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In this episode we delve into two upcoming releases: Bells: the gauzy glockenspiel experiments from Broken Chip, AKA Martyn Palmer, who is based in the Blue Mountains in Australia, and Homework, an intriguing collaboration between Londoner Matt Atkins and Italian composer MonoLogue (Marie Rose).

Martyn opens the show and talks us through his process in making Bells. We also hear from Matt Atkins who discusses the alchemical and improvisatory processes which went into his collaboration with Marie Rose.

We dip into Nichola Scrutton's new release Night Vision which is based on a practice of semi-conscious writing, enjoy Manja Ristic's special sniffing rock in Croatia and join Colombian composer David Veléz as he does the dishes.

The second half of the show is a beautiful mix by Martyn Palmer of music which inspired his forthcoming album Bells.

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.

A‑B was born in Hamburg and spent her formative years in Berlin, where she discovered her love for techno music. She started to DJ when she moved to Southern Germany for her studies, where she eventually started to play at bigger events and club venues.

She also became part of the queer-feminist DJ collective FemBPM. Together they strive for more diversity and visibility behind the decks and a stronger culture of awareness in the clubbing scene.

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

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.

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.

This episode features tracks from Herschell Gordan Lewis, Daniela Casa ,Arthur Verocai, Evil Dee, Voice Crack, Demon Fuzz, P Brothers, Lionel Marchetti & Jerome Noetinger, Black Rock, Donald Byrd, Soliman Gamil, Henri Chopin, Kiko C Esseiva, Boot Productions, Quincey Jones, Seymour Glass & Fleshtone Aura, Michael Morley, Steve Roden and many more...

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

This episode features music by Plurals, Cévennes, AMOR, JS-Horseman, Antonin De Bemels, Morgen Wurde, David Strother, Mombi Yuleman, Richard Bégin and Kloob & Onasander.

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

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Sôen Nakagawa’s poem “Sound of mountain / sound of ocean / everywhere spring rain.”

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.

In this episode, Chris Bohn plays tracks by Moor Mother, Giuseppe Ielasi, Wadada Leo Smith & Orange Wave Electric, Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void, and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

Offering surreal glimpses of what might be identified as echoes of a post-Republic America, an imagined Middle East, and some other unnamed and unreachable world, Palace chronicles a vivid landscape of crumbling towers and heart-broken animals, eclipses, comets, and lovers in abandoned rooms. Produced by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger–Meacham.

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.

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

This episode features Beachers, d-Thed, A'Bear, Trianglecuts, Harmergeddon, theskyisthinaspaperhere and Ruido.

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

In this episode: Bary Center.

In The Abstract with Dennis De Caires draws on fringe sounds, lo-fi and bedroom techno to noise art and ambient sound works. Produced in collaboration with Australian community arts station 2ser.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Tina Turner's Private Dancer. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Public and private dancers, non-binary voices, Finnish superstars, peaches, orchestras, strong women, workers who hate their jobs … all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

On this second night, live performances from Silent Green by Limpe Fuchs and Alexandra Cárdenas; and by Das Kinn and Ya Tosiba at Panke Culture.

Full lineup:

• Limpe Fuchs

Percussionist, sound-sculpture builder and pioneer sonic explorer from rural Bavaria, Limpe Fuchs' ongoing legacy expands over 6 decades. She uses her large scale self-built instruments made of metal, wood, and stone, as well as the viola and the voice creating a tapestry of sound.

• Alexandra Cárdenas

Colombian composer Alexandra Cárdenas is best known for her performances with live coding, though she has composed contemporary pieces for a variety of musical formations (orchestra, ensembles, soloists). Her work researches the algorithmic behavior of music, and musicality within code.

• Das Kinn

Toben Piel (half of the Frankfurt-based avant-garde / techno-pop duo Les Trucs) stops for a visit with a new blend of Post Punk and crisp analog electronics.

• Ya Tosiba

Azerbaijani-born Zuzu Zakaria borrows from traditional music from the region, woven into cutting edge Scandinavian electronica and hip hop, using rhymes in her native Azeri tongue, in the tradition of Meykhana (‘winehouse’) word artists, which was prohibited during the soviet regime.

Resonance Extra presents two nights of the Underground Institute Festival, which was broadcast live from Silent Green, Berlin and Panke Culture on the 8th and 9th December 2022. Sonic exploration, custom built instruments, sound art and avant-garde pop music, featuring some of the most adventurous sonic artists active today.

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