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PLANET DESIRE is back: the 6th edition of the show is set to unearth some precious secrets about Magic and Manifestation. Do not miss Maude’s Sermon this coming Sunday which should be full of scandalous and unapologetic revelations about famous misconceptions, diving into popular beliefs effects and after effects, with a special feature on Satan himself. Times have changed and Planet Desire’s church is now coming on from 12 til 2pm. Tune in, show yourselves in the chat, let’s pray!
Quarterdeck 47 w/ Captain Little Pal is the place where anything goes. This program will explore and flirt with all kinds of musical and cultural currents and genres. Through the best musical selections, Paloma reviews and explores the histories of the most influential groups in musical history, from the acclaimed to the forgotten and ignored. For the most part, the heaviest rock and its sub-genres will reign, but electronic rhythms, funk, soul and absolute psychedelia will not be left out.
NEW: Tonight from 19:00, Radio WORM is thrilled to welcome longstanding project Radio Volcán Mudo to the schedule. The project serves as a bridge, connecting listeners around the world to the heart of African, Latin American, Caribbean, and jazz music. Every note, rhythm, and melody tells a story, echoing the common ground and cultural influences that have shaped these incredible musical traditions.
Kevin Simón Mancera has dedicated over a decade to the Radio Volcán Mudo project, being constantly present and creating a new show every month. El Javier_B is been a regular host of shows at Operator Radio, Open-Source Radio, and Penossi Radio. Twice a month, they’ll delve into a carefully curated script featuring a distinct genre or topic, exploring diverse melodies across various musical genres. Each episode will include a brief presentation of every featured song, prioritizing the sounds. Expect special guests with expertise in these genres too!
They write: “We want to make a show where we can be in touch with the rhythmic heartbeat of Africa, where the ancient traditions of drumming, singing, and storytelling come to life. introduces you to the soulful rhythms that have inspired generations, showcasing the diversity of African musical styles. We will explore the sound of Caribbean music beyond the preconceptions of beach and vacation so that the listener can come into contact with much darker and more avant-garde rhythms; The same will happen with the sounds coming from Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela, where the creation of new rhythms was and continues to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Jazz was another genre that in its search for a more spiritual path learned from the sounds coming from Africa, not only with traditional drums but also with the incorporation of new instruments, languages and musical structures and spiritual paths that consolidated the creation of contemporary jazz.”
NEW on Radio WORM: the team behind the Platform Voor Extratonaliteit explores the latest in extratonal tendencies. Famed, among other things, for their regular Extratonal Infrastructure gigs at Varia, the team has developed Extratonality to focus on sonic (and neighboring) activities that reject distinctions between high and low, exceptional and boring, serious and pop. It stretches the classical paradigms of music (balance, contrast, focus, movement, pattern, proportion, rhythm and unity) and expands them with conceptual, technical and performative principles from other disciplines. Curious? Check out extratonal.org and tune in Tuesdays 19:00-20:00, every 4 weeks, starting tonight!
Today resident legend Hoekboud brings the Free Jazz and Punk for your Thursday afternoon: on Sunday January 7 Han Bennink and Terrie Ex will be performing in Musicon, the Hague. In anticipation, Hoekboud plays some tracks of the record they released in 2010, and some earlier recordings of Bennink dating back to the late 1960's and Terrie (The) Ex dating back to early 1980's. From 16:00!
Today, our first day back for 2024, we're honoured to have Ilkyaz in the studio. Currently based in Berlin, Ilkyaz produces sounds and performs live for theatres alongside the spatial experimentation through field recording, capturing not only the audio essence but also the ephemeral nature of sound in different places. While dropping by WORM's Sound Studios this week, she'll also bring some treasures for the radio from 14:00 to help us gently prise open the year ahead.
Radio WORM is back for 2024 with joy: Wednesday means Cinema Colombiano, and for their first show of the new year Mitze Apocalipze and Chucho Vinilo will be joined in the studio by none other than Edgar Nevermoo!
In their words: "Edgar Nevermoo has been a vinyl-only DJ at our events ever since the Cinema Colombiano-film festival in 2018. He always manages to surprise us and the audience with his diverse selection of obscure records. This Wednesday we're going to find out how he began his journey into cumbia and Colombian music, while playing songs from his vast vinyl collection. Aside from this passion, we'll talk about his work with Kapitaal in Utrecht including the events that he helps to organize there. And we might even talk about his involvement with the mysterious cumbia-duo Los Ratons! "
Join online on Wednesday at 16:00! And, be aware, from now on Mitze y Chucho will be playing once every two weeks, instead of weekly. Double the reason to tune in, no? And, hats off to these Radio WORM stalwarts who’ve been holding it down week by week since 2021.
TODAY at 19:00, a special broadcast from the recent archive: we're so happy to bring you this recording from the October edition of PLAYGROUND, thanks to WORM Pirate Bay and Rotterdam Ballroom Arena! KNOW YOUR HISTORY is a panel discussion documenting the history of the Dutch ballroom scene. Previously we have taken a closer look into the Dutch ballroom history with our interviews with Haus of Shoqlat and House of Vineyard. For this edition, we wanted to highlight the experience of the non-binary community members in our scene. We invited four special guests, Thorn Vineyard, Dayo Ninja, Monika Vineyard, and Lion 007 to discuss their journey with us.
KNOW YOUR HISTORY is a larger part of the PLAYGROUND program. PLAYGROUND is a space for the growing and glowing ballroom community in Rotterdam and beyond to come together, share, learn, try, fail and most importantly vogue downnnn!
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Overcoming the loneliness that may exist as a layer in our lives, this show attempts to connect different people from different artistic disciplines and open a conversation between us. Vanessa discusses with different music makers and artists based in Rotterdam, creating dialogues in open conversations that may lead to unexpected ends. Over the pre-recorded discussions in the place of choice of the invited artists, Vanessa will share music, words and personal thoughts.
In this first episode, “The bunny and the rat”, Vanessa asks: how do we deal with anxiety while performing? How can improvisation be soothing for the dark side of a performer? Do we all feel this way? What inner paths do we follow as artists and educators to find ease in our practice and in this world? She discusses with Josue Amador at his home and Christine Cornwell in Batavierhuis. These two Rotterdam-based artists, musicians and improvisers share their thoughts and vision about the multidimensional existence of creativity.
Vanessa is a performer, vocalist, music maker and educator from Athens, Greece and based in Rotterdam. She likes to create music with intimacy and whispers. She likes poetry, long discussions and constant distractions. She thinks of her songs like photographs that will describe a moment forever.
For the 5th edition of PLANET DESIRE, Maude is taking us to the Motherland of Planet Desire; A place where the valleys are dark and nourishing and where plants hold you with unconditional love as you walk by. Find a warm space and get comfortable for a replenishing maternal hug sparkling wisdom full of support sprinkled with faith shining on the mountain of records hidden behind the white father’s stories. The Trance Teller will be starring this episode with a production based on her words: A MASS FOR MY SISTERS which will be published and exhibited on the same day by TLC23 during ASP8 at Conway Hall in London (http://www.aspfair.uk/)
Tomorrow, Saturday 16 December: Latin Alternative Radio plays your messages. DM her your voice to add to the show, and tune in from 17:00 CET to hear what's on the collective mind. ❤️🩹🇵🇸🫂
TONIGHT 20:00-21:00: Ethereal Club /w Laura! Laura is a Rotterdam-based music artist from Portugal. She likes to make experimental music with 80s synthesisers, drum machines, and voice. Ethereal Club is a sonic journey through ethereal, dreamy, and dissonant realms.
In this ever-entropic world, Laura crafts a space to dream, breathe, wander, and long for something more. Her musical selection spans ambient landscapes, shoegazey rock, dusty eerie hip-hop to spacey club nights, with a special focus on genre-bending electronic music. Alongside the tunes, expect commentary, personal insights, and intriguing facts about the featured artists.
On one cold November day in Leeuwarden, Caspar Stalenhoef talks to Andrea Belfi about his canon-based compositions for brass instruments, to Hilary Jeffery about the recent passing of Catherine Christer Hennix, to Radio Hito about adapting poetry in Spanish and French to lyrics in Italian, and to Maria W Horn about lament singing and other disappearing rituals of grief.
Tune in from 19:00 tonight!
Photos: Maha Eljak
For today’s instalment of re-childing, Ege Şahin invites Jiyoung Wi for a concert of improvisation. Expect noise, violin, guitar, electronics. Join us live in the foyer from 3pm!
Jiyoung Wi is a writer and musician based in Seoul and Den Haag. She writes fiction in-between institutional and non-institutional contexts, and works with sounds in-between clubs and art museums.
The monthly show re-childing is a 2-hour radio concert series that takes Radio WORM and the WORM foyer as a temporal playground, where in each iteration a new guest is invited to improvise, explore, and discuss sonic issues with the host Ege Şahin, and a live audience.
Ege Şahin works in composition, sound art, and improvisation and researches social issues through a sound studies lens. Born in Turkey, a migrant in the Netherlands, he collaborates to and with various forms of experimental multi-media practices nearing the electroacoustic music spheres.
Sunday 10th December is International Human Rights Day; this year marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Audio and sound creators around the world are joining us, by contributing a radio show (live or pre-recorded) responding to this question: "what does peace sound like to you?" Their radio shows might comprise speech, music, field recording, conversation, expression - or a mix of any of all of this - however they wish to interpret the theme. The collection explores the meaning of peace at a time when the concept feels increasingly distant; bringing together voices from around the globe, including Australia, Uruguay, UK, Japan, Palestine, Croatia, China, and more.
The 24-hour broadcast, titled PEACE FREQUENCIES, will be streamed globally from the studio of EHFM in Scotland, and relayed on stations including Resonance Extra, ∏Node, Радіо Аристократи, LOOSE.fm, USMA RADIO, radiOrakel, The Lake Radio, Tīrkultūra, OOO Radio, BCFM. It commences at 12 midday GMT/11 am CET on Saturday 9 December (picked up here at Radio WORM from 6pm), ending at 12 midday GMT/11 am CET on Sunday 10th December, 2023.
DJ Wasser, co-founder of Natural Positions music label, and resident of THF Radio Berlin joins Sima K on SINCERE for an hour of electronic dive. Tune in from the special time of 17:00 today for a journey through diverse sounds & conversation.
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In the middle of an on-going apocalypse what should be preserved, and what forgotten?
Join us IRL [18:00-22:00] an on the radio [19:00-20:00] on 7 December in the efforts of scavenging and resurrecting a sonic archive. It is only a question of time until all will be lost. Lend an ear as we collectively explore, activate and transmit the archive of Worm community Radio. We must listen closely, we must decide what remains and how we can rebuild upon a fractured past.
Become absorbed by a re-imagined reality through an archival deep-dive!
Prepare (with us) for the event - – — and tune in to Radio WORM on 5 December at 10.00 for further instructions — – -
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In this first episode of Radio WORM Goes to Le Guess Who?, Ash chats with Brìghde Chaimbeul backstage after her Thursday night gig in Janskerk; and goes for a Friday morning walk through rainy Utrecht with Lebanese musician and urban researcher Mayssa Jallad. Tune in 17:00. More episodes coming this week!
Photo of Mayssa Jallad: Maarten Mooijman; photo of Brìghde Chaimbeul: Jelmer de Haas. Thanks to
Tonight 20:00-21:00 on the second episode of an other radio show: the hosts of Rotterdam project space an other world will be talking to Jake Caleb about his project A passage - a body of work investigating the suppression of certain narratives within society, especially those pertaining to migration and grief. The work follows a ‘pilgrimage’ the artist made earlier this year to Allahabad, India to trace the history of his ancestor John James Caleb, a priest of Indian descent. This journey was sparked by the death of the artist’s father Nicholas Caleb due to Covid-19 in 2021. Caleb found the grief of his father’s death difficult to translate into words with large parts of it remaining unspoken. When given the space to discuss both grief and assimilation, he came across a lack of words to adequately describe them. In this paradoxical situation, he found himself questioning the difference between what is left unsaid and what is beyond words. Audio material from the listening sessions that took place will be played and discussed.
A passage is the first part of On Mending, a three part project that explores the theme of healing as a collective experience or practice. In developing the program an other world asked themselves: what role can art play in healing our collective body?
Jake Caleb (1990, UK) is an artist based in Rotterdam, NL. His work is concerned with the unspoken, unheard or non-verbal in public space. He sees this as a listening practice that draws attention to the unnoticed within the ecologies and social structures we find ourselves within. His works co-opt certain structures such as a choir, a photoshoot or a film screening. By repositioning what is valued within these cultural forms, he asks if there are alternative models for our shared existence.
SPECIAL: PASAKA presents Cvi Parkas, Sunday 3 December 15:00-16:00 🌿🌿 A series of live recordings from Cvi Parkas [for those non-Lithuanians: pronounced something like ‘tzvee-parkas’], a little gem based in a central park in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, the heart of Europe. Cvi Parkas is an open-air embrace: nominally serving vegan Israeli street food and great drinks, but also a place of live music, table tennis, meditation…those things that happen in parks. For this special, we hear an hour of live magic.
A beaut session of Nederlandstalige verhalen tomorrow, for your Sunday listening: Tussen Plank en Pleur, 11:00-13:00 and Het Verhaal van je Leven, 14:00-15:00!
In dit aflevering van Tussen Plank en Pleur--ons favoriete radioprogramma over theater--nodigt Irene Chenance Wiebers en de Inspectors uit.
Chenance Wiebers is jong, ambitieus en veelzijdig. Ze studeerde in 2023 af aan de Academie voor Theater Performance in Utrecht en volgt nu een opleiding om dansdocent te worden. Naast haar theaterwerk is ze onder andere actief als danser, choreograaf, model en visagist.
Het is belangrijker dat het klikt dan het klinkt: dat is de zin en het idee dat de band samenbracht die Albert-Jan hoopte te vormen. De Inspectors zijn Arjan Hamoen (sologitaar), Cees Vermeulen (drums), Etienne Stekelenburg (bas, theremin) en Erwin van Dijke (gitaar). Na een reeks verschillende zangers gingen ze instrumentaal. De Inspectors zijn niet zoals andere surfbands: ze spelen graag langzamere, meer melancholische nummers, die soms een oosters tintje hebben. Momenteel zijn ze druk bezig met het opnemen van nieuwe nummers.
Aflevering 2 van Het Verhaal van je Leven volgt: Harold Emanbux neemt je mee naar verre landen en vervlogen tijden. Tussendoor draait hij zijn favoriete plaatjes.
Today on The Week in WORM, 17:00-18:00: Mojca Zupančič (keys, voice) and Tisa Neža Herlec (voice, objects, flutes) are longtime co-creators, actively performing at home and abroad, most often in the formation of a duo, which sporadically expands into larger ensembles. Genre-wise, they span beyond electronic ambient music, contemporary improvisation, cabaret and inspired, intuitive poetry. They perform with a great deal of theatricality and liveliness, as well as frank realism, with which they appeal to that within humans that is common to us all. They are also no strangers to WORM!
Tisa (host of Radio WORM shows The Side Entrance and Residential) and Mojca have come straight from an intensive months-long tour of Japan to the WORM Sound Studios to work on new material together. How has that been? In this Week in WORM hour, we’ll find out!
On the 6th episode of Desperate Hobbies' second season, Angelica and Lili take a break from their instruments to make another kind of noise. They haven't seen each other in a while, so as a warm up and catch up before a rehearsal session they speak about their respective relationship to working with textiles and fabrics. They talk around and about what they usually do on Desperate Hobbies when they're making music – the balance between improvisation and planning, gendered labor assumptions, learning experiences outside of institutions, visibility, leisure, work, craft, art. Punk as a verb surfaces again. Angelica mends as a practice, but never ask Lili to repair your clothes. She'll take them and never give them back, on purpose. Did your grandmother knit? Did you ever ask her why? And also, so what???
Tonight 19:00-20:00!
This afternoon! Come down to WORM's for No Plexus live in concert and in conversation with Alina and June (Eat Your Feelings) for this edition of Expanded Radio. As always, free entry!
SUNDAY: Eat Your Feelings bring you the dynamic and genre-bending Amsterdam-based duo No Plexus, live in concert and in conversation in the for this edition of Expanded Radio. The session revolves around themes extended from the duo’s performance earlier this year at Rewire in a sonic dialogue. Laced with generative ambient improvisation, live coding, and giggles, we aim to bring you a deep dive into their creative process. Expect details about their freshly released debut album Rite of Passage!
No Plexus is a genre-queer experimental electronic music duo consisting of artists No Compliments and Bec Plexus. Their concept-driven approach to music is the result of both artists’ background in contemporary classical music fusing with a shared affinity for electronic music. Live sets from No Plexus combine raw and physical vocal performances, anchored by densely detailed drum programming and ever-evolving sound and visual design.
Eat Your Feelings is a monthly radio show by Alina Turdean and June Yu. Alina and June hold conversations about food, eating and the ways we satisfy our nutritional needs and desires, versus the world or their own personal worlds.
Expanded Radio: Radio WORM comes out from behind the glass for live gigs and special events with our regular radio makers and their guests, broadcast directly from inside the . Grab a drink and join us in the foyer, or tune in online. Always free!
Photo by Ozan Atmaca
NEW THIS MORNING (yes, this morning!): The early Sunday ambient show we've been missing. Recently making the move across the channel to Roffa, Pitman is an enthusiast of all things electronic music. This show focuses on ambient/lush/dubby/lo-fi sounds to ease into Sunday and accompany those weekend chores. Maybe for an hour, maybe two. Partly due to an inability to deal with technology, tunes will be drawn from Pitman's expanding vinyl collection. We're not upset about that.
NEW TONIGHT: Ethereal Club is a sonic journey through ethereal, dreamy, and dissonant realms. In this ever-entropic world, Laura crafts a space to dream, breathe, wander, and long for something more. Her musical selection spans ambient landscapes, shoegazey rock, dusty eerie hip-hop to spacey club nights, with a special focus on genre-bending electronic music. Occasionally, she hosts musical artists based in the Netherlands, diving into their creative processes and the journeys that shaped them. Alongside the tunes, expect commentary, personal insights, and intriguing facts about the music and artists featured.
Laura is a Rotterdam-based music artist from Portugal. She likes to make experimental music with 80s synthesizers, drum machines, and her voice.
At Worm we do residencies and exchanges and concerts. It is of course a win-win-win situation if we can put all those elements in one project. Cafe Oto is one of the best places in London for experimental – let’s call it that – music. For this project, Oto invited 4 performing artists from Roffa & the surrounding area and Worm did the same with London(ish)ers. On Thursday night, these eight artists - vo ezn, Duncan Harrison, Reinier van Houdt, Ash Kilmartin, Ecka Mordecai, Lia Mazzari, Billy Steiger, Jacco Weener - will perform together and maybe solo. What will happen there is still unclear at the time of writing. This afternoon, they’ll play for an hour on the radio, direct from UBIK where they’ve been set up for the past couple of days.
SPECIAL: (EE) Radio curator Ben Wheeler joins in the studio for a Sunday evening session. (EE) Radio is part of the journal easteast.world. With a 24/7 stream of curated shows based in, originating from, or influenced by global music traditions, each track exhibits a distinct sense of place, new modes of experimentation, and/or acoustic elements translated electronically (or vice-versa). (EE) Radio broadcast traditions thriving, sonic elements reimagined, and respect being paid to music communities across the globe.
WORM Open City Welcomes... is Radio WORM's open spot for new DJs to present their live or pre-recorded mixes. Every two weeks you'll hear someone different stepping up to the plates for the first time at Radio WORM, maybe for their first time in Rotterdam, or maybe even their first time ever.
This week, we welcome Winter with his mix ‘Seasons Change’: learning to embrace change through different expressions of electronic music. Through photography and music Winter has found a passion for finding ways in which images and audio translate into emotions and vice versa. Growing up around the world he has learned to never settle for comfort and aims to explore this inconsistency through different energies in music.
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Radio WORM is back for 2024 with joy: Wednesday means Cinema Colombiano, and for their first show of the new year Mitze Apocalipze and Chucho Vinilo will be joined in the studio by none other than Edgar Nevermoo! In their words: "Edgar Nevermoo has been a vinyl-only DJ at our events ever since the Cinema Colombiano-film festival in 2018. He always manages to surprise us and the audience with his diverse selection of obscure records. This Wednesday we're going to find out how he began his journey into cumbia and Colombian music, while playing songs from his vast vinyl collection. Aside from this passion, we'll talk about his work with Kapitaal in Utrecht including the events that he helps to organize there. And we might even talk about his involvement with the mysterious cumbia-duo Los Ratons! " Join online on Wednesday at 16:00! And, be aware, from now on Mitze y Chucho will be playing once every two weeks, instead of weekly. Double the reason to tune in, no? And, hats off to these Radio WORM stalwarts who’ve been holding it down week by week since 2021.
Re-introducing one of our regular faves: HIDDEN BEHIND a show, hosted by Matthias Carter (@hiddenbehindmist). Stage dive into new releases from the vibrant local and online punk scene. Get to know about upcoming Rotterdam shows and hear excerpts from live shows. For fans of egg-punk, synth-punk, the dissonant, all around anxious music. Visuals accompany the journey over on instagram. Join the sonic twilight bike ride, Mondays from 18-19u, every two weeks. #radioWORM #WORMrotterdam #hiddenbehindashow #hideenbehindmist
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