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In this episode, Emily Bick plays Shellac, Earth Ball, Tomeka Reid Quartet, Sisso & Maiko, Robyn Rocket, and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode features music by NIMH, Helecho Experimentar, David Lee Myers, DBC-Unit, Mario Lino Stancati, The Great Old Ones, Mario Guida and Hans Castrup.

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

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.

This episode celebrates the pending release of Iranian composer Ava Rasti's powerful album Ginestra, which is out on Friday.

We also delve into Mute Frequencies' forthcoming Svalbard Soundtracks, which re-imagines the aural world of three silent documentaries about this remote archipelago.

My new album Fever Dreams on Mana Records gets a spin, and we dip into Cath Roberts collaborative work ahead of her gig with Graham Dunning at TACO gallery this Thursday.

Bill Thompson destroys a mini disc and we close with Blanc Sceol's beautiful new release Orbit which features a self-built spinning instrument on Otoroku.

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

In this episode, sound artist Leonel Vásquez and researcher Lisa Blackmore navigate the Bogotá River in Colombia through a more-than-human song created together with the living forces that shape the watershed’s ecosystems.

Loaded with chemicals and sewage along its course, the river is largely devoid of the fish and freshwater crustaceans that for thousands of years teemed in its waters. People have turned their backs on the water body, even though it was once the centre of collective life.

How might listening to the river’s song renew bonds of relation and reverence for water in dis-enchanted times? Guided by Leonel’s compositions, River Song, Singing Rivers is sonic immersion that attends to the Bogota rivers bogs, meanders, and flows as a living being worthy and in need of care.

Lisa Blackmore is founder-director and curator of entre—ríos, exploring continuities between bodies of water, human bodies and territories, recognising rivers as active subjects. Lisa is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies and is the author of publications like Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space and Visuality in Venezuela 1948-1958 (2017), and co-editor of Hydrocommons Cultures: Art, Pedagogy and Care Practices in the Americas (LA ESCUELA__JOURNAL, 2024) and Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art (2020).

Leonel Vásquez is a Colombian sound artist exploring non-human sonic agencies: waters, trees, rocks... living and vibrant materials. Their interests include underwater noise, geo-resonances, relational listening, and vibroacoustics of planetary well-being. They have worked with the National Radio of Colombia, Ministry of Culture, and as a teacher of sound art at the University of Los Andes.

entre—ríos explores continuities between bodies of water and human bodies, recognising rivers as active subjects producing aesthetic forms and shaping memory. They believe in artistic practices as catalysts for collaborative experiments connecting us to the environment. Their practice traces hydrographies rendering borders porous, creating shared territories. They put into circulation ways of knowing and feeling bodies of water through creative methodologies and flow systems that create deltas of knowledge where arts and sciences, communities and institutions meet. Their project, **RÍO BOGOTÁ&&, connects community initiatives in one of Colombia's polluted rivers through culinary encounters and publications.

Collective Werebere focuses on communication and expressions between the human and natural world, based on the study of different bodies and their sounds. They have conducted research on resonance phenomena and subtle landscape signals. They lead the High Mountain Listening Station project, a space for contemplation and well-being practices towards the body and Sumapaz páramo territory.

A six-part series by Meira Asher and Stephen Shiell exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist or group who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio.

This episode features work by Production Unit, Orrest, Poe Sullard aka Megaheadphoneboy, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Illuha & Taylor Deupree, Gramm, Pessimist, DJ Topgear, Convoi Exceptionnel, Donato Dozzy, Kӣr, Tapenoise, Nam June Paik and Arseny Avraamov.

An immersive psychosonic space, where sounds converse, collide and converge, featuring works, selections, edits, experiments, new music, non-music, archival objects, abstract artefacts, sound(system) and A/V art, pop, trash, noise, voice, and the associated mediums, processes and techniques that make up the ongoing audial investigations of Agents of the Culture Industry & OVT, all presented for art not profit.

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.

A monthly collection of audio experiments and listening objects with sound artist Matt Burnett from Berlin.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.

Tim Shaw is a sound artist based in North East of England - he gave me access to field recordings he's made in and around River Tyne in the North East of England over the last 12 months - I've mixed an hours worth of material that offers a slow meditation on this once busy and heavily industrialised river.

It presents a dense portrait of marginalised and liminal spaces along, in and on the river. On board dredgers, underneath bridges and down manholes Tim used hydrophones, contact mics, electromagnetic pick ups and more traditional sound recording. Much of this material was used in collaboration with film maker Leah E Millar for her 16mm film Un.s.scene.

The Tyneside Sounds Society is a monthly broadcast dedicated to the recording and reinterpretation of the sonic environment and sound heritage of Tyneside in the North East of England.

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

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.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Tan Taigi’s poem “The cormorant in the forest; / The cherry blossoms / Along the evening path”.

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 three pieces recorded recently with Ori Shechter.

Ori Shechter is a poet and musician based in Tel Aviv, who makes use of his voice in combination with homemade effects units, audio signal generators and other objects.

Along with him, I’m improvising using a live radio, synthesizers, feedback and amplified toys.

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.

This episode of Third Space was created by Ekin Fil (Istanbul) and Yuting Wu (Beijing).

The first half of the show captures the sounds and music of a daytime in and around Istanbul. Including the areas Kadıköy, Acıbadem, Yenikapı, Eminönü, Sirkeci, Kabataş and Beyoğlu, as well as Darıca where Fil’s family lives on the border of the city.

In the second half of Third Space, Yuting Wu takes us around Beijing from the perspective of an outsider in the city. The first part of the mix emphasises the typical impressions of Beijing: the public transportation, the crowds, the opera, along with a street musician playing saxophone in the park. Beneath these surface impressions, Wu explores the disappointment that accompanies living in such a city as an outsider where dreams and ambitions often go unfulfilled.

Artwork is by Max Howarth.

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, Zu From All Over celebrates her love of pro-wrestling by marking out over the best hardcore, metal, and badass entrance themes to hit the ring to.

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.

Time flies - in this episode, it's the final studio studio session for the album Is Under Location Surfaces! Plus, what might have been a deep listening mix gets sidetracked into computer music beats territory, with everything from LSD Dream Emulator to Big Stick to Mark Fell.

A 16-episode bi-weekly series alternating new and unheard live sounds from Trash Panda QC with DJ selections and guests.

This series for Resonance Extra is the first time much of the label's catalogue has been available to hear outside of its material form. It accepts the invitation by Resonance on the basis that none of these sounds are stored. If you want to hear it you need to be able to access the radio at midnight BST every Thursday.

Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Frans Zwartjes & Lodewijk de Boer + The Frans Zwartjes Sound System's Masterpiece / Spectator (001).

purge.xxx releases music. It has been celebrated by The Wire magazine for its ‘disregard for the music industry, self-promotion and prevailing cultural norms,’ and an ‘ability to elevate distinct works and the obscure artists behind them.’ purge.xxx only releases music physically, unless a digital alternative has specifically been requested by a collaborating artist. It considers even the recording a compromise, but advocates things.