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Summer 2022’s monumental Radio Art Zone allowed me the opportunity to work with the best actor of his generation, Steffan Cennydd, who I’d seen on the tv a few times and who luckily was free for a day to record a whole bunch of pieces. These are presented in a sequence here, four in English and one in his native Welsh. The idea in each is not to attempt a traditional radio play nor to produce a classic dramatic monologue. Rather each of these pieces tries to create a psychological object. They are all deliberately elliptical, fragmentary, allusive, but share some underlying themes (obsessions perhaps) and, inevitably, language. Ultimately it’s the actor’s voice that makes them work - you’ll hear that, I think. - Ed Baxter

• The Deserter (27.43)

Commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture.

• Butch Cassidy in Paris (Heart like a Duck, part 3) (27.20)

Commissioned by Hearsay International Audio Festival. Second voice: Willie Carr. Additional recording by Diarmuid McIntyre.

• Ar y Mynydd (On the Mountain) (19.51)

Text commissioned by Benedict Drew. Welsh translation: Ffion Emyr. Guitar loop sampled from a performance by Alasdair Roberts.

• Birdbrain (25.29)

Commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture. Baby’s voice: Ivor Forsyth-Lanceley. Additional recording by Peter Lanceley.

• My Life as Doug Yule (25.39)

Commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture. Additional recording by Trilby Baxter.

Thanks to all involved in these collaborations; to Knut, Sarah, Mathilde and Necef at RAZ; to Daniela Gargiulo; and, for their encouragement, Kersten Glandien, Anthony Moore, Milo Thesiger-Meacham and Jim Whelton.

Five Folk Tales for Radio (featuring Steffan Cennydd). Voice: Steffan Cennydd. Concept, text, sound design, montage by Ed Baxter. Recording engineer: Michael Umney.

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

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.

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ID Spectral is a multi-disciplinary record label and arts collective, showcasing the spectrum of innovative creative identities worldwide.

This episode features Ana Benlloch, Benedict Drew, Christopher Kirubi, Marie, Most Dismal Swamp, Frankie Roberts, Col Self the voice of Rhodri Davies and Plastique Fantastique.

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

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

Walking, movement in place, in air, distance through time.

This episode is In the South of an Imaginary Island: Movement 1.

"I have an imaginary island. As part of a Groundworks project, I made a walk around the south of my island. As per the project instructions I walked between randomly chosen stopping points, each with associated ‘prompt’ words. The result is this sound work; this first half plays in January and the second half will play in February. More details, the associated text and a concertina-fold book can be viewed here."

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

In this episode, Dronica meets Penelope Trappes.

Deva in Sanskrit means "heavenly, divine, anything of excellence". It is this mantra, sublimely interpreted within Alice Coltrane’s track Deva Deva, that I wanted to be the focus for my mix. The state of the world right now is beyond words. I hope that the music within this mix can remind us all to hold onto Love and show us that it still exists.

The first hour I have collated artists who inspire me to continue to look to the light. The last half is my Mother’s Blood album.
I believe it is the power of creativity that unites us all in life. I dedicate this mix to the people of the Ukraine and to world peace.

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

In this episode, an exclusive mix by Buenos Aires-based artist Vic Bang.

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

This episode is led by Tarik Haskic. The group works through a number of deep listening scores inspired by Pauline Oliveros.

Artwork by Erin Robinson.

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

This episode focuses on the new record by Fabiano Scodeler, the main man behind Projeto Mujique and Galope Discos, a label dedicated to promote the experimental music of Pouso Alegre/MG; Nada do Outro Lado, the first release of Coisas que Matam, a label from São Paulo that describes itself as specialized in “music of the present”; and two new works from AjaxFree – AjaxFree vs Penderecki and excerpts of his last record, Abortive, both released by Antena Records.

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.

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

In this episode:

Adopted by masked avant-rock multimedia art collective The Residents, mysterious Bavarian composer and music theorist N. Senada, formulated the "Theory of Phonetic Organization", which states "the musician should put the sounds first, building the music up from them rather than developing the music, then working down to the sounds that make it up."

Extracting music from two albums, Intruders (2018), produced by Eric Drew Feldman and The Residents, then their album God In Three Persons (1988), the "Theor " accumulates extraneous sonic debris, with a deliberated juxtaposition of sounds.

Morlock Pie

Special Guest vocals are from Tiny Tim, from his debut album God Bless Tiny Tim (1968). Tiny Tim was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. With his astonishing vocal range and vast repertoire of turn-of-the-century Tin Pan Alley songs, he is best remembered for his cover hit Tiptoe Through the Tulips, sung in a falsetto voice.

Next, we meet The Cowsills,an American singing group from Newport, Rhode Island, six siblings noted for performing professionally and singing harmonies at an early age, later with their mother.

When the group expanded to its full family membership by 1967, the six siblings ranged in age from 8 to 19. Joined by their mother, Barbara Cowsill, the squeaky-clean family group image inspired the 1970s television show The Partridge Family.

Additional material is from their own television special, called A Family Thing, in November 1968 on NBC television,
and Playboy After Dark, an American television show hosted by Hugh Hefner!

Special incongruous guest stars include American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian from Luciano Berio's Visage (1961),
Emil Beaulieau: America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist, and Liberace.

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