#579: 2016.12.18

well folks, we’ve arrived at the end of another year of framework programming, our 15th, to be precise! we finish this year with a bit of self-promotion, but who can say i don’t deserve it? this week, tomorrow, in fact (from the time of my writing, not necessarily your reading) my new album, my first solo vinyl lp in over 15 years of releasing music, is released to the public by the great gruenrekorder record label, who avid listeners of the show will undoubtedly be very familiar with. songs for forgetting is almost 10 years in the making, and i am very, very excited that it is finally seeing the light of day, and i hope you are too. copies of the vinyl are available from gruenrekorder or directly from me, and the label also has a cheaper digital download version available if you’re not a fan of the vinyl (and i know some of you are not). i hope you’ll listen to the album, and let me know what you think!

so my own horn was tooted alongside some other superb releases, another extremely timely one (we don’t even have a physical copy yet) being stéphane marin’s unfathomless debut. also some older works: a self-released jeph jerman cdr from 2009, another unfathomless release (this one by philip sulidae) from 2014, and some self-released mike kramer works that span a few years, all available on his bandcamp page.  all begun with an introduction recorded on elephanta island in india by regular contributor martin clarke. […]

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#577: 2016.12.04

our second-to-last regular edition before our annual winter break – featuring three recent physical and digital releases, along with another selection of recent favorites from the aporee soundmaps. again, several of them are marked as ‘anonymous’, which just means the uploader hasn’t registered a username on the maps, and, while i could guess at the names based on the provided email addresses, i’d rather not risk getting them wrong. so if any of these anonymous recordings are yours and you’d like to be credited correctly, just let me know. […]

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#575: 2016.11.20

several recent arrivals that i’m really enjoying here at the moment: his first appearance on our airwaves, id m theft able’s no was, if i understood correctly, a live on-air radio performance, using electronics and elements of the studio itself (field recording? why not?) which was created over the course of the recent u.s. election night (which is as close as you’ll ever see framework to being political). and kiyoharu kuwayama (aka lethe) has produced one of those very rare things – a release that sounds beautiful while also being a beautiful object: a lathe-cut clear 10″ vinyl record in a hand-painted sleeve, a reminder as to why we shouldn’t turn our backs on physical releases. we also partake of a series of recordings from an australian cricket ground (martin kay), some environmental-instrumental duets (tamtam), a work from the recent radio revolten radio art festival (absolute value of noise), and an intro recorded in the united arab emirates featuring, not playing children, but white-handed gibbons. […]

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#573: 2016.11.06

we try to make space for all the (appropriate) submissions we receive on our airwaves, but the pile of cds in our studio keeps getting taller, and the folder of files on our hard drive keeps getting bigger. of course we’ll never succeed in playing everything, especially since we tend to focus on only 3 or 4 releases per show, but please know, we do try, and we never throw anything anyway! as evidence of that, we present this week’s show, featuring one submission from 2014, and one from, wait for it, 2005! ok ok, it’s not really a submission from 2005, but it’s a release from 2005, submitted to us a few years later, but regardless, it’s been waiting a long time. so if you’ve submitted material in the past and it hasn’t yet made it into a show, please don’t be offended, and certainly don’t be disheartened – send us a little reminder to say you’re still waiting and listening, or send us something newer instead, and we WILL get to it. […]

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#571: 2016.10.23

no sooner have we begun describing estonian autumn than winter hits with a bang – october 25th and the ground is already white with snow! will it last is the next question, perhaps autumn will return…

meanwhile our aporee soundmaps segment provides us with some decidedly un-wintery sounds this week, with south african dawn choruses, australian spring winds, american wildlife… we are also following an unusual boat, inhabited by the two artists who are kg augenstern, on a trip from berlin to paris, which has been decked out with long antennae (‘tentacles’) to ‘play’ the bridges that it passes under along the way. and we return to an older work that we never got to by one of our favorite artists, as mark vernon presents us his static cinema. we also sample the first sounds to land on our airwaves from belarus, from the haze netlabel, some collaborative sounds by peter kutin, florian kindlinger and christina kubisch, and a documentation of a performance in poznan, poland by uro ruro, recorded by monika pich. […]

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#569: 2016.10.09

autumn is falling here in southeast estonia: leaves are no longer green and frost is coming. lots to do to prepare for winter – apples to gather, firewood to stack, last mushrooms to hunt… autumn prevails in this week’s show, if not literally in the recordings, then somehow in the mix. stay warm and enjoy.

mode analogue starts us off with a wonderful framework introduction recorded in cambodia; alan courtis, from argentina, has collaborated with the american artist cyrus pireh to extract sounds from a bottle of malbec wine; mblackwell constructs a collage of his spanish field recordings; jana irmert presents her debut album of field recordings and vocal textures; dawn scarfe contributes her chapter to simon whetham’s corollaries series of collaborative works from estonia; michael gebel brings us some found sounds and moments from his immediate environment; and the aporee soundmaps provide us with another set of recent favorites, including our first ever recording from the united arab emirates. […]

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#567: 2016.09.25

the return of our aporee soundmaps segment, plus our first framework introduction from hong kong, along with some previously unreleased water compositions by eric la casa, a one-sided new year’s eve 7-inch from russia, a not-so-new collaboration between jason kahn and asher, some anthropocene installation sounds from finland, and a recent release from the prolific celer. […]

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#565: 2016.09.11

settling back in after our summer break, this is our first regular edition since july. some lovely recent releases, including two of flaming pines’ latest set of tiny portraits, a collection of compositions made from recordings of the historical machines at bletchley park in the uk (matt parker’s the imitation game), a stunning single field recording sent to us by new contributor world listener, and a dense and complex framework introduction recorded for us by ami wilson, aka kassia flux, who has this to say about it:

…a blend of servo motors and vacuum relays from electron microscopes, liquid nitrogen dewars (pouring and clanging), rotary pumps for glow discharge, and a centrifuge. I use the microscopes to look at tiny motors that propel the swimming filaments of archaea and bacteria for studies in evolution. […]

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#563: 2016.07.31

so, this is our last show before our annual summer hiatus – we’re taking the month of august off to rest and recharge our ears (and pick mushrooms). we’ll be back with the first new show of the autumn season on sunday, september 4th. in the meantime, to fill the gap, maybe now is the time for you to start playing around with our experimental eternal streaming players, which are incomplete and not up to date, but will still play you a random selection of past framework shows forever if you press play. just click players in the menu above.

but before you do that, enjoy this one last fling, digging back into the to-play pile for some discs that have been waiting some time. so sit back and enjoy them, and we’ll see(/hear) you in september! […]

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#561: 2016.07.17 [world listening day]

this week we celebrate world listening day 2016. world listening day falls each year on july 18th, the birthday of canadian composer, listener and thinker r. murray schafer, creator of the term soundscape and founder of the world soundscape project. we’re featuring a selection of his works, along with some spoken word. also, a long form dawn chorus recording by eric leonardson, head of the world listening project, and a selection of recordings from past years’ world listening day soundmaps over at the aporee soundmaps. […]

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#559: 2016.07.03

the summer schedule pushes on, as we return from one road trip and begin preparing for the next. we should start preparing you, dear listeners, for our annual summer break: as usual, we will be taking the month of august off from new programming to recharge our batteries and our ears. still several shows left before that happens, though, so fear not. along with several regular editions you can look forwards to framework:afield editions produced by blanca rego and jason sloan, and our annual observance of world listening day. in the meantime you can sit back, relax, and enjoy this week’s collection of sounds. […]

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#557: 2016.06.19

this show constitutes something of a travel diary – on june 9th i had the privilege of traveling to hamburg, germany to experience and perform at the blurred edges festival. i took an extra few days after my own performance to see some others and meet some old friends (and make some new ones) and i came home with a nice collection of sounds (from other artists as well as my own recordings). i have built this show from a mixture of the sounds i received as gifts (some by people present, some not), other releases by people i spent time with there, or, in the case of the intro, a sound i recorded myself. there were a lot of folks involved, so this show is quite dense, but i think the density reflects the whirlwind few days spent amongst great people. […]

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#555: 2016.06.05

all the fives this week – that won’t happen again until the controversial edition #666 sometime in 2019, if we make it that far. a long, long list of great sounds for this edition, but we’ve got a few other things to mention first: this week is wgxc’s (broadcasting in the upper hudson valley, new york state, usa) annual pledge drive. wgxc makes amazing radio, and they are our only fm partner station in the u.s., so they really deserve your support. if you value hearing things like framework on fm(!) go and show them you care:

https://wavefarm.org/wgxc/donate
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