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The compilation brings together new and recent projects by composers Olivia Block (US), Cassandra Miller (CA/UK) and Andrew Hamilton (IE/UK), with Sheen’s eponymous Croon Harvest (2021–ongoing) as a central starting point.

The programme explores music in a situated and embodied state, floating on noise and quiet sounds, peeling off from the brink of silence towards a good old sing-along. In each work, the voice occupies a different space in relation to other sounds, the body, technology, or notions of memory and tradition.

The project is part of Musarc’s work with contemporary composers and the ensemble’s commitment to new music – brittle and radical, in need of projection as well as protection and advocacy. The choir was joined by musicians from the Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.

Instrumentalists: Cara Houghton (flute), Rowan Jones (clarinet), Michelle Hromin (bass clarinet), Andrew Hamilton (viola), Andrew Liddell (viola), Rebecca Burden (cello), Steve Potter (piano).

Sound engineering and mastering by Julian Sander.

Recorded in Resonance Extra's studios on 30th April 2022, Croon Harvest is a constellation of four experimental choral works curated by Jack Sheen for Musarc.

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.

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 is a three 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.

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.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

This first episode focuses on the Philippines.

A series from Tse Tse Fly Middle East focusing on South East Asian sound art, noise and experimental music.

For this fifth episode of his collected recordings he presents 2 works: 'Ultras Karaoke' and 'Ultras Mashup'.

'Ultras Karaoke' (2019)

This work is a karaoke version of a series of football chants. The lyrics sung by fans are combined with a midi-track version of the original songs.

'Ultras Mashup' (2018)

This work consists of a series of audio tracks in which recordings of football chants are mixed with the “original” songs. It explores the musical aspect of football fan supporters culture and the practice of creation through appropriation.

The recordings include repurposed versions of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera theme 'Aida', 'Gam Gam', a traditional Jewish song from Psalm 23, Marcella Bella’s 1972 Sanremo Festival version of 'Montagne Verdi', Walt Disney’s whistling theme from Robin Hood, 'La Mula de Parensio', a folk song from northern Italy, a Coca-Cola jingle called 'Buy the World a Coke', Dean Martin’s signature song 'That’s Amore', and Righeira’s 80’s summer hit 'L’Estate Sta Finendo'.

The football chants used in the tracks were recorded at the stadium and on away matches as part of Davide’s involvement with the ultras group Brescia 1911.

Davide Tidoni is an artist and researcher interested in the relational dimension of listening, and in the physical experience of sound. He works with live performance, intervention, audio recording, video, and guided listening. He recently published a sound ethnography on the ultras group BRESCIA 1911. 'Collected Recordings' is a series of works selected by Tidoni from his extensive back catalogue.

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

This episode explores the voice. It features interviews with US academic and author Dominic Pettman and Australian sound artist Gail Priest. Dominic discusses his book Sonic Intimacy, which explores who and what is given a voice, and how we might expand our capacity to listen. Gail Priest outlines her approach to incorporating her voice into her work, detailing both her successes and challenges. Our artist showcase features the Japanese artist Rhucle.

Photo: Gail Priest

The Field Recording Show is a programme exploring the soundscape, recording, listening and composing hosted by Kate Carr and Luca Nasciuti.

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.

'Notes on Music and Money', is produced by the Black Study Group. The Black Study Group is Dhanveer Singh Brar, Simon Barber, Victor Manuel Cruz, Ciaran Finlayson, Sam Fisher, Lucie Mercier, Fumi Okiji, Ashwan Sharma and with a special mention to Atticus for his guest appearance.

Monthly investigations of music politics with Paul Rekret.

Carolina Arroba known as Caro Arroba is an Ecuadorian musician, producer and performer, currently based in Chicago IL.
 She has been performing live since 2002. Her close bond with minimalism led her to develop a Live P.A. set exclusively played on hardware. 
She creates Techno
 Contemporary, and Techno-tinged using melodies by the recognizably Ecuadorian flutes and guitar. Using synthetic pads that measure loudness, showing 
female sensitivity.

Always generating an atmosphere of sweetness in the mid-ranges. Carolina is exploring the relationship between the body nature and machines. The sound foundations of her project are the result of experimentation in machine hardware synthesis, textures, micro percussion, powerful rings of drum and bass. Carolina Arroba still very active within the electronic music scene in Ecuador
and just released her second EP called Authorial with the label Mishky Records.

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Hello by Adele. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Squirrels, electric toothbrushes, reague fanatics, babies, mermaids and newts… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features a special guest, Milo Thesiger–Meacham: Soundcloud // Vimeo // Instagram.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

With the reopening of public social spaces this month the steady return to socialisation has presented a mixture of excitement and anxiety. For our show we’ve been thinking around the return to society.

This episode features performances by Erin Robinson, Nia Fekri, Giulio Dal Lago, Timo Koch, Toby Edwards, and Jamie Turner

If you would like to play and/or collaborate with us, please contact hello@subphonics.com

Quarterly noise from SubPhonics exploring themes of collaborative sound and performance.

In this episode, James Gormley plays new and recent releases from Venus Ex Machina, Teufelskeller, COH meets Abul Mogard, Ben LaMar Gay, Stargaze, Heith and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

In this episode, a mix made by Antonio Sobral and Verónica Cerrotta specially for Radio Cascabel.

Residência São João.

A selection of the most vibrant and exciting new sounds of Latin America's emerging talents.

Vibrations from past performances softly reverberating in air around which buildings reformulate. Dimensions shift. The echo remains.

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.

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.