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This episode of Listening Experience is titled “A Balcony In Johannesburg”, and features field recordings I made in Johannesburg, South Africa. I was in Johannesburg to participate in the annual Edge of Wrong festival; these recordings were made from the apartment balcony where I was staying.

The recordings were made at various times of day; the progression of time in this episode reflects the progression of time in the field, starting from early morning and continuing through mid-afternoon.

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

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Bitter Sweet Symphony. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Chip tuners, bardcore (or contemporary medieval stuff), Rolling Winds, karaoke stars, babies, brave bands from Mexico, copyright victims by copyright fanatics, cumbia - Britpop dancers,… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

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: a discussion of songs and struggle around the 1978 Ford workers strike with historian Eoin O'Cearnaigh.

Monthly investigations of music politics with Paul Rekret.

Tracks from across the spectrum of electronic and computer music, with Calum Gunn of Conditional.

All music by Benedict Drew.

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

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

In this episode, Joe plays tracks that were cut for time from the first half of the autumn season shows, featuring Smog, Smerz & Donna Summer.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each week a new guest joins Joe in the studio to discuss and perform their work. Expect in-depth interviews, live performances, conversations and new event experiments.

Chance Encounters: One day on Eday (Set 1) 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.

Here they present a radiophonic work based on the life cycle of the mayfly, performed at Pestival, Barnes Wetland Centre, 2006. Featuring Alistair McGowan, Sabina Meyer, Kay Grant and Ivor Kallin. The score is written by Veryan Weston, the text by Ed Baxter.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, engineers, sound-effects creators, actors, writers, composers and broadcasters devoted to making live radio-art. It is based in central London as the in-house artistic wing of Resonance104.4fm, under the direction of Ed Baxter.

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

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.

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” - Dracula

On the sonic chopping block - juicy meat from the torso of Cinema, the mother of celluloid monsters.

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.

NICI NICE is a rising German DJ and producer who captivates audiences around the world with her unique fusion of melodic techno, hypnotic vocals, and indie dance. With each performance, she channels her deep passion for music into pure energy—transforming dance floors into spaces of freedom and connection.

Her journey has taken her across international stages, from underground clubs to major festivals, where she has built a reputation as an artist who creates unforgettable collective experiences. NICI NICE has released music on 3000 Grad Records, Eye And Eye, and beyond—continuously expanding her discography with tracks that showcase her versatility and bold experimentation.

Every release is crafted to take listeners on a journey of harmony, nostalgia, and movement, bringing their bodies and minds home. For NICI NICE, music is more than sound—it is a universal language of connection, energy, and emotion. It’s NICE to be nice.

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, a guest mix by musician C.Diab, who is releasing a new album 'White Whale' on Injazero Records on the 5th June 2020.

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

This month's episode features live performances from Luca alongside guest contributions and an interview with artist Rebecca Moss.

A new live radio series by artist Luca George, featuring interviews with artists and musicians. Expect games, phone-ins and performances. All broadcast live from the Resonance studio, where anything can happen. Visit Instagram @lucage0rge

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This radiophonic piece is improvised from live broadcast, dubbed and mixed across four channels in real time, with effects layered in the moment. It explores the fleeting quality of sound — how something can be summoned into being just by pressing Play.

It’s about listening as a kind of magic, where the act of playback becomes the act of creation, unfolding outward like a ripple
from the centre. A quiet celebration of the ephemeral, the accidental, and the everyday wonder of tuning in.

Andrew Backhouse is one of the founders of Harrogate Community Radio and an artist in his own right. Born in East Anglia and somewhat superstitious, Andrew has lived across the UK but now happily calls Harrogate home.

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.