Expanded Radio Research Unit is an independent radio program dedicated to sound experimentation and the exploration of radio as an artistic and cultural space. The program moves between music, spoken word, performance, and hybrid sonic practices, questioning the very boundaries of radio as a medium and offering a reflection on sound as a tool for imagination, connection, and transformation.

Expanded Radio Research Unit considers radio as an acoustic and social ecosystem: a space where cultures, aesthetics, and transmission practices meet. Each episode becomes a listening laboratory where sound is at the center of a research process that spans geographical territories, artistic languages, and symbolic dimensions.

The aim is to create bridges between different spaces and contexts, connecting voices, stories, and sonic forms that challenge the conventions of traditional radio communication. In this perspective, radio becomes a performative and communal medium, capable of activating imaginary soundscapes and giving voice to artistic practices that are often marginal or non-codified.

Expanded Radio Research Unit is therefore not just a program to listen to, but an experience to immerse in: an acoustic-curatorial proposal that invites the listener to rediscover radio as a critical and sensitive space.

Conceived and curated by Katatonic Silentio, Expanded Radio Research Unit is a monthly meeting at Imbarchino Del Valentino and is streamed on RBL Torino.

Expanded Radio Research Unit

Sound Art/Field Recordings 2

6 K-attiva

live performance

Drone (ID)

MAP09
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/aeroplanes-puddles

“This recording is based on a particular geographic area of Sydney: the industrial zone around Sydenham Train station. As with many inner city industrial areas in large cities all over the western world, this place is ripe for redevelopment. However, in this case, due to the zone being directly underneath the flight path to Sydney airport, as well as being flood prone due to environmental factors, unscrupulous property developers are not able to completely gut the place and erect hideous apartments. What is interesting to me, and what this recording aims to capture, is that these factors – the aeroplanes and the puddles – act as a form of resistance to the development.” (MP Hopkins) 

MP Hopkins is a hidden treasure from Australia, a sound artist known for his varied music projects and strange mix of lo-fi urban field recordings and intimate bedroom experiments. Sonic details of empty streets from close neighbourhood, subtle intervention and fragments of lonely voice comments are reminding distinctive forms of sound journalism or a diary for night adventurers. Aeroplanes & Puddles follows the previous Traipse - Marrickville (2015) album which is Hopkins's starting point for his walks along the Sydney suburb. 

Mappa presents the sonic evidence of this opposition; the non-human voices of resistance that the aeroplanes and water speak with in this acoustic environment. The work features field recordings of the area garnished with a text narrated by Hopkins which combines fragments of the 2017 Australian Federal Budget speech and parts of ‘The Powerhouse’ – a radio play by Richard Packer (Gargoyle Poets series, 1972).”Feel free floating in the holy sound voyeurism and thorough collection of evidence from the other world at the same time. 

released February 7, 2018 

recorded, mixed and mastered by MP Hopkins 
artwork and design by Jakub Juhás, Richard Čecho 
photos by Nina Pacherová 
released by mappa as MAP09 in 2018

Aeroplanes & Puddles

part 1

part 2

Tokyo Phonographer Union at the Fernandes House, Yokohama, Japan
World Listening Day, July 18 2021
Live stream (archive): https://youtu.be/AdL5gNT6jYo

Part 1:
Marcos Fernandes, Hiroshi Shimizu - percussion
Haruo Okada - Real time soundscape

Part 2: (in order of appearance)
 CarlStone, Haruo Okada, Marcos Fernandes, Hiroshi Shimizu - phonography

Technical support: Hideki Giga Oikawa

Live at the Fernandes House, World Listening Day 2021

Expanded Radio Research Unit 14

Through intense introspection and a DIY approach to sound, Richie Culver taps into the loose, potent energy of the after party, capturing the feeling of discovering worlds thought impossible in cigarette smoke and shitty speakers.

https://www.factmag.com/2023/01/16/fact-mix-891-richie-culver/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 891: Richie Culver (Jan '23)

Budnikaitė is a Vilnius based visual artist and the co-founder of Insurgency, a label and podcast series focusing on the depths of beat-driven underground industrial and experimental expression of sound. 

She is an honest musical enthusiast, attracted to the bizzare and unorthodox sounds, and constantly inspired by the 80s DIY underground cassette movements. Her introduction to music started at early childhood with her mother being a musicologist, this affected her deep concentration and effort into understanding the complexity of sound. 

Nowadays Budnikaite is the head of curating Insurgency and an occasional DJ looking to explore the hardly visible barriers between contemporary club music, downtempo beats and leftfield.


• https://soundcloud.com/1121212211112121221221/
• https://www.instagram.com/urttttttte/
• https://www.facebook.com/urthh/
• https://soundcloud.com/insrgncy
• https://www.instagram.com/insrgncy/
• https://insrgncy.bandcamp.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/insrgncy/


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#urtebudnikaite
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#mixtape
#Insurgency
#set
#break
#Vilnius
#lituanie
#downtempo
#breakbeat
#krautrock
#acid

Comme Des Larmes invite Budnikaitė

Budnikaitė

Supynes Festival 2014 mix series

You can find the event here:
on.fb.me/1iYN9sl
See you 2014-06-26-29!


Miksas yra dedikuojamas nuostabiai Pakretuonės gamtai, šnabždančioms sąmanoms, pušų dvelksmui bei visoms post-reivinėms akimirkoms, kuomet malonaus nuovargio apimtas žiūri į skaidriai stikliniame ežero paviršiuje atsispindinčią oranžinę mėnesieną. 43 minutės skambesio, persunkto medžių šlamėjimu bei organiškais triukšmais.

The mix is dedicated for the beautiful natural surroundings of Pakretuonė, the soft whispering of moss, the smell of pines and all the post-rave moments when you look to the crystal clear lake surface reflecting the orange Moon. 43 minutes of sound infused with tree rustling and organic noises.  

Tracklist:

1. Paper Dollhouse "Rituals in Devon Folklore" (excerpt)
2. Dalhous "Eros, Love and Lies"
3. Paper Dollhouse "Swans"
4. LCC "Quarz"
5. Main "Reformation"
6. Ensemble Economique "Radiate Through Me"
7. Auburn Lull "Blur My Thoughts Again"
8. Stara Rzeka "Nachtlich Spaziergang Durch Klinger"
9. Tor Lundvall "Orange Moon"
10. Secret Boyfriend "Summer Wheels/Mysterious Fires"


Paulius Ilius - Special for Supynes Festival 2014 //3

Comme Des Larmes welcomes Luísa Leão is an artist, psychoanalyst and cultural activist based in São Paulo, Brasil, who performs under the name of Blasfemea. Since 2018 she has had the opportunity to
create multicultural experiences through the d.i.y label Darq Distro.

Her intention behind her research is to rescue and update musical memory by mixing different genres and rhythms from different periods, especially within the spectrum of punk, techno, ebm, industrial, among others.

• https://soundcloud.com/blasfemea
• https://www.instagram.com/blasfemea___/
• https://soundcloud.com/darqpunx
• https://www.instagram.com/darq___distro/
• https://darqdistro.bandcamp.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/darqpunx
• https://linktr.ee/lvisaleao
• contact: luisareisdeleao@gmail.com


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#blasfemea
#luisaleao
#darqdistro
#mix
#idm
#commedeslarmes
#cdl
#newbeat
#mutant
#mutantradio
#electronicmusic
#leftfield
#industrial
#balearichouse
#minimalsynth
#techno
#leftfield
#electro
#ebm
#ambient
#mixtape
#darqsp
#set
#break
#br
#saopaulo
#downtempo
#breakbeat
#punk
#acid

Comme Des Larmes invite Blasfêmea

Blasfêmea - DARQ

from the album suikinkutsu no katawara ni released by winds measure.

Lawrence English - Shinjuku Semi

FREE

Lawrence English - Semi Kyushu Japan

Comme Des Larmes welcomes: Sophie C. Kübler has worked extensively in the music industry over the past nine years including a five year working period in Berlin for agencies like Geist Agency and HYTE.

Moving 2017 to Mexico City she became account manager for Boiler Room Latin America, co-founder of Yu Yu nightclubs in Mexico City, and curator for NSNS Magazine. Since the beginning of 2021, Sophie has been studying Audio Engineering in Frankfurt and is particularly following the topics: new technologies in film sound, history of film sound, audio culture and 3D audio for film and media productions. 

She has worked for BOOM Library as Sound Designer and is currently part of Cinematic Media in Mexico City as Sound Editor for film and series under supervision of Martin Hernandéz. Under the synonym S(GBA) she publishes small parts of her artistic works.

Driven by the forces of music, sound and curation, S(GBA) —short for Steve (German By Accident)— believes in music as the key to perpetual wonder and soulful expansion. Her musical project is both culmination and ongoing discovery: as a cultural producer and collector of music, spoken word, literature, sound-design, field
recordings and storytelling, each of S(GBA)’s works are maps to intimate journeys where worlds meet, collide and reconcile. S(GBA) is also inspired and informed by multiple locations which include Berlin and Mexico City each of them representing a crucial figure in her own creative development.

• https://soundcloud.com/nsns_magazine
• https://www.instagram.com/germanbyaccident/
• https://www.instagram.com/nsns_magazine/
• https://nsnsmagazin.cargo.site/
• https://www.facebook.com/nsnsmagazine
• https://linktr.ee/sgba


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#podcast
#sgba
#germanbyaccident
#nsnsmagazine
#nsns
#mix
#idm
#commedeslarmes
#cdl
#newbeat
#mutant
#mutantradio
#electronicmusic
#leftfield
#industrial
#balearichouse
#minimalsynth
#techno
#leftfield
#electro
#ebm
#ambient
#mixtape
#set
#break
#frankfurt
#germany
#downtempo
#breakbeat
#punk
#acid
#experimental

Comme Des Larmes invite German By Accident Pres. NSNS

NSNS | S(GBA)

Sonoplastiko: An Audio Visual Consultation by Nandele 

Concept:  Sonoplastiko is a sound performance, an audiovisual show of experimental electronic music, and "ambient music". However, the main focus is on sound and how it can be manipulated in a synthetic, or digital, and analog perspective, taking into account the acoustics of the space. 

The performance is compiled with field recordings of urban Maputo the capital Mozambique, plus field recordings from certain parts of Europe, airports, Ikea and others such as dialogues recorded in cassettes from Mozambican journalists and novel writers. 

Artist Bio:  Nandele is one of the most innovative beat makers,sound artists, producers and DJ coming from Mozambique. He is at the forefront of the alternative and experimental music scene with his mix of bass heavy Boom Bap instrumentals, Ambient, Techno, Ebm, dubstep, trap, psychedelic hip-hop beats and the makonde rhythms of Northern Mozambique. 

The son of the first black director of the Mozambican National Radio after the country's independence, this is where he gets his musical background listening in his early age to a vast musical catalog raging from Michael Jackson to Fela Kuti, from Kanda Bongo Man to Santana and Marvin Gaye, which he incorporates it in his beat making. 

A prolific producer and writer, Nandele has written music for contemporary dance performances, films and has a number of band projects including: Cantinho das Cores, The Mute Band (who won best new band at the Mozambican Music Awards in 2016) and Azagaia & Os Cortadores da Lenha. He has collaborated with artists such as Felix Laband (RSA), Dion Monti (CHF), Symbiz (DEU) and Boogz Brown (REU), African Ghost Valley(CAN). 

He has graced stages at some of the biggest festivals in Southern Africa: Afropunk Johannesburg, MTN Bushfire Festival in Swaziland, Azgo Festival in Mozambique. His first E.P. Argolas Deliciosas and his first full length album Likumbi was released through Mozambican independent label Kongoloti Records, he has released Eps/cassettes through label Inserttapes in Sweden (Blu Kidz), Already Dead Tapes 
and Records in Los Angeles (Plafonddeinst) and Cotch International in London (FF). Nandele is also member and founder of an audio-visual group Muave he is part of the Miss collective that recently released a multi-disciplinary performance called Degradação (Re)Generativa, he is part of international collective called Proximal Distal who had recently a residency and will release a publication and a vinyl. 

Nandele has remixed tracks for Dubokaj meets Lee Scratch Perry project and Mothers of Mars, and as producer for Tresor 30 compilation along with techno pioneers (Jeff Mills, Dj Stingray), established and upcoming artists around the world and he is part of artist roaster of Tresor Records as well. He has produced a jingle which was a collaboration with ASAAS Collective from Palestine for Radio Alhara, where he is constantly collaborating and his live performances and mixes are broadcasted. He has produced for the Original Soundtrack for the comic book informais created by Anima Studio Criativo. 

Nandele believes through his music he can do the unimaginable... communicating and taking us on his journey to try to communicate with other planets... 

Tracklist
1 -  Moon Palms(Antada Flute Edit)
2 - OP010
3 - IKEA
4 - Sou Plastiko(Meu Lugar)
3 - Incomati
6 - Estas Trocado
7 - Leaving a Dream
8 - MA118

• https://soundcloud.com/nndle
• https://www.instagram.com/nandelemaguni/
• https://nandele.bandcamp.com/music
• https://www.facebook.com/nandelemaguni


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#nandele
#orokoradio
#commedeslarmes
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#minimalsynth
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#ebm
#ambient
#Mozambique
#africa
#downtempo
#breakbeat
#acid
#sounddesign 
#soundfiction 
#psy

SONOPLASTIK

Comme Des Larmes invite Nandele

NANDELE

ANNA [ALL NIGHT FLIGHT TAKEOVER] [27.12.2023]

Expanded Radio Research Unit - June 2025

Expanded Radio Research Unit - Music From The Middle East

Expanded Radio Research Unit - Field Recordings and Natural Soundscapes From The World

Expanded Radio Research Unit - Healing Sounds, Chants and Meditation

videogamemusic - Golf

from BDR004 "Pteris variata"
www.biodiversitarecords.bandcamp.com/album/pteris-variata

Lygodium Hydrophyllum (BDR004)

øsej - [ soundcloud.com/ambient_techno ]

TL: 
SLV - Melancholy Dreams 
SLV - Night Stars 
SLV - First Day In The City 
SLV - Mirage 
SLV - Sky 
SLV - January 31 
SLV - Forest Voices 
SLV - Dust 
SLV - This Cold Night 
SLV - Away 
Skoll - V 
Aleja Sanchez - Circinus
Shlømo - Minotia
Shlømo - Ivory

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bandcamp - www.hellostrange.bandcamp.com
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Our releases

øsej - hello strange podcast #378

Grime n Bass club splinters from the longtime HEEL.ZONE collaborator and Ultracare founder @bladeblanc

Tracklist:
01. Bitch Ain’t 1
02. Fake Signal

Recorded, Mixed and Produced by Bladeblanc
@bladeblanc
Mastered Giancarlo Brambilla
@kuthijinani
Graphic design by Gianluca Lonigro
www.gianlucalonigro.net
Produced by HEEL.ZONE

© 2019 HEEL.ZONE RECORDS
www.heel.zone | heel.records@gmail.com
license

BLADEBLANC - FAKE SIGNAL

Flaty - live on c- TV

Second and final chapter of Prisoner of the Self, the novel-reflection forged by Katatonic Silentio, reinterpreted & scream-reworked by the subterrestrial squad formed by Stenny, ZULI, Walton, Herva, Kinlaw & Franco Franco
Five and one chain reactions auto-industrial approach tunes, committed in this world spinning on the way to ruin.
The “condition of suspended animation" experienced in a trivial way, the collapse of a civilization, a conclusion of dystopia.
New movements are bound to be born, we see beyond their disguise, we can rightly evaluate our dilemma, realize our modern condition, and mobilize further to avert the true catastrophe, whose shapes we’re already witnessing.

Title : Prisoner of the Self remixed
Artists : Stenny, Zuli, Walton, Herva, Kinlaw & Franco Franco, Katatonic Silentio
Genre : IDM, Breakcore, Experimental, Electronic
Catalogue : BNC006
Format : 12" Vacuum cage packed and insert, 300 copies violet numbered

Mastered by Analog Cut mastering studio
Artwork & Sleeve Design by AnchorE
Distributed at RWDFWD

Katatonic Silentio - F.A.X. (Walton Remix)[Bristol NormCore]

Kicking off the "2021 Season@ of #NormCoreAttitude on @NoodsRadio.
We are happy to have with us @nothusworld, the man in charge of the extreme southern Italian label @xcptmusic, he will be introduced by the tightrope walker and BNC head OddShyGuy.

1st Hour Odd Shy Guy
Artist/Track Name

HLM36 - Cèlèbration du Coq
Jay Glass Dubs - Daria Dub
N-vert - Downspin
Pugilist & Mystik - Misty In Roots
Civilians - Hypho
Keleketla! Coldcut Tony - Shephered Song (Ehua Remix)
Jv & Palf - Nyx (KRLSD Remix)
Last Life & Homemade - Dagger
Red Army - Mchawi
Katatonic Silentio - Spheres Of Solitude (Kinlaw & Franco Franco Remix)
Lutto Lento - Horned Heart (with Katarzyna Karpowicz)
RDL - Streets (Club mix)
Clara! & DJ Coquelin - Reggaeton Signatures

 2nd hour Nothus
No Tracklist Available

NORMCORE ATTITUDE 14 w/ Nothus & Odd Shy Guy

Delsin / Ilian Tape / Midnight Shift / Fleur Sauvage

bookings: julien@noname.community
others: katatonicsilentio@protonmail.com

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