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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 works by Scientia, Guru Bobol, Bloodkry / Ville Rantanen, Astral Flight, loo(p)cy, Grey Frequency, Oubys, Richard Bégin, Sonologyst, Sándor Vály, and Schwarzer Tag.

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

Lapping At Your Shore is a computer program which organises the composition of recorded sounds in realtime. “I have found it beneficial to utilise the computers ability to make arbitrary decisions without being mediated by a subconscious. Of course I set the conditions, so there is a poetry there, in the algorithm itself. It's an interplay between chance and being.” More information can be found at andrewford.eu.pn

The compilation brings together new and recent projects by composers Olivia Block (US), Cassandra Miller (CA/UK) and Andrew Hamilton (IE/UK), with Sheen’s eponymous Croon Harvest (2021–ongoing) as a central starting point.

The programme explores music in a situated and embodied state, floating on noise and quiet sounds, peeling off from the brink of silence towards a good old sing-along. In each work, the voice occupies a different space in relation to other sounds, the body, technology, or notions of memory and tradition.

The project is part of Musarc’s work with contemporary composers and the ensemble’s commitment to new music – brittle and radical, in need of projection as well as protection and advocacy. The choir was joined by musicians from the Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.

Instrumentalists: Cara Houghton (flute), Rowan Jones (clarinet), Michelle Hromin (bass clarinet), Andrew Hamilton (viola), Andrew Liddell (viola), Rebecca Burden (cello), Steve Potter (piano).

Sound engineering and mastering by Julian Sander.

Recorded in Resonance Extra's studios on 30th April 2022, Croon Harvest is a constellation of four experimental choral works curated by Jack Sheen for Musarc.

In this episode, works by cv313 / Underground Resistance / Drumloop / Lawrence English / Roc / Yuko Araki / BUFFALOMCKEE / Fani Konstantinidou / M. Sage / BALF / Tremosphere / Tropic of Cancer / Externalism / The Fun Years / Alan Lamb / Donnacha Costello / Fracture / Jasmine Guffons / Server Farms / Riccardo La Foresta / Variant / TVO.

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.

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

A spell dedicated to the good faith of Lera Kelemen's art.

Musical sketches by ENGLAND'S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS is a monthly mix of curation, recompilation and pseudepigrapha.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.

In the late nineteenth century two facts conspired to change the face of music: the collapse of common practice tonality (which overturned the certainties underpinning the world of Art music), and the invention of a revolutionary new form of memory, sound recording (which redefined and greatly empowered the world of popular music). A tidal wave of probes and experiments into new musical resources and new organisational practices ploughed through both disciplines, bringing parts of each onto shared terrain before rolling on to underpin a new aesthetics able to follow sound and its manipulations beyond the narrow confines of ‘music’. Probes tries analytically to trace and explain these developments, and to show how, and why, both musical and post-musical genres take the forms they do.

PROBES #3 continues to explore probes into pitch, this time through its effective obliteration through ceaseless movement, sliding tones, and radical portamenti which defy all quantisation.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130206/03probestranscripteng.pdf

Link to the complete series:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/variations_tag

For more information on this series and other podcasts, visit Ràdio Web MACBA

(Originally broadcast Thursday 7pm, repeats Sunday 7am, Tuesday 7am and Wednesday 9am)(r)

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

Jonathan Lees of West Yorkshire netlabel hibernate selects internet-based ambient music with contributions from guest artists.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Andrea Cecon’s poem “thinking of us / the sound of wind / among the pines."

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.

Supported by Higher Ground Studios.

This episode was made as part of the Bundanon Trust artists in residence programme, and has been performed live at the Bundanon Museum. The Museum is on the stolen land of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups.

Field Notes

Side A - For Kites

• Sounds made on Residency, Bundanon Trust, October 2022, Development # 2.

A day in the rehearsal space, experimental sound, guitar pedals and vocals. Casio Watch Alarm; Fender Delux Reverb Tone Master Amplifier, Reverb, Vibrato; Boss ME-70 Multi Effects, Compression, Classic Distortion, Delay, Loop Pedal, Expression Pedal Octave Pitch Shift; Panasonic SlimLine RQ 2102 Cassette Recorder, Field Recording ; Boss VE-20 Vocal Performer, Reverb, Looper Pedal.

The Wind and the Sun. Playing the cassette BUN 2_8 Side A. In the grassy field where the kangaroos gather at dusk; a HEAVY wind. The Mona Lisa, a heavy kite. SOUND and sun blaring. Kite flyers running. Skin tingling. A concert to nature. Satisfying exhaustion. – Joe Wilson

Side B – The Storm

• Field Recording of a thunderstorm made on Residency at Bundanon Trust, August - October 2023, Development # 3 & 4.

A Personal Note, a Broken Heart, a Broken Body. Bundanon, a gully flat. Surrounded by hills. The storm is caught on the high rocks and is flung around the encroaching bushland. The lightning sheers across the last of the evening’s sunlight, across the way, a distance. The thunder chases the light, the sound chases the cut sky. Drawing closer. Volume rising. Bright white cracks become total for an instant. Birds continue to sing. Trees fall. – Joe Wilson

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.

The first half of this episode is curated by sound and visual artist Olli Aarni, who brings together recordings of Helsinki's soundscape with a selection of music from other Finnish artists - including some previously unreleased tracks.

Olli's mix is followed by an hour of field recordings and local music chosen and mixed by Manchester-based sound artist, Hayley Suviste.

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, Dani plays an eclectic mix of some hardcore, d-beat, cross-over thrash, and some blackened crust.

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.

Dreamscape 1994 is a plunderphonics type radio show recorded using a box of rave tapes, found tapes and home recordings. Improvised and mixed live with no overdubs on three tape recorders, expect to hear experimental, noise, sound art and new age music.