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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 event was broadcast on Naviar’s Youtube channel Naviar’s Youtube channel on 31st October 2021.

Simon McCorry (interview + live set)

On Naviar Records: Song Lines

Originally born in London to mixed Indian/British heritage, McCorry trained in cello at The Centre for Young Musicians & Morley College then studied philosophy at Durham University, he is now based in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

His work is a rich combination of field recordings, adept loop based cello compositions and atmospheric improvisations that explore the rich sonic possibilities of the cello through a host of treatments and effects chains.

The results of these experimentations are diverse to say the least, from droning stillness and devastating harmonic simplicity to the abstract microtonal atmospheres. The sound recalls post classical work from greats such as A Silver Mt Zion at their most plaintive, and Stars of The Lid at their most majestic.

Naviar Records is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental electronic music and traditional Japanese poetry.

Naviar Virtual was a monthly online event hosted by Naviar Records, which aimed to bring online the spirit of Naviar’s yearly physical events during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A 22-hour radio project in 7 episodes by Milo Thesiger–Meacham. An unnamed narrator moves house and pieces together a world of recording devices, names, crime, real-world characters and media from across the globe, featuring 10-second audio extracts from over 6000 individual videos found online, original sound recordings, music, hand-held camera audio and writing. Commissioned by the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022 for the temporary radio art station Radio Art Zone. Follow Fox Neame for more.

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.

For this second episode of his collected recordings he presents two pieces:

'Up In The Valley' (2013)

A documentation of traditional oral chants Davide recorded in Presegno (Valle Sabbia, Brescia, Italy) during the night of San Lorenzo (aka "the night of the shooting stars"), on the 10th of August 2013. What emerges from the recordings is the vital energy of the voices. They communicate a strong feeling of togetherness and collective excitement. Singing is an expression of joy, and it enhances social cohesion, contributing to the formation of a certain atmosphere of shared enthusiasm and self- empowerment.

'Tous Ensemble On Va Chanter' (2014)

In this work, Davide’s friend Helen sings along with a recording of St.Etienne's football supporters group, Magic Fans (St. Etienne vs. Toulouse, 2011). The piece emphasizes the contagious nature of chanting. Despite Helen not being a member of the Magic Fans, she gets involved quite easily and participates in the singing without hesitation. The recording concludes with a final comment by the guest singer talking about the power of collective chanting and how much energy it takes to sing aloud.

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.

This episode features music from Pier Alfeo, Pinna, Nuno Veiga, Jose Macabra, AB UNO, Jasmine Pender & Eric Arn, and Crumpsall Riddle.

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

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.

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).

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.

A radio show bringing together a collection of intergalactic vibrations. Tune in and float away.

Inspired by — mostly MMORPG — game soundtracks, this mix is the Councils anti-metaverse-hype (enabling of digital scarcity and installation of a virtual absolute global order of property coinciding with the thirst for annihilation), nostalgia factory composed of SuidAkra covers, Ultima Online PvP sounds x Iced Earth mash-ups and, SCORCHER OST (if you know, you know - I could barely manage to make this not solely composed of this) & music to read Dragonlance to.

Dedicated to Kaan Berksoy.

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.

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

In this episode: inspired by the american-born artist Susan Hiller and her audio-visual installation Magic Lantern (1987) but also by the work of the english writer, painter and musician Brion Gysin — in special the influential Dreamachine 1961/79 — Mitamine Lab presents an exploration of light artifacts, digging into experiences of unconscious, subconscious and paranormal activity.

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

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

In this episode, Mary a.k.a Veronica Moser a.k.a The Telegram Regrets takes over with an ''eastern delights'' mix and I add some recordings from the city streets of Athens.

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

This inaugural episode introduces global electronica and folklore from the peaks of the Andes to the valleys of the Levant.

Ancestronic is a show about the intersection of electronic music and global folklore, presented by Dopamina.

Bow To Each Other is an award winning Norwegian-Canadian indie pop duo. The band consists of Gunhild Ramsay Kristoffersen from Karmøy, Norway, and Megan Kovacs from Toronto, Canada, both based in Oslo. Megan is a songwriter, keyboardist and vocalist, while Gunhild is an arranger, programmer, keyboardist and vocalist. The band was formed when the two moved to Norway in 2010 after having lived in Liverpool for several years, where they both studied at LIPA.

This hour-long mix by BTEO includes tracks from the likes of Björk, Kraftwerk and The Smiths.

Bow To Each Other are part of the SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, supported by the EU's Creative Europe programme. For more information, please visit: http://shapeplatform.eu/.

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

On Sunday, March 12th 2023, Linden Pomeroy led a 5-hour live improvisation in aid of the Men Walk Talk, a charity for men's mental health.

This episode is an edit of the contribution from Spirit of Gravity member, McCloud. It is a pointedly minimal and repetitive piece for radio.

The other musicians were: band leader Linden Pomeroy on guitar; Kev Nickells on guitar; Jamie Bowden on piano; Steve Peck on saxophone and McCloud on synthesiser.

For more info and to contribute: www.totalgiving.co.uk/mypage/thepathiknow

The second hour of the show is dedicated to Eliane Radigue's drone masterpiece Triptych.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.