Sound Propositions

Episode 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
 Asyncr...

This 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 for...

Produced 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 - Botani...

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...

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

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 awa...

Jessica 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. Mos...

Gianmarco 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....

Kranky 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...

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...

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...

The 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 - O...

Produced 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: su...

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 Gr...

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 i...

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...

Produced 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...

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 h...

The 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 epis...

Maria 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....

Patrick 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...

We 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...

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-ep...

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...

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....