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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#23: Art's Right to Exist: Jacob Nathan from AS220
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Hard Nips at Foo Fest 2012. Photo courtesy of AS220.org
In this episode, Cheyenne Hohman, current Director of the FMA, spoke with Jacob Nathan about a long-running art and performance space called AS220 ...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 20:36
  • Purchases: 1
#24: Netlabel Standard-Bearers blocSonic [explicit]
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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In this episode, Cheyenne Hohman, current Director of the FMA, spoke with Mike Gregoire about blocSonic, a long-running netlabel and FMA curator.

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 16:14
  • Purchases: 1
#25: WFMU's Secret Weapon with Ken Freedman
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Transmitters-5" by Adam Bowie. 2011. CC BY-NC-SA via flickr.
In this episode, Cheyenne Hohman, current Director of the FMA, spoke with Ken Freedman, the station manager at noncommercial freeform radio station...

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2014
  • Length: 17:44
  • Purchases: 1
#26: "The Future Where Biff Owns the Cops," or, Michael Weinberg's Dystopian Vision of a Non-Neutral Net
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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WFMU and the Free Music Archive are proud to present a new season of Radio Free Culture, a weekly podcast exploring issues at the intersection of d...

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 31:54
  • Purchases: 1
#27: The Music Manumit Meta-Podcast Podcast, Part I
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Radiostacja R-118 wnetrze" by Markier at pl.wikipedia Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 - Wikimedia
In this episode, Cheyenne Hohman, RFC host and current Director of the FMA, spoke with Tom Ray and Doug Whitfield, co-hosts of the Music Manumit po...

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 22:48
  • Purchases: 1
#28: The Music Manumit Meta-Podcast Podcast, part II
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Music Manumit podcast logo
Cheyenne talks to Doug & Tom of Music Manumit podcast about podcasts. Meta!

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 16:47
  • Purchases: 1
#29: Get Your Shovels Ready! A Tour of snowdrift.coop with Aaron Wolf
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Transmitters-5" by Adam Bowie. 2011. CC BY-NC-SA via flickr.
Cheyenne spoke with Aaron Wolf about Snowdrift.coop, a new crowdfunding platform for freely-licensed software and creative works, as well as some b...

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  • Added: Dec 25, 2014
  • Length: 13:31
  • Purchases: 1
#30: A Music Career in the Commons with Jared C Balogh
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Radiostacja R-118 wnetrze" by Markier at pl.wikipedia Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cheyenne talks to Jared Balogh about being a musician in the Creative Commons age.

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2015
  • Length: 12:23
  • Purchases: 1
#31: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with Alicia Mielke
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Transmitters-5" by Adam Bowie. 2011. CC BY-NC-SA via flickr.
Cheyenne gets some background on the history of one of Boston's most unique art and music institutions.

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2015
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 1
#32: "There Are No Rules Anymore," an interview with composer Chris Zabriskie [explicit]
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: photo courtesy of Chris Zabriskie
Cheyenne and Chris Zabriskie talk about making money by giving music away and the weird world of YouTube's ContentID system.

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 37:54
  • Purchases: 1
#33: Into the Deep Web with Alex Winter
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Transmitters-5" by Adam Bowie. 2011. CC BY-NC-SA via flickr.
Alex Winter, director of "Downloaded," talks about his upcoming film, "Deep Web."

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 21:35
  • Purchases: 1
#34: Six Years Inside the Computer & Video Game Archive with David Carter
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: image courtesy of CVGA/David Carter
David Carter of the Computer & Video Game Archive at University of Michigan tells us about the collection, how it's used in an academic setting, an...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 17:43
  • Purchases: 1
#35: Sharing is Better With Simon Panrucker
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: photo courtesy of Simon Panrucker
Simon Panrucker, a composer and musician, talks about the music he makes for Cartoon Network and the music he makes for himself: Moons, Mr Frisby's...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 23:24
#36: Adam Green's Guide to the Public Domain Treasure Trove
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
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Adam Green from the Public Domain Review discusses how he finds the hidden gems in digitized public domain resources.

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 13:50
  • Purchases: 1
#37: Playing in the Public Domain with Nicky Case
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: courtesy of Nicky Case, from "Coming Out Simluator"
Nicky Case, designer of a variety of Public Domain Playables, discusses some recent & upcoming projects with Cheyenne.

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 17:35
  • Purchases: 1
#38: Wishing You A Happy Fair Use Week with Ellen Duranceau
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Transmitters-5" by Adam Bowie. 2011. CC BY-NC-SA via flickr.
Cheyenne talks to Ellen Duranceau from MIT about fair use and copyright.

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 20:26
  • Purchases: 1
#39: Inside LizB's Playlist Labyrinth
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Transmitters-5" by Adam Bowie. 2011. CC BY-NC-SA via flickr.
Cheyenne Hohman, RFC host and current Director of the FMA, spoke to FMA mixmaster and WFMU DJ Liz Berg, about how and why she mixes up a new hour's...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 10:51
  • Purchases: 1
#40: MicroSong Super Special BONUS Episode!!
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: via Wikimedia
19 songs, 7 minutes. Explicit lyrics.

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 07:55
  • Purchases: 1
#41: Jonathan Ward, Audio Archaeologist
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: via Excavated Shellac
Jonathan Ward, the man behind the 'Excavated Shellac' blog, talks about crate digging, collecting, and sharing 78 RPM recordings from around the wo...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 21:37
  • Purchases: 1
#42: Simple Machines and Complex Infrastructures with Jenny Toomey
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Transmitters-5" by Adam Bowie. 2011. CC BY-NC-SA via flickr.
Jenny Toomey, Director of the Internet Rights unit at the Ford Foundation, talks about the differences and similarities between running a DIY recor...

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 16:08
  • Purchases: 1

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