Radio Nouspace

Online, on demand, on the air.

Radio On Demand

Radio Nouspace considers radio as an ecology of listening and learning experiences.

Content includes historical and experimental radio+audio drama, radio+sound art, spoken word and sound poetry, aural-oral history, creative/experimental music, soundscapes, found sound, and sound-based narratives.

To promote fluid engagement and listening experiences with this content Radio Nouspace experiments with radio as a form of art AND a transmission medium for art in different forms.

Enjoy Radio Nouspace On Demand

Choose a channel below. Press the "Play" button to listen sequentially. Select a specific title and press the "Play" button. Skip backward or forward using the "<<" or ">>" buttons. Channel descriptions below. Radio Nouspace On Demand is experimental, evolving. Listen and enjoy.

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Transmission Arts

The overlay of the terms "transmission" and "arts" intentionally focuses on radio + sound art and its use of radio technologies (transmission, airwaves, reception, etc.) to create immersive contexts rich with aural and acousmatic narrative opportunities. Transmission arts encompasses performance, video art, theater, sound art, radio art, media installation, networked art, and acoustic ecology. This interplay provides a site for a multiplicity of practices. Results engage aural and video broadcast media in an intermedia framework where the relationship(s) between artist and audience, transmitter and receiver, can be redefined, along with the telecommunications airwaves as the site for this practice.

A fine anthology of transmission artists and their work(s) is Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves by Galen Joseph-Hunter with Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki (New York: PAJ Publications, 2011). Radio Art and Sound Art, both available under the "Research" menu heading provides many examples and listening opportunities of transmission arts artists and their works.

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Channel Descriptions

8bits

Bleeps, bloops, and other sounds from Ataris, Commodores, GameBoys, Ninetendos, talking wrist watches, toy keyboards, and pioneer synthesizers push classic videogame consoles and home computers to their limits and beyond to create the electro-chippy melodies and clicky, crunchy beats of these compositions by Nullsleep, Mesu Kaasumai, Minus, Paza, Trash80, Andrew Welch, i, cactus, and others. Pump up the volume, dial in the aesthetics, and listen to sounds of yesterday's future. License: Creative Commons, Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivations.

78s & Cylinders

Too long hidden in attics and basements, 78s and cylinder records are once again cool and Radio Nouspace is playing them. Blues, classical, country, folk, gospel, jazz, old time Appalachian, opera, spoken voice, and more, all in the public domain.

Binaural Banjo

An experiment by Jon Wheeler who proselytizes for the five-sting banjo from his home in New Mexico. His drones and ambient pieces for guitar and banjo are quite interesting. License: Creative Commons, Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivations. LEARN more at Wheeler's Drone Lab blog and The Binaural Banjo blog.

Drone. Noise. Ambient.

Drone. Noise. Ambient. DNA. Electronic experimental alternative ambient music, or sounds that invoke a rhythmic or melodic quality. Features local and international artists. License: Creative Commons, Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivations. Headphones assure the best listening experiences.

Found Sounds

"Found Sounds" describes audio objects created from undisguised, but often modified, sound files that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a non-art function. Ben Wolf created his FoundSounds Podcasts from cassette tapes scrounged from thrift stores, yard sales, basements, boxes on the side of the road, and other sources. He mixed samples from these cassette tapes to create sound collages/sonic mind adventures, that, although lo-fi (no effects beside manipulating the tape itself: slowing down, speeding up, playing backwards and EQ), are meditative and strangely intriguing. Content includes new age synthesizer music, nature sounds, Bible stories, guided meditations, and children’s audiobooks. Available through Internet Archive. License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Jazz Club

Jazz music from the 1920s-1950s, now in the public domain. Listen to performances by Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, The Bucktown Five, The California Ramblers, The Golden Gate Orchestra, Helen Kane, Isham Jones and his Orchestra, The Ragtimers, and many others.

Level 98660

Vancouver, Washington (postal code 98660), offers independent musicians an opportunity to share their alternative, non-mainstream music via creative commons licenses. LEARN more more about Level 98660.

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Level 98660

Marco Dibeltulu lives and composes electroacoustic music in Tempio Pausania, Sardinia, Italy. He shares his album Sguardo contemporaneo, a collection of works composed 2002-2007 and released only for digital download by independent Miraloop Records of Bologna, Italy, in December 2011, by Creative Commons license. Marco studied Choral Music and Electronic Music (with Francesco Giomi and Elio Martusciello) at the Conservatory of Cagliari Composition. His compositions have been selected for competitions such as the 6th International Computer Music Competition "Pierre Schaeffer" 2007 (where he won 1st Prize); Pescara; 360 degrees of 60x60 at Vox Novus, New York City. He has performed at Festivals: Synthèse in Bourges; Biennale di Venezia online; Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art; Contemporary Art Fair in Shanghai; ArteScienza 2006 in Rome; Zeppelin 2008 in Barcelona; Primavera en La Habana 2008; ICEM Concert for IDKA in Gävle (Sweden); Raum-Musik at the University of Cologne; 360 degrees of 60x60 at ICMC 2010, New York City. LEARN more at Dibeltulu's website.

Anla Courtis lives and produces independent music in The Netherlands. His album Naranja Songs (2008, PE 127 Public Eyesore Records), is an acoustic guitar collaboration between Courtis and Tetuzi Akiyama recorded September 2008 at the Naranja Studies, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Nijmegen Pulse (2013 kp 3057 Korm Plastics), composed, mixed, recorded, and mastered 28-31 January 2013, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, is a collaboration between Courtis and BJ Nilsen. They used audio microphones, contact microphones, a homemade hydrophone, digital recorders, a cassette player, a Phillips organ, and an electric guitar, along with field recordings made in Nijmegen and the Extrapool building.

Album-A-Day

Album-A-Day is a project of Crap Art, an evolving art practice with an emphasis on exploration and discovery rather than invention. The project challenges musicians to produce a full album in one day. The results are interesting, experimental mish-mashes. LEARN more more about Album-A-Day.

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Album-A-Day

The rules of the Album-A-Day project are straightforward.

  • The album must be written, performed, recorded, post-produced, etc. all in one contiguous 24-hour period (preferably with no sleep break)
  • The album must be at least 20 minutes or 30 songs in length
  • A band may have multiple participants, but they must work on one song at a time, together
  • No ideas from before the chosen day! Covers or reinterpretations are not allowed
  • No out-takes! If you start a song, finish it and put it on the album

Radio Nouspace features some excellent work by electronic musician/composer Adhesion, who, since 2005, has produced albums-a-day using only software, thus taking the challenge to even greater heights.

Sadayatana

Dark ambient music. Headphones strongly recommended for best listening experiences.
"If you are not listening to Sadayatana with headphones, you are not listening to Sadayatana."
— Anonymous
LEARN more more about Sadayatana.

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Sadayatana

Sadayatana was a weekly program of experimental, dark ambient music compiled by John Tocher, 19 November 2010-13 February 2016, from his secret laboratory deep in the bayou country along the border of Texas and Louisiana. Each of 227 weekly episodes is between two and three hours in length. Many are framed and named by a quote. Tocher mixes dark ambient, avant garde, dada-ist, electronic, industrial, musique concrete, and experimental musics, all available from online net.label and independent sources. First and last five episodes available for listening here. License: Creative Commons, Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivations. LEARN more at Sadayatana website.

#223 Toys and Small Offenses
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

#224 Far From Rare
There are experiences that most of us are hesitant to speak about, because they do not conform to everyday reality and defy rational explanation. These are not particular external occurrences, but rather events of our inner lives, which are generally dismissed as figments of the imagination and barred from our memory. Suddenly, the familiar view of our surroundings is transformed in a strange, delightful, or alarming way: it appears to us in a new light, takes on a special meaning. Such an experience can be as light and fleeting as a breath of air, or it can imprint itself deeply upon our minds. … Many persons also have visionary experiences in daily life, though most of us fail to recognize their meaning and value. Mystical experiences, like those that marked my childhood, are apparently far from rare.
- Albert Hofmann, in LSD : My Problem Child (1980)

#225 Other Symbols
The cultural-historical meaning of the Eleusinian Mysteries, their influence on European intellectual history, can scarcely be overestimated. Here suffering humankind found a cure for its rational, objective, cleft intellect, in a mystical totality experience, that let it believe in immortality, in an everlasting existence.
- Albert Hofmann, in LSD : My Problem Child (1980)

#226 Out of the Blue
A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, "plate," or "shrimp," or "plate of shrimp" out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.
- Miller (Tracey Walter), Repo Man (1984)

#227 The Brightness Outside
A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty, the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim. Like a well, like a vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside; and would have kept its polluted atmosphere intact, in one of the spice islands of the Indian Ocean.
- Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit (1855-1857)

VBR

Episodes of the weekly VBR Radio Show originally broadcast on Radio Periszkop FM, Pechs, Hungary, 27 May 2006-14 March 2007. Each episode is a collage of electronica and ambient music compiled by Banyek (real name András Hargitai, aka Soutien Gorge). Distributed exclusively by VBR net.label. License: Creative Commons, Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivations.

Brizbomb (Matt Brizlawn)

Vancouver sound artist Matt Brizlawn built and uses the Brizbomb to create multimedia / real time experimental visual audio. All audio and video are generated live, with no edits, overdubs, computers, keyboards, samples, or pre-recorded material. For more information see the LEARN more at the Brizbomb website.

Radio+Sound Art

As one of the most significant (perhaps the most significant) technologies of the 20th century, radio, since its inception, has been considered either an art form in its own right, or a medium with which one can create art from sound. The radio art artist is one who uses sound to make art. The transmission capabilities of radio are the preferred medium because, as a result of the practice, the radio medium can be used in ways different than its original intention. Radio + sound art points toward a new type of radio, and Radio Nouspace takes pride in offering classic and contemporary examples. LEARN more more about Radio + Sound Art

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DJ Wels

Quiet, unassuming, a soccer jock, DJ Wels turns into a turntableist extraordinaire when he gets behind a rig where he creates ALL his sounds from scratching. His "Walther Cronkite" is a tribute to the legendary broadcaster who died in 2009. As Mr. Cronkite says, "that's the way it will be." Shared by DJ Wels via a creative commons license.