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For this Dronica show, Robin The Fog created an experimental noise mix.

Robin The Fog is a sound designer, radio producer, audio archivist, educator and occasional DJ based in London. His work falls under the broad term ‘Radiophonics’ and includes composition, sound installation, radio drama, field recording and documentary. Robin works as an audio preservation engineer at the British Library. He runs workshops and presents the Fog Cast, his own radio show on Resonance FM.

He releases music as Howlround and has been profiled in The Wire, Electronic Sound Magazine and Fact Magazine among others. His sound design works have been displayed at different international museums and in several BBC sessions.

"Robin The Fog conjures Magic" – Electronic Sound Magazine.

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

A nine-part retrospective of the first five seasons of the Radia network’s epochal (and on-going) radio art series. Assembled by Lee Stapleford.

Held in pitch darkness, Glasgow's Lights Out Listening Group is a bi-monthly series of listening sessions, sharing new sound/radio works and a love of creativity in the sonic arts. This month founders Mark Vernon and Monica Brown play selected works from their archives and talk about community, radio, LOLG and upcoming broadcast festival Radiophrenia.

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

In this episode: magnetic currents pulse across the marshes as mysterious comets sweep across the sky. Glimpsed briefly before vanishing once more, they leave only cloud traces and a vague sense that the field in which we are still standing is now imperceptibly yet radically altered.

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.

This month's show features psychedelic voyages, transcendental rhythms and oneiric oscillations from across the oceans…

Find a spot to settle down and tune in to Sonic Tapestries…

Mat Eric Hart presents a sedated sojourn through worldly and mystical sounds.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Kimberly A. Horning’s poem “Icarus / the pelican hovers / mid flight”.

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.

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.

In this episode, Michael from the North Bay Embraces the darkness with the best Horror Punk and Deathrock to usher in the season.

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

The Tyneside Sounds Society is a monthly broadcast dedicated to the recording and reinterpretation of the sonic environment and sound heritage of Tyneside in the North East of England.

This episode: rewind back to the late '70s and early '80s, when genre boundaries fell away and gave birth to one of the most fertile periods in contemporary music - post-punk. Australia was not at all immune, and in this episode Stuart Buchanan delivers a 60-minute subjective soundtrack titled “... And The People Are Blowing Their Minds” - with music from Systematics (pictured), Ya Ya Choral, SPK, Severed Heads, Essendon Airport, Scattered Order, Makers of the Dead Travel Fast, Laughing Hands and more.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

Hosted by Stu Buchanan, Out From Under dives deep beneath the surface of the Australian music scene, celebrating experimental and eclectic music from the far end of the world.

The series ends the way it started, with a full episode of exclusive, unreleased tracks and sessions from SDEM, David B. Applegate, Shimmering Ice Puzzle, and enn kdog, plus one more live set from the Trash Panda QC archives.

A 16-episode bi-weekly series alternating new and unheard live sounds from Trash Panda QC with DJ selections and guests.

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

This episode opens with an hour of music from within the orbit of the spirit of Gravity Collective, including a long piece from our friend Simon James, plus some tracks from collective member Jim Purbrick, taken from his new Alien Alarms debut album "0 to 1", and a piece from someone new to us, Hannya White.

The second hour features a full playback of the latest release on the Spirit of Gravity Label, a re-issue of the 2008 compilation, Festival.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

Featuring the sounds of these film works:

• Syncromy (Norman McLaren)
• Five Film Exercises Film 1 (1943) (John & James Whitney)
• La Région Centrale (1971) (excerpt) (Michael Snow)
• La Région Decentrale (2016) (Gibson + Recoder)
• Sound Strip - Film Strip (Paul Sharits)
• On Illusionism and Generative Systems (Paul Sharits)
• Cycles (Guy Sherwin)
• Allures (Jordan Belson)
• Shot Film (Greg Pope)
• Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976) (Paul Sharits)
• Meshes of the afternoon (Maya Deren)
• Berlin Horse (Malcolm Le Grice)
• Aberration of Light (Olivia Block)
• At the Academy (Guy Sherwin)
• Light Music (Lis Rhodes)
• T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (Paul Sharits)
• Vowels and Consonants part 1 (Lynn Loo, Guy Sherwin, Sarah Washington, Knut Aufermann)
• Les Vautours (Igor Boldirev, Evgeny Sholpo)
• Surface Tension live at Kill Your Timid Notions (William Raban)
• Deck (Gillian Eatherley)
• Sundial (William Raban)
• Colour Neutral (Jennifer Reeves)
• Sound Cuts (excerpt) live at Kill Your Timid Notions (Lynn Loo, Guy Sherwin)
• Girl Chewing Gum (clip) (John Smith)

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

This episode of Third Space features sonic explorations of Brussels and Manchester, with field recordings and local music curated and compiled by Adriaan de Roover and Hayley Suviste. In the first hour, Adriaan walks us through the Belgian capital via found sounds and music.

In a novel take on the Third Space format, the musical elements of Adriaan's mix have been drawn from a single artist - Brussels hip hop collective, STIKSTOF - whose work he has sampled and stretched into beautiful ambient pieces.

The second half of the show sees Hayley Suviste weave an assortment of standout tracks from Manchester's kinetic electronic music scene through a tapestry of sonic portraits documenting the city's ever-changing landscapes - from its near-wild edgelands to the heart of its inner-city development projects.

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.