The Radio Station:

Free Radio Hardware provides music and information on the FM dial at Critical NW, and on Discord the rest of the year. Contact leeny at brchardware dot org for a link to the server!

The Genre:

Just about everything, with an emphasis on soulful, indie/alt, and genre-benders. Burners have a wealth of EDM available, so we try to offer a smorgasbord of everything else.

In 2023, our first year, we opened each broadcast day with “Morning Train,” and followed with pre-recorded playlists in a variety of styles, with peaceful, sleep-friendly music from around midnight until around 4am.

Personnel:

• Leeny is the founder, program director, and driver of this bus
• Fat Kid consulted on the transmitter and built our antenna
• Ace, producer and audio engineer, recorded new promos and station IDs on site
• Monster, Leia, Raya, and Chicken contributed playlists and podcasts.
• Bert Reynolds/Auntie Glenda came by to conduct an interview and read from the What, Where, When.

The Beacon:

As a reminder to participants that there’s art in the air, we created a glowing, 3D globe with lightning bolts to sit atop our radio station structure at Critical 2023. The beacon was partially funded by a generous frontage grant, courtesy of Ignition Northwest.