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Paul Rekret presents excerpts from Amplification / Annihilation: In Sonic Defiance of Extinction, which took place at Cafe Oto on Sunday 20th August 2017. Featuring radio works by Leah Barclay (AUS), Robin Buckley (UK), Kate Carr (UK), Minerva Cuevas (MEX), Graciela Muñoz Farida (CHL), Anja Kanngieser and Polly Stanton (UK/AUS), Andrea Polli (MEX), Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (CAN), Ziibiwan (CAN).

IDS residents Louis Sterling and Jamie Moore mix a selection of diverse IDM and Ambient music featuring well known and independent artists. First listen to a new track from Mote (Jamie Moore) at the end of the show.

ID Spectral is a multi-disciplinary record label and arts collective, showcasing the spectrum of innovative creative identities worldwide.

A 22-hour radio project in 7 episodes by Milo Thesiger–Meacham. An unnamed narrator moves house and pieces together a world of recording devices, names, crime, real-world characters and media from across the globe, featuring 10-second audio extracts from over 6000 individual videos found online, original sound recordings, music, hand-held camera audio and writing. Commissioned by the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022 for the temporary radio art station Radio Art Zone. Follow Fox Neame for more.

Where the Dead Voices Gather is an indeterminate process driven radio experiment that uses the book 'Where The Dead Voices Gather' by Nick Tosches as its starting point.

Songs are chosen from a series of libraries based on the structure of a haiku. Each show has 17 songs / sounds therefore each show represents a sonic haiku.

Where the Dead voices gather is exploring the sonic potentials of written text and the indeterminate.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

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.

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:

• Daniel Green

Daniel Green is an artist and educator. His artistic practice explores the objects and media we use to occupy our time, and how they are used to give our lives meaning. Daniel’s work has been exhibited within Campbelltown Arts Centre, Firstdraft, Pelt, Artspace and BUS Projects, and has performed at Electrofringe, The Now Now Festival, Liquid Architecture, Cementa and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

• Audio Obscura

Since 2014 Neil Stringfellow has released music as Audio Obscura - covering a variety of musical themes that touch on ambient, electronics and more experimental soundscapes. Audio Obscura albums have included a post-classical 'Anthropocene Trilogy' based on spoken word pieces around climate change, soundtracking the dystopia of George Orwells' 1984 novel, field recording in rural Norfolk Churches and recently a collaboration with a post-rock group themed around the NASA Voyager missions.

• Leon Clowes

Leon Clowes is a transdisciplinary artist that messes about with his lived trauma for artistic endeavour. He started in music and sound and now does all sorts. Wherever. In music/sound, these days, he mostly tries for quiet and peaceable stuff but does occasionally revisit pounding queer past.

• Encym & George Crowley

Encym explores un-guitaristic territory by layering, collaging and shaping improvised loops. Fused with polyrhythmic beats and noises to become cinematic, atmospheric, otherworldly ambiences, their grittiness owing to the many years Roland was based in London. George Crowley is a saxophonist, clarinettist, composer and promoter based in London. As a performer he is active across a range of styles, with improvisation at the heart of his work.

• Simon McCorry

Born in London to mixed Indian/British heritage, Simon studied music at The Centre for Young Musicians and Morley College, then philosophy at Durham University, and is now based in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Simon has worked as a composer & sound designer in theatre, film & contemporary dance. His recent work is a combination of loop-based cello compositions and atmospheric improvisations, field recordings and modular synth.

• Manja Ristić

Manja Ristić is a violinist, sound artist, published poet, curator and researcher. She graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Music (2001) and was awarded a PGDip as a Solo/Ensemble Recitalist from the Royal College of Music, London (2004). As a classical solo and chamber musician as well as a composer and an improv musician Manja has performed all across Europe and the US, and has been involved in collaborations with established conductors and performers, multimedia artists, poets, theatre and movie directors.

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 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.

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.

To celebrate the release of Sofheso’s new LP on the label, in this episode Joe & Alex relive part of the night spent with Sofheso in Tokyo’s Forest Limit club, by playing the recording of his live set from this event. The recording is bookended by varied selections from Joe & Alex.

A selection of experimental frequencies, interviews and sessions plus cuts from the First Terrace label by Alex Ives (Specimens) and Joe Summers.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

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

This episode explores the use of rhythm in improvised music, and how we’ve been looking to it to inform and alter our approach to music making. We have a release coming up on Discreet Archive (Instagram) of quieter and more reflective pieces.

As always for collaborations, invitations, or jubilation its hello@subphonics.com

Quarterly noise from SubPhonics exploring themes of collaborative sound and performance.