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Amsterdam's Shimmering Moods Records explores the many sides of experimental ambient music, into the far reaches of the imagination.

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.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

Patrick and his guests walk from Exchange Square behind Liverpool Street Station – where Austerlitz first arrives to London on the Kindertransport – to Brick Lane where Stephen reads a poem dedicated to Altab Ali and Bill Fishman. From there they continue to Alderney Road – where Austerlitz lives in the novel and also home to the oldest Ashkenazi Jewish cemetery in the UK – and finally arrive at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park behind St. Clement's Hospital where Sebald's character spends a long period of recovery.

Sound recorded by Milo Thesiger-Meacham and photography by Karen Lacey-Holder. Thanks to Leonard Shear of the United Synagogue.

In this extended programme Patrick Bernard follows in the footsteps of W. G. Sebald and his eponymous character Austerlitz as he explores the East End of London with poet Stephen Watts (a friend of 'Max' Sebald who accompanied him on many of his walks). They are joined by Nadia Valman and David Anderson from Queen Mary University of London as they visit many of the locations in the novel to uncover the layers of history hidden beneath the surface of the city and Sebald's text.

Glasgow-based Bobby Jewell presents a series of ambient mixes for Resonance Extra with guest features by musicians and artists.

The second episode showcases Siavash Hakim and tarxun's new album Hireath, the forthcoming EP by New Zealand duo Tonkyn Pearson, Leena Lee's recordings of a quarry turned wildlife laboratory in Mexico City, chairlift recordings from Argentina by Alma Laprida, an album out of lockdown in China by Li Yilei, Robert Curgenven's weighty new release, not so new releases by Ellen Fullman and Pascal Savy and more!

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

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

Investigations of the Brazilian experimental music scene via Rio De Janeiro's Quintavant label in collaboration with Audio Rebel. With live performances and exploratory sounds produced in the context of Brazil's strange political situation, curated by Francisco Mazza, Bernando Oliveira and Pedro Azevedo.

In this episode, Zu From All Over invites us to her first annual Murderween party with the best horror punk, doom, and spooky psychobilly to celebrate the festivities and make it through the transitional season.

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 starts with Gesualdo, a 16th-century composer-murderer and Prince of Venosa who is famous for his madrigals that were ahead of their time (some would argue they still sound a bit too contemporary). It is followed by a piece of a contemporary composer Caroline Shaw that is inspired by a motet by another 16th-century composer Thomas Tallis, from England.

This is followed by music written by Thomas's contemporary compatriot—John Dowland. Dowland's composition is secular and chamber, fashionably melancholic—has been written in the shade of Elizabethan England religious and political repressions. Not unlike the next piece by Valentyn Silvestrov, a contemporary Ukrainian composer who shares not just Dowland's melancholy (except Silvestrov's melancholy is brighter and is more rooted in the XIX century) and chamber intimacy of "Kvartirniki"—dissident apartment concerts hidden from Soviet cultural repressive machine.

Next one is Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, a Sylvestrov's contemporary, an Ethiopean pianist nun who shares her intimate "home piano" with Valentin's sound but brings a completely different, much less Western perspective to this practice. She's followed by another composer nun (later—abbess), Hildegard von Bingen, from the XII century. Hildegard's music, as Margot Fassler aptly noted, is like a stick of dynamite thrown into a Gregorian chant. However, Hildegard didn't have any musical education. The same is true for me. She relied on her secretary to write her music down (that she supposedly sang to him or her).

I rely on machines instead, on my modular synthesizer that is programmed to do generative polyphony—several self-playing melodies performed at the same time. You can hear it on Giardino, next track. Generative polyphony there is joined by improvisations on period instruments: baroque oboe, archlute and baroque viola.

It is followed by Beata Viscera, Perotin's music from the XII century Paris. He is one of the first known composers of polyphonic music and one of the most famous representatives of the Notre Dame school of polyphony. Then there's a composition by John Tavener, a XX century English composer who shares with Perotin the sacred quality of music.

The playlist is concluded with Brighde Chaimbeul, a Scottish bagpipe player. The connection is with Perotin's music, in Beata Viscera Perotin uses drone—a tone that is constantly held during the whole piece. Like a music foundation. Similar techniques are widely employed by various fold and ethnic music around the world, including the Scottish bagpipe music.

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

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.

In this episode, 'Joedong-ri Fishing Port' by Martin Kay.

"The first section of this work comprises recordings that consider the movements of water from the Joedong marina and from the inside of its sea wall during the still of the night. The second part considers the bustling activity of the Joedong dock at dawn, when the previous night’s catch of squid is unloaded, gutted, cleaned and packed."

Martin Kay is a sound recordist who creates audio montages and compositions that explore the intersection of architecture, psychoacoustics, social dynamics and place. Through employing an experimental and technologically limited (recording focused) work methodology, he is driven to find inventive recording techniques that offer fresh and unusual aural perspectives on his surroundings as well as inspire fresh and idiosyncratic compositional approaches pertinent to the places, situations and events he engages with.

His works have been published through 3LEAVES, AVANTWHATEVER , BCSC, and/OAR, Earwitness, Herbal, and MOOZAK

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of fifteen short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout East Asia. This series for Resonance Extra 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.

In this episode, Voyage to the land of the dead 1' explores sounds from the Greek avant garde of the 60's - 70's with the addition of field recordings found tapes etc. This episode features part of a rare tape, Persians, by Yiannis Christou.

In memory of my Grandfather Giorgis Karamanolakis.

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

This new and extraordinary documentary ranges across continents – from the sound-induced fears of early colonists in Northeastern America and the apocalyptic premonitions of the indigenous Wampanoag to Greek tongue twisters, Medieval Moorish poetry, Socrates's dread of dehydration in Plato's Phaedrus, the hurdy-gurdy, Geronimo's hatred of telegraphy.

And then on to contemporary and historical entomology, the body language of Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone's Spanish Westerns, the botanist Donald C. Peattie's terror of the inescapable buzz of mortality, and ancient cooking implements.

Commissioned and originally broadcast by Radiophrenia at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, September 2023.

A meditation by Milo Thesiger–Meacham on the sound of the cicada as "audible heat" in human history and culture. Featuring spoken contributions by writer and translator Cristina Viti and filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji, field recordings, original music and a smattering of celebrity interviews.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Shubham Dasgupta’s poem “in dark autumn nights / dew and the new bamboo shoots / reaching out to moon”.

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.

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

As Summer draws to an end, high up in the Corbières mountains in the foothills of the Pyrenees, a group of weary travellers rest in the sleepy French village of Bugarachm, in the shadow of the magic mountain.....

The Tyneside Sounds Society is a monthly broadcast dedicated to the recording and reinterpretation of the sonic environment and sound heritage of Tyneside in the North East of England.

In this episode: Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. For almost forty years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion.

He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with environmental recordings, workshops and sound installations in over seventy countries of the six continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with hundreds of international artists) has been released by nearly 400 record labels / publishers worldwide. He has been awarded four times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival and is the recipient of the Qwartz Award 2010 for best sound anthology.

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of fifteen short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout Central America. Entitled « Central American PhoNographic Mornings » this series for Resonance Extra 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.

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.