Free City Radio

On Free City Radio this week, we hear a conversation with Sheryl Nestel of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) Canada who speaks about a report released this past fall that examines the ways that expression on Palestine has been repressed on campus and within many institutions within Canada. The report is described this way: "IJV has spent the last year gathering research about the repression faced by...

Matteo Uggeri + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة For @radioalhara Broadcasting on March 29 at 10pm Bethlehem time, 4pm eastern time at radioalhara.net This is a joint mix with Milan based artist Matteo Uggeri featuring work from Matteo's collective release entitled "The Telephone" plus other music selections by Stefan, information on Matteo's project here: https://matteouggeri.bandcamp.c...

Indu Vashist + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة For @radioalhara Broadcasting on Sunday the 26th of March at 5pm Bethlehem time, 11am eastern time at radioalhara.net Track listing Artist name / track 01. Sabri Brothers - Tishnagi Ko Jhanjhor Detey Hain 02. Zeb and Haniya - Dadra 03. Don Cherry - Brown Rice 04. Yusef Lateef - The Plum Blossom 05. Sneha Khanwalkar - Kaala Rey 06. Emmylou H...

On this edition of Free City Radio we highlight a multimedia project called "Do Right by the Right Whale," which highlights the voice of Mi'kmaq ecological justice activist Brian Issac. Throughout the last summer Brian worked with the Office of Sustainability at Concordia University in Montreal to create this project, of which you can hear the audio narration on this program. Importantly this proj...

A mix by Joseph Sannicandro (@thenewobjective) that will be played at Cinema Politica (www.cinemapolitica.org) screenings as people gather for the projection. Below is the track listing: Soundtrack Politica mix by @thenewobjective Accompanying image from the documentary: Whose Streets? https://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/whose-streets Two things I love: hip hop and soundtrack music. More specifica...

Voices across borders: A solidarity broadcast with protests in Iran Airing internationally on the week of March 20, 2023, for Nowruz نوروز Featuring music, words and sound by Mohammad Abdolrezazadeh, Amir Amiri, Sarah Davachi, Leila Ghaffari, Saeed Kamjoo, Ni Vash and Anika, Secret Pyramid, Rouzbeh Shadpey, Soheil Soheili, Alya Al-Sultani and Roozbeh Tabandeh. Accompanying visuals: Khosro Berahman...

أصوات تتكلم (Speaking Sounds) A mix by @noursokhon and Stefan @spirodon Christoff A mix broadcasting on Cashmere Radio, March 16, 17h (5pm), Berlin time ! In this mix you can hear a Berlin cityscape recording by Nour recorded over the bridge at Modersohnbrücke. The sounds in this recording are mixed with a synth recording that Jordan Christoff worked on within the context of a creative session for...

In this interview community organizer Mark Andersen of We Are Family DC speaks about the ways that a frontline community support organization, focused on delivering food as part of frontline anti poverty work also has created a context of local solidarity between thousands of residents in downtown DC areas like Shaw. We Are Family DC emerged as a key frontline community solidarity space during pea...

I will be sharing a monthly mix on Root Radio @rootradiolive, on the second Monday or each month. This month I am sharing a joint mix with paradisee (Rayan Falouji) who helped select these tracks. Photo is from Rayan. This mix came together in the context of a collaboration with Rayan around Musicians for Palestine and it features artists who support the Musicians For Palestine campaign. Thank you...

On this edition of Free City Radio listen to a conversation with author Lauren Benton who's book "A Search for Sovereignty." I read this work for a class at Concordia University in Montreal and thought it brilliantly outlined the ways that the violence of early colonial law was improvised by Western European empires over Indigenous lands. The research in this book can be drawn from to illustrate h...

An interview with filmmaker Brooke Swaney and actor Kendra Mylnechuk who speak about their respective work on the documentary film Daughter of a Lost Bird. This is a write-up on the film from the Human Rights Watch film festival: This beautifully personal film documents her journey as she discovers her Native identity—finding her birth mother, April, also a Native adoptee, and returning to her Lum...

On this edition of Free City Radio I will feature a second podcast within the project "Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal," the details are outlined below, you can listen to the full podcast here @reverberations-crise Septième épisode du balado 'Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal'. Réflexions sur les différents niveaux d...

Ice and Signal "Ice and Signal" is a soundscape collage by David Parker @slowmantofu and Stefan Christoff. It incorporates original music and field recordings mixed with selected tracks that aim to evoke a shared space of community and togetherness. This is a sonic reflection that points to the multitude of emotional worlds and experiences within campus/community radio spaces - their physical loca...

On this edition of Free City Radio I speak with musician Andy Moor of The Ex who speaks about creative collaborations across borders, particularly a recent exchange with Greek musician Yannis Kyriakides. Andy also speaks about the struggle to sustain independent cultural spaces in Amsterdam in the face of gentrification. Also on the importance of non corporate, non capitalist oriented creative spa...

Listen to a conversation with filmmaker Phyllis Ellis on the documentary Category Woman, the film is described this way by HotDocs: "When 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya burst onto the world stage in 2009, her championship was not celebrated, but marred by doubt, and her personal medical records leaked to international media. With some women's naturally high androgen levels deemed...

Federico Mosconi @federico-mosconi + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة For @radioalhara Broadcasting on Wednesday the 15th of Feb at 1:00 am Bethlehem time, 6pm eastern time at http://radioalhara.net 01. Galati - "Rarefaction" from Oneiric (@midirarecords) 02. mastroKristo - "Waves" from Departures (@losttribesound) 03. Sonae - "Heat"' from Summer (@laaps-records) 04. @enricoconiglio & @s...

A mix made for broadcast on The Stillness & The Dancing on CFRU in Guelph, Ontario. I made this mix in the led-up to my solo piano concert there on Feb. 23 at SILENCE, information here: https://www.silencesounds.ca/silence-presents-stefan-christoffs-sounding-worlds-wsg-hymns57 For this mix I chose tracks with a series of wonderful musicians from around the world who I am currently collaborating wi...

Listen to an interview with multidisciplinary artist Petra Serhal who speaks about her practices across a couple of specific projects in recent years. A work called Toyota 89 which is "a choreography in darkness centered on fragmented political, physical, and temporal moments in Beirut." Petra also speaks about "IF YOU WISH TO SEE ME DANCING, YOU OUGHT TO VISIT THE PASSING CLOUD," which is a perfo...

Listen to a conversation with Hena Zuberi the director of Justice for All. In this interview we hear about the systemic human rights abuses and legislative undercutting of minority rights taking place in India today under the right wing nationalist BJP government. Hena breaks down the religious nationalist politics of Hindutva in the BJP context. Additionally this conversation visits the importanc...

An interview with Sonya Stefan who speaks on her film "The Truss Arch," which is described this way: "In filmmaker Sonya Stefan’s hometown of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, a truss arch bridge straddles the St. Marys River, linking Canada to the United States. But underneath the bridge, a kind of liminal space exists where the notion of borders is blurred. With a wild yet carefully controlled energy,...

A live DJ set @refugeworldwide in Berlin, Jan. 19, 2023. This set features many artists who support #MusiciansForPalestine, below is the track listing, thank you for listening. 01. 47SOUL - Sghar El Balad 02. Ah! Kosmos - June 03. Anarchist Mountains - Anarchist Signals 04. Perestroika - Distraction (Xarah Dion Remix) 05. Sarah Pagé - Dose Curves 06. T. Gowdy - Miracles 07. The Halluci Nation - Th...

A mix for Radio is Dead on @radiockut in Montreal. I recorded some bird sounds while walking in Berlin and mixed it with some music, the track listing is below. 01. Walking in Berlin, recording by Stefan Christoff 02. Hangar #12, by Marc Codsi 03. Transcend I, T. Gowdy 04. Walking in Berlin II, recording by Stefan Christoff 05. Sayia, ΠΙΣΤΕΥΚΕΙΣ ΤΟ; 06. Sunlight in a NYC holding cell, Julia E Dyck...

On this edition of Free City Radio I will be featuring a podcast from a community art project in Montreal that I participated in about how to mobilize collectively as artists and activists against gentrification. You can find the full podcast here: @reverberations-crise This is the write up on the episode: Dans ce sixième épisode du balado 'Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le log...

On Free City Radio today an interview with author, educator and activist Shiri Pasternak who speaks on the collective book "Disarm, Defund, Dismantle- Police Abolition in Canada." The project is described this way: "Canadian laws are just, the police uphold the rule of law and treat everyone equally, and without the police, communities would descend into chaos and disorder. These entrenched myths,...

An interview with Tamara Abdul Hadi about the project "Picture an Arab Man," which is described this way: "Picture an Arab man is the debut photobook by photographer Tamara Abdul Hadi. With select images from the portrait series of the same name, this monograph presents the viewer with an alternative visual representation of the contemporary Arab man by Abdul Hadi and a reflection on how the Arab...