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This year the word is 'WATER’, and the work will willingly wade the time away, in eddies, in sinks, in drains, in backwaters, through root systems, capillaries, infiltrating, inundating our "humid brains" (Isabelle Stengers).

Recipes for getting wet: out of the blue, blue planet, into the molecular, cellular, time’s involved, time runs through it, hydrophonics, hydrojams, glistening gestures, swimsink, cloud seeding, drought, contamination, advisories, nautical sea, nausea, leagues under, deep diver, pearl mother, Mariana Trench. We quickly see this flow forever, for, as Yve Lomax put it in Sounding the Event: “Yes, this noisy restless sea is pure multiplicity: it is mixture, it is contingency and it is turbulent.” Or, put even more succinctly, as Italo Calvino’s Mr. Palomar realizes: “isolating a wave is not easy.”

LINEUP:

• ARE - HOUR 1 (17:00 GMT)

artLAB PRESENTS UpStream/DownStream by Tom Cull with Danielle Butters & Sruthi Ramanarayanan

• ARE - HOUR 2 (18:00 GMT)

National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition PRESENTS Amanda Amour-Lynx, Kaya Joan, and Star Nahwegahbo

• ARE - HOUR 3 (19:00 GMT)

WalkingLab PRESENTS Eli Nolet

• ARE - HOUR 4 (20:00 GMT)

Doris McCarthy Gallery PRESENTS Farheen Haq, Laura Millard, Jordyn Stewart, Jon Sasaki, Lou Sheppard, and Bagida’waad Alliance

• ARE -HOUR 5 (21:00 GMT)

Art Gallery of Hamilton PRESENTS Celia Vernal, Tyler Tekatch, Laurie Kilgor-Walsh

• ARE - HOUR 6 (22:00 GMT)

SASAH PRESENTS Michelle Wilson and the Coves Collective Ensemble

• ARE - HOUR 7 (23:00 GMT)

Thames Art Gallery PRESENTS Dickson Bou, Jamie Dronyk, Sharmistha Kar, Peter Lebel, Patrick Mahon, Thomas Mahon, Valerie Mills-Milde, & Quinn Smallboy

• ARE - HOUR 8 (00:00 GMT)

Futura Resistenza PRESENTS Christof Migone

• ARE - HOUR 9 (01:00 GMT)

Forest City Gallery PRESENTS Racquel Rowe

• ARE - HOUR 10 (02:00 GMT)

Glenfiddich Artists in Residence PRESENTS Penelope Cain

• ARE -HOUR 11 (03:00 GMT)

McIntosh Gallery PRESENTS Shannon Cooney and Paul Walde

• ARE - HOUR 12 (04:00 GMT)

New Adventures in Sound Art and Other Sights PRESENT Brady Marks & Mark Timmings (Wetland Project)

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The fifth in Christof Migone's series of twelve annual 12-hour events taking place on December 12th from 5pm to 5am the next day. Each year the event moves through each word of the phrase ‘You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air of Life and Death’ and a group of international artists activate the word of the year in myriad ways. Streamed live on YouTube.

This month Dylan and Karen are joined by Hali Palombo, S*Glass, Hobo Sonn, Ersatz Opportunity, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Bill Nace, Julian Bradley, Ted Trager, Ivor Kallin, Witcyst, Neil Campbell, Theo Gowans, Zheng Hao, Marija Kovacevic, Jon Thompson, Rick Potts, Nathan Howdeshell, Fritz Welch, Andy Ortman, Maureen Hallomas and Monad Node.

Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance and friends beam out an hour of audio collage discombobulation direct from Chocolate Monk HQ. A sonic salve for overstimulated ears.

This month: music by Anglezarke, Vulgar Débil, Kirsten Bråten Berg/Ale Moller, Rainbow Serpent, Sandra, Turvia, Whettman Chelmets, Solanaceae Tau, Alzar - DrOwL, Elizabeth Joan Kelly, Chris & Cosey, Closeyoureyes, Bocksholm and Astrovia.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

A monthly show exploring our innate connection to sound, and how we express that through music, showcasing work that connects to our body and minds through rich compositional choices, through intricate processes in the studio, or music that is inspired by the way we interact with the outside world. Connections to Sound journeys through downtempo, electronic, ambient and beat driven music, featuring tracks from artists all around the world. Presented by Kayla Painter.

Hidden Valley seems to be far removed from our worlds. There, a musical encounter with Flies, Cicadas, Wombat Poo, and a little Waterfall unfolds. These characters become my Musickin—through the musicking—as the wind of heaven blows through the pipes of every critter.

Later in my studio: A contemplation re-enfolds on the affordances of identity and identitylessness.

The originary recording was made 2020, in the Budawang Mountains, southwest of Nowra, on the east-coast of Australia. This Country is the lead author of this work, and respects are paid to the Yuin people, who have been singing up these Mountains everywhen. My studio is on Gadigal Country.

– Jim Denley, December 2025

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Born in the Illawarra, Dharawal Country south of Sydney in 1957, Jim Denley has been active with experimental and improvised musicking since the 1970s.

He has performed in Australia, Europe, Japan and the US with artists such as Chris Abrahams, Clare Cooper, Keith Rowe, Joel Stern, Robbie Avenaim, Jon Rose, John Butcher, Otomo Yoshihide, Fred Frith, Phil Niblock, Trey Spruance, Clayton Thomas, Tess de Quincy, Axel Dörner, Adam Sussman, Ami Yoshida, Oren Ambarchi, Tony Buck, Ikue Mori, Sachiko M, Malcolm Goldstein, Michael Sheridan and Annette Krebs.

He is interested in what his music instinct might learn from language. From 1989 to 2009 he worked with the text/music group Machine for Making Sense, (Amanda Stewart, Stevie Wishart, Rik Rue and Chris Mann). Jim co-formed 180º with Amanda Stewart and Nick Ashwood in 2018 to continue the pursuit of text/music intra-activity. He’s been involved with the radically inclusive Splinter Orchestra since 2001.

He often records around the coves and beaches of Sydney Harbour, where for thousands of years the Dharug people would have played ngaramang (music).

His radio work Collaborations, produced by ABC Radio National won the 1989 Prix Italia for radio production.

Bloomsbury will be publishing his PhD research as the book, Towards ecological musicking: As Weather Improvisation.

Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

From jet-lagged homesick soundscapes from Thailand, odes to strawberries and our lost seasons to music made out of a toilet plunger and the howls of seals this is a very jam-packed edition of Atmospheric Densities. Featuring new releases by more eaze, Gamardah Fungus and Liew Niyomkarn, a tribute to Ian Rawes in the form of his posthumous release From Dawn til Dust on Persistence of Sound.

We also give a big shout to Phil Maguire's Verz's label as it closes up shop by dipping into the label's final release by David Donohoe and David Lacey, dive into Cath Roberts piece on split via Fractal Meat Cuts. On the Flaming Pines side of things we mark the pending release of Kamran Arashnia's Bounds Elimination and dig a bit deeper into the forthcoming albums by Jonathan Higgins' and RUBBISH MUSIC.

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of “Lay All Your Love On Me“ by the Swedish pop band ABBA. There's no order, no lists, just exclusive, overwrought fandom material: marching bands, metalheads, witches, vampires, Soundcloud stars, pioneers of the millennial sound, Mozarts of midi, musicians who run record labels... all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

Featuring two guests: Tuuun and Elbis Rever.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

Now: Wikipedia-Schreiben On Air. Knut Aufermann is joined by Helen Thein, Felix Kubin and Marcus Gammel to continue writing the German Wikipedia entry for radio art (Radiokunst).

Every day on SAVVY Funk at documenta 14 Mobile Radio (Sarah Washington & Knut Aufermann) delved deep into a collection of artefacts and memories, rendering them into radiophonic form. This series called Render live features old audio formats and conceptual works smothered in the hiss of time, plus special guests.

In this episode, School of the Damned collaborated with musician Sarahsson deep underground inside an abandoned mile-long WWII ammunition depot tunnel. On-site, we recorded a series of compositions featuring Sarahsson on tenor horn.

Interwoven throughout this episode is archival footage from the 1980s that was captured during a brief period when the depot was open to the public. The tunnel is also a hotspot for paranormal investigators, so we feature found recordings of people attempting to communicate with ghosts.

All the sounds you hear in this episode were recorded in Farleigh Down Tunnel.

Vague Wanderings is a bi-monthly collaborative live show from the 24-26 cohort of School of the Damned, exploring imagined spaces, temporary autonomous zones, collecting field recordings and the fertile topsoil of vague terrains.

This episode features two talks with the Latvian artist Kārlis Tone and the Estonian artist Erik Alalooga, presented in sequence. Interviews are accompanied by sounds captured during the performance of Kārlis Tone's commission at the Skaņu Mežs festival and Erik Alalooga's performance at the joint Baltic Analog Lab and Skaņu mežs residency in Riga, Latvia, in the autumn of 2025 and early spring of 2026.

The interview is conducted by Viestarts Gailītis. The music that one hears is as follows: two fragments from Tone’s composition "Balss lūzums" (eng. - voice fracture), a song “Garu čuksti vados” (eng. - spirit whispers in the cables) by Tone’s band Grab and Erik Alalooga’s songs “Jack the Chopper” and “The Boreal Desert”. Kārlis Tone and Erik Alalooga are experimental musicians and sound artists from Riga and Tallinn, respectively.

Tone is known for his work in the experimental rock band Tesa (est. 2005), the Grab project, and the neo-folk outfit Līgas ph3, as well as for theater music, while Erik Alalooga is a performance, sound, and kinetic art veteran and teacher. He will present his installation at the Skaņu mežs festival in October 2026.

Bi-monthly insights into the activities of the European project tekhnē, which started in 2023. The series showcases a selection of artists who share and discuss their work and listen to recorded material. By putting the focus on the user rather than the developer, this project aims to explore the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. Technology as an art of craft, appropriating and transforming existing tools, to imagine multiple ways of creative misuse. tekhnē is a collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union.

William Fields explores the potential of algorithmic music through the process of recreating (and inventing?) genres with his musical operating system.

On Resonance Extra this Sunday 24th May, in collaboration with ROVR record store Soho London & Alabama’s Earth Libraries, we celebrate the 2nd official City of Birmimham U.S.A., Sun Ra ”arrival" Day with ’RA PWR’ – 24 celestial hours of Ra-centric cosmic toned radiophonics. Rare Ra archive interviews, Lconcert recordings, with guest selectors Bob Brainen (WFMU) & Paul Smith (Blast First) mix-matched with pop-up radio sessions from Jimi Tenor (Sahko/Warp) & Chicago’s very own floating anRarchists Excepter.