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Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.

In this first live broadcast they share Cantonese pop music, paying respect for their heritage and the popular culture they grew up with.

That Travis is a singer-songwriter originally from Hong Kong. Their background is a mixture of a colonial English education and an indigenous upbringing. While the two worlds fight for representation within their work, they exhibit an organic mixture of all influences primarily with their voice, sonic expressions, lyrics and visual aids.

This is a two hour extract from the festival, featuring sound art, computer music, homemade instruments, DIY electronics, radio play, noise, data sonification, field recordings, radio art, sound studies, historical anchor points, niches, insider tips, and different generations of Cologne's electronic and sound art landscape.

Full details and line-up: https://www.gerngesehen.de/funkt

The FUNKT programme was developed under the project management of Georg Dietzler by Anke Eckardt, Claudia Robles-Angel, Dietmar Bonnen, Dirk Specht and Felix Knoblauch, in cooperation with Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann.

Thanks to sponsors Musikfonds e. V. with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the special programme Neustart Kultur, Kunststiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Endowment for the Arts), the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.

FUNKT was a festival of electronic music and sound art from Cologne, which took place on the 16th, 17th and 18th of April 2021.

This episode of Third Space sees two First Light Records artists, Louis Giannamore (Barkum Deer/Kinn) and Sean Kinnear, explore themes of space, memory, and nostalgia over the course of two deeply personal mixes. In the first hour, Louis revisits his childhood holidays in the Basque Country of Southern France, trips that are soundtracked in his memory by the heavy metal music that defined his musical youth and the rich coastal soundscapes of the region.

He reinvokes the feeling of these formative moments in a curated mix of his field recordings from the Basque, interwoven with often-overlooked ambient and balladic gems from artists that are ordinarily associated with crushing drums and chugging riffs. In the second hour, Sean narrates a history of his native Salford through music and found sound, as well as exclusive unreleased sonic experiments of his own. From the sounds of textile production to the dancefloor of the White Hotel, from New Order to Machine Woman, Sean’s mix charts a nostalgia-tinged path through Salford’s story and his own.

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

Experimentation and collaboration with Esmé and Avel of ATATA, a vessel for live and recorded music.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

Littoral Transmissions returns with a new episode of their sonic exploration of the River Lea and surrounding area. Littoral Transmissions are back out & about with a multi sonic soundscape recorded live at Springfield Park.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

William Fields explores the potential of algorithmic music through the process of recreating (and inventing?) genres with his musical operating system.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Fukuda Chiyo-ni’s poem “without a voice / the heron would disappear – / morning snow”.

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

This episode features music and sounds by Flaub, Cattedrale, David Lee Myers, Fear Up Harsh, Leo Alves, Grey Frequency, David Strother, Mombi Yuleman, Rapoon with a focus on Lars Bröndum.

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

This episode features long form music from our sister label Slow Tone Collages.

Amsterdam's Shimmering Moods Records explores the many sides of experimental ambient music, into the far reaches of the imagination.

This episode features work by Jörg Thomasius, Frederic Rzewski, Dieter Zobel, Robert Linke and more.

Socialist Realness a mix series by GAJEK focusing on avant-garde and electronic music produced in the GDR and shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

To showcase the development of their new project Swan Song (working title), That Travis presents a series of live sessions in Resonance Extra's studios. As part of their practical research, they share music that has influenced the project, perform live and invite guests to share their work.

In this second live broadcast, they perform live alongside Tata Cheng and Miles Lukoszevieze, with a special feature and pre-recorded session with sound artist Eva Leung.

That Travis is a singer-songwriter originally from Hong Kong. Their background is a mixture of a colonial English education and an indigenous upbringing. While the two worlds fight for representation within their work, they exhibit an organic mixture of all influences primarily with their voice, sonic expressions, lyrics and visual aids.

In this episode, 'human games and suspended ragamash'.

Weekly compositions, sketches and motifs by Anastasia Freygang.

Field recordings, experimental narration, ragamash mixes, big time polyrhythmics including fantasy language and hearsay from IRL and the World Wide Web.

Nova Waves presents Passers-by - the first episode of the series 'Strange Morals'. In the middle of a busy public space our main character stands listening to the snippets of passers-by desperately seeking the relevance and meaning of strangers words.'

Three short stories exploring life moments and exchanges between people, brought to you by Nova Waves.

In this episode, a selection inspired by Silvia Federici.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

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In this episode: Out of Time by Matthew Sansom.

"A soundscape composition curating memories of an extended family holiday in 2009 to Tashkent and nearby Qibray. It was an unhurried and valuable time of re-connecting with family and cultural roots. With the benefit of time the moments and memories evoked by these recordings seem somehow ‘out of time’. On the one hand they are fixed, unique and of the past, on the other they are universal, floating and reach both into the moment and bifurcate out towards future possibilities. This conjunction of specificity with universality, the many and the one, and its aesthetic repercussions are central to my artistic and written works."

Matthew Sansom is an artist working across a variety of media and contexts including sound, video, sculpture, installation, performance and musical composition. His work has been exhibited and performed internationally, including the National Theatre of Prague, Victoria & Albert Museum, ICA (London), CCA (Glasgow), t-u-b-e galerie (Munich), Korean Institute of Culture, Ely Cathedral. Commissions have included sound-based works for Liverpool City Council, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the Four Seasons Hotel, Shanghai. He holds a doctorate in musicology/music psychology on the topic of free improvisation. After teaching at the Universities of Newcastle and Surrey, UK, he is now Professor of Music and Associate Dean, School of Arts, at Sunway University, KL, Malaysia.

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout Central Asia. Entitled Central Asia PhoNographic Mornings this series for Resonance Extra forms part of a wider project, Each Morning of the World, which invites sound artists, composers and recordists globally to share their own specific point of listening, either through a raw field recording or original composition.

Injazero Records founder Siné Buyuka plays a selection of electronic, experimental, ambient and contemporary classical tracks.

Discrepancies is a global showcase of disparate music with a focus on earthly field recordings and international sounds, curated by the Discrepant record label, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso.

Brooklyn-based Olivia Bradley-Skill presents Lo-fi Goddesses, live sound collage and original radio artworks inspired by female-fronted post-punk bands and experimental dance music.