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Tom Roe

Tom Roe, free103point9's Program and Distribution Director, is a sound artist sometimes known as DJ Dizzy. He co-founded microradio stations 87X in Tampa, FL, and free103point9 in Brooklyn, NY. Roe performs with transmitters using multiple bands (FM, CB, walkie-talkie), as well as prepared CDs, vinyl records and various electronics.

He has also written about music for The Wire, Signal to Noise, and the New York Post, among others. Roe's writing about free jazz in New York recently appeared in the Wire's 20th Anniversary publication Undercurrents (Continuum). His collaboration with Matt Bua and Matt Mikas, Of The Bridge, premiered in Brooklyn! (2001) at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art.

Roe's Constructive Engagement, featuring manipulated recordings from recent political protests and Of The Bridge, both received funding from The New York State Council on the Arts. He co-curated and performed at Tune(In))) (2003), a one-night installation featuring over sixty sound artists performing live into six radio transmitters. Roe has also spoken on panels for Fairness and Accuracy in Media, the Grassroots Radio Conference, and Anarchist Forum. http://www.screwmusicforever.com/free103/freemenu.html

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Tom Roe is free103point9's Program and Distribution Director and a sound artist known as DJ Dizzy; he co-founded microradio stations 87X in Tampa, FL and free103point9 in Brooklyn, NY. He performs with transmitters across FM, CB and walkie-talkie bands and has written for The Wire; his writing appeared in Undercurrents (Continuum). Of The Bridge, a collaboration with Matt Bua and Matt Mikas, premiered in Brooklyn! (2001) at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art; that work and Constructive Engagement received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.

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