free103point9 Online Radio May Top 40

free103point9 Online Radio
May 2007 Top 40

1. David S. Ware Quartet, Renunciation (Aum Fidelity)
2. Joseph Nechvatal, Viral Symph0ny (iea)
With Matthew Underwood, Andrew Deutsch, and Stephane Sikora.
3. Ting Ting Jahe, 18(16) (Winds Measure Recordings)
4. Uncle Woody Sullender + Greg Davis, The Tempest is Over (Dead CEO)
5. William Parker + Hamid Drake, First Communion/Piercing the Veil 2xCD (Aum Fidelity)
6. The Dust Dive Flash, Tens of Thousands (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 029)
7. Jeff Arnal + Dietcich Eichmann, LP (Broken Research)
8. USA Is A Monster + Mudboy/USA Is A Monster + Kites, split CD (self)
9. Chris Forsyth + Nate Wooley, The Duchess of Oysterville (Creative Sources Recordings)
10. (), "Autecicadas/ocean_db_crash_nue" 7" (Parentheismusic.com)
11. Andy Graydon, At Bay (Winds Measure Recordings)
12. Albrecht Maurer + Norbert Rodenkirchen, Hidden Fresco (Nemu)
13. Mike Tamburo, Language of the Birds and Other Fantasies box set (New American Folk Hero)
14. The Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama, Singing Songs of Praise (CaseQuarter)
15. Various artists, Selections from Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost (free103point9)
With Michelle Nagai, Edmund Mooney, Andrea Polli, Mike Hallenbeck, Ryan Holsopple, Renee Ridgway, Jonathan Zalben, Hanneke de Feijter, Saskia Janssen, Kaisu Koski, and others.
16. Ignaz Schick + Jorg Maria Zeger + Burkhard Beins with Keith Rowe and with Charlwmagne Palestine, Perlonex Tensions (Nexsound)
17. MPLD, Lapse Phaser (self)
18. Tripwire, Looking in My Ear (Creative Sources)
19. Seejayno, Sedainty (Shinkoyo/Here See/Skulls of Heaven/BOC Sound Laboratories)
20. Mouthus, For the Great Slave Lakes (Threelobed)
21. Jonas Braasch, Global Reflections (Deep Listening)
22. Droopy Septum, Howling Lands, Whispering Leaves (NAFH)
23. Parts & Labor, Escapers One (Broklyn Beats)
24. Mudboy, LP Bootleg(breadandanimals.com)
25. Eliane Radigue, Jetsun Mila (Lovely Music)
26. Mike Tamburo + Ken Camden, Menken and Maas (NAFH)
27. Kotra & Zavoloka, Wag the Swing (Kvitnu.com)
28. Robert Horton, Sleep, Wake, Hope and Then (NAFH)
29. John Morton, Solo Traveler (innova)
30. Eric Carbonara, Seven Pieces for Solo Guitar (Nada Sound Studio)
31. Edmund Mooney, Happy Trails (self)
32. Matt McDowell, Headlong Into the Fire (NAFH)
33. Steve Stoll, Earthling (self)
34. Gratkowski + Fox + Menestres + Davis, ORM (Umbrella Recordings)
35. Phantom Limb & Tetuzi Akiyama, Hot Ginger (Archive)
Recorded June, 2006 at free103point9 Project Space in Brooklyn.
36. Sixes, Cursed Beast (enterruption)
37. Matt Weston, Resistance Cruisers 3" CD (7272 Music)
38. Gay Bomb/Ironing split LP (Hymn)
39. ZMF Trio, Circle the Path (Drip Audio)
40. Wether, Skin Atonement (Hymn)

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OPEN CALL: Electric Lab

In the fall of 2007, Exit Art will present Electric Lab. This exhibition is dedicated to the scientist Nicola Tesla, who wanted to provide the entire world with free access to electricity. As Tesla discovered, electricity is one of life’s most fundamental forces; it courses through the heart and powers our computers. Today, the shortage and high cost of electricity is a pressing contemporary issue. For Electric Lab, we are asking artists to envision solutions to the impending electricity crisis by creating works that imagine alternative sources of electricity, suggest new ways to access electricity, and establish scenarios in which to experience the power of electricity. Proposals due June 15, 2007.

How to Apply:
Proposals may be for work in any medium. Please submit a one page description of your project idea: a sketch of the proposed project; a resume; and documentation of your previous work (10 slides or images on CD, please send images at lowest resolution so they open quickly, or a 3-5 minute NTSC VHS video or DVD). Please include a self addressed stamped envelope for the return of your work. You will be notified by email of your involvement in the exhibition so please include an email address with your materials. Exit Art is not responsible for returning works submitted without a SASE.
Send Submissions to:
Exit Art
Electric Lab
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Or email electriclab@exitart.org

Cellphones could warn of imminent lightning strike

From New Scientist:

It could become an indispensable safety device for outdoor enthusiasts - a cellphone that warns you to take cover if lightning is heading your way. Lightning can pose a major risk to people taking part in outdoor pursuits, such as golfing. So Nokia proposes a warning system that uses the fact that a lightning bolt is an electric current that emits radio waves. Each bolt produces frequencies between 10 hertz and 5 gigahertz, and the distribution of these signals depends on how far away the lightning is. The multiple receivers in a phone, such as Bluetooth, FM, tri-band GSM, Wi-Fi and RFID, can be tuned to pick up these signals, says Nokia (US patent application 2007/0085525). Software will then interpret them, work out the distance to the lightning, and tell you if strikes are getting closer.

Police passivity condemned after two armed attacks in one day on radio station

From Reporters Without Borders:

Reporters Without Borders voiced deep concern today about two armed attacks on privately-owned Radio Dijla in Baghdad on 3 May that left one person dead and two wounded.

“The two attacks on Radio Dijla, one after the other, were like military raids,” Reporters Without Borders said. “This independent station was assaulted by an organised military force equipped with heavy artillery. The attack took place in central Baghdad without any intervention from police units patrolling nearby. The Iraqi authorities must shoulder some of the blame for this latest episode in the cycle of violence against journalists and the media.”

About 10 gunmen launched the first of the two attacks on Radio Dijla in the west Baghdad neighbourhood of Al Jami’a at around 9 a.m. The employees were able to hold them off using firearms previously provided by the management as security precaution. At the same time, four employees eluded a kidnap attempt by fleeing into the stations’s premises.

The station appealed to the police and military authorities for help, but no help was sent during the attack, which lasted half an hour. The gunmen shot security guard Adel Al-Badri dead and wounded two other employees.

The second attack took place several hours later, after all the employees had abandoned the building, and was presumably carried out by the same group. They set explosive charges in the building’s first floor and started a fire, destroying the station’s transmitter and causing a lot of other damage. Radio Dijla nonetheless hoped to resume broadcasting within 72 hours.

OPEN CALL: Bending Sound. Queer Experiments with Audio

Bending Sound
Queer Experiments with Audio
Call for Work and Proposals

Deadline: June 29, 2007

Curator working with MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, expanding festival programs to include experimental music and audio component. This is a new project and therefore applicants should feel free to contact curator. MIX NYC’s 20th Anniversary Festival takes place in Lower Manhattan, November 2007.

Application:
Looking for new innovative approaches to experiences of sound. Individuals are invited to submit:

- Proposals for performances working with sound and/or multi-media (up to 10 minutes) for inclusion in live audio event as part of the festival in November 2007.
- Less than 10 minute audio recording to be included in a free sound compilation with MIXnyc program book 2007.
- Or would like to collaborate and create with other artists/musicians for inclusion in the above. Applicants will be matched up to work creatively based on either a live event or audio recording.

Basic A/V equipment will be available (TV’s, DVD player, Microphones, LCD projector, ect) will be provided but because this is a new project, any special technical equipment needed for the proposal (turntables, special effects, light activated sonar devices, ect) applicant will need to provide.

Proposals should include:
1 – Contact Information
2 – Proposal Summary if proposing a performance (up to 500 words)
3 – Work Samples: VHS – NTSC Format, DVD, CD-Rom, Audio CD, Cassette Tapes, website, images (jpg, tiff, pdf) or audio files (mp3, wav, aiff)
4 – Work Sample Summary: A short description of each work submitted including artist(s) name, title, date, medium, venue, duration, and applicant’s role (if collaborative work).
5 – Optional Information (short bio, reviews, photos, ect.)
6 – SASE for return of materials if sending via snail-mail

For questions please contact Ethan Shoshan at disiterate@yahoo.com


Send Materials
Via Email to Ethan Shoshan at disiterate@yahoo.com (up to 8mb emails)
Or
Snail Mail to:
Ethan Shoshan
MIXnyc Audio 2007
486 Greenwich St
New York, NY 10013


All applicants will be notified in July
You are encouraged to submit before the deadline!

MIX NYC promotes, produces, and preserves experimental media-from film and video to performance and music-that is rooted in the lives, politics, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and otherwise queer-identified people. Founded in 1987, MIX has earned a reputation as a crucible for artist-driven innovation with an established international influence on the world of experimental media. MIX is unique among arts and community-building organizations for its work on behalf of queer experimental media artists, supporting their production of new work, and making that work accessible to the public. For almost two decades, we have worked to create a home for queer experimental media. MIX is also unique among New York City's cultural institutions. The annual New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, our most visible and longest-running program, showcases films and videos that literally go unseen in other venues. We define "experimental" broadly to mean not only films made using unorthodox techniques, but also those that deal with subject matter outside of the mainstream. In this respect, the MIX festival stands literally at the avant garde-the forefront of artistic innovation-and serves as a proving ground for new, socially conscious film. MIX NYC actively engages communities around the city and the nation through on-site local and touring screenings. We also preserve aging queer experimental films, such as the early 16mm work of Marguerite Paris, to guarantee its endurance for the future; and we operate a summer-long youth media training program to provide a new generation of queer filmmakers with the tools they need to make their voices heard. For more information on MIX NYC and programs go to – www.mixnyc.org

About Curator:
Ethan Shoshan is a scientist, activist, writer, teacher, and artist working with various media (performance, video, sculpture, textiles, clothes, dance, technology, internet, & collaboratives) born in Brooklyn, NY. He is a collaborator/co-founder of the it/EQ community arts collective, working to promote arts/artists in a community exchange through showcasing vital unknown artists, providing multicultural exchanges, and visibility to minority or underrepresented people. He has shown and performed at Collective Unconscious, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Dixon Place, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Galeria De La Raza, 92nd St Y, the Kitchen and other alternative spaces in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and California. Media attention include articles in The Washington Post, NY Times, Manhattan Network Neighborhood TV, Bronx Cable TV, Brooklyn Cable Access, and various small press magazines and web-articles. He has also received a grant from the Puffin Foundation for his community based projects. For MIXnyc 2006, he helped organize/curate TragicBride/FashionVictim – www.mixnyc.org/April10Screening/April10.htm

FCC Chairman Martin to telcos: No blocking Iowa calls

From Paul Kapustka at GigaOM:

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Thursday that the commission told large telcos to stop blocking calls into numbers for the Iowa-based free calling operations, threatening punitive actions if the carriers didn’t comply.

While the immediate FCC pressure was a victory for the Iowa telcos and Internet calling concerns whose services had been blocked by AT&T and Qwest, left unsolved is the separate question of whether or not the large carriers have to pay up the millions in disputed connection fees into the Iowa-based operations. But Martin, after a scheduled public appearance in Silicon Valley, made it clear that the commission took immediate action against the moves to block or restrict calls, saying they were in violation of FCC rules.

“We actually contacted the companies that were listed in the press [reports] and said our rules prohibit you from blocking consumers’ access to any of the service providers,” Martin said. Martin said the informal communication to the big telcos who were blocking calls was that if they didn’t stop immediately, the commission would start a formal process for legal recourse within days, and “would end up taking action as we saw necessary.”

According to Martin, all the offending telcos responded and said they would stop blocking — sort of. “One had stopped blocking, but we heard complaints the next week that they were restricting access, sort of narrowing the pipe,” said Martin. “We called them back and said, no, no, you can’t artificially degrade [service] either.”

On whether or not the FCC would force AT&T and Qwest to pay disputed access-charge bills, Martin said that was a separate issue, and covered by petitioning processes that might take further time to resolve. “If you have a dispute about the intercarrier compensation rules, you can file petitions, and come to the commission to get redress,” Martin said. “But you can’t just stop letting consumers make those calls.”

Final decision of the CRB issued and royalty due date is postponed

From Broadcast Law Blog:

On the same day that many webcasters were on Capitol Hill lobbying for the Internet Radio Equality Act, the Copyright Royalty Board issued its Final Determination of Rates and Terms today, and it was published in the Federal Register. That action starts the clock ticking on appeals which must now be filed in 30 days. In the Final Determination, the Board included a few revisions in its initial decision, reflecting the issues that it addressed in response to the Rehearing motions - including provisions adding a transitional period of two years during which webcasters can pay using an Aggregate Tuning Hour formula instead of paying based on each performance. Surprisingly, the Board also amended the rules that it adopted governing the timing of the first payment under the new royalty rate, making the first payment due 45 days from the end of the month during which the Final Determination was issued. As the decision was issued today, May 1, that would delay the due date for the first payments under the new royalties until July 15.

The statute governing the Copyright Royalty Board allowed the Library of Congress to review the CRB decision to determine if the Librarian (through the Copyright Office) saw any obvious errors of law. Apparently, the Librarian found none (though that does not mean that there are not issues that can be raised on appeal), leading to the publication of the decision in the Federal Register. Appeals are due 30 days after that publication. On that date, parties file a Notice of Appeal, which provides notice to the Court of Appeals that parties believe that the decision was in error. After those notices are filed, the Court will set briefing schedules and oral arguments. The appeal process that can take a year or more before a decision is rendered.