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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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07 February 2026

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  • #959: 2026.02.01
    great sounds this week from old favorites éric la casa (with seijiro murayama) and maggi payne, and new(er) favorites giselle and franki wals (with chang deng-yao). éric and seijiro tour paris making short vocal interventions and capturing the results. giselle documents her local nebraska environment with field recordings, scattered instruments […]
  • #958: 2026.01.25 [manuel carbone]
    this edition of framework:afield has been produced in berlin by italian artist manuel carbone. producer's notes: The eerie stillness of the Phlegraean Fields slowly dissolves into the reassuring chaos of the streets of my hometown, Naples. From the silence of a ghostly hotel room in Milan to September’s acqua alta […]
  • #957: 2026.01.18
    after taking a break for our aporee soundmaps segment to end the year, we made up for it in this show, celebrating the start of 2026 with a collection of recordings from the maps made either on new year's eve or on new years day. so, yes, lots of fireworks […]
  • #956: 2025.12.21
    so here it is, folks, the last show for 2025. 41 shows this year, if i've counted correctly, which is precisely 2419 minutes of framework radio, 1209.5 per ear. that's how it works, right? at this time of year, we hope to appeal to our listeners' generous (or perhaps slightly […]
  • #955: 2025.12.14 [anna friz & absolute value of noise]
    this edition of framework:afield has been produced in canada by anna friz and absolute value of noise. producer's notes: Water Line / Estuary Almanac At the mouth of a river, salt meets sweet water. Tides fluctuate. The river floods and dries with the seasons. The muddy delta shifts position over centuries. […]