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Triangulation 7-9 p.m.
_Radio Ruido live from Brooklyn.

FEATURED PROJECT

New FM radio station

Community radio station for Greene and Columbia counties in New York

free103point9 recently won a license for a 3,300-watt community radio station on 90.7-FM. The new station will be a community-run media project, re-envisioning radio as an innovative platform for local participation. Our inclusive programming will connect diverse voices, and distribute information across the public spectrum in New York's Greene and Columbia Counties. Read more about the 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
• Brett Ian Balogh
• Alexis Bhagat
• Matt Bua
• Damian Catera
• Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson
• The Dust Dive
• Joshua Fried
• Anna Friz
• Max Goldfarb
• Ann Heppermann + Kara Oehler

• 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.

ONLINE ARCHIVE

Artists, Works, Audio, Video, Photos

Browse the online digital components of free103point9's Wave Farm Study Center, with access to the non-profit's collection of recordings, transmission artworks, and ephemera. Flyer by Violet Hopkins, from the first free103point9 event from March 7, 1997 in Brooklyn.

The free103point9 Online Archive Project is made possible, in part, through a Digitization grant administered by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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.

Tune in to a next Radio Lab, a video webcast at 2 p.m. Dec. 29 on the topic of "Making Recordings: Digital Journalism for Community Radio."