Radio Free Culture | WFMU

By Radio Free Culture and WFMU

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 i... more

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How many episodes does Radio Free Culture | WFMU have?

The podcast currently has 65 episodes available.

Radio Free Culture | WFMU episodes:

October 30, 2014 Radio Free Culture #21: Meet Cheyenne, the New FMA Director from Oct 30, 2014
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20min
October 23, 2014 Radio Free Culture #20: Orphaned Works from Oct 23, 2014
Liz Berg interviews John Bergmayer of Public Knowledge
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57780
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29min
October 17, 2014 Radio Free Culture #19: Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform from Oct 17, 2014
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
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23min
October 09, 2014 Radio Free Culture #16: A Case for Sharing Your Music Online: How Kardashian Sisters Helped Musician Waylon Thornton Buy a Hearse from Sep 18, 2014
Andrea Silenzi - "Interviews Waylon Thornton"
Thick Business - "Smoothest Runes"
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57349
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16min
October 09, 2014 Radio Free Culture #18: Player Piano: The First Digital Music Revolution (Part 2/2) from Oct 9, 2014
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
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44min
September 27, 2014 Radio Free Culture #17: Player Piano: The First Digital Music Revolution (Part 1/2) from Sep 25, 2014
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
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44min
September 11, 2014 Radio Free Culture #15: Creative Commons news and a run-in with the German courts from Sep 11, 2014
Thick Business - "Smoothest Runes"
Liz Berg interviews Elliot Harmon
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57177
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27min
September 05, 2014 Radio Free Culture #14: Interview with Elliot Harmon of Creative Commons from Sep 5, 2014
Thick Business - "Smoothest Runes"
Liz Berg interviews Elliot Harmon
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57171
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26min
July 31, 2013 Radio Free Culture #5: Head to an Anti-Police Brutality March with renegade journalist Tim Pool from Oct 29, 2012
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

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https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/47985
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1h 16min
May 30, 2013 Radio Free Culture #13: The Copyright Alert System, Music Hack Day from May 27, 2013
Yacht - "Shangri-La (Instrumental)" - Shangri-La (Instrumentals) [Get it on the Free Music Archive] [0:00:00]
[Interview with Kevin Collier of the Daily Dot] [0:19:47]
Center for Copyright Information
Ryan MacEvoy McCullough - "Secrets of Antikythera: IX. Epilogue: Ruins" - Secrets of Antikythera [Magnetic resonator piano in action] [0:41:05]
Yacht - "Shangri-La (Instrumental)" - Shangri-La (Instrumentals) [Get it on the Free Music Archive] [0:51:11]
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50772
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FAQs about Radio Free Culture | WFMU:

How many episodes does Radio Free Culture | WFMU have?

The podcast currently has 65 episodes available.