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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 music by M. V. West, R. Ambriz- A. -F Jacques, P. Petit & M. Schaffer, JS Horseman, Loo(p)cy, Archaic Experimentations, D. L. Myers, M.L. Stancati, Sigillum S, Mortar Devotions, LLS & The X.

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.

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!

According to the show's creator, some broadcasters choose to distort the voices of unfavourable participants in political panel shows to discredit their arguments. Chunk fifteen of Asphyxia begins with a sonic rumination on this legend.

Creepbeat continues to be deployed apace, and a return to the bookshop heralds preparation for the imminent Saatchi Gallery bookfair which has as its theme 'banned books' - a possible ruse to draw dangerous rarities out the woodwork for later destruction, or a scheme to blackmail bookdealers too-versed-in-secrets with the threat of 'cancellation', as they unwittingly platform edgelords and fin de siècle Parisian filth(?).

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.

This episode features three new LPs of Brazilian experimental music. Negro Leo's Coisado is a soundtrack of an exhibition about German poet Hubert Fichte, who lived in Brazil during the 80’s. The third volume of Oco series with guitar player Marcos Campello and experimentalist J.-P. Caron. And Tapetes, a collaboration between Ricardo De Carli and Diego Dias released by Mansarda Records.

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 Mukai Kyorai’s poem “autumn wind... / I am stringing / a plain-wood bow”.

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.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

• audio / visual decomposer Lepke B posits the question - "How will we live in the 21st Century?"

In this episode we speak to baroque pop pianist and composer Laura McGarrigle, otherwise known as Gaze is Ghost. following her recent singles Wild Geese / Feather & Bone, and preceding new album Lapis Cobalt Indigo Blue. Her recent collaboration with poet Nikki Marrone, Lifelines, is given its full-length radio debut.

The latter half of the show collects together left-field pop gems, jazz and sound collages from some of our favourite artists, friends and associates. Presented by Theresa Elflein and Wesley Freeman-Smith.

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, Zu From All Over witnesses a murder in her own apartment while she celebrates her 2nd annual Murderween Party, with the best horrorpunk, post-punk, and deathrock to calm the chaos and embrace the fear.

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.

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 Frans Zwartjes.

Frans Zwartjes’ studio remains untouched since his passing in 2017. In early 2023, we returned to the studio and discovered a trunk of unlabelled 3/4 inch tapes, containing completely unheard music by Zwartjes. These works, largely synthesiser-based improvisations for films either unmade or unfinished, were played and recorded by Zwartjes between the late 1960s, through his most fertile filmmaking period in the 1970s, and continuing in to the early 1980s.

Unlike his previous releases, these recordings have been transferred directly from the original source tapes, newly mastered and available to hear for the first time as a double LP release. A comprehensive new interview with TRIX Zwartjes, the life-partner and collaborator of FRANS is included in a booklet accompanying every copy of the record.

numbered + handmade in an edition of 300 copies only; 180gr 2xLP 12” vinyl in custom-made screen-printed outer (sealed), with an eight-page xerox-printed booklet containing an interview with Trix Zwartjes and lots of previously unseen photographs from the Zwartjes family albums; no digital - special edition of 5 copies only

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.