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Renowned Australian soundtrack theorist Philip Brophy presents 90 minutes of loud and luscious soundtrack dynamite! Across 13 episodes, he covers five strains of film music: Electronic Soundscapes; Big Beat Jive; Hard Rock Freak-Out; Funked-Up Grooves; and Atomic Atonality. In all cases, great tracks that speak for themselves!

This episode features music by Distant Fires Burning, cursed diamond, Teahouse Radio, IYv, KAZUYA ISHIGAMI, Lynne, MC LAS x ブドウフウセンホコリ, Of Sun And Rain and Internal Fusion.

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.

Excruciating nerve pain, giant's gardens, viking violins, an underwater city and the beauty of Australia's Blue Mountains all feature in this eighth episode of Atmospheric Densities which showcases work by the Texan composer Andrew Weathers, Finnish duo Vongoiva, Croatian composer Manja Ristic and Australia's Broken Chip among others.

We also focus on Liberty our fundraiser for Ukrainian artists and charities curated by Igor Yalivec which we were very proud to put out last week, and take a second listen to Timothy Fairless's magnificent Rising Water.

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.

This instalment contains opportunistic content made during a 'pure volunteering' trespass into an archival recording facility, where a vanishingly rare - possibly unique - acetate record (originally found in a bin) is digitised, cryptically titled Baz Kromagnum. Varying fidelity ensues.

Fittingly, this old record - nominally skiffle - sings of unresponsive culture, failed endeavour, and perseverance, heralding sympathetic elongated remixes, and philosophical enquiry on the nature of experiment, passion, presentation, and pratfall.

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 music by Guy Birkin, Ramleh, Tony Conrad, Akira Rabelais and more.

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.

Episode #1:

like sky like ocean

give me more of this highway and highrise

i can't be tracked on concrete

i cant' be tracked in the summer

i can't sing your anthem

i whistle monotone for your ears

my bandwidth is brittle and made of resin

too hairy to swallow

i rummage in eternity like plastic

water is my element

i m carried by the wind once dry

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 project is an ongoing internet collaboration curated by regina veldon. “Our parents told us to always remember home, the evening star” is a Facebook group. An internet mixtape.

Curator regina veldon writes:
“I discussed tonight the possibility of creating work based around the title ‘our parents told us to always remember home, the evening star’ and the image nasa released of earth as a bright, starlike object in the evening sky of mars.

The proposition, in more detail, is as follows:
The title of the works should be ‘our parents told us to always remember home, the evening star’
Artists are free to interpret the title and photograph any way they like
The works must be published by the artists themselves and each work must provide links back to the other works using the title so that we build up a web of links

The idea is to provide a hope for the future, to imagine the experiences of children born on a future mars colony.
The project is designed to extend past those invited and everyone who takes part is encouraged to ask others they know to produce their own work”

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.

Virgilio Oliveira explores the sonic environment in collaboration with Porto's Radio Manabras, presenting an hour of sound art and field recordings.

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

In this episode, Quintavant continues its series of concerts recorded during the Festival Novas Frequências, the seventh edition of which took place December in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This time: William Basinski: A Shadow in Time, recorded live in the Church of Carmo da Lapa; Marcos Campello, one of the greatest Brazilian guitar players that appeared last decade; and his last record, Onda de Beleza Natural. Plus two records released by Propósito Recs: Crunch Soar Rinse Repeat, Jonathan Gall’s new work and Armando Nascimento de Jesus, also known as “Fazedor de Presépio” with Xinelah dih Mankuh.

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 Jack Kerouac’s poem “The sound of silence / is all the instruction / you’ll get”.

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 is a mixture of field recordings, pieces from concerts in Israel, and two tracks: La Vierge et l'enfant by Olivier Messiaen played by Ferdinand Klinka and Patchwork by Laurie Spiegel.
Recordings also used from experimental music festival at Makhtesh Ramon (played by Yael Barolsky, Maaya Tzdaka and myself) and No-Instruments festival who took place in the Zimmer (together with Ori Schechter).

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.

The first episode in a series of recorded performances from our live score series, re-imagining scores for obscure and iconic animations. Featuring interviews with saxophonist and sound recordist Martin Clarke, and acclaimed vocal artist Ingrid Plum.

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.

Employment is the theme of this week’s episode, as Sam selects songs that speak to labour that does not work.

Sam’s Working to Work project explores the intersection of neurodivergence and work.

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.

Where the Dead Voices Gather is an indeterminate process driven radio experiment that uses the book 'Where The Dead Voices Gather' by Nick Tosches as its starting point.

Songs are chosen from a series of libraries based on the structure of a haiku. Each show has 17 songs / sounds therefore each show represents a sonic haiku.

Where the Dead voices gather is exploring the sonic potentials of written text and the indeterminate.

Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Revolutionary List (4) Venice Biennale by Museos de la Bomba e Soledad.

"Following the enormous success of the Revolutionary List at Glastonbury Festival in 2020 (purrrrrj004), the Museos Bomba and Soledad convened in Venice on April 23 in 2021, attending to each and every participating artist in the Biennale’s history. This double cassette release covers all of the names beginning with “A” and the sound of ‘the distant pipes’."

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.

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.