Last year I started a mix series for Radio Alhara, it's titled Ekphrasis and each mix is inspired by a sculpture. The fifth episode, Wave, is going live on 11 March at 21:00 UTC, on https://www.radioalhara.net – a patchwork of ambient, electroacoustic and field recordings.

I'm really proud of these airing on Radio Alhara, I think it's important to shift culture from institutional(ised) centres towards those that really work towards community in a political sense. And to take a stance, somehow πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

Linking the previous archived episodes below:

Ekphrasis 1. Italia all'asta – some personal faves in Italian electronic music

https://www.mixcloud.com/lucabevacqua/ekphrasis-1-italia-allasta/

Ekphrasis 1. Italia all'asta – Radio Alhara 27/05/25

@radioalhara, 27 May 2025 www.radioalhara.net EKPHRASIS 1. ITALIA ALL'ASTA d'aprΓ¨s Luciano Fabro, Italia all'asta (1994) Cover art by Gaia Bevacqua ───────────── TRACKLIST Claudio Fabrianesi & Donato Dozzy β€” Infecta Atmosphere Caterina Barbieri β€” Undular Ninos Du Brasil β€” Clelia Clelia Vaghe Stelle β€” Multiple Concentric Hexagons Alessandro Cortini β€” Valvole Canva6 β€” Still Cry at High Speed Sabla β€” Di Lei Lorenzo Senni β€” XMonsterX Bienoise β€” LCL Open Is Porn, Closed Is Fetish Mana β€” Myopia of the Future 72-HOUR POST FIGHT β€” Death XIII β€” La Guerra Donato Dozzy β€” A.Ritmica Domiziano Maselli β€” Breathlessness Heith β€” Stoned Witch Marta De Pascalis β€” Sonus Ruinae pt 2 Marco Shuttle β€” Bembe Bongo Furtherset β€” Choirs of Deception and Truth

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Ekphrasis 2. Self – dark ambient and field recordings from (mostly) metal artists, for my fellow haters of sleep

https://www.mixcloud.com/lucabevacqua/ekphrasis-2-self-radio-alhara-130725/

Ekphrasis 2. Self – Radio Alhara 13/07/25

@radioalhara 13 July 2025 www.radioalhara.net EKPHRASIS 2. SELF d'aprΓ¨s Marc Quinn, Self (1991) Cover art by Gaia Bevacqua ───────────── TRACKLIST Ulver β€” Silence teaches you how to sing Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas β€” Beyond the Redshift Ihsahn β€” Entropie / Hel Meshuggah β€” In Death - Is Death Sunn O))) β€” BΓ‘thory ErzsΓ©bet Manes β€” Son of Night Brother of Sleep FantΓ΄mas β€” extracts: DelΓ¬rivm CΓ²rdia Panopticon β€” The Embers at Dawn / Sleep to the Sound of the Waves Crashing Agalloch β€” They Escaped the Weight of Darkness Blut aus Nord β€” Epitomes XVIII / IX Sigh β€” extracts: Lucid Nightmares Wolves in the Throne Room β€” Cleansing Ingurgitating Oblivion β€” extracts: Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light Dodheimsgard β€” Logic / Magic Lustmord β€” Er Eb Os (Jonas Renkse Deconstruction) Boris β€” Resonance Merzbow β€” Violinsolo89 Colosseum β€” Parasomnia / Narcosis / Outro Ahab β€” The Sermon / Time's Like Molten Lead Attila Csihar β€” Night of 29th of March... Liturgy β€” . . . . Botanist β€” - - - - -

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Ekphrasis 3. Chemical Garden – biomorphic glitch, vitalistic mess

https://www.mixcloud.com/lucabevacqua/ekphrasis-3-chemical-garden-radio-alhara-100925/

Ekphrasis 3. Chemical Garden – Radio Alhara 10/09/25

@radioalhara 10 September 2025 www.radioalhara.net EKPHRASIS 3. CHEMICAL GARDEN d'aprΓ¨s Agnieszka Kurant, Chemical Garden (2021) Cover art by Gaia Bevacqua ───────────── TRACKLIST Grischa Lichtenberger β€” 0515_15_beginning 2_sk1 SOPHIE β€” Glory to Sound interview, 2019 Autechre β€” Cep puiqMX Paul Corley β€” Narrow Hello Spiral β€” The Deep End Nine Inch Nails β€” extract: The Downward Spiral Gianluca Iadema β€” Prolexis / Hyle William Fields β€” ripimu Mark Fell β€” The Transfinite Self AmΓ©dΓ©e de Murcia β€” Striatum Klara Lewis & Peder Mannerfelt β€” Sell Art Ben Peers β€” Squeezing Adriaan de Roover β€” Dank u Luca Bevacqua β€” Gorse Blue Jung An Tagen β€” Movement / Emergent Properties Iglooghost β€” Drip Path / Ether Pool Rashad Becker β€” Themes V JoΓ£o MS β€” world's oldest fossil / pas de deux QebrΒ΅s β€” β—™β—™ Vaetxh β€” List of Lists Bienoise β€” Most Beautiful Design SOPHIE β€” ID Lauren Bousfield β€” If We Save Just One Child It Will All Be Worth It Neuro... No Neuro β€” Red Birds & Blue Birds Patricia Taxxon β€” Her Bed

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Ekphrasis 4. Mappamondo – full of vapor and somewhat jazzy, the word for world is forest and the world is made of words

https://www.mixcloud.com/lucabevacqua/ekphrasis-4-mappamondo-radio-alhara-301025/

Ekphrasis 4. Mappamondo – Radio Alhara 30/10/25

@radioalhara 30 October 2025 www.radioalhara.net EKPHRASIS 4. MAPPAMONDO d'aprΓ¨s Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mappamondo (1966-68) Cover art by Gaia Bevacqua ───────────── TRACKLIST Patricia Taxxon β€” hello world LΓ©andre/Anker/Osgood Trio β€” World Two Squarepusher β€” World Three Maya Al Khaldi β€” Other World ΨΉΨ§Ω„Ω… ΨͺΨ§Ω†ΩŠ Otherworld β€” No Other World Frost & Bjarnason β€” We Don't Need Other Worlds, We Need Mirrors Guthrie & Rushford β€” Real Real World Tim Hecker β€” That World Biosphere β€” Like the End of the World Tilman Robinson β€” The Word for World Is Forest Darren McClure β€” The World Is Made of Words Oneohtrix Point Never β€” World Outside / Inside World Time Wharp β€” Mixo World / Spiro World death's dynamic shroud.wmv β€” WORLD TRAVEL Dream.Corp β€” World Explorer Laurie Anderson β€” To Circle the World η§‹ β€” A World in Your Eyes Malibu β€” A World Behind Lashes Matmos β€” Messages from the Unseen World a0n0 β€” Sounds that ring in the outside world Gescom β€” Interchangeable World Visible Cloaks β€” World

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