Aerie Radio independent internet radio · since 2019

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Aerie Glass

glass harmonica & ice electronics

Four hours of bowed glass and modular hum, recorded mostly between four and six in the morning. Nothing here repeats until tomorrow, and tomorrow it will be a different programme entirely.

host Ines Valtari hours 04:00 → 08:00 from a kitchen above a locksmith

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    tracklist

    04:00 — 08:00

    written by hand, still being argued about

      Aerie Radio is a fiction. The records, the studios and the four people are invented; the habit of listening at 4am is not.

      records in rotation

      Eight sleeves, all of them round

      What is in the crate this week. The cards sit at different depths, the way things do when you have carried them a long way from a shop that no longer exists.

      • Glasshouse Arc

        Ines Valtari Trio

        Ferric Tapes · 1974

      • Low Tide Transmissions

        Harbour Signal

        Meridian Drift · 1981

      • Warm Interior

        Marta Vesely

        Peach Hour · 1969

      • Owl Language

        Nightjar Collective

        Field & Fog · 1993

      • Modular Rain

        Static / 9

        Cold Frame · 2018

      • Cassette Sunday

        Delphine Arraiz

        Half Track · 1977

      • Periwinkle Sleep

        Eriko Lund

        Blue Hour Tapes · 1985

      • Mezzanine Tapes

        Hal Brenner

        Long Playing · 1966

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      Aerie transmits eight stations down a single cable, from a periwinkle cold to an amber warm. Run your pointer along the strip and the receiver hunts between them.

        Aerie Glass 88.1 glass harmonica & ice electronics

        no adverts · no autoplay · the archive is 41 terabytes of other people's childhoods

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        Four people, one cable, one very old socket

        1. 01 Ilse Vantorre The Long Wave · 02:00 plays records found in stairwells, refuses to say where they came from
        2. 02 Tobias Renn Modular Rain · 21:00 builds the whole night out of one broken delay pedal and a kettle
        3. 03 Priya Sandhu Mezzanine · 23:30 left-field pop with the commentary left in on purpose
        4. 04 Aurelio Mbeki The Long Wave · 05:00 signs off every broadcast by reading the weather off the roof
        5. 05 Halla Brekke Guests · Fridays brings a turntable, a bowl of plums, and nothing else