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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.

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

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 Sly & Family Drone, Stochastic Resonance, Disinformation, Armageddon and Pocket Signs.

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

Inspired by experiments with AI, Mim imagines a utopian world in which buildings are replaced with pyramids and people with cats. Featuring lots of dub, hidden gems, recent releases and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Rest in power.

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

This episode is a contribution by Rádio Zero.

Certain Secret Methods Two is a new 27 minute composition created specifically for Radia. It uses tape loops, harmonium, singing bowls, sequential circuits pro one and field recordings to create a space for you to visit whenever you like. I am intrigued by the concept of dead drops, codes and ciphers and Steganography. In this recording is embedded, messages, codes and location details. Perhaps you will listen closely and figure out what it is all about?

Mykel Boyd (b. 1970, Kankakee, IL) makes sound recordings, conceptual artworks, photos, installations and films. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, Boyd creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found.

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

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.

In this episode, a guest mix by Ian Preece, author of Listening to the Wind: Encounters with 21st Century Independent Record Labels on Omnibus Press.

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

An ongoing event series at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, and soon to take residence at the Watershed in Bristol, Schtinter's project challenges all of the calcified criteria that is usually used to form and signpost a curated programme. The accompanying book, published by Tenement Press, has been described by Laura Mulvey as "very strange and deeply thought provoking," and by Alan Moore as "profound and riveting, a remarkable achievement."

Schtinter's other recent projects include Schneewittchen (IFFR, 2024), The Lock-In (Barbican Centre, 2022) and Important Books (or, Manifestos Read by Children) (Whitechapel Gallery, 2021-22). His writing is published by Tenement Press; his moving image work distributed by Light Cone; and he publishes film soundtracks and artist works under the banner of purge.xxx.

Gareth Evans is a London-based writer, editor, film / event curator and producer, host and documentary mentor. He works on special projects for the London Review of Books and curates their Screen at Home series. From 2012 - 2023 he was the Adjunct Moving Image Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery. He has written many catalogue essays and articles on place culture, artists and the moving image, as well as the extensive text for Radiohead's KID A MNESIA catalogue.

Artist and writer Stanley Schtinter is interviewed by producer and curator Gareth Evans about his most recent project, Last Movies, which is "an alternative view of the first century of cinema according to the final films watched by a selection of notable figures shortly before their deaths."

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” - Dracula

On the sonic chopping block - juicy meat from the torso of Cinema, the mother of celluloid monsters.

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.

Get down with the sounds of Rondo Hatton, Whettman Chelmets, Daphne Oram & Desmond Briscoe / BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Jodie Lowther, Tambay, Ray Davies and the Button Down Brass, Laibach, Tomita, Sevenism, Sounds of Belovodye, Gilman Mom, P.D. Wilder and Norah Lorway.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.
See http://phantomcircuit.com for the playlist and more.

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

This episode focuses on the rare experimental and deviant music that can conceptually be called the "dancefloor destroyer". Its narrative unfolds from early electronic, synthesizer and computer music and we discover that the only Soviet major label without any censorship boldly released music in the genres of EBM and no-wave, sympho-prog, acid-opera and even “post-pop”.

This episode is less about the music of all the countries of the Soviet Union – only focusing on Estonia, Latvia and Russia – but is rather my personal poetic statement, representing the diversity of Soviet experimental music in the late 80s and early 90s. This music sounds extremely modern right now. I chose the neo-romantic twist of Nochnoy Prospeckt's Antidisco Song as the main motif of the release, which opens and closes the show.

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 new works by Systemet, Gabriele Marchina, BOOKWAR, Vidna Obmana, TRSv2, Goose Loop, Vitor Joaquim, Manuel Mota, NIN-FAE, Haarvöl, Rapoon, and Bruno Duplant.

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

A special broadcast of the 2016 album Grand Oeuvre by mysterious French avant-garde group Le Clan des Exaltés.

This broadcast features five new and quite different group works for radio realised by 1st year students of the BA course.

• Episodic Transmission (14:53)

Sound: Jerome Dilena-Sharpe, Tal Mines Liburn-Quick, Kit Beaufoy, Mouse Purbrick. Poem and voice: Mouse Purbrick.

• Equinoxia (14:25)

Script: Cora Zihan Zhang, Moyan Tan. Recorded by: Cora Zihan Zhang, Moyan Tan. Music and sound effects: Xiaoyu Jin, Yutang Gong. Editors: Xiaoyu Jin, Yutang Gong. Mastering: Yutang Gong.

• Dreams and Dirges (12:48)

Produced by Davina Adeosun-Bright, Zachary Noble and Cameron Tanaka.

• Talking Points (15:01)

Written by Patrick Shaw and Arad Rozenblat. Music by Minsoo Chang and Jack Gavey. Sound design by Jude Porter, Patrick Shaw and Arad Rozenblat. Performed by Arad Rozenblat, Patrick Shaw and Doug Shaw. Edited by Patrick Shaw. Contains content some may find disturbing.

• Talk That Talk (8:35)

Cast: Ruben Bell Antonio, Victoria S Porter. Sound effects & Foley: Jack Palmer, Victoria S Porter. City Ambience: Jack Palmer. Sound editor: Jack Palmer. Project Lead, text, mastering: Victoria S Porter. Contains language some may find distasteful or upsetting.

Occasional radiophonic works by students of the BA and MA Sound Arts and Design courses at the London College of Communication, UAL.

Radio Concrete by Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show focusing on live mixing and processing of field recordings together with contemporary music and soundscapes.

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 examines the rising use of field recording within contemporary art. It features interviews with the British artist Anne Hardy, and the South African artist James Webb. Anne takes us through her process of embracing sound as part of her practice, with a focus on her latest work The Depth of Darkness, the Return of the Light, unveiled at Tate Britain last month.

James examines the role of sound in his 20-year long ongoing installation work Prayer, which features recordings of vocal worship. There is also an artist introduction by Colombian sound artist David Velez, known for his live cooking concerts.

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

This episode features a guest mix by Nicole13.

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.

In this episode, three artists who have been in residency at Q-O2 in Brussels over the past few months: Brussels-based Soumaya Phéline, Elijah Maja from London and Claire Williams, also based in Brussels. They share insights into their artistic practices, and discuss their experiences during their residencies. Several sound excerpts from their work are woven throughout the episode.

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.

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.