
Completion Support, Erie County
Aphrodisiac in the Machine is a multimedia installation that explores the queering and eroticization of biopolitical power in the quest to bioengineer non-human life for human survival. The project takes the form of an environmental sci-fi narrative about a futuristic aquaculture farm. Merging fact and fiction, the story centers around the bioengineering of a new species of cyborg oysters that are able to convert toxic water into an aphrodisiac fluid that is piped into municipal water sources. Playing on the libidinous myth of the oyster, a hermaphroditic organism, the project explores aphrodisia as a more sentient state of being and empowerment that moves beyond mere sexual connotations. It questions the contradictions within new technological models of bio/geo environmental engineering that can often adversely affect nonhuman life and how creating more sentient and perceptible “humans” might be another path to consider. MAAF funding will support 3D modeling/animation and special effects for videos, as well as design, fabrication, and programming assistance of installation components.

Woody Sullender—Four Movements
Completion Support, Queens County
Four Movements is a music "album" authored in the video game software Unreal Engine. As the music album historically shifted from a "record" of an event to an idealized construction of an artificial space, Four Movements expands this notion into multiple explorable, listening spaces constructed in game worlds. MAAF funding will support optimizing the work as a cross-platform application, as well as audio mastering.

Jingjing Tian—'Til Death Do Us Part renamed as Meatloaf
Completion Support, New York County
Set in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City, Mary Anne is a senior citizen whose husband passes away. The landlord sells the building and she has to move out. Alone and unable to cope with her husband's death and rising economic concerns, she lives in denial, believing that he's still alive until a version of her younger self helps her to face reality. MAAF funding will support the final post-production activities necessary for completion.

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.

Sights and sounds for these strange times.

View this email in your browser Over the past few weeks Wave Farm Radio: WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears has been busier than ever. Radio is a collective space where we can continue to share and congregate. In the WGXC Newsroom and airing frequently on 90.7-FM and wgxc.org/listen you'll find a daily Catskills and Hudson Valley Coronavirus report from Lissa Harris of The River and Roger Hannigan Gilson of The Other Hudson Valley, read by WGXC's Tom Roe.  This month we are really pleased to give voice to two major festivals that typically take place in April. Tune into WGXC on Saturday April 4, at 8 p.m. for a durational broadcast created by Bob Bellerue, that celebrates the artists originally scheduled for the 2020 edition of Ende Tymes XI: A Festival of Noise and Liberation. Then later this month, on April 25, tune in for a rebroadcast of Basilica Hudson's inaugural 24-HOUR DRONE event organized by Sarah Van Buren. Other interesting and recommended listening includes radio aporee's Sounds of the Pandemic and the uplifting project Unity-Gain organized by Mendi + Keith Obadike. With all our studios closed, we've amped up efforts to get programmers on-air from home studios, and are so moved and encouraged by the energy and enthusiasm here, that we are sharing a glimpse into the wonderful and dedicated programmers that are keeping your radio sounds humming. This is what creative community looks like! WGXC Programmers in their Home Studios! 105 volunteer programmers create programming on  Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM. Shows Pictured (left to right): Bound By Books, There There w/ Snackpoint Charlie, Li Le, Li Tan, Radius Sketchpad, The Morning Sampler, One Size Fits All, A Myriad of Musings and Music, The Magic Stranger Show (top), Tim Light, WGXC’s Community Calendar Voice (bottom), Foraging Ahead, The Better Weather (top), Bells, Bugs, Whispers & Plinks (bottom), Thingularity, Rancho Thatchmo, A Myriad of Musings and Music, The Irish Show, The Bedazzled Radio Hour, Bells, Bugs, Whispers & Plinks, Rock and Roll High School, Here To Go, WGXC Afternoon Show Mondays, There's a Bright Side Somewhere, arts, etc., Battlefield Earth, DISCO 3000, Tracking The Odds, Radio Concrète, Jeff-M Radio, Music for the Masses (top), Poet Ray'd Yo (bottom), WGXC Morning Show Mondays, Everything All the Time (top) Radio Wonderland (bottom), Everything Is Real Radio and Nothing Is Real Radio Hour, Nothing to See Here, WGXC Afternoon Show Tuesday. Tune in Wave Farm Radio: WGXC 90.7-FM  for these special broadcasts Audio Buffet: Ende Tymes XI Apr 04, 2020: 8pm - Apr 05, 2020: 2am This durational broadcast, created by Bob Bellerue, celebrates the artists originally scheduled for the 2020 edition of Ende Tymes XI: A Festival of Noise and Liberation. More information about this broadcast will be available soon. For a sneak peak of the artists to be featured, and to find the most current information about a new date for the festival visit https://halfnormal.com/endetymes/. Audio Buffet: May the Drone Go On Apr 25, 2020 12 p.m. - Apr 26, 2020 12 p.m. Wave Farm Radio in collaboration with Basilica Hudson presents this rebroadcast of the inaugural 24-HOUR DRONE. Due to COVID-19, the 2020 24-HOUR DRONE IRL event has been postponed till April 2021; however, in honor of Basilica's 10 year anniversary season, for our spirits and in the spirit of creating music without borders, Wave Farm Radio is pleased to broadcast and stream the inaugural 24-HOUR DRONE (2015) in its entirety on the date this year's festival would have taken place. Tune into Wave Farm Radio: WGXC 90.7-FM in New York's Upper Hudson Vally or online at wavefarm.org/listen. Writes Basilica's Melissa Auf der Maur, "Our beloved community radio station have been program partners since the beginning, and we are grateful to be aligned during this time of considerable unknowns for our communities." More about 24-HOUR DRONE at https://basilicahudson.org/24-hour-drone-experiments-in-sound-and-music/ Recommended Listening  Soundscapes in the Pandemic https://aporee.org/maps/projects/corona Unity-Gain is a collaborative sound art project led by artist-musicians Mendi + Keith Obadike. The project collects sounds from artists and musicians and makes them available to other artists-contributors for creative use for Unity-Gain projects. We hope the sounds will be used for sound art, music, radio works, and media art projects. We only ask that you make the make the projects freely available, give us notice (Contribute@unity-gain.net) and credit the source artists and Unity-Gain. All derived projects are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) https://unity-gain.net/sounds 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! MAKE A ONE-TIME GIFT Listen to WGXC 90.7-FM Online 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 the Greene County Council on the Arts; 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 © 2020 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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Fiscal Sponsorship. Jeff Thompson's "Every Radio Station." WGXC live from Catskill. New in the Study Center.

View this email in your browser Fiscal Sponsorship for Artists and Orgs Jeff Thompson's "Every Radio Station" Tune into WGXC live from five Catskill locations  New in the Study Center Library Wave Farm Fiscal Sponsorship Program Wave Farm provides fiscal sponsorship to artists and organizations on a case-by-case basis for projects that are aligned with Wave Farm's organizational mission. Inquiries should be directed to info@wavefarm.org well in advance of any related grant deadline. Fiscally Sponsored Organizations (2020) Wave Farm is to pleased fiscally sponsor Montez Press Arts who provides access to services: tools, technology, and means of distribution to artists working with spoken, written, and affective language in different mediums and forms of transmission. Montez Press Arts grants artists permission to define their own creative context, interrupt commercial means of communication and redefine frameworks. Montez Press Radio gives artists the opportunity to experiment in radio broadcasting and play in the boundaries of conversation, performance, installation, and sound by offering airtime, recording technologies, live performance space, and documentation. Montez Press Radio is a platform where different enclaves of the art world interact with each other and investigate the many facets of radio and sonic space. Fiscally Sponsored Artist Projects (2020 to-date) Wave Farm is pleased to sponsor the following projects who have received 2020 funding from the New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Program. David Goren is a radio producer, and audio archivist whose work often blurs the line between documentary and sound art. Goren’s Greyhound Diaries podcast will explore the stories of people who travel by Greyhound bus, many of whom live on the fringes of American life. Paulus Van Horne is a radio maker and noise researcher. Their practice-led research into noise investigates the various systems of power which color our perception of sound. Van Horne’s Queer City Noise is a four-part experimental podcast series. Each episode will take a new audio form: an audio drama, a musical feature, a sound poem, and a piece of narrative journalism respectively. NYSCA's 2020 Individual Artist Application (Read the Guidelines) is March 12. If you would like to discuss Wave Farm Fiscal Sponsorship, please write to info@wavefarm.org no later than February 10, 2020. Jeff Thompson's Every Radio Station installed at Wave Farm Jeff Thompson's Every Radio Station is a sculptural sound installation composed of 95 hand-made radios, one for every station in the FM band. Each radio is equipped with a speaker, letting viewers experience the entire spectrum at once, walk along it, or come in close to hear an individual station. For each geographical location the piece is installed, a totally different sonic experience results, informed by the number, strength, and kind of stations broadcasting in that area. As the terrestrial radio spectrum increasingly gives way to streaming services, Every Radio Station will reflect these changes. The idea of “everything of something” is a recurring and significant thread in Thompson’s work. By presenting every element from a set at once, the result is a sublime whole that is more than the sum of its parts. In Every Radio Station the static of non-broadcasting frequencies, hyper-compression of Top-40 stations, and presence or absence of public and community radio collectively serves as a portrait of both the FM and physical landscapes of the installation’s site-specific location. Wave Farm Property Installations sonify and activate the 29-acre property. Installations are standalone works of art as well as interactive instrumentation for visiting artists, and include: Jeff Thompson's Every Radio Station Brian Dewan's WGXC Filmstrip Quintron's Weather Warlock Zach Poff's Pond Station Soundcamp's Test Site of Acoustic Commons 1 Max Goldfarb's Mobile 49 Patrick Quinn's SURVANT USB Dead Drop Japanther's Remote Audio Outpost Heidi Neilson and Harry Dove-Robinson's Here GOES Radiotelescope Ian Vanek and Jen Kutler's Boomerang Tune in to WGXC live from Catskill, NY   With the Wave Farm Transmit Partner Program flourishing, WGXC is now broadcasting live regular content from dozens of locations inside the 90.7-FM coverage area (see coverage map below). For example, tune in for these live programs originating from five different locations in the Village of Catskill: Tom Roe hosts the WGXC Morning Show, every Tuesday, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at HiLo Catskill. The morning show features local news, interviews with community leaders and personalities, reports on cultural issues, a rundown of public meetings and local and regional events, with weather updates, and more. On the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, Cory McCasland follows the morning show live from HiLo with “The Forgotten Geek,” a fun- and fact-filled hour of entertainment news and reviews, special features, and a music mix of lesser-played and/or misremembered songs.  On Wednesday, Spike Priggen hosts “The Bedazzled Radio Hour,” at Spike’s Record Rack, beginning after the noon news until 2 p.m. Priggen plays pop, rock, soul, blues, country, reggae and other obscurities. “Thingularity” is broadcast live from the Catskill Maker space on West Bridge Street from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., on the first Thursday of the month. The show is produced by the Catskill Maker Syndicate and covers a variety of topics including science, technology, fixing, making, hacking, and breaking. “Clubhouse Radio” gives listeners a weekly dose of music appreciation, wordsmithing, and community journalism filtered through the minds and voices of the Youth Clubhouses of Columbia-Greene, during a live broadcast from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., every Friday, at their clubhouse space. WGXC Live features live performances at various local and international venues, including The Avalon Lounge, every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, beginning at 8 p.m. A list of recent performances broadcast on WGXC includes Bobby Previte, Ciarra Fragale, Dante Bardo, The Disappointer Sisters, Wesley Harper, and Marlon Battad. Listen to WGXC 90.7-FM Online New to the Study Center Book Library! The Wave Farm Study Center provides reference materials to artists, curators, students, and educators researching contemporary and historical practices in media, radio, sound, and visual arts with respect to the topic of transmission and reception. Wave Farm's Research Library is a growing collection of reference materials, which includes books, journals, articles, manuals, and files specific to transmission arts, radio, video, performance, sound, media theory, and contemporary art practice. Contact us to schedule a research visit. CYBER FOLK Digbee's Electronic Chronicle 144 pages on 70lb paper Screen-printed front and back cover Painted fore-edge Hand-stamped and stickered spine and inside covers Flexi-disc insert Design and Illustration by Michael Olivo Photography by Jason Rusnock Edition of 125 We Are in Open Circuits Writings by Nam June Paik By Nam June Paik Edited by John G. Hanhardt, Gregory Zinman and Edith Decker-Phillips Essays, project plans, and correspondence from across Nam Jun Paik's career, much of it previously out of print or unpublished. The Sonic Color Line Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening by Jennifer Lynn Stoever Published by NYU Press in the Postmillennial Pop Series. The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Sound Art Sound as a Medium of Art Edited by Peter Weibel Essays and images that map art's new sonic cosmos, illustrated in color throughout. This book, companion volume to a massive exhibition at ZKM | Karlsruhe, goes beyond these established disciplinary divides to chart the evolution and the full potential of sound as a medium of art.  PDF Available (free): Radio Revolten. 30 Days of Radio Art   The festival Radio Revolten 2016 and the book “30 Days of Radio Art” reclaim FM radio as an open-access medium for cultural use. “30 Days of Radio Art” covers the presented artworks and daily events of Radio Revolten alongside contemporary thinking by radio activists and artists on the current and future use of their material and medium of choice. It is written in English and features specially commissioned photographs. Click here for PDF and more information. Your charitable contributions make a world of difference. 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! 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 the Greene County Council on the Arts; 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 © 2020 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

José Maceda’s Ugnayan restaged by Aki Onda, at New Ear 2020. Current Track listings on new App update. Apply for new media artwork funding via MAAF.

View this email in your browser José Maceda’s Ugnayan restaged by Aki Onda MAAF Support for Artists: Deadline Jan 15. Wave Farm Radio App Updated New Ear Festival 2020 at Fridman Gallery and on Wave Farm Radio Jan. 6-12. José Maceda’s Ugnayan, restaged by Aki Onda at New Ear Festival 2020 Turn out: January 6-12, 2020, 2-5 p.m. and before performances Fridman Gallery 169 Bowery, New York, NY 10002.  José Maceda’s Ugnayan was an expansive audience participatory work for radio to be broadcast at 6 p.m. on New Year’s Day, 1974. Arguably the most ambitious, provocative, and controversial work in his repertoire, the 51-minute-long piece consisted of twenty separate tracks, each to be played on a different public radio frequency simultaneously, producing a musical atmosphere at the scale of the city. All thirty-seven radio stations in the metropolitan Manila area turned over their channel for Maceda’s sound diffusion, with some tracks playing from multiple stations. Millions of listeners tuned in. Manila’s parks, plazas, and street corners were converted into what the composer called “Ugnayan Centers”—142 locations in all. In one of the biggest, 15,000 people congregated, their personal radios creating a stunningly knotted mass of sounds. Aki Onda will restage this piece at the front of the gallery space from 2-5 p.m. daily during the New Ear Festival at Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery NYC, January 6-12, 2020. In addition to the 20 transmitters and 20 radios installed at the gallery, visitors are encouraged to bring their own FM transistor radios and contribute to the installation by tuning in the transmitting frequencies. Curated by Aki Onda. Presented by Fridman Gallery, in collaboration with Wave Farm. Made possible by the UP Center for Ethnomusicology. Funding for New York State Media Artists up to $5,000 to complete a new work in 2020 up to $10,000 to bring a 2019 work to public audiences NYSCA Electronic Media & Film in Partnership with Wave Farm Application Deadline: January 15, 2020 For individual artists, the Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) provides support for the completion, distribution and exhibition 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.     Completion Support Funds are available to assist artists in the final stages of completing new work in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. In addition to a detailed work plan, the successful applicant will demonstrate how this support will lead to future distribution and exhibition for public audiences. Funding Available: up to $5,000 Application Deadline: January 15, 11:59 p.m. EST Notification Date: March Period of Support: 9 months (March - November) Final Report Deadline: December 31   Distribution / Exhibition Support The goal of MAAF Distribution / Exhibition Support is to ensure completed works are experienced by public audiences. Funds are available for projects, finished during the most recent calendar year, that demonstrate a practical distribution plan, appropriate to the completed work and the intended public context. The successful applicant will submit a detailed distribution strategy and plan, as well as identify intended exhibition venue(s), and audience(s). Funding Available: up to $10,000 Application Deadline: January 15, 11:59 p.m. EST Notification Date: March Period of Support: 12 Months (March - February) Final Report Deadline: April 30   Apply to MAAF for Artists The New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media & Film Program and Wave Farm Regrant Partnership Report 2009-2018 Support to New York State Media Arts Organizations and Media Artists In 2008, NYSCA Electronic Media & Film invited Wave Farm, known then as free103point9, to become the its newest Regrant Partner, ten years later, the EMF & Wave Farm Regrant Partnership is now the multi-faceted Media Arts Assistance Fund, which serves both contemporary and established artists and organizations. Reflecting on the last decade and looking ahead to the next, leads us to this Report. The year 2020 offers an irresistible moment to exercise vision. This EMF Regrant Partnership Report 2009-2018 is a statistical survey of MAAF funding activity, through small grants, over the past decade.  Wave Farm Radio App Updated! Listen live; explore the archives; transmit your own audio. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wave-farm-radio/id1284966744?ls=1&mt=8 The Wave Farm Radio app allows users to listen to live audio from any of the Wave Farm webstreams including WGXC 90.7-FM, Quintron's "Weather Warlock," Zach Poff's "Pond Station," and over Wave Farm Partner Streams. Users may also create custom playlists from thousands of archived audio files. New in this update, is current WGXC track information as well as our expanded Wave Farm Transmit Partner program. Wave Farm Transmit Partners This is a growing list of institutional Wave Farm Transmit Partners who use the Wave Farm Radio app to transmit their own programming. Individuals are partners as well, but not listed here by name. Contact info@wavefarm.org to learn more. Art Omi (Ghent, NY) American Society of Acoustic Ecology (U.S.A) The Avalon Lounge (Catskill, NY) Basilica Hudson (Hudson, NY) City of Hudson (Hudson, NY) Center for Cognition, Communication, and Culture (Troy, NY) Epsilon Spires (Brattleboro, VT) Experimental Intermedia (New York, NY) EyeVee Arts (Ithaca NY) Fence (Albany, NY) Food New York (New York, NY) Fridman Gallery (New York, NY) Greene County Council on the Arts (aka CREATE) (Catskill, NY) HiLo (Catskill, NY) The Home School (Hudson, NY) International Computer Music Conference (New York, NY) Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY) John Cage Trust (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY) Montez Press (New York, NY) Olana State Historic Site (Hudson, NY) Performa (New York, NY) Prattsville Art Center (Prattsville, NY) Radius (Chicago, IL) Reveil (London, UK) Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn, NY) Spotty Dog Books & Ale (Hudson, NY) Town of Catksill (Catskill, NY) Tufts University Art Galleries and Tufts SMFA (Boston, MA) Get the Wave Farm Radio App (iOs) Tune in or turn out New Ear Festival 2020 January 6 - 12, 2020  Wave Farm Transmit Partner Stream: Live from Fridman Gallery Fridman Gallery 169 Bowery, New York, NY 10002.  Wave Farm Radio Transmit Partner Program is please to present a live stream of New Ear Festival 2020. The annual New Ear Festival fulfills one of Fridman Gallery's core missions—to help restore creative, experimental spirit on the ground floor level of downtown Manhattan. The festival showcases time-based, not overtly commercial performance art in all its forms—from sound installations and video screenings to storytelling and physical movement. Each evening will be live-streamed via Wave Farm Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM.   Monday, January 6 8 p.m. CT:: SWaM ExChange Ginny Benson Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste Dani Dobkin Bernd Klug and a very special guest >->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> Tuesday, January 7 8 p.m. Adelaide Damoah Into the Mind of the Colonizer 9 p.m. Theo Darst and Kevin Carey Collected Sessions 10 p.m. Victoria Keddie We'll Melt Away Before We Land Live Broadcast Performance : Copenhagen/ New York City >->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> Wednesday, January 8 An evening curated by Dario Calmese Dario Calmese presents "Gabriel," an experiential extension of the artist’s ongoing project "The Art of Black Men Loving Black Men." Invoking Marlon Riggs’ proclaimation that “Black men loving Black Men is the revolutionary act,” Gabriel fuses black and queer ideologies with the Abrahimic archangel’s proclamations of creation (Islam), political turmoil (Judaism), and salvation (Christianity). Headlined by Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter of The Roots, the evening also features artist Zachary Tye Richardson, South African singer Vuyo Sotashe, violin duo Onyx Violins, and Episcopalian Brother, Paul Daniels II. >->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> Thursday, January 9 8 p.m. Sa’dia Rehman The story of the tracings of all the persons before us and after them 9 p.m. Model Home Performance 10 p.m. Brandon Lopez and TAK Ensemble Commission premier >->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> Friday, January 10 8 p.m. The Dream Mapping Project Estecada, Oregon 9 p.m. Allard van Hoorn 10 p.m. Susie Ibarra and DreamTime Ensemble Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms >->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> Saturday, January 11 8 p.m. Sophia Petredes BREATHING WITH THE ROOM 9 p.m. William Hooker Symphonie Excerpts 3 10 p.m. Joanna Mattrey veiled >->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> Sunday, January 12 8 p.m. Muyassar Kurdi/MV Carbon 16mm films 9 p.m. Speaker Music (DeForrest Brown, Jr.) + Ting Ding Her Velocity; like a foreign (after)image, renders her opaque 10 p.m. SHYBOI DJ set Fridman Gallery is happy to offer a $5 discount to students. Use the code NEWEARSTUDENT at the check-out. ​ More about New Ear Festival 2020 Your charitable contributions make a world of difference. 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! 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 the Greene County Council on the Arts; 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 © 2020 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Calling all New York State Artists, the Media Arts Assistance Fund deadline is approaching. Camphill is on WGXC, as is a new Radia episode + more.

View this email in your browser MAAF Support for Artists: Deadline Jan 15. New shows on Wave Farm Radio + WGXC 90.7-FM: Live by Life from Camphill Hudson Subaudible Phonography from Christopher DeLaurenti An appeal for your year-end support Funding for New York State Media Artists up to $5,000 to complete a new work in 2020 up to $10,000 to bring a 2019 work to public audiences NYSCA Electronic Media & Film in Partnership with Wave Farm Application Deadline: January 15, 2020 For individual artists, the Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) provides support for the completion, distribution and exhibition 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.     Completion Support Funds are available to assist artists in the final stages of completing new work in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. In addition to a detailed work plan, the successful applicant will demonstrate how this support will lead to future distribution and exhibition for public audiences. Funding Available: up to $5,000 Application Deadline: January 15, 11:59 p.m. EST Notification Date: March Period of Support: 9 months (March - November) Final Report Deadline: December 31   Distribution / Exhibition Support The goal of MAAF Distribution / Exhibition Support is to ensure completed works are experienced by public audiences. Funds are available for projects, finished during the most recent calendar year, that demonstrate a practical distribution plan, appropriate to the completed work and the intended public context. The successful applicant will submit a detailed distribution strategy and plan, as well as identify intended exhibition venue(s), and audience(s). Funding Available: up to $10,000 Application Deadline: January 15, 11:59 p.m. EST Notification Date: March Period of Support: 12 Months (March - February) Final Report Deadline: April 30 LEARN MORE + Wave Farm Radio New on the WGXC Program Schedule!  Live By Life: Local interviews from the Camphill Media Group. Produced by the Camphill Media Group. Airs the first Monday of the month at 6:15 p.m. during "All Together Now!" and the following Tuesday at 7:45 a.m., and the following Wednesday at 5:15 a.m. Members of the Camphill Media Group from Camphill Hudson make their own radio. LISTEN Radia: Subaudible Phonography from the Archives of Christopher DeLaurenti Tune in: Thursday December 26, 3:30 p.m. on Wave Farm Radio: WGXC and  December 23 - 29 on stations around the world through the Radia Network  Writes DeLaurenti, "Phonography has been sometimes been defined as “creative field recording,” taking and placing microphones out into the world in unusual ways and unexpected places. In this program phonographer Christopher DeLaurenti presents several specimens of subaudible phonography - field recordings from outside the realm of human hearing. This program features four examples. “Below the written pitches of Brian Ferneyhough’s ‘Superscriptio’ for solo piccolo” spectrally extracts sound beneath the written pitches of Brian Ferneyhough’s “Superscriptio” to reveal recording anomalies, latent undertones, and mechanical noises. It’s akin to hearing the piece through a hydrophone. In “Silences normalized from the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen (part 1)” I amplified room tone to reveal the inner workings of an organ and its environment, including residual tones, traffic, stray speech, and tiny electrical anomalies. The third example is an odd specimen of radio transmission—a rarity for its length and depth of activity: “Open Carrier, Citywide One Manhattan.” In the United States, an “open carrier” is police parlance for a radio that has been inadvertently left on in Talk/Transmit mode. An open carrier stalls and paralyses broadcast traffic, leaving so-called “dead air” to reveal sudden gaps, smudges of hiss, gently swaying drones, beeping alerts, fragmented words, quick phrases, recessed conversations, and other unexpected artifacts. It’s like butt-dialing everyone who is listening to the radio. I recorded this example by accident in 2004 during the protest against then-president George W. Bush and the Republican National Convention in New York. The final example is an excerpt from “of silences intemporally sung: Luigi Nono’s Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima.” Here, I have inverted Nono’s only string quartet by muting the audible passages played by a string quartet. Then I elevated room tone, discreet ambiance, and other assumed silences above the threshold of audibility. You will hear on-the-fly tunings, annunciatory gasps, hurried breaths, sul ponticello bowings, and creaking chairs; these eruptions and outcries fuse with flickers of ambient sound. You might also hear artifacts of the recording process, especially digital glitches and artificial echo. Visit delaurenti.net for more about Christopher DeLaurenti and subaudible phonography." LISTEN WGXC Holiday Programming   The Sugar Shack Jukebox: Rockin' Ray Palmer Dec 13, 2019: 12pm - 2pm WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears Hosted by Jared Widjeskog. Rockin' Ray Palmer is back for the 19th time, just in time for the holidays. Ray and Jared will take requests during the show at (518) 828-0290.   WGXC Live: The Shepherd’s Play Dec 20, 2019: 7pm - 8pm First Presbyterian Church 369 Warren St | Hudson, NY 12534 For hundreds of years ordinary folk in the small Austrian village of Oberufer on the Danube River gathered in the local tavern at Christmas time to perform this play for their neighbors. Camphill Hudson presents its rendition of The Shepherd’s Play. Performances are on Friday, December 20 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, December 21 at 4 p.m. There will be a live webstream at wavefarm.org/listen as the show may last past 8 p.m. on Dec. 20.   Guest DJ: Little Magician Annual Holiday Show Dec 20, 2019: 8pm - 10pm WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears 90.7-FM and wgxc.org Snowin' and blowin' up bushels of vintage Christmas kitsch! Join the Little Magician and his Christmas Sisters as they present their 7th Annual Holiday Hootenanny! Broadcast live from the WGXC Hudson Studio.   Christmas Eve tune in to NORAD reports of Santa's progress around the world at the top of the hour all day. Your year-end charitable contributions will make a world of difference. 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. MAKE A ONE-TIME GIFT BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER! 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 the Greene County Council on the Arts; 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 © 2019 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Tune in for Tongue & Cheek's Valve Lash and DISCO 3000. Wave Farm at Yale. Listen to Test Site Acoustic Commons 1. Pledge Drive goal (almost) reached!

View this email in your browser Wave Farm Lectures @ Yale Monday Soundcamp's Test Site of Acoustic Commons 1 New on WGXC-FM today and Wednesday night! Fall Pledge Drive thank yous! Save the Date: MAAF Grants for Artists. Turn out or Tune in: Radio Out of Bounds: Artist Experiments with the Electromagnetic Spectrum Nov 11, 2019: 5pm- 6pm Whitney Humanities Center 53 Wall Street, Room 208 | New Haven, CT 06520-8298 https://whc.yale.edu/ Wave Farm 's Galen Joseph-Hunter and Tom Roe will present “Radio Out of Bounds: Artist Experiments with the Electromagnetic Spectrum” as part of Yale's Franke Lectures in the Humanities, in conjunction with a Yale College seminar taught by Brian Kane. The event will be streamed live on Wave Farm Radio at wavefarm.org/listen. The Franke Lectures are made possible by the generosity of Richard and Barbara Franke, and are intended to present important topics in the Humanities to a wide and general audience. Test Site of Acoustic Commons 1 By Soundcamp. Newly installed at Wave Farm   Listen Live TSAC 1 is a listening point linked to an online network of open microphones. A stream box on the edge of woodland at Wave Farm sends a live feed to a server at Locus Sonus in Aix-Marseille, from where it is publicly accessible on a real-time soundmap. By placing such sites in the public domain, TSAC makes local sounds available to listeners for whatever purposes. This can be a way to pay attention to under-recognized places, to study their changing soundscapes through days, seasons and long durations, and to tune between local and planetary scales. The listening point uses omnidirectional microphones which are open to the full range of sounds reaching the streambox. This could include stridulations of insects, wind in different kinds of foliage, birds, planes, passers-by, flows of traffic on Route 23. As well as being free to listen to online at any time, the site at Wave Farm is open to the public for International Dawn Chorus Day on the first weekend of May each year, and at other times by arrangement. The Acoustic Commons is imagined as a set of places and practices that contribute to an emerging sense of environmental sounds as shared natural and cultural resources. The intersection of environmental and transmission ecologies at Wave Farm provides a home and a starting point for these exchanges. The live feed can also be a resource for other projects and improvisations. TSAC 1 is open to the public each International Dawn Chorus day and by appointment. See Wave Farm contact and locations for details. Test Site of Acoustic Commons 1 is a project of Soundcamp. Read more at soundtent.org. To join the Acoustic Commons project, and for information on adding a test site to the network, please contact grant@soundtent.org. Premiere Broadcasts Around the Corner! Tune in Wave Farm Radio: WGXC 90.7-FM Tongue and Cheek: Valve Lash Tuesday, November 5, 2 - 3 p.m. Voiced and led by Tim Simonds, Aaron Lehman and Emma McCormick-Goodhart. In their live premiere on Wave Farm Radio: WGXC, Tongue and Cheek is diagnosing machines and bodies as a reaching into them. Tongue and Cheek is a radio series of proprioceptive exercises, interviews about practices of communication, and archival sound. A routine for warming up our means of communication. Presented monthly as a combination of live and prerecorded sessions.   DISCO 3000 Wednesdays 8 - 10 p.m. Premiere Broadcast: Nov. 6, 2019 Hosted and produced by Andrew O’Connor. DISCO 3000 is good music on the radio. A weekly 2-hour free form music program recorded live to air from Andrew O’Connor’s long running clandestine radio project Parkdale Pirate Radio. DISCO 3000 is beamed out live from Andrew’s home studio to a handful of listeners in his neighborhood of Parkdale in Toronto Canada, and now through a collaboration with WGXC and Wave Farm can now be streamed online every Wednesday at 8 pm. An Enormous Thank you to WGXC's 48 new Sustaining Supporters! We came in just shy of our goal of 50. Thank you to WGXC's 48 new, or increased, Sustaining Supporters that signed up during the recent two-week drive:  Alison Murphy (Hudson, NY) Anna Kovel (Brooklyn, NY) Anonymous (Brentwood, MD) Anonymous (Catskill, NY) Anonymous (Catskill, NY) Anonymous (East Chatham, NY) Anonymous (Freehold, NY) Anonymous (Hudson, NY) Anonymous (Hudson, NY) Anonymous (Kingston, NY) Anonymous (Lake Hill, NY) Anonymous (Yardley, PA) Bella Janssens (Brooklyn, NY) Beth R (Acra, NY) Brendan Donegan (Hudson, NY) Charles Hailer (Coxsackie, NY) Claire (Acra, NY) Danielle Riou (Tivoli, NY) Dave Bolevice (Philmont, NY) David Goren (Brooklyn, NY) Diane Moore (Copake, NY) Dronechoir (Hudson, NY) Edward Ruchalski (Syracuse, NY) Eric Miller (Cropseyville, NY) Erik Belgum (Shafer, MN) Heidi Neilson (Long Island City, NY) J, Johannes, Froebel-Parker (Ravena, NY) Jean M. Douglas (High Falls, NY) Joan Schuman (Watsonville, CA) John Mason (Chatham, NY) Joshua Malle (Seattle, WA) Justin Luke (Brooklyn, NY) Karen Werner (Montague, MA) Lea Bertucci (Ridgewood, NY) Marty Rosenbaum (Albany, NY) Milad H. Mozari (Murray, UT) Pat (Catskill, NY) Paul and Liz (Kinderhook, NY) Richard Goldstein (Lafayette Hill, PA) Rob Gelles (Hudson, NY) Sabisha Friedberg (New York, NY) SJ (Great Barrington, MA) Stephen Bull (Greenport, NY) Timothy Simonds (New York, NY) Tina Sharpe (Hillsdale, NY) Wayne Sheridan (Catskill, NY) Business Supporters Delmar Wellness Center (Valatie, NY) Lili and Loo (Hudson, NY) We secured 48 of 50. You can close the gap! BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER! Save the Deadline Date! MAAF for Artists 2020 Deadline is January 15.   MAAF for Artists Opportunities:   Completion Support Funds are available to assist artists in the final stages of completing new work in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. In addition to a detailed work plan, the successful applicant will demonstrate how this support will lead to future distribution and exhibition for public audiences. Funding Available: up to $5,000 Application Deadline: January 15, 11:59 p.m. EST Notification Date: March Period of Support: 9 months (March - November) Final Report Deadline: December 31   Distribution / Exhibition Support The goal of MAAF Distribution / Exhibition Support is to ensure completed works are experienced by public audiences. Funds are available for projects, finished during the most recent calendar year, that demonstrate a practical distribution plan, appropriate to the completed work and the intended public context. The successful applicant will submit a detailed distribution strategy and plan, as well as identify intended exhibition venue(s), and audience(s). Funding Available: up to $10,000 Application Deadline: January 15, 11:59 p.m. EST Notification Date: March Period of Support: 12 Months (March - February) Final Report Deadline: April 30 For individual artists, the Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) provides support for the completion, distribution and exhibition 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. MAAF is made possible through a regrant from the NYSCA Electronic Media and Film program. Applicants who have questions regarding eligibility are encouraged to contact Wave Farm at info@wavefarm.org after reading the guidelines in detail.   LEARN MORE Wave Farm thanks you for your support. 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 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.   MAKE A ONE-TIME GIFT BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER! 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 the Greene County Council on the Arts; 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 © 2019 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Grant Smith and Sam Baraitser Smith wrap up the 2019 Residency Season. Turn out to TSL in Hudson for Sound Art Revisited. New to the WGXC airwaves!

View this email in your browser Artists-in-residence:  Grant Smith and Sam Baraitser Smith Sound Art Revisited w/ Alan Licht, Oct. 11, TSL in Hudson New shows on Wave Farm Radio + WGXC 90.7-FM  MAAF Support for Organizations: Deadline TODAY Save the Date: WGXC Fall Pledge Drive Wave Farm Artists-in-Residence: Grant Smith and Sam Baraitser Smith The Acoustic Commons describes a range of work that deals with the close association between sounds and places. This includes “environmental” broadcasting, sound mapping, and the development of new “transmission ecologies” making links between very local projects in urban, rural, and peri-urban areas. It also refers to a work in progress which invites people to open places as sites for listening. While in residence, the artists will set up a new permanent live audio stream, placing environmental sounds from the Wave Farm property in the public domain, and designate it as an experimental site of of the Acoustic Commons (AC Experimental Site 01). A newly designed streambox will be installed to transmit the sounds to a live soundmap at Locus Sonus (locusonus.org/soundmap). Drawings on paper and online and a booklet (working title: (un)Manifest(o) for Acoustic Commoning) will document the project. Read more. Tune in: WGXC Afternoon Show, Saturday October 12, 2019 4-6 p.m.  Turn out or Tune in: Sound Art Revisited October 11, 2019, 7 p.m. Time & Space Limited, Hudson, NY, Free admission wavefarm.org/listen and WGXC 90.7-FM Facebook Event A TSL Book Space event, musician and artist Alan Licht visits TSL to discuss the new edition of his work Sound Art Revisited (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019). Licht will be joined in conversation by composer and sound artist Annea Lockwood, Wave Farm artist in residence Grant Smith, sound artist and educator Zach Poff, and Wave Farm executive director Galen Joseph-Hunter. This event is being broadcast live on WGXC 90.7-FM in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, and streamed live online on Wave Farm Radio. Panel and broadcast at 7 p.m. Ticketed supper at 6:15 p.m. Menu: Baked Cornbread with Roasted Fall Veggies, Black Eyed Peas, Vinegar Greens (Vegan and Gluten Free). From Bloomsbury: The first edition of Sound Art Revisited (published in 2007 as Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories) served as a groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume significantly expands the story to include current research since the book’s initial release. Viewed through a lens of music and art histories rather than philosophical theory, it covers dozens of artists and works not found in any other book on the subject. Locating sound art’s roots across the centuries from spatialized church music to the technological developments of radio, sound recording, and the telephone, the book traces the evolution of sound installations and sound sculpture, the rise of sound art exhibitions and galleries, and finally looks at the critical cross-pollination that marks some of the most important and challenging art with and about sound being produced today. ALAN LICHT is a musician and author based in New York. He has lectured widely on sound art, curated several sound art exhibitions, and served on faculty in the Music/Sound department at the Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Licht has appeared on over 100 recordings that range from indie rock to minimalist composition to free improvisation. As a solo artist, he has released eight albums of experimental guitar including Sink the Aging Process, A New York Minute, and Four Years Older. He is the editor of Will Oldham on Bonnie Prince Billy (2012), a contributing music editor at BOMB magazine, and writes frequently for Artforum and WIRE. More on Licht at alanlicht.tumblr.com/ ANNEA LOCKWOOD’s compositions range from sound art and environmental installations to concert music. Recent works include Water and Memory, for the Holon Scratch Orchestra, Tel Aviv; In Our Name, for baritone Thomas Buckner, cello and sound files, based on poems by prisoners in Guantánamo; Becoming Air, a collaboration with Nate Wooley, for solo trumpet; and Wild Energy, a collaboration with Bob Bielecki – a multi-channel. site-specific installation focused on geophysical, atmospheric, and mammalian infra and ultra sound sources, commissioned by the Caramoor Festival of the Arts. Her music has been presented in many venues and festivals, most recently MASS MoCA, Café Oto (London), and the Big Ears Festival. It has been issued on CD and online on the Gruenrekorder, Black Truffle, Lovely Music, New World, 3Leaves, XI, EM and other labels. annealockwood.com GRANT SMITH is an artist and writer working on sound, transmission, text, domestic and social projects in Loughborough Junction, South London. Smith co-founded the Soundcamp cooperative with Kirsty Collander-Brown and Maria Papadomanolaki in December 2013 soundtent.org. Soundcamp’s Reveil (2014-2019), a 24 hour broadcast of the sounds of daybreak on International Dawn Chorus Day each year presented in partnership with Wave Farm and broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM. During a residency in October 2019, Grant will collaborate with Sam Baraitser Smith to set up and sign-post a long term listening point at the Wave Farm property in Acra, Greene County, as the first Experimental Site of Acoustic Commons. soundtent.org ZACH POFF is a New York area media artist, educator, and maker-of-things. He employs unique sound techniques to explore the web of social and ecological relationships that challenge and sustain us. In 2015 he received a commission from Wave Farm to create Pond Station, a long-term acoustic ecology project that live-streams the underwater sounds of a pond. Poff’s algorithmic remixes of popular media uncover hidden subtexts lurking inside familiar forms (Radio Silence, Video Silence). He currently teaches Sound Art at Cooper Union School of Art in NYC and leads workshops on “expanded” sound recording at UnionDocs, colleges, and arts organizations. zachpoff.com 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, Transmission Art Archive, WGXC 90.7-FM, and the Media Arts Assistance Fund in partnership with NYSCA EMF. wavefarm.org Premiere Broadcasts Around the Corner! Tune in Wave Farm Radio: WGXC 90.7-FM Noise & The Megacity 3rd Tuesday of the Month, 2 - 3 p.m. Premiere Broadcast: Oct. 15, 2019 Hosted by Paulus van Horne. A dive into an archive of collected noises from 10 megacities across the globe. Interviews and ruminations will be mixed in with these sounds, in search of a better understanding of a fundamental question: "what is noise?" Bells, Bugs, Whispers & Plinks 5th Tuesday of the Month, 2 - 3 p.m. Premiere Broadcast: Oct. 29, 2019 Hosted by Stephen Bradley and Edward Ruchalski. Bells, Bugs, Whispers & Plinks radio program is inspired by a Wave Farm artist-residency that Bradley and Ruchalski were awarded in summer 2019 that focuses on composed, chance, and found sounds based on different places from around the globe. Other works we are interested in broadcast are based on concepts of serialism and ultra-rationality, acoustic ecology, aleatory and anti-rational, musique concrète, microtonal, lowercase, sound/noise, synthetic and ambient phonographic spaces. Tongue and Cheek 1st Tuesday of the Month, 2 - 3 p.m. Premiere Broadcast: Nov. 5, 2019 Voiced and led by Tim Simonds, Aaron Lehman and Emma McCormick-Goodhart. A radio series of proprioceptive exercises, interviews about practices of communication, and archival sound. A routine for warming up our means of communication. Presented monthly as a combination of live and prerecorded sessions.   Recent Additions! Tune in Wave Farm Radio: WGXC 90.7-FM Crawl Out from the Fallout: with Raven Sings the Blues 2nd Tuesday of the Month, 8 - 10 p.m. Next Broadcast: Oct. 8, 2019 Hosted by Andy French. A monthly round-up of sounds that filter through the blog Raven Sings the Blues, presented here as a two-hour block of psychedelic seep. While constantly trying to draw lines between the fringes of the past and the fringes of the present, the show explores music from all manner of independent labels, threaded together with a sense of exploration and joy in reshaping pop along the z-axis.    La Ville Inhumaine 3rd Sunday of the Month, 6 - 7 p.m. Next Broadcast: Oct. 20, 2019 Hosted by Argonaut. On this show you will hear songs and sounds from a variety of genres as well as from unclassifiable styles of music and experimentation. The show will sometimes feature live performances from near and far and periodically unpredictable guests will join to share music. Tune in to the wonderfully bleak poetry of La Ville Inhumaine. Also Noteworthy! New Morning Show Host!  We are delighted to announce a new regular host of the WGXC Morning Show on Thursdays. Once a regular participant on Wednesday afternoons, Jahnessa Mackey is now at the helm of WGXC on Thursday mornings fro 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Coming soon to the WGXC airwaves! Details will be announced in the coming days and weeks for two new shows: a new monthly radio show produced by the ninth grade class at Berkshire Country Day School; and a show featuring local interviews for radio conducted by the residents of Camphill Hudson: A Building Community with People of All Abilities. MAAF for Organizations: Final 2019 Deadline is Today, October 1, (11:59 p.m.) Conferences and Convening Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Organizational Development Professional Development Emerging Organizations Fellowship For organizations, the New York State Council on the Arts in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) provides funds to hire outside consultants to support organizational and professional development, as well as supports peer-to-peer mentoring and convening and conference attendance. 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 NYSCA Electronic Media and Film grantees, applications from multi-disciplinary organizations, which incorporate technology as an art form will be considered on a case-by-case basis. MAAF is made possible through a regrant from the NYSCA Electronic Media and Film program. Applicants who have questions regarding eligibility are encouraged to contact Wave Farm at info@wavefarm.org after reading the guidelines in detail. APPLY NOW Save the Date! or ACT NOW WGXC 90.7-FM Fall 2019 Pledge Drive Oct 17, 2019 - Oct 31, 2019 WGXC's Fall Pledge Drive will run October 17 through October 31, 2019. During this drive, we will continue to build our base of monthly sustaining donors to WGXC. Growing a community of sustaining supporters is vital to the station’s longevity. To make a recurring donation, or to make a one-time gift, visit: wgxc.org/donate or call 518-697-7400 and pledge your support of Creative Community Radio for Open Ears.   BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER! Wave Farm thanks you for your support. 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 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.   MAKE A ONE-TIME GIFT BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER! 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 the Greene County Council on the Arts; 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 © 2019 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? 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MAAF Support for Orgs: Oct. 1 . Last call for WGXC Record Fair Vendors! Wave Farm and Pioneer Works. Audio Buffet recording and more!

View this email in your browser Artists-in-residence: Hertz and Pampillonio. Wave Farm Residents and Pioneer Works Audio Buffet Recording and Bradley + Ruchalski Residency Documentation New shows on Wave Farm Radio + WGXC 90.7-FM  MAAF Support for Organizations: Deadline Oct. 1 Last call for WGXC Record Fair Vendors! Wave Farm Artist-in-Residence: Samuel Hertz and Carmelo Pampillonio Samuel Hertz and Carmelo Pampillonio’s Librations is a performance/composition using a radio communications relay, which transmits signals to the moon, that are then reflected back to Earth—a moonbounce. Librations is realized in cooperation with broadcast engineers at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) in Rosman, North Carolina. Culminating in a composition, radio broadcast, and multi-media essay, the artists’ collaboration throughout the residency period stands as an open field of negotiations between the Earth, the moon, and the sonic/energetic traces reflected between them.   Samuel Hertz and Carmelo Pampillonio are sound artists and researchers who synthesize documentary practices of geophysical and atmospheric forces with the artistic practices of composition, transmission, and installation. Approaching ways in which we can develop notions of affect and ecological entanglement, their work explores complex interactions between non/human timescales, geophysical phenomenology, and sonic materialities. Tune in: WGXC Afternoon Show, Saturday August 31, 2019 4-6 p.m.  Wave Farm Residents Join Pioneer Works at Governors Island Summer/Fall 2019 Wave Farm is delighted to partner with the Pioneer Works Residency Program, which is hosting alumni Pioneer Works residents and the residents of the Wave Farm Residency Program and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, in the inaugural Governors Island off-site program in Nolan Park 8B on the First Friday of every month, as well as Saturdays and Sundays through October. Residents will lead classes, focused on social mapmaking, found sound, astronomy, and more, that allow the public to engage firsthand with their creative practices.   Wave Farm Works in Progress Workshop with Samuel Hertz & Carmelo Pampillonio Saturday, September 7, 3-6 p.m. This workshop, led by Wave Farm residents Samuel Hertz and Carmelo Pampillonio, will expand on the duo’s transmission research and experiments with their Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) radio communications relay, which bounces and receives signals off the moon. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of their research through experiential text-scores, listening sessions with radio technologies, and hands-on activities that will prompt conversations about sensing, relating, and reflecting. Wave Farm Works in Progress Workshop with Milad Mozari Sunday, October 13, 1-4 p.m. This workshop, led by Wave Farm resident Milad Mozari, combines methods in sound recording and Particle brand development boards to survey open spaces and large structures on Governors Island. Participants will explore field recording experiments using indoor and outdoor field recording techniques, environmental data, and layers of a location. Through these experiments, we will notice patterns in the range, resolution, and reflection rate in certain built structures that will open a dialogue and allow participants to experience Governors Island on a different frequency. Both events will take place off-site at Governors Island, Nolan Park 8B, which is accessible via ferry from Manhattan and Brooklyn. Pioneer Works builds community through the arts and sciences to create an open and inspired world. To learn more about Pioneer Works at Governors Island, visit https://pioneerworks.org/series/pioneer-works-at-governors-island/. To learn more about Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, visit https://www.baxterst.org/. Audio Buffet 2019 Wave Farm's fifth Annual Audio Buffet took place earlier this month. The event was a beautiful convergence including Bbob Drake, Bobby Previte, Tyler Wood, Max Hamel, Pat Gubler, Daniel Steffey, Jen Kutler, Matt Luczak, Craig Chin, Messica Arson, Stony Mat & Tea Dust, Jimmy Garver, soundBarn, Zach Poff, Paul Feitzinger, Max Goldfarb, Jeff Economy, Les Leveque, Rodney Greenblat, Rebecca Wolff, The Magic Stranger, Cornelius Eady, Lisa Liu, Christopher Funkhouser, and Ryan Jewell among others. Tune in to a recording of the two-hour broadcast here. Photo by Will Hunt. Wave Farm Artists-in-residence Video:  Stephen Bradley and Edward Ruchalski  Stephen Bradley and Edward Ruchalski’s SpiderCricket (Sp+Cr) is a multi-phonic ecological radio installation informed by Wave Farm’s biophonic and radiophonic soundscape. The core of Sp+Cr uses a “spider web” wind-harp structure, which also functions as an antenna for low-power FM transmitters that broadcast on the property. Using DIY micro-mixers, numerous solar-powered FM radio receivers are tuned to one of the broadcast channels. Each wire’s unique length is tuned to a particular frequency that mixes with other sonic algorithms. Field recordings made during the dawn and dusk cycles are incorporated into Sp+Cr sculpture and into the final, live WGXC radio broadcast. Video edited by Nico Reh, with still images by Will Hunt. New to Wave Farm Radio: WGXC 90.7-FM + wavefarm.org/listen The Master Gardeners Hour Produced by the Master Gardener Volunteers from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties 7 p.m., 1st Tuesday (Monthly) Educational programming focused on current gardening and landscape issues with an in-studio panel of Master Gardener Volunteers who will share their expertise and stories. Thingularity Produced by the Catskill Makers Syndicate 7 p.m., 1st Thursday (Monthly) A monthly broadcast presenting tech-centered topics, their cultural and social effects (with a focus on local impact). The show includes open calls and/or web-text portals for tech questions, the exchange of ideas, and reviews from the panel, "Shark Tank"-style, but way less evil. Broadcast live from the Catskill Makers Space on W. Bridge Street in Catskill. Live from The Avalon Lounge  10 p.m., Saturday (Weekly) Live performances from The Avalon Lounge in Catskill, New York. Usually, DJs perform, often with live band performances, and other experiments. Additional information is available at theavalonlounge.com. MAAF for Organizations: Final 2019 Deadline is October 1. Conferences and Convening Peer-to-Peer Mentoring  Organizational Development  Professional Development  Emerging Organizations Fellowship For organizations, the New York State Council on the Arts in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) provides funds to hire outside consultants to support organizational and professional development, as well as supports peer-to-peer mentoring and convening and conference attendance. 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 NYSCA Electronic Media and Film grantees, applications from multi-disciplinary organizations, which incorporate technology as an art form will be considered on a case-by-case basis. MAAF is made possible through a regrant from the NYSCA Electronic Media and Film program. Applicants who have questions regarding eligibility are encouraged to contact Wave Farm at info@wavefarm.org after reading the guidelines in detail. APPLY NOW LAST CALL FOR RECORD VENDORS!!   WGXC Record Fair 2019 Sunday, September 15, 2019: 10am - 4pm Basilica Hudson 110 Front St. (Hudson, NY)   Vendor Information A single table is $55. Two or more tables are $50 each. Wave Farm’s WGXC presents the 2019 WGXC Record Fair in partnership with Basilica Hudson. Vendors from across the northeast gather in Basilica’s Main Hall to sell vinyl, CDs, cassette tapes, DVDs, plus books, musical equipment and instruments, and radio-related ephemera. The plentiful WGXC tables are a digger’s dream, with a variety of affordably priced records in all genres.   GENERAL ADMISSION | 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. | FREE! RAFFLE | Win gift certificates to regional record stores and eateries Admission and table fees benefit creative community radio station WGXC 90.7-FM. The WGXC Record Fair coincides with Basilica SoundScape (Sept 13-15), an immersive, innovative weekend of art, music, and culture, which draws an audience in the thousands, and features conceptual sound performances, author readings, installations, collaborations, and curated local vendors and artisans. On the day of the fair, WGXC will be raffling off a Regional Record Lover's Tour Package, with gift certificates generously donated by area record stores and eateries. Reserve Your Table(s) Now Wave Farm thanks you for your support. 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 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.   MAKE A ONE-TIME GIFT BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER! 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 the Greene County Council on the Arts; the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation; the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; the T. Backer Fund; the Joseph Family Charitable Trust; and hundreds of other generous individual donors.               Copyright © 2019 Wave Farm, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Stefana Fratila and Stephen Bradley + Edward Ruchalski are in-residence this month. Karen Werner will be Wave Farm's first Radio Artist Fellow! + more

View this email in your browser July Artists-in-residence. Radio Artist Fellow announced. Take a peak into Kathy Kennedy's residency last month. Welcome back political hiatus programmers and new shows on 90.7-FM wavefarm.org/listen airwaves. Thank you for Testifying on behalf of WGXC. Wave Farm Artist-in-Residence: Stefana Fratila Stefana Fratila arrived last week from Toronto. Her Mid-Orbit: A Radio Sitcom About the 8 Planets is a radio play based on the planets in our solar system. Inspired by the planetary orbits and their associated mythologies, this radio piece playfully mixes classic sitcom tropes and sound effects, loveable and archetypical characters, and ambient music. This situational comedy utilizes radio waves and transmission frequencies from the planets themselves, as well existing data about their various atmospheres to generate the accompanying score. Curiously, in this sitcom the Earth is stricken with a case of laryngitis and remains silent throughout, which begs the question— what happens when we simply listen? Stefana Fratila examines the act of bearing witness through public interventions, performances, sound and video installations. Interested in interrogating the relationship between memory and the body, she often incorporates her own experiences with disability and chronic illness. Her recent work focuses on how sound waves might be perceived by human ears as they travel through the different atmospheres of our solar system. Tune in: WGXC Afternoon Show, Saturday July 6, 2019 4-6 p.m.  Wave Farm Artist-in-Residence: Stephen Bradley and Edward Ruchalski Later this month, Wave Farm welcomes Stephen Bradley and Edward Ruchalski. Their project SpiderCricket (Sp+Cr) is a multi-phonic ecological radio installation informed by Wave Farm’s biophonic and radiophonic soundscape. The core of Sp+Cr uses a “spider web” wind-harp structure, which also functions as an antenna for low-power FM transmitters that broadcast on the property. Using DIY micro-mixers, numerous solar-powered FM radio receivers are tuned to one of the broadcast channels. Each wire’s unique length is tuned to a particular frequency that mixes with other sonic algorithms. Field recordings made during the dawn and dusk cycles are incorporated into Sp+Cr sculpture and into the final, live WGXC radio broadcast. Bradley and Ruchalski’s (B&R) practice is informed by their close relationship to place realized through radio, deep listening, acoustic intervention, and compositions based on environmental field recording. Their artistic practice is grounded and based on studies of acoustic spaces, engaging site-specific improvised sound actions and installations that raise the audience’s awareness of the hidden, often subtle and difficult to hear sounds found amidst bioacoustics and noisy landscapes. Tune in: Audio Buffet: Jul 18, 2019: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. WGXC Afternoon Show, Saturday July 20, 2019 4-6 p.m.  Take a peak into Kathy Kennedy's Wave Farm Residency last month. This summer Wave Farm is fortunate to have three talented summer interns, who are supporting Wave Farm programs including the transmission artist residency program. Thank you Will Hunt (Photography, Bard College '20), Nico Reh (Film+Video, Bard College '20) and Gavin Parker (Anthropology + Media Studies, SUNY Purchase '20). Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow Announced! Karen Werner (Turners Falls, MA) Wave Farm is delighted to announce our first Radio Artist Fellow selected from a competitive national open call.  Karen Werner is a radio artist and sociologist. Her audio pieces have been broadcast on community and public radio stations across Europe, North America, Australia and Israel and have been part of numerous live events and art exhibitions. In 2017-2018, Werner created a series of public sound installations at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, including “Covenant of the Tongue” and “Zirkus,” which are sonic autoethnographies about Holocaust postmemory in Vienna. Her recent work is in live performance: sound installation meets documentary storytelling meets narrowcast radio transmission. Werner was a 2019 invited artist at the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence in Finland and a 2017-2018 Fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She received a Tending Space Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation from 2014-2016 for artists with a Buddhist practice. Werner produces the creative radio sonic zine Sketchpad, broadcast weekly on WMCB 107.9lpfm in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and she teaches workshops on radio art, radio autoethnography and politics of storytelling. She is on the faculty of the BFA in Socially Engaged Art Program at Goddard College in Vermont.  Beginning September 2019, the Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship is nine-month, part-time engagement for an American radio artist with strong interests in the history of radio art and related practices. The Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe, and will communicate regularly with Fellowship Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, and Gregory Whitehead. The fellow will develop an audio archive of noteworthy historic and contemporary radio artworks including brief introductory and contextual information for publication on the Wave Farm website. Drawing from the archive, produce approximately five hours of radio art programming weekly on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The fellow will also create original radio artworks for broadcast and lead three workshops and/or listening sessions with WGXC’s volunteer programmers. Thanks to the 2019 Oral History Summer School for visiting Wave Farm last month. The group met with resident Kathleen McDermott and toured the Wave Farm property and installations. Pictured here the group are learning about an in-progress project called Here GOES Radiotelescope by Heidi Neilson and Harry Dove-Robinson. A viewport downlink station for the NOAA satellite GOES-16. Visitors will place themselves under the dish and in line with the satellite's primary camera which is in turn looking back at Earth. Streaming live imagery from the satellite, the sculptural viewport will show the full disk of the Earth and Sun, including observations of lightning and space weather. Photo: Walter Hergt. Thanks to everyone who turned out for a "sold out" Build a DIY usb MIDI Controller Workshop at Wave Farm in Acra last month too. This wonderful and enthusiastic group came from New Lebanon, Annandale-on-Hudson, Palenville, Great Barrington, Lexington, South Cairo, Housatonic, Albany, Tillson, and Troy/Brooklyn. Attendees became sustaining supporters or made donations to WGXC. Thank you to attendees and to Jen Kutler for leading the workshop!  Photos by: Galen Joseph-Hunter (left) and Will Hunt (right). New to Wave Farm Radio in July: WGXC 90.7-FM + wavefarm.org/listen Nothing to See Here Created by David Clark. First Monday of the month from 3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Returning on: July 1, 2019: 2pm - 3pm Returning to the WGXC airwaves (see 2017 edition here) Nothing to See Here is a program of experimental spoken word radio produced at NSCAD University. The program began in 2016 when Media Arts Professor David Clark started running regular recording sessions in the sound rooms at the Academy Building at NSCAD University on Thursday nights. The first few episodes were based on improvised interviews that were later edited into shows. These improvisations sustained a ‘premise’ that was determined at the beginning. Soon regular participants and guests began to write material for the show and the show evolved from episode to episode without a particular formula for how the explorations would materialize. The project has always been meant to be a platform for whoever wants to contribute and be a vehicle for NSCAD students to explore radio as a creative medium. A core group of regular contributors are involved in many of the show while many others have appeared in the show, including the cleaners in the building who sometimes stumble upon the nocturnal recording sessions and often join in. Algorithm as Ritual  Produced by Patrick Quinn. Second Tuesday of the month from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Premiere Broadcast: July 9, 2019: 2pm - 3pm al·go·rithm noun a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer. rit·u·al noun a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order. “Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.” ― John Cage What is the relationship between algorithms and rituals? How can a creative algorithm function as a ritual or emancipatory tool to counter hegemonic media consumption? Algorithm as Ritual aims to expand the musical tastes of listeners through the use of creative coding and serendipity; deviating from known paths and venturing into uncharted musical territories. The playlists for Algorithm as Ritual are generated by a computer program written in Python that randomly selects tracks from an eclectic and continuously growing music archive maintained by artist Patrick Quinn. Quinn searches far and wide— from dusty bins in record stores to the shadiest corners of the Darknet—for music to go into the Algorithm as Ritual archive. Unlike many of the algorithms of large corporations that attempt to rationalize and commodify cyberspace by collecting massive amounts of user data, the computer program used to generate playlists for Algorithm as Ritual embraces uncertainty and “the unknown” in hopes of expanding the hearts and minds of listeners. A multimedia artist based in Troy, New York, Patrick Jo Quinn utilizes socio-poetic methods to investigate physical + digital space, and occasionally, electronic musical instruments. In collaboration with Publication Studio Hudson, Quinn recently produced his first book of poetry, Drift/Copy/Paste Poetics I (2017). In addition to his art practice, he does volunteer work with Books Through Bars, an organization that sends free books and educational materials to incarcerated people; and Joseph’s House of Troy, a shelter for people experiencing homelessness. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Research Interests: direct action, psychogeography, aleatory poetry, and remix studies. Welcome Back to the WGXC Airwaves! WGXC is pleased to welcome Kamal Johnson of the Wednesday WGXC Afternoon Show (left) and Tom DePietro of the Thursday WGXC Afternoon Show (right) back to the airwaves. Both were on a 60-day political hiatus during their respective primary campaigns.  In the June 25 contest, Johnson secured the Democratic line for Hudson Mayor on the November ballot. DePietro secured the Democratic line in the race for Hudson Common Council President. The general election will be held on November 5, 2019, and both will be on hiatus again in the six weeks before the vote. Thank you for Testifying! WGXC's Spring Testify! Pledge Drive ran June 10 through June 23, 2019. During this drive, we added 34 new monthly supporters to our base of sustaining donors to WGXC. THANK YOU !!! Growing a community of sustaining supporters is vital to the station’s longevity. We are getting closer to our goal, but time is of the essence. If you want to ensure that WGXC stays on the FM dial, and are not already a Sustaining Supporter, please consider joining the 187 donors who are already committed to keeping Radio for Open Ears possible. Pictured above Cheryl K of the The Jazz Disturbance (left) and Neva Wartell of Music for the Masses. Photo: Lynn Sloneker. BECOME A WGXC SUSTAINING SUPPORTER