All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (Radia Version) is a transmission work that is an extension of the work done for Maximilian Goldfarb’s Deep Cycle (2010). The piece is composed of a series of maps that trace a path through all Radia Network stations in Europe. The maps are then encoded to sound through a protocol for transmission of images over radio known as slow-scan television, or SSTV (in this case, Robot 72s Color). The piece re-interprets the solid as air through the processes of encoding, transmitting, receiving and decoding the map. Through this process, the physical and imagined boundaries depicted on the map become distorted through their interaction with the actual space they intend to represent.

Distortion in image due to sstv encoding/transmission/reception/decoding over a broadband link. Terrestrial radio broadcast/reception can introduce more and varied distortions of the original information.

Brett is a Chicago-based artist working at the intersection of objects, sounds and spaces. He received his Masters of Fine Arts in Studio from the Department of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his Bachelor in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology, teaching courses in architecture, computer-aided design and manufacturing, do-it-yourself broadcasting and acoustics. Brett is also a free103point9.org transmission artist and a 2009-2010 airtime fellow.

Collaborations between international radio artists and local birds and frogs at free103point9’s Wave Farm in upstate New York are considered together in a long collage. Transmissions are picked up by all sorts of radios and microphones, and mixed with works by Tom Roe, Maria Papadomanolaki, Scanner, Evidence, Stars Like Fleas, and Feathers. Day turns to night, and back into day, in this audio documentary of radio art made at Wave Farm.

A composition made from the imagined and actual intercepted fields of electro-magnetic and acoustic signals in and around my apartment in Toronto, Canada. This piece seeks to express some of the wireless action surging daily on site. I am particularly interested in the relative flatness and depth perceivable in both acoustic and Hertzian space, and in the diminishing horizon in the city as a result of urban design and an exponential increase in wireless infrastructure (or electro-magnetic clutter). Additional filters include mason jars, theremin, ring modulator, staged interference, and delay. This show is best enjoyed on headphones, for those listening online.

This 28-minute program for the Radia network profiles free103point9’s recent “Radio Action III” project. “Radio Action III” is a special program for Radio Web MACBA and a free103point9 Audio Dispatch CD. RWM is a radio-phonic project on the MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) website that explores the possibilities of the internet and radio as spaces of synthesis and exhibition. Radio Action III features five-minute sounds works conceptually tied to ‘Radio’ as instrument or theme, composed by free103point9 Transmission Artists working in collaborative teams. This program features tracks from The Dust Dive and Latitude/Longitude; Tom Roe and Scanner; Joshua Fried and Todd Merrell; neuroTransmitter; and 31 Down and Matt Bua.

Radia is hosted by rotating members of Radia Network including free103point9 (NYC) and Radio Campus, Radio Grenouille, Kanal 103, Lemurie TAZ, Orange 94.0, Resonance FM, Tilos Radio, Radio Zero, Radio Panik, bootlab, InterSpace, and Orf Kunstradio. Airs Thursdays on free103point9 Online Radio, 2-2:30 p.m. (ET, -4 GMT). http://www.radia.fm.

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Joshua Fried contributes free103point9’s latest show for the Radia network. The Radio Wonderland slogan is “turning the bits and bytes of commercial culture into the driving backbeat to our dance of independence.” (Wait a a minute–doesn’t THAT sound like an ad right there? Oh, the recursion is making us dizzy.) Every Radio Wonderland show starts with an empty palette, and all sounds are gathered from a live boombox playing commercial FM radio. All processing is done in Max/MSP software written by Joshua Fried. And all the processing is controlled in real time by Fried, using a vintage steering wheel (from a Buick 6), old shoes hit with sticks, and various gizmos. The surreal touch of using these ordinary objects is meant to underscore the absurd disconnect between digital controller (drum pad, mouse, infra red) and the sound it triggers or controls. This live recording was made in February ’08 at the Spark Festival, Minneapolis Minnesota. The 35 minute raw material was condensed and gently remixed by NYC producer DJ Easy Beat.

Four members of Brooklyn’s August Sound Coalition brings audio recordings and experiments celebrating winters past, lamenting their loss, their mayhem and attempting to conjure their precipitate evidence in all its forms. Tianna Kennedy is free103point9’s Brooklyn operations manager.
Audio file is also available at:
http://www.free103point9.org/events/1905/

“The Dispatcher: Carrying Green” is a political satire and comedy set in the near future by Kristin Lucas. New York City is nicknamed The Big Orange after decades of relentless government-issued orange alert status. The play chronicles the day-to-day engagements of a radio dispatcher for hire (private contractor of the airwaves). Among dispatch clientele are a neighborhood vigilante patrol of canine-identified humans formed out of a therapeutic support group. They call themselves the Sniff Squad. Commissioned by 6th Werkleitz Biennale taking place September 1 – 5, 2004 in Halle (Salle), Germany for this year’s festival theme Common Property. Written and directed by Kristin Lucas. Sound recording by Tom Roe at free103point9 studio in Brooklyn, New York. Animals of the Bible of San Antonio and Zom Zoms of Austin provided the music. Cast includes Theodore Bouloukos, Edward Campbell, Lori Fine, Erzen Krupka, Kelly McNeill, Jens Rasmussen, Wendy Levy, and Celestina Wolcolo. Kristin Lucas received her BFA from Cooper Union in New York in 1994. She has been screening and exhibiting work in the US and abroad since 1996. Her sci-fi distopias and conspiracy theories balance seriousness with humor, and have resulted in video, internet, sculpture, performance, text, and installation works. Lucas’s works are represented by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and Postmasters Gallery in New York. Lucas taught performance and video art at University of Texas in Austin in Spring ’04. She currently resides in the Bay Area where she is pursuing a Masters degree at Stanford University.
Language: English
Topics: Arts, Medias, Entertainment and Leisure, Information & Media
Additional keywords: radio theater, radio play, radio art, transmission art

Three examples of free103point9’s Radio 4×4, where four performers play into four FM transmitters heard through radio receivers.

Excerpts of performances from Gabriel Burian-Mohr + David Matorin + David Galbraith + Andrew Neumann at Art in General in New York, Tianna Kennedy + Ben Owen + Michelle Nagai + Todd Merrell at Guggenheim Museum, and Tom Roe + Steve Boyle + Angel Neveraz + Valerie Tevere at Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.