← Today's Schedule →

In this episode, Erika Elizabeth presents another hour of broken-down sounds.

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

This episode marks the release of River . Pathway . Static, upcoming album by Stephan Barrett and Sylvia Hallett produced by Colliding Lines.

The two musicians find themselves nestled within field recordings of the River Lea, Tottenham Marshes, and Downhills Park, drawing the listener between the cracks and into hidden corners; into the rich background worlds that surround us daily. The two musicians first met and collaborated as part of Littoral Transmissions, a broadcast with Stephan here on Resonance Extra.

For Sylvia, whose musical approach can be best described as “violin moving outwards,” to bowed bicycle wheel and vinery, this piece follows Tree Time and Bolt and Latch. For Stephan this follows on from sound collage and invented language project The Abrasion Tapes, from long distant collaboration Blitemotes.

We round out with a replay of live work performed and composed as part of 2020’s live series Reanimation, which featured artists Ingrid Plum, Bell Lungs, Martin Clarke with Derek Yau, and Merlin Nova to name a few.

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

A selection of the most vibrant and exciting new sounds of Latin America's emerging talents.

Dronica meets event curators, creative directors and labels owners in 2021.

In this episode, Dronica meets Rick Vayo, co-founder and curator of Inveterate, an independent label based in London and founded by Tapefeed.

Rick Vayo is 1/2 of Tapefeed who started the solo project to release music material with no sonic boundaries in order to be able to experiment with sound further by blending genres and giving voice to all his different musical influences.

With Inveterate they will be focusing on releasing and supporting artists that share their sonic views and that can help them shape the label sound further with the aim of pushing the boundaries of techno by inviting producers to break the rules, to think outside the box, pushing creativity, and thus finding new and unexpected elements. Ultimately, they want to bring freshness and novelty to this genre and to their scene.

Inveterate: WE ARE CURSED, MORE THAN JUST A HABIT, MORE THAN AN ADDICTION, WE ARE INCURABLE.

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

After last month's episode showcasing Discrepant-only releases from 2022, here is a show featuring the ever reliable Keroxen label – the newest and freshest sister label here in the warm tropical shores of the Canary Islands.

Established as a festival in 2009, Keroxen is the record label born out of the 13-year old multidisciplinary arts festival of the same name based in Tenerife. Like its homonymous annual festival, the label’s aim is to serve as a platform for local experimentation by working with the most genre defying local artists as well as supporting collaborations with well established, like-minded international acts.

This is a wild journey of rock, free jazz, electronica, field recordings and everything else in between.

Discrepancies is a global showcase of disparate music with a focus on earthly field recordings and international sounds, curated by the Discrepant record label, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso.

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

Joe and Chanelle’s audio recordings encompass ambient sounds, conversation, experimental composition and improvised instrumental response. Cassette drones, loop pedals, voice and guitar are used to echo, mimic or bend over bird calls, thunderstorms, night sounds, indistinguishable chatter, museum reverberations and urban movement. These moments captured to tape are presented in two halves as an A-side/B-side format.

Enriched by visual counterpoints for each episode, Bruna’s critical eye forms an ambiguous tonal narrative from Jake's method of stumbling into excellence. Mountain, valley, glacier, and urban horizon are presented in stereo format, to parallel the A-side/B-side format.

This program has been made on the stolen lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, we pay respect to the Elders both past and present.

Project lead and sound by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. Creative direction by Bruna Volpi. Photography by Jake Terrey.

This episode is supported by Artist Profile, Higher Ground Studios and Resonance Extra.

Field Notes

Feat. FAREWELL TOUR recorded at Chicken House. Farewell Tour is a new rock band project by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier developed throughout 2023 and 2024, mixing field recordings and long form psych rock, with Joe on guitar and pedals and Chanelle on vocals and samples.

Side A - Lover’s Cheekbone

“I saw you standing. Long days long nights waiting on the stage and those hallowed lights. Screaming to the wild and dancing with the wind, just as it starts, it always ends. This could be the last time I see you, this will be the last time I see you. I saw you standing through the window of your apartment, saw you standing naked in your beautiful garment. Garment, yeah! All this trouble and the devil we have”. (distortion/delay)

Side B - In Defence of Submission

Notes on a Sound Art Practice: MIXTAPES

Sound is a time based medium and is therefore about time. A site specific music that incorporates field recordings. Each sound has a location in time and space, that repeats again in a kind of nietzschean time travel. Playback, delay, and looping are the eternal recurrence. It is this life, now, living in terminal diagnosis. Living with an acute awareness of the limitation in the availability of time. The here and now is filled with the presence of time and mortality, ART and DEATH.

Sound art in the medium of mixtapes: a practice combining textiles and sound. It is for those wanderers willing to make a sidestep to embrace resistance, agency, or refusal. An intentional pause for creative procrastination inspired by a Situationist spirit. It is anxiety and method, irreverent of its resources. This practice, only a labor for love, ingests, internalises, and releases. This is mechanical reproduction via cassette, which is an un-living agent, a prop, and a gift. Through cables sprawling to construct a signal chain where authority resides in the binary input and output solution. Companions consenting to a noise domain, Heavier Than A Death In The Family. A sound ambition that finds the silent friendship of grief. A Farewell Tour rock band project. – Joe Wilson

A monthly programme which blends textured audio from cassette recordings by Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier with tonal imagery by Bruna Volpi and Jake Terrey. Sound engineering by Ollie Brown.

In this episode, Shane Woolman takes to the airwaves with a guest mix by Lebanese musician, producer and sound engineer Fadi Tabbal plus a selection of current and forthcoming releases including Grup Ses & Gökalp K, Sansouni, King Jammy, The Exu and David Beast.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode showcases music with a distinctive atmospheric feel, music that evokes a sense of times long gone, or times to come.

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.

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

This episode is a documentary about the importance of the "verb", which has a mysterious power because words create things.

The immensity of the orality is one of its fundamental attributes, at least this is the attitude that prevails in most African civilizations.

Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

This episode is a contribution by Diffusion.

At Diffusion, one of our favourite activities is introducing people who’ve never worked with audio before to the wonderful world of sonic arts and composition! This time, we had the pleasure of bringing Richard into the fold.

Richard was planning a trip to the stunning Northern Rivers region of NSW, Australia, so I handed him a ZOOM recorder and encouraged him to give it a go. His reaction? “What do I do with this?” But since he’s got a knack for snapping gorgeous photos on his iPhone, I told him to think of it the same way—just capturing beautiful snaps, but with sound.

When he returned, we sat down, set up Audacity on his laptop, and I guided him through some basic editing and listened to his piece come to life. Now, why not join Richard on his journey? It starts at the Brunswick Heads breakwater, heads up river towards Mullumbimby, then meanders around the High Street and Market at the Showgrounds.

From there, we head up Left Bank Road towards Mullumbimby Creek, stop by to visit Barry Reeves at his place, “Brushbox Mountain”, and enjoy drinks on the balcony during a tropical downpour.

We wrap up by wandering through the bush and garden, and finally ending our adventure at the beautiful beach of Byron Bay.

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

*

Why is our life dominated by discontent, by anguish, by the fear of war, by war? In order to answer this question I have written La rabbia, not following a chronological or perhaps even a logical thread, but only my political reasons and my poetic sense. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

Written in response to producer Gastone Ferranti’s request for his comments on a set of newsreel items, the poet would respond with a montage of his own. Via the unfolding of a chrysalis of images, in La rabbia / Anger (1963), Pasolini’s lens pans over Soviet repression in Hungary; the Cuban revolution; (the utopian object of) space exploration; political imprisonment in Algeria; the liberation of the former European colonies; the election of Pope John XXIII; the prospect of revolution in Africa and the Middle East; in Europe and in Latin America... Here, we’ve a panoply of photorealist intimations of Pasolini’s ‘poetic sense.’ The death of Marilyn Monroe crests as an idea in this tidal pooling of reflections, as the poet’s line lights out for conceptual rhymes and counterpoints.  

In Viti’s translation, the weave of prose and poetry that forms La rabbia portrays the vitality of Pasolini’s work in its capacity to speak to both the specifics of his contexts, the character of our own present tense, and the ironic fact of a life lived against the gulf of discontent in its myriad forms. Here, we’ve a startling confrontation of a revolutionary struggle in stasis set in lines that crystallise a rallying call against blindness. ‘I’ll not have peace, not ever,’ he writes. A lucid acceptance of the poet’s restlessness, and a marker for Pasolini’s commitment to a solidarity with the oppressed that we find reaffirmed on every page, in La rabbia the poet charts how ‘the powerful world of capital takes an abstract painting as its brash banner’ in this unravelling of ‘crisis in the world.’

*

Pasolini’s poems thrive with passion and outrage. A 20th century Dante, he grieves at inequity, feels disgusted by corruption, and wails against the evil that people do. Pasolini doesn’t render a coming paradise, but contests hate with love, meanness with generosity, and through the reality of his beautiful poems, suggests the possibility of creating a better world. – Lynne Tillman

Pasolini saw what was coming and saw the poet’s mission as an excoriation of this world to come, that has now arrived. His tremendous energy was not negative. It came from an abounding love of the world. Picturing himself like a hero from ancient days, he struggled mightily, in and against the powers arrayed against life. What he called neocapitalism already came with its own brands of neofascism. Good comrade that he was, he knew the mark of our enemies, and where to direct his rage. Here we find him in a moment when he thought the good fight might still be won. A book to give us courage. – McKenzie Wark

La rabbia remains one of Pasolini’s most singular achievements, an all-consuming expression of the restless and relentless fury that defined his work and his thinking. In an age of increasingly one-dimensional political art, this most welcome volume is an urgent reminder of its dizzying possibilities. – Dennis Lim

‘Today,’ we read in La rabbia, Pasolini’s remarkable set of poems composed in 1962 to accompany his film by that title, ‘only four thousand subscribers have televised moving images in their homes; in a year they will be in the tens of thousands.’ And then the poet corrects the line: ‘No—in their millions. Millions of candidates for the death of the soul.’ Sixty years later, in the age of TikTok and Instagram, those ‘candidates’ may well be in the billions. Indeed, what gives La rabbia its uncanny accuracy is that its vision, however exaggerated and extreme, might well characterise our own moment in history. Not only ‘in my country, my country that’s called Italy’ (Pasolini’s refrain), but all over the world, the ‘noble’ solutions of the late 1940s and ‘50s, with their UN charter, their Marshall Plan, and their call for No More Wars, now seem to have been little more than Band-Aids that left things pretty much as they were. Whether he is dealing with the failed Hungarian Revolution or the Algerian War, or with the ‘new problem [that] breaks out in the world. It is called colour,’ Pasolini sees the real enemy as normality—the normality or qualunquismo that accepts things as they are. In Cristina Viti’s excellent translation, Pasolini’s anger would be devastating, were it not for the proviso that poetry can change consciousness. It is poetry, La rabbia insists, that provides the counterweight to the darkness that surrounds us. – Marjorie Perloff

*

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) was an Italian poet, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, theorist, and dramaturg. First and foremost a poet, he is a major figure in European literature and cinematic arts. Life in Rome during the 1950s furnished the material for his first two novels, Ragazzi di vita / The Ragazzi, 1955) and Una vita violenta / A Violent Life, 1959); works whose brutal reflections of urban poverty in the city were similar in character to the depictions of Rome in his debut film, Accattone (1961). All three works dealt with the lives of thieves, prostitutes, and other denizens of a Roman underworld. Other notable novels and narrative works in translation include the unfinished novel Petrolio (published in English in Ann Goldstein’s translation by Pantheon), a work-in-progress at the time of Pasolini’s death, and La lunga strada di sabbia / The Long Road of Sand, a facsimile of writings towards a travelogue initially published in the magazine Successo.

Pasolini published numerous volumes of poetry in his lifetime, including La meglio gioventù (1954); Le ceneri di Gramsci (1957); L'usignolo della chiesa cattolica (1958); La religione del mio tempo (1961); Poesia in forma di rosa (1964); Trasumanar e organizzar (1971); and La nuova gioventù (1975). Works of poetry in English language translation include Norman MacAfee’s Poems, an anthology covering the entirety of Pasolini’s ‘official publications’ (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1982); Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Francesca Valente's Roman Poems (City Lights, 1986); Jack Hirschman's anthology, In Danger (City Lights, 2010); and Thomas E. Perterson’s translation of The Divine Mimesis (Contra Mundum, 2014), amongst others.

A noted journalist and publisher, Pasolini was also a rare voice in the popular press. In 1955—in collaboration with Francesco Leonetti, Roberto Roversi and others—he edited and oversaw the publication of Officina, a periodical dedicated to new poetry in Italian (which ran for fourteen issues), and contributed a regular column to Vie Nuove from May 1960 to September 1965 (titled Dialoghi con Pasolini, or Pasolini in Dialogue, subsequently published as a collated edition in 1977 as Le belle bandiere or The Beautiful Flags). His literary works informed his cinema, and Pasolini would follow the release of Accattone in ‘61 with such noted features as Il Vangelo secondo Matteo / The Gospel According to Saint Matthew (1964); Uccellacci e Uccellini / Hawks and the Sparrows (1966); Oedipus Rex (1967); Medea (1969); Teorema / Theorem (1968); Porcile / Pigsty (1969); Il Decamerone / The Decameron (1971); and The Canterbury Tales (1972). Pasolini referred to himself as a ‘Catholic Marxist’ and often used shocking juxtapositions of idea and imagery to expose the vapidity of values in modern society. His friend, the writer Alberto Moravia, considered him “the major Italian poet” of the second half of the 20th century. Pasolini was murdered in 1975.

Cristina Viti is a translator and poet working with Italian, English and French. Her most recent publication includes Pier Paolo Pasolini’s La rabbia / Anger (Tenement Press, 2022), a co-translation of poems by Anna Gréki, The Streets of Algiers and Other Poems (Smokestack Books, 2020), and her translation of Elsa Morante’s The World Saved by Kids and Other Epics (Seagull Books, 2016), which was shortlisted for the John Florio Prize. Viti held collaborative translation workshops within the Radical Translations project run by the French and Comparative Literature departments of King’s College; Tenement’s imprint, No University Press, published an anthology of texts resulting of these workshops in 2024, An Anarchist Playbook.

Martin Esposito is a freelance language professional operating in London and Rome. His entry into voiceovers took place organically twenty years ago through the side-doors of conference interpreting and song. Martin is strictly agnostic with regard to content as his main objective is to balance two identities, languages and influences into a composite whole—an act of exposure and digestion enough to last a lifetime.

catholic Churgh is a is a two-person organisation.

A signal post for the Winter solstice, an unabridged reading of the 2022 Tenement Press publication of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1963 work La rabbia / Anger—translated from the Italian by Cristina Viti—as read by Viti, with contributions from Martin Esposito and music by catholic Churgh (Jon Auman and Thomas Bush). Pasolini’s Anger was recorded and produced for radio by Tenement’s Dominic J. Jaeckle and Resonance’s Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

This episode was created for the Winter Solstice of 2024, a time of extreme dark or light in either direction, a hunkering down in the wet earth or a baking out in the hot sun. The piece is composed by Stephen Shiell using original material from NSOTA scholars.

With contributions from Stephen Shiell, Rhona Eve Clews, Chris de Sel,** Sk.ye, **Lu(Lu)Lu, Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White), Clare Whistler, Michael Timmerman, and Simon McClelland Morris.

The New School of the Anthropocene is a radical experiment in alternative education, away from marketisation and arcane specialism towards co-sensing systems change through creative practice. This is an ecological transmission of DIY ethics, non-hierarchical structures, radical networks, interconnected sensing through sound, text, voice, spoken word, human and more-than-human collaborative practice, patchwork group thinking, and radio art.

Experiments in exploring humanity with Keno Westhoff of http://klanglabor.ayayay.eu.

Online music publication Stray Landings invites guests from across the electronic music spectrum to discuss themes and innovations.

Night Trippin' unearths alternative sounds from around the world, one country at a time.

This show is dedicated to cult 1980s Australian record label M-Squared.

Btech and Eman Resu of Superfluid present sound, music, noise along with all their sources via talk, fiction and truth.

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