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In this episode: walking along the shore listening to fairport convention whilst avoiding violent men.

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, Monique Recknagel of Berlin-based label Sonic Pieces discusses working with fabric and having intimate collaborative conversations. Also: a selection of pieces centred on the piano.

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

In this episode we speak to poets and veteran podcasters Lizzy and David Turner about You Don’t Know, their collaborative literary, visual and audio series. Combining original writing with hand-made publications and podcasts, their series is a place to experiment with project ideas and push each other creatively – a process which has involved among other things robot voices, poetry printed on acetate sculptures, and NFL commentator found poems.

Co-presenter Theresa Elflein returns bringing an eclectic selection of independent artists found out there in the wild web and collected for you, and Nick Murray scores poems from our recently released anthology H O M E.

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.

This is a three hour extract from the festival, featuring sound art, computer music, homemade instruments, DIY electronics, radio play, noise, data sonification, field recordings, radio art, sound studies, historical anchor points, niches, insider tips, and different generations of Cologne's electronic and sound art landscape.

Full details and line-up: https://www.gerngesehen.de/funkt

The FUNKT programme was developed under the project management of Georg Dietzler by Anke Eckardt, Claudia Robles-Angel, Dietmar Bonnen, Dirk Specht and Felix Knoblauch, in cooperation with Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann.

Thanks to sponsors Musikfonds e. V. with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the special programme Neustart Kultur, Kunststiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Endowment for the Arts), the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.

FUNKT was a festival of electronic music and sound art from Cologne, which took place on the 16th, 17th and 18th of April 2021.

This episode features selections by Sirius and DJ Cheesemaster.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

This episode features sounds from the beginnings of the recording era in Athens, Greece. Strictly locally found 78 RPM phonograph records from my archive, reproduced using an old HMV gramophone player from the 1920's. Featuring amongst others: Margio Salonikia (Manes Neva), Linda Hanoum, Bay Nadir, E.Lagoudakis aka Lagos, G.Manisalis, obscure Japanese phonograph records from Teichiku and more.

It is very interesting to notice that in the early 20s and 30s many of the records that were produced in Greece were in the Turkish language although they were Greek productions and many times by artists of mixed origin, there were no clear lines formed between the East and the West. Some of this tunes are 'entering the digital domain'' for the first time.

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

In the first half of this month's Third Space show, London-based sound artist and producer Ana Quiroga guides listeners through sounds past and present from her homeland of Asturias, Northern Spain. Recorded in the summer of this year, Ana's mix explores the region's rich folk traditions, industrial heritage, and fierce legacy of anti-fascist action; histories which have etched themselves into the area's beautiful coastal landscape and the communities that inhabit it.

The second half of this month's show was crafted by artist and researcher, Ale Hop. Originally from Peru, Ale Hop began cultivating her unique sonic practice in Lima's thriving underground scene before establishing new roots in Berlin. Her Third Space mix features the vibrant sonic contrasts of Uganda's capital, Kampala, where she recently undertook an artistic residency at the now-legendary Nyege Nyege studios.

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 Jose Macabra for our monthly guest mix.

Jose Macabra is an inimitable artist, sound designer, improvised noise creator, producer and a beguiling solo live act.

His work performed in art establishment venues including The Barbican, Tate Modern , BFI and The Photographer’s Gallery among others. Works involving Jose’s sound design have toured major festivals in Madrid, Berlin, Athens, Brussels, Milan, Barcelona and other cultural centres.

Collaboration is at the heart of Jose’s work, be it in a straight-forward club setting or a soundtrack commission for theatre, a body-piercing performance or high art concept work.

Jose has worked with Ernesto Tomasini, Ron Athey, HR. Giger, Sally Mann, Empress Stah, Lydia Lunch, FFIN DANCE Company, UCL, Unite The Union, Katerina Valstur and many more.

Jose presents a two hour granular hybrid mix, blending music from almost hundreds different artists, as well as his music, into a cathartic journey.

"The ability to conjure such a richly populated, complex, and above all dark, sonic world is jaw dropping, masterful, sublime, wondrous." David M. Paganin

Artwork by pseudomagica.

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

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.

Without going into much detail, this selection is simply a compilation of tracks that accompany me on my journey back home after work, a selection that undoubtedly becomes increasingly peculiar as I grow older.

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

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

Experimentation and collaboration with Esmé and Avel of ATATA, a vessel for live and recorded music.

In this episode, Meg Woof plays tracks by Fantastic Twins, Decisive Pink, Pozi, Kristin Hersh, GAIKA, Tirzah, Temp-Illusion, ABADIR, Muslimgauze, Kara Jackson and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

Zéro Propos is a Lausanne-based hyperjective poetry group created in 2020 by Gäel Bandelier and Gilles Furtwängler. Following three residencies at *Duuu radio in Paris in 2021 and 2022, the group gave birth to the Zéro Propos. Zéro titre project, which is a double album of 13 tracks.

From scraps of sentences picked up in the street, on the internet, everywhere, they write with four hands, little by little, cutting, pasting, adding, mixing words and phonemes. The result is a material of sentences mixing everyday life, concrete and abstract poetry.

Composed by Gaël Bandelier and Gilles Furtwängler of Zéro Propos, and performed by Gaël Bandelier, Rachel Bazaïda, Sarah Calas, Martine Chesnau, Sarah Salomé Delétain, Gilles Furtwängler, Delphine Herscovici, Lucienne Larue, Michel Larue, Angeline Ostinelli, Anne-Marie Petit, Clara Rodriguez and Marielle Soca.

Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

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

In this episode, Rob goes deep into the archives and blasts through some classics, emo origins, post punk and hopefully a few scorchers that you have never heard before.

Get down and get busy with some cuts from KLEENEX, THE WIPERS, REDD KROSS, FUGAZI, THE CLEAN and so much more.

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.