Summer holidays time! A break from interviews until August and today we have a return to 2024 with a compilation of sounds from last year. You will hear sounds from all of the artists I interviewed this year ranging from archival sound pieces to techno to sound art compositions to meditations and trash music. Thanks so much to Veronica Mota, Veerle Pennock and Etta Harbor as Parallel Problems, Felipe Vareschi, Monica Sand, Priscilla Haring-Kuipers from This is Not Rocket Science, Melissa Ingaruca Moreno, Juan C. Duarte Regino, Gina Lo, Luis Fernando Amaya for sharing their sounds. And there are some sounds from me – drusnoise – in there too.

Check out the show notes for the track listing and links to all of the artists. And don’t forget you can always go back and listen to past episodes at sustain.fm/radio, on the RBL show site or on your favourite podcast platforms.

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Track listing

Monica Sand – Elegi

Luis Fernando Amaya – Bestiario @luisongolilongo

Melissa Ingaruca Moreno & drusnoise – Endarken @mel_ingaruca

Gina Lo – Live at Berlin Modular Society @ginalololo

drusnoise – Future Soundscapes - Live in Gothenburg @drusnoise

Juan Carlos Duarte Regino – Soundgifts @j.c_d.r

Felipe Vareschi – Noise Mapping @frmvar

Veronica Mota – Utopie und Widerstand

drusnoise – We are but dust and shadows – Live in Graz

This is not Rocket Science – Live at Clubsynth @rocket_not

Parallel Problems – Live at Voltage Control Amsterdam @elektortek @ettaharbar

Welcome to today’s edition of sustain, I’m your host Steve Williams. Today we have some really interesting sounds and a conversation with Zuzana Hamm performing as FridaY. Zuzana is the founder of the new project bitumen lichen. We talk about boundaries and connections – between the organic and artificial, between pasts and futures, between natural and industrial. Zuzana explores all of these boundaries and disrupts and connects across the boundaries through her music and the bitumen lichen project. We hear some amazing sounds from their first live event including the premiere of a soundtrack to Flora’, the latest book by Jonáš Zbořil that narrates a story of a creature born from nature and industrial waste in the wilderness of the toxic outskirts of a city as well as an excerpt of a performance by Nina Pixel that was also part of the live event. I really enjoyed our conversation and the sounds so let’s get into it.

Bio

Zuzana Hamm aka FridaY is a musician, DJ, music journalist and copywriter, event organiser and a shipping and community manager at KOMA Elektronik. In 2021, she completed a music production mentorship programme with Sebastian Mullaert (Minilogue) and the Amplify Berlin residency under the mentorship of Hainbach. In 2025, she finished the School of Song songwriting course with Brian Eno. In her productions and shows, she combines the use of synthesizers, controllers and Ableton with vocals, harp, bass, field recordings and improvisation. bitumen lichen is an outlet for electrorganic music, sound, photography and other fruiting bodies of work, founded by FridaY. The platform explores intersections, commonalities and liminal spaces between what we understand as the natural & organic and the artificial, industrial and urban. Sonically, bitumen lichen’s spectrum ranges from ambient, drone, field recordings and experimental electroacoustic music to low end frequencies, polyrhythms, percussion and breaks.

Links:

Bitumen Lichen https://www.instagram.com/bitumen.lichen/

Friday https://www.instagram.com/friday_musik/

KOMA Elektronik Chromoplane https://koma-elektronik.com/new/product/chromaplane/

Nina Pixel https://www.instagram.com/ninnpix/

Flora by Jonáš Zbořil https://www.paseka.cz/produkt/flora/

Community Chai Berlin https://www.instagram.com/community_chai

From do-it-yourself to make-it-together: Making music (or musical instruments) never happens as individuals. We are connected to other people, other genres, communities, and the materials that go into the instruments we use. Today we talk with JacqNoise, an amazing sound artist and live performer but also a super connector. We talk about sound and music and the power of community. Exploring how connections become part of a community, moving from do-it-yourself to make-it-together. It was a great conversation, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

To close the show we have a recording of a live performance by JacqNoise and her frequent collaborator Dan Graveyard. Thanks so much to Jacky and Dan for sharing this with us. Enjoy the sounds!

Links

JacqNoise https://jacqnoise.cargo.site/

JacqNoise Hijack show on RBL https://rbl.media/programs/hijack/

Erica Synths – Bullfrog and educational modular synths https://www.ericasynths.lv/

Berlin Modular Society – https://berlinmodularsociety.com