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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.

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.

A nine-part retrospective of the first five seasons of the Radia network’s epochal (and on-going) radio art series. Assembled by Lee Stapleford.

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.

In this episode we delve into two upcoming releases: Bells: the gauzy glockenspiel experiments from Broken Chip, AKA Martyn Palmer, who is based in the Blue Mountains in Australia, and Homework, an intriguing collaboration between Londoner Matt Atkins and Italian composer MonoLogue (Marie Rose).

Martyn opens the show and talks us through his process in making Bells. We also hear from Matt Atkins who discusses the alchemical and improvisatory processes which went into his collaboration with Marie Rose.

We dip into Nichola Scrutton's new release Night Vision which is based on a practice of semi-conscious writing, enjoy Manja Ristic's special sniffing rock in Croatia and join Colombian composer David Veléz as he does the dishes.

The second half of the show is a beautiful mix by Martyn Palmer of music which inspired his forthcoming album Bells.

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.

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.

In this episode, Sonic Darts is extremely happy to welcome the artist Victor Mazon and to hear about the transdisciplinary research platfrom Terra Ignota.

Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts is a London-based sound art collective presenting new sound works, performances and discussions.

Iker Ormazabal is a London-based experimental musician from Spain. He started his solo project IOM circa 2004. He has also been a member of bands like Atomoog, Sorkun, FFT Players, Soizu, Oilbag, Mnemoniic, Warren Schoenbright and has published music in labels such as: Zulo Beltzak, RONF, Doministiku, Desetxea, Afeite Al Perro, Astral Noize, Attenuation Circuit, Mattoid and Hominid Sounds.

He has previously worked alongside other artists such as Arturo Blasco, Jordi Aligué, Borja Ramos, Miguel A García, Raxil4, Itto Morita, Minako Seki, Gonzalo Catalinas among others. In 2017, he was awarded with the John Leckie Award for Innovation in Audio Production for a soundtrack to "Elementary Tryptych of Spain" by Jose Val del Omar. He also runs his own effects-pedal brand, IOHM Fx.

Since 2004, London-based Iker Ormazabel has been progressing experimental music in different forms, through solo projects (as IOM or Iker Ormazabal), alongside dance performers (Itto Morita, Soizu, Minako Seki), improvising with other musicians (Miguel A. Garcia, Oier Iruretagoiena, Andrew Page, Arturo Blasco) and in bands (Mnemonic, Warren Schoenbright, Fft Players, Oilbag).

This solo work is heavily inspired by acousmatic composers, and acousmatic listening, the music and writings of Pierre Schaeffer, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, Francisco Lopez, taking inspiration from what is known as ‘deep listening’, listening with intent or acousmatic listening. 45 copies.

For this Dronica show, he presents a selection of Spanish industrial and experimental music from the 80s.

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

Tim Shaw is a sound artist based in North East of England - he gave me access to field recordings he's made in and around River Tyne in the North East of England over the last 12 months - I've mixed an hours worth of material that offers a slow meditation on this once busy and heavily industrialised river.

It presents a dense portrait of marginalised and liminal spaces along, in and on the river. On board dredgers, underneath bridges and down manholes Tim used hydrophones, contact mics, electromagnetic pick ups and more traditional sound recording. Much of this material was used in collaboration with film maker Leah E Millar for her 16mm film Un.s.scene.

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: new structures appear in the reeds at dusklight. Wires FIZZ /// HISS then go silent. Bright lights blinking amidst the rumbling clouds ... astral underglow from other worlds.

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.

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

This episode features a guest mix by producer and experimental sound artist Kayla Painter.

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

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).

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.

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.