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

12/09/2024

Tune in for an interview at 4:10 p.m. with Amadeus Julian Regucera, Music Curator at EMPAC, about the upcoming series “Within | Without Limit,” a series of two solo performances from internationally acclaimed musician Charles Curtis.

Tied to both uptown and downtown New York City scenes in the 1980s and noted for his collaborations with composers La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, and Éliane Radigue, as well as with poetry-rock pioneers King Missile, among others, Curtis’s repertoire spans classical, avant-garde, minimal, noise, and popular genres. At EMPAC, Curtis performs a listening odyssey of works by Radigue, Carolyn Chen, French medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut, and his own work. The two programs feature delicate yet visceral works that challenge—and reward—the listener, opening up new musical landscapes both outside and within the work.
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12/06/2024

Tune in tomorrow (Saturday 12/7) at 10am for “Babet’s Fear of the Future,” a special broadcast from the Northeast of Scotland!

A sonic interpretation of a storm, its power, and its one weakness…

A STORM HAS A FINITE LIFE – IT BLOWS ITSELF OUT AND DISAPPEARS FOREVER

…experienced from within the mind and soul of the storm itself.

October 2023 – musician and composer Tyler Lewis and writer / director Neil Cargill were working with a group of teenagers in the countryside in North East Scotland as part of a Youth Music Initiative, a scheme which offers opportunities for young people to experience sound recording and music composition for the first time. While they were indoors discussing what to create, outside the wind and the rain began to grow increasingly wild…

Finding themselves deep in the heart of the hugely destructive Storm Babet, the young workshop participants harnessed the sounds of the storm and used them as inspiration for a recording that was shaped in real time by the rapidly changing sounds of the natural world. With original music, sung and spoken words and tones created with everything from snapped tree branches to straining metal structures, they created a vivid work that sheds light on Babet from an unexpected perspective. We know the experience of being surrounded by a storm, but what is it like being the storm itself – being misunderstood, feared, vulnerable, frightened by your own strength, facing your own swiftly approaching end?

Tune to 90.7-FM in the Upper Hudson Valley NY, or listen live online from anywhere! (link in bio) 🌀📻

12/04/2024

In case you missed it! Tune in today at 4 p.m. for a re-air of Sunday’s “Ginger Radio Hour” with Justin Maiman!

“When hens are calm, nothing is more soothing than their voices, especially when punctuated by the occasional grunt of a sleepy pig. Sometimes, lulled by their cozy, restful sounds, I lose track of time, enveloped by a sense of belonging, washed in peace and wholeness among a sisterhood of hens.” That’s from Sy Montgomery’s glorious and calming new book What the Chicken Knows. Sy and I chat, and I curate two hours of music full of chicken nuggets.

Host Justin Maiman from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the “Ginger Radio Hour.” The show features music, field recordings, performances, and interviews, primarily with people in and around the Catskill Mountains of New York live from WGXC’s Acra studio.

Tune in to 90.7-FM or listen live! 🐔

12/03/2024

Dear WGXC 90.7-FM listeners, collaborators, and friends,

On this Giving Tuesday, we ask you to support Wave Farm’s WGXC and our mission of providing creative, hands-on, participatory radio to the communities in our coverage area and the broader public.

As you already know, community radio is an extremely special space that serves as a gathering place for familiar and new voices in our region and beyond. 75% of programming on WGXC is created by our neighbors in the Hudson Valley and Capital District regions, and much of our additional programming is dedicated to experimental radio, transmission, and sound art from across the world.

Our commitment to and belief in supporting creative community access to the airwaves, outlined in our Manifesto for Participatory Radio (link in bio!), have been a fundamental force since we first aired on 90.7-FM in 2011. At WGXC, programming is built to serve listeners––to ask and answer important questions and to foster connection and discovery between folks both locally and across the world. We believe that radio is and can continue to be a two-way street, providing listeners with the means to tell their own stories over the airwaves as broadcasters.

Your support truly makes all of this possible! Today, on Giving Tuesday, we hope you will consider making a donation to help sustain community radio and all of the wonderful, knowledgeable, surprising, and weird(!), confluences of ideas that are made possible by a truly participatory platform.

We can’t wait for what 2025 holds in store, and we look forward to sharing upcoming announcements on new shows, free educational opportunities, and events.

Thank you for your support! 📻

Design by Miriam Atkin .

12/02/2024

Tune in during today’s “WGXC Afternoon Show” for an interview with Meredith Kooi and Kenji Garland about their recent performance and sound project “I’m just trying to be a kid (again; or, maybe for the first time),” which was awarded a grant through CREATE Council on the Arts.
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Meredith Kooi is an experimental artist and the WGXC Program Director.

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Kenji Garland is an electronic musician and soundmaker based in Kingston.

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Videography by Otto Ohle.
Technical consulting by Jen Kutler.
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This project is made possible with funds from@the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CREATE Council on the Arts.council

11/27/2024

Tune in tonight at 8 p.m. for “Peach Pasta Radio,” a show by Allison Baughman, bringing you dance music from all over the globe. From French disco to minimal tech house and everything in between, “Peach Pasta Radio” will take you from the beach club at dusk to the basement club at dawn.

This show will feature an interview with upstate producer Nate Mars, along with a special Thanksgiving mix by Nate!

Tune to 90.7-FM or listen live online! 🪩

11/25/2024

Tune in to the “WGXC Afternoon Show” today at 4pm for this month’s edition of “Food Segment” with Tepper B.T.!

On this edition of Food Segment, Tepper and company travel to The Gnome Bistro at 1267 NY-295 in East Chatham to sample some of their unique and gnhomey comfort foods.

Tune to 90.7-FM or listen live online!

11/25/2024

Tune in today at 3pm for “Tracking the Odds” produced by Roulette Intermedium , featuring the work of Joseph Kamari, aka KMRU.

“Tracking The Odds: The Roulette Concert Archive” is a monthly hour-long radio special produced by Roulette Intermedium and broadcast in partnership with Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The broadcasts feature selected highlights from Roulette’s New York experimental music space dating from the early 1980s to the present. Thousands of rare, formative, and often unheard recordings by innovators and adventurous musicians populate the archive.

Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist known for a collection of field recordings from around the world blended with synthetic sound and noise for performances, installations, and recordings. This program features the project “Dissolution Grip” created while studying at the Universität der Künste Berlin and was recorded in performance at Roulette in September 2024. The piece has also been released on KMRU’s own label, OFNOT.

Tune to 90.7-FM or listen live online!

11/21/2024

Tune in this afternoon (Thursday 11/21) at 3 p.m. for “unknown sounds” with Elena Botts.

guest this week: nazlo records is a currently nomadic experimental label originally coming from Russia, exploring all types of weird sound and media formats like tapes, lathe cut records, reel-to-reel tapes, floppy discs etc.

“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.

Tune to 90.7-FM or listen live online 🎧

11/19/2024

Tune in tonight at 7 p.m. for November’s “Race Talks” with Kimberly Erwin!

Race Talks® brings an uplifting spirit of Thanksgiving to the airwaves this November, with Host Kimberly Y. Erwin–author of “A Children’s Book: Ending Racism!,” serial entrepreneur, and seasoned radio programmer–leading the discussion paying homage to indigenous people during Native American Heritage Month, with a special look at women “firsts” in a variety of cultural nooks.

Kimberly is joined by guest TALKer Ellen Chamberlain, an accomplished storyteller and cultural voice, whose work as a food and dining reporter for Commercial Appeal/USA Today in Memphis connects her deeply to the stories and traditions of diverse communities. A native of metro Detroit, Ellen brings a rich background in Black culture, lifestyle, and music, including a TEDx talk dedicated to hip hop, exploring its misogyny and the identity of the female rap artist. With years of writing for broadcast, print, and digital media, Ellen’s unique ability to connect lifestyle with cultural depth makes her an essential voice in this timely discussion.

Listeners are encouraged to call in during the Roundtable portion and share, along with our Special guests, what they’re most thankful for and any reflections of how our past may guide us to future progress!

Tune to 90.7-FM or listen live online!

11/18/2024

Tune into the “WGXC Afternoon Show” today at 4 p.m. to hear from two exciting guests!

During the 4 p.m. hour, host Kieran Riley is joined by Executive Director of For the Many , Jonathan Bix, to talk about new developments in For the Many’s work with Good Cause Eviction legislation, as well as housing work post-election, and how they’re moving forward on issues like climate, immigration, and worker power.

During the 5 p.m. hour, Helen Rose joins “WGXC Afternoon Show” to talk about the upcoming event “Catskill for Asheville: Hurricane Relief” at The Avalon Lounger. Local musicians of the Hudson Valley will perform an evening of music to raise funds for BeLoved Asheville hurricane Helene relief efforts. All proceeds go to BeLoved Asheville.

Tune to 90.7-FM or listen live online!

11/13/2024

✨Ticket Giveaway! ✨We have three pairs of tickets for “The Egg Presents: Abdullah Ibrahim Trio / Sandhi Trio” on Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 7:30pm. To snag the tickets: comment on this post and DM us your email address! The first three responses will be awarded a pair of tickets.

And, tune in to today’s “WGXC Afternoon Show” at 4 p.m. to hear an interview with Abdullah Ibrahim ahead of his performance!

Abdullah Ibrahim is South Africa’s most distinguished pianist and a world-respected master musician. Born in 1934 in Cape Town, Dollar Brand, as he became known, was exposed to a melting pot of cultural influences: African Khoi-san songs, Christian hymns, gospel tunes and spirituals, as well as American jazz, township jive, and classical music. Out of this blend of the secular and religious, and the traditional and the modern, Abdullah Ibrahim’s distinctive sound and musical vocabulary was born.

This event is part of The Egg’s Resonance Series, curated by Arun Ramamurthy , and part of Abdullah Ibrahim’s 90th birthday tour––it is not to be missed!

11/11/2024

Tune in tonight at 7 p.m. for “American Tarragon” — now airing every 2nd Monday of the month from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.!

“American Tarragon” brings you the blissed out sounds of folk, ambient, rock-n-roll, psychedelia, electronica, new age, world music and beyond. Join as Will Heel spins classics, new favorites, lost jams, and deep listening vibrations in physical and metaphysical forms. Tune in and let’s bliss out together.

Will Heel entered the DJ fray when he was stationed in Helsinki working for the intelligence agencies in American World Radio. A polymath, Will is a regional champion in “Nature Chess,” a naturalist community of chess players known to exceed the skills of the so-called elite players who wear clothing as they play. Eager to have a go without military oversight, he joins WGXC to bring a program of music from around the world and beyond.

Tune to 90.7-FM or listen live online! (link in bio) 🌿

11/11/2024

Tune in at 5:10pm today [Mon, 11/11/24] during the “WGXC Afternoon Show” for a conversation with EMPAC curator-in-residence Tara Aisha Willis and EMPAC artist-in-residence Shawné Michaelain Holloway about two talks coming up on Nov. 12 and Nov. 14 as part of the “Emphemeral Organ” series that Willis curated.

Tara Aisha Willis’ body of research explores the lineages and practices of Black experimentation and improvisation in dance through contemporary performances.

Shawné Michaelain Holloway shapes the the grammars of computer programming and sadomasochism into tools for exposing structures and narratives of power through experiments with noisy, electronic sculpture and her unique approach to expanded cinema.

Photos:
1: SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY, “DEWCLAW,” Institute for Contemporary Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University, 2022. Photo by Keshia Eugene.
2: Leslie Cuyjet, “With Marion,” The Kitchen, 2023. Photo by Wlodarczyk

11/10/2024

Tune in at 4 p.m. for this week’s edition of “Li Le, Li Tan” hosted by Carline Murphy and Azouke Legba, featuring an interview with Mary Breneman, mother, artist, decorative painter, muralist, and gallery owner from Central Mexico who moved to the Hudson Valley 10 years ago. Creating impressionistic landscape and still life, her intimate paintings are inspired by life, sketches, or photographs taken on meditative walks through nature. “My paintings are pure expressions of where and who I am,” she said. They are at once, representational, abstract, and emotionally expressive, less intentional-more open to intuition. Tune in on Sunday, November 10 @ 5:00 PM to WGXC 90.7 FM or online www.wgxc.org for an insightful conversation with this inspiring female artist, describing her journey through the Arts with our friend Fontaine Dunn and your favorite co-host on Li Le Li Tan.

The Sunday edition of the “WGXC Afternoon Show” is “Li Le, Li Tan,” a Creole language radio program meaning “it’s the time, it’s the hour.” The show’s mission is to promote Haitian language, music, arts, and culture; to raise awareness and to discuss Haiti’s history and its relevance to today’s world; and to share news on current events happening here in the counties and in Haiti. Broadcast live from Columbia County, New York.

Tune to 90.7-FM or listen live online!

11/08/2024

Are you an artist making music and sounds in the Hudson Valley, Capital Region, or Western Mass? Submit your files for airplay on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM! Send a link to [email protected] (Bandcamp preferred with a download code).

11/06/2024

Tune in tonight at 7 p.m. for “Aquarium Nights: Music for Water & Air” now airing 1st, 3rd, and 5th Wednesdays from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

From host Iggy Capra: The interdependence of things on their internal opposition has never been a problem for me. I like to start them out at 125 bpm and just keep building. On the 18th century farmhouse oak dining table no frog eats in silence. Blessed be the slippery cog, the lotus blossoming between the shift-work, the palpable hum that summons vertebrates and invertebrates alike. At the risk of repeating myself - any space is a crawl space if you’re willing to get low. The pond here: murky. The sky: rent-free. It’s great to have you here with us, this is “Aquarium Nights.”

Tune to 90.7-FM or listen live online 📻

image: “The Skate” by James Ensor.

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5662 Route 23
Acra, NY
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