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Sundays 9pm-11pm on RTRFM92.1
Western Australia's radio show on experimental music

03/11/2024

Tonight's Difficult Listening will traverse the more ambient world of the somewhat difficult featuring sounds from the Women of Noise, a new anthology of Canadian Experimental Music, hypnotic rhythms, to the encounter of cyborg-birds, interferences and echoes, disfigured field recordings, and many more. Tune into RTRFM 92.1 from 9pm WST.

06/10/2024

Tune into tonight's Difficult Listening for an exploration of synthesisers from the Oramics technique, Buchla 200 system, Eurorack and hybrid analogue systems to electroacoustic techniques and home made objects featuring Daphne Oram, Warren Burt and more. Tonight on RTRFM 92.1 from 9pm WST.

01/09/2024

Tune into Difficult Listening tonight on RTRFM 92.1 from 9-11pm for a kaleidoscope of tunes from power electronics to experimental jazz to noise and everything in between!

18/08/2024

The DL crew will be joining you on the airwaves tonight to celebrate all things RTRFM 92.1 for Radiothon '24!

We all love RTRFM 92.1 and we know you do too! 💜

Please subscribe or donate to support this amazing station, and Difficult Listening to keep independent community radio on the airwaves and in your home bringing you the best in alternative music! https://support.rtrfm.com.au/subscribe/6

27/07/2024

This week's DL includes an interview with Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, a Meanjin-based percussionist focused on feminist experimental sound traditions, who some of youse might have heard a set from in a disciplined performance at the Audible Edge Festival this year.

Channeling the work of psychoacoustic magickians such as Sarah Hennies and Maryanne Amacher, Rebecca has just released a solo record patiently drawing out wild vibrations from metallophones and drums that are keenly felt in the bones and on every surface of the ear canal.

Hear about and hear the release in full on the show tomozz!

Tune in at 9PM AWST / 11PM AEST, Sunday night on RTRFM 92.1.

14/07/2024

Difficult Listening tonight! Lots of microtonal music! Some cooked Indonesian rap music about Marx! Music that makes your ears make their own sounds! With these people in the pictures - Ben Johnston, Pascale Criton and Maria Portugal - and a bunch others.

9PM AWST on RTRFM 92.1 orright

07/07/2024

Tune into Difficult Listening on RTRFM 92.1 tonight from 9pm WST for an exploration of electro synth pioneers, songs for peace, distorted pop, mechanical sound orchestras, homemade objects and lots more sonic mischief! 💜

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09/06/2024

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Songs in a hall of mirrors by William Henry Meung. Lo-fi ambient by Megan Alice Clune. Proper fu**ed up untraceable uncommodifiable noise by Sydney enigmas Placeholder. Mystic collages by Banana. Saxophones and trumpets that sound like synthesizers from Streifenjunko. Et al!

9PM AWST tonight, stay out of the rain or get right into it.

02/06/2024

Tune into Difficult Listening tonight for distorted beats, dystopian clanging, a modified "indoor piano", industrial punk, ghoulish samples, amulets, sound collages and many more sensory treats promised! 9PM WST Sunday on RTRFM 92.1!

26/05/2024

Difficult Listening tonight!

Tripped out gqom from Durban's PheliMuncasi segues into avant-garde techno and textured ambience, disintegrating into the earthy post-improv of Oker and the decisive prepared piano textures of Magda Mayas. New stuff off australian labels SplitRec and Nice Music involved too. That's just some of the weirdness promised tonight, at 9PM AWST on RTRFM 92.1.

05/05/2024

Some o' what's in store tonight on Difficult Listening: the barely-music almost-songs of Astrid Øster Mortensen and Matthew Revert, sound collage pop from Glaswegian duo Guests, the whole of James Rushford's cooked new suite for portative organ and electronics "Quire", scary metallic post-juke from the new Bad Ambulance release Intel 95, drifting microtonal improvisation and idiosyncratic chamber music...no telling how it's all gonna come together - that's Difficult Listening!

9PM - 11PM AWST on RTRFM 92.1.

21/04/2024

Looking for an In the Pines after party? Tune into Difficult Listening on RTRFM 92.1 from 10pm where we will be delving into the world of the extraordinary. Tonight, I will diving into the new anthology from Unexplained Sounds as part of their Sound Mapping Project, a Whale for Peace from composer Ann McMillan, a new project from Lea Bertucci and Lawrence English and so many more difficult delights for your sound pallete! See you at 10pm x

You can restream the show here https://rtrfm.com.au/shows/difficultlistening/

13/04/2024

Tonight on Difficult Listening, sounds from Renaissance and Medieval times reappropriated into contemporary times. Clara Levy's readings of Hildegard von Bingen chants via Pauline Oliveros scores, "medieval krautrock" band France, a live recording of local maverick Max/MSP-tin whistle-harpsichord-spoken word-zither ensemble Seacrest Gardens, et al. Plus some actual 15th and 16th century music that coulda been written in the '80s.

9PM AWST every Sunday night including this one.

07/04/2024

Re-stream last night's program on RTRFM, featuring a new release by Naarm-based percussionist Louise Devenish and Boorloo composer, James Stuart; voice recordings and montages by Alessandro Bossetti; Cassandra Miller's transfiguring of pre-existing music, and more.

24/03/2024

tonight on DL Lyndon flings you an irregular patchwork quilt of weirdo sounds from near and far... Newly released, post-everything songstuff from the likes of Klein and Anysia Kym ; fractured beats and percussive mess from Jlin to Jim White ; local drone, disintegrating metal and noise from Scythe, Furchick, Tangled Thoughts of Leaving and more. Plus! Saxo the Rose's bizarro A.I. collaborations, still-fresh Australian free jazz from 1978 and toilet-inspired electronics from Yamaguchi, Japan. Tune in from 9pm!

03/03/2024

Tonight's Difficult Listening will be a celebration of the sounds of International Women's Day. An exploration of new and old, both locally and internationally.

Hear from Zeena Parkins' as she pushes the boundaries to redefine the musical capabilities of the harp, Laetitia Sonami's use of electronic sensors and lycra gloves to create sound, Hildegard Westerkamp's musical exploration of a cricket, de anti-colonial artist Amby Downs' cavernous low frequency sounds, Madeleine Cocolas' exploration of water and human bodies and lots more!

Tune in to DL Sundays 9PM AWST on RTRFM 92.1

25/02/2024

Time to live up to the Difficult Listening name tonight! Fu**ed up lo-fi mess and eviscerating skronk from the likes of The Dead C, Harry P***y, Sewage, Pales, TAXPAYER, et al. Offset with a bunch of soothing microtonal drone music later on in the show. That's what we're here for!

9PM AWST as always on RTRFM 92.1.

18/02/2024

Tonight on Difficult Listening hear the glitch rhythms of Boorloo composer Plyanci; Bolivia's Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos use of Aymaran traditions to create new sonic worlds; noise jesters from the Basque underground Al Karpenter, and plenty more from 9pm!

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From High Modernism to plural perspectives, Bryce Moore charts the origins of Difficult Listening and its evolving programming over the years. Bryce is our guest tonight on the last episode of the Difficult Listening Radio Festival. Listen to this ad-hoc interview recorded in 2018 when the program celebrated 30 years on RTRFM. Recording and layout by Eduardo Cossio

Difficult Listening Radio Festival: Episode 2 is this Sunday, 9PM-11PM AWST on RTRFM. Josten Myburgh is pleased to present an audio diary of his trip to Mexico in January this year, where he travelled around playing shows and meeting local musicians. The show features music from the Mexican scene, as well as field recordings, weird local pop music, and snippets of audio recorded for this very show by Mexican sound artists and improvisers. Here's a snippet from one of the interviews Josten will share on the show, with Mexican media artist Gudinni Cortina.

Difficult Listening celebrates 35 Years on RTR with a Radio Festival in October. Tune in on Sundays between 9pm and 11pm for a special programming of interviews, documentaries, radio diaries, and more. Radio Festival: 35 Years of Difficult Listening Music: Cut Air by Jim Denley Photo by Josh Wells Audio and layout by Eduardo Cossio

Difficult Listening celebrates 35 Years on RTRFM with a Radio Festival! Every Sunday in October between 9pm and 11pm, DL presenters will be delving into the written and unwritten histories of experimental music from Perth and beyond; featuring interviews and seldom heard sounds spanning the arcane, the quotidian, the wondrous. www.facebook.com/events/150680018108031/150680028108030 Photo by Tom Trevatt Music: Wonderlust by Cat Hope performed by Decibel New Music Ensemble Audio and Layout by Eduardo Cossio

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