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In this episode, a guest mix from Pittsburgh’s most vibrant son Spednar, head of Cosmic Sound and purveyor of the city’s wildest synth abstractions.

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

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.

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 music from latest Canti Magnetici releases by Federico Lupo, Marco Paltrinieri and Giovanni Di Domenico, Ab Uno, LI YILEY and Liberez.

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

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

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

Pom Bouvier-b is a musician and artist. She explores deep listening experiences. Her works employ video and objects.

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

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.

"Here is a mix I made last month. It is inspired by a stupid piano I found a few houses down and dragged home. Lately, I've been working on some new instruments, spawned from various marshlands around South East London, and this moss-covered electric piano was a funny addition.

So, I put together these mostly keyboard-oriented pieces; some are bits I played on the following days, some experiments with homemade robotics, but it features a few relics too, such as: Koray and Marc's remixes of some old music and one of my all time favourite rave tunes, Twisted Girl, with a hypnotic piano."

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.

Light the candles, switch on the mood lighting, Cosmisch is here to whisk you away into a cosmic bliss. A state of psychedelic euphoria. Tune in, float away. Love yourself and everyone around you.

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

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.

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.

Gentrification, urban displacement and non-specific apocalypse, when you turn 30, you are deemed no longer useful to society, a playlist by Mim.

Carousel begins.

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

In this episode, tracks selected in response to postcards sent in by Melina Doumy & Anika Roach. Featuring Joan Jonas, The Colour of Pomegranates & Leonard Bernstein.

Joe tests out a new recording system to be used for posterity so bare with the slightly hectic nature of this on the first take!

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each week a new guest joins Joe in the studio to discuss and perform their work. Expect in-depth interviews, live performances, conversations and new event experiments.

This episode features Maudite. Ambient drone drifts and mathematical electronic beats.

Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

This episode is a special cosmic show to celebrate the incoming new missive from the psychonautic GAF collective, Pyramids, out soon on Keroxen and Discrepant! A sixty-minute selection of psychedelically damaged tunes, 70s psychoacoustics, healing music, mind resonances and inner and outer flows; worth the cosmic ride.

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.

In this show, Dopamina and special guest Jules Verne present a selection of new 'slow techno' from Berlin and beyond, as well as some timeless dancefloor classics and newly remixed folklore. Including new tracks from Zakir, Yor Kultura, Santi and Niklaus Katzorke.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

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

This episode features a wide-ranging guest mix from French producer Nebulo, whose EP ASCII SNAKE was released on Conditional Records.

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