Framework Radio

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Framework #977

June 21-28, 2026

Re-Imagined Radio Presents Framework Radio

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

This week, Framework #977, an afield edition, entitled "Call Back Carousel: Voyage en Grèce," was produced in Scotland by regular contributor Mark Vernon.

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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 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.
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Re-Imagined Radio Extras-Framework Radio "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→