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22 hours with the recalcitrant corkscrew willow A plot of land near Berlin on which stands a half-felled corkscrew willow (Salix matsudana Tortuosa). The tree, which was many meters tall before being cut back and often attracted attention with its "curly" branches, was planted in 1974 and had to be cut down to a 90cm trunk two years ago due to city regulations.

Passing walkers always mourn around this beautiful tree, but are also amused by its unruliness: The remaining trunk sprouts again and again and countless red-green shoots grow out of it in the most diverse variations, which then must be trimmed again immediately so that no real branches form. The trimmed tree seems more active than ever and has become a favorite habitat for insects, birds and tree fungi and perhaps other species. Its sawed-off jagged branches, which have been converted to fences, are also beginning to sprout regularly.

For Radio Art Zone, this corkscrew willow becomes a sound producer itself for 22 hours, as I sonify its biological processes, and capture the sounds of its inhabitants and environment. In this soundscape, facts, anecdotes, songs, poems, dreams, and conversations around the tree interweave and become a multidimensional narrative. For this I use material from archives, realize my own willow compositions and invite musicians, people out for a walk, poets and tree experts to stay next to the tree trunk and listen to what they have to share with me inspired by the recalcitrant corkscrew willow.

Christina Ertl-Shirley creates audio-visual narratives in the form of sound installations, radio plays, drawings, radio features, short stories, and compositions (based on field recordings and analog synthesisers). She sees her works as transmedia explorations with experimental approaches to the sharing of knowledge. She is particularly concerned with the interweaving of nature, art, and technology, immersing herself in the respective microcosms, such as the world of the animal "paper nautilus", the cultural history of the elevator, the environment of wooden beetles in the Berlin forest or the discipline of moss research.

The starting point for her work is traveling these niches through scientific, historical, and subjective material. She draws on the suggestive possibilities of these elements and comments on them through her own acoustic, visual and haptic investigations, realizing artistic narratives from them.

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.

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.

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.

In this episode, Joe is joined by Jennifer Walton, a London-based musician whose debut album Daughters. explores grief, memory and surreal Americana. She’s also known for her work with Cryalot (With Sarah Bonito), Microplastics (With aya & 96 Back), Iceboy Violet & BABii.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each week a new guest joins Joe in the studio to discuss and perform their work. Expect in-depth interviews, live performances, conversations and new event experiments.

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

This month, Luca is joined by a group of 1st year BA Fine Art students from Chelsea College of Arts as they undertake a workshop that traces the line between the Theatre of the Absurd and 'Brainrot’.

A new live radio series by artist Luca George, featuring interviews with artists and musicians. Expect games, phone-ins and performances. All broadcast live from the Resonance studio, where anything can happen. Visit Instagram @lucage0rge

This episode is a contribution by TEA FM.

The poetry of Federico García Lorca beats like an ancient pulse moving through the earth and the human voice. In his verses live the music of the people, the mystery of the night, and an emotional intensity that turns words into vivid images. Lorca writes with blood, with moonlight, with silence; and from this fusion emerges a creative expressiveness that overflows the limits of language.

His poetry is not only read: it is heard, breathed, and felt like a deep echo of the human soul. In every metaphor a landscape vibrates, and in every rhythm there is an emotion inviting us to imagine and to listen to the invisible.

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

Interview with Phill Niblock conducted by Mike Harding over a dodgy Skype connection from Phill's hotel room in Japan, September 2013.

Tracklisting
Phill Niblock - Stosspeng - taken from the album 'Touch Strings' [Touch # TO:79, 2009]
Phill Niblock - FeedCorn Ear - taken from the album 'Touch Five' [Touch # TO:91, 2013]
Phill Niblock - Hurdy Hurry - take from the album 'Touch Works' [Touch # TO:49, 2000]

Intros and outros recorded by Jana Winderen in Glasgow, 28th September and Pascal Wyse in London, 18th September; with thanks to Brains & Hunch.

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Tiny robots, string quartets, italian stars, celtic hearts, ukelele lovers, ghosts who feel lonely, instigators of collective happenings…all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features Shambush: Makers of The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience. Creators of imaginative, tailored, theatrical encounters, performance spaces and nonsensical events for five to five thousand.

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).

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 sounds from Kemialliset Ystävät, Kraus, Pekka Airaksinen, Baldruin and more...

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