WGXC 90.7-FM, Greene and Columbia County community radio

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.

Tune in to the Wednesday Afternoon Show at 4pm for a conversation with Wave Farm’s Radio Program Director, Meredith Kooi...
11/05/2025

Tune in to the Wednesday Afternoon Show at 4pm for a conversation with Wave Farm’s Radio Program Director, Meredith Kooi, and artist and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) PhD student Natan Diacon Furtado!

Kooi visited EMPAC’s Studio Beta earlier this week to talk with Diacon Furtado about their project Community Portal. The project is an open-source ancestral projection and transmission tool that engages the public in embodied collaborative listening through the re-purposing of naval navigation and paranormal investigation technologies. We also hear from Dierdre Shea and Julian Goldman of Troy-based Fun Stuff Design, who worked in collaboration with Natan to design the project’s antennas. Community Portal is open for public participation on Friday, November 7th from 10-2pm in Studio Beta at EMPAC.

The Community Portal utilizes a water-filled metal bowl which is modified to become a ground-plane liquid antenna, engaging the FM radio spectrum as a space for investigation and recuperation of community connection(s). Connecting this antenna to a laptop converted into a software-defined radio “spirit box” allows a hand placed into the water to audibly modify the signals that are received. Additional hands placed into the water merge and amplify the antenna’s signal, sharing agency and intention between you, your community, and your watershed, opening a space for joyful meaning-making and the potential to receive site and self-specific messages from other(ed) ancestral imaginations.

Images:
1 - Natan Diacon Furtado, Community Portal. Courtesy the of artist.
2 - Community Portal Studio Visit. Photo by Meredith Kooi.
3- Deirdre Shea and Julian Goldman of Fun Stuff Design.


Tune in today at 12pm for a selection from the WGXC Archives! “Echolocation: Does Fall Make A Sound? - Parts 1 and 2” Th...
11/04/2025

Tune in today at 12pm for a selection from the WGXC Archives! “Echolocation: Does Fall Make A Sound? - Parts 1 and 2”

This autumn broadcast of Echolocation (originally aired December 10, 2016) contemplates the age-old question “when a tree falls in the woods and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?” In the first hour, we’ll feature little brown bats and gunshot reverberations, as well as singing, bioluminescent fish. In the second hour, we’ll remember three great artists who passed beyond the veil this Autumn - musician and composer Pauline Oliveros; soul singer for the band the Dap-Kings Sharon Jones; and painter, sculptor and filmmaker Margo Pelletier.

Echolocation explores aspects of environmental art, especially the use of bioacoustics in sound art and musical composition. The show dwells at the junction between art, science and natural sound, and features works by artists working in the fields of soundscape studies, deep listening and acoustic ecology. Featured composers include R. Murray Schaffer, Doug Quin, Lisa Walker, Hildegard Westerkamp, Pauline Oliveros, and others.

Tune in tonight at 7:30pm for a spooky selection from the New American Radio Archive: “In the Devils Footsteps, Parts 1 ...
10/31/2025

Tune in tonight at 7:30pm for a spooky selection from the New American Radio Archive: “In the Devils Footsteps, Parts 1 & 2” (1993) by Helen Thorington with Sarah Montague!

Created especially for Halloween, these two complimentary programs celebrate and explore the vampire tradition, which is as ageless and enduring as its own subject, and the shadowy world of the bat, which though its popularity is on the rise, is still very much of an endangered species. The first part recreates the image of the vampire through dramatic readings from the rich literary tradition of vampire lore, and a lush compelling sound score. The second part focuses on the bat, a mysterious creature as fascinating in its own way as the mythological creation which, since Bela Lugosi first lifted his cape in 1931, has literally cast a shadow over its life. Bat experts Dr. Merlin Tuttle, founder of Bat Conservation International, and Dr. Roy Horst, discuss bat behavior and bats’ vital ecological contributions, as well as the nature of true vampires.

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Tune in today at 3pm for “Tracking The Odds” featuring Bergsonist (Selwa Abd). Selwa Abd is a Moroccan-born interdiscipl...
10/27/2025

Tune in today at 3pm for “Tracking The Odds” featuring Bergsonist (Selwa Abd).

Selwa Abd is a Moroccan-born interdisciplinary artist and composer based in New York City, working under the alias Bergsonist. This performance, entitled ASL أصل ⴰⵙⵍ (Origin), begins with a solo by Gnawan musician Moe Elgad on the guembri (a three-stringed bass lute). The solo merges with and transitions into Bersonist’s soundscape. This multimedia performance, recorded at the Roulette Concert Hall in Brooklyn in Sept. 2025, explores ancestry and Amazigh heritage, developed after visiting her great-grandfather’s shrine near Errachidia, Morocco.

Tune in to “Modulisme” today at 2pm for EARLY ELECTROMIX #49.Early ElectroMIX is a series to document the history of ex...
10/27/2025

Tune in to “Modulisme” today at 2pm for EARLY ELECTROMIX #49.

Early ElectroMIX is a series to document the history of experimental Electronic music from the 50s to the 80s, composers making use of electronic instruments, test equipment, generators of synthetic signals and sounds, tape manipulations... to analog synthesizers...While our sessions document those who make it today my desire is to transmit some pioneering works which paved the way to what we try to create.

Tune in at 12pm for two works from the Transmission Art Archive: Wave Farm Radia Commissions - “Variations on a Topograp...
10/25/2025

Tune in at 12pm for two works from the Transmission Art Archive: Wave Farm Radia Commissions - “Variations on a Topography” (2023) by Lia Kohl and “25 Hz” (2022) by Andy Kelleher Stuhl.

⚪️ “Variations on a Topography” (2023) by Lia Kohl is constructed in stratified layers, each containing a recording of a full scan of the AM/FM spectrum from bottom to top and back down again. Tuning through the spectrum in the same place every time, Kohl charts a map of her specific signal, showcasing the geographic specificity of radio and drawing out its topography with additional musical sounds.

⚪️ “25 Hz” (2022) by Andy Kelleher Stuhl splices together audio samples from a span of 1951 to present, casting radio automation amid characters from the sonic arts and popular culture in a historical drama. A 25 Hz “cue tone” punctuates each splice, inverting the automation system’s goal of seamlessly executing a programmed sequence. Re-sonifying those seams from within radio, the piece aims to open automation up as more than an industrial object – as a peculiar, emotionally charged, and passionately countered dream that has perhaps had something in common with avant-garde legacies in post-WWII America.

Tune in today (Thursday 10/23) from 7pm to 8pm to Poet Ray’d Yo! This month’s edition of the program features recording ...
10/23/2025

Tune in today (Thursday 10/23) from 7pm to 8pm to Poet Ray’d Yo!

This month’s edition of the program features recording made, and works experienced, during the past four months, including documentation of several performances at the Verbatim Text Sound Expo in Maplecrest in early October. Artists whose works are presented on the show include Brian Dewan, The Fugs, Sparrow (with Brigid Slattery), Most Serene Congress, No Land (with Oliver Ray), Tracie Morris, Bruce Andrews, and The Third Mind.

Tune in tomorrow (Tuesday 10/21) at 11am for “Nuestra Música” — playing the “Eclectic” show! With a variety of styles, s...
10/20/2025

Tune in tomorrow (Tuesday 10/21) at 11am for “Nuestra Música” — playing the “Eclectic” show! With a variety of styles, some never played before. We will travel to Spain to listen to Albeniz Asturias, to Portugal and a beautiful duo Sete Lagrimas. The Portuguese, Morocan and English musician from the Folk Jazz Arabe group are playing “La Valenciana”, Oscar Aleman from Argentina with “Casi Negro”. From Mali and Cuba, the AfroCubism and “Guantanamera “with native instruments from Mali, Barroco Andino and a Bach piece played with native instruments like Quena, Charango and flute, and more classical music with Manuel de “Falla and Siete Canciones Populares”. The shows end with mezzo Ginamaria Hidalgo and “Milonga Sentimental”, the impossible to describe soprano from Peru Yma Zumac and the song “Bo Mambo” Hugo Diaz playing “Mi Buenos Aires Querido” with his Harmonica, and finally Bajofondo from Argentina with Lagrima Rios and the song “Chiquilines” will end the show. Eclectic it is. Enjoy the music.

⚡️October’s Breaking the Algorithm IRL – this Thursday! 7pm! See you there! 🌀Turn out on Thursday, October 23rd at 7pm U...
10/20/2025

⚡️October’s Breaking the Algorithm IRL – this Thursday! 7pm! See you there! 🌀

Turn out on Thursday, October 23rd at 7pm Upstairs at the Avalon Lounge for the next edition of “Breaking the Algorithm IRL,” a new monthly series presented by Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM as part of our Local Waves initiative and the show “Local Waves in Conversation.” Part conversation led by Mike Amari of Chosen Family and part DJ set by a WGXC volunteer, the series highlights local artists, musicians, venue owners and bookers, and record label owners. This month’s event features a discussion with Matthew O’Neill of non-profit and label Panther Mountain Sound as well as WGXC show “Panther Mountain Sound.” DJ set by Yeshi of “NORMLRadio.”




Tune in at 4 p.m.! On today’s “Friday Afternoon Show,” Meredith Kooi interviews Gray Schiller of non-profit StretchMetal...
10/17/2025

Tune in at 4 p.m.! On today’s “Friday Afternoon Show,” Meredith Kooi interviews Gray Schiller of non-profit StretchMetal about its founding, programming, and upcoming Drone Sleepover event. StretchMetal is a nonprofit resource network, label, and concert series promoting emerging artists in the ever-evolving landscape of abstract sound.

Then, Simone Stevens takes on the 5pm hour of the third Friday to bring us conversations with two filmmakers showing work at the Woodstock Film Festival this week. Simone is joined by Fiona Otway, director of the short film “Into the Dark” and Matthew Bennett, producer of the feature film “A Break in the Rain.”


Tune in tonight at 9pm for the premiere of “This Is Our House” hosted by Simon Thrasher/SEEM!3rd Thursdays from 9 p.m. t...
10/16/2025

Tune in tonight at 9pm for the premiere of “This Is Our House” hosted by Simon Thrasher/SEEM!

3rd Thursdays from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.

rave histories future visions ... house, techno, trance, jungle, breakbeat, and ambient music from the 1990s underground party/rave movement ... transmitting still-radical, ever-fresh visionary sounds and energies ... a vision of unity in diversity, radical love and embracement, self-expression and embodiment, collectivity and respect ... broadcast now in this present time as a positive energy spell ... a better world is possible, under one sky, this is our house

Simon makes art and sounds as SEEM in the Catskill Mountains.
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Tune into “unknown sounds” with Elena Botts today at 3pm! This episode features Kaczynski Editions, an independent recor...
10/16/2025

Tune into “unknown sounds” with Elena Botts today at 3pm! This episode features Kaczynski Editions, an independent record label based in Italy dedicated to unexpected sounds and art.

This project, completely in line with underground counterculture and absolutely permeated with true punk spirit, looks for the strength of ideas, the purity and the originality, trying to re-establish communication starting from the bottom up, in order to represent the clash of clichés and homogenisations of which current society, both civil and artistic, is full of.

This attitude and sense of belonging are our greater influences.

As Peter Kember said: it takes just five seconds of decision to realize that the time is right to start thinking about a little Revolution...this is our purpose.

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