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The Experiment: November 2009

Calling Out Of Context Season

The Experiment: October 2009

From Ocean to Ocean to sound to sound - sounds are everywhere even in space -
"Sound is the vocabulary of nature" - Pierre Schaeffer

The Experiment: September 2009

Experimental everything is explored on the podcast - so just in case you thought we had missed out or forget about that glamour world and glitter of flashing lights that is; the dance floor - here it is!!!

The Experiment: August 2009

In this month's Experiment podcast we feature some very individual modern composers.

The Experiment: July 2009

And tumult of defeated dreams; and deep
Among pale eyelids heavy with the sleep
Men have named beauty. Your great leaves enfold
The ancient beards, the helms of ruby and gold
Of the crowned Magi; and the king whose eyes
Saw the Pierced Hands and Rood of Elder rise.

The Experiment: June 2009

The Experiment: May 2009

It's a month of contrasts at The Experiment in May, as Kevin is joined at the controls by Christos Fanaras for demonic improvisation, circuit bending worms and the improbably-named Christian Science Minotaur.

The Experiment: April 2009

Keep the noise up! Kevin Quigley and Jack Alett explore minimal drone and fuzz from coastal towns, and other forms of maximum music in this month's Experiment.

The Experiment: March 2009

Is there something in the air? This month The Experiment goes pop!

The Experiment: February 2009

This month's Experiment takes us down the long hairs of the new psychedelia, with Abandon Ship Records, Bitcrusher Records, and an exclusive Animal Collective interview from podcaster-at-large Jim Hammond.

The Experiment: The Art of Listening pt.2

Dissecting sound and its possibilities, Kevin Quigley and Adam Asnan delve further into the ambiguous nature of electroacoustic music.

The Experiment: The Art of Listening pt.1

In the first of a two-parter exploring what it means to listen to music, Kevin Quigley is joined by acousmatic composer Adam Asnan.

The Experiment: November 2008

North London occultism, musical science, psychedelic bagpipes, and an imminent galactic implosion. Chilled? Keep yourself warm with The Experiment's November podcast.

The Experiment: October 2008

Outsider roots, gospel genius, Hammond and Halloween organs: go from blue to black and back again with October's Experiment.

The Experiment: September 2008

September takes The Experiment deep into the heart of unlikely Finnish collaborations. Keeping Kevin company this month is special guest Eric Namour of avant-impresarios [no.signal].

The Experiment: August 2008

Blood! Torture and gore! Macabre deathwish soundtracks! Obsessions of horror, lightened only by a touch of Tuvalan electro-distortion... It's a dark and chilling August with The Experiment.

The Experiment: July 2008

Californian dreamers, ambient majesty, unhinged vocal expression and cut and paste alien soundtracks: Summer storms with The Experiment.

The Experiment: June 2008

Ghostpunk, spoken dreams, heretics and priests, and tape-gore audio essays: The Experiment explores further annals of innovative music in June.

The Experiment: May 2008

Family Vineyards, Swedish Outsiders, Chocolate Monks and a broken organ in harmony with a diseased typewriter: May with The Experiment.

The Experiment April 2008: Raster-Noton

Zooming into fractal dimensions to explore the magical electronic and immersive worlds of Raster-Noton.

The Experiment: March 2008

Ariel Pink, Malleable Records, Daniel Menche, and an interview with Charles Hayward are all on the Experiment's March wavelength.

The Experiment: February 2008

For this month's podcast we have a jam-packed hardened case of jagged sounds!

The Experiment: Bumper Festive Edition

Featuring Pamelia Kurstin, Death Ambient, Ladywoodsman, Shackleton and Appleblim, si-cut.db and Burial.

The Experiment: November

Scratch, bark, hiss: musical adventurers hiking away into their own lost worlds: featuring Stars of the Lid, Jazzfinger, Simon Bookish and Mute Irregular.

The Experiment: October

Featuring Astral Social Club, Iris Garrelfs, Octis, Accretions records, I.U.D and Corridors.

The Experiment: September

Featuring Liquid Cop, Gang Gang Dance, NMY and Jozef Van Wissem and a healthy dash of venom-ade!

The Experiment: August

Featuring Growing, Raccoo-oo-oon, Noveller, Adam Asnan, and Sculpture.

The Experiment: July

Featuring Eats Tapes, Xylitol , Rocket Number Nine and James Blackshaw, and an interview with art terrorists Le Couteau Jaune.

The Experiment: June

Featuring Lucky Dragons, a cool exclusive live track from London's experimental label Unluck Records and more other beautiful and twisted compositions full of exciting new sounds.