John Anderson at DIYMedia reports that Cumulus Media, in a yearly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, admits that no one cares about high-definition radio. The quote:

"On March 5, 2009, we entered into an amendment to our agreement to reduce the number of planned conversions, extend the build-out schedule, and increase the license fees to be paid for each converted station. At this juncture, we cannot predict how successful our implementation of HD Radio technology within our platform will be, or how that implementation will affect our competitive position."

"To my knowledge, this is the first time that a backer of HD Radio has been so forthright in a financial document about the tenuous nature of radio's digital transition," Anderson writes. Cumulus is the second-largest broadcast company in the United States (they just bought Citadel Broadcasting). Anderson does line up some other naysayers:
• "Radio World reported in 2009 that an informal survey of executives in charge of capital expenditures at broadcast conglomerates found many planned to delay their digital conversion campaigns."
• "Beasley Broadcast Group chief technology officer Mike Cooney confirmed that his company was backing down on 'HD conversions in the small markets and...putting money more in things that have a quicker return on investment for the capital money.'"
• "In 2009, Crown Broadcast reported that inquiries about HD-compatible equipment were virtually nonexistent."
Read the full story in DIYMedia.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth, from Wikipedia."][/caption]Henry Kenyon in Government Computer News reports that radio frequency interference in space is on the rise. "Stewart Sanders, chairman and director of the Space Data Association (SDA), said March 13 during a panel on orbital radio frequency interference issues at the Satellite 2012 conference in Washington [that] there are a number of reasons for this, and most are not related to intentional jamming.... Where it used to take highly advanced nations with highly trained personnel to launch and maintain satellites, technological developments have lowered the entry requirements for space, which has increased the number of players in orbit, he said." Sanders notes there is some intentional jamming, "such as recent attempts to jam Eutelsat transmissions, [but] this only represented about five percent of all detected interference, he said. From a commercial perspective, the vast majority of interference with satellite communications is created by human error, mostly from misaligned antennas and transmitters." Read the full story in Government Computer News.

The South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas hosted discussions about film, music, and, our concern here, media and radio. They have a long list of audio files of the different panel discussions, speeches, and events, including these media-centric files:

•"Public Radio is Media's Future": "Public Radio has leveraged its favorable licensing agreements, its hyperlocal outposts (sorry, "stations") and international muscle, to dominate the iTunes charts, develop smart APIs, and build audience, all on user-funded platforms. Jake Shapiro, the CEO of Cambridge-based Public Radio Exchange, is one of the people you need to listen to about this stuff." CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

• "Public Media & Digital Music Innovation": Public broadcasters have long played a vital role in media, providing citizens with independent information through universal entertainment. Publicly-funded organizations like CBC and NPR have championed new music, supporting artists that struggle to find audiences on commercial outlets and helping provide a test-bed for innovation. Free from the constraints of commerce, they have strayed into areas where private enterprise might otherwise thrive. Does this inhibit the economies of places where public broadcasters operate? Speakers: Ben Perreau, Jonas Woost

• "SOPA Media Coverage Dissected": How did print and online coverage of SOPA impact the public's understanding of this proposed legislation? What outlets were most aggressive in tacking this story? If the blackout had not occurred, would this story have gained the attention it eventually did? Also, how will proposed legislation such as SOPA impact the media -- and how does this potential impact color various media outlet's coverage? Speakers: Brian Stelter, Jake Bialer, Kim Hart, Stacey Higginbotham

Click here to sample many more workshops and speeches from SXSW. Carly Carioli rounds up other panels for journalists here.

Kim Tingley asks "Is Silence Going Extinct?" in a cover story in The New York Times Magazine. At Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve Tingley walks deep into the tundra, almost inside the Artic Circle. "Our destination was a ridge above Hines Creek, where [Davyd, the park’s physical-science technician] Betchkal planned to assemble a station to collect a month’s worth of continuous acoustic data documenting an intangible, invisible and — increasingly — endangered resource: natural sound. Our mission was not only to trap the ephemeral but also to experience it ourselves, which at the moment was impossible for three reasons: 1) the chafing of our nylon outfits; 2) the chunking of our military-issue Bunny Boots on ice; and 3) planes. 'If you’re on foot and you choose to focus on the natural quality of the landscape, you’re completely immersed in nature; nothing else exists,' Betchkal said. 'Then a jet will go over, and it kind of breaks that flow of consciousness, that ecstatic moment.' Then Tingley traces a history of noise:

"In his influential 1977 work, “The Tuning of the World,” the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer charts man’s relationship with noise. As long ago as 3000 B.C., he notes, the Epic of Gilgamesh discussed 'the uproar of mankind,' which aggravated the god Enlil. 'Sleep is no longer possible,' he complains to the other gods. In the second century A.D., wagon traffic 'sufficient to wake the dead' ruined the Roman poet Juvenal’s ability to rest between Satires. Many English towns were sequestering their blacksmiths by the 13th century, and Bern, Switzerland, passed its first law 'against singing and shouting in streets or houses on festival days' in 1628. Over the next 300 years, it also legislated against 'barking dogs,' 'singing at Christmas and New Year’s parties,' 'carpet-beating' and 'noisy children.' In 1972, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared noise a pollutant."

Read the full story in The New York Times Magazine.

Paul Thurst at Engineering Radio analyzes the Federal Communications Enforcement Advisory No. 2012-02, about jamming devices for Cellphones, GPS and WiFi which specifies fines in excess of $100,000 per incident. The advisory said:

"In recent days, there have been various press reports about commuters using cell phone jammers to create a “quiet zone” on buses or trains. We caution consumers that it is against the law to use a cell or GPS jammer or any other type of device that blocks, jams or interferes with authorized communications, as well as to import, advertise, sell, or ship such a device. The FCC Enforcement Bureau has a zero tolerance policy in this area and will take aggressive action against violators."

Thurst considers how most GPS jammers are being used: as privacy protection devices. "That set of people can range from truckers who don’t what their bosses to know every aspect of their journey, citizens concerned about GPS tracking devices on their vehicles, or ordinary people who don’t want the phone company tracking their every move via GPS enabled cellphones," he writes. He also notes that there's plenty of interference for the FCC to worry about: IBOC to analog adjacent channels, broadband over power line, electrical noise on the medium wave band, illegal 2 way radios on RPU frequencies, etc. "Of course, there is no money in those issues," he observes. He notes that the FCC isn't going to catch many truckers going 70 mph across interstate highways using small jamming devices. "Perhaps if the technology wasn’t so pervasive and readily abused by certain corporate and government entities, the desire to jam it wouldn’t exist," he concludes. Read the full story at Engineering Radio.

Sean M. Flaim in Ars Technica is worried the imminent "six strikes" Copyright Alert System, with major American ISPs sending out "strikes" to users accused of infringing copyrights online, violates antitrust laws. "Eight months ago, content owners and Internet service providers (ISPs) agreed to the Copyright Alert System, a "six-strike" plan to reduce copyright infringement by Internet users. Under the system, ISPs will soon send educational alerts, hijack browsers, and perhaps even slow/temporarily block the Internet service of users accused of online infringement (as identified by content owners)," he writes. "Congress is the body that writes laws affecting interstate commerce. Antitrust, at least in part, offers protection against private companies doing the same. Recent reports indicate that the alert system, until now off to a slow start, will soon start affecting Internet users. Once it does, regulators must look closely to make sure the system lives up to its main promise as an educational tool rather than a system of vigilante justice." Read the full column at Ars Technica.

Antoine Champagne at Counterpunch reports how Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime censors the internet, and retrieves logins and passwords of political opponents emails or Facebook and Twitter pages. "The technology is innocuously named 'deep packet inspection' (DPI). When someone sends an email, a series of servers relays it to its destination. Each server sends the message on to the next, looking only at the recipient’s address, and not at the contents," writes Champagne. The report implies the industry is growing. "The recent Wikileaks publication of numerous internal documents from these companies [making the spying equipment] shows that monitoring communication networks is, 'a secret new industry spanning 25 countries.... In traditional spy stories, intelligence agencies like MI5 bug the phone of one or two people of interest. In the last 10 years systems of indiscriminate, mass surveillance have become the norm.' A little earlier The Wall Street Journal had published more than 200 marketing documents from 36 companies offering the U.S. anti-terrorist agency various surveillance and computer hacking tools," he reports. See the full story in Counterpunch.

Adrian Chen at Gawker reports that the radio show "This American Life" is now retracting an episode that aired in January about labor practices at the Foxconn factory in China which make Apple products, and was based on the monologuist Mike Daisey's work "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs." In a statement, "This American Life" boss Ira Glass writes, "Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the fact checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast. That doesn't excuse the fact that we never should've put this on the air. In the end, this was our mistake." The show will devote this week's entire episode to the retraction. The episode in question told of Daisey's trip to Shenzen, China, where he claimed he met with workers who made Apple's iPad and iPhone. Chen writes, "A reporter for NPR's "Marketplace," Rob Schmitz, interviewed the translator Daisey used in China and she disputed some substantial facts, including two of the most dramatic moments of Daisey's story: When he claimed to have met a worker whose hand had been crushed by a machine that made iPad cases, and others that had been poisoned by a chemical used on the iPhone assembly line." On his own website, Daisey says he is not a journalist. "The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism. For this reason, I regret that I allowed "This American Life" to air an excerpt from my monologue. "This American Life" is essentially a journalistic ­- not a theatrical ­- enterprise, and as such it operates under a different set of rules and expectations. But this is my only regret." Read the full story at Gawker.

Megan Geuss in Ars Technica reports that RIAA chairman Cary Sherman said his association and a number of ISPs—including AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon, will, "begin policing traffic to crack down on piracy starting this summer." According to CNET, Sherman explained that, "each ISP has to develop their infrastructure for automating the system," and he gave July 12 as the "start date" for the traffic monitoring to start. Read the full story in Ars Technica.

The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) holds a blog salon on media policy and its importance to arts organizations all this week, ending Fri., March 16. Panelists so far include:
• Beth McConnell, Media and Democracy Coalition
• Joseph S. Miller, Media and Technology Institute, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
• Betty Yu, Center for Media Justice
• Former Commissioner Michael Copps, Federal Communications Commission (via the Benton Foundation)
• Anne Katz, Arts Wisconsin
Follow the blog salon on Namac.org.

While two months is not much of a sample size, the Federal Communications Commissions enforcement of pirate radio stations so far in 2012 shows fewer actions then this time in last year. There were 21 actions so far: no raids, six visits, and nine letters in the mail, four NAL for $65,000 and two fines for $11,000, according to DIYmedia's FCC Enforcement Database. Actions have taken place in just a few locations: Florida (6), California (4), Massachusetts (4), New York (4), Louisiana (2), and Colorado (1).

Scott Moritz of Bloomberg News (via the Denver Post) reports that LightSquared, a company developing a nationwide 4G LTE wireless broadband network, hired litigators Theodore Olson and Eugene Scalia of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher to fight the Federal Communications Commission. Olson is the former U.S. solicitor general under President George Bush (43). "Tests found that the company's proposed ground-based network would interfere with navigation equipment, including gear used by aircraft, according to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a Commerce Department arm that helps oversee use of airwaves advising the FCC," Moritz reports for Bloomberg. "Their decision to not allow us to go forward isn't supported by the law or technical policy. We are confident about that and we are eager to prove our case," Jeff Carlisle, LightSquared's executive vice president of regulatory affairs and public policy told the reporter. See the full story from Bloomberg News in the Denver Post.

Inside Radio reports that 241.2 million people aged 12+ or 93% of the population, according to Arbitron’s March 2012 RADAR National Radio Listening Report, tune in to the radio each week. Inside Radio says this is about where Arbitron reported listenership a year ago. While a large number of internet radio and other listening options compete for ears, radio remains ubiquitous. "Hispanic listeners 12+ grew by nearly two million compared to the March 2011 report, meaning radio reaches 95 percent of Hispanics 12+. Half of that increase was in the 18-49 demo. Black listeners aged 12+ also grew year over year (up by 391,000) with 93% of [the] Black population tuning in," Inside Radio reported.

Free Speech Radio News includes this eight-minute new story:

"In Nicaragua, a collective of women has elevated the community’s discussion of gender issues and they’re using radio as a platform. In the small town of Mulukuku, a radio station has tackled contentious issues like sexual identity, reproductive heath, and contraceptives in a community that is still recovering from the violence of the contra war and overcoming oppressive cultural norms. FSRN’s Lisa Matuska reports."

Listen to the news story at FSRN. 8:12

Michael Grotticelli at Broadcast Engineering reports on the variety of opinions in the comments the FCC asked for in regard to media ownership rules. A survey:
• The National Association of Broadcasters, "told the commission that its proposed modifications to the rules don’t go far enough. The broadcast lobby wants the FCC to allow duopolies in more markets, eliminate of the eight-voices and top-four stations tests, scrap local radio ownership limits, scrap the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rules, not count joint agreements toward ownership caps if it does preserve those rules and it should not increase disclosure requirements."
• Free Press, the public advocates, disagreed. “'The FCC has no business relaxing its ownership rules when it has shown it can’t even hold broadcasters to the letter of existing law,' said the Free Press in comments. 'The local TV ownership rule is supposed to promote competition between local stations, but some broadcasters are skirting the rules by entering into secret deals to combine local newsrooms and station operations. If it walks like a duopoly and talks like a duopoly, it should be treated like a duopoly under the Commission’s rules,'" Grotticelli reports.
• Gray Television, "noted the FCC’s implicit suggestion that broadband penetration must be 100 percent before the Internet will be included as a competitor to broadcast TV when it comes to ownership rule reviews. The company argued that the Internet is already having a major impact that the FCC has not taken into account," he wrote.
• The American Television Alliance, a coalition of cable and satellite operators, "told the FCC that it should enforce and tighten the media ownership rules because it has to 'prevent broadcasters from exploiting these rules to harm consumers.'
• ATVA, an advocate of retransmission consent reform, "said broadcast network 'interference' in retransmission negotiations hurts localism, that joint sales and services agreements are loopholes in the ownership rules that should be closed and that stations should be banned from affiliating with multiple networks in a market.'" Read the full story at Broadcast Engineering.

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The Canadian Space Agency turned on a web camera in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Sept. 20 last year, to raise awareness of the science of the Aurora Borealis as folks watch worldwide. It's partnership between the University of Calgary, the city of Yellowknife, Astronomy North, and the Canadian Space Agency. Sun spots create geomagnetic storms which in turn, put on dazzling aurora displays, like after last week's storms. Next year their should be maximum sun spots on the current 11-year cycle.

"Reflections on Floating Messages: conversations and music with Annie Gosfield" is this week's "Radia" program on free103point9, and other stations in the international network ("Radia" airs at 11:30 a.m. Saturdays on WGXC/free103point9). New York-based composer Annie Gosfield visited Sound Art Radio in England last November for a week-long residency to develop her new work, "Floating Messages and Fading Frequencies," based on the secret radio transmissions between British Intelligence and the Resistance movements in the Second World War. This show for Radia features extracts of the concert performances of "Floating Messages and Fading Frequencies" and "EWA7," and interviews with Annie Gosfield at Soundart Radio, with music performed by the Athelas Sinfonietta (Denmark), and the Annie Gosfield Trio, touring in the UK in November, 2011. "Floating Messages and Fading Frequencies" was produced by 3rd Ear productions, with the Arts at Dartington. Radio edit produced by Lucinda Guy, Chris Booth and Ariane Delaunois.

Annie Gosfield lives in New York City and divides her time between performing on piano and sampler with her own group and composing for many ensembles and soloists. Her work often explores the inherent beauty of non–musical sounds, and is inspired by diverse sources such as machines, destroyed pianos, warped 78 records, and detuned radios. She uses traditional notation, improvisation, and extended techniques to create a sound world that eliminates the boundaries between music and noise, while emphasizing the unique qualities of each performer. A 2012 fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, and the recipient of the 2008 Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ prestigious “Grants to Artists” award, Gosfield’s essays on composition have been published by The New York Times and featured in the book “Arcana II.” Active as an educator, she has taught composition at Princeton University, Mills College, and California Institute of the Arts.

Gosfield's "Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites" was developed with George Kentros, a violinist in Stockholm who commissioned her to write a piece for, "violin and something. The composition is scored for violin, accompanied by recordings of satellites, shortwaves, and radio transmissions. The static, sputter, and concealed melodies of these transmissions are echoed by the violin, which drifts between extended techniques and traditional writing for the instrument. Like a radio that is gradually losing and gaining reception, the music shifts between these two worlds, hovering between notes and noise, and ultimately drifts into faraway static.

Tune in live webcast of day two of the Federal Communications Commission workshop on "Spectrum Efficiency and Receivers," 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EDT from the Commission Meeting Room at FCC Headquarters in Washington, DC. Their description:

As part of the Commission’s efforts to enhance the use of spectrum for mobile broadband, the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology, in conjunction with the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and the Office of Strategic Planning will host a workshop on "Spectrum Efficiency and Receiver Performance." The workshop will be held on Monday, March 12, 2012 and Tuesday, March 13, 2012, in the Commission Meeting Room at FCC Headquarters in Washington, DC.

The role of receivers in enabling access to spectrum for new services implicates federal stakeholders, as well as the private sector. Receiver performance issues have often arisen as a conflict between legacy stakeholders and new entrants where deployment of new technologies and services threatens to adversely impact an incumbent or place restrictions on the new entrant. Past examples include interference issues between new cellular radio systems and public safety radio systems, satellite digital radio systems and proposed terrestrial data services, unlicensed WiFi systems and FAA weather radar systems, and ancillary terrestrial service on mobile satellite spectrum and GPS. The resolution of such matters has historically required a public process involving regulators, stakeholders and other parties. Because such discussions sometime begin upon the introduction of a new service or technology, full deployment of such new services could be hindered. New approaches to spectrum management focusing on spectrum efficiency and receiver performance may enable more assured deployment of new services and reduce the necessity for the involvement of regulators.

This two-day workshop will discuss the characteristics of receivers and how their performance can affect the efficient use of spectrum and opportunities for the creation of new services. Key topics will include current practices for receiver design, case studies involving interference due to receiver characteristics, and approaches for promoting interference avoidance and efficient use of spectrum, given the current receiver base and potential future deployments. The workshop will include perspectives from licensees, equipment manufacturers, component providers, and other interested parties.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="277" caption="Max Goldfarb's "Relay.""][/caption]free103point9 hosts, "Transmittal," a transmission arts exhibition of local New York artists and international radio artists, in Catskill, New York this spring. "Transmittal" is curated by Galen Joseph-Hunter, free103point9’s Executive Director and author of "Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves" (PAJ Publications: 2011.) Works include video, sound, radio, installation, performance, and work-on-paper. An opening for "Transmittal" will be held Saturday, April 28 from 5-7 p.m., and the exhibition is open from Apr. 27 through June 1 at the Greene County Council on the Arts Gallery at 398 Main St. in Catskill.

The exhibits include:

In "A Noospheric Atlas of New York," Brett Ian Balogh (Chicago, IL) maps the hertzian space created by the New York's mass media broadcast stations. This space is not definable in the traditional terms of the surveyed boundaries of state territories, but rather by electrical field strengths and consumer markets. Geospatial data provided by the Federal Communications Commission is rendered as translucent shapes whose color is determined by the type of service (AM/FM/TV).

With "Relay," Max Goldfarb (Hudson, NY) presents a grouping of Ambulant Transceivers, a series of handmade radio transceivers constructed from reconstituted radio-electronic components, housed inside vintage first-aid tins. The adjacent video, "Locations:Relay," represents an equally hand-made security system in the form of a community-watch perimeter check. The localized security network is cobbled together by many collaborating members of an unspecified village: each voice transmission attached to aerial imagery of the territory.

Sam Sebren (Athens, NY) presents "9/11-QVC," an off-air single-channel video work. On the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York City, Sebren videotaped himself toggling his television dial between news coverage in memorial of the attacks and a home shopping network’s regularly scheduled programming. Here Sebren “performs” with a palette of commercial television broadcast re-presenting these transmissions in a critical and reflective light.

"Fill," by Maria Papadomanolaki (New York, NY) is an interactive sound installation using low-power radio transmission. To experience "Fill," attendees will borrow a small radio transceiver and move about the space. Papadomanolaki’s microcast is designed to highlight the physical properties of her site-specific transmission. Gallery goers will observe distinct changes in what they hear based on their position and movement in the GCCA exhibition space.

Phillip Stearns (Brooklyn, NY) presents his work "Deluge," a sound and light installation that depicts the constant hum of anthropogenic electromagnetic radiation around us as a showering rain of light. A cloud of lights is created from numerous strands suspended from the ceiling. Each strand contains varying numbers of lights at varying lengths and is a visual representation of the sounds emanating softly from one of the many speakers located above. The sounds produced by the piece are sourced from real-time transmissions selected from the broad electromagnetic spectrum we use for radio communications: AM, FM, Short Wave, and Wireless frequencies.

Presented as listening stations, "Transmittal" also includes special selections from two recent international radio art exhibitions: Radio Arts Space by radioCona (Ljubljana, Slovenia), and Radio Boredcast co-commissioned by AV Festival 12 and Pixel Palace, hosted by basic.fm (Newcastle, UK).

GCCA exhibition 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.

"Transmittal" will be on view at the Greene County Council for the Arts Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414, from April 28–June 2, 2012. An artist talk and workshop schedule will be announced shortly.

The "Call for Papers" at the Trans-X Symposium, May 25 to 27 in Toronto, are due by March 15. New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) hosts the Trans-X Symposium and are now inviting proposals for papers (deadline: 15 March 2012). The description:

Rooted in the earliest experiments with radio, Transmission Art has continued to flourish with experiments with wireless communications technology over the past 100 years. The 21st Century is not excluded from this experimentation as artists have ventured into exploring a variety of mobile-based platforms and more lesser known forms of transmission such as VLF to name but a couple of recent examples. The terrain of transmission art is dynamic and fluid, always open to redefinition. With NAISA being a sound art organization, we ask the question, what new sound experiences are possible in the transmission and mobile media platforms? We would like the new artists of today to answer our challenge.

The 2012 symposium takes place at the end of May during the closing weekend of NAISA's Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. The Trans-X symposium will focus on transmission art, with particular interest in paper contributions that summarize, examine or reframe traditions and histories of transmission art practices, technology, education and pedagogy. Additionally, we are very interested in paper presentations that go beyond the local and contingent to give a sense of what new technologies of international transmission activity might sound like

The symposium will take place in Toronto at New Adventures in Sound Art’s facilities at the Artscape Wychwood Barns from May 25 to 27, 2012. As in preceding years as in the Radio Without Boundaries conference (this symposium's predecessor), the symposium will include workshops, panel discussions and performances during the final weekend of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. The 2012 edition of Deep Wireless will explore emerging trends alongside established traditions in radio and transmission art. At the heart of the symposium will be a keynote lecture by Galen Joseph-Hunter (New York, USA), author of Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves and Executive Director of free103point9.

All symposium contributions will be webcast live, and text proceedings will be published on-line on the NAISA web-site. Please see below for specific guidelines on paper submissions. We look forward to seeing you, your colleagues, collaborators and students in Toronto in May!

Important Information
Deadline for reception of proposals: Friday March 15, 2012 @ 11:59 PM EST
Notification of acceptance: Monday April 2, 2012
Symposium opening reception: Friday May 25, 2012 @ 18:00
Symposium sessions: Saturday May 26 to Sunday May 27, 2012
Deep Wireless Festival performances: May 25 and 26, 2012 @ 20:00
Symposium registration fees (General): $70 (includes admission to all concerts)
Symposium registration fees (Student): $35 (includes admission to all concerts)
Questions and requests for further information should be directed to: naisa@naisa.ca

Papers are to be presented in 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of questions and discussion. Proposals related to any aspect of transmission art practice are welcome. Please specify any and all technical requirements at the time of submission. Submit a 500-1000 word abstract, and a biography of 250 words or less, to the symposium’s Review Committee at: http://naisa.ca/transx-submit-piece.php

Review Committee:
Galen Joseph-Hunter, author of Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves
Anna Friz, post-doctoral fellow, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Gregory Whitehead, radio artist / co-editor of Wireless Imagination
Jonathon Guberman, Site 3 coLaboratory
Geoffrey Shea, OCAD University
Tetsuo Kogawa, Tokyo Keizai University

About NAISA and the Deep Wireless Festival
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is a non-profit organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its Toronto productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, Art's Birthday and SOUNDplay. NAISA has been producing the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art since 2002. NAISA is please to launch the first Trans-X Symposium, a new symposium on Transmission Art that furthers the explorations of its predecessor the Radio Without Boundaries conference (produced by NAISA 2003-2011) and focuses on the changing nature of Broadcast and Transmission in the 21st Century. The 2012 edition of the Trans-X Symposium has been made possible with funds from the Canada Council for the Arts.