← Wednesday 22nd November 2023 →

In the lowlight, eyes and ears dissolve. What sounds like the chirping of crickets could in fact be static from overhead cables. Are those really birds? Where does the sky begin? The lightning strike of empty, onrushing trains briefly sends the scene into stark relief, followed by brief silence before the dusk chorus resumes.

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.

This episode features new music by Oubys, APickard, Daniele Ciullini, M. Lino Stancati, Loo(p)cy, Lars Bröndum, Joel Gilardini, Mombi Yuleman, HLER, Are Mundal and Sonologyst.

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

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.

This episode celebrates new releases and shines a light on minimalist composition. Join Kayla for a journey through hypnotic repetition and immersive soundscapes

Background music: Unreleased audio experiments by Kayla Painter.

A monthly show exploring our innate connection to sound, and how we express that through music, showcasing work that connects to our body and minds through rich compositional choices, through intricate processes in the studio, or music that is inspired by the way we interact with the outside world. Connections to Sound journeys through downtempo, electronic, ambient and beat driven music, featuring tracks from artists all around the world. Presented by Kayla Painter.

In this episode, music from Mike Cooper, Adventure Time, AF Ursin, Kink Gong, Antena, Pierre Bastien, Philip Glass and more.

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.

Musical sketches by ENGLAND'S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS is a monthly mix of curation, recompilation and pseudepigrapha.

Joe & Alex welcome Sunik Kim back to the show after releasing their debut ‘Zero Chime’ in early November. Sunik composes a collage & text based companion piece to the album. In Sunik’s own words, it is “a paean to decades of struggle by Koreans for a reunified peninsula. Featuring texts from Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Jeon Tae-Il and the student organizers of the Gwangju Uprising. Korea is one!”

A selection of experimental frequencies, interviews and sessions plus cuts from the First Terrace label by Alex Ives (Specimens) and Joe Summers.

In this episode we speak to baroque pop pianist and composer Laura McGarrigle, otherwise known as Gaze is Ghost. following her recent singles Wild Geese / Feather & Bone, and preceding new album Lapis Cobalt Indigo Blue. Her recent collaboration with poet Nikki Marrone, Lifelines, is given its full-length radio debut.

The latter half of the show collects together left-field pop gems, jazz and sound collages from some of our favourite artists, friends and associates. Presented by Theresa Elflein and Wesley Freeman-Smith.

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

In this episode, An Trinse presents a hallucinogenic noisy live impromptu for vinyls, modular synths and Traktor.

As An Trinse, Northern Irish audiovisual artist Stephen McLaughlin reckons with the cultural history of Ireland with sound and image, mapping what he describes as “the uneasy atmospheres and silences left in the Irish psyche in the aftermath of colonial and religious repression, using archaeology and ancient history as a conduit.” – FACT Magazine about his A/V work Humic Acid Regress.

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

This very special episode of Third Space pairs two forerunners of the contemporary ambient scene, Nairobi-born, Berlin-based KMRU and Liverpool's Beau Beaumont.

In a Third Space first, all the music you hear throughout the show has been created by the artists themselves, offering an intimate window into their relationships with their cities.

Prodigious and fast-rising star of the underground electronic community KMRU takes the reins for the first half of the show, exploring the sonic character of Nairobi through his vast library of field recordings and luscious synth meditations.

Meine Nacht curator Beau Beaumont (fka Breakwave) takes over for the second hour, premiering a piece called L8 - a journey into the vibrant city of Liverpool through the lens of her fine-tuned creative practice.

Artwork by Michael Skeen.

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.

Eclectic musical face-off between German electronic musician and producer Ulrich Schnauss and Nathaniel Cramp (Sonic Cathedral).

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Den Sutejo’s poem “gale in the mountains – / watch how the fallen blossoms / carpet the water”.

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: unfurling of an estuarine walk. Diffusion. Sonic overflows.

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.

This episode features Neil Campbell, Staubitz & Waterhouse, Ash Circle, MP Hopkins, Cloth, Pierre Henry, Cloth and more.

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

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

Instants Chavirés, Collectif Coax and Sonic Protest in collaboration present a programme of live performance, recorded at a secret space in Paris on the 21st of December 2019, between 12:21 and 21:12.

The marathon recording alternates between solo works, public speaking and unique coincidental meetings, all streamed to the world.

Performers:

Méryll Ampe, Julien Bancilhon, Cyprien Busolini, Audrey Chen, Franq de Quengo, Julien Desprez, Lionel Fernandez, Simon Henocq, La banque de jeu de pharaon : White Bouse = Thomas Dunoyer De Segonzac, Les Harry’s, Blanche Lafuente, Low Jack, Violaine Lochu, Marius Loris , Cinna 'Cikkun' Peyghamy, Mat Pogo, Janeke van der Putten, Arnaud Rivière, Magali 'Oculus Tapageur' Sanheira, Thimothée Quost, Antoine Viard