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Socialist Realness a mix series by GAJEK focusing on avant-garde and electronic music produced in the GDR and shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Corvus makes their first appearance in this episode. Baptized in a pit of crusty grind, this set is filled with gruesome descriptions of capitalist terror but isn’t without its moments of joy (as an act of resistance).

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.

Here they present Suspension of Belief, a piece for rock-climber, writer, field recordings, music. Suspension of Belief combines live rock-climbing with text and sound (both musical and incidental) in a specifically radiophonic work made for the pan-European series Intimacy and Distance.

While boulder-champion Gaz Parry takes his friend Kate Mills up the forbidding cliff face of the Col d'Ifac in Alicante, veteran soloist Jim Perrin meditates on the meaning of rock climbing from a studio in France. Gaz can't hear Jim. Jim can't hear Gaz. The two meet only in radio, on an equal footing with the production team and the listener. Conceived and produced by Ed Baxter and Chris Weaver. Engineers: Nick Hamilton (London), Bob Drake (Caudeval). Music: Max O'Brien. Announcer: Richard Thomas. Mixdown: Michael Sinden.

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.

Tonight we present episodes 1, 2 and 3 of this landmark radio series.

"It was a shape around something else, like everything..."

Dingus is a six-part radio drama produced by CBS and recorded at the height of the 1943 flu pandemic that swept through Hollywood. Denied of a marquee cast and blighted by a curious obsession with the object that drives its narrative, this innovative and formally-reflexive oddity disappeared almost completely without trace. In 2010 artist Mike Cooter set out to find and rehabilitate this elusive artefact, initiating an 12-year journey that culminates in the re-emergence tonight of Dingus.

Cast: John Dingus: Mitchell Mullen. Male Narrator: John Christian Bateman. Female Narrator: Alexandra Metaxa. Lieutenant Johanssen: Colin Stinton. Veronica Marden: Christy Meyer. Finnegan: Cory Peterson. O’Rourke and Elmsdood: David Menkin. Peterson: Joseph Balderrama. Frances: Kelly Burke. Written, directed and produced by Mike Cooter. Editor and assistant producer: Jim Whelton. Composer: Jobina Tinnemans.

Commissioned by Resonance FM. Supported by The Jerwood Trust, The Elephant Trust and The Henry Moore Foundation.

Mike Cooter's combustible tale from the airwaves’ most thrilling detective!

“Fleurieu Passage (Across Dawn)” is a composition intended to evoke early morning on the Fleurieu Peninsula. Three field recordings taken in Yankalilla, Normanville Beach and Ingalalla Falls form the narrative basis of the composition, whilst additional sounds are employed in order to emphasise aspects of the soundscape, or serve as transitions from one recording to another. The locations featured in this composition hold considerable personal significance to me, as they represent places that I have visited and explored since my childhood. In this respect, the ‘passage' the listener follows is essentially an exploration of the landscape in the early hours of the morning; inevitably affected by degrees of sleepiness, disorientation and lucidity.

Tristan Louth-Robins (*1981, Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian artist working mainly in sound. His work is realised through recordings, installation, visual art and performance. He is interested in sound and its associative implications - including its relationship to objects, technology, urban space, memory and the natural world.

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of twenty soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout Oceania. This series forms part of a wider project, Each Morning of the World, which invites sound artists, composers and recordists globally to share their own specific point of listening, either through a raw field recording or original composition.

Joined by Montañera, we tune into the old river lea, slowly dialling in to sonic portals that open momentarily amongst the water's rushing static ... knee deep amongst the reeds, others sound out the filterbeds for riverine life ... “two fish!”... “occupational hazard”...

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

This episode features music from Hayward Versus Harmergeddon, Duchamp, BAG, Cerpintx, Pillars of Golden Misery, Minus Pilots and TFT.

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

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Believe by Cher. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Aliens, nu metal singers, banana lovers, bardcore makers...all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

This episode features music by two guest artists: Lower Mars and S1m0nc3ll0.

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).

A selection of the most vibrant and exciting new sounds of Latin America's emerging talents.

This half hour is mixed by Great Area.

Super Takeover was a 24-hour takeover on Resonance Extra organised by Superfluid.

AA+ DRONE OPERATØR RADIØ #11 hits heavy this time. The mix is laden with drums, guitars and noise. Some 70'ies Japanese Free Jazz, some distorted blast beats, some nerve-wracking electronics all spiced up with some musical pearls. Our special guest the American experimental extreme metal ensemble and contemporary composition collective EHNAHRE presents one song from their oeuvre plus songs picked by each band member that they felt was formative in developing their musical sensibilities.

Ehnahre has been pioneering an effort to rethink and redefine what metal, extreme and new music can be, since their debut release in 2008- to equal parts acclaim and condemnation for their sins against the tradition. Originally conceived as a one-off recording project, the artistic success of the first session inspired the group to forge ahead, and it has evolved over time from a weirdo death metal outfit into an extreme new music ensemble that employs an unlimited variety of techniques, instrumentation and atmospheres. While the ensemble retains a vestigial tail of their formative elements, they are always in search of innovative and interesting new approaches, concepts and projects to give life to.

Monthly experimen†al kleptomaniac post digital free jazz spam channel operated by artists Tilman Hornig and Paul Barsch aka DRONE OPERATØR.

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

Edited Arts present a series investigating UK music scenes divided by postcode area with a view to drawing attention to the often overlooked areas of the UK's artistic heritage of music, sound and speech.

This episode focuses on Tenerife and features some recent guests and local island fiends. Opening with an island jam by Monopoly Child & Sun Araw, Lava Tube Solos on Horsebacks, swiftly segueing into CV & JAB’s pool tide inspired tunes from their island séjour last March.

GAF and friends make a deep appearance too with their latest psych heavy double whammy, Reptiles – seek this and others such as Lagoss and Akane on Keroxen, Discrepant and beyond.

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.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

Furbytronics by Peter Rockmount

• audio / visual decomposer Lepke B posits the question - "How will we live in the 21st Century?"

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Ryokan Taigu’s poem “now it reveals its hidden side / and now the other – thus it falls, / an autumn leaf”.

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.

"Nobody is entitled to simply walk into a business and work there. If there were no quality control safeguards in place, we would just have chaos." So grumbled some self-serving 'authority figure' circa 2012.

As if to wave a middle finger at the naysayers' edicts, the narrator continues to pursue 'pure volunteering', and interrogates concepts of "quality", "safeguards", "place", "have" and "chaos" via a palimpsest of found media, ranting, and cool, calculated disgrace.

Parallel to this, research continues into the contentious forbidden book, supposedly locked in the uncatalogued portion of the British Library's Suppressed Safe.

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.

In this episode, Emily Bick plays new music by Zubin Kanga, Abstract Concrete, John McGuire, and many more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.