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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.

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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.

In this episode: Australian composer Timothy Fairless's Rising Water is out on Friday and he introduces today's show as well as treating us to an aqueous mix to celebrate the release.

We also listen a little more to Vongoiva's Jatuli Observatory inspired by the stone gardens of giants, my own very niche piece 'resurfacing' about a surreal collective roadworks experience in London and a first listen to Hadi Bastani and Maryam Sirvan's wonderful trans.placed.

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.