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In this episode, tracks selected in response to postcards sent in by Patrick Thomas, as well as excerpts from the plates (x5) launch of Alphabetical Processions Laid Him on The Green Vol.1..

Featuring Caius Williams & feeo, M. NourbeSe Philip, Oneohtrix Point Never & Elizabeth Fraser, DUNCE and Matana Roberts.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each month a selection of artists respond to the show on postcards and send them in as inspiration for the next. Running through the shows are a modular stem experiment in which musicians improvise live to original 15 minute compositions.

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.

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 extract from the day, an unreleased album sent to us by Neil Luck and Benedict Taylor.

Neil Luck is a composer, performer, and director based in London. His work often explores the pathos and interaction between live human performance and multimedia, and attempts to frame the act of music making as something curious, or weird, or useful, or spectacular in and of itself.

Benedict Taylor is a solo violist, violinist and composer.

Archival recordings of a 7-hour radio event broadcast live from the Resonance Extra studios on the 29th January 2023, featuring live performances and new and exclusive audio works.

While reel to reel tape loops and FM transmitter/receiver copulations compete in feeding signals back to their sources, visitors to the installation become the unwitting conductors of the noise produced.

With open mics in the subterranean space recording everything on the tape loops, and open circuit transmitters sensitive to every movement effecting the radio noise, visitors can’t help being the innocent culprits responsible for such spontaneous cacophonies which yearn to be big, but are confined and compressed by their own physical limitations.

This compressed noise, reacting to its own echoes in the unique shape of the cellar, evolves in time and space with every revolution of the tape loop.

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

Fielding Hope is a London- and Glasgow-based curator and DJ. He works as the Senior Producer of Cafe OTO, London, and co-curator of Counterflows Festival, Glasgow. The best part of his life has been spent exhaustively traveling the outer-reaches of music, sucking all sorts of strange and beautiful aural debris into his tilted orbit.

His DJ sets reflect the results of this ongoing journey, crossing strange terrain between pastoral vignettes to 190bpm pulvisors (and more or less everything in between) in equally coherent and contradictory ways. Fielding presents a selection of work from Takuroku, Cafe OTO's in house label. Café OTO is the most established critical listening room in London and provides a home for creative new music that exists outside of the mainstream with an evening programme of adventurous live music seven nights a week.

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

This show is dedicated to the sounds of Tynedale in the North East of England.

Tynedale is to the west of Tyneside in South West Northumberland and is marked by the spilt in the River Tyne - which turns intro River Tyne North & South. It's main centre is Hexham, it includes towns and villages like Wylam, Corbridge, St John Lee, Juniper, Haltwhistle and Bardon Mill. Part of Hadrian's Wall runs through it. It was a former local government district with a population of 58,000 it's now part of Northumberland.

The show is a mix of field recordings made by participants of number of Record-A-Thons in Hexham and around Tynedale.

There'll be an exhibition dedicated to Tynedale Sounds at Queen's Hall Arts Centre in Hexham that opens 4 August and runs until 8 September.

Thanks to Dom, Jim, Jimmy, Chris, Sally + Core Music Collective & the Hexham Village Band.

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.

This episode is a Keroxen festival special and features various acts from the line up. Every year, from roughly October to December everyone gets together in a massive disused oil tank in downtown Santa Cruz to experience some of the most forward thinking music this island (and archipelago, and country?) gets to experience.

Enter the beautiful darkness with this mix and come shake a leg in the middle of the Atlantic. We might have plenty of sun and the sea but we don’t do lazy here!

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.

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.

A utility amongst the swallows is their music; they use it to avoid collision.

– John Cage, 36 Mesostics RE: and not RE: Duchamp (1978)

Anchored in a book that collects a roll-of-film’s worth of co-dependent photographs and prose-poems by Hoagy Houghton and Dominic Jaeckle (36 Exposures, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe), Shipping Forecast is a quilt of first- and second-hand reticulated reflections and ratiocinations—a ‘disembodied voice-over’ for a set of absent images, memories and other assorted totem poles—read and recorded by Diamanda La Berge Dramm and sunk in a veritable garden of noises, drones, field recordings and found sounds by Matthew Shaw.

Dominic Jaeckle is a writer and researcher; founding editor of the magazine project Hotel, and publisher of esoterica and experimental literatures with Tenement Press.

Diamanda La Berge Dramm grew up in Amsterdam, the Netherlands playing the violin since the age of four. Growing up among the leading figures of the Dutch classical, avant-garde and improvisation scene, her own concerts reflect all of these elements. In 2018 she was the first ever string soloist to win the Dutch Classical Talent Tour & Award. Diamanda studied at New England Conservatory and at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. Recent performances include solo concerts with the Metropole Orchestra, and an Indonesia tour giving workshops and concerts. In 2020, Dramm was in residence at Musikfest Bremen as winner of the Deutschlandfunk Förderungspeis. Dramm is a founding member of Splendor, a collective of 50 artists in Amsterdam who co-run a working space and concert hall.

Matthew Shaw is a Dorset-based composer, musician, poet and artist who has been releasing music since 2000 under his own name and as Tex La Homa.

Shipping Forecast was produced and mixed by Dominic Jaeckle, Matthew Shaw and Simon Tonka, © 2021. Artwork by Hoagy Houghton, © 2016.

Anchored in a book that collects a roll-of-film’s worth of co-dependent photographs and prose-poems by Hoagy Houghton and Dominic Jaeckle (36 Exposures, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe), Shipping Forecast is a quilt of first- and second-hand reticulated reflections and ratiocinations—a ‘disembodied voice-over’ for a set of absent images, memories and other assorted totem poles.

Featuring: Torre Alian, Andy Ralph, Kostis Stafylakis and Benjamin de Boer. Special thanks to Concrete Fantasies.

Third Ear is a cut-up of submitted, self-recorded and found field recordings, with Ian Bruner (@ideath / @rhizomeparkinggarage). What clues could be found in dialogue with the tiled bathroom floor or the phantasmagorical coulomb of afternoon dust, the line running at the crest of a wave or the netting of mechanical hums pitched into drone, the friction of things touching?

No.TFS is a hard techno DJ and part of fhainest collective located in Friedrichshain, Berlin. Her music is inspired by the darkness, sweaty bunkers and endless nights.

Pushy basses and rumbling sounds describe her grim style. Her music follows a clean industrial touch, developing into a hypnotic style. With her collective fhainest she organises events in various clubs in and outside of Berlin.

As a part of the Symbiotikka family you find her as a resident playing for KITKATs most famous event. On an international level No.TFS conquered recently the techno scene in Beirut and Singapore.

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

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

New music with The Wire Magazine.

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.