Sound Propositions

Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 March 2025 - with Mariana Berezovska, Nastya Syradoieva and Giorgi Kikonishvili (extended version)

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist:

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 Deviat...

Ukrainian 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 ...

The 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 ...

Negativland 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 recontextu...

Ukrainian Field Notes - 16 October 2024 - with the North Azovian Greek NGO Надазовські греки

Matana 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 scen...

France 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...

Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 July 2024 - with Ostap Manulyak

Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 June 2024 - with Lostlojic and Clasps

C. 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 in...

AGF 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 inter...