MAAR – Music As Art Radio
Wednesday evenings – 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm (Eastern Time)
You can hear the last two shows on
the WGDR.org site (Archive section) – http://www.archive.wgdr.org/
The radio station’s website – Central Vermont Community Radio
It’s even better to catch the show live, either on radio in Central Vermont on
WGDR 91.1 Plainfield or WGDH 91.7 Hardwick (Morrisville-Stowe area) or
streaming on the internet – http://www.wgdr.org/listen-live/
Several radio apps are available for live streaming. They would need to access WGDR 91.1 Plainfield.
Such known apps are Simple Radio and Internet FM.
MAAR has an associated Facebook page too. Please visit and “Like” https://www.facebook.com/musicasartradio
It is recommended that if you have requests, leave a comment on that page. It would help me better prepare the show beforehand.
The MAAR Channel on YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/user/musicasartradio
This has not been updated lately. Finding an internet home is a chore, and I have to convert the files to having a video to have them on YouTube. There’s always the copyright issue for every upload, but since I broadcast the show it is considered “Fair Use.”
This doesn’t mean that some countries block the segments, or parts thereof. The biggest blockers are Germany, and sometimes Netherlands. But I even got Antartica blocking a segment!!! Did I offend the penguins in bondage?
What’s the latest?
—– January 1, 2025 —–
Updating the web page was overdue, and so here I am on the 11th Anniversary of the first officially branded “Music as Art Radio” show.
Playlists for the years 2014, 2020 (partial), 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 have been added to the site.
—– October 22/25, 2022 —–
MAAR moves its time slot from Saturday mornings 9 AM – 12 noon
to Wednesday evenings 9 PM – 11 PM.
—– Spring 2021 —–
Goddard College, which started the radio station in 1973, gifted the station to the “community” in Spring 2021. The new non-profit entity in charge of the station is Central Vermont Community Radio. The station’s location remains in the Pratt Center of Goddard College.
Goddard College ceases to exist in late Spring 2024.
—– January 15, 2021 —–
MAAR expands officially from 2.5 hours to 3 hours – Saturday mornings 9 AM – 12 noon from the previous 9 AM – 11:30 AM.
—– April 25, 2020 —–
The beginning of pre-prepared MAAR shows done at home in my private MeriMusic Recording Studio.
I am able to access my entire music library, and properly engineer the shows in a comfortable environment. I upload the shows in advance, to the WGDR playback robot.
I simulated the radio station environment with a similar microphone and various effects processors.
This was a game changer, as before I was lugging along plenty of CDs, vinyl records, and MP3 sticks
to the station 18 miles away, often in bad weather.
I could better craft a more professional show!
—– March 14, 2020 —–
The last live MAAR show (for quite a while) as the COVID pandemic reaches central Vermont.
Six weeks would go by until the station staff worked out the new solution.
When I was doing the live show, I would audio engineer (the microphones, record players. CD players. MP3 application on the station’s computer), be the host on the air, answer telephone calls and internet messages, select what music will be played – and often times would take listener requests and play them as well. That’s at least three or four people’s jobs in a commercial radio station – but the volunteer staff at WGDR-FM does it all – at the same time!
Another note – until this point, the only pre-recorded shows aired were the syndicated shows, usually from the Pacifica Radio Network.
And personally, since we were all doing “Live Radio” – we would be exchanging the DJ chair and studio from shift to shift.
The MAAR show often had an extra hour (to 12:30 PM) when the next DJ couldn’t make her shift, over the course of the first six years.
—– January 4, 2014 —–
The beginning of the regularly scheduled “Music as Art Radio” programs – broadcast (and ultimately a simulcast stream) on Saturday mornings 9 AM – 11:30 AM.
The show was sandwiched initially between two kid’s shows (the preceding syndicated, the latter live).
Not exactly the best segue, but I had a regular slot (during the time when locals went to the trash dumps). In hindsight, more people had their car radios on for my show,
—– January 1, 2014 —–
The first officially branded “Music as Art Radio” broadcast for an hour on a Wednesday afternoon (on New Year’s Day). This was the final test of my training, and I was offered a Saturday morning timeslot.
—– November 2013 —–
I begin training to be an on-air broadcast host and engineer. There were a couple of on-air programs that happened over November and December 2013.
As I am an experienced audio engineer, this training was comparatively easy for me and it didn’t take me as long to complete the training.
—– The latest is on top. —–
Music As Art Radio 