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This episode hosted by new presenter Caroline Whiteley features new and unreleased tracks by A Song For You, Beings, Lamusa II, Emma DJ, HTRK, Iceboy Violet and Nueen, Enji, KMR & KMRU, Valentina Magaletti and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode features new music by arcane device, Michael Grunditz, Noise For No One, oubys, Sanctuary, Tsath and Zabbaleen.

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

FUNKT offered 53 hours of electronic music and sound art from Cologne: computer music... self-invented instruments... DIY electronics... radio play... sound art... noise... data sonification... field recordings... radio art... sound studies... historical anchor points... niches... insider tips... different generations of Cologne's electronic + sound art landscape... join our music discovery journey... Full details, line-up and updates: 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, our first in three years, features an extended interview with academic and artist Mark Peter Wright whose book Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice probes the ethical implications and erasures at the centre of constructions of field recording.

We discuss the silence of the recordist, encounters with more than human subjects, how the 'field' is configured and the entanglement of field recording technologies with environmentally and economically extractive processes.

The Field Recording Show is a programme exploring the soundscape, recording, listening and composing hosted by Kate Carr and Luca Nasciuti.

Embarking on a journey along hydrobodies - from the deep ocean’s abyssal planes all the way through the Mississippi river, outwards into Indonesian tropical rainforests – Sonic Traces expands on my personal inquiries and journey as an activist and researcher. It sets out to expose how the traces of pollution - be they sonic or chemical - travel through watery spaces, impacting communities across ecosystems. Taking the form of a speculative dérive, it includes field recordings, poetry, field notes, and philosophical wonders.

I address research developed in the Lower Mississippi river petrochemical corridor, North Kalimantan in Borneo island, as well as introduce my practice as an activist concerned with deep sea mining and the impacts of ocean noise. I enquire how the water column is affected by chemical particles circulating through it, as new industries arise and expand from the seabed outwards towards land, tracing some of the cumulative impacts of human presence, while raising awareness into how one is embedded in wider webs of ecosystemic exchange.

For what if one were set to understand watery systems in novel ways that reorganize how one senses and partakes in the world?

Expanding on how traces bear witness to past actions and leave an intergenerational imprint, I explore the complex condition of partition-thinking in natural worlds, problematising human-centric ideas of containment and fixity, in otherwise fluid and interconnected spaces. By doing so, I expand on our conceptualisation of space and corporeality to introduce new perspectives on environmental thinking.

Margarida Mendes is a researcher, curator, artist and educator, exploring the overlap between systems thinking, experimental film, sound practices and ecopedagogy. She creates transdisciplinary forums, exhibitions and experiential works where alternative modes of education and sensory practices may catalyse political imagination and restorative action.

Mendes has long been involved in anti-extraction activism collaborating with marine NGOs, Universities, and institutions of the art world. She holds a PhD in Research Architecture by the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London and is a member of Natural Contract Lab, a transdisciplinary collective of lawyers and artists working on restorative justice and rights of nature across Europe.

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.

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.

In this episode: a love letter to pedagogy, alphabets, abjabs, syllabaries and also that time Usher went on Sesame Street, featuring Arabic, Tuvan, Inuktitut, Finnish, Mongolian, Bulgarian, Hopi, English, Colville-Okanagan Salish, Klallam and Māori music, not necessarily in that order.

With grateful respect to the elders of those nations and tribes keeping tongues burning, and the youth who learn.

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.

This episode: Tone Generation.

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.

Chopwell is an isolated rural village in West Gateshead with a really interesting heritage. Enduring bitter 50 mph winds and below freezing wind chill TSS venture out to unearth the occult sounds of Anglo Saxon burial mounds and explore the communist roots of this erstwhile industrialised Tyneside village. Less slow radio and more of a sludge sonic escapade - Thanks to Chopwell residents John & Nina who served as our guides and Tim Shaw for the sonic paranormal investigative apparatus.

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 Nakamura Kusatao’s poem “Face of the winter pond / doesn't reflect / even a leaf.”

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 a garden by the lea, the space between two rain showers slows time for snails to sound.

Score & alto saxophone: Artur Vidal. Clarinet: Stephan Barrett. Sonic clouds: Adam Kinsey.

Mémoire Imagination is part of an ongoing series of slow improvisations that often take place outdoors. The music is set to the pace of breathing cycles to allow time for observing musicians’ internal and external sonic environment. Beatings, unisons, harmonics, chords, microtones, dissonances and multi-phonics may occur.

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.

This show was created by Sunna Margrét (Lausanne) and multimedia artist, Anna Clegg (London).

Margrét’s half of the show, “Lullabies of Lac Léman”, brings together intimate sound recordings and music written by friends and musicians from her neighbourhood in Lausanne. The resulting mix is a captivating glimpse into a thriving art community that has been built on the banks of Lac Léman.

In the second half of the show, Clegg weaves together a personal archive of material spanning from late 2017 to the present day recorded in galleries, cinemas, clubs, bedrooms and buses throughout London.

In her own words: “Seldom used to record directly, my recording device was held outside windows, behind doors or at the back of the room as a DJ played at the front. Caught somewhere between fantasy, impression and occasional embodied reality (there are multiple interferences in the form of my own nervous laugh), the recordings attempt to present a version of time that is malleable, elastic.”

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, Dani shares some working class and revolutionary tracks from iconic oi! and street punk bands from the past four decades.

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.

As this series moves into its final month, things stay chaotic with a freeform mix of singeli, noise, and techno variants, featuring everything from Sisso to Lightning Bolt to Ikue Mori.

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 Carles Santos's Vampir​-​Cuadecuc.

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.