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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.

This month Dylan and Karen are joined by Hali Palombo, S*Glass, Hobo Sonn, Ersatz Opportunity, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Bill Nace, Julian Bradley, Ted Trager, Ivor Kallin, Witcyst, Neil Campbell, Theo Gowans, Zheng Hao, Marija Kovacevic, Jon Thompson, Rick Potts, Nathan Howdeshell, Fritz Welch, Andy Ortman, Maureen Hallomas and Monad Node.

Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance and friends beam out an hour of audio collage discombobulation direct from Chocolate Monk HQ. A sonic salve for overstimulated ears.

This year the word is 'WATER’, and the work will willingly wade the time away, in eddies, in sinks, in drains, in backwaters, through root systems, capillaries, infiltrating, inundating our "humid brains" (Isabelle Stengers).

Recipes for getting wet: out of the blue, blue planet, into the molecular, cellular, time’s involved, time runs through it, hydrophonics, hydrojams, glistening gestures, swimsink, cloud seeding, drought, contamination, advisories, nautical sea, nausea, leagues under, deep diver, pearl mother, Mariana Trench. We quickly see this flow forever, for, as Yve Lomax put it in Sounding the Event: “Yes, this noisy restless sea is pure multiplicity: it is mixture, it is contingency and it is turbulent.” Or, put even more succinctly, as Italo Calvino’s Mr. Palomar realizes: “isolating a wave is not easy.”

LINEUP:

• ARE - HOUR 1 (17:00 GMT)

artLAB PRESENTS UpStream/DownStream by Tom Cull with Danielle Butters & Sruthi Ramanarayanan

• ARE - HOUR 2 (18:00 GMT)

National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition PRESENTS Amanda Amour-Lynx, Kaya Joan, and Star Nahwegahbo

• ARE - HOUR 3 (19:00 GMT)

WalkingLab PRESENTS Eli Nolet

• ARE - HOUR 4 (20:00 GMT)

Doris McCarthy Gallery PRESENTS Farheen Haq, Laura Millard, Jordyn Stewart, Jon Sasaki, Lou Sheppard, and Bagida’waad Alliance

• ARE -HOUR 5 (21:00 GMT)

Art Gallery of Hamilton PRESENTS Celia Vernal, Tyler Tekatch, Laurie Kilgor-Walsh

• ARE - HOUR 6 (22:00 GMT)

SASAH PRESENTS Michelle Wilson and the Coves Collective Ensemble

• ARE - HOUR 7 (23:00 GMT)

Thames Art Gallery PRESENTS Dickson Bou, Jamie Dronyk, Sharmistha Kar, Peter Lebel, Patrick Mahon, Thomas Mahon, Valerie Mills-Milde, & Quinn Smallboy

• ARE - HOUR 8 (00:00 GMT)

Futura Resistenza PRESENTS Christof Migone

• ARE - HOUR 9 (01:00 GMT)

Forest City Gallery PRESENTS Racquel Rowe

• ARE - HOUR 10 (02:00 GMT)

Glenfiddich Artists in Residence PRESENTS Penelope Cain

• ARE -HOUR 11 (03:00 GMT)

McIntosh Gallery PRESENTS Shannon Cooney and Paul Walde

• ARE - HOUR 12 (04:00 GMT)

New Adventures in Sound Art and Other Sights PRESENT Brady Marks & Mark Timmings (Wetland Project)

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The fifth in Christof Migone's series of twelve annual 12-hour events taking place on December 12th from 5pm to 5am the next day. Each year the event moves through each word of the phrase ‘You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air of Life and Death’ and a group of international artists activate the word of the year in myriad ways. Streamed live on YouTube.

The publication Magnetizdat DDR, Magnetbanduntergrund DDR 1979–1990 (2023, Verbrecher Verlag) tells the story of this magnetic counterculture. Inspired by this, we will explore the musical subversions of the late GDR in three acts over three days. Curated by Judith Behre and Florian Bräunlich

A live broadcast from Hamburg featuring GAJEK, Jan Jelinek & Frank Bretschneider. Independent music productions were banned in the GDR in terms of production, distribution, and sales. However, countless groups such as Der Demokratische Konsum, Zwitschermaschine, Schleim-Keim, and Kein Talent defied these regulations imposed by the workers' and farmers' state. They took it upon themselves to play their (mostly homemade) instruments and recorded their compositions directly onto tape: unorthodox punk met lo-fi experimental rock, stumbling electronics met grinding pop constructions, conceptual minstrelsy met infernal noise.

"I salt my breakfast eggs. All day long I feel created" – Anne Dillard, Holy the Firm (1977)

A Table of Contents was produced, mixed and mastered by Dominic Jaeckle and Simon Tonka, © 2021; the readings were recorded at home by Polly Barton, © 2021; accompanying soundtrack, Matthew Shaw & Mason Lindahl, © 2021; artwork, Hoagy Houghton, © 2016.

Dominic Jaeckle is a writer, editor and broadcaster. Jaeckle curates and collates the irregular magazine Hotel and its adjacent projects, and runs a minor publisher Tenement Press.

Polly Barton is a Japanese translator and writer, living in Bristol. Her book Fifty Sounds is published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Translations include Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (Tilted Axis Press) and There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (Bloomsbury International).

Matthew Shaw is a composer, author and artist; Shaw is currently working with Shirley Collins & Brian Catling on Crowlink; a sound installation and recording project featuring Collins’ recitation of English folk songs collected over seventy years, poetry from Catling and Shaw, and fragments of letters, diaries and prose from Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and the Bloomsbury Group. Shaw’s Atmosphere of Mona, a book of poetry and photography, was published by Annwyn House in 2020.

Mason Lindahl is a guitarist and composer based in New York City. His finger-picking style is largely influenced by minimalism and classical music. He grew up listening to folk and country music in Northern California, where he was first taught to play the guitar by his father. Lindahl’s recent record Kissing Rosy in the Rain was released by Tompkins Square, 2021.

A work by Dominic J. Jaeckle, Polly Barton, Mason Lindahl & Matthew Shaw. Grounded in a book that collects a roll-of-film’s worth of co-dependent photographs and prose-poems by artist Hoagy Houghton and writer Dominic Jaeckle (36 Exposures, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe), A Table of Contents is a quilt of first- and second-hand reticulated reflections and ratiocinations; a ‘disembodied voice-over’ for a set of absent images, memories and other assorted totem poles.

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 features work by Djrum / Jo Johnson / Bruce Nauman / FOQL / AOTCI v OVT / Bark Psychosis / Oren Ambarchi / Oliver Coates / Nick Drake / John Coltrane / Loscil / Material Object + Ishq / Mans / Severed Heads / East 71 / Tengui / Al Wootton / Tape Pack / Cosey Fanni Tutti / Grouper / Iannis Xenakis / Nicolas Jaar / Tristan Arp / Kode9 & The Spaceape / 23 Skidoo / Accrual / Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason.

An immersive psychosonic space, where sounds converse, collide and converge, featuring works, selections, edits, experiments, new music, non-music, archival objects, abstract artefacts, sound(system) and A/V art, pop, trash, noise, voice, and the associated mediums, processes and techniques that make up the ongoing audial investigations of Agents of the Culture Industry & OVT, all presented for art not profit.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.

Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.