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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.

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

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.

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.

This episode features DeForrest Brown Jr., an ex-American writer, journalist, theorist, curator and a self-described musician by necessity - releasing music under his Speaker Music moniker. DeForrest Brown Jr. is the author of the book Assembling a Black Counter Culture, where he presents a comprehensive account of techno with a focus on the history of Black experiences in industrialized labor systems—repositioning the genre as a unique form of Black musical and cultural production.

Assembling a Black Counter Culture reframes techno from a Black theoretical perspective distinct from its cultural assimilation within predominantly white, European electronic music contexts and discourse. This talk, given by DeForrest Brown Jr. on the 4th of October 2024 at Barreiro’s Jazz School as part of the programme of OUT.FEST’s 20th edition, is moderated by Margarida Mendes, and gives an overview of key details of his book and expands on its context two years after its publication.

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.

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.

A sound piece composed by Carla Geronimi for International Women's Day 2020.

'The Travel Tales' is a series exploring international voices, particularities and traditions.

In this episode, we discover the sounds of Ilha de Mozambique, the ex-capital of Mozambique. Traditional chants, local music and field recordings merge, showing Ilha de Mozambique's unique character.

Photography by Jean Dakar.

For the final episode of this series, Ilia Rogatchevski is joined by the Alexandrian sound artist, Khaled Kaddal. He will be performing an improvised piece inspired by a Bedouin poem and playing examples of contemporary Egyptian experimental music. Presented by Ilia Rogatchevski.

Come On, Come Down! explores adventurous night music for the sleepless. The series covers a broad spectrum of genres, from ambient and noise through to jazz, post-rock and contemporary classical. Each episode is thematically linked and aims to highlight a specific mood, artist or movement. Listen out for the occasional live session.

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

Sonoro is a series showcasing Mexican contemporary sound and radio artists. The pieces featured here are albums, collages and multivoice essays that lean towards analogous logics of sound capturing, slow listening, interspecies dialoguing and sonorous contemplation. Curated by Ana Martínez de Buen, these works present almost two decades of soundscapes and sound productions that offer a small sonic window into Mexican radio and sound art.

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.

This episode is our second artist showcase edition. We chat with Jake Muir, Claire Rousay and Bethan Kellough about their approaches to composition, listening and recording. These three artists represent a hugely diverse approach to field recording-based composition, with Jake also working with samples, Claire often deploying voice and text, and Bethan focusing on highly detailed mutli-channel meditations on sonic spatialities.

Photo: Jake Muir

The Field Recording Show is a programme exploring the soundscape, recording, listening and composing hosted by Kate Carr and Luca Nasciuti.

This episode features Mississauga-based musician Tara. @sisterwifi on Instagram.

This is for remembering and forgetting

for pain that is dull and intense

no need to be brave

motorless but hopeful

lay down now and listen to the sound of bells

that tell you it is official

that tell you it is almost over.

Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.

Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts is a London-based sound art collective presenting new sound works, performances and discussions.

Man alive it's episode 5... graced with an intro by Florence Grellier, party tracks throughout, Kylie Minogue's about, we're back with a bang, twang, twist and shout!

Good Evening, Guten Abend. Jonas Heyn and Sarah Locke present a monthly suitcase of music. Expect strictly analogue! We’ll chit chat, maybe this n that. Liquorice all sorts, bangers n mash, guter Geschmack, with a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone. Clear the bingo hall, take a seat, vinyls to veneers, do us a favour and lend us your ears.