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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.

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

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.

This episode features music by Guy Birkin, Ramleh, Tony Conrad, Akira Rabelais and more.

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.

Sounds of the SHAPE Platform (Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe).

Monthly excursions into the world of Sonospace - audio archive and publisher involved with the research and documentation of field recording and sound art. Curated and presented by Harry Sumner.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Craig Lincoln’s poem “the sound of rain / on a cold spring morn / the town is quiet”.

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 new music and sounds by David Kovacs, Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, Richard Begin, Fear Up Harsh, Liu Yi-wei,nonentia, Mntana.WeXhwele, Pierre-Henri Wicomb, Nikos Sotirelis, Lefteris Papadimitriou and Babak Sepanta.

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

This episode focuses on three artists who compose with field recordings. We chat with Liz Helman, François Larini and Nhung Nguyen about their artistic themes, compositional techniques and geographical contexts. These three very different artists work across ambient, drone, noise and music concrète, embracing found sound and techniques of sonic collaging as well as more traditional musical forms. They are based in London, Nice and Hanoi, respectively.

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

On the 2nd October 2022 First Terrace went live on Resonance Extra from Southbank Centre as part of the label's fifth anniversary celebrations, with a curated triple bill for the Purcell Room, featuring Peter Broderick’s tribute to The Beacon Sound Choir, the premiere of a dance opera by Bianca Scout and an AV performance by Specimens.

First, the premiere of The Heart of the Anchoress, a contemporary dance piece from Bianca Scout's upcoming multimedia project The Mortal Instrument of Bones. This newly commissioned gothic opera, produced with the Daughter Mary ensemble, establishes a richly seductive sensory field, where fractal patterns of poetry, moving image and sound design are sampled, remixed and looped, through subtle, episodic mutations of classical dance.

Next, a set by Sofheso in which he offers his singular selection of broken rhythms and blacklight textures.

Then, Specimens presents Power, Pain and Privilege, a specially commissioned audiovisual work made in collaboration with filmmaker and photographer Lucie Rox. The work explores both artists’ experiences as mixed race people living in the UK, from hair salons to racial slurs, and the uncomfortable relationship between skin tone and privilege.

Finally, Peter Broderick breathes fresh life into the euphoric group singing practices of The Beacon Sound Choir, his erstwhile community choir in Portland. With the help of the anarchic, virtuosic experimental choral group Musarc, they perform new arrangements of the original choir material – short and odd original songs, experimental compositions and the BSC’s unique brand of half-improvised, half-structured vocal drones.

A selection of experimental frequencies, interviews and sessions plus cuts from the First Terrace label by Alex Ives (Specimens) and Joe Summers.

This first episode features music by Noria Alias T.N., Jörg Foth, Chor Chor Flame, A.F Moebius and many 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.

"MM-07 is a recomposition I made using early morning recordings I brought back from a residency at Mamori Lake, Brazilian Amazon, in 2007. From an arbitrary rule of working only with every first recording of every day, I revisited this 10-year old sound archive and forced it into new and unexpected arrangements: howler monkeys were always right on time, but some of these first recordings of the day also happen to feature frogs, birds choruses, contact mic recordings, false takes, and microphones issues.

Mamori Lake is about 80 kilometers south of Manaus, which represents crossing the Amazon, driving for half an hour down the Trans-Amzonian and riding a boat for 6 hours along windy rivers.
Francisco Lopez organized a field-recording workshop there for many years, and I was lucky enough to be invited to one of the early sessions."

       - Pali Meursault

Pali Meursault collects electroacoustic matters from a variety of places, natural, urban and industrial.
http://palimeursault.net

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of fifteen short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout South America. Entitled « South American 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.

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

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

In this episode, the second studio session for the Is Under Location Surfaces album, preceeded by brand new tracks from the likes of Black Dice, wificellphonekidz, and dRUG dINER, plus cuts from the archives of noise rock, Bandcamp breakcore, and live coding.

A 16-episode bi-weekly series alternating new and unheard live sounds from Trash Panda QC with DJ selections and guests.

This month: Record-A-Thon.

On the 6th May this year Tyneside’s very first Record-A-Thon took place. This was a flash participatory event designed to quickly captures the sounds of Newcastle City Centre on one given day. Phonographers and field recording enthusiasts; skilled and beginner were invited to George Street Social in the city centre and from their were given a coffee, briefing, map of the centre and asked to go out and record the sounds of the city. Across a 2 hour period from 11am - 1pm they made over 150 recording which were then uploaded to the online sound map Aporee.

15 people attended, including families and young people. This months broadcast is a highlight of the recordings made. Thanks to Dominic Smith; Sally Adams, Jimmy Kipple, Odette Johnson, Lindsay Duncanson, Marek & Lukas Gabrysch, Simon Gregory, Tim Shaw, Alex Boyd, Nat and Solomon Evans and John & Nina Coburn. Some recordings were made in binaural so a headphone listen might be needed for a fuller listening experience.

The Tyneside Sounds Society is a monthly broadcast dedicated to the recording and reinterpretation of the sonic environment and sound heritage of Tyneside in the North East of England.

This month: Bristol, BS1 1AD and onwards.

Edited Arts present a series investigating UK music scenes divided by postcode area with a view to drawing attention to the often overlooked areas of the UK's artistic heritage of music, sound and speech.

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

Eclectic musical face-off between German electronic musician and producer Ulrich Schnauss and Nathaniel Cramp (Sonic Cathedral).