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Radio Lear
by Radio Lear
Welcome to Radio Lear, a captivating exploration of sound and thought that transcends conventional boundaries. In our unique way we invite you to embark on a unique journey curated by Max Sturm, a visionary artist and Creative Director. Discover the transformative power of sound as it intertwines with the principles of metamodernism, bridging the realms of art, technology, and human expression.
Episodes
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Sound Assembly – Improvised Sound from the Bede Street Arches
Sound Assembly returns to Radio Lear at 8pm on Friday 9th October 2026 with a recording made during the session held at the Bede Street Arches in Leicester on Wednesday 30th September. The broadcast consists of two improvised sound assemblies, each lasting between twenty and twenty-five minutes....
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Sound Beneath the Arches – The First Radio Lear Sound Assembly Recording
An archway holds a space open. People can pass through it, pause beneath it, or gather within its shelter. On Wednesday 16th September 2026, the Braunstone Gate arches became a place for gathering through sound, as Radio Lear’s Sound Assembly brought together a live mix of electronic performance...
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What Comes Back – The Space Between Passing and Beginning
There is a moment when a tree lets go of a leaf. From where we stand, it looks like an ending. Yet beneath the surface, the next season is already being prepared. In this episode of Headspace from Radio Lear, the music asks a simple question: what becomes possible when we recognise that passing…
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The Kindness of Returning – A Weird Walk Through Songs That Carry Us Home
Lift the Latch. A garden gate lifts, clicks, and swings. Boots meet a damp path. Somewhere nearby, a blackbird tries one clear phrase after the rain. That is where The Kindness of Returning begins: not at a monument, a haunted ruin, or a place marked on a tourist map, but at an ordinary…
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Listening Without Resolution
This mix moves through ambient suspension, fractured electronics, field recording, art rock and early machine music. Without spoken commentary, the connections between the tracks are carried by texture, rhythm, contrast and atmosphere. The listener is left to encounter the sequence directly,...
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Making Space for Emergence – Deepwell and Armonia Arts
There is a tendency in contemporary life to assume that creativity is something exceptional. We associate it with professional artists, performers, designers, musicians, and makers. Creativity becomes a special category of activity rather than a natural human capacity. Yet the conversations we…
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The First Path Is Made By Listening
Radio Lear is beginning a new Weird Walks-inspired strand with a music-led episode that sets the ground for future walks, field recordings, local stories and sound-led explorations of place. This first episode is not a walk in the usual sense. It is a threshold. It is a way of tuning the ear…
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Listening To The Room – Word, Open-Mic Voices And The Practice Of Attention
Radio Lear is built around the idea that creative audio can do more than carry information. It can hold atmosphere, memory, presence and the small shifts of attention that happen when people gather, listen and speak. In this feature, recorded at a Word open-mic event at Attenborough Arts on...
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Radio Lear Podcast – Traveling Through Sonic Environments
This episode of the Radio Lear Podcast moves through a sequence of sonic environments that suspend ordinary time. The mix is less concerned with momentum than with drift, immersion, and gradual transformation. Across ambient electronics, electro-acoustic composition, kosmische repetition,...
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Art, Identity, and Rehabilitation – Creative Practice in Prison Contexts
This podcast explores how art can play a meaningful role in the rehabilitation of people in prison. The discussion brings together Rob Watson, Xiaoye Zhang, and Charlie Birtles, recorded at the Brewhouse Arts Centre in Burton-on-Trent. Each contributor brings a distinct perspective, shaped by…
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Art School – Studio 17 and the Practice of Staying Together
There is a particular kind of space that does not announce itself. It is not defined by its walls, nor by the tools arranged across its surfaces, nor even by the works that accumulate over time. It is defined instead by a continuity of presence. Studio 17, as described in this conversation, is…
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Morphic Resonance and The Deep Memory of Sound
Each Radio Lear mix is assembled as more than a sequence of tracks. It is an attempt at recollection. Not nostalgia, not revivalism, but recollection in a deeper sense: a turning again toward forms that may never have vanished, only fallen silent beneath the noise of modern life. Rupert…
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Intangible Labour’s Ritual Cleanse
The enactment of Intangible Labour’s Spiritual Cleanse unfolds with a familiarity that is older than the institutional languages we now use to describe art, work, or care. What takes place in the Adult Education Centre and the surrounding streets of Leicester is not merely a performance, nor an...
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Discussing Our Intangible Labour
There is a quiet defiance running through the conversations gathered in this programme. It is not staged as a manifesto, nor framed as a critique in the usual polemical sense. Instead, it emerges obliquely, through lived experience, shared anecdotes, hesitations, laughter, and moments of...
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Intangible Labour and the New Folklore
Intangible Labour and the New Folklore, which has opened at the basement gallery at Leicester’s Adult Education College on Belvoir Street, arrives at a moment when many of the forces shaping cultural life are increasingly difficult to see, measure, or name. The exhibition, and the accompanying...
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Computala Launch – Robots for a Safer World
The launch of Computala unfolded less like an opening night and more like a listening exercise. Voices moved between artworks, machines hummed in the background, and conversations drifted from speculation to reflection. What emerged was not a single argument about artificial intelligence or…
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Distraction Therapy – Visualising the Emergent
What does it mean to see emergent metamodern arts, rather than simply to document them. This project has gradually disclosed a visual language that sits between fidelity and invention. Images are neither promotional gloss nor documentary evidence. They operate as propositions. They ask whether...
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Distraction Therapy Mix – New Year Shift of Orientation
The turning of the year is not simply a change of date. It is a shift in orientation. A moment when we are asked, quietly but firmly, to decide where we stand in relation to what is coming, and what we choose to carry forward. Hermetic traditions speak less of prediction than of position. To see...
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Distraction Therapy – Solstice and Urban Renewal
The Winter Solstice arrives quietly in the city. There is no open horizon, no wide moorland sky, yet the turning is no less real. It moves through streetlights and shuttered shops, through late buses and lit windows, through the hum that never fully subsides. Even here, the year reaches its…
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Distraction Therapy – Solstice Reflections
As the Winter Solstice passes, the land itself seems to pause and listen. Across the country, the air carries different voices now. The dark does not arrive as emptiness, but as presence, a thickening of attention. Sound travels further in this season, and silence feels less like absence than...
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The Listening That Opens the World
The name of this piece arrived quietly, almost shyly, as if it did not want to interrupt the long inward breath that precedes any attempt to speak about art. It came not as a headline but as a feeling, a gesture, a movement of thought that circles and recircles before it finds somewhere to land:...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Radio Lear, a captivating exploration of sound and thought that transcends conventional boundaries. In our unique way we invite you to embark on a unique journey curated by Max Sturm, a visionary artist and Creative Director. Discover the transformative power of sound as it intertwines with the principles of metamodernism, bridging the realms of art, technology, and human expression.
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