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A one-off winter special by audio / visual decomposer Lepke B.

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.

Here they present a recording of The Death of Kodak, live at The Cockpit Theatre for Rough for Opera, 2015.

"Founded by George Eastman in 1892, the renowned photographic film company Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy in 2012. The Death of Kodak imaginatively charts this tragic trajectory in terms of the apparent eclipse of analogue technology and the dissolution of identity in the digital era. The graphic score (the length and structure of which is determined by Fibonacci Numbers) is drawn on digital camera flash units, projected on to the retinas of the individual musicians – a technique originally explored by Ed Baxter."

Featuring:

Rodney Earl Clarke: voice (Rochester, New York); Richard Scott: voice (Eastman Kodak); Ed Baxter: text, direction; Louise Goodwin: percussion; Simon King: electric guitar; Elo Masing: amplified violin; Markus Sasse: bass guitar; Milo Thesiger-Meacham: electric guitar; and Chris Weaver: electronics. Voice over: Piers Gibbon.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, engineers, sound-effects creators, actors, writers, composers and broadcasters devoted to making live radio-art. It is based in central London as the in-house artistic wing of Resonance104.4fm, under the direction of Ed Baxter.

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.

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

This episode features new releases on Chocolate Monk from Points Of Friction, Karen Constance, Robert Millis, Tongue Depressor and Cody Brant.

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

In this winter holiday special, Chris Bohn and special guest host Anla Li – music and culture writer and Wire contributor, and former manager of B10 Live, Shenzhen – explore pathways into Chinese music opened up since attending the Tomorrow Festival in Shenzhen in 2015.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This month, Jack asks musicians to share a story about a profound live music experience, from a Daft Punk stadium spectacular to a 30-hour experimental music marathon.

Thematic mixes and reflections, captured along the Dorset coastline by ATTN:Magazine's Jack Chuter.

This contribution comes from Usmaradio.

A collaborative network radio performance conceived by Roberto Paci Dalò and performed at Tactus Radio Festival, Republic of San Marino and worldwide, December 2023. Broadcast on Usmaradio together with a global network of radio stations.

Live performers: Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, L’Impero della Luce, NicoNote, Roberto Paci Dalò, Tobia Bandini, Vittoria Assembri, Anna Friz, alien productions (Andrea Sodomka and Robert Math), Bauhaus Radio Ensemble (Tilman Böhnke, Fritzi Buhtz, Adrian Ciesielski, Lefteris Krysalis, Finn Röhmer-Litzmann, João Afonso Soares Leiria Parreira Ticão, Amir Shokati, Karlotta Sperling).

The challenge was to work on radical improvisation without any conduction and prior rules, giving maximum freedom to the participants. Most of the artists – performing from different locations – didn’t know each other and actually never talked to each other before the performance and were performing together on-site in the Republic of San Marino and remotely from the USA, Germany, and Austria.

The result was surprising. Subtle sound textures with amazing moments of silence despite the massive use of live electronics. The performance somehow proved that the planned lack of conduction can be balanced by the level of attention and involvement from the performers. It was a mesmerizing immersion in an acoustical world where electronics graciously merged with acoustical instruments and voices. A nocturnal winterreise across galaxies.

CONTINUUM aimed to bring together both independent and broadcasting corporations in order to act in our present and investigate the possibilities of today’s technologies. A suivre…

General coordination by Alessandro Renzi. Mixed by Lorenzo Ricci. Mastered by Alessandro Renzi.

Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

ARCO is Neil Luck, Adam de la Cour, Chihiro Ono and Benedict Taylor. Recording captured, and engineered live by Matt Saunders. Mixed by Neil Luck.

Costumes by Monika Czyżyk with characters from Bodyssey series and 4k videos. 360 video by Mateusz Ścibor.

Live recordings of a work by ARCO performed on loop at Colourscape, September 2023. More info here.

This event was broadcast on Naviar’s Youtube channel on 30th July 2021.

halF unusuaL (interview + live set).

On Naviar Records: Live at The Old Church 2018.

The ‘hai’ in ‘haiku’ translates to ‘joke’, ‘fun’, or ‘unusual’. halF unusuaL is Darren Bourne, whose musical career to date spans international sound engineering, production, performing and writing credits across a variety of genres and platforms from pop to film and sound design to contemporary dance and theatre. His current obsessions are improvisation, chance and the music / non-music boundary.
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Naviar Virtual was a monthly online event hosted by Naviar Records, which aimed to bring online the spirit of Naviar’s yearly physical events during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This episode explores the year through the seasons in a unique improvised recording. This journey travels through radio waves, tape players and field recorders; an analogue experience.

Each season features field recordings captured during that time. Join Kayla for a continuous hour of music and sound moving through life as the seasons change.

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.

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 music and sounds by Flying Saucer Attack, Adam Buffington, TVO, AOTCI, Smaely P, Weird MD5, The Incidental Crack, Production Unit, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Vladislav Delay, Phil Niblock, Free Musick, Oleksandr Yurchenko, Roots Manuva, Noxin, Jim O'Rourke, Cheval De Frise and Magnús Pálsson.

An immersive psychosonic space, where sounds converse, collide and converge, featuring works, selections, edits, experiments, new music, non-music, archival objects, abstract artefacts, sound(system) and A/V art, pop, trash, noise, voice, and the associated mediums, processes and techniques that make up the ongoing audial investigations of Agents of the Culture Industry & OVT, all presented for art not profit.

In this episode, a blasted guest mix by Philipp Ilinskiy, a constant in the Moscow underground.

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

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.

In these first two episodes, Additions Megabus collects four live sets and practice sessions from four successive years of shows by Trash Panda QC (formerly billed under real name Peter Seligman), showing evolutions and variations of his rave/footwork/noise-influenced sound along with unheard versions of released tracks.

After catching up to the present, live sets from the following episodes will be collected in an additional, gradually expanding album, totalling approximately three hours.

RIP Pita. The title Additions Megabus was originally intended as a tribute to the sense of freedom and possibility that Peter Rehberg and Editions Mego's activities put into the world, and I can only hope that these tracks inspire somebody in the same way.

A 16-episode bi-weekly series alternating new and unheard live sounds from Trash Panda QC with DJ selections and guests.

In the first half of this show, Melbourne-based producer Marara captures an impression of her city in her distinctive style of sonic collage; fragments of conversation, found sound, and a curated selection of music from the area come together to form a considered and tender portrait of life in Victoria's capital.

Hyperdawn take the reins for the second hour, with a mix of field recordings, music, and exclusive material that honours the full range of Manchester's vibrant character; flitting between the city's outer marshlands and its bustling centre, intimate home recordings and bass-driven productions.

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.