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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 Christophe Bailleau, Bruno Varvohza, Pentameth Demon, X-NAVI-ET - R. IWANSKI, Justin Ashworth, Oubys, NYORAI, Adi Newton, KABRA, Latchwork and Arshan Najafi.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

FUNKT offered 53 hours of electronic music and sound art from Cologne: computer music... self-invented instruments... DIY electronics... radio play... sound art... noise... data sonification... field recordings... radio art... sound studies... historical anchor points... niches... insider tips... different generations of Cologne's electronic + sound art landscape... join our music discovery journey... Full details, line-up and updates: 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.

From jet-lagged homesick soundscapes from Thailand, odes to strawberries and our lost seasons to music made out of a toilet plunger and the howls of seals this is a very jam-packed edition of Atmospheric Densities. Featuring new releases by more eaze, Gamardah Fungus and Liew Niyomkarn, a tribute to Ian Rawes in the form of his posthumous release From Dawn til Dust on Persistence of Sound.

We also give a big shout to Phil Maguire's Verz's label as it closes up shop by dipping into the label's final release by David Donohoe and David Lacey, dive into Cath Roberts piece on split via Fractal Meat Cuts. On the Flaming Pines side of things we mark the pending release of Kamran Arashnia's Bounds Elimination and dig a bit deeper into the forthcoming albums by Jonathan Higgins' and RUBBISH MUSIC.

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.

This broadcast also contains In a Cold November Wood by Joshua Bonnetta and Valerio Tricoli, from the Schneewittchen-screening-exclusive release on purge.xxx records. Using the recordings made by Joshua Bonnetta in his capacity as sound designer for the film Schneewittchen, the artist worked with Valerio Tricoli to produce this composition. The duo's debut album will be released by purge.xxx in 2025.

Tickets to see Schneewittchen on 35mm at the British Film Institute, London.

For more information on the film and international touring dates, visit schneewittchen.cloud

This recording was made in February 2024, shortly after the world premiere of Schneewittchen at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Following the British premiere of Stanley Schtinter's Schneewittchen (Snow White), the director speaks to producer Gareth Evans about his new film.

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 a candid story from the Genoa G8 Summit, 2001.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

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

In this episode, Kinn plays some of his favourite music from his formative years and a selection of what has lately inspired his works in progress. Everything from the raging melancholy of Slint & Sonic Youth to the avant of Alvin Lucier, Herbert Huncke and The Dadavistic Orchestra, also includes brand new music from The Electric Womb and Moin as well as an exclusive preview of new music from Kinn to close off the final moments of the show.

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, ID Spectral resident Mote presents us with a dynamic experimental mix, with hand-picked selections by Auxx in the 2nd hour.

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 Yosa Buson’s poem “Mount Asama / amidst its fumes and ash / fresh young leaves!”

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.

This episode is supported by David Leach and Tony Kenny, Higher Ground Studios and Resonance Extra.

Field Notes

Side A - Oh Petal: New Material

(Anthony Hodgkinson - Guitar; Joe Wilson - Guitar and Vocals)

"Sleep, my love. Lay down for another day. It cuts me deep, into my bones. Soon my love, I will be home. All this trouble, that we make; the pains, we take. That tall tower, it awaits; and all that power never fades. Sleep, my love. Lay it down, your burning blade." – Joe Wilson.

**Side B - Oh Petal: Cicatrice **

(Anthony Hodgkinson - Guitar; Joe Wilson - Guitar and Vocals)

"When a cut pierces the skin,

the body repairs around the site—

restructuring its inner form.

Our body accommodates the wound,

reorienting to serve

a new shape within.

The scar is forever a part of you,

like the blood flowing, through your fingertips.

New lines,

New traces."

– Anthony Hodgkinson, Jan, 2025

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 episode of Third Space was created by Ekin Fil (Istanbul) and Yuting Wu (Beijing).

The first half of the show captures the sounds and music of a daytime in and around Istanbul. Including the areas Kadıköy, Acıbadem, Yenikapı, Eminönü, Sirkeci, Kabataş and Beyoğlu, as well as Darıca where Fil’s family lives on the border of the city.

In the second half of Third Space, Yuting Wu takes us around Beijing from the perspective of an outsider in the city. The first part of the mix emphasises the typical impressions of Beijing: the public transportation, the crowds, the opera, along with a street musician playing saxophone in the park. Beneath these surface impressions, Wu explores the disappointment that accompanies living in such a city as an outsider where dreams and ambitions often go unfulfilled.

Artwork is by Max Howarth.

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.

In this episode, First Glimpse from The Crowbar Hotel.

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 broadcast, an hour of works by the orchestra selected by Ed Baxter.

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.

Keira Fox, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson and Vindicatrix present a new collaboration in COLLAPSE: the soundtrack to an escalating 3-act play set across multiple timelines (BC, industrial, merchandised), drawing on a site-specific project originally commissioned by Cripta 747 Torino and presented at Saint Pietro in Vincoli Cemetery.

‘The piece coalesces trans-temporal sites of city collapse from The Casa Delle Donne’s occupation of a historic women’s mental asylum, the Fiat Factory and the workers strikes of the 60s, to murderous 1970s shopping departments, and garage disappointments.’

Numbered & handmade in an edition of 50 copies with on-body screen print and eco-x slip; each copy contains three riso-printed cigarette cards.

COLLAPSE was launched on September 21 at St George-in-the-East Church, London E1, where Anne Gillis also performed.

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.