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A continuous stream of short musical creations, each under two minutes. Miniature masterpieces interwoven and occasionally interpolated, transitioning seamlessly from the briefest to the longest – a perpetual motion of sound.

'The Festering Season'

Many thanks to friends who supplied throat action: (in no particular order) Michael Kemp, Baby Ezra, Joe Posset, Crank Sturgeon, Karen Constance, Angela Sawyer, Grant Smith, Tina Kerkels, Toby Lloyd, Fraser Burnet, Fabio Roberti, Elkka Nyoukis, This is Yvonny Lovejoy, Plastic Containers Of Nothing, Bim Prongs, baby Ida, Ludo Mich, Jaap Blonk, Stewart Greenwood and all brighton group jabber gonks.

Sound collage, record spinning, havering, ear wonk and general head scratch with Dylan Nyoukis of the Chocolate Monk label.

minusSPAMminus (SPAM 6) is a work made for radio and of spam facts, + and - regarding spam, personal stories triggered by spam in a material, non-material, historical and emotional manner, all assembled by Jasmina Al-Qaisi and Ralf Wendt with their invited friends and collaborators who decided to respond to the email they sent with the word SPAM in the subject.

This radio work arises from an invitation from Afrika Diva Collectif in Kinshasa and uses a non-linear approach to documentary, creating a circular audio collage with voices and audio accounts of daily life disturbances. We asked everyone and ourselves: how can life minus spam be? What would a life without spam look like?

Participants: Orakle Ngoy, Sara Ndele and Gina Ndaya (Afrika Diva Collectif); Claire Serres, Abir Tawakalna, Pati Sayuri, Beya Othmani, Ali, Nico and Lav (CUTRA pop feminist magazine); Henrik Nieratschker, Gustavo Mendez and Maria Karpushina (Research and Waves); Parveda Chandra Kiran, Özge Açıkkol and Seçil Yersel (odaprojesi group); Heidi Salaverria, Alexandru Udrea-Raj, Tina Klatte, Simona Constantin, Cristina Bogdan, Mriganka Madhukaillya, Sebastian Gerstengarbe, Alexander Klose, and Schnelle Musikalische Hilfe. Translations by Clara Brandt and Elsa Westreicher.

Audio collage (2021) by Jasmina Al-Qaisi and Ralf Wendt with Afrika Diva Collectif.

Tonight: a special two hour edition featuring a retrospective of Ame Zek's minimal and abstract sound works 2013-2015, including some previously unreleased material.

Ame Zek is an electronic musician, sound artist and composer based in Berlin.

Olivia Cirisan (b. 2001) is a musician of many kinds. A percussionist, singer/songwriter, composer, producer and audio engineer, Olivia’s work is often collaborative, cross-genre and experimental. As a composer, songwriter and producer, Olivia is inspired by everything and anything.

Having written songs for as long as she can remember, Olivia combines her percussion training, her love of electronic production and her songwriting experience to make music that swims amongst both popular and unconventional idioms. Most recently, this is exemplified by her 2024 record, MIDDLES, as well as her newest record with VIRID, Slow Images, released in October of 2025.

Olivia’s work has been showcased internationally, on radio shows like Brighton, UK’s 1BTN.FM, Latvia’s NABA FM 95.8 and Berlin’s Refuge Worldwide radio. Olivia has been a finalist for the 2022 Petrichor Music Competition, and her work has been featured in the 2023 Maker Music Festival. Her music has been a part of Untergeschoss der Pandora’s 2023 Pandora’s Music Box advent calendar.

Olivia is technical director and percussionist of FLYDLPHN, a mixed chamber sextet based in southeastern Michigan dedicated to the commissioning of early-career composers as well as extensive use of electro-acoustic, multimedia, and improvised performance. She also performs with her duo VIRID, an amorphous percussion and multimedia duo that exists between experimental, contemporary classical and popular music genres.

Olivia has also worked on notable projects such as John Luther Adams’ GRAMMY-nominated recording of Sila: The Breath of the World, the premieres of Michael Gordon’s Field of Vision and The Forest of Metal Objects at the Met Cloisters in NYC, and A New Age for New Age, Vol. 5. A collaborator at heart, she has premiered over 35 chamber and solo works by various composers. Olivia studies Balinese Gamelan as well, and was a 2024 Graduate Fellow in the Center for World Performance Studies at the University of Michigan.

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

In this episode, Spooky Aspic at a Distance by Dr Ergo Phizmiz, Lottie Depresstival Bowater, and Soundart Radio.

Narrative is in a pretty pickle without the culture of experimental theatricals tossing off their posing pouches and expressing with wild abandon but, today in the studios of Soundart Radio, almost everybody is naked! That's because devised theatre, in the most magical of spaces - the radiophonic environment - is back! Ghosts! Witchcraft! Savoury jelly! Welcome to the future dramaturgy! May or may not involve contributions from interstellar intelligences.

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

This month: Richard Hames interviews Ole Hübner, we hear Sara Cubarsi's Exvot II and Phonewifey drops a new set.

Ensemble x.y is a contemporary ensemble that commissions and performs new music in a flexible and ever-changing lineup. Run without traditional roles or hierarchies, Ensemble x.y develops its thematically-charged programmes according to the taste and interest of its core players, as well as the developing working relationships between resident composers and instrumentalists.

Now: A Ear Wah Soun? Sarah Washington takes a watery journey around the world via YouTube, breaking up the tedium with distortions of the documenta radio ident 'Every Time A Ear Di Soun' voiced by Dinah Bird.

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.

Winners of the CTM 2025 Radio Lab call for works, Lynn Nandar Htoo and rEmPiT g0dDe$$ created an audiovisual performance titled "Resonant Resilience." The work delved into the transformative power of music as a means of resistance, resilience, unity, and healing, especially for Southeast Asian female and queer music practitioners.

In this episode originally aired on Refuge Worldwide, they share a full-on techno set, full of the latest club sounds that inspire their work artists and organisers within a network of people holding space for queer culture in Southeast Asia.

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.

Phantom Circuit is celebrating its 10th birthday, so please join us for music by National Sound, Brian Hodgson, Don Harper, Peter Howell and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Jodie Lowther & A.R.C Soundtracks, M4T, The Last Little Bit, Flying Species, Georges Rodi, Noisense, John Callaghan, Kraftwerk, Laibach, Richard Grassby-Lewis & The Insects, The Hunted Hare, The Residents, Irmin Schmidt and Bridget St. John.

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

This month: Ilia Rogatchevski compiles a long-form drone collage, composed of idling engine noises, pulled from films such as Star Trek, Star Wars and Blade Runner.

Come On, Come Down! explores adventurous night music for the sleepless. The series covers a broad spectrum of genres, from ambient and noise through to jazz, post-rock and contemporary classical. Each episode is thematically linked and aims to highlight a specific mood, artist or movement. Listen out for the occasional live session.

We continue to listen to rare records released on the Soviet major label Melodia. This time – and not for the last time – the episode is dedicated to jazz in all its manifestations.

We'll start with the first jazz composition in the history of the USSR (the Uzbek band under Pavel Chaplevsky made this recording in 1935), listen to balearic improvisations from Ukraine, electro-boogie from Kazakhstan, jazz-mughams from Azerbaijan and then dive headfirst into free jazz from the Baltic States and faraway places in Russia. Let jazz be free!

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental TOPOT label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

Certified Tonk showcases improvised music as a shared act of discovery, where meaning appears without being forced, and ego drops away for creativity to take over. This series is an invitation to listen differently, stay present and let the music lead. Andrew Backhouse is an artist and radio geek based in North Yorkshire who has always loved radio and sees it as a place for exploration, not answers.

This episode takes the idea of sonic journeys as its starting point. It features interviews with the British artist Tim Shaw and the French artist Valérie Vivancos. Tim and Valérie share a focus on listening, live improvisation and walking and we chatted to them about the trajectory of their work until today, as well as how they see it evolving and changing in light of the pandemic. There is also an artist showcase on Antti Tolvi.

The Field Recording Show is a programme exploring the soundscape, recording, listening and composing hosted by Kate Carr and Luca Nasciuti.

This episode features a guest mix by George Coggan. Entitled Larger, the mix explores vastness and vacuity, everything and nothing, playing with ideas of media consumption, human experience and, at times, deep listening; constructing then engulfing itself into a narrative devoid of beginning, middle and end.

Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.

Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts is a London-based sound art collective presenting new sound works, performances and discussions.

Neil Luck leads an ensemble of collaborators in a New Years Water Ritual live from Resonance Extra's studio. An offering of positive energy to all sufferers of holiday burst pipes and broken boilers. Engineered and mixed live by Milo Thesiger–Meacham.