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

This six hour special edition broadcast by Ilia Rogatchevski features long-form recordings and interviews taken at the seventh edition of the Colour Out Of Space Festival, which took place in November 2016.

Come On, Come Down! explores adventurous night music for the sleepless. The series covers a broad spectrum of genres, from ambient and noise through to jazz, post-rock and contemporary classical. Each episode is thematically linked and aims to highlight a specific mood, artist or movement. Listen out for the occasional live session.

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.

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

Experimentation and collaboration with Esmé and Avel of ATATA, a vessel for live and recorded music.

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

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

This episode is In the South of an Imaginary Island: Movement 2.

"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 played in January and this second half plays 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: burning down the house, the rite of spring with Bernstein, appreciation, different languages, anti-presidency, sat on a meadow polyrhythmics, WW3, you make me wanna bliss and extasy.

Weekly compositions, sketches and motifs by Anastasia Freygang.

Field recordings, experimental narration, ragamash mixes, big time polyrhythmics including fantasy language and hearsay from IRL and the World Wide Web.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

In this episode, Chris Bohn plays tracks by Langham Research Centre & John Butcher, Camae Ayewa, Lydia Lunch, AGF, and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode features new music and sounds by X-NAVI-ET - R. IWANSKI, Room of Wires & Station Zero, TRI:.OBYTE, Silent Chaos, Pablo Ribot, Santiago Fradejas, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, Sonologyst and Dirk Serries.

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

Neil Luck leads an ensemble of collaborators in a New Years Water Ritual live from Resonance Extra's studio. An offering of positive energy to all sufferers of holiday burst pipes and broken boilers. Engineered and mixed live by Milo Thesiger–Meacham.

Moods and preoccupations in a nonlinear narrative in and out of the club with COSI and The Source of Some Certainty - created by Corinna Triantafyllidis and Henry Rodrick.

In this episode, presenter Theo Sayers is joined by electronic musician/DJ Massive Cat Person for an hour of eclectic music. Featuring songs by Jimi Hendrix, Oscar Peterson Trio and Maria Minerva.

Electronic musician Theo Sayers transports listeners with a mix of electronic, ambient, spiritual and new age music.

Made in collaboration with clothing designer Will Bond, this second episode provides the internal soundtrack to Siverstream School, a semi-fictional, placeless High School loosely constructed from photographic material found on online archive Classorama.

Weaving through Disney soundtracks, 80s prom songs, mid-western emo, TikTok ambient and US high school game marches, a sonic internal monologue (of sorts) cogitates patriotism, style, memory, institution and the emotional, nauseating vortex of adolescence.

Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.

In this episode, Dan Linn-Pearl has produced a montage and homage to the river Wye which flows near his home in the border town of Hay. Field recordings, hydrophone capture and improvised synthesiser sketches are broken up with audio from a film made by Friends of the Upper Wye.

This collective has organised a citizen science project to test water pollution levels and seek out solutions to reverse the decline of the river and its wildlife. In recent years, a build up of algae is threatening the ecosystem of the river. Evidence shows an increased amount of nitrates and phosphates in the water.

These are often a waste product of farming and in particular the 'run-off' from the intensive chicken farming which takes place throughout the area. Other potential causes are the increasingly inadequate sewage systems and the 'government policy' which allows raw sewage to be distributed directly into the river. For more information visit: www.fouw.org.uk.

Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts is a London-based sound art collective presenting new sound works, performances and discussions.

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.

Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.