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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 features a focus on The Morphodelic Organ Music Of Michael Bonaventure (Scotland), with music by Vince Sangiorgio, R. Ambriz- A. -F Jacques, David Strother, ARCtemp, Dead Space Chamber Music, Jarl, Michael Bonaventure, Luiz Henrique Yudo, ÄÄNIMIELI, Dimitris Savva and Harrison & Dunkley.

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.

A special hour-long mix by the US composer Cody Yantis is the feature of this episode. This mix focuses on the music which inspired his recent album Opticks. We also play one of the two long pieces from Manja Ristic's brand new album Ma.

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.

Intertwining themes of motivations and justifications form the central nervous ganglia of this instalment.

Loosen your tolerance threshold and listen in, as some of the loose ends regarding the new genre 'creepbeat' (introduced previously) are tied up, followed by rantings at the TV, then a phone call of dubious audio quality is received from a friend who formerly worked at Oxford Street's HMV where a strange diary was discovered inside an abandoned bungalow on the roof of the iconic music store.

If the aforementioned has not whetted appetites, meat is provided in the form of reports of Pure Volunteering workplace trespass incidents. Pure Volunteering is a mode of work which mocks the divide between the employed and unemployed, causing untold fuss.

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.

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.

Experimentation and collaboration with Esmé and Avel of ATATA, a vessel for live and recorded music.

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

In this special broadcast, live recordings from Naviar's 2024 tour in Japan, featuring performances by Hirotaka Shirotsubaki, Eugene Nx, Hideo Nakasako, Molder, 2o2, and cryxuss.

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.

Emerging from a collaborative process during a series of shared sessions, Penumbra comprises improvised music and sound structured by a score composed of video and lighting elements. Commissioned by Outlands, the project took take shape over a series of live shows in spring 2024.

Resonance Extra broadcasts live from London's Ormside Projects as part of Outlands Network's current UK tour with Penumbra, an experimental performance created by vocalist Dali de Saint Paul, electronic composer and double bassist Maxwell Sterling, and visual artists Charlie Hope and Rebecca Salvadori. Plus support from Kenichi Iwasa. The event is also available to watch live.

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 Jason Richardson’s poem “stars on the pond... / again the pitter-pattering / freezing drizzle”.

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 The Renshaws; Higher Ground Studios.

Field Notes

Side A - Up Side

The Renshaws Minjerriba Retreat; Birds; The Running Bath; Chanelle Sings A Long Way From Home; Heavy Electric Guitar Riff In D; Island Frogs and Crickets; Daybreak Birds; Drone Loops; Delays; Vocal Loops; Open Atmosphere Guitar Loops; Steel Rings.

Side B - Down Side

Cassette Tape Deck; Guitar Loops in (Malady) G; Vocal; Birds; Pause - Resume.

From the Archive: ISLAND SIX A and ISLAND SIX B; Joe & chanelle were visiting artists at the The Renshaw Gallery Residency and Minjerriba Retreat, November to December 2022.

The Minjerriba Retreat is located 30km east of Brisbane on Minjerriba (North Stradbroke Island), the 2nd largest sand island in the world. Home to the indigenous Quandmooka people, Minjerriba is also rich in flora and fauna including rare and endangered animals. The residency is a two bedroom family holiday shack. Artists are invited to stay without working as a respite from demands of running an art practice.

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 month, we speak to producer, DJ and designer Mehmet Aslan on his radio project Music For Books: an evolving, ever-inventive platform examining the listener relationship to reading through curated personal soundtracks. Each episode invites the audience to imagine different ways of thinking about sound and literature, and we’re delighted to present two episodes here – the first concerning ‘A Wandering Poem‘ by Christian Marques and Angharad Hengyu Owen, and a second based upon ‘Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates‘ by Tom Robbins.

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, five record labels. Five sets. Five songs. Eric plays some new and recent releases from five of today’s best punk labels.

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.

In this episode: soft sonic sensations come your way, with woozy lullabies and percussive plonks, to soak ears and awaken the senses. This month Foldable Sounds mix indulges in conversation with Joseph Bradley-Hill, London based curator, designer and founder of experimental music and art collective Late Works. We first discuss what drew Joe to Sound, and their journey from studying Graphic Design to leading collaborative audio-visual events, touching on Late Works and the origins of the name.

Exploring Late Works’ presence on air, we discuss the capacity of radio to draw communities together: the challenges and joys of working in such a medium. Later we talk curating sonic works, touching on the potential of collaboration, as well as thoughts for the future as we move through physical, in-real-life circles once again.

The Foldable Sounds Collective presents Foldable Soundbath. The collective formed during the April 2020 lockdown and is composed of three artists: Daniela Maria Geraci, Lucy Rose Cunningham and Isabelle Pead. Individually dealing with sound as an archival, performative and narrational tool, collectively they interrogate sound’s potential to sonically transport the imagination outside one’s four walls, drawing on a global need for freedom of movement.

Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Chaos Lure Us: Films by Susu Laroche (2010​–​2021) by Susu Laroche.

Films made by Susu Laroche between 2010 and 2021 remastered and collected together for the first time. These films include original music by Laroche and Schtinter and performances from Blackhaine, Adam Christensen, New Noveta and many others.

numbered + handmade in an edition of 33 copies only; 16-pp+ xerox-printed booklet containing original contributions from subjects, collaborators and bystanders: Joe Brace, Reba Maybury, Shola von Reinhold, Stanley Schtinter; no digital.

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.