New LPFM hope as Waxman replaces Dingell

Last week House of Representative Democrats voted 137-122 to replace John Dingell (D-MI 15th District) with Henry Waxman (D-CA 30th District, pictured at right) as the chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Dingell, the longest-serving member of the U.S. House, was considered by many progressive Democrats as standing in the way of key legislation, most notably auto industry reform. The Commerce Committee also oversees the telecommunications industry, and Dingell had stalled the Local Community Radio Act of 2007, which would have created thousands of new Low-Power FM stations around the country. Dingell was not one of the 99 co-sponsors in the House, and had kept the bill stuck in Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Maybe that's because Dingell regularly takes large contributions from LPFM's biggest enemy -- the National Association of Broadcasters. Waxman, on the other hand, did co-sponsor the LPFM bill, and back in 2000, was the main opposition to the limits on the first LPFM bill Congress passed, while Dingell believed the since-disproved fake CD of alleged LPFM interference the NAB produced. Waxman's appointment as chair doesn't guarantee anything, but his past record indicates he is an LPFM supporter.

Yip Yip aliens discover a radio

From Sesame Street:

free103point9 Online Radio Top 40 for November 2008

Releases with top airplay on free103point9 Online Radio:

1. Evidence, Receiver (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 035)
2. Escape Mechanism, Emphasis Added (Recombinations)
From Jon Nelson of "Some Assembly Required."
3. Various artists, Autoradio-guide (Transit-Wellen)
With tracks from neuroTransmitter, Reboot.fm, Tetsuo Kogawa.
4. Various artists, Radio Action III (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 034)
With free103point9 Transmission Artists including Scanner, Joshua Fried, Anna Friz, Tianna Kennedy, LoVid, Todd Merrell, The Dust Dive, and others.
5. Eri Yamamoto, Duologue (Aum Fidelity)
6. Francisco Lopez, Conops (GD Stereo)
7. Asher-Ubeboet, Cell Memory (Winds Measure Recordings)
8. Windsor for the Derby, How We Lost (Secretly Canadian)
9. Black Taj, Beyonder (Amish)
10. Ricardo Arias + Miguel Frasconi + Keiko Uenishi, Object (eh?40)
11. Jack Wright + Alban Bailly, The Harmony of Contradictions (Sort Of)
12. Matmos, Supreme Balloon (Matador)
13. MV & EE, Ragas of the Culvert LP (Heroine Celestial Agriculture)
14. Jim McAuley, The Ultimate Frog (Drip Audio)
15. New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, Giant Ear))) Inside/Out NYC (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 036)
With tracks from Ben Owen, Michelle Nagai, Andrea Williams, Jonny Farrow, David Watson, Edmund Mooney, and others.
16. Liturgy, Immortal Life LP (Infinite Limbs)
17. Matt Weston, Not to Be Taken Away (7272music)
18. Miya Masaoka, While I Was Walking, I Heard a Sound... (Solitary B)
19. Bill Dixon, 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (Aum Fidelity)
20. Sic Alps, A Long Way Around a Shortcut (Animal Disguise)
21. Embarker, Embarker LP (Malleablerec.com)
22. Brian Osborne + Marc Zajack, split LP (HRR/DF)
23. Tactical Sound #5, Voice(s) of God(s) (freematterfortheblind.com)
With Alexis Bhagat, Gregory Whitehead, Christopher DeLaurenti, Greta Byrum, and others.
24. Various artists, Introductions (thelandof.org)
With My Fun, Asher, others.
25. John Berndt, The Private Language Problem (Sort Of)
26. Shot x Shot, Let Nature Square (High Two)
27. Bird Show, Bird Show (Kranky)
28. Embarker, (the sayer) 3" CD (Heat Retention)
29. Jen Baker, Blue Dreams (Dilapidated Barns)
30. Cakes of Light, Save Your Self LP (Heat Retention)
31. Martin Hesselmeier + Karin Lingman, SARoskop (Kunsthochschule)
32. Cristian Amigo, Kingdom of Jones (Innova)
33. Barnyard Drama, I'm a Navvy (Barnyard Records)
34. Deerhunter, Microcastle (Kranky)
35. The Peggy Lee Band, New Code (Drip Audio)
36. Chubby Behemoth, Global DX 7" (Infinite Limbs)
37. Johann Johannsson, Fordlandia (4AD)
38. Raglani, Of Sirens Born (Kranky)
39. Gary War, New Raytheonport LP (Shwwply/Disaro)
40. Boduf Songs, How Shadows Chase the Balance (Kranky)

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free103point9 to return to the airwaves

From Mediageek:

free103point9 is a transmission arts organization that started as a micropower radio station, moved online, and broadened its horizons to become a sponsor and creator of sonic art. Now the group is poised to return to the broadcast airwaves after receiving a full-power non-commercial FM broadcast license from the FCC. free103point9 program director Tom Roe joins to talk about the station and transmission arts. Listen to this episode of the Mediageek radio show here:
http://radio.mediageek.net/?p=358

OPEN CALL: Radiator Festival

Submissions due Nov. 25 for Radiator Festival, Jan. 13-18, 2009 in Nottingham, England. Since the abundant proliferation of digital communication technology, our (living) space has been expanded, transformed, reshaped. In our everyday lives we increasingly connect to mediated interfaces, be it consciously or without knowing. Digital media is increasingly integrated seamlessly into all areas of everyday life and work. The so-called “virtual worlds” created in this way are merging ever more dynamically with our physical environment generating new hybrid spaces, becoming a fixed part of our reality themselves. Our cities are increasingly pervaded by data networks, watched over by cameras, skinned by media facades, populated by users of mobile communication devices carried around with every step. “City” itself has become a media space, a complex fabric, in which an immaterial layer of data is augmenting the urban landscape, both merging ever more seamlessly. Radiator continues its investigation into the way that artists engage with locality and site, real and virtual urban space. The “Wireless City” brings deep cultural changes and our traditional spatial coordinates are gradually being superseded by an enhanced network. Sharing their inferences and conclusions, artists are invited to reflect upon the challenges facing our freedom, the poetry of resistance and also the opportunities the “Expanded City” has to offer. Radiator welcomes all forms of artistic expression aligned with the theme. The programme will provide multiple exhibition and display opportunities across the East Midlands:

* Gallery/ White Cube Spaces
* E.g. Going Underground Exhibition (For more information click here)
* City spaces/ Site-specific works
* Events
* Indoor/ Outdoor Screenings

HOW TO SUBMIT WORK

Submissions should include:

* Images/documentation/videofootage (supporting material in one of the following formats: as standard definition DVD or VHS, as a file on CD (SWF, Quicktime or Avi accepted, use standard codecs such as Sorenson, Cinepak or DivX). Any file that cannot be viewed using standard media players will be passed over.

* Description of work

* CV

* Submissions form, downloadable from here pdf or word doc.

(Also Available online at http://www.trampoline.org.uk)

Key points to consider in your proposal:

* From video, animation, installation, sculpture, performance, live music and web streaming we encourage all forms of new media expressions.
* We especially encourage the submission of participatory works, which promote a high degree of audience involvement.
* Please include an SAE if you would like your submission returned to you.

Submissions to be send to:

Radiator
Broadway Cinema
14-18 Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL
UK

Deadline for submissions: 25th Nov 2008.

OPEN CALL: Residency Program for Composers and Performers

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams MA) is an intense, visceral, hands-on immersion in contemporary adventurous contemporary music. We will write it. We will perform it. We will think about it and we will talk about it. The festival includes performance coaching, composition seminars, music business workshops, improvisation and more. There are daily performances in the museum galleries and free concerts in the North Adams community. The festival concludes with a six-hour blow-out Marathon Concert featuring performances by the student/faculty ensembles. Mail-in applications are now available for download on our website, and electronic applications will be available December 1st. Applications must be received by January 15, 2009. More information on the festival is available here. For more information on MASS MoCA, visit massmoca.org.

Net Neutrality fighters to head Obama's FCC transition team

From Cory Doctorow at boingboing:

Obama's FCC transition team is to be headed up by two of the smartest, hardest-fighting Net Neutrality advocates I know: Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach. This bodes very very well indeed for American telcoms policy!

Ms. Crawford is a former partner of a Washington law firm that specializes in communications law and recently left the board of directors of ICANN, a group that oversees Internet domain-name registration. Mr. Werbach edited Release 1.0, a technology newsletter, and founded Supernova Group, a technology analysis and consulting firm.

The Obama transition team includes a number of former FCC officials, but under the conflict-of-interest rules adopted by the president-elect’s team, many may be barred from directly examining FCC issues.

President-elect Obama’s office said today that Ms. Crawford and Mr. Werbach are part of the Science, Tech, Space and Arts Team that will be directed by Tom Wheeler, a former president of National Cable and Telecommunications.

Source.

Giant Ear))) webradio: Inside/Out NYC

Since May 2005, the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE) has presented Giant Ear))) each Sunday on free103point9 Online Radio, webcasting field recordings, interviews, and compositions by sound artists and anyone who could get their hands on a recording device. "Inside/Out NYC" presents New York City sound works culled from approximently two years of Giant Ear))) shows. NYSAE is a membership organization that advocates listening and promotes public dialog about the urban sound environment. Members Andrea Callard, Jonny Farrow, Edmund Mooney, Andrea Polli, and Andrea Williams produced this CD.

MQ2 taps 30

Sending on behalf of Ingrid Lakey, MQ2 Talent Manager:

The finalists have been chosen to submit proposals for MQ2 – 30 exciting media makers from across a broad spectrum of craft and geography chosen by the MQ2 Talent Committee. They’ve been invited to propose how they’ll help excite public radio, and lead the industry and listeners through the shift to new platforms. They have until December 1 to give it their best shot. Final decisions will be announced in early March.

MQ2 was thrilled to receive an incredible array of nominations from 7 countries and virtually every region of the U.S. We were aiming for a mix from inside and outside the industry. Our first pass at the data we have shows 25% of the nominations came from public radio networks/shows or production houses, 30% of the nominations came from radio and TV stations, and 45% came from a far-ranging group of independent producers and those outside of public media. Nominees include straight ahead public radio journalists, serial entertainment producers, sound installationists, bit-heads, record producers, composers, and one big surprise was a nomination from musician Billy Bragg, of Dorset, Scotland.

Our selected makers are (drum roll please):

Jenny Asarnow, Rose Bianchini, Philip Blackburn, Jacob Brancasi, Kabir Carter, Julie Drizin, Alex Gallafent, Tim Halbur, Anyi Howell, Scotty Iseri, Josh Jackson, Anita Johnson, Tania Ketenjian, Queena Kim, Thomas Lopez, Pejk Malinovski, Kenny Malone, Paul McCarthy, Brendan Newnam, Kara Oehler, Lu Olkowski, Dmae Roberts, Ben Rubin, Shea Shackelford, Laura Starecheski, Nick van der Kolk, Gregory Warner, Veralyn Williams, Trent Wolbe, and Jamie York.

You’ll find information about the project, including a link to the press release, at http://www.MQ2.org

Join us in congratulating this fine group, and egging them on to great imaginings…

The MQ2 Team

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