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Free for La Superette 2007
Various artists
(AD033)

free103point9 staff and volunteers contribute tracks for free downloadable release on the occasion of La Superette 2007, the annual New York art fair. Mp3s, free.

False Rosetta
Radio Ruido
(AD032)

Radio Ruido's second 7" single project is a double 33 rpm homage to spy numbers stations. Release show Dec. 14 at Front Room Gallery in Brooklyn. 2x7", $10 US, $12 foreign.

Solar Filters/Mother Evening
Latitude/Longitude
(AD031)

Seven-inch 33 rpm single from Brooklyn avant-folk band and free103point9 transmission artists Latitude/Longitude. To be released later in 2007. 7", $7 US, $9 foreign.

QSL Serial
Max Goldfarb
(AD030)

In the QSL serial, a narrative unfolds, spanning a century of the wireless emergency networks of amateur radio. It is a story told through images of disaster and invasion, conveyed by QSL cards; notational documents mailed by post to confirm radio contact. QSL cards, $20 US, $22 foreign.

Tens of Thousands
The Dust Dive Flash
(AD029)

All songs written and performed by Laura Ortman (violin, vocals, electric guitar, piano, chord organ, casio). "Solo" record from Dust Dive member Ortman, recorded by Martin Bisi at BC Studio in Brooklyn. CD, $8 US, $10 foreign.

Wave Guide
(AD028)

In conjunction with free103point9's education initiative, Radio Lab, Wave Guide presents core-curriculum texts on transmission as a creative medium, how transmitters work, and the history of broadcasting. Wave Guide is available as both a printed and electronic textbook. Essays and interviews with Gregory Whitehead, Edward Miller, Thomas H. White, Sarah Lippek, and others. Book, $10 US, $12 foreign.

Crossed Circuits
Tom Roe, Matt Bua, 31 Down, Scanner, Damian Catera, Michelle Nagai, Ben Owen, Matt Mikas, Melissa Dubbin + Aaron S. Davidson, and Tianna Kennedy.
(AD027)

free103point9 Transmission Artists contributions to the synesthesia exhibition Crossed Circuits at Hogar Collection in Brooklyn, spring 2005. This CD features artists listed above. Exhibition also featured works by Pasqualina Azzarello, Cecilia Biagini, Tim Dowse, Mckendree Key, Facundo Newbery, Clifford Owens, Matt Pass, Lee Ranaldo, Todd Rosenbaum, and the free103point9 Transmission Artists listed above. CD, $8 US, $10 foreign.

Tune(In))) The Kitchen
31 Down, Peggy Ahwesh + Barbara Ess, Ben Owen, Damian Catera, Scanner, Teach(In)))
(AD026)

Selections from free103point9's Tune(In))) The Kitchen, April 22, 2004 at The Kitchen, New York in conjunction with the city wide festival New Sound, New York. Tracks include entire sets from Peggy Ahwesh + Barbara Ess and Scanner, and excerpts from Ben Owen and Damian Catera, a 31 Down public service announcement with instructions for the event, and an excerpt from a Teach(In))) with high school students the following day. CD, $8 US, $10 foreign.

Radio 4x4 at 'Rock's Role (After Ryoanji)'
Gabriel Burian-Mohr + David Galbraith + David Matorin + Andrew Neumann
(AD025)

free103point9 DVD release for Radio 4x4 at 'Rock's Role (After Ryoanji)' at Art in General in Manhattan May 8, 2004 featuring Andrew Neumann + David Galbraith + Gabriel Burian-Mohr + David Matorin. This hour-long performance features the four sound artists each playing into an FM transmitter, with radios around the room playing the sounds. The mic moving among the radios "mixes" this Radio 4x4 performance. DVD, $10 US, $12 foreign.

Private Sectors
Skyline
(AD024)

Skyline's third full-length release highlights the group's latest uncategorizable exploration of groove/noise/improv dialectical synergy. A nine-track case against genre specificity featuring J.B. (rhythmscapes), Damian Catera (guitar, electronics), DJZ (turntables) and V.O. (lo-end pulsations). Produced by John Baird and Damian Catera. CD, $8 US, $10 foreign.

N.R.A. Recorded Live at OfficeOps
N.R.A.: Tatsuya Nakatani + Vic Rawlings + Ricardo Arias
(AD023)

Live recording of this trio from free103point9's Assembled: Free Jazz + Electronics, June 26, 2004 at OfficeOps in Brooklyn. CD, $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

Asleep or Awake Walk
The Dust Dive
(AD022)

The Dust Dive (Laura Ortman: acoustic/electric piano violin; Ken Switzer: vocals; Bryan Zimmerman: vocals) release their first CD, 12 songs. CD, $6USD US + $2USD S+H, $6USD + $6USD S+H foreign via Paypal.

New Jack Swing
Seth Price
(AD021)

This album is the second in Seth Price's Distributed History project, which uses the mix-tape form to examine the just-past, putting pop's cast-offs to work in order to sketch a redemptive cultural history. CDR, $6USD US + $2USD S+H, $6USD + $6USD S+H foreign via Paypal.

Radio Action II
Radio Ruido + Loula Nasaroff, Keith Obadike, Matt Bua, The Dust Dive, Sabers, Marcel Blum, Tom Roe, Joshua Fried, Matt Mikas, 31 Down, Hepatitis Youth, Mammal, Ben Owen, and Christof Migone
(AD020)

Various artists using radio as an instrument and/or theme. Cover art by Takeshi Murata CD, $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

Scape 2
Scanner, Michelle Nagai, Aaron S. Davidson + Melissa Dubbin, Damian Catera, Radio Ruido, Matt Mikas, Matt Bua, Tom Roe, neuroTransmitter, Matt Bua, and Ben Owen
(AD019)

Sound works in the key of d at 60 bpm for "Scape 2" show at Flux Factory with other works in d at 60 bpm on two CDs each with the exact same tracks meant to be played on two systems at once. 2xCD, $10USD US, $12USD foreign via Paypal.

Interactive Audio Response Kit
Matt Mikas
(AD018)

Twin vinyl composition based on acknowledged consent to appropriate and reinterpretate its parts or the whole. Out of print.

Graduation
Nels Cline + Chris Corsano + Carlos Giffoni
(AD017)

The trio performed this live set 05.17.03 at free103point9's "Radio, Radio" show at OfficeOps in Bushwick. B-side of record features Giffoni remix. Cover drawing by Meerk Puffy. LP, $10USD US, $12USD foreign; CD $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

Noise Noir
31 Down
(AD016)

Radio theater group 31 Down, led by Ryan Holsopple, release a collection of live recordings from performances at various free103point9 events. CD $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

Seed and surgery
Sapat and The SB
(AD015)

Recorded live at the free103point9 Gallery on September 13, 2003. Free noise performers Sapat come from Louisville, Kentucky, and the performance on Seed and surgery features free jazz legend Roy Campbell, Jr. The SB is a New York-based music collective that experiments with audio intermodulation and sympathetic resonance, alternately producing strange attractors, unstable drones, standing waves, and complex fields of interference. CD $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

flipbook
Eli Joseph-Hunter
(AD014)

A hand tunes an old radio in this artist dispatch flip book from Eli Joseph-Hunter. Book $10USD US, $12USD foreign via Paypal.

Industrial Fist
Seth Price
(AD013)

This album is the third in Seth Price's Distributed History project, which uses the mix-tape form to examine the just-past, putting pop's cast-offs to work in order to sketch a redemptive cultural history. This one takes on industrial music; other projects have covered video game sounds and new jack swing music. Cassette $13USD US, $15USD foreign; CD $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

Dado Blade
Aaron Davidson, Jared Ashburn, Melissa Dubbin, and Shawn Onsgard
(AD012)

Individual tracks from four experimental composers and improvisers. CD $11USD US, $13USD foreign via Paypal.

Tune(In)))
Sybarite, Carlos Giffoni, Matt Valentine + Erika Elder, 100% Storms Ensemble, 31 Down, Skyline, Transmaniacon MC and Michelle Nagai
(AD011)

CD of live performances from free103point9's Tune (In))), March 1, 2003 at NY Center for Media Arts. Performers played into transmitters, rather than amplifiers, and attendees listened on six frequencies through radios with headphones. CD $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

Tune (In))) Catalogue
various writers, designers
(AD010)

Includes Matt Mikas essay and biographies of over 60 artists including Cooper-Moore, James Fei, Carlos Giffoni, Matt Valentine and Erika Elder, Dan Brown, Broklyn Beats, End, Donna Summer, I-Sound, Gregory Green, SK-Pades, DJ North Guinea Hills, The SB, Double Leopards, David Brandt, Nam June Paik, Kristin Lucas, and many others. CD $5USD US, $7USD foreign via Paypal.

Breakdown
Tom Roe and A Forma Foma
(AD009)

Split 7" single tackles two very different versions of Tom Petty's "Breakdown." Out of print.

Radio Action I
Monotract, Neptune, the SB, Laundry Room Squelchers, Tom Roe, Transmaniacon MC, 31 Down, Seth Price, Aaron Davidson + Melissa Dubbin, Tantrums, Dymaxion, Japanther, Jimmy Winchell, Damian Catera and Matt Mikas + Barry London + Brad Truax + Jeremy Glover
(AD008)

Sound works using radio as an instrument or theme. CD $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

The Archivist
various artists
(AD007)

Subscriber-only CD. Out of print.


Sightings
Sightings
(AD006)

Live recording from the Brooklyn-based band Sightings, from a performance 01.18.02 on free88point7 with Neptune, Suran Song in Stag, Big Boote, and DJ Gregory at free103point9 Gallery. CD $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

Of The Bridge
Matt Bua + Matt Mikas + Tom Roe
(AD005)

Collaboration between three sound artists who live and work next to the Williamsburg Bridge. Bua, Mikas and Roe use found sounds from the Williamsburg Bridge, with sounds of their own creation and samples from Sonny Rollins' "The Bridge" song. (Rollins woodshedded on top of the Williamsburg Bridge in 1961 and then released his heady "The Bridge" album.) Of The Bridge is both a CD-R (with Quicktime movie) and a vinyl LP with lock-groove elements. LP, $10USD US, $12USD foreign; CD $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

From Pieces...
various artists
(AD004)

The title From Pieces... is taken from the cover painting by artist/drummer Chris Millstein. This dispatch features several recordings from recent and historic free103point9 recordings from members of the Gold Sparkle Band, Neel Murgai and others, along with six originals from Matt Bua's Suitcase Orchestra. CD $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

Sprung
various artists
(AD003)

Collection with several songs from Seth Price, plus recordings from free103point9 studios with Tom Roe, Ryan Holsopple, Matt Mikas and others, with recordings from SYCOM studio in Tampa, Florida. CD $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

Constructive Engagement
various artists
(AD002)

Made during the World Economic Forum and adjunct protests early in 2002 from recordings at recent protests in Philadelphia, Tampa, Los Angeles and at the WEF. Includes recordings of Radical Cheerleaders, Billionaires for Bush or Gore, and more. Performances from Tom Roe, Kelly Benjamin, Matt Mikas, Barry London, and others. LP, $10USD US, $12USD foreign; CD $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

Audio Dispatch 01
various artists
(AD001)

On Nov. 29, 2001, artists Damian Catera, Russ Waterhouse, Fritz Welch, and members of Japanther, Home, the Gold Sparkle Band and Nautical Almanac, and others unloaded their tool kits and plugged into free103point9. Although one mixer was never heard from again, a CD was mixed a few days later by London Fog, Count Zero, Matt Bua, and DJ Dizzy. CD $8USD US, $10USD foreign via Paypal.

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