Wisconsin Science Festival Archives

WORT Music Playlists

What was that song I heard? Who was the artist, what is the album title, where can I get it? Where can I find the entire playlist for a show?

Click on the Playlists button to bring up a calendar where you can choose any date to find the playlists for that day. If you can’t find the right playlist or the song you’re looking for, your best bet is to call the station the next time that program’s on and ask the host yourself. If that’s not possible we may be able to help you, but please have as much information as possible at hand when you contact us, such as: approximate day and time the music was played, what type or genre of music it was, who hosted the show and any other information you remember about the selection and we’ll do our best to track it down.

Once you figure it out, there’s a “Buy It!” link next to each track in online playlists that leads you to a place where you can buy songs and albums, and by doing it that way a small portion of each purchase goes to support WORT.

Contact Information

Music Director: Sybil Augustine – musicdirector@wortfm.org (for music submissions, charts and tracking, promotional exchanges for music events and following up on volunteer applications or other requests. Please include specifics in your subject line, such as “Hiphop Music Submission” etc, )

Music Assistant: Aaron Scholz – musicass@wortfm.org (for record donations and sales, promos recording volunteers, etc.)

Music Calendars: Submit your events online here or send by email to calendar@wortfm.org

How do I get my music played on WORT?

We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to musicdirector@wortfm.org.

We do accept digital files on .wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Digital submissions should be .wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s [128-320 kbps.]

You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 608-256-2001 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting—e.g. light, medium, heavy or charting. Thanks and we look forward to hearing your music!

WiSciFest and Science in Movies

October 17, 2019 by Perpetual Notion Machine

Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine has another group discussion with a few of the PNM nerds. In attendance are Kelly Schwartz, Aryel Clarke, Matt Blackburn, and Dennis Shaffer. First, Kelly gives us a preview of the Wisconsin Science Festival, running today, October 17, through Sunday, October 20. This is not just in Madison, but all […]

Mapping Contagion Clouds at the Wisconsin Science Festival

September 27, 2018 by Perpetual Notion Machine

For seven years, the Wisconsin Science Festival has been engaging communities of all ages to learn and discover scientific theories and principles in Wisconsin. Now in it’s eighth year, the festival hopes to bring even more knowledge, creativity, innovation to our local residents by taking educational science events to Capitol Square and all around Wisconsin. […]

Experience Science Excitement: Wisconsin Science Festival

October 30, 2017 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

The latest edition of the Wisconsin Science Festival takes place November 2nd through November 5th. Combining hands-on activities, demonstrations and lectures, the fest seeks to get people all over the state excited about science. The festival grows every year, and this year, has events in dozens of locations around Wisconsin. Laura Heisler directs all of […]

Big Data and the Wisconsin Science Festival

October 26, 2017 by Perpetual Notion Machine

In this episode of the Perpetual Notion Machine, PNM reporter Will Cushman previews the Wisconsin Science Festival, which runs Thursday, Nov. 2 to Sunday, Nov. 5 at various venues around the state. Some events include the Robot Zoo, Plasma Physics, the Birds of Wisconsin, the Science of Brewing, and Science Policy, to name but a […]

Box Brown on illustrating the creation of Tetris

November 3, 2016 by Tone Madison

Tetris has attained Monopoly-esque status as a standard bearer within the videogame canon, universally known by grandmas and disrespecting, Gameboy-ignorant youths alike. But the history of how the game escaped a Russian psychology-focused computing center via questionable legal channels and landed in a three-way corporate rights battle is anything but standard. The “illegal” black Tengen […]

Wisconsin Science Festival: October 20-23rd

October 17, 2016 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

The Wisconsin Science Festival starts this Thursday, October 20th and runs until Sunday, October 23rd, featuring events at 86 different venues in 36 communities across Wisconsin. Some of the highlights this year include: snapshots of Wisconsin Wildlife, a whole series of lectures entitled “talk nerdy to me,” a robot zoo, the ever-popular Gong-Show themed “Big […]

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