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Neil Luck is a musician based in the UK. His work takes a range of forms from music-theatre, to concert works, radio, public projects and recordings, and is the founder and director of the experimental music ensemble ARCO.

Eden Box is an album of songs, dances and vérité recordings written and produced largely on the edge of a South German forest. They all play with the process of mediating, editing, and reframing raw acoustic materials, many of which were captured outside and on the hoof. The album title is a reference to the 20th century British artist of the same name (well, their pseudonym) whose naive style brought together ideas of nature, man’s place with it, and christian iconography into strange symbolist compositions.

Additional performers and collaborators:
Binghi (Isheja Cheryl), Adam de la Cour, Monika Czyżyk, Margaret Luck, Chihiro Ono, Benedict Taylor, Athina Vahla.

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Written, recorded, and produced by Neil Luck. Mastered by Simon Davey at The Exchange. CD artwork Kapha by Monika Czyżyk. Book and case design by Joseph Kohlmaier at Cours de Poétique. Recorded and produced at Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, EMS Stockholm, Colourscape Clapham, at home in London, and in the woods of Tonbridge.

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Sensible Activities is an essay, and an illustrated book of musical-sensory exercises to be enacted alone or in groups, outdoors. They all relate to an ongoing live project of Neil’s that has manifested as a series of walks and excursions with willing participants and musicians in various countries around the world.

Several of these activities link directly with particular tracks on Eden Box; track 2 features a prototype activity offered by Athina Vahla during a nighttime walk just outside Stuttgart. Track 3 is a demonstration of leaf blowing (p. 34), and track 6 is an encrusted recording of Neil’s ensemble ARCO testing "Internal Snore Monologue" (p. 20). There are many more indirect and abstract connections, and we consider this CD and book part of the same body of work. It is all, in the end, music.

​Produced and published by Cours de Poétique, whose Extended Scores series responds to the embodied, interdisciplinary, and discursive nature of contemporary music and performance practice by combining essays, documentary material, sound, and moving image with working scores in print and online.

Each copy of Sensible Activities includes access to documentation of the original performances, audio and video content, drawings, and bonus material, and a digital copy of Eden Box.

Eden Box / Sensible Activities is an album and book co-publication by Neil Luck. It is released by and produced in collaboration with Accidental Records and Cours de Poétique. It brings together a body of work from the last two years, broadly exploring contemporary, personal, and mediated ideas around the “pastoral” and the “folkloric”, that has manifested in music, performance, writings, radio, and images. It is then an album, a score, a document, an essay, an archive, an object.

Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

Fielding Hope is a London- and Glasgow-based curator and DJ. He works as the Senior Producer of Cafe OTO, London, and co-curator of Counterflows Festival, Glasgow. The best part of his life has been spent exhaustively traveling the outer-reaches of music, sucking all sorts of strange and beautiful aural debris into his tilted orbit.

His DJ sets reflect the results of this ongoing journey, crossing strange terrain between pastoral vignettes to 190bpm pulvisors (and more or less everything in between) in equally coherent and contradictory ways. Fielding presents a selection of work from Takuroku, Cafe OTO's in house label. Café OTO is the most established critical listening room in London and provides a home for creative new music that exists outside of the mainstream with an evening programme of adventurous live music seven nights a week.

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

This episode features music by The Darkening Scale, William St Hugh, Rich Sudney, Douglas Wood, Primitive Calculators, Toxic Chicken, Mel Blanc, Red Spells Red, Caroline Melzer & Nurit Stark, Mu Tiny, Crust, Der Blutharsch, Swine, Kaztalien and Boson Spin.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

This episode features recordings from the Athenian air waves. What lies between and under broadcasts and what is hidden during' is deconstructed in an attempt to expose the space behind structured radio transmissions. An attempt to re-introduce the ''space'' of the radio back into the radio. Come with us and take a small glimpse of what it is like to listen to a ''missing'' program.

The mix has been edited in real time using 4x radios, all different models and all with their own sound character and different feedback and mechanical possibilities.

This experiment aims to broadcast the absence of a broadcast.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

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

A special episode celebrating Kayla’s latest release in the Ambient Owl Core series. Playing Ambient Owl Core volume 1 and 2 in their entirety alongside field recordings captured whilst writing these tracks.

Ambient Owl Core is a genre tag created by Kayla, these releases encompass tracks inspired by the world of the night, the secrets shared and stories told, for slow listening. Featuring moments from our feather friends and other woodland creatures.

All tracks written and produced by Kayla Painter. Ambient Owl Core exclusively released on Bandcamp.

A monthly show exploring our innate connection to sound, and how we express that through music, showcasing work that connects to our body and minds through rich compositional choices, through intricate processes in the studio, or music that is inspired by the way we interact with the outside world. Connections to Sound journeys through downtempo, electronic, ambient and beat driven music, featuring tracks from artists all around the world. Presented by Kayla Painter.

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Marching bands, Kahoot players, industry workers, lovers of ‘corridos tumbados’, summer reague … all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

Born and raised in Santa Rosa La Pampa, Argentina, Juan Bautista Dominguez is an experimental electronic musician.

A selection of the most vibrant and exciting new sounds of Latin America's emerging talents.

This episode of Out From Under is the latest in the new music playlist series, surveying the terrain of eclectic and experimental music across Australia. There’s music from Melbourne’s Carla dal Forno thru Blackest Ever Black (pictured); from artist and producer Thomas William Smith; a new collaboration from the west coast between Perth’s Rabbit Island and Nicholas Allbrook; cracked industrial techno from Newcastle producer Collector; plus tracks from New Zealand’s Purple Pilgrims, Dan Thorpe, WA?STE and more.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.(r)

Hosted by Stu Buchanan, Out From Under dives deep beneath the surface of the Australian music scene, celebrating experimental and eclectic music from the far end of the world.

More South Coast experimental music.

The second half of the show features another long form piece by Spirit of Gravity founder and one time Rimbaud Brother Tony Rimbaud as Not By radium.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.

From the most abrasive to the unbelievably sublime, Hope Valley Cement Works attempts to curate a selection of experimental music and sounds, from collected field recordings and sound collages, to serene ambience, impressive drone and the odd deconstructed club track. A series by Kris Cooper.

In this episode, musica per la radio with Ana Garizurieta, a series of concerts conceived for radio and transmitted exclusively on the radio.

Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

This episode focuses on Tenerife and features some recent guests and local island fiends. Opening with an island jam by Monopoly Child & Sun Araw, Lava Tube Solos on Horsebacks, swiftly segueing into CV & JAB’s pool tide inspired tunes from their island séjour last March.

GAF and friends make a deep appearance too with their latest psych heavy double whammy, Reptiles – seek this and others such as Lagoss and Akane on Keroxen, Discrepant and beyond.

Discrepancies is a global showcase of disparate music with a focus on earthly field recordings and international sounds, curated by the Discrepant record label, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso.

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• audio / visual decomposer Lepke B posits the question - "How will we live in the 21st Century?"

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.

Online music publication Stray Landings invites guests from across the electronic music spectrum to discuss themes and innovations.

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.