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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.

All the music and sounds in this episode were recorded during the Chocolate Monk two-day residency at Cafe Oto. I would like to thank all the folks who performed, all the punters who turned up and all the nice folks at Cafe Oto, especially Fielding Hope. The opening section of the show comprises Aqua Dentata, Band Of Gurps (myself with Sharon Gal, Ali Robertson, Yoni Silver and Joyce Whitchurch), F Ampism & Tindegger.

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

This episode features Voltnoi. One absorbing, shimmering soundscape, mixing ambient electronic forms and noisy interference.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

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.

In this episode, Radio Picnic travels with the pioneers of Asian experimental music.

Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

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.

After last month's episode showcasing Discrepant-only releases from 2022, here is a show featuring the ever reliable Keroxen label – the newest and freshest sister label here in the warm tropical shores of the Canary Islands.

Established as a festival in 2009, Keroxen is the record label born out of the 13-year old multidisciplinary arts festival of the same name based in Tenerife. Like its homonymous annual festival, the label’s aim is to serve as a platform for local experimentation by working with the most genre defying local artists as well as supporting collaborations with well established, like-minded international acts.

This is a wild journey of rock, free jazz, electronica, field recordings and everything else in between.

Photo: Banana Garden outside Keroxen’s iconic venue, Espacio Cultural el Tanque in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2022.

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.

Conceived as a diffused oratorio that crosses over between the city and the domain of radio broadcasts, Zoom conversations and the space of the book, The End of the World Service sees the body of the choir endure a modern-day tarantism of colour and sound in the streets and open spaces of the old town.

First, composer Neil Luck (UK) taps into the double trope of the city as a film set and traditional locus of mystery plays with three short tableaus populated by props, choral extras, a wind band and onlookers who happen across the scene at night, pining for a view of the surreal action playing out in the yellow light of Taranto’s street lanterns.

Then, Joseph Kohlmaier (UK/AT) takes the audience on a slow-moving choral procession that ambulated through the narrow streets of the old city, a remorseful, humming and mumbling crowd carried along by the sound of the drums and steel instruments of the Complesso Bandistico Città di Crispiano, culminating in a choral and communal recital of a libretto written for the occasion by members of the ensemble.

The End of the World Service is part of Bodies as Infrastructures – a season of events and performances staged in the city of Taranto by curatorial platform Post Disaster Rooftops. With new works by Aga Beaupré (PL), Mela Boev (IT), Marie Hamilton (UK), Joseph Kohlmaier (AT/UK), Neil Luck (UK), Sara Rodrigues (PT).

Musarc is one of the UK’s most progressive choral collectives. Founded by Joseph Kohlmaier at the School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University in 2008. The choir has collaborated with Jennifer Walshe, Lin Chiwei, Laure Provost, Ed Atkins, Jenny Moore, Lina Lapelytė, Sam Belinfante, Fritz Hauser, Neil Luck and many others.

It has worked with numerous festivals and arts organisations in the UK and abroad – including the BBC Proms, London Contemporary Music Festival, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the Royal Academy, CCA Goldsmiths, Museum of London, Extra City (Antwerp), Serpentine Gallery, MK Gallery, Wysing Polyphonic, STUK (Leuwen) Cafe OTO, Bold Tendencies and Whitechapel Gallery.

A series of live performances in Taranto, Italy, on the 27th May 2022 by choral collective, Musarc. Featuring Neil Luck and Joseph Kohlmaier in collaboration with Post Disaster Rooftops.

This episode is Seir (Iranian Journey) by Jamie McCarthy:

"This piece is a sound travelogue of a couple of weeks I spent visiting Iran between 4th and 15th Dey 1397 (25th December 2018 and 5th January 2019). It's a mixture of field recordings made during my time there and other, more 'musical' elements. It was made simply to play to friends as a sort of sound postcard of my time in Iran.

Since it was a holiday and not a work trip, most of the recordings I made were done on my phone whenever I heard something I found interesting, although I did manage to do some slightly better-quality recordings with a Zoom H5 recorder at the spring next to the Palace of Ardeshir Pāpakan."

You can hear the entire piece here.

Locations:

Tehran Grand Bazaar - Tehran Province, Tehran, District 12, Panzdah-e-Khordad St, Iran, Coordinates: 35˚67’50” N 5˚.41’ 94”E

Golestan Palace - Tehran District 12 Panzdah-e-Khordad St Fifth Khordad Avenue Arg Square, Iran, Coordinates: 35˚40’47”N 51˚25’13”˚E

Homa Hotel - District 1, Shiraz, Fars Province, Iran, Coordinates: 29˚36’36”N 52˚32’33”E

Palace of Ardeshir Pāpakan - Fars Province, Iran, Coordinates: 28.898091˚N 52.539314˚E

Naghsh-e Jahan, Esfahan, Iran, Coordinates: 32˚38’41”N 51˚40’03”E

Train from Esfahan to Yazd, Iran

Jamie McCarthy was born in England in 1963.

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout Central Asia. Entitled Central Asia 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.

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.

This week: ZONA.

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.

Lina is based in El Paso, Texas, and has been part of the US underground scene for over a decade. She has shared the stage with artists such as Coyu, Hito, DVS1, Robbie Rivera, Drumcell, The YellowHeads, Shaded, Dave Seamen just to name a few. Her sound echoes throughout the venue with an upbeat groove and dark hypnotic waves that flow through every track she plays.

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

In this episode: a razor-sharp set of recent finds and enduring classics. Sub bass and white noise included at no extra charge.

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

In this episode, Meg Woof plays tracks by King Vision Ultra, James Brandon Lewis, N O Moore, The Sensory Illusions, Cleo Reed, Benoit, Derya Yıldırım, Širom, aya, Matthew Shipp & Ivo Perelman, Tony Buck & Gianni Gebbia and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

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.