On this edition of Free City Radio I will feature a second podcast within the project "Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal," the details are outlined below, you can listen to the full podcast here @reverberations-crise

Dans ce troisième épisode du balado 'Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal', on entend divers intervenant.e.s de la lutte contre la gentrification. /// In this third episode of the podcast 'Réverbérations d'une crise: Sounding the Housing Crisis’', we hear different actors of the struggle against gentrification.

1. Intro theme, par/by Joseph Sannicandro

2. “1 (François Saillant), par/by Stefan Christoff

3. “Autour de deux manifs contre la gentrification”, par/by Hubert Gendron-Blais (avec un extrait de la pièce "Hochelaga mon amour", de Samuele & Claude L'Anthrope

4. Petit exercice de spéculation politique no. 3, par/by Julien Simard & Hubert Gendron-Blais (avec la voix de/with the voice of Malte Leander et un extrait de la pièce "Waiting for Cravings", and an exerpt of the piece "Waiting for Cravings", par/by Julien Simard)

*Note from Stefan Christoff: Interview with François Saillant, Front d'action populaire en réaménagement urbain (FRAPRU). The soundscape is a collaboration between Stefan and sound artist Philippe Lamy in Toulouse. The original field recordings were collected by Stefan during protests against neoliberal austerity measures in Quebec in 2015 and also during the student strike against hikes in tuition at Quebec’s public universities. The sounds were all recorded during night protests within these two contexts.

Réalisé par / Produced by Joseph Sannicandro & Hubert Gendron-Blais

Art visuel/Visual art: Marjolaine Lord

Asher Woodhead @doldrumss + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

For @radioalhara

Broadcasting on Nov. 27, 2022.

Accompanying photo by Rickie Leach.

Asher writes: "These tracks span a wide range in time and space, from Italy (la punta bianca) to Toronto (new chance), but gel together in the warm electronics and experimental pop pallets they explore. The tragic beauty and intimacy in these artists seems to have soundtracked 2022 well for me, while they also contain a sense of hope and strength in togetherness"

Track listing: (Artist, Track Title)

01 Devendra Banhart - Brindo

02 La Punta Bianca @lapuntabianca - Corpi Celesti

03 Ghia - What's Your Voodoo?

04 Pavel Milyakov Yana Pavlova @buttechno - One

05 @700bliss / @orionsun - Nightflame

06 Guilherme Coutinho - Flauta de Bambú

07 Admas - Astawesalehu

08 New Chance - Adriatic

09 Ion D - Lasă-ma să trec

10 Anna Atkinson - Best I Can

11 Mat Ball - Within the Billow I

12 Badawi - El Topo (Al Aqsa Mix)

13 DEIDRE @deidre999 - Gold

14 @evitceles - Over The City

15 Matthew Shipp - New Orbit

A joint mix by @joni_void and Stefan @spirodon Christoff that will be played at Cinema Politica (https://www.cinemapolitica.org) screenings as people gather for the projection.

Below is the track listing:

1. Steve Sobs - Never Meant To Get Caught

2. R.A.P. Ferreira - Speck

3. Billy Woods - Pollo Rico

4. Roger Robinson & The Black Space Quartet - Count On Me

5. Massive Attack - Euro Zero Zero

6. Noah - Odette

7. HASYMO - Tokyo Town Pages

8. Eiko Ishibashi - Ask Me How I Sleep At Night

9. Simone Peltier - Red Memories

10. Ah! Kosmos @ahkosmos - It Rains Without You

11. Nikita Dembinski - Earth Heater

12. Shalabi Quintet - Vitrola Era (@nickschofield remix)

13. Will Austin - Polemical Blues 2014 side a (excerpt)

On this edition of Free City Radio I will be featuring a podcast from a community art project in Montreal that I participated in about how to mobilize collectively as artists and activists against gentrification. You can find the full podcast here: https://soundcloud.com/reverberations-crise

This is the write up on the episode:

Ce second épisode du balado 'Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal' présente différentes manières dont la crise du logement est vécue dans divers quartiers montréalais. / This second episode of the podcast 'Réverbérations d'une crise: Sounding the Housing Crisis in Montreal' presents different ways in which the housing crisis is experienced in various Montreal neighborhoods.

1. Extrait des sessions d’enquête sonore - Où vivez-vous? (Parc-Ex) / Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Where do you live? (Parc-Ex)

2. Intro theme, par/by Joseph Sannicandro

3. “Le sud-ouest montréalais en crise : trois portraits de locataires”, par/by Jordan Torres Bussière

4. Petit exercice de spéculation politique no. 2, par/by Julien Simard & Hubert Gendron-Blais (avec la voix de/with the voice of Speranza Spir et un extrait de la pièce "Waiting for Cravings"/and an exerpt of the piece "Waiting for Cravings", par/by Julien Simard).

*Note de Jordan Torres Bussière: Merci à Tristan Lavoie-Kartner, Meghan Delisle, Caroline Monast-Landriault, Tournesol Plante, Jeanne d’Arc Tellier et Lyne Tellier.

Réalisé par/Produced by Joseph Sannicandro & Hubert Gendron-Blais

Art visuel/Visual art: Marjolaine Lord

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Now also broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

Wissam Sader + Spirodon mix 1 for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

For @radioalhara

Broadcasting on Nov. 20, 2022.

01. @ana_quiroga - Prelude III

02. @wissam-sader - Recordat Session, excerpt 1

03. Asher @doldrumss & @jordanchristoff - Carol

04. Wissam Sader - Recordat Session, excerpt 2

05. Anthony Sahyoun @asahyoun - Introspection

06. Badawi - Evocation (1999)

07. Taciturn - Roach

08. Bayti Bayyati

09 Casiopea - Mint Jams(1982), excerpt

Accompanying image by Rickie Leach.

A live broadcast at ARTEXTE gallery presented on Nov. 16 2022 within the context of the exhibition Sonic Fields of Reflection. In this broadcast Stefan Christoff speaks with exhibition curator Mojeanne Behzadi and sound artist Martín Rodríguez about their sound work along the US / Mexico colonial border line.

Thank you to Spencer Curtis from CKUT and Jonathan Lachance from Artexte for the technical support for this broadcast.

The photo is of Martín Rodríguez, below are the bios of the speakers you hear in this transmission.

As a transmission and sound artist, Martín Rodríguez’s work emerges from his Chicanx upbringing along the Arizona-Mexico border. He employs performance, intervention, and installation as a process for deciphering aural histories and intertwined identities.

Mojeanne Behzadi is a curator and poet based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. She is currently the director of Art Speaks, an international contemporary art lecture series and the curator of research and programs at Artexte. Mojeanne holds an MA in Art History from Concordia University and works as an independent curator on numerous projects. She recently developed and hosted the Trajectories podcast for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and curated Spillover Love at the Stewart Hall Art Gallery in Pointe-Claire, a group show presented in the summer of 2021. Her current curatorial research focuses on community practices as a framework for resistance, mobilization and social transformation.

A Oaxaca sound walk

Amanda Ruiz and Stefan Christoff

For @noodsradio, Broadcasting Nov 13 in Bristol, 23 à 00

"In this sound walk we hear Oaxaca based Mexican artist Amanda Ruiz in the city. In one section you will hear an excerpt of a local conference hosted by "Narrativas y memorias de la desaparición en México," a project focusing on the voices of journalists reporting on disappearances of people in Mexico. As part of this Oaxaca soundscape the audio from the conference illuminates how the atmosphere of cities today in Mexico is still often shaped by collective questioning of state power and also articulations of resistance to the violence force of colonial capitalist hegemonic power. In dialogue with these recordings musician Stefan Christoff worked with Amanda’s sounds from Oaxaca incorporating ambient music and mixing tonalities into a collaborative work across borders for broadcast on Noods Radio in Bristol, England.”

Featuring additional contributions by:

"Beirut Berlin Birds In Conversation With The Book Of The Dead" by Yara Mekawei and Nour Sokhon @noursokhon (excerpt)

"Guardian" by VALEDA @user-valeda

"Light Pressure" by Jordan Christoff @jordanchristoff

Accompanying images are taken by Amanda in Oaxaca.

On this edition of Free City Radio a conversation with Martin Akwiranoron Loft who speaks on photography, Indigenous artistic voice and climate justice. Martin is a longtime and well respected Indigenous artist and print maker.

Accompanying art by Martin.

Music on this edition by Mali Obomsawin from the album Sweet Tooth.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm on @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8am on Tuesdays, on @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Now also broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !

Youmna Saba + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

For @radioalhara

Broadcasting on Nov. 6th, 6pm est. or 1am in Palestine 2022.

Track listing: (Artist, Track Title)

01. Wardaa - Hekayti Maa El Zaman, حكايتي مع الزمان

02. Pita - Get out 3

03. Majida El Roumi - Ana Am Behlam

04. Sadaq - Oum

05. Ben Shemie - The Return

06. David Toub - zichron (excerpt)

Accompanying photo taken by Nasri Sayegh Jr. in Paris.

An interview with musician Mali Obomsawin speaking about her album "Sweet Tooth." Mali speaks about the ways that her work intersects with contemporary struggles around Indigenous land rights, cultural representation and land rights. Mali also speaks about the ways that her work intersects with related musical traditions that are shaped by struggles for freedom in the world, including Black liberation struggles as expressed through creative music.

Listen to Mali's album here:

https://mali-obomsawin.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-tooth

This interview was recorded in Oct. 2022 by Stefan @spirodon Christoff Each month Stefan contributes an interview to @radioalhara.