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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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11 October 2026

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  • #986: 2026.10.04 [stephen shiell]
    this edition of framework:afield, entitled channel, has been produced in the uk by stephen shiell. producer's notes: These soundscapes are shaped by an acoustic ecology approach, where listening functions as an ecological and relational practice rather than documentation. Developed through extended, site-responsive engagement with the Channelsea Basin, the recordings emerge […]
  • #985: 2026.09.27
    we haven't known karen power's work all that long - she first appeared on the show in late 2023 - but every new release we hear blows us away. this one is no different. "celebrating the power, wonderment and abundance of sonic beauty still present within two of our worlds most extraordinary […]
  • #984: 2026.09.20 [francisco lópez]
    this edition of framework:afield has been produced by francisco lópez, and is entitled tokoloshe, environmental sound matter from southern africa. it is composed from original environmental sound material recorded at multiple wilderness locations across southern africa (namibia, south africa, botswana, lesotho, and eswatini) between 2005 and 2013. for more information […]
  • #983: 2026.09.13
    hey folks - summer's over, and we are back! we all have to take the good with the bad; up to you to decide which is which. we had a nice break, but we love autumn, and we missed the sounds, so we're really happy to be making shows again (and […]
  • #982: 2026.07.26
    well, here we are folks, our last show before our annual summer break. what's more, we're just back from travels in the united states and extremely jet lagged, so we apologize if we seem a little hazy. we were definitely a bit hazy when we made this show, and have […]