Wed 06

Improvised drone soundscape duet. Recorded in Glasgow, April 2024 Artist bio: M. Elizabeth Scott is a poet and esotericist living in Glasgow. Soojin Chang is a Korean-American non-binary multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Glasgow. Using technology to transmute in/visibility, Chang's ritual experiments convene intimacies in energetics. Their research spans multispecies consciousness, the Divine, birth/death continuums, and technological visions of immortality.

Spiraal is a collaborative performance led by Mariam Morshed (US, IR) with Chris Smith (UK) drawing upon the paranormal, OSTs, field recordings, discordant melodies and restless dreams. Shifting sounds and structures, eerie nuances, all as a red sun labelled “record” blazes to life. This piece was performed in July 2023 at IKLECTIK supporting dj lostboi. Live electronic synthesis, humming harmonisations, and field recordings from horror films and video games from our respective childhoods interweave each other in a roaring soundscape. Tension and release are of utmost focus, as each signals the beginning of a new hauntological study. Together, the work aims to merge two contrasting philosophical and artistic approaches to ultimately arrive at a new interpretation on what it means to share a collective nostalgia. Artist bio: Mariam is an Iranian American sound artist and music researcher based in London. Her compositions take the form of dissonant soundscapes, noisy polyrhythmic loops and generative sound collages. Sampling and found sounds are at the core of every piece, referencing the ontological worlds of her favourite forms of source material – early video game music, classic horror film soundtracks, choir practice field recordings, traditional music from rural Iran. Her sonic installations are often conceptual and spatial, reflecting on various states of listening and psychoacoustic engagements with sonic bodies. Website/social links mariammorshed.carrd.co @mari.obj

1) Jakov Munižaba & Marija Stojnic - Shrub acoustica (8:00)
2) Cat Hawthorn - Out of Order (14:17)
3) Eduardo Espinosa - sounds from the south (3:36)
 
 
1) Jakov Munižaba & Marija Stojnic - Shrub acoustica

Shrub acoustica, is a radio play that reinterprets the soundscape of the Botanical Garden “Jevremovac” in Belgrade, and creates a sonic symbiosis between its inhabitants—plants, animals, humans, machines. Delving deep into the inaudible parts of the spectrum, where bats reside and perhaps other yet-to-be-discovered beings, the work invites the listener to merge their perception with the mediated stimuli of the garden and open a new playful space within themselves.
Composed from recordings made in the garden, utilizing temporal sound manipulation, and featuring original composition by Jakov Munižaba performed on the EMS Synthi 100 in the Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade, this work reveals previously inaccessible and speculative sonic spaces of the garden.
The piece is a part of the collection “Garden of Sound” by Marija Stojnić and Jakov Munizaba, created for the Center for the Promotion of Science, in collaboration with Jevremovac Botanical Garden, and Radio Belgrade, in Serbia, 2024.

Jakov Munižaba designed sound for over 100 films, many of which have screened at Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Sundance. He directs radio drama, composes film music, teaches sound in Belgrade and Podgorica, and collaborates with Radio Belgrade's EMS electronic music studio.

Marija Stojnić is a film director, producer and artist-researcher. Her film about Radio Belgrade, "Speak So I Can See You" has screened at MoMA, and at festivals in Amsterdam, Thessaloniki, Melbourne, Munich. She is a co-founder of the vocal group Rosa.
http://www.marijastojnic.com
ig: marija_stojnic, mstojnic
ig: knjigofaci

 
2) Cat Hawthorn - Out of Order

‘Out of Order’ is a soundscape composition that explores the acoustic environments of public toilets. The piece features a series of recordings made in four different bathrooms across Glasgow. Unedited stereo recordings of each site are placed alongside processed recordings of sounds ‘hidden’ within the sonic environment: creaking pipes, rumbling cisterns and gargling plug holes. These contrasting perspectives create two distinct sonic landscapes; the public ‘exterior’ and the personal ‘interior’ space. In the intimate moments of the piece, I speak directly to the listener, reflecting on my thoughts and feelings as I occupy each space. Gradually moving between the two, ‘Out of Order’ reveals the precarious nature of these sites; where the boundaries between public and private, personal and shared experience are blurred.

Cat Hawthorn is a Sound Designer and Artist currently based in Glasgow. For the past seven years, they have collaborated with artists and organisations across the U.K. to create sound for theatre, film and installation. From 2019-2021 they were part of the Almeida Theatre’s Young Resident Designer programme and in 2023 they completed an MSc in Sound Design and Audiovisual Practice at the University of Glasgow. Their work considers the interplay between sound, technology and the physiological and political dimensions of the human body.
https://www.cathawthornsounds.co.uk

 
3) Eduardo Espinosa - sounds from the south

I did this while on summer vacation in my home country. I recorded sounds from things like a coffee maker (the first sound that appeared) and a prepared piano for some of the metallic sounds. My main goal was to integrate water sounds with metallic and electronic sounds. The piece is called Sounds from the South because all of that happened in South America.

Eduardo Espinosa is a Colombian composer. His two favorite kinds of music are orchestral and electronic (which he also uses for ambient). He is in the third semester of his master's in music composition at Ohio University. He would like to work on music for the screen, video games, and radio, all involving music and sound.
https://soundcloud.com/duardospinosa

4) Nicola Cappelletti - Interno Pozzo (7:20)
5) Unconscious Collective - The Liverpool Pathway (12:00)
6) Andrew Ramsey - First Impressions (2:48)
7) Paul Meikle - Man Creates Nature Intervenes (9:28)
 
 
4) Nicola Cappelletti - Interno Pozzo

Interno pozzo (int. well) is part of a larger site-specific work dedicated to the city of Montepulciano. With a cinematic and sonic point of view, the piece investigates the soundscape of the city, subjected to heavy tourist flows, voluntarily hiding itself from the sight of the sound source for an acousmatic awareness. The result is a reconstruction from inside a well of an image of the city, in which ecosystemic elements attempt a new coexistence.

Nicola Cappelletti (ITA/FRA) is an electroacoustic sound artist. His artistic research focuses on the relationship between acoustic sound and electronic treatment in relation to contemporary music and arts, with forays into rock and club music, concerts of radical improvisation for prepared violin, prepared electric bass and live electronics.
http://www.nicolacappelletti.com
https://www.instagram.com/nikcplt/
https://www.facebook.com/nicola.cappelletti


5) Unconscious Collective - The Liverpool Pathway

The Liverpool Pathway manipulates, edits, and comments on material found within uses material from radio, records and & internet. The work often mirrors the collective unconscious through the use of voyeurism and dark humour.  The resulting work is a collage of real experiences to collage and montage to reflect upon the things they love, and simultaneously place them in ridicule. Various elements are produced to fit together smoothly, whereas other clash. Then discrepancies convey an impression of a heterogeneous assemblage; a careful randomness of disparate elements and collisions. The work critiques the uses of the public domain and plays with the endless juxtaposition of media. Taking the elements from around us and making them into music. A collage of reality, times, experience. This being evolved towards radio. Including voyeurism and black humour. Reflecting the things we love, and placing thing in ridicule. Putting the disparate and colliding them, in careful randomness

Central London based collective; Jane Burton, Doris Lake, Samantha Brook & Rachel Parks
Their logo is a Hammer and a Cabbage
And use various monikers to create under
https://instituteforalienresearchvariousartists.bandcamp.com/album/making-banana-sounds

 
6) Andrew Ramsey - First Impressions

After applying and being accepted as an artist, I participated in the Cities and Memories - Migration Sounds Project reinterpreting a field recording submitted by Linda Koncz. The original recording encompassed the sounds of a rainy afternoon captured from a window in Lisbon, Portugal. Koncz’s description of the intense Portuguese rainfall and the impression they made of the city, after relocating from Hungary, inspired me to recollect on my first impressions of Lisbon, and other cities I have traveled and relocated to over the years. When transforming the original recording into a new composition I utilized personal field recordings from the first time I visited Lisbon interwoven with the submitted recording to create a rich soundscape portraying a story of memories collected throughout the city. I then reharmonized the sonic elements in order to enhance the trace they imprint on the listener, drawing attention to the ones sonic world.

My name is Andrew Ramsey, I am a sound designer and audio artist originally from Louisville, Kentucky. I relocated to scotland to originally persue a MSc in Sound Design at the University of Edinburgh. I now live in Glasgow, Scotland and work as a sound designer at Junkfish games. My other audio practices heavily focus on field recording, acoustic ecology, and deep listening practices in order to draw attention to ones surroundings through sound.

andrewramseysounds.com
https://www.instagram.com/andrewmunro47/


7) Paul Meikle - Man Creates Nature Intervenes

Man Creates, Nature Intervenes is an album created in 2017 during a one-month residency at Satellietgroep in The Hague, focusing on the Zandmotor, a man-made peninsula designed to protect the coastline from erosion and support marine life. I visited the area almost daily, collecting objects, taking photos, and making field recordings. The album seeks to document the ever-changing, often harsh environment, capturing my genuine impressions of the space. I made instruments from found beach objects, recorded and resampled them, and manipulated sounds with sand and water. By embracing imperfect recordings made on the beach, I explored ways to transform them into musical and textural elements. The final album is a collection of memories, reflecting my feelings and impressions from these visits. By working with the space, rather than striving for pristine sound, I aimed to capture its authentic essence. (condensed mix of the album attached)

Edinburgh-based artist Paul Meikle explores environments and objects altered by time, erosion, intentional and unintentional damage, and weather. He captures these transitional processes in his sound work using fabricated external elements. By employing lo-fi tape equipment for field recordings and destructively processing sound, he condenses long environmental reactions such as ageing and erosion, while preserving the unique character of these natural processes.
https://paulypocket.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_pauly.pocket_/

Built from many spontaneous Instrument & object & planned field recordings to capture time and place , then ruthlessly compiled in quick mirrored responses . Voice recordings of a nature back in time, improvised jabber from old cassette tape . 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

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.

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

Named after the microscopic crystals of calcium carbonate within our inner ear that can cause vertigo when dislodged, Otoconia has an equally disorientating effect as all sense of time is dissolved in its delicate folds. Otoconia is an abstract and deeply immersive sonic experience crafted through the intricate interplay of field recordings and the EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer. The basis of the piece is formed from processed field recordings run through a chain of the Synthi's filters and effects. For the most part the piece was mixed live with some tinkering and adjustments after the fact. A significant departure from the work with found tapes and audio archaeology that Vernon has become known for.

https://grannyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/otoconia
 
Artist bio:
Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based artist who explores notions of audio archaeology, magnetic memory and nostalgia through his sound and radio works. At the core of his practice lies a fascination with the intimacy of the radio voice, environmental sound and the re-appropriation of found recordings.
 
http://meagreresource.com
 
 
plus short work:
 
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.

The Great Northern Diver is a 50 min radio production that combines spoken word, poetry, and field recordings. It tells the story of one man’s attempts to capture bird calls as he searches to understand what it might be like to be a bird. Using first and third person perspectives, scientific as well as poetic investigations, the work explores themes of migration, displacement, rootedness, home, and loss, highlighting the entanglement of human history, landscape, and ecosystems.

(The production contains two 20 sec excerpts of Passacaglia by GF Handel played by Marisa Robles, Pieces from my childhood 1979, UMG.)


Artist bio:
Jim Lloyd was a winner in The Rialto ‘Nature and Place’ poetry competition (2020). His poems have appeared in many places including: The Rialto, Stand, One Hand Clapping, Poetry Wales, and Nine Pens Press. He has an MFA (distinction) in Fine Art from Newcastle University, and he is now studying for an art practice-based PhD at Newcastle on the representations of avian perception. This research uses multiple methods, including creative writing, drawing, photography and field recording. He lives in Northumberland, UK.

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

Moving between them in quick succession recordings of trains continuous loop allowing him to trigger together the various train sounds as needed.  The collage work may have a completely different tone than that of the component parts, even if the original parts are completely recognisable. procedures such as the quodlibet, and centonization differ in that the various elements in them are made to fit smoothly together, whereas in a collage clashes other discrepancies are important in helping the constituent elements and to convey the impression of a heterogeneous assemblage. What made their technique true collage, however, was the juxtaposition of the unrelated. musical compositions, or recordings using portions of previously made recordings an eclectic assortment algorithm to position each sound at a specific time-point or time-points, editing of the duration, amplitude, and spatial positions of all sounds Communication made to the whole world, whose only pretension is to the discovery

Artist bio:
Central London based collective;  Jane Burton, Doris Lake, Samantha Brook & Rachel Parks; Their logo is a Hammer and a Cabbage And use various monikers to create under sometime in the 1950's by William Strong, the Public Domain project was a completely under the radar affair, issuing tape reels at sporadic junctures, of extreme small volumes, which were listened to, so sent back and wiped with large magnets, to be reused, so only fragments survive. Years later after befriending a librarian, in central London the it was reborn. The project has used many names; including unconscious collective

Website/social links
https://instituteforalienresearchvariousartists.bandcamp.com/album/public-display-of-affection

This broadcast uses the decommissioning process of the Hunterston A and B Nuclear Sites to explore the exhaustion of the nuclear dream and the residues it has left on the Clyde coastline.

The surround of Hunterston is drawn out in sound, summoning the material and affective sediments that linger in and around the site, and the infrastructural overwriting enacted on the landscape by palimpsestic energy imaginaries.

The composition is centred around a series of geophone recordings taken during the FieldARTS residency with the Infrastructure Humanities Group. Low-frequency hums are drawn out from Hunterston’s material landscape to become drones, pulling in and out of harmony, evoking sonic spectres that linger beyond the edges of auditory perception.

Artist bio:
Extense is a collaborative project between Clara Hancock and Dianne Burdon. They are interested in how technologies, as sensuous extensions of the body, impact our interactions with infrastructures. Their shared research uses atypical cartographic tools to explore the futures being mapped through historical and contemporary sites of development, a project of playful study centred around untangling the epistemic constraints of energy futures.


Website/social links
https://clarah.cargo.site/

https://dianneburdon.com/
 
 
plus short work:
 
Avi Ziv - Encounter With The Krell

We are all waves of energy. The Encounter With The Krell uses sonification of electromagnetic fields, emanating from both motors and magnetic tape, as the book ends to generative synthesized statements. The performer applies nuance and expression in response to every sound, forming a dialog. This improvisation was captured live, in one shot, and without any editing. Recorded using a micro cassette recorder, custom EMF sensors, an electromechanical plucked instrument, and a 0-coast synthesizer.

Avi Ziv is a multi-instrumentalist, sound artist, instrument builder, and audio drama producer, working in the US.

Instagram: @evolving_door

1 Hoyong Lee - The White Book (9:06)
2 Megan Hattie Stahl - Audio Postcard #2 (8:19)
3 Cecilia Assalini – Communication (10:24)

1) Hoyong Lee - The White Book

As reading creatures, we ingest words, and we are made of words. Especially, we may be explorers advancing through its pages, as well as the worms which devour the words and phrases in each page. In this context, this piece represents the invisible quest in wandering adrift which readers may virtually confronts inside the poetic short verses in Han Kang’s fiction 『The White Book』. Striving to create a surreal sonic world in which the real life and imaginary death coexist, this piece audibly considers the chain of metaphors that have described readers and their relationships to hidden text-that-is-the-world. In particular, this is an aural representation of a resonant space that evokes certain memories, ambiguous emotions, the contagiousness of fear based on the hidden tacit gestures in『The White Book』.

Hoyong Lee (Seoul, South Korea, Master of Music) is a composer, sound artist and essayist. His pieces have been presented at world-renowned electro-acoustic music conferences & festivals in USA, Europe, Canada over 15 countries. He was an Award of Distinction Winner in Matera Intermedia Festival 2016 in Italy and he was first -place winner in XRAY.FM Radio (Portland, USA) Storytelling Contest Prize (2017) as an experimental sound storyteller. Executing diverse intermedia projects, he published his compositional autobiography book "소리, 세상을 담다(2020)”, and he collaborated with Gwangju national science museum in Art-Science Festival in 2021.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3BCnRplvhGzjA7yIBtk4Zr
https://www.youtube.com/@hoyonglee9191
https://soundcloud.com/hnext5

2) Megan Hattie Stahl - Audio Postcard #2

An experimental sound collage combining recordings made and collected during the first eight months of 2024. Performed and overheard music, interviews, a voice memo about historical and geographical distance, and iPhone field recordings of New York, Oregon, California and Berlin.

Megan Hattie Stahl is a media artist and educator based in Brooklyn. She uses audio and new media to produce sound art, documentaries and place-based experiences, often investigating musical histories, realities and possibilities. Her work incorporates archives, social practice, psychogeography, interviewing, and music theory. Megan’s practice is informed by past lives as a DIY filmmaker, jazz pianist, French preschool teacher, community radio host and standup comedian. She is an MFA candidate in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College, and was a 2022-23 Social Practice CUNY Actionist Fellow, a Mellon Foundation-funded initiative for socially-engaged artists.
http://www.meganhattiestahl.com
@megan__hattie (Instagram)

3) Cecilia Assalini – Communication

We immerse ourselves in the perception of communication throughout time—a timeless experience within a social and cultural context. We perceive what is doomed to disappear, that which cannot, and perhaps should not, be preserved.

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

4 Valerio Galadini - anamnesi, session #1 (8:37)
5 SOAK LAB – Conduits (5:46)
6 Whadat XP - B15 (Inner informations) (15:50)
 
 
4) Valerio Galadini - anamnesi, session #1

In “anamnesi, session #1”, dialogues (in Italian language) reminiscent of radio theatre create a compelling narrative set within a therapist's office on a rainy evening. Sounds of rain on glass, a cuckoo clock, and soothing music blend with the rhythmic tick of a pendulum metronome, forming a tranquil yet evocative atmosphere. The narrative follows a therapy session with a patient who can neither speak nor move, only able to communicate through blinking. The therapist uses an alphabet ordered by frequency to aid communication, with the patient replying to the therapist's questions through sounds, reflecting an intense inner dialogue and a desire for release from their condition. While the piece aims to partially heal the listener with its calming sonic landscape, it subtly acknowledges the dark feelings of death, which linger in the background and continually haunt the human experience, inviting introspection and empathy within this deeply personal and emotional soundscape.
 
Valerio Galadini is a composer and sound artist in the field of experimental and electroacoustic music, combining modern technologies with an aesthetic influenced by contemporary media. His music, called Sonadec, draws inspiration from Concrete Music, Glitch, Soundscape Composition, and Ambient. It uses ambient recordings, found objects, voices, and electronic sounds as narrative tools to evoke precise images through semantic association between sound and vision. His works are characterized by meticulous attention to detail, creating a sound collage that integrates various aspects of an environment, exploring the relationship between humans and technology, and addressing the dualism between natural and artificial.
https://www.instagram.com/valeriogaladini/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563174631984


 5) SOAK LAB – Conduits

The aim is to improvise for radio, after-images of three days spent at the sea. Just as pollution is the how the sea carries memory of us, we might also allow the sea to infect our consciousness. We reproduce traces of the landscape and seascape of the Plymouth Sound through aural resonances and after-images.

To replicate the process, find a group of women and spend three days at the seaside with them. Feel how your body is made of salt water. Listen to rock-pools with a hydrophone. Catch a boat to a place with grasses and birds and seaweed. Listen to the voice of the grasses. Speak the language of seaweed. Walk along a promenade with a mirror in your hand, until you feel like the rippling sea catching sunlight. Dance by finding points of contact with each other. Improvise. Remember.
SOAK is a home for experimental multi-disciplinary practice in the South West of England. As well as curating our wildly successful SOAK Live Art Events, we run SOAK Lab, a space for skill sharing and community building, responding to tidal and river ecologies around Devon and Cornwall. These sessions are recorded and made into pieces for Soundart radio, Dartington. This work is an extension of Kerry Priest's research/practice into Polyphonic Poetry as a means of de-centering poetic lyricism by aligning it with contemporary choral practices, and Sarah Blissett's research/practice into sounding tidal ecologies through embodied performance.
https://www.instagram.com/soakliveart/
http://kerrypriest.com/
https://www.sarahblissett.net/work


6) Whadat XP - B15 (Inner informations)

On 17 March 2000, an 11,000 km2 piece of ice broke off from the Ross Ice Shelf, the largest ice barrier in Antarctica. For 18 years, the B15 iceberg drifted, fragmenting as a result of collisions, redrawing the maps of the Antarctic coastline and preventing many animal species from feeding. Its last fragment, B15z, evaporated off the coast of South Georgia after a long journey of 14 000 km.

This sound piece evokes the climate change through the changing states of the element water. This is the story of B15, a gigantic block of pure water condemned to a long and slow decay.

Gratuated with high honors from the Conservatory of Marseille in electroacoustic, Alexandre Ollivier (Whadat XP) came from electronic techno music and released some EP's before discovering concrete music. His electroacoustic and experimental music project Whadat XP engages the listening and the imagination of the listener by offering various immersive sound experiences with Acousmonium device. He regularly collaborates in various interdisciplinary projects (video, dance, scenography, radio, short film, installations, mixed electroacoustic piece, etc.) Sensitive to the ecological and political themes of the modern world, he has composed various sound pieces that questions our relationship to work, society & the future
http://www.instagram.com/dssworks
http://www.instagram.com/whadatxp
whadatexperience.bandcamp.com

(Google Translation)

Ivresses is a story between Jules and wine. Cyclical, immersive and sensitive, its setting is the arid vineyards of Corbières, the humid cellars of the Ariège mountains, the stifling heat of summer festivals. It's a loopy refrain in which pilfered harvests, pirate distillations, festive bottlings, bubbling vats, and wines that don't have time to age are intertwined.

Artist bio:
My practice mainly revolves around sound creation and documentary. But I also like making images, whether they are drawn, cyanotypes, screen printed, engraved, filmed, and I also like working with archives. I studied anthropology, Fine Arts and a master's degree in documentary filmmaking. I am currently working with two artist collectives, Les Obliques and La Disquette, with whom we create frescoes, drawings, video and sound installations, documentaries, workshops and sound walks. I also occasionally participate with my friends in the radio shows Menstruelles and Alerte Météo Terre.

Ivresses est une histoire entre Jules et le vin. Cyclique, immersive et sensitive, elle a pour décor les vignes arides des Corbières, les caves humides des montagnes d'Ariège, la chaleur étouffante des fêtes estivales. C'est une ritournelle bouclée dans laquelle s’enchevêtrent des vendanges chapardées, des distillations pirates, des mises en bouteilles festives, des cuves qui bouillonnent, et des vins qui n'ont pas le temps de vieillir.

Artist bio:
Ma pratique s’inscrit principalement autour de la création sonore et du documentaire. Mais j’aime aussi faire des images, qu’elles soient dessinées, en cyanotypes, sérigraphiées, gravées, filmées, et j'aime aussi travailler avec des archives. J'ai fait des études d'anthropologie, les  Beaux-Arts et un master de réalisation documentaire. Je travaille actuellement avec deux collectifs d'artistes, les Obliques et la Disquette, avec lesquels on fait des fresques, des dessins, des installations vidéo et sonores, des documentaires, des ateliers et des balades sonores. Je participe également ponctuellement avec les copines aux émissions de radio les Menstruelles et Alerte Météo Terre.

Website/social links
https://cargocollective.com/ladisquette/qui-est-LA-DISQUETTE
https://lesobliques.me/
https://www.instagram.com/eemilieroutee/

1 Dixie Treichel - Beyond Reach (2:57)
2 M. Cristina Marras - Window of Contempt (5:29)
3 The Keeling Curve and Nastassja Simensky - Atoms-on-the-Wall : Slow Rotations (22:52)
 
 
1) Dixie Treichel - Beyond Reach

Beyond Reach is an experimental sound art composition listening for the far aspects
of the environment around us that we might ignore. It was created with field recording, piano and found sounds.

Dixie Treichel is a composer, sound artist, sound designer and radio broadcaster.
She is a sonic explorer who likes creating with any and all sounds, generating rich sonic textures that invite the listener on a journey into the unknown. Her works have been heard internationally on radio, in art galleries, sound art festivals, new music concerts, theaters and streaming festivals.
https://soundcloud.com/dixie-treichel

 
2) M. Cristina Marras - Window of Contempt

This story reflects my own regret over how I behaved during the lockdown. Stuck in my apartment, my only view of the outside world was through the window, where I watched my city become eerily empty. The silence was broken only by the sound of ambulances. Fear and paranoia took hold of everyone, and I remember how even a simple cough from a neighbour filled me with suspicion.
One moment still haunts me: I saw two teenagers kiss in the street, and instead of feeling joy at their connection, I was consumed by anger and judgment. I feared they were putting their families at risk. Now, I’m ashamed of how I reacted. I wish I had embraced their moment of love instead of giving in to fear. Looking back, I see how easily fear distorted my perception, making me forget what really matters—compassion and hope.

M Cristina Marras is a multilingual storyteller who has been producing audio for over 20 years, beginning in Melbourne, where she worked as a radio journalist. M. Cristina defies conventional labels, embracing hybrid narratives that blend personal reflections and cautionary tales in unexpected ways. She has contributed to organisations like ABC Radio National and the Goethe Institute. Her work has been recognised internationally, with awards at the Transom Small, Random, and Meaningful prize, Audience Awards at the UK Audio Drama Festival and the Audionomia Sound Miniature Contest. Cristina's collaborations with international artists include projects with Stuart Fowkes, and Ross Sutherland.
https://www.cristinamarras.com/
https://soundcloud.com/kommunic8

 
3) The Keeling Curve and Nastassja Simensky - Atoms-on-the-Wall : Slow Rotations

Atoms-on-the-Wall : Slow Rotations is an continuation of the collaboration between electronic music duo The Keeling Curve and artist Nastassja Simensky. Atoms-on-the-Wall explores the landscape of the Blackwater Estuary, home to a Special Protection Area, Site of Special Scientific Interest, the Othona pacifist Christian community, 7th century chapel St Peter-on-the-Wall, and the decommissioned Bradwell A nuclear power station. It is also the location of the planned Bradwell B station which will cover an area roughly 5 times the size of Bradwell A. Atoms-on-the-Wall: Slow Rotations incorporates spoken text into a musical soundscape composed for violin and modular synthesizer. The live violin sound is picked up and processed by the synth alongside field recordings from the local area including badgers and birdlife, the bars and echoes from the power station, and the singing of the Othona community.

The Keeling Curve is an electronic music duo comprising composer Will Frampton and violinist Rhiannon Bedford. They make work exploring environment and place. They have received funding awards from Sound and Music and Arts&Heritage and their work 'Mersey Beat' was shortlisted for the Inaugural Tippett Medal in 2021. Nastassja Simensky is an artist who often works collaboratively to make writing, place-specific performances, events, sound work and films as a form of ongoing fieldwork. Nastassja is currently completing a PhD at the Slade and coordinates the Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network at UCL.
https://linktr.ee/keelingcurve
https://www.instagram.com/the_keeling_curve/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/nastassjasimensky/
https://linktr.ee/Nastassjasimensky

4 Jeff Gburek - Heliopathy 1 (8:56)
5 SOAK LAB - Rock Pool (6:37)
6 Antoni Hidalgo - h_man (9:59)
7 Giovanni Dibeltulu - Happiness is a warm dub (1:01)
 
4) Jeff Gburek - Heliopathy 1

After several month traveling and recording Very Low Frequency radio waves and taking measures to anticipate probable Schumann resonances from locations, I have begun generative compositions with whole recorded segments and sampled fragments whille keeping the radio antenna window open locally. Most of these recordings took place during the Coronal Mass Ejections and resultant geomagnetic storms of 2024 as we reach solar maximum.

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-acousticsof Gaian whispers enveloping and composing existence.
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/

 
5) SOAK LAB - Rock Pool

The aim is to improvise for radio, after-images of three days spent at the sea. Just as pollution is the how the sea carries memory of us, we might also allow the sea to infect our consciousness. We reproduce traces of the landscape and seascape of the Plymouth Sound through aural resonances and after-images.
To replicate the process, find a group of women and spend three days at the seaside with them. Feel how your body is made of salt water. Listen to rock-pools with a hydrophone. Catch a boat to a place with grasses and birds and seaweed. Listen to the voice of the grasses. Speak the language of seaweed. Walk along a promenade with a mirror in your hand, until you feel like the rippling sea catching sunlight. Dance by finding points of contact with each other. Improvise. Remember.

SOAK is a home for experimental multi-disciplinary practice in the South West of England. As well as curating our wildly successful SOAK Live Art Events, we run SOAK Lab, a space for skill sharing and community building, responding to tidal and river ecologies around Devon and Cornwall. These sessions are recorded and made into pieces for radio and installation. This work is an extension of Kerry Priest's research/practice into Polyphonic Poetry as a means of de-centering poetic lyricism by aligning it with contemporary choral practises, and Sarah Blissett's research/practice into sounding tidal ecologies through embodied performance.
https://www.instagram.com/soakliveart/
http://kerrypriest.com/
https://www.sarahblissett.net/work


6) Antoni Hidalgo - h_man

I think human dignity is the foundation of our society. It's essential to respect each other and create a fair society that looks after the environment

But human dignity is being challenged by armed conflicts and globalization

Article 1 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union says: "Human dignity is inviolable. It must be respected and protected.”

But what happens if I say that sentence without the vowels U (from Union) and E (from European)?

“H_______man dignity is inviolabl______. It m______st b______ r_______sp_______ct_______d  and prot______ct______d”

That's the sentence I used in the work H_man. It was hard to say the words without the vowels. I made a lot of mistakes, and my voice was nasal and weird. I was out of breath, coughing, and overall, I felt really uncomfortable

Maybe it's the same discomfort many people feel

(Music by Antoni Hidalgo)

Antoni Hidalgo (born in 1969) is an artist based in Mollet del Vallés, Barcelona. He studied Labor Relations at the University of Barcelona and took painting courses at Escola Massana, Art and Design School. His current work focuses on experimental music and video art
https://selenics.blogspot.com/

7) Giovanni Dibeltulu - Happiness is a warm dub

The piece, composed in 2024, whose title is clearly obtained by paraphrasing a famous Beatles song, is inspired by dub culture: the main intent, however, is to give it an electroacoustic imprint. It is a “lysergic” journey that takes the mind away from everyday problems, those that compromise our well-being, our happiness.

Giovanni Dibeltulu Sassari, 1967 is an Italian self-taught musician. Since 2022 he has been part of the electronic duo LanD ExcapE, founded by the musician
and visual artist Gavino Ganau. Your piece "Happiness is a warm dub" was broadcast on the Radioarte (Siena, Italy) and Radio Tsunami (Valparaiso, Chile). The same piece was broadcast on onaironsite.com "Programme 2024" (West Den Haag, Netherlands).
https://www.facebook.com/landexcape/

The devastating earthquake on December 6, 1988, destroyed the greatest part of the city of Gyumri in Armenia. With the Mush II District, a whole new living quarter was stomped out of the ground. Sturdy tenement buildings, a school, three supermarkets, a park with a varied fountain, a football arena, playing grounds and small garden patches, either in the yards or bordering on the overgrown meadows. When stopping by one of those gardens, I was spoken too and afterwards ‘kidnapped’ by two ladies (best friends and gardeners) and taken into the kitchen to drink coffee. English is overestimated as lingua franca once you travel east. I felt discombobulated and difficult. My translator-app worked for Russian only… which created much fun for Gina and Raja. I chose to submit this situation piece because its squeaky ambiguities are so well known to any field recording person/traveler. There is still much to learn.

Artist bio:
Gabi Schaffner works as a trans-disciplinary artist within the realms of radio art, composition and performance. Her artistic practice is inspired by the methods of poetic ethnography in connection with Fluxus-like mise-en-scènes, radio-making and sound art   performances.
Since 2012 she maintains “Datscha Radio”, a nomadic transmission project that links the medium of radio to ecological issues. Schaffner has been realising award-winning productions with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, radia.fm, Hessian Cultural Radio and ABC Australia. She lives (mostly) in Berlin.


Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/gabi_schaffner
https://schaffnerin.net
https://datscharadio.de

The word ‘Windowpecking’ describes the act of wandering through a city and becoming mesmerised by shop fronts and the windows of residential buildings and flats. Initially, the practice of ‘Windowpecking’ may be an act that occurs rather automatically when strolling around in unfamiliar areas. It is linked to the practice of drifting. ‘Windowpecking’ creeps its way into one’s walking, until one finally realises that there is a pattern in the randomly occurring, unplanned paths one takes and the gaze remains glued to certain panes of glass and lingers. Like a bird hammering on a window to request entry, ‘Windowpecking’ reminds us of the separation between internal and external, private and public, sidewalk and interior, of lantern light and bedside lamp. ‘A Guide To Windowpecking’ is a 30-minute original sound piece by Eliza Wagener. In her sound piece, the painter refers to an ongoing series of small-scale paintings that started with her move from Hamburg to Glasgow in October 2024. ‘Various depicted scenes show moments or direct glimpses of window frames as seen from the outside. Figures move across the images, bathed in mystical green and blue light, in almost monochromatic scenes, as if they aim to draw one into the space—both the exhibition and the pictorial space. Come closer, we are here, and you can look at us. Consciously or unconsciously, staged, or casual gazes?’ (Anne Meerpohl: A Rear Window Situation, Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine, February 2025) ‘A Guide To Windowpecking’ will be presented for the first time at Radiophrenia Glasgow and then broadcasted live for the second time from the exhibition ‘Windowpecking fortlaufend’ at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof in Hamburg via HALLO: Radio on April 26, 2025. Featuring the voices of Embla Graham, Calypso Keane and Colm Moore.   Artist bio: *1994 in Hamburg, Germany EDUCATION: Since September 2024: MFA at Glasgow School of Art 2019-2024: BA in Painting at HFBK, Hamburg RADIOACTIVITY (SELECTION): 2023: Curation of event-series “The Flying Radio” during which the temporarily homeless HALLO: Radio broadcast in several locations (Golden Pudel Club, BEEK, FSK Radio, remoto records) in Hamburg 2022: Co-curation of HALLO: Festspiele, Hamburg 2021: Co-curation of “HALLO: Spuckzellenmodul” at altonale, Hamburg Since 2021: Co-running Hamburg based webradio HALLO: Radio Performances at PAPIRIPAR Festival, Floating Transmissions Festival, HALLO: Festspiele, HFBK Hamburg, Galerie LADØNS and many more. Website/social links Website: http://www.elizawagener.com Instagram: @elizawagener Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/elazer Selected Radioperformances: In den blauen Stunden, 2024: https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/in-den-blauen-stunden-eliza-w-14072024 Floating Witches, 2023: https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/floating-witches Between The Hawthorn And Extinction, 2022: https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/between-the-hawthorn-extinction-w-elazer Aus dem Kokon, 2021: https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/aus-dem-kokon-elazer-300 Selection of episodes of my monthly show on HALLO: Radio, which were dedicated to a specific topic: L’intérieur sauvage 31 - 18/04/2024 (Being Alone): https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/linterieur-sauvage-31-elazer-18042024?in=elazer/sets/linterieur-sauvage L’intérieur sauvage 27 - 21/12/2023 (Darkness): https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/linterieur-sauvage-27-elazer-21122023?in=elazer/sets/linterieur-sauvage L’intérieur sauvage 24 - 21/09/2023 (Autumn): https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/linterieur-sauvage-24-elazer-21092023?in=elazer/sets/linterieur-sauvage

"The Hanging Stranger" is an electronic radio opera in 13 movements, commissioned for the 2021 Cohen New Works Festival as a collaboration between composer Monte Taylor and librettists Lena Barnard and Sam Mayer. Based on the (now public domain) short story by Philip K. Dick, "The Hanging Stranger" presents a modern reinterpretation of the themes of social paranoia and political violence present in the original story. When a hive of sentient insects take residence in a small American town in search of a better life for their kin, the social rot of the town and atomized neuroses of its residents bubbles to the surface. Eventually, the underlying problems of the town become impossible to reconcile with its existing social order, as the townsfolk seek violent retribution agains the insects, as well as each other. Artist bio: Monte Taylor is a composer and Clinical Assistant Professor of Music Technology at Purdue University. Monte’s compositions have been recognized though the KLANG! International Electroacoustic Composition Competition and the American Prize. In November of 2024, he will serve as a Fulbright Specialist on the project ‘Artificial Intelligence in Sound Design and Editing’. His works have been presented on conferences and festivals including Electronic Music Midwest, Matera Intermedia Festival, Novalis Festival, NYCEMF, SCI, SEAMUS, Seoul International Computer Music Festival, SPLICE Institute, TUTTI Festival, and Web Audio Conference by ensembles including Bent Frequency, Duo Tudor-Režić, Line Upon Line Percussion, and [Switch~ Ensemble]. Website/social links montetaylormusic.com

'Victory Monument to the Vanquishing of the Artists by the Engineers' (built of text, wildly unstable and utterly unbuildable in any traditional sense) prematurely announces a victory.

Artist bio:
Jenna Collins' solo and collaborative artwork across media but primarily video and sound has been broadcast, exhibited and screened widely at venues across the UK and further afield.

Website/social links
http://www.jennacollins.com
insta: @jennacollinspa

1) Gustavo Chab  - Flutervoice II (8:24)
2) Jo Kennedy - Now That You Ask (5:00)
3) Dixie Treichel - Pointing Away (2:19)
4) Eleni-Ira Panourgia  - Soil narrations (6:34)
5) Ralph Hoyte – The Voyage of the Slaver the Snow Africa 
 
 
1) Gustavo Chab  - Flutervoice II

Flutervoice II is a piece for flute and electronic sounds in quadraphonic format. It has an approximate duration of 8 minutes and was composed during the year 2021. There is the possibility of defining it as an acousmatic piece to be spatialized in 8 channels together with the original recording in stereo format, which includes the participation of the flutist Patricia García. Flutervoice II emerges from previous experiences that manage to redefine themselves. Different treatments of the material of the instrument such as air sounds, vocal and percussive sounds that are used through different procedures. There are actions that can be played inside or across the Instrument; air sounds with vowels and consonants are combined to achieve different colorations which are represented using abstract notation. Performance in transit requires a medium and slight resonant place and amplification to achieve a fluent and expressive environment in balance with the fixed media;

Gustavo Chab Argentina-Spain (b. Buenos Aires, 1964) Composer of mostly electroacoustic works that have been performed in the Americas and Europe. He composed his first electroacoustic piece in 1993, specializing in composition techniques in electroacoustic. His compositions include multi-channel electroacoustic pieces, radiophonic work and performances. Frequently explores the spatialization of sound in composition, combining instruments and electroacoustic sounds.
https://gustavochab.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
https://www.facebook.com/gustavo.chab.1/

 
2) Jo Kennedy - Now That You Ask

A piece of queer sound art giving voice to those (human and more-than-human) less often heard.  Inspired by the theme of Mummurations.  Created in response to a call-out for audio and visual pieces by safe+sound for their beach hut installation at XMTR Audio Arts Festival, St Leonards-on-Sea, September 2024.  Composed from field recordings, musical material and recorded chats with friends.  The bird you hear is a Nightingale and was recorded at Knepp,West Sussex, - a 3500 acre estate that has ditched farming in favour of rewilding.  Once absent, Nightingales are now in resurgence and love the scrubland habitat.

Jo Kennedy is a Todmorden – based sound artist  who uses field recordings, found sounds, spoken word and music to create immersive audio experiences, whether these be fixed pieces, soundwalks or installations. Recent commissions include sound design work the Artichoke Trust, BBC Radio 3 and the RSPB. Her creative practice often engages explicitly with ecological issues, responding to questions about our relationship with the landscape and living world. This piece is instead an exploration of her queer identity and maybe the start of a larger auto-ethnographic audio-based investigation into living through the 20th & 21st centuries as a lesbian.
http://www.jokennedysound.com
X; @chasingsticks
Instagram:  jokennedysound

 
3) Dixie Treichel - Pointing Away

Pointing Away is an experimental sound art collage exploring the possible directions
we might go and choices we make every day.

Dixie Treichel is a composer, sound artist, sound designer and radio broadcaster.
She is a sonic explorer who likes creating with any and all sounds, generating rich sonic textures that invite the listener on a journey into the unknown. Her works have been heard internationally on radio, in art galleries, sound art festivals, new music concerts, theaters and streaming festivals.
https://soundcloud.com/dixie-treichel

 
4) Eleni-Ira Panourgia  - Soil narrations

'Soil narrations' (2024) is a sound experimentation that uses processed geophone recordings to explore ecological and listening perspectives in soil. Soil signals transmitting the activity of organisms are transformed to create audible manifestations that emphasize non-human movement, communication and perception. Speculative sonic narratives are developed to propose ways of attuning to non-human processes and relationships through an interplay across textures, frequencies and rhythms. The generated sonic events invite listeners to engage with an underground sensory experience of environmental change from the earth’s perspective.

Eleni-Ira Panourgia is a sound and visual artist, and researcher. Her work focuses on the development of new forms of expression and creative methods that combine sound, objects, spaces and environments. She explores the potential of such complex morphologies within artistic, design, social and ecological processes. Eleni-Ira’s work has been presented internationally in museums, galleries, festivals, exhibitions, radio shows, academic journals, edited volumes and conferences. Eleni-Ira completed a PhD in Art at the University of Edinburgh as a Scholar of the Onassis Foundation. She is currently a Teaching and Research Fellow at Gustave Eiffel University.
https://eleniirapanourgia.com/

 
5) Ralph Hoyte – The Voyage of the Slaver the Snow Africa

Arrangement of content - specifically the voyage of the Snow Africa - from 'Colston's Last Journey', Ralph Hoyte's work of located soundart about Bristol and the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans.
Concept, script, director, producer: Ralph Hoyte
Voice Actors: Alan Coveney, Jade Fearon, Kerry-Ann Waison, Aaron Iyiih, Ralph Hoyte
Music/Ambient: Phill Phelps, Saki Yamada
Colston's Last Journey - the work of located soundart - was supported by Arts Council England, Bristol Ideas & the University of the West of England Regional History Centre

Ralph Hoyte is a Bristol-based, poet, writer and located audio designer (audio triggered on location on your smartphone). As a poet, Hoyte writes for his voice or for multiple voices, his work tending towards the epic in length. Hoyte is a Visiting Fellow at the University of the West of England (Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education) and a Resident of the Pervasive Media Studio/Bristol. Current projects include Riot1831, geo-locating the 1831 reform riots in the Georgian West country, and Colston’s Last Journey – a work of soundart whose theme is Bristol and the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans.
https://ralphhoyte.org/
https://satsymph.co.uk/
https://colstonslastjourney.uk/
https://quantockpoetrytrail.uk/
Instagram: hoyte.ralph
FB: Ralph Hoyte - poet, writer, loca

6) Helen McCrorie - Dawn, Spring 2020 (9:00)
7) Andrew Ramsey - Sonic Glasgow (2:41)
8) Droki Ouro – grind (8:00)
9) Eoin O'Sullivan - Oslo-Copenhagen (9:53)
10) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations EFFO ISN I (0:27)
 
 
6) Helen McCrorie - Dawn, Spring 2020

An intimate sound work, recorded in the first few weeks of the first lockdown, Helen captured the dawn chorus from her bedroom window early one morning. At this time the sounds around us began to change; there were few cars and planes, wildlife thrived, but also how we paid attention to these sounds and to our own breath changed. Sometimes they seemed to carry new meaning, sometimes they seemed to echo or contrast with our emotional state.

Helen McCrorie is an artist based in rural Scotland, working in film, video and sound, having lived in France, Singapore and Hong Kong. She makes films and sound works that explore sites of work, play and learning, and often feature collaboration with community groups. Her work features in UK & international exhibitions and festivals including a solo show in Travelling Galllery 2024, Radiophrenia and Cine Astra 2023; London and Glasgow Short Film Festivals, Alchemy, Offline, Experiments in Cinema, Braziers-winner of Glaister Award (2022), The Tetley and solo show at COLLECTIVE (2019) Her BBC/Lux Scotland commission was broadcast on BBC3 (2021)

@helenmccrorie

 
7) Andrew Ramsey - Sonic Glasgow

This is a collection of field recordings captured in Glasgow, Scotland. Using microphones such as the SOMA Ether and LOM Geofone, I am able to capture sounds of the city that are not normally audible. Allowing an unheard soundscape of the city to make an imprent on the listener in ways they would not normally experience, while also using recordings of ambiences collected throughout the city to draw attention to ones surroundings. The focus of my work is the sounds of ones environment and the more conviental musical elements are used to enhance the feelings I find portrayed within the recordings.

My name is Andrew Ramsey, I am a sound designer and audio artist originally from Louisville, Kentucky. I relocated to scotland to originally persue a MSc in Sound Design at the University of Edinburgh. I now live in Glasgow, Scotland and work as a sound designer at Junkfish games. My other audio practices heavily focus on field recording, acoustic ecology, and deep listening practices in order to draw attention to ones surroundings through sound.

andrewramseysounds.com
https://www.instagram.com/andrewmunro47/

 
8) Droki Ouro – grind

Approximately five hundred billion plastic cups are used each year, of which roughly six billion end up in landfills. grind attempts to symbolize the faulty business and political ideologies that ultimately contribute to a lack of environmental sustainability through the destructive morphology of a single sound source: a plastic Keurig coffee pod hitting the floor.

Droki Ouro is a composer framing pictorial properties found in visual art, namely color, shape, balance, and space, with organizing principles of philosophical, sociological, and metaphysical intent. Their music has been commercially released with Navona Records, PARMA Recordings, and RMN Music. Droki currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music Technology in Knoxville, TN.
https://www.drokiouro.com

 
9) Eoin O'Sullivan - Oslo-Copenhagen

This ambient piece was recorded during the night aboard a commercial ferry traveling from Oslo to Copenhagen. It represents the growing trend toward alternative modes of international travel that bypass the need for flying. The absence of human sounds evokes a melancholic awareness of the passenger that the turn to more sustainable transport may have come too late, leaving behind only the lifeless shells of machines and a nature indifferent to mankind.

Eoin O'Sullivan is an audio producer, writer, and improvisational performer based in Scandinavia.


10) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations EFFO ISN I

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

EN/ The Mouras guard the earth's hidden secrets. At the mouth of a cave, beneath a monolith, or in the mist of a hot spring, their enchanting presence watches over the entrances to mystical places, gauging the soul of anyone who wishes to enter these sacred sanctuaries.     Adventurous voices set out to encounter these Galician mythological beings, seeking the secrets etched in stone and the magical tales sedimented over millennia.     Will their songs reach the depths of the earth? Will they receive the Mouras' permission to pass? And will we be able to listen to the secrets that rise through geological layers, echoing as whispers in the hollows of our own bodies?   GA/ As Mouras vixían os segredos soterrados da terra. No limiar dunha cova, baixo un monólito ou entre o vapor dunha fonte termal, as súas partículas enfeitizadoras gardan as entradas dos lugares místicos, avaliando a alma de quen queira penetrar neses santuarios sagrados. Voces aventureiras lánzanse entón ao encontro destas criaturas mitolóxicas galegas, na procura dos segredos gravados na pedra e dos relatos máxicos sedimentados ao longo dos milenios. Chegarán os seus cantos ás entrañas da terra? Recibirán o salvoconduto das Mouras? E saberemos escoitar os segredos que soben polas capas xeolóxicas ata se converteren en murmullos nas cavidades dos nosos propios corpos? FR/ Les Mouras veillent sur les secrets enfouis de la terre. A l’orée d’une grotte, sous un monolithe ou dans la vapeur d’une source d’eau chaude, leurs particules enchanteresses veillent aux accès des lieux mystiques, jaugeant l’âme de quiconque souhaite pénétrer ces sanctuaires sacrés. Des voix aventureuses se lancent alors à la rencontre de ces créatures mythologiques galiciennes, en quête des secrets gravés dans la pierre et des récits magiques sédimentés à travers les millénaires. Leurs chants parviendront-ils aux entrailles de la terre ? Recevront-ils le laissez-passer des Mouras? Et saurons-nous prêter l’oreille aux secrets qui remontent les strates géologiques jusqu’à devenir des murmures dans les cavités de nos propres corps? Credits: MOURAS - Produced by Anne Lepère Voices : Karina Mouriño, teacher of the school of Taboexa, Galicia, Marion Sage and Anne Lepère Children’s voices : Emil Sebastião, Artai, Brais, Einar, Xurxo, Xián, Baia Rosalía, Seixo Based on the legends of the Mouras and the stories of Karina Mouriño Additional poetry, recordings, composition and mixing : Anne Lepère Special thanks to Marion Sage, Thomas Wyatt, Karina Mouriño, Jeanne Debarsy and Mark Vernon. Photo credit : Marion Sage Biography:   Anne Lepère – Sound artist, composer, and radio producer.   Since beginning my journey in sound art, I have woven together sounds, breaths, and words to cultivate a poetic practice of everyday life, from urban to rural settings. Inspired by Brussels’ creative hubs like ACSR, BNA-BBOT, and Q-O2, I began producing radio pieces in 2013, ranging from essays and soundscapes to spoken word and documentary poetry. In 2016, my work expanded to the stage through the Prototypes III training at Royaumont Abbey (Paris), after which I began composing music and sound for theatre, performance, film, and dance, collaborating with directors, choreographers, and filmmakers across various projects. My radio work includes Autopoïèse (2019), a piece awarded the Palma Ars Acustica and the Phonurgia Nova Prix Art Sonore, and Area (2022), a sound poem nominated for the Marulic Prize (Croatia) and the Radio Drama Festival (UK). Both pieces have been featured at international festivals. Since 2023 I’m also leading sound creation workshops in Romania, Galicia, Togo,... introducing participants to the art of sound exploration. Currently, I am developing Nuages, a new long-form piece that uses clouds as a sound score and explores collective poetry through workshops. http://www.annelepere.net

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.

1 ) Emma Bowen - 18fps – (3:20)
2)  Jessica Syposz - The Buzzer (8:54)
3 ) Sebastiane Hegarty - a wymering (10:26)
4)  Clare Roberts (Little Strings) - LET THEM HEAR (1:10)
 
 
1) Emma Bowen - 18fps

This short soundscape composition segues in and out of a single recording of a 50ft super 8 film projection. The film threads through the machine and onto the rear reel, while environmental and found sounds slip in and out.  In reframing and repurposing these disappearing sounds - analogue technology, environment and found objects - I tried to develop a dialogue and awareness of contemporary environmental cultural practise.

Emma Bowen is an artist, facilitator and educator based in Scotland. She works collaboratively on bespoke learning, social care and AV art projects.
She has made noises with and for other people at; Concurrent, Edinburgh Art Festival, Glasgow International and for Sci-Fi theatre in Liverpool. She was awarded an honorary mention and best experimental audio for - 2 years - at Black & White Festival Internacional Audiovisual, Portugal. She exhibits and screens work locally and internationally.
http://www.emmagbowen.com

 
2) Jessica Syposz - The Buzzer

Lena can't stop listening. Her favourite radio station only transmits a single, eerie buzzing noise. The sound gets under her skin. It makes her feel safe, especially on lonely nights in her room while her menacing landlord prowls around the house. The more this vulnerable young woman listens to this radio station, the easier it is to forget the world around her, or to feel like it's even real at all. A monologue which culminates in an unearthly radiophonic soundscape, 'The Buzzer' is a journey into obsession and our desire to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Written by Jessica Syposz, starring Radhika Aggarwal, with sound design by Paul Dodgson. The radio station Lena listens to is a fictionalised version of the real UBV-76 frequency or ‘Buzzer,’ a short-wave radio station which has been transmitting an unexplained buzzing since 1983.

I am a writer from Birmingham, UK, working across prose, audio and theatre. I often layer my work on top of soundscapes drawn from field recordings and the crackle and hum of old analogue tech. My audio play ‘The Buzzer’ was featured at the 2023 UK International Radio Drama Festival. I am the fiction editor at interdisciplinary arts magazine, Porridge. My ten-minute monologue for stage, ‘Caterpillars’, was performed at The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham in April 2024 as part of their Write Away Scratch Night, where it won the audience vote for best piece.
https://jessicasyposz.co.uk/

 
3) Sebastiane Hegarty - a wymering

Wymering Manor is the oldest building in Portsmouth, and one of Britain’s most haunted.
This composition builds on a series of drawing, listening, and sounding workshops I delivered, as part of a collaborative architectural project, with Wymering Manor Trust, artist Belinda Mitchell and her MA Interior Architecture and Design students.
The workshops expand on drawing as a multi-sensory practice, exploring notions of the interior by tuning into the body.  Through the choreography of touch, we focus in our bodily interior, listening, drawing and sounding out breath.
As the conversation develops, we correspond, we listen with the building, rolling pebbles to uncover the acoustic memories of rooms: a technique used in the Manor’s nightly ghost hunts.
The project culminates in a haunting: ‘a wymering' at Wymering, that mingles field-recordings – including the amorous tap of Death-watch beetle - with live drawings and instruments dismantled from domestic furniture and played by students.

As a visual artist working with sound, Sebastiane Hegarty’s practice explores the materiality of sound, silence and the unheard. These works are realised through text scores, failed phonographic objects and the weak signals of lost micro-FM transmission.
His work has been transmitted, performed, heard &  unheard across the UK, Europe & Americas. Through performed texts he has presented his research at conferences including, RPTF 2023 (The Library of Congress, Washington 2023). In 2022, his text work, ‘I am not imagining this…’ was nominated for ‘Best Imagined Sound’ in The Sound of the Year Awards. It didn’t win. 
https://sebastianehegarty.wordpress.com
Instagram:  @sebastiane_hegarty / @listenthroughthewaves


4) Clare Roberts (Little Strings) - LET THEM HEAR

"LET THEM HEAR" is a powerful sound art poem that amplifies how marginalised voices are often overlooked. It blends spoken word with immersive soundscapes, amplifying overlooked voices. It’s a visceral experience where words echo, resonate, and demand to be heard. Are you ready to let them hear?

Clare graduated from The University of Glasgow with an MLitt in Creative Writing. She is a musician, writer, and performer whose work includes sonic art, music, and literature. Her sound art has been recognised through the “Mind Trees of The Urban Forest Exhibition” exhibition in Carlisle. Her latest experimental sonic art piece was published in Unpsychology Magazine. One of Clare’s proudest projects is "Vitiligo Song," a community arts project for The Vitiligo Society.
Clare is interested in how music and phonology intertwine to explore communication methods.
https://soundcloud.com/phloxwn/sets
https://instagram.com/littlestringsmusic

5) Anastasija Stanojević – Krš (20:44)
6) Katie Suzanne Ballentine - Final Traverse (2:37)
7) Ioustini Koutsogianni - Measure of the Sea (10:00)
 
 
5) Anastasija Stanojević – Krš

This piece is a live, fully improvised soundcape that blends vocals, live looping and a variety of effects to create an immersive, almost meditative listening experience. Drawing inspiration from Bulgarian choirs and drone music, it opens with layers of ethereal vocal harmonies, evoking a sense of sacred space. The use of heavy reverb adds to the atmospheric depth, surrounding the listener in a sonic landscape that feels expansive and spiritual. The tranquility is intentionally broken by bursts of dissonant noises and harsh, somewhat disturbing textures, creating tension and unpredictability.
Rather than being chaotic, these interruptions serve to contrast the beauty of the harmonic sections, creating a dynamic interplay between serenity and disruption. Each performance is unique. The piece evolves in real-time, inviting listeners into a deep, reflective journey through sound and emotion.

Anastasija Stanojević, born 2001, is a versatile vocalist rooted in jazz, free improvisation and traditional Serbian folk music. Growing up in a religious environment, she sang in choirs throughout her life, shaping her deep connection to sacred music. After completing her undergraduate studies in Lucerne, Switzerland, she is now pursuing a Master‘s degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
During her studies she has worked and performed with renowned musicians like Magda Mayas, Julian Sartorius, Christian Weber, The Sun Ra Arkestra and Dave Holland, blending traditional and experimental elements to create unique and immersive performances.
https://www.instagram.com/steischa_/profilecard/?igsh=aTU3OHR1bnJqc3Zw

 
6) Katie Suzanne Ballentine - Final Traverse

Final Traverse is a collaborative piece made with Composer Anselm McDonnell.  This audio work which draws inspiration from the club scene, intertwining this with climbing and indoor bouldering, was made as part of an immersive installation which formed my degree show for my Masters in Fine Art.  It is a carefully constructed piece utilising heart rates, found sounds and interpretations of climbs and the movement of the body.

Katie Suzanne Ballentine is a Northern Irish artist based in Ballymena and Belfast.
As a recent graduate from the MFA programme at Belfast School of Art her practice continues to expand, making use of skills learned during her time there, from printmaking to avant-garde audio work, video production and expanded cinema.
Her practice currently focuses on sonic art and new forms of graphic notion, exploring and deepening her connection with these concepts through collaborations with musicians and climbing.
https://www.katiesuzanneart.com/
Instagram: @katiesuzanne.art

 
7) Ioustini Koutsogianni - Measure of the Sea

A Measure of the Sea is a collection of performance works that intertwine Queer ecology with timeless mythology, in a deep dive exploration of our interconnectedness with the ocean.
Each piece within this collection serves as a reflection, both personal and universal, on humanity's intricate relationship with the vast expanse of the ocean and how they affect each other.
The extract above is a soundscape created for a character trapped in a submarine who is slowly losing their sense of self whilst the sea is slowly taking over.

Ioustini is a multidisciplinary artist with a visual media and sound background. In her practice she draws from contemporary themes and everyday issues and combines them with mythology and folklore to make them more accessible to a wider audience.
https://www.instagram.com/j_koutsoyianni/profilecard/?igsh=MTI3djkwcHdrNTdkaw==

Electroacoustical Poetical Society poets Ilaria Boffa, Tony Brewer, Brian K. Price, Joan Schuman  and Marjorie Van Halteren each respond to the theme "Disappearance." This is the resulting collection.

Artist bio:
The Electroacoustical Poetical Society is the invention of Marjorie Van Halteren, a poet, sound artist and composer living in Lille, France. Details at http://www.electroacousticalpoeticalsociety.com.

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

Paleficat, summer 2024, production UMR LISST (DR), UT2J , Benoit Bories, stereo and 8.1 live performance version.

"Paleficat" tells the story of the uncertain future of a piece of land. The certainty of the transformation of a landscape whose new face almost no-one knows yet. Probably the disappearance of the last traces of the market garden belt in the Toulouse metropolitan area. In this "agricultural pocket", irrigated by the river Hers, but already surrounded by buildings, bordered by the ring road and bled by the Boulevard Ubrain Nord (BUN), there are plans for urban densification. Housing instead of fields. And the city filling in the gaps so that new residents can come and live here, in the Paléficat district.

This sound creation is part of a wider observatory project for the Paléficat district, supported as part of a LABEX research project (LABoratoire d'Excellence, operation 7) and led by the LISST.

Artist bio:
Benoit Bories is a sound artist. He has produced audio documentaries and sound art pieces for different public broadcast companies.  Since 2016, he has been presenting his pieces in the form of "documentary concerts" and developing sound pieces for live performance, or installations. He has collaborated with several festivals and cultural venues for his performances and regularly participates in artistic residencies abroad. Benoit Bories has won several international awards and mentions for his sound work (Premios Ondas Prize, Prix Bohemia, Phonurgia Nova Awards, New York Radio Awards, Grand Prix Nova Romania, Prix Europa, IDA Awards).


Website/social links
https://faidosonore.net
https://soundcloud.com/user-945903241

‘The Concrete Seed’ is an essayistic fiction that offers an idiosyncratic critique of the post-war British new town project, specifically in its relation to Scotland, and of top-down spatial planning more generally. Idiosyncratic, in that it presents a critique bound up in a satire that avoids didacticism in favour of an experimental approach combining a subjective voice with text and sound steeped in Scotch ostranenie. The narrative comprises a power struggle between the abstracted archetypes of Planner, Dwellers and New Town. "They envision objects given over to illegibility, cut through with desire lines and a hallucinatory organicism. Vertical and horizontal surfaces deliberately damaged to encourage rapid biofouling. Buildings that contract. Windows that sing. Occulting the cadastral gaze."   Voices: Tom Fergus Arnott, Judith Hagan, Jamie McNeill, Berta Escobar Ramos. Artist bio: Jamie McNeill is an artist from Glasgow. Website/social links https://www.instagram.com/f0g0u/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B3py4USz0QxV236CyvCU-h8HSlscqFZ7/view https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o-j1MD7sKLkN96_rzdoAxGzzdCUd60dV

A city symphony by David Cowlard and Andrew Moon/RST

The Western Line is the railway line that runs from the city centre of Auckland, New Zealand, to the outer suburbs and back again. Thousands of people ride the railway on their daily commute and the journey allows for a unique experience of the city as the railway cuts through closely packed urban housing, light industry, suburban homes and out into the greener rural landscapes. Passengers experience this flickering landscape while thinking of other things.

Western Line expands this fragmented terrain and explores the aural moments where the railway intersects with the urban fabric of west Auckland. Mixed from over 18 months of field recordings from stations, train rides and long walks along the railway line and improvisational drone guitar, the city and soundscape are interwoven; matching the situational experience from the trains and the spaces through which they pass

Artist bio:
David Cowlard is a filmmaker, sound artist, curator and educator. His interdisciplinary practice is located in the exploration of contemporary urban environments and includes working across photography, moving image, field recording and sound design. His work has been exhibited, screened and broadcast widely in New Zealand and internationally. David is the curator of http://www.unreliablelandscapes.net an exhibition platform for the digital city.

Andrew Moon / RST is an experimental musician and recording artist. He has performed widely in New Zealand and in China and his work has been released on labels such as Ecstatic Peace Records, boomkat and utech records.

Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/photourbanist/
https://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rst
https://rstsound.bandcamp.com/album/western-line
https://audiofoundation.bandcamp.com/album/western-line

1) Selma Augestad and Sam Ofili - GOOD ENOUGH (2:43)
2) Boyi Bai - Exploring Slience – Japan (11:49)
3) Daniel De Togni - A room so all alive (7:31)
4) Timo Kahlen - Resilience. Against All Odds (2:54)
5) Craig Gell - Flag Fen (1:11)
 
 
1) Selma Augestad and Sam Ofili - GOOD ENOUGH

GOOD ENOUGH is a collaboration between artists Selma Augestad and Sam Ofili. With thanks to Lea for lending her voice.
GOOD ENOUGH is a confessional script read in two voices, two languages becoming a conversation between past and present. GOOD ENOUGH is a trial and an offering, a bid for acceptance and a final test of love.
The script to GOOD ENOUGH was first exhibited by Selma as bleach and coffee stained linen, in COMFORT ME - exhibition in South Block Glasgow, September 2024. It was reimagined as an audio work by Sam and Selma in October 2024.
COMFORT ME reflects on undesirable expressions of emotions testing the conditionality of love. COMFORT ME is both a provocation and a plea. A dare - to love, when it is inconvenient, ugly and dark. If it’s easy, it means nothing.

Selma Augestad is a Norwegian visual artist based in Scotland. Through a practice of untangling and interpreting personal memories, Selma explores wider social themes with influence from mythology and rituals, as sites of connection, struggle and liberation.

Sam Ofili is a Glasgow based DJ. She is inspired by the use of sound and movement to connect with and uncover emotions.
 
https://www.selmaaugestad.com/
@solskinnskroken


2) Boyi Bai - Exploring Slience – Japan

In Japan, amidst bustling environments, you can hear delightful bird songs that offer brief moments of auditory respite, momentarily alleviating the weariness of travel. Despite their surroundings' cacophony, these sounds retain a pristine purity. Their most captivating essence emerges when they persist unadulterated by noise, bravely standing against the tumultuous world. "Exploring Silence - JAPAN" harmoniously blends ambient music and evocative soundscapes. Continuous drone and background sounds act as a cohesive frame, enveloping these captivating soundscapes and . inviting the audience to step into Japan's auditory world and experience the adventure of silence.

Boyi Bai is a composer, sound artist, sound mixer, and soundscape researcher fascinated by the blend of technology and sound. He enjoys exploring the harmony between virtual reality and sound, creating immersive experiences. Currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Soundscapes Research at the University of Sheffield under the esteemed guidance of Professor Adrian Moore, Boyi continues to explore the intricate relationship between sound, environment, and musical composition. His exceptional talent, academic prowess, and extensive professional experience make him an outstanding figure in the fields of music production, soundscape research, and artistic expression.
https://soundcloud.com/zion-bai

 
3) Daniel De Togni - A room so all alive

The creative nexus of this project was through recording the poetry of visual artist Rayne Cottrell. Her stream-of-consciousness, yet vulnerable style of delivery and narration is the very center of this recording. The music and sonification surrounding the poetry is made up of two distinct soundworlds. The first of these soundworlds is contained in the first half of the piece, where bass clarinet and clarinet sounds are edited to sound like an organ. The second soundworld, second half of piece, is where the poetry opens up in vulnerability and a post-rock, lo-fi, ambient landscape underlies the text.

As a composer and artist who primarily works with sound, Daniel is fascinated with the concept of space in sound/music. The psychological space that music inhabits in our minds as listeners, performers and/or creators, how sonic objects interact with each other in real-time and space, as well how a sound can evoke an image or landscape in our minds. It is truly astonishing how music can act as a catalyst between memory and real-time, how by listening to a piece of music, or hearing a sound, a world/memory (that perhaps no longer exists) from many years ago can be recalled.
https://www.danieldetogni.com/


4) Timo Kahlen - Resilience. Against All Odds

Timo Kahlen's „Resilience. Against All Odds“, 2024 creates an ambivalent and disquieting acoustic metaphor - drawing the fine line between resilience, deescalation and aggression. The audio miniature is based on growls and purrs.

Sound sculptor and media artist Timo Kahlen (* 1966 in Berlin) chooses to work with wind and steam, with light and shade, with pixels and dust, with sound, noise and vibration. His intermedia work has been presented in 250 solo and group exhibitions of contemporary media art since the mid-1980s: including „FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video" (Greece 2024), „Passages“ (Frankfurt 2022), „Back into the Future of Photography“ (Frankfurt 2016), „Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art“ (ZKM Karlsruhe 2012), „MANIFESTA 7: Scenarios“ (Italy 2008), and his solo exhibition “Timo Kahlen: Works with Wind“, inaugurating the KUNST-WERKE Berlin in 1991.
http://www.timo-kahlen.de

 
5) Craig Gell - Flag Fen

‘Flag Fen’ is a stereo recording made inside the preservation hall at Flag Fen Archaeology Park near Peterborough, where a section of an excavated Bronze Age causeway, discovered by Francis Pryor in 1982, is kept constantly wet using an elaborate sprinkler system.

Craig Gell is an artist and composer from Bournemouth.
He has created multimedia installations, interactive apps and electroacoustic compositions largely informed by nature and the natural landscape - recording impulse responses in quarries (Lithoscapes), programming sonifications of live sea wave data (Wave Machine). Craig is also an experienced musician and composer of more conventional music, including for a number of short animated films.
craiggellmusic.com
soundcloud.com/craiggell

6) Kim Walker - I Don't Need the Sound of the Radio (5:45)
7) Berenice Llorens - Lejos del monte.(4:30)
8) Mansoor Hosseini - I Am Not A Poet & I Am Really Not A Poet (8:25)
9) lane/louise - would be a lovely night (12:51)    

6) Kim Walker - I Don't Need the Sound of the Radio  
 
This sound work is the combined outcome of a series community workshops exploring sound art, sound walks, contemporary sonic art practice, concepts of Deep Listening and the composition of a soundwalk for Hospitalfield’s Physic Garden. I Don’t Need the Sound of the Radio was inspired by participants experiences within the garden and exploring the garden together. The idea of connecting to the ‘traces’ of the past through contemporary practice, and creating a new rendering informed by personal histories, old and new. Participants input, opinion and experiences were key to how the artwork developed, as they shared their stories and worked with Kim, with personal experiences becoming integral to the final composition. You can listen to this artwork when you visit Hospitalfield's Physic garden by scanning the available QR code.
I Don't Need the Sound of the Radio is commissioned by Hospitalfield and THAT (Tayside Healthcare Arts Trust).  

Kim Walker is a Scottish artist working with sound, video, installation, and performance. Her work was nominated for the 2011 Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Prize for Emerging Artists at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, longlisted for the 2018 Ivan Juritz Prize, and she was a finalist in the 2020 Mother Art Prize curated by Procreate Projects. She has extensive experience delivering creative, informal learning projects for individuals, community groups and schools across Tayside. Recent projects include Wild Escapes Eco School; ARTIST ROOMS: Young People’s Projects; The People’s Story; Reconnect; and Sounds and Stories with THAT and Hospitalfield.
https://www.kimwalkerart.co.uk/I-Don-t-Need-the-Sound-of-the-Radio-2023  

7) Berenice Llorens - Lejos del monte.  
 
"Lejos del monte" is an artificial soundscape created from sounds and field recordings of the native forest of Córdoba, Argentina. The piece explores the interaction between the natural environment and technology: the forest is recorded, reinterpreted, and imitated through processes involving prepared electric guitar, processes and digital synthesis. Through improvisation and composition, the forest sounds—endangered and at risk of extinction—gradually transform into an artificial imitation, reflecting the disappearance of these ecosystems due to wildfires caused by the climate crisis and the extractivist policies of capitalist governments in Latin America.  

Berenice Llorens is a composer, guitarist, and experimental artist, born in Córdoba, Argentina, based in Berlin. In her practice, Llorens records and reinterprets sounds from nature, the city, and machines, creating evolving sonic ecosystems—an exercise of bringing the outside in and the inside out—provoking deep reflection on our relationship with the environment we inhabit. Llorens works are a mixture of performances, compositions, radio, audiovisual works, drawings, writings, and collaborations in dance and theatre.  She produces the Beyond of_line radio show on Refuge Worldwide, and she researches in AI, computer music and sound.
https://berenicellorens.com
https://berenicellorens.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/berenicellorens    

8) Mansoor Hosseini - I Am Not A Poet & I Am Really Not A Poet  
 
An experimental work, a speaker's voice being cut, not allowing the word or sentence to be completed. Uncertainty makes the speaker retake her speech only to doubt again yet not giving up to express herself.  

Mansoor Hosseini is a Swedish sound artist, composer, script writer and film maker. He has studied composition at Conservatories in Paris, Brussels and Gothenburg. Later studying scriptwriting and film music at Gothenburg University. Mansoor’s research and studies with the composer Georges Aperghis encouraged him to compose for theatrical music, inspired by martial arts, contemporary dance and theater. Mansoor has collaborated with dancers, film makers, poets, video artists, ensembles and theater productions.
https://www.musicalmo.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsKgs__fKVU
https://www.youtube.com/@GothenburgMusic
https://www.youtube.com/@mmamusicmanagement3836
https://themusensemble.com/  

9) lane/louise - would be a lovely night  
 
This track, "would be a lovely night," is inspired by the ingrained sometimes fearful nostalgia that exists within the experience of listening to old radio plays, long lost voices forever communicating.  

LANE/LOUISE is a duo based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada/Turtle Island consisting of amateur musician and group drone collaborator, CORINNE (she/her) and her partner, artist and musician CHRIS (he/him) who also performs as iderdown, a one person electronic, ambient, experimental act, and who forms one third of the band WITHIN.  
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/yrlittlecore website:
https://www.iderdown.com/ instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/iderdown13

Alliteration is a A radio on the radio play made from field recordings, audio diaries, and edits exploring the space between transmission and reception, signal and noise, dreams and waking, here and there. The first half of the show introduces the players, and the second half closes the gap between the spaces, bringing everyone into conversation. This work was originally made for WMFU's Radio Row series. Aired August 13, 2023. Artist bio: Elizabeth Flood grew up in Massachusetts and currently lives in Chicago, IL. She likes to go on walks, talk on the phone, eat dinner with friends, and take ballet classes. Flood's radio work is interested in playing in the blurry space between transmission and reception, signal and noise, dreams and waking, here and there. She is curious about what radio would sound like if we didn’t listen ‘to know’? She tends to find work (and play) most interesting when creating a system and being curious about the outcome, rather than seeking a particular end result.

Year of the Dragon. A mother draws a circle. Spins round. Pins everything but the tail on the donkey. She wants to know how the dragon makes fire, gets inside it. On the inside things slow. Written in the Year of the Dragon, Zara Joan Miller’s long poem traces fire across a year. The figure of Saint Margaret, who freed herself from the belly of a dragon, is relocated in living voices that challenge structures of oppression today. A year of feeding fire, of dousing and soft loving. A mother waits in disguise by the fire exit.

Zara Joan Miller is an artist working across poetry, performance and film. Her work seeks to unravel boundaries between human and non-human nature, often playing with movement and sound as a way of reimagining a body’s rhythm. Zara is the author of poetry collection BLUE MONDAY (JOAN Publishing, 2022), which was also released as a duo LP with cellist Ute Kanngießer (Reading Group 2023). Her work has recently been presented at Barbican Centre, Muse Gallery, Horse Hospital, Cafe OTO (London), In Vitro (Brussels), Default

Year of the Dragon is co-commissioned by TACO! and blurt. blurt is an experimental platform supporting artists to develop text-based works for live reading and performance, and synchronous live-to-air broadcast on rtm.fm. In this testing-site for testing text, four artists and artist-groups consider radio broadcast as an expanded form of publishing. This co-commission is supported by the Outlands Network Exchange programme.

https://taco.org.uk/About-Us
https://zarajoanmiller.com/
https://outlands.network/

Drawn and twisted focuses attention on the sonic qualities of the heritage machines housed in the National Wool Museum of Australia. The work explores the stages of processing wool from raw fleece into commercial products. It portrays an interweaving of the hardship and prosperity inherent to the history of manufacturing sheep’s wool from herding to shearing to finished product. The process yields the thread of comfort and warmth brought to the world in the form of clothing, jackets, blankets, and socks. It has also polluted waterways adjacent to mills where the wool is cleaned, trampled the grasslands to dust with the herding of sheep, and impinged upon the freedom and vitality of indigenous people. Drawn and Twisted is a listening towards a future in which the knowledge from as yet untold stories and perspectives is foregrounded, where a reverence for the land embraces a returned vitality to its native grassland.

Artist bios:

Steve Ashby is a musician, composer, and sound artist based in the United States. Ashby work focuses on sound found in the natural and digital world to discover places of intersection which engage in the art of listening. Recent performances and residencies include ICMC 2022, Soundpedro, Moxsonic, EMS Stockholm Guest Composer Series, Radiophrenia Scotland, Cube Fest at Virginia Tech, New Music Gathering, Sound Arts Richmond, and the NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival.

Vicki Hallett is a versatile musician, field recordist, sound artist, composer, music practitioner and educator. Her focus is to record, compose with, and feature the ever-diminishing habitats and species of our planet. Highlighting unique sounds from the micro to the macro, Hallett utilises sounds we rarely or cannot hear. She has composed, produced and performed in live concerts, international conferences, solo recordings and videos ranging from chamber music to exploratory work with sound art. Hallett travels the world recording nature’s sounds as well as performing in acoustically interesting environments including Mabolel Rock (South Africa) with a pod of Hippopotami and the Amazon jungle.

Website/social links
https://ashbysounds.org/
https://www.vickihallett.com/

A meditative sound collage of field recordings of voices and machinery - from Ireland, Bali, China, England and Finland.

Artist bio:
Keith de Mendonca took his first tentative steps into field recording in 2000 and since then he has been a contributor to the long-running radio show “Framework” on Resonance FM. His audio recordings have been aired on the ABC, BBC, ORF and other radio stations worldwide. Keith’s work has been used in the soundtracks of experimental films, appeared on CDs and been the subject of a DivFuse installation in London. For the last 2 years Keith has also been photographing live music events in London.

Website/social links
https://frameworkradio.net/tag/keith-de-mendonca/
https://soundcloud.com/keith-de-mendonca
https://www.instagram.com/keithdmphoto

J'ai pensé sans paroles - Duo performance by Luke Fowler and David Grubbs with sound material provided by Brunhild Ferrari. Recorded live at the Glad Café, 15th March, 2025 at a special Radiophrenia pre-festival event.

Luke Fowler is an artist, filmmaker, and musician based in Glasgow. Fowler creates poetic portraits with 16mm and archival material. His most recent series N’importe Quoi focuses on the life and work of Brunhild Ferrari, whilst previous subjects include radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing, Marxist-historian E.P. Thompson, Scottish filmmaker Margaret Tait, and Fowler’s mother, the sociologist Bridget Fowler. He is represented by The Modern Institute and Gisela Capitain Galleries and is a core member of the groups Rude Pravo, Lied Music, and AMOR.
 
David Grubbs is a musician and writer based in Brooklyn. He was a founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with the Red Krayola, Will Oldham, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Loren Connors, Susan Howe, and many others. His books include Good night the pleasure was ours, The Voice in the Headphones, Now that the audience is assembled, and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (all published by Duke University Press). Grubbs is a 2024-25 Berlin Prize recipient from the American Academy in Berlin as well as Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY.  

BRUNHILD FERRARI: “Like most of my fellow human beings, I was born, I grew up, I attended schools, I passed exams, I failed, I loved, I worked hard sometimes, I enjoyed life;
I continue. I worked with Pierre Schaeffer in the ORTF research department on the relationship between sound and image. Of German origin, I have had an activity as an interpreter and translator. Following Luc Ferrari's advice in matters of life, music, and composition, and working with him over the course of our 40 years together, I made my own Hörspiele and radio plays broadcast on France Culture, in the United States, and the main German radio stations. Since Luc left us in 2005, I have taken care of the preservation of his vast archives; founded the "Association Presque Rien - Friends of Luc Ferrari"; initiated and organized the biennial

‘Liquidation’ is the closing episode of the ‘RadioActive - on Water’ podcast series curated by Meira Asher and Stephen Shiell.

There is currently a structural water crisis in the Palestinian Occupied Jordan Valley. Not a climate or geographical water crisis, a deliberate socially and politically engineered crisis. Israel, since it invaded the West Bank in 1967, controls every public aspect of civilian life in the Jordan Valley. Israel administers two populations, the Israeli settlers and the indigenous Palestinian residents. Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian farming communities of access to fresh, clean and reliable water supplies, water that is needed for crops and herds, as well as for the Palestinian farmers and herders.

This can mean either not permitting them to be connected to municipal water supplies, despite the Israeli settlers having such access. It also entails not permitting Palestinian people to sink new wells on their own land, and blocking their access to existing wells and springs, either by fencing off the water source or destroying pipes bringing the water to the herders and farmers. The end result is frequently that either the farmers have to pay extortionate prices to purchase water from the Palestinian authority, or if they cannot afford this option they are forced to abandon their land and way of life.

Featuring the water truck driver, co-activists Natasha and Nitsan, shepherds community of Khalet Makhul, shepherd ‘W’, shepherds community of Hirbet Samra and Aref Daragmah.
Translation from Arabic: Laila Abd El-Razaq
Introductory text: Liam Evans
 
English language transcript for this piece here:
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Meira Asher is a composer, performer and Human Rights activist. She primarily uses the medium of Sound-art and Radio-art. Graduate of CalArts and KonCon, she was co-founder of the ‘bodylab art foundation’ with Guy Harries (2001-11) where they produced several projects including Infantry and Woman See Lot of Things. Former lecturer at Haifa university's Art School (2012-2022) and producer of the independent Radio-art show radioart106 since 2014. 

Her works were released on Crammed, Sub Rosa, Auditorium, Raash Records and Ultima Ratio labels. Her recent works include Antonin Artaud’s radio essay To Have Done with the Judgement of God, Sonic Voyage of Resistance for Radio Art Zone 2022, and the Catastrophe trilogy by duo Asher.Zax featuring Dave Phillips, Ensemble Musica Nova, and more.


https://www.radioactiveonwater.com/meiraasher.bandcamp.com
mixcloud.com/radioart106

@meira.asher
@radioart106
@jordan_valley_activists

In this radio play, told through the voice of the Narrator, we are presented with an eccentric cast of characters living with an ever disenchanted and hostile landscape made up of old mines, towering blast furnaces, an inexplicable blackness which seems to spread insidiously, and a strange red substance that emanates from the earth. The veil is thin in this world… Perhaps you best enter the Inn of Ill Omen, order a nice frothy pint and rest your aching soul by the hearth. In the dim light an open hand reveals a blood red ironstone, an amulet that will reveal the way to “that place”... or so the story goes.

Artist bio:
SUBTERRA is a collaboration between Astrid Björklund and Marie-Chantal Hamrock, creating works which navigates speculative narratives of the chthonic (of relating to or inhabiting the underworld) through text, poetry, soundscapes and music. Currently working together as curators for the Fermynwoods Podcast.

Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/sub.terrestrials/
https://www.mixcloud.com/sub_terra/
https://fermynwoods.org/fermynwoods-podcast-24-subterra/

1) Kristina Loring - DNA ASMR (3:00) 2) Gabi Schaffner - Horom Radio (6:00) 3) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 8 (0:27) 4) Sylvain Souklaye - INVISIBLE BODY (RAW NOISE) (10:00) 1) Kristina Loring - DNA ASMR In my real-life quest to find a sperm donor, it became an increasingly anxious activity. I have looked through nearly every cryobank in the United States. And some of the marketing of these sperm donors always struck me as so hilarious. Who was writing these descriptors? Was it the cryobank or the donors themselves? The queer act of choosing a donor is such a bizarre, complicated, weighted decision with so many factors that I wanted to playfully and absurdly highlight the reductionist aliases’ that become the first introduction to the donor you choose. Wrapping it in an ever so slight fictional framework that changes the reality of scrolling through websites and puts it into an ASMR-like - unboxing video of ‘essence’ vials - was an attempt to make tangible the abstraction that happens when you are choosing the DNA for possible human life in such a limiting, categorizing, essentialist way. Kristina Loring is a story editor, sound artist, and audio producer, who works across genre and form to create media experiences you feel in your body. She was the founding Head of Audio at Dipsea, leading teams of writers, producers, and sound designers to create feminist audio erotica. Before that, she created the interactive cooking show Cooking By Ear. Creating hands-on installations and interactive performances to bring the audio to life, her work blends documentary-style interviews, field recordings, and fiction to foster connection, intimacy, and new emotional realms for listeners to explore. https://www.kristinaloring.com/   2) Gabi Schaffner - Horom Radio The ancient city of Horom is set in the southwest of Gyumri in Armenia. The hills are strewn with the remnants of ruins… one might guess that this has been a fundament – or that the color of the grassland had changed with what resided underneath. The air was filled with the drones of jets circling a sky with some clouds. The wind chased wilted thistles across the expanse of the land. We walked among the stones and turned my small radio on. We wondered whether the jet fighters that kept darting out of the blue had noticed us. We recorded the drones of the planes, the radio, the dead city and the rustle of the tumble thistles, being moved around. Gabi Schaffner works as a trans-disciplinary artist within the realms of radio art, composition and performance. Her artistic practice is inspired by the methods of poetic ethnography in connection with Fluxus-like mise-en-scènes, radio-making and sound art   performances. Since 2012 she maintains “Datscha Radio”, a nomadic transmission project that links the medium of radio to ecological issues. Schaffner has been realising award-winning productions with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, radia.fm, Hessian Cultural Radio and ABC Australia. She lives (mostly) in Berlin. https://schaffnerin.net/  http://datscharadio.de/   3) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 8 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 4) Sylvain Souklaye - INVISIBLE BODY (RAW NOISE) INVISIBLE BODY (RAW NOISE) is a sonic and bodily exploration of parenthood. Created by Sylvain Souklaye during his residency at LEIMAY CAVE, just days after the birth of his daughter, the piece reflects the chaos and euphoria of this life-changing moment. Blindfolded, Souklaye navigated the studio space to reconnect with his body, rediscovering touch and movement. This disorienting process allowed him to lose and find himself simultaneously, creating an intense, raw transformation expression. The work questions the body’s evolving role and purpose in the real world. Sylvain Souklaye is a French Caribbean Brooklyn-based live artist, sonic maker, and author. His work explores broken bodies, environmental crises, and political retribution. Rooted in his Martinique and Lyon heritage, Souklaye’s early focus on DIY social justice evolved into immersive performances and sonic installations that emphasize collective intimacy. His notable works have been presented at venues like Judson Church and Grace Exhibition Space, with installations such as Liquid Soul and Soliloquy in Motion. Souklaye was also recognized among the top 100 Contemporary Artists by Aesthetica Art Prize. https://www.sylvainsouklaye.com https://www.instagram.com/sylvain.souklaye/ https://sylvainsouklaye.bandcamp.com

5) Jamie Lemoine - KEZM easylistening (8:04) 6) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - The Benefits of Destroying Our Planet  (1:09) 7) Adrian Laugsch - Spasms Of My Aching Heart Lamento 5 (12:40) 8) Juliette Liautaud - A-row (rayon vert) (8:10)   5) Jamie Lemoine - KEZM easylistening KEZM is a now defunct radio station, based in Los Angeles. This experimental audio piece was composed by Jamie in 2024, incorporating clips from KEZM broadcasts made in the 1970's. Jamie has worked with music and sound for several decades. An album he produced won best rap album at the California Music Awards in 2004. Jamie is now focused on creating experimental music and sound compositions, often including field recordings and found footage. The Irish Museum of Modern Art commissioned an original soundscape composition by Jamie in 2024, responding to an ecological site located in the grounds. A site-specific music composition of Jamie's was selected for inclusion in Sound Walk Berlin as part of the Month of Contemporary Music Berlin 2023. He works with partner Dervla Clarke as POND Studios. @pond.studios https://www.pondstudios.com/ https://soundcloud.com/mov_o123   6) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - The Benefits of Destroying Our Planet   From Picking Trash to Save the Planet  - a spoken word and music concept EP(3-INCH CD) about the struggle between modern life and mother nature. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is the unfortunately-titled solo project of Ryan Kuehn(Dead Peasant Insurance, Thursday Club, Hot Air Balloon Ride). Hailing from the musically-thriving city of Cleveland, Ohio in the USA, he has released over 50 solo albums of varying styles in the past 20 or so years, mostly on cassette and CD-R. While more often than not an outsider Synthesizer project, there are some albums that stretch out to other areas- just this year alone he has recorded a gong album, as well as his first parody album and spoken word EP! 😢 🎶 http://www.drquinnmedicinewoman.bandcamp.com http://www.thursday-club.net http://www.youtube.com/megasupernoise http://www.youtube.com/balloonytunes   7) Adrian Laugsch - Spasms Of My Aching Heart Lamento 5 "Spasms of My Aching Heart" unfolds somewhere between a kitschy concept album and an AI-generated opera. Consisting of five originally AI-generated (but heavily revised) songs, the album delves deeply into the potential of technology in dialogue with trauma, kitsch, and pathos, striving to create a form of post-digital emotionality and artificial opulence. Shaped by kitsch theory, queer camp, and the aesthetics of Schlager music, the songs embrace their (over)expressivity with seriousness while remaining fully aware of their own absurdness. Adrian Laugsch (*1997) is a german-polish composer/performer/soundartist. Based on his musical interest in historical, (auto)biographical, and nostalgic sounds, his compositional work is significantly shaped by the desire for the substantive expansion of the sonic through theatrical, interdisciplinary, and multimedia strategies. This may range from extra-musical concepts and narrative arcs to the explicit use of stage and video, intertwining traditional formats such as concert, radio play, album, music theater, and installation. Consequently, his thematic focus lies on queer, hybrid, non-normative, and transgressive identities, as well as the exploration of post-digital artificiality and meta-religious opulence in the staging of socio-political mechanisms. https://www.adrianlaugsch.com   8) Juliette Liautaud - A-row (rayon vert) Voices, forests and backlights – stretched start, in green stripes A-row (rayon vert) is an electroacoustic composition made of transformed found sounds of the BBC, concrete sounds objects and mutative voices that deals with an imaginary forest going to disappear. Originally made for being played on acousmonium, this is a broadcasting version of the piece aiming to be played as a stereo piece on radio. Juliette Liautaud is a visual artist and composer based in Marseilles, France. She holds a MFA from Villa Arson National School of Arts. Her work has been showed in various exhibitions and experimental festivals across France and internationally. Her body of work includes photography, installation, experimental film and electronic and electroacoustic compositions, always dealing with the power of Nature and its mysteries, creating visual and soundscapes with an eerie atmosphere. She recently joined Station Station radio and Lyl radio, with conceptual shows of mixtapes and poetry and she co-runs the independent publisher Stereo Editions focusing on artist's experimental publications. https://julietteliautaud.com/ https://www.instagram.com/juliette__liautaud/ https://soundcloud.com/lulland

Waiting On a Room reflects on moments of transition. As opportunities await like a warm embrace, we wander into the new with a sense of excitement, a sprinkle of wonder, and a hint of what we will leave behind. Elements of lap steel, granular synthesis, and radio static merge with a foundation of tape loops to transmit the evolution of before, after, and between.

Artist bio:
Steve Ashby is a musician, composer, and sound artist based in the United States. Ashby work focuses on sound found in the natural and digital world to discover places of intersection which engage in the art of listening. Recent performances and residencies include the International Symposium of Electronic Art, Australasian Computer Music Conference, International Computer Music Conference 2022, the Society of Electro-Acoustic Musicians in the United States, Soundpedro, Moxsonic, EMS Stockholm Guest Composer Series, Radiophrenia Scotland, Cube Fest at Virginia Tech, New Music Gathering, Sound Arts Richmond, and the NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival.

Website/social links
https://ashbysounds.org
instagram: @ashbysounds
bluesky: @ashbysounds
twitter: @ashbysounds

Study IV for Voice and Fiction is an experimental spoken-word/choral composition for twenty-four participants, each reading from any work of fiction of their choosing. As they read, they receive audio signals through headphones prompting them to alter their voicing, inflection, cadence, volume, and ultimately their tone, gradually converting them from a chaotic cloud of whispers to a unified drone, changing colors many times along the way.

All parts in the provided demo were performed and recorded by the composer.

Artist bio:
Blake DeGraw is a composer, bandleader, and sound installation artist from Seattle, WA, USA. He studied euphonium performance at Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts, and composition at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.

DeGraw is the founder of FHTAGN, an experimental chamber ensemble and choir with over 70 rotating members, and the Northwest Experimental Guitar Orchestra, an 18-piece ensemble dedicated to performing new works for guitar. Both ensembles are DeGraw’s primary means of exploring his interests in chance procedures, deep-listening, alternative forms of conduction, and extremes in spatial dispersion.

Website/social links
https://blakedegraw.bandcamp.com/
 
 
plus short work:
 
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/

Study IV for Voice and Fiction is an experimental spoken-word/choral composition for twenty-four participants, each reading from any work of fiction of their choosing. As they read, they receive audio signals through headphones prompting them to alter their voicing, inflection, cadence, volume, and ultimately their tone, gradually converting them from a chaotic cloud of whispers to a unified drone, changing colors many times along the way.

All parts in the provided demo were performed and recorded by the composer.

Artist bio:
Blake DeGraw is a composer, bandleader, and sound installation artist from Seattle, WA, USA. He studied euphonium performance at Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts, and composition at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.

DeGraw is the founder of FHTAGN, an experimental chamber ensemble and choir with over 70 rotating members, and the Northwest Experimental Guitar Orchestra, an 18-piece ensemble dedicated to performing new works for guitar. Both ensembles are DeGraw’s primary means of exploring his interests in chance procedures, deep-listening, alternative forms of conduction, and extremes in spatial dispersion.

Website/social links
https://blakedegraw.bandcamp.com/
 
 
plus short work:
 
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/