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well folks, we’ve made it to the end of another year – this is framework’s last edition for 2023; we’ll be back with edition #872 in the second week of january. in the meantime there are 43 other shows from this year (perhaps you missed one?) up on the framework website, and 4 editions of framework:seasonal published this year on our bandcamp page – plenty of listening to tide you over during our winter break. and as it’s the season of giving – perhaps this is a good time to pick up a copy of one of those releases, for yourself or maybe as a present for a friend, or maybe this seems like a good time to finally become a framework patron? it would certainly be much appreciated, as we will be relying on listener contributions to get us through another year (our 23rd!) of broadcasting. go on! we know you care!

so we are closing out our year with a dense show of great sounds by new (to us) artists and old favorites: we took our first (of many, we’re sure) listen to uk artist fletina, along with a first appearance by the alien kin collective, a project curated by diane barbé. we heard a second album by christina giannone, and new(ish) releases from framework regulars ben link collins and kate carr. also self-released work by belgian artist raphael malfliet, sounds from the aporee maps, and an intro recorded near crosby, tennessee, in the great smoky mountains (and not in canada, as i mistakenly announce in the show) by james bailey.

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first, an announcement: framework:seasonal issue #15, autumn 2023 has been released! featuring new unpublished works by leslie keffer, standard grey, alexandra spence, and post doom romance, now available for streaming and purchase from our bandcamp page:

https://frameworkeditions.bandcamp.com/album/framework-seasonal-issue-15-autumn-2023

we think this one sounds really good, and we’re very excited to present it to you, as we achieve our goal of releasing 4 issues this year. we are very proud of the sounds we were able to put out there in 2023, by alëna korolëva, blanc sceol, annette krebs & peter cusack, samuel kudjodzi, doug haire, jo montgomerie, ben link collins, xiang, yen-ting hsu, steve peters, pablo diserens, nula.cc, and now these 4 new names to our series – all artists who have appeared in the program, all making their first appearance on our framework editions imprint, and all contributing new works in support of the program. if you haven’t heard them, go and check them out! you don’t have to spend a penny to hear all these amazing works, but we do appreciate any support you can offer to help keep framework on the air.

meanwhile, a long, dense playlist this week featuring some new and one older release, some self- and unreleased works, some physical and digital releases, with sounds from the u.s., ireland, cambodia, portugal, belgium, namibia, finland, france, uzbekistan, the uk, and probably more… i even permitted myself to play for you some sounds from my own new release (under my moniker murmer); a digitally self-released collection of site-specific works created on the island of vartiosaari in helsinki for an environmental land-art exhibition there in 2017. go and check it out! there are links streaming opportunities for all the releases featured in the show in the playlist below.

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we are very excited to announce that we are making the final preparations for our last issue of framework:seasonal or the year, issue #15, autumn 2023. we set out to actually release 4 issues this year, one for each season, which seemed to make sense, given the series’ name, but we’ve never managed it before, and frankly, we may never manage it again. but once, at the very least! and what a strong finish it is – we are extremely excited about issue #15, which features 4 absolutely stunning new works, by leslie keffer, post doom romance, standard grey, and alexandra spence. we hope to have this issue ready for you in the next week or so, and we hope, nay, we are certain, that you will be as excited about it as we are. stay tuned for more info soon, or keep an eye on https://frameworkeditions.bandcamp.com/!

meanwhile, in our shows the sounds themselves are definitely becoming more autumn-y; with 4 new releases, all available in both physical and virtual form, and all streamable (for the time being) from the bandcamp links below. we’re hearing artists from the uk, france, croatia, and italy, on labels from greece, the uk, germany, and france, along with aporee map selections from austria, ghana, belgium, and taiwan. we began with an intro from the uk, and finished with the sounds of greek cicadas recorded by a belgian. curated and mixed for you in estonia by an american with an irish passport. aren’t we just the picture of internationality??

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two new discoveries this week, along with two old favorites – we finally got to michael allen z prime’s bioelectrical music, his 3 disc (plus one bluray) retrospective of 30 years of work with the bioelectric signals of plants and mushrooms, plus the latest work from longtime contributor s. grey/standard grey/christopher olson, a series of geofon recordings at home in nara, japan. these sounds accompanied the wonderful works of lucie vitková, who documented material interactions and improvisations inside several caves in the czech republic, and kris kuldkepp, a new-to-our-ears estonian artist (based in germany) working with sound and technology. our aporee soundmaps selections this week too us to the u.s., slovenia, spain and mexico. and all this began with a framework introduction recorded for us in nottingham, uk by lee thompson (aka dogs versus shadows).

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lots of mixed works in this edition – bipolar explorer’s guitars, thollem & jacek chmiel’s improvisational instruments, daina dieva’s electronic drones – but all use field recordings somewhere in the mix, so here they are, along with jana winderen’s underwater sounds and listener-chosen favorites from the aporee soundmaps, from slovakia, spain, south korea and greece. this all began with a framework introduction recorded for us in zenikow, germany by jo.