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Tonight: exploring human rituals - both intentional and unintentional - always repetitive and rhythmic. Playlist features songs from Moondog, Alvin Lucier, The Focus Group, Chassol, Loud Neighbor, and Ryoji Ikeda.

Said the sky to the moon, shall we do a dance? I'll wait for you to make the move but please don't wait until you hear - the sound below the atmosphere. Ceylan Göksel and Sami Fitz reach subliminal heights with genre-busting spoken word, ambient textures, sound sculptures, and a different theme every show. We wish you a good night.

This episode focuses on Ibukun Sunday (Nigeria), and features music by Carlos Suárez Sanchez, Deison, Hypercube, Cadlag, Rapoon, Sonologyst, Howlround, Grey Frequency, Marie W. Anders and 0.7647.

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.

In this episode we delve into two upcoming releases: Bells: the gauzy glockenspiel experiments from Broken Chip, AKA Martyn Palmer, who is based in the Blue Mountains in Australia, and Homework, an intriguing collaboration between Londoner Matt Atkins and Italian composer MonoLogue (Marie Rose).

Martyn opens the show and talks us through his process in making Bells. We also hear from Matt Atkins who discusses the alchemical and improvisatory processes which went into his collaboration with Marie Rose.

We dip into Nichola Scrutton's new release Night Vision which is based on a practice of semi-conscious writing, enjoy Manja Ristic's special sniffing rock in Croatia and join Colombian composer David Veléz as he does the dishes.

The second half of the show is a beautiful mix by Martyn Palmer of music which inspired his forthcoming album Bells.

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.

Considerable efforts were expended on this ninth episode to disguise the identity of a veteran secretmonger who pays a visit to the basement antiquarian bookshop where hesitant steps in unravelling the British Library's Suppressed Safe are under way.

Ferreting around, a rare book is discovered which would be dodgy to mention in this blurb. Quite a boring episode if you're not interested in this sort of thing.

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 TVO, Spatial, Agents of the Culture Industry, John Coltrane, Delia Derbyshire, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Benjamin Zephaniah, Dean McPhee, Alva Noto, Disinformation & Savion Glover, Dadavistic Orchestra, Alexander Tillegreen, hoodie x James K, Cabaret Voltaire, Burning Woman, sideb0ard, Nivhek, Pantea, Mücha, Jo Johnson, JP Hartnett, Slavoj Žižek & Frank Sin'AI'tra

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:

"i am reading from 'The Secret Revelation of John' by Karen L. King. was given this book and plunged in..to the two available translations printed across from eachother from da Berlin Codex, differing slightly. i m reading both I.II. versions out loud, left one first, then the right one, sentence by sentence, till page 49.

have a look at the writing below if you want to know about the context of The Secret Revelation Of John, but i believe it comes across anyway. i loved it. picking up on the many 'intriguing-but-confusing ideas' and the overt criticism of patriarchy ofc. as for aeons the meaning of it invites to enquire about temporalities and timespans, linking this back to the suspension the world is experiencing now.. . for me, really its a question about whether there is any light and if so whether the varying interpretations provide any solace."

Lost in antiquity, rediscovered in 1896, and only recently accessible for study, The Secret Revelation of John offers a firsthand look into the diversity of Christianity before the establishment of canon and creed. Karen L. King offers an illuminating reading of this ancient text--a narrative of the creation of the universe and humanity and a guide to justice and salvation, said to be Christ's revelation to his disciple John.

Freeing the Revelation from the category of "Gnosticism" to which such accounts were relegated, King shows how the Biblical text could be read by early Christians in radical and revisionary ways. By placing the Revelation in its social and intellectual milieu, she revises our understanding of early Christianity and, more generally, religious thought in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Her work helps the modern reader through many intriguing--but confusing--ideas in the text: for example, that the creator god of Genesis, a self-described jealous and exclusive god, is not the true Deity but a kind of fallen angel; or, in an overt critique of patriarchy unique in ancient literature, the declaration that the subordination of woman to man was an ignorant act in direct violation of the "holy height."

In King's analysis, the Revelation becomes not strange but a comprehensible religious vision--and a window on the religious culture of the Roman Empire. A translation of the complete Secret Revelation of John is included.

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.

Un/natural Field Recordings//Natural Overdubs is a workshop which utilizes urban, architectural, and natural spaces as both a source for cultivating and processing/re-recording sound. This workshop is open to artists of any level of experience with sound, who work in a various mediums including: dance, visual art, sound art, experimental music, performance, etc; who are interested in experimenting with sound.

Un/natural Field Recordings / Natural Overdubs: Workshop Vol.2 is the second instalment of the workshops at Liebig 12, which began in March of this year. Participants from the previous workshop are very welcomed to attend, as well as new participants. Rather than continuing where we left off in March, we will begin anew: approaching established and newly proposed ideas, techniques, and methods.
Here is a link to Liebig 12
Un/natural Field Recordings / Natural Overdubs: Workshop Vol.2 is a project of william “bilwa” costa

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.

This episode features the albums Juçara Marçal & Cadu Tenório: Anganga (2015; QTV/Sinewave, Brazil), Lucas: Panasonic (2017; Seminal, Brazil), Noturno Deposits Vol. I (compilation) (2017; Meia Vida, Brazil) and G. Paim: Sharpest Knife (2017; Subsubtropics, Brazil).

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 Tachibana Hokushi’s poem “I write, erase, rewrite / erase again, and then / a poppy blooms”.

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.

Joe and Chanelle’s audio recordings encompass ambient sounds, conversation, experimental composition and improvised instrumental response. Cassette drones, loop pedals, voice and guitar are used to echo, mimic or bend over bird calls, thunderstorms, night sounds, indistinguishable chatter, museum reverberations and urban movement. These moments captured to tape are presented in two halves as an A-side/B-side format.

Enriched by visual counterpoints for each episode, Bruna’s critical eye forms an ambiguous tonal narrative from Jake's method of stumbling into excellence. Mountain, valley, glacier, and urban horizon are presented in stereo format, to parallel the A-side/B-side format.

This program has been made on the stolen lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, we pay respect to the Elders both past and present.

Project lead and sound by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. Creative direction by Bruna Volpi. Photography by Jake Terrey.

Supported by Higher Ground Studios, Annandale.

Field Notes

Side A - Urgently

Field recording of European museum with morning birds and amplifier feedback from guitar; complaints from Mum about washing clothes in the copper; undulating chords with vocal and crickets from Bundanon; pitch alteration on octave pedal; drone and feedback over museum sounds and harmonics in E major followed by a riff in E minor, ‘Heart Starts Beating Too Fast’.

Free Love: “A language that demands, urgently and violently: care. A generative exchange and agency in labour. A criticality through care, using play. A position that can be both active in participation and maintain the potential to deactivate, become divested. Doing something nice, flying a kite, or having a picnic. Just looking to be invited to converse, an extension of love to collapse two worlds; work and life.

Catered for by massive failure as a means of opening. Doing over making to relocate the work to the action. Relocating the site of art to the body and the use of time. A revolutionary release of time through play as resistance. Constructed relationships, situations, with an emphasis to act freely; to resist the positions of interest. A domain of emancipation and kinship for a subjective body." - Joe

Side B - Violently

Field recording of a visit to Palais Tokyo followed by a drone melody malady in G major with lead guitar; feedback with studio improvements such as making a shelf using a timber router, with museum crowd both clean and distorted; continuing drone sounds; crowds under compressed guitar handling and amp noise followed by chords with feedback; storm outside the studio and gallery opening night crowds.

A Lover’s Cheekbone: “A play that happens to be naturally abrasive to the system. It scratches against the sides on its way past. Maybe doing a bit of damage in the process of making contact. Not adversarial. It just doesn’t stay in its lane or conform to the right shape. Joyful and harsh. Always making a play for a kind of loving 'fuck you', full of intimacy and without concern for any consequence but enjoyment, kinship, friendship, comradery, the gang, the good life, the game.

A hypothetical but actually used playing field not made of spite or hate or jealousy. There are no sour grapes growing here. Just the things we do that happen to be antithetical to the status quo: hard work. The lazy artist. The drinking artist. The joker. The lark. All resistant. Revolutionaries even, if given enough purpose, and against the machine simply for not being welcome in its workings.

Not in protest, just not still enough to remain squarely in an assigned place. That place, comfortable to others, that is easily read. Forever willing to deploy a playful elbow to a ‘lover’s’ cheekbone to guard that sensitive spot, to avoid the grabbing of an unsuspecting nerve, a flinch in defense of submission, sometimes leaving a bruise, a wound, but necessary just the same. 'I will not show my belly if you will not show yours'. Not even for the promise of a kiss.” – Chanelle

Sounds (guitar, vocals, samples and pedals) by Joe and Chanelle. Oral storytelling by Jenny Magrath. Router sounds by Oliver Wagner

This episode was a cassette recording presented as 1 of 10 tapes for the Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (VAEF), with Artspace, Sydney. Presented in partnership with National Art School Gallery, curated by Scott Elliot, Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch.

A monthly programme which blends textured audio from cassette recordings by Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier with tonal imagery by Bruna Volpi and Jake Terrey. Sound engineering by Ollie Brown.

This episode features location-centred mixes from Berlin-based sound artist Marta Forsberg and Poznań-based composer and sound engineer Aleksandra Słyż.

The show focuses on music from each city, but also nods to the interconnectedness of different music scenes and identities. Although now based in Berlin, Marta is of Swedish-Polish heritage and Aleksandra has lived and worked in both Poznań and Stockholm. Nods to these connections can be heard throughout.

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 and Michael From The North Bay record an impromptu set in the car on their way up to Olympia Washington, with the best Indie Slacker Punk, Lo-Fi Chaos, and relentless DIY Ethos to guide the way.

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 Blight by Jocelyn Pook.

Jocelyn Pook had composed and recorded only one film score before she was commissioned by STANLEY KUBRICK for Eyes Wide Shut - and that was Blight by John Smith. Newly remastered, the soundtrack is presented here in full for the first time, with an additional track composed by Pook (revisited and extended for this release): Tango with Corrugated Iron.

This record has been produced to coincide with John Smith: Introspective (1972, the most complete survey of his film work to date, presenting 50 films from a 50-year career. Introspective will launch at the ICA on October with Pook and Smith in conversation, and a music-themed film programme.

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