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During the lockdown, a revolving group of sound artists from across Europe and the US convened live on air with a unified aim: to gather sound-pollen and transmit codified messages to kindred folk, exploring whatever was on their minds. Style guide: Anything goes.

Here we broadcast some selected live works by the CWCH Collective.

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.

All music in this episode is by f.ampism.

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

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, some hot new tracks and a little digging through the past.

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

In this episode, a balance between realism and aestheticism with music by Aisha Devi, Yves De May, Mika Vainio and more.

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.

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).

Ensemble Musica Nova is an Israel-based collective of musicians, composers and artists, collaboratively exploring the vast terrain of experimental music and contemporary sound.They are working together to expand the borders of the medium and enrich the dialogue between music and the fields of arts, technology and science.

The live recording of this episode took place in Schocken6, Tel-Aviv, featuring ensemble Ensemble Musica Nova (Maayan Tzdaka, Orr Sinay, Yifeat Ziv, Adi Snir) and Hagai Izenberg.

Radio Concrete by **Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show focusing on live mixing and processing of field recordings together with contemporary music and soundscapes.

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

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Mark Miller’s poem “sudden breeze / every strand of the spider’s web / in tune”.

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

In this episode, Joe & Alex welcome long time friend, collaborator and brother-in-arms JC Leisure to the show, who is releasing his new record with Warm Winters Ltd. He talks us through his practice and supplies an exclusive production mix in the final part of the show.

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.

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 special extended edition, we broadcast the first six instalments of the series, comprising the episodes I Did Not Ask for This, Release Me, SYLVAN Versions, Kareem Samara Archives (2018 - 2021), Epitaph To Sick Dogs (w/ Wendy Lavone), To Hear The Walls Swell Again and Nothing Ever Changes, It Only Continues & Ends.

Channelling an array of fervent interests in many genres through different mediums (Film, Music, Sound Art and more), Kinn - the brooding-electronics project of London based artist Freddy Lomas - and his guests use original soundscapes and compositions to weave together an original concept for each month's show.