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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 work by o (ft. Connor Oman), Ignatius, KABRA, Scientia, Mario Lino Stancati, Drift, durance, SKOTÓGEN, Daimon, and Kohellus.

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.

Our first episode for 2023 has a bit of everything. We explore the massive double album China Life by Masayoshi Miyazaki. My (Kate Carr) latest attempt to make a fake field recording in False Dawn, and some forthcoming lo-fi beauty from the Blue Mountains in Australia by Broken Chip.

Plus Heinali's defiant tribute to Kyiv on Injazero Records, Lawrence English's recent solo and David Velez's attempt to use sound to grow fat and delicious beetroots.

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.

In this episode, four short talks with artists NikNak, Nick Klein, Tintin Patron, and Vomir, presented in sequence, accompanied by sounds captured during their residencies at the Skaņu Mežs festival in Riga, Latvia, in the autumn and early winter of 2024. The first interview is conducted by Viestarts Gailītis, while the remaining three feature conversations led by Dmytro Filatov and Bohdan Kuspys. The music and sounds included are on-site recordings from performances and installations at Skaņu Mežs.

Bi-monthly insights into the activities of the European project tekhnē, which started in 2023. The series showcases a selection of artists who share and discuss their work and listen to recorded material. By putting the focus on the user rather than the developer, this project aims to explore the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. Technology as an art of craft, appropriating and transforming existing tools, to imagine multiple ways of creative misuse. tekhnē is a collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union.

This episode features music by Telluric Shock / Yally / Anton Lukoszeviez / Kathy Acker with Nox / Catherine Christer Hennix / Watkins Group / T.Power / Jo Johnson / Sarah Davachi / HLM38 / Anthony Manning / Senking / Mucha & Spatial / Cristian Vogel / Yurii Samson / Cody Brant & Carl Kruger / Gabor Lazar / AOTCI / Lee Ranaldo.

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, 90 artists sampled, maniuplated and condensed into 6 original ambient pieces by Kinn.

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.

This edition of Sonoridades is hosted once again by Portuguese sound artist Marco Alexandre. Marco is based in Porto and his work in centered around field recordings and sound art.

Virgilio Oliveira explores the sonic environment in collaboration with Porto's Radio Manabras, presenting an hour of sound art and field recordings.

This episode features music and sound by Dang, S Glass, Brant/Krueger, Ezio Piermattei, Natalia Beylis, Maggiore/Rice, Ark Drane, FAT CHANCE, Anton Bruhin, Maria Teresa Luciani and more.

Sound collage, record spinning, havering, ear wonk and general head scratch with Dylan Nyoukis of the Chocolate Monk label.

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 Fuhaku’s poem “quiescence! / touching not the blossoms, / temple bell's voice.”

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.

Joined by Bettina Schroeder we follow raindrops falling from steel grey skies, seeping through drip drain cracks in greasy tarmac roads, and deeper still into subterranean waterways. Down and down, running beneath city streets, submerging to re-emerge in streaming confluence.

Bettina Schroeder is a London-based multimedia artist. Works include painting, drawing, installation, sound art, music, poetry, video and live art. Her album with Tony Irving, Shatter Resistant was originally released on Linear Obsessional and featured on BBC Radio3, FREENESS, Vision Festival, programme by Corey Mwamba.

Her book of poetry Flirting on an Escalator is published by London Poetry Books.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

In this show we'll be broadcasting Part 1 of a remote collaboration between Alaa Yussry and Stephan Barrett who were brought into contact through Colliding Lines.

Starting with an open-ended process of sharing recordings, sparked by an interest in micro-tonal and unequal temperament systems, the interplay between text and sound, and working with aleatoric methods of sonic disintegration.

Accompanying this, we'll be re-playing recordings from our 2018 Shadowplay tour, performed by Jacob Kyriakides, Reuben Kyriakides and guests.

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, Jennifer plays lots of new releases.

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.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra presents 'Score for Open Heart Surgery on Charlie Watts' as part of Radiophrenia. As an integral part of its week-long celebration of the best and most innovative ideas in radio art, Radiophrenia presents a series of specially commissioned ‘live-to-air’ performances, of which this is but one. Selected artists have been asked to respond to the unique circumstances of creating a work that is simultaneously a live performance and a radio broadcast, reflecting the fact that there will be an audience present in the theatre in addition to an unseen audience of listeners at home.

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.

Five Folk Tales for Radio (featuring Steffan Cennydd). Voice: Steffan Cennydd. Concept, text, sound design, montage by Ed Baxter. Recording engineer: Michael Umney.

Soundtracks from the films by Camilo Restrepo: Cilaos by Christine Salem and La Bouche by Mohamed “Diable Rouge” Bangoura.

Carried by the spell-binding rhythm of the maloya, a ritual chant from Reunion Island, Cilaos, starring CHRISTINE SALEM, explores the deep and murky ties that bind the dead and the living. La Bouche is an experimental musical featuring Guinean percussion master MOHAMED BANGOURA, loosely based on his own story. The two films form an informal duet, with both soundtracks produced in full on this record.

Numbered + handmade in an edition of 100 copies only; 180gr vinyl in custom-made screen-printed outer, containing Xerox-printed booklet with words by CAMILO RESTREPO and new English translations of the songs; no digital.

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Includes unlimited streaming of La Bouche / Cilaos 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.