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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.

In this episode, Jack interviews Keith Helt of Pan Y Rosas Discos, a Chicago net label releasing improvisation, noise and weirdo rock). Plus a rundown of ATTN's top tracks of 2016.

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

This episode features Neil Campbell, Staubitz & Waterhouse, Ash Circle, MP Hopkins, Cloth, Pierre Henry, Cloth and more.

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

In this episode, a broad, eclectic selection of interviews. Hosted by Wes Freeman-Smith and Martin Clarke, we have audiovisual sensation Waterflower with new album 'Balta Gaisma' – midi-pop from Leipzig's Ariel My Friend – and a trio of international ensembles brought to you under the loving care of OEM Records.

The label's latest release, 'Flutuando Suspenso' by Thelmo Cristovam and Cassio Sales was described as "...a potent pole of sound invention within the universe of free music," while Waterflower has been described as "so free to experiment with her music that it truly sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before."

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.

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

This episode examines distance, time, movement and place from replicated walks into the remote, coastal, Icelandic lava field of Búðahraun. A ‘there-and-back’ route was taken twice, once at dawn and once at dusk; distance is both the distance of the walk and distance heard across the lava field.

As well as the elapsed time of the walks themselves, time is present as the time of day but also the time between the walks – the time of a day – and, as the walks occurred on the summer solstice, the time of the year. Movement comes directly from my footfall, my embodied movement across the rock, but also from the comings and goings of the birds as they, and their calls, songs, and displays move over the lava field.

Together these elements contribute to a sonic portrait of a place but they also create a space to allow a listener to hear a place of their own.

Flux aims to explore the themes of liminal space, temporality and boundaries, whether physical or theoretical. This exploration is carried out through field recording and sound design. Each episode invites an artist, performer or sound recordist to create a show in reaction to these themes. Exploring a space or spaces they deem relevant through their own creative practice.

Thanks to Michele Chowrimootoo.

Patrick Bernard discusses The Great Tide by Hilda Grieve with writer and social historian Ken Worpole; Edward Platt, author of The Great Flood; and Anne Johnson, a storyteller who runs Everyday Magic, a London-based charity which sends storytellers into state primary schools, and who lived on Canvey Island at the time of The Great Flood of 1953, the worst natural disaster in Britain of the 20th century.

This fourth instalment of Asphyxia begins to interrogate the distractions which beset the British Library Suppressed Safe research.

By focussing and exploring the exact nature of the individual elements in the web of frustration, an experiment in 'drift' ensues, whereby any clues to possible research angles are gleaned, and synchronicities sought. Some brass bells are found in a bin, as well.

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 episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Shape of you by Ed Sheeran. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Users of google translate, notes alterers, carnatic indians contemporary, cumbia lovers, chemists and physicists, flute duets… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features a special guest, Malinda K. Reese, with her project Twisted Translations.

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).

This is Drone Operatør's last :.( radio show on Resonance Extra. We had some fun time the last 12 months and hope you had too. For this last show, we asked composer, improviser and saxophonist Tom Weeks to create a special saxophone solo session, which he did to our delight. And hell it's good!!!

The rest of the show we will play our brand new album SIM CARD HØLDER, which was created during the lockdown in collaboration with Ian Bruner and Gajek extending it with some extra material. We hope to see you again on other platforms.
Yours,
Drone Operatør.

Tom Weeks is a composer, improviser, and saxophonist from Oakland, CA. He has received a Bachelor's degree in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, and a Master's degree in Composition from Mills College, Oakland, CA. He has studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Pauline Oliveros, Chris Brown, W.A. Mathieu, Steve Adams, Richard Evans, and Phil Wilson, among others.

His music is influenced by various African-American musical traditions, the historical avant-garde, and the heavy metal and hardcore traditions; utilizing improvisation, extended techniques, and traditional and experimental notational practices. He has worked with musicians such as Alvin Curran, Makoto Kawabata, Ricardo Descalzo, The MolOt Ensemble, Jack Wright, Arrington De Dionyso, Hans Koch, Walter Thompson, Vinny Golia, William Winant, G. Calvin Weston, members of the ROVA saxophone quartet, and Henry Kaiser, among many others.

In addition to leading the bands Ero Guro and BEER, as well as performing with the ensemble TONED, his frequent collaborators include Camille Emaille, Nathan Corder, gabby fluke-mogul, and Kevin Murray. 

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

In the first half of this episode, unperson traces Sheffield's experimental music from the DIY post-punk scene of the 1980s, through the pirate radio days of the 1990s, to the city's contemporary boundary pushers. In his words: "lots of bleeps, lots of bass".

In the second half, Elif Gülin Soğuksu weaves a path through the hum of Istanbul, a mix which she describes as "a glimpse into the sound world of stray dogs howling to the morning prayer in rural areas, street musicians playing traditional instruments, street vendors selling simit, fish, meat, and fruits in Beyoğlu ... Turkish classical music playing in the silversmith shop in Sultanahmet ... the micro sounds of rocks, dirt, and bushes near the historic Orthodox Orphanage in Princes' Island".

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.

Iker Ormazabal is a London-based experimental musician from Spain. He started his solo project IOM circa 2004. He has also been a member of bands like Atomoog, Sorkun, FFT Players, Soizu, Oilbag, Mnemoniic, Warren Schoenbright and has published music in labels such as: Zulo Beltzak, RONF, Doministiku, Desetxea, Afeite Al Perro, Astral Noize, Attenuation Circuit, Mattoid and Hominid Sounds.

He has previously worked alongside other artists such as Arturo Blasco, Jordi Aligué, Borja Ramos, Miguel A García, Raxil4, Itto Morita, Minako Seki, Gonzalo Catalinas among others. In 2017, he was awarded with the John Leckie Award for Innovation in Audio Production for a soundtrack to "Elementary Tryptych of Spain" by Jose Val del Omar. He also runs his own effects-pedal brand, IOHM Fx.

Since 2004, London-based Iker Ormazabel has been progressing experimental music in different forms, through solo projects (as IOM or Iker Ormazabal), alongside dance performers (Itto Morita, Soizu, Minako Seki), improvising with other musicians (Miguel A. Garcia, Oier Iruretagoiena, Andrew Page, Arturo Blasco) and in bands (Mnemonic, Warren Schoenbright, Fft Players, Oilbag).

This solo work is heavily inspired by acousmatic composers, and acousmatic listening, the music and writings of Pierre Schaeffer, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, Francisco Lopez, taking inspiration from what is known as ‘deep listening’, listening with intent or acousmatic listening. 45 copies.

For this Dronica show, he presents a selection of Spanish industrial and experimental music from the 80s.

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

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Mukai Kyorai’s poem “lightning – / flashing in the east yesterday / and today in the west”.

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.

This episode is a collage of excerpts from chamber works, installations and field recordings by Assaf Shatil edited by Hagai Izenberg and Assaf Shatil.

Assaf Shatil is an interdisciplinary composer, pianist, improviser, singer/songwriter and educator based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

His practice intersects sound and poetry, investigating the intricacies of performance as a liminal space imbued with aspects of ritual, contemplation, and transfigured temporality. Premieres of his work have been performed by ensembles such as Musica Nova(Israel), Israel Contemporary Players, The Jerusalem Symphony, Jack Quartet(NYC), WasteLAnd(LA), The Sound ensemble(Seattle), Ninth Planet(SF) and others.

He completed his DMA in music composition at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he worked with Larry Polansky, Michelle Lou and David Evan Jones.

Featuring excerpts from: Gardens, Propeller/ Woods Waves/ Myers Duo, Analogue Mountains, FSH Rain, Etude - maybe one more distant quiet now dreaming, Midrash - Jacob’s Ladder, How to assemble an Opera?, El Toch Yam, Repent, Insects in Shavei Zion, Ravel Ostinato, Porto, Etude, (In) One Movement, Oto, Leviathan and The Aleph.

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).

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

In this episode, Jennifer and guest DJ Pat play lots of new stuff released in 2023.

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 an experimental mix by sound artist, composer, and producer Michel Banabila (1961).

Banabila has released music since 1983 and has produced musical scores for numerous films, documentaries, theatre plays and choreographies.

His music varies from minimal loop-based electronica, fourth world, and neoclassical pieces, to drones, experimental ambient, and punk-as-fuck tape music. His work has been released internationally by labels like Bureau B (DE), Eilean Rec (FR), Knekelhuis (NL), and Séance Centre (CA).

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

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.