Podcast #278 – The Wave Farm Grows Transmission Arts (rebroadcast)
Radio Survivor
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 58 seconds
Radios in the trees, a transmitter in the pond, and a weather-driven synth. These are just some of what you’ll find on The Wave Farm, a 29-acre property in New York’s Hudson Valley dedicated to radio and transmission arts. It’s anchored by community radio station WGXC, accompanied by a cornucopia of additional tiny terrestrial and internet stations.
Jennifer Waits takes us on an auditory tour of the farm, along with a visit to the station’s Hudson, NY studio, where station manager and managing news editor Lynn Sloneker lays out all these audio feeds. Then in the Wave Farm studio, artistic director Tom Roe details the organization’s history, which has its roots in the unlicensed micropower radio movement of the 1990s.
Every year Wave Farm hosts artists in residence, who create unique works and installations exploring the many aspects of electromagnetic transmission. One was the musical artist Quintron, who created the Weather Warlock, a weather-controlled synthesizer. Eric Klein gave him a call to learn more about this project and his work.
Show Notes:
- WGXC
- Artist-in-residence Dan Tapper at Wave Farm
- Dan Tapper’s website
- Podcast #137 – Zach Poff Built a Radio Station Inside a Pond
- Podcast #148 – Solving the Mystery of Summer Camp Radio
- Wave Farm Celebrates 20 Years of Transmission Art
- Quintron and Miss Pussycat
- Weather for the Blind
- Weather Warlock at Wave Farm
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