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The publication Magnetizdat DDR, Magnetbanduntergrund DDR 1979–1990 (2023, Verbrecher Verlag) tells the story of this magnetic counterculture. Inspired by this, we will explore the musical subversions of the late GDR in three acts over three days. Curated by Judith Behre and Florian Bräunlich

A live broadcast from Hamburg featuring GAJEK, Jan Jelinek & Frank Bretschneider. Independent music productions were banned in the GDR in terms of production, distribution, and sales. However, countless groups such as Der Demokratische Konsum, Zwitschermaschine, Schleim-Keim, and Kein Talent defied these regulations imposed by the workers' and farmers' state. They took it upon themselves to play their (mostly homemade) instruments and recorded their compositions directly onto tape: unorthodox punk met lo-fi experimental rock, stumbling electronics met grinding pop constructions, conceptual minstrelsy met infernal noise.

A 22-hour radio project in 7 episodes about editing and the mind, created by Milo Thesiger–Meacham. Featuring 10-second audio extracts from over 6000 unseen videos found online, original sound recordings, music, hand-held camera audio and writing, Body Edit Mind follows an unnamed narrator as they move house and piece together a world of recording devices, names, crime, real-world characters and obscure media from across the globe. Follow Fox Neame on Instagram for more. Commissioned by Radio Art Zone, a temporary radio art station by Radio ARA and Mobile Radio for the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022.

Lapping At Your Shore is a computer program which organises the composition of recorded sounds in realtime. “I have found it beneficial to utilise the computers ability to make arbitrary decisions without being mediated by a subconscious. Of course I set the conditions, so there is a poetry there, in the algorithm itself. It's an interplay between chance and being.” More information can be found at andrewford.eu.pn

Five Folk Tales for Radio (featuring Steffan Cennydd). Voice: Steffan Cennydd. Concept, text, sound design, montage by Ed Baxter. Recording engineer: Michael Umney.

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.

Episode 1/8: "A second life around your life."

And Then finds Ed Baxter and Michael Umney in conversation about Resonance FM. This series was commissioned by the Independent Community Radio Network and was supported by the Nordic Culture Point Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture. Produced by Michael Umney and Ed Baxter.

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.

In this episode, a collage of outdoor recordings made on long summer evenings in and around Hackney marshes.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

Postnew is a modular theory, describing the fluid development of aesthetics. Every movement has a post-movement, every end is a beginning, every post-aesthetic will be followed by a post-post-aesthetic. Join the mailing list here.

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.

In this episode, Joe sits down with Zoë Mc Pherson to talk about her newly minted label SFX, her upcoming album ‘States of Fugue’ and all the things she impressively managed to squeeze into 2019. Lots of music from her as well as some unreleased FT exclusives & the usual mixes.

A selection of experimental frequencies, interviews and sessions plus cuts from the First Terrace label by Alex Ives (Specimens) and Joe Summers.

This month Dylan and Karen are joined by Hali Palombo, S*Glass, Hobo Sonn, Ersatz Opportunity, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Bill Nace, Julian Bradley, Ted Trager, Ivor Kallin, Witcyst, Neil Campbell, Theo Gowans, Zheng Hao, Marija Kovacevic, Jon Thompson, Rick Potts, Nathan Howdeshell, Fritz Welch, Andy Ortman, Maureen Hallomas and Monad Node.

Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance and friends beam out an hour of audio collage discombobulation direct from Chocolate Monk HQ. A sonic salve for overstimulated ears.

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

In this episode, we are going to deep dive into ambient experimental music, shining a spotlight on evoking a sense of deep emotion through crafted soundscapes and production choices.

We’ll be listening to tracks that tell stories with no words, that paint pictures with sound, and take us somewhere new and different, out of our regular surroundings and into the unknown.

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.

This week, Shane Woolman hosts a special guest mix by shadowy trio Ak'chamel, The Giver of Illness as well as a slew of new and archive releases and reissues from Harju, Ervin Omsk, Dur-Dur Band, yeongrak, Upsetters, Bill Orcutt and La Tène

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode is a contribution by Radio Študent

Silence is never actually silent. Even in a recording studio at a radio station, there is a multitude of quiet sounds, constantly present, unintentionally produced, often unnoticed, which nevertheless make up the basic sonic environment we work out of.

By using the studio itself as an instrument, and its various noisy technological inhabitants as collaborators, this piece brings out the ambient voices which underlie all of the shows, jingles and tracks we produce on a daily basis. Condenser and contact microphones collect the hums of equipment, ticking of clocks, clacking of keyboards, etc, which are then passed through routine processes of effect chains in audio production software, as if they were any human voice or musical instrument.

In turning our attention to these tiny sounds around us, we are acknowledging and exploring the inextricable sonic nature of the studio itself from the audio products we craft within it. As Eno said, “Recording is not the same as reproducing – it’s producing something that couldn’t exist any other way” – sounds are brought into the studio and leave there in another form, with its presence imprinted; the studio has its own life, activity and agency, which co-authors the works made in it. Therefore, we can say that its voices are not necessarily annoying contingencies to be removed; rather, we can see them as intrinsic qualities, fundamental to the objects we produce, like a sonic DNA, or a distinguishing leitmotif, to be worked with rather than against.

Oliver Wagner (2002) is a sound, lighting, and stage technician, programmer and electrical engineer, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He works at the community radio station Radio Študent as a member of both the audio technical and IT teams; in addition to routine broadcast and production studio work, he manages infrastructural development projects and performs advanced technical tasks. He regularly provides technical support for lighting, sound and stage at concerts, intermedia art performances, cabaret and theater events in alternative venues. In 2024, he co-authored one transmission of the open radio investigative platform RADAR, as well as one for radia.fm (#997). Additionally, he collaborated creatively and technically in the production of the RAD+ART 15 and 16 events in 2024 and 2025, respectively, at Cirkulacija2, Ljubljana.

Robbie Hopper (1991) is a musician, biologist, audio technician, curator and sound artist who lives in Ljubljana but hails from Scotland. As a sound researcher and collaborator in the performing arts, they have completed artistic residencies at PIF Camp (Slovenia, 2023), Kino Šiška (Slovenia, 2024), the National Center for Dance in Bucharest (CNDB, 2024), the Independent Dance Stage in Talinn (STL, 2024) and the University of Applied Arts Vienna (dieAngewandte, 2025). They are an active member of experimental electronic collective Clockwork Voltage as an artist, of the culturo-artistic association Anarhiv as a workshop facilitator, and of Radio Študent as a broadcast/production technician and co-curator of the open radio investigative platform RADAR.

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.