Origins
EAR WE ARE
In the beginning: ears a little too large, a little too open. Sounds no one seemed to hear, silences no one seemed to listen to. And a fierce desire to share it all.
In Marseille, the FM coverage map of Radio Grenouille revealed a broadcast zone stretching far out over the sea. It was time to take a deep dive into the listener pool — without forgetting the plankton this time.
A few Nuits de la Phaune later, a 24/7 stream lovingly cobbled together from Montpellier — in pure joy and a certain recklessness.
The creature was born.
Since 2013, Phaune Radio has kept on shedding its skin without ever truly letting itself be tamed.
It moves by ear. The path is made by walking.
What comes through
ALIVE TO EVERYTHING
A cabinet of sonic curiosities in perpetual motion, a 24/7 stream hand-composed, where everything that vibrates eventually crosses paths: the minuscule and the immense, the raw and the refined, science and fiction, laughter and vertigo.
From Deleuze to the Ninja Turtles, from ice songs to the Beatles performed by dogs — here, we mix genres without asking permission and turn the airwaves inside out.
So much material to go beyond comprehension, so many ways of being alive.
The stream is only one of the creature’s forms: Phaune also unfolds into podcasts, original works, shared listening sessions, installations, sound walks, mini-FM, backpack radio, workshops and other undisciplined forms.
Wherever sound can open a space, indoors or out.
Always with the same desire: to invent soundtracks that slightly shift reality, to share listening experiences, to pass on gestures, to reveal other ways of hearing.
What matters, in the end, is to tell a horizon. Near or far, plausible or improbable, fragile or powerful, but always in motion. And all the better if, by endlessly proliferating the senses, it leaves something to be desired.
Because sound is flesh to us, and the attention we give it changes everything else. A way of being on the alert. Of becoming a living being among living beings again.
HUMANS & OTHERS
CONSTELLATIONS
Phaune Radio was born from a collective impulse with Floriane Pochon, Amélie Agut, Tony Regnauld, Stéphane Jourdan, Clément Baudet, Laurie Guétat, and those who recognised something early on in this strange little creature.
People come, come back, sometimes leave. The creature carries on.
It works in symbiosis with the sound arts studio Tarabust, and around the original core orbits a constellation of accomplices in ever-shifting geometry, in France and well beyond: Alain Damasio, Félix Blume, Etienne Noiseau, Jean Poinsignon, Cheryl Tipp, Marc Namblard, Rodolphe Alexis, Nicolas Perret, Cédric Anglaret, Connor Walsh, Sarah Boothroyd, Yannick Dauby, Peter Cusack, and many more.
Some offer unreleased pieces, others unearth hidden gems, craft shows, share archives, intuitions, sounds that fit no frame. Phaune Radio is built like this: through affinities, frictions, transmissions, sonic friendships and sensitive contraband.
Along the way, a few nods of recognition: Inrocks top 5 sound creations of the year (2013), Scam Discovery Prize (2014), Beaumarchais grant (2014), SGDL Grand Prize for Radio Fiction with Alain Damasio (2015), Phonurgia selections (2019) and Prix Italia, several Télérama 3T picks. The creature doesn’t chase medals, but it doesn’t turn them down either.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Q&A
What was that sound?
You can find the list of the last 42 tracks played right here. Why 42? Because. Or if you noted the time and day of broadcast, just ask us!
How to listen?
Phaune Radio is available directly on phauneradio.com — click the creature, it does the rest. You can also find us in your favourite podcast player or radio app. For direct stream lovers: the stream is available in MP3 128kbps and MP3 256kbps. Phaune Radio is also available on iOS and Android.
Suggest tracks
The hairy creature is always hungry for new sounds from every corner of the world. Send us the favourites, creations or recordings you’d love to hear on Phaune Radio. We listen to everything, with care.
Internships
The Freq-Out association has no salaried staff, which means we can’t host interns for now. But if you have ideas for collaboration, write to us — we always find ways to work together.
Broadcast our works
You’re organising a listening session or a festival, running a workshop, managing a radio station… And you’d like to broadcast a Phaune Radio production. Good news — everything we make is Creative Commons and free to download on Bandcamp and Soundcloud. Just let us know, we’ll be happy to spread the word and send you your selection in high quality.
Support Phaune Radio
Supporting us is easy: listen to Phaune Radio, tell people about it, keep sending us lovely messages. You can also visit Bandcamp where all our creations are available on a pay-what-you-wish basis — every listen and every contribution counts. Thanks already!
Here & beyond
Worth exploring
UNCLASSIFIABLE MUSIC
- Sublime Frequencies • A collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional, urban and rural frontiers
- Subrosa • Directed by Guy Marc Hinant and Frédéric Walheer, the label has released over 250 titles related to 20th avant-garde figures
- Free Music Archive • « It’s not just free music; it’s good music »
- Resonance FM • An archive of the new, the forgotten, the impossible
- WFMU • A radio station that bites back !
CURIOUS SOUNDS
- British Library Sounds • A treasure of recordings from across the British Library’s sound archive
- Silence Radio • Colorful sound chips, from noisy poetry to sensitive documentaries and unheard-of soundscapes
- ARTE Radio • Offers a particular take on the world and on our multiple lives, through the talent of many sound writers
- In The Dark Radio • Creating a mini-revolution in the way people think about spoken-word radio…
- Radia • New and forgotten ways of making radio – International network
- Syntone • News and reviews of radio art, to discover in words what is done in sounds. A must!
