This radiophonic piece is improvised from live broadcast, dubbed and mixed across four channels in real time, with effects layered in the moment. It explores the fleeting quality of sound — how something can be summoned into being just by pressing Play. It’s about listening as a kind of magic, where the act of playback becomes the act of creation, unfolding outward like a ripple
from the centre. A quiet celebration of the ephemeral, the accidental, and the everyday wonder of tuning in.
Andrew Backhouse is one of the founders of Harrogate Community Radio and an artist in his own right. Born in East Anglia and somewhat superstitious, Andrew has lived across the UK but now happily calls Harrogate home.
Certain Secret Methods Two is a new 27 minute composition created specifically for radia. It uses tape loops, harmonium, singing bowls, sequential circuits pro one and field recordings to create a space for you to visit whenever you like. I am intrigued by the concept of dead drops, codes and ciphers and Steganography. In this recording is embedded, messages, codes and location details. Perhaps you will listen closely and figure out what it is all about?
Mykel Boyd (*1970, Kankakee, IL) makes sound recordings, conceptual artworks, photos, installations and films. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, Boyd creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found.
This sound creation piece captures the essence of autumn in the Aragonese region of Sobrarbe. Through field recordings collected in forests, rivers, and mountain villages, it reveals the textures of a landscape in transition — the rustle of dry leaves, distant cowbells, the whisper of the wind through beech and pine trees, and the echo of footsteps on ancient stone paths. The composition invites the listener to experience the emotional and acoustic depth of the season, blending natural ambiences with subtle sound design to evoke the quiet beauty and melancholy of autumn in the Pyrenees.
Soundscapes recorded at Bielsa, Pineta and Chisagüés 23-25 october 2025.
What became of the Library of Alexandria? It seems to have fallen victim to the flames. Just like our beautiful jingle. Only remnants of it remain, because we allowed ourselves to play with fire in this programme. We were amazed at how many levels there are links between the element of fire and radio! It starts with the German word “Funkfeuer” (radio beacon) and ends with Telefunken and lightning. We enjoy the convivial warmth of the campfire and marvel at electromagnetic inventiveness.
A programme featuring sonic illusions and surprising parallel universes.
Production and recordings by Barbara Huber, Barbara Kaiser, Fabi Lux, Stefan Nussbaumer & Karl Schönswetter. Contains industrial recordings by kwandalist.
Sur les ondes hantées du B.O.O., les fantômes prennent la parole.
Un paysage sonore où résonnent monstres, maisons hantées et autres présences invisibles.
Une proposition de Reem Saleh et Louise Siffert pour *Duuu.
Cette playlist a été diffusée à l’occasion de l’événement A Ghost Radio Camp, une soirée horrifique organisée en juillet 2025 à *Duuu Radio / Folie N4, Parc de la Villette (Paris).
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On the haunted radio waves of B.O.O., ghosts speak out.
A soundscape filled with monsters, haunted houses, and other invisible presences.
A proposition by Reem Saleh and Louise Siffert for *Duuu.
This playlist was broadcast during the A Ghost Radio Camp event, a horrific evening organized in July 2025 at *Duuu Radio / Folie N4, Parc de la Villette (Paris).
The KunschTTurm Club was located in the Kunstturm, a 100 m² apartment, on the 22nd floor of the Tour de l’Europe in Mulhouse. Made available by its owners, the club quickly became a second studio for the Alsace branch of ∏-Node. Julia and Dinah bubbled up the closing weekend. Armed with their cristal Baschets, they pulled the plug from the heat in the bathroom for a 2 hours improvised installation/performance. Inspired by Anne Carson’s poem ‘Guillermo’s Sigh Symphony‘ (2002) which was copied onto the tiled walls, ears steaming near the bath tub of sounds, the audience drifted in and out. The “souffleuses de son” captured FM radio through the pipes, read extracts from the poem, and used hydrophones and small radios to amplify the drip, drip, dripping.
This is an edit from the ∏-Node stream, during the KunschTTurm Club, Season 1-31 jan-31 july 2025
Thanks to : JPRRR for the mastering, individu and the whole KunschTTurm crew.
On stage Lillevan: live cinema, images Paolo F. Bragaglia: sound design, synthesizer Leonardo Francesconi: piano, synthesizer
Don Giovanni is one of the archetypes of our culture, one of its founding myths. And myth is not an inert fable but an active, creative force, it nourishes, in a surprisingly circular way, the very culture that gave it life. Over the course of four centuries, Don Giovanni has taken on – or disguised himself in – countless and extraordinarily varied forms.
With this audiovisual project, we seek to explore the recurring and often mutable archetype concealed beneath Mozart’s masterpiece, creating a performance that draws on a contemporary aesthetic and language. Mozart’s music itself undergoes metamorphosis, electronic, sampled and manipulated, from old vinyl records to acoustic renditions, serving as the foundation for literary “evocations” of Don Giovanni, from Tirso de Molina to José Saramago, from Molière to Baudelaire, Hoffmann, Kierkegaard, Byron, and many others. And, of course, the operatic libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
The project includes readings, sung passages, and historical recordings of actors’ performances, a sound carousel that conjures the situations, characters, texts, and voices that have given life to the Don Giovanni myth across different historical periods, authors, and its continual metamorphoses. Whether invoking the unrepentant libertine or the punished sinner, the paradise of the senses, the complexity of human relationships, or the hell of damnation.
A production of Mozartfest Würzburg World premiere: June 21, 2019
Show 1071 – Don Giovanni Metamorphosen Fragmente
Show 1071 – Don Giovanni Metamorphosen Fragmente
Show 1071 – Don Giovanni Metamorphosen Fragmente
Paolo F. Bragaglia is an electronic composer born in an entirely analog world, who has stubbornly journeyed into our digital age. Ever fascinated by the metamorphosis of sound across genres, over the years he has expanded his interests toward the intersections between music and moving images, dance, architectural spaces, visual arts, spoken word, and theatre.
This has led to an intense career as a composer of film scores, soundtracks, and multimedia performances, alongside record production, sound art, and sound installations. He is the creator and artistic director of the electroacoustic music festival “Acusmatiq”, held for twenty years in Ancona at the Mole Vanvitelliana, and the founder and president of the Museo del Synth Marchigiano (Museum of the Marchigian Synth)
Usmaradio – Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per la Radiofonia (CRIR) / Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radio Studies, is a workplace of The School of Radio to develop an innovative radio pedagogy. Workshops, work sessions, meetings, presentations of live performance as sections of the project. Produced by UNIRSM | Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino. usmaradio.org / theschoolofradio.org / unirsm.sm
A composition imagining gestures, an anthropological archive of the body, as sound objects, predominantly through an acousmatic approach to the deconstruction and reconstruction of field/phone recordings, using the CD and CDJ as a tool or instrument for real-time manipulation, re-recording and improvisation, highlighting the musical potential of seemingly trivial real world sounds.
A sound situation extracting and trapping gestures from a socio-cultural landscape into an unpredictable set of sonic objects, continuously re-arranged and re-choreographed in time.
This radio piece is in direct relation to Milic’s expanded cinema performance INSCRIPTION, ENDURING; POTENTIAL which centers on gesture as holder of subtle cultural memory and history (the body as an anthropological and sociological archive) using found footage to practice experimental autoethnography – extracting glimpses of gestural movement from super8 home movies and interconnecting them in multi-projections.
“Gesture is the name of this intersection between life and art, act and power, general and particular, text and execution. It is a moment of life subtracted from the context of individual biography as well as a moment of art subtracted from the neutrality of aesthetics: it is pure praxis. The gesture is neither use value nor exchange value, neither biographic experience nor impersonal event: it is the other side of the commodity that lets the “crystals of this common social substance” sink into the situation.” (Giorgio Agamben)
Geanina Gypt is a leftfield music project of artist and DJ Maja Milić, fueled by a hardcore use of loops, extensive resampling, deconstruction and creating rhythms by misuse and destruction of samples or trivial sonic elements of reality, as well as the use of DJ equipment as tool for real-time manipulation of prerecorded sound (improvisation of an improvisation), mostly on tapes and CD.
She uses radio as a space for releasing music in long form or testing conceptual ideas, often intermedial (like, broadcast of images or live happenings), through her show Gypt Sessions on Berlin’s artist radio reboot.fm, and sometimes through Intruder Sessions, which is an irregular intrusion of the radio with spontaneous sets or concepts. She started to self-release tapes under Gypt Records.
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Show 1067: Radar sem z živalmi / I like to be with animals by robrrr_ (Radio Študent)
Radio Študent for Radia Network presents a jumble of sonic images of animals and humans interacting with them collected and mixed by robrrr_. Field recordings, clips from television and appropriations from social media form the basis of an exploration into the way we spend time with animals, play with them, parody them… The sound samples are manipulated, arranged and interwoven with original musical compositions to create a warm and playful ramble around the various ways we represent animals and use images of them to expose things about ourselves and our lifeworlds. In the clips, we sense the love and happiness that emanate from the interactions but, at the same time, the animals’ presence is often reduced, indirectly heard or otherwise cryptic, leading us to the question if the subjectivity of the animals is given the space they really deserve.
Robbie Hopper is a musician, biologist, audio technician and sound artist, working under the name robrrr_. They find making abstract compositions a comforting way of making sense of worldly wonders and horrors, and are currently particularly interested in radio and noise as subversive conduits for rebellion against oppression of various kinds. They invite you to greet your pet on their behalf.
Radia.fm program by Radio Študent, curated by Urška Savič.
