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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 RinniR, Kruip, Noise Cluster and Cristiano Bocci, Bestia Astrum, 400 Lonely Things, Mario Lino Stancati, rauðvik, Philippe Blache, Girotuna.

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!

"Nobody is entitled to simply walk into a business and work there. If there were no quality control safeguards in place, we would just have chaos." So grumbled some self-serving 'authority figure' circa 2012.

As if to wave a middle finger at the naysayers' edicts, the narrator continues to pursue 'pure volunteering', and interrogates concepts of "quality", "safeguards", "place", "have" and "chaos" via a palimpsest of found media, ranting, and cool, calculated disgrace.

Parallel to this, research continues into the contentious forbidden book, supposedly locked in the uncatalogued portion of the British Library's Suppressed Safe.

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 work by Production Unit, Orrest, Poe Sullard aka Megaheadphoneboy, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Illuha & Taylor Deupree, Gramm, Pessimist, DJ Topgear, Convoi Exceptionnel, Donato Dozzy, Kӣr, Tapenoise, Nam June Paik and Arseny Avraamov.

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.

In this programme, Chelplexx’s concert recorded last december at Festival Novas Frequências 2017, Rio de Janeiro. Chelplexx is a collaboration between multimedia trio Chelpa Ferro and Duplexx, a duo that combines synths and percussions. Following, Henrique Iwao's latest work, Coleções Digitais, which consists in audio collections of the recurrent gestures and motives in an artist output, selected and edited by the author from 2007 to 2017.

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 Masaoka Shiki’s poem “telegraph pole / toppled down by / the tempest”.

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

A X-Mas Party at The Renshaws 2022 - Cocktails and impromptu solo exhibition

Side A - Voices

RENSHAWS_2A: Click and crackle of tape deck, train/storm T Renshaws Gallery; recording inside the gallery residency apartment. fade in chords. chanelle vocal. Cockatoos. drone slow down. Storm white noise and museum crowd and oliver on studio workshop timber router. Train running behind gallery with guitar drone and feedback, bird calls and distorted voice. Guitar hook

Side B - Beasts

RENSHAWS_3B: Renshaws Residency Fortitude Valley Brisbane.Bundanon birds. Kookaburras. Guitar high notes. Harmonics. Joe guitar Em slide D, C riff and crickets and lead. Crickets and museum crowd. Train, bird, train, bird. Triangle car pool laughter. 10:00 guitar fade in drones and samples, kookaburra tape slow down.

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.

In the first half of this show, Melbourne-based producer Marara captures an impression of her city in her distinctive style of sonic collage; fragments of conversation, found sound, and a curated selection of music from the area come together to form a considered and tender portrait of life in Victoria's capital.

Hyperdawn take the reins for the second hour, with a mix of field recordings, music, and exclusive material that honours the full range of Manchester's vibrant character; flitting between the city's outer marshlands and its bustling centre, intimate home recordings and bass-driven productions.

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.

It’s all prole art threats on this week’s episode with Erika Elizabeth.

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: does music have to be serious? Does music have to be rational? Does music need to conform to the rules? According to contemporary postmodern artists, no.

Postnew is a modular theory, describing the fluid development of aesthetics. Every movement has a post-movement, every end is a beginning, every post-aesthetic will be followed by a post-post-aesthetic. Join the mailing list here.

Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Equinox of the Gods: The Kenneth Anger Files by Jarett Kobek.

How biographies could be collected and transmitted: Equinox... is a tribute; a binder-curio covering Kenneth Anger’s life and work, decade by decade, through newspaper + magazine clippings, interview extracts, legal documents, and other ecstatic truths and profound undoings. The narrative is in your hands. (Also includes audio cassette tape of two hours duration.)

Numbered + handmade in an edition of 66 copies only; bound papers 466pp+ w/audio cassette tape; 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.