Radio Free Culture

Series produced by WFMU

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Image by: Adam Bowie via flickr 

Radio Free Culture is a weekly program that explores digital culture and the arts.

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 in the internet age. We'll be interviewing some of the nation's key figures at the intersection of music, multimedia, and digital technology.

This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. All music on the show can be found in the Free Music Archive. A new episode comes out every Thursday morning here on PRX, in WFMU's podcast archive and on iTunes.


69 Pieces

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Interview with Brewster Kahle
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Brewster Kahle at Free Bitflows Conference, Credit: http://future-nonstop.org
WFMU's Station Manager Ken Freedman interviews Brewster Kahle, Founder of Archive.org

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Jonathan Sterne
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: MP3 - The Meaning of a Format
WFMU's Benjamen Walker interviews author and academic Jonathan Sterne on the meaning of the MP3.

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Rise and Fall of MP3 Blogs
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Casey Rae-Hunter, Credit: Image from sockmonkeysound.com
The Future of Music Coalition's Casey Rae joins the Free Music Archive's Jason Sigal and a panel of music bloggers to discuss the future of MP3 blogs.

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Radiovision Preview with WFMU's Ken Freedman
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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http://radiovision.wfmu.org

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  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 56:52
  • Purchases: 1
Can Open Source Tech Save Music?
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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Can Open Source Technology Save Music? A conversation with Jesse von Doom & Maggie Vail of CASH Music

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  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:28
  • Purchases: 1
Understanding Artist Revenue Streams
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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How are today's musicians earning money? Thanks to the Future of Music Coalition's pioneering Artist Revenue Streams project, we finally have some ...

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  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Piracy is the New Radio!
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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The title of this panel comes from the always provocative Neil Young but this is not another debate about the morality of piracy. Anna Troberg (Swe...

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  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 1
Radio Passover: Baby Got Backlash + The New Birthday Song
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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Join Andrea and her Grandma Phyllis for Radio Passover. While the two munch matza and bitter herbs, they'll present a selection of stories about th...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 58:27
  • Purchases: 2
#11: Head to an Anti-Police Brutality March with renegade journalist Tim Pool
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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Using live-steaming technology, Tim Pool involves his viewers in his reporting process live from the sites of protests around the world, and uses a...

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  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:03:09
  • Purchases: 1
#12: Radiovision Keynote: Patron Saint of DIY Culture Mark Frauenfelder
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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WFMU's Radiovision Festival reminds us again of the many ways old fashioned radio is still powerful, connected, and intertwined with the dreams and...

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  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 58:13
  • Purchases: 2
#13: App-Based Storytelling with Francesca Panetta
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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Multi award-winning producer and sound artist Francesca Panetta joins Radio Free Culture to discuss Hackney Hear, the winner of this year's Prix Eu...

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  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 57:02
  • Purchases: 1
#14: Interview with Elliot Harmon of Creative Commons (part 1)
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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WFMU's Liz Berg interviews Elliot Harmon about the current state of affairs at Creative Commons. This is the first part of a two-part interview.

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 25:32
  • Purchases: 2
#15: Interview with Elliot Harmon of Creative Commons (part 2)
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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WFMU's Liz Berg interviews Elliot Harmon about the new suite of Creative Commons licenses and a recent run-in with the German courts. This is the s...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2014
  • Length: 26:30
  • Purchases: 1
#16: A Case for Sharing Your Music Online
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Waylon Thornton, Credit: http://waylonthornton.tumblr.com/
How Kardashian Sisters Helped Musician Waylon Thronton Buy a Hearse

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 15:39
  • Purchases: 1
#17: Player Piano: The First Digital Music Revolution (Part 1/2)
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Piano roll of a George Gershwin performance, at Michael Simon's office
The player piano's legacy on our culture, music and copyright. Featuring interviews with David Suisman, Lisa Gitelman, and Michael Simon. Host/prod...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 43:31
  • Purchases: 1
#18: Player Piano: The First Digital Music Revolution (Part 2/2)
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: MIDI
The player piano's influence on digital music, including MIDI, Super MIDI, Black MIDI, MIDI-powered automata and mechanical pop. Featuring intervie...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 43:08
  • Purchases: 1
#19: Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: The inside of the Audio Relay Unit., Credit: Brennan McGaffey
For this episode we spoke with FMA Artist Jeff Kolar about Radius. Radius is an experimental radio broadcast platform based in Chicago, IL. We'll d...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 22:20
  • Purchases: 1
#20: Orphaned Works
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Orphanage No. 3" Moscow, Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Modified w/text., Credit: Uknown.
Liz Berg interviews John Bergmayer about orphaned works.

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
#21: Meet Cheyenne
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Transmitters-5" 2011. CC BY-NC-SA via flickr., Credit: Adam Bowie
For this episode, WFMU's Liz Berg spoke with Cheyenne Hohman, current Director of the Free Music Archive, about what's coming up for the FMA in the...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 19:18
  • Purchases: 1
#22: "Why Wouldn't You?" Kevin MacLeod's Music Sharing Philosophy
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Kevin MacLeod, CC-BY composer. Photo courtesy of Ryan Camarda.
In this episode, Cheyenne Hohman, current Director of the Free Music Archive, spoke with Kevin MacLeod about composing music, why he chooses to sha...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 21:39
  • Purchases: 1

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