Мартин Џорлев – Музиката е отепувачка

This episode captures the closing moments of Kanal 103’s marathon broadcast marking 81 years of Macedonian Radio, on 28.12.2025.
After more than 15 hours on air and a never-ending closing live session, the scheduled program slowly dissolved into an open situation. Recorded around 4am, as the night tipped into morning, the studio shifted into a different mode. Using the station computer, Martin Djorlev began mixing live from multiple internet sources, navigating streams, fragments, and digital noise in real time.

What emerged was an unplanned deep drone / ambient mix, imperfect, glitchy, unbalanced, marked by signal cracks and bleed from an old mixer worn down by years of use. Slow and immersive, the sound hovers somewhere between exhaustion and focus. A live navigation through online audio, shaped by the moment, the hour, and the accumulated energy of the broadcast.

Martin Djorlev is a central figure in the new Macedonian music scene. Active across projects, genres, and formats, he plays almost nightly, releases constantly, and moves between live performance, composition, and experimentation. This set reflects that momentum, created without preparation, without pause, as if there were no tomorrow.

Some of his recent music:
https://zhivotni.bandcamp.com/album/-
https://ubijdedo.bandcamp.com/album/-
https://stotrojka.bandcamp.com/album/–10

Recorded live at Kanal 103, Skopje.
End of broadcast, beginning of another space.

“In the Waiting Room” is a sound performance first presented at To Pikap record store in Thessaloniki, Greece, as part of the art exhibition Empty Chairs, which took place in April, 2025.

The piece draws inspiration from Giannis Skarimpas short story “Three Empty Chairs” – a ghost tale that subtly shifts between the comic and the uncanny. In this work, Skarimpas’ peculiar language is stripped away to be reassembled through sound, a world of scattered fragments, stray echoes, and uncertain sequences – what is said and what remains unsaid.

Kyriakos Plsds: composition and digital programming, electroacoustic guitar, field recordings, vocals

Eleonora Siarava: voice
Recorded and mixed by Kyriakos Plsds
Mastered by Christos Megan

The integral version is available here:

https://kyriakosplsds.bandcamp.com/

Kyriakos Plsds is a musician who moves across a broad spectrum of sonic landscapes. His practice drifts between folk-inspired songwriting and experimental fields. He has released many albums and performed live with bands such as Minor Mine, As Never Before, Next & Patient, My Last Spring, The Coal Heart and Πειραματική Ορχήστρα Ασυμφωνίας.

Blind date at Kanal 103.

Meet and greet, plug and play.

Deep into the pandemic, live music felt impossible. But we have Kanal 103, our little capsule in space. Two musicians, strangers until that moment, were brought together for an impromptu live session. This recording captures that initial spark and the genesis of Todor Karakolev’s Will Discuss, a project carelessly abandoned to the thrill of on-the-spot musical encounters.

Will Discuss for the occasion:
Todor Karakolev – electronics
Kristijan Savikj – guitar

Recorded live at Kanal 103 (15.11.2020) as part of the Music & Friendship series.

Will Discuss debut release is available here:
https://stotrojka.bandcamp.com/album/will-discuss