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Today on the show I get to sit down with Galen Joseph-Hunter. She has served as Executive Director of Wave Farm since 2002. Wave Farm is an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. Wave Farm cultivates creative practices in radio and supports artists and nonprofits in their cultural endeavors. Based in New York's Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a media arts center, arts service organization, and media outlet operating WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears.Over the past two decades, she has organized and curated numerous exhibitions and events internationally, including "Wave Farm (in residence)" for TuftsPUBLIC at the Tufts University Art Galleries (2018-2019).She was the co-organizer of “Groundswell” an annual exhibition event featuring broadcast, performance, sound, and installation works by contemporary artists conceived within the 250 acres of the Olana State Historic Site from 2013 to 2015.In 2015 and 2016 she curated the Columbia University Sound Arts MFA spring exhibitions.She has produced numerous radio programs for Wave Farm's WGXC and stations internationally including "Climactic Climate" for Kunstradio Vienna (2015).In 2019 and 2020, she organized and led the "Radio for Open Ears" workshop series with 16 and 17 year-olds incarcerated in the Hudson Correctional Facility through CreativityWorksNYS.Galen is the author of the book “Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves” (PAJ Publications: 2011,) as well as "Transmission Arts: the air that surrounds us" (PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, September 2009: MIT Press).Previously, Galen worked closely with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), serving as Assistant Director and then Executive Consultant and now sits on their advisory board. She is the administrator of Regrant Programs with the New York State Council on the Arts and has served as a panelist/reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Experimental Television Center, Meet The Composer, New Music USA, Harpo Foundation, and the Greene County Council for the Arts, among others. Galen also lends her time on the Board of Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood, the Board of Montez Press Radio and is a founding Board Member of New Ear Inc, a New York City-based organization formed in 2024 in response to the energy and success of the New Ear Festival and the spatial sound series CT::SWaM.We get to speak about all of the inspiring work Wavefarm is connected with and supporting including the expanding work in correctional facilities, the newly announced residencies for 2025 and a special upcoming event on May 29th at Hi-Way Drive-In Theatre, Coxsackie, NY featuring Eno on 4 Screens + Fred Frith+ Eucademix (Yuka Honda). We get a peak into Galen's personal life and how turning 50 has her reflecting.Here's your Mystic Mamma Neptune in Aries wisdom and Tanaaz's report on this big shift into Aries.Today's show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org.Our show music is from Shana Falana!Feel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND IThttp://iwantwhatshehas.org/podcastITUNES | SPOTIFYITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-want-what-she-has/id1451648361?mt=2SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/77pmJwS2q9vTywz7Uhiyff?si=G2eYCjLjT3KltgdfA6XXCAFollow:INSTAGRAM * https://www.instagram.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast/FACEBOOK * https://www.facebook.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast
WGXC is a partner station of Hudson Mohawk Magazine, broadcasting in Greene and Columbia County. WGXC is the broadcasting channel out of Wave Farm, an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. Hudson Mohawk Magazine's Sina Basila Hickey visited the organization, located in Catskill and Acra, to meet up with their Programming Manager Meredith Kooi.
Radios in the trees, a transmitter in the pond, and a weather-driven synth. These are just some of what you’ll find on The Wave Farm, a 29-acre property in New York’s Hudson Valley dedicated to radio and transmission arts. It’s anchored by community radio station WGXC, accompanied by a cornucopia of additional tiny terrestrial and […] The post Podcast #278 – The Wave Farm Grows Transmission Arts (rebroadcast) appeared first on Radio Survivor.
Radios in the trees, a transmitter in the pond, and a weather-driven synth. These are just some of what you’ll find on The Wave Farm, a 29-acre property in New York’s Hudson Valley dedicated to radio and transmission arts. It’s anchored by community radio station WGXC, accompanied by a cornucopia of additional tiny terrestrial and […] The post Podcast #278 – The Wave Farm Grows Transmission Arts (rebroadcast) appeared first on Radio Survivor.
You can't see them, but the skies above New York City hold a tangle of transgressive, culture-bearing radio signals. They're sent from secret rooftop transmitters and pulse imperceptibly across the five boroughs, bringing familiar sounds to simple FM radios in homes and shops throughout tight-knit immigrant neighborhoods. These underground stations are often called pirates for broadcasting on the FM band without a government-issued license.In this episode, we're sharing excerpts from an event at Interference Archive in July, which featured a conversation between David Goren and Joan Martinez. The event was presented in relation to our summer exhibition, Resistance Radio: The People's Airwaves, which looked at the history of radio as a medium for grassroots movements and their organizing work. David Goren is an award winning radio producer and audio archivist based in Brooklyn, NY. He's created programming for the BBC World Service, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Wall Street Journal magazine, NPR's Lost and Found Sound series, On the Media, and Afropop Worldwide as well as audio-based installations for the Proteus Gowanus gallery, and the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective. In 2016 he was an artist-in-residence at Wave Farm, a center for the Transmission Arts. Over the past two years David has released “Outlaws of the Airwaves: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD” for KCRW's Lost Notes Podcast and The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map which was featured in The New Yorker Magazine. Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map: www.pirateradiomap.com/ David Goren’s audio documentary, “New York City Pirates of the Air”: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p076bp3y “Outlaws of the Airwaves: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD”: www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/lost…radio-station-wbad Joan “Radio Free Joanie” Martinez is a Brooklyn-born-and-raised Haitian-American. She attended Brooklyn College twice as an undergrad and is currently working on her Master's Thesis about “pirate radio” in Brooklyn. She's laid the groundwork to becoming a successful on-air talent as a podcast host. Pegged as opinionated since a teenager and a smart alec, she brings a perspective that is usually elusive to the diaspora– a female voice that represents the children of Haiti's “Lost Generation.” She straddles two worlds–the traditional Haitian household and an American growing up in America. She is an enigma at first. Her last name confuses the people she tries to talk to–she's often pegged as a Latino that just happens to know Haitian-Kreyol. But after a minute of talking to her, people are at ease and fascinated that she is Haitian-American. She speaks the language though her name is Latino and her citizenship is American. Some are still standoffish to her and brush her off. She remains resilient however, a trait found in the Haitian people. They thrive from adversity and feed off obstacles. She is the product of her environment and brings this to her radio broadcasting. Produced by Interference Archive.
You can’t see them, but the skies above New York City hold a tangle of transgressive, culture-bearing radio signals. They’re sent from secret rooftop transmitters and pulse imperceptibly across the five boroughs, bringing familiar sounds to simple FM radios in homes and shops throughout tight-knit immigrant neighborhoods. These underground stations are often called pirates for broadcasting on the FM band without a government-issued license.In this episode, we’re sharing excerpts from an event at Interference Archive in July, which featured a conversation between David Goren and Joan Martinez. The event was presented in relation to our summer exhibition, Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves, which looked at the history of radio as a medium for grassroots movements and their organizing work. David Goren is an award winning radio producer and audio archivist based in Brooklyn, NY. He’s created programming for the BBC World Service, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Wall Street Journal magazine, NPR’s Lost and Found Sound series, On the Media, and Afropop Worldwide as well as audio-based installations for the Proteus Gowanus gallery, and the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective. In 2016 he was an artist-in-residence at Wave Farm, a center for the Transmission Arts. Over the past two years David has released “Outlaws of the Airwaves: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD” for KCRW’s Lost Notes Podcast and The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map which was featured in The New Yorker Magazine. Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map: https://www.pirateradiomap.com/ David Goren's audio documentary, "New York City Pirates of the Air": https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p076bp3y "Outlaws of the Airwaves: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD": https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/lost-notes/outlaws-of-the-airwaves-the-rise-of-pirate-radio-station-wbad Joan “Radio Free Joanie” Martinez is a Brooklyn-born-and-raised Haitian-American. She attended Brooklyn College twice as an undergrad and is currently working on her Master’s Thesis about “pirate radio” in Brooklyn. She’s laid the groundwork to becoming a successful on-air talent as a podcast host. Pegged as opinionated since a teenager and a smart alec, she brings a perspective that is usually elusive to the diaspora– a female voice that represents the children of Haiti’s “Lost Generation.” She straddles two worlds–the traditional Haitian household and an American growing up in America. She is an enigma at first. Her last name confuses the people she tries to talk to–she’s often pegged as a Latino that just happens to know Haitian-Kreyol. But after a minute of talking to her, people are at ease and fascinated that she is Haitian-American. She speaks the language though her name is Latino and her citizenship is American. Some are still standoffish to her and brush her off. She remains resilient however, a trait found in the Haitian people. They thrive from adversity and feed off obstacles. She is the product of her environment and brings this to her radio broadcasting. Produced by Interference Archive.
Wave Farm Executive Director Galen Joseph-Hunter joins us to talk about transmission arts at Wave Farm and beyond. We discuss Wave Farm’s recently co-presented Reveil, SoundCamp’s live 24-hour broadcast of the sounds of daybreak, sourced from open microphones from around the world. Additionally, Joseph-Hunter gives us the scoop on the new Radio Artist Fellowship at […] The post Podcast #193: Wavefarm, Reveil and Transmission Arts appeared first on Radio Survivor.
Wave Farm Executive Director Galen Joseph-Hunter joins us to talk about transmission arts at Wave Farm and beyond. We discuss Wave Farm’s recently co-presented Reveil, SoundCamp’s live 24-hour broadcast of the sounds of daybreak, sourced from open microphones from around the world. Additionally, Joseph-Hunter gives us the scoop on the new Radio Artist Fellowship at […] The post Podcast #193: Wavefarm, Reveil and Transmission Arts appeared first on Radio Survivor.
Radios in the trees, a transmitter in the pond, and a weather-driven synth. These are just some of what you’ll find on The Wave Farm, a 29-acre property in New York’s Hudson Valley dedicated to radio and transmission arts. It’s anchored by community radio station WGXC, accompanied by a cornucopia of additional tiny terrestrial and […] The post Podcast #151 – The Wave Farm Grows Transmission Arts appeared first on Radio Survivor.
Radios in the trees, a transmitter in the pond, and a weather-driven synth. These are just some of what you’ll find on The Wave Farm, a 29-acre property in New York’s Hudson Valley dedicated to radio and transmission arts. It’s anchored by community radio station WGXC, accompanied by a cornucopia of additional tiny terrestrial and […] The post Podcast #151 – The Wave Farm Grows Transmission Arts appeared first on Radio Survivor.
Liner notes: Cut Atom Splice [02:18]. Sound is a carrier of information. Vibration is the message. Frequency is the mindfulness meditation.- AJ Ptak
Liner notes: Elusive MoMA 2009 [00:39]. Live impromptu performance at MoMA. Sound is a carrier of information. A weekday afternoon in 2009, with permission sound amplification provided ny MoMA. - AJ Ptak
Liner notes: Bumper Outro [01:00]. Credits. Thank you. Sound is a carrier of information. Vibration is the message. Frequency is the instruction.- AJ Ptak
Liner notes: Break Beat Egg 2014 [00:03]. Session material with Ann Hairston. Sound is a carrier of information. - AJ Ptak
Liner notes: Acrosyntactic, Post Traumatic System 2007 16:17. Live theremin interference noise performance at the Stone NYC, curated by Elliott Sharp. Live concert recording 8 bit mono. Sound is a carrier of information. - AJ Ptak
Water Has Nothing To Say And Neither Do I is a site-specific sound piece for treated boat and radio. Taking inspiration from treated piano techniques developed by John Cage, sound artist Anthony Janas treated a 25 foot sailboat with hydrophones and contact microphones and processed them through a modular synthesizer, creating the base recording used for this episode. During the course of the vessel’s journey from the Adler Planetarium to the 31st Street Beach, the water, waves, and wind "performed" the piece—with Janas acting as the conductor of the ship. A radio broadcast antenna placed on the vessel transmitted the performance to the audience on shore. Audience members were provided with handheld radios and were encouraged to walk up and down the shore to observe the boat from afar, listening to the interactions of their environment with the composition produced on the vessel. The recording of this event was transformed by additional synthesizer treatments into a collaborative, meditative sound piece, substituting "we" for "I" and offering a new take on Janas' 2016 Transmission Arts project.