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Grab a warm glass of sherry and settle in for an Xmas special. A midwinter mix of contributions to the recent Radiant Heretic Potlatch winter solstice event at the Rossi Bar, Brighton - featuring: Othermen, Sirius, and Their Majesties Lüdd Puka .

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

Here they present Suspension of Belief, a piece for rock-climber, writer, field recordings, music. Suspension of Belief combines live rock-climbing with text and sound (both musical and incidental) in a specifically radiophonic work made for the pan-European series Intimacy and Distance.

While boulder-champion Gaz Parry takes his friend Kate Mills up the forbidding cliff face of the Col d'Ifac in Alicante, veteran soloist Jim Perrin meditates on the meaning of rock climbing from a studio in France. Gaz can't hear Jim. Jim can't hear Gaz. The two meet only in radio, on an equal footing with the production team and the listener. Conceived and produced by Ed Baxter and Chris Weaver. Engineers: Nick Hamilton (London), Bob Drake (Caudeval). Music: Max O'Brien. Announcer: Richard Thomas. Mixdown: Michael Sinden.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, engineers, sound-effects creators, actors, writers, composers and broadcasters devoted to making live radio-art. It is based in central London as the in-house artistic wing of Resonance104.4fm, under the direction of Ed Baxter.

Here they present a recording of ‘Gaddafi in Hythe’ live at Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts, for Radiophrenia, 2017.

Ed Baxter (electronics, text), Tam Dean Burn (voice), Peter Lanceley (guitar, voice), Milo Thesiger-Meacham (electronics, other instruments).

Commissioned as part of Radiophrenia’s two week long radio broadcasts, brought to you live from their studio at CCA Glasgow. Funded through Creative Scotland’s Open Project Funding with additional support from CCA Glasgow and Outset Scotland.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, engineers, sound-effects creators, actors, writers, composers and broadcasters devoted to making live radio-art. It is based in central London as the in-house artistic wing of Resonance104.4fm, under the direction of Ed Baxter.

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

This episode features music from Hokkett, Lamia, Ruido, Pinna, Larix, Stephen Shiell, theskyisthinasapaperhere, Ben Vince and more.

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

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.

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