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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#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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

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