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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.

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.

Conceived as a diffused oratorio that crosses over between the city and the domain of radio broadcasts, Zoom conversations and the space of the book, The End of the World Service sees the body of the choir endure a modern-day tarantism of colour and sound in the streets and open spaces of the old town.

First, composer Neil Luck (UK) taps into the double trope of the city as a film set and traditional locus of mystery plays with three short tableaus populated by props, choral extras, a wind band and onlookers who happen across the scene at night, pining for a view of the surreal action playing out in the yellow light of Taranto’s street lanterns.

Then, Joseph Kohlmaier (UK/AT) takes the audience on a slow-moving choral procession that ambulated through the narrow streets of the old city, a remorseful, humming and mumbling crowd carried along by the sound of the drums and steel instruments of the Complesso Bandistico Città di Crispiano, culminating in a choral and communal recital of a libretto written for the occasion by members of the ensemble.

The End of the World Service is part of Bodies as Infrastructures – a season of events and performances staged in the city of Taranto by curatorial platform Post Disaster Rooftops. With new works by Aga Beaupré (PL), Mela Boev (IT), Marie Hamilton (UK), Joseph Kohlmaier (AT/UK), Neil Luck (UK), Sara Rodrigues (PT).

Musarc is one of the UK’s most progressive choral collectives. Founded by Joseph Kohlmaier at the School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University in 2008. The choir has collaborated with Jennifer Walshe, Lin Chiwei, Laure Provost, Ed Atkins, Jenny Moore, Lina Lapelytė, Sam Belinfante, Fritz Hauser, Neil Luck and many others.

It has worked with numerous festivals and arts organisations in the UK and abroad – including the BBC Proms, London Contemporary Music Festival, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the Royal Academy, CCA Goldsmiths, Museum of London, Extra City (Antwerp), Serpentine Gallery, MK Gallery, Wysing Polyphonic, STUK (Leuwen) Cafe OTO, Bold Tendencies and Whitechapel Gallery.

A series of live performances in Taranto, Italy, on the 27th May 2022 by choral collective, Musarc. Featuring Neil Luck and Joseph Kohlmaier in collaboration with Post Disaster Rooftops.

In this episode, Dronica meets Robbie Judkins, who has created a mix for the show.

Robbie Judkins is a composer, performer and DJ. He works under the name Left Hand Cuts off the Right; an outlet for exploratory methods and composition mixing zither, repetition, noise, bent electronics, piano and field recordings. He is the host of Parallax View on Threads Radio and creator of Animal Sounds on Resonance FM. His work has been featured in the ICA, Barbican, Wire Magazine, Cafe Oto, NTS, Whitechapel Gallery, Brachliegen Tapes and more.

The programme is a selection of sound and music that remain a source of inspiration and intrigue, have recently brought me joy or solace or have been made by those close to me. Traditional music, cyclical riffs, crackling and humming ambient, shining and shimmering noise, vast dub, pensive harmonies, strange grooves and more. Including Anne Briggs, Laaraji, Black to Comm, Lee Perry, Autopsy, Junior Kimbrough and more.

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

In this episode, Erika Elizabeth brings you more shattered sounds.

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.

welcome to walkplacedistancetime

my exploration of embodied movement, walking, movement in place, in air, distance through time.

today’s episode is No. 1: trace – in a lead mine and on the fellside above the mine – whilst following the route of the underground passages - the same route two different walks.

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

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Isabel del Rio’s poem “Music’s everywhere: / the sea, the wind, the rain, the / storm, the raging fire.”

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.

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).

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.

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.

This episode of Third Space features Suny and Ikea Customer Service. The first half of the show sees Suny pay homage to the natural spaces and creatives that make them feel close to the city.

In the second portion of the show, Ikea Customer Service explores what Oslo has meant to them since moving to the capital mid-pandemic.

In their own words: "This is a very simple solipsistic mix in the end; a mix of field recordings from long pram walks, bus rides and lullabies, some songs I’ve written to stay sane, and some songs of others that have kept us afloat. And lots of our daughter being a massive beacon of light."

Artwork by Fiona Filipidis.

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

A Looperama smorgasbord, where mystery abounds! Unknown sounds and a mystery guest!

Commencing with some unidentified library music (aka production or stock music)... Bright and upbeat melody with urgent and propulsive beats, just right for the modern ear... neither alive or completely dead.

Featuring a segment of Offrandes for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra (1921) by Edgard Varese superimposed with random found (Professor Pyg?) radio broadcasts and fragments, some eerie music from a Halloween sound effects compact disc, other sonic snippets intersperse around the thudding ostinato of Electric Lady (1973 ) by Geordie, a British rock band from Newcastle, most notably active in the 1970s.

Geordie line-up included: Vic Malcolm (lead guitar), Tom Hill (bass guitar), Brian Gibson (drums) and Brian Johnson (lead vocals).

To conclude, a surprise appearance from a mystery guest ...guess who! With music that you can dance to, - whatever wavelength you're on!

Lepke B's blissful disregard for the sacred in life has placed him as one of the testcard knights with a totally unique approach to sound plunderphonics and visual art.

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.

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.

In this episode: lust infirmity, filth, and more of the decadent deceased.

An inner city dance grotto for self-expression.