Explore every episode of the podcast Into the Noise
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| EP16 Jack Chuter | 05 Jan 2026 | 01:24:26 | |
Jack Chuter is a musician, journalist, podcaster, author, and label owner from Bournemouth, England. They run ATTN:Magazine, which is an exploration of new experimental music and sound art, founded on a love for the failures and contradictions in articulating the experience of listening. It's also home to the Crucial Listening podcast and the Hard Return label. Jack's other creative music projects https://gguueesssswwoorrkk.bandcamp.com/ https://gguueesssswwoorrkk.bandcamp.com/album/inclination https://swallowing.bandcamp.com/ https://multiplying.bandcamp.com/ https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/beams Jack’s podcast Crucial Listening https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/tag/crucial-listening/ Jack’s Reviews https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/tag/record/ Jack’s label Hard Return https://hardreturn.bandcamp.com/ Jack’s book about post rock music https://www.amazon.co.uk/Storm-Static-Sleep-Pathway-Post-Rock/dp/0957249225 Jack’s Mastering work https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/mastering/ Michael D Brown https://fleshlicker.bandcamp.com/music https://foulprey.bandcamp.com/music Lucia H Chung https://encreuxmusic.bandcamp.com/ https://shows.acast.com/into-the-noise/episodes/ep14-lucia-h-chung Jack's equipment Maximal Drone Synth Audible Disease Rupture https://www.audibledisease.com/product/rupture_rp-2 Cafe Oto Falling Cat Problem https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/falling-cat-problem/ Adrian Newton https://evergreenmusic1.bandcamp.com/ https://nocontext1.bandcamp.com/ https://shows.acast.com/sound-mosaics-for-a-broken-world Felicia Atkinson https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/crucial-listening-171-felicia-atkinson/ Taito Station Teamlabs https://www.teamlab.art/e/planets/ [Ahmed] https://ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/music Oren Ambarchi Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP15 Lauren Sarah Hayes | 12 May 2025 | 01:19:55 | |
Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish improviser, sound artist, and scholar who is recognised for her embodied approach to computer music. Her music is a mix of experimental pop/live electronics/techno/noise/free improvisation and has been described as "voracious" and "exhilarating". Her performances stretch, transform, and sculpt sound by manipulating, remixing, and bending voice, drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software live and physically. Her shows are highly gestural, exploring the ephemeral and fragile relationships between sounds, spaces, and audiences. Over nearly two decades, she has developed and honed her live electronics improvisation system, an instrument that allows her to playfully navigate between the realms of responsiveness and unpredictability in both her solo performances and numerous collaborations. Jacob Heart PhD analysis of Lauren’s code Greg Lewis/Greg Jackson – Kill The Cop in Your Head Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP6 Guy Birkin | 06 Jan 2025 | 01:06:52 | |
Links: Music listened to and discussed in this episode: https://flufrecs.bandcamp.com/album/aa0006 https://guybirkin.bandcamp.com/album/disorganised-and-unwanted-night https://guybirkin.bandcamp.com/album/rushed-snares Additional music https://guybirkin.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-kicks https://evel.bandcamp.com/album/animation-image-analysis Broadway One: https://digitalartarchive.siggraph.org/artwork/ernest-edmonds-mark-fell-broadway-one/ Errorsmith Razor Synth: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synths/razor/errorsmith-on-razor/?srsltid=AfmBOoqXZS6t3WqZhQjnpQOQo-FhMvSmqSCum6QDEtZ0k3V4cgWZVGbd Ancient Woodlands: https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/habitats/ancient-woodland/ Marie Thompson's Beyond Unwanted Sound: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-unwanted-sound-9781501313301/ The On-Line Encyclopaedia of Integer Sequences: https://oeis.org/ Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/ Mentioned labels https://farmersmanual.bandcamp.com/ https://generalmagic.bandcamp.com/ The photograph used in this episode's artwork was taken by Mike Ford. This episode was researched, hosted, produced, and edited by Jim Reeve-Baker Thanks for listening Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP5 Tom Painter | 24 May 2024 | 01:13:59 | |
This episode of Into the Noise I talk to Tom Painter about the relationships between maths and music, the different cities Tom has lived in, using music to evoke abstract spaces, whether the expectations of audiences really matter, and Tom’s use of the sonic fragments left behind after the death of a loved one to explore memory and personal history. Links to Tom's music heard in the episode: https://afterseasonrecording.bandcamp.com/album/possibility-foam https://afterseasonrecording.bandcamp.com/album/twenty-gramme-bird https://afterseasonrecording.bandcamp.com/album/everywhere-curving Tom's radio shows on Noods radio can be heard here: https://noodsradio.com/residents/after-season-radio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP4 Jack Walker | 09 May 2024 | 00:53:57 | |
This episode of Into the Noise I'm talking to Jack Walker. We talk about Jack’s preferences for AI, structure, and improvisation; his background in Sheffield; how he balances work, life, and music making; and the good and bad aspects of being embedded within a university music department amongst other things. Jack's PhD thesis: https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/39693/Walker2022.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y More of Jack's music: https://plusminusensemble.com/education/edinburgh-2020/ More of Jack's writing: https://aimc2021.iem.at/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/AIMC_2021_Walker.pdf https://2022.aimusiccreativity.org/assets/program/aimc2022_m1.pdf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP3 Ioannis Panagiotou | 02 May 2024 | 00:49:37 | |
In this episode of Into the Noise Jim talks to the multimedia artist Ioannis Panagiotou about war, family and memory; the role piano strings have played in the Greek civil war; Ioannis’ relationship with Greece and his emigration to other countries; and his interest in borders and coastlines. You can find the works Ioannis has contributed to this episode via the links below https://www.ioannispanagiotou.com/umwelt https://www.ioannispanagiotou.com/works Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP2 Tom Mudd | 25 Apr 2024 | 00:43:20 | |
In this episode of Into the Noise Jim talks to the composer Tom Mudd about agency in regards to information and the internet, exploring digital music making processes, musical forms and structures, evoking and failing to evoke sounds and cultures using synthesis, and the musical benefits of performing with amateur youth ensembles. You can find the music Tom has contributed to this episode via the links below https://tommudd.bandcamp.com/album/gutter-synthesis https://tommudd.bandcamp.com/album/brass-cultures https://tommudd.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-cultures Additionally, here is a link to Tom’s website, and his ever-changing biography… Artwork designed by Jim Reeve-Baker Photograph by Šimon Lupták Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP1 Jules Rawlinson | 19 Apr 2024 | 01:59:54 | |
In this episode of Into the Noise Jim speaks to composer Jules Rawlinson about the myriad influences on his music, collaborations both across decades and in the moment of performance, multimedia installations, preferences for finding the unstable qualities of new performance technologies, and many other things. You can find the music Jules has contributed to this episode via the links below https://pixelmechanics.bandcamp.com/album/pulsar-retcon https://pixelmechanics.bandcamp.com/album/interval-and-instance https://pixelmechanics.bandcamp.com/album/yield-point and the music of the group he performs in Raw Green Rust https://rawgreenrust.bandcamp.com/ Produced by Jim Reeve-Baker Artwork designed by Jim Reeve-Baker Photograph by Laurence Winram http://www.lwinram.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP14 Lucia H Chung | 28 Apr 2025 | 01:48:38 | |
Lucia H Chung is a Taiwanese artist based in London, United Kingdom. She performs and releases music under the alias ‘en creux’ where the sound creation springs from her fascinations in noise generated through no-input feedback mixing board. The volatile nature of the system and the unpredictable glitch from the excessive energy pouring into the equipment becomes her improvisational and compositional strategy. Black Fountain from Studies of Impassable Landscapes I Am Sitting In A Room by Alvin Lucier OTO BAM Space Generator reverb unit Other NIMB Musicians: This episode was researched, hosted, produced, and edited by Jim Reeve-Baker. The photograph used for this episode's artwork was taken by Taotzu Chang Thanks for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP13 Nick Canney | 14 Apr 2025 | 01:02:13 | |
Nicholas Kirk-Canny is an improviser, composer and creative coder with experience in instrumental and digital music. He recently completed a Ph.D. in Creative Music Practice at the University of Edinburgh, which involved the humanisation of electronic music. Currently, he is working as a postdoc at the Computer Music Laboratory at the Open University in Milton Keynes, on the Polifonia Access Pilot, which aims to develop new ways to enhance participation and engagement in music. The Open University Music Lab website This episode was researched, hosted, produced, and edited by Jim Reeve-Baker. Thanks for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP12 Ollie Turbitt | 31 Mar 2025 | 01:28:32 | |
ollie turbitt is a scottish-italian musician, sound artist, and audio engineer based in trento, italy. as well as providing guitar and bass duties for a handful of bands, he has pursued a fluctuating solo career in avant-garde exploration. under the pseudonyms oxhead, sforza gramsci, oj turbitt, hermetic gaze and others, his self-released cassettes, usbs and digital albums have aimed to express ideas of cultural memory, psychogeography, false consciousness and mysticism/esotericism through improvisation, sound collage, ambient textures, laptop experimentation and field recordings. ollie also runs dead hound records (which serves as a platform for both his own material and an increasing list of international experimental acts) & works in freelance mixing/mastering. Brigid we Built on Rock from Skein VCV Rack modular synthesis software Castel Sant’Angelo Rome website Kevin Drumm’s Imperial Distortion Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar This episode was researched, hosted, produced, and edited by Jim Reeve-Baker. Thanks for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP11 Elaine Cheng | 17 Mar 2025 | 01:25:35 | |
Music and sound art listened to and discussed in this episode: Wasp Cavernous Deep Sound of Southside Eliane Radique ARP 2500 Trilogy of Death Celer’s website Celer’s Bandcamp Catarina Barbieri’s website Catarina Barbieri’s Bandcamp Wasp synthesizer Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studio Prophet 12 SoundHack O Magnum Mysterium by Morten Lauridsen Art 27 Scotland Festival of Migration Southside Community Centre Article 27 of The Declaration of Human Rights Kalimba Pipa Initiative Refugee Week Autism Take 5 Ros Fraser's website - artist who has worked at Govanhill Baths in Glasgow Culture Collective by Creative Scotland Culture Collective 2022/23 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ARE: Elaine Cheng, Ghazi Hussain, Laleh Sherkat, Marta Adamowicz, Robert Motyka, Robert Rae, Shatha Altowai This episode was researched, hosted, produced, and edited by Jim Reeve-Baker. Thanks for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP10 Mathias Arrignon | 03 Mar 2025 | 01:14:31 | |
Mathias Arrignon is an artist from Val-de-Marne (France), currently residing in Glasgow and working across Europe. His works merges field recording practices, audio technology, interactive installations and participatory performances to instil forms of interconnectedness with worlds that are often more-than-human. A Cubic Kilometre of the Entlebuch from To the Hum of the Forest UAL London College of Communication Sound Art Master’s programme Radio France show concerned with the environment Francois J Bonnet’s book The Infra-World Astrida Neimanis’ book Bodies of Water Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Annea Lockwood’s A Sound Map of the Danube Rumors from the Sea by Felix Blume Anthropos Ex artists’ collective Theodore Cale Schafer’s bandcamp page Disasterpeace aka Rich Vreeland’s website Expeditions to the Arctic Circle This episode was researched, hosted, produced, and edited by Jim Reeve-Baker. Thanks for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP9 Lisa Conway LCON | 17 Feb 2025 | 01:07:46 | |
Lisa Conway-Bühler is a Swiss-Canadian composer, sound artist, songwriter, researcher, recordist, and mixer. Her recordings have been described as "ethereal, minimalist, experimental, unnerving…and downright elegant" (AUX): in her sound worlds, analog synthesizers, drum machines, and electronics often live alongside string arrangements and woodwinds. An artist who continually tries to push herself into the unfamiliar, her multifaceted CV includes original scores and songs for documentaries, short films, and theatre productions, site-specific multi-channel sound and light installations, collaborations with contemporary dancers and performance artists, and an array of renowned creative residencies. Limestone I from SOUNDMILL Improvisations Signal Erosion Performance with Helena Hamilton at Sonorities Festival Belfast Alphorn Tape Loop I from The Isolator International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation Cathy van Eck Beyond Air and Electricity Belfast Sonic Arts Master’s Programme This episode was researched, hosted, produced, and edited by Jim Reeve-Baker. The photograph used for the artwork was taken by Alix Forgeot Thanks for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP8 Özcan Saraç | 03 Feb 2025 | 01:08:10 | |
Multidisciplinary artist Özcan Saraç merges the boundaries between art, philosophy and science in his installation and discography work. Through an examination of the fundamental aspects and dynamics of contemporary matters, the artist infuses his artworks with conceptual and complex structures dedicated to existential perspective shiftings. Saraç crafts his research framework with a focus on both the tangible elements of the natural and built environment and abstract constructs like political and financial systems or decision-making processes. His exploration delves into the intricate relationships individuals maintain with their encompassing universe, pinpointing information processing and transformation systems as the core of his inquiry. Saraç is committed to incorporating research methodologies from various disciplines alongside creative techniques of expression and innovative publishing tools. His works have been exhibited in London, Paris, New York, Istanbul, Zurich, Geneva, Basel and Milan. Released six albums internationally under his name on the record labels Evel (Spain), Superpang (Italy), Tokinogake (Japan) and Kaer'Uiks (Germany). Performed internationally at several organizations. Music listened to and discussed in this episode: Back to the unstable proposition, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP7 Sara Constant | 20 Jan 2025 | 01:08:28 | |
Sara Constant is a musician and artist working in various forms of contemporary/experimental music and sound. Trained as a flute player and active as a soloist, improviser, sound artist, and ensemble musician, Sara’s work involves interpretations of composed music, improvisations with instruments and electronics, and sound installation, to explore ideas around listening, resonance, and place. Sara has released music on People Places Records and Age of Leisure, has performed on releases from Centrediscs and Sawyer Editions, and has presented sound installations and solo projects across Canada, Europe, and the United States. Sara is currently based in Tkarón:to/Toronto, working as a flutist, artist, writer (Musicworks), and curator (Music Gallery). Links: Music and sound art listened to and discussed in this episode: Mutable Bodies Number 1: Soft Speaking: https://saraconstant.ca/jellos https://saraconstant.ca/jellos-full-length Five Times Recycled: https://sawyereditions.bandcamp.com/album/no-grief-without-joy Surface Tensions: https://saraconstant.ca/surface-tensions
Sara’s website: https://saraconstant.ca The Music Gallery in Toronto: https://musicgallery.org/ Alvin Lucier’s I am Sitting in a Room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhtO4DsSazc Women From Space Festival 2022 edition review: https://www.musicworks.ca/reviews/women-space-festival Women From Space Website: https://www.womenfromspace.com This episode was researched, hosted, produced, and edited by Jim Reeve-Baker. Thanks for listening. https://www.instagram.com/into_the_noise/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP17 Cindy Islam | 19 Jan 2026 | 01:18:07 | |
Cindy Islam is a Glasgow-based Iraqi veiled sound artist who layers drone frequencies with prayers. Their work begins with a core belief that all art-making is an act of listening — whether to our individual or collective histories / behaviours / philosophies / traumas / futures. Working across media, they primarily explore this framework of listening through sound. Image by Haneen Hadiy https://haneenhadiy.com https://www.instagram.com/haneenhadiy https://sites.google.com/view/cindyislam https://cindyislam.bandcamp.com/ https://www.listengallery.co.uk/ https://www.instagram.com/cindyislam https://www.instagram.com/bakedbeansonthedoorstep https://buenavida.co.uk/fossilised-frequencies/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP18 Ali Robertson | 02 Feb 2026 | 01:28:37 | |
Ali Robertson, an award-winning improvising musician from Edinburgh, has been active in the experimental music scene for over twenty-five years, touring across three continents and becoming a regular on the international music festival circuit. His work exists on the periphery of what can be described as music, incorporating elements of improvisation, noise, composition, chance, comedy, spoken word, visual art, and storytelling. Best known for his work in the free improv performance duo Usurper, which he and cartoonist Malcy Duff performed as between 2003 and 2023, and for his work with the inclusive ensemble Sonic Bothy, as both a player and a workshop facilitator, Ali also performs solo and has collaborated with countless artists worldwide. Since 2000, he has operated the imprint Giant Tank, releasing dozens of CDs, cassettes, LPs, and publications, and hosting an ongoing series of concerts in Edinburgh under the TFEH banner, alongside his co-curator Firas Khnaisser. The Instramentalest - https://gianttank.bandcamp.com/album/the-instrumentalest Verbaaaaatim - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GXakMuyw-I https://gianttankeh.tumblr.com/ https://gianttank.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/gianttankagainsttedium/ https://www.youtube.com/@TFEHGIGS/videos https://www.sonicbothy.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP19 France Jobin | 16 Feb 2026 | 01:35:13 | |
France Jobin is a sound / installation / artist, composer and curator residing in Montreal, Canada. Her audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture”, revealing a minimalist approach to complex sound environments where analog and digital intersect. Her installations express a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements inspired by the architecture of physical spaces. Her works can be “experienced” in a variety of unconventional spaces and new technology festivals across Canada, the United States, South America, South Africa, Europe, Australia, Japan and South Korea. Since 2009, her focus has been related to Quantum mechanics. Many of her projects are inspired by theories related to topics such as vacuum decay, string theory and more recently, what she feels to be the most perplexing phenomenon in the world of the quantum , entanglement resulting in a first presentation, Entanglement A/V, with visual artist Markus Heckmann, which delves into the realms of quantum physics premiered at Mutek Mtl 2021. Infinite Possibilities (Particle 1) - https://francejobin.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-possibilities-particle-1 Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2) - https://francejobin.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-probabilities-particle-2 Spring Meandering 2023 - https://francejobin.bandcamp.com/track/spring-meandering-2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP20 Marcin Pietruszewski | 02 Mar 2026 | 01:27:18 | |
Marcin Pietruszewski is a composer and researcher. He is engaged in sound synthesis and composition with computers, exploring specific formal developments in the tradition of electroacoustic music and contemporary sound art, as well as extra-musical domains of auditory design, computational linguistics and psychoacoustics. He works across performance, multimedia installation and radio productions probing the dynamics between formalism of synthetic sound and its material realisation.
Steven R Holtzman’s PhD Thesis
The Myth of Perfect Fidelity Melle Jan Kromhout
Albert Bregman Auditory Scene Analysis
Auditory Distortion Synthesis by Christopher Hayworth
Tartini Tones / Combination Tones
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| EP21 Linda O'Keeffe | 16 Mar 2026 | 01:42:00 | |
Linda O'Keeffe is a sound artist based in New York. She holds a professorship in art at Stony Brook University, New York. A passionate advocate for the role of women in the sonic arts, she founded the Women in Sound Women on Sound (WISWOS) organisation. Additionally, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Interference Journal, a publication dedicated to audio cultures, from 2012 to 2022. In 2009, she co-founded the Irish Sound Science and Technology Association, leading as its President from 2015 to 2017. Her professional focus lies at the crossroads of art, science, technology, and community. This interest has led to the creation of numerous artworks, published research papers, and keynote presentations. As a member of the artist collective, Non Random, she aims to emphasize the union of arts and science to foster dialogues around research and art practices. Non Random is currently engaged in "Evolving Ourselves with Unnatural Selection", a project funded by Creative Scotland. This collaboration between artists and researchers aims to investigate and illustrate the ethical implications and future prospects of gene editing through a digital multi-arts approach. More about these collaborative works can be found at non-random.co.uk. Information about the performance of The Seasons at the HCMF More information about Continents Drifting Info about the Peripheries residency Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP22 Raymond MacDonald | 30 Mar 2026 | 01:06:12 | |
Raymond MacDonald is a saxophonist, composer and academic whose work explores the boundaries and ambiguities between what is conventionally seen as improvisation and composition. Much of his recent performing work has been in collaborative free improvisation contexts, however his roots in jazz and pop music are always evident in his playing and writing. MacDonald collaborates widely and has worked with visual artists, dancers, writers and filmmakers and has produced music for film, television, theatre and the concert hall. Behind the Big Clock from A Day for a Reason Again and Again from Sounds, Songs, and Other Noises https://www.antobarandmulltheatre.co.uk/ https://www.instagram.com/antobarandmulltheatre/ https://guenterbabysommer.bandcamp.com/ https://brotherandsisterhood.de/ Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| EP23 Alexandra Spence | 13 Apr 2026 | 01:11:01 | |
Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. Through her practice Alex attempts to reimagine the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. Her aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions. Your Whistle Tells of Landscape The MFA Alexandra completed in Vancouver Bryn Chainey - Rabbit Trap trailer Tuning of the World by R Murray Schafer Photograph for image by Lucy Parakhina Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||