← Tuesday 10th January 2023 →

A 22-hour radio project in 7 episodes by Milo Thesiger–Meacham. An unnamed narrator moves house and pieces together a world of recording devices, names, crime, real-world characters and media from across the globe, featuring 10-second audio extracts from over 6000 individual videos found online, original sound recordings, music, hand-held camera audio and writing. Commissioned by the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022 for the temporary radio art station Radio Art Zone. Follow Fox Neame for more.

Here, chapters 1 to 11 are broadcast back-to-back.

"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.

Mark Vernon explores concepts of audio archaeology, magnetic memory and nostalgia through his sound works. At the core of his practice lies a fascination with the intimacy of the radio voice, environmental sound, obsolete media and the reappropriation of found recordings.

A rich collection of domestic tape recordings; audio letters, dictated notes, answer-phone messages and other lost voices often find their way into his unorthodox soundworlds. These diverse elements are distilled into radiophonic compositions for broadcast, multi-channel diffusion, fixed media and live performances. A keen advocate of radio as an art form, he co-runs and curates Glasgow’s art radio station, Radiophrenia.

Works for radio by Mark Vernon and friends, comprising The Tonic Garden - A Sonic Survey Of Soothing Sounds; Audiology for Beginners; The Eldwitch Transmissions (with Barry Burns); Continue Without Losing Consciousness; and Vernon & Burns Hour.

In this episode, Quintavant continues its series of concerts recorded during the Festival Novas Frequências, the seventh edition of which took place December in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This time: William Basinski: A Shadow in Time, recorded live in the Church of Carmo da Lapa; Marcos Campello, one of the greatest Brazilian guitar players that appeared last decade; and his last record, Onda de Beleza Natural. Plus two records released by Propósito Recs: Crunch Soar Rinse Repeat, Jonathan Gall’s new work and Armando Nascimento de Jesus, also known as “Fazedor de Presépio” with Xinelah dih Mankuh.

Investigations of the Brazilian experimental music scene via Rio De Janeiro's Quintavant label in collaboration with Audio Rebel. With live performances and exploratory sounds produced in the context of Brazil's strange political situation, curated by Francisco Mazza, Bernando Oliveira and Pedro Azevedo.

Happened presents Yen Tzu Chang, a Taiwanese artist who was in residence at Music Hackspace between 23rd July to 12th August 2018.

In this programme, Yen Tzu talks about her cultural background and influences, inspirations and creative practice via the audio collage of monologue, field recordings and work recordings.

This programme was produced by Lucia H Chung (Happened) as part of her residency with Music Hackspace.

Lucia H Chung – artist in residence at Music Hackspace – presents a four part series showcasing artists from Taiwan who work with sound.

In this episode: Phoene Somsavath discusses the origins, experiences and ideas behind FRM-AT: a record label, booking agency and event series based in Glasgow. Also: an interview with my brother about listening and memory.

Thematic mixes and reflections, captured along the Dorset coastline by ATTN:Magazine's Jack Chuter.

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.

This episode explores the use of rhythm in improvised music, and how we’ve been looking to it to inform and alter our approach to music making. We have a release coming up on Discreet Archive (Instagram) of quieter and more reflective pieces.

As always for collaborations, invitations, or jubilation its hello@subphonics.com

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

In this episode, experimental folk group Four People present a radio adaptation of their upcoming album Field Recordings, which will be released on First Terrace at the end of January.

Recorded between 2015 - 2019 on a little pocket Zoom recorder, Field Recordings is a document of collaboration, friendship, and the ghosts of songs that never were. Alex and Joe play out the show with recent hauls from the bottomless depths of Bandcamp.

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

Tracks from across the spectrum of electronic and computer music, with Calum Gunn of Conditional.

This episode features new music by Henrik Meierkord, Stephono-ZIP, Jakob and Michael Grunditz, Michael Valentine West, The Great Old Ones, Infame Esposito, Loo(p)cy, and Quartz Locked.

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