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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.

This episode is entirely dedicated to international female producers.

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

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.

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

All music in this episode is by f.ampism.

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

In this extract from the day, a live solo performance by Chihiro Ono

Born in Chiba, Japan, Chihiro Ono is a London-based Japanese sound artist and violinist specialising in chamber music, experimental music and sound art.

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.

Score for Open Heart Surgery on Charlie Watts was commissioned by and recorded live at Radiophrenia, CCA, Glasgow, on the 16th April 2015. Thanks to Barry Burns and Mark Vernon. It features Tam Dean Burn (voice), Ed Baxter (bass, music box), Peter Lanceley (electric guitar, voice), Kim Moore (viola), Michael Umney (electric guitar), and Mark Vernon (electronics, objects, etc). Text by Ed Baxter.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, engineers, sound-effects creators, actors, writers, composers and broadcasters devoted to making live radio-art. It is based in central London as the in-house artistic wing of Resonance104.4fm, under the direction of Ed Baxter.

In this episode: walking along the shore listening to fairport convention whilst avoiding violent men.

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.

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 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.

Sound collage, record spinning, havering, ear wonk and general head scratch with Dylan Nyoukis of the Chocolate Monk label.

This second episode is focused on the musical/sonic use of sonance. More about this here.

A monthly collection of audio experiments and listening objects with sound artist Matt Burnett from Berlin.

In this episode, Phil England presents music by Asher Gamedze, Miles Okazaki, Pauline Oliveros, Algiers, Keith & Julie Tippett, Coultrain, Katie Kim and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

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.