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In this episode, Vague Wanderings takes you underground in the Greenwich Park Reservoir. The reservoir closed 150 years ago and it is completely sealed from the public except for 5 vent holes that are big enough for microphones, speakers and certain instruments.

We're broadcasting live with performances from Christos Stylianides, David Sappa, Lorena Shapiro, and Titus Barker above ground and recording with a microphone 2 meters underground.

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.

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).

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

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.

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.

And Then finds Ed Baxter and Michael Umney in conversation about Resonance FM. This series was commissioned by the Independent Community Radio Network and was supported by the Nordic Culture Point Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture. Produced by Michael Umney and Ed Baxter.

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.

Carefull footsteps along the bank, around horizontal branches, embracing the space. This episode features special guest Timothy Wall.

The recording was made over the Easter Bank Holiday nestled between the trees beside the banks of the River Lea.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

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

This episode is dedicated to the first Meloman M-110 music machines in the Soviet Union. Cabinets with music weighing 130 kilograms began to appear in the 60s in places where citizens would rest – cafes and restaurants, sanatoriums and cruise ships. Each jukebox held fifty seven-inch records and accordingly allowed listening to two-hundred songs.

In total, Melodiya issued about two-hundred records for Meloman - they were not sold in ordinary shops, but the music recorded on them was popular among listeners. The cost of listening to one song was only five kopecks, while the price of a seven-inch record at retail was seventy kopecks and more.

Meloman's repertoire included mostly city pop music of the 60s and 70s in the languages of commonwealth countries. However, in this episode I tried to include not the biggest hits of those years. You will hear bubblegum pop from Poland and Japan, psychedelic rock from Azerbaijan, pop chorals from Georgia, foxtrots from the GDR, as well as a lot of jazz and swing from Russia and the Lesser Caucasus.

It is believed that it was through the Meloman's speakers that Soviet citizens first heard the The Beatles' music – not the original recordings, but performed on a Hammond organ. In 1967, Keith Buckingham recorded a medley of three songs by the Liverpool 4 and this was included in the repertoire of the Soviet Jukebox and in this episode (track 11).

It can seem that the repertoire of the Meloman music machine sounds rather utopian: "I walk and sing and the street sings. The traffic light winked: ‘Go ahead!’," – Soviet pop diva Edita Piekha squints with pleasure in her schlager. It seems to have been so! Meloman's popularity waned in the late 70s, when clubs with live ensembles began to appear in big cities, personal vinyl players became available to almost every worker, and soon the rough rock of Perestroika became fashionable.

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.

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.

Winners of the CTM 2025 Radio Lab call for works, Lynn Nandar Htoo and rEmPiT g0dDe$$ created an audiovisual performance titled "Resonant Resilience." The work delved into the transformative power of music as a means of resistance, resilience, unity, and healing, especially for Southeast Asian female and queer music practitioners.

In this episode originally aired on Refuge Worldwide, they share a full-on techno set, full of the latest club sounds that inspire their work artists and organisers within a network of people holding space for queer culture in Southeast Asia.

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.

In this episode Eric from the Mitamine Lab team talks about an article that recently caught our eye—of course, since we're great fans of cats! During the show we look at extracts from Chris Heath's article in The Atlantic entitled "The Richest Cat in the World: Did Karl Lagerfeld really leave millions to his blue-cream Birman, Choupette?"

In connection with the tale of fashion's most well-known feline heir, we are pleased to present a carefully selected collection of music together with our regular feature of new promos sent directly to Mitamine Lab, as well as a few other tracks that we recently came across. As ever, we would like to extend our biggest thanks to all the artists and labels who continue to send us their music!

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

In this episode, musica per la radio with Ana Garizurieta, a series of concerts conceived for radio and transmitted exclusively on the radio.

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

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.

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.

85 seconds to midnight…

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