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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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14 September 2025

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  • #941: 2025.07.27 [julian weaver]
    this edition of framework:afield, entitled mean sea level, has been produced in the uk by julian weaver. producer's notes: Combining field recordings with live and found sounds, scientific experiment and more, Mean Sea Level elaborates on literal, imaginary, and complex foreshores emerging around the mainland of the UK. […]
  • #940: 2025.07.20
    in this edition recent sounds from a perpetual favorite of recent years, manja ristić's sargassun aeterna is composed from field and hydrophone recordings from portugal, scotland, croatia and serbia, along with violin, synths, and shells. from here we await dawn, with 3 dawn recordings from various wildlife sanctuaries and forests […]
  • #939: 2025.07.13 [isto rahkila]
    this edition of framework:afield has been produced in finland by isto rahkila. producer's notes: I have long been interested in what is found between sounds or shapes and I think it has at least as much influence on what can be perceived by seeing or hearing. So to speak, it [...]
  • #938: 2025.07.06
    a dig into 2 of the 3 recent anthologies of location recordings by post-orientalism music, based in washington dc and curated by iranian-born composer and theorist ehsan saboohi. also the latest batch of soundwalkscapes by viv corringham, who describes the process thusly: take a walk each month, make recordings en route […]
  • #937: 2025.06.29 [das]
    this edition of framework:afield has been produced in the united states by dAs, purveyor of fine sounds via UBUIBI and big city orchestra for over 30 years. this piece is entitled alameda ether walk. producer's notes: A lot of my source material comes from chance or transitory events. - piezo's & hydrophones […]