sub_ʇxǝʇ is an itinerant platform for research, discussion and sonic knowledge production

Threads*sub_ʇxǝʇ

A medley of diverse researches recorded LIVE in the sub_ʇxǝʇ studio after x2 years of distance broadcasting and collaboration.

*live at* https://threadsradio.com stream II
*later at* https://subtextradio.net

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http://www.nthn.gy/

http://alexhead.com/ricochet/

Dj Schlucht (w Nathan Gray, Alex Head) - Kopf Stein Pflaster 18-Sep-21

Bio: For more than 30 years Finnish musician Pekka Airaksinen recorded what he described as “a new type of devotional music”. Sounding like a hybrid free jazz that incorporates synthesisers and an 808 his work was truly unique. Pekka sadly passed away this May leaving a vast back catalogue of recordings that improviser, DJ and frequent collaborator with Pekka, Iku Sakan, explores, paying tribute to Pekka’s life and work.

Ode to Acu A Tribute to Pekka Airaksinen w/ Iku Sakan (*sub_ʇxǝʇ) - 13-Dec-19

Shanti Suki Osman: Towards a Feminist Pop Music Scholarship 

An urgent discussion of intersectionality, the scope for solidarity between minority groups, particularly amongst and beyond pop music and the academy.

Shanti Suki Osman Towards A Feminist Pop Music Scholarship (*sub_ʇxǝʇ) - 16–Dec–23

LIQUID OBAMACARE w/ Alex Head 
Charting the struggles and revelations of your narrator’s journey through the world of online radio and offline health care provision. The show asks: who or what shapes our thoughts? Join us to listen to a year long process of cultural and spiritual journalism from sub_ʇxǝʇ’s Alex Head. 

  In the United States everyone loves ‘Obamacare’ providing you refer to it by a different name. In the UK people love the idea of Obamacare though they have no idea what it means or entails or how it works. There, in a country where healthcare is rapidly falling to private health workers, small companies and other alternatives, a deep sense of paranoia concerning the quality and appropriateness of a given form of medicine has only just begun. But can broadcasting banishing our woes? Connecting the dots that make up a diagnosis in the sick bay of spaceship earth. Could online radio be the answer to your ailment?   

#Obamacare #Healthcare #Narcissism #HolographicKinetics #Healing #Medicine #Music #Culture #SunRa #AlessandroBosetti #PJHarvey

Samples and Tracklist:

Sounds recorded with Zoot Lynam in London, Chris Peck in Bristol and from Mike Nelson’s works - The Deliverance and The Patience, and I, IMPOSTER  - at the Hayward Gallery show Extinction Beckons earlier in 2023.
Hum Ghar Sajan - Haruomi Hosono & Tadanori Yokoo
Sun Ra - Somebody Else's World (a.k.a. Somebody Else's Idea)
The Muckrake Podcast
Front Line by Ryuichi Sakamoto & Robin Scott 
Joshua Oppenheimer interview concerning his work The Act of Killing
https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/customMedievalLibrary.php
A Chris Morris sketch
Pj Harvey - Before Departure
DISORDER LAND - How to be an ADHD Boss - with Dr. Ayesha Khan & Jesse Meadows
Jared Yates Sexton speaking to Karl Folk of Weaponised Unreality on the Muckrake Podcast
Last words from Vanessa Kisuule

LIQUID OBAMACARE w/ Alex Head (*sub_ʇxǝʇ) - 16–Dec–23

KAIT 1 w/ Sy Lyng Yong, Anna Kostreva

  This show is a discussion about the magical and conceptual architecture project KAIT 1 by Junya Ishigami. The full presentation with images can be found on the you-tube channel OWMF architecture.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHfJARNmZPhdizOnNSxp3e1Pb8p9kY29G

KAIT 1 w/ Sy Lyng Yong, Anna Kostreva (*sub_ʇxǝʇ) - 16–Dec–23

Endless Stores - Sybella Perry 

  Finding strength in times of grief through everyday encounters, writing, reading, listening and dreaming.  

Tracklist:


Brighde Chaimbeul - Green Light Set
Ecka Moredecai - Mistakes & Continue
Tara Clerkin Trio - In the Room
Felicia Atkinson - Hope Alarm
Mary Jane Leach - Charybdis
Nala Sinephro - Space 2

*Catherine Christer Hennix - Solo for Tamburium 
*throughout

Endless Stores - Sybella Perry (*sub_ʇxǝʇ) - 16–Dec–23

"it's like a portrait of Alex Head."

Tracklist: 
Excerpt: Ouat & Bex Burch
Fela kuti - Zombie
I Once Carried a Blossom
Àbáse - Agangatolú (feat Jadson Xabla, Gabriel Santana, Jorge Dubman, Fanni Zahár)
Alain Peters - Rest' La Maloya - Ti Pas, Ti Pas N'arriver
Darius Brubeck, Evan Ziporyn - Darius B., Barney R., Evan Z., Marc D. - South Africa 1980s - Bloomdido
Mamman Sani - Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 -  Samari Da Yan Matan
Hit or Miss (Live) - Odetta
Just Get Over It -Charming transport band
Barbara Benary - Side 2
Ben LaMar Gay - Oh Great Be The Lake

Artwork: https://www.instagram.com/a.l.e.x.d.r.a.w.i.n.g.s/

Resonant Advisor w/ Bex Burch, Alex Head (*sub_ʇxǝʇ) - 16–Dec–23

Supersleep: Postclub mix 

We are here to bounce on post-club or deconstructed dance music also known as anti-club, the genre that is gaining momentum by pulling apart the conventions of techno. Crafting a clever space of in-betweenness and experimentation, woman, queer and gender non-conforming artists have been leading the scene since its beginning in the 2010s.

This mix-tape is mostly dedicated to them, with old favs and new releases.

Supersleep Postclub Mix (*sub_ʇxǝʇ) - 16–Dec–23

This episode Nathan Gray uses some of the sounds that have been saving him from the abyss to summon strength into being in The Weirding Module #19 - a show of poetry, vocal experiments and spokenweird from experimental music and contemporary art.

Weirding Module #19 - The Lathe of Heaven 18-Sep-21 (Threads*sub_ʇxǝʇ)

In this special show Alex Head meets author, broadcaster, historian and commentator Jared Yates Sexton (US). They discuss everything from the current decline of the British way of life to toxic masculinity, algorithmically governed culture, conspiracy theorist useful idiots and more.

Jared’s bi-weekly Muckrake Political Podcast, together with political commentator Nick Haussleman has traced the recent mutation or epi-mutation of the decline of US liberal democracy. Sexton’s recent work in print is The Midnight Kingdom, available on Penguin Random House.

Audio composition: Alex Head
Programme artwork: Bread Line by Clare Leighton, New York, 1932 (remixed)

muckrack.libsyn.com/website
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/67303…tes-sexton/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Yates_Sexton

Alex Head W Special Guest Jared Yates Sexton - When Empires Decline (*sub_ʇxǝʇ) - 17-Dec-22

Image: Alex Head, Nabil Sami
http://alexhead.com/sub-x-199-radio/

Operating out of the Ständige Vertetung sub_ʇxǝʇ is broadcasting to a range of 300 meters in Berlin Moabit.

Selected material from our FM programme will also appear on 199radio.

Look out for shows including: 

d.i.y church radio on Time Travel and Intergenerational Knowledge + Lucas Crane / Nonhorse

Louisiana, Race & The American South, Coproduced by artist and art journalist Nina Prader

The New Political Pop Song with Catherine Ryan + Voices (Studio 1)

Willie One Time

The Vegetable Orchestra/Gütermarkt ZK/U

Science Fiction + Nathan Gray

David Robotham

commUNITY Anti Deportation Parade (16.9.17) + Theatre X, Klub Al Hakawait + Güter Verkehr 

Loose Lips (TBC) 

CRITICAL MASS MOBIL  + KUNSTrePUBLIK

..and more

sonic knowledge production 18-Aug-17

sub_ʇxǝʇ VS d.i.y church
on
199 Radio VS Ständige Vertretung!

Time Travel and Intergenerational Communication. The long standing Berlin radio mastermind d.i.y church joins sub_ʇxǝʇ for its premier FM broadcast from the Ständige Vertretung to the ZK/U (Centre for Art and Urbanistic)

With opening organ recital by Albinas Prizgintas recorded in August 2017 at the Trinity Episcopal Church Labyrinth Night, New Orleans, Louisiana (more coming soon)

more about sub_ʇxǝʇ: http://alexhead.com/sub-x-199-radio/

09/10/17 - sub_ʇxǝʇ 03 TimeTravel + Intergenerational Knowledge + d.i.y church radio

Willie One Time: What I Know About Music Vol. 1

sub_ʇxǝʇ presents an intra-cultural compositional mix from DJ Willie One Time… ‘It’s right in front of your eyes’

First broadcast on 108 FM Berlin Moabit during this years closing Gütermarkt (flee market) at the ZK/U Berlin. 

http://alexhead.com/sub-x-199-radio/

11/10/17 - sub_ʇxǝʇ 04 DJ Willie One Time What I Know About Music Vol 1

sub_Ʇxǝʇ presents Lisa Giddeonson DV I'm Drifting Westhafen, DJ Willie One Time What I Know About Music Vol.2

More here: https://soundcloud.com/user-515503174

Image: Alex Head/Nabil Sami

05/11/17 - sub_Ʇxǝʇ presents Lisa Giddeonson and DJ Willie One Time

Check the new sub_ʇxǝʇ archive here: http://alexhead.com/sub-x/199-radio-london/

sub_ʇxǝʇ presents Nathan Gray's inner and outer narratives of the containerized world with a short form planetary narrative from Anna Kostreva, field recordings from d.i.y church radio, the bent logic of Snawklor...and guest Surfacing!

9/11/17 - sub_ʇxǝʇ presents CONTAINERS With Nathan Gray & Anna Kostreva

A special journey into CONTAINERS II.

Check the new sub_ʇxǝʇ archive here: http://alexhead.com/sub-x-199-radio/

Lauri Anderson - Blue Lagoon

White Line Theory - Narrated by Nicholas Mortimer - 
[Music: Stars of the Lid-Virginia mixed to Mitchell Akiyama - Palindrone.1]

Snawklor - (various variations)

Stars of the Lid - Atomium

Antikyther  - Narrated by Nathan Grey 

Surfacing - Melancholy Of Fulfillment 

Field Recordings - Alex Head

Lee Ranaldo - Ambient Loop for Vancouver

Snawklor - (various variations)

Celestial Chat Bots Chat - N.Mortimer / C. Monleon / A Vikhornova (C>A>N)

Surfacing - Her Smoke rose up....

Interview with Rebeldia - A. Head / Veena / N.Mortimer / Rebeldia

Labradford - Texas

Snawklor - (various variations)

Field Recordings - Alex Head

Cluster & Eno - Paris, November 1977 

Snawklor - (various variations)

Ballad of the Ops Ruin - N Mortimer - 
[Feat. Jermain Jackson Castles made of sand]

10/11/17 - sub_ʇxǝʇ CONTAINERS II

The Sound of Work: BEHALA

A special live broadcast from Westhafen-BEHALA, d.i.y Church radio returns to sub_ʇxǝʇ after two months, streaming and feeding the void. 

diychurch.org

https://soundcloud.com/user-515503174 
@subx6

Ambient for workers 

10/11/17 - sub_ʇxǝʇ with d.i.y Church Radio presents: The Sound of Work: BEHALA

sub_ʇxǝʇ special: ASSEMBLING AMERICA 

In the shadow of United States Confederate Statue takedowns Alex Head & Nina Prader excavate underlying tensions entwined with a delicate and nuanced problem: Assembling America.

The scars of the racial discrimination in America have yet and may never heal. It is their presence in the face of historical erasure that must be witnessed.

In response to discourses of left/right activism around the removal or relocation of historic Confederate Statues, sub_ʇxǝʇ attempts to relocate our current crisis within specific historical, social and economic biases.

Edna Bonhomme, Historikerin, Aktivistin, USA/DE 
Joseph Dunn, Pressechef Laura Plantation, USA)
Alex Head, Künstler und Radiomacher, UK/ DE
Nina Prader, Künstlerin, Kulturjournalistin und Radiomacherin , AT/DE/US

Soundcloud Archive: https://soundcloud.com/user-515503174
Support Us: https://www.patreon.com/sub_text
Twitter: @subx6

27/10/17 - sub_ʇxǝʇ special: ASSEMBLING AMERICA

sub_ʇxǝʇ presents 5 years of audio work from Alex Head.

Alex Head's set includes commissions for Wasteland Twinning Network, local groups and radio producers to the ZK/U such as Theatre X and the d.i.y Church Radio, international artists and writers such as Surfacing, Rebecca Wilcox, Nathan Gray, Neue Berliner Raüme and Nicholas Mortimer, all in a 5 channel mixdown that spans output on NTS and 199 Radio stations in London, Radio Orange in Vienna, Radio KUNCI, Indonesia, Deutschland Radio Kulture and d.i.y Church Radio Germany.
http://alexhead.com/sub-x-199-radio/

Commissioned for the ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik 5 Year anniversary bash!

www.newriverstudios.com/199radio

21/12/17 - sub_ʇxǝʇ presents Alex Head ZK/U 5 Years Anniversary Compilation

sub_ʇxǝʇ presents DJ Willie One Time: A Chappy Birthday ZKU


Live since day 1 at ZK/U. 
Catch his latest mix recorded hespecially for the 5 Year anniversary bash! 

https://soundcloud.com/user-515503174

28/12/17 - sub_ʇxǝʇ presents DJ Willie One Time: A Chappy Birthday ZKU

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