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

Aloïs Yang
MLMC Part 0. (Recorded at SSI 4DSOUND System)

Devendra Banhart feat Allen Ginsberg
Milarepa Taste

Limpe Fuchs
Deep Water

Lia Mazzari & Tom White
The Unending Attraction of a Crowd

София Губайдулина
Vivente-Non Vivente

Schlippenbach Trio
Butaki Sisters

Anthony Manning
ipp.2

Chik White
Metal Desk

K.S. Eden
Still Beats

LIAM O'GALLAGHER
Border Dissolve In Audiospace

TOM MUDD
Gutter Synthesis 1

MANUEL PESSôA DE LIMA
Presenting Yourself

DEEP DIVE SOUND
Time For Rainforest Enclosure

UPPERGROUND ORCHESTRA
Hephaistos

GIOVANNI FONTANA
Epigenetic Poetry (extract)

CHRISTINA KUBISCH & ANNEA LOCKWOOD
Streaming, Swirling, Converging ‎

HERALDOS NEGROS
Amydrós

CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN
Just

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Cosa può un corpo? Un progetto di Phase
Registrato live
02.07.20 Confine
23.07.20 Relazione
NAM – Manifattura Tabacchi – Firenze
https://ppphhhaaassseee.com
Cosa può un corpo? è un progetto di ricerca e un tentativo di riflessione attorno all’idea di corpo in quanto essere pensante e capace di agire.
Si sviluppa in una forma ibrida di audio-conferenza: restituisce all’ascolto interventi di numerosi artisti, filosofi e musicisti, letture, interventi audio, musica, field recordings in un continuum spazio temporale pensato per gli spazi esterni della Manifattura Tabacchi, trasformando il tutto in un installazione sonora.
Nessuna dicotomia artista/pubblico, lo spazio di fruizione e di azione coincidono. Tutti i corpi che attraversano lo spazio della Manifattura nelle due ore di durata della performance si equivalgono: ognuno potrà dare la propria risposta.
Cosa può un corpo? è composto da due sottoinsiemi intersecati in un unico punto, il corpo: CONFINE e RELAZIONE.
Cosa può un corpo? Parte 2: Confine
interventi di:
Marco Valerio Amico, Luca Camilletti, Tiziano Cancelli, Vittoria Ciolini, Massimo Cittadini, Massimo Conti, Dj Balli, Marco Donnarumma, Stefano De Ponti, Stefano Di Trapani, Guildor Gallo, Lorenzo Giorgi, Matteo Grilli, Francesca Matteoni, Tessa Moroder, Bertram Niessen, Federico Nejrotti, Riccardo Papacci, Ludovico Riviera, Luka Sposato, Giulia Tomasello, Laura Tripaldi, Gabriele Tosi, Chiara Vacirca, Emmanuele Jonathan Pilia, Katatonic Silentio, Alessandra Tempesti.
PHASE
Il collettivo PHASE è progetto artistico e curatoriale indipendente con base a Prato (IT).
Si identifica in una proposta di arte-totale effimera, privilegiando la cifra espressiva dei suoi componenti, legati all’unisono da un’istintiva comunione d’intenti: la coscienza di vivere un continuo presente.
L’ obiettivo predominante di PHASE è allargarsi e diffondersi organicamente, scoperchiando nuovi vasi di Pandora per svelare una realtà già preesistente. La necessità si delinea sul diritto-dovere di prendere coscienza, in campo artistico e sociale, del momento storico attuale, riconquistando un futuro negato, riappropriandosi del presente.

Expanded Radio Research Unit w/ PHASE Collective: Cosa Puo' Un Corpo? Part 1: CONFINE

Marcello Giombini - Amnesi (extract)

Bo Anders Persson - Piece I
 
Invisible Noise Monasticism - Righteous Disappointment  

David Shea - The Red Chapel 

Deva Oval - Iliya An  

BJ Nielsen & Stilluppsteypa - Svefnlaus # Somnlos
 
Umberto Boccioni - Primavera (Performed By Vittore Baroni) 

Ilhan Mimaroglu - Hyperboles 

Jos Smolders - Plate 2 

Deva Ovel - Ippocrate, Metodica 

Mylan Grygar - Acoustic Drawings II 

Devid Ciampalini - Il Colore E La Luce 

Sara Berts - Anoche 

David Shea - Tuning 

Ned Lagin - Seastones 66
 
Malvern Brume - Caught In The Exhaust Trails 

Jos Smolders - Plate 6
 
Lieven Martens Moana / Dolphins Into the Future - A Treatise On Hot Water 

Robert Worby - Stumble Bum Junk Heap 

Urusulia, Fulmedesh, Intersección, Disuelto, Criadero en Seres,  Sofía Zeta, Rapo - Inspiración, Instancia, Situación, Intersección 

Maria Teresa Luciani - Exploring The Village 

Luis Delgado - El Giaour 

Boyd Rice And Friends - An Eye For An Eye 

Jos Smolders - Frontispiece
 
Pholas Dactylus - Concerto Delle Menti (Parte 1) (extract)

Muslimgauze - Saladin Mercy Gun Aramaic 

Marcello Giombini - La Partenza (extract)

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Monobeat Original - Uhu

Spectro Duo - Lajevard Excerpt 2

Chloe Yu Nong Lin - Unacclimated

Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Meira Asher, Guy Harries - Chrysanthemum Haradjani

Kink Gong - Kink Epplay

白水 Baishui - Stranded

Sunroof - 1.6 - 7.5.19

Krzysztof Penderecki - Quartetto Per Archi

Joseph Doumet - Collage 2

Lea Bertucci - Threshes

梁奕源 LiangYiYuan - The Confucian Pleasure Puppet

Suemori - Mekashikomu

LOG - LOG 10

Ross Scott-Buccleuch, Sigrtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Andrew Sharpley - Mirror Caught On Fire

Bruno Maderna - Syntaxis

16 iuly a.m. & atouck - RE-cycle

Intersystems - Pedestal Park

Christine Ott - Todeslied

Wayne DeFehr - Prelude for Twisted Piano and the Whitemud

Takuma Watanabe - Text

Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron

Blackthread - I Try Not To

英水帝江 Yingshui Dijiang - 大乐

Louis Crelier - Scorbut

Two or The Dragon -  Prelude for the Triumphant Man

Pauline Anna Strom - Tropical Rainforest

Suuri Shamaani - VIII

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Expanded Radio Research Unit 08

Diamanda Galàs - All The Way

Pye Corner Audio - Tone Intervals

Pye Corner Audio - Quadratic

NeoTantrik - Second Action

Mark Vernon - Timbrado (Transport Training)

Michèle Bokanowski - La Femme Qui Se Poudre

Mark Vernon - Neulichtenfelger Straße

Sculpture 05

Sculpture 06

FUJI|||||||||||||TA - B2

Patrick Belaga - Slowly

Carlos Casas - Avesta

Henry Kawahara - Sound LSD

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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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Videodrome:
Welcome To Videodrome
801 A-B
Slow Burn
TV or Not TV
TV Passions
Pins And Needles
Long Live The New Flash

Naked Lunch:
Naked Lunch
Hauser And O’Brien/Bugpowder
Mugwumps
Centipede
The Black Meat
Simpatico/Misterioso
Fadela’s Coven
Interzone Suite
William Tell
Mujahaddin
Intersong
Dr. Benway
Clark Nova Dies
Ballad-Joan
Cloquets Paradise/Midnight Sun
Nothing Is True; Everything Is
Welcome To Annexia
Writeman

Crash:
Crash
CiniTerra
Mechanism Of Occupant Election
Mirror Image
Where’s The Car
Sexual Logic
Road Research Laboratory
Mansfield Bower
Chromum Bower
A Benevolent Psychopathology
Two Semi-Metallic Human Beings
Triton
Accident…Accident…
A Crushed Convertible
Prophecy Is Dirty And Ragged

Expanded Radio Research Unit→ Soundtracking of Cronenberg’s Videodrome, Naked Lunch and Crash

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A circle of the “Imagery Archive” chapters, another gusset of the on-going research that has been presented, following other devices (laptop solo performance and A/V live), at PArS - Murate Art District and Dancity Festival. What’s next? With contributions by A Distant Shore, Ernesto Longobardi, Francesco Toninelli, Giovanni Alibrandi, Leonardo Melchionda. 

Demetrio Cecchitelli is a prolific musician and composer mainly active in the field of research music. Released worldwide on numerous labels and web-labels such as Healing Sound Propagandist, Whitelabrecs, Élan Vital Recordings, Luminance Records, among others.

E.R.R.U. pres. IMAGERY ARCHIVE | PLAY IT LOUD! COLLECTIVE ASSEMBLAGE by Demetrio Cecchitelli

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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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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

Baudouin Oosterlynck - Résonances
Yannis Kyriakides - Wordless
Steve McCaffery - Names For Cricket
Sammartano - Porta Paterna
Mark Leckey - In This Lingering Twilight Sparkle
International Noise Orchestra - Bum Bum Krach (Hommage À Adele Sandrock)
Roberto Musci, Chris Cutler, Jon Rose, Claudio Gabbiano - 10.40
Seijiro Murayama, Éric La Casa - Part 3
Shaun Robert - Nyagrodha
Praed - The Last Invasion
Aurelia Zhuang & Fahmi M. - Doux et Sonore I
Palo Alto featuring Richard Pinhas, Thierry Zaboitzeff (Art Zoyd), Alain Damasio, Rhys Chatham - Triptych (Gilles Deleuze est mort)
Yas-Kaz - Relation Between Bisons, Bananas And Rods - The Previous Night
Sigillum S - Voodoo Inside Anxiety Spins Like Contraband Prank Principles
Svetlana Maraš - V
Christina Kubisch & Annea Lockwood - Streaming, Swirling, Converging ‎
Heraldos Negros - Amydrós
Charles Amirkhanian - Just

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Delsin / Ilian Tape / Midnight Shift / Fleur Sauvage

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