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The first hour of this episode features more recordings from the orbit of The Spirit of Gravity, including a track recorded around the time we started out featuring "American Jeff" and recorded in his office above our first venue 25 years ago.

The second hour is dedicated to Hard to Place, an extended piece produced for Gravity Waves by Christopher Simms. Hard to Place is an audio essay about Simms' experience of growing up in care in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. As a mixed-race child, Simms had to navigate multiple layers of loss, prejudice, and uncertainty while searching for a sense of identity within a care system that often lacked cultural understanding.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

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.

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).

Our holiday schedule of special broadcasts begins with A Year in the Clear – this past year's worth of Clear Spots and Micro Clear Spots, our open access slot for one-off, special and surprise broadcasts. Collated by Milo Thesiger-Meacham.