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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 Distant Fires Burning, Eryck Abecassis, Conjecture, Loo(p)cy, FX666 and JARL.

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.

Joan by Whettman Chelmets is out this week and he introduces the show from his car discussing the inspiration behind this work which celebrates his grandmother.

A preview of my own piece fake creek where I try and create an underwater field recording is out next month and I play an excerpt from that and we take a first listen to Andrew Weather's forthcoming Sciatic Assemblage: a spikey, jangling and discombobulating take on our domestic spaces.

Plus a special mix from Leena Lee and Vania Fortuna drawing on work which inspires them and relates to their wonderful new album Niebla.

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.

Lepke B's blissful disregard for the sacred in life has placed him as one of the testcard knights with a totally unique approach to sound plunderphonics and visual art.

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.

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, 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.

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 Karen Constance, Egg & Crisp, Dylan Nyoukis & Yoni Silver, Meadow Argus, Kinver Pond, Dominique Grimaud, Video Adventures, Yannick Dauby, Diadal, Violent Onsen Geisha, Lexie Mountain, Bernard Parmegiani, I'd M Theftable, Papal Bull, The Bohman Brothers, Sten Hanson, The Polly Shang Kuan Band and Tony Conrad.

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 Raymond Cobley’s poem “fog dissolves to rain - / cool breezes clear the vista, / showing cloud-topped hills”.

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.

Green woodpecker's call heralds the coming of spring as we gather by the water's edge to sing songs, tell tales, and gather myth.

This episode features Shona Handley & Andrew Ciccone.

To find out more about the Newham Folk Archive, visit instagram.com/newhamfolkarchive/

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 episode, head of Paralaxe Editions, Dania, is joined by experimental duo Rosso Polare.

For the first hour of the show, Dania takes us on a soundwalk around Barcelona. The sounds of the city's residents singing in the park, reciting poetry, and playing the Iranian tar are mixed with traditional Catalonian music and recordings of Barcelona's infamous pigeon population.

In the second hour, Anna and Cesare (Rosso Polare) chart a journey from the Lombardy countryside into the urban bustle of Milan, accompanied by bursts of folk song and traditional chants from the region.

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, Zu From All Over approaches the bluffs of coming life changes with the best Indie-Rock, Emo/Pop-Punk, Math, and S.C.H. to take that first step over the ledge.

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.

This first iteration of 'Overheard' was recorded live at Kill Your Timid Notion in February 2010 at DCA, Dundee. Commissioned by Arika, it features actors Tam Dean Burn and Pene Herman Smith; musicians Ed Baxter, Stephen Bloe, Ali Butcher, Rowan Corkill, Cat Lee Marr, Chris Lee Marr, Chris Weaver, and Lin Zhang; and boxers Neil Danskin and Hamid Ahmed. Text by Ed Baxter. Score by Chris Weaver.

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.

Louis Grace presents Teaching Computers to Love. This is a collaborative platform for artists to develop an episode sonically with a 10-20 minute body of work.

In this first episode artists Knut Aufermann, Sarah Washington, Katharina Bihler, Stefan Scheib, Anna Friz & Ralf Schreiber broadcast sounds from Ürzig, Saarbrücken, Santa Cruz & Cologne.

Produced by Mobile Radio with support from π-node

During the lockdown, a revolving group of sound artists from across Europe and the US convened live on air with a unified aim: to gather sound-pollen and transmit codified messages to kindred folk, exploring whatever was on their minds. Style guide: Anything goes.

Here we broadcast some selected live works by the CWCH Collective.