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

In this episode, Jennifer plays songs from her top ten releases from 2022.

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.

In this episode, Radio Picnic travels with the pioneers of Asian experimental music.

Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

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.

In this episode, Nicola presents the first of a series of special episodes dedicated - individually - to London-based artists. This time, it's Ben Vince, talented saxophonist and producer. An insight of his latest release 'Assimilation' out on Where to Now? including interview with Ben himself talking about the release as well as his musical approach, release concept and more.

'Assimilation' out on Where to Now? records

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

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.

Three thoughts in relation to an upcoming performance.

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

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

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

In this extract from the day, a live duet by Steven J. Fowler and Benedict Taylor.

Steven J. Fowler is a contemporary English poet, writer and avant-garde artist, and founder of the European Poetry Festival. He recorded his debut novella MUEUM in the Resonance Extra studio, which was recently broadcast as a series. Benedict Taylor is a solo violist, violinist and composer.

Archival recordings of a 7-hour radio event broadcast live from the Resonance Extra studios on the 29th January 2023, featuring live performances and new and exclusive audio works.

In this episode, a special guest mix by Kindohm, whose album "RISC Chip" is released on Conditional in December. Forward-thinking electronic and computer music is, as always, the order of the day, with tracks from Renick Bell, Swan Meat, PHOENE, Eric Frye, rkss and many more.

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

In this first episode: new hit sound (John Cage - Radio Music 1956).

• audio / visual decomposer Lepke B posits the question - "How will we live in the 21st Century?"

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 features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Yossarian’s poem “winter dawn / all forest paths / are mistakes”.

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 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.

In this episode, Meg Woof plays tracks by King Vision Ultra, James Brandon Lewis, N O Moore, The Sensory Illusions, Cleo Reed, Benoit, Derya Yıldırım, Širom, aya, Matthew Shipp & Ivo Perelman, Tony Buck & Gianni Gebbia and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

In this episode: a love letter to pedagogy, alphabets, abjabs, syllabaries and also that time Usher went on Sesame Street, featuring Arabic, Tuvan, Inuktitut, Finnish, Mongolian, Bulgarian, Hopi, English, Colville-Okanagan Salish, Klallam and Māori music, not necessarily in that order.

With grateful respect to the elders of those nations and tribes keeping tongues burning, and the youth who learn.

Weekly compositions, sketches and motifs by Anastasia Freygang.

Field recordings, experimental narration, ragamash mixes, big time polyrhythmics including fantasy language and hearsay from IRL and the World Wide Web.