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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.

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.

Jose Macabra presents solo work and other collaborations.

From the moment you click ‘buy now’ to when your parcel arrives, what happens? Listening to the whispers from the fulfilment centre.

In a 2 hour broadcast, What Comes to Mind explore how logistics, supply chains and unseen labour intersect with our personal, intimate lives. The town of Tilbury, Essex acts as a central point of reference; home to the closest international port to London, the historic landing of the Empire Windrush, and the largest Amazon Fulfilment Centre in Europe. This piece includes original writings by Felix Bazalgette.

What Comes to Mind (WC2M) is a semi-regular broadcast project by Hannah Marine and Dani Smith. The project has been resident on Thamesmead-based community station RTM.fm since 2020, and has produced new commissions for Noods Radio and No Bounds.

It explores social history through sound collage, music, archive footage and original material. Equal parts thoughtful and chaotic, it’s referential in its form, sampling a wide range of material to explore the topic at hand.

Much of the spirit of WC2M is how different ideas drift in and out of focus and form connections with each other. It does not aim to be an authority on the given subject but rather a space to embrace a mood or feeling from within a social context.

Presented by Outlands, The Joyous Thing 3 is an annual gathering for the UK experimental music community and anyone with a curious ear. 2022's event featured an in person programme at MK Gallery, with newly commissioned works by Coby Sey, TACO!, ame, Lost Property, Eastern Ear, MK Gallery/Simon Wright, Tor Festival, Daniel W G Mackenzie, and Lukas Hornby; and live performances from emerging artists I Am Fya and Euso, plus DJ sets from Outlands members.

In this episode, a return to a well-trodden path following a long and heavy downpour. Mist rises from the marshy ground as footsteps sink into submerged layers of sodden earth.

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 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.

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

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.

Camilo Franco presents new and emerging sounds from Latin America.

In this episode: recordings and studio works from artists at the festival's second edition, which took place in July 2016. Featuring Ghost Fang, Daniele Sergio, Roadside Dead, IlSantoBevitore and Astaroth.

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

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 a guest mix by Brighton-based Hive Mind Records.

Mat Eric Hart presents a sedated sojourn through worldly and mystical sounds.

This year the word is 'Are’, consequently the focus will be on plurals: multiplicities leading to infinities, polymorphs and polyglots, surrounded sounds, layers upon layers, etceteras upon etceteras. New this year is the inclusion of a subtitle: (Sommes Sonnes)—this translates from the French simply to ‘are sounded’. Also new this year, Myriam Lambert and Alexandre St-Onge are joining the project on the curatorial side.

LINEUP:

• ARE - HOUR 1 (17:00 GMT)

FADO (Tkarón:to/Toronto) Présente-Presents 'One' (1-4)

• ARE - HOUR 2 (18:00 GMT)

Crónica (Portugal) Présente-Presents Miguel Carvalhais, Rodrigo Carvalho, Patrícia Viana de Almeida and Pedro Tudela

• ARE - HOUR 3 (19:00 GMT)

NAISA Présente-Presents Kelly Ruth (Amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton)

• ARE - HOUR 4 (20:00 GMT)

Resonance Extra (London, UK) Présente-Presents Agnès Pe (Barcelona, Spain) and Milo Thesiger-Meacham (London, UK)

• ARE -HOUR 5 (21:00 GMT) (LIVE)

Rhizome (Québec) Présente-Presents Maud Joiret (Belgique) with Catherine Bélanger and Alexandre Berthier

• ARE - HOUR 6 (22:00 GMT) (LIVE)

Spira and Antitube Présente-Presents David B. Ricard

• ARE - HOUR 7 (23:00 GMT) (LIVE)

Université Laval (Québec) Présente-Presents Alexandre St-Onge (Québec)

• ARE - HOUR 8 (00:00 GMT) (LIVE)

Rad’Art (Italy) Présente-Presents Myriam Lambert (Québec)

• ARE - HOUR 9 (01:00 GMT) (LIVE)

Université Laval (Québec) Présente-Presents Agence Augmentée Collective with Lé, Max St-Pierre, and Juan David Molina Velasco

• ARE - HOUR 10 (02:00 GMT) (LIVE)

Avatar (Québec) Présente-Presents Diane Landry (Québec)

• ARE -HOUR 11 (03:00 GMT)

Avatar (Québec) Présente-Presents Christof Migone (Tkarón:to/Toronto)

• ARE - HOUR 12 (04:00 GMT)

FADO (Tkarón:to/Toronto) Présente-Presents 'One' (9-12)

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The fourth in Christof Migone's series of twelve annual 12-hour events taking place on December 12th from 5pm to 5am the next day. Each year the event moves through each word of the phrase ‘You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air of Life and Death’ and a group of international artists activate the word of the year in myriad ways. Streamed live on YouTube.