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WGXC 90.7-FM, Greene and Columbia County community radio Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM is a creative community radio station based in New York’s Greene and Colu

Wave Farm's WGXC (90.7-FM) is a creative community radio station based in New York’s Greene and Columbia counties. Hands-on access and participation activate WGXC as a public platform for information, experimentation, and engagement. A program division of Wave Farm, WGXC serves over 78,000 potential listeners on 90.7-FM and international listeners at wgxc.org.

04/02/2025

Today at 5:30pm - the premiere of “WHO CARES” , featuring an interview with Red Hook Town Historian Emily Majer.
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“WHO CARES,” produced by Lilah Friedland, is an interview-based segment that is a mini-deep dive into the world of care, what we care about...and maybe why.
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Lilah Friedland is an artist, musician, and mother. She works in any medium she wants to.
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04/02/2025

If you missed it live, find it on the archive! And, if you can, head outside and listen with a tree! 🌳

“Orchard Chorus” is a multi-species chorus by Kalli Anderson composed of field recordings made in a wild-grafted apple orchard outside of Hudson, NY in June 2024 along with archival recordings of songs from the Community Library of Voice and Sound. The week of the summer solstice in June, community members gathered for a durational deep listening event in an apple orchard. Participants spent several minutes listening and then (after a child shook a tambourine), they were invited to make sounds and motions inspired by the sounds they had tuned into in the orchard. Recordings from this session, along with contact microphone recordings from the soil beneath the trees and archival recordings of songs from the area were combined to create the final chorus in several voices. The chorus moves from the ground up: from the liquid, bugs and organisms in the soil beneath the trees, to the grasses, the trees, leaves in the wind, to the human bodies, breath and voices gathered on the ground in the grass, up to the birds in the sky and then a final layer of the chorus—the sounds of the voices, bodies and rhythms of our individual memories and reminiscences as well as the collective memory of the community and the land as represented by the archival recordings.

“Orchard Chorus” premiered in the same orchard in winter 2025 in a ceremony inspired by the tradition of wassailing, in which apple trees are honored and serenaded to encourage them to awaken from their winter slumber and produce another bountiful crop.

Oral History Summer School’s Archive Remix is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Special thanks to Nika Carlson, Audrey Evans, Julia Shield, Ben Ezinga, Suzanne Snider, Emma Brown, Annie Reynolds, and Zack Finkelstein.

Sounds, songs, and radio art from a variety of contributors. Tune in for something you’ve never heard before with familiar classics and transmission art mixed in.
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04/01/2025

8-10pm TONITE 4/1: This month’s “There There” hosted by Alanna Medlock features a conversation with artist and musician Deena Rae Turner. Deena was born in North Carolina the same year as the best-looking Chevy ever built, has performed and recorded as a singer-songwriter and guitar player in the surf-punk band Staplegun, taught Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts, and currently hosts Room Collaborative, the weekly life drawing pop-up at Avalon Lounge in Catskill.
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Link in bio to listen live!
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03/31/2025

8pm tonite! Tune in for the re-broadcast of Hans Kumich’s work “Three Transmissions from a Carceral State” that was performed live in the WGXC Catskill Studio on October 19, 2024, while Hans was an artist-in-residence at Wave Farm.

“Three Transmissions from a Carceral State” is a live performance and radio broadcast bringing together three sound archives connected to the history of imprisonment in Upstate New York. The first set of recordings derives from a practice of listening to the electromagnetic and acoustic environments of active and decommissioned prisons in Wave Farm’s vicinity. The second set draws on Wave Farm’s archive of radio programs highlighting the analysis of imprisoned people, their families, and communities. Finally, a third set of recordings engage with contemporary abolitionists organizing in Upstate New York. The three sound archives will be mixed in real time to evoke the prison as a physical structure and a discursive site. Listening to its past, present, and future, the project seeks to contribute to the abolitionist imagining of imprisonment’s afterlife.
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03/31/2025

4 p.m. - The Monday Afternoon Show with Kieran Riley: Alex Daud of “The Fascinating Chimera Project”
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Alex Daud of the local band Fascinating Chimera Project joins Kieran over Zoom at 4:10 p.m. to talk about the band’s new album Songs for the Moon and upcoming album release show on April 4, 2025 at The Avalon Lounge. Alex is also the host of WGXC show “A Frequently Visited Dream.”
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03/31/2025

Tune in today at 3pm for selections from a multi-part live radio theater workshop by KHONSU X and Titan of the Broken Bois Collective that they presented as part of their project "Defiant Masculinity" while artists-in-residence at Wave Farm in 2021. The first half is from the July 3 broadcast of the fictional talkshow "The Hazards of Being Male." The second half is the July 4 broadcast, which was the final workshop in their "Defiant Masculinity" series. This one featured meditations on the prompt "A man is something that is made."
https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/jrkj89

03/28/2025

Tune in now for a broadcast of a 1964 performance by Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, and Terry Jennings followed by the 2022 work “Call Book” by Hali Palombo!
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WBAI-FM “Avant Garde Concert III”: Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, and Terry Jennings. Originally broadcast on WBAI December 12 & 17, 1964. A Recording of the Annual Avant Garde Festival Program of August 30, 1964. With works by John Cage, Earle Brown, Giuseppe Chiari, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Terry Jennings, and Tosha Ichiyanagi.
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“Call Book” isolates and magnifies human broadcasts on amateur radio—little phrases, sentences, or vocalizations that might otherwise be forgotten. Palombo’s belief that “there’s something to be learned from every human interaction” focuses the work on cementing these unnoticed moments in the imagination of the listener. “Shortwave radio,” she says, “isn’t just harsh frequencies, number stations, or signal interference—it’s also a longstanding method of communication.”

Hali also has a show on WGXC! Tune in next month for a new “The Blue Amberol Hour” with Hali!
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Images found on Discogs and Comfort Station.

03/28/2025

New show “Belt of Venus” is live! If you miss it, it’s worth a listen back in our audio archive (link in bio)
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Hosted by Ryan Skrabalak, Belt of Venus is a free form radio show showcasing avant-garde, free, outsider and experimental musics, in addition to other sounds from the egresses of the commodified world.
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Ryan Skrabalak is a poet, publisher, printer, and educator from “Albany, New York.” He lives and works in “Kingston, New York” at present.
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03/27/2025

Today’s broadcasts feature an interlacing of environmental compositions, poetry, and local interviews!
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At 3pm - “From the New American Radio Art Archive” features two works from Hildegard Westerkamp, a leading figure in Acoustic Ecology and soundscape composition. First, “A Walk Through the City” (1981) is an environmental composition based on a poem by Canadian poet and playwright Norbert Ruebsaat. Next, “Cricket Voice” (1987) by Hildegard Westerkamp is a musical exploration of a cricket whose song was recorded in the stillness of a Mexican desert region called the Zone of Silence (Slide 1).
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During the 5 p.m. hour of the WGXC Afternoon Show, Karen Schoemer and Daniel Karp join hosts Selha G and Tommy D to talk about Daniel’s photography exhibition “The Asking Eye,” that opens at Random Harvest on March 29, 2025 at 2 p.m. and runs through April 27, 2025. All proceeds from print sales will be donated to families in Gaza. The show is co-sponsored by Columbia County for Palestine (Slide 2).
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8 p.m. - This month’s edition of Poet Ray’d Yo documents recent readings by George Quasha and Chuck Stein at the Variable Matrix exhibition in Tivoli (Tivoli Artists Gallery). The program also features a litany of self-definitions for Poet Ray’d Yo and recitation of a Jerome Rothenberg poem accompanied by the sounds of Most Serene Congress (Slide 3). Hosted by Chris Funkhouser
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1st slide: Hildegard Westerkamp , photo by Peter Grant courtesy of otherminds.org

2nd slide: The Asking Eye, Daniel Karp.

3rd Slide: Variable Matrix, Chuck Stein. Phot by Chris Funkhouser

03/26/2025

Tonite at 10pm “A Letter to the Lemniscate: Radio Frequencies From The Third Ear” (2024) by Desiree Mwalimu-Banks will grace WGXC’s airwaves!

Writes Mwalimu-Banks, “A Letter to the Lemniscate: Radio Frequencies From The Third Ear” is a gathering of audio memoirs exploring global anthologies of the divine feminine, and the ways this has shaped my personal mythography, all attuned to the frequency of the lemniscate, which in Bee Shamanism, is the number ‘8’. Related, and perhaps not so coincidental, ‘8’ happens to be my life path number in numerology, and ‘8’ also describes the numerological alignment that informs the energetics taking place in this year, 2024. There are eight movements in total with four additional pieces emerging from two of those eight including:

🕳️The Void
🐣Origins
🐝Bees
🍄‍🟫Mushrooms
🪨Caves
♍️Sacred Feminine: Global Feminisms/Isis
🌊Pelagia
🌀Labyrinth
✨Stars: Transitioning to Stars/Stars

The work is an invitation to travel with me, as I trace the contours of this transformative journey, into a poetics of sound via the practice of radio art transmissions.”

Link in bio to listen live!
More info on the broadcast schedule at link in bio too!
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Photo by Nicole Combeau

03/25/2025

11 a.m. today! Nuestra Música: Celebrating “Los Folcloristas” and “Martirio”
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Hosted by Mariano Vera.
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Los Folkloristas is a Mexican musical group dedicated to the research, performance, and dissemination of traditional Latin American music. Today we present an homage to this group that has work with the traditions, native languages, instruments and rhythms of virtually every single Latin American country. Today we are presenting ten songs from the Album 50 años and we will finish the show with Spanish singer Martirio and a song from the Argentinian classic songbook, Alberto Ginastera and Danzas Argentinas
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If you miss the FM broadcast you can, as always, find the archived audio in the broadcast listing (Broadcast Schedule link in bio!)

03/24/2025

Today’s WGXC Afternoon Show with Kieran Riley is packed with guests. First is Deven Connelly and Tracey Testo-Smith who join “WGXC Afternoon Show” host Kieran Riley over Zoom during the 4 p.m. hour for another edition of “The Month Ahead at Cornell Cooperative Extension.” Then, during the 5 p.m. hour, WGXC programmers John and Alison Moses of tonight’s “Message Machine” join Kieran to talk about the screening of RATS! and Close-Up conversation that Alison is participating in at Upstate Films in Saugerties on Wednesday, 3/26. After that, we hear from Antonia Allegrone and her mother Stacy about Antonia’s new album. Tune in! It’s going to be a great one!
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03/24/2025

Today on “Tracking the Odds”: The Montreal-based composer and sound artist Maxime De La Rochefoucauld (aka Maxime Rioux) from a performance for automaton-driven percussion, strings, and household objects. His Système Ki are not played directly by a musician. Instead they are mechanically triggered by inaudible, subsonic rhythmic bursts and waves. The musician does not touch the instruments. The name “Ki” refers to the Japanese concept of Qi, the notion of a vital energy that animates all things. Recorded at the Roulette concert space in New York in 2001.

Tune in at 3pm!
Link in bio to listen live from anywhere.
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03/23/2025

Today at 3:30pm! Hear from Kelly McCaughan, Rachel Shulman, Sean McDonald, and Michael Hoy from the Camphill Hudson Radio Group about the things they love most about springtime in upstate New York as well as what they are giving up (or taking up) for Lent. Listen live on 90.7-FM or online at link in bio!
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03/20/2025

3pm today- “unknown sounds”
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Produced by Elena Botts.
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Effee Hawk is an experimental electronic/dance musician who creates vibey atmospheric sounds. Their music is meant to be hypnotizing, and lyrics are out right confessions. They experiment with various synths, toy keyboards, samplers, and their voice. A bit of a cave dweller, they’ll be in the studio for hours at a time trying to find and create interesting sounds.
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“unknown sounds” is intended as a radio archive of experimental artists’ interior worlds, these that are externalized through their work, and the interchange through artist communities. This is an contemporary archive of experimental art-making in communities around the world, the inherent politicism of art, and the social change this may or may not represent. In short, it is intended mostly as a look into these small worlds, with the idea of generating more thought on both human fallibility and potential, and how art can engender hope. Each section here is meant as a studio visit, but also a glimpse into the doings of a wider community and the cultural, political repercussions of experimental sound and art-making.
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“unknown sounds” is produced by Elena Botts and organized by the unknown sound collective, an experimental international multimedia collective.
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03/20/2025

Happy Spring! Special broadcast at 10am - “I want to eat the earth: Spring Equinox”
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Curated and produced by Stephen Shiell in collaboration with NSOTA scholars, ensemble, and friends.
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NSOTA is a radical experiment in alternative education, away from marketization and arcane specialism towards co-sensing systems change through creative practice.
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This is an ecological transmission of DIY ethics, non-hierarchical structures, radical networks, interconnected sensing through sound, text, voice, spoken word, human and more-than-human collaborative practice, patchwork group thinking, and radio art.

This episode is created for the March equinox, a time where northern and southern hemispheres experience equal amounts of dark and light, night and day, before tipping towards or away from the sun. The piece is curated and produced by Stephen Shiell and composed using original and borrowed material from NSOTA scholars.
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See the broadcast listing (link in bio) for the full list of contributions, including radio dowsing, ultrasound medleys, elegies, field recordings, instrumental compositions, and much more!
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03/19/2025

The “Better Weather” keeps us safe and informed every day! Thanks Joe!
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As a segment throughout the day, Joe Demanso of the Catskill Makers Syndicate brings listeners meteorological predictions, pollen counts, Hudson River water temperatures, space weather, and more on WGXC 90.7-FM.

03/18/2025

Live at 7pm tonight! - Race Talks® – Women’s History Month Special: Honoring Civil Rights Champion Ma Dukes with Host Kimberly Erwin and Guest TALKer Dr. Rita S. Fierro
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As DEI initiatives face increasing resistance, we explore avenues to continue the fight for justice amid political rollbacks. And who are the women and organizations who continue to pave the way for lasting change?
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Join Host Kimberly Erwin, an expert in intercultural communication and founder of the Intercultural Connect Channel for an in-depth discussion on Social Justice for the 21st Century with Dr. Rita S. Fierro and the powerful women who have shaped social justice movements, especially one Dr. Hazel N. Dukes (1932–2025). This Women’s History Month, we pay tribute to Dr. Hazel N. Dukes (“Ma” or “Momma Dukes” as those who knew her affectionately called her), a trailblazer who spent over seven decades fighting for racial justice, DEI, and social change. A powerhouse leader, she: Broke barriers as the first Black woman in the Nassau County Attorney’s Office (1966); Led as NAACP New York State Conference President and National President (1989–1992); Advocated for fair housing, voting rights, and education equity; and Swore in New York Governor Kathy Hochul and mentored generations of political leaders.
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Honored earlier this month at her Going Home Celebration by Hillary Clinton and countless others who recognized her lasting impact, Ma Dukes’ legacy stands alongside legendary women like Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Shirley Chisholm, and Rosa Parks—whom she personally knew as a child in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Dr. Rita S. Fierro is our on-air Social Justice Consultant, Author, and Racial Healing Expert. With 30 years of experience studying systemic racism, Dr. Rita helps changemakers push through resistance to DEI efforts. She is the author of Digging Up the Seeds of White Supremacy, a must-read on understanding systemic oppression and building a more just world.
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