← Today's Schedule →

A continuous stream of short musical creations, each under two minutes. Miniature masterpieces interwoven and occasionally interpolated, transitioning seamlessly from the briefest to the longest – a perpetual motion of sound.

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

Communiques from Thanet Tape Centre, Hard drive sludge. audio tidal pools. Music sediment. Friends utterances, sea walls of noise, salt marsh drone.

In this episode, Clint is in New York with Travis Just of Object Collection.

A series hosted by former synthpop attempter Clint, commuting weekly from Reno, Nevada. Visit jamesoldham.net for press, questions and complaints.

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

This episode features music from Torba, Twenty Three Hanging Trees, Chelidon Frame, Pascal Colman & Chase Foley, V-Stok, Menion and Eye Spirit & Matt Finney.

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

This episode features an original radio artwork by Mlin Patz – the solo project of Ukrainian artist Polina Matskevych, a member of Chillera – using sound recorded and composed by the artist, who has captured audio from a web-receiver over the last two months.

The project started in 2015 as an attempt to collage field recordings and electro-acoustic instruments; the debut EP TVRK was released on the platform Система and then, the dubbed 12'' EP Sunlimit on the Muscut label. Now the project has moved on to improvisation and sonic installations.

As the artist finished one project related to the research of radio as an instrument for spreading frequencies and as a source of information, this broadcast is about tradition and how people are using it in retrospect.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

Reaffirming the marvelous as a way to re-enchant reality.

The shores of Lake Geneva have always fascinated artists, writers, and thinkers from all corners of the world.

We hypothesize that living with our stories, legends, and founding myths is a way for us to anchor ourselves and regenerate as communities, and that cultural transmission is a process that helps connect individuals and perpetuate human groups.

At the outset of this project, we assembled a multidisciplinary research team, bringing together local and international artists and scientists, and offered them a period of onboard residency. We believed that this immersion would provide fertile ground for understanding, reinterpreting, and creating narratives related to Lake Geneva.

This onboard residency proved to be a hybrid adventure, at once nautical and experimental, scientific and artistic. We intended it to facilitate the sharing of our knowledge and practices related to the legends of Lake Geneva. It was also an opportunity to share our knowledge of the environment, to develop and express our connection to the lake, to experiment with new ways of interacting with it, and to enjoy convivial moments together.

The team: Paul Courlet, Maryne Lanaro, Diederik Peteers, Eva Zornio, Henry Deletra, Stéphanie Pfister, Mathilde Tinturier, Benoît Grison, Jean-Baptiste Molina, Federica Tamarrozzi, Christian Baumann, Eric Desjeux, Emmanuelle Nizou, Antoine Schaad, and Jonathan Frigeri.

Le Leman Mystérieux Merveilleux (audio documentation of the onboard residencies) by Eric Desjeux with the voices of Jean-Baptiste Molina, Federica Tamarozzi, Christian Baumann, Dalia Mauvis, Mathilde Tinturier, Jonathan Frigeri, Emmanuelle Nizou, Antoine Schaad, Maryne Lanaro, Henry Deletra, Benoit Grison, Diederik Peeters, Paul Courlet, Luca Schöpfer, Stéphanie Pfister, Eva Zornio, and Vanessa Montero.

A production of the International Institute for Research on Radio and Magic.

Curated by Jonathan Frigeri and Carine Demange.

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

This episode is produced by guest curator, Andy Ingamells.

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.

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

In this sixth episode, five sound artists hosted by TRAFO are interviewed, each representing a different perspective on technology in the context of contemporary music and sound art.

Jasmine Guffond presented Listening Back, exploring the subversive use of technology in the context of permanent internet surveillance. Jenny Gräf examined the space between technology and traditional craft. Ruben Rübe and Passepartout Duo introduced a new approach to musical instruments and composition. Finally, Mark Mushiva shared The Institute of Decolonial Technology, an initiative that blends artistic practice with scientific inquiry.

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.

Lepke B's blissful disregard for the sacred in life has placed him as one of the testcard knights with a totally unique approach to sound plunderphonics and visual art.

"Mister Moonlight, succulent, smooth and gorgeous. Isn't it nice? We're number one and so forth. Isn't it sweet being unique?".

Music by Jane & Barton, Whettman Chelmets, Dub Bred, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Velvet Underground, Hypp Fractal, Non Dolet, Annette Hanshaw, Delta 5, Grouper, Mrscientificterms & Bicho Raro, Norah Lorway, Tambay, Azalia Snail and Simon Heartfield.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

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.

In this first episode we travel to the East – to Transcaucasia and Asia in the 70s–90s: we listen to colourful Korean funk, sunny Azerbaijani jazz, desert Uzbek folk and traditional dance music from Laos and Burma. That's all folks!

I want to dedicate this show to the anniversary of the Melodiya label – it turns 60 years old on the 23rd of April 2024. And the best thing is that the label is still releasing music.

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 episode features works by Igor Ballereau, Red Stars Over Tokyo, Retina.it, Bloodkry, Oubys, Kammarheit, Sublimatio Mortis, SÍLENÍ, and Temple Music.

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

Here they present a recording of ‘Gaddafi in Hythe’ live at Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts, for Radiophrenia, 2017.

Ed Baxter (electronics, text), Tam Dean Burn (voice), Peter Lanceley (guitar, voice), Milo Thesiger-Meacham (electronics, other instruments).

Commissioned as part of Radiophrenia’s two week long radio broadcasts, brought to you live from their studio at CCA Glasgow. Funded through Creative Scotland’s Open Project Funding with additional support from CCA Glasgow and Outset Scotland.

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, musica per la radio with IRTUMBRANDA, a multi-instrumentalist of classical, rock, pop, and experimental music. They conceived this radio concert after a one-week residency with Radio Picnic. The boundaries of styles have no limits.

Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

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 final episode in our first series examines the practice of listening. It features interviews with the Swiss artist and academic Salomé Voegelin and the Canadian composer Hildegard Westerkamp.

Salomé reflects on the last 10 years within sound studies, and the development of her thinking and practices of listening and sound making over this time.

Hildegard takes us back to the very early years of soundscape awareness, discussion and analysis. Beginning with her work with Murray Schafer in Vancouver in the early 1970s, she reflects on her profound and multifaceted journeys into listening, composition and soundwalking.

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

The first half of this episode was made with visual artist Tarzan Kingofthejungle, who presents a series of dense and sinuous compositions of personal field recordings from Central America, North Africa, Albania, Bulgaria, Japan, Sri Lanka and London.

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.

In this episde, Sonic Darts goes on a deep dive into the Swansea-based multidisciplinary series NAWR (meaning “now" in Welsh), a festival that bridges the gap between experimental free jazz, sound art and alternative folk.

On the show, we play live recordings from Sarah Angliss alongside Stephen Hiscock and Sarah Gabriel, as well as live improvisation from their first show featuring Rose Linn-Pearl, Dan Linn-Pearl, Rhodri Davies and Christian Kobi.

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

Derek Jarman was always an inspirational Renaissance figure, whose solidarity and commitment grounded his intense imagination. Here we can see for the first time how this remarkable conjunction of forces was present in his earliest work, and in a medium we did not associate with him—until now. – John Akomfrah

Written in 1971, Jarman’s Billboard is a surreal, fabular, lyrical work—a literary fairy-tale, acid-trip, road movie hybrid—the energies and details of which influenced much of his later work across media. The story serves as a foundational text, laying out many of the themes, images, and styling of his work in painting, film and design whilst also being haunted by the then emerging ecological crisis in its juxtaposition of the beauty of nature with the reckless consumption of modernity.

The House Sparrow Press edition features facsimile images of the story’s handwritten drafts from Jarman’s archive and is comprehensively informed by a vivid foreword from Philip Hoare, a deeply researched afterword by Jarman scholar Declan Wiffen, and a warm memoir by artist Michael Ginsborg, a close friend of Jarman’s throughout the period of the story’s writing.

In this blown-away piece of Jarman magic, a fantasy / fable about how to see differently and a cornucopic visual version of the psyche, Derek Jarman casually reconstructs notions of empire, the road trip, and the mid-twentieth century journey of the soul. Trippy, light, fantastic. – Ali Smith

The Resonance broadcast is introduced by a collage of comments from the publication’s launch at the London Review Bookshop (03.11.22), with contributions from (in order of appearance) Gareth Evans, Declan Wiffen and So Mayer, alongside excerpts from Benedict Drew’s Music for Bookshops. Listen to the launch event in full here (with thanks to Claire Williams and all at the Shop).

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) is one of the most influential figures in 20th century British culture. Best known as an iconoclastic filmmaker and polemical gay activist who channeled unparalleled energy into painting, writing, gardening and all manner of cultural activity, he was one of the primary catalysts for a generation of artists and filmmakers whose work is only now being fully recognised for its dark, subversive imagination and fluidity across media. Amongst his films, Jarman is particularly recognised for Jubilee (1977), arguably the first punk movie, Caravaggio (1986), and Blue (1993), a moving memoir about his degeneration from AIDS.

Formed in 2016 to publish A Sparrow’s Journey: John Berger reads Andrey Platonov, House Sparrow Press—an imprint of Prototype Publishing—is, in the best and multiple senses of the word (it is hoped) an ‘occasional’ venture. Based in Hackney, London, it seeks to publish creatively committed, collaborative works both at a time that is relevant and for reasons that feel compelling. It is drawn to manuscripts of hybridity, titles that might elude conventional publication over concerns of form or scale. It also believes in a modesty of style (but never of ambition) and a fecundity of ideas. Its moniker (drawn from its first venture) celebrates a creature that was once ubiquitous and yet is now threatened. The idea of a bird inhabiting and inspiring a place of residence also feels resonant. This is what the best books do too. There are wings at work here. In short, Emily Dickinson was right (again) when she observed that ‘hope is the thing with feathers.’ House Sparrow Press comprises publisher Jess Chandler and editor Gareth Evans.

Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping broadcasts on Resonance Extra and Resonance 104.4FM as a part of a collaborative series of radio works from Tenement Press and Prototype Publishing, Railroad Flat Radio. Thanks to Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

An archival reading of Derek Jarman’s sole work of narrative fiction, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping (Prototype Publishing / House Sparrow Press) — as read by the author — in a special broadcast to mark the 30th anniversary of Jarman’s death.