By Megan M. Seckman
The twenty-four hours earlier the Twin Towers fell, Sharon Scott was riding her wheel through the crowded New York City streets when she was hitting past times a car. She experienced caput trauma as well as could barely stand upward from the vertigo. Her friend woke her upward the adjacent twenty-four hours to depict the tragedy outside, as well as they both rushed downwards to the towers merely as the 2nd airplane tore through the skyscraper.
In the midst of the smoke as well as cacophony, the chaos of pedestrians as well as rescue workers trying to brand sense of the scene, Sharon knew something had to change.
Like as well as so many earlier her, Sharon made the slap-up migration from the South to New York City to pursue art: sculpture, painting, as well as functioning art. After graduating from Vanderbilt University amongst an English linguistic communication degree, she packed upward her life as well as started a novel chapter as a struggling creative someone who worked part-time at a library to eke out a living.
Life inwards NYC was hard, but those ii days inwards September 2001 changed her fate. “That instant on the waterfront made me re-evaluate my life,” she says. “There was no fine art funding as well as the fine art scene was as well as so cutthroat… I had to brand a change, as well as so my friend as well as I went dorsum to our storey as well as threw names of cities into a hat. I had written downwards Louisville because I would drive upward as well as encounter shows at that topographic point land I was inwards Nashville. I ever had a goodness fourth dimension as well as loved the people. Sure enough, nosotros drew Louisville. There were forces means beyond my command that brought me here.”
The chain of events that led Sharon to launch Louisville’s novel independent radio station, WXOX 97.1 FM, were every bit as tied upward inwards kismet. At Vandy she worked all 4 years at the college radio station. “College radio is highly competitive, but WRVU, Vandy’s station, said I could larn on as a freshman. That’s why I chose Vanderbilt. I may have got received an English linguistic communication degree, but my existent instruction was inwards radio. I became the station’s manager as well as was real interested inwards radio as its ain artistic medium. I fifty-fifty wrote my honor’s thesis on functioning fine art through radio.”
But earlier she came to settle inwards Louisville, Sharon returned to Nashville as well as led a drive to salve her honey Vanderbilt radio station from beingness taken over past times a national group. When that was unsuccessful, she launched an independent radio station inwards Nashville. In the meantime, as well as this is a story for merely about other day, she wrote a 420-page encyclopedia of toys as well as used the proceeds to fund that station.
With all of Sharon’s radio sense as well as expertise inwards trying to salve the Nashville station, she got air current of a few FM dials beingness opened upward past times the FCC. She applied for a nonprofit license for the WXOX as well as launched the outset broadcast as a pop-up radio demo at Ideafest (a demo that featured an appearance from Janelle Monae). She also broadcast the station from her living room, Kentucky Museum of Art as well as Craft, donated infinite on Market Street, as well as now, from the station’s novel domicile on fourth as well as Breckinridge.
WXOX is a community-based project of love that relies on 120 volunteer DJs. “We are all volunteers hither — fifty-fifty my hubby as well as me. Ninety per centum of my DJs have got no prior radio sense — it’s similar people have got been waiting their whole lives for a microphone. This is really a community endeavour as well as it takes a lot of trust — amongst a constant flow of people inwards as well as out of the infinite every day. But, it is amazing when people believe inwards your dream as well as so much that it becomes their own. I larn paid every twenty-four hours inwards liberate energy as well as enthusiasm. I am constantly surprised past times people’s dedication; it has restored my trust inwards humanity.”
WXOX is really a “mom as well as pop” station akin to local radio of the past. Sharon runs the station, her hubby mans the equipment as well as technology, as well as her son, Max (8), invitee DJs as DJ Bob. Along amongst the extended household unit of measurement of over 120 volunteer DJs, a flow of music enthusiasts dropping past times for alive performances or merely to hang out, as well as an eventual alive recording studio, this community station is certain to larn an integral beat inwards our city’s song.
So what does woman nurture of local independent radio, published author, as well as creative someone Sharon Scott read, watch, as well as heed to these days?
What She’s Reading:
What She’s Watching:
What She’s Listening to:
WXOX 97.1 FM of course! I heed 24 hours a twenty-four hours as well as right away never have got to alternative out my ain record. I hear all the latest tracks, choose grip of upward on all the latest trends through this ane constantly evolving source. I actually love the station because it is as well as so diverse — it’s solely the quiet that scares me. I’m on telephone outcry upward 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
What's on your reading, watching as well as listening list? Need merely about ideas? You tin uncovering a few to a greater extent than here.
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| Photos past times Melissa Donald |
The twenty-four hours earlier the Twin Towers fell, Sharon Scott was riding her wheel through the crowded New York City streets when she was hitting past times a car. She experienced caput trauma as well as could barely stand upward from the vertigo. Her friend woke her upward the adjacent twenty-four hours to depict the tragedy outside, as well as they both rushed downwards to the towers merely as the 2nd airplane tore through the skyscraper.
In the midst of the smoke as well as cacophony, the chaos of pedestrians as well as rescue workers trying to brand sense of the scene, Sharon knew something had to change.
Like as well as so many earlier her, Sharon made the slap-up migration from the South to New York City to pursue art: sculpture, painting, as well as functioning art. After graduating from Vanderbilt University amongst an English linguistic communication degree, she packed upward her life as well as started a novel chapter as a struggling creative someone who worked part-time at a library to eke out a living.
Life inwards NYC was hard, but those ii days inwards September 2001 changed her fate. “That instant on the waterfront made me re-evaluate my life,” she says. “There was no fine art funding as well as the fine art scene was as well as so cutthroat… I had to brand a change, as well as so my friend as well as I went dorsum to our storey as well as threw names of cities into a hat. I had written downwards Louisville because I would drive upward as well as encounter shows at that topographic point land I was inwards Nashville. I ever had a goodness fourth dimension as well as loved the people. Sure enough, nosotros drew Louisville. There were forces means beyond my command that brought me here.”
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| The Lyn Collins tape was donated to the WXOX music library past times Brett Holsclaw also known as DJ Clawdada. "She establish a domicile on a music stand upward inwards the command room when nosotros moved into our novel home, as well as she has remained at that topographic point ever since," Sharon says. |
The chain of events that led Sharon to launch Louisville’s novel independent radio station, WXOX 97.1 FM, were every bit as tied upward inwards kismet. At Vandy she worked all 4 years at the college radio station. “College radio is highly competitive, but WRVU, Vandy’s station, said I could larn on as a freshman. That’s why I chose Vanderbilt. I may have got received an English linguistic communication degree, but my existent instruction was inwards radio. I became the station’s manager as well as was real interested inwards radio as its ain artistic medium. I fifty-fifty wrote my honor’s thesis on functioning fine art through radio.”
But earlier she came to settle inwards Louisville, Sharon returned to Nashville as well as led a drive to salve her honey Vanderbilt radio station from beingness taken over past times a national group. When that was unsuccessful, she launched an independent radio station inwards Nashville. In the meantime, as well as this is a story for merely about other day, she wrote a 420-page encyclopedia of toys as well as used the proceeds to fund that station.
With all of Sharon’s radio sense as well as expertise inwards trying to salve the Nashville station, she got air current of a few FM dials beingness opened upward past times the FCC. She applied for a nonprofit license for the WXOX as well as launched the outset broadcast as a pop-up radio demo at Ideafest (a demo that featured an appearance from Janelle Monae). She also broadcast the station from her living room, Kentucky Museum of Art as well as Craft, donated infinite on Market Street, as well as now, from the station’s novel domicile on fourth as well as Breckinridge.
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| "The Boombox pinata inwards the archive room was donated on our 2nd anniversary celebration past times Emily Miles host of KMAC Radio Hour which airs every Mon from 10-11am. To the dismay of all the ARTxFM kids, nosotros haven't had the ticker to suspension it yet." |
WXOX is a community-based project of love that relies on 120 volunteer DJs. “We are all volunteers hither — fifty-fifty my hubby as well as me. Ninety per centum of my DJs have got no prior radio sense — it’s similar people have got been waiting their whole lives for a microphone. This is really a community endeavour as well as it takes a lot of trust — amongst a constant flow of people inwards as well as out of the infinite every day. But, it is amazing when people believe inwards your dream as well as so much that it becomes their own. I larn paid every twenty-four hours inwards liberate energy as well as enthusiasm. I am constantly surprised past times people’s dedication; it has restored my trust inwards humanity.”
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| This Techniques SL-1200 tape purpose instrumentalist was the outset slice of equipment they purchased for the ARTxFM radio station. "While WXOX DJs contain novel engineering scientific discipline into their programs, many however prefer spinnin' vinyl records." |
WXOX is really a “mom as well as pop” station akin to local radio of the past. Sharon runs the station, her hubby mans the equipment as well as technology, as well as her son, Max (8), invitee DJs as DJ Bob. Along amongst the extended household unit of measurement of over 120 volunteer DJs, a flow of music enthusiasts dropping past times for alive performances or merely to hang out, as well as an eventual alive recording studio, this community station is certain to larn an integral beat inwards our city’s song.
So what does woman nurture of local independent radio, published author, as well as creative someone Sharon Scott read, watch, as well as heed to these days?
What She’s Reading:
- The Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino — Framed inwards conversations betwixt Marco Polo as well as Kublai Khan along amongst prose poetry, the majority explores imagination through the descriptions of 55 cities. This majority is magical as well as amongst my hectic schedule I tin dive inwards as well as out of these readings.
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury — Short stories well-nigh the colonization of Mars past times humans. These curt stories are almost ever inwards my rotation, as well as similar The Invisible Cities, they whisk me out of my everyday as well as have got me to exotic kingdoms non as good far away.
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare — From the Romans through the Elizabethans into the postmodern age, human nature remains constant no affair how much nosotros progress.
- Outrageous Acts as well as Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem — I purchased this majority to inspire my teenage stepdaughter. I worry well-nigh immature women today growing upward inwards the selfie era where Beyonce as well as Kim Kardashian are the Feminists fighting for the correct to have on less as well as less clothing. I chop-chop realized the importance of rereading this majority for myself. This should live on required reading for women xv as well as above.
- History of Magic inwards North America past times J.K. Rowling — I began reading the Harry Potter books amongst my boy as well as I boot the bucket along to uncovering them merely about of the most magical, inspiring, as well as thought-provoking books ever written. If I could merchandise notes amongst whatsoever living author, it would live on her.
- Sex as well as Broadcasting: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Handbook on Starting a Radio Station for the Community past times Lorenzo Milam — This is considered the community radio station Bible...this majority has been an particular resources for me. “A radio station should non merely live on a hole inwards the universe for making coin or feeding ego,” he says, “A radio station should live on a alive identify for alive people to sing as well as trip the low-cal fantastic as well as talk…”
- Pedro Paramo past times Juan Rulfo — Perhaps expiry is non as well as so final. Perhaps it volition live on indistinguishable from today.
What She’s Watching:
- I’m non goodness at sitting however as well as I tend to larn real anxious watching TV or Hollywood films. I larn agitated past times the race as well as sex roles they promote, as well as the violence also is a occupation for me.
- Campfires — If I could lookout adult man anything forever, it would live on a campfire.
- Sunsets
- Twin Peaks, M.A.S.H., or Twilight Zone reruns
WXOX 97.1 FM of course! I heed 24 hours a twenty-four hours as well as right away never have got to alternative out my ain record. I hear all the latest tracks, choose grip of upward on all the latest trends through this ane constantly evolving source. I actually love the station because it is as well as so diverse — it’s solely the quiet that scares me. I’m on telephone outcry upward 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
What's on your reading, watching as well as listening list? Need merely about ideas? You tin uncovering a few to a greater extent than here.
Sumber http://www.todayswomannow.com/