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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 unearth noise, Antonin De Bemels, PureH, david lee myers Loo(p)cy, Kokum, Kate Bosworth & Hendekagon, MoCM & Schema Musicalis, Mario Lino Stancati, Michael Grunditz, Sándor Vály and Sheik Abdullah Al Zaili.

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.

The first episode of Atmospheric Densities showcases new and not so new releases moving from saxophone soundscapes, electronics markets in China, unreleased ice rink tunes and hippos in South Africa.

Hosted by Kate Carr.

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.

Beset by all manner of mission creep, this wilderness media study concludes with readings from anonymous diaries, found in a previous episode, and a smattering of unknown lost media against an unwelcome backdrop of unsettling noise from nextdoor neighbours carrying out illegal, unlicensed, unregulated structural alterations.

Asphyxia was originally broadcast as a 22-hour single transmission by Radio Art Zone, and, as can be expected, this final hour is an implosion under the gravity.

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 music and sound works by Boom Bip & Nina Nastasia / Christian Marclay Trio / dESUS / Christian Marclay / Felix K / FINAL / The Shamen / TVO / Keith Fullerton Whitman / Bleaching Agent / Loki / CLAIR & Luke Turner / Leif Elggren / ee cummings / Oliver Coates / Evynid Kang / King Midas Sound & Fennesz / Pauline Oliveros / Phill Niblock / Greg Davis / Francisco Lopez / Kamran Sadeghi / Powerbooks For Peace / Robert Henke / Alva Noto / Megaheadphonboy / Chris Marker / Gat Decor.

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.

This episode features Rully Shabara of Senyawa and Zoo.

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Long-form gonzo radio exploration of artists on the outer edge with Eric Boros.

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 episode, new records of Thiago Miazzo (Recycled C20), Marcos Campello (li o vão o sol) and the duo Lex + Bramir, ZYB. Opening the show is one of last QTV releases, a collaboration between 4Zero4 and Verjault.

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 Ueda Akinari’s poem “washing up the mountain / a colourless rain of autumn / waters unseen.”

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 Higher Ground Studios, Artspace, Create NSW and Resonance Extra.

Field Notes - “Let Me Stop You Right There”

Side A - Kinship

Mixtape 9: Electronic high notes to museum recording and fading in chords on guitar; max delay and screaming children distorted from the vinyl record; G major riff with applause on vocal pedal loop and storytelling of washing past; shaking drones with ringtone from missed call message bank; indistinguishable talking in the studio and use of power tools; recording of bus engine over museum crowds; handling of cassette tapes and players; music sample; A minor and F major riff on guitar with offset vocal loop.

Side B - Body

Mixtape 9: Screams in an institution and guitar noises; Lp needle taps with heavy distortion and delay; creaking guitar handling through high compression; feedback and chords and scales; offset vocal loop over distorted museum; guitar in G major and indistinguishable voices; birds and language lessons; phone calls and studio visits; artist borscht picnic chats; feedback on amp; Bundanon morning birds and crickets with museum sounds and guitar.

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, First Light's Third Space is visited by artists Adam Sherry (London) and Lee Tesche (New Smyrna Beach, Florida).

In Adam's own words, the first half of the show was "recorded over December 2021 as a difficult year drew to a close, the one ahead now coming into view offering hope. This mix features songs by some of my good friends and favourite London based artists, the sonic threads of a community, intertwined with numerous sound walks, flickering moments of inspiration + a few unreleased dead forest fragments share an insight into a bright but transient moment in time."

Best known for his work with the band Algiers, Lee's mix for Third Space encompasses sounds from the coastal area around Cape Canaveral and central Florida. A collection of several years of field recordings, local short wave and marina radio stations, Atlantic Center for the Arts residency work, found ¼” tape reels from the county courthouse, NASA audio archives, local music tapes, and his own collaborative projects during this period, give shape to a fascinating area that his family has inhabited for over half a century.

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.

During these trying times, Dani is hosting with some politically charged, hardhitting, irreverent (and, well,…very relevant,) anti-fascist, and anti-capitalist punk rock.

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.

Now: With Cuttings silenced, Peri too is gagged. A chilling warning that the rumours, ignorance and fear in Akiha will reel you in, brainwash you, tie you up in a tangle of words.

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A unique audio drama series created by writer/director Neil Cargill and musician/sound designer Simon James featuring an original electronic music score and full cast including Ian McDiarmid, famed for his role as Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars saga, as Cuttings – the radio ham who picks up a mysterious voice. The voice belongs to a girl (Joy McAvoy, from Ken Loach's The Angels' Share, and Filth) trapped in an abandoned amusement park called Akiha Den Den. Singer Wendy Rae Fowler (featured vocalist with bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age) lends her distinctive Alabama tones to the multi-layered soundscape as it becomes clear there's a whole community there, whose words and music become woven into a mesmerising plea for help. Everything becomes highly charged when one of the trapped inhabitants finds a way into our world – where his impact on us could be as devastating and far-reaching as an unknown, unseen virus.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, engineers, sound-effects creators, actors, writers, composers and broadcasters devoted to making live radio-art. It is based in central London as the in-house artistic wing of Resonance104.4fm, under the direction of Ed Baxter.

Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Polari Bible: Genesis (part una) read by Stanley Schtinter.

Recorded live in a single-sitting at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, New York City: chapters 1—20 (or ‘part una’) of Genesis from the King James Bible translated into Polari by the Manchester house of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Spoken by Stanley Schtinter under the cosh of The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture (chapters 1—23 recorded but edited down (1—20) to meet maximum duration available in a single cassette format, 96 minutes total).

The second part premieres in full on Resonance FM on Christmas Day in 2024.

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.