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Today’s episode brings together recordings made during a group residency project titled Time Alone Together which took place at Can Serrat in Catalonia in 2019. A group of artists spent a week together, engaging in an improvised programme of serious play. Activities ranged from drawing to movement, deep listening and copycat games. The surroundings of the small village, the peaceful groves, piles of broken tiles, a resonant bridge and the rocky routes up to Monserrat Monastery became interactive soundscapes, collectively documented, composed and performed.

Today’s episode brings together recordings from rehearsals of Ensembleugh, a nondenominational vocal-led ensemble that lies somewhere between an orchestra, a choir and a band, created by Benji Jeffrey and based in St Giles Church, in south London. The group takes an experimental approach to creating music collectively, with members making active decisions in building the texture of the sounds they create. Their repertoire is a mixed bag, and includes protest songs, pop mash ups, classical arias, and jazzy improvisations.

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This season, FIELDNOTES invites artists working across sonic and textual terrains to perform live in the Resonance Studio. In today’s session, Anastasia Freygang makes use of collected voices, text-to-speech engines and improvised song to rebuild language from scratch. The piece is a journey through the present tense, composed of field recordings from scenes on the street and overheard speech, with post-production by Anastasia at home. 

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The first in a new series inviting artists working across sonic and textual terrains to perform live in the studio and select listening materials. In today’s session we invite artist-poet dove, Christine Kirubi to perform some recent work and share recordings of live flute improvisations with friends.

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Today’s episode features a piece by Iraqi-British sound designer Ali Taie, recorded while on tour in Europe as sound designer for Sadler’s Wells’ production of Sutra. Ali made recordings in and around various theatres, chopping and skewing his surroundings with the music and movements of the performers as a reflection of touring and a small love letter to the show itself.

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The first in a new season of broadcasts on Resonance 104.4FM, today’s episode celebrates the launch of the new print issue of FIELDNOTES and features recordings from the launch event at the ICA in London, with readings and performances from writers and artists whose work is included in its pages: Ektoras Arkomanis, Tatum Howey and Richard Phoenix.

Will René presents Plastic Language, a show exploring spoken word across recorded media, spanning dub, jazz, ASMR, sound poetry & much more. In this volume of Plastic Language, Gina Prat Lilly and Rob Shuttleworth of FIELDNOTES join the show to select pieces from an open call issued for explorations in language, sound and music. First broadcast on NTS Radio 29.10.2025.

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The third in a season of radio broadcasts on Resonance 104.4FM documenting a series of events which took place over the summer of 2025 in venues across London. This programme was called FIELDNOTES Live, it brought together artists and writers working across sonic and textual terrains. Today’s episode includes recordings from the third and final iteration of FIELDNOTES Live which took place in August at Avalon Cafe in South Bermondsey and showcased the work of four artists: Pheobe riley Law, Hestor Dart, Maison Phantasy and Alex Culshaw. The evening included destructive methods, broken loops, instruments, machines, micro-listening, spoken word, synthesisers and esoteric interfaces.

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The second in a season of radio broadcasts on Resonance 104.4FM documenting a series of events which took place over the summer of 2025 in venues across London. This programme was called FIELDNOTES Live, it brought together artists and writers working across sonic and textual terrains. Today’s episode includes recordings from the second iteration of FIELDNOTES Live which took place in July at Spanners in Loughborough Junction. The evening included performances from four artists, Adrienne Herr, Dan Rhys Wakefield, Agnieszka Szczotka, victor_a, who presented noise, spoken narrative, synths, soundscapes, atmospheric phenomena and a tidal chorus.

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The first in a new season of radio broadcasts on Resonance 104.4FM documenting a series of events which took place over the summer of 2025 in venues across London. This programme was called FIELDNOTES Live, it brought together artists and writers working across sonic and textual terrains. Today’s episode includes recordings made at the first event which took place in June at the Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury. The evening included performances, film, fragmentations, soundscapes and stereo fields from four artists: Titus Barker, Rouzbeh Shadpey, Yan Wai Yin and Knee Gnaw.

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Today’s episode features a collaborative audio project from School of the Damned, who respond to the socio-political dimensions of ‘conjunctural crisis’ through poetry, field recording and experimental sound.

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Today’s episode includes a mix of recordings from White Noise 50 at Corsica Studios in Elephant & Castle, London. White Noise is a non-profit movement using different spaces from clubs to churches to explore experimental live sound performance in a supportive environment. Their 50th public event was an evening of audio-visual performances featuring lights, lasers, projections and sonic expression. This episode was composed and produced by Rob Shuttleworth.

An archival composition of recordings made by a group of students from The Institute of Sonology at Delft TU in 2017. Visiting the university’s anechoic and reverberation chambers, the group spent some time improvising in the dark, engaging with exaggerated decays to create the following unprompted pieces.

Today’s episode features two tracks by collaborative songwriting group, Holy Island Sketchbook recorded over a long weekend in Rhoscolyn, Anglesey, North Wales. With no real agenda, but plenty of music gear, the following days and subsequent trips were a winding exploration of sound and music, from songwriting games to garden jams to deep listening and singing with sheep.

Following from last season’s exploration of underground sonic communities in this episode we enter a different kind of space with recordings collected at Hop Kingdom, London’s smallest indoor skatepark. With skateboards clattering, metal clanging and trains rumbling overhead, the soundscape emerges as a warm rhythm that captures the energy of the community. Produced by Ariella Fisher in collaboration with Rob Shuttleworth.

A year ago we gathered together in the Lamb pub in Bloomsbury to celebrate the outcomes of a Development Grant Programme that we ran over the previous six months. Our grantees were dove Christine Kirubi, George Lynch, Jak Skot and Miruna Fulgeanu, today’s episode includes readings of some of the works they developed during the programme. The programme aimed to support risk taking, to enable experimentation and allow for new poetic methodologies to develop across genres and media. We were able to run this programme thanks to grants from The Fenton Arts Trust and Arts Council England.

Today’s episode brings together recordings collected at a rehearsal of the  Peckham Chamber Orchestra in October. Peckham Chamber Orchestra is a not-for-profit, non-hierarchical, mixed ability community orchestra based in Peckham in South London. This episode was composed and produced by Rob Shuttleworth.

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Today’s episode brings together recordings from the 158th instalment of Skronk, which took place last week at Endeavor in Deptford, South London. Skronk is a regular open mic event for improvising performers. It encourages experimentation and blurs the boundary between audience and stage. Guests can sign up on the night and they are thrown together in makeshift ensembles. Many of these have gone on to work together as fully formed bands.This episode was composed and produced by Rob Shuttleworth.

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Today’s episode brings together recordings from the sixteenth instalment of SAOM, a monthly open mic event at Avalon Cafe in South Bermondsey which offers a space for artists and musicians to share their sonic experiments. The performers featured are Matthew Follis, Tony James Morton, JFS, Jung Latch, Technical Semantics, Henry Prince with Zeyn Mroueh and Kuro. The night was co-ordinated by Hannah Walton and Ariella Fisher with sound by Adrian Aldhini. This episode was composed and produced by Rob Shuttleworth.

Today’s episode takes us to a parcel delivery depot in a series of field recordings collected by Olly Jennings. The episode celebrates the launch of a new publication documenting a workshop series run by FIELDNOTES along the Thames estuary, investigating the tensions between human and non-human systems and landscapes, exploring experimental methods of creative composition, from writing to performing.

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Today’s episode celebrates the launch of our new print issue and features readings by the writer and artist Stephen Emmerson from his forthcoming book titled BIG SONG. BIG SONG is a prose poem, a hybrid text, a group of lyrical essays, a memoir, It is all of these things at once. BIG SONG is the beginning of an ever expanding documentary project. In describing this project Stephen says: I write about the past, but I do not write about events, I write about the shadows that those events cast. An extract from BIG SONG was published in the sixth print issue of FIELDNOTES which we launched last month.

Today’s episode documents a workshop run by FIELDNOTES on Two Tree Island in Essex with musician Rob Shuttleworth. The session was part of an ongoing workshop series titled FLOOD, which explores place-making poetics and sonic terrains across coastal and riverside spaces in the South East of England, investigating the tensions underlying shifting landscapes, intertidal zones, living systems and anonymised processes of de/composition. Participants in the workshop responded to prompts and the topography of the island by producing words, scores, instruments, compositions and performances.

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The final episode of SONIC COMMONS created in collaboration with Cement Fields. This three-part series was produced whilst walking along the Thames estuary. We gathered field recordings and asked the people we met to voice texts written about the places we traveled through. The resulting soundwork, composed by artist and musician Rob Shuttleworth, ranges across a sonic and textual landscape, producing unexpected encounters and resonances. Today’s episode takes us to Warden Bay and the Leysdown Arcades on the Isle of Sheppey.

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The second episode of new season of SONIC COMMONS created in collaboration with Cement Fields. This three-part series was produced whilst walking along the Thames estuary. We gathered field recordings and asked the people we met to voice texts written about the places we traveled through. The resulting soundwork, composed by artist and musician Rob Shuttleworth, ranges across a sonic and textual landscape, producing unexpected encounters and resonances. Today’s episode starts in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey.

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A new season of SONIC COMMONS created in collaboration with Cement Fields. This three-part series was produced whilst walking along the Thames estuary. We gathered field recordings and asked the people we met to voice texts written about the places we traveled through. The resulting soundwork, composed by artist and musician Rob Shuttleworth, ranges across a sonic and textual landscape, producing unexpected encounters and resonances. Today’s episode takes us from Gravesend to Shornemead Fort. 

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In the third episode of the series SONIC COMMONS, Fieldnotes’ James Hendrix Elsey is in conversation with artist and member of Shovel Dance Collective, Mataio Austin Dean. We hear about his research into folk songs ‘The Cutty Wren’ and ‘Bold Captain Avery’, plus a surprise accompaniment from Alasdair Roberts.

In the second session of our new series SONIC COMMONS, we are joined by Cecilia Morgan aka Cil aka afromerm. The South London born sound artist, composer, poet and producer takes us through a selected chronology of lesser known works from her archive, transporting us via field recordings from Tokyo to London, through bodies of water and auditory memories.

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The first in a new series of FIELDNOTES broadcasts titled SONIC COMMONS, exploring the phonic substance that exists between things, shared commotions and resonances, collective and collaborative ways of making. This session focuses on the experiments in interspecies communications conducted by composer, conceptual artist and environmental activist Jim Nollman.

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This session connects to the latest print issue of FIELDNOTES, titled ‘high variance’. Sound-pieces by Bear Kenchington and Lauren De Sá Naylor judder us into machining-oneiric states, we want to know: are you feeding the machine or is the machine feeding you?

In our eleventh session we are joined by multidisciplinary artist Trevor Mathison. Trevor was a founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective and works across sound, composition and installation. We listen through his new release From Signal to Decay Vol. 5 and Trevor talks us through this iterative and ongoing project.

In our tenth session we are in conversation with the legendary artist filmmaker John Smith. In this interview he discusses some formative experiences and the ideas underpinning his singular body work.

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In our ninth session we bring you a collection of reel to reel tape recordings by the filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait collaged from her archive by the artist Luke Fowler into a single spatial sound composition titled ‘Pomona’.

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In our eight session we bring together sonic experiences and material resonances from interstitial spaces. We travel between an underpass in South London to the 25 de Abril Bridge in Portugal. Including work by artists Rob Shuttleworth and Hannah Walton.

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In our seventh session we are joined by the poet and musician Yan Jun presenting a dispatch from the experimental noise scene in Beijing. This movement against categorisation Yan describes as ‘Non Music’. Recordings include musicians Ake, Zhao Cong, Zhu Wenbo, Sun Yizhou, Kevin Corcoran, Zhao Ziyi and Yan Jun himself.

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In this month’s broadcast we are in conversation with the poet and multidisciplinary artist Caroline Bergvall whose writings and projects explore material traces, literary documents, historical languages and hidden or forgotten knowledge. Caroline talks us through a few of her recordings including Refugio, Conference of the Birds and Nattsong.

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In the first broadcast of a new season we are partnering with the venue Cafe Oto to bring you a recording from a live performance earlier this month. This listening session presents an open composition titled Blue Monday performed by the poet Zara Joan Miller and the musician Ute Kanngiesser. This dialogue between voice and cello responds to Zara’s poetry collection of the same name which maps four years of Blue Mondays, extracts from this series were published in Issue 1 of FIELDNOTES.

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In our fourth session we visit darkness and annihilation with a collection of recordings from contributors to the FIELDNOTES print publication. Including readings by the poet Peter Gizzi from his album Speech Acts For A Dying World; tracks from Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House an album composed by the writer, artist and musician Johanna Hedva; and a recording of CAConrad performing their poem ‘I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead’ from the collection ECODEVIANCE.

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This session brings together a collection of works exploring embodied sounds. Including a live improvisation created by Jaka Škapin and Pavel Radu which provides a narrative of ‘compassionate listening’; a piece by Sohyun Han and Alvarx del Fresno titled ‘Saturated Touch’ which evolves around the idea of sound as touch; a recording by Funto Omojola presenting their medical records translated into Yoruba and performed on a Dundun drum; an extract of the project Estou sendo by Maíra Botelho which imagines the body as pre-verbal and indefinable; and ‘a remedy for the blues’, a collaborative work by Ruari Paterson-Achenbach and Sophie Marie Niang exploring an articulation of queer love and the act of being with each other.

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In this session we present a collection of field recordings. These include the artist and film maker Frances Young, whose recordings form a soundtrack for a non-existent or imaginary film; the artist David Leal who draws from lived experiences of working in sex-shops, gay saunas and cruising parties to produce works that explore the porous nature of queer masculinities; and an improvised field recording of the song ‘La réalité’ by the musician and artist Thomas Dunoyer de Segonzac, part of a solo project titled ‘La banque de jeu de pharaon’, which Thomas describes as ‘half-way between sound poetry and noise’.

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The pilot episode of a new series of radio broadcasts on Resonance 104.4FM. This session presents three artists working between translations and transitions, including the poet and artist Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola, whose album REZO focuses on the sound of insect stridulation; a recording from the artist and writer Mónica Rivas Velásquez exploring ways of learning through encounters with Colombian plants belonging to the ecosystem el páramo; and an excerpt from the artist and musician Billy Steiger’s ongoing research into audio compression codecs for the transmission of sound over early internet connections.

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In our first broadcast FIELDNOTES editor-at-large Joachim Hamou is in conversation with the artist Hanne Lippard, discussing her work between genres: the third space between text and images; performances and installations; poetry and biography.

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