Hello FC,
Thanks for opening up the discussion Ricardo. I have included the
points of departure for the workshop that nT had previously sent to
Geert and Trebor. We can consider these (among others) as
discussion topics for the round table/workshop. I am looking
forward to it.
Valerie Tevere
www.neurotransmitter.fm
neurotra-*at*mail.com
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Frequency Networks: Modulations Across Local Platforms
We are interested in discussing, demonstrating, and broadcasting
(locally) the continuing generative importance of analog low-power
FM broadcasting within activist, artistic, and grassroots practices.
In doing so, we would like to invite interested Free Cooperation
participants into the discussion to share their histories and uses
of radio technology
Points of interest or departure:
• Regional micro-radio histories – use within social movements,
revolution
- Radio Rebelde, Radio Free Dixie (Cuba)
- Pirate radio and television (Italy)
- Amsterdam (perhaps you’d like to join in here Geert)
- Radio Free Dixie, HAM radio models (US)
- so many others… (add yours here)
• public /mobile broadcast units - creating radio spatial
interventions
- Departing and learning from Historical / Commerical models
      – military, mainstream media
- neuroTransmitter - com_muni_port** (see description below)
- Ricardo Miranda Zuniga – public broadcast cart
- Temporary Services
• micro, micro-radio broadcast - issues of context, location, and
proximity/collaboration of the listener within a sonic-spatial
transmission
• wi-fi futures - broadening the spectrum
-hooking up analog and digital ethers
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***
com_muni_port is a portable radio broadcast unit created for short
range pedestrian broadcasting. com_muni_port models itself after
historical military, scientific, and media-related mobile
communication devices. Yet, to distinguish it from many of its
predecessors, com_muni_port activates the local, and functions
as a tool for information dissemination and public participation.
com_muni_port is a self-contained backpack transmitter unit used
for broadcasting ‘on the fly’. While itinerant, its transmission range
is determined and limited by the plateaus and canyons of urban
space - its dispatch is an invisible membrane of suspended audio
whose radius moves with the user. Its portability renders its use
within political demonstrations and marches, by mapping audio
frequency within a city, and spontaneous interviewing and
broadcasting. We see it as having myriad communicatory and
interventionary functions, all in one unit.
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neuroTransmitter (nT), founded in 2001, is a radio collaborative
utilizing analog communication technologies. Working specifically
with radio machinations, neuroTransmitter propels signals
through urban membranes and cellular formations.
To complement their fixed and mobile frequency performances, nT
creates radio-sonic installations, produces music, and converts
utilitarian objects into radio transmission and receiving devices.
neuroTransmitter has created visual works, performed, and
broadcasted live on local bandwiths in public spaces and
galleries throughout New York City and various locales in Europe.
nT is currently a collaborative-in-residence with the research and
development program at Eyebeam, NYC.

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Valerie Tevere
Assistant Professor of Communications
Department of Media Culture
City University of New York, College of Staten Island