WFMU'S FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE
Thursday, October 9 / 10 - 11 pm
Heritage Ballroom

Ever wish there was one dependable place online to find GOOD music that’s available for your production needs without any rights/permissions complications? Lucky for you, the masterminds at WFMU in Jersey City have been hard at work creating just such a thing, and you’re invited not only to download, but to join the party and add your own work to the pool. The Free Music Archive, WFMU’s latest web initiative, is a free, specially-curated online library of music, audio and radio which is cleared for non-commercial use by its creators. Stick around after the opening reception to hear FMU's General Manager Ken Freedman lay it all out, and find out how to get involved yourself.

8TH ANNUAL TCIAF AWARDS CEREMONY
Saturday, October 11 / 8 - 11 pm
Music Institute of Chicago / 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston
Free with conference registration; additional tickets available for purchase on-site.

It's the moment you've been waiting for! Come find out who won which awards in the 2008 TCF / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Learn all about this year's Audio Luminary Award recipient, hear excerpts of winning programs, cheer on the winning producers as they proudly accept their awards and, just as importantly, check out your fellow radiomakers dressed to the nines! Then stick around for a champagne reception and the chance to fete your colleagues and friends.

GALLERY OF MORE
Thursday - 5 - 10 pm / Friday and Saturday - all day
Evans room - 2nd floor

Take a break from the Conference to spend some time in the Gallery of More, where you'll find a variety of audio installations running throughout the Conference, awaiting your ears and interest. Read about the GOM artists and their installations.

RADIO HAVEN
Friday and Saturday - all day with scheduled 30 minute presentations
Haven room - 9th floor

Learn more about three ambitious radio organizations tackling international issues and looking for independent producers to work with. Browse the tables set up by FNR (from Russia), Outer Voices and the Pulitzer Center for more information about each, and catch 30-minute presentations by them at the following times:

Friday                                                           Saturday
10 - 10:30 - Pulitzer Center                          10 - 10:30am - OuterVoices
1:30 - 2pm - Outer Voices                            1:20 - 2pm - Pulitzer Center
3:30 - 4 pm - FNR                                         3:30 - 4pm - FNR

Schedule:
Evans Room - 2nd floor

Thursday / 5-10 pm
Friday / 9am - 6:30 pm
Saturday / 8:30 am - 5 pm



Gallery of More - Installations and Artists:

> Journey to the Inner Outsider Ear, by Lisa C. Abbatomarco
Packlist: 50 field recordings, ambient and experiential sounds, leftover film canisters, journal, toothbrush, extra socks, guide to Outsider art, passport... Travel is a cacophonous happening for the senses and memory. Creatively exploring the territory of re-telling experiences, this installation takes the didactic and turns it on its ear. Internalizing the world of the outsider through microcosmic recollection all neatly packed in a suitcase of sound.

Lisa C. Abbatomarco began her sound career over 20 years ago with her brother and the Panasonic tape recorder that traveled with them on family vacations. Multi-voiced and completely captivated with old time radio shows, sonance became her sidekick. In this recent incarnation, sound takes a front seat as she navigates through forms of installation and sculpture. Lisa is also a visual and performing artist, puppeteer a go-go, stilt-walker, avant-garde explorer, tangential vocalist, instigator of large hoo-ha and rebel educator.


> Mask/Mirror, by Alessandro Bosetti
A few months ago I wrote a note to myself : "Try to create a mask that that doesn’t have anything to do with anything," and kept wondering what that could mean until i started to imagine Mask/Mirror.

Mask/Mirror a sampler that processes recordings of spoken language in real time. The sampler follows both sound and meaning criteria in sorting, organizing and processing samples and in formulating utterances. Engaging with M/M is like wearing a mask that has nothing to do with anything, or watching yourself in a mirror things say things you've wanted to say... but didn't know until now.

Alessandro Bosetti was born in Milan, Italy in 1973. He is a composer and sound artist working with the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcasts and published recordings. His work blurs the line between sound anthropology and composition, often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Bosetti is assistant professor in sound at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore. He's also presenting the Approaching Approaches session at the conference.


> Ephemera Board 2, by David Green

What is ephemera? Those bits of throwaway paper and minor documents of every day life, created for a specific, limited purpose, and generally designed to be discarded after use. But ephemera is often kept for some reason.

What possessions, (written or otherwise- for this installation personal items and objects count too) are you still hanging on to...which you really should have gotten rid of by now, but just can't bear to part with for some reason? Grab a pen, choose a post-it note and leave some ephemera about your ephemera.

Ephemera Board 2 consists  of over five-hundred post-it notes, ephemera in waiting. This project was inspired in equal parts by TCF’s Radio Ephemera short doc competition and the work of the Illegal Art Collective of New York. Ephemera Board I is currently being filled up with the ephemera of students, faculty and parents at North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, IL where David teaches.

David Green is a Chicago-area third grade teacher and writer. Unable to run away and join NPR, Green instead developed an audio production curriculum at school. Thus, “Third Grade Audio” was born. From personal narratives to profiles, eight and nine-year old students capture aspects of life, which go unnoticed by those of us with "older" eyes and ears. “Third Grade Audio” work has been featured on public radio, prx and Generation prx. Green has long been intrigued by interactive/participatory art projects such as this one.


>Three Places in New England, by Dean Olsher
A century ago, composer Charles Ives set out to capture a sense of place – three places, actually, in New England – using the means at his disposal: the symphony orchestra. Since then, we have invented other ways to recreate the experience of being in a given locale, through recorded sounds and images. Dean Olsher uses the tools available to him to create a documentary parallel to Ives's Three Places in England. We may believe that electronic media is the next best thing to being there. But how much should we trust our senses?

Dean Olsher has been a radio broadcaster for 30 years, serving much of the last 25 in public radio—first, as culture correspondent for NPR News, and then as the creator and host of The Next Big Thing. Currently a visiting professor in the journalism department at NYU, Olsher also works as a voiceover artist. His first book, "From Square One: A Meditation, With Digressions, on Crosswords," will be published in March by Scribner.


> The World Is Your Instrument: Play It Now, by Glenn Weyant
This self-guided, immersive environment utilizes sound, words and images to chronicle The Anta Project, a two year (and counting) transformation of the southern United States border walls and ephemera from symbols of fear, insecurity and invasion into an electro-acoustic instrument capable of promoting unity.

Glenn Weyant is a sound sculptor, writer, educator, journalist and baker based in Tucson, Arizona. His sound work attempts to blend non-traditional instruments, narrative and sonic exploration in creating immersive environments that encourage listeners to follow their own paths of discovery and awareness. He is an adjunct journalism instructor/ internship coordinator at The University of Arizona, and with his wife Jenniffer spends his free time raising their daughter Kestrel who is a constant source of creative inspiration and wonder.

Hear Glenn explain the Anta Project, and a sample from the project in an NPR SoundClip, which aired on NPR's All Things Considered in June, 2006

Schedule for 30-minute presentations by each organization:
Haven Room - 9th floor

Friday                                                          Saturday
10 - 10:30 - Pulitzer Center                          10 - 10:30am - OuterVoices
1:30 - 2pm - Outer Voices                            1:30 - 2pm - Pulitzer Center
3:30 - 4 pm - FNR                                         3:30 - 4pm - FNR


Radio Haven - Participating Organizations:


Since 1999, the Foundation for Independent Radio Broadcasting (FNR) has worked for the development of quality radio broadcasting across Russia through production of information programming and capacity building of regional radio stations. The full range of FNR's activities – which include journalist trainings, internship residencies, online/new media projects, a nationwide regional radio festival series, and its own audio feature productions – all seek to bring Russian radio broadcasting in line with the highest international standards of broadcasting.

Lend them your ears at the FNR-run 'Podstantsiya' podcast site.


Outer Voices’ mission is to explore, foster and promote women's unique contributions in leading non-violent social change by use of radio and other forms of media in order to inspire others to action. Our core work is a six-part radio documentary series focused on women leaders in the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia. Outer Voices is the only U.S. radio documentary team solely focused on international issues, and so we are constantly looking for ways to expand the scope of international information available to American ears.

The Pulitzer Center's mission is to promote in-depth coverage of international affairs, focusing on topics that have been under-reported, mis-reported – or not reported at all. The Center supports around 30 reporting projects per year that focus on systemic level crises, pushing all associated publications and broadcasts across multiple media platforms to ensure the widest possible audience is reached. The Pulitzer Center’s Global Gateway initiative supports direct engagement with students in high schools and universities across the nation with the goal of strengthening the future generation’s demand for quality global news coverage. Visit the Pulitzer Center online for more information.