Leonie Roessler

Another piece added to our program is "this silent storm // unseen, but Felt" by James A.-McEwan We will stream it at onaironsite.com on Saturday May 23 at 11.45 CET. James is a Greek–Scottish composer and electric guitarist based in The Hague. About his piece: "This is an excerpt from a generative composition, built in ableton live. If you open the ableton live session and press play, it keeps unfolding endlessly, as a piece of constant inconsistency. The core of the work is built around several electric guitar samples I recorded, and then reversed them so they play backwards. The session then endlessly jumps between different parts of these samples in a random order, and the resulting sounds are manipulated through a network of effects, where several of the parameters are constantly being varied at random. This overlaid levels of unpredictability work with the same core material, but always presenting it in an ever-changing, yet consistent manner. The result is one of a somewhat confused sonic environment, where things are always settled, yet constantly unsettled. It hints at a tense state, where nothing quite stays in place, yet it is a place that can be calm to stay in as a listener. It’s a world that hints at inner tensions, but also external tensions that have an effect on the inner world. Yet, if you allow yourself to sit patiently and give in to this world, it can be somehow a calm and meditative world at the same time." #netherlands #ableton #generative #electricguitar #Soundscape

We have a couple of stragglers coming in to announce. Our colleague Edward Ruchalski sent us a wonderful piece which we will stream at 3:45 CET on Saturday May 23 at onaironsite.com. Edward Ruchalski is a composer, sound artist and field recordist. His compositions have been performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Mass MoCA, Symphony Space on Broadway, the Festival of Miami, and elsewhere. Enjoy his "Green Frog Chorus". #usa #frogs #fieldrecording #ArtRadio #festival

We are streaming one more Italian artist, Domenico DE Simone, with a work that is both very beautiful and also important, just before our festival closes. "ECHOES" will stream at onaironsite.com at 19.30. "ECHOES was born from a deep desire to dive into the profound and often unheard acoustic stories of our oceans. This electroacoustic piece directly answers the call's questions: 'How do we develop and where do we spread' within natural systems? At its core, the piece is built from extraordinary underwater recordings provided by Ocean Networks Canada (ONC). I was particularly struck by the unique sound of a 'transient killer whale party' near Sooke, BC. This gathering of marine life, a fleeting yet incredibly powerful display of population dynamics and social behavior within an ecosystem, became the central inspiration. To me, it truly showcases how life organizes and expresses itself in nature. I then meticulously manipulated and transformed these raw sounds, letting them reverberate and evolve much like echoes through vast underwater canyons. This process felt like mirroring the microscopic-to-macroscopic scale of growth the call highlights – from the intimate interactions within a whale pod to the expansive, unseen life pulsing through the ocean's depths. ECHOES isn't just an immersive soundscape; it's a celebration of the vitality of marine biodiversity. It brings to light the profound, often silent, acoustic narratives our oceans hold. The piece is a reflection on how species gather, interact, and persist, touching upon the continuous mechanisms of development and spread inherent in our planet's immense aquatic environments." #italy #wales #canada #ecology #fieldrecordings #ocean

After a live performance streamed all the way from Valparaíso in Chile with Rodrigo Ríos Zunino from Radio Tsonami we are back in France at 19.15 on Sunday 24, streaming "Chambre avec vues" at onaironsite.com. "Aurélien Laville is a sound artist based in Le Havre, France, working between ambient, noise, and techno. He often collaborates with artists on performances and exhibitions, drawing from texts or images as source material. Chambre avec vues is a sound piece created for On Air – On Site, conceived as a palimpsest — a manuscript from which the original writing has been erased to make room for a new text. Sounds appear and fade away, forming a soundscape reminiscent of recording over old audio or video tapes, where traces of the original sound or image still emerge. This process raises questions about our relationship to our own history, as well as to History with a capital H. The piece reveals the sensitive dimensions of our being at its deepest level." #France #chambreavecvue #history #palimpset #soundart

After our live program at West on Sunday 24, we are returning to the last batch of fixed media pieces. "Abimie" by French composer Valentin Sismann will stream at 17.45 at onaironsite.com. "Memories come to life when you believe in them. Magic, too. But in a lantern, why? By pulling too hard on the pulleys, the magic lantern breaks and the images freeze. So, a huge machine whines, groans. And, in this goddamn darkness, there’s no way to help it, or even to know what it is. Humans drain it of its sound; it’s wrecked on the spot, abimée. The Cycle of the Same Journey is a collection of acousmatic pieces in stereo – an episodic listening experience and a field recording project centred on the idea of erasure. Instantaneous or imperceptible, natural and magnificent. Human and violent, strange, spiritual. Each piece is a step in this journey, where variations on this same destruction lie hidden within the sounds." #france #fieldrecording #acousmatic #ArtRadio #festival

Heading back to Italy once more at 13.30 CET on Sunday May 24 with Valerio Orlandini's beautiful piece "Traum", streaming on onaironsite.com. "Can a dream be sounded back into existence? And what of sounding a dream that has not yet been dreamt? Which of the two is more unsettling? “Traum” sets out toward the former, yet slips into the latter: a continuous oscillation between the imaginary and the real, the already dreamt and the yet-to-be-dreamt. A summer’s worth of field recordings folds onto itself, erasing the borders between memory, anticipation, and invention. A wishful soundscape for a time that both happens and has yet to happen, like returning, in sleep, to a place you know, only to find it altered beyond recognition." #italy #traum #dreamscape #fieldrecordings #summer

Staying up North we are moving on to Irish artist Colin James Woods at 13:00 CET on Sunday May 24. We will stream his piece on onaironsite.com. "I Just Called is a curated series of voice recordings of people pretending to leave a voice message for a loved one. The recordings were collected in Northern Ireland and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Mostly in English, the set includes contributions in Irish, Arabic, French, German, Mandarin, and Korean. Each anonymous caller’s words are unscripted and devoid of context–in effect, a short, improvised performance–but the result is very affecting for the listener. The original piece relayed the content via eight telephone handsets suspended from a ceiling panel. The piece explores the dynamic between intimacy and voyeurism and the universality of human connection, irrespective of ethnicity or religion. We hear people saying heartfelt and private things to those they love. By agreeing to be recorded for the work, they have given us permission to listen, but still, there is a sense that we might be intruding – and that’s both delicious and slightly uncomfortable! The content moved online during the Covid pandemic to ijustcalled.online. In 2045/5 I Just Called toured public libraries in Belfast and Co. Antrim, with artist talks and content collection. The work is now back in the physical realm, with its most recent exhibition during February 2026 at Mossley Mill Museum Gallery in Newtownabbey featuring four telephone tables with modified vintage telephone handsets, each relaying a subset of the collected voices. Full consent was given for all the recordings. This submitted iteration of the work, entitled I Just Broadcast is a 30-minute curated selection of the message set." #ireland #voiemessage #participatory #newzealand #ArtRadio

At 12:00 CET on Sunday May 24 we are streaming another piece of a Scottish Artist on onaironsite.com. This time an impressive work called "Ten Responses to Changed States" by Ruaridh Law. "Originally installed as part of Occupied Territories, Occupied Thoughts, Dunoon Burgh Hall, Jan/Feb 2025, to accompany work from exhibition organisers Celie Byrne & Pearl Kinnear, plus Iain Henderson and Alice Yousaf as an 11-channel spatial sound installation, built around the gallery space, to complement film, sculpture and textiles from the other artists. The sound sources used included audio from film shot in Gaza, the voice of the Palestinian poet Alice Yousaf, ambient sound recorded and played back from the gallery and original audio material. The audio was then reworked for the final broadcast of Repeater Books "Repeater Radio" platform with a lot of additional voices - the words of Alice Yousaf and audio from Iain Henderson from the original piece, and the words of Dale Cornish, Debbie Armour, Dave From Glasgow, Bob Cluness, Scott McKellar, Tania Salmen, Chameleonic, Alice Hoffman-Fuller and Agents Of The Culture Industry in this current version. It also includes field recordings from protests in Glasgow and London plus original audio pieces composed by Ruaridh Law." #scotland #Gaza #occupation #poetry #Soundscape #fieldrecordings

Piotr Goj is a musician, guitar player, live coder, sound designer from Poland. We will hear his really funky and cool work "Stegosaurus" at 11:45 CET on Sunday May 24, streamed via onaironsite.com " "Stegosaurus is written in tau language. Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is getting somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. Live coding works across musical genres, and has been seen in concert halls, late night jazz bars, as well as algoraves. There is also a strong movement of video-based live coders, writing code to make visuals, and many environments can do both sound and video, creating synaesthetic experiences." #poland #livecoding #tau #soundart #ArtRadio

Sara Maino and Claudia Ferretti are taking us into the forest in Italy at 11:30 CET on Sunday May 24th. To listen to their enchanting work "Lo spirito del bosco (The spirit of the forest)" you can tune into onaironsite.com. "This vocal and sound composition is the result of a live performance held in the quarries of Bosco Caproni in Arco, a mountainous area of Trentino, in Italy.The protagonists are eighteen pupils from Year V at Massone Primary School and their teachers.They took part in the educational and artistic project "In the Great Book of the World, with my Ears", with the aim to exploring the soundscape of their village and of the surrounding area.The idea was conceived by sound artist and researcher Sara Maino and brought to life in collaboration with teachers Eva Fornari, Miriam Michelotti and Elvira Cosentino, Irene Matassoni and musician Claudia Ferretti.The children were first invited to listen to the natural soundscape of the quarries, then to observe, draw and interpret the ‘music’ etched into the rock formations, and finally to sing, drawing inspiration from the dripping water.Here, their voices seek to attune themselves to the language of the rocks, in the hope of striking up a sonic dialogue with the genius loci, the spirit of the place." #italy #forest #childrensvoices #village #Soundscape

At 10:45 CET on Sunday Morning we are heading back to Glasgow with soundartist Beth Robertson. "moss dreams of rain" will be streamed at onaironsite.com "moss dreams of rain is a sound composition celebrating moss through the process of rehydration after lying dry and dormant. Moss, an organism over 450 million years old, that blankets ancient forests and bursts through grey pavements in our cities are small symbols of porous resistance. Sphagnum moss specifically can absorb up to 8 times their weight in water, this prevents them from breaking down and decaying and instead turn into peat bogs which are precious biodiverse carbon sinks. Moss, like us, are completely reliant on water in every aspect of their growth and reproduction, their little leaves constantly in anticipation for moisture. This sound piece is an imagining of the luscious delight a patch of moss might feel as it begins to rain. Featuring the singing group on the Isle of Eigg. Inspired by Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer." #scotland #moss #ecology #water #soundart

And at 10:30 CET on Sunday 24 we are heading to Greece with Wiktor Mastela. Tune in at onaironsite.com to hear his work "In Between". ""This fixed media radio artwork is a sonic investigation into the chaotic density of our globalized soundscape. Structured as a non-linear radio transmission, the piece explores how cultural identities and personal expression struggle to emerge through the 'white noise' of the modern world. The composition layers industrial drones with vintage American advertisements, creating a consumerist backdrop that is soon disrupted by fragments of a Macedonian radio broadcast. In the midst of this sonic collision, a live piano theme—the composer’s personal voice—briefly surfaces, only to be violently interrupted by a renewed surge of chaotic interference. The piece functions as a 'radio-collage' of a world in constant friction. It eventually finds its resolution by drifting away from the artificial signals and into the organic 'silence' of a natural field recording from a park. This final transition marks a return to the physical world, suggesting that clarity can only be found when we disconnect from the global broadcast and reconnect with our immediate environment." #greece #globalization #fieldrecording #CulturalIdentity #Soundscape