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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 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.

In this episode, we share recent performances and pieces from friends and members of the collective, including Lou Barnell’s performance for Yarmonics Festival, a Moses Batikva live set from Hamburg, and a selection of works from Stephan Barrett’s conceptually eclectic mix of projects (one of which “known for its boundless appetite and complex system of multiple void-like stomachs”).

Resonance Extra radio pals Littoral Transmissions also share sessions recorded with absurdist poet James Worse.

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.

Ansonica is an Italian DJ who worked for years as host at Ribbon Club Culture in central Italy until she moved to Berlin in 2015. It was then that Ansonica made the decision to not just stay in the background and began to create her own unique, colorful and authentic style of music.

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

Our first episode for 2023 has a bit of everything. We explore the massive double album China Life by Masayoshi Miyazaki. My (Kate Carr) latest attempt to make a fake field recording in False Dawn, and some forthcoming lo-fi beauty from the Blue Mountains in Australia by Broken Chip.

Plus Heinali's defiant tribute to Kyiv on Injazero Records, Lawrence English's recent solo and David Velez's attempt to use sound to grow fat and delicious beetroots.

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

Field recordings, on-site improvisations, synthetic resonances, paranormal sensing, spoken texts, underground, on the ground and receiving from off-Earth, in Northumbria, Tyneside, Teesside, East Anglia and Scotland, over the last ten years. Laboratory One takes its name from the abandoned structure at the former Orford Ness Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, a vibration lab to test the resilience of nuclear weapons to in-flight disturbance, and here reimagined as a listening space for other vibrations.

John Bowers (UK) works with modular synthesisers, home-brew electronics, reconstructions of antique image and sound-making devices, self-made software, field recordings and esoteric sensor systems. He makes performance environments which mix sound, image and gesture at a fundamental material level, sometimes accompanied by spoken text.

His practice often combines improvised performance with walking, urban exploration and the investigation of selected sites to conduct research in an imagined discipline he calls ‘mythogeosonics’. He has performed at festivals including the collateral programme of the Venice Biennale, Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel Berlin, Piksel Bergen, Electropixel Nantes, BEAM Uxbridge and Spill Ipswich, and toured with the Rambert Dance Company performing David Tudor’s music to Merce Cunningham’s Rainforest.

He contributed to the design of The Prayer Companion - a piece exhibited twice at the Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and acquired for their permanent collection. Amongst many musical collaborations, he works with Sten-Olof Hellström, Tim Shaw, Kerry Hagan and in the noise drone band Tonesucker. He helps coordinate the label Onoma Research and works in Culture Lab and Fine Art, Newcastle University. He is a Director of Allenheads Contemporary Arts and a Trustee of Monkfish Productions.

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.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Tina Turner's Private Dancer. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Public and private dancers, non-binary voices, Finnish superstars, peaches, orchestras, strong women, workers who hate their jobs … all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

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 sixth chunk of the long-duration series opens with an experiment in combining meditation with ranting. Meanwhile, an unexplained electrical fire at the British Library scuppers research into its Suppressed Safe collection.

To while away the downtime, extra shifts are taken on at the nearby antiquarian bookshop, where a friendly conspiracy theorist quizzes staff on cover-ups, before being told by the manager: "I'm going to have to stop you there. It's fascinating, but we've got to get on with things. Another time, maybe", to the disappointment of Asphyxia's creator, to whom conspiracy theories are like nectar to a hummingbird.

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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.

Hosted by Giulio Dal Lago aka @apri_goat, this episode is an overwhelming mix of noise and improvised music.

Check out our recent release on Discreet Archive for more zen sounds.

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

This episode features music and field recordings capturing the sounds of Berlin and Mexico City, courtesy of Jana Irmert and Mabe Fratti.

In the first hour, Jana probes the intrigue of Berlin's streets and experimental music scene. Using cutting edge recording technologies, she offers us an unconventional angle on the city's soundscape, from the electronic signals surging through power boxes and neon signs to the subtle movements under the ice covering the Spree River.

In the second hour, Guatemalan cellist and composer Mabe Fratti takes us across Mexico City. Her mix features a selection of tracks from artists living and working in the city, combined with recordings of the everyday music that floods its streets: parents and children singing together, musicians improvising in bars and on street corners, and taxi drivers cranking up the radio to share their favourite songs.

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.

In this episode, Dronica meets Dalila Kayros for a guest mix.

Sardinian singer and composer Dalila Kayros creates avant-garde indie electronic songs with dark ambient elements. Her music evolves through concept albums, which see Kayros creating surreal images relating to symbolism and a dystopian aesthetic, blending lead with ritualistic vocals and combining quiet and fierce moods.

"We'll walk on different terrains, from an etheric sound to a scream from the guts! So from a quiet sideral night to a screaming foggy day where the sun hits as strong as ever!" – Dalila Kayros.

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

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.

Injazero Records founder Siné Buyuka plays a selection of electronic, experimental, ambient and contemporary classical tracks.

Inspired by experiments with AI, Mim imagines a utopian world in which buildings are replaced with pyramids and people with cats. Featuring lots of dub, hidden gems, recent releases and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Rest in power.

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

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

AA+ Drone Operatør Radiø #2 starts the new year with collages of Drone Operatør oeuvre material, contemporary Free Jazz and dated Drum&Bass, Memphis Rap and No Wave, Neue Musik and brutal crashers. This show features an exclusive guest set by luxxuryproblems. His set is a logical crash and turns out in a variety of shapes, clutters of unreleased sketches, snitched field recordings, stolen skits, excerpts of (unfinished) projects and extended cuts. > 300g Glanz + 60% Comfort. Happy New Year!!

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

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.