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As the year draws to a close, the 18-year cycle of relentless structural endurance finally ends (Pluto has finally left Capricorn). The siege is over, but the relief is not what you'd expect. It's accompanied by profound exhaustion and total disorientation at the very idea of existing without having to fight to survive.

That's the vertigo of bare existence when survival mode is switched off. All of this aligns closely with Byung-Chul Han’s take on self-exploitation in The Burnout Society and Mark Fisher’s thoughts on contemporary exhaustion.

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

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

On the brim of the galactic void, embedded in a gravitational pull and sheltered by a strong magnetic field, lies the rock: spirited, effervescent, spinning like a tiny misplaced whirligig.

While suffering from everlasting oblivion, its mischievous inhabitants are struggling to live in harmony. The memory of this restless world is so dense that it becomes tangible – folded, cramped in tiny particles, well-distributed and coated in divine refracting light, flickering, often eldritch, but solidly tightened. It holds in its viscera everything that has ever happened, like an insatiable body in permanent expansion, multiplying its limbs into infinity.

The journey starts from above, with the sound of the Earth ripping out space into a magnetic lotus, leaving a luminous trail of radioactivity behind.

Today’s programme consists of fragments from the omnipresent memory field and its slippery corners, savagely abstracted but gently placed on attentive bodies. With occasional attuning to the planetary "pipe" and its spinning neighbours, this transmission "source" is hosted by no one else but humpback whales, and it tackles the epic storytelling of their somewhat phantasmagoric dreamland.

Awake or asleep. Radio Astral is always listening.

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Radio Astral is a flow of imaginative narratives derived from drone and ambient experiments, personal field recording archives, self-generative soundscapes, improvisational gestures and sequences on both conventional and unconventional instruments, as well as decompositions of random media archives.

The sound material aims to deliver carefully sculpted psycho-navigations, suggesting that the memory of the world is an energy compound containing us all—a multi-layered resonant field in constant interaction with the space-time continuum, which we eventually experience as a reality.

This sonic journey consists of 108 tracks.

Manja Ristić is a violinist, sound artist, published poet, curator and researcher. She graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Music (2001) and was awarded a PGDip as a Solo/Ensemble Recitalist from the Royal College of Music, London (2004).

As a classical solo and chamber musician as well as a composer and an improv musician Manja has performed all across Europe and the US, and has been involved in collaborations with established conductors and performers, multimedia artists, poets, theatre and movie directors.

Manja’s sound related research besides contemporary performance in the field of instrumental electro–acoustics, is focused on interdisciplinary approaches to sound and field recording as well as experimental radio arts.

Manja is the founder of the Association of Multimedia Artists Auropolis (since 2004), that by her guidance developed a distinctive number of cultural events, international projects, cultural conferences and educational platforms in the fields of scene and multimedia arts. She works and lives on the island of Korčula, Croatia.

Radio Art Zone is a 100-day radio art station by Radio ARA and Mobile Radio for the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022. It is broadcast in the south of Luxembourg by Radio ARA on 87.8 FM. It is also live-streamed for a worldwide audience and transmitted by a network of international partners.

This environmental audio stream is broadcasting live from the 'End of the World' glacier in Northern Italy's Stelvio National Park. The solar-powered listening station has been continuously transmitting since July 2025 from ca. 2.700 metres above sea level in the Italian Alps. We tune in daily to the glacier's cyclical sonic material life, allowing us to witness meltwater rhythms, sediment flows, avalanches, landslides, animal life and the seasonal impacts of weather and tourism entering the microphones, in real time. Elemental Foley by Lia Mazzari will be on show as a solo exhibition at Microscope Gallery in Dalston, London from 10 - 26 September 2026.

The first meeting of the East German Round Table where members of East German citizen movements met with government representatives to discuss the future of the German Democratic Republic. With Elske Rosenfeld.

A loose drift through misaligned pop, outsider electronics, folk shards, radio ghosts and accidental hymns, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso. Visit www.discrepant.net/radio for more information.

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

On each of the 42 days of the first Covid-19 lockdown we walked the streets around our home. Recording, tracing, re-tracing, our steps slowly marked the limits of our permitted walking, our contained walking, an act of walking that drew a boundary, an edge that I came to see as the shoreline of an island, an imagined island, an island of containment; I named it Contención Island.

From daily field recordings I use random procedures to pick days and durations to build 60-minute sets of chance encounters across the 42 days, encounters that are shorter or longer, that move forward and back through time, that reflect the sense of strangeness of those days.

You can listen to the complete recordings and read the daily mesostics in full at martinpeccles.com

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

This episode is a contribution by Radio Orange 94.0.

The Vienna-based Radia Collective presents the live session “Radio Tecnicolor” featuring Stefan Nussbaumer and Georg Zichy. You are listening to a recording from 9 April 2026 at Basislager – Stefan Nussbaumer’s studio in 1150 Vienna. The concert was produced specifically for Radia transmission no. 1098.

You will hear an interweaving of sound and image, in which the video data controls the sound. There is a digital and analogue feedback loop, and radio sounds serve as the connecting element. An app programmed by Stefan Nussbaumer converts colour data into OSC signals. In this way, the sound is controlled by 54 pixels and two human beings.

Concept, production & performance: Stefan Nussbaumer & Georg Zichy
Video & audio recording: Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
Mixing: Karl Schönswetter
Photos: Karl Schönswetter, Georg Zichy

The performance can also be viewed in the video on radia.fm.

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

A Sonorous Expedition presents a sound and visual, ecological and social research journey in Panama as a transformation to the environment of the Maxilla Space in London. In Panama, Ana Carolina was based in the indigenous community of Guna Yala, which encompasses rainforest and covers much of Panama’s eastern Caribbean coast; the aim was to learn from the indigenous community ecological and sustainable ways of living.

Between the 5th and 11th of November 2026, the ICRN presents live works at Le Guess Who? as part of Baltic Rehearsals. In this broadcast, Teatre & Maarja Nuut:

Diving into saturated emotions, sensitive narratives and contrasting tones, Teatre navigates the undercurrents of the electronic underground, exploring memory, fantasy and melancholy through dreamlike synth and sample arrangements. Emerging from the Lithuanian techno-industrial sphere of the late 2010s, Teatre's sonic language has since evolved into spectral, poetic contours and has recently heralded significant shifts of focus toward urban atmospheres, hauntological themes and expansive cinematic narratives.

The work of singer, violinist and electronic composer Maarja Nuut merges archaic resonances, contemporary electronics and minimalist composition into a hypnotic, deeply textured and singular whole. Classically trained, she has delved into a number of disparate genres: Hindustani classical music, Estonian archival sounds, field recording and the outer limits of electronic and experimental sound.

The Independent Community Radio Network is a non-profit organisation and web radio network founded in 2022. It connects and supports radio stations from across Europe to foster sustainability, cross-regional collaboration, and knowledge-sharing in independent radio and community media. While its roots are in the Baltic-Nordic region, its network has expanded internationally, reflecting the growing need for cooperation in our field.

This event was broadcast on Naviar’s Youtube channel on 30th July 2021.

halF unusuaL (interview + live set).

On Naviar Records: Live at The Old Church 2018.

The ‘hai’ in ‘haiku’ translates to ‘joke’, ‘fun’, or ‘unusual’. halF unusuaL is Darren Bourne, whose musical career to date spans international sound engineering, production, performing and writing credits across a variety of genres and platforms from pop to film and sound design to contemporary dance and theatre. His current obsessions are improvisation, chance and the music / non-music boundary.
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Naviar Virtual was a monthly online event hosted by Naviar Records, which aimed to bring online the spirit of Naviar’s yearly physical events during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Featuring installations, performance, spatial audio, talks, workshops and sound walks across Manchester’s Oxford Road Corridor.

Developed by Modus Arts, Auris Festival brings the dynamism of the sonic arts to Manchester in a festival format for the very first time, making the city a new destination for the art form.

Resonance Extra broadcasts live a selection of performances and installation from the festival.

This afternoon: live performances by Rubbish Music and Lee Patterson.

Rubbish Music uses sound to investigate the journeys, transformations and impacts of our discarded objects.Using worn-out treasures, empty vessels and broken devices as an orchestra of vivid musique concrète materials, we examine the worlds we make and destroy via our rubbish.From the great rubbish patches in our oceans, to buried land-fill dumps and sophisticated recycling plants, the objects we let go of continue in many guises without us.

Through Decay, repurposing and recycling, our everyday objects persist or transform in ways which extend beyond our relationships with them.The journeys discarded items embark upon create new worlds, new niches for species. From the changing habits of animals making the most of our swathes of waste, to the rise of plastic-devouring bacteria, the consequences of throwing away objects can be profound. With our toolkit of rusty bells, dirty oven grills, onion skins, toilet plungers, wine bottles, nasal spray and a squeaky chicken toy, we seek to imagine some of them.

Lee Patterson uses sound-making and recording to devise performances with a selection of amplified objects, devices and processes, from rock, chalk to springs, from burning nuts to vibrating metal. Based in Prestwich, Manchester, UK., he works internationally and has featured on UK TV, BBC Radios 3, 4 and 6, Resonance FM and on radio stations worldwide.

A live broadcast from Auris, Manchester’s first festival dedicated to sound art in all its forms, bringing together some of the most distinctive voices in contemporary sound art through a range of practices that explore immersive listening, the environment, architecture and space, technology, and the body.

Featuring installations, performance, spatial audio, talks, workshops and sound walks across Manchester’s Oxford Road Corridor.

Developed by Modus Arts, Auris Festival brings the dynamism of the sonic arts to Manchester in a festival format for the very first time, making the city a new destination for the art form.

Resonance Extra broadcasts live a selection of performances and installation from the festival:

Auris Festival Co-Curator Vicky Clarke presents four extracts of sound installations to be found across the festival site throughout this weekend. We begin with ‘T1/2 (Half Life)’, Vicky’s own collaboration with Kamila Narysheva a multichannel sound installation that explores the acoustic memory of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in Kazakhstan through field recordings of soil, water, air and architectural remnants made in December 2024.

We continue with ‘Seven Sisters’, a participatory multichannel installation by fellow Co-Curator Wajid Yaseen, incorporating vintage test tone wide range oscillators to be adjusted and manipulated by the audience to create square and sine wave crossings. The installation is an act of listening effectively activated by the listener as they move around it and indeed you’ll hear participants engaging with the oscillators over the fifteen or so minutes of this recording made earlier today.

We then cross to the festival’s Spatial Audio listening room delivered on Bernard Steer’s Microcosm System - though obviously we can only broadcast a rough impression for the works in a stereo broadcast. We’ll hear Arconic’s ‘The Quiet Work Of Trees’ and round the hour off with ‘Lull’ by Mick Harris, before returning to our live festival broadcast.

A live broadcast from Auris, Manchester’s first festival dedicated to sound art in all its forms, bringing together some of the most distinctive voices in contemporary sound art through a range of practices that explore immersive listening, the environment, architecture and space, technology, and the body.

Full Programme (GMT):

• Shakeeb Abu Hamdan (11:23am - 12pm)

• RÆ (12 - 12:45pm

• Mabàh (12:45 - 1:30pm)

• Ponge (1:30 - 3:15pm)

• Undae (3:15 - 4pm)

• Emma Kerssenbrock (4 - 4:45pm)

• Moineau Ecarlate (4:45 - 5:30pm)

• The Dead Mauriacs (5:30 - 6:15pm)

• DJ Chouf (6:15 - 7:20pm)

• Julien Boudart (7:20 - 8:30pm)

• Tasks (8:30 - 9:30pm)

• Tzii (9:30 - 10:12pm)

Over ten hours of live experimental music, performance art and spoken word, broadcast from Les Instants Chavirés on the 17th December 2022. Hosted by Instants Chavirés, Sonic Protest and Collectif Coax. Featuring Moineau Ecarlate, Tzii, Rae, Ponge, Undae and many more.