Wave Farm Newsroom

The Wave Farm Newsroom includes news about all sorts of radio waves from around the world. The page also archives Wave Farm's organizational monthly email announcements. The WGXC Newsroom features extensive daily community news specific to New York's Upper Hudson Valley region.

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Friday

Mar

01

12:01 am

New music March 2013

Mar 01, 2013 12:01 am • admin

[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/80969681" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Mike Shiflet, ""02.26.13" [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/761313...

Wednesday

Feb

27

1:01 am

Webinars to help start a LPFM station

Feb 27, 2013 1:01 am • admin

Prometheus Radio Project hosts three webinar's for individuals and groups who want to learn more about starting low-power FM radio stations. Webinars will be Wed., Feb. 27, 8 - 9 p.m. ET; Wed., March...

Tuesday

Feb

26

3:56 pm

Radia 413: Native by Renata Roman for Resonance FM

Feb 26, 2013 3:56 pm • admin

This week's episdoe of "Radia" is "Native" from Renata Roman from Resonance FM. "Radia" is a network of international stations interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, a differ...

Tuesday

Feb

26

3:36 pm

$20 phones, with radio and a month-long battery

Feb 26, 2013 3:36 pm • admin

Nokia 105 phone with flashlight and FM radio, $20, month-long battery life (standby time).

Monday

Feb

25

4:51 pm

China waging war via airwaves

Feb 25, 2013 4:51 pm • admin

China is increasingly being cited in the media for using transmission technologies to attack a variety of Western countries. Reuters reported Mon., Feb. 25 that shortwave radio broadcasts in English f...

Monday

Feb

25

4:19 pm

Tune in telepathy radio

Feb 25, 2013 4:19 pm • admin

On the occasion of the new Matmos concept album about telepathy, free103point9 presents an audio maze through mind-reading."ESP, "Brain Radio," and more from Matmos, and also songs from Swans ("Telepa...

Sunday

Feb

24

6:31 pm

Wave Farm begins prepping for public opening in July

Feb 24, 2013 6:31 pm • admin

Justin Down's "Will o' the Wisps" installation at free103point9's Wave Farm in Acra, New York, is getting an overhaul. Gearing up for the spring season, engineer Justin Downs works on site at Wave F...

Saturday

Feb

23

1:56 pm

'The Numbers Station' movie due in April

Feb 23, 2013 1:56 pm • admin

The Cold War-era practice of reading numbers into a radio transmitter ad nasuem, to embed a code, is now a major motion picture. John Cusack and Malin Ackerman star in "The Numbers Station" thriller...

Saturday

Feb

23

12:03 pm

New music for February 2013

Feb 23, 2013 12:03 pm • admin

Co La, "Melter's Delight" from "Moody Coup" due May 7, 2013. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Aaron Dilloway - Wierd 2013 from (((unartig))) on Vimeo. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Aaron Dilloway perf...

Friday

Feb

22

5:30 pm

Saturday on free103point9 and WGXC 90.7-FM

Feb 22, 2013 5:30 pm • admin

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., Feb. 23: midnight – 12:05 a.m.: "Radio News...

Wednesday

Feb

20

12:01 pm

Shortwave radio used as setting in cheese commerical

Feb 20, 2013 12:01 pm • admin

Velveeta thinks it will sell more "cheese" by identifying with/making fun of amateur radio? Weird.

Monday

Feb

18

3:49 pm

Radia 412: Fresh Air by The Dublin Laptop Orchestra

Feb 18, 2013 3:49 pm • admin

"Fresh Air" is a large-scale sound art piece curated and created by the Dublin Laptop Orchestra. The piece was written to address the sad truth that many common, household and automobile air-freshener...

Saturday

Feb

16

3:18 pm

February 2013 new music

Feb 16, 2013 3:18 pm • admin

!!!, "Slyd" from "Thr!!!er" due out April 29, 2013. [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/70726224" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Black Pus (Lightning Bolt dr...

Monday

Feb

11

10:25 pm

Zombie apocalypse on Montana television station's EAS announcement

Feb 11, 2013 10:25 pm • admin

This week, Montana television station KRTV was overtaken by some sort of pirate signal, that triggered an Emergency Alert System announcement of a zombie attack during the "Steve Wilkos Show." Gawker...

Monday

Feb

11

10:04 pm

Tribute to Donald Byrd

Feb 11, 2013 10:04 pm • admin

Overnight, from midnight to 6 a.m. Tue., Feb. 12, on free103point9 and WGXC, a special tribute to jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd. Byrd died Feb. 4. From midnight to 5 a.m. tune in the jazz, the collaborat...

Sunday

Feb

10

10:21 pm

Radia 411: "Promaja" by Beatrice André for Kanal103, Skopje

Feb 10, 2013 10:21 pm • admin

On the path of a word "Promaja," the draft, is not a draft in the Balkans. This sound is a search, a search made as a draft, a draft running from language to language, from country to country, slapp...

Sunday

Feb

10

3:36 pm

February 2 solar flare

Feb 10, 2013 3:36 pm • admin

[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/77964303" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Disruption to radio waves caused by the February 2 solar flare. Recorded via radio te...

Friday

Feb

08

3:12 pm

Saturday, February 9 on free103point9 and WGXC 90.7-FM

Feb 08, 2013 3:12 pm • admin

On Saturdays free103point9 Online Radio airs on WGXC 90.7-FM in the Hudson Valley in New York. Tune in for transmission art, radio theatre, creative composition, acoustic ecology, noise, free jazz, an...

Wednesday

Feb

06

12:51 am

Sam Green and Yo La Tengo: The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller

Feb 06, 2013 12:51 am • admin

From The Kitchen's website, where this will play April 9-10."'The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller' is a new “live documentary” by Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground...

Tuesday

Feb

05

12:21 am

Phillip Glass opera about Walt Disney premieres with webcast

Feb 05, 2013 12:21 am • admin

Composer Philip Glass debuts his latest opera, "The Perfect American," about Walt Disney's final months. The opera premieres at Feb. 6, 2013, 2 p.m. Madrid time at the Teatro Real de Madrid. Click her...