Fri 08

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The carillon is extensively documented with photographic collodion glass plates.

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

Lp : Artist Edition of 1.


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

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

1) Camilla Hannan - It won't be like this all the time (14:58)
2) The Argent Grub  - Three Way Conversation (22:03)

1) Camilla Hannan - It won't be like this all the time

It won't be like this all the time was made after the COVID 19 pandemic had settled down and the world went back to 'normal' This is a work about grief, loss and the existential feelings I had when I realised that the world didn't appear to change for the better after what we all went through together.

Camilla Hannan is an Australian sound artist who for over 20 years has developed her sonic practice working primarily with field recordings. She processes these recordings into abstract representations of place and experience. She investigates the construction of urban and natural environments sonically, and spatially, morphing these elements into new sound worlds. Camilla’s work is centred on a deep fascination with the way in which we listen to our environment and how this listening impacts upon our micro and macro worlds.

website: camillahannan.com
Instagram: @camillahannan

 
2) The Argent Grub - Three Way Conversation

Three Way Conversation takes a conventional radio interview, separates out the audio of each speaker and aligns them end to end, rather than
combined as you would usually do for radio.

If radio is a medium for transmitting ideas, interviews are a key method to do that.

As a listener you are privy to that conversation but not part of it. You may talk back to the radio, but no-one in the radio will hear you. You’re not given space.

Breaking up the conversation raises a problem for radio. Silence (which I’ve filled with a recording from the Mary Cairncross Scenic
Reserve, Australia recorded via the Locus Sonus soundmap in 2021).

But for the listener this is an opportunity.

I hope to encourage people to take time, to stop, to give attention to listening, and enjoy the space and I guess that’s the idea I’m trying to transmit.

 
David Carpenter has been making music and sound as The Argent Grub since 2020.
His first release Listen Up sound tracked the speeches of Greta Thunberg, and featured on As if… radio during the Cop26 in Glasgow. Radiophrenia played Ardrossan from the first Field Recordings Album the same year.
A sound art project, A Sense Of Place, has brought listening experiences to audiences in the Bradford district in recent years, and David supports and is supported by the Bradford Sound Artist group.
Field Recordings For is in production and should be released later in the year.
https://theargentgrub.co.uk/
https://www.twitter.com/theargentgrub
https://instagram.com/theargentgrub
https://www.facebook.com/theargentgrub
https://theargentgrub.bandcamp.com/

3) Jamie Lee - Circuits from Soft Frequencies (20:00)
4) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Modern Life- Pitted Organic Dates (0:50)
 
 
3) Jamie Lee - Circuits from Soft Frequencies

Circuits from Soft Frequencies is a sound piece and art installation that examines the materiality of sound and how it affects bodies, things and spaces. The work was produced and first presented in 2023 at Open School East and has since been shown at MK Calling (2024) MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, and will be released on record label Mortality Tables in November 2024.

The piece originated as samples from devices used to organise time in different cultural spaces, for example the clock, bell and gong. Samples were then collected during fieldwork to sites featuring huge, concrete ‘sound mirrors’, an archaic technology designed to sense the sonic vibrations of aircraft in wartime before the invention of radar. The composition is based on the terrains encountered when searching for these momentous objects, with each track representing a different place or time.

Jamie's practice is site specific and process driven, often working with field recording, found text and montage practices. His work investigates the materiality of sound and its relationship with site, using different recording mediums to sense and track movement. His recent projects explore the affects of unseen forces on bodies and objects, resulting in interactive installations featuring soundscapes and moving images. Recent selected projects include Circuits from Soft Frequencies (2023), completed at Open School East and exhibited at Milton Keynes Gallery (2024). Jamie was recently awarded WEVAA funding to support a field recording residency at Aq_Tushetii in Georgia.

jamieleeartist.com
@jamie_laurence_lee
vimeo.com/jamieleeartist

 
4) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Modern Life- Pitted Organic Dates

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

From synchronicity to asynchronicity, affect to effect. In movement and stillness. Through somatic practices, we initiated a circular form of being together in space, sharing stories in non-linear ways. As a result, an ever-moving chain of sonic and written matter was assembled, creating a mode of sharing agencies and stories from sender to receiver; from receiver to receiver. Departing from the title “Storytelling: Who owns the narrative?” as the premise of our second confluence within the sessions of Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making, this episode invites listeners to attend our chain of correspondences and letter-making, as reflections of personal and worldly perspectives—gestures of staying together. The podcasts are formed in chapters corresponding to our peer-to-peer learning around Land, Housing and Out/Institution, each time seeking ways to question ourselves by listening to the varied and polyrhythmic offerings from the people and places we encounter. In this process of place-making, we explore our practices and transmit through the broadcasting platform and extended community of Radio Alhara. Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making is de Appel’s COOP study group at DAI Roaming Academy unfolding throughout 2024. Through the group’s monthly encounters, five podcasts will share the harvest of each iteration with attuned overarching themes as departure points. After our first confluence in Nida (Lithuania), this second episode was initiated in March 2024 at PAF Performing Art Forum in France, during Confluence 2: Storytelling: Who owns the narrative?. Dutch Art Institute (DAI) is a nomadic accredited MA program landing in various locations and for seven times (confluences) per academic year with the student body and crew. The study groups, which last the full academic year, are one of the pillars of its program and are carefully composed of and conducted by collaborations with an art institution, in this case de Appel in Amsterdam. Listen through @radioalhara AR: راديو تجميع الأرض الحلقة 2 من يملك السرد؟ من التزامن الى عدم التزامن,   من التأثير إلى النتيجة في حركة و سكون من خلال حركات جسدية بترتيب دائري تشاركنا المكان نتبادل القصص بغير تسلسل وبالنتيجة سلسلة مستمرة من الأصوات والمحتوى المكتوب تم تجميعها لنخلق نهج تعاوني نتبادل القدرات والقصص من المرسل إلى المتلقي و ايضا من المتلقي إلى المتلقي بالانتقال من العنوان "سرد القصص" من يملك السرد؟ كما الفرضية من التقائنا الثاني ضمن جلساتنا " تجميع الأرض: بروفات لصنع المكان", تدعو هذه الحلقة المستمعين لحضور سلسلة مراسلاتنا اتصالاتنا انعكاسات لوجهات النظر الشخصية والدنيوية لضمان وحدتنا و بقائنا البرامج الصوتية تشكلت على هيئة فصول لتتوافق بين الزملاء مع موضوعات التعلم حول الأرض و الإسكان و المؤسسات في كل مرة نسعى لطرق لاستجواب أنفسنا من خلال الاستماع الى العروض والمتعددة الإيقاعات من الاشخاص و الاماكن التي نواجهها في عملية صنع المكان هذه, نستكشف ممارساتنا ونرسل عبر منصة البث والمجتمع الموسع لراديو الحارة  تجميع الأرض: بروفات لصنع المكان"  هي مجموعة دراسة COOP التابعة ل de Appel في أكاديمية DAI المتنقلة تحدث على مدار 2024 من خلال اللقاءات الشهرية للمجموعة خمسة ملفات صوتية يشارك حصاد لكل تكرار مع موضوعات شاملة و متناغمة كنقطة بداية بعد اجتماعنا الأول في نيدا (ليتوانيا) بدأت الحلقة الثانية في آذار من هذه السنة، في Paf Performing Art Forum في فرنسا وأثناء التقائنا الثاني: رواية القصص. من يملك السرد؟ مؤسسة الفنون الهولندية (DAI) هو ماجستير متنقل معتمد ينزل في مواقع مختلفة سبع مرات على مدار السنة مع الهيئة التدريسية والطلابية تعدّ مجموعات الدراسة و التي تستمر للعام الدّراسي بأكمله أحد ركائز برنامجها و يتمّ تشكيلها بعناية و تدار بالتعاون مع مؤسسة فنية، في هذه الحالة de Appel في أمستردام.

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

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

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

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

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

This is the seventh in the series of field recordings pieces from the field recordist and sound artist Toni Dimitrov dedicated to a city. After the field recordings from Athens, Milan, Ioannina, Belgrade, Bucharest and Berlin, this time the sound sketches were recorded in Graz, during his stay in the city while participating at Interpenetration festival at Club Wakuum in autumn of 2024. In the piece you can hear recordings from Graz streets, parks, galleries, the noise from public transport, fountains, interweaving subtly, blurring the line between field recording and sound art. Concept, field recordings, editing and directed by Toni Dimitrov File under: field recordings, soundscape, sound documentary Artist Bio: Toni Dimitrov is a multimedia artist, cultural producer, radio host, organizer, curator, label owner, mountain climber and nature lover, living in Macedonia. He connects all those with the love for music, sound art and field recordings. Have been curving his way into the new experimental music/sound art scene with his solo engagement, collaborative releases, radio art and art installations. Working in the field of sound art and experimenting with electronic music and radio for more than 20 years. Have released under several monikers, bands and collaborations, having countless albums and eps on diverse labels around the world and performed on many events and participated at several residencies. His radio programs are broadcasted on the music radio Kanal 103 and are dedicated to contemporary electronic music, ambient, soundscape and political discourse. The artistic career involves art installations, sound and sound installations, drawings, video, photography, exhibiting on various exhibitions locally and abroad. His last participation was at the historical sound art exhibition “Audiosphere Sound Experimentation 1980–2020” at Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, curated by Francisco Lopez. He is curating the labels post global recordings and élan vital recordings. The recent professional engagements were on projects related to political analysis of media. At the moment he is director of Cultural Informartion Center – Skopje. Website: elanvital.bandcamp.com post-global.com

"Der lange Atem" is a sound art and research project focused on “celebration” and “hero organs,” instruments used as sonic monuments during the Nazi era. Built between the 1920s and 1940s in Germany and Austria, these organs were often dedicated to the victims of WWI or featured in National Socialist ceremonies. Many were installed in churches, Nazi festival halls, or secular spaces like schools. Only a handful of these instruments remain today.

The 15-minute sound piece explores three of the remaining organs through on-site recordings of their sound, acoustic environment, and the organists playing them. It also includes excerpts from a 1985 SWR radio program dedicated to organs from the Nazi era.

Artist bio:
*1982 in Innsbruck/Austria. Lives and works in Vienna. Lucas Norers works are characterised by an interdisciplinary approach and refer to auditory contents such as production and consumption of music, sound, noise, silence and its relation to social, political, architectural and artistic issues. As part of an extended research and manufacturing process he creates audio-visual installations, objects and projects in the public realm. In 2011 Norer graduated from The University of Art & Design Linz. Since then he has shown his work in gallery spaces, contemporary art museums and festivals.

Website/social links
https://lucasnorer.com

Takayna is covered in sinkholes. Over thousands of years, rain seeping into the soil dissolves the dolomite rock below, slowly forming hollows and voids above ground. Soil and rock fall inwards and are washed away and the void grows deeper. To our eyes, the sinkhole’s surface is still and reflective, obscuring the orchestra of life within its water body. With one ear above and one below the surface we listen to frogs, birds, the wind through the trees, aquatic insects buzzing like tiny fireworks, burrowing invertebrates and clawing crustaceans. Takayna holds the largest ancient temperate rainforest in Australia and one of the last undisturbed Gondwana rainforests in the world. Like many forest sites in Australia, it is threatened and surrounded by logging.
Gratitude and respect to the palawa pakana traditional owners. Dedicated to the forest defenders.

Artist bio:
Jess Hamilton is an audio producer and field recordist living on Gadigal land, Eora (Sydney). Her work explores memory, temporality and the hidden sounds of ecosystems through hydrophones and electromagnetic recorders, layered field recordings and found sound. Through a practice of listening, recording and manipulating sound, she attempts to make audible the anthropogenic influences of our time on ecosystems and soundscapes - particularly those that seem obscured from human senses. Her audio storytelling projects have featured at IFC AudioDocs Reykjavik, Rose D’Or and the Australian Podcast Awards. She is currently studying soundscape ecology through a Master of Marine Science.

Website/social links
https://soundcloud.com/jessicajhamilton
jessica-hamilton.com

A recorded excerpt of a site-specific sound installation for radios and low watt FM transmitters created in Homer Alaska at the Bunnell Street Arts Centre. Multiple transmitters are set up in an array throughout the landscape, each broadcasting (on the same frequency 89.1FM) a unique collage of sound and story about the immediate surrounding. As you walk through the landscape with a radio tuned different signals fall in and out of range, each signal a unique collage of sound and story that explores the resonating history and memory that animates the landscape. Each collage is of a slightly different length and plays on a loop 24/7 creating a structure in constant flux, a narrative work with no fixed order that is never the same twice. The recording submitted is a snapshot of the work up and running, made on site through a radio in the streets and beaches of Homer.

Artist bio:
Andrew O’Connor is an independent radio producer, and sound artist based in Toronto Canada. His work reflects an interest in sound, storytelling, and transmission, and explores these ideas through formal broadcast radio as well as installation art, sound design, and pirate radio.  Andrew’s work has been featured across the CBC Radio network, syndicated internationally, as well as featured at the Third Coast Filmless Festival, and the UK International Radio Drama Festival. Andrew currently hosts and produces a weekly pirate radio show called DISCO 3000 on his long running, clandestine radio project Parkdale Pirate Radio.

Website/social links
https://parkdalepirateradio.wordpress.com/
https://www.bunnellarts.org/tune-in-homer-audio-soundscape-by-andrew-oconnor/

1) Andreas Oskar Hirsch -Teatime Unlimited (2:40)
2) John Roach - Source of Water (15:00)
3) Vincent Eoppolo - I Am Trying (5:00)
4) Ben Gaunt - German Canine Waltz Time (2:02)
5) Mattia Benedetti - Se Qatre Khun (5:32)
 
 
1) Andreas Oskar Hirsch -Teatime Unlimited

Part of Hirsch’s new album The Salamander Treaty, out on makiphon in spring 2025. The album title makes reference  to ‚War with the Newts‘, an abysmal yet hilarious science fiction novel by Karel Čapek from 1936. The album is a sort of pacifist replica to this, with claims like Tea Time Unlimited and such. The album title and some of the track titles invite to play around with the phonetics and the meaning of the terms „treaty“, „tree“ and „tea“.

Andreas Oskar Hirsch is a Cologne based musician, visual artist and inventor of electroacoustic instruments. Together with Patricia Koellges he runs makiphon, a label for experimental music and artist records.
http://www.hirschonhirsch.com
http://www.makiphon.de

 
2) John Roach - Source of Water

The story of Zion National Park in Utah, USA is all about water. Not only did water carve the deep winding canyons, but it also became a contested resource that led to the expulsion or death of countless indigenous people in the region (like the Pa’Rus who lived along the Virgin river) as their springs and other water sources were forcibly stolen. This sound collage brings together the intensity of the natural landscape of the park including falling ice, wind and rushing water, with the voice of Daniel Bulletts from the Kaibab band of Southern Paiutes.

John Roach is a Queens, NY based artist and educator whose work is concerned with the often slippery role of sound in how we perceive the world. His most recent projects have explored the ability of sound to construct immersive portraits of places, and how the careful assembly of spatialized field recordings, sound design elements, and voices can connect a listener to unexpected impressions of a landscape or soundscape.
https://johnroach.net/
https://www.instagram.com/johnroachart/

 
3) Vincent Eoppolo - I Am Trying

Living In Times of Chaos is a collection of 7 compositions that were composed in late 2023 through August 2024. The works are Electro Acoustic, Acousmatic and Musique Concrete in their forms. As the title suggests these works are mediations on the current state of affairs in our world. The compositions include:

Vincent Eoppolo born Wilmington, Delaware USA. Eoppolo’s compositions are a mix of various sound art traditions such as musique concrete, acousmatic music, electro-acoustic music and radio art. In recent years, Eoppolo’s fixed media works have been presented at the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Mise_En Place New Music Festival in Brooklyn, Utopie Sonore in Nantes, France and De Natura Sonorum in Rome, Italy. Eoppolo’s compositions have been released by Moscow based independent music label Meticulous Midgets and his works are regularly featured on new music radio and internet programs throughout Europe and North America
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007788824642
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CFAy7K6LpWMvtFN5EpKPT?si=01YRMOiARguOmFU8-aT8Dw
https://soundcloud.com/vincent-eoppolo

 
4) Ben Gaunt - German Canine Waltz Time

In 2023, I was recording some material for another composition of mine, just outside Köln Cathedral. There were two dogs yapping at each other; I loved the sound, but it just didn't fit the piece.
In 2024, I was asked to perform a piece for the Music Patron launch event at the Groucho Club in Soho, London. I decided to make a new work, using a tiny snippet of the discarded dog sounds.

Ben Gaunt is a composer, sonic artist, and improviser. He has written for the London Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, and many other lovely people. He has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award, a British Composer Award, and is Professor in Composition at Leeds Conservatoire.
https://www.bengaunt.com/
https://x.com/bencomposer
https://www.bengaunt.com/epk-sonic-artist-and-composer

 
5) Mattia Benedetti - Se Qatre Khun

Three Drops of Blood is a cruel and melancholic short story, where a multitude of mirrors is staged just to see them broken and to scatter the reflections. In a madhouse, a sectioned patient, after a year, receive paper and pen for the first time. What starts is a game of projections and superimpositions, where what happened is progressively less clear. Sadegh Hedayat is a master of deceit : the same objects appears from multiple perspectives, sometimes opaque and trivial, sometimes shiny and mysterious. Three Drops of Blood is perhaps his best short novel: a cruel and melancholic glimpse of madness that stages an ensemble of mirrors and crashes them all. We descend into the abyss of an insane asylum, where after a year a sectioned patient can finally write his memories.

Mattia Benedetti is a composer. He lives in Venice.
He's trying to create music that resembles an open world, without a centre but full of internal connections and ambiguous self resemblances.
He's trying to create music that resembles an island, isolated from everything, an extreme habitat where only endemic organisms lives.

6) Adrian Laugsch  - Spasms Of My Aching Heart – Lamento 4 (8:53)
7) Jeff Gburek - Gamelanic Storm Ventilator (6:54)
8) Aurora Engine – DRONE (4:59)
9)  andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - EFFO ISN E (0:47)
10) Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 12 (5:40)

 
6) Adrian Laugsch  - Spasms Of My Aching Heart – Lamento 4

"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

 
7) Jeff Gburek - Gamelanic Storm Ventilator

A turbanned roof-top air ventiltor during an heavy rain with some hail is augmented by anthropogenic percsussive accents.

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/


8) Aurora Engine – DRONE

Drawn to the intriguing sounds and communal habits of bees, Drone explores  hive sounds of local honey bees collected from a series of trips to Edinburgh Based hives. Drunk on smoke, jumping, shouting and, of  course, buzzing, the bees make different sounds depending on their mood,  surroundings and time of year.  Shaw reacts to the rhythms, tones and moods of this fragile species using harp, F horn and voice. This piece was initially premiered at Sound Festival 2022, then featured as part of the 2023 Made In Scotland Showcase show 'Terre' exploring Scotland's Landscape through sound. Recorded, produced and mixed by Deborah Shaw (Aurora Engine)

Deborah Shaw / Aurora Engine is a songwriter, composer and sonic artist from Edinburgh. Fusing real instruments (harp /piano), voice and progressive electronica, her work encapsulates a singular and striking sonic landscape. As a sonic artist she thrives on telling stories through sounds, engaging communities, whilst engaging with environmental issues. Recent works include a sonic exploration of Tourette's Syndrome funded by SMHAF, and an exploration a commission from Historic Scotland, capturing the historic sounds of the Paisley's Carillon. She is committed to amplifying the voices of women in sound and has engaged on a series of women focused sound projects.
http://www.auroraengine.com
http://www.instagram.com/aurora_engine
http://www.twitter.com/auroraengine
http://www.facebook.com/auroraengine


9) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - EFFO ISN E

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


10) Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 12

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

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

'a-drift-a-shore' is a body of work featuring a 24′38″ soundscape that contains multilingual spoken excerpts from individuals who have experienced migration. This workshop series explored storytelling through the metaphor of a drift seed. Participants engaged in creative writing, sculptural building, and collective map-making, revealing personal stories as a form of introspection and healing. The project aimed to open a dialogue on the complexities of migration and diasporic experiences, amplifying historically marginalized voices. Recorded sessions took place at the Glasgow School of Art, the Garnethill Multicultural Centre, the Maryhill Integration Network, and MILK between autumn 2022 and spring 2023.

Artist bio:
dorka plays in the overlapping spaces of social design, art, and community. Born and raised in Hungary, she is currently based in Scotland. She approaches all her work as an exercise in storytelling, and researching things beyond their physical or temporal bounds. Collaboration and collective making enrich the self and are centred in her work. Play is the heart of dorka’s practice – an endeavour toward seeing with a child’s eye, tracing lines and living inside them.

Website/social links
https://dorkamaking.cargo.site/
@orkababa

This 3 track sonic journey celebrates and honours the voice and presence of our most ancient ancestors, rocks and trees.
Recorded in 2024, the work presents poems written in English and Italian.

Sonopoems and Field recording for ‘La Calcara’ and ‘Spectres’ tracks taken by Ilaria Boffa at Grotte di Zungri (Southern Italy) using Zoom H6 recorder and JRF D-series hydrophone. Performance on violin and vocals by Ida di Vita; vocals by Fabio Nicora.

Sonopoem and Field recording for ‘The Cedar Ballad’ taken by Ilaria Boffa in Fes and the Cedarwood Middle Atlas (Morocco) using Zoom H6 recorder and JRF C-series contact phone.

Artist bio:
Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. She writes bilingual poetry and she has published four poetry collections to date. She is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol. XL 2018. Her sono-poems, which combine poetry and field recording, have been played at international experimental sound art festivals, radio events and film festivals. She is a permanent member of EAPS international collective working with poetry and sound art and she is collaborating with the Swiss theatre group ‘Collettivo Treppenwitz’.

Website/social links
https://linktr.ee/ilariaboffaIB
https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/
https://www.instagram.com/ilaria.boffa/
https://www.facebook.com/ilaria.boffa.IB/

1 Aline Chambras - j'écoute marcher dans mes jambs (1:45)
2 Jaime Cid-Lara - Terramorfismos de una muerte glacial [Daying glacier's terramorphisms] (7:26)
3 zhanraw- i give you technology (4:04)
4 Prabuddha Mukhopadhyay - Reflected sounds to a third generation refugee (5:10)
5 Canaan Balsam - I hope this email finds us both dead (7:44)
 
 
1) Aline Chambras - j'écoute marcher dans mes jambs

Au gré et hasard des poèmes de René Char, une rengaine, des bribes, Parole d'Albatros
Avec des extraits de Bel édifice et les pressentiments, Loi oblige, Le visage Nuptial, L'Avenir non prédit.

Réalisatrice et compositrice sonore, je produis (prise de sons, montage et mixage) des documentaires, des reportages, des portraits sonores, des pièces électroacoustiques, des bandes-sons, de la poésie sonore, des objets sonores, etc. . Travaillant toujours au plus près du terrain, j'accorde une attention toute particulière aux paysages, aux voix et aux liens sensibles entre récits, rythmes et environnement . J'ai travaillé notamment pour la radio, des musées, des collectivités, des compagnies de spectacle vivant.
https://soundcloud.com/aline-chambras
https://www.atelier-sonart.com/

 
2) Jaime Cid-Lara - Terramorfismos de una muerte glacial [Daying glacier's terramorphisms]

The work is part of a project called Expedición Imaginaria, which combines arts, geology, and andinism. In this case, it is a sound art piece inspired by geological research conducted by Javiera Roco, a collaborator on the project. She studied the glaciers in the central regions of Chile and found many becoming buried under rocks. The composition integrates fictional voices that sound as if transmitted by radio (I can provide the translation if needed). This work premiered at the VI Congreso SOCHICRI, a cryosphere conference held in Punta Arenas, Chile, in May 2024.

Jaime Cid Lara (Chile, 1991) is a transdisciplinary artist specialized in merging artistic elements with technical and scientific components. A composer, media artist, programmer, art curator, and Chilean explorer. He holds a degree in Musical Arts and is a scholarship student in the Magíster en Artes Mediales at Universidad de Chile. He works as a creative director at Austral Games and is a member of the Canal Alpha collective. He is the creator of Expedición Imaginaria, a project in the intersection art-sciencie-andinism.
http://www.jaimecidlara.com
https://www.instagram.com/jotacidlara

 
3) zhanraw- i give you technology

Through field recordings of ocean waves, heartbeats, and urban noise, “i give you technology” is an experimental sound composition that juxtaposes the natural and artificial, reflecting an interpersonal romantic relationship and how love intertwines with the functional and the mundane.This auditory landscape prompts listeners to consider the relationship between parts and the whole, uncover hidden melodies, and observe themselves within varying ecologies. Each listen reveals new layers, prompting reflection on the delicate interplay between nature, technology, and personal experience, where forces shape and are shaped by one another in ways that are both transient and enduring.

Zhanna Rozenberg (aka zhanraw) is a multidisciplinary artist working in sound, film, poetry, performance, and installation. Her recent work, Unsaid (1/31 & 2/31), debuted in 2024 with a performance by the Bergamot Quartet, Payton MacDonald, multi-channel audio, and video projection. Like many prior works, it explores the interstitial and manifold aspects of experience: matters of attention, conditions of embodiment, perceptions of self, time, the other, and one’s one’s environment. Her interdisciplinary approach reflects her fascination with how technology can bridge the personal and the societal, turning complex questions into immersive experiences that provoke both thought and emotion.
https://www.instagram.com/zhanraw/
https://soundcloud.com/zhan_raw/sets/days-and-nights


4) Prabuddha Mukhopadhyay - Reflected sounds to a third generation refugee

During the partition of 1947 in India, my grandfather migrated from (now)Bangladesh to India. He left his home forever and never went back. Nobody from my family line has ever been to Bangladesh after that.
Till his last breath, his only wish was to get to that place, at least for once. He couldn't. The home, the roots that my grandfather left have vanished now, it does not exist. I have only heard stories of it, and will never be able to see it.
That time has gone by, and that space has become extinct. This work is a reflection of how I have searched for a space that doesn't exist anymore.
All the recordings were done in Bangladesh during a field trip.

Currently, I am a student of sound recording and design at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata, India.
I am a budding sound artist interested in Film sound design along with the urge to explore ‘Sound as an independent artform’ instead of just a tool to apply it in cinema.
My interest lies mainly in sound art and field recording and how to shape it in the context of new media.
As a budding field recordist and sound artist, I try to explore the possibility of sonic art in the medium of film through various devices.
https://www.instagram.com/prabuddha._.m/
https://vimeo.com/user104141219

 
5) Canaan Balsam - I hope this email finds us both dead

Canaan's work explores the dead space between ambient and new age music; the liminal zone between the harshness of industrial and the beatific serenity of devotional music. It is this balance between body horror electronics and the calming balm of serene noise that is mapped out across their body of work that aspires to a religious like intensity and serenity whilst at the same time being informed / waylaid / destroyed by a background in noise and industrial music.

Canaan lives and works in Edinburgh, and their previous projects include Naked and he is currently part of sound art project Dreamwreck and industrial noise Caustic Bliss (Venalism). Canaan has performed in an iteration of the late Damo Suzuki’s Sound Carriers.
https://www.instagram.com/canaan_balsam/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiEpWNBlqIw

6 Galo Durán - Sonidero Colombiano (8:16)
7 Nicolas Dumay - La Distance (16:38)
8 Avi Ziv - Encounter With The Krell (6:19)
 
 
6) Galo Durán - Sonidero Colombiano

Sonidero  Colombiano is a soundscape, all sounds were recorder by Galo Duran in Cartagena and Bogota, Colombia in 2023, axcept one sampler about one  sound of interview a Pablo Emilio Escoba Gaviria in the eighties ( 80 )

Galo Durán - México . Based in CDMX / Mexico city . Since 2002 makes music for films projects. 2010-Artistic residence in Buenos Aires, Argentina, ( Recorder sounds in Bs.As) 2011- Recorder sounds in Jamma el Fna, Marrakech, Moroco. He has also participated in the International Film Festival in buenos aires Argentina BAFICI 2010 and in the international film festival Rotterdam IFFR 2012 Netherlands. 2013-Nominee to an Ariel prize - original music 2015-Performances in Tokyo, Kioto and Wakayama Japan - Recorder Sounds in Tokyo. 2017- Performances in Bangkok, Thailand, and ho chi minh city ( Saigon ), Vietnam. -Recorder sounds
https://soundcloud.com/galo_duran

 
7) Nicolas Dumay - La Distance

In this work, the author, who lives in Devon (England), talks about the distance that separates him from his son, who is growing up on the continent. He talks about the guilt of making a life on the other shore. And between the two shores, the sea, physical obstacle and point of contact with the other side, but also an enveloping and a comforting element when crossing is not possible. In the meantime, friends help him reflect on the polysemy of the word 'distance' (geographical, sensory, affective, cognitive, metaphysical, etc.). Finally, comes the time to return to the continent, a long journey that the author makes alone, guided by the smiles of the awaited reunion.
Written and produced by Nicolas Dumay, with advice from Claire Gatineau (from the ACSR, Belgium). With the voices of Chloé Thibault, Daniel Modave, Cassiel Aristei-Dumay, and Andrew Norris (Bruxelles/Exeter, June 2024).

Nicolas Dumay teaches experimental psychology, at the University of Exeter (UK). His field of research sits at the cross-talk between three fields: linguistics, memory, and the influence of sleep. He has no artistic track record, but just an attraction to speech and sounds. In June 2024, he attended a workshop on sound writing led by Claire Gatineau at the Ateliers de la rue Voot in Brussels. The submitted piece is the actual work that the author wrote and produced as part of this workshop.
https://soundcloud.com/nicolasdumay/la-distance

 
8) 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

The two ‘sister’ sound works we are proposing to present are one outcome of the Echo/Ekho project. When New Zealand’s border closures prevented sisters, Dinah and Molly Mullen, from meeting in person, they began an online exchange, resulting in a cyber-feminist reworking of the myth of Echo. In the male-authored myths, Echo is depicted as being punished, deprived of her communicative agency; absorbed into the earth she must forever return the sound made by others. These sonic fictions explore the possibilities and politics of online communication, exploring the generative potential of echoes as intimate entanglements of sound and stone that are essential to processes of sensing, locating and relating. Picking up where the Greek and Roman myth-versions leave Echo, the two audio tales suggest she has long inhabited the rock beneath the earth’s surface, causing earthquakes, volcanoes and provoking continental shift in her grief, trauma and rage.

Artist bio:
Dinah is an experienced sound designer who creates works that explore our relationship to place, environment and each other. She makes works for both live and digital formats including: guided audio walks (Just Passing Through), immersive smartphone adventures (for the National Archives with Coney), podcasts (Afterthoughts, beyond arts), audio drama/essay (The You Play 1 & 2, for 45 North), Audio Installation (The last Taboo of Motherhood, for FUEL), and performance installation (FORGE, with Rachel Mars). With Fire and Rage, an interactive audio walk Dinah designed for Artists on the Frontline at EuroFestival Liverpool, won The Stage Digital Award 2023.

Website/social links
https://www.dinahmullen.com/echo
https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/m-mullen

Vanishing Signs on the Sky is the fourth part of a large-scale electroacoustic composition The Destroyer of Dreams and may be performed as a separate piece also. A very personal work, dealing with thoughts of happiness. Contains a large collection of various sounds – synthesized, concrete and many others. In this particular case, the whole sonic spectrum have been processed with both analog and digital tools to gain rather complex, hybrid textures. Composed and recorded at the De eM Studio, between April 2015 and June 2017. Main audio sources for this composition include complex analog, digital and hybrid synthesizer patches, various textures created with the use of phase vocoder technology, analysis and resynthesis of various sources. For the multichannel mix various advanced software processors were used to obtain a faithful spatial diffusion of the sounds. Premiere performance: April 15, 2018, Vox Electronica 2018 festival, Gunpowder Tower in Lviv (Ukraine).

Artist bio:
Dariusz Mazurowski is a Polish electroacoustic music composer born and residing in Gdansk. While the majority of his compositional activity has focused on acousmatic works, he has also composed instrumental music in conjunction with electronics, soundscapes, and mprovised electroacoustic music. His works combine analog instruments with the digital technology and concrete sounds. Mazurowski’s music has been broadcast by various stations all over the world, and he has performed at festivals and other events in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. His installations, visual works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous galleries. His compositions has been released on numerous discs.

Website/social links
https://deemstudio.com/
https://www.facebook.com/people/Dariusz-Mazurowski/100086282450366/
https://www.youtube.com/user/DeeMstudio/videos
https://open.spotify.com/search/Dariusz%20Mazurowski

The radio piece consists of two components, weaved together by a common thematic strand of migration, de-territorialisation, nature, and the lived environment. It starts with a performative reading from the artist’s recent book The Nomadic Listener - an augmented book on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation. The book is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of major contemporary cities through situated writing and field recording.

Each text is an act of contemplative listening, where the author records his surrounding environment and attempts to attune to the sonic fluctuations of movement and the passing of events. What surfaces is a collection of meditations on the minutiae of life movingly interwoven with the author’s own memories, associations, desires and reflections. The performative reading draws up a tender map of contemporary urban experience, and the often lonely, surprising, and random interactions found in the quotidian. The radio piece ends with a sketch from Towards an Amicable End, a new work in progress. It is composed of field recordings of climate variables, radio interference translating environmental phenomena, and musical instruments in free improvisation, investigating human estrangement from nature and lived environment.

https://budhaditya.org/

1) Marie Cheneval - Derrière les munitions (19 :48)
2) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations-  EFFO ISN C (0:37)
3) Robert Gillespie – Legacy (15:39)
 
 
1) Marie Cheneval - Derrière les munitions

In France, during two thousand years a lot of cities have huge place where ammunitions are making. To Toulouse, the place named Cartoucherie and it mesure hundred hectares. In the 80s, about 4000 peoples worked in the factorie.
Now, the factorie doesn't exist anymore and have  been replaced by a new area with restaurants, a cinema, a school and a lot of habitations.
In order to don't forget the industrial history, I have realised 4 episods about the production, the workers, the site and the history, 200 years of manufacturing of ammunition.
Derrière les munitions is the first chapter, in whiwh workers explain their work and how they product ammunitions.

I am french and i live to Toulouse, in the south of France. I am making sound documentary to tell stories in the words of others. I love voices, accents and expressions who tell about people so many things and are unique for each person. Moreover the voices, sounds tells stories, also. So when you mix the two, a new world a new world appears.
https://mariecheneval.fr/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073238140964

 
2) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations-  EFFO ISN C

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

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

 
3) Robert Gillespie – Legacy

A sound art collage of anthropophonic urban field recordings from Derry, Northern Ireland and London. Sounds including traffic, household appliances, heavy machinery and voices trace the story of my relocation from Derry to Richmond upon Thames.

Robert Gillespie is a multi-disciplinary artist from Derry, Northern Ireland, currently residing in London. He grew up during the Troubles and the difficulties and complexities of the era pervade his work in ways that may not be immediately obvious and at times counter intuitive.

@robert_gillespie_art

4) Thiago R - Instruções de desenho/Drawing instructions (2:23)
5) Evagelia Siarvali – krousis (1:05)
6) Brodie Ainsworth - The Dissassociate (11:00)
7) Luis Arevalo – Akasha (7:44)
 
 
4) Thiago R - Instruções de desenho/Drawing instructions

Instruções de desenho/Drawing instructions is a sound piece narrated by the artist Thiago R., in which verbal instructions guide the audience through exercises that promote drawing as a practice of freedom. The work is presented in two languages: Brazilian Portuguese, the artist's mother tongue, and English. The bilingual format seeks to establish a dialogue between listeners from the Global South and the Global North, based on drawing as a form of expression that goes beyond the simple reproduction of images and emphasizes its emancipatory character.

Thiago R is a sound artist and art teacher. He lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the State University of São Paulo - UNESP. His hybrid artistic practice articulates relationships between sound, image, and their contexts, working across installations, sound pieces, event scores, drawings, etc. He recently participated in The Wrong Biennale - Kamîm Tuhut Pavilion, Sessão Encruzilhadas (online, 2024); and the Brazilian Electroacoustic Music Collection Mix-FOF-cv-bang! (online, Paraná, Brazil, 2024).
https://thiago-ruiz.blogspot.com
https://soundcloud.com/thiago-rrrrr
https://www.instagram.com/thiagor_na_escuta

 
5) Evagelia Siarvali – krousis

my work contains elements of nature in combination with percussion and
is edited on a computer. I am sending you the same in two versions

EVAGELIA SIARVALI PLACE OF BIRTH: AUSTRALIA PLACE OF RESIDENCE: THESSALONIKI DIRECTORATE Kragia 1Ampelokipoi sq. 56121 TIL.2310739726 MOBILE: 6973716080 MUSIC EDUCATION Degree Composition Byzantine Music CHOIR Student Club THESSALONIKI 2004-2006 Theodromes Byzantine Choir Church 2006-2009 Agios Konstantinos KORAIS 2007-2008 BYZANTINE Conservatory of Ampelokipoi 2009-2010,2010-2011 Dance Ensemble of St.Sophia Dance Thessaloniki 2002-2005 WORK: Music Teacher in Public Schools 1999-2000 2004-2005 Music lessons Now unemployed. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: a little piano guitar. FestIval competitions. 2009 in a musical composition competition, with modern music of the Municipal Conservatory of Neapolis, Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the Colorado Music Academy 2011 Competition Concert Fountouki Conservatory with modern

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6) Brodie Ainsworth - The Dissassociate

The Disassociate by Brodie Ainsworth is a sound collage made during the composer's senior year of high school. The most consistent materials used throughout are a (typically reversed) audio of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes and a reading of a text by the composer, titled Dialogue One: Aromantics in the Park. The text is stylistically informed by writings by John Cage, such as Silence and M. The Disassociate also makes use of several hallmarks of the composer's electronic work, including disorienting panning changes and usage of crowd ambience. The piece showcases many episodes meant to demonstrate the feeling of panic in crowded spaces. The first main episode occurs while crowd ambience of an airport is played, and the second when the reversed audio of a hiogh school band playing a Sousa March, which follows audio of a marching band.

Brodie Ainsworth is a freshman at the Crane School of Music in SUNY Potsdam, NY, USA. He is pursuing a bachelors in composition. He lives in Corning, NY. Ainsworth is also a percussionist. He has had experience in competitive ensembles such as the Corning Painted-Post Competition Band, which has competed nationally in the US, and that town's Indoor Drumline. He has also marched internationally in parades such as the Ireland 2022 Saint Patrick's Day Parade, with the Corning Painted-Post Marching Band. He plans to compose for video games. He prioritizes eclecticism as a musical and compositional value.
https://www.instagram.com/verybluebrognie/
https://el-rombo.tumblr.com/

 
7) Luis Arevalo – Akasha

Akasha, the Sanskrit word for ether or the fifth element, represents the divine, the infinite, and the essence of all things. The music is inspired by this concept, aims to evoke a sense of timelessness and transport listeners to a realm beyond the material world.

By incorporating these elements, the music piece can become a sonic representation of Akasha, inviting listeners to step into the infinite and experience the essence of all things.

Luis Arevalo 1977 Composer, sound artist, cultural manager and yoga instructor. He studied composition at the Instituto Cardenal Miranda (CDMX), Associated Board in Music Theory Crisitism and Literature at Trinity College London (UK), postgraduate in Composition with New Technologies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (BCN). He has participated in several contemporary music festivals in Mexico, Germany, Canada, Cuba, Chile, France, Ecuador, Spain, USA, Guatemala, UK and Sweden. He has received support from the rockefeller foundation, unesco and VVCA.

https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/artist/6yZMoHavi6YAn1QNoqm5R7?si=fO_gcpXFRv-aaGOhpLbtEAhttps://soundcloud.com/luis-hilario-ar-valo
https://www.instagram.com/luis_harevalo/

This piece was composed at the end of 2024 with this feeling of wandering, of strolling in my memories that I was able to capture with my ears, my eyes, my nose, all my sensations, things that my life is made of and that I keep almost like treasures. Here, I feel free to enjoy surprises, to rediscover my memories, to give them new life.

I had the pleasure of using sound moments lent to me by Luke Fowler, Chris Watson and Luc Ferrari, and I mixed them with my own recent recordings and some of my archives from the 1970s onwards - albeit sometimes with painful joy.

Brunhild Ferrari, 24th of February, 2025
 
‘Errant Ear’ is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunst zum Hören, Osterreich 1 produced with the support of Creative Scotland. 
 
CeLe pièce a été composée fin 2024 avec ce sen<ment d'errance, errance dans mes souvenirs que j'ai pu capter avec mes oreilles, mes yeux, mon nez, tous mes sens, des choses dont ma vie est faite et que je garde presque comme des trésors. Ici, je me sens libre de profiter des surprises, de redécouvrir mes souvenirs, de leur donner une nouvelle vie. J'ai eu le plaisir d'u<liser des moments sonores prêtés par Luke Fowler et Luc Ferrari, et je les ai mélangés à mes propres enregistrements récents et à certains de mes archives depuis les années 1970 - parfois avec une joie douloureuse.

Brunhild Ferrari Montreuil, le 24 février 2025

“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 competition PRESQUE RIEN Prize by providing artists with original sound material from Luc's sound recordings; and edited a book of his writings and documents (Musiques dans les spasmes, published by les Presses du Réel, France) as well as one more book in English together with Catherine Marcangeli (Luc Ferrari: Complete Works, published by Ecstatic Peace library).  I composed music; I continue.”

Cadogan Street, girl with Ribena box attempts to describe a moment of complete absorption: a stranger on a Glasgow street, a child, stopping to sip from a juice box. Selected from a series of sketches that witness people in states of intense concentration, observed over days Kilmartin spent walking Glasgow’s inner city grid, the poem is expanded, looped, erased and supplemented in an editing process that, like the writing, tries to get inside the unexpected corners of a consuming, if fleeting, everyday experience.

Written, spoken and edited by Ash Kilmartin with bass improvisation by Dada Phone.

Produced as part of a residency / exchange with Radio WORM, Rotterdam.

Ash Kilmartin is an artist and radiomaker from Aotearoa New Zealand who lives in the Netherlands. She is interested in the uses and meanings of the speaking voice and in finding ways to document the small moments of private and collective experience that shape the way we think our own lives. She likes to play with the gaps. She holds an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. From 2020 to 2022, she opened the doors at a shop called LIFE. Since then, she is part of the team behind Radio WORM, and the publishing collective Short Pieces That Move!

ashkilmartin.net

radio.worm.org

 

1) Catherine Street - Thought feels (3:16)
2) Sandro Nicolussi - Fair Use 2.1 (12:32)
3) Claire Barwell - Flat Life #5 (Scaffolding) (1:00)
4) Jon Tjhia - Even Looser Ends (17:42)

 
1) Catherine Street - Thought feels

There is a layering of non-verbal vocalisations that have a comical or playful feel to them. The same voice, in a whisper, repeats the questions ‘is thought an event?’ and ‘is my body an event?’. The work explores verbal and non-verbal layering. The silly sounds coming from the body are interrupted by something more cerebral or philosophical, contrasting thought and feeling. This work relates to my research around the body-mind in its various forms. a practice of meditation and recovery from a serious illness. At the same time I am interested in the idea of ‘the event’ whether that be a thought, a movement, a body, a mistake, a trauma.

I am an artist working with performance, video, sound, collage, writing and sculpture. My work speculates on the relationship between the body and language. How do ideas imposed by words affect the fleshy organs of human beings? My work tends to celebrate the body - its tenderness and vulnerability - against the brutality and insecurity around it and seeping through it.
https://catherinestreet.net/
Instagram - @catherine.street.art
X - @StreetCatherine

 
2) Sandro Nicolussi - Fair Use 2.1

Fair Use 2.1 is a collage-like composition of improvised fragments and concrete sources – working with found sounds, abandoned dictaphone tapes and short wave radio. It sourced in the audio-visual live performance "Fair Use" Nicolussi developed and performed throughout 2024. It's like listening to an amateur broadcast that should have never been on air. After last years contribution "Paths yet do be defined" which was picked for Radiophrenia 2024 (back than under the now defunct alias BYDL), this is the second submission of Nicolussi to this great project.

In the audiovisual performance »Fair Use«, Vienna-based artist Nicolussi uses obsolete media and data carriers such as Mini DV, cassettes, mini discs or dictaphone tapes to open up a wide range of possible interpretations between borrowed originality, copying in artistic creation and handling of sensitive data. It features found footage and musical improvisation composed in real time. Nicolussi works in experimental sonic realms of Ambient, Drone, Techno and Noise. Electroacoustic systems, field recordings and everyday noises form the basis for his highly manipulated sound designs. Nicolussi released on labels like Objects & Sounds, Beach Buddies and Sama Recordings.

https://nicolussi.bandcamp.com  
https://instagram.com/creating.by.habit 


3) Claire Barwell - Flat Life #5 (Scaffolding)

The day they finally took the scaffolding down outside my flat. Noise pollution is a hidden menace to mental health.

Claire Barwell once made films and now makes (very short) sound pieces.


4) Jon Tjhia - Even Looser Ends

This piece was originally composed as a series of playful overlapping experiments with durations, aired on Short Cuts. Being a piece that relies on anticipated durations and a certain tempo, this simple time-stretched version is a playful realignment of the piece's key parameters, rerendering its internal logic.

Jon Tjhia is an artist, writer and editor working through radio and podcast, literature, photomedia, music and publishing. An award-winning radiomaker and award-losing writer, his recent work is published by BBC Radio 3/4, Un Magazine, LIMINAL, the Powerhouse, Avantwhatever and WFMU. He is widely disrespected as a musician.

https://informationjewellery.com
https://accesslab.world
https://instagram.com/infojewels

5) Tobi Belber - Leaving Traces (8:26)
6) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations THE ELEC.L.AND. (2:28)
7)  Matilde Meireles - Magnetic Fields (13:17)

 
5) Tobi Belber - Leaving Traces

Not all beings are strictly present. Indeed, pubs are full of ghosts, as are the Scottish Highlands. ‘Leaving Traces’ excavates the temporal disjunctions concealed within both folk music and recording technology. The basis for this piece is a binaural recording of a folk session captured in an Edinburgh pub. The first section contains only the source material, which gradually distorts and then disappears into the abyss from which it will re-emerge in the second section. An ominous bird call, distant rumbles, and time-stretched footsteps usher us into the next section, where we find ourselves suspended in motion. A train can be heard moving through a great expanse, and we sense we are not the only souls wandering this barren land. A different spacetime (de)materialises, ‘plastic, stretchable and prophetic’ (https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/article/viewFile/378/391). From this great outdoors, a shimmering, de-substantialised voice emerges and asserts its being.

I have called Scotland home for 6 years and have found it an immensely inspiring environment for listening and creating. From participating in folk music sessions, to broadcasting and programming at Subcity Radio, I have been surrounded by an incredibly motivated and subversive community of artists. Recently, I had the privilege of completing the Sound Design & Audiovisual Practice MSc at Glasgow University, where I began developing my field recording and soundscape practice. Listening, recording, and blurring the sounds of my lifeworld has provided a means of exploring the essential ambiguity and undefined forces operating beyond our ordinary perception.
https://tobibelber.bandcamp.com/album/extracts

 
6) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations THE ELEC.L.AND.

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

 
7) Matilde Meireles - Magnetic Fields

'Magnetic Fields' is part of my latest album 'Loop. And Again.', which was released in early October 2024. The track revisits field recordings of various telecommunication boxes made with contact microphones and an electromagnetic sensor and reinvents them in various processed forms as the basis for generative loops.

‘Loop. And Again.’ delves into the dynamics of magnetic fields, intricate wiring arrangements, and their interconnectedness with the shifts in the surrounding landscape. The album is part of ‘X Marks the Spot’, a larger project which used sound to map specific telecommunication boxes—only those emitting an audible drone—in the city of Belfast between 2013-2019. In the project, sound suggests different ways to engage with Belfast, where walking routes could be improvised to incorporate the drones as part of how we experience the city.

Matilde Meireles is a sound artist who makes use of field recordings to compose site-oriented projects. Her work has a multi-sensorial, durational and multi-perspective critical approach to site, where Matilde investigates the potential of listening across spectrums and scales as ways to attune to various ecosystems and articulate plural experiences of the world. Some examples include the inner architectures of reeds and complex water ecologies, resonances in everyday objects, local neighbourhoods and the architecture of radio signals.
https://matildemeireles.com/index.html
Instagram: @mtld_meireles

Both written and improvised ; recollections,  word play & absurd prose . Including pieces titled : things to face , poltergeist , objects too singing , Ambrosia of Black Sun , OPEN MOUTH IN THE DARK , pluton outs , Answers about Noise , poignant springs , Black Crowl , mythology , dihari buruh , locks and spears.

Artist bio:
Shaun Robert (1966 - ) 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 . Importance of sounds from analogue radio , magnetic tape manipulation can not be understated. Cross talk & frequency drifting pulls the strings of his heart & relating to loops and rough editing , audio drop outs , a Sonic Organic.

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

This is the sixth in the series of field recordings pieces from the field recordist and sound artist Toni Dimitrov dedicated to a city. After the field recordings from Athens, Milan, Ioannina, Belgrade and Bucharest, this time the sketches were recorded in Berlin during his stay in the city while participating at Berliner Hörspielfestival radio art festival in 2021, where one of his sound art documentaries “How South Becomes North” was nominated for one of the prizes. In the piece you can hear recordings from the lively life of Berlin, sound of the streets, parks, a festival, conversations of and with people, the noise from the U-Ban, sound of art pieces in galleries, all interweaving subtly, blurring the line between field recording and sound art. Concept, field recordings, editing and directed by Toni Dimitrov File under: field recordings, soundscape, sound documentary Artist Bio: Toni Dimitrov is a multimedia artist, cultural producer, radio host, organizer, curator, label owner, mountain climber and nature lover, living in Macedonia. He connects all those with the love for music, sound art and field recordings. Have been curving his way into the new experimental music/sound art scene with his solo engagement, collaborative releases, radio art and art installations. Working in the field of sound art and experimenting with electronic music and radio for more than 20 years. Have released under several monikers, bands and collaborations, having countless albums and eps on diverse labels around the world and performed on many events and participated at several residencies. His radio programs are broadcasted on the music radio Kanal 103 and are dedicated to contemporary electronic music, ambient, soundscape and political discourse. The artistic career involves art installations, sound and sound installations, drawings, video, photography, exhibiting on various exhibitions locally and abroad. His last participation was at the historical sound art exhibition “Audiosphere Sound Experimentation 1980–2020” at Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, curated by Francisco Lopez. He is curating the labels post global recordings and élan vital recordings. The recent professional engagements were on projects related to political analysis of media. At the moment he is director of Cultural Informartion Center – Skopje. Website: elanvital.bandcamp.com post-global.com

A five-part soundscape, Night Waters combines field recordings of relaxing waves, underwater shells, and sea birds blended with ambient strings and female voices, to create a landscape found between waking and dreaming.

Artist bio:
Cecilia Tyrrell is a Sound Artist and composer from London. Her work combines field recording techniques, ambient voice and classical instrumental textures to create immersive soundscapes and compositions that explore hidden sonic landscapes of the natural world. Her compositions have been described as mindful and lucid, crafting dream worlds that escape reality. As an avid field recordist, Cecilia embraces a mindful approach to audio creation, traveling to unique locations to record sound and resonance that would otherwise go unheard. These recordings are used throughout her work, forming a space for nature and imagination to intertwine.


Website/social links
http://www.ceciliatyrrell.com
Instagram - @ceciliatyrrell
 
 
plus short work:
 
Carys Wall - El Poble

El Poble is a soundscape of a protest in Valencia, on the 9th of November 2024, when over a hundred thousand people demanded the resignation of the Valencian president in response to the DANA flooding which killed over 200 people and caused catastrophic damage. I took my recorder and ended up feeling compelled to make a record of this extraordinary time with so much anger, fear and grief in the air, as well as solidarity, resilience and hope. People chant "while you were eating, the people were dying" and "they're not deaths, they're murders".   
 
Carys Wall is an audio producer based in Spain who likes to Live, Laugh and Listen to Weird Audio. They have produced work for Short Cuts, the Food Programme and BBC World Service's Amazing Sports Stories.

https://www.instagram.com/soniquetesaudio/   
https://x.com/Ccaarryyss
 

1 Vanessa Valencia & Gerardo Flores - De ambulantes soy (6:41)
2 Rosie Trevill – Swell (7:30)
3 Jeff Gburek - Scops Owl Hop (7:08)
4 Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - Vòng đời _ The circle of life (1:21)
5 berni m janssen and vicki hallett - (p)each (21:18)
 
 
1) Vanessa Valencia & Gerardo Flores - De ambulantes soy

English:
An internal journey, like a thought expressed out loud: *'I am of the wanderers'* is a radio art piece that explores the sounds that inhabit us, we, the wanderers. We intertwine with a city that sometimes feels indifferent and, at other times, envelops us with its own nostalgic sounds.

Spanish:
Un viaje interno, como un pensamiento expresado en voz alta: 'De ambulantes soy' es un radioarte que explora los sonidos que nos habitan, a nosotros, los ambulantes. Nos entrelazamos con una ciudad que, a veces, resulta indiferente y, en otras ocasiones, nos envuelve con sus propios sonidos nostálgicos.

Vanessa Valencia: Realizadora y paisajista sonora.
Gerardo Flores: Sonidista y músico.
https://www.instagram.com/sinurgencia/
https://www.instagram.com/gerardonorvasc/

 
2) Rosie Trevill – Swell

A collection of found seascapes, remnants of Orcadian past, and song, ‘Swell’ is a series of fragments written in response to Orkney’s ecology and mythology. It draws on reflections of the climate collapse, the survivor-victim complex, and the healing power of ritual in community. Featuring Rebecca Ord and Pippa Thomas.

Rosie Trevill is an interdisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, specialising in writing, textile silk-screen printing, performance and installation. Rosie works both independently and collaboratively to address language and embodiment as acts of resistance and resilience within personal and societal frameworks, informed by queer and feminist discourse.
https://rosietrevill.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/rosieltstudio

 
3) Jeff Gburek - Scops Owl Hop

Based on the recording of the Eurasian Scops Owl near the Timiș River in Romania with added layers of elemental out of doors birdsy Balkan ambience, under water critters and home-spun rhythm speech. Geoidiomatic Music.

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


4) Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao -  Vòng đời _ The circle of life

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

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

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

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

 
5) berni m janssen and vicki hallett - (p)each 

(p)each, inspired by the popular Japanese folktale Momotaro, responds to, and is also inspired by grassroots movements in troubled times across the world. The story of a boy born from a peach, who gathers unlikely allies, to fight the oppressors offers an example of bravery against unmatched odds, of how when we work together we can do the seemingly impossible.
It is a story of people’s struggles to overcome oppression, the injustices, whether it be war, corporate greed, climate change, demagogic tendencies (the list sadly is long), that threaten the planet and all inhabitants, lives, diversity, ways of living. It is a tribute to all people who have lost so much, including their lives, in these struggles.
(p)each, created and performed by berni m janssen and Vicki Hallett, entwines treated clarinet (Vicki Hallett), live and pre-recorded vocal texts and effects (berni m janssen). Sound Engineer, Michael Hewes.

berni m janssen is a maker of poems, performances, multidisciplinary art and preserves. She often works with composers, musicians, sound artists, performers and visual artists. She lives and works on the unceded land of the Dja Dja Wurrung in Australia.
 
Vicki Hallett is a musician, acoustic ecologist and composer. Her focus is to record, compose with, and feature ever-diminishing habitats and species. Highlighting unique sounds from the micro to the macro, Hallett utilises sounds we rarely or cannot hear. Hallett travels the world recording sounds as well as performing in environments in Africa (with hippopotami) and the Amazon jungle.
http://www.vickihallett.com

5 berni m janssen and vicki hallett - (p)each (21:18)
6 Vincent Eoppolo - Illusion of Connection featuring Ilaria Boffa (5:00)
7 Justin Boyd - Used Dance Bin 1 (10:00)
 
 
5) berni m janssen and vicki hallett - (p)each (21:16)

(p)each, inspired by the popular Japanese folktale Momotaro, responds to, and is also inspired by grassroots movements in troubled times across the world. The story of a boy born from a peach, who gathers unlikely allies, to fight the oppressors offers an example of bravery against unmatched odds, of how when we work together we can do the seemingly impossible.
It is a story of people’s struggles to overcome oppression, the injustices, whether it be war,  corporate greed, climate change, demagogic tendencies (the list sadly is long), that threaten the planet and all inhabitants, lives, diversity, ways of living. It is a tribute to all people who have lost so much, including their lives, in these struggles.
(p)each, created and performed by berni m janssen and Vicki Hallett, entwines treated clarinet (Vicki Hallett), live and pre-recorded vocal texts and effects (berni m janssen). Sound Engineer, Michael Hewes.

berni m janssen is a maker of poems, performances, multidisciplinary art and preserves. She often works with composers, musicians, sound artists, performers and visual artists. She lives and works on the unceded land of the Dja Dja Wurrung in Australia.
Vicki Hallett is a musician, acoustic ecologist and composer. Her focus is to record, compose with, and feature ever-diminishing habitats and species. Highlighting unique sounds from the micro to the macro, Hallett utilises sounds we rarely or cannot hear. Hallett travels the world recording sounds as well as performing in environments in Africa (with hippopotami) and the Amazon jungle.
http://www.vickihallett.com


6) Vincent Eoppolo - Illusion of Connection featuring Ilaria Boffa

Living In Times of Chaos is a collection of 7 compositions that were composed in late 2023 through August 2024. The works are Electro Acoustic, Acousmatic and Musique Concrete in their forms. As the title suggests these works are mediations on the current state of affairs in our world.

Vincent Eoppolo born Wilmington, Delaware USA. Eoppolo’s compositions are a mix of various sound art traditions such as musique concrete, acousmatic music, electro-acoustic music and radio art. In recent years, Eoppolo’s fixed media works have been presented at the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Mise_En Place New Music Festival in Brooklyn, Utopie Sonore in Nantes, France and De Natura Sonorum in Rome, Italy. Eoppolo’s compositions have been released by Moscow based independent music label Meticulous Midgets and his works are regularly featured on new music radio and internet programs throughout Europe and North America
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007788824642
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CFAy7K6LpWMvtFN5EpKPT?si=01YRMOiARguOmFU8-aT8Dw

 
7) Justin Boyd - Used Dance Bin 1

Using dollar bin or cheaper records I cut and manipulate the LP's to manually lock the grooves. Then using three turntables and a mixer I mix the records until I create a new composition I like. These are part of a larger body of my work that takes familiar sounds and through processing and manipulation transforms them into something new.

Justin Boyd is an artist and educator working in San Antonio, TX. He graduated from the University of Texas in San Antonio with a BFA in Ceramics and finished his MFA in Integrated Media at The California Institute of the Arts. He is an Assistant Professor of New Media and Sculpture at the University of Texas at San Antonio, plays music in a space country band and continues his long-standing radio show each week on KRTU 91.7 FM.
http://justintaylorboyd.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jutboyd/

Terms of Addition is a radio play for strings (violin and viola), voices, and electronics. It is loosely based on a Ray Bradbury short story (Tomorrow's Child). Co-composed and adapted by Bevin Kelley and Michael Kelley. Michel Kelley plays viola and voice, Elise Kuder plays violin and voice, Hollis Mickey narrates, and Bevin Kelley has a small cameo as a party-goer. We have performed this radio play live several times.

Artist bio:
Bevin Kelley is an electronic music maker, composer, and performer. She plays and records as Blevin Blechdom and is half of the duo Blectum from Blechdom, with Kristin Galvin. Michael Kelley is a composer and violist, and records electronically as Kelley Polar. Elise Kuder is a violinist of much renown and a willing vocal participant. Hollis Mickey is an artist, actress, cook, and musician, and she contributes her vocal prowess. All together we exist under the umbrella of The Traveling Bubble Ensemble.

Website/social links
https://vimeo.com/150075780 (live performance)
https://www.facebook.com/blevin.blectum

A meditation on memory and loss – lost things, lost data, lost memories – and the impulse to hold onto and preserve our personal past through objects, keepsakes, mementos, words, sounds and photographs. The things we can’t bear to be parted with for fear of losing some part of ourselves.
Produced during a micro residency at Studio LOOS, Den Haag in November 2023.

Biographies:

Leonie Roessler - Composer and Performer raised in Germany and the US, now based in The Hague, Netherlands.  Leonie captures her environment with field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and instrumental compositions. Part of her work is purely sound-based, however the theme of marginalization has become increasingly present in her radio works. She runs the radio branch of Studio LOOS in The Hague, co-curates On Air - On Site Festival, and co-manages Iranian record label Noise à Noise.
https://leonieroessler.com/
 

Mark Vernon is a sound artist and radio producer whose work explores ideas of audio archaeology, magnetic memory and the re-appropriation of found sounds. He is a founding member of Glasgow art radio collective, Radiophrenia.
http://meagreresource.com

The Oare Marshes Nature Reserve in Kent was once used to manufacture gunpowder for the first world war effort. On 02 April 1916 a series of massive gunpowder explosions took the lives of 108 people (including White’s Great Grandfather, Sydney Clubb) and injured many more. The blast left a crater 40 yards wide and 20 feet deep. The explosion was so huge it was reportedly felt in Norwich and heard in France.

Remnants of the site remain to this day among the rich ecosystem of birds, insects and non-native marsh frogs. An Awful Energy attempts to draw connections with the past and its present inhabitants/uses of the space; the tragic consequence of a singular event and the development of a very different ecology. Through site specific recordings and actions tracing fading lines in the landscape; a sonic demarcation or archeology can be felt.

Artist bio:
Tom White is a Ramsgate-based artist focusing predominantly on sound-based practices such as live performance, installation, recordings, composition for dance and film. Past projects include commissions and appearances for Radiophrenia, Glasgow (CCA); BRAUBLFF (KRAAK & De Player); Whitechapel Gallery, London & Colour out of Space Festival, Brighton. Recent collaborators include Surface Area Dance Theatre, Maya Dunietz, Ben Knight, Renato Grieco and Lia Mazzari. He has performed extensively across the UK and Europe, traveled to North America & Japan and had work published by labels such as Takuroku (Cafe OTO), Glistening Examples, Calling Cards Publishing and many others.


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

This binaural composition, inspired by Green Hermeticism by Peter Lamborn Wilson, intertwines spoken word and psychoacoustic phenomena, guiding listeners through a narrative on consciousness, matter, energy, and spirit. Drawing on key citations from the text, the work explores unconventional belief systems, where the symbolic becomes real, and nature is seen as a perceptive entity. With references to Ilya Prigogine's theories and Novalis' hermetic science, it delves into how consciousness shapes the natural world, unfolding through rhythm and transformation—from mineral to plant, animal, human, and divine. This journey reflects hermetic principles of unity and creation, as consciousness seeks itself through all metamorphoses.

Photo cover: Musaeum Hermeticum, Frankfurt edition, 1749

Narrators voice at the beginning: Zach Hart

Recorded, designed and composed by Simina Oprescu

Artist bio:
Simina Oprescu (b.1993) is a Romanian composer of electroacoustic music and sound artist based in Berlin, Germany, submersing herself in the intricacies of sound's acoustic and spectral properties. Her compositions embrace a diverse array of instruments, spanning from analog synthesizers to computer music or string instruments. Simina employs acoustic artifacts from physical or natural spaces as recordings, showcasing techniques cultivated through an investigative electroacoustic composition approach.

Her praxis unfolds with a fusion of synthetic and aural elements, ranging from intricate, detail-oriented maximalist stereo compositions to immersive multi-channel sonic minimalism, reshaping the contours of acoustic spaces, and audio-visual. Simina's exploration takes her deep into structures and phenomena, weaving potent yet nuanced harmonic narratives influenced by psychoacoustics, consciousness studies, spatial arts, and theoretical or physical sound-sculpture installations.

Her artistic thinking centers on unified immersion, sound movement, and gesture, infusing philosophical meaning into her work.

Her work was presented in numerous festivals, music/radio platforms, galleries and museums, collaborating with various international video artists, and her sound compositions were exhibited in EVA International | Ireland’s Biennial, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Märkisches Museum Berlin, MOTA Museum Ljubljana, n.b.k Berlin, Hošek Contemporary, Suprainfinit Gallery Bucharest, MARe museum Bucharest (Museum of Recent Art), SONICA, Cynetart, Rokolectiv, Simultan or ORF musikprotokoll and having her work mentioned in various magazines, like Positionen Berlin or The Wire. In 2020 she was selected to be part of the SHAPE+ platform artist roster.

Website/social links
http://siminaoprescu.net
instagram.com/siminaoprescu

2 years ago, my father returned to his homeland Togo after 30 years. He left to set up a beer brewery 'MOYO BRASSERIE' . I had no idea if I would ever see him again. My father's life has always remained a dark stain. To my father avoiding my questions, I became accustomed as the years went by. Though frustration and curiosity about his story grew more. In January, I went to visit him for a month. Through the answers he finally gives me, I try to understand why he made certain choices and why he never wanted to talk about them. including why he decided to leave and leave us, his family, behind.
The audio documentary is set in an artisanal brewery on the warm beach of the of the Gold Coast. Together with my dad in the hammock, with his chickens, cats and his dog Moyo.

Artist bio:
Omara Poppe (°2002) is a Belgian audiomaker based in Brussels.
In 2024 she graduated with a master's degree in Radio from the RITCS School of Arts with the audio documentary ‘MOYO’ and participated in The Åke Blomström Masterclass at Prix Europa.
In 2023 she was nominated for the NTR Podcast Prize with her work Trɔ Va Tsɔ.
Meanwhile, she worked on several podcasts and audio works for museums, newspapers and the Public Broadcasting Service.
She is currently continuing her studies with a master's degree in Anthropology at KU Leuven.

Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/o.ma.ra/?hl=nl

In the cold mists of the Derbyshire Peaks, beneath the leaden waters of Ladybower Reservoir, there are whispered legends of Derwent and Ashopton—the drowned villages. Once, they nestled quietly in the valley, their spires reaching upward as if in prayer. Now, the waters have swallowed them, murky and unyielding. Travellers along the reservoir’s edge sometimes claim to see shapes beneath the rippling surface: the suggestion of walls, the outline of roofs, a long-submerged memory surfacing for just a fleeting moment.

Yet there is more to these villages than stones and structures, more than just the unsettling stillness that hangs over the water’s edge. The bell tower of Derwent’s church, its pointed spire long submerged, is said to lie under the water like a crooked finger pointing accusingly to the heavens. But some nights—especially in autumn, when the mist grows thick and heavy—an echo has been heard ringing out from below the waves. It’s a faint, tremulous toll, as if the bell has not yet realised its own silencing.

Witnesses who have lingered in the hush by the water’s edge describe the sound as distant yet unmistakable, a mournful peal that stirs something deep in the bones. "Midnight bell," the locals have taken to calling it. Some say it tolls twelve times, each ring growing softer, more despairing, until only the listener’s heartbeat remains to fill the silence. They tell of a night watchman, barely more than a boy, who kept guard over the dam’s construction and swore he saw spectral figures walking along the invisible streets beneath the water’s surface. They seemed to move as if on their evening rounds, passing through half-familiar landmarks, slipping silently along shadowed paths. He claimed that, one evening in particular, he saw the flicker of a candlelight in the shape of an open window, shining dimly from beneath the dark waters.

The tales speak, too, of strange occurrences when the reservoir’s levels fall—when drought strikes and the waters recede just enough to reveal the tops of old stone walls and the fractured remnants of lanes. People have been known to venture closer, drawn by curiosity or some darker compulsion. And every now and then, one of these brave souls brings back a memento—a moss-covered stone, a shard of glass, a button—though not without consequence. There are whispers of strange dreams, of restless nights haunted by voices murmuring from the deep, unintelligible and insistent. More than one villager, I am told, has sworn to hear their name called in those dreams, a whisper rising up as if from beneath the waters.
 
To accommodate the increasing need for fresh water supplies for East Midlands residents in the early 1940’s the decision was made to build a new reservoir by flooding the two villages of Derwent and Ashopton. Residents were relocated to other areas and the new Ladybower reservoir was officially opened in 1945. Bodies from the graveyard of Derwent church were exhumed and reburied in the village of Bamford. Although most of the buildings were demolished the church spire remained as a memorial and was the last remnant of the village to endure before it too was finally submerged beneath the rising waters. To the consternation of many, on one particularly dry summer when water levels dropped the church spire emerged from the depths once more.

“At these times, locals would return to gaze at the eerie spectacle in morbid fascination, as if to remind themselves the village had once been a reality. Some swore they could hear the church bell ringing out across the waters…” *

Amidst concerns for safety the spire was dynamited in 1947 and the bell from the church was removed and later installed in the new church of St. Philips in Chaddesden, Derby in 1955 where it remains to this day. A recording I made of the Derwent bell in its new location provides the main source material for this composition along with field recordings taken around the present-day site of Ladybower reservoir.

Silt has covered the remains of the buildings of Ashopton village meaning that they will never re-emerge even in the event of low water levels. At the centre of the village was a Methodist chapel which was finally demolished in 1943. The final hymn to be sung before its doors closed forever was “The Day is Dying in the West”. Recordings of this hymn and readings of the lyrics have also been incorporated into the piece.

* Quote from ‘The lost villages of the Derwent Valley’ by Helen Moat.

 
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

Rémanence is based on found materials, recorded by amateur sound hobbyists in France and Germany between the 1960s and the 1990s. The tapes and cassettes were collected in the two countries in Summer 2023, while on trip to investigate the sonic practices of French and German sound hunters. People were interviewed, and sonic material gathered. Sound hunters were amateurs interested in sound, who, from the 1950s, started to produce radio programmes, to organise national and international contests, to edit magazines, to gather themselves in tape recording clubs. This piece documents and poeticises their activities, that ranged from family recordings, to musique concrète, to the recording of bird songs, to the soundtracks of amateur films, to music, interviews and audio documentaries. Short electroacoustic compositions by me link and sometimes frame sound hunters’ recordings. The tapes and cassettes of this piece were collected thanks to a funding from the Deutsch-Französischer Bürgerfonds. Artist bio: Jean-Baptiste Masson is a composer and researcher working on the cultural history of listening. His music is interested in beatings, the dramatisation of listening, the dynamism of stasis. After a PhD at the University of York, he is at the moment a Marie Skłodowska-Curie / Bienvenüe fellow based at the Université Rennes-2 and a research fellow at the Cinémathèque de Bretagne, where he works on a manual for the restoration of the sound of amateur films. Website/social links jbmasson.com jbmasson.bandcamp.com

Radio is still the only location you can walk in a perfect circle and never arrive back at the same spot - and perhaps the only place where the face in the mirror is never expected to present the same image twice. Working both in and outside the unique coterminous space that radio offers us, Xentos Fray Bentos presents a series of concrete possibilities designed to disrupt, delight and facilitate a seamless exchange with multiple uncertainties. Dream Escape Hatch - as we journey from the surface of the moon back to a Waitrose shelf stocked with cans of bargain baked beans, we encounter a captive King Charles, a lyrical conundrum from the days of the Fab Four and discover an opportunity to dissolve in a ribald concussion of the senses.

Artist bio:
Xentos Fray Bentos is a sound, video and radio artist, writer and occasional performer now in living in delirious exile next door to sheep and long tailed tits in the decaying British countryside  Over the last 30 years he has produced numerous collections of music and, alongside radiophonic works, has written original scripts for radio stations around the world. Currently, he is engaged in compiling the Die Trip Computer Die recording archive and transcribing selected parts of his extensive collection of writings for publication.

Website/social links
https://dietripcomputerdie.bandcamp.com
https://radioart.zone/friday-26-augustXentos

1) Mark Contreras Waiss – Icaros (9:31)
2) Millikin Composers Collective - Static Ashes (2:00)
3) Arya Adyuta - Keep Walking (4:12)
4) Rabbitsquirrel - The vibrosocial communications between a Mech and her Pilot (8:51)
 
 
1) Mark Contreras Waiss – Icaros

Ícaros is the common name used to refer to the magical and sacred songs used in traditional Peruvian Amazonian medicine. They are songs used by healers, especially the Shipibo, in healing rituals.
 
Mark Contreras Waiss, a Peruvian academic composer, has forged his musical identity from the roots of his childhood in the picturesque city of Pucallpa, located in the jungle region of Ucayali, Peru. From an early age, Contreras was immersed in an environment rich in culture and nature, sparking his curiosity to explore music to connect with his roots and the natural surroundings that surrounded him. Graduating in musical composition from the National University of Music, he has excelled in numerous international competitions and contests. His compositions have been performed on prestigious stages in Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088498163053&locale=es_LA

 
2) Millikin Composers Collective - Static Ashes

"Static Ashes" is a piece derived from the poem, "Broken Record", by Karley Blau, creating an unstable and spiraling atmosphere as the final radio waves reach the end of their range. 

Millikin Composers Collective is a central Illinois-based group focused on exploring composition and arranging in many forms. Members include Karley Blau, Colton Middleton, Abi Robison, Audrey Soetermans, Sciler Treacy, and Paolo Tonelli. They study music composition with Dr. Ralph Lewis.
https://millikin.edu/college-fine-arts/school-music

 
3) Arya Adyuta - Keep Walking

This audio-piece was meant to explore the questions and meanings of walking. By composing a series of field recordings from various walks, with some accompanying music and sound explorations, I seek to problematizes and reflect briefly on my walking experiences.

Arya Adyuta is an Indonesian arts researcher and audio producer. Most of his research focuses on issues regarding anthropology, popular music, and intergenerational relationships. Besides music, he likes to listen to stories people tell about themselves.

 
4) Rabbitsquirrel - The vibrosocial communications between a Mech and her Pilot

Much of the communication that happens between machine and operator is on a vibrational or haptic basis-- the machine becomes an extension of the body, and it's feedback becomes an expansion of the understanding of self.
A trope of near-future speculation has been the powered exoskeleton, where technology extends the capabilities of the human body past its natural limits while preserving the fundamental architecture.
This piece imagines the communication that happens between a vehicle and it's pilot from the perspective of the vehicle-- a conversation that happens as vibrations and alerts that are as much felt as heard. This piece is also meant to make use of radio's unique, ubiquitous placement within vehicles-- the resonate frequencies of the drone will be attenuated and filtered by each vehicle's unique construction. The vehicle becomes part of the piece.

rabbitsquirrel is an experimental drone project out of upstate New York with a penchant for excessively long song titles
https://soundcloud.com/rabbitsquirrel
https://rabbitsquirrel.bandcamp.com/

5) Edward Ruchalski - Radio Voices (2) (8:25) 6) Silvia Simons - Snapshots from Zurich to Syracusa (10:51) 7) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Picking Trash to Save the Planet (1:07) 8) Trevor Smith - on sober things of rich mundanity (11:42)   5) Edward Ruchalski - Radio Voices (2) Radio Voices (2) was created specifically for Radiophrenia’s open call. The source material was recorded from a short-wave receiver via the Wide-band WebSDR site, University of Twente. The various beeps, noises and tones, were processed by EQ, filters, and pitch shifting. The text was created by splicing various fragments of radio interviews together. What one hears is a person’s impression of the benefits of living in a city. This piece made from radio transmitted sounds is intended for radio broadcast. Edward Ruchalski is a composer, sound artist and field recordist. His compositions have been performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Mass MoCA, Symphony Space on Broadway and elsewhere. In 2020, Ruchalski’s acousmatic work, “Refined Localities”, was selected for inclusion in the exhibition, Audiosphere, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain. Ruchalski has been an artist in residence at Wave Farm in Acra, N.Y. During the residency he created a concept for a radio show with co-host Stephen Bradley called Bells, Bugs, Whispers & Plinks (WGXC 90.7 FM). edwardruchalski.com 6) Silvia Simons - Snapshots from Zurich to Syracusa This piece is created from some of the recordings I made with my little digital recorder over several years.  It incorporates the eery creaking of a train from Zurich winding itself up the San Gottardo before descending towards Milano; a reciting poet in the labyrinth of narrow lanes in Genoa’s historical center; snippets of the Oratorium San Filippo Neri by Francesco Rossi (born in Bari 1625), captured per chance in a church concert in Rome; sounds of a Napoli outdoor market; recordings I made inside the impressive limestone cave Ear of Dionysius in Syracusa. I did not know if I recorded anything; it seemed still, silent in that big cave. However, like an Ancient Greek oracle, when I amplified the recording, ‘voices’, sounds revealed themselves.  Recordings of my flute improvisations with the reverb of small chapels  in remote Ticino mountain valleys also found their way into the 'Ear of Dionysius'. Silvia Simons is a multi-award-winning composer, sound artist, improviser, actor and director. She majored in Theater Arts and Music Composition at La Trobe University Melbourne. Postgraduate studies followed in Early Music, Japanese Theatre and more. Having grown up in Europe, she divides her time and artistic pursuits between Europe and Australia. Her works are broadcast and performed in Europe, USA and Australia. https://www.silviasimons.com/   7) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Picking Trash to Save the 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   8) Trevor Smith - on sober things of rich mundanity This music is designed to utilize latency, poor connection, poor visual quality, and other realities of digital conferencing and communication as a way to develop a unique musical landscape. I particularly was looking to address concerns regarding the accessibility for creation and performance within digital communications spaces, as well as the conventions of artistic institutions with financial and technical ability to control a majority of artistic programming. "On sober things..." seeks to exploit the expressive capabilities of these platforms by embracing what may be conventionally perceived as limitations and reevaluating them as instruments that succeed in evoking an authentic experience of the current technological and cultural landscape. After the project was finished, I felt the audio was successful, while the visuals were not. I believe the standalone audio is the true work, formed out of the interactions of poor connection, latency, non-locality, found objects, and poor visual contact. Trevor is a music educator, composer, theorist, and percussionist. Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, he was introduced to music through local garage rock scenes, jazz and wind bands, and contemporary percussion chamber music. His compositions and research interests are also deeply inspired by the visual arts. His music has been performed internationally and by premiere ensembles, such as the United States Air Force Band, Hub New Music, the Florida Orchestra, and Beo String Quartet. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Tarleton State University. https://www.instagram.com/trevorjsmithmusic/

our queered version ov folk-song twa corbies is buried in this mix ... carrion species tidy the planet of homo sapiens mess and we demonise them for it ... weve always loved crows (and the whole corvidae family) ov raggedy, scavenging survivors while a murder ov crows are no more than the collective learning who killed one ov their own and passing the word on ... (yes its ahout the environment)

Artist bio:
gobscure.  tyneside-based and self-taught, we layer field-recordings with words and manipulated sound, encouraging listeners to slow down and feel.  we bring childlike wonder and playfulness to our sound-collages.  samples ov rivers, a nuclear power station, marbles, home-made percussion and fragments ov childhood-song might be woven to address issues such as homelessness, disability and bisexuality (all lived experience).  live, we craft unique experiences which are inclusive, friendly and immersive.  our sounds have been supported by 2 Sound&Music awards, a.n. bursary, Unlimited, radiophrenia, the auxiliary teesside, Future's Venture Foundation, Alma Zevi Venice.  alumni of Glasshouse  International  Centre  for Music Gateshead

Website/social links
https://gobscure.bandcamp.com
https://linktr.ee/gobscure
https://www.instagram.com/collectortears

Per The Book of Mormon, Jesus Christ visited the Americas during the three days between his death and resurrection. While there, he (sic) ordained twelve disciples, three of which asked for and were granted immortal life. Known as The Three Nephites, they have used the last 2000 years to lead souls unto Christ, all the while remaining anonymous and evading physical harm. Since the founding of Mormonism in 1830, its members ashamedly clamor for their visitations. Less elusive than Sasquatch, these persons will generally appear to someone in comparatively dire straits and produce a miracle. Further, the Three tend to materialize and then vanish either without warning or in a spectacular manner that leaves the audience frozen - as if tasting God’s time. This project began as an historical recording of the journal of my Great x5 Grandfather, Warren G. Child, which he kept between December 1872 and Feb. 1905.

Artist bio:
Dave Madden’s (aka Tulpamancers, nonnon, dj_webern) earliest memories are Magical Mystery Tour, “Paint it Black” and the guy who claimed to be the Lizard King. He uses percussion, found objects, laptop, turntables and an obsessive bending of sound to perform all over the world, from Montreal to Chico, California, in universities, museums and coffee shops, preferring the types of crowds who enjoy John Cage back-to-back with Anti-Pop Consortium. Dave is currently focused on Nowhere Mountain, a project with photographer Mark Regester. He is also a journalist for Squidco.com.

Website/social links
 https://thenonnon.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@phenomenonnon
https://www.instagram.com/nononnon
https://www.instagram.com/nowhere_mountain/

Per The Book of Mormon, Jesus Christ visited the Americas during the three days between his death and resurrection. While there, he (sic) ordained twelve disciples, three of which asked for and were granted immortal life. Known as The Three Nephites, they have used the last 2000 years to lead souls unto Christ, all the while remaining anonymous and evading physical harm. Since the founding of Mormonism in 1830, its members ashamedly clamor for their visitations. Less elusive than Sasquatch, these persons will generally appear to someone in comparatively dire straits and produce a miracle. Further, the Three tend to materialize and then vanish either without warning or in a spectacular manner that leaves the audience frozen - as if tasting God’s time. This project began as an historical recording of the journal of my Great x5 Grandfather, Warren G. Child, which he kept between December 1872 and Feb. 1905.

Artist bio:
Dave Madden’s (aka Tulpamancers, nonnon, dj_webern) earliest memories are Magical Mystery Tour, “Paint it Black” and the guy who claimed to be the Lizard King. He uses percussion, found objects, laptop, turntables and an obsessive bending of sound to perform all over the world, from Montreal to Chico, California, in universities, museums and coffee shops, preferring the types of crowds who enjoy John Cage back-to-back with Anti-Pop Consortium. Dave is currently focused on Nowhere Mountain, a project with photographer Mark Regester. He is also a journalist for Squidco.com.

Website/social links
 https://thenonnon.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@phenomenonnon
https://www.instagram.com/nononnon
https://www.instagram.com/nowhere_mountain/