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A continuous stream of short musical creations, each under two minutes. Miniature masterpieces interwoven and occasionally interpolated, transitioning seamlessly from the briefest to the longest – a perpetual motion of sound.

Sound collage, record spinning, havering, ear wonk and general head scratch with Dylan Nyoukis of the Chocolate Monk label.

This twelfth episode features an interview with Brazilian sound artist and sound studies scholar Pedro Oliveira, who is based in Berlin. Oliveira works at the intersection of decolonial and sonic thought. During his tekhnē residency at TRAFO, he further developed his ongoing research on borders, migration, and bodies, expanding a long-term project that brings these themes together.

The interview was recorded in Szczecin following Oliveira's performative lecture marking the conclusion of his residency. Conducted by Piotr Tkacz, editor of the Glissando quarterly, the conversation explores the relationship between Oliveira's artistic practice and art-as-research, the evolution of his creative work, and the ways in which sonic technologies intersect with contemporary border regimes and migration policies.

This episode also includes excerpts from several of Oliveira's sound works, including DESMONTE (with Fernanda Lira), a live performance with Mauricio Takara at the AdK Berlin in 2023, and an unreleased experiment from Dubwise Machine Listening.

Bi-monthly insights into the activities of the European project tekhnē, which started in 2023. The series showcases a selection of artists who share and discuss their work and listen to recorded material. By putting the focus on the user rather than the developer, this project aims to explore the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. Technology as an art of craft, appropriating and transforming existing tools, to imagine multiple ways of creative misuse. tekhnē is a collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

This week the spotlight is on Dot Data, an audio/visual collective based in France, who specialise in promoting diverse, dark techno and ambient noise music from around the world. Sounds from UVB-76, Phase Fatale and AIR LQD.

Come On, Come Down! explores adventurous night music for the sleepless. The series covers a broad spectrum of genres, from ambient and noise through to jazz, post-rock and contemporary classical. Each episode is thematically linked and aims to highlight a specific mood, artist or movement. Listen out for the occasional live session.

In 1991, in the last year of the Soviet Union's existence, Melodiya decided to embark on a pioneering experiment in product marketing by launching the Signal Series of records. Each record in this series contained fragments of four new albums to be released, and the envelopes contained sketches of their artwork. The listener was invited to vote for their favorite artist by sending a written request to the major's editorial office to order the record through the label's official store. In essence, Melodiya launched the process of the first democratic elections in the Soviet Union.

In total, the series included 10 LPs with fragments of upcoming albums by 40 artists respectively. Most of them were bands playing the fashionable gorby rock - the so-called “red wave” guitar music of Gorbachev's perestroika period with screaming socio-political lyrics and manifestos. However, the series also included music by Russian art-rock bands, which at that time had already become cult in underground circles and had their own army of listeners (AuktsYon, NOM, NOL, Object of Mockery and others).

I compiled this episode from the music of projects that were less honoured by listeners - their albums were never released on Melodiya in full form. And the label was shut down shortly after the release of the last LP in the series. You will hear outsider new wave, occult hard rock, national reggae, free jazz and mesmerising folk. I'm kidding though - one project on this tracklist did release their debut LP on Melodia. You have one hour to guess who it was.

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental TOPOT label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

This episode features music by Ourà, Lyke Wake & Noise Cluster, The Nietzsche Project MUIZ, José Alfredo Rodríguez, Forest Robots, Loo(p)cy, Infinexhuma, PLUHM, Simon McCorry, Tarme Til Alle.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

Featuring:

Steffan Cennydd (Theatr Cymru’s “Romeo a Juliet” 2025; Criminal Record; Gwledd; Craith; Yr Amgueddfa etc).

Richard James (Evolution of Beauty; Hotel Et Al; Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci; BAFTA Cymru and Welsh Music Prize Nominee etc).

Michael Umney (Winner, New York Festivals Radio Awards 2025; Winner, URTI Radio Grand Prix 2024
etc).

Ed Baxter (Resonance Radio Orchestra; Statue of Liberty Big Band; BASCA Composer of the Year 2013 etc).

Special guests include members of Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn.

Supported by The Colwinston Foundation, Hinrichsen Foundation, The Leche Trust and Unity Theatre Trust.

Live from The Hanging Gardens, Llanidloes, Wales: Rough for Radio, an evening of radio-art, presented by Resonance FM. In this unique show, four artists present radiophonic experimentation, dramatic monologues, cinema for the ear and short-form sound art. They also present roughs from their work in progress, “Rhwng dwy afon: Taith i feddwl y tir / Between two rivers: a journey into the mind of the land,” made with local people around the sources of the Severn and Wye.

Certified Tonk showcases improvised music as a shared act of discovery, where meaning appears without being forced, and ego drops away for creativity to take over. This series is an invitation to listen differently, stay present and let the music lead. Andrew Backhouse is an artist and radio geek based in North Yorkshire who has always loved radio and sees it as a place for exploration, not answers.

This episode features works by Demdike Stare / Cleveland Watkiss / T-Flex / Trudge / Hieroglyphic Being / Chip Wickham / Kollaps/Pry / Iannis Xenakis / Kangding Ray / Mika Vainio / Yves De May / DJ Sprinkles / Experimental Audio Research / TVO v AOTCI / Material Object / Steve Reich / Mücha / Jo Johnson / Abul Mogard / Kessler V v OVT / Gacha Bakradze / Lord Of The Isles & Ellen Renton / Dudley Moore Trio.

An immersive psychosonic space, where sounds converse, collide and converge, featuring works, selections, edits, experiments, new music, non-music, archival objects, abstract artefacts, sound(system) and A/V art, pop, trash, noise, voice, and the associated mediums, processes and techniques that make up the ongoing audial investigations of Agents of the Culture Industry & OVT, all presented for art not profit.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.