2010/2011 AIRTIME FELLOWS

free103point9 is pleased to announce the 2010/2011 AIRtime Fellowships:

Lea Bertucci and Ed Bear: eXiTrip breathes new life into the iTrip Nano FM device as a self-contained open-source hardware platform for subversive/creative acts.

Zach Layton: Megawatt Mind will manifest as a series of experimental transmissions of brainwave sonifications created in real-time during meditation sessions in the broadcast studios of free103point9/WGXC.

Phillip Stearns: Deluge is a sound and light installation that depicts the constant hum of human-made electromagnetic radiation around us as a shower of raining light.

CREATIVE & COMMUNITY RADIO

WGXC: HANDS-ON RADIO is a community-run media project. Over 78,000 potential listeners will be able to receive WGXC’s FM signal in New York’s Greene and Columbia counties, on 90.7-FM (launching in 2010.)

FEATURED OPPORTUNITY/GRANT

Distribution Grant for NYS Artists

NEXT DEADLINE: OCTOBER 31, 2010

This funding opportunity provides support for the exhibition and distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. Funding is available from free103point9 through a regrant from New York State Council on the Arts' Electronic Media and Film Program. Grant awards assist artists in making works available to public audiences. Artists may request funding support up to a maximum amount of $10,000. Successful grantees are also awarded the opportunity to work with a project mentor who will offer guidance as grantees execute their distribution and exhibition plans.

FEATURED ARTIST/WORK/EVENT

WGXC/Prometheus Radio Project Station Barnraising

Sept. 24 – 26, 2010
Hudson, NY

This September, Prometheus Radio Project and WGXC will hold Prometheus's 12th community radio barnraising. Radio barnraisings are weekend-long radio and movement-building events. Individuals from the local community, participatory media advocates, and artists from around the country will converge in Hudson, NY to share ideas, experiences, and skills in the launching of WGXC's full power community radio station.

RADIO ART: ONLINE & ON-AIR

free103point9 Transmission Arts Radio recently played:

FEATURED DISPATCH RELEASE

Brett Balogh's Tinderbox v1.01

The Tinderbox is a flexible, programmable transmission arts platform that is meant to be a tool for the creative use of the electromagnetic spectrum. The Tinderbox is essentially a programmable, digital FM transmitter that can cover the commercial broadcast band. The tinderbox features a 1/8 in. stereo jack for two channel, line-level input from any analog source. The tinderbox can be operated as a stand-alone transmitter or can be tethered to a computer via a USB connection. In tethered mode, all functions of the transmitter can be controlled by host software running on the computer.

This edition of 20 is available for $125 (plus S&H and sales tax, where applicable.)