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Community Radio Beyond the Algorithm As in all things, there is a hierarchy in the rarified and esoteric world of experimental radio. Tier One—the visible international layer—includes NTS, Resonance FM, WFMU: institutions with foundational infrastructure, sponsors, and mythologies. Tier Two—the invisible local stratum—is made of college

A Scene Report from the Guitar Case They've carved us into totems. Excaliburs for boy-kings who thought they could bend the world to heel with sound. Woody Guthrie's instrument slaying fascists. Robert Johnson's six-string memorialized with that dangling cigarette. B.B. King carrying Lucille

Architectures As Infrastructure: Sound and Vision Every week for past two years on xray.fm, DJ Gilliflower has built worlds from scraps—both sonic and visual. Turtles Have Short Legs isn’t background music; it’s architectural. Miaux’s lunar synths fade into Alice’s fragile chanson, Lauten der Seele’

Helsinki Dérive, Part Eight Wednesday. We fly back tomorrow morning. I started feeling quite worn down last night, was overheated and achy throughout the night, lots of water and 400mg of Ibuprofen has me functional on our last day in Helsinki. On one hand, I feel that I’ve completed

Noise is a slippery word. It resists neat definitions, resists borders, and — maybe most of all — resists staying still. It's a relationship more than a category, a dance between sound, context, and intent. Signal, Noise, and the Role of Intention In the traditional signal/noise dichotomy, signal carries

Impossible Dreams of the 3.5% Cargo Cult Part One: I was here The livestream buffered. Ten people holding handmade signs outside a shuttered municipal building, their chants barely audible against the hum of traffic. An overhead drone shot caught the stillness just before the feed cut out. By the