Unmonumental

Dec. 1, 2007 – April 6, 2008

New Museum
235 Bowery
Manhattan, NY

Show explores an important trend in sculpture by artists from around the globe who are adopting and reinventing the 20th century vanguard technique of assemblage as a touchstone for the state of our world in a new century. Redeploying the old strategy of using found, fragmented, and discarded material, their art addresses the fractures and contingencies of our fragile and volatile contemporary existence in fresh, poignant, and sometimes challenging ways. More

BYOTV

March 19, 2008 – April 27, 2008

New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny Street
Portland, OR 97214
United States
503-231-8294

(free103point9 Event)

31 Down, The Dust Dive, Sarah Margaret Halpern, Tianna Kennedy, Chad Laird, Justin Lincoln, LoVid, Todd Merrell, ben owen, Tom Roe

free103point9 is pleased to contribute a program of works for the Video Gentlemen’s BYOTV exhibition at the New American Art Union in Portland Oregon. More

Off The Grid

March 30, 2008 – Sept. 14, 2008

Neuberger Museum of Art
Purchase College, SUNY
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10277
United States

(free103point9 Event)

Matt Bua, Benjamin Cohen, Dylan Gauthier, and Stephan von Muehlen., EcoArtTech: Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint, eteam, Max Goldfarb, Louis Hock, Nina Katchadourian , Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Trevor Paglen, Temporary Services, Seth Weiner, Bart Woodstrup

Off The Grid features contemporary works which formally and/or conceptually challenge conventional and commercial infrastructures.

Co-presented by the Neuberger Museum of Art and free103point9. Curated by Jacqueline Shilkoff (Neuberger Museum) and Galen Joseph-Hunter, Tianna Kennedy, Tom Roe (free103point9)

Simulcast 1.0 : Saskatoon

April 1, 2008 – April 28, 2008

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Magali Babin, Martine H. Crispo, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Harold Schellinx

Four sound artists are each invited to create an unchanging radio broadcast. Reacting to a radio culture which accustoms us to the division of time into a grid of discontinuous slices, "Simulcast 1.0b : Saskatoon" is a temporary condition webcast on www.free103point9.org during April, 2008. Four artists are each asked to create an unchanging sound or soundscape. Each of these is webcast continuously over seven consecutive nights. The resulting month-long series reflects on radio's relationship with night and proposes a renewal of radio's relationship with eternity.
"Simulcast 1.0b : Saskatoon" is curated by Montreal-based sound artist Emmanuel Madan, at the initiative of the Saskatoon media arts production centre Paved Arts. The webcasts are hosted by free103point9, a New York-based nonprofit arts organization devoted to Transmission Arts. Webcast nightly on free103point9 Online Radio at www.free103point9.org, April 1 - 28 2008.
Schedule:
Martine H. Crispo (Montréal) "Danby;" April 1 to 7, midnight to sunrise.
GX Jupitter-Larsen (Los Angeles) "Big Time Crash Bang 2008;" April 7 to 14, sunset to sunrise.
Magali Babin (Montréal) "7 nuits sous le Westinghouse;" April 15 to 21, midnight to 6:36 a.m.
Harold Schellinx (Paris/Amsterdam) "Tot morgen (à demain);" April 21 to 28, sunset to sunrise.
All times Central Standard Time (GMT -6). Sunset and sunrise times as observed in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. More

Off The Grid: Live Performances

April 2, 2008: 4 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Neuberger Museum of Art
Purchase College, SUNY
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10277
United States

(free103point9 Event, Radio 4x4)

Alexis Bhagat, Matt Bua, Benjamin Cohen, Dylan Gauthier, and Stephan von Muehlen., Joshua Fried, Tom Roe, Jeff Stark

In conjunction with the exhibition Off The Grid, April 2 will feature a day of live performances by artists whose work subvert and circumvent conventional infrastructures.

4 p.m.: Radio 4x4 Four performers -- Joshua Fried, Matt Bua, Alexis Bhagat, and Tom Roe -- perform into four transmitters with performances transmitted to radios throughout the performance area. Audiences are encouraged to walk among the radios, "mixing" the collective and individual improvised performances. For this Radio 4x4, performers will all use battery-powered equipment, and all transmitters and radios will also not be plugged in. Brief explanation and discussion of Radio 4x4 with the artists after performance.

4:45: Joshua Fried, Radio Wonderland. Fried performs his "Radio Wonderland" show with a car battery.

5:30 p.m.: Jeff Stark, Secret DinnerThe Secret Dinner project is just that. The dinners are collaborative and they happen in clandestine spaces. The first was in a grain elevator in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 2006, and we lowered a singer into an echoey steel silo. The second was the site of the 1964 World's Fair in Queens, where we suspended an aerialist from the massive steel Unisphere. And at the third, we ate in the Freedom Tunnel, under Riverside Park in Manhattan. The Secret Dinner project was influenced by Dark Passage, a group of New York explorers, and the Suicide Club, a long defunct group of San Francisco pranksters. The project is a reaction to a culture of permission, including expensive venues, city permits, and institutional funding. It reminds participants that the most important thing is doing the thing, and that it's possible to create work that compromises only to logistics. This talk will feature gorgeous photos by Tod Seelie that document the project.

6:15 p.m.: Matt Bua. Artist talk.

Sunrise to Sunset: Mare Liberum workshop. Mare Liberum Sunup-Sundown Build A Boat Workshop: Benjamin Cohen, Dylan Gauthier, and Stephan von Muehlen will construct a 12' Grand Banks dory over the course of a day using materials salvaged from construction sites, basic tools and old-time intuition. The artists will be available to discuss the project over pauses for lunch, afternoon tea and dinner

Interpretations presents Oliver Lake Big Band & Joe Giardullo's G2

April 3, 2008: 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Roulette at Location One
20 Greene St.
btw Canal and Grand Sts.
Manhattan, NY
212-219-8242

The young upstarts aren’t the only ones expanding the sound of jazz today. Interpretations presents two of jazz’s elder statesmen who are still pushing personal boundaries ever-outward. The Oliver Lake Big Band sounds like the whole history of African-American music going on simultaneously, but centered around the traditional big band sound: it swings like a big band, shakes its thang hip-hop stylee, and testifies to the revolutionary spirit of free jazz. Joe Giardullo’s G2 continues the tradition of stretching the umbrella of jazz: what makes a jazz ensemble, what sounds like jazz, what are the roles of and in jazz? G2 is a flexible large-ensemble concept, concocted by Giardullo in the late 70s and reconceived in the new millennium, in which everyone has a chance to answer those questions aloud, in their own way, musically. Oliver Lake Big Band: Oliver Lake, Bruce Williams, alto sax; Erica Lindsay, James Steward, tenor sax; Jason Marshall, bari sax; Peck Allmond, Nabate Ilses, trumpet; Al Patterson, Aaron Johnson, Vince Chandler, trombone; Yoichi Uzeki, piano; Bob Sabin, bass; Otis Brown, drums Joe Giardullo’s G2: Chris Chalfant, piano; Michael Snow, violin; Gwen Laster, violin; Larry Packer, viola; Daniel Levin, cello; Harvey Sorgen, percussion; Joe Giardullo, soprano & sopranino saxophones Oliver Lake "It's all about choices," states modern Renaissance Man Oliver Lake to explain his expansive artistic vision. An accomplished poet, painter and performance artist, Lake has published a book of poetry entitled Life Dance, has exhibited and sold a number of his unique painted-sticks at the Montclair Art Museum, and has toured the country with his one-man performance piece, Matador of 1st and 1st. But it's his extraordinary talents as composer, saxophonist, flautist and bandleader that have brought him world-renown. Although his greatest reputation exists in the world of jazz, Lake's amazingly eclectic musical approach is best expressed by his popular poem SEPARATION: “put all my food on the same plate!” “The modern big-band sound funnels directly back to the Count Basie band from the 1950's, with its pinpoint blending of reeds and brass and dynamic drumming. Not Mr. Lake's. He mixes blues and gospel, funk and free; but his free jazz is never maundering. He likes players with a sense of humor and style; his pieces explode with bursts of chaotic energy but don't lose direction.” — Ben Ratliff, The New York Times Joe Giardullo Born in Brooklyn and raised on the South Shore of Long Island, Joe Giardullo grew up on R&B, playing tenor sax in club and regional bands. In the 1960's, he moved to the Woodstock area, where he got his first soprano saxophone. Joe played all kinds of music — improvised, jazz, rock, blues, club date, weddings — but things grew stale and in 1977, he moved to Amsterdam. Shortly thereafter, Joe returned to live 100 miles north of New York City where he slipped into a 10 year hiatus from public performance, yet continued to play in private. One night in 1991, he met up with saxophonist/trumpeter Joe McPhee at a club. That meeting marked the beginning of a continuing collaboration, and it has also reintroduced audiences in the US, Canada and Europe to Giardullo's music. Since then, Joe has been active in the US and Europe with many of the most highly regarded musicians. “Giardullo is willing into existence a music that occurs beyond his control. Giardullo is finding a way for musicians to be themselves while serving a larger cause.” — John Szwed, Signal To Noise More

Radia_"Snow Dance"

April 4, 2008: 2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

free103point9 Online Radio

(free103point9 Event, free103point9 Online Radio Event)

James Blackshaw, Tianna Kennedy, Tarikh Korula, Slavoj Zizek

'Snow Dance' “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. With recordings from Tianna Kennedy and James Blackshaw, Slavoj Zizek, and Tarikh Korula.” More

free103point9 NYC Staff join NPR at the Whitney Biennial

April 9, 2008: 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Whitney Museum

Manhattan, NY

(free103point9 Online Radio Event, free103point9 in collaboration with...)

Lee Azzarello, Sarah Margaret Halpern, Tianna Kennedy

Neighborhood Public Radio is an independent, artist-run radio project committed to providing an alternative media platform for artists, activists, musicians, and community members. free103point9 NYC staff join NPR at their Whitney storefront to discuss our respective projects and play live music together. Listen in! More

Infinite Limbs Senior Exhibition

April 12, 2008

Bard College Fisher Art Gallery

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

(free103point9 Event, free103point9 Online Radio Event)

Greg Fox

Greg Fox, free103point9 intern, shows senior artwork and plays music with Family of Love, Teeth Mountain, and other friends. The performance incorporates a radio broadcast from the nearby Bard chapel into the gallery space. Artwork will remain on display for the week. More

Radio Lab: What is Transmission Art?

April 14, 2008: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

free103point9 @ 338 Berry
338 Berry St
between S. 3rd and S. 4th Sts
Brooklyn, NY 11211
United States
646-367-0840

(free103point9 Event, Radio Lab, free103point9 Online Radio Event)

Lee Azzarello, Sarah Margaret Halpern, Tianna Kennedy, Alice Planas

Join free103point9 to define the genre in which we work. Monday's Radio Lab will be a public discussion of the free103point9 Transmission Art Archive project. Together we will map a genealogy of artists, works, questions, and definitions in support of the genre. The discussion will begin with a brief introduction to the project and will be followed a Q & A and group conversation. Artists are encouraged to to self-identify their work within the context of Transmission Art practices. The resulting online resource will provide extensive reference materials to artists, curators, students, and academics researching contemporary and historical practices in Media Art and Experimental Sound with respects to the topic of transmission. More

Shortwave Show

April 20, 2008: noon – 7 p.m.

Building 30, Brooklyn Navy Yard
63 Flushing Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

Gill Arno, Kim Cascone, Seth Cluett, Michael Farley, RIchard Garet, Radio Ruido, Sawako, Bruce Tovsky

106BLDG30's first event of 2008 is a day-long celebration of Shortwave, with an installation by Kim Cascone from 12 - 7 and live performances by Richard Garet, Anthony Ptak, Sawako, Zach Layton, Seth Cluett, Bruce Tovsky, Michael V. Farley, Christine Bard, Radio Ruido and Gill Arno. The live show begins at 8pm. There will be two sets with a possible ending free-for-all and after show q & a. More

On the Way Out_04.22-05.16.08

April 22, 2008: 8:30 p.m. – May 16, 2008: noon

Freddy's Backroom
485 Dean Street at 6th Ave
(one block from Flatbush)
Brooklyn, NY
United States

(free103point9 Online Radio Event)

Seth Misterka, Mike Pride

Benefit for saxophonist Andrew D'Angelo
featuring:
Seth Misterka's Beco: Beco is a free-form improvisers collective led by saxophonist Seth Misterka.
Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys: From Bacteria to Boys blurs the lines between hyper-rhythmic modern-jazz, vocal chant, 20th/21st century classical music & raw Rn'B all with an intensity and center of focus anyone familiar with Pride's music has come to expect. The trio's first CD "Hang" came out on Funhole Records in 2006 and they are currently finishing up work on a new album to be out in late 2008. Mike Pride: drums; Darius Jones: alto sax; and Evan Lipson: bass.
On the Way Out is a monthly series of free jazz and other experimental forms of music. More

Interpretations presents The Christian Wolff Sextet

April 24, 2008: 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Roulette at Location One
20 Greene St.
btw Canal and Grand Sts.
Manhattan, NY
212-219-8242

The New York School is back in session. Interpretations presents an evening with: The Christian Wolff Sextet April 24, 2008 at Roulette. Guest curator Dan Joseph brings to Roulette an original New York Schooler (and one-time Sonic Youth collaborator), Christian Wolff with an exceptional group of experimental musicians in tow, including members of Frog Peak Music (Larry Polansky) and the Wandelweiser Ensemble (Jürg Frey, Craig Shepard). Re-examining the fundamental aspects of melody and counterpoint in music, the program includes a complete performance of Wolff's recent opus Micro Exercises, and the New York premiere performance of les tréfonds inexplorés des signes by Swiss composer and clarinetist Jürg Frey. “In the 1950's, there was a group of composers who set the classical world on edge. Like many trail-blazers before them, they were scorned and only in later decades appreciated for their work. Though the group was made up of distinct members, the need to group them as some kind of 'movement' led to them being called the New York School. Some of the names you probably know — John Cage and Morton Feldman were among this group. So was a younger man who had his own distinct ideas about composition. Christian Wolff briefly studied under Cage but soon took up his own charge to create intricate systems for his pieces… Indeed, he's made some very bold statements about his ideas concerning music and composition.” — Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever Featuring: Christian Wolff, Fender Rhodes electric piano, melodica; Jürg Frey, clarinet; Larry Polansky, electric guitar; Craig Shepard, trombone; Jeremy Lamb, cello; Marco Cappelli, guitar. More

Giant Ear)))_Sound Mamori

April 27, 2008: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

free103point9 Online Radio

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New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, Andrea Williams

Giant Ear))) Sound Mamori: Amazon Rainforest Sound Memories
Curated by Andrea Williams of the NYSAE. Armed with nothing but gigabait and sound equipment, in November 2007, 11 fearless sound artists led by sound artist/biologist Francisco Lopez, trekked through the jungles of Brazil in search of sounds, took part in classes and workshops, engaged the local community, and ultimately were annihilated in a futbol match between the Brazilians. This Giant Ear))) special reveals through sound pieces submitted by the participants of the sound art residency, the spectacular sonic qualities of the Brazilian rainforest and conveys a sense of place created through sound memory and the mind's own subjective collective mapping of a place that was off the maps. Participants include: Ruben Garcia (SP); Francisco Lopez (SP); Pali Meursault (FR); Novi_sad (GR); Sam Hamilton (NZ); Todd Shalom (US); Simon Whetham (UK); and Andrea Williams (US). More