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well folks, we are fast approaching the end of our 2025 production year – we’ve got one last edition of framework:afield coming up next week, then one more regular edition the week after that, and then we’re off for a few weeks of relaxation – just kidding, we’ll be off for a few weeks of running around like a lunatic attending children’s seasonal music school concerts and school holiday parties, receiving overseas family visitors, searching for those elusive stocking stuffers, and trying to find that one annual bottle of good scotch we allow ourselves for our own little bit of wintry pleasure. but fear not! we’ll be safely back in the studio (we hope) in the new year to have edition #957 safely in your ears by january 18th. can you wait that long? if not, there’s plenty in the archives to keep you going through the long cold dark nights.
and for what it’s worth, if these words are putting you in the holiday spirit, maybe now is the time to show framework you care. we’ve produced 40 editions in 2025 – almost 40 hours of your absolute favorite radio, but over the course of the entire year, our patreon campaign has only inched 2% closer to our funding goal – 2% and 2 patrons gained over the course of 1 year and 40 shows. “that can’t be right, can it?” i hear you asking yourself. well, it doesn’t have to be right – you still have a few weeks to make those numbers look much like a christmas present and much less like a lump of coal. https://www.patreon.com/frameworkradio – you know what to do!
this week’s sounds are somehow so warming, so comforting, they seemed right for the onset of winter. although there’s no longer any snow on the ground here, it’s been grey and rainy forever and we haven’t seen the sun in weeks. meanwhile the days, for the next few weeks, are still getting shorter. so this one is for evening listening with a hot beverage, although, thanks to david vélez, it might make you a little hungry too. david’s release was created by a collective of immigrant artists and cooks living in the uk, and through a combination of food sounds and musical performances, it honors the resilience of diasporic communities as they challenge racism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination. the musicality of food sounds underscores the political significance of food for immigrant communities in the uk.
meanwhile, alexandra spence‘s work is composed from a constellation of materials gathered across sites and seasons – sound materials were sourced from serge modular systems, a custom lyre built by tim wall, amplified objects, handmade electronics, and spence’s own field recordings captured within rockpools, beneath sand, and among a flock of sheep in the french pyrenees. we also heard jiyeon kim‘s suite of three soundscape compositions created during a month-long stay in italy in the summer of 2012, using recordings of wires, wind, rain, trains, birds, streams, bells, sheep, windows and pulses; and lea bertucci‘s constructions from location-recorded wind instruments, voice, reel-to-reel tape and field recording manipulations. all this was accompanied by our latest collection of listener-chosen favorites from the aporee soundmaps, and a framework introduction recorded for us in france by regular contributor richard bentley.
[time / artist / track / release / label]
00:00 – 08:05 / richard bentley / framework introduction, recorded in france
https://www.anoisysilence.com/
04:36 – 12:10 / alexandra spence / the frequency of a leaf / your whistle tells of landscape / students of decay
https://alexandraspence.bandcamp.com/album/your-whistle-tells-of-landscape
08:51 – 20:24 / jiyeon kim / trentino / italian wire suites / ash international
https://jiyeonkimreleases.bandcamp.com/album/italian-wire-suites
12:35 – 20:29 / peter cusack / very sloppy thames waves on old stairs / london, uk / aporee soundmaps
https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=70354
15:29 – 22:44 / lea bertucci / oracular chasm / the oracle / cibachrome editions
https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/the-oracle
20:27 – 29:50 / david vélez / equatorial latitudes / capsicum – music against racism / marginal frequency
https://marginalfrequency.bandcamp.com/album/capsicum-music-against-racism
23:14 – 27:48 / alexandra spence / a spiral / your whistle tells of landscape / students of decay
https://alexandraspence.bandcamp.com/album/your-whistle-tells-of-landscape
25:03 – 30:29 / lea bertucci / the place where the sky was born / the oracle / cibachrome editions
https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/the-oracle
29:39 – 39:41 / alfa00 / birds feeding feat. angelus / soundctuary cappaduff, ie / aporee soundmaps
https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=62755
34:11 – 51:50 / jiyeon kim / tufo / italian wire suites / ash international
https://jiyeonkimreleases.bandcamp.com/album/italian-wire-suites
37:24 – 48:28 / david vélez / factories / capsicum – music against racism / marginal frequency
https://marginalfrequency.bandcamp.com/album/capsicum-music-against-racism
41:43 – 47:32 / georges castagne / au bord du lac / aix-les-bains, fr / aporee soundmaps
https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=70271
45:52 – 55:35 / lea bertucci / two way mirror / the oracle / cibachrome editions
https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/the-oracle
47:29 – 57:21 / alexandra spence / with mountain / your whistle tells of landscape / students of decay
https://alexandraspence.bandcamp.com/album/your-whistle-tells-of-landscape
56:58 – 59:00 / jéssica matos / cetep UESB(pássaros) / vitória da conquista, br / aporee soundmaps
https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=70322