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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 month's episode, the theme is imprint: artists talk about a place, person or event that influences the way they think about working with sound.

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

In this episode, we spend two hours with two artists – Latvian sound artist, poet and visual artist Jelena Glazova, playing improvised, solo, collaborative and multimedia work from her diverse discography; and saxophonist Martin Clarke who’ll be sharing recordings and releases from his label OEM Records.

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

Fluid takes shape in two sections. One a recorded improvisation by the duo of John Bowers and Tim Shaw and the other a exploration of the bridges of Newcastle upon Tyne edited by my good friend David de la Haye.

In Music for Trace Hall, Bowers and Shaws contribution to a collaboration with the Experimental Architecture Group of Newcastle University and the Bristol Bio Energy Centre, Trace Hall, an installation in the Matadero Centre in Madrid which opens in June this year. In Music for Trace Hall, they imagine liquid soundscapes which combine natural and artificial flows, water and synthesised energies, recorded resonances and computational models of fluids, scanned and sonified. Music for Trace Hall was recorded as a live improvisation.

The second section of this episode of Flux, Bridges explores the spans of the river Tyne through alternative and traditional field recording techniques. This area boasts one of the most densely populated areas of bridges boasting 7 spans within a mile of each other . These spans include the iconic Tyne bridge designed by famous Mott, Hay and Anderson sharing it's lineage with the Sydney Harbour bridge and the millennium bridge a tilt bridge locally referred to as the blinking eye. You will hear a bizarre pan within the recordings. The left the reverberation and resonance within the bridges the right the ambient sounds present.

Flux aims to explore the themes of liminal space, temporality and boundaries, whether physical or theoretical. This exploration is carried out through field recording and sound design. Each episode invites an artist, performer or sound recordist to create a show in reaction to these themes. Exploring a space or spaces they deem relevant through their own creative practice.

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.

This instalment is almost entirely hogged by a supposéd radio show broadcast by BBC Radio 4 that somehow plops the narrator's inner psyche onto the airwaves as part of its daytime drama entertainment scheduling. Featuring: frustration, shoplifting and things to confuse Ofcom.

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

This episode features field recordings and music curated and pieced together by artists Nyokabi Kariũki and Damsel Elysium.

In the first half of the show, prolific sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Nyokabi Kariũki weaves a varied selection of music from Kenyan artists in with recordings she’s captured across the country.

In the second, Damsel Elysium - whose singular creative practice has been turning heads in experimental music scenes and high fashion circles alike - takes us on a tour of London’s bustling streets and creative boundary-pushers.

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

In this episode, Dronica meets Edward Griffiths.

Edward Griffiths is a sound artist, and activist, bringing sonic exploration to dark and mysterious depths. The result of internal worlds leaking, intended to work externally as explorations of non-linear narratives and dimensions. This is a great journey, certainly a voyage.

There are parts of tracks from the last eight years of Edward's work, from every possible DAW and platform, from phone to coding. A mix of sonics, with pieces ranging from 8 bit processors to VST’s, field recordings, harmonicas, voices, a range of mics, a fair few collaborative elements regularly revisited by Edward. 

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

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Mukai Kyorai’s poem “lightning – / flashing in the east yesterday / and today in the west”.

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.

This episode features music from Forest Swords, El G, Daniel Padden, Iannis Xenakis, Muslimgauze, Kink Gong, Elodie, Anworth Kirk, Pierre Bastien and more.

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.

In this episode, a mixture of extracted sounds and music from all over the sphere. Materials used are listed below in order of appearance.

Radio Concrete by Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show which deals with live mixing and processing of field recordings together with radio broadcasting and concrete sounds. Fresh raw materials including everyday sounds, samples from tv & radio, news editions and advertisements are all gathered on a regular basis and then mixed together with live sources (FM and AM stations and other live online streaming sources) and objects (such as amplified/hacked toys).

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

This episode features a guest mix by musician and artist Richard Bundy.

“The result of all that came before, are we. Bound to a legacy of inherited trials and tribulations. Music shapes our space and time; dissolved within its solution, emotion, memory and magic. Transporting us, altering time; past, present and future. It looses us in a stream of forever; the now crumbles into what was and what could be.” – Richard Bundy

Injazero Records founder Siné Buyuka plays a selection of electronic, experimental, ambient and contemporary classical tracks.

In this episode, a selection of amazing upcoming and recent releases plus some sound memories recorded (or listened) to at home and on the way home.

This is an introduction to a mix that is going to be released soon via MNEMOSYNE, a mix series dedicated to memory. This is just an extract of a very personal archive of memories.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

The first hour of this episode features tracks from within the inner orbit of the Spirit of Gravity Collective – a selection of artists from Brighton UK, including the new Slightly Off Kilter compilation: Dulcet Business News 3. The second hour starts with a formidable new Dhangsha set recorded live at The Spirit of Gravity in November 2022, and continues with tracks from our friends Gorgonn, Ninit & Jilk, and Darren Harper.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

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.

Btech and Eman Resu of Superfluid present sound, music, noise along with all their sources via talk, fiction and truth.

SubPhonics have been working with artist and performer Uli Ap for the latest installation of her Alien AI project. In this episode, hear some sounds we used in our the performances on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th of January at Ugly Duck!

As always if you’d like to get in contact with us for collaborations, performance or recording opportunities, or just to say hi, please email hello@subphonics.com

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