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

motif#18 TRACE

Call for submissions. See motif page for details,

Raffaele Pezzella’s 

The Recognition Test - show #367

9am Sundays repeated 11pm Thursdays [UK time].

Details on the schedule page.

ANALYSIS 6

The new mix by substak for grey clay radio, starting Wednesday 11th June, 7pm [UK time].

See schedule page for track list and further details.

THA_LAB.Transmission 07

A special mix of work from the Syrphe Records label by Thierry Arnal.

Mondays, 9pm & Fridays 3am, UK time. Starting 9pm Monday 9th June, UK time.

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Details on the schedule page.

AFTERVOLTER - GHADHAR

Don your kevlar suit and artificial respirator and traverse the concrete sprawl and black flowers of this troubling city...

Playing Thursday 12th June 5am and 12 noon (UK times). 

Repeated weekly.

Details and lore on the schedule page

motif#17 VEIL

Tuesdays, 9pm UK time. Repeated Saturdays 1am UK time. 

The new mix by Dogs versus Shadows of tracks made by the grey clay community of artists specifically for this show - 100% new, orginal work on the theme of VEIL.

Details on the schedule page.

Ethereal Projector

Immersive space ambient mix from Chitra Records and Ambient Cat Records by Dionisaf (Dionis Afonichev). Tuesdays 11pm and Saturdays 7am, UK time. Commencing 27.05.2025.

See schedule page for track list and further details.

ANAKRONISM 19

Playing 7pm Fridays repeated 5am Mondays (UK time).

The latest mix from Signalstoerung of tracks from the Adventurous Music label.

See schedule page for track list.

MOSS05JUN25 

The essential compaction of new work arriving on grey clay from the last two weeks.

First playing Saturday 7th June 1pm (UK time) then repeated Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am(also UK time.)

Timestamped track list on the Schedule Page.

fluxus 4  A Song Of Blood

Saturday 7th June, 7pm UK time. The latest fluxus session from Schwarzer Tag - featuring Nikola Chibová and Mozart Dionisio Lisboa.

Fridays 11am and Saturdays 7pm, UK time.

Details on the schedule page.

Generative Wastelands 15

Saturday 7th June 2025 11pm UK time. Repeated Mondays 7pm UK time.

Transmuting the abandoned into the beautiful: Generative Wastelands Episode 15 by Thomas Park.

Details on the schedule page

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

FEATURED ALBUM: Residencia TRoneitor

by 

Dúo TRoneitor

https://dotroneitor.bandcamp.com/album/residencia-troneitor

Released 4th April 2025

5 tracks, 46 minutes.

The experimental use of voice and frenetic oscillators characterises the growing body of work by this unique duo from Buenos Aires. grey clay has been playing them for about a year now and I still can’t quite manage to describe them adequately - which has to be a sincere compliment in this particular corner of the experimental niche. Clearly approaching this project with the skills and curiosity of trained musicians has ensured that no matter how wild or ‘out there’ it gets - there is a beauty and order to it which is enormously rewarding when you get into it and endlessly surprising.

Lucas Werenkraut built the TRoneitor from junk found on the streets of Buenos Aires. As such he created a wholly unique and versatile  instrument which operates, and is played, in unconventional ways and hence gives incredible character to their sound. 

Natalia Cappa, a music and singing teacher and graduate of the Manuel de Falla Conservatory, Buenos Aires has performed, as a soloist, works by Stockhausen, Berio, Cage, Ligeti and numerous Argentinian composers.

On another album’s sleeve notes they say, ‘The musical and sound work of Dúo TRoneitor is based on improvisation, the use of multiple vocal resources, texts, pre-existing songs, images, and on the intrinsic nature of the sound generated by the instrument.’  Good to know as you embark on this experience, but it won’t prepare you for what comes. 

This album is the result of an open-call residency in 2022 led by the duo working with five different contemporary composers: Néstor Ciravolo, Ana González Gamboa, Cecilia Gros, Raúl Peña and Marcelo A. Rodriguez. Each piece is strongly built around different specific concepts or themes though as a whole album it remains impressively congruent. I have drawn heavily on a computer translation of the original Spanish of the sleeve notes in attempting to interpret the intent of each track, thus injecting my own retrofuturistic noise into matters, for which I may not be forgiven.

We start with a piece whose title translates to English broadly as, A Poem doesn't bring rice, but it gives dreams. The operatic calibre voice is interspersed with read and whispered texts from Byron and Nietzsche and explores the struggles of the Vietnamese people to achieve freedom. It is the juxtaposition of this topic and vocal performance with the TRoneitor’s extruded tonal contributions that creates the bizarrely strange yet somehow classical atmosphere. At one moment I am hearing Meredith Monk-like trills and shrieks and the next it feels like a section of the soundtrack to Spalding Gray’s Swimming to Cambodia. You do the maths.

Then comes Deja que ocurra (Let it happen) featuring the Troneitor, a radio and two voices, where ‘a sound dialogue is generated between the voices and the devices, seeking to reflect the symbiosis, tensions and balances present in a family relationship.’ Drawing on Ecclesiastes 3, the track appears at first to be obeying some more conventional musical rules but this impression quickly falls away as the players begin to exercise a supreme freedom of movement.

Sonata NUM is the longest track on the album at over 11 minutes and is itself composed of three sections in which voice and TRoneitor both alternate and combine. It is also possibly the most unnerving and emotional piece that apparently involves the soprano constructing ‘an artificial scalistic structure coming from the conjunction of the chord of scene II of the third act of Wozzeck, with the known Petrushka’. I can’t even begin to understand what that means but it sounds wonderful! 

Troneitor Movimiento I explores ‘the coexistence of the past, present and future in music’ and brings together an improvised feel with a slightly more structured TRoneitor performance that ‘tends to machine the voice, or to sopranize TRoneitor’ I’ll go along with that.

The final track asks the question, ¿Dónde está el espacio para el eufemismo del amor? (Where is the space for the euphemism of love?) Again, a dialogue of voice and electronics, in a chain of ‘sound objects that vary in their micro and macro form’.  Inspired by the poem "...and suddenly", by the poet Victoria Tobar, this is possibly, maybe, a more structurally recognisable piece in which electronic elements and voiced parts find an eerie balance to create an unexpectedly moving finale to the whole experience.

And having penned all this, I am no closer to being able to spell out for you what it is about Dúo TRoneitor or this specific album that so magically captivates. It just does.

Forgive me.

https://duotroneitor.com

https://dotroneitor.bandcamp.com/music

T.Čelet

May 2025

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

Adventurous Music

Open Call - ONE WORLD compilation

The state of today’s society can be described as critical. Once again, we are separating from each other instead of working together to create a world that provides a decent life for everyone.

To set an example, we invite you to reach out to a fellow artist from another country or even another continent to collaborate on a sound piece. It doesn’t have to be someone you know. If you make a new friend in this project, even better. After that, please submit your sound piece to us for the ONE WORLD compilation.

This compilation will be on a „pay what you can“ basis and therefore also for free. All possible proceeds will be donated to Amnesty International. All participants will get a download code for this compilation.

Everyone is welcome.

If you have the opportunity, please share this project.


Hard Facts:

- collaborative sound piece by you and an artist from another country/continent
- submit your .wav or .aif file no longer than 10 minutes and ready to be released until August 22nd 2025 to info@adventurousmusic.com
- possible proceeds will be donated to Amnesty International
- all participants will get a download code for this compilation
- if you have any questions please tell us via info@adventurousmusic.com
- release date: Sep 22nd 2025

Stefan Dowsing 

motif.sessions 1-5 

A release of remastered versions of tracks submitted to the first 5 Dogs versus Shadows motif shows.

https://stefandowsing.bandcamp.com/album/motif-sessions-1-5

EX!Zine EDITION 2

The second edition (print version)of this superb, 100 page experimental arts zine is now available from the Adventurous Music Bandcamp site. 

Featuring:.7ARTCORE, Beware! The Radio, Corina Retzlaff, Gudrun Gut, Guillaume Bourassa, Inner Demons Records, Jóhann Eiriksson, Korf Ar Son, Lilu Fischer, Lucus, Manuel Carbone & Poppy H, Poeji, Quatrefoil & AimyþyhrℵullA, Richard Chartier, Rolando Torres Martin, Tremor Hex, Veronica 'Vern' Avola, Zmijowka and more.

The print version includes a download code for the accompanying digital album.