Radio Free Culture

Series produced by WFMU

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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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#43: Black Lantern Music's First 100 Releases with Bram and Gareth
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Image courtesy of Black Lantern Music
Cheyenne talks to Bram and Gareth from Black Lantern Music about the BLM 100 and what's next for the netlabel.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 17:06
  • Purchases: 1
#44: Preserving Culture at the Rogers and Hammerstein Archives with Danielle Cordovez
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: courtesy of Danielle Cordovez.
Danielle Cordovez, a reference librarian at the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archive of Recorded Sound at the New York Public Library, talks to Cheyenne...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 12:52
  • Purchases: 1
#45: Two Copies of Every Record: The Archive of Contemporary Music with Bob George
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: photo by Eilon Paz. Used with permission.
Cheyenne Hohman, RFC host and current Director of the FMA, spoke to Bob George, the Director (and a founder) of the Archive of Contemporary Music, ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 26:04
#46: Chad Crouch's Alter Ego, Podington Bear
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: photo courtesy of Chad Crouch. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Chad Crouch, aka Podington Bear, about his adventures in composing Creative Commons music.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 14:20
#47: Music Economics 101 with Kristin Thomson
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: courtesy of Kristin Thomson. Used with permission.
Kristin Thomson talks about the Artist Revenue Streams project with the Future of Music Coalition and what it reveals about how artists make money ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 2
#48: Intellectual Property in the Third Dimension with Michael Weinberg
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: image courtesy of Shapeways. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Michael Weinberg about IP, copyright, and creative commons as it relates to 3D printing.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 31:11
  • Purchases: 1
#49: Meet the FMA's Software Developer, Ross
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: courtesy of Ross Oldenburg. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Ross about his relationship to the FMA, the music and video art he makes, and wtf 'digital physics' means.

  • Added: May 07, 2015
  • Length: 11:22
#50: Trapped in the Black Box of Sound with Emily Saltz from Pop Up Archive
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: courtesy of the Pop Up Archive. Used with permission.
Emily Saltz from the Pop-Up Archive talks to Cheyenne about automated transcription of audio and its implications for sharing audio on the web, sem...

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 13:11
#51: A Decade of Open Music with Meik Michalke [explicit]
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: photo courtesy of Meik Michalke. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Meik about the Open Music Contest, a German music competition that culminates in a concert, rather than the other way around.

  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 16:38
#52: The World's First Netlabel Day
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: photo courtesy of Manuel Silva. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Manuel Silva, the organizer of the first ever Netlabel Day.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 08:02
#53: The Song-O-Phone Project with Dina Maccabee
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Image courtesy of Dina Maccabee. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Dina Maccabee, who recorded a song, sent it to another artist to cover, who sent it to another artist to cover their version, and...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 1
#54: Premixing the Vitamin Pets
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: courtesy of Vito Petruzzelli. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Vito Petruzzelli of the band Vitamin Pets about a recent 'premix' contest of their newest album, "Horse Helpers of the High Count...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2015
  • Length: 13:18
#55: Sampling the Philharmonia Orchestra with Marina Vidor
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: courtesy of Marina Vidor. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Marina Vidor, digital producer for the UK's Philharmonia Orchestra, about ways they are using technology to engage the public.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: 13:49
#56: Acts of Silence with David Nemeth
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: "Transmitters-5" by Adam Bowie. 2011. CC BY-NC-SA via flickr.
Cheyenne talks to David Nemeth of the CC music blog "Acts of Silence" about how streaming is changing the online music landscape, what kinds of thi...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 13:32
#57: Do Not Track with Jason Staczek
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Image courtesy of Jason Staczek. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Jason Staczek, a composer who helped create the soundtrack for "Do Not Track," an interactive web documentary about privacy and t...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 19:18
#58: The White Market Podcast with Rute Correia
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Photo courtesy of Rute Correia. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks with Rute Correia, who puts together the White Market Podcast and curates on FMA under the same name.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 14:36
#59: The Data-Driven DJ with Brian Foo
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Courtesy of Brian Foo. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Brian Foo, an artist and programmer who uses big data sets and sound samples to tell stories.

  • Added: Sep 16, 2015
  • Length: 16:57
#60: The Creative Commons Global Summit with Jane Park
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Logo for the Summit. Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Jane Park of Creative Commons about the upcoming Global Summit in Seoul.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 09:27
#61: Radio Survivors, Part 1 with Paul Riismandel & Eric Klein
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Image courtesy of Paul Riismandel (left) and Eric Klein (right). Used with permission.
Cheyenne talks to Paul Riismandel and Eric Klein from Radio Survivor about audio as a medium and how 'doing radio' is similar, but not the same, as...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 20:22
  • Purchases: 1
#62: Radio Survivors, Part 2 with Paul Riismandel & Eric Klein
From: WFMU
Series: Radio Free Culture
Caption: Image courtesy of Paul Riismandel (left) and Eric Klein (right). Used with permission.
Cheyenne, Paul & Eric discuss community podcasting and the sorry state of music in podcasts these days.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 27:52

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