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It is good to be perverse, especially in the Tate. And so, to begin a day of reflecting on ambience, where better to begin than Seth Kim Cohen’s 2016 essay, ‘Against Ambience’?

Background Noise, Perspectives on Sound Art

How to Know - Spirit Music - Crazy Wisdom, Shamanism And Trips To The Black Sky

Music and the Myth of Wholeness

Free Jazz Collective - book section, has a list of books that should be of interest to improvisers, free or otherwise

booksA Listener's Guide To Free Improvisation 

Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance-band and record-session guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began playing an uncompromisingly abstract music.

Convergences, Divergences & Affinities.

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17 November 2025

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  • #951: 2025.11.16 [flavien gillié]
    this edition has been produced in belgium by flavien gillié, using recording made on his recent travels in japan. producer's notes: I struggle within capitalism, surrounded by the accumulation of objects, microphones, recorders, yet always holding onto the promise I make to myself to move beyond them, to keep them […]
  • #950! 2025.11.09
    so what have we got in show #950 - a spectacular upcoming release of industrial textures (out in a few days on november 14th) from the great helen scarsdale agency by manchester-based jo montgomerie (the release page isn't up yet on their bandcamp page, so we've just listed the label and […]
  • #949: 2025.11.02 [steven sherrill]
    this edition of framework:afield has been produced in the united states by steven sherrill. producer's notes: Employee Handbook is a tripartite sound project. The background, the sonic fabric holding it all together, comes from a summer week of recording the decay of a dead grackle. One mic inside the bird […]
  • #948: 2025.10.26
    i mistakenly announced that this week's intro was recorded in the united states for some reason, je ne sais pas pourquoi, as we are very clearly in france, so sorry about that. perhaps it was because the french café-goers were quickly transported into the cicada drones of missouri, as we […]
  • #947: 2025.10.19 [slavek kwi]
    this edition of framework:afield has been produced in ireland by slavek kwi, aka sonoent00, aka artificial memory trace. Contains: opening with Angelus (recorded from Soundctuary Cappaduff, Eastern Clare, Ireland), following with section of “netflickerings” (field recordings from virtual environment of Netflix “teasers”), AI synthetic voice simulator sonification of human communications […]