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This episode of Listening Experience is titled “Performances” and presents recordings of recent Listening Experience performances I have done in Berlin and elsewhere. It also includes a recording of Ko. Ko is a collaboration I have with Berlin-based sound artist and poet Martin Lau. This episode features a track called “Butterfly”, by Demzo. The final segment of this episode was performed at the Edge of Wrong 2018, in Johannesburg South Africa.

A monthly collection of audio experiments and listening objects with sound artist Matt Burnett from Berlin.

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).

This month: "sound activism" - including work by Ultra-Red, Christopher DeLaurenti, Terre Thaemlitz, and others. None of the pieces discuss UK political parties, but they do references political protests against the WTO, Greek austerity measures and their effects, US political parties, local gentrification processes in Los Angeles and ecological crisis.

Monthly investigations of music politics with Paul Rekret.

5,4,3,2,..1 and HELLO we are live in the cockpit here with our pilot. Sit with us for an hour.

Good Evening, Guten Abend. Jonas Heyn and Sarah Locke present a monthly suitcase of music. Expect strictly analogue! We’ll chit chat, maybe this n that. Liquorice all sorts, bangers n mash, guter Geschmack, with a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone. Clear the bingo hall, take a seat, vinyls to veneers, do us a favour and lend us your ears.

The French philosopher Henri Lefebvre said that 'to change life, we must first change space'. The pandemic didn't change space, however, but our relationship to it. Read the essay here.

Photography by Patrick Bernard and Karen Lacey-Holder.
Music by Jon Hassell.

Patrick Bernard walks along the Hogsmill River, a chalk stream and tributary of the Thames, to explore our changing relationship to space, Victorian science fiction and the transformation of everyday life.

Communiques from Thanet Tape Centre, Hard drive sludge. audio tidal pools. Music sediment. Friends utterances, sea walls of noise, salt marsh drone.

This episode is a Gagarin & Spectral Transmissions Research Unit special.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

Chance Encounters: One day on Eday (Set 2) works with 24 random samples from a 24-hour recording – island walks, the island circumference, a replicated walk across one day – to build a ‘one-hour-day’. Engage with an Orcadian island, listen to chance sonic encounters with Eday, hear one day.

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.

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.

The idea that song, and the performance of song have some kind of efficacy or sympathy beyond the realm of living humans is an idea that lives and thrives in places far flung from this cluster of mild islands, but has gotten lost and buried in 21st century Western empiricalness. We hope this opens some windows for you.

Some liberties have been taken with interpretation; melodies swapped out, lyrics changed, structures altered, sounds invented, stories retold, truths averted.

Tracklisting:

• Phalay

Secret Reformation-era Votive Antiphon from Stoke Minster (anon).

• Lichens

Early Renaissance Invisibility Spell from England & Denmark. Adapted from The Grand Grimoire (misc., anon.)

• Evergreen

Setting of HeartKickUKTM defibrillator manual text, accompanied by vaguely traditional leaf-blowing techniques.

• Oh Great Goat

Animal Husbandry Song, (anon. Yak Herders), circa Ambleside.

• Janey Has A Friend

Folk song from the 1980s about The Enfield Poltergeist, sung to the tune of “The Bow Gallows”. The story concerns a case of a notorious poltergeist haunting in a small residential house in Enfield between 1977-1979.

A family including two young daughters (Janet was one of them) were tormented by flying objects, toppled furniture, levitations, loud banging. The ghost, who introduced himself as “Bill” spoke through Janet’s own vocal cords in a gruff, low register.

Recorded at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, and live at Cafe Oto, London, UK. Recorded, mixed, edited by Neil Luck. Cafe Oto live recordings made by kyle acab. Cover illustration by Monika Czyzyk.

Five English Folk Songs by Neil Luck & Mimi Doulton is a collection of marginal traditional singing techniques and songs dug out by Neil and Mimi. These five songs all explore magical forms of communication with non-human energies; Flora, Fauna, Deities, The Dead, and the Quasi-Dead.

This month: The year is 2020 and Greece is filled with concentration camps... A virus threatens us all.. The US are at the verge of a race war... so I wash items because they need to be clean.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

In 1991, in the last year of the Soviet Union's existence, Melodiya decided to embark on a pioneering experiment in product marketing by launching the Signal Series of records. Each record in this series contained fragments of four new albums to be released, and the envelopes contained sketches of their artwork. The listener was invited to vote for their favorite artist by sending a written request to the major's editorial office to order the record through the label's official store. In essence, Melodiya launched the process of the first democratic elections in the Soviet Union.

In total, the series included 10 LPs with fragments of upcoming albums by 40 artists respectively. Most of them were bands playing the fashionable gorby rock - the so-called “red wave” guitar music of Gorbachev's perestroika period with screaming socio-political lyrics and manifestos. However, the series also included music by Russian art-rock bands, which at that time had already become cult in underground circles and had their own army of listeners (AuktsYon, NOM, NOL, Object of Mockery and others).

I compiled this episode from the music of projects that were less honoured by listeners - their albums were never released on Melodiya in full form. And the label was shut down shortly after the release of the last LP in the series. You will hear outsider new wave, occult hard rock, national reggae, free jazz and mesmerising folk. I'm kidding though - one project on this tracklist did release their debut LP on Melodia. You have one hour to guess who it was.

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 experimental frequencies, interviews and sessions plus cuts from the First Terrace label by Alex Ives (Specimens) and Joe Summers.

Lepke B's blissful disregard for the sacred in life has placed him as one of the testcard knights with a totally unique approach to sound plunderphonics and visual art.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

Injazero Records founder Siné Buyuka plays a selection of electronic, experimental, ambient and contemporary classical tracks.

A show of improvised electronics recorded live on board A Slice of Reality – a vertical section of an ocean going sand dredger that stands on the foreshore of the Thames at North Greenwich in London, since its placement there 25 years ago. Originally conceived of as a sound bite of lost industry to mark the turning of a millennium, the realities the ship witnesses are now very different - the high octane leisure industries of the Millennium dome and the docks, and the global finance district at Canary Wharf.

In this episode Shane Woolman hosts an exclusive guest mix from Everything Is Psychedelic as well as playing tracks by Tegh & Adel Poursamadi, Onsy featuring Bleng & IlIfeel, cop_porn, Charlie Chimi, Orange Car Crash, Sandy Chamoun and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

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

The barely present cult Canadian stand-up comedian Baconface plays lengthy and mainly uninterrupted selections from his late brother's extensive record collection of '60s and '70s psychedelia, progressive rock, free jazz, folk, acid folk, folk rock, acid rock, electronic music, and ethnoforgeries. In association with the Chilliwack Office of Leisure.