fugitive frequency, season 6 episode 7: DHAM DHAM cycles

Poster for "Thaalam Riddim Reapers" workshops by Brendy Hale. At Dinacon 2022, DreamSpace Academy, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

Initiated as a 3-day workshop, “Thaalam Riddim Reapers”, at Dinacon 3 Digital Naturalism Conference at DreamSpace Academy, Batticaloa 2022, it expanded into a 9-day “DHAM DHAM Riddim” Bootcamp at DreamSpace in 2024. In 2025 it evolved as the instrument building-project “Sonified Plastics” during Dinacon 2025 at Sea Communities, Les, Bali  and it will soon arrive in Berlin as an 8-day intensive at 90mil, 20–30 July 2026.

“DHAM DHAM cycles” features conversations with collaborators [all links to Instagram] Luci Dayhew, Dinoj M, SajaS in Batticaloa and Pipin and Wira, in Les, and Sanjey Sureshkumar who founded SASUSU Radio in Tromsø, Norway. It also features the often singing voices and music produced by of numerous participants including: Yash, Abhi, Kabi, Sakithyan, Wilan, Naya, Rangga and many more. Also included is a short interview with Putu Eka Darmawan, an entrepreneur and inventor of a plastic recycling system in Bali.

“Thaalam Riddim Reapers” poster by Brendy Hale, 2022.

Music featured in this podcast includes:

fugitive frequency, season 6 episode 6: “Yowana Rising: Youth, Culture & Change in Les Village Bali”

Adat indigenous youth learn tradtional dance at Les Village, Bali, Indonesia.

A glimpse into the lives and concerns of young people in Les Village, one of the oldest villages in Bali, Indonesia. Desa Les is a fishing and farming community led by Adat traditional authorities. Nestled between mountains and ocean, it boasts vibrant cultural arts traditions, a bustling market and a unique food culture. It was awarded Best Tourism Village by Anugerah Desa Wisata Indonesia (ADWI) 2024.

This podcast focuses on the concerns of young people negotiating tradition with the contemporary digitally-networked world.The burgeoning tourism industry in the north of Bali (Buleleng) brings economic opportunities but also the threat of exploitation, the weakening of cultural integrity and law, and environmental degradation.

Recorded by the community on smart phones, this podcast hosted by Wira Artwan features Putu Sutchi, Augus, Tika, Rani, Bama, and Mia who all belong to Yowana Nawasena, a youth organization; Mang Rut, a young award winning village artist-entrepreneur; Nyoman Diem, gamelan teacher and one of the village leaders, and Pak Jero Pasek, the adat or traditional head of the village. Listen to them discuss daily life, arts, culture and religion—including the significant Galungan ceremony—tourism, and their thoughts about bridging ancestral knowledge with modern culture.

The podcast features music by Dinoj M. [Instagram], a young musician and artist from Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, who visited Les during Dinacon Digital Naturalism Conference 2025, hosted by Sea Communities.

Credits
Concept & Script writing: Sea Communities and Yowana Nawasena
Editing: Wira Artwan
Music: Dinoj M, Nyoman Diem, Bama, Wira
Producers: Sea Communities & fugitive radio
Commissioned by Futura Tropica Netroots for Strata Biennale

fugitive frequency, season 6 episode 5: drive time bass

drive time bass: a silhouette in the fog of a basement club.


I tidied up my USB. Here’s a live mix shuffling through some of the tunes that are now on it.

Tracklist
01. DJ Hank – “At It Again”
02. Ammar 808 – “Duryodhana”
03. Rian Treanor – “ATAXIA_D2”
04. Jana Rush – “Watchout”
05. rEmPiT g0dDe$$ – “EROTIC RAPTURE”
06. Amor Satyr & Siu Mata – “Tachyon Particles”
07. DJ Deeon – “The Freaks”
08. Scratcha DVA – “Scorpio”
09. Osheyack & Nahash – “Club Apathy”
10. Ramadanman – “Bass Drums”
11. Introspekt – “Respect”
12. DJ Nervoso – “Avacs”
13. Bitter Babe x Nick León – “SMS_229-305”
14. Acid Arab – “Ras el ain (3phaz remix)”
15. Siu Mata – “Kenorland”
16. Baalti – “Motion Therapy”
17. Animistic Beliefs – “Call of the Tahuri”
18. Thys, Nikki Nair & DJ ADHD – “Sun”
19. TC4 – “Chopper”
20. Lila Tirando a Violeta feat. Lighght – “Eco del Olvido”
21. EL PLVYBXY – “Changapala”
22. DJ Plead – “Battiekh 3”
23. Kode9 & The Spaceape – “The Cure ft. Cha Cha”
24. ABADIR & Nahash – “Tenterlé (Ehua Remix) (تنترليه (ريمكس إيوا”
25. 10010 – “Tamarindo”
26. DJ Zinc – “138 Trek”
27. El-B – “Ghost 2000”
28. Yello – “Oh Yeah”

fugitive frequency, season 6 episode 4: AInatomy of a track

"Turn your thoughts into music" a prompt from Suno dashboard.

An audio fanzine/edit exploring AI in music production, intellectual property and distribution in parallel with the entertainment platforms and the AI sector’s shift towards military research and development. Media used in this episode is linked below.

media
The Dig: Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek, 26 January 2026.

Interdependence: Synthetic 3ball and Semilla AI with Hexorcismos, 31 December 2022.



Machine Listening.
Machine listening songbook: dada/data

FP: The World After Trump, 24 March, 2026.

fugitive frequency, season 6 episode 3: DreamSpace Records presents “Samugathin Kural”/Voice of the Community

DreamSpace Records presents “Samugathin Kural”/Voice of the Community.

All links below are Instagram!

An audio document of an event “Sumugathin Kural”/Voice of the Community” organised by Dinoj M. of DreamSpace Records at DreamSpace Academy, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, 6 February 2026. This podcast features in chronological order: Yash & Abi performing “Wings of Life”, Sakithyan J performing “Uyir Thamizhaa”, Ajai Rajah performing “Mattu Nagar” followed by an “interactive” jam session/sing-along! It closes with Dinoj M. and myself perfoming “Boomi Azhugudhu”.

fugitive frequency, season 6 episode 2: Pongal with SASUSU Radio


This month’s episode is an edited rebroadcast of a live event organised by SASUSU Radio in Tromsø, Norway. It took place on Friday 16 January 2026, during Pongol, a harvest celebration in the Tamil month of Thai that is like a new year. The event was organised as a fundraiser for flood relief in Sri Lanka, in the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah which made landfall in late November 2025. You’ll hear from: Sanjey Sureshkumar, founder of SASUSU; Anuradha Gayanath Abeykoon Jalath Pathirana a Sri Lankan living in Tromsø; Dinoj M. [Instagram] musician, artist and head of DreamSpace Records, Batticaloa and myself.
Many thanks to radio technician Grusha Pankert and Magnus Skei Holmen who cooked for the event.

We debuted a collaboratively made track produced as a “digital gift” for contributors to the flood relief campaign. Feel free to download and share:

fugitive frequency, season 6 episode 1: Bureau of Race Neutrality Berlin does NotebookLM

NotebookLM: The German Colonial Legacy adn Systemic Racial Capitalism from 49 sources.

This podcast is an experiment with NotebookLM, Google’s “AI-powered research partner”. The platform allows users to upload research materials such as PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs and Google Slides and also performs searches on research topics. It then summarises this material using Google’s advanced multimodal AI systems and its Gemini AI assistant. It delivers its findings in novel ways that are not limited to text, including video, slide shows and an “Audio Overview” function. An affiliated project, Bureau of Race Neutrality, took it for a test drive through the topics of racism and racial capitalism in Germany using sources that included:

Cedric J. Robinson, 2000. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill (first published 1983).
Cedric J. Robinson, 2016. The Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership, The University of North Caroline Press, Chapel Hill (first published 1980).
Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin (eds) 2017. Futures of Black Radicalism, Verso, London & New York.
CLAIM, 2025. “Report on anti-Muslim Racism”, CLAIM gGmbH, Berlin.
Laila Abdul-Rahman, Hannah Espín Grau, Luise Klaus, Tobias Singelnstein, 2023. Gewalt im Amt: Übermäßige polizeiliche Gewaltanwendung und ihre Aufarbeitung (Police Use of Excessive Force in Germany), Forschungsprojekt KviAPol.

Generated text summaries are:

“Briefing Document: An Analysis of Racism, Discrimination, and State Violence in Germany” [PDF]
“Synthesis of Racial Capitalism, Black Radicalism, and the Critique of Western Order” [PDF]

This episode also include excerpts from the Bureau of Race Neutrality Berlin’s recently published sound piece, Antifascist Noise (2025) [Bandcamp].

You might have noticed that the last section uses a different voice? NotebookLM has limited features for non-subscription accounts, so the final chat summary used an AI generated text-to-speech voice from elevenlabs , named “Rachel”.

fugitive frequency, season 5 episode 10: Wahid Al Mamun & Bureau of Race Neutrality Singapore

What God Took Your Legs Away

This month’s episode is a recording of a sound and spoken word performance by Singaporean poet Wahid Al Mamun [Instagram] and the Bureau of Race Neutrality Singapore [Bandcamp] at Sing Lit Station, 5 August 2025. It occurred soon after the launch of Wahid’s first book of poetry, What God Took Your Legs Away (2025) on AFTERIMAGE press. The improvised pieces documented in this recording recall the so-called “Little India Riots”, 8 December 2013. Sparked by a fatal accident at a bus terminal the unrest implicated numerous migrant workers. One cosequence was the building of a special bus terminal for migrant workers, which many argue is an example of hostile architecture. The performance is followed by a Q&A, and a montage of recordings made in the streets of Little India round off this podcast.