Marieke McKenna
Radio, sound & sonic curation

Sound & Radio

Her sonic practice moves between DJ performance, sound art, dramaturgy, archival collage, radio and immersive environmental composition. Sound in her work is always spatial: she composes for the room, landscape or architecture in which it will be heard.

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Marieke McKenna behind the decks with headphones on, looking down at the mixer

On airpublic broadcasting

  • 2024–2026Round MidnightNPO Soul & Jazz (NTR) · Thursday nights
    My own weekly national radio show, every Thursday night until the station closed in 2026. More than a hundred broadcasts of carefully constructed sonic journeys, weaving together forgotten musical histories, global traditions, rare recordings, field recordings, emerging artists, philosophy and poetry. Listen back on NPO Luister (the archive also holds the other nights’ presenters), or hear every track I played on Spotify.
  • 2024–2025Dream SoundsNPO Soul & Jazz
    My weekly podcast for escaping the stress of the day: a musical journey through cultures and times, landscapes and weather, other dimensions and dream worlds, with spiritual jazz, new age, soul, (neo)classical and ambient music. Nineteen episodes over two seasons. Listen on NPO Luister.
  • 2022–Roots & ThreadsNTR / NPO
    An ethnomusicological podcast series that extends the approach of the radio show into long-form narrative storytelling through music history, cultural memory, migration, politics and sound. Listen on NPO Luister or Spotify.
  • 2025North Sea Jazz on televisionNPO 2 Extra & NPO Start
    Curator and presenter of the festival’s three-day live broadcast, featured by NPO Cultuur.
  • 2021“Seasick”Hive Mind Records
    A spoken-word poem on King Champion Sounds’ album Between Two Worlds, alongside Gerry Love, Mia Doi Todd and Sally Timms.

Stages & decksperformed, spoken and curated at

Le Guess Who?· TivoliVredenburg· Movies That Matter· Rewire· The Barbican, London· Korzo· North Sea Jazz· NTS Radio· Paard· Lowlands· NPO Radio 2· Super Sonic Jazz· Best Kept Secret· Milan Fashion Week· Radius CCA· Crossing Border· Museum Beelden aan Zee· Lago Lago· ADE· Kunstmuseum Den Haag· De Groene Amsterdammer· Paradiso· Museumnacht· Operator Radio· and many others

Playlistson Spotify

Round Midnight: every track from the show

Every track I played on Round Midnight, my weekly radio show on NPO Soul & Jazz. Saved by 500+ listeners.

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From the notebookhandwritten tracklists

For every broadcast I wrote the tracklist out by hand. A few pages from the notebook.

Episode 10 · 14 March 2024
with an interview with Matthew Halsall, live at Transition Festival
Episode 17 · 2 May 2024
with special guest Nike Ayinla of Orisun Studio
Episode 13 · 4 April 2024
Episode 5 · 8 February 2024

From the cabinetimages I return to

A mandrake drawn as a human figure with roots for legs and leaves with red fruit for hair, with Greek lettering
Mandrake (Mandragora), from the Naples Dioscurides, a Greek herbal of the 7th century. Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples.