Originally broadcast on 2022/02/19 on CiTR 101.9fm in Vancouver, Canada. Show hosted, produced, and mixed live by Raghunath Khe (@RaghunathKhe).

An improvised and intuited flow of organic electronic nu-gaia vibrations - eclectic structures, lush layers, and benevolent static - soundtracking the convergence of spirit and the technosphere.

Featuring tracks from these talented composers, musicians, and producers:

Ochre - Weak Transponder
Djimboh - Ukiyo
Monkey Safari - Opus
Deepness, Ignacio Berardi, Jessica Zese - Rise
PAAX - Djorolen (Themba's Herd Extended Remix)
Adassiya, Bakean, David Abitbol - Mon Amour
Woob - Recreational Waves
Jon Hopkins, Ram Dass, East Forest - Sit Around The Fire
Sarah Davachi - Doubled Flutes
Raghunath Khe - Brahma Muhurta Chorus

More episodes and info on website: http://mantraradio.ca

CiTR radio's studios are located on unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. http://citr.ca

(Artwork: _ seconds apart here _ by Raghunath Khe / 2022)

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Tracklist
 
01, Fields We Found - Reach
02. Ian Hawgood - Felds
03. Forest Robots - Somewhere In The Early Morning Forest Mist
04. The Humble Seaman - Small fires were reflected in her eyes
05. Halftribe - Reform
06. James Osland and Andrew Heath -The Space Between Happiness And Sadness 
07. Danny Clay - Ocean Park I
08. Steve Pacheco - Unfolding
09. Nebel lang - an sich
10. Valotihkuu - Song Of The Rain

294. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

This episode is a composition titled ‘I couldn’t find any trees…’

As is often the case, I sat down at my iMac to build it from recordings I’ve made since release of the previous episode. Yesterday, I walked to a relatively remote ocean beach south of Sydney with my partner, one of my sisters, her husband and their two adult daughters, celebrating one of their birthdays.

As people have always done on shell grit beaches, we chatted and combed through the crunchy underfoot fragments in search of tiny treasures of form, texture, pattern and colour. 

One of my nieces focused on collecting from the millions of tide-tumbled shards a handful of sea urchin spines, all a deep maroon-violet-blue. As her gather developed, she commented on the beautiful micro-acoustic glass-like sounds the tiny rods made as they knocked against each other in her palm. 

So, I recorded that tiny sound and use it here as the field for the following sonic sketch - it’s the tumbling tinkling tones randomly rolling under the first ten minutes.  

Other sounds encountered in this meander from forest to street via beach, classrooms and non-existent virtual spaces are:

water dripping in a sandstone cave in a recently flooded forest, 

a student drawing with contact mic attached to a pen and the signal diverted through a delay pedal,

a small rubber ball being rolled around inside an old square biscuit tin,

the rhythm of an ad hoc drawing machine in one of my experimental drawing classes,

some noodlings with miniature keyboardless synthesisers,

and, from the weekday streets of Redfern on Gadigal country, labourers taking down scaffolding 15-storeys up one of the many residential tower blocks being built like so many artificial cliffs and mountains on this age old hill top.

68 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - I couldn't find any trees

Under The Power Lines: Étude for AM Radio, Power Lines, Sferics and Ultrasonics
bluetung.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-power-lines

A 28 minute aelectrosonic composition, with a 36 page risographed book of accompanying text and image + CD.
⏚ releasing August 24th ⏚

Under The Power Lines [excerpt]

Opera site-specific esposta al Bunkervik di Brescia in occasione della collettiva Sine. Sfruttando il principio delle onde stazionarie si pone il fruitore nella condizione di poter interagire con l'instalalzione senza l’ausilio di sensori, bensì con il solo porsi in ascolto in diversi punti dello spazio.

Standing in Waves

Sound of musical performance during the STeC NeXT exhibition on the 2nd of april 2022

Performance Stec Next 02 - 04 - 22

Stop this train. I can't get off. As in a nightmare the hamster wheel just keeps on going. But what if I just "check ud"?

Surrounding Sound

Togstation

The calm water has grown restless. The anxiety slowly increases, have you felt it lately?

Springvand Algade 31

If you listen closely, then maybe you can hear the magic..

Klosterparken

The Cathedral is already linked with many audio associations. The big holy sounding spacious church! But what if we used the pompous organ in a more modern clubby setting? And made the church choir more minimalistic? Something to fit the masses today.

Domkirken

a province of space

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'Room Tone Paintings' - 2021
Tape / album on Altered States Tapes
@altered-states-tapes

'Music for Our Dying Earth' - 2020
LP / album on .jpeg Artefacts
@jpeg-artefacts

'The Reserve' - 2019
Tape / album on .jpeg Artefacts

Elm Records is an independent record label specialising in ambient and experimental music.

Organic. Electronic. Nu Gaia.

In the beginning there were low-lit 3am FM radio broadcasts with tape loops, turntables, poorly mic’d hand percussion, copious analogue delay, and numerous talented dj’s + other guests, many of whom have long since gone on to earn great due repute worldwide. This was 1992.

Through multiple incarnations of shows, many of which were situated on the crystalline frequencies of the ever-pertinent bastion of soundness, CiTR 101.9fm, the evolution of this perpetually evolving channel currently manifests and maintains as Mantra Radio.

There is _an_ unfolding, not cliche at all actually, and one way it’s known, lived, and celebrated is through the subtle language of sound vibration. There is a coming together around this, an expansion of the vocabulary, a sharing of experiences, a higher connection. Lineages great and small can be traced of the beings who have contributed to this beautiful conversation. Mantra Radio, and it’s preceding forms, were and are interested in supporting such transmissions and the people who sculpt them.

As the binaries of organic and technospheric, spirit and soil, converge and dissipate, we are engaged in soundtracking this continuously new’ing paradigm. We sometimes use the term nu-gaia to capture this concept. We invite you to share in the benevolent static. A shifting sum of sculpted vibrations formed by the minds of many gifted composers, appositely curated and hosted by Raghunath Khe (@raghunathkhe)

Mantra Radio airs live every other Saturday 5 – 6pm (PST) from the studios of CiTR 101.9fm in Vancouver, Canada. http://citr.ca

Schedule is available at http://www.mantraradio.ca/live-broadcast-calendar

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sonic sketchbooks is a podcast series about sound art, art music and field recording hosted by sydney-based artist gary warner

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