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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 Yousef Kawar, Alone In The Hollow Garden, Gianluca Becuzzi, Rapoon, Sonologyst, Taphephobia & IDFT
Adonai Atrophia, Daniel Williams, Abbatoir & Satori and Sysselmann.

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.

This episode opens with a special introduction by Finnish AV duo Vongoiva where they discuss the inspiration and process behind their new album Jatuli Observatory. We also listen in full to Hadi Bastani and Maryam Sirvan's trans.placed and take a first listen to three upcoming releases which are all inspired by errors.

Greek composer Savvas Metaxas, Iran's Kamran Arashnia and London-based Jonathan Higgins all offer up their unique takes on the possibilities of mistakes. Madeleine Cocolas' new one gets a spin and the show closes with an edit of Rubbish Music's live set earlier this month at Cafe Oto.

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.

"With the apocalyptic vision of Ballard and the acerbic attitude of Céline, MUEUM scatters human detritus over the shiny Perspex of our most dearly loved vitrines." – Chris McCabe

"A showcase, ransacked with horrid delight: Fowler's MUEUM presents the placid, lurid violences of surveillance and exhibition with startling and brutal stylishness. A seething triumph." – Eley Williams

A novella of ludic menace, a puzzle without pieces, SJ Fowler’s MUEUM pictures the amassing and dismantling of a public edifice, brick by brick, in prose that refracts and breaks the light emitted by history’s ornaments and history’s omissions. Suspended in unknowable time there is a city; in the city, an event, a conflict. Amid the ash, fog and cloud, there is the manufacturing of a space—a many-winged museum on the make.

On the plinths, exquisite remnants of life present and past—adorning the walls, portraits of gentle torture sit hand in hand with brutal and statuesque portrayals of camaraderie—and the gift-shop is littered with plastic curios and gilt revulsion. Goya, as atmosphere rather than artwork, hovers amid iron age ghosts, bronzed ideas, and antiqued anxiety.

Pacing the hall, atrium and corridor, there are those who keep the museum—the various midwives to the building’s demands—and those, like the reader, who merely visit; those who pass through the vacant galleries adrift with questions. What can I touch? What is next to Egypt? What is hidden in Mesopotamia? Where do we eat? Drink? Where is the entrance? The exit? Following the tradition of the Nestbeschmutzer authors (“one who dirties their own nest,” vis-à-vis Bernhard and Gombrowicz, et al), in Fowler’s curt, spiralling, and acute work, the museum’s keepers will answer.

A four-part, unabridged broadcast of SJ Fowler’s debut novella, MUEUM — as read by the author — recorded on location in Resonance Extra's South London studios. Produced by Dominic Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

This episode features work by Djrum / Jo Johnson / Bruce Nauman / FOQL / AOTCI v OVT / Bark Psychosis / Oren Ambarchi / Oliver Coates / Nick Drake / John Coltrane / Loscil / Material Object + Ishq / Mans / Severed Heads / East 71 / Tengui / Al Wootton / Tape Pack / Cosey Fanni Tutti / Grouper / Iannis Xenakis / Nicolas Jaar / Tristan Arp / Kode9 & The Spaceape / 23 Skidoo / Accrual / Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason.

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 analogue electronics maverick Tom Bugs.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

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

In this episode, Wendy Lavone (Sam Hughes / Nancy) subjects his discography to the butchers for an hour of twisted and reimagined versions of his work. Not to be listened to on a full stomach, features exceedingly bloated drones and dread sonics weaved throughout classic writings on depression and blackened soundscapes composed by Kinn. And yet, there is hope for all sick dogs...

Wendy’s LTD run of cassette on An1ma is out now. You can also find Nancy (clothing) at Supreme, Slam City Skates and on their website.

Channelling an array of fervent interests in many genres through different mediums (Film, Music, Sound Art and more), Kinn - the brooding-electronics project of London based artist Freddy Lomas - and his guests use original soundscapes and compositions to weave together an original concept for each month's show.

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 week, from the UK to Tokyo, IDS residents Auxx and Mote uncover the dynamics of ambient music, with a special guest mix from Hironori Nagatsuma (2nd) This week : From the UK to Tokyo, IDS residents Auxx and Mote uncover the dynamics of ambient music, with a special guest mix from Hironori Nagatsuma (2nd).

ID Spectral is a multi-disciplinary record label and arts collective, showcasing the spectrum of innovative creative identities worldwide.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Senjo’s poem “one by one / praising and withdrawing inside - / winter moon."

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, live recordings by Alex Cruz Sesper and Hagai Izenberg, playing a quadro-vinyl setup, transforming raw recordings into obscure ever-shifting landscapes,

Their sound sources consist solely of vinyl records—BBC archives, sound effect collections, and unexpected audio fragments such as a Chinese learning vinyl, recordings of laughter, football crowds, foggy harbors, chirping birds, and the distant echoes of artillery.

Alex Cruz Sesper, born in 1973, is a self-taught artist whose artistic journey began in the late 1980s, deeply immersed in subcultures of hardcore punk, underground music, tape trading, and independent publications (fanzines). He was a member of several well-known bands and music projects in Brazil for decades.

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.

In this episode, we re-run and remix an episode from June 2020, Origin Stories. Featuring interviews with Alexander Carson, Gaze is Ghost, Nikki Marrone and Broads, the show is about things beginning at home, in the family or in birth.

Post-pandemic, these artists are releasing new books and music, and touring for the first time in literally years. We're happy to share again if you're happy to join us. Featuring scenes of childbirth, dramatic windswept narration, and the memorable quote "you're sitting in your pants, shovelling Häagen-Dazs in your face and crying at The Simpsons". Theresa Elflein joins us presenting some fresh tracks, and the show is co-presented in parts by Martin Clarke.

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, another hour of weirdo power 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.

Here they present a recording of The Death of Kodak, live at The Cockpit Theatre for Rough for Opera, 2015.

"Founded by George Eastman in 1892, the renowned photographic film company Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy in 2012. The Death of Kodak imaginatively charts this tragic trajectory in terms of the apparent eclipse of analogue technology and the dissolution of identity in the digital era. The graphic score (the length and structure of which is determined by Fibonacci Numbers) is drawn on digital camera flash units, projected on to the retinas of the individual musicians – a technique originally explored by Ed Baxter."

Featuring:

Rodney Earl Clarke: voice (Rochester, New York); Richard Scott: voice (Eastman Kodak); Ed Baxter: text, direction; Louise Goodwin: percussion; Simon King: electric guitar; Elo Masing: amplified violin; Markus Sasse: bass guitar; Milo Thesiger-Meacham: electric guitar; and Chris Weaver: electronics. Voice over: Piers Gibbon.

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.

Recorded live at "Live To Air" at East Tower, TV Centre, White City, as part of White Noise's East Tower Residencies, 13 July 2016. Featuring Dudley Sutton (voice), Peter Lanceley (guitar), Milo Thesiger-Meacham (electronics), Ed Baxter (electronics). Text by Ed Baxer. Live mixdown: Ilia Rogatchevski.

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 Polyphonie Anarchiste by Li Tavor.

Li Tavor's Polyphonie Anarchiste from the film Unrest by Cyril Schäublin. Occupies the A-side and the B-side cause it’s that good.

Numbered + handmade in an edition of 30 copies with on-body screen print and eco-x slip; each copy contains three riso-printed cigarette cards and a separate tri-fold insert with lyrics printed in full in their French original, alongside German and English translations

Includes unlimited streaming of Polyphonie Anarchiste via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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.