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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 third broadcast they invited Scottish artist Magnus Westwell – who works with movement and music – to perform live.

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 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.

Featuring digital concert performances by Schacke, Rojin Sharafi, Céline Gillain.

Hosted by Linh and Marvin from Animistic Beliefs.

They have each prepared something unique for the occasion to round off Shape 2020 (SHAPE platform's Year 6) on its last day, so tune in and get ready for interesting talks, cutting-edge musical performances and sonic journeys.

This Insomnia radio special is presented in collaboration with MusicMap and Resonance Extra with media support by Crack Magazine.

Insomnia Festival is an annual festival in Tromsø, Norway, that seeks to evolve the creative energy the north has given rise to by creating a platform for new electronic music and technoculture. Through their events, the goal is to create an artistic melting pot and a platform for innovative artists.

SHAPE stands for “Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe”. SHAPE annually chooses 48 musicians and artists to participate in a mix of live performances, residencies, workshops and talks across member festivals and special events.

This event is produced in collaboration with SHAPE platform for Innovative Music and Audiovisual Art from Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

The organisers of Insomnia Festival ended the pandemic year of 2020, and kickstarted the spring of 2021, together with some very talented and creatively strong artists and musicians from last years SHAPE roster.

On the 6th of October 2022, Tenement Press held an evening at Brick Lane Bookshop to mark and celebrate the publication of SJ Fowler's debut novella, MUEUM, with readings and contributions from Gareth Evans, Chris McCabe, Chloe Aridjis, Iain Sinclair, and SJ Fowler (in order of appearance).

See here for more information. Sound recorded by Milo Thesiger – Meacham.

SJ Fowler is a writer and poet living in London. His collections include Fights (Veer Books, 2011), The Rottweiler’s Guide to the Dog Owner (Eyewear Books, 2014), {Enthusiasm} (Test Centre, 2015), The Guide to Being Bear Aware (Shearsman Books, 2017), I will show you the life of the mind (on prescription drugs) (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020) and *The Great Apes *(Broken Sleep Books, 2022).

Chris McCabe's work spans art-forms and genres including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama and visual art. His work has been shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. His latest poetry collection, The Triumph of Cancer (Penned in the Margins, 2018), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and he is the editor of several anthologies including Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages (Chambers, 2019).

Chloe Aridjis is the author of three novels, Book of Clouds (Vintage, 2010), which won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France, Asunder (Vintage, 2013), set in London’s National Gallery, and Sea Monsters (Vintage, 2020), which was awarded the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Chloe has written for various art journals and was guest curator of the Leonora Carrington exhibition at Tate Liverpool.

Iain Sinclair is a Welsh writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London. He also continues his engagement with small independent presses, publishing Fifty Catacomb Saints with Tangerine Press, 2022, and Fever Hammers with Face Press, 2021 (who are also due to release Mental Travaillers: or, The Battle of the Books; Blake & Latham in Subtle Congress on Peckham Rye).

A four-part, unabridged broadcast of SJ Fowler’s debut novella, MUEUM — as read by the author — recorded on location in Resonance Extra's South London studios. Produced by Dominic Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

"With the apocalyptic vision of Ballard and the acerbic attitude of Céline, MUEUM scatters human detritus over the shiny Perspex of our most dearly loved vitrines." – Chris McCabe

"A showcase, ransacked with horrid delight: Fowler's MUEUM presents the placid, lurid violences of surveillance and exhibition with startling and brutal stylishness. A seething triumph." – Eley Williams

A novella of ludic menace, a puzzle without pieces, SJ Fowler’s MUEUM pictures the amassing and dismantling of a public edifice, brick by brick, in prose that refracts and breaks the light emitted by history’s ornaments and history’s omissions. Suspended in unknowable time there is a city; in the city, an event, a conflict. Amid the ash, fog and cloud, there is the manufacturing of a space—a many-winged museum on the make.

On the plinths, exquisite remnants of life present and past—adorning the walls, portraits of gentle torture sit hand in hand with brutal and statuesque portrayals of camaraderie—and the gift-shop is littered with plastic curios and gilt revulsion. Goya, as atmosphere rather than artwork, hovers amid iron age ghosts, bronzed ideas, and antiqued anxiety.

Pacing the hall, atrium and corridor, there are those who keep the museum—the various midwives to the building’s demands—and those, like the reader, who merely visit; those who pass through the vacant galleries adrift with questions. What can I touch? What is next to Egypt? What is hidden in Mesopotamia? Where do we eat? Drink? Where is the entrance? The exit? Following the tradition of the Nestbeschmutzer authors (“one who dirties their own nest,” vis-à-vis Bernhard and Gombrowicz, et al), in Fowler’s curt, spiralling, and acute work, the museum’s keepers will answer.

A four-part, unabridged broadcast of SJ Fowler’s debut novella, MUEUM — as read by the author — recorded on location in Resonance Extra's South London studios. Produced by Dominic Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

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

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by David Pattison’s poem “Frozen dew gleams / Spiderwebs made stark / The cusp of winter”.

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.

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

'Passing Through' is the second episode of the series 'Strange Morals', brought to you by Nova Waves. Three short stories exploring life moments and exchanges between people. No strings attached.

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

This episode is our second artist showcase edition. We chat with Jake Muir, Claire Rousay and Bethan Kellough about their approaches to composition, listening and recording. These three artists represent a hugely diverse approach to field recording-based composition, with Jake also working with samples, Claire often deploying voice and text, and Bethan focusing on highly detailed mutli-channel meditations on sonic spatialities.

Photo: Jake Muir

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

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 last live broadcast as they approach the end of the residency, That Travis shares a work in progress version of Swan Song.

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.

Communiques from Thanet Tape Centre, Hard drive sludge. audio tidal pools. Music sediment. Friends utterances, sea walls of noise, salt marsh drone.

This week: 'Incipient Intentions'. There are severe limits to what the sociological imagination can inform us about music. This episode marks and celebrates those limits.

"Music points to true language in the sense that content is apparent in it, but it does so at the cost of unambiguous meaning, which has migrated to the languages of intentionality. And as though Music, that most eloquent of all languages, needed consoling for the curse of ambiguity - its mythic aspect, intentions are poured into it." Theodor Adorno, 'Music and Language - A Fragment'

Monthly investigations of music politics with Paul Rekret.

Tracks straight from the on hand collection of records, tapes and files. A simple varied show this week.

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.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Believe by Cher. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Aliens, nu metal singers, banana lovers, bardcore makers...all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

This episode features music by two guest artists: Lower Mars and S1m0nc3ll0.

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).

We Like computers, you like computers, we all need computers. But how can they augment and initiate creative practice, not as a tool but as an active participant?

In this month’s episode SubPhonics collaborate with our digital comrades to explore productive relationships with technology.

Featuring: David Williams, Lewis Baxter, Nia Fekri, Timo Koch, Erin Robinson, Toby Edwards, Giulio Dal Lago, Jamie Turner, Vincent Ott, Jan Willem de With and the Bots.

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.

Now: Awkward Goodbyes.

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.

This episode features music by Jonathan Goldman, Iasos, Matthewdavid, Francesca Heart and Gryke Pyje.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.