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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From Paths, out now on A Red Thread.
All proceeds from this release will go to Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), an organization dedicated to empowering Asians in America and fighting against racial injustice.
https://aredthread.bandcamp.com/album/paths

A performance of ::: The Witching Hour by Nina Sadur

The Witching Hour by Nina Sadur

Finn Loxbo & Karin Johansson - Trace
Yan Tregger - Crystal mind
Molto - Adore
Richard and Duncan Pinhas - De SouRces et de RAVINS
Kevin Richard Martin - Mechanical Chatter in the I.C.U.
Ora Clementi - Ophir
Ron Nagorcka - Maantah (Lone Way/Time)
MMMD - Bouch An Lo
Bruno Nicolai - Mutamenti
Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Genetic Manipulation
Steve Roden - Airria (Hanging Garden) Second Version
Bookworms - Limbo9
Bent Lorentzen - The Sun
Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Computerized
Philipp Otterbach - When The Fish Travels
Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Logic Paths
Del Close & John Brent - Introduction
Hugh Davies - Concert
Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Elements
Valentina Goncharova - Maitreya
Etat Brut - Bruit
ToiToiToi - Die Dosis macht das Gift
Jacques Lasry - Reflets Dans L'O
The Stupid Set - Basset
Sandro Mussida - Rueben
Pierre Henry - III - Bete de la mer
Michel Banabila - E.T.

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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
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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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There's something beautifully soporific about @ylhooi's music. Suspended in a state of constant daydream, the Melbourne-based producer operates from a ghostly realm shared by the likes of Jonnine and HTRK.

Subtle, impressionistic reveries resplendent with dubbed-out minimalism, a captivating debut album navigated a world of elegiac chamber pop. 

Now, ahead of a live performance at Belgium’s Meakusma Festival, Hooi serves up a mix in a similar vein to those haunting arrangements.

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If-Only Podcast #113: YL Hooi

PERFORMANCE AUDIO FROM - STÄDELSCHULE RUNDGANG 2020
with Kristin Reiman & Maïly Beyrens

Photo: Lorraine Hellwig

PERSEVERANCE (with Man Rei & LolitaSk7)

@theory-therapy was live for two hours of ambient, contemporary classical and neo-soul. Tracks from Sophia Zhuravkova, Wata Igarashi and Djrum all inside.

Pablo Diserens - Periwinkles 
Takashi Kokubo – Quiet Inlet
Malibu - Lost At Sea
The Sacrificial Code – Sacrificial Code (live in Hagakyrka)
Sophia Zhuravkova - Tears Falling While Spring Comes
Gigi Masin – If
Midori Hirano – Sleeping Under The Raintrees
Kettel – Halt Him
Paul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo
Soda Lite - An Sí Gaoithe
Yoshio Ojima – Flius
Yasuaki Shimizu – Seiko 3
Tornado Wallace – Healing Feeling
Wata Igarashi – Reflections
Khotin – Dialogue 6
грёзы – Blank Embrace
Boards of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Bartosz Kruczyński – Selected Ambient Projects 1
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Conversations With Myself 1
Long Body – Deep Sea Berth
Eluize – Home
Pablo Color – Waves
Rasmus Juncker – Eksotisk Tirsdag
Djrum – Creature Pt.1
Fia Fiell – Amend
36 – Esper
Eric Morin & Sebastian Gandera – Le Dialogue Des Joueurs De Cartes

Theory Therapy - August 2020

Delsin / Ilian Tape / Midnight Shift / Fleur Sauvage

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