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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 new music by Sunrise Syndrome, Castrup & Emerge, Vrystaete21, SÍLENÍ, Yousef Kawar, [ówt krì], Michael Bonaventure, Paolo L. Bandera, and Markus Breuss.

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!

This sixteenth chunk of Asphyxia broadly explores audio cassette tapes as a means of transmitting ideas. It contains a manifesto on 'pure volunteering', i.e. an act whereby involuntarily unemployed aspirants forcibly employ themselves by gatecrashing workplaces.

A lost micro-cassette phone recording (yielded during a bin dive) of wildlife expert Chris Packham discussing wood mice with a tabloid reporter is digitised and archived in a guerrilla pure volunteering trespass at an unnamed recording facility. The illegality of pure volunteering lends it an inadvertent thrill, portrayed here in breathless commentary and nibbled process.

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, Theo Sayers is joined by experimental singer-songwriter Michael Tequila, playing an eclectic selection of tracks from the likes of Suicide, Nick Cave and Elza Soares.

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Electronic musician Theo Sayers transports listeners with a mix of electronic, ambient, spiritual and new age music.

Communiques from Thanet Tape Centre, Hard drive sludge. audio tidal pools. Music sediment. Friends utterances, sea walls of noise, salt marsh drone.

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 episode, sound art and music exploring physical materials from ceramics, wood and metal to entire building structures, each work bringing inventive methods to draw out the sonic complexity and musicality latent within.

Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts is a London-based sound art collective presenting new sound works, performances and discussions.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

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 Natsume Sōseki’s poem “Fog clears away: / the waterfall shows up / bit by bit”.

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.

In this episode: contemporary music, experimental & everyday sounds. Composed using the following: Room To Land by Tim Daisy & Ikue Mori, La Chicle En La Boca by Three Bulb Cyclist, Mammoth Conglomerate by Moses & Blue, Totokia by Glia, Che Guevara UN 1964, Forcing Air Down a Small Pipe by Dirch Blewn, Blue - Thing Music by Erin Demastes and Everything Is Ridiculous by Andrew Hamilton.

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.

Presented by Theresa Elflein and Martin Clarke, this month we speak to Kodian Trio and duo Marco Scarasssatti and Abdul Moimême about their recent / upcoming releases on OEM Records. Venturing outside, we explore the necessity of solitude and profundity of nature through Katie O’Neill‘s meditative sound-poem ‘Message Green’. The latter half of the show is an eclectic mix dedicated to European and South African sounds; avant-pop, found sounds and jazz, alongside other enticements from across the musical spectrum.

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 celebrates Halloween with horror punk and other spooky tunes.

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.

It’s spring time and we’re finally feeling the rays on our faces. Take a dip in this month’s Soundbath on Resonance extra, with a light shower of ambient electronic and soft vocals, drifting around a beautiful chat with multidisciplinary artist and Foldable Sounds day 1 trooper, Elena Lo Presti.

Foldable Sounds’ Daniela Maria Geraci shares in a moving conversation with the Italian, London-based artist, discussing her practice of ‘giving importance to the tiny things’ via ceramics, retelling generational stories and the proliferation of craft as an act of caregiving.

Recline, take a moment. This one’s a wild ride of emotions, so settle into these swirling depths.

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 Z32 / Between Fences by Noam Enbar : Avi Mograbi.

Noam Enbars original soundtrack scores for Avi Mograbi’s films Z32 (2008) and Between Fences (2016).

Z32: an Israeli soldier describes his participation in revenge operations against Palestinians; the director of the documentary film, Avi Mograbi, often appears on screen and breaks in to song.

Between Fences: Avi Mograbi and Chen Alon initiate a theatre workshop and improvised choir in Holot, a detention centre in the Israeli desert housing asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan who cannot return to their countries of origin. This edition features an extended recording of the choir.

numbered + handmade in an edition of 50 copies only with a specially commissioned text by Eyal Weizman, and the Hebrew song lyrics alongside new, English translations; no digital.

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 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.