RADIO ART: ONLINE & ON-AIR

John Cage's Radio. Photographer: Emily Martin. Courtesy of the John Cage Trust.

free103point9 Transmission Arts Radio This online radio stream plays new and historical works by transmission artists, including live and archived performances from free103point9 public programs, as well as fringe music and sound such as experimental dub, free jazz, avant folk, turntablism, noise, new composition, generative sound, field recordings, and more.

WGXC 90.7-FM features transmission art programming Saturdays and late nights, and creative community radio thoughout the program schedule.

CREATIVE & COMMUNITY RADIO

WGXC Launch Postcard. Designed by Cara Turett.

WGXC 90.7-FM, now serving over 78,000 potential listeners.

WGXC: HANDS-ON RADIO is a creative, community-run, media project, re-envisioning radio as an innovative platform for local participation. Our inclusive programming connects diverse voices, and distributes information across the public spectrum in New York’s Greene and Columbia counties.

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT: JULY 23

Transmission Arts
Artists and Airwaves

Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves features 150 artists notable for their sonic, visual, and live works spanning early radio experiments of the 1880s up to the present. The volume is organized in sections dealing with performance, composition, installation, broadcast, public works, and interactive network projects. This unique publication places "transmission arts" in historical context, laying the groundwork for the definition of a new art genre.

Galen Joseph-Hunter, with Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki. PAJ Publications (June/July 2011). In association with free103point9. Pictured: Matthew Burtner's feedback (2000). Photo: David La Spina.

AIRTIME: BERTUCCI AND BEAR

ExiTrip

Lea Bertucci and Ed Bear's ExiTrip breathes new life into the iTrip Nano FM device as a self-contained open-source hardware platform for subversive/creative acts.

AIRTIME: ZACH LAYTON

Megawatt Mind

Megawatt Mind will manifest as a series of experimental transmissions of brainwave sonifications created in real-time during meditation sessions in the broadcast studios of free103point9/WGXC.

AIRTIME: PHILLIP STEARNS

Deluge

Deluge is a sound and light installation that depicts the constant hum of human-made electromagnetic radiation around us as a shower of raining light.