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Hosted by various WFMU personalities, Radio Free Culture is a weekly program that explores digital culture, net neutrality, piracy, the broadcast spectrum, digital rights, and archives and libraries in the internet age. We'll be interviewing some of the nation's key figures at the intersection of music, multimedia, and digital technology. This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
[Cheyenne talks to two of the twelve artists in the Freeharmonic Orchestra.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/68761
UncleBibby - "The Spidrman's (Nanoloop)" - Free Music Project
Hey Exit - "Twenty Seconds" [http://luvsound.org/files/luv025/04-Hey_Exit-Twenty_Seconds.mp3]
Bryan Teoh - "Fifths" [https://archive.org/download/luv011b-flac/luv011-2-02.flac]
Trio Mopmu - "Prodava Se Konche (RF Remix)" [https://archive.org/download/luv011b-flac/luv011-2-10.flac]
The OO-Ray - "Silhouettes" [Free Music Archive]
Fredo Viola - "Lullaby" [http://www.luvsound.org/files/luv025/01-Fredo_Viola-Lullaby.mp3] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/68161
[Cheyenne talks to Shivaun Watchorn, the Archive Coordinator for Maximum Rocknroll's official zine and record archive.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/67705
[Cheyenne talks to Erik Schoster, musician, web developer, and new addition to the FMA team!] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/67021
[Cheyenne talks to Michael Guerra and Jemma Brown about a new transcription tool produced by The Moth, Pop Up Archive and NYPL Labs called "Together We Listen."] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/66348
FMA Overlords - "Brought To You By You" - FMA Fundraiser 2015
Fairy Moshpit Applesauce - "French-Kiss Mommy's Aunt" - FMA Fundraiser 2015
Gentil - "Good Files" - FMA Fundraiser 2015 https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/64247
[Cheyenne and Jane Park talk about the State of the Commons report for 2015.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/64023
[Ross and Cheyenne banter about the FMA's virtues and reasons you should donate to their fundraiser. And Second Life dance parties.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/63678
[Cheyenne talked to Visager, producer & composer of "Songs From An Unmade World," who put it on FMA to see what would happen.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/63548
[Part 1 of 2 - Cheyenne talks to Paul Riismandel and Eric Klein about podcasting, web streaming and terrestrial radio, and how they're currently coexisting in the media landscape.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/63116
[Cheyenne talks to Jane Park of Creative Commons about this month's Global Summit.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/62876
[Cheyenne talks to Brian Foo about his current project, the "Data-Driven DJ."] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/62656
[Cheyenne talks to Rute Correia, who makes the White Market Podcast and curates on the FMA.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/62419
[Cheyenne talks to Jason Staczek about the interactive documentary "Do Not Track," about personal privacy and the web economy.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/62013
[Cheyenne talks to David Nemeth from the Acts of Silence blog.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/61957
[Cheyenne talks to Marina Vidor from the Philharmonia Orchestra about some CC-BY-SA samples that have been offered to the public for more than a decade on their website.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/61773
[Cheyenne talks to Vito Petruzzelli of Vitamin Pets about their recent 'premix' contest.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/61559
[Cheyenne talks to Dina Maccabee about playing a game of 'telephone' with a song.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/61341
[Cheyenne talks to Manuel Silva, the organizer of the world's first Netlabel Day.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/61125
[Cheyenne talks to Meik about the Open Music Contest's tenth anniversary.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/60913
[Emily Saltz from the Pop-Up Archive talks to Cheyenne about automated transcription for search, thus making audio a more shareable and accessible format for the web.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/60694
[Cheyenne talks to Ross about his relationship to the FMA and a few of his side interests, which include video art and making music.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/60592
[Cheyenne talks to Michael Weinberg about 3D printing as a disruptive technology, intellectual property law, Creative Commons and some of the controversy (and hilarity) related to 3D printing in the news.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/60495
[Kristin Thomson, who was a primary researcher on the Artist Revenue Streams Project, talks to Cheyenne about how artists make money.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/60388
[Cheyenne talks to composer Chad Crouch about his musical alter ego, Podington Bear, and why he released all of his music under CC BY-NC.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/60289
[Cheyenne talks to Bob George, Director of the Archive of Contemporary Music in NYC.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/60175
[Danielle Cordovez, a reference librarian at the NYPL's Rogers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, tells Cheyenne about the collection and its uses - and some of the weird things lurking on the shelves.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/60069
[Bram and Gareth from Black Lantern Music talk about their first 100 releases and what's in store for the netlabel.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59904
[Jenny Toomey, Director of the Internet Rights unit at the Ford Foundation, talks about the differences and similarities between running a DIY record label and helping innovators get the resources they need.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59822
[Jonathan Ward, the man behind the 'Excavated Shellac' blog, talks about crate digging, collecting and sharing 78s from around the world.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59789
[All our favorite microSong Challenge entries!]
Kollagemontage - "Alalala" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
Squire Tuck - "No Time To Lose" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
Stereo Akt - "Before You Die" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
Pipe Choir - "Sunbeam 1" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
Troy Holder - "Exoskeleton" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
szabi - "fame for orchestra oboa and bassoon" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
Neblung Price - "Lampost Moonlight" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
getoffloops - "Intruder" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
Room 34 - "The Fall of the Village of the Infinetisimal Forest at the Hands of the Royal Aggressor (an Epic in Seven Parts)" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
Greg Reinfeld - "Clyde the Formidable Cat" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
Nick Fraelich - "Pung" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
The Jazz Kissingers - "I Wish I Could Identify That Smell" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
B2B - "Copy of After The Rain" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
Deep Soda - "Lord Gordon" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
Uncle Milk - "Kalas" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
another cultural landslide - "the problematic nature of secret identities in the face of 21st century technological disruption" - microSong Challenge [honorable mention]
Ian Alex Mac - "I Hate Buses (explicit)" - microSong Challenge [3rd Place!]
Lee Rosevere - "Summers Playing Pinball" - microSong Challenge [2nd Place!]
Breakmaster Cylinder - "Paint Your Grandma's Portrait" - microSong Challenge [1st Place!] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59773
[Cheyenne talks to Liz Berg about how and why she makes mixes of FMA superhits.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59686
[Cheyenne talks to Ellen Duranceau, MIT Librarian, about the gray area of what is and isn't fair use under the US Copyright statute.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59541
[Nicky Case talks about slightly shapist polygons, public domain video games, interactive learning and more with Cheyenne.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59471
[Adam Green & Cheyenne discuss the Public Domain Review.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59370
[Simon Panrucker tells all! (or some!) about working for Cartoon Network, sharing music via Creative Commons, and making banana smooshing sounds.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59274
[Cheyenne talks to David Carter, a librarian at the Computer & Video Game Archive at the University of Michigan.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59179
[Cheyenne talks to Alex Winter, director of "Downloaded," about his upcoming film "Deep Web."] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/59073
[Cheyenne and Chris Zabriskie talk about making money with CC music and YouTube's ContentID system.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/58978
[Alicia Mielke from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston answers Cheyenne's questions about their podcast, concert series and more.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/58678
[Jared C Balogh of Pink Hex, Trans-Atlantic Rage and more talks to Cheyenne about alternatives to copyright in music, creativity and success.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/58610
[Aaron Wolf talks about snowdrift.coop, a new crowdfunding platform.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/58565
[Cheyenne talks to Doug & Tom of the Music Manumit podcast about podcasts. Meta!] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/58511
[Interview with Tom & Doug from the Music Manumit podcast.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/58485
Liz Berg interviews John Bergmayer of Public Knowledge https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57780
Thick Business - "Smoothest Runes"
Jeff Kolar and Andrea Silenzi - "Interview"
Sara Pinheiro - "Quem Conta Um Conto, II" - Radius #9 [Excerpt]
Timo Kahlen - "Bits & Pieces" - Radius #9 [Excerpt]
Thick Business - "Smoothest Runes" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57733
Andrea Silenzi - "Interviews Waylon Thornton"
Thick Business - "Smoothest Runes" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57349
Jason Sigal - "(intro)" [Theme Song: Thick Business "Smoothest Runes"]
- "Oh Promise Me" [optical scan of an 1889 piano roll performance, courtesy of trachtman.org]
Set: Nick Seaver
Cultural Anthropologist, nickseaver.net
"This Is Not a Copy": Mechanical Fidelity and the Re-enacting Piano
automatic violin
Nick Seaver - "(interview)"
Set: Aaron David Ross
aarondavidross.com
Musician, sound designer, master of extended techniques with the Disklavier
Score to the film Buffalo by Charles Anderson, music composed performed and recorded by ADR
Frederic Chiu performance with Yamaha's Disklavier, Oct 30th at Miller Theatre NYC
Aaron David Ross - "(interview)"
Set: Conlon Nancarrow
Set: Michael Connor
Curator, rhizome.org
The Impossible Music of Black MIDI
Black MIDI documentary by Andrew Chugg
Music heard in this segment:
Goto80, "Spill", Digi-Dig
Michael Connor - "(inteview)" [rhizome.org]
Set: Nick Yulman
Sound & interactive design artist, builder of musical automata, nysoundworks.org
Thing Synth from Nick Yulman on Vimeo.
Nick Yulman - Index Boogie at PS1 from Nick Yulman on Vimeo.
Concert Hall at Palais de Tokyo - Walk Through from Nick Yulman on Vimeo.
Nick Yulman - "(interview)" [nysoundworks.org]
Set: More resources (feel free to share links in the comments):
The Guinness Collection of Instruments & Automata, Morristown NJ: https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57627
Thick Business - "Smoothest Runes" - Smoothest Runes [source]
Jason Sigal - "(intro)"
David Suisman - "(interview)" [davidsuisman.net | Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music]
Lisa Gitelman - "(interview)" [listagitelman.org | Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents | Media, Materiality and the Measure of the Digital]
Michael Simon - "(interview)" [harryfox.com]
Scott Joplin - "Pine Apple Rag (1908 Piano Roll)" - Frog Legs: Ragtime Era Favorites [source | background music throughout the show] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57461
Thick Business - "Smoothest Runes"
Liz Berg interviews Elliot Harmon https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57177
Thick Business - "Smoothest Runes"
Liz Berg interviews Elliot Harmon https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57171
YACHT - "Shangri-La (Instrumental)" - Shangri-La (Instrumentals) [Available on the Free Music Archive]
Tim Pool - "A lesson in livestreaming recorded at WFMU" [More on the Free Music Archive.]
[Standing 1400 feet up during a hurricane is a bit scary #Sandy twitter.com/Timcast/status…— Tim Pool (@Timcast) October 29, 2012
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[Manhattan skyline #Sandy twitter.com/Timcast/status…— Tim Pool (@Timcast) October 29, 2012
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[Got word power may be going out, not sure if/when. #Sandy #Frankenstorm twitter.com/Timcast/status…— Tim Pool (@Timcast) October 29, 2012]
[If you know of anything in lower Manhattan let me know, I'm around. Will be checking out waterfront soon. #Sandy— Tim Pool (@Timcast) October 29, 2012
] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/47985
Yacht - "Shangri-La (Instrumental)" - Shangri-La (Instrumentals) [Get it on the Free Music Archive]
[Interview with Kevin Collier of the Daily Dot]
Center for Copyright Information
Ryan MacEvoy McCullough - "Secrets of Antikythera: IX. Epilogue: Ruins" - Secrets of Antikythera [Magnetic resonator piano in action]
Yacht - "Shangri-La (Instrumental)" - Shangri-La (Instrumentals) [Get it on the Free Music Archive] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50772
YACHT - "Shangri-La (Instrumental)" - Shangri-La (Instrumentals) [Download it on the Free Music Archive here.]
Grandma Phyllis at WFMU
Our Passover Seder Spread
Yeah, that's bitter
Potato Kugel
Jonathan Coulton [Baby Got Backlash: Musician Jonathan Coulton tells the story of what's become known as #backgate Read all about it on Mashable]
More Grandma Phyllis Vines
More Grandma Phyllis Vines
The New Birthday Song [Hear the WFMU debut of our winning Birthday song as told for The Organist podcast from Believer Magazine and KCRW.]
The Seder Plate
Hidden Matza
Grandma Phyllis is Your Grandma Now https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/49964
YACHT - "Shangri-La (Instrumental)" [Get it on the Free Music Archive]
Francesca Panetta - "Hackney Hear" [Want to also look cold while holding your phone? Get the Hackney Hear app here.]
Francesca Panetta - "Hackney Hear" [You can learn more abut the project on the Free Music Archive.]
Francesca Panetta - "Hackney Hear"
Francesca Panetta - "Hackney Hear" [She recommends App Furnace if you want to have a go at this yourself. There's a free trial.]
Pejk Malinovski - "East Village Poetry Walk" [Explore the East Village Poetry Walk: Passing Stranger]
Ellen Horn - "Radiolab" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50451
YACHT - "Shangri La (Instrumental)"
- "talking with Jean Cook, Rebecca Gates and Greg Fox" [money.futureofmusic.org]
Anti-Social Music - "Music for ASM - dälek" - Sleeps Around: Collaborations with dälek & His Name Is Alive
- "Jean Cook, Rebecca Gates and Greg Fox" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/49593
Guest Jonathan Sterne and WFMU's Benjamen Walker https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/46730
- "Station Manager Ken Interviews Brewster Kahle, Founder of Archive.org" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/46237