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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.

London-based art, music and architecture writer Bobby Jewell plays a selection of ambient, jazz and classical music over two hours.

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.

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.

minusSPAMminus (SPAM 6) is a work made for radio and of spam facts, + and - regarding spam, personal stories triggered by spam in a material, non-material, historical and emotional manner, all assembled by Jasmina Al-Qaisi and Ralf Wendt with their invited friends and collaborators who decided to respond to the email they sent with the word SPAM in the subject.

This radio work arises from an invitation from Afrika Diva Collectif in Kinshasa and uses a non-linear approach to documentary, creating a circular audio collage with voices and audio accounts of daily life disturbances. We asked everyone and ourselves: how can life minus spam be? What would a life without spam look like?

Participants: Orakle Ngoy, Sara Ndele and Gina Ndaya (Afrika Diva Collectif); Claire Serres, Abir Tawakalna, Pati Sayuri, Beya Othmani, Ali, Nico and Lav (CUTRA pop feminist magazine); Henrik Nieratschker, Gustavo Mendez and Maria Karpushina (Research and Waves); Parveda Chandra Kiran, Özge Açıkkol and Seçil Yersel (odaprojesi group); Heidi Salaverria, Alexandru Udrea-Raj, Tina Klatte, Simona Constantin, Cristina Bogdan, Mriganka Madhukaillya, Sebastian Gerstengarbe, Alexander Klose, and Schnelle Musikalische Hilfe. Translations by Clara Brandt and Elsa Westreicher.

Audio collage (2021) by Jasmina Al-Qaisi and Ralf Wendt with Afrika Diva Collectif.

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.

Here they present a recording of The Death of Kodak, live at The Cockpit Theatre for Rough for Opera, 2015.

"Founded by George Eastman in 1892, the renowned photographic film company Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy in 2012. The Death of Kodak imaginatively charts this tragic trajectory in terms of the apparent eclipse of analogue technology and the dissolution of identity in the digital era. The graphic score (the length and structure of which is determined by Fibonacci Numbers) is drawn on digital camera flash units, projected on to the retinas of the individual musicians – a technique originally explored by Ed Baxter."

Featuring:

Rodney Earl Clarke: voice (Rochester, New York); Richard Scott: voice (Eastman Kodak); Ed Baxter: text, direction; Louise Goodwin: percussion; Simon King: electric guitar; Elo Masing: amplified violin; Markus Sasse: bass guitar; Milo Thesiger-Meacham: electric guitar; and Chris Weaver: electronics. Voice over: Piers Gibbon.

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 memory of David Axelrod.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

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.

A Sonorous Expedition presents a sound and visual, ecological and social research journey in Panama as a transformation to the environment of the Maxilla Space in London. In Panama, Ana Carolina was based in the indigenous community of Guna Yala, which encompasses rainforest and covers much of Panama’s eastern Caribbean coast; the aim was to learn from the indigenous community ecological and sustainable ways of living.

On the 2nd October 2022 First Terrace went live on Resonance Extra from Southbank Centre as part of the label's fifth anniversary celebrations, with a curated triple bill for the Purcell Room, featuring Peter Broderick’s tribute to The Beacon Sound Choir, the premiere of a dance opera by Bianca Scout and an AV performance by Specimens.

First, the premiere of The Heart of the Anchoress, a contemporary dance piece from Bianca Scout's upcoming multimedia project The Mortal Instrument of Bones. This newly commissioned gothic opera, produced with the Daughter Mary ensemble, establishes a richly seductive sensory field, where fractal patterns of poetry, moving image and sound design are sampled, remixed and looped, through subtle, episodic mutations of classical dance.

Next, a set by Sofheso in which he offers his singular selection of broken rhythms and blacklight textures.

Then, Specimens presents Power, Pain and Privilege, a specially commissioned audiovisual work made in collaboration with filmmaker and photographer Lucie Rox. The work explores both artists’ experiences as mixed race people living in the UK, from hair salons to racial slurs, and the uncomfortable relationship between skin tone and privilege.

Finally, Peter Broderick breathes fresh life into the euphoric group singing practices of The Beacon Sound Choir, his erstwhile community choir in Portland. With the help of the anarchic, virtuosic experimental choral group Musarc, they perform new arrangements of the original choir material – short and odd original songs, experimental compositions and the BSC’s unique brand of half-improvised, half-structured vocal drones.

A selection of experimental frequencies, interviews and sessions plus cuts from the First Terrace label by Alex Ives (Specimens) and Joe Summers.

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.

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

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.