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On the 2nd October 2022 First Terrace went live on Resonance Extra from Southbank Centre as part of the label's fifth anniversary celebrations, with a curated triple bill for the Purcell Room, featuring Peter Broderick’s tribute to The Beacon Sound Choir, the premiere of a dance opera by Bianca Scout and an AV performance by Specimens.

First, the premiere of The Heart of the Anchoress, a contemporary dance piece from Bianca Scout's upcoming multimedia project The Mortal Instrument of Bones. This newly commissioned gothic opera, produced with the Daughter Mary ensemble, establishes a richly seductive sensory field, where fractal patterns of poetry, moving image and sound design are sampled, remixed and looped, through subtle, episodic mutations of classical dance.

Next, a set by Sofheso in which he offers his singular selection of broken rhythms and blacklight textures.

Then, Specimens presents Power, Pain and Privilege, a specially commissioned audiovisual work made in collaboration with filmmaker and photographer Lucie Rox. The work explores both artists’ experiences as mixed race people living in the UK, from hair salons to racial slurs, and the uncomfortable relationship between skin tone and privilege.

Finally, Peter Broderick breathes fresh life into the euphoric group singing practices of The Beacon Sound Choir, his erstwhile community choir in Portland. With the help of the anarchic, virtuosic experimental choral group Musarc, they perform new arrangements of the original choir material – short and odd original songs, experimental compositions and the BSC’s unique brand of half-improvised, half-structured vocal drones.

A selection of experimental frequencies, interviews and sessions plus cuts from the First Terrace label by Alex Ives (Specimens) and Joe Summers.

The first of three radio broadcasts: a conversation between La Wayaka Current, Ana Carolina Rodrigues and members of the Guna Yala community who are dedicated to working with sustainable, ecological and cultural tourism. Having fought as part of a revolution in 1925 to protect their way of life, they became the first politically autonomous indigenous people in Latin America. They protect a territory encompassing coastline, rainforest and more than 360 individual islands.

A Sonorous Expedition presents a sound and visual, ecological and social research journey in Panama as a transformation to the environment of the Maxilla Space in London. In Panama, Ana Carolina was based in the indigenous community of Guna Yala, which encompasses rainforest and covers much of Panama’s eastern Caribbean coast; the aim was to learn from the indigenous community ecological and sustainable ways of living.

This is a three hour extract from the festival, featuring sound art, computer music, homemade instruments, DIY electronics, radio play, noise, data sonification, field recordings, radio art, sound studies, historical anchor points, niches, insider tips, and different generations of Cologne's electronic and sound art landscape.

Full details and line-up: https://www.gerngesehen.de/funkt

The FUNKT programme was developed under the project management of Georg Dietzler by Anke Eckardt, Claudia Robles-Angel, Dietmar Bonnen, Dirk Specht and Felix Knoblauch, in cooperation with Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann.

Thanks to sponsors Musikfonds e. V. with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the special programme Neustart Kultur, Kunststiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Endowment for the Arts), the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.

FUNKT was a festival of electronic music and sound art from Cologne, which took place on the 16th, 17th and 18th of April 2021.

This episode is a documentary about the importance of the "verb", which has a mysterious power because words create things.

The immensity of the orality is one of its fundamental attributes, at least this is the attitude that prevails in most African civilizations.

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

Friends and relatives brush their histrionic shoulders on this month’s 77th indictment show. Props to ACA the new Tomás Tello project (with friends and family) recently released on Sucata Tapes. Limited tape goodness from an unique voice living out there, deep in the algarvian lagoons, doing his thing…

Also featuring Vica Pacheco beautiful Taciturno on Aquapelago compilation, People Like Us corroning it out with Ergo Phizmiz, (twice!) as well as hidden Polish 80’s gem in the form of Czeslaw Niemen, blink it and you’ll miss it.

Photo: Abandoned hotel in Malindi, Kenya 2017

Discrepancies is a global showcase of disparate music with a focus on earthly field recordings and international sounds, curated by the Discrepant record label, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso.

In this episode, Mitamine Lab presents a mixtape by Mabui Music: a group of passionate musicians from Berlin who are constantly looking for perfect sound to express their emotions to make surrounding spaces and places more colourful and optimistic.

Mabui Music has cooked a limited edition classic mixtape that will be distributed to friends & followers after this radio release. Feel free to contact and follow them! Also please listen to the complete version of the mixtape on Mitamine's soundcloud or website.

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

Participating artists: Ivan Skoryna, Kseniia Shcherbakova, Viktor Konstantinov, Kseniia Yanus, and Maxym Ivanov. Head here for more information.

Project partners: Museum of Odesa Modern Art, NGO Slushni Rechi, cultural memory platform Past / Future / Art, Wave Farm, Soundcamp and Acoustic Commons.

Land to Return, Land to Care is supported by the British Council under the UK/Ukraine Season of Culture and by Creative Europe.

A collaboration between artists in Ukraine and the UK, presented as a 12-hour live transmission work, mixed in London and online. Resonance Extra broadcasts the first three hours.

On the 6th of October 2022, Tenement Press held an evening at Brick Lane Bookshop to mark and celebrate the publication of SJ Fowler's debut novella, MUEUM, with readings and contributions from Gareth Evans, Chris McCabe, Chloe Aridjis, Iain Sinclair, and SJ Fowler (in order of appearance).

See here for more information. Sound recorded by Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

SJ Fowler is a writer and poet living in London. His collections include Fights (Veer Books, 2011), The Rottweiler’s Guide to the Dog Owner (Eyewear Books, 2014), {Enthusiasm} (Test Centre, 2015), The Guide to Being Bear Aware (Shearsman Books, 2017), I will show you the life of the mind (on prescription drugs) (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020) and *The Great Apes *(Broken Sleep Books, 2022).

Chris McCabe's work spans art-forms and genres including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama and visual art. His work has been shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. His latest poetry collection, The Triumph of Cancer (Penned in the Margins, 2018), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and he is the editor of several anthologies including Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages (Chambers, 2019).

Chloe Aridjis is the author of three novels, Book of Clouds (Vintage, 2010), which won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France, Asunder (Vintage, 2013), set in London’s National Gallery, and Sea Monsters (Vintage, 2020), which was awarded the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Chloe has written for various art journals and was guest curator of the Leonora Carrington exhibition at Tate Liverpool.

Iain Sinclair is a Welsh writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London. He also continues his engagement with small independent presses, publishing Fifty Catacomb Saints with Tangerine Press, 2022, and Fever Hammers with Face Press, 2021 (who are also due to release Mental Travaillers: or, The Battle of the Books; Blake & Latham in Subtle Congress on Peckham Rye).

A four-part, unabridged broadcast of SJ Fowler’s debut novella, MUEUM — as read by the author — recorded on location in Resonance Extra's South London studios. Produced by Dominic Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

"With the apocalyptic vision of Ballard and the acerbic attitude of Céline, MUEUM scatters human detritus over the shiny Perspex of our most dearly loved vitrines." – Chris McCabe

"A showcase, ransacked with horrid delight: Fowler's MUEUM presents the placid, lurid violences of surveillance and exhibition with startling and brutal stylishness. A seething triumph." – Eley Williams

A novella of ludic menace, a puzzle without pieces, SJ Fowler’s MUEUM pictures the amassing and dismantling of a public edifice, brick by brick, in prose that refracts and breaks the light emitted by history’s ornaments and history’s omissions. Suspended in unknowable time there is a city; in the city, an event, a conflict. Amid the ash, fog and cloud, there is the manufacturing of a space—a many-winged museum on the make.

On the plinths, exquisite remnants of life present and past—adorning the walls, portraits of gentle torture sit hand in hand with brutal and statuesque portrayals of camaraderie—and the gift-shop is littered with plastic curios and gilt revulsion. Goya, as atmosphere rather than artwork, hovers amid iron age ghosts, bronzed ideas, and antiqued anxiety.

Pacing the hall, atrium and corridor, there are those who keep the museum—the various midwives to the building’s demands—and those, like the reader, who merely visit; those who pass through the vacant galleries adrift with questions. What can I touch? What is next to Egypt? What is hidden in Mesopotamia? Where do we eat? Drink? Where is the entrance? The exit? Following the tradition of the Nestbeschmutzer authors (“one who dirties their own nest,” vis-à-vis Bernhard and Gombrowicz, et al), in Fowler’s curt, spiralling, and acute work, the museum’s keepers will answer.

A four-part, unabridged broadcast of SJ Fowler’s debut novella, MUEUM — as read by the author — recorded on location in Resonance Extra's South London studios. Produced by Dominic Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

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

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

Walking, movement in place, in air, distance through time.

Today’s episode is Kittiwake Triptych No. 1: Cullernose.

This is the second of a triptych of recordings of my walking to “the same place” – a Kittiwake colony – twenty minutes sitting at the place and my walking away back to my starting point. The three “same places” are one in rural Newfoundland and two in rural Northumberland. At each site, on another day, or at a different time of the same day, each recording would have been different.

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

This episode features a guest mix by Koray Kantarcıoğlu.

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

In this episode, Shane Woolman plays Shit & Shine, Maral, Lady Lykez and more; and presents a guest mix by anrimeal, featuring Yves Tumor, Wayne Phoenix and others.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

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.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Paul Engel’s poem “night walk / sudden shower- / the smell of rain”.

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

This week: It's Not So Black and White.

Brooklyn-based Olivia Bradley-Skill presents Lo-fi Goddesses, live sound collage and original radio artworks inspired by female-fronted post-punk bands and experimental dance music.

This episode features tracks selected in response to postcards sent in by Luci Pina, Orlando Gaffney Hyde & Jacob Clayton. Featuring Laurie Anderson, Erik Satie, Elvis and recordings from the second iteration of our event at first sight live at the ICA on 21st October 2022.

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.

This episode features long form music from our sister label Slow Tone Collages.

Amsterdam's Shimmering Moods Records explores the many sides of experimental ambient music, into the far reaches of the imagination.