Shows
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes – 12 February 2026 – with Symonenko and Lisa StuzhukUkrainian Field Notes – 12 February 2026 – with Symonenko and Lisa StuzhukProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re Tracklist: · Володар - Не розвивайсь дуб зеленой· maxandruh feat. Symonenko - Кіт і Михайло· Parking Spot & Oriole Nest - Сербен· Symonenko and DvaTry – ZACHEPYKHA· DvaTry - Dovbeshka· Symonenko - Весілля у Гуцулів· Symonenko and DvaTry – Tanets Svativ
2026-02-1359 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 30: SLEPT ON IT - with Gabe BogartThree years ago I interviewed my friend and occasional ACL contributor Gabe Bogart for Episode 29, our anniversary episode. We had such a good time we talked about doing a podcast called SLEPT ON IT, and so I sat on this episode for years, waiting for us to get off our asses and make it happen. No one ever asked why episode 30 was missing, so it feels right for an episode with this title to turn up years later. We discuss adventurous listening, the dangers of nostalgia, the hip hop renaissance of the 2020s, and much more. Happy Listening!
2026-02-1047 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 12 January 2026 - with viixii and Clemens PooleUkrainian Field Notes - 12 January 2026 - with viixii and Clemens PooleProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del ReTracklist:Група Б - Прозорі очі tape excerptнекрохолод - Kharkivviixii - I will be finePøgulyay - atttmaindddAxelrod Bering & Chloë Landau - Welcome to the Shopäsc3ca - If You Hear This, Wake UpBackground music:Volkean - Hva Ov...Volkean - Sang Om EvighetenVacDeca - moistweed420 - El chiste más largo de la historiaTegh & Adel Poursamadi - Bad’a بدع
2026-01-1659 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes / 19 November 2025 / with Drift KyivUkrainian Field Notes / 19 November 2025 / with Drift KyivProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del ReTrack list:Kichi Kazuko - BattlefieldHasvat Informant - Touch BrassVera Logdanidi - Keep Pushing OnTYGAPAW - Black Trans Masculine Experience feat. Kings-Lee RoseAniway - Dead Mouse
2025-11-2058 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 15 October 2025 - with Vitalii "Bard" BardetskyiUkrainian Field Notes - 15 October 2025 - with Vitalii "Bard" BardetskyiProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del ReTracklist:DakhaBrakha - Plyve chovenKobza - BunnyVodohrai - RemembranceEteria - Yak Stoyalo DrevoKyrylo Stetsenko (feat. Tetiana Kocherhina) Play, the Violin, PlayCukor Bila Smert' - The Great Hen-Yuan' River (Remastered 2024)Okean Elzy - ВставайHyphen Dash - Is it rage
2025-10-1659 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 17 September 2025 - with Anna Khvyl and Anna KravetsUkrainian Field Notes - 17 September 2025 - with Anna Khvyl and Anna KravetsProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del ReTracklisting:ЩукаРиба & Bunht ft. Yevhen Puhachov - Що й святоє… - То не ластовка (acapella)Anna Kravets - Mariupol - March 2022 - SIRENA Podcast (excerpt)Anna Kravets - Maria from Chernihiv - 2022 - SIRENA Podcast (excerpt)Mokri Dereva - Abo Live (excerpt)Anna Kravets - An Emotional Encyclopedia of War (excerpt)Anna Khvyl - Still Present as you notice its absence (excerpt)Anna Kravets - Closer - Mai Aproape - Poetry by Valentina ChiritaAnna Kravets - ZAHISNYTSIA Podcast (excerpt)Ann
2025-09-1959 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 16 July 2025 - John ObjectUkrainian Field Notes - 16 July 2025 - John ObjectProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del ReTracklistJohn Object - 500mg [VA - Intermission]John Object - Demo New Life Immediately (2015) [Life]John Object - Famous Eyes (live 2021)Група Б - Нічні кімнати [Drones for Drones, Volume 3]John Object - East Piano [Piano]birdsandpeople - Bakhmut Song [Syndrome]John Object - Kiss (Live 2020) [Sweat]
2025-07-1759 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 30 May 2025 - Oleksii PodatUkrainian Field Notes - 30 May 2025 - Oleksii PodatProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del ReTracklistOleksii Podat - I Regret Everything I Have Ever Done OnlineOleksii Podat - Learning to Stumble Oleksii Podat - my mom sends me photos from relatively safe places (version 2)Adaa Zagorodnya - Beznazva SyomaOleksii Podat - to commit, to let goOleksii Podat - If I die here I was murdered by daytime televisionOleksii Podat - Golden Hour
2025-07-171h 17
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 28 May 2025 - Georgiy PotopalskyUkrainian Field Notes - 28 May 2025 - Georgiy PotopalskyProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del ReTracklistUjif_notfound - Flexa_3_4Ujif_notfound - LL.LLLLUjif_Notfound - Nokturne By Shi_Syn_FiUjif_notfound - Sweet GenocideUjif_notfound - PietaUjif_notfound - Digital BattlefieldsUjif_notfound - TER.RAIN # 19 20 5 16 19Alla Zahaikevych, Yelyzaveta Soloviova, Georgiy Potopalskiy - Landscapes of Sylvestrov [excerpt]
2025-07-171h 31
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 22 May 2025 - Roman Slavka, Eugen Gordeev, Igor YalivecUkrainian Field Notes - 22 May 2025 - Roman Slavka, Eugen Gordeev, Igor YalivecProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del ReTracklistRoman Slavka - ПронеслосьKurs Valüt - KermoIgor Yalivec - MiragesParking Spot - Overthinkmaxandruh - HasretYuriy Bulichev - Pamiataii Svii Rid (feat. Goog, Kebu, Paporot)Toucan Pelican - добрий день
2025-07-1757 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 18 June 2025 - with Victory Beats and EnterDJUkrainian Field Notes - 18 June 2025 - with Victory Beats and EnterDJProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del ReTracklist:Potras23 - Big SunZymosis - Fatal Contraption Diogo - Move Me (Tsuri Junglyze Remix)Enforcer and MURR - MysteryBoris Brejcha - Schleierwolken (Original Mix)Anaïs x LEVi - Tekkers
2025-06-1959 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 13 May 2025 - БетонUkrainian Field Notes - 13 May 2025 - БетонA special bonus interview produced for ACL by Gianmarco Del ReTracklist:Бетон [Beton - Concrete ] – Нічого Святого [Nichoho Svyatoho - Nothing holy]Бетон – Тільки Для Своїх [Tilʹky Dlya Svoyikh – Only for their own]Бетон – Kyiv CallingБетон – Ми Несем (ft Albert Tsukrenko of HZV) [My Nesem – We Bear]Бетон – НОРМАЛЬНО [NORMALʹNO – Normally]Бетон – Став Матку Боску (ft Dmytro Kumar of 1914) [Stav Matku Bosku]
2025-05-2748 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 21 May 2025 - with 1914 and Sasha BooleUkrainian Field Notes - 21 May 2025 - with 1914 and Sasha BooleProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del ReTracklist1914 - "War In"1914 - "Coward (ft. Sasha Boole)"1914 - "...And a Cross Now Marks His Place (ft. Nick Holmes)"1914 - "War Out"Sasha Boole - "Плющ (Ivy)"Орест Лютий (Orest Lyutyy) - "Я, кум, дві лопати"
2025-05-2759 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 19 March 2025 - with Mariana Berezovska, Nastya Syradoieva and Giorgi Kikonishvili (extended version)Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 March 2025 - with Mariana Berezovska, Nastya Syradoieva and Giorgi Kikonishvili (extended version)Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del ReTracklist:PART ONE with Mariana Berezovska, Nastya Syradoieva (00:00:00 - 01:11:30)* Maryana Klochko - "Babusia" [VA - Intermission - (Standard Deviation)]* Kataryna Gryvul - "Ocean" [VA - From Ukraine, For Ukraine - (Standard Deviation)]* XTCLVR - "Feel Me" [XTCLVR - Inverse (Standard Deviation)]* Native Outsider - "Vertigo" [VA - Succession - (Standard Deviation)]* Nana.i...
2025-03-202h 15
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 19 February 2025 - with Danya Isaenko (aka Aspen Grove), Tetiana Khoroshun and Yulia ShcherbakUkrainian Field Notes - 19 February 2025 - with Danya Isaenko (aka Aspen Grove), Tetiana Khoroshun and Yulia ShcherbakProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del RetracklistTetiana Khoroshun - I see the seaAspen Grove - GlybynaTetiana Khoroshun - Crimean TitanAspen Grove - Ne Zabuwai meneTetiana Khoroshun - YaltaAspen Grove - Druzhe
2025-02-201h 02
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 15 January 2025 - with Human Margareeta, Lenoczka, Lvcerate and Vladyslav PutistinUkrainian Field Notes - 15 January 2025 - with Human Margareeta, Lenoczka, Lvcerate and Vladyslav Putistin
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist
Vladyslav Putistin & Lvcerate - Between Joy and Fear
Lvcerate - Velvet Suspense
Lyudska Podoba (Lyric & singing: Arthur Snitkus, Сomposer: Gosha Babanski) - Petite Mort (excerpt)
Human Margareeta - Kryshtal
Lenoczka - Just chilling in a hammock over the abyss
Heinali - Beatrice (excerpt)
2025-01-1659 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 18 December 2024 - with Antuanetta Mishchenko and Natalie BeridzeUkrainian Field Notes - 18 December 2024 - with Antuanetta Mishchenko and Natalie Beridze
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist
Dmytro Radzetskyi - "Ukraine On Fire" performed by Antuanetta Mishchenko and Maja Nußbaumer
Nikakoi - "Lullaby for Tanya" (background)
Natalie Beridze - "Holes"
Nina Simonishvili - "Meanwhile"
Anushka Chkheidze - "War Generation, Again"
2024-12-2159 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 40: FASHION (or, MONEY IS FERTILIZER) - with Antonina Nowacka and DreamcrusherThe second part of a special double feature, returning us to Krakow’s Unsound festival, where we began with Episode 1. The inaugural episode featured Resina and Lea Bertucci, from Poland and New York, respectively, and so for the sake of symmetry, this episode pairs Antonina Nowacka and Dreamcrusher, two artists who make affective, vocal-based music, but to very different affects. That is to say, this is an episode that leans into contrasts: the US and Europe, home and away, morning and night, quiet and noise. We discuss non-dance DJ sets, the relationship between music and fashion, the joys and di...
2024-11-2835 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 39: REVERSE POLARITY - with NegativlandNegativland has always been about media literacy; their pranks are not only humorous but reveal something about how media function. But in recent years, as the world has changed around them, their relationship to this aspect of their practice has had to evolve. What was subversive in the 80s is mostly met with a shrug today. While sampling has become less essential to their work, the group continues to reappropriate and recontextualize human speech, and in an age of AI voice clones, the importance of using actual voices becomes even more significant. Last fall, I sat down with Negativland’s M...
2024-11-2644 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 20 November 2024Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 November 2024
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist
Alexander Stratonov - Traces of Ember
Hockins - Arzamas On Fire
Juli Riot - Bozhevillia
Zahvat - Bouquet for Olha
Septim - Cyber Thoughts
Phite Noise - Hydrogen
Myroslav Trofymuk aka. AЙKTRONER - 31.03.24
Kirik & Sidletskyi - area of passive recreation
2024-11-2159 min
Free City Radio'Transmission in silver' mix - Stefan Christoff and Joseph SannicandroA mix for Radio AlHara that features the latest collaborative album between Joseph Sannicandro and Stefan Christoff. This mix also includes some drones and live recordings from Palestine solidarity protests in Mexico City to round out the hour, an excerpt of a protest participant, recorded in Spanish. Information on the album via OKLA records in Poland:
https://oklarecords.bandcamp.com/album/transmissions-in-silver
The album will be released on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, to get a physical or digital copy visit the link above.
Broadcast in full on Radio AlHara on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 4pm eastern / 11pm Palestine time, streaming at radioalhara.net
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2024-11-1300 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 16 October 2024 - with the North Azovian Greek NGO Надазовські грекиUkrainian Field Notes - 16 October 2024 - with the North Azovian Greek NGO Надазовські греки
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist
Folk Group Fos - Bugdanku
Sartanskie Samotsvety ensemble - Of, mana, vay!
Nadiia Kalus - Ditty (udrama) "Ela miia kamiia"
Bir Taifa group - Dushenkalar
Bir Taifa group - Chikhmakh Khirimda
Vasyl Tanacha - track 9 (button accordion)
Suren Voskanian, Yaryna Dron, Andrii Levchenko - Vari-ava
2024-10-1759 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 18 September 2024 - with WhalerUkrainian Field Notes - 18 September 2024 - with Whaler
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
NINA EBA - DOVES (Whaler Remix)
Whaler - Unity
Whaler - Tanok
Whaler - Underwater
Whaler - Викид
Potras23 - Kotuky (feat. Sofia Leshyshak)
Whaler - The Event Horizon
Whaler, Хор "Осоння" - В темную нічку
Група Б - Нічні кімнати
2024-09-1958 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 38: DIS/PLACED - with Matana RobertsMatana Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist, saxophonist, composer, and performer. With the release of In the Garden…, their ongoing, projected 12-chapter series COIN COIN is near its midpoint. Roberts has developed a composition system for the series based on mixed media scores combining graphic notation, visual art, film, and ephemera, channeling the images and (hi)stories left behind. Coming out of the fertile hybrid music scenes of Chicago, Roberts resists being pigeon-holed into any one genre, and has a particularly complicated relationship being labeled as a “jazz” musician. In fact, as they point out in this episode, Roberts rejects binari...
2024-09-1200 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 37: QUANTUM BLUES - with France JobinFrance Jobin has been exploring quantum theory for many years now, an interest that has shown up in her compositions, sound installations, and work with VR. But the pandemic finally afforded the Montreal-based minimalist composer time for deeper study with a personal brain trust of physicists she’d assembled over the years. Jobin recently released Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2) on the great Room40 label.We sat down in Montreal to discuss her formative sonic experiences, her origin in a blues band, her interest in physics, and a growing body of audio-visual work with Markus Heckmann.
TR...
2024-08-1759 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 17 July 2024 - with Ostap ManulyakUkrainian Field Notes - 17 July 2024 - with Ostap Manulyak
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
* Ostap Manulyak - "Aeolian processes" [Fragment]
* Myroslav Trofymuk - "Місто" [The City] [excerpt]
* Dallek - "Arpeggio Disorder"
* "Unspeakable Weight" - A multichannel audiovisual installation by Andriy Linik, Ostap Manuliak, Yurii Vovkohon, Yevhenia Nesterovych, based on the Yevhen Hulevych's recordings
* Edgard Varese - "Ionisation" [excerpt]
* Ostap Manulyak - "Reprogression" (Fragment 2)
* Alla Zagaykevych - "Mithe IV: K.S." [excerpt]
* Val...
2024-07-1859 min
Free City RadioRéverbérations d'une crise speak-out on the housing crisis in MontréalReverberations d’une crise / Sounding the housing crisis
Métro Laurier, public speak out
Suoni per il Popolo festival
10 June 2023
Broadcast @n10-as Thursday May 5, 1pm, on @cjlo1690am May 2, 9am, on CKUT 90.3 FM @radiockut Friday, June 28, 5pm on Radio Renoviction and on the May 8 edition of S.A.N.E, 8-9pm on CKUW 95.9 FM Winnipeg. Photo by Ivan de Jacquelin. Sound system support at event by Danji @anabasine
https://suoniperilpopolo.org/fr/horaire/reverberations-dune-crise-une-enquete-sonore-sur-le-logement-a-montreal
A mix of a creative speak out organized by contributors to the project Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logeme...
2024-07-0700 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 19 June 2024 - with Lostlojic and ClaspsUkrainian Field Notes - 19 June 2024 - with Lostlojic and Clasps
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist
Lostlojic - Майструймо гучну культуру ( Let's make a loud culture)
Clasps - Re-Rooting (ft. Daryna Panas)
Lostlojic - Bayraktar (excerpt)
Lostlojic - Night Explode (excerpt)
Distortion (UA) - Jaguar (excerpt)
Clasps - Shibboleth (excerpt)
Clasps - Take Charge And Move In (excerpt)
Slava Los - Snus (excerpt)
2024-06-2059 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 36: CREATIVE LISTENING - with C. LavenderC. Lavender is a sound artist, sound healing practitioner, educator, and author of Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives. She has worked with labels including Editions Mego, RVNG, Longform Editions, and most recently iDEAL, who have just released Rupture In The Eternal Realm, a sonic reinterpretation of a Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice. In this episode of the Sound Propositions podcast, we discuss the influence of Pauline Oliveros, how working as an educator led to writing Transcendent Waves, and the evolution of the relationship between her practice as a sound artist and sound healer.
LINKS
2024-06-191h 01
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 15 May 2024 - with Zlata and Katro ZauberUkrainian Field Notes - 15 May 2024 - with Zlata and Katro Zauber
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist
Marina Herlop - abans abans
Loslojic - Kyivskyi vechir
Katro Zauber - DNA
Тонка - Болить
k.e.d.r.o.v.a - Вечр
Andrii Barmalii - я нормально
Yansima - Tweede Cans
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SoundCloud Links
@Zlata
@Katro Zauber
2024-05-1659 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - April 17 2024 - with Lesik Omodada and Yurii Bazaka (Musicians Defend Ukraine)Ukrainian Field Notes - April 17 2024 - with Lesik Omodada and Yurii Bazaka (Musicians Defend Ukraine)
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklisting
Stasik - Lullaby for the Enemy
Lady Aphina - Yakby ne ty
Kurs Valüt - Ni
The Unsleeping – “Не сплю” [Ne splyu – I don’t sleep]
Пиріг і Батіг (Pyrih and Batih) - Vesna
Omodada - Nove Zhyttia
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2024-04-1958 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 35: DIS/CONTENT - with AGFAGF is a powerful poemproducer. She first described herself in these terms on a track of that title from Westernization Completed, her Ars Electronica winning breakthrough album. Poemproducer became her “internet name,” and has come to stand in for her idiosyncratic approach to vocal-based electronic music. Last November, AGF quietly released Poemproducer, almost exactly 20 years after Westernization Completed. Channeling her internet name into her first proper solo studio album since SOLIDCITY (2017), Poemproducer is built around mutating bass, freeplayed rhythms, and subtle field recordings. We discuss the evolution of her musical practice, her interest in pedagogy, feminism, collective politics and much...
2024-04-131h 02
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 20 March 2024 with Iryna Lobanok and Mariana Bondarenko (Ukrainian Institute)Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 March 2024 with Iryna Lobanok and Mariana Bondarenko (Ukrainian Institute)
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
Hidden Element x Floex - Yellow Ribbon
DZ'OB Ft. Mattia Prete - Zamovliannia
Pokaz Trio - Song Of Sirens (Live at Bimhuis Amsterdam)
SI Process - Rukh
Vadim Neselovskyi - Odesa Railway Station
Blooms Corda - Пісня про війну
Ihor Tsymbrovsky - Brilliant Small Poetry
2024-03-2159 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 34: OLD & NEW DREAMS - with Kerry O'Brien and Will RobinThis episode of Sound Propositions features scholars Kerry O’Brien and Will Robin, editors of the recent anthology On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement. Described as a historical source reader, the book compiles over 100 primary sources retelling the story of minimalist music from the 1950s to the present. Sources include liner notes, interviews, journalism, manifestos, and other material organized chronologically and thematically, with introductory essays from the editors. Not a simple revisionist history seeking to expand the canon, let alone an attempt to dethrone the “Big Four” composers, On Minimalism nonetheless radically reconsiders the scope of minimalist music. In some w...
2024-02-291h 00
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 21 February 2024 - with PoljeUkrainian Field Notes - 21 February 2024 - with Polje
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
Wiseword.Nidaros - Лев
Polje - Maliunok
Polje - Pa
Polje - Yasne Mi
Polje - Wall of Sirens
Arthur Mine - Helicopter Theme
Bayraktar - Ukrainian War Song
Вічний Ґандж - Комарик
Polje - Janmarko
Read more at www.acloserlisten.com
2024-02-2259 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 33: DIS/EMBODIED - with Cruel DiagonalsHaving first captured our attention with Monolithic Nuance (2018) for Longform Editions, Megan Mitchell’s Cruel Diagonals has continued to impress with each new work. With Fractured Whole, she set herself the task of producing an album using nothing but her voice as raw material. While she deserves recognition as a gifted vocalist, she deserves at least as much praise for her production work, alchemically transmuting her voice into a wide range of instruments and textures. In this episode, she discusses the production challenges posed by Fractured Whole, her background in musical theatre, her work with the feminist archive Many Ma...
2024-01-3158 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 17 January 2024Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 January 2024 - with ummsbiaus and Difference Machine
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: торований шляхummsbiaus: LichylnykDifference Machine: боротьба за вбивство / боротьба за виживанняummsbiaus and Difference Machine: коло зачарованеummsbiaus: Hypnagogia
2024-01-2058 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 15 November 2023Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 November 2023
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist:
Andriy Kiritchenko - Eyes of Exiles
Roman Khropko - Kyiv 17.04.22
Roman Khropko - The Moment Of Unity (Sympathetic Mix)
Myroslav Protsan - Ravens On The Cemetery
Myroslav Protsan - Very Old Piano Improvisations
Anthony Junkoid - Drum Vision
Nightcourier - Temnivody
Lena Mirzakh - A Little Interlude
Kadaitcha - Seed
Katarina Gryvul - Zemlya
...
2023-11-1858 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 32: INDISCREET MUSIC - with Patrick NicklesonPatrick Nickleson is the author of The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art, Music, and Historiography in Dispute, an academic study that radically reconsiders the origins and boundaries of musical minimalism. Uninterested in searching for the earliest work of musical minimalism, or even in doing the admittedly necessary work of expanding the canon to include lesser known but equally important figures, Nickleson instead underscores a different set of shared traits that he sees in (early) minimalism: the importance of collective authorship, often collaborating in a form of “bandness”; the priority of recording to tape over written scores; and distinguishing between “(early...
2023-11-101h 05
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 18 October 2023 - with Igor Yalivec, Revshark, Waveskania, Difference Machine, Natalia Tsupryk, YLOI and Andrii KuninUkrainian Field Notes - 18 October 2023 - with Igor Yalivec, Revshark, Waveskania, Difference Machine, Natalia Tsupryk, YLOI and Andrii Kunin
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist:
Gamardah Fungus - Vega
Revshark - Restricted Areas
Waveskania - Essential
Difference Machine - Повідь
Natalia Tsupryk - beyond the cemetery wall
YLOI - UAV Hunting
Andrii Kunin - threshold
2023-10-2059 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 20 September 2023 - with Nastia and Vlad FisunEpisode 12 - with Nastia and Vlad Fisun
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Nastia and Vlad Fisun talk about the burgeoning electronic scene in Ukraine, toxic behaviour and Ukrainian Identity.
TRACKLIST
DZ'OB - Sometimes Everything Is Wrong (S.Tolkachev re-imagining)
Louwave and Splinter (UA) - Baby Let's Vibe
Polygrim - Klang
Koloah - Away
https://soundcloud.com/nastia_uahttps://soundcloud.com/vladfisun
2023-09-2359 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 31: FREE TIME - with Andrea BelfiAndrea Belfi discusses his latest album, Eternally Frozen, a canon-based composition for percussion, electronics, and brass ensemble. Inspired by a visit to LA’s Museum of Jurassic Technology, Belfi draws upon the story of Deprong Mori, a mythological bat that could use its powers of echolocation to phase through solid matter, before being captured by an American researcher, “eternally frozen” in lead. Movement, circularity, and stasis are all terms that also describe Belfi’s interests as a composer. We discuss his origins in Italy’s punk scene, his time as drummer of the noisy instrumental rock band Rosolina Mar, opening fo...
2023-09-1959 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 19 July 2023 - with Katia Stieber and Kadiristy from Regular DiscoEpisode 11 - with Katia Stieber and Kadiristy from Regular Disco
@stieber_k
@kadiristy
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
TRACKLIST
Misha Tsiganoff (intro)Lobanov K. - Bios Recall
58918012 - Minimal Friction (excerpt - background)
Yaroslav M - Pog (Victor B. Remix)
58918012 - Minimal Friction (excerpt - background)
Clasps - Ex Voto58918012 Brainwave
Denys Coin - Flowers of Doom
58918012 - Brainwave
DiSKOP - Phantom
Volodymyr Gnatenko - Reba She (background)
Kadiristy - Sapphire Dream (unreleased demo)
58918012 Displ...
2023-07-2159 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 29: CRITICAL POSITIVITY – with ACLHappy (very belated) birthday to us! Back in February of 2022 we celebrated the tenth anniversary of our blog. To celebrate, in this episode, we pull the curtain back a bit to talk with ten of the writers who have contributed to A CLOSER LISTEN since we began over a decade ago. Utilizing my idiosyncratic editing skills, I’ve conjured a virtual roundtable discussing the past, present, and future of ACL. We discuss the founding of the site, abandoning scoring, and all our sub-sites, mixes, and other projects that define us. Our discussion of video game music gives way to a...
2023-07-141h 40
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 21 June 2023 - with Mykyta Moiseiev and Maryana KlochkoEpisode 10, Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 June 2023 - with Mykyta Moiseiev and Maryana Klochko
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
TRACKLIST
Mykyta Moiseiev featuring Maryana Klochko - Intro (from Falling OST)
Maryana Klochko - оченька мої чорні
Mykyta Moiseiev - Твій дім
Mykyta Moiseiev – One Day in Ukraine OST trailerMykyta Moiseiev - I’ve learned something (Falling OST)
Mykyta Moiseiev featuring Maryana Klochko - Coffee (from Falling OST)
Maryana Klochko – My Girl (from Stop-Zemlia OST)
Mykyta Moiseiev – Didukh (from Ivan’s Land OST)
Mykyta Moi...
2023-06-2459 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 17 May 2023 - with Alexander Pavlenko (Sunchase / Na Nich) and Vera LogdanidiEpisode 9 Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 May 2023 - with Alexander Pavlenko (Sunchase / Na Nich) and Vera Logdanidi
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Alexander Pavlenko and Vera Logdanidi talk about the first days of the full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian electronic scene and touring.
TRACKLIST
Misha Ziganoff (intro)Sunchase – "Step Outside" (from Timeline)Laima Adelaide – Y (Vera Logdanidi Re Interpretation)Asyncronous – "Padma Kirtanam" (background)Monoconda – "Route Select" (from Horizon)Monoconda – "Horizon" (background)Vera Logdanidi – "02 2402" (from Voices)Sunchase – "Hello" (background)Anton Stuck – "February 26 12.07 AM Cherni...
2023-05-1759 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 19 April 2023 - with Alexander StratonovEpisode 8 Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 April 2023 - with Alexander Stratonov
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Alexander Stratonov talks about working for Ukrainian state television Suspilne and scoring documentaries about war crimes.
TRACKLIST
Alexander Stratonov - "Before the Storm" (from Bucha 22 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RXf6REnoSs)
Alexander Stratonov - "He Bought Himself a Clock" (from Bucha 22)
Alexander Stratonov - "Numbering the People" (from Survivor's Diary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pacMw4oo_Zc)
...
2023-04-2259 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 15 March 2023 - with AsyncronousEpisode 7 of Ukrainian Field Notes with Asyncronous live on ResonanceFM Wed 15 March at 5.30 pm (GMT) repeated Sunday 19 March at 11am.
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Oleksii and Bohdan talk about their collaborative project as Asyncronous and about life in Kyiv one year on from the full-scale Russian invasion of February 24, 2022.
Tracklist:
Asyncronous - Midnight Sun
Asyncronous - Point of no Return
Asyncronous - Shinkansen
Asyncronous - Stage of Delta (Ambient Remix)
Arctica - Ambient Mix: Int...
2023-03-1959 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 28: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE - with Archivio DiafònicoThis episode features Giuseppe Esposito, a Neapolitan musician who runs the tape label Archivio Diafònico, an operation that mostly documents artists who are based in Napoli. The chaotic and bustling capital of the South of Italy undeservedly gets a bad reputation, and the city has a vibrant cultural scene and rich history that is sorely underappreciated. Through a chronicle of his own musical formation and the birth of the label, Esposito constructs a map of the Neapolitan underground scene, with particular attention to noise and improvisation. We also discuss Abidjan Centrale / Partono i Bastimenti, a podcast Esposito produces w...
2023-02-2559 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 15 February 2023 - with HeinaliProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Heinali talks about the making of his album Kyiv Eternal out on February 24, 2023 on the anniversary of the Russian full-scale invasion.
Tracklist:
Lugovsky - Sirens of Kyiv
Heinali - Rare Birds / Field Recordings (unreleased)
Heinali - Shulyavka / Field Recordings (unreleased)
Sound Weekends - Tram 12 / Field Recording
Heinali - Silpo
Heinali - Botanichny / Field Recordings (unreleased)
William Basinski - DLP 2.1 (snippet)
Heinali - Kyiv Eternal
2023-02-1859 min
Sound PropositionsSounding the housing crisis - Investigation Questions [bonus]Last fall I shared the first episode of Sounding the Housing Crisis, a bilingual (French/English) podcast by a collective of Montreal sound artists and tenants. I co-produced the eight episode series with Hubert Gendron-Blais, organizing and editing the contributions from each member of the collective. The project was partially inspired by the “militant sound inquiry” of Ultra-Red. In 2021, Ultra-Red co-founder Dont Rhine visited Montreal for a seminar at McGill, followed by a workshop/performance as part of Echoes of a Distance, Music, Protest and Community in Confined Times, organized by Hubert and The International Institute for Critical Studies in Im...
2023-02-0235 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 18 January 2023 - with Yaryna Denisiuk and Kseniia Yanus (Neformat Family)Gianmarco Del Re presents the fifth episode of the Ukrainian Field Notes podcast, broadcast on Resonance FM on Wednesday 18 January 2023 at 5:30 pm GMT and repeated on Sunday 22 January at 11 am GMT.
Tracklist
Mauser - Тривога
Distortion (UA) - Bullet Seeds
Kurs Valüt - Rozklad Ruhu
Peredmova - Слонова Кістка
Limanenko - Strange Gift
Hanna Svirska - Inner
Kat - Цвях
2023-01-2158 min
Sound PropositionsWith a real gone mama, don't let me take your style. [bonus]I made this sound collage in early 2013, nearly a decade ago now, and listening back to it recently I can hear the early seeds of techniques I use in Sound Propositions. My friend Ian Stone Grey was producing a beautiful audio series called Portmanteau at that time, and he included a piano composition of mine in one episode. I was inspired to create some collages of my own that veered further away from music without becoming narrative.
A Portmanteau of sorts.
Some treated field-recordings.
Howlin Wolf.
Federico Campagna on Novara Media.
Gilles Deleuze o...
2022-12-1412 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 27: ATTUNEMENT - with Jessica MossJessica Moss has just released Galaxy Heart, a surprising collection of ten songs that form a companion to last year’s Phosphenes. The Montréal-based composer, violinist, and vocalist recorded the material for both records (and more) during the peak of early pandemic lockdown, allowing her songcraft to take new forms, as well as welcoming collaborators into her solo music for the first time. Moss, of course, is a prolific collaborator, and we have been a fan of her work for over two decades, particularly her 15-year tenure with Silver Mt. Zion. In this episode, Moss dives into the mak...
2022-11-2259 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 16 November 2022 - with Nina EbaGianmarco Del Re presents the fourth episode of the Ukrainian Field Notes podcast, broadcast on Resonance FM Wednesday 16 November 5.30-6.30 pm GMT and repeated on Sunday 20 November at 11am GMT.
DJ, sound producer, composer and podcaster Nina Eba discusses life in Poland, Germany and France after fleeing Kyiv following the full-scale invasion of February 24 and her monthly podcast Air Raid Siren.
To support Nina Eba's Air Raid Siren podcast
To support Ukraine: Come Back Alive
Tracklist
Hidden Element and Ténèbre - Sensitive Content
Joc...
2022-11-2059 min
Reverberations d’une crise / Sounding the housing crisisEpisode 8 - Questions d'investigation / Investigation QuestionsCe huitième et dernier épisode du balado 'Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal' revient sur l'élaboration de la question d'investigation qui a orienté le processus de composition du projet, abordant au passage les liens entre santé mentale, précarité, le rôle des artistes et la gentrification. /// This eighth and last episode of the podcast 'Réverbérations d'une crise: Sounding the Housing Crisis' looks back to the elaboration of the investigation question that guided the project's the composition process, addressing in passing issues of mental health, precarity, the role of artists...
2022-11-0835 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 26: LANE DISCIPLINE - with krankyKranky co-founder Bruce Adams sits down to discuss his new book,You're With Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music. (UTPress) Adams explains the unique conditions that put Chicago at the heart of the ‘90s indie rock scene, the emergence of the kranky aesthetic, and sings the praises of Labradford.
Interview recorded between Urbana and Montreal, August 2022
Produced and mixed in Montreal, October 2022
TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Labradford - “Listening in Depth” (Prazision, kranky, 1993)
INTRO
Tim Hecker - “harmony in blue iv” (Harmony in Ultra...
2022-11-0259 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 21: FOOD + MUSIC - with GENG PTP [replay]HAPPY DOOMSDAY
RIP Daniel Dumile (July 13, 1971 – October 31, 2020)
GENG PTP aka King Vision Ultra memorializes the legacy of the late MF DOOM, who died on Halloween day 2020. GENG shares some memories about NYC hip hop in the 90s, muses on the similarities between KMD and De La, and praises the enduring influence of one of hip hop's greatest artists.
Read more at https://acloserlisten.com/2021/10/31/sp-episode-21-food-music-with-geng-ptp-podcast/
TRACKLIST
King Geedorah – “Voices Pt. 0 feat. MF GRIMM” (Take Me To Your Leader, GENG's Mecha-King Ghidorah Deluxe Edition, 2021)
SP intro
MF DOO...
2022-10-3145 min
Sound PropositionsReverberations d'une crise / Sounding the housing crisis [bonus]The first episode of the ‘Réverbérations d’une crise: Sounding the Housing Crisis' podcast, an introductory presentation of the approach underlying the project, with excerpts from different segments that will be presented during the next episodes. /// Premier épisode du balado 'Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal'. Présentation de la démarche qui sous-tend le projet et extraits de différents segments qui seront présentés durant les prochains épisodes.
Extrait des sessions d’enquête sonore - Présentation de l’approche / Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Presentation o...
2022-10-2629 min
Reverberations d’une crise / Sounding the housing crisisEpisode 1 - IntroductionPremier épisode du balado 'Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal'. Présentation de la démarche qui sous-tend le projet et extraits de différents segments qui seront présentés durant les prochains épisodes. /// First episode of the ‘Réverbérations d’une crise: Sounding the Housing Crisis podcast. Presentation of the approach underlying the project, with excerpts from different segments that will be presented during the next episodes.
Extrait des sessions d’enquête sonore - Présentation de l’approche / Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Presentation of the approach
Housing...
2022-10-2630 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 19 October 2022 - with Casa UkraniaThe third episode of Gianmarco Del Re's Ukrainian Field Notes aired on Wed October 19 on ResonanceFM at5:30pm - 6:30pm GMT.
Third episode of the podcast with Odesa based musicians Leonid Zhdanov and Nataly Hrytsenko, aka Casa Ukrania, discussing the current situation in the country in the aftermath of the recent shelling of Ukrainian cities on Monday 10th of October.
Tracklist:
Misha Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen
Casa Ukrania – Trunok u Darunok
58918012 – Previous Experience (background)
Undo Despot – Asterisk
05:AM – Hats & Snares (background)
The House of the Hidden Light –...
2022-10-2359 min
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 21 September 2022 - with NFNRProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Second episode of the podcast, with Olesia Onikyienko (NFNR) discussing fundraising and life in Kyiv.
Tracklist:
Mishka Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen
hspd - Prayer One
Motorpig - Luminous Abyss
NFNR - Dice2
Motorpig - Oscillators of Time
hspd - Yesnoyes
hspd - Crepuscula
NFNR - Dog Rose
I, Iteration - Homeland
hspd - Sorry Dub
To support Ukraine visit: supportukrainenow.org/
2022-09-2359 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 20: PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY - with Speaker Music [replay]DeForrest Brown, Jr. (aka Speaker Music) is a media-theorist, curator, and self-described rhythmanalyst. While he’s been based in NYC for the better part of the last decade, he was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, which also happens to be where Sun Ra first landed on Earth. Brown’s just-released book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, traces the cycles of American history through the Great Migrations from the Deep South to the industrial centers of the north and back again. In this episode, Brown discusses his profound sense of future shock, the meaning of rhythmanalysis, and the making of B...
2022-09-151h 02
Sound PropositionsACL mix for Secret Thirteen [bonus]I'm still swamped with work, especially now that the semester has begun. New episodes will arrive later this fall. Until then, here is another bonus mix. It's probably my favorite mix I've ever done, made for Secret Thirteen, originally published in December 2014.
S13 founder Justinas Mikulskis writes:
“Secret Thirteen 139” is a picturesque and unique mix composed by Joseph Sannicandro. This mix is like a truly precious musical treasure every die-hard music lover could be searching for ages. In this over 1 hour long musical mosaic Joseph connects 55 pieces by his beloved and inspirational artists such as Tim...
2022-09-071h 13
Sound Propositionsdopo il diluvio [bonus]Joseph Sannicandro presents 'dopo il diluvio,' a binaural soundwalk made for headphones, following a specific route through the town of San Martino Valle Caudina (AV).
A bandcamp page has been made available for the 2022 edition of Liminaria / Interferenze festivals.
Read more at Bandcamp: https://lostchildren.bandcamp.com/album/dopo-il-diluvio
This bonus episode is a bilingual version, combining the vocals into a special feature for our podcast listeners. Below you can find links to alternate versions, including a vocal-less 'soundscape' version that is my favorite.
As always,
Headphone Listening Re...
2022-07-231h 00
Sound PropositionsUkrainian Field Notes - 18 July 2022 - with Burning Woman, Vlad Suppish, ZavolokaProduced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
with Zavoloka, Burning Woman and Vlad Suppish
discussing the aftermath of the Russian invasion of February 24 2022
and issues relating to the sound-centred impact of war.
Tracklisting:
Mishka Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen
Cluster Lizard - Music of Creation
Troxellemott - Trauma
Zavoloka - Obriad
Vlad Suppish - A Hobbyist of Hellworlds
Burning Woman - Nightingale Song
Dmytro Bobryk - Goverla
Stas Teterevlev - Ambience_Kyiv_24_02_022
Vlad Suppish - Bergamot Lyre
Zavolok...
2022-07-2059 min
Sound PropositionsRitmi Rurali (suonano ancora) [bonus]I'm still in rural southern Italy as artist-in-residence, so I haven't had time to finish up the next regular episode of the podcast, which is a tenth anniversary celebration of ACL. But last week I was in Colle Sannita in the province of Benevento, where my paternal grandfather's mother grew up and where her family had deep roots. I conducted a multi-day workshop, mostly leading soundwalks with high school students. I also interviewed townsfolk of all ages, and made all kinds of recordings. On Sunday evening, as part of the return of Liminaria, I made a public presentation to...
2022-06-2915 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 25: IRREGARDS - with MatmosThe long-running electronic duo Matmos have just released a gorgeous new LP, Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer. Whereas their previous album, 2020’s The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form, saw the couple collaging contributions from 99 friends recorded at 99 bpm, their latest is dedicated to the work of just one person: Polish polymath Bogusław Schaeffer (1929-2019). In this episode, we discuss how their reputation for conceptualism has often served to obscure the formal characteristics of their work. Can an object be a concept? Is “washing machine” or “plastic” a concept? With their signature blend of serious humor, the pa...
2022-05-201h 00
Sound PropositionsEpisode 24: KAKAPHONY - with Maria ChavezMaria Chavez is a pioneer of Abstract Turntablism, a self-described practice she developed under the guidance of Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening. Born in Lima, Peru and raised in Houston, she cut her teeth as a DJ spinning techno and drum & bass, but the male chauvinism of that scene roused her to experiment further with the materiality of vinyl, using broken needles and non-musical sounds. Oliveros inspired her to ditch dance parties for improvisation with a single turntable, an artistic practice which has evolved to include installations, workshops, visual art, and curation. A true sound artist (she adamantly eschews the...
2022-04-201h 04
Sound PropositionsEpisode 23: HOMEWORK - with Patrick ShiroishiPatrick Shiroishi is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist & composer based in Los Angeles, whose 2021 album Hidemi was one of our favorites of the year. A prolific collaborator, Shiroishi can also be heard in various duos, trios, and larger ensembles, including the quartet Fuubutsushi, another group that has been in steady rotation at ACL. In this episode, we reminisce about elementary school concert band and Third Wave ska, discuss his introduction to various modes of improvisation, and explore his love of black metal. Shiroishi also unpacks the importance of family history and ancestry to his work, particularly against the recent rise in ant...
2022-03-081h 00
Sound PropositionsEpisode 22: SHUT UP AND LISTEN! - with The World According to SoundWe kick off season 3 with an interview with the creators behind The World According To Sound, in honor of their 2022 Winter Listening Series. A streaming concert series designed for our times, each event is dedicated to listening closely together, apart. If, like us, you’re apprehensive about attending live concerts again, but miss the experience of collective listening, this series is made for you. 12 shows will be presented every Thursday evening at 6PM PST, January 6 through March 24, 2022. Enter “ACloserListen” at checkout for 25% off tickets and season passes. Half season passes, as well as individual tickets, are also available. This episode...
2022-02-0156 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 21: FOOD + MUSIC - with GENG PTPRIP Daniel Dumile (July 13, 1971 – October 31, 2020)
GENG PTP aka King Vision Ultra memorializes the legacy of the late MF DOOM, who died on Halloween day 2020. Geng shares some memories about NYC hip hop in the 90s, muses on the similarities between KMD and De La, and praises the enduring influence of one of hip hop's greatest artists.
Read more at https://acloserlisten.com/2021/10/31/sp-episode-21-food-music-with-geng-ptp-podcast/
TRACKLIST
King Geedorah – “Voices Pt. 0 feat. MF GRIMM” (Take Me To Your Leader, GENG's Mecha-King Ghidorah Deluxe Edition, 2021)
SP intro
MF DOOM – “The Mystery of Do...
2021-10-3045 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 17: BEFORE THE INTERNET - with GENG PTP [replay]It’s been a tough year for New York. This episode we check in with GENG, the man behind one of our favorite labels, Purple Tape Pedigree, and see how these fine “purveyors of weaponized media and information” are handling the pandemic and the uprisings. With live performance no longer an option, the model of mutual support demonstrated by a crew like PTP is all the more important. GENG tells us about the history of PTP, the benefits of peer-support, community activism, and why it’s more important now than ever to understand hip hop as spiritual music.
Interview reco...
2021-10-1858 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 3: ROBOT, TEACH US TO GROOVE - with Efraín Rozas [replay]We have a new bonus episode coming up later this month, but until then check out some past episodes you may have missed.
ROBOT, TEACH US TO GROOVE was first published in March 2019. This episode features Efraín Rozas, Peruvian-born, Brooklyn-based performer/composer and robotics/software developer interested in new paradigms of cognitive technologies and mythologies. He leads the psychedelic salsa group La Mecánica Popular, fusing groove-based Latin music with electronic and experimental explorations. Rozas' Myth and Prosthesis series utilizes software programming and robotics to produce sound installations and music, deploying Latin American influences and modern technology t...
2021-10-1157 min
Sound PropositionsQ. and not U. (or, Conspiracy Means To Breathe Together) [bonus]The podcast is still on hiatus, but here is a plunderphonic radio play originally presented as part of Disinformation Cultures
(https://disinformationcultures.net/)
On January 6, 2021, Americans learned what Italians have known since the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa: power is not a site to which one can lay siege. It is past time to retire this Medieval fantasy of the sovereign confined inside the walls of their castle.
Q. and not U. (or, Conspiracy Means To Breathe Together) is a plunderphonic exercise in free association. The length of this radio play was determined by one solo...
2021-08-0414 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 20: PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY - with Speaker MusicDeForrest Brown, Jr. is a media-theorist, curator, and self-described rhythmanalyst. He releases digital audio as Speaker Music and under his own name. While he’s been based in NYC for the better part of the last decade, he was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, which also happens to be where Sun Ra first landed on Earth. Brown’s upcoming book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, traces the cycles of American history through the Great Migrations from the Deep South to the industrial centers of the north and back again. In this episode, Brown discusses his profound sense of futur...
2021-07-021h 02
Sound PropositionsEpisode 19: UNFOLLOW ME - with La Meme YoungMax Alper is best known for La Meme Young, his popular Instagram account turning niche experimental music jokes into dank memes. But a deep interest in music pedagogy is at the heart of everything Alper does, including his non-profit Sonic Arts For All!, an organization that puts music technology directly into the hands of K-12 and special needs students. We talk about the importance of creativity, memes as pedagogy, the limits of traditional music education, and how to democratize music technology.
Read more at www.acloserlisten.com
TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Pere...
2021-05-301h 00
Sound PropositionsEpisode 18: INTO THE UNCANNY VALLEY - with Roger Tellier-CraigThis episode features a wide-ranging conversation with Montreal’s Roger Tellier-Craig, known for his work with Fly Pan Am, Godspeed, Le Révélateur and others. In 2019, Fly Pan Am released C'est ça, their first record in 15 years, but their 2020 tour plans were derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Tellier-Craig discusses his fascination with music as a studio art, the unexpected creative opportunities presented by quarantine, and the hyperreality of our present in which our fragile sense of reality seems poised to collapse at any moment.
Interview recorded in Montreal, May 2020
Produced and mixed in Montreal, March 2021
2021-03-111h 00
Sound PropositionsEpisode 17: BEFORE THE INTERNET - with GENG PTPIt’s been a tough year for New York. This episode we check in with Geng, the man behind one of our favorite labels, Purple Tape Pedigree, and see how these fine “purveyors of weaponized media and information” are handling the pandemic and the uprisings. With live performance no longer an option, the model of mutual support demonstrated by a crew like PTP is all the more important. Geng tells us about the history of PTP, the benefits of peer-support, community activism, and why it’s more important now than ever to understand hip hop as spiritual music.
Intervi...
2021-02-1958 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 16: FREEDOM TO DESTROY - with Esther B.Esther Bourdages is an art critic, radio journalist, independent curator, and musician based in Montréal. She is an improviser of extraordinary sensitivity, bringing a playfulness to her tactile manipulation of vinyl records, sometimes outright mishandling them. This freedom to destroy is indicative of a resistance to structure and formalism, but Esther’s work can’t be easily dismissed as some sort of exercise in catharsis. Instead her approach to live improvisation is raw and expressive, and cultivated over decades of ongoing exploration. Much of her recent studio work is for radiophonic diffusion, often based on field-recordings and with a pol...
2021-01-2153 min
Sound PropositionsMusic for Insurrection [bonus]Dedicated to George Floyd
....
I. every precinct an autozone
II. a new world from the ashes of the old
III. fuck12
IV. minnesota nice
V. this aint a riot
VI. 8'46"
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I lived in South Minneapolis for 4 years, most of that time in an apartment building on Chicago Avenue and 39th St, just a block from the intersection where police murdered George Floyd.
Music for Insurrection is a sound collage, blending field-recordings I made in South...
2020-12-0459 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 15: EIDOLONS - with Kassel JaegerKassel Jaeger, once little more than a mysterious German moniker producing captivating music for our favorite boutique labels, has since been revealed to be François J. Bonnet, composer, philosopher, and now director Ina-GRM, France’s legendary center for electroacoustic research. No longer shrouded in mystery, his prolific output has lost none of its power. In the last year he’s released some of the best records of his career, including collaborations with Jim O’Rourke and Stephen O’Malley. Having grown accustomed to hearing Bonnet’s voice as host ofFrance Musique’s L'Expérimentale, it was a trip to have the op...
2020-11-261h 00
Sound PropositionsEpisode 14: LISTENING THROUGH MIMAROĞLU - with Serdar KökçeoğluWe sit down with director Serdar Kökçeoğlu in Istanbul to discuss the 2013 Gezi Park protests, how the sounds of the city have inspired his work as a film maker, and how composer İlhan Mimaroglu was inspired by the activism of his wife, Güngör. Kökçeoğlu has recently completed his first full-length feature film, Mimaroğlu. Going beyond a biography of Turkey’s most famous composer, the film explores İlhan and Güngör’s relationship and the cross-pollination between avant-garde music and radical politics.
Plus an Istanbul scene report, a special mix, and...
2020-11-0930 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 14: ISTANBUL EKSPRES mix [bonus]This mix accompanies the LISTENING THROUGH MIMAROĞLU episode, featuring director Serdar Kökçeoğlu discussing his work and the Mimaroglu project in particular. I originally had in mind a second episode with interviews with other musicians I met while in Istanbul, but for a variety of reasons not everyone was comfortable speaking for audio, or we were otherwise unable to find an opportunity to record. Of course there are also linguistic barriers. Save polished corporate aesthetics for the professionals, this podcast is more interested in something else. So instead I present İSTANBUL EKSPRES, a bonus mix of music from Ist...
2020-11-091h 09
Sound PropositionsEpisode 13: OUTSIDE THE BOX - with Die SchachtelAfter a longer delay than intended, the Sound Propositions podcast is back. I’m very pleased to finally share this conversation with Bruno Stucchi, graphic designer and co-founder of the Die Schachtel label. Stucchi reflects upon the evolution of the label, the suppressed history of Italian experimental music, and the continued importance of big ideas.
Die Schachtel is a partnership between Bruno Stucchi and Fabio Carboni, who met online in the peak of eBay record collecting, before Discogs and social media convinced us that there is nothing new under the sun. They exchanged records and, more importantly, th...
2020-10-271h 01
Sound PropositionsEpisode 12: MAKING YOURSELF DISAPPEAR - with Alvin CurranAnd now for the big finale. Alvin Curran has been at the forefront of challenging musical convention for over half a century. His work has pushed back against the institutional stranglehold on culture, encouraging anybody to make music, anywhere and with anybody. A dominant tendency in his oeuvre has been finding new ways to activate spaces and cultivate active listening and music making. His recent sound installation Omnia Flumina Romam Ducunt serves as an entry point into a wide-ranging discussion encompassing many aspects of his long career.
This episode features mainly compositions by Alvin Curran. A large p...
2019-10-081h 24
Sound PropositionsEpisode 11: RURAL FUTURISM - with Beatrice Ferrara & Leandro PisanoThe Liminaria festival ran for five editions between 2014 and 2018, culminating with a collateral event in Palermo as part of Manifesta 12. Based in the rural micro-region of Fortore, the frontier between Campania, Molise, and Puglia, Liminaria offered residencies and public presentations in which visiting artists worked with local residents to apply sound art methodologies to the unique geographies of this territory. Curators Beatrice Ferrara and Leandro Pisano take this period to reflect upon the successes and challenges of working in the rural south of Italy with virtually no budget, the important solidarities between the south of Italy and the Global S...
2019-09-1758 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 10: EXPLAINED SOUNDS - with Raffaele PezzellaMany of our readers responded enthusiastically to the Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese music compiled by the Unexplained Sounds Group in 2018. Earlier this year, I reached out to label founder Raffaele Pezzella (Sonolygyst) to discuss his label, his radio show, his solo work, and why he keeps digging for unheard artists.
We had a great chat, discussing his interest in dark ambient, conspiracy theories, and the technical pursuit of sound. I am also really into this playlist, if I don't say so myself. (You can hear the mix without the interview and vocal fades if you support this...
2019-08-2955 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 9: WHO CARES IF YOU DEEP LISTEN? - with Longform EditionsAndrew Khedoori of the Preservation label talks about his latest series, Longform Editions, featuring compositions designed to encourage deep listening. Very much organized against the prevailing streaming ecosystem which encourages short tracks and distracted listening, Longform Editions has released 32 works and counting. The interview is set entirely against selection from the series, often playing out for much longer than I usually would give a single track. The final selection is the sole exception, a meditative piece from Deep Magic released on Preservation.
Longform Editions isn't necessarily interested in being overly prescriptive, dictating how we should or should...
2019-08-091h 05
Sound PropositionsEpisode 8: GREYFADED - with Joseph Branciforte (& Theo Bleckmann)Greyfade is a New York based label founded by Joseph Branciforte, dedicated to releasing high-quality physical and digital album length works of art. Greyfade's inaugural release is the aptly titled LP1, a collaboration between Branciforte and the acclaimed vocalist Theo Bleckmann. In this episode, Branciforte discusses why Greyfade is emphasizing HQ downloads via their own web store and eschewing streaming services, why he regards launching a label as an extension of composition, collaborating with Theo Bleckmann, and working with max/msp as a performative tool.
For fans of improvised music, lush textures, heavenly vocal harmonies, sub-bass frequencies...
2019-07-191h 01
Sound PropositionsEpisode 7: IN THE SOUTH - with Mai Mai MaiThis episode features a deep conversation with Toni Cutrone (best known as Mai Mai Mai) delving into all the various facets of his career. On the occasion of the release of his latest LP, Nel Sud, we met to discuss his southern Italian and Mediterranean roots, the rediscovery of Italian music from the 70s, and the difficulties (and joys) of running clubs and a cultural association in Italy's capital. Cutrone draws an implicit link between the same eclecticism that is on display in the Roma Est neighborhood he calls home with the ancient links of circulation which unite diverse...
2019-06-181h 15
Sound PropositionsEpisode 6: MUSIC SELDOM HEARD - with SEC_Sound Propositions features conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. This series tries to take the emphasis away from the ‘what’ and shine light on the ‘how’ and ‘why.’ Each episode combines interviews with music, field-recordings, and experimental sound design.
MUSIC SELDOM HEARD explores the intersection of the production and dissemination of music, probing questions of media, form, and feedback from the perspective of a musician and organizer. Earlier this month I attended the final event of the third...
2019-05-2258 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 5: B SIDES - with Dinzu ArtefactsSound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.
This episode features Joe McKay, profiling his label Dinzu Artefacts. We talk about his previous label, Spring Break Tapes!, his own artistic practice (as Monte Burrows), the importance of listening to the quotidian, and the persistence of physical media in an increasingly digitally mediated world.
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2019-05-031h 03
Sound PropositionsEpisode 4: GOING HOME AGAIN - with Forest ManagementSound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.
This episode features John Daniel, a Chicago-based musician best known for his ambient solo project, Forest Management. I caught up with him from his childhood home in Cleveland over the holidays. We discuss his latest LP Passageways (inspired by his childhood home), his influences, how his approach to music has changed, his new imprint Afterhours, and the importance of place, space, and community.
2019-04-161h 03
Sound PropositionsEpisode 3: ROBOT, TEACH US TO GROOVE - with Efraín RozasSound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.
This episode features Efraín Rozas, Peruvian-born, Brooklyn-based performer/composer and robotics/software developer interested in new paradigms of cognitive technologies and mythologies. He leads the psychedelic salsa group La Mecánica Popular, fusing groove-based Latin music with electronic and experimental explorations. Rozas' Myth and Prosthesis series utilizes software programming and robotics to produce sound installations and music, utilizing Latin American influences and modern t...
2019-03-2257 min
Sound PropositionsEpisode 2: DANCING ON THE HYPHEN - with Phillip JohnstonSound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.
This episode features saxophonist and composer Phillip Johnston, known for his work with genre-bending jazz ensemble The Microscopic Septet, the Beefheart tribute Fast 'N Bulbous, and as the composer of silent film scores. Johnston moved to Australia over a decade ago, but NYC still feels like his home turf. We were both back in town last November for Thanksgiving, and we met to discu...
2019-03-051h 01
Sound PropositionsEpisode 1: (PRESENCE, or ) A METAPHYSICS OF ABSENCE – with Resina & Lea BertucciSound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.
The inaugural episode of our new podcast, Sound Propositions, features interviews (with Resina and Lea Bertucci) and field-recordings recorded during the 2018 UNSOUND festival in Krakow, Poland. (You can read my review of the festival here.) The theme of this year's festival was "Presence," and so that became the point of departure for my interviews, particularly the ways in which absences can also...
2019-02-121h 01
Sound PropositionsSound Propositions - IntroThe introduction to Sound Propositions, which changes slightly with each episode.
2019-02-1201 min
howlartsJoseph Sannicandro / Stefan Christoff at Holograms + Sounda live set by Joseph Sannicandro (@thenewobjective) / Stefan @spirodon Christoff at the Howl! event Holograms + Sound that took place in Montreal in Dec. 2018. this event includes synths / acoustic guitar / bells / piano samples and field recordings, including an excerpt of a speech by Michel Chartrand from the film '24 heures ou plus' by Gilles Groulx, also Stefan Christoff talking about a deportation from the U.S.
this live recording by Joseph Sannicandro @thenewobjective, edited by Joseph and @spirodon
2019-01-0113 min
howlartsjoseph sannicandro + stefan christoff live on radio ckutlisten to a live duet sound-scape presented on CKUT radio on Dec. 30, 2015, a collaboration between Joseph Sannicandro on synth / electronics and Stefan Christoff on acoustic guitar.
these recordings include sounds from transport zones across the world, including Minneapolis, Montreal, Vancouver, Mexico City, Rome, NYC and beyond. also sounds from a New Jersey printing press factory where Joseph's father worked for decades. listen to these sonic meditations on work, time, transport and the beyond.
2015-12-3023 min