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Sideways research continues apace... This instalment of Asphyxia sees the return of a mysterious polymath possessed of unspecific 'inside information'.

Chit-chat about data security ensues (covertly recorded, ironically). Following this, the narrator bluffs his way past the security cabin at the Midland Road entrypoint to the British Library's goods yard, where a bin-dive yields an unknown writer's diaries, discarded by the library for uncertain reasons.

Meanwhile, the use of tin-foil to eliminate electromagnetic interference is trialled upon the narrator's Zoom recorder which is susceptible to 50Hz hum.

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, more anxious sounds selected by Erika Elizabeth.

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.

Lapping At Your Shore is a computer program which organises the composition of recorded sounds in realtime. “I have found it beneficial to utilise the computers ability to make arbitrary decisions without being mediated by a subconscious. Of course I set the conditions, so there is a poetry there, in the algorithm itself. It's an interplay between chance and being.” More information can be found at andrewford.eu.pn

In this edition, you’ll listen to three artists, with each performance lasting around 30 minutes. This event was broadcast on Naviar’s Youtube channel on 27th March 2021.

33per (New Zealand)

Jude Folkard and Jeff Smith are a duo based in Aotearoa NZ, exploring the aural universe together.

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki (Japan)

An electronic musician from Kobe, Japan, He began his career in 2011. Taking inspiration from the natural surroundings in the suburbs where he grew up, his early music’s major themes were the city and nature. However, his later music tends towards the impersonal, allowing each listener to fit the sounds into the spaces of his or her life, attempting to link the ideas of memory and recollection into his music.

Subespai (Australia)

Subespai is Mauri Edo, a Sydney-based sound artist working with found sound, repetition and volume to
explore and express complex thoughts and ideas on existence, society and the individual.

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.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

This episode features music from Sly & Family Drone, Stochastic Resonance, Disinformation, Armageddon and Pocket Signs.

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

In this episode, a mixtape made by Mario Davidovsky.

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

ID Spectral is a multi-disciplinary record label and arts collective, showcasing the spectrum of innovative creative identities worldwide.

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Tiny robots, string quartets, italian stars, celtic hearts, ukelele lovers, ghosts who feel lonely, instigators of collective happenings…all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features Shambush: Makers of The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience. Creators of imaginative, tailored, theatrical encounters, performance spaces and nonsensical events for five to five thousand.

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).

In the first half of this episode, unperson traces Sheffield's experimental music from the DIY post-punk scene of the 1980s, through the pirate radio days of the 1990s, to the city's contemporary boundary pushers. In his words: "lots of bleeps, lots of bass".

In the second half, Elif Gülin Soğuksu weaves a path through the hum of Istanbul, a mix which she describes as "a glimpse into the sound world of stray dogs howling to the morning prayer in rural areas, street musicians playing traditional instruments, street vendors selling simit, fish, meat, and fruits in Beyoğlu ... Turkish classical music playing in the silversmith shop in Sultanahmet ... the micro sounds of rocks, dirt, and bushes near the historic Orthodox Orphanage in Princes' Island".

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

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

This episode features recordings from our little experimental music festival hosted at Isla Ray in Deptford as part of Deptford X fringe. We had a beautiful evening with beautiful people and now you get to enjoy a best of from the eve.

Featuring performances by Lucy Havelock, Tam Lin, BAIABAIA, Zeyn Mroueh, Autojektor, and us!

We’d love to host more nights like this so if you’re listening and you’d like to come and perform with us please email us on hello@subphonics.com

Quarterly noise from SubPhonics exploring themes of collaborative sound and performance.

Episodes 4, 5 and 6 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 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!

This episode features the new album Together in Heaven____ Dead by Quiet Husband, side project of Richie Culver.

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Guest mixes selected by Ian Bruner.

The parking garage is a the "inferno of the same" (the agony of eros). It is a labyrinth in which the ceiling is often the floor, a schizophrenic environment that does not allow the face to be recognized. The(se) structures or modern functional ruins are a global phenomenon and in most cases duplicate a common design. In this way the parking garage can act as a portal, an access point into multi-linear spaces (this way amd/or that). All parking garages comprise a kind of universal parking garage, when we are in one parking garage we are in all parking garages.
The global effects of the internet have displaced direction and have effectually erased all horizons. The rhizomatic connections of the internet, a(nother) decentralized and/or multicentered domain.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Janice Doppler’s poem “summer sky… / rippling the silence / a watersnake”.

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.

Ex-New Yorker, Tokyo-based footwork and house producer YASHA joins on this episode, layering recent breakbeat and ambient techno influences with his own styles in a reliably non-stop mix.

A 16-episode bi-weekly series alternating new and unheard live sounds from Trash Panda QC with DJ selections and guests.

In this episode, one hour of music by Benedict Drew.

Communiques from Thanet Tape Centre, Hard drive sludge. audio tidal pools. Music sediment. Friends utterances, sea walls of noise, salt marsh drone.