Sun 20

This was recorded live using all analog synthesizers and electricity. I was trying to evoke the space beyond life and death.

Artist bio:
Christie Blizard was born in rural Indiana and lives and works in Texas. Their work moves between music, poetry, and visual art in an attempt to understand what is beyond the death dimension. Since a communication with the ghost of Daniel Johnston in 2021, they have been working on their first full length album to be released soon and hope to tour with the work very soon. They were a participant of Skowhegan in 2018 and attended MacDowell and Artpace. Shows include those at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, School of Visual Arts, and Black Mountain College.

Website/social links
http://www.christieblizard.com

Tellurian Bell is the 2nd installment  of the audio-visual installation Bell Officium based on the Nieuwpoort carillon near the Belgian coast.
(The 1st is ’Harvest Bell’)

It contains geophonic recordings, percussion sounds and datasonification of photographs of the carillon

In addition, spectral sound of the different bells with overtones  are added with great detail.

The sound part consists of an 8 channel track system and can be performed on various speakers.
This is the stereo version made for radio.

The carillon is extensively documented with photographic collodion glass plates.

Book :
https://nl.blurb.com/books/11430361-harvest-bell

Lp : Artist Edition of 1.


Artist bio:
My work is located at the intersection of visual art and sound. I merge digital and photographic techniques to create a bridge between the present and the past. I use both data sonification and geophonic recordings.
exhibitions : London, Brussels, Antwerp

Website/social links
http://www.dirkdhulster.org

To describe the concept of the performance, it is necessary to tell a little about the independent exhibition Zabroshka. This cultural event regularly takes place in Yekaterinburg in abandoned territories. Initially, the exhibition was a self-organized flash mob of street art artists of the city. Later, institutional artists, art groups and musical communities joined it. Artists choose the location, theme of the exhibition, distribute places among themselves and for a month paint on the walls and make site-specific installations inspired by the authentic look and features of the territory. The exhibition lasts one day.

The performance of Prepodavatelsky Sostav consisted of an experiment with a combination of electronic noise, female voice, romantic poetry and mixing all the components with delay effects to achieve a psychoacoustic effect on the listener.
The setup was quite simple: Microphone, DIY synthesizer from the legendary noise creator Papa Srapa through the overdrive effect and the delay effect in the reverse send.

Audiovisual component of the performance. The performance took place during the independent exhibition Zabroshka in a huge abandoned railway hangar of a former freight yard on a stage assembled from Soviet office furniture lying around the yard. The musicians decorated the stage with vintage signposts and industrial lamps found in neighboring buildings. The word "sostav" in railway terms means a train, a train of carriages. The result was a play on words - “Prepodavatelsky Sostav”-"Train of teachers". Cognitively dissonant mixing of meanings that do not intersect in everyday life parallel to the mixing of cognitively dissonant and non-intersecting sounds.

Artist bio:
Prepodavatelsky Sostav (Teaching Staff) is a spontaneous collaboration of sound artist and noise musician Viktor Sapronov (Ryeshta), poetess Anna Sitnikova (Leleyapoems) and musician Tatyana Trachevskaya (blcb8a). The name of the group is a reference to the education and professional activities of the participants (Prepodavately means teachers in English). Anna is an English teacher at school. Viktor teaches biology at the university. Tatyana was taught to be a teacher of drawing and painting. The word "sostav" in railway terms means a train, a train of carriages. The result was a play on words - “Prepodavatelsky Sostav”-"Train of teachers".

Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/blcb8a?igsh=MTl6N3Zobmlpb21vcw==
https://www.instagram.com/leleyapoems?igsh=MTlkbmlpOHptMDVvaA==
https://t.me/Cult_transit/619
https://t.me/l_l_ltoto/76

THLEEP is an ongoing sound and light project exploring the therapeutic potential of neuro-acoustics and vision physiology to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Initially developed as live performances involving large-scale LED screens and projections, in 2023 we began developing a series of audio-only works intended for listening via radio. These pieces blend natural and ambient sounds, offering experimental audio experiences that explore how sound can passively shape mental and emotional states. Integral to the approach is the subversion of perceived stereotypes of meditative sounds; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.

THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.

Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.

Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.

Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.


Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj

Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com

THLEEP is an ongoing sound and light project exploring the therapeutic potential of neuro-acoustics and vision physiology to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Initially developed as live performances involving large-scale LED screens and projections, in 2023 we began developing a series of audio-only works intended for listening via radio. These pieces blend natural and ambient sounds, offering experimental audio experiences that explore how sound can passively shape mental and emotional states. Integral to the approach is the subversion of perceived stereotypes of meditative sounds; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.

THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.

Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.

Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.

Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.


Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj

Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com

Episode 6. Tonight's The Night

On the anniversary of the visitation, 83 is preparing to go back to the... Thing, in the basement. But why does Leonard suddenly think it's not a good idea? Events at the outpost take a new turn in the season 1 finale.   Also, we hear from a radio caller who has a somewhat more tender experience with those from beyond the veil, and we meet the people behind the exciting creative agency, Delphi's.  

Written, performed and produced by Pete Hazell, featuring Sean Lee. ~ Follow Delphis Studio on Instagram to learn more about Delphi's.  ~ Theme music by Alex Lupo   ~ Artwork by Everything Has Gone Wrong

These archive recordings throw a light for those who see shadow puppets in the noise and chaos radio airwaves. As we eavesdrop on the solitary Operator's dispatches, we wonder what we can learn about Limbo, and life at the ambiguous "outpost".  

All episodes available here: https://limbotapes.podbean.com/

May.
Canna.
Six walks around a Hebridean harbour     six days     across the cycle of the tide.
Listen     to three and a half hours     listen to 13 miles.    
Hear         the ebb and flow of place across time and distance.

Artist bioI am a walking sound artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. My practice reflects my experience of being in, and walking through, natural environments. I use recorded sound to present time, distance, place and movement in the landscape, to provide an opportunity for a listener to consider what it means to move through the landscape at a human pace and scale. Spoken poetry offers detail to a listeners’ experience. I have exhibited nationally and internationally and have created radio works for Framework Radio, Resonance EXTRA and Radiophrenia. I have a PhD in Fine Art from Newcastle University.

Links to website and/or social media
https://martinpeccles.com
https://soundcloud.com/mpeccles

1 Gareth John and Laura Tansley - After You Laura Dern (2:04)
2 andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - FÜR DOLBY FÜR (3:19)
3 philippe neau - Paysage. Cercles (7:59)
4 Lucy Cathcart Frödén - Plural Slices (10 :32)
5 Simon Whetham – Channelling  tk 3 (4:41)
 
 
1) Gareth John and Laura Tansley - After You Laura Dern

An audio poetry collaboration between musician Gareth John and writer Laura Tansley, in anxious worship of Laura Dern.

Gareth John and Laura Tansley met at Cardiff University in 2002. Laura went on to study Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow and gained a PhD for her work on very short fiction in 2011. Gareth has been writing and performing music since 2000 and currently runs the label Weak Friends. Gareth and Laura began collaborating in 2021 and are overjoyed at the creative turn their friendship has taken. There work has previously been presented on Radiophrenia (2020), and at GLEAM festival (2023).

x.com/laura_tans

 
2) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - FÜR DOLBY FÜR

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).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken

 
3) philippe neau - Paysage. Cercles

“landscape. circles.” would like to appear as a motionless walk or a sound painting, not realistic, nor narrative of places listened to, probed, surveyed, lived but the culmination of an experience of the landscape in the garden of the house, close to the city. A sound landscape, sensitive and vibrant to the surrounding comings and goings, to natural movements, to the multiple passages and colors that unfold. The “painting” becomes dense and textured. The sounds resonate. Hearing enters the material of the place, composite and organic. A “presence” resonates in us.

All my work attempts to shape an imaginary landscape.
Paintings, installations, films and music are an attempt to create this "place", a place of the order of the "mental landscape".
My music would like to summon these imaginary spaces by a non-narrative form. It is made of muffled field-recordings, organic sound collages, abstract notes, sometimes rumbling glitches, atonal melodies, metallic textures and distant voices. The atmosphere can be dense. The sound palette is contrasted and plays with hues between "dog and wolf". It envelops "the listener to immerse him in the experience of an intriguing sound place.
https://linktr.ee/philippe.neau

 
4) Lucy Cathcart Frödén - Plural Slices

This piece explores the potential of sound to capture and travel through multiple temporalities at once. It was created for the 10th anniversary celebration of a journal called PARSE - Platform for Artistic Research in Sweden. It uses sonic fragments gathered by attendees at the event, layered with reflections and quotes on themes of time and listening. The title, 'Plural Slices', comes from a quote by sound artist and theorist Salomé Voegelin, used in the piece.

Lucy Cathcart Frödén has a background in community development work and community art processes. During her practice-based PhD at the Glasgow University, she worked with people who have experience of prison or of migration, and used workshops in music and sound to explore practices of social integration, care and solidarity. She now lives in Sweden, and is currently working on a project at the University of Oslo called Prisons of Note, all about the roles and complexities of music and sound in prison systems. She’s also a parent of three children, and loves sea swimming and potato-based snacking.
https://linktr.ee/raukarna
x.com/raukarna

 
5) Simon Whetham – Channelling  tk 3

Channelling is a kinetic sound performance that utilizes various components salvaged from discarded and obsolete consumer technology, reanimating them by piping amplified sound through them. The motors and mechanisms respond to these sound impulses in erratic and unpredictable ways. The actions of, and emanations from, the devices are subsequently amplified.
The project was developed through 2021and 2022 by support from Ferme-Asile (CH), Witte Rook (NL), AiR Niederösterreich (AT), HEAR and Espaces Sonore (FR) and Château Éphémère (FR).

Since 2005 Simon Whetham has worked with sonic activity. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He also explores ways of creating physical traces of sound and transforming energy forms.
Whetham performs and exhibits internationally, has received a large number of commissions and awards, has many published composed works and regularly collaborates with other artists. In addition his practice covers giving active listening, field recording and technology repurposing workshops.
https://simonwhetham.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/simonwhethamartist/
https://vimeo.com/simonwhetham
https://simonwhetham.bandcamp.com/

6 Marjorie Van Halteren – Cheesing (7:15)
7 Kat Currie - Sonic Portrait (8:29)
8 Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - mai táng tuổi thơ wav _ childhood eulogy (2:18)
9 Jeff Gburek  - Works and Days (6:17)
10 Pig7 - Black Peak (3:32)
 
 
6) Marjorie Van Halteren – Cheesing

A short, humorous sound essay by Marjorie Van Halteren about the pitfalls of language.

Marjorie Van Halteren born in Detroit, Michigan, is aociety.com poet, sound artist and composer living in Lille, France.
http://www.electroacousticalpoeticalsociety.com.

 
7) Kat Currie - Sonic Portrait

An ongoing project that collected the audio recording of portrait drawing. A recent assault has left me the most vulnerable I have ever felt. Now I seek the feeling of power in situations. The most visible I have felt was when I was the subject to be drawn in an art class, the sensation of the artists using ‘slow looking’ upon me focusing in on specific details I can become the muse. I now find that I associate the sound of mark making on a page with this sensation so when I discovered ASMR I found myself listening to hours of drawing sounds and feeling the pleasant tingle it produces on my scalp. I instructed the artists to be in control of my position and how I will appear on the page this plays with the power dynamics of artist/muse and of my vulnerability in this situation.
http://www.katiecurrie.co.uk

 
8) Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - mai táng tuổi thơ wav _ childhood eulogy

nHữNG NgÀY kHÓ ở Ở trêN đỜI // thoSE hArD-TO-liVe dAYS was a collection of 5 selected poets, written from 2021 - 2022 by Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao. Each of them was originally a statement of confrontation with the socially constructed so-called "nature", juggling between binaries of man & woman, love & hatred, individualism & collectivism, and so on.

As a way to deconstruct the "nature" concept, the anthologies were later exhibited in a digital space with an invitation for community manipulation. Readers were encouraged to rewrite or delete the words in their own interpretation and stylistic choices. The latter would work on the former's version/interpretation.

The audio version was captured in time of the 6th version, recorded and mixed by the original author as a means of reclaiming and authorship. The sound mixing is intentionally "left" because everything is not "right".

Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao is a Vietnamese writer and multidisciplinary artist. He embraces multimedia and expression, such as typography, photography, film, sound art, performance art with a core appreciation of poetry practices. His works have been featured in Vânguard Zine (Issue 6), Sui Generis (Bard College, 2024 Edition), WCBX Zine, etc. Bao is currently pursuing a BA Degree in Art and Media Studies at Fulbright University Vietnam.
https://www.instagram.com/nguyenhoanggiabao_/

 
9) Jeff Gburek  - Works and Days

This is a soundscape instrumental prelude to a longer work based on Hesiod's poem. A work in progress.

Jeff Gburek is poet, field recordist, sound artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist exploring all strata of cosmophonic resolutions. Works increasingly focus on receptive listening and recognition of patterned chaos in the mind triggered by externally ordered phenomenon in flux. Microphones, detuned guitars, hydrophones, shortwave and VLF radios, ground spikes, bat detectors and electronics typify the research in the psycho-acoustics of Gaian whispers enveloping and composing existence.
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com

 
10) Pig7 - Black Peak

A remix and reworking of processed field recordings made in Glen Einich in the Highlands of Scotland in September 2024. The title refers to one of the local peaks above the Glen.

pig7 are an experimental improv electronics duo formed by Kevin Poulton and Stuart Fisher (aka Genghis Attenborough) in 2006. They have composed and performed a number of film scores to classic silent films as well as short and feature length films.

"Cruel folk you are, unmatched for jealousy, you gods who cannot bear to let a goddess sleep with a man." (Calypso to Hermes, who has just ordered her to release Odysseus. Homer, Odyssey 5.120)

Calypso’s Dream is a soundscape collection sculpted from the subtle sonic morphologies of the micro-environments on the island of Mljet in the South Adriatic. The collection serves as a conceptual counterpoint to Homer’s Odyssey and a critical reflection on commercial island attractions such as Odysseus’s Cave, where he was supposedly held captive for seven long years by the nymph Calypso.

In search of a different gender approach to the ancient Greek myth and its contemporary commercial appropriation, we created a simple narrative from Calypso’s perspective, inspired by the work of the renowned writer Margaret Atwood, who wrote The Penelopiad, and tried to unravel the archetypal mystery by narrating the Odyssey from the perspective of his wife Penelope, who was left for 20 years to defend the kingdom and raise their children.

Calypso’s Dream is an attempt to create a symbolic micro-episode of The Penelopiad within the medium of sound art, woven from the dense spectrum of the island’s biophony, instrumental and improvised narratives, critically reflecting on the commercial appropriation of culture, advocating for the importance of a listening culture, and emphasizing the urgency of raising ecological awareness.

The island of Mljet is one of the oldest European protected natural zones, still, there is so much more that can be done to keep this Adriatic marvel away from harsh trends of mass tourism.

This project was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, and the Dubrovnik-Neretva County Department for Education and Culture.

All sounds recorded and edited by Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon
Hydrophones used for underwater recording — JrF & Aquarian
Mastering by Goran Simonoski / La Plant Studio
Cover art, images, text by Manja Ristić
 

https://manjaristic.blogspot.com/ 

http://meagreresource.com/

Celebrating the courage and resilience of women, this feature delves into the historic Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp of 1981. For 20 years a series of women only camps were established to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. Using first-hand accounts and archival sound, it amplifies the voices of those who fought for peace, shedding light on their dedication to activism and social change. Thank you to Laila Namdarkhan, Jane Roffe and Elizabeth James for sharing stories of their time at the Peace Camp. Credit and thanks to Luisa Gersteirn, Tanya Auclair and Deep Throat Choir for providing me with their rendition of the 1970's protest song 'Like a Mountain' heard at the end of the documentary. Artist bio: Kirsty is a recent graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London with an MA in Audio & Radio. She joins the audio circuit in London as a freelance audio producer in long form audio projects. Investigating how sound design and music can craft compelling audio documentaries that delve into the human experience. She loves all sounds weird and wonderful!

‘Spooks’ is a composition of voice notes and sound recordings from 2019ish to present. I am drawn to documenting my experiences through sound as it can let you enter mystical realms that get a bit numbed in a late capitalist, relentless, ever expanding visual world. In this composition I create an experience that explores the idea of place, memory, boundaries and disrupts notions of linear time. It meanders across psychic spaces and experiences. It pulls at the edges of grief and sadness. Making a sensory experience which is overwhelming and enthralling. A subjective processing of the world, sonically drawing out beauty and abundance/ absurdity and excess. It includes reversed and distorted ambient sounds, chatter in a bus station, sounds of seaweed, snippets of conversation, bouncing basketballs, laughter, moorland wind rumbles, cat purrs, distant parties and resonant gongs.   Artist bio: Olive is an artist, bodywork practitioner and mother based in Glasgow. Her work spans many disciplines and mediums including sound, moving image, drawing and sculpture. Some methodologies and research interests include documenting the everyday/domestic space and using her practice to disrupt and create moments of play and surrealism. Centring care and intimacy as foregrounding concepts.

Liquid Polyphonies is a sound composition that is based on a field research in the European parts of the North Sea (2022). By weaving together anthrophone, biophone, and technophone sounds, and by searching for sonic analogies between the human and non-human through a combination of voice recordings, foley recordings, and field recordings, Lotte and Gillis create an electro-acoustic composition that emphasizes the interconnectedness between human and non-human entities at sea. Liquid Polyphonies is part of the residency program of Phonurgia Nova (FR) and was created during a residency at GMEM in Marseille.

Artist bio:
Landforms is the sound collective of Gillis Van der Wee and Lotte Nijsten. Together they create radio documentaries, sound walks, sound compositions, and transdisciplinary performances that approach the fragile relationship between humans and (micro)landscapes from the perspective of Acoustic Ecology and Sound Studies. Landforms' artistic research is currently centered around interspecies listening and sonic intimacy, by investigating how a sense of interconnectedness can be forged through the ear. Lotte and Gillis' works are featured on radio stations, festivals, museums, and theaters, and were selected for multiple awards, including: Best radiofiction (Prix Europa, 2020), Prix Découvert (Phonurgia Nova, 2022).

Website/social links
https://www.landforms.be/
https://www.instagram.com/_landforms/
https://www.instagram.com/lottenijsten/
https://www.instagram.com/gillisvdw/

Tarmachan Transmissions is an experimental documentary of a collaborative recording session made at Tombreck, a sustainable housing collective on the banks of Loch Tay. It works with off-cuts and disused, peripheral sounds from a make-shift studio set up in the community’s Big Shed. This piece acts as a recursive, companion piece to the Quinie album, Forefowk Mind Me, which was produced by Stevie with Josie Vallely and musicians Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Harry Gorski-Brown and Ollie Pitt. Tarmachan Transmissions is as much a sonic portrait of place and community, located listening and DIY infrastructures as it is of co-creation and residency recording. Stevie Jones is a musician, sound artist and improviser based in Glasgow. A serial collaborator, he is currently working with Quinie, New String Collective and Arab Strap among others. Stevie co-runs the Radiophrenia collective and is studying towards a PhD at Glasgow University in site responsive sonic collaboration within eco-critical communities.

Our earlier investigations into the lost pioneers of ‘sound-recording-as-art’ led us to the enigmatic character of Charles Glancer - the North American composer, sound-recordist and obscurest philosopher. We created a performance piece about Glancer’s curious death for The Festival of Death at CCA in 2015. Since then we have continued to research and make sense of the many stories that revolve around his final recorded composition - was his body found at the piano… or did he completely disappear? For those that follow his strongly held “idealist” position on the function of the artist, his end could be seen as a metaphysical conjuring trick – the vibrations of the artist transforming into the artwork itself. Through the reconstruction of original tapes this broadcast will piece together side-ways thoughts, intricate details, mood and sound and silence - flowing and merging - before, during… and after his death. Artist bio:  Chris Biddlecombe is a sculptor who creates mixed media installations and performances in the UK and internationally. David Trouton is a musician with a history of working in theatre, dance and other collaborative art-forms. Together as No Noise Projects, Chris and David have worked together since 1999 creating audio / sculptural collaborations and theatre. Their sound works often use musical instruments, spoken word, found sounds, electronica and sampling, aligned to multi media installations. Their projects research historical and contemporary truths, listen to curious logic and lateral whispers, to then go on to create new interpretations, hidden stories and believable fictions.

1) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread  6 (5mins)
2) Heidi Hörsturz - Negative Vinyl - How does the negative of an audio composition sound like? (3:56)
3) KARL - The Incident (7:22)
4) SisterArt Collective - DIKTATS (de la beauté) - DIKTATS (of beauty) (4:31 )

 
1) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread  6 
 
Using small white single-use plastic items from everyday foodstuffs visual scores have been created on a black background. A vocal sound palette is suggested and in the six five minute sound pieces used for four voices to render the plastic pieces as imagined fragments of letters of the Roman alphabet. The scores can be viewed and listeners are invited to soundalong with the pieces by using the palette and following some basic suggested https://daily-bread-rp2025.blogspot.com/2025/02/?m=1

Artist bio:
Johnny Dixon is Irish and lives in London.
 

2) Heidi Hörsturz - Negative Vinyl - How does the negative of an audio composition sound like?

The 'Negative Vinyl' is not a normal record. It is the first vinyl that represents a real analog negative sound of traditional classical compositions.The records are produced by casting 2- component plastic on records of classical composers like Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Mozart etc. The resulting imprint is physically and acoustically the negative of the original composition. Even the grooves and edges of the vinyl have taken each other's places. By doing this the principle of a photo negative was transferred into an audio composition. For this work Heidi Hörsturz used 2- component plastics and laser-technology. The grooves of the vinyl are exactly antithetical from the original records. The whole composition is inverted. Where normally the grooves were before are now the highest points of the vinyl. Therefore the needle of the turntable is constantly on search between the vinyl-grooves, combining the sound of one groove with the delayed sound of the previous one. Heidi Hörsturz presented this development among others at IEM Graz, MTF Music Tech Fest / Musikmesse Frankfurt and at the Art Werk - Forum for Creative Industries in the Contemporary Art Center Winzavod in Moscow.

Artist bio:
Heidi Hörsturz deals with the various facets of the moving image and sound. She works in a wide range of computer animations, audiovisual performances, soundart and multimedia installations.
Her works examine the influence of new technologies and the social questions that have arisen as a result of digital development.
With her approach to art as a medium for exploring social coexistence and as a means of ending the structural suppression of people, fantasies and visions, she takes the media overload of stimuli to the absurd.
After completing her studies at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands she has presented her work worldwide. She performed in venues like ICA London, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow and CultureHub NYC. Her works were shown at Göteborg Art Sounds, FILE Sao Paulo, European Media Arts Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, EYE Amsterdam, Electro Mechanica festival Saint Petersburg, Gaida Vilnius, Madatac Madrid among others.
https://www.heidihoersturz.com/

3) KARL - The Incident

Cut-up audio piece made using public domain samples from Archive.org's NASA Audio Collection.

Artist bio:
KARL (Karl Ronneburg, he/him) is a composer, percussionist, and performance artist based in New York City, where he is the Associate Dramaturg at the Metropolitan Opera, helping to shape commissions and new works from their inceptions to their premieres. He is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Fifth Wall Performing Arts with Grey Grant and has worked with artists and companies including Radiolab, Meredith Monk, Carnegie Hall, Nico Muhly, Sō Percussion, Elliot Cole, Alkemie Early Music, Missy Mazzoli, Contemporaneous Ensemble, New Music Detroit, Anthony Davis, Christopher Rountree, Joyce DiDonato, Metropolis Ensemble, Jeanine Tesori, and the Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors’ Lab.
https://karl-allmusic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/karl.allmusic
 
 
4) SisterArt Collective - DIKTATS (de la beauté) - DIKTATS (of beauty)

Diktats (of beauty) is an immersive and incisive sound work that criticizes today's beauty canons, which promote an ‘algorithmical beauty’. Based on a poem of Laure Gervais (French), denouncing the instrumentalisation of beauty, this immersive and incisive sound work plunges the listener into a cold surgical atmosphere. The artwork underlines the obsession with self-image through the over-consumption of beauty products and cosmetic surgery. The perfect beauty complex leads to extreme behaviours, to the point of losing one's identity and uniqueness. The perfect symmetrical beauty many women tend to seek is cold and rigid. In fact, it is a morbid concept of beauty. The soundtrack is both French (poem) and English text. Diktats (de la beauté) / Diktats (of beauty) is a composition by the SisterArt collective with Laure Gervais, visual and performance artist and Catherine Nowak, actress and drama teacher based in Brussels, Belgium.

Artist bio:
SisterArt is a collective of multidisciplinary artists who combine a passion for visual art with that of performing art based in Brussels, Belgium.
Founded in 2009 by Laure Gervais, visual artist, author and sociologist, and Catherine Nowak, actress and drama teacher, the collective joined forces in 2019 to create a non-profit organisation by surrounding themselves with stage and audio-visual professionals. SisterArt Collective is author and producer of its own multi-faced creations : screendance short movies, experimental soundtracks, drama plays and live performances.
http://www.sisterart.be


Website/social links
https://www.heidihoersturz.com/

Ute Wassermann interweaves her voice with field recordings of birds, insects, frogs - of creatures that move across the boundaries between air, water and earth and finds new and different resonance places far away from their original environment. Fragile, seemingly natural sounds, such as the buzzing of bees under water, can be transformed into technoid drones. Snippets of soundscapes ghost through objects. 

Does the singer retain her identity or does she become the ‘other’? The boundary between self and environment becomes fluid, so that the latter itself becomes an illusion in favour of a more complex reality. The binaries of animal and human, object and human, nature and technology are turned upside down in favour of interwoven relationships based on reciprocity.
 
Ute Wassermann: voice, bird whistles
Felix Blume: field recordings

'Imaginary Habitats' is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Goethe Institut Glasgow.
 
Bio
Ute Wassermann is one of the outstanding contemporary vocal artists of our time. She combines composition, improvisation and performance art to create her own form of Gesamtkunst, in which environmentally relevant themes play an essential role. At the centre of her research is the continuous and uncompromising exploration of her voice. Ute Wassermann's singing goes far beyond the human voice and manifests itself in multidimensional sculptural sounds that oscillate between electronic, animal, inorganic and human qualities. She takes this to the extreme by creating a visceral sound space through the use of different types of microphones. In addition, she expands and alienates her voice through the use of bird whistles, lo-fi electronics, resonators, field recordings and objects.
She has been touring the world as an improviser and performer of contemporary music for many years. In the last ten years, she has increasingly realised audiovisual performances, installations and compositions for soloists and ensembles.

https://utewassermann.com

Climatic Voices is a sound art observation of meteorological themes. It is a sound collage made using treated environmental recordings, radiophonic transmissions, infrasound and electromagnetic frequencies.  These types of sound waves are obtained from the atmosphere that surrounds our planet.

The use of atmospheric acoustics plays an important function within modern meteorology and is used to predict weather patterns and other meteorological phenomena. This helps with many things including improving weather forecasting, aiding climate change studies as well as safeguarding lives and property.

Artist bio:
Jimmy Peggie is an artist based in Phoenix, AZ who uses sound and image in his creative practice. His artistic work is focused on natural and man made environments.

He has been participated and recorded 40+ sound related albums.  He has had work featured at art exhibits, installations and festivals around the world.  He records and presents a monthly sound art show on Camp Radio (France).

Website/social links
website - http://www.jimmypeggie.com
social media - @avantologist

1) Matt Browne - Hello from the Children of Planet Earth (6:00)
2) HUO Jung - The truth of the platform announcement (0:55)
3) Joe Posset - All the buskers in Newcastle city centre on 28th September 2024 slowed down (9:54)
4) Esther Hesketh and Lily Frances - I think of a moth (12:25)
 
 
1) Matt Browne - Hello from the Children of Planet Earth

A musique concrète composition utilizing audio material from the NASA Voyager Golden Record, launched in 1977. Material includes natural sounds, spoken greetings and poetry, and a selection of eclectic music ranging from Navajo Chant to Bach to Chuck Berry.
The piece aims to imagine an advanced alien civilization discovering and playing the golden record, and then tinkering with it to either make sense of it or warp it into something they like.

The music of Colorado-based composer Matt Browne (b. 1988) has been praised for its “unbridled humor” (New Music Box) and described as “witty” (The Strad) and “beautifully crafted and considered” (What’s On London).
Dr. Browne has had the honor to collaborate with such ensembles as the Minnesota Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, PRISM Quartet, and the Eastman Wind Ensemble, and has received honors such as the ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize and a BMI Student Composer award.
He received his DMA from the University of Michigan, studying with Michael Daugherty.
https://mattbrownecomposer.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mattbrownecomposer

 
2) HUO Jung - The truth of the platform announcement

Whenever there is a train delay, the authorities always release a vague reason, and I never know the actual truth. Some say this is to avoid panic. This state of neither lying nor revealing the truth reminds me of the ambiguous rhetoric often found in politics.
The audio content is my imitation of the SNCF platform announcement during train delays, rewritten to reflect national themes and read aloud.

Transcript of the audio: (music) "Your attention, please. Track 2, due to traffic regulation, due to national regulation, due to a personal accident, due to a political accident, due to intervention by law enforcement, due to intervention by foreign forces, the TER train number 3911 to Bourges, initially scheduled to depart at 9:52, will now depart with a delay of approximately 2 hours. Thank you for your understanding."

Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1997. My work encompasses installation, sound, video, and performance. I focus on daily and ritual gestures and actions, extracting small moments of discomfort and transforming them into a dislocation of tangible objects, capturing the poetic elements within their political significance.

junghuotw.wixsite.com/site
instagram : jung.huo

 
3) Joe Posset - All the buskers in Newcastle city centre on 28th September 2024 slowed down

Buskers are great yeah but what if they just played incredibly slowly?  I recorded a bunch of buskers on my dictaphone on a busy Saturday in Newcastle City Centre. I then slowed down the recordings and overlaid them to make a montage of chopped and screwed standards.  The sounds are a gloopy mush, like wading through dreams.  You might pick up a hint of melody then it’s smeared like mascara in a downpour. And it seems like, no matter how hard you try, you can’t crush Pink Floyd into oblivion. Still…it’s fun to try eh? Keep listening!

Joe Posset is an amateur musician and gonzo writer.  His work focuses on the sound properties of cassette tape, dictaphones and goofy language to create indistinct and evocative soundscapes.  Posset has released almost 100 tapes and CDrs on numerous DIY labels over the last 20 years and is a frequent collaborator in one-off and longer-lasting collaborative projects (see Molar Crime and Papal Bull). Recently his work has explored ideas of accessibility, inclusion and privilege in the underground music scene.
https://posset.bandcamp.com/
https://allmyideasarestolen.wordpress.com/

 
4) Esther Hesketh and Lily Frances - I think of a moth

An experimental sound art piece, ‘I think of a moth' centres around a recital of a meditative monologue, developed from an art writing piece written by Hesketh. A sprawling rumination, the text is curious, poetic, playful and anxious. The narrator occasionally stumbles over her words, laughing and apologising. “There is a possibility of inhabiting this space,” she says.
The backing track collages recordings from a sound bath with ambient sounds from both nature and Frances’ home – birds, rain, footsteps, a band rehearsing, and Neil Young on the radio.
The work samples, mentions, or indirectly references various grounding practices; listening (to music, to the stream, to the sounds of nearby animals); attending a sound bath; taking an ordinary bath; tending to personal grooming; and spending time writing or making artwork.

Esther Hesketh is an artist and technician based between Glasgow and Bristol. Their practice works with narrative and material processes to develop sculptural and performative installations, text pieces and audio.

Lily Frances is a practice-based PhD researcher at University of Bristol. An artist and poet, Lily is interested in touch, ritual, and metaphysical energy. Her research examines the work of experimental filmmaker Chantal Akerman, with a focus on Akerman’s use of sound.

Together, Esther and Lily have collaborated on text and exhibition works, producing inter-medial and spatial explorations of language, identity and the everyday.

http://instagram.com/lily.francs/
http://instagram.com/byeshesketh/
https://estherhesketh.cargo.site

5) Irving Kinnersley - Estuary 1 (13:44)
6) Owen Ho – Katabasis (10:00)
7) Gracchi Administration - Tiffany with an I (2:24)
8) Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 9 (2:16)
 
5) Irving Kinnersley - Estuary 1

Estuary 2 explores temporal ambiguity along the vast shoreline of Bridgewater Bay, part of the Bristol Channel. Powerful tidal and geological forces form a backdrop to fragile human presences. The recurring solitary walker and the human interactions with stones and pebbles are temporally ambiguous, whereas the sounds of humans playing on the beach are clearly contemporary. Temporal heterogeneity extends to sounds which have disappeared from the present but are reconstituted in the piece, such as the foghorn which last sounded in 1980 and the traces static and morse code referencing Marconi’s early experiential radio transmissions from Bridgewater Bay across the Bristol Channel to Wales.

Irving Kinnersley is a composer of elecroacoustic and soundscape music based in Somerset England. He has studied literature at the University of London and Kent University and electroacoustic composition at Bath Spa University and Manchester University.
His work has been performed at numerous peer reviewed festivals. His piece Elegy 1 was awarded first prize (student section) at the 2021 KLANG International Electroacoustic Music Competition and Estuary 2 was selected as a finalist at the 2023 Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition.

irvingkinnersley.com

 
6) Owen Ho – Katabasis

Katabasis is a piece that delves into the mythical ancient Greek concept of katabasis—a descent into the underworld and the transformative experience that arises from such an undertaking. The sound is composed of various field recordings from the historic Mecklenburgh Square Garden in London. It is, in essence, a morphology of sounds: trees, branches, leaves, wind, grass, peregrine falcons, and more, all manipulated and arranged into a form that reflects the dramatic tripartite structure of the narrative, showcasing some of the most intense and surreal moments encountered while journeying through the underworld.

Owen Ho is a shortlisted composer to represent the UK in the ISCM World New Music Days (Sound and Music). He has written works for notable bodies across the world such as the Bloomsbury Festival (London) and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, amongst others. He is a prizewinner of numerous composition competitions, such as the International Composition Competition for Chromatic Harmonica and the Association Of English Singers And Speakers Composition Competition. His musical output includes works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, voice, solo instrument, dance, film, electroacoustic music, and sound installation.
https://owenhomusic.com/

 
7) Gracchi Administration - Tiffany with an I

Tiffany with an I is influenced by the world of social media and online dating.
Here, after taking inspiration from a friends experience, I recorded a female friend reading a scripted audio message into a dictaphone.
This was mixed with distorted instrumental sounds to create a short sound work.

Aedan Molllen creates sound work under the Gracchi Administration name.
He is a multi instrumentalist working in London.
His main areas of interest are sound installation, field recording, audio visual composition and radio work.
https://vimeo.com/user15535459

 
8) Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 9

Channelling is a kinetic sound performance that utilizes various components salvaged from discarded and obsolete consumer technology, reanimating them by piping amplified sound through them. The motors and mechanisms respond to these sound impulses in erratic and unpredictable ways. The actions of, and emanations from, the devices are subsequently amplified.
The project was developed through 2021and 2022 by support from Ferme-Asile (CH), Witte Rook (NL), AiR Niederösterreich (AT), HEAR and Espaces Sonore (FR) and Château Éphémère (FR).

Since 2005 Simon Whetham has worked with sonic activity. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He also explores ways of creating physical traces of sound and transforming energy forms.
Whetham performs and exhibits internationally, has received a large number of commissions and awards, has many published composed works and regularly collaborates with other artists. In addition his practice covers giving active listening, field recording and technology repurposing workshops.
https://simonwhetham.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/simonwhethamartist/
https://vimeo.com/simonwhetham
https://simonwhetham.bandcamp.com/

'DOG FM is the debut release by the London-based duo of field recordist Oliver Chapman and poet Phoebe Eccles. Combining Chapman’s seemingly banal snapshots of a family car journey with Eccles’ fantastic, reflective spoken verse, DOG FM deftly transports the listener through a series of uncanny and oft-times bizarre audio travelogs where tension and expanse alternate to disorientating effect. By exploring the dynamics of a typical close-quarters family exchange, and with repeated use of ‘canine’ annotation, Chapman reimagines the car as both a confine and a means of escape, with Eccles’ verse acting as thematic glue, bonding memory, dream and textural reference to the road map. DOG FM brings a multifaceted lens over a commonplace event, exploding our expectations, and allowing us to surrender the wheel —and our fate— to kismet outcomes.

Annie Mac can't see the sunset as she broadcasts so asks listeners to describe theirs. This live radio broadcast describes the conditions the broadcaster finds themselves in and asks for descriptions in return from the broadcastees. This highlights the specific and unique medium of radio - temporally homogenous yet spatially heterogenous, nodes in a network, and individual experiences becoming shared through audio.

https://twitter.com/anniemacmanus/status/986689649543471104

Artist bio:
Han is an experimental musician, sound designer, healthcare worker, and ex-biomedical engineer based in Glasgow. She likes to make weird music about institutions, informed by her commitment to degrowth and her work within the NHS; and through her artistic practice seeks to explore the future of healthcare in relation to climate breakdown. Her recent release on cult label The Trilogy Tapes is a sprawling extraction of the surreal from the quotidian humdrum of consumerism, while her GLARC release coalesced around a fictional Institute of Ecoterrorism. She was recently announced as a recipient of the 2024 Help Musicians Electronic Award.

Website/social links
boosterhoo.ch
instagram.com/boosterhooch

"Transmissions from a Carceral State" derives from a practice of listening to the electromagnetic and acoustic environments of active and decommissioned prisons in New York's Hudson Valley in autumn 2024. The work layers field recordings, electromagnetic emissions, and performed elements based on intercepted radio communications between prison guards. Evoking the prison as a physical structure and a discursive site, the performance listens to its past, present, and future in an attempt to imagine imprisonment's afterlife. The original iteration of this piece was developed during an artist residency at Wave Farm in Acra, NY. Bio:  Hans Kuzmich is a Belarus-born artist based in Los Angeles whose work examines gender as an interface between subjects and the state, seeking to unsettle their regulatory logics. Using transmission arts, media installation, and performance, his practice is grounded in site-specific listening and sonic fiction methodologies. Kuzmich is currently completing a hybrid doctoral dissertation in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His recent exhibitions and residencies include Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania; Wave Farm, Acra, NY; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; The 8th Floor, New York, NY; and SOMA, Mexico City. He holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, a BFA from the Cooper Union, and was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program. hanskuzmich.info (website) @hanskuzmich (IG)

1) Andrew Davis - Static Surfing (3:30)
2) UpperHurst - Synthfest Binaural (10:00)
3) Daniel McKemie - Practical Environments No 1 (17:46)
 
 
1) Andrew Davis - Static Surfing

Static Surfing is a short piece that melds the sounds of older radio broadcasts, static, everyday objects, and more into a jarring, yet cohesive collage. It is the first movement in a larger, yet-to-be-completed work that focuses on older radio broadcasts as a means of sonic exploration. The piece attempts to simulate the overload of auditory information we get in modern society due to the saturation of technology in our everyday lives.

Andrew Davis is a composer and electric guitarist from Columbia, MD who has written for a variety of media both acoustic and electroacoustic.  His works have been performed by groups such as the JACK Quartet, PRISM Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, Daedalus Quartet, the Argento Ensemble, and loadbang.  He earned a B.A. in music from Yale University, an M.M. in composition from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012, a PhD in composition from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017, and an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University in 2018.  He currently teaches at Ursinus College.
andrewdaviscomposer.com

 
2) UpperHurst - Synthfest Binaural

A basic binaural mix compiled from thirteen recordings made over a period of three years. Each was recorded walking the floor of the UK Synthfest exhibition held in Sheffield each autumn.

UpperHurst is the working name of Sheffield-based musician, sound artist and documentary-maker Peter Brooks. He works using conventional musical instruments, synthesisers and other electronic instruments, field recordings and other found sounds.
https://www.mixcloud.com/UpperHurst/
https://soundcloud.com/user-901965358
https://upperhurst.bandcamp.com


3) Daniel McKemie - Practical Environments No 1

This work was recorded in the backyard of the bar Mama Tried in Brooklyn, New York, as was conceived as part of the BOUQUETS series; where artists are asked to perform in duet with the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway just across the street. Two shotgun mics were placed on the roof of the bar and the audio feed brought onto the stage, where performers can choose to process, perform, improvise, alongside the traffic.
My first ideas of using freeway sounds as source material date back to 2009 when I would pass under the 980 in West Oakland while walking downtown. This small stretch connected the 880 to the 580 as a running overpass alongside Telegraph Avenue. Many spots under it would yield rich resonances and reverberation of cars hitting potholes, sirens wailing, horns blaring, and all the rest of the sonic canvas that has become familiar to urban dwellers.

Daniel McKemie is a composer, percussionist, electronic musician, researcher, and arranger based in New York City. His current work includes using techniques rooted in Music Information Retrieval to develop new sound palettes and approaches to audio processing. He also focuses on utilizing the internet and browser technology to realize a more accessible platform for multimedia art. He also develops new ways of interfacing handmade circuitry, modular synthesizers, and embedded systems to various softwares both new and old. This recent work has allowed for complex, interactive performance environments to emerge.
https://www.danielmckemie.com
https://www.instagram.com/danielmckemie/

4) Gabriele Hasler  - wood, metal and air (5:21)
5) Renán Zelada Cisneros - Y siguió escribiendo en la arena (8:20)
6) Roberto Vodanović Čopor - the day they brought down factory (4:55)
7) Luigi Morleo - CLIMATE EXPRESSION 3 (7:45)
 
 
4) Gabriele Hasler  - wood, metal and air 

In August 2024 I practiced on the baroque organ of the St. Johanniskirche in Dannenberg (Northern Germany) for a freely improvised duo concert with the Cologne alto saxophonist Angelika Niescier. I gradually became familiar with the instrument and its registration options. Once I made a recording with my iPhone, which I placed on the organ's music stand. At home I discovered that, in addition to the organ playing, it had recorded the clattering of the keys as a "bycatch". I was thrilled, I had never heard anything like it before! From this I produced the piece “wood, metal and air.” By the way, the concert went very well...
 
Gabriele Hasler has been active in the field of contemporary jazz since the early 80ies and has toured worldwide for the Goethe Institute, among others. In 1985 she received the SWF Jazz Prize, and with the prize money she founded her own label "Foolish Music", on which 22 productions have been released to date. She received numerous composition commissions, including for choirs and musical theater, and took part in numerous television and radio productions (NDR, RB, SR, HR, BR, SWR, RBB, ÖR, ZDF). In 2013, she received the German record critics' award for her solo CD "im bauch der vokale". The CD “fundstücke” was released in October 2016, which she recorded together with Günter Baby Sommer for Laika Records. In May 23, her new CD “pAtTeRnS” was released as an artist edition. 
https://www.gabrielehasler.de


5) Renán Zelada Cisneros - Y siguió escribiendo en la arena

The quote from John 8:8, in Arabic, repeats over and over again, the words losing any meaning, merging with the layers and layers of sound, "and again He stooped down and wrote on the ground." What begins as a simple, dismissive gesture, becomes the precursor of thousands of lines and words written on the sand, only to be blown away by the wind again and again. The images repeat over and over again but are always different, always slightly distorted, sometimes unrecognizable. We try to define the universe around us in patters, rules, borders. But the universe is always changing, always defying our little definitions. People are all different, all the same, like sand. The lines we draw on the ground to separate one another are just that: lines in the sand that will eventually disappear.
This work includes recordings of Alistair Sung (cello) and Mustafa Kur (spoken word).

Renán Zelada Cisneros (b. 1993) is a Dutch-Venezuelan composer currently living in Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, and the Amsterdam Conservatoire, in the Netherlands. His music is frequently inspired by other art forms such as literature, visual arts, and architecture, often relating to social and environmental themes. Together with writing music for the concert stage, Renán also collaborates regularly with filmmakers internationally in both fiction and documentary films.
https://renanmusic.eu/
https://renanmusic.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/renan_zelada_music/


6) Roberto Vodanović Čopor - the day they brought down factory

This audio recording is isolated audio from a video recording recorded with an old camera.
It is  video of the demolition of a textile factory.
In the best days, during communism and Yugoslavia, more than seven thousand people worked in the factory.
In the nineties, war broke out, Yugoslavia fell apart and Croatia became an independent state. In the new capitalist system, the factory is destroyed, people lose their jobs. The factory is being demolished, and buildings and banks have been built in its place.

Roberto Vodanović Čopor is a multimedia artist and researcher from Zadar, Croatia. He explores sound, word, image and movement intuitivly. He often combines his experimental music with the sounds of nature, cities and the sounds he creates from everyday objects. He releases his albums independently but also for many independent publishers such as  Sirr-ecords, Green Field Recordings, Sono Space, Novaki Music, Camembert Électrique, Warm Milk Recordings, Mahorka, Kalamine…
https://copor.bandcamp.com/

 
7) Luigi Morleo - CLIMATE EXPRESSION 3

CLIMATE EXPRESSION 3 is the third electronic work by Luigi Morleo, dedicated to the climate change of our planet. This song aims to raise awareness of the climate problem; with the sounds of our planet Earth it is possible to create a sound expression.

Luigi Morleo (born 16 November 1970 in Mesagne, Province of Brindisi) is an Italian percussionist and composer of contemporary music, who lives in Bari and teaches at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory. Many of his works have been played at PASIC (Percussive Arts Society) in Nashville-USA, Federation Bells of Melbourne-Australia, and at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival-USA and Festival MUSLAB from Mexico, Festival Futura Electronic – France, Festival En Chair et en Son - France, Jasmin Vardimon Company from Ashford-UK, Percussion Ensemble from Academy of Music STANISLAW MONIUSZKO in Gdansk-Poland, Percussion Ensemble from University of Music of Miskolc-Hungary
https://www.instagram.com/luigi_morleo/

Territory II is a newly updated version of the online work Territory (https://ruaridhtvo.com/Territory) from 2021. Whilst that performance was based around mapping sound from a walk onto one performance (via 2 turntables and a Max/MSP patch), this new iteration extends the idea of performing a DJ mix with maps by mixing together audio from two different walks - one pre-carried out, and the other live and phoned back to the performers in the studio.

The instructions for the original version are the same (1 Draw a spiral on a map, 2 attempt to walk that spiral as closely as possible 3 Record via field recording and voice interesting things whilst you walk). One walk would be carried out beforehand (likely a spiral radiating out from my home in Ayrshire), recorded and then played back in the studio on a single turntable using control vinyl running into a Max patch to process the audio (allowing physical manipulation of the playback, with the spiral representing the grooves of the vinyl ), and the other walk would take place during the broadcast in a spiral with the studio as the centre, with the walker calling back into the studio via phone or Teams and the audio mixed in/processed live.

The piece plays with the idea of callers dialling in to radio shows as well as DJs performing on radio (albeit with field recordings / spoken word, rather than old hardcore records....)

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. (lots more info and a longer bio at ruaridhtvo.com )

ruaridh law / tvo / broken20 / no roof only sky. / logicofthesignifier
ruaridhTVO.com | broken20.com | noroofonlysky.com | logicofthesignifier.bandcamp.com

1) Stephane Borrel - Les Pleureuses (The Mourners) (7:40)
2) Maeve - The wind is lilting (4:30)
3) Kalli Anderson - Concurrents (12:33)
 
 
1) Stephane Borrel - Les Pleureuses (The Mourners) 
 
Les Pleureuses (The Mourners) is an excerpt from an electroacoustic work untitled Laughing Tonalities.
It is customary to contrast laughter with crying. On a purely sonic level, however, things seem much less clear-cut. Sometimes we cannot tell by ear whether the person we hear is laughing or sobbing, and to know, we must search in their face.
The vocal sounds produced during funeral ceremonies leave no room for doubt. But nerves are sometimes so tried that laughter can arise without us expecting.
Moreover, we remember that there still exist (in China, India, Africa) professional mourners hired to feign grief during funerals in order to give an augmented impression of importance to the tribute paid to the deceased.
These various remarks are provided to suggest possible readings of the piece that mobilizes two, then three, and finally four women's voices.

Artist bio:
Stéphane Borrel (1974) lives and works in Lyon, France. He writes for different ensembles and diverse electronics, ranging from chamber music (Facétie, Extinction, Toutes choses ont leur saison) to the symphony orchestra (Faits de masque, Main-d’oeuvre), from mixed music (Orée, Prospectus in musica, Toute la mer) to sound installations (Smartland-Divertimento) or acousmatic pieces (Laughing Tonalities – Anthologie du rire). He has worked with ensembles such as the Instant Donné ensemble, the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Orchestre National de Lyon, Ictus ensemble, Cairn ensemble, Divertimento ensemble, Vortex ensemble and so on. He was the prize-winner of the Phonurgia Nova scholarship in 2009, and Hervé Dugardin Prize of the SACEM in 2013. Since 2003, he teaches composition at Conservatoire de Lyon (C.R.R. de Lyon).
https://www.stephaneborrel.fr/
https://www.instagram.com/stephaneborrelmus/
 
 
2) Maeve - The wind is lilting

The work takes a field recording  from a night lying on the floor of Hutchinson's Bothy in the Cairngorms. Each element of the beat is taken from the field recording creating complex and folk inspired beats present in the information captured from the wind.

Artist bio:
Maeve is a harpist and writer, she is interested in folk tradition and how it sings and emanates beyond the voice of the individual, communicating a timeless truth that speaks to a relationship with the natural world.
 

3) Kalli Anderson - Concurrents 
 
Concurrents is a documentary sound art composition that invites us into soundscapes that are reaching toward the subjective experience of feeling one's body in a space and of existing in two or more places/soundscapes at once. It features field recordings in or near bodies of water made on my visits to my ancestral homelands in the Scottish highlands, Western France, Western Ireland and Ontario, Canada. By pairing field recordings from similar but disparate spaces and presenting them in tandem/unison, this composition plays with the imagined distinctions between external/internal, human/non-human, presence/absence and interrogates what it means to really know a place and how that knowing has been ruptured settler colonialism. It includes narration moving the listener through the soundscapes and some short excerpts from archival recordings of traditional songs and stories, and of a talk by sound artist Pauline Oliveros about the nature of deep listening.

Additional field recordings by Kaija Siirala
Archival recording courtesy of the School of Scottish Studies Archives, originally recorded by Hamish Henderson and Allie Edwards Munro.
Sound mixing and engineering assistance from Chad Bernhard and Brendan Baker


Artist bio:
Kalli Anderson is a Canadian award-winning documentary-maker, filmmaker and sound artist. Her work has been broadcast, podcast and exhibited around the world and has been recognized by the Third Coast Competition, The Hearsay International Audio Festival, The Canadian Digital Publishing Awards and The National Magazine Awards. The first incarnation of tis work was a head-tracked spatial audio installation In Side Out Side In, which was part of the In the Field II Exhibition in London curated by Cannach MacBride and she recently completed Orchard Chorus, a site-specific composition for an apple orchard commissioned by the Oral History Summer School in Hudson, NY. She is the director of audio journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and she lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Website/social links
https://kallipearl.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kalli.pearl.anderson/

A Line Drawn Downwards “We are tapping into the invisible currents of the Earth, sending messages through the ether…”                                —  Nikola Tesla, early radio experiments, c. 1900 The ground opens up, we fall inwards, the shifting rubble opens to ineffable depths. A world unseen, but heard into being. The synth becomes the conduit, transmitting in frequencies, straddling the boundaries between organic and artificial sound, guiding the antipodeal  line through layered interiors; crust, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mantle, and core. The synthesizer is not an instrument of control but a porous interface navigating the imaginary of the natural datum. Turbulence shapes new forms, inverted waveforms, liminal cocoons, subharmonics and overtones, a cartography of the unexplored. The tunnel wall  fractures, revealing not just space, but something beyond the reach of engineered design. A cavernous expanse. Above, renewal? Or at least, a reckoning? A Line Drawn Downwards blurs the space between history, prophecy, and fiction; folded into the Earth. We bore into the hum of the world and hope something answers. Recorded at WORM Sound Studio in Rotterdam, this sonic cartography unfolds through the distinct textures of each instrument; Kawai 100F, Syntron Syrinx, Soma Enver, Korg MS20, Korg PS3210, Optigan, Moog Prodigy, ARP 2600, EMS Synthi, Publison DHM89 B2, Yamaha CS100, ARP Odyssey, Roland TB303, Blippoo Box, Juno 60, Organelle, Boss DD7, Paia Proteus, Roland SP404, Roland D50, Yamaha 40M, Yamaha 60M, Phillips Philicorda, and the Fender Rhodes. Commissioned by Radiophrenia, 2025. Murray  Collier is a musician and producer from Ayrshire, now working in Glasgow. He has released music on Sacred Summits (Emotional Response/ Firecracker Recordings), 12th Isle, Real Landscape, Optimo Music and Domestic Exile. He has performed at the Tate Modern, Turner Contemporary, the ICA, and  Tramway, and for festivals such as Rewire (Den Haag), Glasgow Film Festival, Counterflows, 53100 (Siena, Italy) and Donau Festival (Krems, Austria). Hannan Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose current research expands hybridity, language, and rhythms associated with cultural and social migration, and psychogeography. Underpinning her practice is an evolution of sound, Hannan works with electronics, music concrete, improvisation and analogue recordings. Using samples and layering of audio material, she reclaims parallel histories, and reimagines connections between them. She  is a graduate from Glasgow School of Art’s Sculpture and Environmental Art department. From 2020-21 she was an Associate Artist at Open School East. In 2023, she became a recipient of the Oram Award, a platform to elevate the work and voices of women and gender  non-conforming artists innovating in sound, music and related technology. Hannan has performed at Counterflows, Glasgow; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Cafe Oto, London; REWIRE; The Hague; The Tate Modern, London; New Radicalisms, Rotterdam.

‘Poltergeist or some scene else’ is an essayistic radio work by Yulia Carolin Kothe that takes the Barras Market's (Glasgow) syntax of artefacts as a starting point for creating an expanding and ever-evolving tableau of intense, uneasy acousmatic atmospheres. The conspicuous and omniscient narrator takes the listener on a rambling walk through the Barras entering private and public spaces, a remote cottage and various ambivalent territories home to disembodied voices and close up traces of life like a wet ring of a coffee cup just plucked from the scene. Kothe's own electronic compositions are juxtaposed with re-articulated oral histories, chopping up DIY recordings on cassettes purchased from the Barras Market, and combining with avantgarde German poems by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), Thekla Lingen (1866-1931), Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806) and Anna Ritter (1865–1921).

Text by Caitlin Merrett King

Artist bio:
Yulia Carolin Kothe is an artist working between Glasgow and Frankfurt am Main. Her practice moves between sculpture, film, sound, writing, installation and performance, often responding to archival material, queer feminist theory and personal and oral histories. Through forensic expansion of these materials, Kothe creates new sites, both digital and physical, glitching fictional or often partially-remembered environments that seek to configure new relational and temporal experiences.

Website/social links
https://www.juliacarolinkothe.de
https://www.instagram.com/yulia.ko_/
https://soundcloud.com/kothe-yulia

Put an end to an unbearable silence, to decompartmentalize the story of a family fractured by illness. Told by the sister of a young man, whose schizophrenia declared itself 12 years ago. A decade of suffering and adaptation to psychiatric vertigo. Years, during which the attention paid to the suffering brother, made invisible the impact of an altered daily life on the other child: me.

“Schizophonies” vacillates between an atypical psychic world and the pragmatic reality of a
society where so-called “madness” is still worth being locked away.

Artist bio:
Born in northern France in 2001, Rislane Hakym is a qualified audiovisual technician. Social issues are at the heart of both her multidisciplinary practice. She has worked on a number of audiovisual projects with disabled people, around autism, sexual assistance, but also with young people in a medical-educational institute, or with a mutual aid group. Her interest in real-life cinema led her to enroll in the Master's program in documentary writing and creation (CREADOC, Angoulême), to produce her first sound documentary, “Schizophonies”. An autobiographical project focusing on her brother's schizophrenia, its repercussions for her and her family.

Website/social links
https://www.rislanehakym.fr/

Field recordings from Brazil's Atlantic Forest

This is a series of field recordings made in the transition biome between the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro.
The recordings were made in different seasons of the year, between 2023-2024, and at different times of the day. Each of the recordings has an approximate duration of sixty minutes.


Artist bio:
Argentinean sound artist settled in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her artistic work is based on the use of field recordings and navigates between soundscape and experimental electroacoustic and concrete music, focusing on listening and sound imagination.
Since 2019, she has released solo works on the labels Impulsive Habitat, Música Insólita, Pakapi Records and Sello Postal.
She has also released the collaborative works ‘Slani pejzaži’(tsss tapes), with Manja Ristić and Joana Guerra, ‘In-Radius’ (Presses Précaires) with Pablo Díaz, and “Fase de Plegamiento’ (Green Field Recordings) with Juan José Calarco.

Website/social links
linktr.ee/veronica_cerrotta
https://veronicadaniela.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/veronicadanielacerrotta
https://www.instagram.com/veronica_cerrotta/

This work symbolically depicts the complex and tense state of the global environment by beginning with footsteps, followed by the gradual overlapping and unfolding of ambient, unbalanced harmonies and noise.

The footsteps symbolize the traces of human existence and its impact on the global environment. Harmony and noise symbolize the dissonance caused by human intervention in the global environment.
The acoustic space of monotonous footsteps and noise may be heard as a space of wishful thinking that the environmental problems we are facing at the moment are just a dream.
The sustained resonance of harmonies may be heard as the cry of the earth.
The silence at the end may be interpreted in many ways as to what it means.

Artist bio:
KAZUYA ISHIGAMI (b. 1972, Osaka/JAPAN) is a composer, sound designer, sound performer and sound engineer in the field of Electroacoustic/Acousmatic/Post-Acousmatic/Ambient/Noise, etc.
Since 1992 he has created under the name of DARUIN. He began using computers for composition and improvisation in 1994 with the programming language Max/MSP and others.
His pieces have been performed at CCMC (Japan), FUTURA (France), MUSLAB (Mexico), SILENCE (Italy), ICMC (2015_USA/TEXAS), Music From Japan 2020 (USA/NY) among others. He has an independent label, NEUS-318, and has released more than 100 works.

Website/social links
https://neus318.bandcamp.com/
https://kazuyaishigami.bandcamp.com/
https://omodaru.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/kazuya_ishigami

Cross talk & frequency drifting pulls the strings of his heart & relating to loops and rough editing , audio drop outs , a Sonic Organic. A mix of forms in an expanding wave , nudging & slating whim , composition dealt in reality , a truth of intimate confessional & intruding a microphone , the tension of triggered sounds to ape pictures of life. The work under the Shaun Robert moniker is inhabited with conventional instruments including guitar , drums , bass , violin , various keybroads , melodica , trumpet , accordion , mandolin , harmonica , stylophone and various toys ; Objects are treated like instruments & vice versa.

Artist bio:
Shaun Robert (1966 - ) has been working with sound from an early age , a natural extension of play. Starting like many with a domestic tape recorder ; years finger poised on the pause button ; tunnelling into the present & falling into deep concentration ; in a trance of coloured sound trials ; impromptu expressions processed & filtered into moments of congealed sound ; also using field recording , in voxpop & audio voyeurism , of hauntological stylings , spoken word & singing. Falling apart to come together ; feeling the next transition is about to happen , tape phasing sound on sound ; skimming back to make collusion edits ; building deep relationships with that aesthetic ; this interaction shows itself in within all his works . And the importance of sounds from analogue radio , magnetic tape manipulation can not be understated.

Website/social links
https://shaunrobert.bandcamp.com

 L L t N S (http://longlivethenewsound.com) is a podcast feed where you can listen to unexpected, eclectic, precise, messy and otherwise sounds. It's freeform and non-commercial, a public-access-style podcast. Episodes are added by whoever. Amateurs, artists, archivists, producers and anyone else can contribute sounds as they like whenever they like. New or old work, short or long, good or bad, LLtNS is an open channel for the kinds of et cetera that exists at the margins of sound stuff. All episodes are presented as they are uploaded, without additional hosts, context, ads or active curation.
 
00:00 : ASLEEPerd by sleep number beds

1:29 : Cracking Through by Lily Sloane

2:36 : Ferk by This American Life

7:56 : Episode 1 : The Circles by Matters of Truth

8:30 : Episode 2 : The Change by Matters of Truth

8:50 : Frogs by al 

9:01 : On the village cricket pitch by SDU

11:29 : MY LEG FELL OFF by BART

15:02 : Now and Tomorrow by Cristina Marras

17:46 : 920am by Jazmine (JT) Green

18:34 : Tonic Immobility by Eloise Bertil

26:14 : Smashing Glass by Jessica Jones

27:31 : Doubléferk by 99 percent invisible

27:56 : Fiend by Lily Sloane

31:52 : Sherry's Health Insurance Nachos by Henrici Tai

32:21 : Mindferk by The Shallows

32:37 : bugs on a bike by adriene

37:29 : We Went Camping by Regan Hutchins

39:27 : Sand by Ari Mejia

42:37 : Podiatrist by Lily Sloane

43:37 : the time in front by time studies

44:30 : I'm On My Way by Olivia 88

57:54 : This is absolutely, definitely not a test. And the previous episode was too long. by vegetarian nachos

A reimagining of the 1970's classic pop song by Blondie in an Arte Povera style from the perspective of a child murderer...

Artist bio:
STORYTELLER is an electro-acoustic Spoken word collaboration between writer & occasional filmmaker Bruce McClure and sound artist Bjørn Hatleskog.

Website/social links
https://www.adaadat.co.uk/storyteller4/

A social media influencer journeys outside the comfortable world of her online homelife, with startling results, in this retro-futuristic radio drama.

Artist bio:
Pete Petrisko (aka Media Petros) is a multi-media artist based in Phoenix, AZ (USA)

Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/mediapetros/

https://www.facebook.com/PetePetrisko

A social media influencer journeys outside the comfortable world of her online homelife, with startling results, in this retro-futuristic radio drama.

Artist bio:
Pete Petrisko (aka Media Petros) is a multi-media artist based in Phoenix, AZ (USA)

Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/mediapetros/

https://www.facebook.com/PetePetrisko