Sustain.fm

About Sustain.fm

Harmonizing Sound and Sustainability – merging electronic music and sustainability. Explore global electronic soundscapes, beats, and live performances while hearing from artists, researchers, and activists driving positive change. Each episode of Sustain features a curated selection of electronic music from diverse cultures and genres. From pulsating basslines to ethereal melodies, our show celebrates the power of music to unite people while highlighting its connection to sustainable living. Tune in to experience the fusion of digital sounds and environmental consciousness, creating a unique audio landscape.

Publisher

Stephen Williams / drusnoise

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Nov 2023

Latest episode

28 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Oct 2026

   Listening and Oceans with Stijn Demeulenaere

   What does it mean to really listen to a place? And how do our bodies, ears, and memories shape what we hear? Stijn and I explore these questions through his fascinating sonic work in the North Sea, from underwater soundscapes and offshore wind farms to oysters, sea shanties, and the changing ecologies of our oceans. We also talk about listening, technology, artistic intentions, and immersive (literally!) performances in the water. Listen to the full conversation and recording excerpts in the latest episode of sustain.fm on RBL Links and bio www.stijndemeulenaere.be www.facebook.com/stijndemeulenaereart/ www.instagram.com/zzztijn/ Zijlijn / Linea Lateralis https://stijndemeulenaere.be/zijlijn-pro.html Sounding Lines https://stijndemeulenaere.be/soundinglines-pro.html Sounding Lines  is my latest work, a research into how we humans shaped the seabed of the North Sea over the last 200 years. The track here is an excerpt of the live show at Porous, an exhibition by TBA21 at Villa Arson, Nice (FR) during the UN Ocean days in june 2025. The live show was originally quadraphonic, this is a stereo excerpt. Latitudes https://stijndemeulenaere.be/latitudes.html Live set  developed for the Everybody Hertz festival in Brussels in 2024. Soundtracks http://stijndemeulenaere.be/soundtracks.html I would like to invite you too to become part of the archive, to discover your own sonic memories. Please, take a seat and dig through your memory. Try to remember a sound that was special to you and describe it for me. Write it down on a piece of paper, and snailmail / post it to me on the following address, I'd be very grateful. SoundtracksHopstraat 401000 BrusselsBelgium Ps: and just to avoid any misunderstandings: the archive requires HANDWRITTEN MEMORIES, so please, no email or typed letters. Apart from that, you are completely free to use whichever form or language you like. Thank you in advance. Bio Stijn Demeulenaere is a sound artist, sometimes musician, and field recordist. He holds degrees in sociology, cultural studies and studied radio at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound. Stijn had several experimental radio shows on independent radio stations and later worked as a journalist for Belgian national radio stations Radio 1 and Klara, and for the independent radio station Radio K Centrale in Bologna, Italy. He was a founding member of the improvisation collective Karen Eliot. Since 2009 he is creating installations, soundscapes, performances, releases albums, and does sound design for dance, theatre and film. Stijn is attracted to sound because of its directness, its malleability, and its mystery. In sound he tries to understand places and unravel social structures, personal history and the unconscious imagination of people. Stijns work knows two lines of research. On the one hand Stijn researches how people give meaning to sound, and the relationships betweenidentity, sound and listening. Topics are the phenomenology of listening and the personal experience of sound. On the other hand, Stijn is curious about the symbiosis betweenplaces and their sound. He tries to understand places by listening to them.

2. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Resisting Waters Roundtable

   Bit of a different format this month, a live discussion about the intersections of arts and science, imagining futures with sound, and the agency of water. I was excited to be part of this roundtable along with exhibiting artists and researchers Mariko Hori and KWR Water Research Institute researcher Sabrina Keinemans, sound artist Stijn Demeulenaere, and researcher Moniek Driesse. In a conversation moderated by Jonás Bisquert, we explore questions like how does sound help us transform ecological uncertainty into tangible future scenarios, and how do we give a voice to the water itself? Co-organized by Gaudeamus Festival with Utrecht University’s Urban Futures Studio, it was a fascinating conversation on how collaborations between scientists and artists can help expand the imagination. Apologies for the quiet audience questions, the microphones were not set up to catch that well. Links Artist installation details https://gaudeamus.nl/en/events/gaudeamus-2026-sunday-afternoon/resisting-waters-installations/ Gaudeamus https://gaudeamus.nl/ Urban Futures Studio https://www.uu.nl/en/research/urban-futures-studio Mariko Hori https://www.instagram.com/korimariho/ Sabrina Keinemans linkedin.com/in/sabrinakeinemans Stijn Demeulenaere https://www.instagram.com/zzztijn/ Moniek Driesse (University of Antwerp) https://www.instagram.com/moniekdriesse/ Steve Williams / drusnoise https://instagram.com/drusnoise Jonás Bisquert  https://jonasbisquert.com/

3. 

   26 Aug 2026

   Listening and storytelling with Konstantine Vlasis

   Listening with glaciers? Auscultation and planetary health? Climate data turned into percussion performances played on glacial ice? Tune in for all of that and more in a fascinating conversation with Konstantine Vlasis. Konstantine is an environmental composer, audio researcher, musician and writer currently based in Iceland whose work explores how sound, music, and listening mediate experiences of changing landscapes and ecologies, and how music can be a form of climate communication and environmental storytelling. With collaborations, compositions, and publications with a wide range of people and places around the world, I really enjoyed diving into his world and his sounds. Links and Bio Artist website https://www.konvlasis.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/konvlasis/ Time and Water https://scienceandfilm.org/articles/3747/the-sounds-of-time-and-water Life of the Glacier https://intotheblue.is/life/ After Ice film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsQoCVlgGn8 2124 Composer & Project Lead: Konstantine Vlasis Produced by Jake LyonsPerformed by Chris ParkerAudio by Yi-Wen Lai-TremewanDirected by Marcus Neudigate Ablation Composer & Project Lead: Konstantine VlasisVideography: Josh FlintRecording & Mixing: Yi-Wen Lai-TremewanVideo Editing: Jake LyonsColor Grading: Marcus Neudigate Bio Konstantine Vlasis is an environmental composer, audio researcher, percussionist, NYU Torch Fellow, Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellow, Fulbright-NSF Arctic Research Fellow, and Fulbright-Nat Geo Award recipient. His projects, public talks, and performances center on the ways that sound and listening mediate experiences of changing landscapes, and how music can be a form of climate communication and environmental storytelling. As a composer, Vlasis has become a leading voice within environmental, art-science, and audiovisual composition. His music blends complex rhythmic structures, minimalist textures, and sound design to create environmentally conceptual and immersive pieces. In this regard, Vlasis explicitly builds his works upon pre-existing musical textures created by nonhuman entities, natural soundscapes, and environmental phenomena. His recent compositions expressly focus on ecological awareness, creative approaches to musical sustainability, and the efficacy of art-science collaboration. Vlasis is a visiting lecturer at Listaháskóli Íslands, a research affiliate of Háskóli Íslands, an Innovative Percussion Artist, and a performing member of APEX Percussion.

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