Re-Imagined Radio

Framework #982

July 26-Aug. 02, 2026

Thea Maloney, Listening With The World, Asonu Imprint 2025

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

This week, Framework #982, a Regular edition, features Mark Gorney, Thea Maloney, Manja Ristić, Francisco López, and E. Jason Gibbs; sounds from The Aporee Maps by Ian-John Hutchinson (South Korea), lazy_bird (United States), and Daniel Dejong (Germany); and a Framework introduction recorded in France by Diemo Schwarz.

Learn more at the Framework website→

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 feature its weekly episodes. We also feature favorite past episodes.

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.

"Greek Ambience: Kostas Staikos"
Episode #979, July 5, 2026
Kostas Staikos
Features ambient soundscapes produced in Greece by Kostas Staikos, AKA Substak.
Learn more at the Framework Radio website→

"Memoriam: Alan Lamb"
Episode #929, May 5, 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.
Learn more at the Framework Radio website→

"Sound Bath Sessions"
Episode #875, February 5, 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.
Learn more at the Framework Radio website→

Resources

Resources > sound art: general

Butler, Shane. The Ancient Phonograph. The MIT Press, 2015.
Considers the human voice in resonant worlds before the invention of recording technologies.

Kahn, Douglas. Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts. The MIT Press, 2001.

Papenburg, Jens Gerrit and Holger Schulze, eds. Sound As Popular Culture. The MIT Press, 2016.
Chapters by international sound arts discuss conceptual and research interests, analyze case studies of listening in different sound cultures, and consider ways of contemporary sound generation.

Weibel, Peter. Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art. The MIT Press, 2016.
A definitive history of sound as media art by ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, CEO Weibel. International essays examine sound art research and practice.

Resources > sound art: phonography

The phonography.org website features a number of phonographies, as well as information about recording gear, and links to other resources, sounds, and recording labels.
(No longer available?)

Wandering Ear
(No longer available?)
Field recording-oriented sound from around the world, available for free download.

The Last Quiet Places
Gordon Hempton argues that silence is an endangered species. Quiet places are "the think tank of the soul." Listen to his recordings.

Field recording

Sounds Outside: The Art of Field Recording
Provided by Ableton, this resource offers lots of resources for field recording.

Resources > sound art: found sound

Documentary Sound
A partial discography and guide to resources for unedited, unprocessed, publicly available field recordings and found sound.

"Eavesdrop: A Wealth of Found Sound"
(No longer available)
A collection of anonymous recordings taken from audio diaries, tape letters, telephone messages, and other sources, all curated by Jason Smigel. The work includes track notes, transcripts, background information, and a collage of found photographs.

Sweet Thunder
(No longer available?)
An archive for "found home recordings and other cassette deck oddities." Finds are contributed weekly by guests, or the curator. Check out the "Links" section for several interesting applications of found sound. For example, "The Voicemail Project" presents "a collection of weird/sentimental/interesting voice mails left on other people's phones.