FROM RADIO23.org:
Radio23.org emerges April 23rd as a new breed of community radio station. Currently based in Brooklyn, NY, but with broadcasters covering the globe, Radio23 is a non-commercial, freeform radio station dedicated to providing an international platform for innovative and creative home broadcasters.
With the launch of our first channel, anyone with high-speed internet can hear a potpourri of music and culture from all parts of the globe, created by over five dozen weekly live broadcasters. Every two hours, a new live broadcaster takes the reigns from a distant land and offers a view of what's happening in their community.
Since underground broadcasting and unknown music are some of our specialties, Radio23 has partnered with Radioactivity.fm and WFMU's Free Music Archive to ensure that, although dynamic DIY content may sometimes be obscure, our listeners will not only find new music, but easily connect to the artists they hear.
If you are reading this using a high speed internet connection, it's possible to broadcast a live radio show from this computer. Join us.
The live broadcast & launch celebration starts at 5pm April 23rd 2009
***all times Brooklyn, NYC -> GMT -5
5:00PM
DJ Sotusura broadcasts every week on R23 from Amman, Jordan ARCHIVE
6:30PM
DJ Thanksgiving Brown broadcasts live from a new location each week.
8:00PM
Live from The Bell House (149 7th St) in Brooklyn, New York, with performances by:
Grade 13
Grade 13 is a group of teenage girls from New York who - through the viBeSongMakers program and under the direction of Young People's Katie Eastburn - met last August to write and record a collection of original songs in collaboration with professional musicians. The resulting album, "Sidewalk Chalk," was recently released with the girls, ranging in age from 15 to 18. They wrote all the songs for Sidewalk Chalk themselves, tackling themes of self-acceptance, poverty, sexual identity, broken families and the pain and confusion of young love with insight and playfulness, unflinching honesty and at times a surprising sense of maturity. (vimeo)
Nine 11 Thesaurus is a group of middle schoolers who broadcast every week on R23 from IS 291 in Bushwick, Brooklyn. They are the newest group formed through the Representing NYC program, presenting Brooklyn’s most fearsome and irreverent rap.
Tiny Toones from Phnom Penh, Cambodia makes their 1st NYC appearance
Tiny Toones Cambodia uses breakdancing, Hip-Hop music, and the contemporary arts as creative tools to empower the youth of Cambodia to live healthier lives free of HIV and drugs, build a more promising future by furthering their educational opportunities, and become positive role models for their community. Seven of the peer mentors of Tiny Toones, former street kids who have matured into the role models of the program, will be performing a breakdancing routine and several of their songs.
Blast Off!!!
Blast Off!!! improvises music for brain melting and feet dancing.
GOD
GOD could be compared to folks like AMM or the Improvised Music From Japan crew, due to the meticulous attention paid to the construction of even the most minute sounds in their pieces. Bryan Eubanks and Leif Sundstrom have been playing music together for more than a decade.
Alexis O'Hara
Alexis O'Hara is a trilingual performance artist with a penchant for experimentation: Producing street theatre in Toronto, making dirty movies in Vancouver, frying her ass for the art-hungry hordes in Geneva, and singing in a myriad of musical projects from jazz combos, to all-girl punk outfits and improv electronic jam collectives. (maple music)
Roberto C. Lange + David Ellis
Over the past couple of years, Roberto has teamed up with visual and sound artist David Ellis to compose his kinetic sculpture creations - the most recent being a 25 foot catfish with paint cans for teeth and fly swatters for taste buds. The catfish is skinned with 12" LP records and beat boxes. Currently, Roberto is working with prolific music producer Guillermo Scott Herren (Prefuse 73), helping to produce and create a new palate of sounds for the forthcoming Prefuse 73 album. (vimeo)
Ellis' work continues to interpret music and sound. His paintings are often recorded in a form of digital time-lapse animation Ellis calls motion painting. Like jazz, these works provide Ellis with an opportunity to combine ideas with collaborators or work solo within a form that promotes improvisation and spontaneity. For a recent commission the artist painted a truck from sunup to sundown over five consecutive days. Ellis often stages events when exhibiting his motion paintings, inviting musicians, performers, and sound artists to interpret the work live. His motion painting, Paint on Trucks in a World in Need of Love was recently exhibited at MoMA.
Prefuse 73
(aka: Guillermo Scott Herren) is nothing if not proven. It’s hard to think of a name that carries as much weight in both hip-hop and avant-rock circles as Prefuse 73, who in the past year alone has been asked to remix TV On The Radio, Pelican, BLK JKS and Cornelius, not to mention his early collaborations with School of Seven Bells and Battles. These interactions have clearly helped to shape the evolving Prefuse 73 sonic aesthetic, which has expanded to include Herren’s twisted visions of prog-rock, “machine funk” and global psychedelia. From Delarosa & Asora to Savath & Savalas, through to Prefuse 73 and Diamond Watch Wrists, there’s no way to underestimate the reach of Guillermo Scott Herren’s influence and 2009 appears to be a significant culmination of the artist’s most resounding material.
DJ Marty McSorley might just be the best DJ at WFMU
We wish thank our very special guests:
The Metasynergistics Evaluative Media Experience
1:00AM
ROB WALMART MOBILE ONE
Rob Walmart will be Adventurizing the streets of Portland from their a/v broadcast mobile unit/sound system/venue/van/ portable bootleg emporium aka "THE CUBE" via WiMAX provided by Stephouse Networks
ROB WALMART broadcasts live every week on R23 from Portland, Oregon
LISTEN andre - lionel - waterskiing and read the XLR8R article
2:00AM
The Fix takes the Bell House celebration home with a live broadcast from The Someday Lounge in Portland, Oregon.
THE FIX presents A special live broadcast from Portland's legendary Someday Lounge: The Fix takes the celebration home with Hip-Hop/Rare Groove/Afrobeat/Baile Funk/Soul/Funk +++, hosted by the city's beloved DJs Rev. Shines (Lifesavas), Ohmega Watts, Kez & Dun Diggy
FIN
from http://radio23.org/launch.html
