FREE103POINT9 ONLINE RADIO

Now Playing

Special Programming: Thu.11.20.08

All times ET (-5 GMT)
Ends and Entries 8 a.m., 11 p.m.
_Sound art series from Radio Grenouille.
Radia 2 p.m.

FEATURED PROJECT

New FM radio station

Community radio station for Greene and Columbia counties in NY

free103point9 recently won a license for a 3,300-watt community radio station on 90.7-FM. The new station will feature community access to the airwaves on weekdays and Sundays, with shows about topics such as the arts, schools, seniors, the environment, hunting, agriculture, and news. Evenings will feature DJs mixing in webcasts live from local town meetings, high school sports championships, performances, lectures, workshops, and other events from upstate venues. Late nights and Saturdays, the station will feature radio art, and other experimental sounds. Read more about the FM radio station project here, including how to volunteer, propose a show, make a donation, or otherwise get involved.

FEATURED GRANT

Distribution Grant

For New York State artists

free103point9 is pleased to announce the 2009 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists providing support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. This grant is for completed works only. Funding is available from free103point9 through a regrant from New York State Council on the Arts' Electronic Media and Film Program. Seminars about the grant in NYC Nov. 13 at Electronic Arts Intermix (with live and archived web stream) and Dec. 4 in Catskill, NY at the Greene County Council for the Arts.

TRANSMISSION ART RADIO

Around the clock radio art
including these free103point9 Transmission Artists

• 31 Down
• Alexis Bhagat
• Matt Bua
• Damian Catera
• Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson
• The Dust Dive
• Joshua Fried
• Anna Friz
• Max Goldfarb
• Tianna Kennedy

• Latitude/Longitude
• Sophea Lerner
• LoVid
• Todd Merrell
• Michelle Nagai
• neuroTransmitter
• ben owen
• Radio Ruido
• Tom Roe
• Michelle Rosenberg
• Scanner

Archived free103point9 live recordings, other radio art, and works from free103point9's roster of transmission artists play continously on a 128kbps web stream.

FEATURED DISPATCH

Giant Ear))): Inside/Out NYC

Since May 2005, the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE) has presented Giant Ear))) at 7 p.m. each Sunday on free103point9 Online Radio, webcasting field recordings, interviews, and compositions by sound artists. "Inside/Out NYC" presents New York City sound works culled from approximently two years of Giant Ear))) shows. Members Andrea Callard, Jonny Farrow, Edmund Mooney, Andrea Polli, and Andrea Williams produced this CD. Marc Foxman, David Watson, Michelle Nagai, Ben Owen, and Geoff Dugan also appear on the CD.

FEATURED WEBCAST

Astronome: A Night at the Opera

Wednesdays, Nov. 26-Jan. 21
10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Director Richard Foreman and musician John Zorn team up for "Astronome: A Night at the Opera" opening next year at Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Watch video feed of rehearsals and see how Foreman develops this production. Tune in at to this page every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 26, 2008-Jan. 21, 2009 live from the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in Manhattan. No rehearsals Dec. 24, 2008. Show opens in 2009.

SUPPORT/GET INVOLVED

Support, Intern, Volunteer!

Help free103point9 launch a new FM radio station and new radio art

Support from individuals enables free103point9's public programs and the cultivation of Transmission Arts. free103point9 is a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt organization. free103point9 also welcomes equipment donations. Internships and volunteer positions are available in upstate New York for the Greene/Columbia radio station project as well as free103point9's Study Center initiative which includes artist correspondence, research, and digitizing and cataloguing archive materials. Volunteer and become part of an extraordinary community that makes all that free103point9 does possible. In the city, volunteers assist with the planning and running of the festivals and workshops, which take place at the Ontological Theater, as well as special projects organized throughout the five boroughs.

FEATURED DISPATCHES

Radio Action III and Receiver

free103point9's latest Dispatch Series titles include Radio Action III from the free103point9 transmission artists, and Evidence's Receiver. Radio Action III (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 034) features five-minute sounds works conceptually tied to 'radio' as instrument or theme, composed by free103point9 Transmission Artists working in collaborative teams. The Dust Dive team with Latitude/Longitude, and Scanner, Anna Friz, Michelle Nagai, LoVid, Ben Owen, Radio Ruido, and others contribute to this CD. Evidence (Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood) created their new CD "Receiver" (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 035) through a 2007 residency at Wave Farm, where they broadcast a performance on several adjacent frequencies.

FEATURED RADIO LAB

Radio Education Program

2009 workshops

free103point's Radio Labs provide participants with the technical skills and historical/theoretical grounding pertinent to transmission media in hopes of fostering creative expression within and with the transmission spectrum.

free103point9 is currently planning several Radio Lab workshops for 2009. Four workshops will be held at the Ontological Theater in Manhattan. Others will be held in Greene and Columbia counties in upstate New York, where free103point9 is starting a community FM radio station and will be holding workshops to create citizen journalists and reporters. These workshops will be held at the Catskill Community Center, the Cairo Public Library, Germantown Community Farm, and other locations. Tune in to a webcast Radio Lab at 2 p.m. Dec. 29 on the topic of "Making Recordings: Digital Journalism for Community Radio."