Philadelphia-based radio access advocacy group Prometheus Radio Project says there might be 21 new low-power FM radio frequencies available in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy market. There's an October deadline at the Federal Communications Commission for non-profit organizations to apply for low-power FM licenses that can cover entire towns. "Not all channels are usable in real-world conditions, and not all channels are in locations with actual demand for community radio," the group says. "These numbers are not gospel -- they are informed guesses made by the Prometheus technical team using FCC tools." In New York State, here are some possibilities: Rochester, up to 32 new stations; Catskill, one; Hudson, two, Kingston, four; Saugerties, three. See more information at Prometheus Radio Project.

free103point9 is pleased to announce our 2013 Wave Farm Artists-in-Residence:

Laura Hadden and Tennessee Watson (Brooklyn, NY), Wage/Working

Wage/Working addresses the issues of income inequality and the concept of wage through a time-based transmission installation and radio broadcast series. During their two-month residency Hadden and Watson will be collecting stories and interviews with workers in the Columbia/Greene County community regarding their jobs and their relationship to their work. These stories will be edited to a length, which corresponds with the amount of time it takes them to earn $1, creating an inverse relationship between monetary value and time. This Live Interactive residency is a special partnership between free103point9 and the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Zach Poff + N.B.Aldrich (Brooklyn, NY) Wave Farm Translations

Poff and Aldrich will pursue emergent phenomenon in the Wave Farm's hidden soundscape, translating atmospheric radio, underwater sound, and tiny natural vibrations into outdoor sculptures that encourage listeners to consider the unexpected results of our relationships with each other and our environment. Their project, Wave Farm Translations, will include three phases: Research, Production, and Sharing, which will include a WGXC 90.7-FM interview/playlist, a sensor-building workshop, and complete online documentation.

Redux (Mark Cetilia and Joe Cantrell) (Providence, RI), Song for Søren Larsen

Song for Søren Larsen will take advantage of various aspects of radio and other broadcast media to create a generative audio space enabled by the contributions and commingling of the electromagnetic broadcast spectrum with the bodies of the performers. A network of three recursive audio feedback sub-systems will be used to construct the performance. These systems include short wave loop antenna hardware, low power AM transmission, and the unique opportunity afforded by the Wave Farm residency, access to the full-power signal of WGXC 90.7-FM.

Brian House (Providence, RI), A Striking Clock (working title)

During his residency at Wave Farm, House will invoke the spirit of a town striking clock for the electroacoustic community created by the WGXC transmission. At regular intervals, a short musical piece will be broadcast. However, this piece will not simply count off the hours like a striking clock -- rather, it will be the sonified data of online and physical phenomena within the geographic broadcast area. Data will be gathered from many sources: online content platform APIs such as Twitter, Flickr, etc, filtered geographically; macro environmental measurements including weather and astronomical phenomena; and local sensor systems placed on the grounds of Wave Farm measuring ambient acoustics, motion, electromagnetic qualities, and other conditions.

SPEKTR collective (Aljosa Abrahamsberg, Matthew Biederman, Marko Peljhan, and Brian Springer) (Montreal, Canada) THE DARK SPECTRUM (working title)

THE DARK SPECTRUM follows a series of electromagnetic (EM) spectrum mapping, interception and transmission performance structures, which the SPEKTR collective started exploring in 2004. Their new work in this series will focus on processes of encoding/decoding of the EM spectrum and natural/man made signals. SPEKTR will collectively spend time with a standard suite of tools: HF, VHF, UHF and L-band Receivers and Transmitters software defined radios, home-brew VLF receivers, and ELF probes complimented by software toolkits (COTS and custom coded) to decode, encode and visualize digital signals. Combined with image and audio recording devices and manipulation strategies, the collective will work together to develop new ideas and segments for a new performance focusing on the digital and encoded/encrypted signals domains.

Cammis Buerhaus (New York, NY), Natural Human

Buerhaus will temporarily install multiple spring reverb sculptures on the Wave Farm Property. These sculptures will serve to amplify the two types of sound: Natural Sounds and Human Sound. Natural Sound will be sourced from the property, and will include natural weather systems, physical features of the land, and animal activity. Human Sound will be drawn from spoken texts, which will be informed by transmission and media art resource materials available in the Wave Farm Study Center Library.

Brett Ian Balogh (Chicago, IL), Drone Home

Drone Home is a community action, radio broadcast and robot performance that provides a critique of the use of unmanned drones in warfare and surveillance. It offers an alternative to the centralized, unilateral decision-making paradigm currently employed in drone operation by engaging the communities served by WGXC 90.7-FM  in the collaborative control of a small-scale, unmanned aerial vehicle. Radio listeners will make drawings on a web-based map of free103point9's Wave Farm, which will serve as a flight path for the drone. The drawing coordinates will then be transmitted to the drone using packet radio from the station, and a ground crew will take long-exposure photographs of the flight to capture this path as a light painting. The sum of these actions will stand as an example of using a possibly disruptive and invasive technology for the purposes of community involvement and creative output.

Hethre Contant (Brooklyn, NY) Radio Epi(c)phony from The Weimar Republic


During her residency Contant will further develop a performance for radio based on research about transmission during The Weimar Republic. This research was compiled in her Master's thesis, which received The Distinguished Thesis Award from The New School's Media Studies Department in 2012. Over 90 pages of historical, technical, and theoretical writing addresses a lacuna in media scholarship about the importance of this radio epoch. However, in its academic form, Contant realizes that her research remains limited to a small, rather specific community. A public performance and archival documentation of her proposed performance, makes Contant’s research accessible to a wider public audience.

Sam Sebren (Athens, NY), Re: Search

Sebren is a multidisciplinary artist who began his career in the East Village New York arts scene in the 1980s. A prolific maker, Sebren's visual works take form in installation, collage, painting, photography, video, and public works. His sound-based works have ties to noise and no-genre music (Menlo Park Recordings). More recently Sebren has delved deeply into the medium of radio. At Wave Farm, Sebren will engage in a research project culminating in a un-documentary about the history of radio and of transmission artists.

Aliza Simons (Brooklyn, NY) The Tip Of The Crest Of The Bridge

The Tip Of The Crest Of The Bridge consists of sixteen artist-built low-power FM transmitters. Each transmitter broadcasts a small segment of audio on loop. Together, these audio segments create an overarching sound collage and narrative story constructed from the seventy community radio stations visited by Simons in 2009 and 2010 while living in Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Argentina, Ecuador and the Canadian Arctic.

free103point9's Wave Farm Residency Program provides artists with valuable assistance with which to concentrate on new transmission works and conduct research about the genre using free103point9's resource library. Resident artists perform, are interviewed, and create playlists for a Saturday broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM, a FM radio station and media project in Greene and Columbia counties, upstate New York.

free103point9's Wave Farm Residency Program is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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Christian Marclay, "Open Air" for BBC 4.

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Magz Hall, "Radiomindteaser"
Teaser from Radio Mind a micro radio installation.
"Radio Mind investigates the shifting terrains of the transcendent and the quotidian through new communications technologies."


Future Bible Heroes, "Living, Loving, Partygoing" (Merge)

WGXC Programming

On Saturdays free103point9 Online Radio airs on WGXC 90.7-FM, bringing transmission arts to the airwaves in the Hudson Valley, in New York. Tune in Sat., March 16:

Midnight – 12:05 a.m.: "Radio News: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Steps Down"
Days after FCC commissioner Robert McDowell announced he was leaving, the chairman now resigns. Both their resignation announcement speeches, two days apart, in the same building, were nearly identical, and this report compares the audio.

12:05 a.m. – 1 a.m.: "Radio Stew: Burning Down the House"
Art, and sound art in particular, about the destruction of buildings, is included here. Grindcore band Napalm Death were going to play a concert at the Victoria and Albert Museum today, but the museum cancelled the show fearing that "the high level of decibels generated by the performance would damage the historic fabric of the building."

1 a.m. – 3 a.m.: "Frédéric Acquaviva"
From Dec. 1, 2012 "Saturday Afternoon Show," and interview with sound artist Frédéric Acquaviva.

3 a.m. – 5 a.m.: "Golden Age of Radio: Paladin, Burns & Allen"
Radio from a long time ago. From Pacifica Radio Archives.

5 a.m. – 7 a.m.: "Shortwave Hours: Coronal Mass Ejection"
Two hours of shortwave radio-oriented programming, starting with solar weather, news on meteor showers and ham radio, and other reports. This week: China is accused of jamming VOA and BBC shortwave broadcasts, we tune in clips. Other reports include:
5:15 a.m.: "The RAIN Report" "Visually impaired ham Greg Rosenberg, AB9MZ, strategies for emergency preparedness for the disabled. (Part 1, 15 mins)"
5:30 a.m., "The Shortwave Report" with host Dan Roberts and international news via shortwave radio.
6 a.m.: "Glenn Hauser's World of Radio"
6:30 a.m.: "Amateur Radio Newsline" This week: An antenna battle down under pits a ham antenna against a landscape view; a big win in New Jersey as a ham is finally granted approval for his tower and antenna; a Coronal Mass Ejection on the sun hits Earth on St. Patrick's Day; the Federal probe of the so-called zombie attack on the United States Emergency Alert System continues and GPS jamming becomes a threat to public safety in the UK.

7 a.m. – 8 a.m.: "Saturday Morning Serial: Pipe Organs"
WGXC airs a special on church and pipe organs. Talking Head David Byrne sets the scene, with a recent essay in McSweeney's about how sound was created for various settings, including churches. We'll excerpt the part about churches and organs here. Plus, the show will sample all sorts of church organs, and hear Brian Dewan's radio play "King of Instruments." Organ music of all types will be featured from Quintron, Jimmy Smith, Walter Wanderly, Walter/Wendy Carlos, the BBC Radiophonic studio, and others. Anna Friz's radio play "The organ dreams of leaving the grinder" will be featured. From Sept. 29, 2012.

8 a.m. – 10 a.m.: "Open Air: Live from Catskill Community Center"
Anyone can contribute, in many ways, to "Open Air." Matt Bua hosts live from the Catskill Community Center. This is a live transmission art show about local transmissions. As many local frequencies, signals, and transmissions will be mixed in. Check in on CB radio, weather radio, shortwave, scanners, cell phones, strings-and-cups, or whatever else we can tune in. You make up the show with stories, phone calls, messages, requests, further information, and more. WGXC Program Director Shannekia McIntosh will call in and explain the new WGXC program schedule after 9 a.m. Please help be a part of the show. Stop by the Catskill Community Center in person. Call in at 518-219-WGXC. Tweet requests @WGXC. Skype calls at WGXCfm. Talk on Channel 6 on CB radio, we are tuning in.

10 a.m. - 11 a.m.: "Radia: Shadow-walks"
"Radia" is a group of international radio stations, including WGXC/free103point9, interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show that the rest air. This week: Radia Show 416: Shadow-walks (Florence) by Viv Corringham for Radio Papesse.

10:30 a.m. - 11 a.m." "Radio Wonderland"
Joshua Fried remixes New York City radio from his Brooklyn apartment every Saturday on 90.7-FM in the Hudson Valley.

11 a.m. – noon: "Framework: Maria Papadomanolaki"
This regular edition features Luca Nasciuta, Simon Whetham, Frederic Nogray, Maria Papadomanolaki, and tracks from the new framework:seasonal spring 2013 edition, issue #4, by Jay-Dea Lopez, Flavien Gillié and France Jobin.

Noon – 1 p.m.: "Other Music: Steve Reich/Radiohead"
Trace the connection between the minimalist composer and the rock band here, with covers of each others work, interviews, and original compositions, including an excerpt of Reich's new Radiohead tribute "Radio Rewrite."

2-3 p.m.: "Radius Sketchpad: Ryan ⊥ Dunn"
"Radius Sketchpad" is an ongoing monthly program on WGXC 90.7-FM presented by the Chicago-based platform, Radius. This month features Ryan ⊥ Dunn's "Incidental Music", originally produced for Radius, and is followed by a playlist of works selected by the artist.

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.: "Human Machine: Sexbot"
Jeremy Kelly curates.

4 p.m. – 6 p.m.: "Saturday Afternoon Show: Pledge Drives"
Headlines from the week in radio news, new radio art, and Rush Limbaugh reviews the new Beyonce single. Also, art, and sound art in particular, about the destruction of buildings, is included here. Grindcore band Napalm Death were going to play a concert at the Victoria and Albert Museum today, but the museum cancelled the show fearing that "the high level of decibels generated by the performance would damage the historic fabric of the building." Hosted by Tom Roe live from Wave Farm.

6 p.m. – 7 p.m.: "PiratesWeek: Wolverine Radio"
After the Weekly Presidential Radio Address, "PiratesWeek," with host Ragnar Daneskjold from upstate New York. Pirates in the news this week include a pirate bust in Brockton Mass. Select postings from the Free Radio Network, HF Underground and note stations logged per the Free Radio Weekly. ‭Off Air Recordings include the stations of: The Crystal Ship, Wolverine Radio, the Euro pirate Radio City and another Blast from the past- WDRR. We listen to Allan Wiener describe some of his early pirate transmitters.

7 p.m. – 8 p.m.: "What's the Frequency, Kenneth: CPAC, SXSW"
Host Paul Fischer's weekly musical news mash-up. This week: A review of the star speakers at the CPAC (Conservative Action Political Conference) told through narration,music and soundbites.

8 p.m.: "Joe Crow Ryan, Karen Duffy, Liv Carrow"
Live webstream for this, and most, shows at Spotty Dog Books & Ale available from free103point9 and WGXC at http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/spottydog.mp3.m3u. This show will be broadcast live on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM.

11 p.m.: "Songs About Radio"
Highlights of the "WGXC Afternoon Show" from the Catskill Community Center, March 19, 2013 with hosts Peter Krug and Jill Sutton, and a guest appearance by Brian Dewan.

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Keith Fullerton Whitman, Live at Lilypad, Cambridge, MA, March 17, 2013.

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2/5BZ, ''Istanbul Courthoustep Age'' live set performed on Tour Sept./Oct. 2012

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Vanessa Place, "Statement of Facts"

On Feb. 13, Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), the chairman and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, reintroduced the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013 (H.R. 624). CISPA, as it is known, was highly controversial, and eventually withdrawn, last year. The bill, designed to make information sharing between intelligence agencies and private businesses easier, was attacked by civil libertarians. CISPA would have legally protected from prosecution any business that shared information about its customers or employees, including Facebook posts and email, with intelligence authorities. The bill was reintroduced the day after the White House released an Executive Order on cybersecurity, which included some of the information-sharing provisions of the original CISPA bill. The Executive Order and new version of the bill also come after several reports of repeated hacking of Western government and corporate websites coming from the Chinese government. The House Intelligence Committee holds its first cybersecurity hearing of the year Thu., March 14, and will discuss the bill then.

Florida Democratic Senator Bill Nelson came to pick a fight at the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation “Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission” hearing March 12, 2013 at 2:45 p.m. During his C-Span moment, Nelson cited an FCC rule requiring that broadcast ads, "fully and fairly disclose the true identity" of their financiers, and wondered why the commission was not living up to this edict. Political ads currently identify the sponsoring group, but Nelson wants the public to know who the individuals are behind the groups with the All-American names that are currently disclosed. The FCC's five commissioners all said that they supported transparency, but avoided any specific change of the current limited disclosure. Texas Republican Ted Cruz thought Nelson was trying to create an end run around the Disclose Act's 59-vote failure to pass the Senate four years ago, and said the FCC should stay out of partisan politics. The meeting ended with Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV) announcing a classified briefing on government use of spectrum Tue., March 19.
free103point9 News Report about hearing. Report includes recordings from Commerce Committee live webstream of Sens. Nelson and Cruz. (5:16, mp3)
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David Goren's “Atencion! Seis Siete Tres Siete Cero”: The Mystery of the Shortwave Numbers Stations" installation is included in "Secret Wars," the second exhibition in Proteus Gowanus’ yearlong exploration of "Battle" at the Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn.

Third Coast Festival -- an October conclave of audio documentaries in Chicago -- has an open call for their ShortDocs Challenge that is appetite themed (sponsored by a food organization). The 2013 ShortDocs Challenge invites anyone to produce audio stories that are:
• inspired by the idea of “appetite”
• two to three minutes in length
• presented in three “courses” (think: chapters)
• include one of the five tastes in the title: bitter, salty, sour, sweet, umami.
The deadline for submitting your ShortDoc is April 30.

It is spring pledge drive time in the land of community radio: Resonance FM, WFMU, WBAI, WGXC, and many others have current campaigns to raise operating expenses. WBAI's situation is actually more drastic, as the New York City non-profit Pacifica radio station launched an emergency effort March 5 to raise a half a million dollars to stop the possible loss of its transmitter atop the Empire State Building. "The campaign titled 'The Transmitter Fund' aims to raise the funds needed to bring current the transmitter tower rent, which fell drastically behind in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy," Pacifica's website says.

"What is Radio?" - To find answers to this question we immersed ourselves deeply in the world of radio - poetic spoken atmosphere together with a cacophony of thoughts about historical moments in radio-periods were the result. In nearly every person's life radio plays a major role. But what radio is to the individual mostly differs from what it is for the masses. We guide you with surrounding sounds, voices, words, languages, music and silence through the fascinating and diverse world of radio. You just have to listen.

Producers: Maria Herold & Özge Dayan Mair

Many thanks to the users from freesounds.org, Tobias Dankl for sound sceneries and the accordion player from Karlsplatz.

Links: http://kakophoniedergedanken.tumblr.com/
"Radia" airs at 10 a.m. Sat., March 16 on free103point9 and WGXC.

On Tue., March 5, the board of directors of Free Speech Radio News announced that the show will go off the air on March 15 unless $35,000 is raised. KGNU’s Maeve Conran has this audio report. The show is an independently-produced, half-hour daily national and international radio news program focusing on peace and social justice issues in the U.S. and around the world. It is a non-profit organization, with funding from Pacifica Radio Network, as well as community radio stations across the US and listener-donors. "Free Speech Radio News" airs Monday-Friday at 6:30 p.m. on WGXC 90.7-FM.
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On Saturdays free103point9 Online Radio airs on WGXC 90.7-FM, bringing transmission arts to the airwaves in the Hudson Valley, in New York. Tune in Sat., March 2:

Midnight – 12:05 a.m.: "News: FSRN No More?"

12:05 a.m. – 2 a.m.: "Radio Stew: Crank Sturgeon, Al Margolis, World Lines"
Live performances from Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson from March 8, 2013.

2 a.m. - 3:15 a.m.: "Bob's Slacktime Funhouse: Adventures in Dentures"
Collage.

4 a.m. – 5 a.m.: "Radio Radio: Stephen Erickson"
Radio documentarian.

5 a.m. – 7 a.m.: "Shortwave Hours: Velveeta"
Two hours of shortwave radio-oriented programming, starting with solar weather, news on meteor showers and ham radio, and other reports. This week: China is accused of jamming VOA and BBC shortwave broadcasts, we tune in clips. Other reports include:
5:15 a.m.: "The RAIN Report" "A 1998 interview with audio groundbreaker Bob Heil, K9EID"
5:30 a.m., "The Shortwave Report" with host Dan Roberts and international news via shortwave radio. This week's show features stories from NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, Spanish National Radio, and the Voice of Russia.
6 a.m.: "Glenn Hauser's World of Radio"
6:30 a.m.: "Amateur Radio Newsline" Scientists say Solar Cycle 24 may have two separate peaks; APRS found to extend the range of underground communications; a United Kingdom ham finds a long abandoned satellite that has come back to life; Last Man Standing to feature an episode with ham radio and Amateur Radio Newsline opens the nominating season for the 2013 Young Ham of the Year Award.

7 a.m. – 8 a.m.: "Saturday Morning Serial: Dialing"
Turn your dial, or dial in your phone, to this show about the sounds and songs of dialing. We'll learn "How to Dial a Rotary Phone," "Dial M for Murder," and order a dial wand. Songs from The Kinks ("Around The Dial"), The Replacements ("Left of the Dial"), Morrissey ("Dial-A-Cliche"), Scanner ("Turning The Dial"), and others. Plus, radio theatre from 31 Down ("Dead Dial Tone").

8 a.m. – 10 a.m.: "Open Air: 20130309"
Anyone can contribute, in many ways, to "Open Air." Matt Bua hosts live from the Catskill Community Center. This is a live transmission art show about local transmissions. As many local frequencies, signals, and transmissions will be mixed in. Check in on CB radio, weather radio, shortwave, scanners, cell phones, strings-and-cups, or whatever else we can tune in. You make up the show with stories, phone calls, messages, requests, further information, and more. WGXC Program Director Shannekia McIntosh will call in and explain the new WGXC program schedule after 9 a.m. Please help be a part of the show. Stop by the Catskill Community Center in person. Call in at 518-219-WGXC. Tweet requests @WGXC. Skype calls at WGXCfm. Talk on Channel 6 on CB radio, we are tuning in. Features include solar weather, shortwave news, and more.

10 a.m. - 11 a.m.: "Radia: Cecilia Hultman"
International network of radio art stations in 13 countries interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show for all the others. This week's episode of "Radia" is "Oro," a sound piece by Cecilia Hultman (b. 1985) for Radio Nova and Radia, which takes its title from the Swedish word for unrest.

10:30 a.m. - 11 a.m." "Radio Wonderland"
Joshua Fried remixes New York City radio from his Brooklyn apartment every Saturday on 90.7-FM in the Hudson Valley.

11 a.m. – noon: "Rodolphe Alexis"
This regular edition of show about field recordings and acoustic ecology features Jim Haynes, Sala, Matthew Sansom, David Velez, Rodolphe Alexis, and selections from the Aporee Soundmaps.

Noon – 1 p.m.: "Issue Project Room Radio: Mind Over Mirrors"
Hosted by Eve Essex, originally aired Jan. 14, 2013 on ARTonAIR.org. "Issue Project Room Radio" will air on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM at 2 p.m. the second Saturday of the month in 2013. Mind Over Mirrors, AKA Jaime Fennelly, performs here in a concert produced by Issue Project Room in November 2012. Part of Fennelly's two-night residency at Brooklyn exhibition space, in this set he was accompanied by renowned choreographer and long-time collaborator Miguel Gutierrez. After four years of constant collaboration, trans-continental performance, cohabitation, and detritus exorcising from 2001-2004 as their duo Sabotage and the early formative years of The Powerful People, this evening marks the first time Fennelly and Gutierrez had performed together in over eight years.

1 p.m. – 2 p.m.: "Issue Project Room Radio: Che Chen and Sherlock Terry"
Hosted by Eve Essex. Originally aired Feb. 4, 2013 on ARTonAIR.org. "Issue Project Room Radio" will air on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM at 2 p.m. the second Saturday of the month in 2013. For this new work, commissioned by Issue Project Room and premiered on September 8, 2012, Chen and Terry have devised customized instruments that feature large numbers of strings (as many as 80 on a single instrument) arranged according to highly redundant tuning schemes designed to maximize on the occurrence of string sympathy. These instruments- modified autoharps and a lapsteel guitar- are designed to reveal the subtle interactions of closely tuned strings as they sound and decay. Plucked single notes surrounded by halos of sympathetic vibration, chords made of shifting, sustained drones and cascading, harp-like washes of sound are made possible through playing techniques both borrowed and invented. Compositionally, this piece is intended to create an unhurried, focused listening experience, an immersive sound environment that lends itself easily to a slowing of sense perception. Structurally, it borrows much from what is known in North Indian classical music as the alap, the slow, preliminary stage of an improvisation in which the notes of the scale (raga) are gradually introduced one at a time.

2 p.m. – 3 p.m.: "Issue Project Room Radio: Poetry Out Loud"
Hosted by Eve Essex via ARTonAIR.org. "Issue Project Room Radio" will air on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM at 2 p.m. the second Saturday of the month in 2013. "Poetry Out Loud" was a series of ten LPs released between 1969 and 1977 as a magazine of oral poetry. The driving forces behind Poetry Out Loud were two couples: Peter and Patricia B McGarry (Harleman), from Topeka, Kansas, and Klyd and Linda Watkins, from Nashville; this is word-as-sound art, a heavy trip. On May 4th, 2012, ISSUE Project Room presented a rare live performance with the Watkins, along with special guests Tom Carter, Keith Connolly and Dave Nuss. The set starts with an opening instrumental track by Messages. Part of Issue Project Room's "Littoral" series, the event celebrated Poetry Out Loud's 2012 re-release by De Stijl records.

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.: "Human Machine: 20130309"
"Human Machine" is a program that presents projects, sounds, performance and research on the subject of the increasing convergence of humans and technology produced by Max Goldfarb and Jeremy Kelly in alternating weeks. This week, Kelly creates.

4 p.m. – 6 p.m.: "Saturday Afternoon Show: Victoria Estok, Steve Lambert"
The work of Victoria Estok and Steve Lambert, two sound artists. They will be live at the Wave Farm Study Center in Acra, NY with host Tom Roe.

6 p.m. – 7 p.m.: "PiratesWeek: Zimbabwe Shut Down"
After the Weekly Presidential Radio Address, Robert Mugabe's government in Zimbabwe shuts down pirate radio station, according to the International Radio Report and the show also takes a look at Federal Communications Commission activities in the United States. ‭Off Air Recordings include the stations of: The Crystal Ship, Wolverine Radio, Undercover Radio, Black Arrow Radio, Southern Music Radio. We look at the Solar Max update. Plus reports on LPFM, and Chinese jamming of english language broadcasts. And, at Winterfest Saturday the inductees for 2013 were announced for the NAPRHOF.

7 p.m. – 9 p.m.: "Catskill Community Center / WGXC Open Mic"
Matt Bua hosts an open mic, a chance for anyone to have their say. Come down to the Catskill Community Center to participate, or listen on-air. Anyone is invited to sing a song, read a poem, tell a story, or just say something in front of the open mic.

9 p.m. – 10 p.m.: "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?: Beyond 30-Second Soundbites"
News mash-up show from host Paul Fischer, who worked on Dan Rather's staff. This week: Beyond 30-Second Soundbites.

10 p.m. – 11 p.m.: "Love Letters from SCOPE New York 2013"
This sound work series consists of five minute love letters installed in the unisex bathroom in the basement of the New York City's landmark 33rd Street Post Office on the occasion of SCOPE New York 2013. Recognized for its influential voice in the emerging art market, SCOPE New York 2013 features 55 international galleries alongside 20 Breeder Program galleries, selected by curatorial panel. This year the fair is located at the landmark venue of Skylight at Moynihan Station. Artists and works include: Chistine Edwards Love poem with strings, Maya Hayuk The inspiration, Nick Stolle When I you, I will you, Sam Sebren xoxombss, Matt Bua xoxombss, Chloe Bass love letter, terry dame love letter master, happy tears noone, Sara Shaoul aliens on the moon, Rainer Judd love letter, Rainer Judd Homage to Leanord Cohen's " I'm Your Man" , Rainer Judd mind on lock down, Rainer Judd follow, Mitch Miller STE-004, Willian Hough love letter as toilet paper 1&2, Sara Mednick Love Letter, Craig Smith Monk Chance Event Parrallel Lines, Wolfy Part II Spank that Collage.

11 p.m. – 11:59 p.m.: "Some Assembly Required: Don Joyce"
Episode 08 of the mash-up show with host Jon Nelson, with 2001 Don Joyce (Negativland) interview about his album, "We'll Be Right Back" and three tracks by Negativland.

Midnight – 12:05 a.m.: "Radio News: Radio Pledge Drives"
WGXC begins its spring pledge drive this week, WFMU continues theirs, and Resonance FM just completed there fund drive. A report.

12:05 a.m. – 2 a.m.: "Radio Stew: Live from Wave Farm"
Recordings made at Wave Farm in Greene County, NY. Included: Stars Like Fleas' "Early Riser," works by Matt Bua, and others.

2 a.m. – 4 a.m.: "Last/Lost Transmissions"
Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson compile historic last and lost transmissions.

4 a.m. – 5 a.m.: "Exploration: 2013 Comets"
Discussion of the comets in the skies in 2013. Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku

5 a.m. – 5:30 a.m.: "Klipshow"
Transmaniacon MC's radio remix for free103point9.

5:30 a.m. – 6 a.m.: "CounterSpin: Mark Weisbrot, Kevin Gosztola"
This is the 20th year of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's media analysis radio show, hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall, and Peter Hart. This week: Mark Weisbrot on Hugo Chavez, Kevin Gosztola on Bradley Manning.

Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul launched a filibuster over John Brennan's for CIA Director. Paul received a letter from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder saying the president could kill Americans with radio-controlled drones on U.S. soil. Paul was joined in the filibuster by many Republicans and Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon. “I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan’s nomination for the C.I.A.,” Mr. Paul began the day saying. “I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.”

UPDATE: On Thu., March 7 Attorney General Eric Holder released a 43-word statement in response to Kentucky Republican Rand Paul's Senate filibuster the day before. Paul questioned Holder's previous letter to Rand, which, he said, suggested the administration felt it could bomb Americans with radio-controlled drones on U.S. soil. Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham, criticized Paul on the Senate floor today as John Brennan was confirmed as CIA Director (what Rand was filibustering). The White House released Holder's letter during its daily press briefing and Paul heard it first on Fox News.

Adam Serwer in Mother Jones reports that President Obama is claiming the authority to use military force with radio-controlled drones against American citizens on U.S. soil in "an extraordinary circumstance," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tue., March 5. "The US Attorney General's refusal to rule out the possibility of drone strikes on American citizens and on American soil is more than frightening," Paul said in a statement. "It is an affront the constitutional due process rights of all Americans." Holder cited two historical examples of such "extraordinary" circumstances -- Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- when assassinating Americans may be warranted (without a warrant). Holder wrote that that is a situation, "entirely hypothetical, unlikely to occur, and one we hope no president will ever have to confront." While Holder says the administration, "has no intention" of bombing Americans on U.S. soil, it has already killed one American in Yemen with a radio-controlled drone, Anwar al-Aulaqi on Sept. 30, 2011. Read the full story in Mother Jones and more of Holder's statement here:


As members of this administration have previously indicated, the US government has not carried out drone strikes in the United States and has no intention of doing so. As a policy matter moreover, we reject the use of military force where well-established law enforcement authorities in this country provide the best means for incapacitating a terrorist threat. We have a long history of using the criminal justice system to incapacitate individuals located in our country who pose a threat to the United States and its interests abroad. Hundreds of individuals have been arrested and convicted of terrorism-related offenses in our federal courts.

The question you have posed is therefore entirely hypothetical, unlikely to occur, and one we hope no president will ever have to confront. It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States. For example, the president could conceivably have no choice but to authorize the military to use such force if necessary to protect the homeland in the circumstances like a catastrophic attack like the ones suffered on December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001.

The White House released a response Mon., March 4 to a petition to legalize unlocking cell phones. Over 114,000 signed the peition, and R. David Edelman, a Senior Advisor for Internet, Innovation, and Privacy for the Obama administration, wrote, "We believe the same principle should also apply to tablets, which are increasingly similar to smart phones. And if you have paid for your mobile device, and aren't bound by a service agreement or other obligation, you should be able to use it on another network. It's common sense, crucial for protecting consumer choice, and important for ensuring we continue to have the vibrant, competitive wireless market that delivers innovative products and solid service to meet consumers' needs." Ina Fried in The Wall Street Journal reports Sina Khanifar, the man behind the petition to re-legalize unlocking of cellphones, now has a broader target: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Khanifar says that the Library of Congress used the DMCA to reason that cellphone unlocking was illegal, and that the law that needs to be changed. “I think the real culprit here is Section 1201 of the DMCA, the controversial ‘anti-circumvention provision,’” Khanifar told the newspaper. “I discussed with the White House the potential of pushing to have that provision amended or removed, and they want to continue that conversation.” Click here for audio clip of the text above. (1:35)
Full White House statement:


OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE RESPONSE TO
Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal.
It's Time to Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking
By R. David Edelman

Thank you for sharing your views on cell phone unlocking with us through your petition on our We the People platform. Last week the White House brought together experts from across government who work on telecommunications, technology, and copyright policy, and we're pleased to offer our response.

The White House agrees with the 114,000+ of you who believe that consumers should be able to unlock their cell phones without risking criminal or other penalties. In fact, we believe the same principle should also apply to tablets, which are increasingly similar to smart phones. And if you have paid for your mobile device, and aren't bound by a service agreement or other obligation, you should be able to use it on another network. It's common sense, crucial for protecting consumer choice, and important for ensuring we continue to have the vibrant, competitive wireless market that delivers innovative products and solid service to meet consumers' needs.

This is particularly important for secondhand or other mobile devices that you might buy or receive as a gift, and want to activate on the wireless network that meets your needs -- even if it isn't the one on which the device was first activated. All consumers deserve that flexibility.

The White House's position detailed in this response builds on some critical thinking done by the President's chief advisory Agency on these matters: the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). For more context and information on the technical aspects of the issue, you can review the NTIA's letter to the Library of Congress' Register of Copyrights (.pdf), voicing strong support for maintaining the previous exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for cell phone carrier unlocking.

Contrary to the NTIA's recommendation, the Librarian of Congress ruled that phones purchased after January of this year would no longer be exempted from the DMCA. The law gives the Librarian the authority to establish or eliminate exceptions -- and we respect that process. But it is also worth noting the statement the Library of Congress released today on the broader public policy concerns of the issue. Clearly the White House and Library of Congress agree that the DMCA exception process is a rigid and imperfect fit for this telecommunications issue, and we want to ensure this particular challenge for mobile competition is solved.

So where do we go from here?

The Obama Administration would support a range of approaches to addressing this issue, including narrow legislative fixes in the telecommunications space that make it clear: neither criminal law nor technological locks should prevent consumers from switching carriers when they are no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation.

We also believe the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with its responsibility for promoting mobile competition and innovation, has an important role to play here. FCC Chairman Genachowski today voiced his concern about mobile phone unlocking (.pdf), and to complement his efforts, NTIA will be formally engaging with the FCC as it addresses this urgent issue.

Finally, we would encourage mobile providers to consider what steps they as businesses can take to ensure that their customers can fully reap the benefits and features they expect when purchasing their devices.

We look forward to continuing to work with Congress, the wireless and mobile phone industries, and most importantly you -- the everyday consumers who stand to benefit from this greater flexibility -- to ensure our laws keep pace with changing technology, protect the economic competitiveness that has led to such innovation in this space, and offer consumers the flexibility and freedoms they deserve.

R. David Edelman is Senior Advisor for Internet, Innovation, & Privacy

Installation Art: Who Cares? (English) from We Like Art on Vimeo.

The maintenance and conservation of contemporary visual art is a new challenge for museums and art conservators. More and more artists have taken leave of the painter's brushes and are moving on to new media, such as video. Or they are making installations of transient materials like polystyrene, wax and scotch tape. Can these works be saved for the art lovers of the future? International Network for the Preservation of Contemporary Art.



How to preserve and reinstall the work Notion Motion by Olafur Eliasson: 1.500 m2 of water, light and movement? What about works that are based on outdated technology? A large group of experts worked on the restoration of Exhange Fields, an interactive video-installation by Bill Seaman. Despite the fact that the work is only ten years old, it had to be completely restored and digitalized. And the artist Tino Sehgal doesn't allow any form of documentation of his works. Tate London acquired his performance This Is Propaganda in 2005. Will Tate be able to keep on showing this work to the public?
This film offers a glimpse behind the scenes of the European museum. It investigates three cases that shed an interesting light on the practices and issues that the conservator of modern and contemporary art deals with.

Director | Maarten Tromp | maartentromp.net
Producer | Michiel Hogenboom | studiohunting.nl
Interviews | Tracy Metz
Photography | Mick van Dantzig, Roel van ‘t Hoff
Sound | Leo Franssen, Charles Kersten, Willem de Wijs
Editor | Bart van den Broek
Music | The Defilers
Under commission | SBMK

This documentary has been created in collaboration with a group of experts from 35 organizations; working together in the INCCA affiliated projects Inside Installations (2004-2007) and PRACTICs (2009-2011). These European research projects deal with the conservation, presentation and documentation of complex artworks.
The film aims to inform and to increase the public's understanding and appreciation of installation art and its conservation.
inside-installations.org
incca.org
sbmk.nl

"Radia" is a network of international stations interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, a different station takes a turn, making radio art for the other stations. "Radia" airs at 10 a.m. ET (-5 UTC) on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM. "Oro" is a sound piece by Cecilia Hultman (b. 1985) for Radio Nova and Radia, which takes its title from the Swedish word for unrest. Hultman is a Swedish visual artist, concentrated on definitions and associative representation, often with geography and geology related reflections inserted. Hultman claims that scientific descriptions often works as poetry and choose to see upon associations as a productive way of finding new meanings about our existence. Most of her work is based on drawing and she likes to think about her art practice as a method of both getting closer and getting distanced to reality. Concentration, presence, precision and time is important components within Hultman's work.www.ceciliahultman.se/
radionova.no

On Saturdays free103point9 Online Radio airs on WGXC 90.7-FM, bringing transmission arts to the airwaves in the Hudson Valley, in New York. Tune in Sat., March 2:

Midnight – 12:05 a.m.: "News: WGXC Ski Report"

12:05 a.m. – 4 a.m.: "Radio Stew: New Radio Art"
New radio art works are explored.

4 a.m. – 5 a.m.: "Radio Radio: Piers Plowright"
Piers Plowright worked for thirty years as a BBC producer of dramas, documentaries and innovative features before setting out as an independent producer.

5 a.m. – 7 a.m.: "Shortwave Hours: Velveeta"
Two hours of shortwave radio-oriented programming, starting with solar weather, news on meteor showers and ham radio, and other reports. This week: China is accused of jamming VOA and BBC shortwave broadcasts, we tune in clips. Other reports include:
5:15 a.m.: "The RAIN Report" "A look at the little-used 902 mHz ham band with Kent Britain, WA5VJB."
5:30 a.m., "The Shortwave Report" with host Dan Roberts and international news via shortwave radio. "This week's show features stories from NHK World Radio Japan, China Radio International, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia."
6 a.m.: "Glenn Hauser's World of Radio"
6:30 a.m.: "Amateur Radio Newsline" This week: "Australian radio amateurs may lose the 2300 to 2302 MHz band; Over the Horizon radar invades 10 meters; amateur satellite allocations on the agenda at I-A-R-U meeting in Vienna; Mainland China manufacturer releases low cost all service multi-mode High Frequency transceiver and zombies invade the nations Emergency Alert System."

7 a.m. – 8 a.m.: "Saturday Morning Serial: March In"
Songs about the month of March from Julie London, Iron Maiden, Devo, and others. Plus March radio history from Marconi (first wireless patent, March. 2, 1897; Marconi transmits across English Channel, March 27, 1899), Nathan Stubblefield (demonstrates ship-to-shore broadcast to multiple receivers in Washington, March 20, 1902), and Franklin Roosevelt (President Franklin Roosevelt gives first radio Fireside Chat, about the banking crisis, March 12, 1933). Plus cartoon music, radio skits, and more.

8 a.m. – 10 a.m.: "Open Air: CB Channel 6"
Anyone can contribute, in many ways, to "Open Air." Matt Bua hosts live from the Catskill Community Center. This is a live transmission art show about local transmissions. As many local frequencies, signals, and transmissions will be mixed in. Check in on CB radio, weather radio, shortwave, scanners, cell phones, strings-and-cups, or whatever else we can tune in. You make up the show with stories, phone calls, messages, requests, further information, and more. WGXC Program Director Shannekia McIntosh will call in and explain the new WGXC program schedule after 9 a.m. Please help be a part of the show. Stop by the Catskill Community Center in person. Call in at 518-219-WGXC. Tweet requests @WGXC. Skype calls at WGXCfm. Talk on Channel 6 on CB radio, we are tuning in. Features include solar weather, shortwave news, and more.

10 a.m. - 11 a.m.: "Radia: Renata Roman"
International network of radio art stations in 13 countries interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show for all the others. This week's episdoe of "Radia" is "Native" from Renata Roman from Resonance FM.

10:30 a.m. - 11 a.m." "Radio Wonderland"
Joshua Fried remixes New York City radio from his Brooklyn apartment every Saturday on 90.7-FM in the Hudson Valley.

11 a.m. – noon: "Framework: D.L. Lutz"
This edition of framework:afield, titled 'City', has been produced in Germany by writer and architect D.L. Lutz.

noon – 2 p.m.: "Selected Songs: Pauline Oliveros"
In honor of Pauline Oliveros, and the 12-Hour Listening Marathon of "Reverberations: Electronic and Tape Music 1961-1970" today at the Deep Listening Space in Kingston, NY, this show will samples some of her sounds.

2 p.m. – 3 p.m.: "Cinema Terrorisme: March 2013"
Cinema Terrorisme Episode 28: Dark armies of marzipan mongoloids create body sculptures of a mushroom cloud resembling an inverted torus holy moldy.

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.: "Human Machine: Emergent Humans"
"Human Machine" is a program that presents projects, sounds, performance and research on the subject of the increasing convergence of humans and technology produced by Max Goldfarb and Jeremy Kelly in alternating weeks. This week, Goldfarb features three short talks by Annalee Newitz, Max More, and Natasha Vita-More.

4 p.m. – 6 p.m.: "Saturday Afternoon Show: Week in Radio News"
Reports from Reuters, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and The Wall Street Journal claim many recent transmission attacks by China on Western interests. Also, a report Prometheus Radio Project hosts three webinar's for individuals and groups who want to learn more about startering low-power FM radio stations. Free Speech Radio News reports on the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of a challenge to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. And, New York City Pacifica Radio station WBAI got locked out of its studio after Hurricane Sandy, but their insurance company, Chubb, won't honor their claim. More radio and meida news. Hosted by Tom Roe.

6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.: "PiratesWeek: SWL Winterfest"
After the weekly Presidential Radio Address, this weekly listen to FM and shortwave pirate radio from host Ragnar Daneskjold in upstate New York. "Select postings from the Free Radio Network, HF Underground and note stations logged per the Free Radio Weekly. You may want to check out Shazam for music identification. Off Air Recordings include the stations of: Blue Ocean Radio, Radio Morania, Rave On Radio, The Big Q, European Music Radio. Keith Peron from PCJ Media talks about last years SWL Winterfest."

7 p.m. – 10 p.m.: "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?: Sequester"
News mash-up show from host Paul Fischer, who worked on Dan Rather's staff. This week: all the things being said about the sequester, gun debate, other stories.

8 p.m. – 11 p.m.: "William Rees, Rosary Beard"
Live performances. Live webstream for this, and most, shows at Spotty Dog Books & Ale available from free103point9 and WGXC at http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/spottydog.mp3.m3u. This show will be broadcast at live on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM. Saratoga-based guitar bands. Guitars will rule the evening, with a visit from these Saratoga-area slingers.

11 p.m. – 11:59 p.m.: "Some Assembly Required: The Art of Noise"
Episode 32 of mash-up show from host Jon Nelson. Featuring work by The Art of Noise, The Avalanches, The Bran Flakes, Steve Dirkx, Double Dee and Steinski, Kid Koala, Lecture on Nothing, Tim Maloney, Negativland, Realistic, David Shea/DJ Grazhoppa, The Tape-beatles and Wobbly.

March 3, 2013: 12:02 a.m. – 2 a.m: "Radio Stew: I-Sound"
Tune in two recordings from New York DJ I-Sound from the free103point9 Archives. First, from the "A Night of International Noise" Dec. 1, 2001 at the free103point9 space in Williamsburg. Then a NY Independent Media Center benefit July 4, 2002 on Brooklyn rooftop. Plus other recordings of Wasteland, I-Sound's duo with DJ Scud, plus some DJ Scud solo tracks.

4 a.m. – 4:30 a.m.: "Heart of Glass Stretched".
Blondie's "Heart of Glass" time-stretched into 30 minutes.

4:30 a.m. – 5:30 a.m.: "The Coming Drone Invasion"
John Whitehead on Civil Liberties and Drones.

5:30 a.m. – 6 a.m.: "CounterSpin: Nima Shirazi, Mitra Ebadolahi"
This is the 20th year of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's media analysis radio show, hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall, and Peter Hart. This week: Nima Shirazi on 'Argo,' Mitra Ebadolahi on domestic spying.