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Dogs versus Shadows motif#29 SCAR

Full details on the motif page

MOSS16JUL26 

emanating under your feet...

MOSS - the fortnightly mix by Thébru Čelet of new work arriving on grey clay.

First playing Saturday 18th July 2026 1pm (UK time) then repeated Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am and Saturdays 1pm(also UK time.)

Timestamped track list on the Schedule Page.

Spontaneous Radio Work - the new show by Shaun Robert

Saturday 18th July 2026, 11pm UK time.

See schedule page for track list and further details.

<1NTWRK 

RENUMBERED MIX 01

Sunday 19th July 9pm UK time

Repeated Thursdays 1am UK time.

Info on the schedule page.

Soundtrack from the edge of the world - Episode 10

Arriving at the round 10th show, Russell's Teapot continues to delight and divert with the next superb 2 hr mix.

Sundays 1pm and Tuesdays 7pm, UK time.

Commencing Tuesday 14th July. 

Details on the schedule page.

Dogs versus Shadows

motif#28 BRINE

Immersion, suspension. 

Drifting ...

First playing Tuesday 7th July 2026 9pm (UK time).

Repeated Saturdays 1am and Tuesdays 9pm UK time.

More details and timestamped track list on the Schedule Page.

NON-SPECIFIC TEXTURES

Tuesdays 1pm & Sundays 3am UK time. 

Changing every week, one of the recent NON-SPECIFIC TEXTURE series releases by This is what I hear when you talk.

Details on the schedule page.

Schwarzer Tag

fluxus 14 

Sonnenkind

Saturday 4th July, 7pm UK time.

Details on the schedule page.

ANAKRONISM 32

Friday 3rd July,7pm Uk time 

Drawing back July's curtain, Signalstoerung steps through with a beguiling and masterful mix from the Adventurous Music label catalogue.

Repeated 7pm Fridays & 5am Mondays (UK time).

See schedule page for track list.

Artist in Residence: 

16bard: retrospective 

More 16bard retrospective from March 2021, #251963. 

Details on the artist in residence page.

Playing Wednesdays at 12:00 and 23:00 UK time.

Ethereal Projector #7 Zen Garden

Tuesdays 12 midnight and Saturdays 7am, UK time. Commencing 26.05.2026.

Atmospheric organic ambient mix with sounds of nature from Chitra Records and Ambient Cat Records by Dionisaf.

See schedule page for track list and further details.

ANALYSIS 12

by Substak. Wednesday 17th June, 7pm [UK time].

See schedule page for track list and further details.

THA_LAB TRANSMISSION 11

Friday 5th June, 3am UK time

THA_LAB - Show #11 - an hour of brooding, dark elecroacoustic drama.

Repeated 3am Fridays & 9pm Mondays (UK time).

See schedule page for track list.

FEATURED ALBUM: Ombrophilia 

by 

Tomoko Sauvage

Released on Aposiopèse, May 2012

https://label-aposiopese.bandcamp.com/album/ombrophilia

7 tracks 41 minutes

I first heard of Tomoko Sauvage in Jennifer Lucy Allan’s wonderfully inspiring book, Clay: a human history. The very day after reading the chapter on sound in which Sauvage’s processes are described, I am approached by the superb French label, Aposiopèse and lo - there she is in their catalogue. One thing leads to another. The universe provides and so I am here writing gratefully and returning some energy - to the universe and Aposiopèse!

The form of clay known as porcelain is defined by its colour, fineness and sound. Sauvage uses the moulds for bells to create her water filled porcelain bowls which she then plays in many different ways. There is a history of such instruments in India (Jalatarangam) with its ancient cultural context and Sauvage brings us her own in Ombrophilia (thriving in an abundance of rain) and her diverse body of work.

Indeed there are several moments in this album where you feel it could all somehow be being played by falling rain drops in their lilting, tickling voice. She in fact uses a huge variety of methods to entice different tones from her instrument and the result of this is evident in the sheer variety produced.

Key to the sound in this and other works is the use of hydrophones submerged in the bowls. These enable a very sensitive profile of vibration to be captured, especially as the water in the bowls is swirled or agitated. In this particular album separate recordings are layered into each other, sometimes with field recordings, so the result is often a dense, complex cloud of notes which might take a while to attune to at first, depending on your listening habits.

Opening gently, Amniotic Life¹ gradually increases in insistence as it goes until you become aware of melodic collisions of notes scattered around an anchoring bass tone. There is a surprising pathos in the way the water bends the tones, while the stereo spread, certainly on headphones, creates an enveloping field around you.

Raindrop Exercise¹  then establishes a more ordered feeling at first and proceeds into something more like familiar campanology only with the emergence of a beautiful haunting phrase, seemingly sketched in and slowly evolving as it goes.

The 3 and a half minutes long Mylapore follows and again extends the range of sounds and feelings that can be achieved with the instrument using wooden spoons and wire as beaters. This piece also grows in intensity impressively with certain sounds that even seem to defy their origin.

Making of a Rainbow is my favourite of them all. Here the musical language seems to create such a sense of sadness and distance with fewer notes; at times hurrying you along and elsewhere lingering. You really do forget how this music is being made and just flow along with it.

In Jalatarangam Revisited a whole new intensity grows with almost drone-like focus and concludes with a clever use of field recording. At nine minutes, Amniotic Life² is the longest track and uses its space to really loosen up the texture to let each note establish its full presence, creating something of a change in pace which works very well at this point in the album. Raindrop Exercise² closes on a more curious tone that seems to cycle a wind-chime style sequence, as if the player has left and the bowls are playing themselves. But then you are aware of another hand as it all falls into an unexpected image before dissipating to silence.

The analogue nature of the sounds with their clarity and mutability give this album a quality all on their own, quite apart from the experimental structures in it. They have been crafted and combined so intuitively across the frequency range that a surprisingly wide scope of expression is present. I found myself pleasantly deep in all sorts of feelings across the whole work, perhaps partly due to the investment you make in this kind of listening but most certainly in Sauvage’s composition. Substance and form utterly harmonised. 

Tomoko Sauvage is a Paris-based Japanese composer and artist.

https://o-o-o-o.org

https://tomokosauvage.bandcamp.com/music

T.Čelet 

July 2026

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The featured album plays daily at 5pm, UK time.

Irving Paul Pereira, better known on grey clay radio as artist,  AFTERVOLTER,  sadly passed away over Christmas at home in Singapore aged 48, after a long battle with cancer. Paul, and his incredible imagination and music will be deeply deeply missed. His shows will continue to be played here on rotation on Thursdays, 5am and 12noon, UK time. 

AFTERVOLTER - The dance of Hagarah

Thursdays 5am and 12 noon UK time, from 25.06.2026.

In honour of the late, brilliant Irving Paul Pereira, grey clay is re-running all of his previous shows that he shared with the station, continuing with March 2025's The dance of Hagarah.

Details and full lore on the schedule page

EX!Zine edition 6

This is the sixth issue of EX! Magazine for Experimental Art (audio, visual, text, etc.).

There are two versions: print (Book/Magazine) and digital (Digital Album).

The print version (Book/Magazine) includes the 100-page zine (printed climate-neutral on recycled paper), the digital compilation, and a download code for an exclusive album by Limestone Ziggurat.

The digital version (Digital Album) includes the zine (in PDF format) and the digital compilation.

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EX! Edition 6 is feat.

Andy Billington, Anna Mainz, Christina Ruf, Corina Retzlaff, Fabian Eichstaedt, Ingrid N, Isabelle Gagné, Łukasz Polowzyk, Manuel Carbone & Substak, Myshel, Ryan Hooper, SHE THE THRONE, Space Odyssey, Teresa Riemann, Tla Fla, Toni Dimitrov and more.

It also includes music/book recommendations, early experimental musicians, a selection of influential albums by AGF and Francis Théberge, and more.

releases June 21, 2026

https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ex-zine-edition-6

16mm - a sound and spoken word special.

by Dogs versus Shadows and Nicholas Langley.

More info on the Schedule Page.

A Different Take On Time - new book by Corina Retzlaff. 

This is the English version of 

Die Verschiebung der Zeit.

Humorous and philosophical reflections on the theme of time in twenty-two essays, complemented by abstract images by Francis Théberge and an extended soundtrack by Hendekagon.

Bandcamp Listening Party at 6pm (UK time) on Friday 17th April!

https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/merch/a-different-take-on-time-listening-party-2

The digital album includes the book as a pfd-file.

https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-different-take-on-time

Eighth Tower Magazine Vol. I

from Unexplained Sounds Group

Eighth Tower Magazine is a periodical publication dedicated to music and modern mythologies. It explores alternative and experimental sound practices, tracing connections between contemporary music, invisible cinema, and dark fiction. Eighth Tower investigates how modern mythologies are shaped, transmitted, and transformed. It is conceived as a space for reflection, documentation, and critical exploration, where sound, image, and narrative converge into a shared cultural landscape.

Format: stapled A5

Pages: 64

Language: English

1st Edition: numbered, limited to 50 copies

2nd printing: numbered, limited to 30 copies

Volume I - contents:

Electroacoustic music from Portugal – new Sound Mapping anthology published by Unexplained Sounds Group / Resistant materials. Physical music format in the digital era /

Interview with Robert Rich / Experimental music history, A short journey into the Italian post industrial scene of the 1980s / Invisible sci-fi cinema. 5 films from Japan you probably never saw / The inner space. The revolution of J. G. Ballard’s narrative / Incredible strange YouTube. When the Solar System stared back / Conspiracies and mythologies. Silencers. the invisible presence / Dark fiction corner / Dark fiction corner.  

https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/merch/eighth-tower-magazine-vol-i

Avocado 1970 

- FREE BONUS DOWNLOAD  with A Woman Under the Influence by Her Menacing Pet. The premiere issue of Avocado 1970, a DIY digital zine focused on dark ambient/experimental music, underground labels, and visual art. Featuring interviews and artwork from musicians and artists operating outside the mainstream, the zine documents the intersection of sound, image, and independent creative culture.

Get both here...

https://hermenacingpet.bandcamp.com/album/a-woman-under-the-influence

Zine also here...

https://archive.org/details/avocado-issue-one/page/n1/mode/2up