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This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Marco Alessi’s poem “Endless echo / footsteps on an empty house / once full of life”.

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.

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 episode, Puwaba! provides "an inner city dance grotto for self expression." For more information visit: http://puwaba-puwaba-puwaba.tumblr.com/ (r)

An inner city dance grotto for self-expression.

This episode features a guest mix by photographer Isabel MacCarthy titled Child of Love.

Don't think -

Feel

and then

think-again.

Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.

It’s musical meltdown time in this episode with 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.

In this episode, Dronica meets Jose Macabra for our monthly guest mix.

Jose Macabra is an inimitable artist, sound designer, improvised noise creator, producer and a beguiling solo live act.

His work performed in art establishment venues including The Barbican, Tate Modern , BFI and The Photographer’s Gallery among others. Works involving Jose’s sound design have toured major festivals in Madrid, Berlin, Athens, Brussels, Milan, Barcelona and other cultural centres.

Collaboration is at the heart of Jose’s work, be it in a straight-forward club setting or a soundtrack commission for theatre, a body-piercing performance or high art concept work.

Jose has worked with Ernesto Tomasini, Ron Athey, HR. Giger, Sally Mann, Empress Stah, Lydia Lunch, FFIN DANCE Company, UCL, Unite The Union, Katerina Valstur and many more.

Jose presents a two hour granular hybrid mix, blending music from almost hundreds different artists, as well as his music, into a cathartic journey.

"The ability to conjure such a richly populated, complex, and above all dark, sonic world is jaw dropping, masterful, sublime, wondrous." David M. Paganin

Artwork by pseudomagica.

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

This episode is a collage of excerpts from chamber works, installations and field recordings by Assaf Shatil edited by Hagai Izenberg and Assaf Shatil.

Assaf Shatil is an interdisciplinary composer, pianist, improviser, singer/songwriter and educator based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

His practice intersects sound and poetry, investigating the intricacies of performance as a liminal space imbued with aspects of ritual, contemplation, and transfigured temporality. Premieres of his work have been performed by ensembles such as Musica Nova(Israel), Israel Contemporary Players, The Jerusalem Symphony, Jack Quartet(NYC), WasteLAnd(LA), The Sound ensemble(Seattle), Ninth Planet(SF) and others.

He completed his DMA in music composition at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he worked with Larry Polansky, Michelle Lou and David Evan Jones.

Featuring excerpts from: Gardens, Propeller/ Woods Waves/ Myers Duo, Analogue Mountains, FSH Rain, Etude - maybe one more distant quiet now dreaming, Midrash - Jacob’s Ladder, How to assemble an Opera?, El Toch Yam, Repent, Insects in Shavei Zion, Ravel Ostinato, Porto, Etude, (In) One Movement, Oto, Leviathan and The Aleph.

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 episode features new music by Abu Ama + BedouinDrone, Rafael Diogo, Jarl, Ardemar, Loo(p)cy, Mario Lino Stancati, Triswara, Yudol & Hladna.

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

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.

"I salt my breakfast eggs. All day long I feel created" – Anne Dillard, Holy the Firm (1977)

A Table of Contents was produced, mixed and mastered by Dominic Jaeckle and Simon Tonka, © 2021; the readings were recorded at home by Polly Barton, © 2021; accompanying soundtrack, Matthew Shaw & Mason Lindahl, © 2021; artwork, Hoagy Houghton, © 2016.

Dominic Jaeckle is a writer, editor and broadcaster. Jaeckle curates and collates the irregular magazine Hotel and its adjacent projects, and runs a minor publisher Tenement Press.

Polly Barton is a Japanese translator and writer, living in Bristol. Her book Fifty Sounds is published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Translations include Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (Tilted Axis Press) and There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (Bloomsbury International).

Matthew Shaw is a composer, author and artist; Shaw is currently working with Shirley Collins & Brian Catling on Crowlink; a sound installation and recording project featuring Collins’ recitation of English folk songs collected over seventy years, poetry from Catling and Shaw, and fragments of letters, diaries and prose from Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and the Bloomsbury Group. Shaw’s Atmosphere of Mona, a book of poetry and photography, was published by Annwyn House in 2020.

Mason Lindahl is a guitarist and composer based in New York City. His finger-picking style is largely influenced by minimalism and classical music. He grew up listening to folk and country music in Northern California, where he was first taught to play the guitar by his father. Lindahl’s recent record Kissing Rosy in the Rain was released by Tompkins Square, 2021.

A work by Dominic J. Jaeckle, Polly Barton, Mason Lindahl & Matthew Shaw. Grounded in a book that collects a roll-of-film’s worth of co-dependent photographs and prose-poems by artist Hoagy Houghton and writer Dominic Jaeckle (36 Exposures, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe), A Table of Contents 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.

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

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

In this episode, a guest mix by musician C.Diab, who is releasing a new album 'White Whale' on Injazero Records on the 5th June 2020.

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

This episode explores field recordings from the team's archives. Recorded and mixed by OMIO between 2004-2017. OMIO is an underground team of explorers from Athens, active in documentation (sound / video / film) and site specific interventions.

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

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