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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 a focus on Somnimage label (United States), plus music by Wukir Suriyadi, Xerxes The Dark, C. Bocci & Smiltzo, Harrison and Dunkley, Burial Hex, Tukico, Farabi Toshiyuki Suzuki, Ryo Murakami, !calhau! & Sonologyst.

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.

From jet-lagged homesick soundscapes from Thailand, odes to strawberries and our lost seasons to music made out of a toilet plunger and the howls of seals this is a very jam-packed edition of Atmospheric Densities. Featuring new releases by more eaze, Gamardah Fungus and Liew Niyomkarn, a tribute to Ian Rawes in the form of his posthumous release From Dawn til Dust on Persistence of Sound.

We also give a big shout to Phil Maguire's Verz's label as it closes up shop by dipping into the label's final release by David Donohoe and David Lacey, dive into Cath Roberts piece on split via Fractal Meat Cuts. On the Flaming Pines side of things we mark the pending release of Kamran Arashnia's Bounds Elimination and dig a bit deeper into the forthcoming albums by Jonathan Higgins' and RUBBISH MUSIC.

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 fourth instalment of Asphyxia begins to interrogate the distractions which beset the British Library Suppressed Safe research.

By focussing and exploring the exact nature of the individual elements in the web of frustration, an experiment in 'drift' ensues, whereby any clues to possible research angles are gleaned, and synchronicities sought. Some brass bells are found in a bin, as well.

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.

In this episode, music and sounds by N:Mare / Datassette / Pessimist & Karim Maas / Dentistry / Batu / Martha Skye Murphy / Miles Tilmann / Ruaridh Law, Debbie Armour, James Papademetrie & Orphax / Max Roach / Disinformation / TVO / Tengui / Section 25 / Sex Worker / Mika Vainio / Goldie & Justina Curtis / Noam Chomsky vs Andrew Marr / AOTCI vs Production Unit / Alban Berg/Emanuele Arciuli / Hiroshi Yoshimura / Convoi Exceptionnel / Area / Akim Drml.

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.

This edition of Sonoridades is hosted once again by Portuguese sound artist Marco Alexandre. Marco is based in Porto and his work in centered around field recordings and sound art.

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.

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 Santoka Taneda’s poem “Stretching ahead - / the straight road, / loneliness.”

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.

Ilan Barkani is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, improviser and teacher, living and working in Jerusalem, a founding member of the artist collective Sedek, and a member of the interdisciplinary collaborative ensemble Ptilia.

"A geography of sound [...] is the geography of encounters, misses, happenstance and events: invisible trajectories and configurations between people and things, unfolding in the dimension of the actual while formlessly forming the dimensions of its possibility" – Salomé Voegelin, The Political Possibility of Sound

In this piece, called halls (joining), Barkani continues his exploration of combining field recordings and minimal/reductionist instrumentals, to compose and perform imagined, semi-coincidental, (what Voegelin calls) “impossible territories”.

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.

In this episode, we take the theme of beginnings, origins – artists and works that begin at home, in the family, or in birth. Through field recordings Broads explore the landscapes and history of their native county Norfolk.

Gaze is Ghost and poet Nikki Marrone debut new collaborations and discuss motherhood and creativity; and we welcome Alexander Carson performing in session live from his living room. Finally, longtime CL collaborator Derek Yau debuts his first solo record, ‘May’, out June 25th.

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.

In this episode, Dani drops the fast and hard hitting vehemence and indignation of Scandinavian punk and hardcore – with tracks from some of the classics and from the more obscure.

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 Winter Songs, Wedding Songs by by Mykolaiv Singers.

The announcement of this long in the making LP was hastened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. All previously unreleased in any form - spare a few tapes distributed in the Mykolaiv region - these are old, old songs (of winter, weddings, war, sex, bread) predominantly sung by groups of women, and all from the villages of Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Collected over the last decade by singer and ethnographer, Tetiana Chukno, the LP comes with a 20-page booklet containing the Ukrainian-language original lyric sheet for each song, along with its English translation: by Ksenia Ginchuk, and Stephen Watts & Stanley Schtinter.

Proceeds from the higher ‘support’ payment option will be sent immediately to the artists and translators in Ukraine responsible for the record. The ‘standard’ payment option covers only the record’s production costs.

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.