Mon 14

Cyclical time. Spectral media obliterates the boundaries between self and world, questions concerning the correct boundary between an alien everyday reality. Driven towards a madness. Resorting to illusory magical techniques. Fairies could once be heard making music under this artificial hill. The rustling of a woman's skirt could occasionally be heard behind the walls, as could ghostly music. A piano was said to play itself, even though most of the keys were broken. A ghostly black dog  wearing a 1940s suit leaning on a bannister, Russian voices and music emerge from the jukebox. Within thirty seconds, the figure had vanished. Music is also said to be heard within the building when none should be playing. What was this abominable cipher?
Made as part of Gravity Waves and The Spirit World.

Artist bio:
The Spectral Transmissions Research Unit is a collaboration between Ben Branagan Luke Pendrell dedicated to the theoretical and practical construction, dissemination, transmission, observation and analysis of spectral emanations.  Comprising a diverse spectrum of entities of various degrees of stability and tangibility. In as much as linear time can be applied, members of the STRU could, have, and or will include(d): Ludd Püca, JohnFrum, Kay Jackson, T-J.Cut, Dr. Ray Power, Proff. Jock Moxter, EKA-Francium, Dr. Tinkerpaw, Kaspar Brøcken, and The Coincidence Sprite.

Website/social links
https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-spectral-transmissions-audio-collage-28th-april-2024/

"Water Line" is a generative audio piece by Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz that imagines the space between the tides and between salt and fresh water - depending on the height of the tides, the listener is above or below the water surface. The lapping of mussels, the crawling and loud hissing of crabs, the pawing of sand fleas, the slow movements of shellfish. Real environmental sounds are mixed with compositional interpretations of bodies of water and their environment, from kelp forests and flood zones to mud flats and marshy areas, from flood plains to rocky coves.

The piece was originally commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Ö1 Kunstradio for the annual project KONTINUUM. It ran from April 2023 to June 2024 as an ongoing 1 year+ generative radio work.

Artist bio:
Anna Friz and Absolute Value of Noise (Peter Courtemanche) are Canadian sound and radio artists. Anna Friz creates self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation and performance. Her compositions reflect upon public media culture, environment and infrastructure (human and extra-human, acoustic, and electro-magnetic), time perception, and speculative fiction. Absolute Value of Noise creates radio and outdoor installations. He likes to work with "gadgetry" - custom turntables, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, magnetic transceivers, bio-electric circuits, and "little electronic brains" that observe and respond to local phenomena. His outdoor works are a comment on bio-diversity, extinction, and fragility.

Website/social links
http://absolutevalueofnoise.ca/
http://nicelittlestatic.com/

"Genesis" is inspired by the subtle relationships between sound and space, the phenomenology of sound, and contemporary research on communication systems in nature and ecology. In addition to the violin and EMS Synthi 100, the artist uses field recordings from Montreal, Portugal, the islands of Vrnik, Mljet, and Silba, various locations in Thailand, Lake Miraflores near the Panama Canal, and the slopes of Avala near Belgrade.
 
http://manjaristic.blogspot.com/

This piece is an informal exploration of Cuban Radio Culture, made of material Leonie collected during her excursion to Cuba in February of 2024. It contains snippets of the program as well as an interview with the station manager Anita of Radio Cadena Habana, a station with 70 employees located near the Plaza de la Libertad in Havana, which plays Cuban Music only. Furthermore you will hear poetry and excerpts of "NOTAS DE ACORDES EN EL AIRE" by Luis Hidalgo Ramos, read to us by Reynier Rodriguez Ribalta, as well as field recordings that Leonie took in Havana and at at the Caribbean Sea.

Artist bio:
Leonie Roessler - Composer and Performer raised in Germany and the US, now based in The Hague, Netherlands. Leonie captures her environment with field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and instrumental compositions. Part of her work is purely sound-based, however the theme of marginalization has become increasingly present in her radio works. She curates On Air - On Site Festival, and co-manages Iranian record label Noise à Noise with Soheil Soheili. Her works have been released through Musica Dispersa (ES/UK), Noise á Noise (IR), Biodiversitàs, Syrphe(DE), Antilounge(NL), and have been physically archived in the British Library.

Website/social links
http://www.leonieroessler.com
Facebook: Leonie Roessler
Instagram: ljroessler

1 ) Marco Lampis - Phantom Materials, Paolo Crimam’s exhibition at Infinite Display (12:02) 2 ) Ruptured World - Haunted Radio (10:37) 3)  Emmie McLuskey – The A - Z of Movement - Part Three:  A to G for voice and double bass (22:20) 4)  Luba Diduch - Snow melting with a backbeat (3:21) 5)  Female Laptop Orchestra - Telematic City Jam-Glasgow (10:08) 1) Marco Lampis - Phantom Materials, Paolo Crimam’s exhibition at Infinite Display Conceived as an audio guide for an imaginary artwork created by a fictional artist and hosted in a fictional museum, the track guides the listener inside the museum hall, where the main artwork takes shape.
PM is the natural continuum of my research, which broadly focuses on the relationship between listening and seeing. It is an extension of my previous works, such as Object Shape Description, where I “described” objects using subtle labial sounds, and Before the Eyes, a series of audio descriptions of contemporary art exhibitions for the visually impaired.
This work reflects my fascination with language and sound as descriptive tools, capable of guiding the listener in the exploration of mental images drawn from their own personal experience. This allows them to construct an imaginary world— in this case, the exhibition spaces and the artwork— transforming their role from a passive listener to an active spectator. I am an interdisciplinary artist exploring the intersections between echolocation, laser scanning, and ekphrasis, as I seek connections between these interests.
My artistic research is driven by the pursuit of an intellectual sympathy that allows me to align and tune myself with objects and reality in an absolute way. Over the years, I have worked on various projects that merge sound, perception, and space, constantly pushing the boundaries of how we experience the world through different senses. My practice is shaped by a deep curiosity for how sound can influence visual understanding, leading me to explore new and immersive ways. marcolampis.tumblr.com http://www.beforetheeyes.vision   2) Ruptured World - Haunted Radio "Haunted Radio" is an exploration of the weird and the eerie in relation to radio noise and the sonic extremities of the radio medium. Ali Rennie (Ruptured World) is a sonic artist and composer from Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Rennie has an MSc in Sound Shaping and Audiovisual Practice from the University of Glasgow and is currently studying for a PhD in sonic arts at the University of Aberdeen. He has released several albums under the name of Ruptured World with the cinematic dark ambient record label Cryo Chamber and is also known as a writer of weird fiction, publishing the novel "BleakWarrior" in 2016 and the fiction collection "Hardweird" in December 2024. alistairrennie.com rupturedworld.com 3) Emmie McLuskey – A to G for voice and double bass A live recording made in London in May 2023, the first day of hot sunshine that year. This twenty minute piece is part of a larger body of work by Emmie made in collaboration with choreographer Janice Parker. Taking the alphabet as it's starting point the pair have created a vocabulary for movement that every 'body' can do. In Part Three we hear vocalist Robyn Haddon and double bassist Otto Wilberg use the prompts 'A is for Angle, B is for Balance, C is for Circle, D is for Dab, E is for Elastic, F is for Fall and G is for Grow to improvise a new piece that unfolded outside on the streets in Chalk Farm. Emmie McLuskey is an artist and producer who lives in Glasgow. Recent presentations have taken place at Govan Project Space, Talbot Rice Gallery, The Travelling Gallery, Collective, Sissi Club Marseille, Dogo Residenz für Neue Kunst, Switzerland, nadine, Brussels and KW, Berlin. Since 2021 Emmie has led The School of Plural Futures with ATLAS Arts and in 2022, she was the Associate Artist for Edinburgh Art Festival. Emmie is currently working towards a new children’s book titled The A - Z of Movement with choreographer Janice Parker.   4) Luba Diduch - Snow melting with a backbeat This track was made by using a hydrophone that was submerged in a pile of melting snow and vernal pool in the springtime. I was surprised to discover the amount and variety of sound this recording generated. Vernal pools predictably appear with a seasonal rhythm – arriving and departing at the same general time and place, sometimes for thousands of years. They are the result of melting snow and are a safe predator-free habitat for certain species. My art practice explores notions of interactivity that evolve due to the presence of expanding and transforming architectonic schemes in and around artworks. In both research and art practice, I am particularly interested in the ways in which audiences with highly differential levels of commitment with an artwork provide possibilities for the examination and understanding of co-creativity. Collaborative and participatory projects that explore how environments such as the world’s forests and wild spaces can be seen as creatively productive spaces and are of particular interest in my practice as an artist who often works in the wilderness of Canada. https://soundsfromthebiome.bandcamp.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/luba-d-727319a/   5) Female Laptop Orchestra - Telematic City Jam-Glasgow ‘Telematic City Jam - Glasgow’ explores network resources jointly with a new instrument, the CubeHarmonic that mixes up chords and is based on the Rubik’s Cube. The entirely digital 4D-CubeHarmonic (coded by T. Yoshino, Japan, and conceptualized by FLO member Maria Mannone), is accessed from different locations, and sounds are transmitted from each laptop to Loopback. A remotely-accessed IBM quantum circuit is a decision-making helper for chord-variation maximization. During the performance, the live audio streams (acoustic and prepared instruments, voice, live electronics, environmental loops, synthesizers and Web Audio instrument Playsound.space) will be sent by FLO members from Brazil, Australia, Croatia, Poland and Italy, and mixed in Spain. The resulting blend of distributed music will be recorded (in February 2025) so that it can be streamed as part of Radiophrenia 2025. The work is a networked musical performance joining computer science, mathematics, and quantum physics and is currently under development. Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO), a music research project established in 2014 by Nela Brown, connects female musicians, sound artists, composers, engineers and computer scientists globally, through co-located and distributed collaborative music creation. Each FLO performance is site-specific and performer-dependent, mixing location-based field recordings, live coding, acoustic instruments, voice, sound synthesis and real-time sound processing using Web Audio API’s and VR environments with audio streams arriving from different global locations (via the internet and mobile networks). From stereo to immersive 3D audio (and everything in between), FLO pushes the boundaries of technology and experimentation in ensemble improvisation and telematic collaboration. https://femalelaptoporchestra.wordpress.com

1 Soheil Shirangi - The Vital Sounds(For Fixed Media And Accordion) (6:31)
2 Timothy Roy - Bromtpon & Braeswood (11:10)
3 Adam McNeil - Sand and Wind (6:27)
4 daniel blinkhorn - unequal forms 1 – 3 (16:20)
 
 
1) Soheil Shirangi - The Vital Sounds(For Fixed Media And Accordion)

The vital sounds (For Fixed Media And Accordion)
The purpose of this work Visualization is an environment. An environment that converts to audio, incidentally,
The vital sounds are each of us, A collection of regular and irregular rhythms And beat that Trying to Always be there.
Year Of Creation: March 2017
Composer and Accordion Player: Soheil Shirangi
Premiered: May 2020 World performance for the Corona Time by Lake Radio.

Soheil Shirangi Now is a student of San Francisco State University at Master of Composition. Graduate of Tehran Conservatory. Second Person Tehran International Electronic Music Festival Award(2017).Candidate best composers Thirty-third Fajr festival(2018). Earning a diploma of the III International Contest of Choral Composing named after AD Kastalsky(2018). Scholarship holder at the Hamburg Media Festival(2019).Earning a diploma of the third person of the Orginsky International Composing Competition(for orchestra) in Belarus(2020),- 2022 The winner of the second place of the composition of the CBU University scholarship for writing the work of Samat(Duet For Violin and Cello).
http://soheilshirangi.com/


2) Timothy Roy - Bromtpon & Braeswood

"Brompton & Braeswood" is an acousmatic piece inspired by my personal experience living through Hurricane Harvey. The title derives from the street intersection where my wife and I were living at the time, along Brays Bayou in Houston. Central to my piece is a library of field recordings I captured at that intersection and along the bayou in the days immediately prior to Harvey making landfall. Some of these recordings were made with a Soundfield SPS-200 microphone; others were made with a matched pair of DPA miniature omni microphones clipped to the brim of a baseball cap, which allowed me to capture a quasi-binaural stereo image. In composing "Brompton & Braeswood," I sought to present a series of vignettes of contrasting mood and representation. The storm is initially heard directly, then — after a door slams shut — from the perspective of someone taking shelter. The remainder of the piece

Timothy Roy composes music steeped in imagery and allusion, which seeks to elicit a sense of time, place, and feeling. His music has received performances at such venues and events as the National Theater of Taipei, Music Biennale Zagreb, BEAST, Ars Electronica, Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, and the International Electroacoustic Music Festival of Chile, “Ai-maako.” Recent honors include the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award (1st Prize, 2022), ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Award (1st Prize, 2023), Prix CIME (Distinction, 2023) and Giga-Hertz Prize from ZKM Karlsruhe (Honorable Mention, 2022). Tim resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with his wife and cattle dog Ziggy.
http://www.timothyroymusic.com

 
3) Adam McNeil - Sand and Wind

A short story.

I am a sound artist based in Glasgow.


4) daniel blinkhorn - unequal forms 1 – 3

‘unequal forms 1 – 3’ – link unequal forms 1 - 3 ‘unequal forms 1 – 3’ symbolise 3 distinct collections of biomes found within the Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Australia. Each collection exhibits its own unique morphological archetype, from the ‘Rare and Threatened’ collection of Victorian native plants, to the cacti and succulents of the ‘Arid Garden’ and lastly, an entire microclimate of ferns that comprise ‘Fern Gully’. In each instance, field recordings of biomes have been meticulously recorded and placed alongside studio recordings from the violin (performed by Anna McMichael) and percussion (performed by Louise Devenish) family of instruments. The final composition taking shape through a series of gestures and phrases designed to mimic the way sound propagates across the 3 habitats

Daniel is an Australian composer, sound and new media artist currently residing in Sydney. He has worked in a variety of creative, academic, research and teaching contexts, and is currently lecturer in composition and music technology at the Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. He is an ardent location field recordist, where he has embarked upon a growing number of recording expeditions throughout Africa, Alaska, Amazon, Australia, Cuba, West Indies, Mexico, Madagascar, Middle East, Northern Europe, and the high Arctic/ North Pole region of Svalbard. His creative works have received a number of awards at important international composition competitions.
http://www.danielblinkhorn.com

4 daniel blinkhorn - unequal forms 1 – 3 (16:20)
5 Laboratório Experimental do Som - Gryllus bimaculatus (14:22)
6 Louary - Shared Echoes (Glasgow City Sound Walk) 3 – 2 – 1 (4:13)
 
 
4) daniel blinkhorn - unequal forms 1 – 3

‘unequal forms 1 – 3’ – link unequal forms 1 - 3 ‘unequal forms 1 – 3’ symbolise 3 distinct collections of biomes found within the Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Australia. Each collection exhibits its own unique morphological archetype, from the ‘Rare and Threatened’ collection of Victorian native plants, to the cacti and succulents of the ‘Arid Garden’ and lastly, an entire microclimate of ferns that comprise ‘Fern Gully’. In each instance, field recordings of biomes have been meticulously recorded and placed alongside studio recordings from the violin (performed by Anna McMichael) and percussion (performed by Louise Devenish) family of instruments. The final composition taking shape through a series of gestures and phrases designed to mimic the way sound propagates across the 3 habitats

Daniel is an Australian composer, sound and new media artist currently residing in Sydney. He has worked in a variety of creative, academic, research and teaching contexts, and is currently lecturer in composition and music technology at the Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. He is an ardent location field recordist, where he has embarked upon a growing number of recording expeditions throughout Africa, Alaska, Amazon, Australia, Cuba, West Indies, Mexico, Madagascar, Middle East, Northern Europe, and the high Arctic/ North Pole region of Svalbard. His creative works have received a number of awards at important international composition competitions.
http://www.danielblinkhorn.com

 
5) Laboratório Experimental do Som - Gryllus bimaculatus

Gryllus bimaculatus, is a collectively constructed piece, provoked by the project Premissa Híbrida, in Flores Island, at Azores archipielago, as a geocatching art project, in search of the sounds of the place. https://www.instagram.com/premissa_acores/ Crickets were the subject of attention, as they were the most constant sound that manifested itself in the ecosystem I inhabited during the project, even more than the sound of the ocean. This piece has been generated through Sonic Bloom, and constructed as an experience to be felt in an auditorium, with eyes closed.
In case that this piece is selected, we suggest a panning of the stereo channels, quite strong. Leaving silences on the right and even on the left side. Recorded with a Zoom H3-VR 360º, smashed into stereo and edited with Audacity.

The Laboratório Experimental de Som is a nomadic project that uses soundscapes as a resource for the construction of inter-species dialogues and sensorial awareness of natural reality, where the body is integrated as a sensor. It works with sound creation processes and the production of workshops for the transmission of listening methodologies, field recording practices and the study of acoustic dynamics to approach the practice of the art of storytelling and sensory regeneration.

"In nature we trust, through soundscapes we dream"

https://www.instagram.com/laboratorioexperimentaldosom/
https://soundcloud.com/laboratoriodoexperimental
https://laboratorioexperimentaldosom.com/

 
6) Louary - Shared Echoes (Glasgow City Sound Walk) 3 – 2 – 1

Shared Echoes is a collection of four soundscape compositions created using field recordings of a circular walk around Glasgow City (Central station - George Square - Glasgow Green - River Clyde - Central Station). Drawing inspiration from the city’s sonic environment - mechanical familiarity, conversation choirs, the flutter of pigeon wings, distant bagpipes - Louary responds to and mimics its character through raw synthesised sequences, bright electric guitars and her own voice. Conceptualised during the Covid 19 pandemic, Louary explores the use of field recordings in her composition process to capture a sense of Glasgow in that moment of time. Without separating herself from her surroundings, Louary openly places the sound of her footsteps and translated emotional state into this work, spurred by a deep need for connection during this time.

Canadian-Scottish musician and producer Louary draws on her sensitivity to sound in everyday life and passion for ambient music. Fascinated by the complexities of sound, Louary’s music often incorporates field recordings and malleable instruments, such as analog synthesiser, to evoke emotion out of sound objects and sonic environments. As an avid music listener she hosts a monthly radio show, 'Field Trip', on Radio Buena Vida exploring the wide use of field recording within music composition. In her most recent work, Louary takes inspiration from electro-acoustic and soundscape composers such as Fennesz, Hildegard Westerkamp, CLAIR and Flora Yin Wong.

Bandcamp: https://louary.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: @louary_

Join writer Melissa McCarthy here in the dug-out as she brings you the sports reports, the match updates, and the game theory.
Dr Jekyll 4, Mr Hyde 1; War 5, Peace nil; Antony 3, Cleopatra 3. Walrus 7, Carpenter 2. For all the latest scores, the transference news, and the analysis, tune in to this three-part investigation into writing, listening, literature, and sport.
Upcoming fixtures: Tom versus Captain Najork; the Harvards versus the Yales; God versus Satan. Who will win?


Artist bio:

Melissa McCarthy’s books include Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated Companion (Sternberg, 2019), on the balance between who’s moving over the face of the water and what’s lurking underneath; Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro (Sagging Meniscus, 2023), which considers flowers, photography, and explosions; and Exceptional Subjects, a collaboration with photographer Norman McBeath (Easel Press, 2024), on cameras, space exploration, and the persistence of voice and image.
She’s a contributing editor at Exacting Clam magazine, writing on topics ranging from translation to typewriters, orcas to authors, football to photography.

 
 
http://sharksillustrated.org

instagram: mccarthysharks

Four short radio pieces drawing on the extensive archive of recorded conversations created as part of 900 Voices. These 4 episodes provide a curated dip into conversations with people in Edinburgh, from all walks of life as they reflect on what belonging means to them. The conversations were recorded all over the city in libraries, community centres, schools and homes. Originally shared as a generative sound installation in St Giles' Cathedral during Edinburgh International Festival 2024 as part of the Cathedral's 900th anniversary celebrations, the archive consists of over 300 hours of recorded conversation on belonging, connection and community and will be publically available through the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh from next year. 900 Voices is by Zoë Irvine in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson.   Produced by Zoë Irvine.   Artist bio: Converse comes out of 900 Voices. Initially conceived by Zoë Irvine and created in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Zoë Irvine is an artist and sound designer who lives and works in Edinburgh. https://www.zoeirvine.net Jules Rawlinson is an audiovisual composer https://www.pixelmechanics.com/ Lindsay Perth is a Public Artist & Designer https://lippi.org/ Website/social links https://www.900voices.org/ insta 900.voices Audio documentation of the installation https://on.soundcloud.com/ZTg5TKdbFWdeRkEW9 (the proposed radio transmissions would not have cathedral reverb!) booklet that accompanied installation: https://www.900voices.org/s/A6_AUGEIF-website.pdf

"Raw & Baked" is a 30-minute electroacoustic composition with a focus on the disembodied radio voice. Inspired by daily actions in reverse order, the piece uses field recordings from Delft in spring 2024, blending raw and processed sound with found samples. Sharp cuts and softly processed sounds create a dynamic texture, with a tribute to Italian actress Monica Vitti. Premiering on Czech Radio's ARS ACUSTICA on May 29, 2024, this radio artwork showcases the composer's approach to radio art and soundscape composition.

Artist bio:
Margherita Brillada is a sound artist and radio maker based in The Hague. Currently a research associate at the Institute of Sonology, she is working on a PhD research project titled “Re-thinking Radio Art: Community Radio and WebRadio.” Founder of On Air – On Site, a sound investigation of 48 hours non-stop streaming, in partnership with West Den Haag and the Institute of Sonology. Margherita’s practice focuses on creating radio artworks that blend soundscape compositions with field recordings, voices, and found samples. She explores the urban soundscape and the role of the disembodied voice in the radiophonic context.

Website/social links
https://margheritabrillada.com
https://onaironsite.com/artists/margherita-brillada-2
https://bugradio.org
https://www.instagram.com/onair.onsite/
https://www.instagram.com/rita.marghe92/?hl=en

“Sottopelle” (Italian for “Under the Skin”) is a sound project that blends spoken word, resynthesis, and sampling to create an intimate and surreal auditory journey. Narrated by the evocative voice of Yan Leiva, it guides the listener through dreamlike landscapes where reality and imagination intertwine. Each segment unfolds like a metaphor, reflecting on themes of human connection, the chaos of existence, and the search for meaning within disorder. The narration serves as the core around which the entire composition revolves, connecting atmospheric soundscapes with melodic elements that range from ethereal to deep, resonant tones. Through careful layering of ambient textures and reimagined samples, “Sottopelle” strikes a delicate balance between light and darkness, vastness and intimacy, inviting the listener to a space that is both introspective and expansive. Like a story whispered before bedtime, but crafted for adults. Artist bio: Maestrale is a Frankfurt-based dancer and electronic music composer who primarily creates music for dance companies. Notable works include “Arcipelago” for Balletto Teatro di Torino, which won an award at the Torino Film Festival, and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” presented at the Cocotte Festival in Lyon. Outside of this, Maestrale explores new sounds through club DJ sets, mixing genres from ambient to techno, with his recent set featured on NTS. He is currently composing for “Join,” a production by Ioannis Mandafounis for the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. Website/social links @emanuelepiras_ @____maestrale____

Four short radio pieces drawing on the extensive archive of recorded conversations created as part of 900 Voices. These 4 episodes provide a curated dip into conversations with people in Edinburgh, from all walks of life as they reflect on what belonging means to them. The conversations were recorded all over the city in libraries, community centres, schools and homes. Originally shared as a generative sound installation in St Giles' Cathedral during Edinburgh International Festival 2024 as part of the Cathedral's 900th anniversary celebrations, the archive consists of over 300 hours of recorded conversation on belonging, connection and community and will be publically available through the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh from next year. 900 Voices is by Zoë Irvine in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Produced by Zoë Irvine. Artist bio: Converse comes out of 900 Voices. Initially conceived by Zoë Irvine and created in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Zoë Irvine is an artist and sound designer who lives and works in Edinburgh. https://www.zoeirvine.net Jules Rawlinson is an audiovisual composer https://www.pixelmechanics.com/ Lindsay Perth is a Public Artist & Designer https://lippi.org/ Website/social links https://www.900voices.org/ insta 900.voices Audio documentation of the installation https://on.soundcloud.com/ZTg5TKdbFWdeRkEW9 (the proposed radio transmissions would not have cathedral reverb!) booklet that accompanied installation: https://www.900voices.org/s/A6_AUGEIF-website.pdf

1) Matana Roberts - enthralled by her curious blend (3:55)


 


1) Matana Roberts - enthralled by her curious blend
From Coin Coin Chapter Five : In The Garden

‘I hear her call: Salome...? Danu...? Come ah-come...’ is a surreal folkloristic sonic tale or a journey through memories encountered in a fever dream. Scenic echoes intimately evolve, looped until they burst into strange atmospheres and rhythms. We meet a hopelessly entangled voice, haunted and lost. Bewildered by fragmented distortions she attempts to unpick a series of flickering scenes. Delving into the emotional world of both adult and child. Something significant that happened. Imprinted in memory. Amorphous and vague. A lament. The forest is crying against a blurred background. A ritual unfolds, lifts a spell of silence. Hidden behind the noise she remains indistinct. Vibrant matters pulsating. A gatekeeper of invisible worlds. An empty corridor filled with footsteps. She flees into the river. A ghostly figure. A cry. A flower left on the kitchen table. A chant.   She leads us through chaotic waters of electro acoustic instrumentation, field recordings, noise, singing, spoken narration, decaying tape loops, and a rich tapestry of both analogue and digital experimental recording processes. Mocking, hiding, guiding, waking, haunting, lost, mourning, grieving, she runs through rhythmic glimpses, moving between nuances of lightness and downfall. Biography: Mondlane is the solo moniker of sound artist Lisa Fabian, also in the Glasgow trio NEY. As Mondlane, she layers field recordings with processed vocals and manipulated fragments and electroacoustic instrumentation. She draws from a growing library of intimate recordings, using her narrative rich samples as instruments in improvised performances. Interested in the personal and collective experience and unconscious, she explores the fragmentation and reassembly of narrative. Often touching on themes of intimacy, temporality, otherworldliness, and relationships that materialise in-between bodies and memories, as well as archival or collected material. Most recent work was shown at: The Old Church Stoke Newington (London), Cafe Oto (London), The Old Hairdressers (Glasgow), EXIT (Glasgow), 90mil (Berlin), Globe Gallery (Berlin), The House of Bell Street (Glasgow), The Briggait (Glasgow), Hoxton 253 (London), Keep in touch Gallery (Seoul), CCA - Centre of Contemporary Arts (Glasgow) amongst others. Recent residencies include CCA Creative Lab Glasgow (2023), Countdown Grabowsee Berlin (2024), Countdown Grabowsee Berlin (2023).

"No Roof Only Sky" was the tenth and final of my films for Repeater Radio's "Their Tells" series. It told an intertwined narratives of two voices lamenting love and loss, and the ultimate impossibility of love, over a textured electronic background. Here it is presented without visuals as a radio play/poetry of sorts.

Artist bio:
Ruaridh Law is an artist and musician based in North Ayrshire, Scotland. He makes films, composes music, installs things in- and out-side and writes & publishes words, often via his No Roof Only Sky imprint.

Website/social links
http://ruaridhTVO.com
@ruaridhlaw (IG)
@ruaridhTVO (Twitter/X)
http://noroofonlysky.com

1) Anna Piva (Suhabart) - Transmission / For Alice Duration (14:00)
2) Cecilia Assalini – Desarticular (1:56)
3) MME dUO - Jumbo Shrimp Flottante (16:30)
 
 
1) Anna Piva (Suhabart) - Transmission / For Alice Duration

The Transmission / For Alice is a 14-minutes montage/edit of an audio art installation exhibited in Radio Alice: Linguaggi e Creativita’ (2017) for the 40th anniversary of the closure, in March 1977, of the Bologna free radio station Radio Alice by the armed police forces. The installation soundscape is a reshape of Radio Alice’s archival recordings, provided by Valerio Minnella, one of the founders of the radio. The assemblage includes the sounds of its final transmission, during the youth uprising which followed the killing by the Carabinieri of the student Francesco Lo Russo, with the voice of Valerio broadcasting live during the armed police break-in which led to his arrest and the forced closure of the radio in March 1977. These archival sources are traced and dubbed in a layered composition mixed with atmospherics, electronics and field recordings, to evoke a sense of personal memory, deep time, and present resonance.
https://www.mixcloud.com/SOASradio/playlists/altertimes-by-suhabart/.

 
2) Cecilia Assalini – Desarticular

"Desarticular" is an experimental piece I created during the pandemic, a time of confinement and isolation that led me to question the boundaries between noise, sound synthesis, and musical structure. The piece explores the fragmentation of sound and the deconstruction of traditional sonic landscapes, using techniques of synthesis and digital processing. Through layers of noise and electronic textures, "Desarticular" seeks to transform chaos into an auditory language that reflects on rupture and reconstruction, both personal and artistic. This project represented an opportunity to dismantle my own creative limits and find new forms of expression within disruption.

Cecilia Assalini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Composer and Sound Artist. She started developing her musical skills at an early age, beginning with the piano and now working with the cello. She graduated from the National School of Experimentation and Filmmaking (ENERC - Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica) and Musical Composition at the National Arts University in Buenos Aires - Argentina. Since 2012 she has been working on Films, TV, Advertising and Animation projects making original music, experimental sounds, ambience & sound FX edition and Re- recording Mixer.
https://soundcloud.com/ceassalini

 
3) MME dUO - Jumbo Shrimp Flottante

We were there for studio recordings, les voisines in residence.
When storm Ciàran swept through Finistère in early November last year.
Electricity went out. We saw the village vanishing in still darkness.
The storm thinned out forests and gardens. And opened the view into them.
Behind this open curtain we saw Petri mourning for his trees.
That night the jumbo shrimp encountered us.
Moi et toi là.

Jumbo Shrimp Flottante is a 16:30 min battery based recording, edited for a floating listening to a non-electrified sound.

Since 2016 Cologne based Patricia Koellges and Tamara Lorenz make use of a variety of instruments and devices: DIY electroacoustics, small synths, loopers, tuning forks, e-bass, percussion and voice are thrown into the game and shape a sound in the tradition of Musique concrete, Post Punk and factual Dada that is as diverse as it is striking in it’s interplay between dissonant sounds and harmonic sequences, breaks between a-tactical accents and continuous rhythms, the supposed familiarity of spoken language, which is nevertheless alienated by fragmentation.

mme-duo.de/
makiphon.de/
mmeduo.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/makiphon
instagram.com/mme_duo/?hl=de

4) Mary Hooper & Kate Illes - Please Write me  (5:00)
5) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 9 (0:27)
6) Tom Davison - A very Fine Substance (5:27)
7) Audrey Soetermans - Silver Spheres (4:00)
8) Lise Lebleux - I listen to whether the bells are sick (8:49)
 
 
4) Mary Hooper & Kate Illes - Please Write me  

"Please Write Me" is a collaboration between myself and artist Kate Illes. These tracks are provide a contextural soundworld for the wall mounted artwork that she created for her MA degree show. I have recorded and sampled the audio & soundscapes and composed the tracks. Kate and I both collaborated on the sound design and concept of how the sound should be integrated into the artwork. She summarises her work 'Please Write Me' here: ' The contents of a discovered suitcase cannot present a complete narrative of a life, instead, the focus lies on the delicate, fragmented nature of a personal archive, the snapshots and vignettes contained within. The gaps in information, unanswered letters, and unseen details provoke contemplation and inquiry for the viewer. With much of Popsy's life represented as blank spaces between correspondences, it is imperative for us to approach the material with a sense of respectful curiosity

My arts practice is site-specific, using of a wide range of materials and processes to create installations, objects, and sound-works. I often collaborate with artists from different disciplines, writers and musicians, incorporating research into the narratives of place, people, the patina of human occupation, and the geographical impact of the location on the way we live. I work to commission or developing self-initiated projects developing ideas through research and working with partners and groups in the community to generate the content and material for the artwork. The thing that constantly fascinates me is ‘Sense of Place’ and peoples stories
https://soundcloud.com/last-station
https://soundcloud.com/mary_2020
Instagram: @ma.hooper1

 
5) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 9

why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––

1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).

 
6) Tom Davison - A very Fine Substance

A very fine substance is the Sonic disassembling of a fridge rattling harmonically by the sea on a Kefalonian Beach, Greece.
Listen attentively enough and you can hear the clouds rub against the sky.
It is part of a wider project called News From Nowhere, an album of organic drones and sonic landscapes, entirely comprised of field recordings that point to the state of meditation.

Tom Davison is a field recordist and sound designer working in London and the Wessex area. His work is folk-inspired, mostly working with drones and found sound to let the natural world compose itself, of its own accord and nature.
He is currently performing live shows in London and releasing an Album at the end of the Year.
https://www.instagram.com/tomdavisonpyjamas/
https://soundcloud.com/tommyersdavison

 
7) Audrey Soetermans - Silver Spheres

“Silver Spheres” is a radio drama composition where two characters interact in a world of drones and filters. One welcomes the other home to this unlikely sonic terrain, this uncanny home away from home.

Audrey Soetermans is a Junior Commercial Music honors student at Millikin University from Rockford, Illinois. She is currently in the Composition Studio under the instruction of Dr. Ralph Lewis. She volunteered for the Welcome to 1979 Music Production Summit in 2022 in Nashville, had an internship at the Post Punk Industrial Museum in Chicago, had an internship reviewing albums for the Los Angeles based company Mxdwn, and toured singing in France and Belgium last summer. She is also the Secretary of the recording studio Millitrax, President of the Millikin Music Business Club and is VP Membership under Sigma Alpha Iota.
https://www.instagram.com/audrey_lou21/
https://music.mxdwn.com/author/audrey-soetermans/

 
8) Lise Lebleux - I listen to whether the bells are sick

A man quickly climbs the narrow old wooden steps, reaches to the top of the bell tower and, with a bold gesture, strikes the massive bell. The imposing frequency then spreads as far as the eye can see across the village soundscape. It meets the elements, such as the wind and the birds, and is reflected on the walls of the surrounding mountains. The sound gradually spreads throughout the Austrian valley, entering houses and passing through the ears of the local people. At this precise moment, the presence of this man and his voice inhabit the place, creating a striking symbiosis between him and his environment.

Lise Lebleux lives and works between Paris and Vienna. Her artistic practice consists of creating sound compositions based on her own field recordings. She focuses in particular on the links that exist between individuals and their acoustic environments. The idea is to follow these people as they make her listen to their environment and to cross-reference these sonic moments with the wider acoustics of the area. In this way, each sound piece is the result of recordings of a specific space, with its own intrinsic conditions. She is currently working on a radio broadcast with Kunstradio ORF Ö1 in Vienna.
https://liselebleux.fr
https://www.instagram.com/lise_lebleux/
@lise_lebleux

Lowbrow Process is a cycle of Lo-fi short fictions inspired by the arts of the lowbrow movement. Rénoviction takes place in the middle of the housing crisis in Quebec where the wild eviction of tenants has created a movement of graffiti on the buildings of real estate sharks. The Barbe.Blu episode is a typical mise en abyme of video games where the distinction between the player and his avatar is deliberately blurred. The Paradox episode was recorded in an important art gallery (a paradoxical place for lowbrow arts) where speakers broadcast sound elements along the journey of the storyteller Paul Bradley who tells us about his visit to a strange and fictitious museum. Collage episode takes extracts from the 20 sound tests produced during the research phase with the fifteen participating artists, in order to create an fragmented poetic story.

Artist bio:
La Quadrature is a research and creation organization in contemporary storytelling led by Paul Bradley, Céline Jantet and Nicolas Rochette. La Quadrature question the very act of the action of telling. Active on stage as well as in public spaces and on the web, La Quadrature's creations have received several distinctions including the NUMIX 2020 - sound and experimental fiction and the English Sound of the Year prize - innovation in sound technology.

Lowbrow Process main artists:
Paul Bradley, Étienne Legast, Simone d'Ambrosio, Jérome Bérubé, Isabelle St-Pierre.

Website/social links
https://www.laquadra.ca
https://www.facebook.com/laquadratureconte/

Four short radio pieces drawing on the extensive archive of recorded conversations created as part of 900 Voices. These 4 episodes provide a curated dip into conversations with people in Edinburgh, from all walks of life as they reflect on what belonging means to them. The conversations were recorded all over the city in libraries, community centres, schools and homes. Originally shared as a generative sound installation in St Giles' Cathedral during Edinburgh International Festival 2024 as part of the Cathedral's 900th anniversary celebrations, the archive consists of over 300 hours of recorded conversation on belonging, connection and community and will be publically available through the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh from next year. 900 Voices is by Zoë Irvine in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Produced by Zoë Irvine. Artist bio: Converse comes out of 900 Voices. Initially conceived by Zoë Irvine and created in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Zoë Irvine is an artist and sound designer who lives and works in Edinburgh. https://www.zoeirvine.net Jules Rawlinson is an audiovisual composer https://www.pixelmechanics.com/ Lindsay Perth is a Public Artist & Designer https://lippi.org/ Website/social links https://www.900voices.org/ insta 900.voices Audio documentation of the installation https://on.soundcloud.com/ZTg5TKdbFWdeRkEW9 (the proposed radio transmissions would not have cathedral reverb!) booklet that accompanied installation: https://www.900voices.org/s/A6_AUGEIF-website.pdf

Major Arcana of Fungi is an action inspired by radical mycology. Audio here is an excerpt from 22-hours long radio show. The participating artists were asked to interpret a Tarot card they drew from the pack in a sound form. This could be related to the fungal body and their personal impression of the given symbol. They could refer to the EDAPHONE: the sound of life underneath forest litter as it grows fluidifies and decomposes into smaller parts through hyphae's microchannels or they could offer initiation into personal secrets and intuition. ‘‘I am here as a product of the connection and collaboration of many others’’ refering to the underground imaginary, to the mycelium as a network of neural connections that create ever-changing, learning membranes - each card can also be interpreted as an emanation of this great field of interrelations. Major Arcana of Fungi is an action inspired by radical mycology. Audio here is an excerpt from 22-hours long radio show. The participating artists were asked to interpret a Tarot card they drew from the pack in a sound form. This could be related to the fungal body and their personal impression of the given symbol. They could refer to the EDAPHONE: the sound of life underneath forest litter as it grows fluidifies and decomposes into smaller parts through hyphae's microchannels or they could offer initiation into personal secrets and intuition. ‘‘I am here as a product of the connection and collaboration of many others’’ refering to the underground imaginary, to the mycelium as a network of neural connections that create ever-changing, learning membranes - each card can also be interpreted as an emanation of this great field of interrelations. This piece is a mix of compositions and fragments sent by collaborating artists in this order: ASTMA, Zosia Hołubowska, Martyna Poznańska, Ania Kamecka, Mario de Vega, Anna Jurkiewicz, Gosia Wrzosek, FOQL, Milena Soporowska Artist bio: Sound artist, practicing deep listening as a starting point for sound activism. Interested in voice as a bridge between the public and private sphere; listening, singing, and improvisation as a practice of social resistance. Using extended voice techniques, radio waves, field recording and electronics - she creates an audiosphere for her personal and collaborative performance works. She co-creates the Warsaw-based community Radio Kapitał and is the author of poetic radio plays and interventions. From 2020 to 2021 she was a resident of the experimental studio WORM in Rotterdam; permanent collaborator of the interdisciplinary platform Q-O2 based in Brussels and Goethe-Institute. Website/social links https://secondaryarchive.org/artists/edka-jarzab/

In November 2023, Alessandro Bosetti was invited by musician Donato Epiro to Castrignano de Greci, a Grika-speaking town (with Byzantine and ancient Greek roots) in Salento, to work on the sonic particularities of this unique language, preserved over the centuries in an enclave of a few thousand speakers in the heart of the Mediterranean. In “il cielo uno è” a list of nouns consistently repeated and declined in the instances of the Grika language is compiled. Such a list maps a world that not only extends horizontally over the territory of Salentinian Greece but also sinks deeply along the vertical of time and from which it brings out words and meanings that are ancient but still surprisingly close.

Artist bio:
Alessandro Bosetti, born in Milan and living in Marseille, is a composer and sound artist with a particular interest in the musicality of language and in the voice, conceived as an autonomous object and an instrument of expression. His works enacts a dialogue among language, voice, and sound within complex tonal and formal constructions, often crossed by oblique irony. Bosetti creates surprising pieces and devices questioning aesthetic categories and listening postures.

Website/social links
http://www.melgun.net
https://www.instagram.com/alessandrobosetti2023/
https://www.facebook.com/alessandro.bosetti.5

"Sound Desert" is the outcome of an artistic exploration carried out in Arica; the [current] Chilean city that borders Peru and Bolivia, in the heart of the Atacama Desert.

The project consists of five works as diverse as the territory inhabited by them. A sort of auditory promenade along the coast, the multiplicity of voices in an international bus terminal and in a farmer’s market, the ecosystem of an endangered wetland, and the ghosts of an unoccupied train station; are the elements that invite you to hear the sounds of a borderland.

Artist bio:
Historian graduated from the University of Tarapacá and Master in Creative Documentary from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has also received training in documentary filmmaking through various courses held in Chile, Cuba and Spain. He lives and works in the tri-border area of Chile, Peru and Bolivia, where he develops artistic and cinematographic projects with his production company: Candelabro Films. "Sound Desert" is his first sound art project, which won the Field Recording Award at the 28th Phonurgia Nova Awards in France. The sound piece has also been selected to the Longueur d'ondes, RIDM Montreal, Tsonami festivals, among others.

Website/social links
http://www.desiertosonoro.com
https://www.instagram.com/candelabro.films/

Jamie McNeill & Jim Colquhoun have been collaborating for over 20 years and in that time they have each amassed an individual archive that tells its own/conflicting story of their shared experience of wandering a variety (the same but different) of edgeland sumps and wobbling brown moorlands: photos, objects, wounds, train tickets, beer-induced paranoia (the Wetherspoons Syndrome), failed relationships and so forth. For Radiophrenia they propose to conduct a live-to-air conversation/performance/reenactment/primal scream in which they would present each other with items from their respective archives, using them as prompts from which to provoke discussion/arguments about the items’ provenance and place within their ‘shared’ story - “was this from Neilston?” “Was this the time we enraged the farmer with the sheeps face that warned us off the trackway by his farm?” “Remember the devil dog that nearly ripped us limb from limb?” This conversation/performance will be accompanied by a live ‘remix’ of audio elements from their archives - phone-recordings patched through guitar fx pedals, fingers jammed into cassette players, the ritual stroking of broken phones in an attempt to tease out meaning, (any meaning will do), make us feel better about ourselves and force it all to make some kind of sense.

Artist bio:
Colquhoun & McNeill go to the places you don’t want to in an ongoing attempt to scrape away the surface layers of place and commune with the slippery rotting and frankly quite smelly genius loci they are convinced (against all evidence) is waiting to engage with them in some profound manner or other.
They have shown work/performed in a variety of contexts over the decades including as the band Widowzzz featuring Jim’s then six year old daughter on vocals and in the environs of North Ayrshire on several occasions.

Website/social links
https://soundcloud.com/colquhoun-mcneill
https://www.collective-edinburgh.art/programme/2006-jim-colquhoun
https://brutjournal.com/article/jim-colquhoun-questioning-what-drawing-is-with-sly-humor/

Four short radio pieces drawing on the extensive archive of recorded conversations created as part of 900 Voices. These 4 episodes provide a curated dip into conversations with people in Edinburgh, from all walks of life as they reflect on what belonging means to them. The conversations were recorded all over the city in libraries, community centres, schools and homes. Originally shared as a generative sound installation in St Giles' Cathedral during Edinburgh International Festival 2024 as part of the Cathedral's 900th anniversary celebrations, the archive consists of over 300 hours of recorded conversation on belonging, connection and community and will be publically available through the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh from next year. 900 Voices is by Zoë Irvine in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Produced by Zoë Irvine. Artist bio: Converse comes out of 900 Voices. Initially conceived by Zoë Irvine and created in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Zoë Irvine is an artist and sound designer who lives and works in Edinburgh. https://www.zoeirvine.net Jules Rawlinson is an audiovisual composer https://www.pixelmechanics.com/ Lindsay Perth is a Public Artist & Designer https://lippi.org/ Website/social links https://www.900voices.org/ insta 900.voices Audio documentation of the installation https://on.soundcloud.com/ZTg5TKdbFWdeRkEW9 (the proposed radio transmissions would not have cathedral reverb!) booklet that accompanied installation: https://www.900voices.org/s/A6_AUGEIF-website.pdf

How can you use the art of sound to make painful memory joyful, without negating the importance of painful experience? What is myth? What is awe? How can you honor, yet document the unknown? Where do the personal, cultural, emotional politics collide in a rendering of sonicity? What does it mean to endure?  These are questions that currently fascinate me.  My current work is focused on collaging experiential process through soundscape exploration, based on unique embodied experiences.   Just before the world shutdown in 2019 I voyaged on an English cargo ship from the United Kingdom to North America. I wanted to know…to embody the motion, movements of not only a history but of a wonder around sounds, memory, what we carry, what we leave behind whether by choice or force. I carried with me a small “roberts radio”, that refused to work of course, b/c there was no signal. So I kept an audio diary and from that, a series of field recordings, and footage I made during this time,  I present to you a radio collage, of a life changing moment for me not only as an artist, but as a person, entitled “Chasing Hopes on the Star Atlantic…”  ‘Chasing Hopes on the Star Atlantic’ is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunst zum Hören, Osterreich 1 produced with the support of Creative Scotland.    Biography: Matana Roberts is an internationally celebrated composer, performer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist, and mixed-media practitioner.   Working across many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, music composition, visual art, dance, poetry, and theatre, Roberts is perhaps best known for their acclaimed Coin Coin project - a multi-chapter work of 'panoramic sound quilting' mixed media performance work, that aims to expose the mystical roots and intuitive traditions of American creative expression, while maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrative, history, community and political expression within sonic structures. https://www.matanaroberts.com/

A piece for radio without words, only Atmospheres, audio acoustic; narrative patterns. A portmanteau of following sounds; in a sequence that a range of ideas referring to the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past, as in the manner of a ghost in the machine.

Artist bio:
A international Group project with a ever changing line up which started in the mid eighties; Since there have been many times of inactivity, and lots of recordings have been lost down the years. Various members joined and left, lots of tapes of unlistenable noise were made, sold or given away, only to be played once, and mostly for only a few seconds. There's a story that a party in the late eighties was ruined by a Mutant Beatniks album being accidentally selected from a pile of cassettes. From the years of not self editing, a open space arrived, and in this clearing was a sound set with out ego

Website/social links
http://mixseriescollection.bandcamp.com

"Water Line" is a generative audio piece by Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz that imagines the space between the tides and between salt and fresh water - depending on the height of the tides, the listener is above or below the water surface. The lapping of mussels, the crawling and loud hissing of crabs, the pawing of sand fleas, the slow movements of shellfish. Real environmental sounds are mixed with compositional interpretations of bodies of water and their environment, from kelp forests and flood zones to mud flats and marshy areas, from flood plains to rocky coves.

The piece was originally commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Ö1 Kunstradio for the annual project KONTINUUM. It ran from April 2023 to June 2024 as an ongoing 1 year+ generative radio work.

Artist bio:
Anna Friz and Absolute Value of Noise (Peter Courtemanche) are Canadian sound and radio artists. Anna Friz creates self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation and performance. Her compositions reflect upon public media culture, environment and infrastructure (human and extra-human, acoustic, and electro-magnetic), time perception, and speculative fiction. Absolute Value of Noise creates radio and outdoor installations. He likes to work with "gadgetry" - custom turntables, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, magnetic transceivers, bio-electric circuits, and "little electronic brains" that observe and respond to local phenomena. His outdoor works are a comment on bio-diversity, extinction, and fragility.

Website/social links
http://absolutevalueofnoise.ca/
http://nicelittlestatic.com/

‘The Tellings’ is a sound collage with spoken word performances forming 20 fragmentary narratives situated in an eclectic soundscape with elements of hip hop, post punk, DIY cassette music, VHS soundtracks and atmospheric recordings. Like the music, the narrative element jumps around in tone, voice and setting. It uses the bizarre, imaginative qualities of alien abduction stories as its source material in order to highlight the potentially unsettling and lonely nature of individual perception. It is written in a manner which suits the ADHD mindset; looking at a subject from multiple angles simultaneously and in a non-linear way. Both words and sound combine to create a woozy, immersive experience somewhere between a radio play and a mixtape. 'The Tellings' was previously released on a small run of cassettes (on Spirit Duplicator, 2024). The words are mine and are performed by me, Nathalie Boobis, Micheal Orrell, Emily Furneaux and Lewis Henson.

Artist bio:
I work under the name Good Vallis and create sound and written works. Coming from a background in hip hop, I take the collaged aspect of sample-based production and expand it to draw on a wide range of influences. I am driven by the written word and the vivid images and narratives this creates. Most of my interest lies in the intersection of sound and words, but I also write short fiction. I have ADHD and I draw on this in my creative processes to both understand and represent the fragmentary and non-linear ways in which I experience the world.

Website/social links
https://goodvallis.bandcamp.com/album/the-tellings

https://www.instagram.com/anth_nyday/

These are the dispatches of a “83”, a solitary Radio Operator stationed at a remote outpost in Limbo.

His duty is to monitor the blizzard of static and report back anything of note….
As the characters, music and ambiguous broadcasts emerge the Operator comments on the recordings as well as life at the mysterious Outpost.
 
But why does HQ never answer?

Where are the broadcasts coming from?

And who is Old Leonard?

In Episode 1 we meet the organiser of a horror swimming event, hear a song about a crocodile and 83 reflects on a supernatural experience.

Episodes 1-6 plus bonus episodes are at limbotapes.podbean.com

Artist bio:
Pete Hazell (a.k.a. Titus 12) is the artist/producer/presenter behind Limbo Tapes, Radio Limbo and Limbo Calling. Based in Bristol, he juggles these three entities with help from Sean Lee.
These platforms are home to cassette releases of electronic music, Radio shows on Bristol’s Noods Radio, and the fiction/comedy/variety podcast Limbo Calling.

Website/social links
https://limbotapes.podbean.com/
https://soundcloud.com/limbotapes
https://limbotapes.bandcamp.com/

ASSEMBLING LAND PODCAST SERIES Episode 01: Imagining Land (On Palestine) Weaving together found footage, Palestinian folk songs, musings on resistance and solidarity, we rehearse a sonic protest in search for alternative ways of sharing knowledge. A series of podcasts are taking shape through our confluence in sessions of Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making articulated in the various locations where we meet. The podcasts are formed in chapters corresponding to our peer-to-peer learning around Land, Housing and Out/Institution, each time seeking ways to question ourselves and by way of listening to the varied and polyrhythmic offerings from the people and places we encounter. In this process of place-making, we explore our practices and transmit through the broadcasting platform and extended community of Radio Alhara. Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making is de Appel’s COOP study group at DAI Roaming Academy unfolding throughout 2024. Through the group’s monthly encounters, five podcasts will share the harvest of each iteration with attuned overarching themes as departure points. This first episode was initiated in January 2024 at Nida Art Colony in Lithuania, during Confluence 1: Imagining Land & Water. Dutch Art Institute (DAI) is a nomadic accredited MA program landing in various locations and for seven times (confluences) per academic year with the student body and crew. The study groups, which last the full academic year, are one of the pillars of its program and are carefully composed of and conducted by collaborations with an art institution, in this case de Appel in Amsterdam. AR: تخيّل الأرض الحلقة الاولى (عن فلسطين) معاً قمنا بنسج بعض اللقطات الجاهزة، وأغاني الفلكلور الفلسطيني، وتأملات حول المقاومة والتضامن، كمحاولة القيام باحتجاج صوتي ، باحثين من خلالها عن طُرُقٍ بديلة لمشاركة المعرفة. تقوم مجموعة "تجميع الأرض: تجارب نحو تشكيل المكان" بإنتاج مدونات صوتية في الأماكن الجغرافية المختلفة كحصاد لهذه اللقاءات.   تتشكل المدونات من  عدة فصول مماثلة للجلسات التي نقوم فيها بتبادل المعرفة حول مفاهيم الأرض، والإسكان، و المؤسسة (داخلها، عبرها وخارجها).  في كل مرة نبحث عن طرق لمساءلة أنفسنا عن طريق السماع الى العروض المتنوعة والمتعددة الإيقاعات من الأشخاص الذين نقوم باستضافتهم والأماكن التي تستضيفنا. في هذه الصيرورة التي تهدف الى فهم تشكيل المكان،  نستكشف ممارساتنا ونقوم بنقلها على شكل مدونات صوتية إلى المجتمع الموسع لراديو الحارة.   "تجميع الأرض: تجارب نحو تشكيل المكان" هي مجموعة دراسية تعاونية في De Appel بالشراكة مع  معهد الفنون الهولندي DAI،  والتي تستمر على مدار العام الدراسي 2024. من خلال لقاءات المجموعة الشهرية، سنقوم بمشاركة خمسة مدونات صوتية كحصاد لجميع تلك اللقاءات، والتي تأخذ الثيمات العامة التي تُعنى بها التعاونية كنقطة انطلاق لها.    تم البدء بهذه الحلقة في يناير 2024 في مستعمرة الفنون في نيدا Nida Art Colony في ليتوانيا اللقاء الأول: تخيّل الأرض والماء معهد الفنون الهولندي هو برنامج ماجستير تجوالي حيث يهبط في مكان مختلف في كل شهر مع فريق الطلاب والموظفين سبع مرات في السنة. تُعتبر المجموعات الدراسية التي تستمر على مدار العام الدراسي أحد أعمدة البرنامج، بتم تكوينها وتنسيقها بعناية من خلال التعاون مع مؤسسات فنية مختلفة، وفي هذه الحالة مع De Appel في امستردام When does the land become a territory? Chapter 1, Land w/ Sara Alberani, Qiaoling Cai, Saverio Cantoni, Echo Guo, Kıvanç Sert متى تصبح الأرض مُلكاً؟ الفصل الأول، الأرض مع سارة البراني، كياولينج تساي، سافيريو كانتوني، إيكو جو، كيفانش سيرت Acknowledgements: شكرا وتقدير Collective Reading of Love On The Palestinian Way (1999), PAF, March 2024; Sabreen - Love On The Palestinian Way (1999); Fuck Your Lecture On Craft, My People Are Dying by Noor Hindi (2020); Catastrophic Sonnet - Issam Zineh; Checkpoint 303 - Gaza Sea Minor (Gaza Mixtape EP); Collective clapping intermission, PAF, January 2024; We Planted the Sage - زرعنا المرمية performed by Alzinnar; Music from Foragers (2022) by Jumana Manna; Forensic Architecture: Notes from Fields and Forums - The Pyramids of Gaza; Palestine Solidarity Demonstration in Berlin, February 2024. How does the landscape tell the history or stories of the land? Chapter 2, Housing w/ Part 1- Eszter Dobos, Sille Kima; Sound design & mix: Sille Kima Part 2- Federica Nicastro, Francesca Pionati; Sound design & mix: Alberto Boni, Francesca Pionati Part 3- Shaza Omran, Meii Soh; Sound design & mix: Sille Kima; Voice: Randa Awad كيف تروي المناظر الطبيعية تاريخ الأرض أو قصصها؟ الفصل الثاني، الإسكان الجزء الأول:  إيستر دوبوس، سيل كيما؛ تصميم الصوت والمزج: سيل كيما الجزء الثاني: فيديريكا نيكاسترو، فرانشيسكا بيوناتي؛ تصميم الصوت والمزج: ألبيرتو بوني، فرانشيسكا بيوناتي الجزء الثالث:  شذى عمران، مي سوه؛ تصميم الصوت والمزج: سيل كيما؛ الصوت: رندا عوض Acknowledgements: شكرا وتقدير Eye on Palestine; Resistance News Network’ Al Jazeera; Middle East Monitor; Gaza by Kyles Soundpack - 2016 Gaza City on freesound.org; Mohannad Abu Rizk (@mohannad.aburizk); YouTube: Rim Banna - ‘On Top of The Mountain’; poet Abu Najji singing improvised poetry on the occupied land of Palestine; improvised melange of traditional palestinian and spanish songs ‘Ya Talein El-jabal’ & ‘Panadera’ by Terez Sliman & Sophia Adriana on a boat in Cairo. What does an institution of resistance sound like? Chapter 3, Out/Institution: Foad Alijani, Chloë Janssens, Tuba Kılıç, Anastasia Nefedova, Thamyres VM كيف يبدو صوت مؤسسة المقاومة؟ الفصل الثالث: المؤسسة (داخلها، من خلالها وخارجها):  فؤاد عليجاني، كلوي جانسنس، توبا كيليج، أناستاسيا نيفيدوفا، ثاميريس  Acknowledgements: شكرا وتقدير Refaat Alareer (via @bintdisco); Palestine Solidarity Demonstration in Rotterdam (via @himhili); @sheih.jpg singing with Hajje Safiye; @rabetbypipd Im Mohammed baking taboun bread; @motaz_azaiza “Never forget to say Free Palestine ✌️”.

1) I broke the vase – Sikinos (9:22)
2) Laura Phillips - Rhybudd 4 munud/ 4 minute warnings  (16:00)
 
 
1) I broke the vase – Sikinos

This piece was developed the past summer during a residency on Sikinos, a Cycladic island in the Aegean Sea. The sound work is part of a larger performance that features original music and texts, written on-site and inspired by our exploration of the island’s landscapes and history—marked by pirate raids and its past as a place of exile. The work also draws on a recent tragic event: the disappearance of two women hikers, which left a lasting impression on our time there.

I broke the vase (Eva Matsigkou, Nefeli Sani) was formed in 2018. They create performances blending listening, free improvisation, and composition using instruments, voices, electronics, and site-specific elements. Their work incorporates autoethnographic texts, soundwalks, and feminist, care-centered practices. They’ve produced the experimental film The Greatest Love of All and the award-winning podcast Sonic Memorabilia. Their projects have featured in festivals like Tectonics Athens and Electric Nights, and in exhibitions including Plásmata and Sheltered Gardens. They’ve been artists in residence at Syros Sound Meetings and the University of Michigan, and participated in 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture.
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2) Laura Phillips - Rhybudd 4 munud/ 4 minute warnings  

4 tracks which began as sonic research with the CND Cymru archives in Aberystwyth. Included are interviews, field-recordings, pirate broadcasts by the Voice of Nuclear Disarmament, old tapes & optical sound & an organ in Ceredigion.  Presented as a psychogeographical meandering in the welsh landscape; these works were inspired by the 1982 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Cymru & Women for life on Earth (WFLOE) marched from Cardiff to RAF Brawdy. RAF Brawdy was a US Submarine Tracking Station (NAVFAC) and in fact the largest terminal in a worldwide network of undersea listening stations tracking Soviet submarine movements in the northern Atlantic. Brawdy on the face of it seems very nondescript and unassuming, but it's amazing what lies beneath and the significance of this place and the extent of militarism in Wales.

Laura Phillips b.1986 Bristol, is a non-smoking, sagittarius, dysgwr (welsh learner) who is often found loitering around the A44 & A470. She is an artist who uses a mixture of 16mm photochemical film processes & field recordings. Often working at the intersection of visual-music, expanded film and performance, her work explores obsolescence, ideas of the commons & information infrastructures. Her Work ‘Geoluread & Genie’, 2017, was purchased by the Arts Council England Acquisition Committee 2018. Her most accomplished outputs include climbing Aran Fawddwy, solo exhibition at Mirror, Plymouth & undertake a Fellowship at the British School in Rome.

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3) Alexandra Bell - The Pink Glass Swan (13:30) 4) Claire Barwell Flat Life #4 (1:00) 5)  Hannah Aliza Goldman - Summer in Brooklyn (3:12) 6) Studio Cybi - Post-Contemporary Commodification (5:29) 7) Sarah Rossman and Andy Li - Intrusive Thot: Episode 1 (Gloria) (8:35)     3) Alexandra Bell - The Pink Glass Swan "The Pink Glass Swan" is a sound play which satirises the art world, inspired by Lucy Lippard's 1977 essay of the same name. The essay describes the curious class hierarchy of the art world, where artists are persistently working 'upwards' to be accepted; whilst the art industry (which critiques, exhibits and purchases art) works 'downwards' to identify with the artists as workers and creative associates. Factual references shows the dilemmas at play in a mostly middle class system (such as Nicholas Serota's application for the Tate Directorship, entitled 'Grasp the Nettle' and his Dimbleby lecture where he justified his pay); Arts Councils' diversity strategies; and artybollocks.com artist statement generators). The work uses a fairy tale, humorous style to illustrate that nothing in life is black and white - our society exists through interdependencies, compromises and games. Alex Bell is a multimedia artist, composer and chartered materials engineer who uses the sonic arts to confront entrenched ideologies and beliefs. Incorporating sound, music, moving image, sculpture, writing and performance, she creates immersive experiences which are designed to challenge perceptions and stimulate empathy for the counterargument. She explores the intersection between culture, politics, the arts, technology and science and believes that the creative process is universal regardless of domain. Originally from Belfast, she now lives in East Lothian with a studio by the sea. https://alexandrabellsound.com/ https://www.instagram.com/alexandrabellsound   4) Claire Barwell Flat Life #4 Children play in the garden below my flat. Sometimes they call out! Claire Barwell once made films and now makes very short sound pieces.   5) Hannah Aliza Goldman - Summer in Brooklyn Recorded in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn in July 2024. Hannah Aliza Goldman (she/her) is a producer, performer, and voiceover artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her original audio play, "In the Kitchen," had a sold-out run in 2020 and was featured at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. "In the Kitchen" wove the stories of Jewish women from Arab lands with original musical compositions and poetry, and was paired with a recipe box by Awafi Kitchen. As a producer, Hannah has worked for Citizen Racecar and the CWA Oral History Project.  She is a proud graduate of the Salt Institute of Documentary Studies. Instagram @imhannahgoldman   6) Studio Cybi - Post-Contemporary Commodification Recently, SC has expanded into online broadcasting, creating audio poems that continue their commitment to experimental, multidisciplinary work blending art, sound, and narratives of marginalised communities. This initiative enhances their exploration of contemporary issues through diverse media. The poem "Post-Contemporary Commodification" critiques the commodification of life and art in modern society, highlighting alienation, systemic oppression, and environmental degradation. It contrasts the sacred, referencing ancient practices like sacrifice at Llyn Cerrig Bach, with contemporary realities, where institutions and state agendas slowly crush individuality and authenticity. The imagery of cheap bread affecting gut flora symbolises capitalism's negative impact on human well-being, while art on dead walls critiques the commercialisation of culture. The soundscape laments the erosion of values, focusing on survival in a society disconnected from community and tradition. STUDIO CYBI (SC) is a curatorial duo from Holyhead, North Wales, comprising artists Iwan Lewis and Rebecca Gould. Their practice is rooted in shared experiences of living in communities facing challenges under a hostile political climate. SC's practice is a symbiosis of art and curatorial work, consistently driven by a focus on political and social realities, particularly those affecting communities in Wales. Since 2016, SC has been curating site-specific exhibitions and projects, engaging with unconventional spaces such as local holy wells and their own dining room, while addressing issues of place, community, and politics. http://www.studiocybi.com http://www.instagram.com/studiocybi 7) Sarah Rossman (words) and Andy Li (sound design) - Intrusive Thot: Episode 1 (Gloria) This is a pilot episode of a semi-autobiographical podcast series that is meant to give the listener access to the experience inside the mind of someone with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In each episode, the narrator tries to accomplish a mundane task but gets derailed by her OCD. Sarah Rossman  is a writer/performer based in NYC. She strives to generate narratives about mental illness and trauma that combat stigma  and spark joy and laughter. Sarah's work has been performed at the Williamstown Theater Festival, the American Repertory Theater,  Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, and The Other Palace Theater. Andy Li is a Chinese-American composer/sound-designer based in NYC. Andy’s work has been performed at the Hudson Guild Theatre, Joe’s Pub, and The BringAbout. His commissioned solo carillon will premiere at the 2025 GCNA Congress.  Li and Rossman both received MFA degrees from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. http://www.sarahrossman.com

Two sci-fi inspired electronic soundscapes - Omnii, the lush vampy ballard-esque shifting sands of the universe, and Multitudes of Venom, the fractal cousin of Omnii who displays disembodied fervor for extra dimensions.

Artist bio:
Blevin Blectum is an electronic musician living in Willits, California, USA, on a mountain top in a forest with her cat Lu.

Website/social links
ttps://http://www.facebook.com/blevin.blectum
https://vimeo.com/user2673719
https://soundcloud.com/blevinblectum
https://blevinblectumx.bandcamp.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blevin_Blectum

Two sci-fi inspired electronic soundscapes - Omnii, the lush vampy ballard-esque shifting sands of the universe, and Multitudes of Venom, the fractal cousin of Omnii who displays disembodied fervor for extra dimensions.

Artist bio:
Blevin Blectum is an electronic musician living in Willits, California, USA, on a mountain top in a forest with her cat Lu.

Website/social links
ttps://http://www.facebook.com/blevin.blectum
https://vimeo.com/user2673719
https://soundcloud.com/blevinblectum
https://blevinblectumx.bandcamp.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blevin_Blectum