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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.

Hedonist and wannabe playwright Olga Adessi, 19, is struggling along the prom to get to her morning shift at the chippy with a monstrous hangover, trying to remember exactly what happened with Rachel Watkins, 19, a strange and fragile girl she had an encounter with the night before.

Former gymnast and teenage mum Treesa Reynolds, 19, is off to the Sandcastle Waterpark with her mum Lou and daughter Lulu, looking forward to a sausage and egg McMuffin on the way. Pleasure Beach breathes and exhales the unique sea air, fish and chips, donuts and candyfloss scents of Blackpool, bringing to life everything the town is famous for, portraying the gritty magic and sheer unadulterated fun of the city and its people across a spectrum of sensory experiences and emotions.

Palmer’s readings are accompanied by found sounds and samples – noise and ambience borrowed from Blackpool’s beaches, streets, and ballrooms – and features refrains drawn from Benedict Drew’s Music for Bookshops.

"A book as mind-bending as the town itself" – Jeremy Deller

Helen Palmer is a writer from Blackpool. She is the author of Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for Nonsense (London: Bloomsbury, 2014) and Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press). She is a 2023 Interdisciplinary Resident at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Virginia, USA. She currently lives in Vienna. Pleasure Beach is her first novel.

Published by Prototype, Helen Palmer’s Pleasure Beach is a queer love story from the North West’s saucy seaside paradise, Blackpool, on one day: 16th June 1999. Written in multiple voices and styles, Pleasure Beach follows the interconnecting journeys and thoughts of three young women over the course of 24 hours and over 18 chapters which are structured and themed in the same way as James Joyce’s Ulysses. Serialised in four instalments (to conclude with its publication on June 16th 2023, “Bloomsday”), and read by the author, Pleasure Beach (Cochlearical) was produced by Dominic Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger-Meacham for Resonance Extra as a part of a rolling series of collaborative broadcasts from Tenement Press and Prototype Publishing, Railroad Flat Radio.

A 22-hour radio project in 7 episodes by Milo Thesiger–Meacham. An unnamed narrator moves house and pieces together a world of recording devices, names, crime, real-world characters and media from across the globe, featuring 10-second audio extracts from over 6000 individual videos found online, original sound recordings, music, hand-held camera audio and writing. Commissioned by the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022 for the temporary radio art station Radio Art Zone. Follow Fox Neame for more.

In this episode, Afghan Dream by Julie Rousse:

"In 2013, on the invitation of my friend, photograph reporter in Afghanistan, I went to Kabul to record the sounds that would accompany her book Afghan Dream, which shows the life of the modern middle-class Afghanis who have developed since the Taliban's fall and with the beginning of the United-States occupation. Another Afghanistan, far from the war clichés. Yet war is everywhere, inevitable, visible, audible.
We have driven and walked through the city of Kabul and she showed me the city she has lived in for more than 10 years with her heart, attached to the people, in the company of her fixer, like an uncle to her. Here comes one of the many series that could come out of the massive amount of recordings I have from this trip. It begins with a Sunday morning on a hill: People of Kabul (hills, streets, kids & kites)."

I am Julie Rousse, a passionate phonographer and composer. I have walked through many places of the world looking for sounds, but not only. I love the way life unfolds in so many ways, in the human kind as in the other animal, vegetal and mineral kind. In the end we are all star dust, and we crave for sharing our experiences of life. For me it is through sound, straight from from the ears to the heart.

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout Central Asia. Entitled Central Asia 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.

In this episode, Joe & Alex welcome long time friend, collaborator and brother-in-arms JC Leisure to the show, who is releasing his new record with Warm Winters Ltd. He talks us through his practice and supplies an exclusive production mix in the final part of the show.

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

This mix was initially titled "vultus tela vibrat" (translating as “thy countenance shakes spears”, a sentence Gabriel Harvey used to describe Edward de Vere). But then I changed it to "You and I, We Are the Two Greatest Musicians Ever Lived", which someone I knew said to me while they lay on a hospital bed...

Dedicated to Edward.

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.

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.

This month, the first half of Third Space features renowned Iranian musician, producer and promoter, Pouya Ehsaei. Subtle field recordings taken from across London are carefully placed and processed within a half hour of original music composed for the show, showcasing Pouya's ability to translate the labyrinthine city's diverse rhythms and sonic intricacies into modular synthesis.

Comprised of Farbod Maeen and Deniz Tafaghodi, Zerone Duo explore the sounds of their and Pouya's hometown, Tehran, in the second portion of the show. At times peaceful and at other times unnerving, synthesised sounds are masterfully woven into a tapestry of air brakes, announcements and indistinct conversations to interrogate the stirring emotions of a bustling city.

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.

For this episode we dive beneath the subsurface of both the water and our archive with a re-mix of material originally put together to accompany Littoral Transmissions' live performance at Fort Process 2018. Featuring Worsicles from James Worse.

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.

In this episode, we share recent performances and pieces from friends and members of the collective, including Lou Barnell’s performance for Yarmonics Festival, a Moses Batikva live set from Hamburg, and a selection of works from Stephan Barrett’s conceptually eclectic mix of projects (one of which “known for its boundless appetite and complex system of multiple void-like stomachs”).

Resonance Extra radio pals Littoral Transmissions also share sessions recorded with absurdist poet James Worse.

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.

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.

This episode is a Thanet Tape Centre special.

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

This episode features a guest mix by Berk Icli.

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

yeah the hider

yongrak activeates that dark breath in my ‘chest wall’
oozing (weezing) out like speaking the leaking spout

the gammar is taken off
gamma takeoff
grammes
the darkness of game

decomposition and clay retrieval

smuggling clairty in rotoscopic lava

“atrocios”

”-itis’ (disease idea)

so heavy you cuold never lift it and then it rushes your blending (flenders II) (HURLY IFLENDS)

did i give you rotten mound permissions

Bask in this knowledge bath
Basking like shark
“bath” (graey water)

talk about ‘beaks’ ‘mouth’ ‘melt’ ‘weak’

head carve
and each slice reveals hendred four new old worlds

Martin relegation hile filve

VORE spacial Em rotery

every word is subject to change, every word is subject to chance, every word is under the scent, every word is under the weight of it and under the bed, under the hill running under us like deep savage sewer
every word is in “quotations” every word is in vocalic choke hold, vocalic colic, vocalised rize and local rice

“nerve gaga”
harry ‘Plotts’
Yerng Woosh

It sounds like waste with an attention to science
It sounds like haste with slowness alliance
It sounds like taste of ceffalize nevermine

garstly expediency
running through lanes hooting
moola lanes

There is a sense of biology a nervous biologeme a biology of language
might sound silly might sound defunct but I’m rolling around
I’m rolling around in the callous victim of cartoon idea
the fallus whip
little metal script
high tide my life scrolls past
tiddle war happy leggo tiddle war
flipping to them

the body of the name and the name of the body
and so much can happyen in twenny secons
fortey naine seconds hellish remainder plain stark fish flinger

tcker tape acknowlegesys the remidner that truth remains in the length
up and down, left and right, through and through
long through my team of loose screw tighten and rubbish them the men the you
I’m led by a string of socking sound that extends beyond my many men like 50 cent
Hundred bags forteen bags the ninestyle rags the hyper ‘sags’
the usage of quotation the talking the station I’m generation I’m generating elocquation
electriquaytion

and is junking through the pile even really necessary
thats i what find mytself asking to myself
hard back dust sack must

all emerging from the darkness
nothing in the light
the dark is the hot light
this is language disbanded from the mouth mouth
language got hunted down lang dspreay

and now i want to tell everyone “shitu p” if they tell me the AI, the after space the last city in the world and The alien is getting me, i tant to tell them ‘lose you’ if you tell tme this is technology at the end, this is the game, this is ‘Japan’ i tell tehm ‘goodbye’ take the piss mate. this is not the thought from that place this is more than you could ever imagine. its within the crux and the plex, hunting from the beginning and never finding. Indle spiralling into the thicket stash. Hilling the running the lung got caught on the brush.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

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.

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).

Ana María Romano G is a Colombian composer and interdisciplinary sound artist. Her creative interests center around acoustic and electroacoustic media and participation in interdisciplinary projects involving contemporary dance, video dance, performance and live arts.

Her creative interests stem in the intersection of gender, sound and technology, listening, soundscape, noise, experimentation, improvisation, cyberspace, body and the political dimension of the creative. Her artistic works have been featured in festivals and published in physical support and by several netlabels in Latin America, Europe, North America, and Asia.

Currently, she teaches at Universidad El Bosque and Universidad de Antioquia. She is the coordinator of the Plataforma Feminista En Tiempo Real (Feminist Platform En Tiempo Real) dedicated to the encounter between sound and technology with focus on women and LBTQ+.

She has been nominated to the CLASSICAL NEXT INNOVATION AWARD 2019 (Holland) for the work of making visible the work of women in the field of experimental sound creation with technologies through the Festival En Tiempo Real.

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.