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This episode is created for the March equinox, a time when northern and southern hemispheres experience equal amounts of dark and light, night and day, before tipping towards or away from the sun. The piece is curated and produced by Stephen Shiell and composed using original and borrowed material from NSOTA scholars.

With contributions from Stephen Shiell, Hannah White, David Lea, Chris de Sel, Sk.ye, Venetia Allen, Rhona Eve Clews, Pascal Sleigh, Naomi ZP, Simon McClelland Morris, Michelle Watson, Tommy Calderbank, Blanc Sceol

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.

The first half of this month's show features a deep dive into the Spirit of Gravity 25th birthday compilation, with a couple of tracks from the new Spheress CD on the Brighton based Patchworks label. The second half of the show brings the usual round-up of music from in and around the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity collective.

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

On her never-ending train ride, Mariola Brillowska is constantly on the phone with the jury of the "Polish Wedding" competition she initiated. This is to take place in a Polish mountain resort near the Czech border. During the interminable journey, the weddings submitted to the competition are watched online as video films and judged.

The jury exchanges views about their own weddings, marriages, divorces. It plans the closing ceremony of the competition. Whether the initiator will arrive sometime and somewhere, whether she herself will even give her yes word to someone, and above all whether one or perhaps several couples will get married at all, depends on the constantly unpredictable changing itinerary.

To all appearances, the train's conductor is a ghost driver. Those who get on or off ahead of time and want to visit the wedding and guest house on their own can tour it online as a preview.

Voices: Mariola Brillowska, Günter Reznicek, Gloria Brillowska, Ludger Dünnebacke, Bela Brillowska, Felix Kubin, Claudia Basrawi.

Compositions: Mariola Brillowska, Günter Reznicek, Bela Brillowska, Felix Kubin, Richard von der Schulenburg, Jürgen Hall, Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy.

Lyrics, Concept, Realisation: Mariola Brillowska.

Mariola Brillowska, visual, media and performance artist as well as author, director and producer, was born and raised in Poland, emigrated to Germany at the age of 20, where she studied fine arts at the HfbK Hamburg; 2005-13 she was art professor at the HfG Offenbach/Main; works include novel "Hausverbot" 2013; winner of various film, poetry and radio play awards, e.g.. Grand Prix of the Short Film Festival Oberhausen 1991, Dresden Short Film Festival 1993, Film Festival Minsk 1997, 20 ARD Pin Ball Award 2014, Short Burning Micro of the Berlin Radio Play Festival 2017, MUVI - Oberhausen 2007 and 2017, German Short Film Award "Golden Lola" 2017; In the shortlist of nominees to Oscar Shorts 2019; Radio Play Critics Award "Adrienne" 2019; Winner of the German Film Critics Award 2019; 2021 Long Burning Micro of the Berlin Radio Play Festival.

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.

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.

The final throws of sunlight nestled by the filter beds.

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.

In this special episode, Vague Wanderings comes live from ICA for two hours of School of the Damned’s PULSE event. We’ll be bringing you performances and sound works exploring ‘conjuncture’: moments when social, political and material contradictions intensify and overlap.

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.

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.

In summer 2023, George experienced a ruptured eardrum that made working with headphones or stereo sound temporarily impossible. So, when visiting Argyll in August, he decided to field record with equipment that could be monitored with one ear, or not at all.

All edits are 'in camera' and he deployed a wide range of extended micing techniques to change the quality of the audio. Starting on the ferry to Dunoon and ending at Glasgow Central Station, Argyll distills the whole three-day trip sequentially into one saturated object.

Argyll is a field recording sound object created by sound artist George Rayner-Law. It consists of recordings made directly to cassette in Argyll, Scotland.

A six part radio series in English and Welsh, realised close to the sources of the rivers Severn and Wye, in Powys, Wales, summer 2026. Made by Ed Baxter (concept, texts, montage), Steffan Cennydd (voice), Richard James (music, field recordings) and Michael Umney (interviews, field recordings, production). With contributions from Dan Craig, Sandy Craig, Neil Haymer, Dewi Roberts and members of Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn. With help from all at The Hanging Garden, Amanda Thesiger, Tim Meacham, Ffion Emyr and Mike Wooley. Supported by The Colwinston Foundation, Hinrichsen Foundation, The Leche Trust and Unity Theatre Trust. To all of whom, profound thanks. A Resonance Production.

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

This episode is a contribution by Duuu Radio.

Duuu Radio presents a compilation of tracks from the album “mILLième” (2025). With mILLième, the artist duo Cécile Tonizzo and Nicolas Couturier set out to explore, over a stretch of 217 meters – one-thousandth of the length of the Ill River (Alsace, France) – a fragment of landscape, blending performance, sound design, and graphic art.

In July 2025, a temporary collective was formed for five days with Cyril Magnier, Manuel Zenner, Curtis Coco, and Aquila Lescene. The group built a floating platform, created sound-recording instruments, and printed a series of t-shirts using elements from the Ill. They recorded a collection of sounds, discussions, and musical improvisations for this stretch of the river, with the aim of producing this sound edition.

Produced by the CEAAC, in collaboration with the CSC du Marais in Schiltigheim. The project is part of the “l’Ill – Une collaboration avec la rivière ” initiative between the CRAC Alsace in Altkirch, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, and the CEAAC in Strasbourg, a collaborative project made possible through the “Mieux produire, mieux diffuser” program established by the Ministry of Culture – Drac Grand Est and supported by the Grand Est Region.

Special thanks to Zoé Colombani and Charlotte Raimbault.

Compilation tracklist : Merle Jam – Est-ce que la rivière a changée ? – Milles rivières – Mise à l’eau – Sillure.

Radia editing : Mathias Dupaquier / Duuu Radio

You can listen to the entire project on Duuu here.

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

In this broadcast, a showcase of new works for radio created by Sound Arts BA Year 1 students at London College of Communication in 2026. Six distinctive works for radio, ranging from visceral mash-up to light-hearted drama.

This broadcast comprises:

“Untitled” by Rior Wang and Elison Chen.

“Of Zoning Out” by Berk Atterberry, Billy Bruce, Chris Henderson and Luka Vulinovic-Zlatan.

“Echoes of the River” by Bernardo Freitas, Mia Munoz and Amy Pix.

“The King's Parade” by Kieran Polanco.

“Cults” by Marco Conway, Declan Corr and Simon Gajewski.

“Best Partners” by Danyan Qiu, Rendi Wu and Ken Zhang.

Occasional radiophonic works by students of the BA and MA Sound Arts and Design courses at the London College of Communication, UAL.

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.

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).

A drifting transmission of found tracks, fleeting recordings, radio fragments, field traces, and musique concrète textures—woven together and reshaped live in the moment.

Featuring a piece by Maya Landsman, Nevo Romano, and Or Rimer, alongside an extract from Louis Laurrain’s Au Châlet Neuf.

Radio Concrete by Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show focusing on live mixing and processing of field recordings together with contemporary music and soundscapes.

World premiere! The Sentence by Alistair Fruish, read by Daniel Copeland, is a 47 thousand word single unpunctuated sentence entirely made up of monosyllables. It concerns a prisoner who is given a drug which slows down time. For more information visit fruishon.co.uk

"These ducks feel as though they are teaching me in my sleep. Their calls have infiltrated so many nights. Back in the day, I dreamed about ducks and having to drive my older sisters in a car. And then there is Duck Island which is a gated little piece of land in the middle of the pond, and it is the Garden of Eden for those ducks.

The sound piece holds a duration the sleeping listener can only partly account for. The calls drift beyond their source while entering dreams or returning as something already learned. Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life is also somehow in there, that the distance between what is received and what becomes of it. The calls seem to have acquired another existence, somewhere between the recorded night and its imagined place in the subconscious. Whether this familiarity belongs to hearing or dreaming, or subsequent recollection remains unresolved."

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A long-duration field recording by Lucia Hepp.