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This episode is dedicated to the Prodigy (Albert Johnson) of Mobb Deep & Pierre Henry.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

A nine-part retrospective of the first five seasons of the Radia network’s epochal (and on-going) radio art series. Assembled by Lee Stapleford.

In this episode, Jay Glass-Dubs takes over.

A dense pathway to silence that allows no moments of recollection in its development. A crackle in time, reflected as a glimpse of memory. A layout of my practice dispersed and presented as a radio broadcast. An inside joke with myself when no one’s really laughing. Every sound played at once. Recorded in Athens, Spring 2018.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

RöstiBrücke 2023 is the second part of an annual series of trans-linguistic-regional music exchanges in Switzerland.

Initiated right after the pandemic, this dialogue in performance and sound arts builds bridges between venues and artists. Cave12 and the Walcheturm pioneered by taking part in 2022.

For this 2023 edition, we managed to break through the Gotthard with Oggimusica and Foce in Lugano. We were also able to establish a trans-Jurassic connection with Centre Culturel ABC in La-Chaux-de-Fonds and Kaserne in Basel with Klappfon.

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

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

This episode features a guest mix by George Coggan. Entitled Larger, the mix explores vastness and vacuity, everything and nothing, playing with ideas of media consumption, human experience and, at times, deep listening; constructing then engulfing itself into a narrative devoid of beginning, middle and end.

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.

Getting close to the 100th iteration of the show, episode 1 is now more than 7 years ago, back in January 2016, and it's been a wild monthly ride ever since.

This episode features a bunch of discrepancies, opening with the new album by Marc Codsi, a track by yours truly and a beautifully discordant composition by Babau, from a tape we will release very very soon!

For now, enjoy the wild random rides to shores you should know by now.

Discrepancies is a global showcase of disparate music with a focus on earthly field recordings and international sounds, curated by the Discrepant record label, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso.

"Commissioned to make some pieces for Radio Art Zone, I took the opportunity to return to the rich and idiosyncratic voice of Irish story teller and farmer Willie Carr, who I'd first met at the epochal Hearsay Festival in Kilfinane, Ireland, in 2014. To my mind, his is the voice of a singular locale, the embodiment of a landscape, a particular place and time, imaginatively recast in these four lop-sided contemporary fairy tales" - Ed Baxter

Originally commissioned by Hearsay International Audio Festival, revised versions made for Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture. Thanks to Knut, Sarah, Mathilde and Necef at RAZ; to Daniela Gargiulo; and, for their encouragement, Kersten Glandien, Anthony Moore, Milo Thesiger-Meacham and Jim Whelton. Special thanks to Diarmuid and Willie, of course.

• Fifth Sketch for Ascent and Descent (29.48)

• The DCI (First Sketch for Larry Shipping) (30.30)

• The Devil’s Gift (Heart Like a Duck, Part 1) (22.50)

• The Ghost of Prehen House (Heart like a Duck, Part 2) (27.30)

Four Folk Tales for Radio (featuring Willie Carr). Voice: Willie Carr. Concept, text, sound design, montage by Ed Baxter. Recording engineer: Diarmuid McIntyre.

In this episode, Greg and Angus Go Ballooning by Greg Hooper:

"This piece is made from recordings taken on a balloon trip my son Angus and I did in Goreme, Turkey in 2011. Such a beautiful time away. Goreme is one of the world's great ballooning sites and there were many balloons in the air with us during that early morning ride. It was our first time in a balloon and the sense of wonder was high, as was the awareness of just how high we were. Fear and wonder, every sense alert. Wonderful."

Greg Hooper was born in Adelaide in 1957 and is an artist and sound designer. His recent work has been collaborating with Waanyi artist Judy Watson, providing sound design and general media savvy for her video and installation work – exhibited at Ikon in Birmingham; National Gallery Canberra for Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial; lots of places. Meeting and working with Indigenous artists has been a profound and humbling experience.

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout Central Asia. Entitled Central Asia PhoNographic Mornings this series for Resonance Extra forms part of a wider project, Each Morning of the World, which invites sound artists, composers and recordists globally to share their own specific point of listening, either through a raw field recording or original composition.

This episode brings together a set of musical sketches composed of semi-meaningful audio messages (such as the piece the name of the show is deriving from) on WhatsApp/Telegram and a few ideas/demos to be sold/exchanged (these sadly were unsuccessful…) on the DarkNet markets of music production and sound design.

On a personal note, this monthly practice of creating an hour long musical piece (must note last two including this one is very poor in terms of composition as they were made in great hurry and with limited resources) was a meaningful way of not-entirely-forgetting about some material which I knew wouldn’t make it to any album under any alias and otherwise would be lost in the oblivion of my external hard drives and my stupid mind.

However, finishing the last piece, I realised this time in a regressive manner, this mix inspired the missing and last piece of the trilogy of albums and a number of visual and literary pieces I have been working on for some time now. Given my rather personal relationship with Nick Drake (even considering the references on the previous album), I again am reminded how magical Lyfe really can be hearing him sing the words I wrote for a friend and didn’t even realise that the hyper-fiction after all did bleed into reality as a message on WhatsApp. Though I must confess, hearing it during our morning tea, my mum felt rather sorry for the Poor Boy :-)

Lastly, as ever, this mix too includes some modular sketches as well. These were inspired by Coil’s ‘Time Machines’ - However must note these stupid ass things didn’t work (yet).

Musical sketches by ENGLAND'S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS is a monthly mix of curation, recompilation and pseudepigrapha.

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

This episode features an experimental mix by sound artist, composer, and producer Michel Banabila (1961).

Banabila has released music since 1983 and has produced musical scores for numerous films, documentaries, theatre plays and choreographies.

His music varies from minimal loop-based electronica, fourth world, and neoclassical pieces, to drones, experimental ambient, and punk-as-fuck tape music. His work has been released internationally by labels like Bureau B (DE), Eilean Rec (FR), Knekelhuis (NL), and Séance Centre (CA).

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

This episode features a guest mix by Berk Icli.

Injazero Records founder Siné Buyuka plays a selection of electronic, experimental, ambient and contemporary classical tracks.

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.

In this episode, Emily Bick plays Laraaji & Kramer, People Like Us with Ergo Phizmiz & Gwilly Edmondes, Neil Luck & Mimi Doulton, THX1312, Me:You, Inga Copeland, Wobbly, Lary 7, African Headcharge, Mieko Kaji 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.