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Offering surreal glimpses of what might be identified as echoes of a post-Republic America, an imagined Middle East, and some other unnamed and unreachable world, Palace chronicles a vivid landscape of crumbling towers and heart-broken animals, eclipses, comets, and lovers in abandoned rooms. Produced by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger–Meacham.

Kyra Simone is a writer from Los Angeles, now based in Brooklyn. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary journals, including The Baffler, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Conjunctions, Fence, The Anthology of Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere. She is a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and part of a two-woman team running the editorial office of Zone Books.

"From the stuff we unfold in the morning and throw in the recycling bin at night, Simone coaxes the rhythms of cyclical life, that baseline on which extraordinary events and crises exert their pressure. The world she constructs is recognisable, textured, gently humorous—but also luminously, piercingly exact, possessed of the strangeness of seeing something for the first or the last time".

— Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun.

"I was hooked by the very first sentence of Kyra Simone’s Palace of Rubble: ‘A breaking wave collapses on the bank before two half-naked women on white Arabian horses.’ The sentence is so precise, down to the use of the erotic “collapses.” Plunged into this direct, clear, and mysterious arrangement of words, I was always left wondering what will happen next. Where will the next sentence take me? I was never disappointed. Simone is able to maintain and shift that propulsive curiosity throughout the book. While dancing with us, each sentence is a journey. Each story is a multi-faceted gem—a ‘beguiling dream of eternal cinema".

— John Yau, author of Genghis Chan on Drums.

"Majestic flights of fancy spun around ravaged landscapes and savage realities, these are remarkable prose poems for the 21st century".

— Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters.

"Reading Simone’s work is reminiscent of an archaeological excavation. The writing has dug to the past and emerged in the future, passing on its way those civilisations, kingdoms and palaces long since blown away or buried, it is covered in their dust. I can’t help but think, isn’t this madness? Isn’t life beautiful".

— Vanessa Onwuemezi, author of Dark Neighbourhood.

Temporary Palaces is a special triplicate of hour-long broadcasts that serialises an unabridged rendition of Kyra Simone's debut collection, Palace of Rubble (Tenement Press, 2022). Initially inspired by a photograph of one of Saddam Hussein’s demolished palaces, Simone’s Palace of Rubble is a collection of one-page stories composed primarily of single words culled each day from the front pages of the newspaper.

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.

Slow Radio by bauhaus.fm is a radio format where almost nothing happens and still people listen. To test this we have chosen the shortest night of the year, from 20th to 21st June. The following ingredients could possibly surface: a camp fire, tomorrow's football results, the underwater world of the river Ilm, memorising of a poem, reading of a book, a quarry with a nearby brewery & boiling water.

In this episode, Colliding Lines artist Theresa Elflein presents the new EP of her art-pop band MAW, ‘Ghost in the Building’. Accompanied by favourite songs and musical influences selected by Theresa and bandmate Matteo Maran, the show features songwriter heavyweights from 1960s–80s Italy, atmospheric piano recitals, and experimental indietronica.

In the Our Friends Eclectic section, Theresa presents new releases from befriended music acts, such as Ariel My Friend from Leipzig, Neil Palmer from Cambridge, and Antoine Assayas from Paris. The show rounds off will bold selections from Egypt, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Turkey and the West Bank – including lost and rediscovered tapes, disco hits, and noise meeting spoken word.

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.

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

In this episode: Anna and Kristina of the Stoscha label discuss crafting a compilation, the process of collaboration and the advantages of co-ordinating their operations from their respective homes of Frankfurt, Germany and Malmö, Sweden. Also: a playlist of voices.

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

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

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

From the shore walk up the slope to the cairn, follow the track north into birchwood, walk through the woods towards the waterfall, cross the burn, walk up the hill, up to Hallaig.

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

Drone Operatør's AA + session #4 takes the listener on a 2-hour journey through rough terrain. The walk starts at ground level where we pass by lively waters and layered sound strata with detailed landscapes that fade into each other.

Once in a while, familiar sightings re-emerge out from the ground and we go up and down until we finally meet up with NATHAN CORDER who takes over after this 1-hour walk. He guides us up that steep 30min climb into his very own territory filled with wild sharp rocks and beasts baring teeth that leaves you breathless and drenched in sweat.

A 30 min downhill hike after we waved goodbye to our guest and this ride is over. We hope you picked some flowers along the way.

Monthly experimen†al kleptomaniac post digital free jazz spam channel operated by artists Tilman Hornig and Paul Barsch aka DRONE OPERATØR.

Fading Somewhere Else is a work by Morkebla & Dalhous. The short three-part series hopes to explore and streamline some of the music that has influenced their philosophy in the sound-exploration of unconscious states of self.

This episode features new music by PLUHM, david lee myers & toshimaru nakamura, Marbury, MoCM & Schema Musicalis, Allan Segall, Mark Hjorthoy, insectarium, Rapoon, Corrado Altieri, ＴＲＡＭＰＥＬＦÂＤ, Sanctuary, N. A. Gjefle, Bjørn Hatterud and Matheus Souza .

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

This episode presents the best of 2023 from the Discrepant HQ. A lot of strange and easy listening that has rocked our broken boat over the past year. Some bangers here and there but mostly new weird mashers. Enter the new year void with last year's glob…

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.

In this episode: a new studio setup with a guitar, a track from the best black metal album of all time, Melinoë by Akhlys, Meshuggah, Sarahsson, E-GIRLS ARE RUINING MY LIFE! ft. Savage Ga$p, Stay Out of My Swamp (feat. Tre_' Perdue) by The Ogre Packet Slammers and more.

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 works by Morag Law & Ronan Doyle, TVO, Poe Sullard, Isobel McKenna, Various Networked Artists, Carrier, Inturist, BJ Nilsen, LABOUR, Points Of Friction, Orphax & PONI, Orphax, Diurnal Burdens & Matt Atkins, Orrest, Poly Gone, NWO and Jeff Brown.

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.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.

Glasgow-based Bobby Jewell presents a series of ambient mixes for Resonance Extra with guest features by musicians and artists.