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

This episode features music from Adam Bohman, Usurper, Y-Pants, Luciano Maggiore, Grease Proof Kids, Insect factory, Kodama, Magnús Pálsson, Lexie Mountain and much more.

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

In this episode, host Jack Chuter talks to Phil Maguire of Verz Imprint (a new London-based label for quiet noise and drone music). Also: a playlist on the theme of “hitting things”.

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

This month, we speak to producer, DJ and designer Mehmet Aslan on his radio project Music For Books: an evolving, ever-inventive platform examining the listener relationship to reading through curated personal soundtracks. Each episode invites the audience to imagine different ways of thinking about sound and literature, and we’re delighted to present two episodes here – the first concerning ‘A Wandering Poem‘ by Christian Marques and Angharad Hengyu Owen, and a second based upon ‘Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates‘ by Tom Robbins.

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.

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

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 third instalment introduces a number of irritants, including roadworks and a malfunctioning audio recorder suddenly beset with earth hum.

Perseveringly, a Zen-like zone is sought whereby the research into the Suppressed Safe can proceed without hindrance; this involves partaking in dubious meditation clickbait and learning to embrace amateurism.

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of All Star by the American band Smash Mouth. There's no order, no lists, just exclusive, overwrought fandom material. Noise theorists, Youtube star, Coldplay fans, banh mi verlag chief conductor, melon lovers, pianists, smashup creators... all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

This episode features two guests: Jack Callahan and Mattin.

Jack Callahan introduces us to the work All Star Mixtape released on his own label, Bánh Mì Verlag, and Mattin gives us an insight into the ideology behind the music video, as well as offering us a cover of the song.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

Rip it up and start again in the new year on this week’s episode with Erika Elizabeth.

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

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.

AA+ DRONE OPERATØR RADIØ #11 hits heavy this time. The mix is laden with drums, guitars and noise. Some 70'ies Japanese Free Jazz, some distorted blast beats, some nerve-wracking electronics all spiced up with some musical pearls. Our special guest the American experimental extreme metal ensemble and contemporary composition collective EHNAHRE presents one song from their oeuvre plus songs picked by each band member that they felt was formative in developing their musical sensibilities.

Ehnahre has been pioneering an effort to rethink and redefine what metal, extreme and new music can be, since their debut release in 2008- to equal parts acclaim and condemnation for their sins against the tradition. Originally conceived as a one-off recording project, the artistic success of the first session inspired the group to forge ahead, and it has evolved over time from a weirdo death metal outfit into an extreme new music ensemble that employs an unlimited variety of techniques, instrumentation and atmospheres. While the ensemble retains a vestigial tail of their formative elements, they are always in search of innovative and interesting new approaches, concepts and projects to give life to.

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

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Kobayashi Issa’s poem “Basking / in the New Year's sun... / my trashy hut” .

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.

Short Manual is a sound collage program & conceptual mix show with some original production included.

SubPhonics have been working with artist and performer Uli Ap for the latest installation of her Alien AI project. In this episode, hear some sounds we used in our the performances on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th of January at Ugly Duck!

As always if you’d like to get in contact with us for collaborations, performance or recording opportunities, or just to say hi, please email hello@subphonics.com

Quarterly noise from SubPhonics exploring themes of collaborative sound and performance.

In this episode, Dronica meets Lou Barnell.

Lou is an award-winning vocalist, sound and performance artist. She is one of Sound and Music's New Voices 2022 Composers, and Manchester Jazz Festival Hothouse Residents 2023. She was winner of the 2021 Oram Awards, supported by The PRS Foundation and BBC Radiophonic Institute in recognition of innovation in sound and technology.

Lou’s work gives language to her alienating and disorientating experiences of being a neurodivergent woman. It communicates her synaesthetic experience of sound, hyperfocus and sensory overload.

This show is dedicated to Lou's Practice and the focus of her practice led PhD called Live Dreaming. This concept reconsiders her body as a mirror, reflecting and refracting parallel states of dreaming and performance. She emulates this duality in her work by creating scores and live performances with sculpted, shapeshifting, re-useable materials such as ice and thermoplastic. She uses wearable sensors and biorhythmic data to play and score music.

"As a woman growing up with a learning difficulty, the way I experience the world does not align with the way the world experiences me. To make sense of unfathomable surroundings, I use my voice as a material. My voice can be a compass, or a totem, it can be sculpted, broken and reformed.

It is the core of all of my music and production. I use wearable instruments and sculptures to contain, shape and release my body and voice. My aim is to become more than myself, to possess ways of communicating and receiving sound that are true to how I experience my surroundings."

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

This episode features an original radio artwork by Mlin Patz – the solo project of Ukrainian artist Polina Matskevych, a member of Chillera – using sound recorded and composed by the artist, who has captured audio from a web-receiver over the last two months.

The project started in 2015 as an attempt to collage field recordings and electro-acoustic instruments; the debut EP TVRK was released on the platform Система and then, the dubbed 12'' EP Sunlimit on the Muscut label. Now the project has moved on to improvisation and sonic installations.

As the artist finished one project related to the research of radio as an instrument for spreading frequencies and as a source of information, this broadcast is about tradition and how people are using it in retrospect.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

A special broadcast of the 2016 album Grand Oeuvre by mysterious French avant-garde group Le Clan des Exaltés.

In this episode: a symphony of clicks and bleeps echoing from the voltage control studio, modulated field recordings, disembodied voices, re-mixed radio samples and cassette sounds.

Through decontextualization and reconstruction, I aim to translate the environment and its natural state of disorder. Tape manipulation, tape loops and sampling techniques are used.

Juxtaposing raw, unaltered material and its modulated counterparts serves to create a dynamic interplay, inviting listeners to traverse the boundaries between real and imaginary.

Samples from: Female voice and viola, The Swamp in June, Jingles & Génériques, Radio Play Excerpt by Ulrike Haage on Eva Hesse, 180º, Jaap Vink and Recording of Shortwave Numbers Stations.

Radio Concrete by Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show which deals with live mixing and processing of field recordings together with radio broadcasting and concrete sounds. Fresh raw materials including everyday sounds, samples from tv & radio, news editions and advertisements are all gathered on a regular basis and then mixed together with live sources (FM and AM stations and other live online streaming sources) and objects (such as amplified/hacked toys).

This episode with Phil England and Misha Farrant features music by Laetitia Sadier, Fred Frith, Moor Mother, Zoh Amba & Francisco Mela, and much more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.