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Made in collaboration with clothing designer Will Bond, this second episode provides the internal soundtrack to Siverstream School, a semi-fictional, placeless High School loosely constructed from photographic material found on online archive Classorama.

Weaving through Disney soundtracks, 80s prom songs, mid-western emo, TikTok ambient and US high school game marches, a sonic internal monologue (of sorts) cogitates patriotism, style, memory, institution and the emotional, nauseating vortex of adolescence.

Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.

In this episode, some hot new tracks and a little digging through the past.

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.

The station is managed by Mark Vernon and Barry Burns and is funded through Creative Scotland’s Open Project Funding with additional support from CCA Glasgow and the Goethe-Institut.

Tonight's extract from the 2022 edition of the festival features the following artists and broadcasts:

The Concrete Acid Echo Tapes by Luke Pendrell (02:00 - 02:30am GMT)

"The Concrete Acid Echo Tapes (Dr Raypower vs. His Majesties Ludd Púca) by Dr. Raypower from Live at the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre Christmas ’92, produced by Ludd Púca. The Concrete acid echo tapes resurface buried signals, emitted by spectres now cast out. The brutal dance echoes like sonic plattenbau. Undergirds the Real with a fluid solvent."

Earthloops by Tom Scott (02:30 - 3:00am GMT)

"This work is composed of analogue material recorded in the early 80’s reimagined with recent field recordings in 2021. The work maintains the presence of looped tape material and field recordings are processed via spectral filters until eventually only the spectural shifts are present. It explores the relationships between the movements of the environmental sounds and the materiality of the processed audio.

How do you listen? Position yourself in stillness."

Solar Radio by Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz (3:00 - 5:00am GMT)

"Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz are collaborating to produce a new outdoor sound installation for Wavefarm (located in Acra NY) in 2022. The piece centers around an automated radio station that is powered by the sun. It responds to its environment and the state of the sun by playing with simple AI sound synthesis algorithms – imitating the sounds of insects, birds, frogs, the wind moving through the trees, rain falling, magnetic phenomena and various waves.

This radio piece mixes the synthetic sounds of the AI with radiophonic sounds and field recordings – featuring on-site recordings made on the land at Wavefarm. Anna Friz and Absolute Value of Noise (Peter Courtemanche) are Canadian sound and radio artists. Anna Friz creates self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation and performance. Her compositions reflect upon public media culture, ecology and infrastructure (human and extra-human, acoustic, and electro-magnetic), time perception, and various fictions. Absolute Value of Noise creates radio and outdoor installations.

He likes to work with “gadgetry” – custom turntables, lamp filaments, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, magnetic transceivers, and “little electronic brains” that observe and respond to local phenomena. His outdoor works are a comment on bio-diversity, extinction, and fragility."

Thinning of The Veil by Helena Celle (5:00 - 6:00am GMT)

"Helena Celle is a Glaswegian artist and audio engineer. She is concerned with the participatory representation of the imaginal through the organisation of sound, image and language, and currently produces an hour (or more) of original work for patrons every month. She plays guitar in the band Herbert Powell (Lost Map Records), and previously played bass guitar in the band Anxiety (La Vida Es Un Mus Records)."

Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station that broadcasts for two weeks each year from the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow – a festival exploring current trends in sound and transmission arts. The broadcast schedule features newly commissioned radio works, live performances and live studio shows, shorts and pre-recorded features, and selections from an international open call.

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.

In this episode, presenter Theo Sayers is joined by electronic musician/DJ Massive Cat Person for an hour of eclectic music. Featuring songs by Jimi Hendrix, Oscar Peterson Trio and Maria Minerva.

Electronic musician Theo Sayers transports listeners with a mix of electronic, ambient, spiritual and new age music.

This is a three hour extract from the festival, featuring sound art, computer music, homemade instruments, DIY electronics, radio play, noise, data sonification, field recordings, radio art, sound studies, historical anchor points, niches, insider tips, and different generations of Cologne's electronic and sound art landscape.

Full details and line-up: https://www.gerngesehen.de/funkt

The FUNKT programme was developed under the project management of Georg Dietzler by Anke Eckardt, Claudia Robles-Angel, Dietmar Bonnen, Dirk Specht and Felix Knoblauch, in cooperation with Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann.

Thanks to sponsors Musikfonds e. V. with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the special programme Neustart Kultur, Kunststiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Endowment for the Arts), the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.

FUNKT was a festival of electronic music and sound art from Cologne, which took place on the 16th, 17th and 18th of April 2021.

This episode features new music and sounds by X-NAVI-ET - R. IWANSKI, Room of Wires & Station Zero, TRI:.OBYTE, Silent Chaos, Pablo Ribot, Santiago Fradejas, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, Sonologyst and Dirk Serries.

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

Experimentation and collaboration with Esmé and Avel of ATATA, a vessel for live and recorded music.

In this episode, Dan Linn-Pearl has produced a montage and homage to the river Wye which flows near his home in the border town of Hay. Field recordings, hydrophone capture and improvised synthesiser sketches are broken up with audio from a film made by Friends of the Upper Wye.

This collective has organised a citizen science project to test water pollution levels and seek out solutions to reverse the decline of the river and its wildlife. In recent years, a build up of algae is threatening the ecosystem of the river. Evidence shows an increased amount of nitrates and phosphates in the water.

These are often a waste product of farming and in particular the 'run-off' from the intensive chicken farming which takes place throughout the area. Other potential causes are the increasingly inadequate sewage systems and the 'government policy' which allows raw sewage to be distributed directly into the river. For more information visit: www.fouw.org.uk.

Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts is a London-based sound art collective presenting new sound works, performances and discussions.

The compilation brings together new and recent projects by composers Olivia Block (US), Cassandra Miller (CA/UK) and Andrew Hamilton (IE/UK), with Sheen’s eponymous Croon Harvest (2021–ongoing) as a central starting point.

The programme explores music in a situated and embodied state, floating on noise and quiet sounds, peeling off from the brink of silence towards a good old sing-along. In each work, the voice occupies a different space in relation to other sounds, the body, technology, or notions of memory and tradition.

The project is part of Musarc’s work with contemporary composers and the ensemble’s commitment to new music – brittle and radical, in need of projection as well as protection and advocacy. The choir was joined by musicians from the Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.

Instrumentalists: Cara Houghton (flute), Rowan Jones (clarinet), Michelle Hromin (bass clarinet), Andrew Hamilton (viola), Andrew Liddell (viola), Rebecca Burden (cello), Steve Potter (piano).

Sound engineering and mastering by Julian Sander.

Recorded in Resonance Extra's studios on 30th April 2022, Croon Harvest is a constellation of four experimental choral works curated by Jack Sheen for Musarc.

This month: Vigil.

Moods and preoccupations in a nonlinear narrative in and out of the club with COSI and The Source of Some Certainty - created by Corinna Triantafyllidis and Henry Rodrick.

This episode explores the soundscape and experimental music scene of Cairo. It features interviews with installation artist Magdi Mostafa, electronic music producer ZULI, researcher Abla Mohamed and composer Rami Abadir.

These four guests discuss the influence of Cairo's soundscape on their work and research, the impact of the revolution on musicians, and reflect on how Cairo's experimental scene might emerge from the pandemic. This episode is produced by Luca Nasciuti who relocated from London to Cairo in 2020.

Photo: Magdi Mostafa

The Field Recording Show is a programme exploring the soundscape, recording, listening and composing hosted by Kate Carr and Luca Nasciuti.

In this episode, an hour of power closes out the show in the form of a guest mix from the incomparable Kindohm, and plenty of old, new and forthcoming electronic and computer music from all over the place. RIP Mika Vainio.

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

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Mark Miller’s poem “sudden breeze / every strand of the spider’s web / in tune”.

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.

Ensemble Musica Nova is an Israel-based collective of musicians, composers and artists, collaboratively exploring the vast terrain of experimental music and contemporary sound.They are working together to expand the borders of the medium and enrich the dialogue between music and the fields of arts, technology and science.

The live recording of this episode took place in Schocken6, Tel-Aviv, featuring ensemble Ensemble Musica Nova (Maayan Tzdaka, Orr Sinay, Yifeat Ziv, Adi Snir) and Hagai Izenberg.

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.

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

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

This episode is In the South of an Imaginary Island: Movement 2.

"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 played in January and this second half plays 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

In this episode, Chris Bohn plays tracks by Langham Research Centre & John Butcher, Camae Ayewa, Lydia Lunch, AGF, and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

In this edition, a recording of an improvised work performed live on the 6th November 2021 by Sanbonya (三本矢) featuring Neil Luck (synth, vocals), Chihiro Ono (violin, vocals) and Alex Paxton (trombone).

One-off live broadcasts from Resonance Extra's South London studios.

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

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.