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This episode features music by Cévennes, RIG, Yousef Kawar, Audio Obscura, Mario Lino Stancati, Richard Bégin, Michael Bonaventure, Junk DNA and Kasra Faridi.

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

The second iteration of Overheard was realised at Install, Glasgow, in November 2010, commissioned by Arika and broadcast live from the streets of Glasgow as well as at Tramway. Featuring Tam Dean Burn and musicians Barry Burns, Luke Fowler, Mark Vernon and Chris Weaver. This is a two hour edit of the full 48 hour broadcast performance. Concept: Ed Baxter and Chris Weaver. Text: 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.

Slow Radio by bauhaus.fm is a radio format where almost nothing happens and still people listen. To test this we have chosen the shortest night of the year, from 20th to 21st June. The following ingredients could possibly surface: a camp fire, tomorrow's football results, the underwater world of the river Ilm, memorising of a poem, reading of a book, a quarry with a nearby brewery & boiling water.

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

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.

This episode features music from Nina Hoppas, Simon McCorry, Bad Girl, Halfcastle, Grundik Kasiansky and The Seer.

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

In this episode: Feedback.

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

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

Christian Kroupa is an ambient musician and participant of the Red Bull Music Academy, making appearances on the legendary R&S records and Fabric 90 mix with his alter ego, Alleged Witches.

Hailing from the sleepy town of Logatec, Slovenia, this is exactly what happened to Christian in the summer of 2008, while hanging at some drum and bass party, with no idea he was about to enter an unexplored pathway.

The pathway is not so unexplored anymore. In 2013, Christian surprised the Slovenian music scene with his original approach to dark ambient music while he was performing on the Radio Študent’s Club Marathon tour. Since then, he’s proved his skills and innovation as a participant of the Red Bull Music Academy, performing on different stages (like Sónar in Barcelona or EMAF in Tokyo).

He is currently working on new experimental, ambient music but also keeping an eye on house and techno, making appearances on the legendary R&S records and Fabric 90 mix with his alter ego, Alleged Witches.

Sounds of the SHAPE Platform (Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe).

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.

This fourth instalment of Asphyxia begins to interrogate the distractions which beset the British Library Suppressed Safe research.

By focussing and exploring the exact nature of the individual elements in the web of frustration, an experiment in 'drift' ensues, whereby any clues to possible research angles are gleaned, and synchronicities sought. Some brass bells are found in a bin, as well.

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Kyoshi Takahama’s poem “Dividing the autumn sky / Into two / A huge chinquapin tree”.

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 a live experimental set recorded with Yiftah Kadan in Schocken studio.

Kadan is an Israeli guitarist, sound artist and composer who plays experimental music, jazz and free improvisation.

Other sources used in this recording include an amplified old clock, recordings of bees, a vinyl of 'Israel’s Quest for Peace', and samples from speeches by Greta Gerwig.

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.

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

In this episode, Zu joins Michael from the North Bay to enjoy a chaotic array of Weirdo-Noise Punk, Powerviolence, and a quick example of some of their favourite contributors to the Japanese music scene.

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.

In this episode, a mix of tunes from a chat that I had with a friend on what music was playing in my house on a night many years ago. A mix of music and field recordings. A night in summer.

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

This first iteration of 'Overheard' was recorded live at Kill Your Timid Notion in February 2010 at DCA, Dundee. Commissioned by Arika, it features actors Tam Dean Burn and Pene Herman Smith; musicians Ed Baxter, Stephen Bloe, Ali Butcher, Rowan Corkill, Cat Lee Marr, Chris Lee Marr, Chris Weaver, and Lin Zhang; and boxers Neil Danskin and Hamid Ahmed. Text by Ed Baxter. Score by Chris Weaver.

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.