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

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.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

Where the Dead Voices Gather is an indeterminate process driven radio experiment that uses the book 'Where The Dead Voices Gather' by Nick Tosches as its starting point.

Songs are chosen from a series of libraries based on the structure of a haiku. Each show has 17 songs / sounds therefore each show represents a sonic haiku.

Where the Dead voices gather is exploring the sonic potentials of written text and the indeterminate.

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.

verzcast is a monthly quiet music show, hosted by Phil Maguire of verz imprint. The show will explore 'quiet' music past and present, and what 'quietness' means in the arts today. Expect quiet electronics, contemporary composition, improvisation, and interviews with composers, performers, and writers.

In this episode, Chris Bohn plays Elaine Mitchener, Barbara Dane, Tengger, Gina Birch, Marisa Anderson, Liza Aikin & Zavoloka, and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

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

Pom Bouvier-b is a musician and artist. She explores deep listening experiences. Her works employ video and objects.

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

This episode: the Derwent Valley in Gateshead and ‘Vale of Derwent’ Manuscript of Frank Kojay held in the archives of Gateshead Central Library on Prince Consort Road.

Frank Kojay’s ”Vale of Derwent“ is a 300 page hand-made and bound book. Roughly A2 in size it contains an obscure, often incoherent mix of local history, wildlife, collage and personal writings. It is almost completely hand-drawn and written.

After Frank Kojay's death in 1971 the book was bequeathed to Gateshead Central Library with instructions that it never be reprinted or made available publicly. To see the book one has to request a viewing at the library.

It’s an unusual, deeply personal and idiosyncratic collection of observations and descriptions of the Derwent Valley in the 1950s.

The River Derwent is a tributary of the River Tyne, it flows for 35 miles from Beldon Burn on the edge of County Durham and Northumberland into the River Tyne at Derwenthuagh next to the large Metrocentre retail park.

Sound artist Ben Freeth invited Tyneside Sounds Society to join him on a series of sound explorations of the Derwent Valley in response to the Frank Kojay book. Along with Gateshead producer Andy Hokano, field recordings were made over the course of 24 hours on 16th & 17th June this year.

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 episode: Sunderland, SR1 - SR9.

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.

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

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

This episode - the halfway point of the series - features the third studio session for the Is Under Location Surfaces album, plus rhythmic noise, bleep techno and ambience from the likes of Chra, ZZ Pot, Tricky Disco, and more.

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

I salt my breakfast eggs. All day long I feel created.

Anne Dillard, Holy the Firm (1977)

A Table of Contents was produced, mixed and mastered by Dominic Jaeckle and Simon Tonka, © 2021; the readings were recorded at home by Polly Barton, © 2021; accompanying soundtrack, Matthew Shaw & Mason Lindahl, © 2021; artwork, Hoagy Houghton, © 2016.

Dominic Jaeckle is a writer, editor and broadcaster. Jaeckle curates and collates the irregular magazine Hotel and its adjacent projects, and runs a minor publisher Tenement Press.

Polly Barton is a Japanese translator and writer, living in Bristol. Her book Fifty Sounds is published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Translations include Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (Tilted Axis Press) and There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (Bloomsbury International).

Matthew Shaw is a composer, author and artist; Shaw is currently working with Shirley Collins & Brian Catling on Crowlink; a sound installation and recording project featuring Collins’ recitation of English folk songs collected over seventy years, poetry from Catling and Shaw, and fragments of letters, diaries and prose from Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and the Bloomsbury Group. Shaw’s Atmosphere of Mona, a book of poetry and photography, was published by Annwyn House in 2020.

Mason Lindahl is a guitarist and composer based in New York City. His finger-picking style is largely influenced by minimalism and classical music. He grew up listening to folk and country music in Northern California, where he was first taught to play the guitar by his father. Lindahl’s recent record Kissing Rosy in the Rain was released by Tompkins Square, 2021.

A work by Dominic J. Jaeckle, Polly Barton, Mason Lindahl & Matthew Shaw. Grounded in a book that collects a roll-of-film’s worth of co-dependent photographs and prose-poems by artist Hoagy Houghton and writer Dominic Jaeckle (36 Exposures, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe), A Table of Contents is a quilt of first- and second-hand reticulated reflections and ratiocinations; a ‘disembodied voice-over’ for a set of absent images, memories and other assorted totem poles.

Mike Harding interviews Icelandic artist Finnbogi Pétursson in Krems, Austria. (Present also is Marcus Davidson).

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.