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wow, the playlist got long this week; i suppose it was a pretty dense show. i got excited to showcase a number of actual hold-them-in-your-hand physical vinyl LPs that have recently arrived here at framework headquarters: 3 from the great fragment factory label, and another from our new friends in moscow at kotä records. and following that stream of consciousness, we also heard some unrelated moscow sounds from a free online release, along with sounds from germany, japan, czechia, taiwan, and from the recent protests in romania. […]

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possibly our first ever intro recorded in china, along with sounds from peru, taiwan, greece, chile, hong kong, the united kingdom, italy, slovenia, denmark, and the minor outlying islands of the united states. phew, quite a journey! almost all the releases in this week’s show are available as downloads, many of them for free, so browse the links below to hear more. […]

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this week’s show contains some new works alongside some older pieces dug out of the submission archives. many of the works this week are available as free downloads from the artist or label, so if you like it, check the links below in the playlist. all this began with a framework introduction featuring petanque players in a small village in brittany, france, sent in by regular contributor barry cullen. along with donations, we also need intros! so why not send both! […]

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happy new year, folks! we’re back with the start of our 2017 broadcasting season, just as winter properly descends on us here in estonia. as temperatures dipped down to almost -20C i found myself unconsciously gravitating towards summer sounds: lom’s soundscapes of summer release by izabela dłużyk and green field summer storms release by chris lynn. also some seaside sounds in our intro and our aporee soundmaps selections; and we’re pretty sure roosters can’t crow like that in -20C. we also enjoyed some more abstract ‘field recording’ techniques, as ariel guzik’s long-string cordiox constructions resonate with the ambient sounds of their environments. […]

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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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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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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. […]