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In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Featuring special guest Mary Posa.

Autotune voices, cumbia rythms, plunderphonics minds, contemporary grunges, unrestrained accelerationists, wonderful and clever butterflies,… 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 episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Natsume Soseki’s poem “My eyes lift to see / A sky that is entirely / magnolia blooms”.

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.

In this episode, Jack Chuter is joined by Remo Seeland of Swiss label Hallow Ground, who provides a playlist and discusses the instigation of visions through listening. Also – a collection of sounds, places and memories from 2005 - 2017.

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

In this episode, non-physical spaces, dreams as performance, and the body as instrument, object and obstacle. Featuring new music and interviews from Lou Barnell, sound & poetry collective Catching Shadows, and art-pop band MAW. Writer Abi Palmer reads from her recent book 'Sanatorium', released through Penned in the Margins. Wes Freeman-Smith and Martin Clarke host.

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.

Commissioned by the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022 for the temporary radio art station [Radio Art Zone].

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.

Yard Side - Side 1 - 22 minutes

Garden Side - Side 2 - 22 minutes

This work by artist Raymond Watson contains a variety of sounds ranging from the rhythmic noise of the keys of Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast, identity tags, heartbeat, an original prisoner-made grappling hook thrown at and colliding with the Belfast Peace Wall, metal prison food trays, grills and locks and sections of music on Irish flute and harp. A collaboration between artist Raymond and his daughters, Toraigh and Dara.

In this episode, a radiophonic work by Benedict Drew.

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

This week: 'Athens Inner City Broadcast: From the rainy streets of Athens to the dust winds of Africa episode' explores sounds from various fields of music from the city, with an addition of field recordings from within the Athenian cityscape (Athens street markets, Monastiraki square, rain over Athens etc...). Athens Inner City Broadcast aims to create a lucid state between being alert and dreaming, based on the notion of a Site specific transmission.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

In this episode, Rob plays some of his favorite live bands of 2023! All your favorites are here! ELECTRIC CHAIR, BIB, SPY, HEZ, BLAZING EYE and so much more! Prepare for a radio show circle pit!

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.

In this episode, Chantal Michelle takes us on a journey around New York in the first portion of this month’s Third Space. Buskers, sirens and footsteps are caught between and across music that captures the frantic and conflicted relationship of the artist and the city.

In the second half of the show, Cucina Povera engages with the broad palette of sounds found around her. This mix focuses largely on sounds rather than composed music, but the musical inspiration that Cucina Povera finds in the city’s droning bells, natural ambiance and repetitive bird song melodies is pronounced.

"An inexplicable draw, a love affair that can’t end, a refusal. Compounded layers, disharmony, the occasional synchronicity that could be mistaken for meaning. Trying to “block it out” but efforts are futile; a bleeding. Pleasure in discord, fear. Joy when looking out the window." – Chantal Michelle

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.

This soundscape composition is a response to the World Listening Day, taking place annually on the 18th of July. This year's theme is Future Listening. What kind of future does the constantly transforming soundscapes of our cities, towns and country sides foretell? Which sounds, both those favourite and cursed will we say goodbye to and what new kinds of sonic phenomena will populate our future environments? The best way to experience this feature is by taking a walk and listening to it on headphones, wherever you happen to be.

Charlotte Saga

Olivia Morgan is a London based musician playing synth in Nukuluk and Blue Bendy. She is interested in distorting sounds and making instruments/soundscapes from recordings or samples. This is a somewhat nostalgic piece inspired by the death of my cat. She recorded him purring the day he was put to sleep and used the recording to make many of the sounds that create this space. It’s a melancholic, calm environment with occasional disjointed sounds and implications of unease.

George Rayner-Law is a sound worker from South London, with an art practice in Noise. Recently, he has completed collaborations with Nicholas Tee on the video pieces untitled [circuit breaker], You Will Not Feel This Way Forever, and sound for the durational installation REST-LESS. He has an ongoing collaboration with Dominic O’Donoghue on the Bootlicker project, and is an ongoing contributor to Louis Grace’s series on Resonance Extra. He also has a recent release via Brachliegen Tapes.

Beyond this, he is an experienced radio broadcast engineer, and has produced work spanning radio arts, installation, video, live performance and commercial release, as well as running DIY record labels.

Louis Grace presents Teaching Computers to Love. This is a collaborative platform for artists to develop an episode sonically with a 10-20 minute body of work.

"gnarled roots exposed on mud-moss banks picking through pottery shards

bird songs ring river

river sky fills

moon swims electric

through (t)rains weft-warp current"

Two 15-minute field recordings placed side by side, the first taken on the banks of the River Ching, Epping Forest, a tributary of the River Lea, along which the second recording was made during a storm over Hackney Marshes.

Various sonic techniques were then used to tune into these recordings, obfuscating and teasing out sound patterns, tracing echoes, creating confluences. Additional stump thumping and railing rhythms by Helen Frosi.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

For this Dronica show, Robin The Fog created an experimental noise mix.

Robin The Fog is a sound designer, radio producer, audio archivist, educator and occasional DJ based in London. His work falls under the broad term ‘Radiophonics’ and includes composition, sound installation, radio drama, field recording and documentary. Robin works as an audio preservation engineer at the British Library. He runs workshops and presents the Fog Cast, his own radio show on Resonance FM.

He releases music as Howlround and has been profiled in The Wire, Electronic Sound Magazine and Fact Magazine among others. His sound design works have been displayed at different international museums and in several BBC sessions.

"Robin The Fog conjures Magic" – Electronic Sound Magazine.

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

In summer 2023, George experienced a ruptured eardrum that made working with headphones or stereo sound temporarily impossible. So, when visiting Argyll in August, he decided to field record with equipment that could be monitored with one ear, or not at all.

All edits are 'in camera' and he deployed a wide range of extended micing techniques to change the quality of the audio. Starting on the ferry to Dunoon and ending at Glasgow Central Station, Argyll distills the whole three-day trip sequentially into one saturated object.

Argyll is a field recording sound object created by sound artist George Rayner-Law. It consists of recordings made directly to cassette in Argyll, Scotland.

For this sixth episode of his collected recordings, he presents three works:

'Hatebreaders' (2014)

This is Davide's own version of the Misfits song.

'I Can't Give You Anything But Myself' (2014)

This work is Davide's own version of the Cat Power song, 'The Greatest'. It comes with a dedication:

"To the ones I love. To the ones I hate.
I can't give you anything but myself.
Always be human. Always be you."

'You Are Here With Me (Part 1'

This is the first part of a collection of recordings made by Davide between 2005 and 2018. The recordings include interactions with acoustic spaces, actions performed with microphone(s), musical rehearsals, and reinterpretations of punk songs. The shared aspects of the recordings are human presence, non-professional voices, and musicking.

Davide Tidoni is an artist and researcher interested in the relational dimension of listening, and in the physical experience of sound. He works with live performance, intervention, audio recording, video, and guided listening. He recently published a sound ethnography on the ultras group BRESCIA 1911. 'Collected Recordings' is a series of works selected by Tidoni from his extensive back catalogue.

At this mid-point crisis in the Asphyxia series, a discourse on the new genre of music known as 'creepbeat' is provided. Creepbeat emerged as a viable "going concern" during investigations into a remote music event.

As with breakbeat, sampled 'beats' are creepily sought, albeit dulled through distance - the creepbeat producer works with the sonic dregs of a faraway revelry, filtered by environmental pressures and obstructions.

Just like the researcher of suppressed material, the creepbeat producer works with incomplete and compromised artefacts. This necessitates various forms of cognitive leaps to complete the bigger picture.

In the case of creepbeat, this involves identifying patterns; the half-audible melodies and rhythms are accentuated, creepily re-painted back into definition. Analogous to the investigation of suppressed materials, the task is one of recuperation - following the ghost of the gesture. The show's creator may release an album if enough interest is shown.

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.

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

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” – L.P. Hartley (1895-1972)

• audio / visual decomposer Lepke B posits the question - "How will we live in the 21st Century?"

Btech and Eman Resu of Superfluid present sound, music, noise along with all their sources via talk, fiction and truth.