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Summer 2022’s monumental Radio Art Zone allowed me the opportunity to work with the best actor of his generation, Steffan Cennydd, who I’d seen on the tv a few times and who luckily was free for a day to record a whole bunch of pieces. These are presented in a sequence here, four in English and one in his native Welsh. The idea in each is not to attempt a traditional radio play nor to produce a classic dramatic monologue. Rather each of these pieces tries to create a psychological object. They are all deliberately elliptical, fragmentary, allusive, but share some underlying themes (obsessions perhaps) and, inevitably, language. Ultimately it’s the actor’s voice that makes them work - you’ll hear that, I think. - Ed Baxter

• The Deserter (27.43)

Commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture.

• Butch Cassidy in Paris (Heart like a Duck, part 3) (27.20)

Commissioned by Hearsay International Audio Festival. Second voice: Willie Carr. Additional recording by Diarmuid McIntyre.

• Ar y Mynydd (On the Mountain) (19.51)

Text commissioned by Benedict Drew. Welsh translation: Ffion Emyr. Guitar loop sampled from a performance by Alasdair Roberts.

• Birdbrain (25.29)

Commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture. Baby’s voice: Ivor Forsyth-Lanceley. Additional recording by Peter Lanceley.

• My Life as Doug Yule (25.39)

Commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture. Additional recording by Trilby Baxter.

Thanks to all involved in these collaborations; to Knut, Sarah, Mathilde and Necef at RAZ; to Daniela Gargiulo; and, for their encouragement, Kersten Glandien, Anthony Moore, Milo Thesiger-Meacham and Jim Whelton.

Five Folk Tales for Radio (featuring Steffan Cennydd). Voice: Steffan Cennydd. Concept, text, sound design, montage by Ed Baxter. Recording engineer: Michael Umney.

This year's word was ‘I’, consequently the focus is on selfless selves, linked Is, and not-Is. The first year it started with ‘you’, last year ‘and’ came to connect you to anything and everything, this year that point of connection is ‘I’—the porous one, the solo collective.

The audiovisual stream is archived here via Arraymusic

Presented by Christof Migone, Arraymusic, Resonance Extra , Constellation, FADO, Liquid Architecture, MetaObjects, NAISA, OBORO, Radius, SAVAC, Squint Press, The Dim Coast, Trinity Square Video, Tsonami and Wave Farm.

Full Programme (GMT):

• HOUR 1

SAVAC (Tkarón:to/Toronto) Presents Tazeen Qayyum (Tkarón:to/Toronto)

• HOUR 2

Squint Press (Tkarón:to/Toronto and Québec City) Presents Gabriela Areal (Buenos-Aires)

• HOUR 3

The Dim Coast (Saskatoon) Presents A Sound That Never Was (International)

• HOUR 4

Trinity Square Video (Tkarón:to/Toronto) Presents Midi Onodera (Tkarón:to/Toronto) and Claire Savoie (Tiohti:àke/Montréal)

• HOUR 5

Tsonami (Valparaíso) Presents Michel Poblete Montoya (Santiago)

• HOUR 6

Wave Farm (Acra, NY) Presents David Grubbs (Brooklyn)

• HOUR 7

OBORO (Tiohti:àke/Montréal) Presents Chloe Lum & Yannick Desranleau (Tiohti:àke/Montréal)

• HOUR 8

Metaobjects (Hong Kong) Presents Ryo Ikeshiro (Hong Kong)

• HOUR 9

Liquid Architecture (Naarm/Melbourne) Presents Machine Listening: Sean Dockray, James Parker, Joel Stern (Naarm/Melbourne)

• HOUR 10

Arraymusic (Tkarón:to/Toronto) Presents Mani Mazinani (Tkarón:to/Toronto)

• HOUR 11

Constellation (Tiohti:àke/Montréal) Presents Sam Shalabi (Tiohti:àke/Montréal)

• HOUR 12

FADO (Tkarón:to/Toronto) Presents Cindy Baker (Edmonton)

10 minutes at the end of each hour will feature audiovisual roomtones by Kate Carr, Andrea-Jane Cornell, Emily DiCarlo, Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid, Sebastiane Hegarty, Laura Kikauka, Annette Krebs, Nick Kuepfer, Matmos, Gordon Monahan, Debashis Sinha, and Maia Urstad.

The third 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.

Drone Operatør's AA + session #4 takes the listener on a 2-hour journey through rough terrain. The walk starts at ground level where we pass by lively waters and layered sound strata with detailed landscapes that fade into each other.

Once in a while, familiar sightings re-emerge out from the ground and we go up and down until we finally meet up with NATHAN CORDER who takes over after this 1-hour walk. He guides us up that steep 30min climb into his very own territory filled with wild sharp rocks and beasts baring teeth that leaves you breathless and drenched in sweat.

A 30 min downhill hike after we waved goodbye to our guest and this ride is over. We hope you picked some flowers along the way.

Monthly experimen†al kleptomaniac post digital free jazz spam channel operated by artists Tilman Hornig and Paul Barsch aka DRONE OPERATØR.

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

2022's edition of the festival was an evening of music and poetry reading at London's iconic Café OTO on the 7th December, featuring performances by members and friends of Naviar, working in the fields of ambient, electronic, and contemporary classical music. Each set is introduced by a haiku selection recited by poets of The British Haiku Society.

Full lineup (GMT):

• Daniel Green (7:30pm - 8:00pm)

• Audio Obscura (8:10pm - 8:40pm)

• Leon Clowes (8:50pm - 9:20pm)

• Encym & George Crowley (9:30pm - 10:00pm)

• Simon McCorry (10:10pm - 10:40pm)

• Manja Ristić (10:50pm- 11:20pm)

A series of annual events by Naviar Records broadcast live on Resonance Extra, featuring workshops, talks and live performances focused on experimental music and haiku, exploring how these two art forms can influence and inspire each other.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Louise Hastings’ poem “Open road… / the distant clouds / stepping stones”.

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.

In this episode, a mix by live acid techno producer and dark electro DJ, Vamp Acid, who works between LA and Berlin.

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

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

On this second night, live performances from Silent Green by Limpe Fuchs and Alexandra Cárdenas; and by Das Kinn and Ya Tosiba at Panke Culture.

Full lineup:

• Limpe Fuchs

Percussionist, sound-sculpture builder and pioneer sonic explorer from rural Bavaria, Limpe Fuchs' ongoing legacy expands over 6 decades. She uses her large scale self-built instruments made of metal, wood, and stone, as well as the viola and the voice creating a tapestry of sound.

• Alexandra Cárdenas

Colombian composer Alexandra Cárdenas is best known for her performances with live coding, though she has composed contemporary pieces for a variety of musical formations (orchestra, ensembles, soloists). Her work researches the algorithmic behavior of music, and musicality within code.

• Das Kinn

Toben Piel (half of the Frankfurt-based avant-garde / techno-pop duo Les Trucs) stops for a visit with a new blend of Post Punk and crisp analog electronics.

• Ya Tosiba

Azerbaijani-born Zuzu Zakaria borrows from traditional music from the region, woven into cutting edge Scandinavian electronica and hip hop, using rhymes in her native Azeri tongue, in the tradition of Meykhana (‘winehouse’) word artists, which was prohibited during the soviet regime.

Resonance Extra presents two nights of the Underground Institute Festival, which was broadcast live from Silent Green, Berlin and Panke Culture on the 8th and 9th December 2022. Sonic exploration, custom built instruments, sound art and avant-garde pop music, featuring some of the most adventurous sonic artists active today.