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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

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.

08/08/2025

Tune in tonight at 8pm for Local Waves in Conversation with Sarah Van Buren (SVB), and then a full evening of local music!

The conversation was recorded live on Thursday, July 31 in the upstairs lounge at The Avalon Lounge for the first edition of “Breaking the Algorithm IRL” –– a monthly event presented by WGXC. Now every last Thursday, with a new conversation and WGXC DJ each month! Mark your calendars for the next one on August 28th!

Produced by Mike Amari of Chosen Family, “Local Waves” celebrates the talented and multifaceted artists living in our local area. Tune in on Friday nights from 8 p.m. to midnight for music and sounds from artists and musicians living in the Hudson Valley, Capital District, and Western Massachusetts.

Send your files for airplay on WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears! Send a Bandcamp link with download code, or mp3s (320 kbps) to [email protected]

Photos from Breaking the Algorithm IRL, Thursday July 31st upstairs at the Avalon Lounge
(1) Mike Amari & SVB in conversation
(2) WGXC programmer group photo!

08/08/2025

Tune in today at 5pm for a special broadcast from Kite’s Nest’s Social Justice Leadership Academy (SJLA)!

SJLA is a leadership program for teens (ages 13-19) based on the principles of social justice and youth-led change, centered around arts, healing, and personal and collective transformation.

This summer the teens explored issues surrounding environmental justice and housing justice and shifted focus to the concept of nature as our first shelter—our original home and lifelong teacher. Over the course of five weeks students were invited to expand their understanding of “home” beyond physical structures to include the natural world that surrounds and sustains us all. As part of this inquiry students visited Wave Farm, exploring the art installations and partaking in hands-on workshops learning about field recording as a medium for artistic explorations. With the help of Kite’s Nest and Wave Farm staff, youth conducted their own creative field recordings of their experiences in nature; unearthing and harvesting different sounds that they then used to create these music tracks found here.

08/08/2025

Tune in today at 2pm for a recording of musical sets by Fred Frith, Eucademix (Yuka Honda), and SUNJIRO that were performed at the Eno on 4 Screens Drive-In Event at the Hi-Way Drive-In on May 29, 2025 in Coxsackie, NY.

On May 29, 2025, Wave Farm presented the groundbreaking, generative, Oscar shortlisted documentary, Eno, for the first time in a four-screen presentation with director Gary Hustwit who rendered Screen One live. Performances by Fred Frith and Eucademix (Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto) took place preceding the screenings as the sun sets with interstitial sounds by SUNJIRO (Kadallah Burrowes).

Performances took place on a rooftop stage on the Hi-Way’s concessions building, amplified on PA speakers as well as transmitted to audience members’ car radios on each of the drive-in’s four FM frequencies (one per screen). The four screenings of Eno were projected on the Hi-Way’s four large outdoor screens with each rendering’s soundtrack transmitted to the audience’s car radios on each screen’s dedicated FM frequency.

08/05/2025

Tune in Wednesday at 5pm for an audition of “Arts Alive Etcetera” with Flo Hayle!

Flo Hayle has been a broadcasting pioneer since the 1950s. From a singing waitress in Greenwich Village to the Broadway stage to becoming a casting and theater director there is no angle of show business that Flo Hayle has not experienced. It is from this experienced lens that she brings us the exciting Renaissance of her radio show “Arts Alive Etcetera” which ran for over a decade on I Heart Radio. Unabashedly filter less with a wicked wit and a true heart she banters with fellow singers and thespians, local luminaries and mover/shakers and knows how to get them to reveal what makes them tick. And their most embarrassing moments. Every episode an engaging cliffhanger. Flo Hayle is returning to the airwaves on WGXC! Her first guest will be Lex Grey, New York Blues Hall of Fame Inductee, international stage actress and Catskill resident!

“Auditions” features prospective WGXC volunteer programmers trying out their proposed radio programs on air for listener feedback.

Have feedback for the prospective programmer you just heard? Leave a message at (518) 622-2598 ext. 4 or email [email protected] to let us know what you think!

08/05/2025

Tune in tonight from 8pm to 10pm for “THERE THERE” with Alanna Medlock!

“THERE THERE” began as an investigation into the nature of performance, evolving into a celebration of performance documentation in all its sonic forms: music, spoken word, interview, and archival recordings mixed in with occasional field recordings & found sound. This month’s broadcast celebrates the history and legacy of The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and asks, where do we go now to fill the gap?

08/04/2025

Tune in today at 3pm for an audition show from Headphones Girl: “Everybody Get Close: The ongoing story of dance music.”

Dive deep into the world of electronic dance music and it’s rich history across the genre spectrum, focusing on the pioneering, influential American scenes and the modern scenes that follow their blueprint today, from the Mojave Desert to the Hudson Valley, with Headphones Girl.

Headphones Girl is a musician, archivist, DJ, producer, organizer, record label owner/operator, and raver from Los Angeles, California, and is currently based in Catskill, New York, where she is a resident DJ and organizer at The Avalon Lounge. She runs a multi-faceted collective called Earthlings Radical Audio, which functions as a record label and a rave, largely focusing on q***r DJs and producers who play and create forward-thinking dance music with a traditionalist ethos, recontextualizing sounds of the 90’s for modern dancefloors.

Her diverse, expansive sound is informed both by the UK hardcore continuum, and by the history of her locales, both back home in the Los Angeles and San Francisco rave scenes that brought the renegade sound system culture to the states, and the highly-celebrated New York City house music and club scene.

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“Auditions” features prospective WGXC volunteer programmers trying out their proposed radio programs on air for listener feedback.

Have feedback for the prospective programmer you just heard? Leave a message at (518) 622-2598 ext. 4 or email [email protected] to let us know what you think!

07/31/2025

Tune in tomorrow (Friday 8/1) at 2pm for a selection from the Transmission Art Archive: “Domestic Weather” (2013) by Mark Vernon.

Writes Vernon, “Domestic Weather is a parallel exploration of radio transmissions as carriers of meteorological data as well as the affects of weather on the propagation of radio signals. Through a series of interviews ham radio operators describe the positive and negative effects that atmospheric conditions have on their broadcasts. Their voices are interwoven with examples of meteorological information conveyed through radio such as weather, shipping and aviation forecasts and transmissions intercepted from Radiosondes - small weather probes that are sent into the atmosphere by balloon. Also interspersed throughout the program are a number of ‘Domestic Weather’ experiments. Using household appliances as analogies of various weather conditions, real audio recordings of weather are micro-broadcast to small radios inside or in the vicinity of these devices with the resulting duet recorded - for example, the sound of a tornado coming from inside a tumble dryer, heavy rain in the shower or howling winds alongside a hairdryer – thus drawing attention to the micro-climate of our own domestic environment.”

“Domestic Weather” (2013) by Mark Vernon was originally broadcast on June 13, 2015 for “Curated by Wave Farm: Climactic Climate” a five-part series of new radio artworks on the theme of weather radio that premiered on Kunstradio, and also aired on Wave Farm’s WGXC-FM in 2015.
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07/30/2025

Breaking the Algorithm IRL: Sarah Van Buren (SVB) in conversation with Mike Amari, DJ set by DJ Christopher Michael Hefner.

Jul 31, 2025: 7pm- 9pm
The Avalon Lounge

Turn out on Thursday at 7pm Upstairs at the Avalon Lounge for “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 local musician, soundmaker, and show organizer Sarah Van Buren (SVB) and a DJ set by DJ Christopher Michael Hefner (“Night Time with Christopher Michael Hefner”). Entry by donation. See you there!

07/30/2025

“All Things Cage” now airing 5th Wednesdays from 10am to 11am, and 5th Fridays from 3pm to 4pm!

Tune in today for this week’s program, marking host Laura Kuhn’s brink of retirement as Director of the John Cage Trust as well as her return to new programming for WGXC 90.7, not weekly, as before, but four times a year. This quarter’s program explores a little-known CD from 2012 put out by the Electronic Music Foundation, produced by William Blakeney and EMF founding-director, Joel Chadabe. The recording features a host of players, including Cage himself, who collectively perform two compositions: John Cage and Lejaren Hiller’s HPSCHD (1967-69), scored for 1-7 amplified harpsichords synchronized by computer with tapes distributed across 1-51 monaural machines, and John Cage’s Birdcage (1972), scored for 12 pre-recorded tapes to be distributed by a single performer in a space in which people are free to move and birds to fly. The two works were presented together in a program given on June 11, 2008, at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto.

07/28/2025

Tune in today at 3pm for this week’s episode of Tracking the Odds!

Three turntablists—Maria Chávez, Mariam Rezaei, & Victoria Shen (aka Evicshen)—utilizing multiple and adapted turntables, processing, custom vinyl, and techniques including scratching, beat-juggling, sampling, and looping, and technologies such as double-needle-head shells and acrylic needle nails. Recorded at the Roulette concert hall in Brooklyn in March 2025.

Produced by Roulette Intermedium.

07/26/2025

Tune in today at 12pm for a peice by John Dombroski, recorded and mixed from a live performance in the woods at Wave Farm.

“The Broadcast Project” is an ongoing series of site-specific sound performances broadcast live on local radio stations during a six month coast-to-coast road trip, across and around the USA. Sound is comprised of remixed historic music and audio from the region, where each broadcast occurs as well as field recordings, voice, and analog/digital synthesizers.

07/25/2025

Tune in tonight at 7:30pm to hear a 2024 radio work from Hali Palombo, who is arriving at Wave Farm today for time as a 2025 Artist-in-Residence! You can also catch Hali performing this weekend at BuddyFest in Cairo, NY!

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“Interval Signals” are short pieces of musical phrasing, a sound effect or recorded speech that shortwave radio stations use to “introduce themselves” when broadcasting. The signals announce the start of a broadcast and create an identifiable touchstone for listeners old as well as those hearing the station for the very first time. “Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention” (named for the title of China radio station’s Voice of the Strait’s highly recognizable interval signal) is a work that restructures interval signals from eight different countries into miniature compositions played on instruments and in styles that are significant departures from their original form.

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