The Committee For Sonic Research

21/11/2023

We're made up to report that experimental music legend and recent WAM award winner Furchick selected a track by Dental Drill Slips as she guested on the Bower Birds Show on Freocast
Bloody excellent show.

w Sandy & Claire Pannell

27/09/2023

TCFSR associates British Experimental Rocket Group turned up on the 'Snooze Button' show presented by Burnt Seed Records guru Stew Bags on Western Australia's RTRFM 92.1
The show is a mix of interesting stuff that you generally don't hear together on radio. BERG are followed by Skinny Puppy, so surely worth a listen.

RTRFM is an eclectic and diverse world of sound, and on Snooze Button you’ll hear anything and everything that we play on the station. Anything goes stylistically on Snooze Button, populated alternately by seasoned night owls who prefer to spin their tunes by the cover of darkness, and by some of ...

17/08/2023

Stewbags who runs the excellent Burnt Seed Records of Western Australia recently presented an episode of Snooze Button on RTRFM 92.1 that included the track '03 se.36-1' by Sobria Ebrietas from our recent release on TCFSR 'Calluna' by Sobria Ebrietas & Iliaque. https://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/calluna

Stewbags plays an eclectic mix of tracks so it's worth chacking out the entire show.
https://rtrfm.com.au/show-episode/snoozebutton-2023-07-31/

RTRFM is an eclectic and diverse world of sound, and on Snooze Button you’ll hear anything and everything that we play on the station. Anything goes stylistically on Snooze Button, populated alternately by seasoned night owls who prefer to spin their tunes by the cover of darkness, and by some of ...

06/08/2023

Thanks to Andy Lyon (Andrulianblog) for his review on his site Andrulian.com of 'Calluna' by Sobria Ebrietas & Iliaque that we released in June.
https://www.andrulian.com/review-of-calluna-album-by-sobria-ebrietas-and-iliaque-on-tcfsr/
You can find the music of Andrulian here https://andrulian.bandcamp.com/music

Calluna by Sobria Ebrietas & Iliaque What's really interesting with this album is the use of Creative Commons music. The Iliaque project seeks to exploit the potential of CC music and explore the world through its use, most on this release are from TCFSR releases. What they've done is create a brill...

14/07/2023

Creator and DJ Don Campau has revived his 'No Pigeonholes' radio show as 'No Pigeonholes EXP' on KOWS Community Radio in California, USA. His latest show opens with 'Pulse' by British Experimental Rocket Group from their most recent album, BERG 8. And a very fine show it is too, check it out.

Permanent archive for this show: https://archive.org/details/no-pigeonholes-exp-radio-shows-2022/NPEXP+7-13-23-1.mp3No Pigeonholes EXP 7-13-23 Part 1broadcast on KOWS Radiokowsfm.comhosted by Don Campaudoncampau.comPhoto: Ernesto Diaz-InfanteBritish Experimental Rocket Group (BERG)/ Pulse/ Pulse/ BE...

11/07/2023

For our German speaking friends, and anyone else who wants to soak up the ambience, this Wednesday (13th) TCFSR artist Trixie Delight is speaking about her music on the show Geräusche für Fortgeschrittene , on http://www.radiolinden.de/
The show is live from 8pm German time, that's 7pm UK time 😊

DAS neue Internetradio aus Hannover-Linden - jenseits des Mainstream, abwechselungsreich, mit interessanten Tips für Linden. Also einfach einschalten!

24/06/2023

OUT NOW on TCFSR:
‘Calluna’ by Sobria Ebrietas & Iliaque
Champion of Creative Commons, Iliaque, returns for their second release on TCFSR, a split EP with fellow French creator Sobria Ebrietas.
Most of the samples on this EP are from TCFSR releases. Our label was founded on the principle of DIY so we are pleased to support the work of Iliaque in promoting the use of Creative Commons licensing.

5 track album

22/06/2023

TO BE RELEASED: Saturday 24 JUNE:
‘Calluna’ by Sobria Ebrietas & Iliaque
Champion of Creative Commons, Iliaque, returns for their second release on TCFSR, a split EP with fellow French creator Sobria Ebrietas.

19/06/2023

SOON

09/05/2023

'A story of The Committee For Sonic Research', the final The Comfy Show is now available to stream

'The Comfy Show' presented by Dental Drill. A two hour show featuring music from independent artists and those on small labels.

07/05/2023

On his final show for Radio Woking our Chair of Operations, Dental Drill, presents 'A story of The Committee For Sonic Research'.
That's thirty eight years in less than two hours!

This Sunday Dental Drill will complete his seventh year of presenting The Comfy Show on Radio Woking.
As Radio Woking is a community station and DD and Trixie Delight are now in the process of moving away from the area, this will be the final Comfy Show.
What better way to sign off than with a story of The Committee For Sonic Research, the Woking based label with the global reach.

14/04/2023

OUT NOW on TCFSR:
‘Bojen’ by Gruppe BASS
An hour of new compositions by the German bass guitar and electronics duo. Available on CD and as a digital download.

A CD of remixed and remastered versions of the tracks from their previous EP 'extended technique' is also available, only as an add on to the Bojen CD. We have no plans for a digital release of the remastered tracks.

20 track album

12/04/2023

TO BE RELEASED: Friday 14 APRIL:
‘Bojen’ by Gruppe BASS
The German duo return. There is a CD release of this hour long album, which you can also obtain from Gruppe BASS gigs.

07/04/2023

SOON:

06/04/2023

Wow, BERG 8 is still the best-selling archive release on Bandcamp and BERG releases currently make up six of the ten best sellers.
BERG also have the entire top 5 in the 'derelict' category!
We may actually be able to pay the electricity bill! :)
Thanks everyone, your support is much appreciated.

02/04/2023

Thanks everyone.

BERG 8 is listed first in the best selling archive and hauntology releases on Bandcamp and is in the top row for many other categories. BERG 5 is also 13th in the best selling archive list. :)

01/04/2023

OUT NOW on TCFSR:
‘BERG 8’ by British Experimental Rocket Group

As it was difficult to collect and verify material during COVID it has been three years since the last archival release from the British Experimental Rocket Group.
The material on BERG 8 includes a number of recordings related to 'Project Echo-Hammer'.
In addition to the main album there are some bonus tracks that can be acquired with BERG badge sets!

14 track album

29/03/2023

TO BE RELEASED: Saturday 1 APRIL:
‘BERG 8’ by British Experimental Rocket Group

As it was difficult to collect and verify material during COVID it has been three years since the last archival release from the British Experimental Rocket Group.
The material on BERG 8 includes a number of recordings related to 'Project Echo-Hammer'.
In addition to the main album there are some bonus tracks that can be acquired with BERG badge sets!

22/03/2023

If you follow us on Bandcamp this will come as no surprise, as we forgot to change one of the default options in the set up and everyone got a release announcement, but there was no audio. Sorry!

SOON (but not yet):

15/01/2023

Wow, Dental Drill has seven artists associated with TCFSR on his 'ALSO with Dental Drill' show on Radio Woking tonight at 8pm UK.

ALSO with Dental Drill is on Radio Woking this Sunday at 8pm UK. There's a hint of nepotism this month as seven of the tracks are by artists associated with The Committee For Sonic Research, although not all of their tracks are released by TCFSR. The , , and Other music this month is from:
Blanket Swimming
Dental Drill Slips (The Committee For Sonic Research)
Dirty K***s
GLOBAL SYSTEMS INTNL. (HandCanyon Records)
Gruppe BASS
iLi Pikas (Gimu & Renan Simões)
Kosmische Clutharachán
leeg bezit
Solipsism & Nacht Plank
The Vince Guaraldi Trio
WarpCensor
zakè, City Of Dawn, Ossa (Past Inside the Present)

01/01/2023

OUT NOW: ‘Twilight’ by Various Artists

For the seventh year in a row we release a TCFSR Solo Word project compilation on the first day of the year, the 14th Solo Word project overall.

Artists were given the single word 'Twilight' to interpret with whatever audio they deemed appropriate. There were no instructions other than a deadline for contributions.

9 track album

31/12/2022

We hope that 2023 pans out as you hope.
In addition to the release of the 14th TCFSR Solo Word project, the new year starts with Dental Drill's review of 2022 on The Comfy Show on Sunday evening (UK). We notice TCFSR artist We**am on the list and we hope that that means good things. :)

Although The Comfy Show has been on Radio Woking since the middle of last decade this is the first 'review of year'. At 8pm UK on New Years Day Dental Drill selects a bunch of albums and a bunch of individual tracks that he deems especially noteworthy from releases in 2022 (and one from 2021) by independent artists and those on small labels from those that he has heard so far. He has over 200 acquisitions from 2022, and around 50 from 2021 still to play (which is why he generally doesn't do a review of the year, because it's a bit soon!).
On this months show, sometimes more than once:
Abul Mogard
Alvvays
Anne Cessna & Essendon Airport band
The Asteroid No.4
Blume
Golden Apples
Healees
Helpful People
Jōetsu Shore
lola demo
MØAA
Of House
Pale Blue Eyes
The Photocopies
The Reds, Pinks & Purples
Tess Parks
We**am (The Committee For Sonic Research)
Zoon (Paper Bag Records)

31/12/2022

TO BE RELEASED: Sunday 1 JANUARY 2023:
‘Twilight’ by Various Artists

For the seventh year in a row we will be releasing a TCFSR Solo Word project compilation on the first day of the year, the 14th Solo Word project overall.

24/12/2022

24/12/2022

'Slay' by Dental Drill Slips is currently in the Bandcamp lists of 20 bestselling Sound Art music, Noise music, Avant Garde music and Musique Concrete, which is more than half of the categories that we tagged! Thanks very much everyone.
We hope that the season and the new year bring you all that you hope for.

23/12/2022

OUT NOW on TCFSR: 'Slay' by Dental Drill Slips
Is a release at Christmas a Christmas release?
An EP/mini-album containing three increasingly hostile tracks.
https://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/slay

22/12/2022

SOON: in fact, TO BE RELEASED TOMORROW (Friday 23 December)
'Slay' by Dental Drill Slips
Is a release at Christmas a Christmas release?

18/11/2022

A track by British Experimental Rocket Group (BERG) on ALSO with Dental Drill on Radio Woking on Sunday. Don't miss it.

ALSO with Dental Drill is on Radio Woking this Sunday at 8pm UK. The , , and Other music this month is from:
Bacfora
Be Still The Earth / Marshall Usinger, Broken Peak
black sand
British Experimental Rocket Group (BERG) (The Committee For Sonic Research)
CoH meets Abul Mogard
Devin Daniels
Eila Star (Projekt Records)
Heart of the Ghost (Dagoretti Records)
Symphocat
Verstärker
Warmth

05/11/2022

Gosh, on The Comfy Show this Sunday there is a track from the first release on 21st Century TCFSR, 2012s 'Conscience' by tourmaline hum, and (double gosh) a digitally unreleased track from the 1980s by the precursor to tourmaline hum, Except Buses. In fact, it's two versions of the same track!

The Comfy Show on Radio Woking this month contains the latest selection by Dental Drill of recent(ish) releases by independent artists and those on small labels and a few chart 'hits' by indie(ish) artists.
On this months show:
Aluminum
Alvvays
Anne Cessna & Essendon Airport (Chapter Music)
Arrêt
Bauhaus, the band
Darrg
Dry Cleaning (4AD)
Eater (://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063577233175) (Cleopatra Records)
Endless Melancholy
Esqueleto
Except Buses
Heart of the Ghost
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
last past.
𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫
Kim Larsen (Of The Wand & The Moon)
The Oscillation
Remember Sports
softsurf
SugarCandy Mountain
Swear
Tasmin Archer
tourmaline hum
Tripping The Light Fantastic
Wild Balbina

24/10/2022

There has been a run on releases by British Experimental Rocket Group (BERG). Over two years after release BERG 7 is back on the top row of bestselling releases on Bandcamp.
Thank you for your support.
COVID has restricted access to stashes of BERG archive however we are hopeful that we will be able to continue with our series of releases from the BERG archive in due course.

24/10/2022

A review in Portuguese by Renan Simões of our album 'finally free, gravity' by Gimu as part of his list of the best 107 albums of Brazillian music (to 2020).

MÚSICA Por Renan Simões   Quando alguém querido parte, é muito confuso e doloroso. Aquela relação que tínhamos com a pessoa já não existe mais nesse

16/09/2022

Two more tracks from this months TCFSR album releases, 'Journey to an interior' by We**am and 'Sorrow was an embryo' by Gimu on Dental Drill's mid monthly 'ALSO with Dental Drill' on Radio Woking on Sunday

ALSO with Dental Drill is on Radio Woking this Sunday at 8pm UK. The Ambient, Longform, Soundscape and Other music this month is from:
Abul Mogard
Dharvol (Submarine Broadcasting Company)
Eluvium
Far Golden Pavilions
Gimu
Negative Architecture
No Base Trio
Oderous Bait (Burnt Seed Records)
r.roo
Shuta Yasukochi & Carlos Ferreira
We**am (aka Lone Cosmonaut)

09/09/2022

OUT NOW on TCFSR: Gimu - Sorrow is an embryo
The 6th album on TCFSR by Bazilian sound sculptor Gimu, 'Sorrow was an embryo' expands the range of his soundscapes with the addition of beat elements.
https://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/sorrow-was-an-embryo

07/09/2022

TO BE RELEASED: Friday 09 SEPTEMBER 2022:
‘Sorrow was an embryo’ by Gimu
The second TCFSR CD release this week sees the return of Brazilian soundscaper Gimu with a new album in which he too expands his to include beat elements amongst his soundscapes.

05/09/2022

OUT NOW on TCFSR: We**am - Journey to an Interior
A new moniker to TCFSR, although not a new artist. Over the past decade Steve Tree has released solo work as Lone Cosmonaut. He has widened his net to create an album of IDM tinged tracks under the name We**am.

https://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/journey-to-an-interior

04/09/2022

The Comfy Show is now being broadcast on Radio Woking. Sadly a technical issue meant that the first segment of the show was missed, and that was the segment with the exclusive pre-release track from the We**am album (out on Monday). :(
Fortunately the show has been uploaded early to mixcloud and you can catch the whole show from the start here (without ad breaks) https://www.tcfsr.net/the-comfy-show-sep-2022
including pre-release tracks from We**am and Gimu.

'The Comfy Show' presented by Dental Drill. A two hour show featuring music from independent artists and those on small labels.

04/09/2022

Dental Drill is playing tracks for both forthcoming TCFSR CD releases on The Comfy Show in 3 hours time on Radio Woking tonight (8pm UK), together with a lot of other noteworthy music.

The 75th edition of The Comfy Show contains the usual selection of recent(ish) releases by independent artists and those on small labels and a few chart 'hits' by indie(ish) artists.
On this months show:
9-volt velvet
The Asteroid No.4
Aura en el espejo
black sand
The Cramps
Evan Ziporyn Music / Wacław Zimpel / Hubert Zemler / Gyan Riley
Flu flu
Ghost Woman
Gimu
Golden Apples
James Holden & Wacław Zimpel
The Jam
Terranean Recordings / Luke Lund
LYKHO
Mental Minority
Michael C. Sharp
Oasis
The Photocopies
Rosie & The Goldbug
The Starlit Hues
Tronco
vacant possession
We**am

04/09/2022

SOON:
Oh, that's never happened before! Our first release with no identifying text on the cover.
A new album by Gimu, 'Sorrow was an embryo'

03/09/2022

TO BE RELEASED: Monday 05 SEPTEMBER 2022:
‘Journey to an Interior ’ by We**am
We don't issue a CD for over a year and then two come along at once.
The first of which features a new moniker to TCFSR, although not a new artist. Over the past decade Steve Tree has released solo work as Lone Cosmonaut. He has widened his net to create an album of IDM oriented tracks under the name We**am.
You can hear a track from this album, and our other forthcoming CD release, on The Comfy Show on Radio Woking presented by Dental Drill on Sunday (4 September) at 8pm UK.