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In his book 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒, Mark Fisher wrote about the two notions: While the weird is something present where it doesn’t belong—something from outside found on the inside—the eerie has to do specifically with outside space. Something is eerie when there are unanswered questions about agency: Who or what is responsible for the abandonment of this zone? Who or what is crying out in the distance?

Katharina Schmidt’s 𝑇𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, a single, longform track stretching to a near half hour, deftly captures this spatial sense of the eerie. The evolving drone is like coming upon a ruin, circling it, and being drawn inside. There are no surprises, no sudden horrors, just the strange pull of oscillating waveforms that paint a bleak yet soothing landscape.

In certain kinds of listeners, empty, abandoned spaces produce a pleasurable dejection. Maybe this is because spaces where human life is evacuated represent the end result of capital. (It seems to have withered away, but is in fact off to find another shell for its home.) What we’re left with is something new to inhabit, a new infrastructure for freedom. The subtle changes in Schmidt’s recording have less to do with melody and rhythm, more to do with accumulating color and texture of space. And so the half hour can feel like five minutes, or an eternity—time and scale exist differently here.

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After years of playing drums and piano in various bands, Katharina Schmidt's solo work is influenced by indie, experimental, and improvised music. Exploring interests in storytelling, sonic topographies, and generative techniques, her music uses electronics, field recordings, and self-built interfaces alongside acoustic instruments. From sonifications to lullabies, her work is poised between formal experimentation and narratives cued by literature and pop culture, and can be heard in installations, film music, and radiophonic pieces, as well as releases on labels such as Flag Day Recordings, Slaapwel Records, and Focused Silence.

Katharina holds a master’s degree in Sound Studies from the Berlin University of the Arts and hosts resident shows at Cashmere Radio and SVS Radio.

katharina-schmidt.net
katharinaschmidt.bandcamp.com  

artwork by Stefan Lingg
audio finalized by Glyn Maier

all proceeds to The Homeless Period Project (Greenville, SC, US) - www.homelessperiodproject.org

Tennis Courts in the Half Light

Katharina Schmidt - Tennis Courts In The Half Light [Excerpt] (ENMD03)

копса

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Ecotone Festival w/ Léa Roger & Lucie Gresil @ Kiosk Radio 06.05.2022

release on 16 September 2022 : https://wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/visage-zyg-ne
@roxanem-tayer

Roxane Métayer is a French sound and visual artist now living in Brussels. She composes with the violin, primary wind instruments (ocarina and various flutes), archaic percussion and field recordings, fragmenting and reassembling them with synthetic effects. Nature becomes the backdrop of these wild soundscapes, populated by a phantasmagorical bestiary and an exuberant flora.

Artwork by Coline Llobet
Mastering by Adrien Lambert

Roxane Métayer - Sur Les Ailes, Huit Tâches

Live sessions recorded at Recyclart (Brussels) for the Kitten Rhetorics party, and at the Chinois (Paris) during the Kikkogal night.

https://lyl.live/episode/micro-moistur-5

MICRO MOISTUR w/ Catherine Danger [Live Session]

Returning to the @lyl_radio zone today for our last show of the year featuring the Bologna based producer and visual artist O.Cheikh. Expect one hour of ambient swirls and contorted textures.

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https://omarcheikh.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_omarcheikh/

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Art by Omar Cheikh
https://www.instagram.com/_omarcheikh/

More info and tracklist
https://lyl.live/episode/futuro-1

TRACKLIST

Tocca il Futuro w/ O.Cheikh - LYL Radio - 7th December 2023

Welcome to the special Tocca il Futuro show on LYL radio, dedicated to David Lynch.

This is not just a tribute, it’s a journey into the sonic imagination of one of the most visionary artists of our time. The musical selection in this episode pays homage to Lynch’s universe, tracing his artistic path from his groundbreaking experiments in sound design—shaped alongside the legendary Alan R. Splet—to his musical explorations with unconventional artists and composers.

Let yourself be transported into a world where dreams and nightmares intertwine, giving life to brilliant visions—an experience that defies logic and awakens our deepest emotions just like his art!

Tracklist compiled and mixed by Davide Pestillo and Claudio Cuccovillo.

Photo credit Sandro Miller.

More info and tracklist
https://lyl.live/episode/tocca-il-futuro-21

Tocca il Futuro - LYL Radio - 27th Feb 2025

This month we're heading to Kasai, Japan, to explore the world of Tobira Records, a record shop and independent label curated by Takahiro Yorifuji. For this episode, Takahiro has created a 60-minute mix that reflects the essence of the store: a meditative blend of ambient textures, gentle drones, and immersive soundscapes. A sonic journey through the influences that define Tobira's shelves.

Tocca il Futuro w/ Tobira Records - LYL Radio - 24th Apr 2025

We’re closing out the season with @dorisdana, the sound project of Colombian-born artist Mónica Mesa. Known for weaving together field recordings, whispered vocals, slow-moving drones, and spacious acoustic textures, dana’s music dwells in liminal spaces; where emotion, memory, and atmosphere blur. Expect an hour-long mix that drifts through the cinematic, the experimental, and the quietly powerful.

Tocca il Futuro w/ Doris Dana - LYL Radio - 19th Jun 2025

We’re excited to announce that the new season on LYL Radio is kicking off with monthly episodes of Tocca il Futuro. Opening this new chapter is Francesco Toninelli aka De' Lamperi, a sound maker from Florence. His work centers on the discovery and reinvention of the past and its representations, the relationship with territory and environment, and vernacular culture. Always deeply connected to the materiality of sound and its interaction with other elements. Expect a selection of mostly recently published music reflecting an incessant search for meaning beyond the act of understanding, a non-logocentric epiphany. A hallucination of feelings and signs, and the ways they cling to matter.



Tocca il Futuro w/ De' Lamperi - LYL Radio - 25th Sep 2025

The new episode of Tocca il Futuro on LYL Radio is a special feature dedicated to the collaboration between sound artist Ramona Ponzini and Italian industrial pioneer Maurizio Bianchi, who have recently released their album “Seti non tael tene”. Their exclusive contribution for LYL, titled “Only Blue Is Not Enough,” unfolds as a true spin-off of the record, revealing its sources and inner resonances. Bianchi reworks tracks from his light ambient trilogy — Colori, First Day/Last Day, and Dates — using electronic keyboards to shape them into hypnotic cycles. Ponzini layers cut-ups of reworked texts drawn from Carl Gustav Jung’s Seven Sermons to the Dead (1916) and dialogues extracted from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema (1968). The texts are recited by AI-generated voices, while Ponzini blends her own voice with subtle Japanese percussions and the surface noise of an old Rainer Riehn vinyl.

Tocca il Futuro w/ Ramona Ponzini & Maurizio Bianchi - LYL Radio - 23rd Oct 2025

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