several contrasting strategies in this week's show: we hear pristine unaltered (but skillfully organised) natural sounds by martina testen and simon šerc, whose nocturnal forest recordings were gathered over 10 years in slovakia and italy; memory-driven collages of human activity by the great brunhild ferrari, who tells us: “this piece […]

this edition has been produced in belgium by flavien gillié, using recording made on his recent travels in japan. producer's notes:

I struggle within capitalism, surrounded by the accumulation of objects, microphones, recorders, yet always holding onto the promise I make to myself to move beyond them, to keep them […]

so what have we got in show #950 - a spectacular upcoming release of industrial textures (out in a few days on november 14th) from the great helen scarsdale agency by manchester-based jo montgomerie (the release page isn't up yet on their bandcamp page, so we've just listed the label and […]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in the united states by steven sherrill. producer's notes:

Employee Handbook is a tripartite sound project. The background, the sonic fabric holding it all together, comes from a summer week of recording the decay of a dead grackle. One mic inside the bird […]

i mistakenly announced that this week's intro was recorded in the united states for some reason, je ne sais pas pourquoi, as we are very clearly in france, so sorry about that. perhaps it was because the french café-goers were quickly transported into the cicada drones of missouri, as we […]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in ireland by slavek kwi, aka sonoent00, aka artificial memory trace.

Contains: opening with Angelus (recorded from Soundctuary Cappaduff, Eastern Clare, Ireland), following with section of “netflickerings” (field recordings from virtual environment of Netflix “teasers”), AI synthetic voice simulator sonification of human communications […]

2025 was declared the international year of glaciers’ preservation by the united nations. to celebrate this decision forms of minutiae has published a series of albums dedicated to glaciers and the acoustic multiplicity of the ice; we've heard one or two already in past editions, and this week we explore […]

this edition of framework:afield, entitled windodrone, has been produced in toronto, canada by james bailey. producer's notes:

This is an unaltered - apart from editing for length and normalization for level - recording made from my bedroom window one afternoon in mid-August 2025. There was a noticeable drone of unknown origin (possibly […]

we took a look at our submissions pile this week and decided to focus on collaborations - we could do 3 or 4 shows with this focus actually (and maybe we will!), but we made a small selection of recent submissions featuring one-off collaborations in which one or both artists are […]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in south korea by ian-john hutchinson. producer's notes:

Fringe listening_Tsushima x Boreumdo

In the last 6 months I have had some opportunities to travel to a couple of islands in the region around Korea where I am living. The first was Tsushima which  […]