"Very Large Green Triangles (Edit)" from Matmos from forthcoming Thrill Jockey Records album.

"Today's Supernatural" is the first single from Animal Collective's new album Centipede "Hz," out Sept. 3 on Domino.

"Caught On Tape" from Thurston Moore and John Moloney, on Feeding Tube Records.

Bryan Eubanks live @ Studio Soto, Boston, MA, August 9th, 2012. from Keith Fullerton Whitman on Vimeo.

Bryan Eubanks live at Studio Soto, Boston, MA, Thu., August 9, 2012.

From MIT Tech TV:

"This talk will analyse the sonic and affective turns that have appeared relatively recently in both contemporary art practice and current critical thought from the standpoint of what Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi has termed “semiocapitalism.” Though the attention to sound and affect is typically held to be a remedy to the excesses of the past few decades (occularcentrism, the preoccupation with discursivity, and the persistence of form, to name but a few), affect is precisely that which contemporary capitalism in its financialized form exploits as a productive force. Are the sonic and affective turns, then, actually extensions of semiocapitalism? Michael Eng’s areas of research include sound, philosophy of the image, philosophy and architecture, and post-Heideggerian aesthetic theory."

Speaker: Michael Eng, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio.

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="370"] Japanther, in the Wave Farm Study Center during their free103point9 artist residency.[/caption]

Japanther perfom Tue., Aug. 7 in Albany at Valentine's, and they started the day at midnight on WGXC. The Brooklyn duo of Ian Vanek (drums), and Matt Reilly (bass) are artists-in-residence this week at free103point9's Wave Farm in Acra. The group made a WGXC station ID/theme song that you can listen to here. Japanther is an art project, established by Reilly and an Vanek, then students at Pratt Institute, who played many shows with free103point9 in the late 1990s. Japanther was featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and the 2011 Venice Biennale, and has collaborated with artists such as gelitin, Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, Dan Graham, Eileen Myles, Kevin Bouton-Scott, robbinschilds, Dawn Riddle, Claudia Meza, Todd James, Devin Flynn, Ninjasonik, Anita Sparrow and Spank Rock.
PLAY INTERVIEW WITH JAPANTHER 7:43
PLAY JAPANTHER'S WGXC STATION ID 3:27
PLAY JAPANTHER AND FRIENDS TWO-HOUR SET

Joshua Fried's "Radio Wonderland" airs every Saturday at 10:30 a.m. on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM in upstate New York. Fried's show samples and remixes the radio he receives in Brooklyn. Controllerism recently interviewed Fried:

"Earlier this year, we met up with artist, composer and controllerist mastermind Radio Wonderland to see a demo of his custom, radio-based live rig and ask him a few questions. During the demo, he shows us the basics of his live show, some custom software and his mind boggling hardware, hacked from everyday objects!"

From C-Span:

"Because of great strides in the television marketplace, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is taking a fresh look at the twenty-year-old Cable Act on Tuesday. The hearing, chaired by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), discussed changes in television technologies over the past two decades. It focused on examining the effectiveness of the Must-Carry law, a 1992 law currently in place for the cable industry. The Must-Carry law requires a variety of local broadcast stations to be viewed on pay-TV platforms. Today’s Must-Carry rights were enacted by Congress in the 1992 Cable Act, which the Supreme court upheld in 1997. Congress then found that cable systems have an “economic incentive” to alter their local broadcast signals and that, without Must-Carry rules, broadcasters' viability is jeopardized. Tuesday's hearing was a follow-up to the Committee's April 24 meeting on the future of online video. That hearing examined the effect that new technologies have on the existing television and cable market and the business models that are growing the cable industry. Top cable and broadcasting executives, as well as law experts testify. Witnesses include Melinda Witmer from Time Warner Cable; Martin Franks of CBS; the National Association of Broadcasters' Gordon Smith; Colleen Abdoulah from Wide Open West!; Gordon Smith from the American Cable Association; law professor and former Disney Washington executive Preston Padden; along with Mark Cooper from the Consumer Federation of America."

Watch full video here, with list of speakers.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="600"]"Habits of Imagination" at the Suffolk Street Community Garden on the Lower East Side of New York, with radio transmissions from free103point9 Sun., July 22, 2012. [/caption]free103point9 fired up several FM transmitters for "Habits of Imagination" at the Suffolk Street Community Garden on the Lower East Side of New York Sun., July 22, 2012. Presented for the Undergroundzero Festival, in association with free103point9, "Habits of Imagination" was an outdoor public installation/performance using live broadcast radio and audience interaction in a celebration of John Cage’s one hundredth birthday. Directed by Shannon Sindelar; Sound Design by Erik T. Lawson; Text by Frank Boudreaux; Performed by Lindsay Mack and T. Ramon Campbell.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400"] Jeff Kolar, first resident at Wave Farm in New York, explains his "Ringtones" project to an assembled audience. Photo by Tom Roe.[/caption]Chicago-based radio and sound artist Keff Kolar was the first sound artist in residency at Wave Farm since the new free103point9 Study Center opened last month. Kolar worked on a "Ringtones" project during his stay that should produced a free103point9 Audio Dispatch in the fall. Kolar produces the "Radius" series that airs the fourth Saturday of the month at 2 p.m. on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM in upstate New York.

The Macktez Summer Stipend is a grant for creative development. Each year we try to reach out to the many junior designers, interns, and other creative individuals we come across every day for whom a little extra cash could be the difference between a great idea and a great, finished project. We have a simple set of criteria: originality, relevance, and conviction. And we’d prefer a project already underway that $1000 would push across the finish line. This year we’ll also be relying on our esteemed panelists’ guts and good sense: David Israel, Roanne Adams, Douglas Morris, Dean Crutchfield, Bethany Koby Santiago Matheus, Jeffrey Zeldman. If you can sell them on your great idea, you’ll get $1000 from Macktez to make it happen. It’s that simple.

Applications open June 18th. Apply online at www.macktez.com/stipend by July 27th.

The UnionDocs Collaborative Studio (CoLAB) is a one-year program for a select group of 12 emerging media artists from the US and abroad. Based in one of NYC’s most exciting neighborhoods, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, UnionDocs offers a platform for exploring contemporary approaches to the documentary arts and a process for developing a collaborative project. The program consists of weekly production meetings, seminars, screenings and other public programs, along with regular masterclasses and critiques with visiting artists. Key benefits include:

- Dynamic interaction among a network of talented peers.

- Direct exchange with visiting artists and industry experts.

- A structured environment for research and experimentation.

- Mentoring on the production of original work and regular group critique.

- Exhibition opportunities for the year's collaborative project.

The CoLAB represents a new and alternative fellowship model, offering residency and visa support for six participants coming from abroad and an equal number of spots for local, non-resident participants. It is designed to be affordable and, although participants are asked to make the UDC their primary creative focus, the schedule does accommodate full-time or freelance work. Rather than applying with a project proposal or rough cut, all participants are selected on the basis of previous work and enter the program at square one, open to discovery and fresh connections. The CoLAB has presenting original work at premiere venues such as MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, the Harvard Film Archive, the Visible Evidence Conference, Camden International Film Festival, Hot Docs, and Direktorenhaus, Berlin, among other venues. We expect a very competitive group of applicants, representing some of the most exciting emerging talents in documentary.

http://www.uniondocs.org/uniondocs-collaborative/

The U.S. House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing on Wed., June 6, 2012, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building titled, "The Future of Audio."
Witnesses
• Mr. Ben Allison, Bassist/Composer and Governor, New York Chapter, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
• Mr. David M. Israelite, President and CEO, National Music Publishers’ Association
• Mr. Cary Sherman, Chairman and CEO Recording Industry Association of America
• Mr. Jeff Smulyan, Chairman, President, and CEO Emmis Communications
• Mr. Steven W. Newberry, President and CEO, Commonwealth Broadcasting Corp.
• Mr. Tim Westergren, Chief Strategy Officer and Founder Pandora
• Mr. Christopher Guttman-McCabe, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs CTIA
• Mr. Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association

Filmmaker Jon Nealon has a Kickstarter campaign to finish a documentary about the group Videofreex. First based in Manhattan, and funded by both CBS television and Abbie Hoffman, the video collective moved to Lanesville (in the Town of Hunter, near the Ulster County border), in Greene County in the 1970s. Nolan says the group plans a fall reunion, when the film may be completed. Click here to listen to the complete interview with Jon Nealon, conducted by Tom Roe.
PLAY ENTIRE INTERVIEW 15:48

From Wikipedia:
The Videofreex were a pioneering video collective who used the Sony Portapak for counter-cultural video projects from 1969 to 1978. They were founded in 1969 by David Cort, Curtis Ratcliff and Parry Teasdale, after Cort and Teasdale met each other at the Woodstock Music Festival. They were based out of a 17 bedroom house in the Catskill Mountains named the Maple Tree Farm. Michael Shamberg, author of Guerrilla Television and founding member of TVTV remarked that “The Freex are the most production oriented of the video groups […] in terms of finished, cleanly edited, high quality tape, which is generally quite entertaining, the Videofreex are clearly the best.” Mirroring the beliefs outlined in Guerrilla Television they believed they could turn the medium of television, at the time dominated by The "Big Three" Television Networks, into a more democratic medium and in 1972 they launched the first pirate TV station, Lanesville TV, using a transmitter given to them by Abbie Hoffman. The Videofreex Archive, containing more than 1,500 original tapes, is housed at the Video Data Bank (http://vdb.org). Work is underway to preserve important titles from the Archive and make them available through distribution. Samples of the group's work is available on the Videofreex YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/videofreex)

• "The 7 dirty words’ mid-life crisis"
Paul Riismandel at Radio Survivor reports that this week marks the 40th anniversary of the recording of "Class Clown," the George Carlin album that contained the "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." (Radio Survivor)

• "Songs of War"
Tristan Chytroschek's report for Al Jazeera English talks to composer Christopher Cerf, whose work for "Sesame Street" has been used to torture prisoners by U.S. forces. (Al Jazeera)

• "House Approves FCC Reform Bill"
John Eggerton in Broadcasting & Cable reports the U.S. House of Representatives Wed., May 30 approved by voice vote the Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act of 2012 (HR 3310). "That is the broadcaster and cable-backed bill that would, among other things, require the FCC to conduct a biennial survey of the state of competition in the marketplace that it publishes online and submits to Congress," Eggerton writes. "The FCC already conducts a quadrennial (originally biennial) reg review. But unlike that process, in this review, the FCC would be required to take into account competition from the Internet. The bill, which was backed by Reps. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and House Communications Subcommittee Chair Greg Walden (R-Ore.), would consolidate eight separate congressionally mandated reports into that single report." (Broadcasting & Cable)

• "Finding the 'English Man' numbers station while scanning for pirates"
SWLing Post reports: "While listening for pirate radio stations last night, I recorded a numbers station. I found it on 6,949 kHz at 1:30 UTC, 26 May 2012. It was broadcast in USB for almost exactly ten minutes." Full recording at link. (SWLing Post)

• "The domestic dissemination ban probably won't be relaxed. Now will it be enforced?"
Kim Andrew Elliot reports about Reps. Mac Thornberry and Adam Smith’s amendment to a bill in the U.S. Congress repealing the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, and allowing domestic propaganda. "The version of the defense appropriations bill that passed through markup in the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday afternoon does not include an amendment to 'strike the current ban on domestic dissemination' of propaganda says Glen Caplin, Communicaitons Director for New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who is a member of the committee. (Kim Andrew Elliot reporting on International Broadcasting)

• "Fox, CBS, NBC Sue Dish Network Over AutoHop Ad-Skipper"
Matthew Belloni reports: "Dish also files suit in New York against all four broadcast networks. At issue is PrimeTime Anytime, a service that allows consumers to skip television ads." (The Hollywood Reporter)

• "$2000 FCC Fine for Recording Telephone Conversation Even Though the Conversation was Never Broadcast"
David Oxenford reports: "According to the Notice of Apparent Liability issued by the FCC, the recording was stopped after the radio station announcers identified who they were, and the person who was called said that he did not want to be recorded. What was taped was essentially the station employees calling the individual and saying hello, saying that they were from the radio station, telling the individual that he was being recorded, and the individual telling the employees to stop recording - which they immediately did. The recording was ended before anything substantive was said, and it was never broadcast on the air. (Broadcast Law Blog)

• Robert Moog's birthday
May 23, 1934-August 21, 2005
From Wikipedia: "Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog (pronounced /ˈmoʊɡ/ MOHG), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. Bob Moog's innovative electronic design is employed in numerous synthesizers including the Minimoog Model D, Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus Bass Pedals, Moog Minitaur, the Animoog ios app, and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals." (Wikipedia)


C-Span Video of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) criticizing the Federal Communications Commission's alleged lack of transparency just before 11 a.m. EDT on the U.S. Senate floor.

• "Grassley slams FCC on Senate floor over LightSquared"
John Eggerton at Broadcasting & Cable took the agency to task, "over the waiver it initially issued to LightSquared, and over the documents it did not initially release about how that waiver was granted." Grassley recently lifted his hold on the nominations of FCC Commissioners Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworce. Watch the 11-minute speech above via C-Span. (Broadcasting & Cable)

• "Free Press criticizes NAB decision to challenge political file Order"
Free Press advocacy group criticizes movie by National Association of Broadcasters on Tue., May 22 to file a petition with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the Federal Communications Commission's April order requiring broadcasters to put their political file information online.
Free Press Senior Policy Counsel Corie Wright made the following statement:
“This is nothing more than an attempt by the NAB to stall an important and overdue transparency initiative. The FCC decision to put the political files online will bring broadcasters into the 21st century, and will make already public information more easily accessible to everyone. The FCC made the right decision and is on firm legal ground.” (Free Press)

• "Channel Sharing Workshop"
The Federal Communications Commission held a workshop for broadcasters considering channel sharing, moving their place in the radio spectrum, to free up spectrum for more users. (FCC)

Watch Cell Tower Deaths on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

• "Cell tower deaths"
Frontline and ProPublica investigate subcontracting that allows for in experienced climbers on towers. (Frontline)

• The Whitney Biennial closes May 27; includes transmission art
At Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Includes:
John Kelsey, "Depesrsion, Impoetnce," 2012.
Kelsey repurposed found language from spam emails for these “poems,” which he presents on paper featuring the old Whitney Museum insignia, the eagle. The lists of names indicate the emails’ senders, the titles are drawn from the subject lines, and the “stanzas” consist of the seemingly random, cut and pasted content of the messages. (Whitney Museum)

• "Pietro Riparbelli: Three Days of Silence"
Richard Allen at A Closer Listen profiles field recordist Pietro Riparbelli and his "Three Days of Silence" project, recording at Tuscany’s “mountain of the Stigmata.” He tunes in the third day. (A Closer Listen)

Video from Ende Tymes Festival at Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn May 18-19. More video at link.

• "Demonstration of the Changes to the Antenna Structure Registration (ASR) System"
FCC meeting Mon., May, 21, 2012, video archive of live webstream (FCC)

• "Live webstream of 16th Annual Webby Awards"
Hosted by Patton Oswalt. 5:30 p.m. EDT, Mon., May 21, 2012. (Webby Awards)

• "The Next Big Thing in Digital News Innovation"
Live webcast, 10:30 a.m., Tue., May 22 (Paley Center)

The Federal Communications Commission held a meeting about low-power FM and the translator issue, Wed. May 16. On the Thu., May 17 edition of "Turn On the News," free103point9 listens to the question and answer session from that meeting.

"BBC Radio: We have to bring back younger listeners
Matthew Lasar at Radio Survivor reports that young people are not listening to the British Broadcasting Company. "The amount of time spend listening is falling across all youth groups, Friend noted, dropping 0.9 percent for ages 15 through 19; 1.0 percent for ages 20-24; and 0.6 percent for ages 25-29." He posts this video with BBC interactive music expert Mark Friend about the company's youth strategy. (Radio Survivor)

"Broadcast Engineers: A Dying Breed?"
John Anderson at DIYMedia breaks down a Society of Broadcast Engineers report that says there are fewer broadcast engineers these says, thanks to radio consolidation and the Telecommunications Act of 1996. "Nearly three-quarters (73.9%) of working SBE members are 46 years old or older; the average age of an SBE member is 54," he writes. (DIYMedia.net)

"Scientists Say Ambient Noise Affects Creativity"
Enrico de Lazaro in Sci-News reports on a study from business students at the University of Illinois published online in the Journal of Consumer Research, that shows, "a moderate-level of ambient noise (about 70 decibels, equivalent to a passenger car traveling on a highway) enhances performance on creative tasks and increases the likelihood of consumers purchasing innovative products." Too much noise, at 85 decibels for instance, limited creativity and purchasing, the study found. “It turns out that around 70 decibels is the sweet spot. If you go beyond that, it’s too loud, and the noise starts to negatively affect creativity," said Ravi Mehta, a professor of business administration at the University of Illinois. (Sci-News.com)

"The future of international broadcasting"
Amanda Pfeffer reports on the international state of international broadcasting. (RCI)

Radio returns to pop culuture
• "Corporate FM" movie aims to track industry after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 debuted in April at Kansas City Film Festival, faces June 2 Kickstarter funding deadline. Trailer above. (www.fmfilm.com)
• French film out there now called "Radiostars," about three DJs on road trip. (YouTube)
• New radio on the TV: "Go On," with Matthew Perry of “Friends” as a radio host trying to deal with the loss of his wife by attending a counseling group; and “Next Caller,” from NBC next fall, with a foul-mouthed D.J. (Dane Cook) forced to host show with a young feminist fresh from NPR, both new TV shows next fall. (The New York Times)

Headlines
• "FCC Commissioners Sworn In" Jessica Rosenworcel is the new Democratic commissioner, is taking over for her former boss, Michael Copps, while Ajit Pai took the Republican seat formerly held by Meredith Attwell Baker. (Broadcasting & Cable)
• "Stonehenge's eerie sounds revived" British researchers release technical analysis of Stonehenge sounds. (MSNBC)
• "CTIA Calls on President to Light Fire Under Government Spectrum Reclamation" Corporate wireless wants more spectrum. (Broadcasting & Cable)

free103point9 interview:
Interview with Kristin Thomson from the Future of Music Coalition, about their new report, "Does Radio Matter?" WGXC's Sara Kendall, Noah Reibel, and Melinda Braathen interview Thomson about musicians and the radio. Here's an excerpt from the report: "There’s been a shift in perceptions about broadcast radio. Some observers and music fans say that “nobody listens to the radio anymore,” suggesting that radio is overrated or unnecessary in a landscape that now includes Twitter, YouTube, iTunes and Spotify. But is this true? For musicians in 2012, does radio still matter?"

Two recent stories about cell phone disconnects: one, not getting any rural service led to two deaths, and another about a cell phone company refusing to help police find an unconscious man because of an unpaid bill:

Lissa Harris in The Watershed Post rounds up the now-national coverage of the deaths of an elderly couple in Andes, who died from lack of cell phone service. The story was trumpeted by The Daily News Friday, May 11, a week after the accident, and then an Associated Press story ran in The Washington Post and other papers. From The Watershed Post:

Arthur and Madeleine Morris, a Manhattan couple who owned a vacation home on Woodland Hill Drive in Andes, died near their own property after their car slid off the driveway and over an embankment on the afternoon of Thursday, May 3. But neither was injured in the crash. New York State Police investigator Alan Ferrara told the Watershed Post this week that Arthur had died of asphyxiation, probably after he tried to get out of the car and slipped. Madeleine walked to a neighbor's house in an effort to get help, but sustained a head wound while walking through the woods, and died of exposure during the night.The Daily News reports that Madeleine tried to dial 911 on her cell phone nine times:

Nine times, the call would not go through — so the panicked seniors tried to escape themselves, with disastrous results. Arthur, 88, was smothered trying to crawl out of the Ford Fusion, while brave wife Madeleine, 89, trekked to a road but died of exposure after a rainy night under a tarp.

Read the full story at The Watershed Post.

Nancy Schaar at Ohio's Times Reporter writes:

A 62-year-old Carrollton area man was found unconscious and unresponsive Thursday morning during an intense search overnight by Carroll County sheriff deputies, an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper and the patrol’s airplane. [Sheriff] Williams said he attempted to use the man’s cell phone signal to locate him, but the man was behind on his phone bill and the Verizon operator refused to connect the signal unless the sheriff’s department agreed to pay the overdue bill. After some disagreement, Williams agreed to pay $20 on the phone bill in order to find the man.

Read the full story in the Times Reporter.