a 24/7 salad of dark electronic and obscure experimental sound

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Reclamation 09

Playing 9pm Sunday 28th July and 1am Thursday 1st August  2024 (UK time)

Details on the schedule page.

motif#7 HEAT. 

Playing 9pm Tuesday 23rd July & 1am Saturday 27th July [UK time]

See schedule page for track list etc.

Raffaele Pezzella’s 

The Recognition Test - show #346

9am Sunday 21st July, repeated 11pm Thursday 25th July [UK time] on grey clay radio.

Details on the schedule page.

Disorganism visits The Museum

Remix/Rework/Reinterpretation project - An Invitation to  Humans, and other Musicians.

Details on news page.

ANAKRONISM 8

The gorgeous new mix by Signalstoerung of recent sounds on the amazing Adventurous Music label. Playing 7pm Friday 12th July and 5am Monday 15th July (UK time) then repeated same days and times.

See schedule page for track list.

Generative Wastelands 04

Saturday 6th July 2024 11pm and  Monday 8th July 7pm UK time - the latest show by Thomas Park for grey clay radio.

Details on the schedule page

the last sound I hear before falling asleep 

A global voicescape production by Manuel Carbone exclusively for grey clay radio, composed using night time voice recordings and sounds by artists around the world.

Now playing 5am Tuesdays and Saturdays, UK time.

FEATURED ALBUM:

State of Control

by

Richard Bégin

Released on Zero K 18th July 2024

8 tracks. 46 minutes.

What hits me first is that State of Control is a gorgeous sounding album. Each track is beautifully crafted with a richness and depth which is both rewarding and compelling - but don’t let that distract you!  Seemingly a dark listen, projecting desolate images on the wall, there is this kind of intimacy to them that draws you closer rather than alienating you. Little moments of humanity breaking through like the scattered personal belongings and exposed wallpaper in a half demolished house.

A little reading about Bégin’s work and the themes in his studies reveals a fabulously deep conceptual basis for State of Control including, ‘… the analysis of the complex and ecological relationships that are woven between bodies, devices, devices and environments, and which make it possible to generate new perceptions as well as new forms of sensitivities and knowledge.’  

And this, for me, is the key to the album. It is not an unattached, mawkish gaze at the scene; it is about one’s relationship with it. The music acts less as the outside narrator and more as testimony from within the picture, asking, ‘…are you moved by this report?’ Nowhere is this more felt than in the sixth track, ’Time sleep. Monitoring every second’ - an absolutely brilliant image from which a voice is heard, as if oblivious of the suspended tension of its surroundings.

The album notes, and to some extent the album art, include lines of programming code which is a devilishly cool and oblique device to add. Unless you are familiar with the language (which I am not) then this reads like a poem or chant with repeating phrases and introduces several more layers of concern to invade the personal. As well as encompassing some track titles and themes, the code lays in a feel of automated self-consciousness; of being monitored from within your own life as you sleep and eat and work. The very inclusion of a track title such as ‘Thoughtcrime’ plus other Orwellian references leave you in no doubt that this is a dystopian proposition, but one it seems we have already voluntarily submitted to.

Thought-provoking and complex. Just my kind of relationship!

Richard Bégin is a sound artist and professor of media and film studies at the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada and a researcher-creator in art and sound design.

https://richardbegin.bandcamp.com

T.Čelet (July 24)

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The featured album plays daily at 5pm, UK time.

Artist in Residence: 16bard. Playing new work from the Forsyth Sessions every Wednesday at 12:00 and 23:00 BST.

Following the INNER DEMONS RECORDS 20th Anniversary special feature on grey clay, all 5 mixes by Signalstoerung that played during the week are now available on Mixcloud here. Enjoy!