Expanded Radio Research Unit is an independent radio art platform for innovative works at the intersection of music, spoken word, performance and sound to challenge the limits of broadcasting; a laboratory which considers radio as an art form and a practice of experimentation and creation of multiple sonic possibilities and imaginary spaces. The aim is also to interconnect different cultural and spatial spheres and to explore the techno-sociological nature of radio, alongside its heterogeneous practices of artistic production.
Conceived and curated by sound artist Katatonic Silentio, Expanded Radio Research Unit takes place as a monthly residency on Radio Raheem, the web radio located in the iconic Museum of Design Triennale Milano.

Expanded Radio Research Unit - Radio Raheem

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The Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES) was founded in 1957 in Warsaw by the official state broadcaster of Poland. It was launched as a space for the creation of independent compositions, sound illustrations for radio dramas, soundtracks for theatre, film and dance. 
The establishment of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio was brainchild of Włodzimierz Sokorski, head of the Radio and Television Committee. Between 1952 and 1956 he was Minister of Culture, as well as a strong advocate of socialist realism, fighting against any manifestation of modernity in music. 
Created only a few years after similar experimental-oriented radio units in Paris (1948), Cologne (1951) and Milan (1955), under the direction of the Studio's founder, Józef Patkowski, PRES became a laboratory for experimentation. 
Despite this, PRES' output has been underrepresented in the history of 20th century music.  
Photo: Eugeniusz Rudnik and Krzysztof Penderecki at the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio, April 1972.

Wlodzimierz Kotonski - Etiuda na jedno uderzenie w talerz 
Wlodzimierz Kotonski - Mikrostruktury 
Krzysztof Penderecki - Psalmus 
Andrzej Dobrowolski - Passacalia 
Andrzej Dobrowolski - Muzyka na tasme no. 1 
Boguslaw Schaefer - Assemblage 1 
Zbigniew Wiszniewski - Trzy Postruda Elektroniczne 
Zbigniew Wiszniewski - Burleska na Tasme 
Tomasz Sikorski - Antyfony 
Andrzej Dobrowolski - Muzyka na tasme i oboj solo 
Eugeniusz Rudnik - Collage 
Boguslaw Schaefer - Synfonia na tasme 
Bogdan Mazurek - Bocetti 
Bogdan Mazurek - Esperienca 1 
Bogdan Mazurek - Esperienca 2 
F.B. Mash - Biala Noc
? - ?
Wlodzimierz Kotonski - Aela
Wlodzimierz Kotonski - Tierra Caliente
Eugeniusz Rudnik - Mobile
Eugeniusz Rudnik - Ptacy I Ludzie
Krzysztof Knittel - Robak Zdorbywca
Krzysztof Knittel - Granice Niczego

Expanded Radio Research Unit: 40 Years Of Polish Experimental Radio From Studio Warsaw

Radio Raheem

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On the occasion of the reissue of her 1984 album The Divine Punishment, today Expanded Radio Research Unit dedicates the entire episode to Diamanda Galás through a selection of her outstanding works. 
Diamanda Galás is an American musician, singer-songwriter, visual artist, and soprano and activist. Her commitment to addressing social issues and her involvement in collective action has made her concentrate on themes such as AIDS, mental illness, despair, loss of dignity, political injustice, historical revisionism, and war crimes. 
Belonging to a very particular field of contemporary vocal research and performance art, she uses the voice as an instrument and enriches it by interweaving the technical with the expressive.
Galás has presented mainly her own work, but her live performances have also included works by other musicians, such as the avant-garde composers Iannis Xenakis and Vinko Globokar, jazz musician Bobby Bradford, saxophonist John Zorn, and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, among others.

Expanded Radio Research Unit - Diamanda Diamanda Galás' Finest

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Vladislav Delay - Rakka
Format: LP/DGTL
Cat.No. CR11
Pre-order: bit.ly/35ZwaBQ

It’s been 5 years since “VISA”, Sasu Ripatti’s latest release under his iconic Vladislav Delay moniker. Time of the study, of exploration and reconstruction, a time in which his sound, his methods, and practice have never ceased to evolve. It is now time for a new release which he titled Rakka, and it only makes sense for it to find a home on Cosmo Rhythmatic.

Ripatti makes it very clear that Rakka is not a ‘nature recording’, though it is inspired by the time he spent in the wilderness above arctic circle and tree lines, and the feelings and thoughts that traversed him while there. The music on the album is thus directly inspired by the arctic tundra: the elemental struggle to survive or thrive, the living creatures’ fight for existence. The raw, undefined, uncontrolled and uncorrupted power that exists within it.

Ripatti remakes these values into music, in monumental yet humble forms. Reductionist though not minimal, setting each part to prove its meaning, stripped from the meaninglessness of hooks and melodies. Sounds feel like carved off the flesh, leaving the bones bare. Beats emerge as ripples, as the motion of isolated forces, thwarting with the icy textures and backgrounds and trembling with strenuous energy.

A truly extreme ecosystem of sound, unleashed in the album as much as in the new Vladislav Delay live set, visually given life by Ripatti’s wife, artist Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF).

Written and produced by Sasu Ripatti
Artwork by LCR
Graphic Layout & Type by Pasquale Ascione
Mastering & Cut @ Dubplates & Mastering
Publishing by Warp Music LTD
© Cosmo Rhythmatic 2020

Vladislav Delay - Raataja (CR11)

Cold Blow excavate a melancholic, machinist soundscape from Croatia's Robert Merlak.

'Finomehanika' is out July 1st on Cold Blow.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2UZ3bex

@cold-blow-records

Premiere: Robert Merlak - Pao MD [Cold Blow]

A companion and a friend, Undveld guides through a path of piercing heights and desolate, barren plains. Every peak of emotional distortion seems physical, each pulled string heartfelt and raw. The young Lithuanian artist has amassed an extensive discography of experimental electronic work released on offworldcolonies, Perfect Aesthetics, static motion including others, his talent in production marked by deeply sensitive compositions and dynamic structures. It is safe to assume that there is much discovery to be made on the artistic and personal journey with Undveld. 

Amulet of Tears 002: Undveld

Music: @undveld

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 002: Undveld

https://hkcr.live/shows/dead-inside-podcasts-presents-sounds-of-a-post-apocalyptic-landscape-by-anti-shift-23-11-2020

Dead Inside Podcasts Presents ｜Sounds of a Post Apocalyptic Landscape by Anti Shift - 23/11/2020

A special live radiophonic performance composed with worldwide AM and FM radio frequencies manipulated in real time trough modal and granular synthesis techniques. 
Organized by Radio Raheem, FOG, Triennale Milano, Triennale Milano Teatro.

Expanded Radio Research Unit - Live Radiophonic Performance

One hour of horrorcore with noisy and creepy voices, in order to highlight the beauty of violence of those sounds mixed at different bpms, starting with 100 Bpm to 200 Bpm.

Marwa Belhaj Youssef - 05 November 2020

Delsin / Ilian Tape / Midnight Shift

Bookings: katatonicsilentio@pm.me

linktr.ee/katatonic_silentio