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Kyra Simone is a writer from Los Angeles, now based in Brooklyn. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary journals, including The Baffler, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Conjunctions, Fence, The Anthology of Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere. She is a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and part of a two-woman team running the editorial office of Zone Books.

"From the stuff we unfold in the morning and throw in the recycling bin at night, Simone coaxes the rhythms of cyclical life, that baseline on which extraordinary events and crises exert their pressure. The world she constructs is recognisable, textured, gently humorous—but also luminously, piercingly exact, possessed of the strangeness of seeing something for the first or the last time".

— Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun.

"I was hooked by the very first sentence of Kyra Simone’s Palace of Rubble: ‘A breaking wave collapses on the bank before two half-naked women on white Arabian horses.’ The sentence is so precise, down to the use of the erotic “collapses.” Plunged into this direct, clear, and mysterious arrangement of words, I was always left wondering what will happen next. Where will the next sentence take me? I was never disappointed. Simone is able to maintain and shift that propulsive curiosity throughout the book. While dancing with us, each sentence is a journey. Each story is a multi-faceted gem—a ‘beguiling dream of eternal cinema".

— John Yau, author of Genghis Chan on Drums.

"Majestic flights of fancy spun around ravaged landscapes and savage realities, these are remarkable prose poems for the 21st century".

— Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters.

"Reading Simone’s work is reminiscent of an archaeological excavation. The writing has dug to the past and emerged in the future, passing on its way those civilisations, kingdoms and palaces long since blown away or buried, it is covered in their dust. I can’t help but think, isn’t this madness? Isn’t life beautiful".

— Vanessa Onwuemezi, author of Dark Neighbourhood.

Temporary Palaces is a special triplicate of hour-long broadcasts that serialises an unabridged rendition of Kyra Simone's debut collection, Palace of Rubble (Tenement Press, 2022). Initially inspired by a photograph of one of Saddam Hussein’s demolished palaces, Simone’s Palace of Rubble is a collection of one-page stories composed primarily of single words culled each day from the front pages of the newspaper.

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.

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

This episode begins with a 40-minute guest mix from London-based musician BWU.

Having built a collection of live musical performances spanning 40 years, both found and recorded first-hand, BWU posits themselves as an apparition, transient and anonymous, an audience once-removed.

Revisited online and in solitude, these recorded, ripped and re-recorded audio files develop with their degradation a distinct, self-reflexive overlay of absence.

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.

From jet-lagged homesick soundscapes from Thailand, odes to strawberries and our lost seasons to music made out of a toilet plunger and the howls of seals this is a very jam-packed edition of Atmospheric Densities. Featuring new releases by more eaze, Gamardah Fungus and Liew Niyomkarn, a tribute to Ian Rawes in the form of his posthumous release From Dawn til Dust on Persistence of Sound.

We also give a big shout to Phil Maguire's Verz's label as it closes up shop by dipping into the label's final release by David Donohoe and David Lacey, dive into Cath Roberts piece on split via Fractal Meat Cuts. On the Flaming Pines side of things we mark the pending release of Kamran Arashnia's Bounds Elimination and dig a bit deeper into the forthcoming albums by Jonathan Higgins' and RUBBISH MUSIC.

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

In this episode, Rob tears through some of the finest in punk rock. He goes deep into the bins to put together another stellar show of everything from Corrosion of Conformity to Sick Thoughts.

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.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Natsume Sōseki’s poem “The rain is over: / South Mountain puffs out / Spring clouds".

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 episode features music by Voices of The Cosmos, David Lee Myers, Cévennes, Kasra Faridi, PLUHM, James Murray, Darja Kazimira & Zura, Makharadze, Francisco López, Yousef Kawar, J S-Horseman and Iriamu.

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

Heart Like a Duck parts 1, 2 and 3 were recorded live at Radio V&A, 26 February 2016. Featuring Tom Graham (voice), Adam Bushell (percussion), Keiko Kitamura (bass koto), Peter Lanceley (electric guitar, voice) and Milo Thesiger-Meacham (electronics). Text: Ed Baxter. Supported by PRS for Music Foundation.

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.

Amazonian Words (2017) is based on a single field recording made in the Southern Peruvian Amazon Jungle in July 2016, which is the duration of the piece. My intention is simple: to share a little of how I hear spaces like this one. This piece invites us to creatively imagine new contexts for each and every sound that we hear. To ‘compose’ with the environment as you listen. Every single place during every single minute is unique.

Karen’s compositions utilise two primary sources; acoustic instruments and everyday sounds, spaces and soundscapes. Her output is diverse - both in its approach and delivery. Her primary aim is to capture and translate the essence of an idea through any artistic means necessary.

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of fifteen short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout South America. Entitled « South American 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.

Fifteen contact improvisation practitioners – accompanied by live sound works by Rastegah and Ania Mokrzycka (Pel Bonheur) – will be dancing on the carpeted wooden floor of the Resonance Extra studio in South London, with the guidance of contact improvisation teacher and choreographer, Rick Nodine.

Contact Improvisation is a structured but improvised partner dance based on communication through touch. It is often practised in duet form but, unlike other partner dances, it does not follow gendered norms of partnering. Dancers respond to one another’s touch and move in response to that touch, making instantaneous decisions about pace, direction and momentum, and honing their skill of listening: contact dancers listen not only with their ears, but also their skin.

Tune in to immerse yourself into the soundscape of bodies colliding, lifting and being lifted, rolling, sharing weight, and practising a non-violent form of corporeal autonomy and co-operation.

Curated by Queer Kittens and Chrys Papaioannou, in collaboration with Rick Nodine, Rastegah, Milo Thesiger-Meacham and Ania Mokrzycka (Pel Bonheur).

A project broadcast live from Resonance Extra's studios on the 11th December 2022, exploring the aural dimensions of contact improvisation.. Listening through the skin, communicating through touch. What does listening through the skin sound like? What is the sound of contact improvisation?

In this episode, we journey to Powys, Mid Wales and talk with Ellis Green to explore the musical genre of Dungeon Synth. We discuss its origins, aesthetics and shed light on Ellis' new DIY cassette-based label Verdant Wisdom.

The conversation is interspersed with a selection of Dungeon synth, Forest Ambient and other like-minded sonic offerings. Featuring tracks from Mortiis, Fåntratt, Lunar Womb, Sunken Grove, USKK, Oaklimb, Winter Seer, Middlewood. Find out more about the Verdant Wisdom label.

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

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

This episode draws a big line from frantic breakbeat magic to rolling ambience.

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

This is changing slowly, and balancing work and motherhood remains a challenge. However, many women also feel a new surge of creativity during pregnancy and when entering motherhood, and there is scientific evidence suggesting that the physical changes brought on by motherhood promote a new sort of creativity.

This episode is an informal exploration of this topic, with contributions from Tatiana Kolganova, Asami Kiuchi Oishi, and Maya Felixbrodt.

Curated and produced by Leonie Roessler for Studio LOOS, with funding from the Gemeente Den Haag.

Artist and composer Leonie Roessler explores creativity during pregnancy and the postpartum period of a woman’s life, both stages traditionally disconnected with working as an artist. It has been challenging for women to secure a career in the arts and to pursue art as a profession rather than simply as a hobby. When women emancipated themselves via contraception, they could pursue artistic careers, but still, they often had to choose between their work and becoming mothers.

This episode features extracts of four pieces, listed below.

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.

For this sixth episode of his collected recordings, he presents three works:

'Hatebreaders' (2014)

This is Davide's own version of the Misfits song.

'I Can't Give You Anything But Myself' (2014)

This work is Davide's own version of the Cat Power song, 'The Greatest'. It comes with a dedication:

"To the ones I love. To the ones I hate.
I can't give you anything but myself.
Always be human. Always be you."

'You Are Here With Me (Part 1'

This is the first part of a collection of recordings made by Davide between 2005 and 2018. The recordings include interactions with acoustic spaces, actions performed with microphone(s), musical rehearsals, and reinterpretations of punk songs. The shared aspects of the recordings are human presence, non-professional voices, and musicking.

Davide Tidoni is an artist and researcher interested in the relational dimension of listening, and in the physical experience of sound. He works with live performance, intervention, audio recording, video, and guided listening. He recently published a sound ethnography on the ultras group BRESCIA 1911. 'Collected Recordings' is a series of works selected by Tidoni from his extensive back catalogue.

The idea that song, and the performance of song have some kind of efficacy or sympathy beyond the realm of living humans is an idea that lives and thrives in places far flung from this cluster of mild islands, but has gotten lost and buried in 21st century Western empiricalness. We hope this opens some windows for you.

Some liberties have been taken with interpretation; melodies swapped out, lyrics changed, structures altered, sounds invented, stories retold, truths averted.

Tracklisting:

• Phalay

Secret Reformation-era Votive Antiphon from Stoke Minster (anon).

• Lichens

Early Renaissance Invisibility Spell from England & Denmark. Adapted from The Grand Grimoire (misc., anon.)

• Evergreen

Setting of HeartKickUKTM defibrillator manual text, accompanied by vaguely traditional leaf-blowing techniques.

• Oh Great Goat

Animal Husbandry Song, (anon. Yak Herders), circa Ambleside.

• Janey Has A Friend

Folk song from the 1980s about The Enfield Poltergeist, sung to the tune of “The Bow Gallows”. The story concerns a case of a notorious poltergeist haunting in a small residential house in Enfield between 1977-1979.

A family including two young daughters (Janet was one of them) were tormented by flying objects, toppled furniture, levitations, loud banging. The ghost, who introduced himself as “Bill” spoke through Janet’s own vocal cords in a gruff, low register.

Recorded at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, and live at Cafe Oto, London, UK. Recorded, mixed, edited by Neil Luck. Cafe Oto live recordings made by kyle acab. Cover illustration by Monika Czyzyk.

Five English Folk Songs by Neil Luck & Mimi Doulton is a collection of marginal traditional singing techniques and songs dug out by Neil and Mimi. These five songs all explore magical forms of communication with non-human energies; Flora, Fauna, Deities, The Dead, and the Quasi-Dead.

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.