Noise & The Megacity: Breaktime: Nov 21, 2023

This month on the program we play some improvised music and listen to some Kolkata traffic.

Noise & The Megacity: Time: Oct 17, 2023

This month on the program, we listen to techno and traffic while we contemplate the passage of time. A dive into an archive of collected noises from ten megacities across the globe. Interviews and ru...

Noise & The Megacity: Sleepless: Sep 19, 2023

This month on the program, a little something for those sleepless nights. A dive into an archive of collected noises from ten megacities across the globe. Interviews and ruminations will be mixed in...

Noise & The Megacity: Tired: Aug 15, 2023

This month on the program, we slow things down a little.A dive into an archive of collected noises from ten megacities across the globe. Interviews and ruminations will be mixed in with these sounds,...

Noise & The Megacity: Sleep: Jun 20, 2023

This month on the program, a mix of sleepy-time music and a little bit of noise.

Noise and the Megacity: Room Full of Speakers: Mar 21, 2023

Noise and the Megacity: Room Full of Speakers

Noise & The Megacity: Topographies of Artificial Desire: Feb 21, 2023

This month on the program, music from Paulus' recent installation "Topographies of Artificial Desire" along with some thrift store CD mashups.

Noise & The Megacity: Synthetic Noise: Jan 17, 2023

This month on the program, a mixture of synthesizers and strange vinyl records. Enjoy!

Noise & The Megacity: Chatting: Dec 20, 2022

This month on the program, Paulus chats with people then plays some CDs too slowly.

Noise & The Megacity: Records: Nov 15, 2022

On this month's program, Paulus plays some of their stranger and more noisy vinyl records, mostly picked from the dollar bin.

Noise & The Megacity: More Bangkok: Oct 18, 2022

This month on the program, Paulus gathers more recordings from Bangkok, Thailand, gathered between December 2017 and January 2018.

Noise & The Megacity: File Storage: Sep 20, 2022

This month on the program, a long overdue cleaning out of Paulus’ file storage! Please enjoy this strange collection.

Noise & The Megacity: Next Stop: Jul 19, 2022

This month's program is a bit of a grab bag. Please enjoy! A dive into an archive of collected noises from ten megacities across the globe. Interviews and ruminations will be mixed in with these sound...

Noise & The Megacity: General Noise 2: Jun 21, 2022

This month on the program, Paulus mixes an assortment of field recordings with FM synthesis.

Noise & The Megacity: On A Walk: May 17, 2022

This month on the program, Paulus gathers some recordings made on the move. Please enjoy these pre-pandemic city walkabouts.

Noise & The Megacity: DJ Set: Apr 19, 2022

This month on the program, Paulus takes a break from the noise. Instead, they mix together some music that they enjoy.

Noise & The Megacity: Wet Noise: Mar 15, 2022

This month on the program, Paulus dredges their archive for water and other wet sounds.

Noise & The Megacity: Tropical Cumbia '92: Feb 15, 2022

This month on the program, Paulus plays a cassette tape they picked up in Mexico City at a flea market. The tape has a cover which says "Tropical Cumbia '92". The songs are much older than 1992 so thi...

Noise & The Megacity: Space Place Noise: Jan 18, 2022

On this month’s program, Paulus interviews people who engage noise from academic, commercial and everyday perspectives.A dive into an archive of collected noises from ten megacities across the globe....

Noise & The Megacity: General Noise: Dec 21, 2021

This month's program has no particular theme. It has been a long month in a very long year. I hope this mix of sound from bustling cities before the pandemic will bring you some comfort. Take care.A d...

Noise & The Megacity: Jakarta Bandung Yogyakarta Noise: Oct 19, 2021

This month on the program: Interviews and recordings from Jakarta, Bandung and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Interviewees include Bob Edrian and Indra Menus with music from Riar Rizalda and Mahesa Almeida.

Noise & The Megacity: Just Trains: Aug 17, 2021

This month on the program, Paulus gathers together all their train recordings and stitches them together for your listening pleasure.

Noise & The Megacity: North American Noise-tapes: Jul 20, 2021

This month on the program, Paulus plays more of their noisy cassette collection. This time, the artists being featured are mostly from North America.

Noise & The Megacity: Noise-tapes: May 18, 2021

This month on the program, Paulus picks some favorites from their noise-tape collection. Many of these tapes were purchased in South East Asia (mainly, Indonesia, Korea and Singapore) and Mexico City....

Noise & The Megacity: Food Noise: Mar 16, 2021

This month on the program, Paulus presents an unbroken hour of sounds in and around eateries, across 10 megacities.

Noise & The Megacity: Bangkok Noise: Feb 16, 2021

This week on the program, Paulus dusts off a number of interviews they conducted in Bangkok in 2017-18. These interviews touch on the topic of noise from the perspectives of an acoustic engineer and a...

Noise & The Megacity: Sports Noise: Jan 19, 2021

This month on the program, we are listening to (fake) noise. The majority of the program will consist of recordings of synthesized crowd noise from sports video games from 1990 & 2000. In addition, Pa...

Noise & The Megacity: The City and Me: Nov 17, 2020

This month on the program, Paulus adds a bit of their own sonic improvisations to the sonic soup of various megacities. A dive into an archive of collected noises from 10 megacities across the globe....

Noise & The Megacity: An Interview with Marie Takahashi: Oct 20, 2020

On this month's program, Paulus interviews Berlin-based violist and improviser, Marie Takahashi. Marie, who has trained in both classical and baroque traditions, describes her approach to improvisatio...

Noise & The Megacity: The Real and the Unreal: Sep 15, 2020

This month on the broadcast: We are all feeling a little distant these days. The line between the real and unreal is becoming more blurry with each passing second. With a quick nod to the uncanny alie...

Noise & The Megacity: Hubbub: Aug 18, 2020

Many of us are social distancing right now. In that spirit, this month's program is a collection of the sound of humans socializing (in cities, mostly). A dive into an archive of collected noises from...

Noise & The Megacity: Japan Noise: Jul 21, 2020

In this month's program of Noise and the Megacity, Paulus dusts off an old conversation with David Novak (author of Japanoise) and few interviews with noise artists associated with the infamous OFFSIT...

A Radiophonic Quilt from Wave Farm: May 31, 2020

Writes Karen Werner, "To make this radiophonic quilt, programmers at Wave Farm’s radio station WGXC came together for a day to make short radio art pieces about RADIO. We approached this theme in an i...

Noise & The Megacity: Noise Machines: May 19, 2020

This week on the program, Paulus interviews folks about the various ways they control noise to aid with sleep and concentration. A dive into an archive of collected noises from 10 megacities across th...

Noise & The Megacity: Organized Noise: Apr 21, 2020

This week on the program, Paulus dips into the archive and dusts off some interviews originally produced for their podcast, Organized Noise. To end the show, a mix of music and sound art. Interviewees...

Noise & The Megacity: Trains and Traffic: Feb 18, 2020

An audio quilt of automobile and train noise from cities around the world. What if we listened?

Noise & The Megacity show promo: Feb 06, 2020

Noise & The Megacity: An Interview with Jessica Thompson: Jan 21, 2020

A dive into an archive of collected noises from 10 megacities across the globe. Interviews and ruminations will be mixed in with these sounds, in search of a better understanding of a fundamental ques...

Noise & The Megacity: PA Systems: Nov 19, 2019

A dive into an archive of collected noises from 10 megacities across the globe. Interviews and ruminations will be mixed in with these sounds, in search of a better understanding of a fundamental ques...

Noise & The Megacity: Interviews in Noise - Seoul: Oct 15, 2019

A dive into an archive of collected noises from 10 megacities across the globe. Interviews and ruminations will be mixed in with these sounds, in search of a better understanding of a fundamental ques...

Audio Buffet: Noise & The Megacity: Aug 20, 2019

It is impossible to describe a city without noise.. The very-human friction of lives lived alongside one another is unavoidable. John C. said, "wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we i...