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On November 7, A People of Oscillators (Paul Jasen) will discuss The ether is free, the “fictive radioscape” released as an audio recording, radio transmitter kit and text on Reference Number, alongside a performance by Florence-Delphine Roux of Chronique d’Ether work for radiophonic and electromagnetic frequencies.

"Discover the electromagnetic wilderness of natural radio, the interventions of pirates and shortwave spies, and consider how accessible DIY media might help new collectivities take root beyond the reach of The Platform."

Friday, November 7, 2025
7:00 PM 9:30 PM
Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre (Ottawa)
FREE

There will be a limited number of Ether is Free kits available for sale, for those interested.

A Sonic Bridge: Florence-Delphine Roux (live) / Paul Jasen (talk) — Debaser An evening of groundbreaking radio art and performance presented in partnership with CUAG . Explore the radical potentialities of analog radio through the work of artist and author Paul Jasen and media and sound artist Florence-Delphine Roux .

Ref. No. 432159876: Estranged, by Ross Birdwise. 5" x 7" hand-numbered matte postcard, with download code. Limited edition of 50, and third release in the "Dispatches" series of succinct audio transmissions.

A disquiet tilts. Unease, in the hall of mirrors. A kind of agony; a land of ghosts. The All-Seeing Eye rolls up into the head, and blinks. Left and right, hands twitch of their own accord, clenching at a disembodied, strung out bruxism. Shuffling solo through the dematerialized mall, alone with the clicking of buttons and teeth-- the coin of the land.

Estranged, by Ross Birdwise 4 track album

Ref. No. 794827904 | AE002: M70, by if then do. CD and metallic-ink card insert in embossed hand-numbered black matte envelope. Limited edition of 314, co-released with Artengine.ca.

folding, refolding, unfolding.
a data-echo hums in the gaps between seconds,
half-alive, half-lost—

rewind the horizon.
fast-forward silence.
play a sound that never was.

the sky is buffering,
the stars lag behind,
and time blinks like a skipped frame.

somewhere, a corrupted algorithm prays,
looping

a collapsing waveform, swallowing its own echo.
a dream crashing before it begins.

Performed before a live audience on 31-05-2007 at the M70 Lab, Artengine, Ottawa; broadcast in real-time at Edition 2007 of MUTEK Montréal.

M70, by if then do 6 track album

Ref. No. 311933073: ±°, by a people of oscillators. 5" x 7" hand-numbered matte postcard, with download code. Limited edition of 50.

The second release in the "Dispatches" series of succinct audio transmissions via postcard/download, a people of oscillators follows up "The ether is free" with "±°". Warmer and fuller than the brittle radio ethereality of "ether", "±°" is organic, rhythmic, relaxed and closer to the ground, though no less alien.

Grasping exhalations, signing a secret language. Hisses and wings. Flit, and follow gently pulsing beacons to distant groves, beyond earth...where "faintly one hears the sound of the cicadas."

±°, by a people of oscillators 1 track album

Ref. No. 071317100: The ether is free, by a people of oscillators.

26 minutes of fictive radioscapes that recall shortwave dérives and the sound of the ionosphere doing its own thing. Peopled by chirps and chatter, radio ‘static’ reveals an electromagnetic wilderness, traversed by spectral voices, stray ciphers and peeling heterodyne tones.

Released as a build-it-yourself FM radio transmitter kit, including custom printed circuit board, electronic components, assembly instructions, essay, and a digital download code, all enclosed in a laser-engraved tin and by which the sound therein is intended to be broadcast-- re-transmit for accurate delivery. Limited edition of 50.

"Recourse to the analogue, the material, or the otherwise-networked isn’t a sentimental move. It’s tactical, speculative. A quiet exit from the overcoded grid..."

The ether is free, by a people of oscillators 1 track album

Ref. No. 552387608: (Slow) Poems for Humid, by Hà Cái. 5" x 7" hand-numbered matte postcard, with download code for full 2-track release. Limited edition of 50, and first in the Dispatches series.

Queasy urban erotic, bromeliad. Summer nights. Signal lights bloom; smear in the muggy haze. Cracked concrete and lurid, sweltering neon, street life sweating a vaporous jazz. Sensuously leaning. Throwing up.

(Slow) Poems for Humid, by Hà Cái 1 track album

Half of all further proceeds from the Q2's "Forward Guidance" will be re-directed towards the Partage Vanier Food Bank in Ottawa.

Partage Vanier Food Bank - CSC Vanier During the present COVID-19 crisis the Food Bank is open by appointment only. Call 613-744-2892 ext. 0 to make an appointment.

Sadly, as of May 17, 2021, Food Not Bombs Ottawa discontinued its operations indefinitely.

Half of all proceeds from physical and digital sales of Q2's "Forward Guidance" had been passed on directly to FNBO up to that date to support their work, with the last donation made on May 5.

Production is (finally) complete on Q2's "Forward Guidance", which takes the form of a limited edition t-shirt with digital download. Orders begin shipping out tomorrow...

Ref. No. 178519732 in the final phases of production.