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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.

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.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

Music from Inner Space Travels, Ruido, Fastidious Android, BAG, Cameraoscura, Giovanni Lami, IOM, V-Stok and The Nent.

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

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.

As a guardian of the Slice, Stephen Shiell is exploring and understanding the site as both a public sculpture and a private environment that sits beyond the boundaries of the usual. These radio shows are recordings of live events, happenings to explore the tensions that exist between the public and private.

Curating the series around his own love for experimental electronics and improvisation is a way for me to bring communities into this setting, a chance to celebrate an underground London culture in a place that hasn’t been commercialised or capitalised, even though it lies in the heart of these very environments.

‘Naus’ refers to the Ancient Greek word for ship, and also recalls the word nausea, a ‘ship- sickness’, that reflects the artist’s feelings towards the neo-liberalist landscape surrounding the ship. The sounds created here are a form of electronic improvised noise resistance.

This episode features artists: Dushume, Tom Richards, and Laura Netz. Recorded live by Ian Thompson.

Stephen Shiell is a London-based sound artist, composer and improviser working across experimental music, radiophonic art and site-responsive process. His work explores listening as a social, ecological and political act, engaging sound as a way of understanding place, environment and human presence.

A show of improvised electronics recorded live on board A Slice of Reality – a vertical section of an ocean going sand dredger that stands on the foreshore of the Thames at North Greenwich in London, since its placement there 25 years ago. Originally conceived of as a sound bite of lost industry to mark the turning of a millennium, the realities the ship witnesses are now very different - the high octane leisure industries of the Millennium dome and the docks, and the global finance district at Canary Wharf.

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.

Miriam Schickler recorded sound fragments from the reality of state violence against Palestinians in the West Bank as means of activism and music making.

With Miriam Schickler.

William Fields explores the potential of algorithmic music through the process of recreating (and inventing?) genres with his musical operating system.

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.

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

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.

In this episode, we continue to explore the diversity of Soviet jazz released on the major label and monopolist Melodia.

Here we focus is mainly on its lighter genres – electro-jazz, jazz-funk, jazz-mugham, jazz-choral, folk-jazz from the Baltic States, the Lesser Caucasus, Central Asia and Russia. To this music it is really pleasant to float through the spring city – so many melodies and much relaxation in it!

However, at the end of the show the mood changes somewhat and ends with bold experiments in the field of free jazz with a glance at the academic avant-garde – it is a rain cloud on the horizon, which takes your breath away with its elegance, impetuosity and pomposity. Happy long-awaited spring!

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.

This month: Mark Vernon – Past Shapes and Future Shapelessness. An evolving sonic collage that brings together a variety of different projects and collaborations past, present and future. Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based sound artist and radio producer who works with found tapes, field recordings and acousmatic presence.

His work explores themes of magnetic memory, decay, audio archaeology, voyeurism and nostalgia. His music projects have been published through numerous labels including the 2023 Discrepant LP 'Call Back Carousel'. He is the founder member of Glasgow based art radio collective, Radiophrenia.

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.

This week on x.y FM, we hear an excerpt of Elischa Kaminer's 'song for Naomi' for violin and electronics performed by Mayah Kadish at the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam in January 2018.

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.

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.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

In this episode James Gormley plays new and forthcoming music by Don Cherry, Brandon Seabrook, Agnes Haus, Slaylor Moon, Manas and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.