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This episode features new music by Henrik Meierkord, Stephono-ZIP, Jakob and Michael Grunditz, Michael Valentine West, The Great Old Ones, Infame Esposito, Loo(p)cy, and Quartz Locked.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

In this episode, Michael from the North Bay presents an array of hardore, noise, and skramz.

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.

Mirror Transmission is a long form work basing itself on extensive repetition of small musical fragments derived from piano recordings and sine waves.

It is designed for meditative or attentive listening and explores a number of sonic polarities over the course of its duration, including the stereo field, temporal constructs, dynamics and harmonic symmetry.

Daniel W J Mackenzie produces work that explores various notions of listening to music and sound, combining composition, improvisation, non-musical sound and field recordings. Despite a broad range of tools and processes, there are consistencies in the nuances with which the work is constructed and presented, and the substantial presence of deep emotion and atmosphere.

As a sound artist he has been presented internationally, working with sound sculpture, multichannel sound, sound collage and conceptual visual art, in installations and exhibitions that refine the approaches towards noise, quietude and melody that define his released music.

Presented by Outlands, The Joyous Thing 3 is an annual gathering for the UK experimental music community and anyone with a curious ear. 2022's event featured an in person programme at MK Gallery, with newly commissioned works by Coby Sey, TACO!, ame, Lost Property, Eastern Ear, MK Gallery/Simon Wright, Tor Festival, Daniel W G Mackenzie, and Lukas Hornby; and live performances from emerging artists I Am Fya and Euso, plus DJ sets from Outlands members.

Illusive radio show hosted by Euso, playing a large selection of dream-style tracks centred around virtuality.

Euso (Talyn Sandhu) is an experimental AV student and artist. His work often centres around futurism and apophenia. He often
looks at the intersections between our reality and virtuality in order to craft affective sound works.

Presented by Outlands, The Joyous Thing 3 is an annual gathering for the UK experimental music community and anyone with a curious ear. 2022's event featured an in person programme at MK Gallery, with newly commissioned works by Coby Sey, TACO!, ame, Lost Property, Eastern Ear, MK Gallery/Simon Wright, Tor Festival, Daniel W G Mackenzie, and Lukas Hornby; and live performances from emerging artists I Am Fya and Euso, plus DJ sets from Outlands members.

I Am Fya is an experimental artist from Manchester, based in Brighton, UK. Her music brings together low-end textures with collaged field recordings, referencing sound system culture and notions of belonging, through lyrical narratives delivered in her febrile vocal style.

Her recent work collects sound from her homeland, Barbados, and focuses on identity, culture, spiritual connections to land and ancestors, radical self-love, the power of chosen family, otherness, and acceptance.

She also DJ’s and hosts regular radio shows on local Brighton stations Slack City & 1BTN.

Presented by Outlands, The Joyous Thing 3 is an annual gathering for the UK experimental music community and anyone with a curious ear. 2022's event featured an in person programme at MK Gallery, with newly commissioned works by Coby Sey, TACO!, ame, Lost Property, Eastern Ear, MK Gallery/Simon Wright, Tor Festival, Daniel W G Mackenzie, and Lukas Hornby; and live performances from emerging artists I Am Fya and Euso, plus DJ sets from Outlands members.

This is a show where artists based in Calderdale and Kirklees nominate each other to create a mixtape of new and local sound. Put together by Sophie Cooper, Todmorden based promoter of Tor Festival.

Presented by Outlands, The Joyous Thing 3 is an annual gathering for the UK experimental music community and anyone with a curious ear. 2022's event featured an in person programme at MK Gallery, with newly commissioned works by Coby Sey, TACO!, ame, Lost Property, Eastern Ear, MK Gallery/Simon Wright, Tor Festival, Daniel W G Mackenzie, and Lukas Hornby; and live performances from emerging artists I Am Fya and Euso, plus DJ sets from Outlands members.

Eastern Ear is a community organisation led by a small group of Norfolk-based artists, musicians and improvisers.

Focused on celebrating, promoting and producing improvised and spontaneous music, Eastern Ear aim to bring new music to the region and to provide opportunities for artists and the wider community to participate in sonic art activity, from education to performance.

Alongside many one-off and bespoke projects, our core programme consists of the live programme series, Plink Plonk, the twice-monthly free improvisation community group, The Plank and producing Yarmonics festival of sound and new music with partners, originalprojects.

Margin Archive comprises music from the deepest corners of rural Norfolk, celebrating the work of artists and musicians working outside of towns and cities. Featuring field recordings, found sounds, recorded music, speech.

Presented by Outlands, The Joyous Thing 3 is an annual gathering for the UK experimental music community and anyone with a curious ear. 2022's event featured an in person programme at MK Gallery, with newly commissioned works by Coby Sey, TACO!, ame, Lost Property, Eastern Ear, MK Gallery/Simon Wright, Tor Festival, Daniel W G Mackenzie, and Lukas Hornby; and live performances from emerging artists I Am Fya and Euso, plus DJ sets from Outlands members.

A group composition of haunted sound-geographies by Hannah Lamb, David Carpenter, Stu Bannister & Lukas Hornby.

Using un-treated and modified field recordings produced with open source software we assemble a kind-of history of Altar Lane, which delineates two historical landed-estates between Bingley and Keighly in West Yorkshire.

Altar Lane has many contemporary leisure usages and has followed agricultural and industrial developments over the last two centuries. This provides rich fodder for conversation, rich-fantasy and documentary all of which are combined into this piece commissioned by Outlands Network for radio broadcast.

David Carpenter has a background in community radio and creates music as The Argent Grub often using found sounds, and loud guitars.

Stu Bannister has performed indoors and outdoors around Leeds/Bradford and the UK for 20-odd years, once as a member of the prog-punk band Quack QUack and since as a solo noise-maker and collaborator. Recent projects have included performing noisy aquatic sounds abnoard Ben Cummins’ Piano Raft as it descended the FIve Rise Locks, contributing to the Folklore Tapes Compilations, and a duo with guitarist Dean McPhee called Rederator.

Lukas Hornby performs solo drone, turntable, and sampled percussion as GRST. He began 2022 with a number of firsts, self-releasing his debut EP on bandcamp and his first physical release on a compilation of drone with label Difficult Art and Music. Musically he likes to explore textures, long-form narratives, and esoteric synthesis.

Hannah Lamb is an artist, lecturer and author, interested in the role textiles can play in capturing a sense of time and place. She lives and works in Bingley, West Yorkshire.

Presented by Outlands, The Joyous Thing 3 is an annual gathering for the UK experimental music community and anyone with a curious ear. 2022's event featured an in person programme at MK Gallery, with newly commissioned works by Coby Sey, TACO!, ame, Lost Property, Eastern Ear, MK Gallery/Simon Wright, Tor Festival, Daniel W G Mackenzie, and Lukas Hornby; and live performances from emerging artists I Am Fya and Euso, plus DJ sets from Outlands members.

A look at artists past and present that take direct inspiration from the sounds of their own bodies.

Lost Property is an arts collective based in Brighton. They formed in 2013 as members of DIY collectives and nights such as Spirit of Gravity, Safehouse and Splitting the Atom joined forces to produce the site-specific sound art festival Fort Process.

Since then they have put on film seasons, all-day experimental music events, a concert series celebrating composers, electronics workshops, and a big load of gigs.

Presented by Outlands, The Joyous Thing 3 is an annual gathering for the UK experimental music community and anyone with a curious ear. 2022's event featured an in person programme at MK Gallery, with newly commissioned works by Coby Sey, TACO!, ame, Lost Property, Eastern Ear, MK Gallery/Simon Wright, Tor Festival, Daniel W G Mackenzie, and Lukas Hornby; and live performances from emerging artists I Am Fya and Euso, plus DJ sets from Outlands members.

Petit Oiseau - Jatinder Singh Durhailay and Suren Seneviratne - brings together rare classical Indian string instruments played by Jatinder known as the Dilruba and the Taus, unusually combined with Seneviratne’s interests in alternate tunings and numerology through custom patches built on a E-MU Command Station digital synthesiser.

Since forming in 2012, the duo has performed at venues including Tate Modern, V&A Museum, The Design Museum, Camden Art Centre and RichMix.

This show presents a mix of tracks from their recent album (released on Poetic Pastel Press) alongside new work created especially for the OUTLANDS takeover.

Presented by Outlands, The Joyous Thing 3 is an annual gathering for the UK experimental music community and anyone with a curious ear. 2022's event featured an in person programme at MK Gallery, with newly commissioned works by Coby Sey, TACO!, ame, Lost Property, Eastern Ear, MK Gallery/Simon Wright, Tor Festival, Daniel W G Mackenzie, and Lukas Hornby; and live performances from emerging artists I Am Fya and Euso, plus DJ sets from Outlands members.

An immersive psychosonic space, where sounds converse, collide and converge, featuring works, selections, edits, experiments, new music, non-music, archival objects, abstract artefacts, sound(system) and A/V art, pop, trash, noise, voice, and the associated mediums, processes and techniques that make up the ongoing audial investigations of Agents of the Culture Industry & OVT, all presented for art not profit.

"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.

In this episode: we’ll continue to broadcast the live recordings of the Festival Novas Frequencias 7th Edition that happened in Rio last December. This time, with Gabriela Mureb, Sanannda Acácia and Luisa Lembrgruber live at Audio Rebel.

And more: Death Raving, new record of Epilepsia, a peculiar collection of experiments mixing harsh noise, drone interludes, guitar solos and some irregular beats. Plus, the first release by SPIO (São Paulo Improvisers Orchestra), Conduction BR#5, edited in 2017 by Sê-lo, netlabel from Salvador, Bahia.

Investigations of the Brazilian experimental music scene via Rio De Janeiro's Quintavant label in collaboration with Audio Rebel. With live performances and exploratory sounds produced in the context of Brazil's strange political situation, curated by Francisco Mazza, Bernando Oliveira and Pedro Azevedo.

In the third episode, Happened presents Lien-Cheng Wang, a Taiwanese artist who was in residence at Music Hackspace from the 13th of August to the 2nd of September, 2018.

Lucia H Chung – artist in residence at Music Hackspace – presents a four part series showcasing artists from Taiwan who work with sound.

In this episode: Anna and Kristina of the Stoscha label discuss crafting a compilation, the process of collaboration and the advantages of co-ordinating their operations from their respective homes of Frankfurt, Germany and Malmö, Sweden. Also: a playlist of voices.

Thematic mixes and reflections, captured along the Dorset coastline by ATTN:Magazine's Jack Chuter.

A selection of the most vibrant and exciting new sounds of Latin America's emerging talents.

This episode was compiled in loving memory of Rowan Forestier Walker (Embla Quickbeam) and features her recordings throughout.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Kobayashi Issa’s poem “New Year’s Day– / that I’m still on this journey / unbelievable”.

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 show features original music by the Or Rimer and additional samples and sounds provided by Alex Sesper, Tamar Hirschfeld and Maya landsamann.

Rimer, born in 1986, is a musician and composer based in Tel Aviv who plays in several bands and works with a variety of artists, including video and film makers, choreographers, and visual and performance artists, for whom he creates original scores and soundscapes. He also trains soccer teams.

Radio Concrete by **Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show focusing on live mixing and processing of field recordings together with contemporary music and soundscapes.

Tracks from across the spectrum of electronic and computer music, with Calum Gunn of Conditional.

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

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

This episode is In the South of an Imaginary Island: Movement 1.

"I have an imaginary island. As part of a Groundworks project, I made a walk around the south of my island. As per the project instructions I walked between randomly chosen stopping points, each with associated ‘prompt’ words. The result is this sound work; this first half plays in January and the second half will play in February. More details, the associated text and a concertina-fold book can be viewed here."

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

This show is dedicated to Mimi Zhu’s Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection (2022), a collection of essays about embodying and re-learning love, mixed with some gorgeous gems from the past, the present and the future.

"Be Not Afraid of Love explores the intersections of love and fear in self-esteem, friendship, family dynamics, and romantic relationships, and extends out to its effects on society and the greater political realm. In sharing their own intimate encounters with oppression, healing, joy, and community, Mimi invites readers to reflect deeply on their own experiences as well, with the intention of acting as a guide to undoing the hurt or uncertainty within them. In this heartrending and revolutionary book, Mimi reminds us, be not afraid of love."

Artwork: Ana Mendieta Imagen de Yagul from Silueta Series, Mexico, 1973-77. Estate prints 1991. Color photographs (1948-1985) Private collection. Nevada Art Museum.

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

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