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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 Chelidon Frame, Deison Cranioclast, Dronæment & Aalfang mit Pferdekopf, Progettosonoro, 400 Lonely Things, The Great Old Ones, Sonologyst, and Violent Onsen Geisha.

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.

Artist Lepke B brings us a new winter themed audio mashup.

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This episode features works by Porya Hatami / Ruaridh Law, Ian Henderson & Alice Yousaf / Raudive / The Bug / DJ Persuasion / A New Unity / Underworld & The Necks / TVO / Eugene Carchesio / Bill Drummond / JP Hartnett / Alice Hoffman-Fuller / Silent Servant / Svreca / Spiral Wrack / Loud Numbers / Tengui / Dylan Nyoukis & Karen Constance / Keith Fullerton Whitman / Ex Easter Island Head / Andre Holland / Angelo Badalamenti / Posthuman.

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.

In this episode: does music have to be serious? Does music have to be rational? Does music need to conform to the rules? According to contemporary postmodern artists, no.

Postnew is a modular theory, describing the fluid development of aesthetics. Every movement has a post-movement, every end is a beginning, every post-aesthetic will be followed by a post-post-aesthetic. Join the mailing list here.

In this episode, Concepción Huerta and Fe Sexta share a wide range of music, recordings, and sounds that influenced them on their journey towards mapping relationships between personal and collective memory across regions of South America, which resulted in the commissioned work MAPS : Electronic Resonances Between Ecuador and Mexico premiered this year at CTM Festival.

MAPS aimed to revive audio archives of pioneering electronic music composers in Mexico and Ecuador, active in the 1970s.

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.

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.

This episode features music by Puppet Wipes, Porest, Lexie Mountain, Barn Sour, Meadow Argus, Staubitz & Waterhouse, Violent Onsen Geisha and others, plus a new collage work made especially for the show by special guest Seymour Glass.

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

IDS residents Louis Sterling and Jamie Moore mix a selection of diverse IDM and Ambient music featuring well known and independent artists. First listen to a new track from Mote (Jamie Moore) at the end of the show.

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 Kajiwara Hashin’s poem “heaven and earth: / neither exists apart from / snow fluttering down.”

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 featuring Andrew Ciccone, walking from Benfleet to Leigh-on-Sea with Andrew Ciccone. The estuary continually opening up with every footstep. Tapes replayed on the rail replacement service home.

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.

This very special episode of Third Space pairs two forerunners of the contemporary ambient scene, Nairobi-born, Berlin-based KMRU and Liverpool's Beau Beaumont.

In a Third Space first, all the music you hear throughout the show has been created by the artists themselves, offering an intimate window into their relationships with their cities.

Prodigious and fast-rising star of the underground electronic community KMRU takes the reins for the first half of the show, exploring the sonic character of Nairobi through his vast library of field recordings and luscious synth meditations.

Meine Nacht curator Beau Beaumont (fka Breakwave) takes over for the second hour, premiering a piece called L8 - a journey into the vibrant city of Liverpool through the lens of her fine-tuned creative practice.

Artwork by Michael Skeen.

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, Cary does another showcasing of the Central Appalachia underground scene.

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.

Dark Spots and Scooter…the plot thickens.

Lepke B is hard to find. Lepke B is an idea derived from science-fiction. Lepke B is the missing dimension in the world of matter and anti-matter. His brain is a neuronic network spread out over melodies and words that have been transmitted since the beginning of times.

Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with In a Cold November Wood by Joshua Bonnetta & Valerio Tricoli.

Joshua Bonnetta and Valerio Tricoli debut their collaboration with this cassette tape, using the recordings made by Joshua Bonnetta for the film Schneewittchen as their cue, solar-system-blitzed by Valerio Tricoli’s tape machine treatment. The duo’s debut album will appear later this year.

In a Cold November Wood can be purchased at the following screenings of Schneewittchen: 12/2/25 at the British Film Institute, London. 20/2/25 at Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon & 20/3/25 at Anthology Film Archives, New York City.

Please only order if you or someone you know is attending an event and able to collect there. This release will not be shipped.

For more information on the film visit schneewittchen.cloud

Numbered + handmade in an edition of 50 copies only.

Includes unlimited streaming of In a Cold November Wood 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.