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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 17:06
  • Purchases: 1
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
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...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 21:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: via Wikimedia
19 songs, 7 minutes. Explicit lyrics.

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 07:55
  • Purchases: 1
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...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 10:51
  • Purchases: 1
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.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 20:26
  • Purchases: 1
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.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 17:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Adam Green from the Public Domain Review discusses how he finds the hidden gems in digitized public domain resources.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 13:50
  • Purchases: 1
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
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...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 17:43
  • Purchases: 1
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."

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 21:35
  • Purchases: 1
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.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 37:54
  • Purchases: 1