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From the most abrasive to the unbelievably sublime, Hope Valley Cement Works attempts to curate a selection of experimental music and sounds, from collected field recordings and sound collages, to serene ambience, impressive drone and the odd deconstructed club track. A series by Kris Cooper.

Against the backdrop of Slovakia’s terrifying socio-political turmoil, this documentary radio piece explores Bratislava’s vibrant and courageous independent music and cultural scene and some of the community spaces in which it develops. Now they are facing their biggest challenge, to keep it alive and kicking.

We’ve been there (for the bad parts mostly), and we are still stuck there.

From Skopje to Bratislava, with love.

Recorded and edited by Gjorgji Janevski (summer 2024)
Additional interviews and recordings by Vid Bešter (Radio Študent)

Voices: Jonáš Gruska, Matúš Kobolka, Adela Mede, Poli, Daniel Vadas, Janneke Van Der Putten, Oliver from the garages, Olja Triaška Stefanović, Rozalia Vlaskova, Tomaš Hučko.

Music excerpts from Adela Mede, Bolka, Jonáš Gruska, Fissures, Patrick Balthrop, Rrrr

The publication of this article is part of PERSPECTIVES – the new label for independent, constructive, multiperspective journalism. The project PERSPECTIVES is being implemented by seven editorial teams from Central Eastern Europe under the leadership of the Goethe-Institut. The author of this article participated in the PERSPECTIVES Journalists-in-Residence Programme at the Goethe-Institut Bratislava.

Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

This episode features new and reissued music by Die Sonne Satans, Adriano Zanni, Leo Okagawa, vÄäristymä, Paolo L. Bandera, Capricorni Pneumatici and e.dulanowsky.

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.

Tam Lin opens this episode introducing their album bluelightnospaceflattime which comes out on Flaming Pines on June 14 2024.

We also dip into two other forthcoming releases: East by Fortresses, an EP which comes out of Sam Ashton's move from London to Portland, and an excerpt from Zippered Time, Winged Dialogue by the trio of David Birchall, Tullis Rennie and Kate Carr.

The final hour of the show is a special mix by Tam Lin of music which relates to the themes and compositional approach they took in bluelightnospaceflattime.

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.

Aspects of scuppered research continue to be explored ad nauseam in this fourteenth instalment of Asphyxia, in which the narrator yields to the drift of distractions like a carrier bag in the wind.

This episode boasts not one, but three difficulties: (1) The ongoing hum in the left-channel seemingly spreads to an audio repairperson's own left ear, (2) a fallen tree prompts consideration on the clichéd obstructiveness of those wooden timewasters, and (3) a newspaper report from over a decade ago - heavily critical of Pure Volunteering - is torn apart in still-burning righteous fury.

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.

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.

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 “Through a world of sound / the only filter I have / my discerning ear”.

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.

Littoral Transmissions come out in the wash.

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.

The first half of this episode is curated by sound and visual artist Olli Aarni, who brings together recordings of Helsinki's soundscape with a selection of music from other Finnish artists - including some previously unreleased tracks.

Olli's mix is followed by an hour of field recordings and local music chosen and mixed by Manchester-based sound artist, Hayley Suviste.

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, Jennifer plays lots of new releases.

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.

This month, Foldable Sound's Daniela had the mad pleasure of interviewing Maria Abramenko (@mariabramenko) - an independent curator and art writer for Nasty Magazine.

We touch on sound art and sound curation in a "contemporary art" context, and talk about Palermo Art Weekend’s first edition (@palermoartweekend), a programme of digital and sound art in Sicily’s capital curated by Maria herself, to which Daniela had the pleasure of co-curating the research programme along with Giulia Anselmo (giulia__an).

As usual, the mix is punctuated by our open call submissions along with two pieces from Palermo Art Weekend by Gili Lavy (@gili_lavy) and Cyphr (@cyphrrrr). It’s cold out, so buckle up, rig your speakers and wriggle south - deep into the Med.

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 Twenty​-​Four Hours by Stephen Watts.

Twenty-Four Hours is one of Stephen Watts’ earliest works, written in the mid-1970s but unpublished until 2022 (via Monitor & Prototype). A prose poem meditating on time, memory, and childhood, this live recording of Watts’ reading (35m) was made at the Steamship, Poplar (London), in September 2022.

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