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Simon McCorry (interview + live set)

On Naviar Records: Song Lines

Originally born in London to mixed Indian/British heritage, McCorry trained in cello at The Centre for Young Musicians & Morley College then studied philosophy at Durham University, he is now based in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

His work is a rich combination of field recordings, adept loop based cello compositions and atmospheric improvisations that explore the rich sonic possibilities of the cello through a host of treatments and effects chains.

The results of these experimentations are diverse to say the least, from droning stillness and devastating harmonic simplicity to the abstract microtonal atmospheres. The sound recalls post classical work from greats such as A Silver Mt Zion at their most plaintive, and Stars of The Lid at their most majestic.

Naviar Records is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental electronic music and traditional Japanese poetry.

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.

As part of this year's XMTR Festival, Ed Baxter hosts a pop-up radio studio broadcasting live from DayGlo Studios in Silchester Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. Featuring a wide range of local and international guests, live music, radio art and free-form broadcast events and what Ed describes as “audible psychological objects.” If in the area - come in and join us! Five minutes from St Leonards Warrior Square station - and the whole extraordinary Festival unfolds within walking distance.

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 is 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.

Ghazi Barakat talks about growing up under the shadow of the Palestinian struggle and how this experience translates into his musical work. With Ghazi Barakat.

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.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Akito Arima's poem “through the keyhole / the sea fog quietly / flows in."

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

Investigations of the Brazilian experimental music scene via Rio De Janeiro's Quintavant label in collaboration with Audio Rebel. With live performances and exploratory sounds produced in the context of Brazil's strange political situation, curated by Francisco Mazza, Bernando Oliveira and Pedro Azevedo.

Ensemble x.y is a contemporary ensemble that commissions and performs new music in a flexible and ever-changing lineup. Run without traditional roles or hierarchies, Ensemble x.y develops its thematically-charged programmes according to the taste and interest of its core players, as well as the developing working relationships between resident composers and instrumentalists.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.

In this episode, sounds from the depths of Mars, transmissions from the Voyager 1 and 2, and reports from an Unidentified Space Station.

Vague Wanderings is a bi-monthly collaborative live show from the 24-26 cohort of School of the Damned, exploring imagined spaces, temporary autonomous zones, collecting field recordings and the fertile topsoil of vague terrains.

The first hour of this episode features tracks from a new compilation, Abstrakce Sample II and two new albums from artists who were present at the very dawn of the spirit of gravity project: Multiplex & Rashamon. The second hour comprises the final broadcast from the Omnistitional Cultures Research Unit (OCRU) which blends and reworks material taken from 36 hours of audio recorded over the course of the 6 month Gravity Waves... residency. As a culmination of the OCRU project, the piece combines and transforms various performances, research activities and experiments by the OCRU as they attempt to build a sonic portal toward an unbounded future.

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

Winners of the CTM 2025 Radio Lab call for works, Lynn Nandar Htoo and rEmPiT g0dDe$$ created an audiovisual performance titled "Resonant Resilience." The work delved into the transformative power of music as a means of resistance, resilience, unity, and healing, especially for Southeast Asian female and queer music practitioners.

In this episode originally aired on Refuge Worldwide, they share a full-on techno set, full of the latest club sounds that inspire their work artists and organisers within a network of people holding space for queer culture in Southeast Asia.

Bi-monthly insights into the activities of the European project tekhnē, which started in 2023. The series showcases a selection of artists who share and discuss their work and listen to recorded material. By putting the focus on the user rather than the developer, this project aims to explore the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. Technology as an art of craft, appropriating and transforming existing tools, to imagine multiple ways of creative misuse. tekhnē is a collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).