#861: 2023.10.08

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.

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#854: 2023.07.16

i’m going to keep this verty short, as, full disclosure, i’m 2 hours away from pushing bags and children out the door to begin a two week family journey to the united states. shows for the next few weeks are done in advance, and i’ll be sweltering in the new england sun (or drowning in the new england rain). this show, we think, sounds great, we hope you enjoy it too.

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#771: 2021.10.03 [joão castro pinto]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in portugal by joão castro pinto. producer’s notes:

This radio show is divided in 3 sections, the first dedicated to phonographic and environmental composers, the second to the electroacoustic music composers and the last to experimental composers / performers “freely” working with field recordings. The main purpose of this program is to present an itinerary of different possibilities of composing with field recordings, from the more mimetic to the more abstract points of view, ideally demonstrating that there are distinct approaches to soundscape composition and that the World Soundscape Project is just one of multiple ways to understand and artistically figuring the soundscape. […

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#749: 2021.03.21 [willem sannen]

this edition of framework:afield, entitled mixtape #1, has been produced in belgium by willem sannen. for more information see https://soundcloud.com/willemsannen. producer’s notes:

Over the years some field recordings or sound works stayed with me. I tend to replay them which I normally don’t do. I usually listen to an album or a recording once, in full concentration and don’t come back to it. I have the same thing with movies: I don’t see a movie twice. Even the ones I really adore. It has nothing to do with adoration, but everything with not spoiling that first experience. However some field recordings I do revisit and Mixtape #1 is a selection of some of those.

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#715: 2020.05.24 [d. l. lutz]

this edition of framework:afield, entitled, ‘earscape: freeze’, has been produced in berlin, germany by architect, writer, sound artist and regular contributor d. l. lutz. producer’s notes:

“It does not get any colder than this… The world has frozen over, and you are standing in the middle of this wilderness – minus forty degrees, and plenty of strange noises around. Ice produces some of the purest and most intriguing sounds, some of them do not sound natural at all.

“We start and end that show with improvisations on ice instruments by a Norwegian jazzer. In-between, you hear thermal cracks on frozen lakes, calving glaciers, breaking icebergs, falling slowflakes, the howling of wind in glacier crevices, and also a couple of frost-resisting animals like seals, seabirds and whales surfacing in the Antarctic. Enjoy the journey to the coldest regions of the earth!”

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#701: 2020.02.16 [d.l. lutz]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in germany by architect, writer, sound artist and regular contributor d.l. lutz: “This is heavy weather! You better wear your best outdoor gear – warm and windproof… All these recordings are about storms – and to capture the energy of air proves to be a difficult task, but there are great recordings, some of which I want to present to you. So I invite you to listen to window joints under air pressure, to staircases, creaking trees in forests, creaking sailing ships, to the howling songs in building scaffoldings, to flagpoles, lonely animals on unprotected meadows, slamming doors and the rude open sea… And I invite you to get lost in bad weather, while you comfortably sit in your armchair with a pot of hot tea.”

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#661: 2018.11.11

quite a long playlist this week, with a lot of new sounds we’re excited to present to you: felix blume’s installation of wind-and-sea-played flutes in thailand, jana winderen’s latest compositions with oceanic sounds, a 2nd batch of cassettes from philip sulidae’s hemisphäreの空虚 label (anyone know how to pronounce that?), and a first release from ben link collins’ new alabama field label. […]

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#286: 2010.05.30

http://media.blubrry.com/1474243/www.archive.org/download/2010.05.30FrameworkRadio/Framework_May_30th_2010.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:00 — 78.3MB)Subscribe: RSSmy last day in tallinn after our tuned city pre-event (http://www.tunedcity.net); the final performances in a large old waterplane hangar space, which is certainly one of the most extraordinary man-made acoustic spaces i’ve ever experienced, went very well.  maybe we’ll get some of the…

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#285: 2010.05.23 [dave armstrong]

http://media.blubrry.com/1474243/www.archive.org/download/2010.05.23FrameworkRadio/Framework_May_23rd_2010.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:00 — 78.6MB)Subscribe: RSSthis episode of framework:afield was produced by dave armstrong, in the united states. it is the first of a four-part world listening project-curated set. for more information about the world listening project, visit: http://www.worldlisteningproject.org. dave says: Each of these four episodes comes with a…

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#239: 2009.05.24

http://media.blubrry.com/1474243/www.archive.org/download/2009.05.24FrameworkRadio/Framework_May_24th_2009.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:00 — 78.3MB)Subscribe: RSS a couple of announcements/requests to make this week:  first, the podcast.  as of this week framework is using a new podcast feed, hosted at feedburner.  the previous feed address will continue to work for the time being, but we are asking all podcast…

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#227: 2009.02.22 [jim siegel]

http://media.blubrry.com/1474243/www.archive.org/download/2009.02.22FrameworkRadio/Framework_February_22nd_2009.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:00 — 78.3MB)Subscribe: RSSthis edition of framework:afield has been produced in boston, massachusetts, usa by jim siegel, aka ning nong, of ning nong radio on boston’s 90.3fm wzbc.  for more information see http://www.myspace.com/ning_nong. Jana Winderen “Mae Taeng” from Surface Runoff 7″ Yannick Dauby – Taiwanese Animal Phonography…

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