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.

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Episodes 12

What Comes Back – The Space Between Passing and Beginning
3d ago · 1:02:13
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 and beginning belong to the same cycle? This is not an invitation to pretend that every change is welcome. It is a chance to listen to the space between holding on and moving forward: the interval in which one form has loosened, while another has not yet fully appeared. What Can Be Gained When Something
The Kindness of Returning – A Weird Walk Through Songs That Carry Us Home
3d ago · 1:05:16
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 threshold. The route in this podcast mix is an imagined sound-walk. It leads through rain and fields, towards open water, and eventually back to the garden. Its landmarks are songs. Many of those songs carry difficult things. There is parting, betrayal, grief, rural loss, and the pull between leaving home and s
Listening Without Resolution
1mo ago · 59:42
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, without being told what it means. That absence of explanation creates its own question: does music become more open when interpretation is withheld, or do we simply project more of ourselves into it? Memory as Material Many of these pieces treat memory not as a stable record, but as something fragmentary a
Making Space for Emergence – Deepwell and Armonia Arts
2mo ago · 34:32
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 have on Radio Lear often suggest something different. Creativity may be less about talent and more about attention. Less about performance and more about participation. In this episode, Francis Deepwell of Deepwell Arts and Poppy Haritaki of Armonia Music and Arts reflect on the spaces they have created
The First Path Is Made By Listening
2mo ago · 1:16:03
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 before the foot goes forward. The programme is built as a reflective music mix, shaped around the feeling of a path opening at dawn, a gate creaking in a hedge, a churchyard holding its weather, a river carrying memory under a bridge, and a city edge becoming strange when listened to closely. The episode t
Listening To The Room – Word, Open-Mic Voices And The Practice Of Attention
2mo ago · 31:56
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 Thursday 28th May 2026, we hear poetry not as a finished cultural product, but as a living social act. This is not a full recording of the evening. It is an edited impression of the event, shaped from a sequence of voices, fragments and moments. The aim is to give a sense of the room: the red light on the s
Radio Lear Podcast – Traveling Through Sonic Environments
3mo ago · 2:34:51
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, contemporary classical music, modular synthesis, and post-rave atmospheres, the tracks gather into a contemplative structure that explores memory, landscape, transcendence, ecological consciousness, and the emotional residue of technological culture. The opening passage, beginning with Craven Faults’ “Stoneym
Art, Identity, and Rehabilitation – Creative Practice in Prison Contexts
5mo ago · 25:53
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 their work in community media, arts practice, and engagement with criminal justice contexts. A key focus of the conversation is how art creates space for reflection and expression in environments that are often restrictive and emotionally pressured. Drawing on their experience, the contributors describe h
Art School – Studio 17 and the Practice of Staying Together
5mo ago · 42:30
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 one such space. It is less a studio in the conventional sense than a long-held conversation, unfolding across decades, carried by those who have entered, left, returned, and remained. What emerges from the voices of the artists is not a singular narrative of artistic production, but a shared condition of
Morphic Resonance and The Deep Memory of Sound
6mo ago · 1:06:38
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 Sheldrake’s concept of morphic resonance proposes that memory is not stored solely in brains but inheres in fields of pattern and habit. Forms, once established, become easier to repeat. The past is not inert. It presses forward, shaping the present through resemblance. Whether one accepts the hypothesis litera
Intangible Labour’s Ritual Cleanse
7mo ago · 18:11
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 intervention, but a ritualised action that resonates with the deep grammar of Ancient Greek worship. Its power lies precisely in its refusal to separate the aesthetic, the civic, and the spiritual into distinct domains. In Ancient Greek culture, ritual was not a retreat from everyday life but its intens
Discussing Our Intangible Labour
7mo ago · 32:15
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 recognition between artists who have learned, often painfully, how art persists outside the smooth surfaces of institutional culture. The Intangible Labour exhibition, taking place at the basement gallery of the Leicester Adult Education centre on Belvoir Street, does not announce itself as a corrective to the

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What Comes Back – The Space Between Passing and Beginning

The Kindness of Returning – A Weird Walk Through Songs That Carry Us Home

Listening Without Resolution

Making Space for Emergence – Deepwell and Armonia Arts

The First Path Is Made By Listening

Listening To The Room – Word, Open-Mic Voices And The Practice Of Attention

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Art, Identity, and Rehabilitation – Creative Practice in Prison Contexts

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Morphic Resonance and The Deep Memory of Sound

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What Comes Back – The Space Between Passing and Beginning

The Kindness of Returning – A Weird Walk Through Songs That Carry Us Home

Listening Without Resolution

Making Space for Emergence – Deepwell and Armonia Arts

The First Path Is Made By Listening

Listening To The Room – Word, Open-Mic Voices And The Practice Of Attention

Radio Lear Podcast – Traveling Through Sonic Environments

Art, Identity, and Rehabilitation – Creative Practice in Prison Contexts

Art School – Studio 17 and the Practice of Staying Together

Morphic Resonance and The Deep Memory of Sound

Intangible Labour’s Ritual Cleanse

Discussing Our Intangible Labour