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I’m Andrew. I am a Radio Geek & Drift Artist, a Field Recordist and Experimental Musician.
My latest radio show…
Orbiting a Different Star #086
Featuring: Joe Harvey-White & Geir Sundstøl - Rørvikelva Swim Ignorant Fire - Up Yonder Ludwig Wittbrodt - Fischer Tomo-Nakaguchi - Ice on Glass Emily Wittbrodt - Safe Pair of Hands Pipeline - Ahead of July, Pt 1 Juha Mäki-Patola - Moment 2 Brad Rose - The...
Orbiting a Different Star #085
Featuring: Chris Watson - La anunciante Hauschka - Where Were You Beth Anderson - Ocean Motion Mildew Mind John Bisset - G# G# B D# F# G# Alexandra Spence - Tidewater I John Cage, Clare Lesser, David Lesser - Radio Music Natural Information Society - Perseverance...
Orbiting a Different Star #084
Featuring: Steeleye Span - Guadete John Bisset - B F# B D F# D Forward! For Noise - NO_INPUT02001 Thomas Morgan, Gerald Cleaver - Through the Trees claire rousay - a little death Merzbow Cavalera Bernocchi - Swietenia Macrophylla Hildegard von Bingen - Deus in...
Orbiting a Different Star #083
Featuring: Scanner - Forbiddign Mourning Louise Rossiter - Kernal Yaz Lancaster - dream_sweet I Moon Ra - C Cheryl E. Leonard - Mørketid Vladislav Delay, eivind Aarset - Single 01 Jana Irmert - End of Absence Masma Dream World - One Alone Stuart Argabright &...
Orbiting a Different Star #082
Featuring: Natural Information Society - Perserverance Flow (Slo-Mo Edit) Masma Dream World - One Alone Yaz Lancaster - Limerance Dale Cornish - New Chest Cosey Fanni Tutti / Daphne Oram - Tributum Kalia Vandever - Witholding Meredith Monk - Cell Trio III Pamela Z -...
Certified Tonk #11
Andrew Backhouse is a Collage Artist
The latest thing rattling my cage…
Why I should start gossiping
I keep thinking about grooming. Not the salon kind. The monkey kind. The sitting around, picking bugs out of each other’s fur kind. The slow, intimate, slightly boring work of staying friends. For a long time, that was how primates held society together. Touch one...
End of year review 2025
What stayed with me I read and watched and listened to a lot this year. There were many strong contenders. I am not even sure these are my favourite releases of 2025. But they are the ones I keep carrying with me. They slip into walks. They turn up when I am trying to...
The map through Winter
Winter often arrives with a sense of heaviness. The days shorten, the cold settles in and the light seems to thin out. For a long time I thought of winter as a stretch of darkness to get through. But the more I sit with the season, the more I find myself enjoying it,...
Time slips and recording clicks: field recording as hauntological practice
Why I return to sound I work with sound because it lets me hold time still. A simple click of a recorder freezes a moment that would vanish in seconds. When I play it back later, it feels like the past is speaking in the present. That shift is where my work often...
Standing like a tree: finding art in the work you already do
A friend of mine recently confessed his frustration. He’s a gardener by trade but a sculptor at heart. He spends his days pruning, planting, and mowing - and by the time he gets home, he’s too tired to make art in his garage. His hands ache for clay, but all they seem...
Press Pause For Thought, If You Can
There’s always an element of performance in a live broadcast. Even when the tone feels casual, the broadcaster is aware of their role in shaping an experience for the listener. When I pre-record my shows, I can refine and edit, but I lose something that only happens...