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

On this opening night, live performances by Ka Baird, El Khat and DJ Marcelle.

Full lineup:

• Ka Baird

Multifaceted and all-around original performer Ka Baird (RVNG Intl., NYC) is known for their diverse usage of instruments, the human body and technology, among them breathing techniques, the flute, electronics. Instagram /// Bandcamp

• El Khat (solo)

Multi-instrumentalist Eyal El Wahab (Glitterbeat Records) will be playing his self-made instruments, constructed from found materials. El Khat (named for the drug used widely across the Arab Peninsula), plays deconstructed music inspired by Yemenite sounds of the 1960s, the legacy of which Eyal grew up with in Israel. Djaja (Music Video)

• DJ Marcelle

Illustrious Dutch turntablist and collector DJ Marcelle, known for her unorthodox techniques will enchant us with a one-off special listening session, composed of a variety of musical landscapes entwined together into something uniquely original. SSFB Presents DJ Marcelle (Documentary)

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.

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.

In this episode, we get a little history, we celebrate the now, and we say a little goodbye.

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.

moving air

Rain ~ Bells

shared thoughts

Continuing our study of combining Pauline Oliveros' Sonic Meditations Pacific Tell and Energy Changes, Tarik Haskic (Slovenia) and Littoral Transmissions (UK) attempt to open up telepathic communication across time and space.

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.

The Death of Nero was performed live to air at Hoxton Hall as part of Shoreditch Festival on 1st August 2004. Music by Benedict Drew, Alfredo Genovesi, Chris Weaver, Kay Grant, Viv Corringham, Johny Brown, and others. Interlude theme: Tom Wallace. Texts and lyrics by Ed Baxter.

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.

This episode features music from IOM, BAG, Xu Shaoyang and Chelidon Frame.

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

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.

Neil Luck leads an ensemble of collaborators in a New Years Water Ritual live from Resonance Extra's studio. An offering of positive energy to all sufferers of holiday burst pipes and broken boilers. Engineered and mixed live by Milo Thesiger–Meacham.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Jessica Renee Dawson’s poem “beautiful chaos / the leaves’ quixotic dance / in autumn winds”.

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 six hour edition of Residencies, hosted by London-based composer and sound artist Stace Constantinou, investigates the extent to which sound can be considered music through a series of compositions and interviews with renowned performers, improvisers, writers, poets and thinkers including Mark Bokowiec, Rhodri Davies, Manni Dee, David Hendy, Virginia Firnberg, Jane Manning OBE, Alan Stones and Julie Wilson-Bokowiec. For a full list of compositions, visit:

http://trainofthoughtsstuff.tumblr.com/post/138414807158/sound-thoughts-words-and-music.

Sienna Mustafa is a musician from South London. Here, she presents a sound piece imitating some of the remembered soundtracks Bordello had heard among dreams. Instruments played and collated by Sienna Bordello. Includes some samples from Jonny Pyke (drums) and Anthony Boatright (guitar). You may be aware of Bordello’s work from the art rock group Black Bordello.
Apathy, Existence and Contentment

B.Rupp is a Bristol-based musician. They have a beautiful body of work released on avant-garde indie label Stay Awake, with a collection of submerged swamp sonics scaling over drive mountain, burnt out electronics. Tape Hiss galore with dubbed out delay. All the way to ambient piano works, definitely worth a listen.

Ruth Hughes is a sound artist, composer and DJ currently based between London and Sunderland. Angelus Enim is inspired by placing its language between pop-trance lyrics and transcendent religiosity. Virtually performed in the chapel by vocalists Rubie and Ciara Reddy.

Louis Grace presents Teaching Computers to Love. This is a collaborative platform for artists to develop an episode sonically with a 10-20 minute body of work.

Heart Like a Duck parts 1, 2 and 3 were recorded live at Radio V&A, 26 February 2016. Featuring Tom Graham (voice), Adam Bushell (percussion), Keiko Kitamura (bass koto), Peter Lanceley (electric guitar, voice) and Milo Thesiger-Meacham (electronics). Text: Ed Baxter. Supported by PRS for Music Foundation.

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.

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.