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Framework #963

March 01-08, 2026

Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio

Re-Imagined Radio presents weekly Framework episodes featuring compositions by international sound artists.

This week, Framework #963 features works by Richard Francis, Chloé Despax, Fletina, Daniel Ottini, Sam Zeeman; sounds from The Aporee Maps by Virgile Loiseau (Belgium), Enquiring Ear (UK), Colostethus (Equador), David Pitt (UK), and Maciej Janasik (Poland); and a Framework introduction recorded in Norway by Martin Clarke.
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Background

Framework Radio is "a program about field recording and its use in composition." Using sounds recorded outside the controlled environment of sound studios, most often environmental and/or mechanical, sometimes with music, rarely human speech, weekly episodes feature new explorations of sound-based narratives. New listening experiences. And new opportunities for radio as a storytelling medium.

Radio Art
Re-Imagined Radio considers Framework as Radio Art, and is proud to be one of fourteen radio stations worldwide that features its weekly episodes. We also feature favorite past episodes, and episodes produced for Framework by John F. Barber, founder of Re-Imagined Radio.

About Framework Radio

Weekly episodes
Framework Radio is a weekly radio art program about field recording, and its use in composition. Field recording seeks sounds outside the controlled environment of sound studios. These field recordings tell compelling stories about the world in which we live, often without music or dialogue. Only natural, environmental, or mechancial sounds. Presented by Patrick Tubin McGinley, AKA murmer. Episodes are not about field-recording, rather they are individual field-recording compositions.

Different editions
Framework Radio is available in four editions
framework:Regular
framework:Afield (curated by guest international sound artists)
framework:Seasonal
framework:Ephemera

Research focus
With each version, the goal is to present the diverse sound environments of our world. And the diverse work produced by the artists who choose to use these environments as their sonic sources. The research and creative question behind Framework Radio programming asks, "Is field recording a style or genre, or rather an uncontrollable and undefinable tool, that may be interpreted, manipulated, and appropriated by anyone with a microphone and idea?" Works produced in response to this question are the answer, the definition, not vice versa.

International radio art stations offering Framework Radio
Based in Põlgaste, Estonia, Framework Radio began broadcasting 14 June 2002 on Resonance 104.4 FM in London. Framework Radio is available via streaming and podcasts and can be heard on Re-Imagined Radio and these other international radio art stations ...

Vancouver, United States, Re-Imagined Radio
London, United Kingdom, Resonance 104.4FM
Lisbon, Portugal, Radio Zero
Utrecht, The Netherlands, Concertzender
Hudson Valley, United States, Wave Farm Radio + WGXC 90.7FM
Porto, Portugal, Radio Manobras
South Devon, United Kingdoom, Soundart Radio 102.5FM
Brighton, United Kingdom, Resonance Extra
Helsinki, Finland, Korppiradio
Ulm, Germany, Radio Free 102.6FM
Brussels, Belgium, Radio Kampus 92.1FM
Santa Barbara, United States, KCSB 91.9FM
Coimbra, Portugal, Rádio Universidade de Coimbra 109.7FM
Canela, Brazil, Rádio Contato

Favorite Episodes

Re-Imagined Radio likes these past episodes of Framework Radio for their unique approach to recorded sound(s), and indeed, the sound subjects themselves.

Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "Memoriam: Alan Lamb"
Episode #929, May 4, 2025
Alan Lamb
A memoriam to composer and bio-medical research scientist Alan Lamb, a pioneer of recording sounds made by abandoned telegraph wires "singing" in the winds of the Australian outback with his Faraway Wind Organ since the 1970s. Solo and collaborative works, and remixes of his original recordings.
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Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "Sound Bath Sessions"
Episode #875, February 4, 2024
Terence Lloren
A sound documentary project offering exclusive live recordings of sound bath practitioners in Asia. Started in 2023 in Hong Kong, the project has recorded 40 practitioners and over 100 sound baths.
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Framework Episodes Created by John F. Barber

These episodes were created for Framework Radio by John Barber, of Re-Imagined Radio

Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "Southside Soundwalk"
Episode #829, 22-29 January 2023, 58:00
Field recordings collected along the South Bank of the River Thames in London, England. A soundwalk of the urban life in this vibrant, international city.
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Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "Dawn Birds, Light Traffic, Melodic Machines"
Episode #808, 3-9 July 2022, 58:00
A sonic narrative collage composed of field recordings from Dubai, Victoria, and Vancouver. Foregrounds, through either sonic simularity or serendipity, soundscapes that are representative of fluid time and place but solidly grounded in rich listening experiences.
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Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "COVID Dreamscapes"
Episode #738, 13-19 December 2020, 57:00
A sonic narrative of dreams prompted by the COVID-19. Uses field recordings and found sounds to portray spiraling sonic mashups both real and imagined associated with my personal COVID dreams.
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Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "Coho Crossing"
Episode #711, 26 April - 2 May 2020, 57:00
Field recordings provide a sonic narrative of a journey across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, between Canada and the United States, aboard the ferry M/V Coho.
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Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "Rainstorm Reveries"
Episode #658, 21-27 October 2018, 57:00
Explores rainstorms as listening experiences. The liminal threshold is sound(s) of two worlds, the external, physical world of the rainstorm, and the inner, more subjective world of sub-conscious reveries in response to the soundscape(s) heard.
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Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "In Progress"
Episode #623, 17 December 2017 - 13 January 2018, 57:00
Field recorded mechanical sounds. The work is inspired by John Cage, who told us that everywhere we listen, there is always something to be heard. Sound(s). Around us. The narrative intent here is to portray life and projects in the process of always becoming. In progress.
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Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "Transect: London"
Episode #583, 29 January 2016 - 4 February 2017, 59:00
An experiment with a different approach to soundscapes and/or sound walks. Raather than collecting all the sounds that might be heard along a path through a particular space or place, transects sample only a few. The desired end result is to promote immersive narrative collages of sounds that represent that place or space, all best experienced through listening.
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Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "Water, Waves, Dreams"
Episode #542, 31 January - 6 February 2016, 55:00
Explores sounds of water, waves, and dreams through soundscapes, field recordings, and phonography. The work samples student projects from my Internet Radio course, and my own recordings.
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Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "Between Sleep and Dreams"
Episode #433, 9-15 September 2013, 55:00
Imagines the enigma of waking. The narratives assimilated by one's (sub)conscious from sounds heard during liminal dreaming as an ongoing acousmatic collage. Rising and falling like waves on the surface of perception. Difficult to attain. Difficult to escape.

This work is both personal and collaborative. You can hear my liminal soundscape: traffic noise, my cats eating, and other incorporated sounds. Additionally, I have sampled work by students in my Internet Radio: Theory into Practice class, taught spring 2013, where we explored the realm "between sleep and dreams."
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Comment
Great show — very interesting to see how processing, manipulation, juxtaposition etc. have all been used to give an unsettling atmosphere, strange somehow like our dreams — but, like dreams — also with tangible connections to reality. Really enjoy that the students have been involved somehow in developing this show, framework provides invaluable online space I think for researchers and students together to explore the internet as a space for sharing sounds. Nice job.
— Felicity Ford→ and Knitsonik→
September 11, 2013

Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "Ambient Pulsations"
Episode #405, 6 February - 6 March 2013, 55:00
Explores pulsating sounds, all without apparent physical sources or attributes of materiality. This inability to visualize sound sources promotes an acousmatic listening experience focused on the act of hearing. As a result, we take interest in sounds for their own merits, refining our listening through repeated listening, thus becoming more aware of our listening variations and subjectivity.
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Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "Contact"
Episode #381, 12-14 July 2012, 55:00
Focuses on the proclivity throughout human history to seek connection and communication with the spirit spectrum, parallel dimensions, or alien worlds beyond our own universe. Radio waves, with their ability to traverse the atmosphere and space may be one medium that can make such connection. Using acousmatic compositions, phonography, field recordings, and sampling, Contact imagines such a radio broadcast and what might be heard.
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