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This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Corine Timmer’s poem “two seahorses / dancing in seagrass / slivers of sunlight”.

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.

Scotland’s Cindytalk attempts difficult pathways - arcane footsteps leading to both the Ring of Brodgar and the exploration of long evacuated space stations.

Mixed by Jose Macabra

Jose Macabra presents solo work and other collaborations.

This episode: tracks from the legendary Pauline Oliveros plus London based artists such as Specimens and Raxil4. Included also a personal remix of Alvin Lucier's manifesto 'Music On A Long Thin Wire'.

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

In this episode, we re-run and remix an episode from June 2020, Origin Stories. Featuring interviews with Alexander Carson, Gaze is Ghost, Nikki Marrone and Broads, the show is about things beginning at home, in the family or in birth.

Post-pandemic, these artists are releasing new books and music, and touring for the first time in literally years. We're happy to share again if you're happy to join us. Featuring scenes of childbirth, dramatic windswept narration, and the memorable quote "you're sitting in your pants, shovelling Häagen-Dazs in your face and crying at The Simpsons". Theresa Elflein joins us presenting some fresh tracks, and the show is co-presented in parts by Martin Clarke.

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: gongs, Bells and tuned percussion- played, layered or mangled. The horror of the mining industry, alchemical utterances and instructional demonstrations scraped from hard drives and smelted from the internet.

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

Promises was a Canadian-based pop group that was founded 1978 in Thousand Oaks, California. The members were siblings Leslie
Maria Knauer (born August 20, 1957, Vancouver, vocals, bongos), Jed Knauer (born July 17, 1955, Toronto, guitar, piano) and Benny
Knauer (born October 21, 1958, Vancouver, keyboards and vocals).

Promises was formed, recorded and produced by Steve Verroca, who leased the group's album to EMI EAR Holland. In February 1979,
soft rock single "Baby It's You" became a smash hit around the world, especially in Europe, where it reached number 4 in the German
charts, and Promises received a Gold album there for selling more than 260,000 units. The song was also hugely popular in Australia,
largely due to the programming of its promotional video on Sunday evening television music show Countdown.
It also reached number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart for five weeks. "Baby It's You" was a success on South African television.

With their second single Lets Get Back Together being much less successful (only reaching number 18 in Germany), and Leslie wanting
the group to become more of a punk band, they broke up.
Curved Air are an English progressive rock group formed in 1970 by musicians from mixed artistic backgrounds, including classical, folk,
and electronic sound. The group decided the name using a shortened version of Terry Riley's composition A rainbow in curved air.
The resulting sound of the band is a mixture of progressive rock, folk rock, and fusion with classical elements.

Curved Air released eight studio albums, the first three of which broke into the UK Top 20, and had a hit single with Back Street Luv
(1971) which reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart.

Line-up / Musicians on Back Street Luv

• Sonja Kristina / lead vocals
• Francis Monkman / lead guitar, keyboards, VCS3 synthesizer
• Darryl Way / electric violin, piano , vocals
• Ian Eyre / bass
• Florian Pilkington-Miksa / drums

I Want More is a song from Can's seventh studio album, Flow Motion. Unusually, it features all of the members of the band on vocals
simultaneously and is characteristic of their Virgin era sound, with lyrics written by Peter Gilmour, the band's live sound engineer.

The single reached number 26 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1976.

The song ... And More, also on Flow Motion, repeats the chorus of this track, and was included as a B-side to the single release.

Man Who Dies Every Day is from Ha!-Ha!-Ha!, (1977) the second album by British pop group Ultravox, at that time known as
Ultravox!, with exclamation mark, as a nod to Neu!, (known for pioneering the "motorik" beat, a minimalist 4/4 rhythm associated with
krautrock artists.)

This is the Rock and Roll gas chamber. So, take a deep breath and dance...

Lepke B's blissful disregard for the sacred in life has placed him as one of the testcard knights with a totally unique approach to sound plunderphonics and visual art.

For the final episode of 2023, we're wrapping up the year with our long running, irregular feature, Tedious Field Recording Of The Year. Tune in to find out who will be crowned this year’s champion!

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

This episode features music by sevensy, Les Antonymes, Rafael Diogo, Michael Bonaventure & Loo(p)cy, Lars Bröndum, The Washing Planck, Sonologyst, Triswara and Joel Gilardini.

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

This month: Chorus.

Moods and preoccupations in a nonlinear narrative in and out of the club with COSI and The Source of Some Certainty - created by Corinna Triantafyllidis and Henry Rodrick.

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

In this episode: Sulky is a Netabel based in Médanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina founded in 2013. Sulky is an Argentine virtual initiative that seeks to distribute different independent musical expressions.

The sound poetry of a landscape, the wind, the underground city, the music of a room, the song. They want to be a media, an instance of approach and interaction with artists and other labels. They want to sum those efforts.

A selection of the most vibrant and exciting new sounds of Latin America's emerging talents.

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

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

Walking, movement in place, in air, distance through time.

In this episode: Iceland ... every three hours for 24 hours ... eight times ... daag einn I juni ... I stand and look east across the fell to the obelisk. Beyond it the northern shoulder of Burfell rises then slips away off its hog’s back summit.

Stand and listen to the plaintive pipe of the Golden Plover and the croak of the Snipe.

Stand … then move off ... down the slope; through the Marsh Marigolds; over the stream; cross two fences; cross the horse paddock to the leaning post; along the horse path; around to the fence to the left; over the fence; cross four streams; pass the waterfall; cross the marsh; cross the stream on stones; up the slope to gap in ridge; up the slope to the lip; around the obilisk; pause; retrace my steps ... eight walks ... eight sections ... split ... re-built ... into a day at random ... eight movements ... this is movement 4.

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

In this episode, a guest mix from algorithmic art hero, William Fields. Shackamaxon available in all good record stores.

Tracks from across the spectrum of electronic and computer music, with Calum Gunn of Conditional.

Camilo Franco presents new and emerging sounds from Latin America.

This episode features a guest mix by Nicole13.

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.

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