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

This episode features a special piece from Jim 'Alien Alarms' Purbick: The Dawn Of A New Era: A brief history of music composed by computer from the 1957 "Illiac Suite" to ChatGPT's words and music on 2023's "Can Machines Hate?".

The second hour features 3 tracks from map 71 prior to the launch of their new album "Blood Fruit" - they'll be playing at The Prince Albert in Brighton on Monday 24th April to celebrate it. We also have new music from Jo Thomas, Ascsoms and Edgar Hansa + the usual round up of quality tracks from within the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity Collective.

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

In honour of Helicotrema’s 10th recorded audio festival, coming up September 29th, this episode revisits a playlist previously curated for broadcast by the festival’s organisers (the collective Blauer Hase). Inspired by the first decades of radio, Helicotrema is set up like a screenless film festival.

Gathering in-person in venues which vary year-to-year, audiences are invited to immerse themselves in radio plays, narrative sound works, audio documentaries and poetry. Colliding Lines are delighted to contribute material to this year’s festival - more on this soon. This month we are also delighted to feature works from Stephan Barrett, Sylvia Hallett and Nichola Scrutton.

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 instalment contains opportunistic content made during a 'pure volunteering' trespass into an archival recording facility, where a vanishingly rare - possibly unique - acetate record (originally found in a bin) is digitised, cryptically titled Baz Kromagnum. Varying fidelity ensues.

Fittingly, this old record - nominally skiffle - sings of unresponsive culture, failed endeavour, and perseverance, heralding sympathetic elongated remixes, and philosophical enquiry on the nature of experiment, passion, presentation, and pratfall.

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.

This episode features an exquisite mix by Nanogod.

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

In this episode, Dronica meets The Seer.

The Seer is a mystical anarcho-feminist sound art performance project created and directed by Italian born/London based artist Conny Prantera.

For this show The Seer mixed tracks and voice recordings from a female and non-binary traditional and historical sound lineage she references in her performance work and selected tracks from her amazing list of real and dream collaborators including Charly Blackburn, Kelly J Jones, Lou Barnell, Il Santo Bevitore, Anna Homler, Bridget Hayden, Lone Taxidermist, Elvin Brandhi, Inga Copeland, Jessika Kenney, LEYA and athing.

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 Murakami Kijo’s poem “winter sun - / my own shadow / blocks the way”.

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: magnetic currents pulse across the marshes as mysterious comets sweep across the sky. Glimpsed briefly before vanishing once more, they leave only cloud traces and a vague sense that the field in which we are still standing is now imperceptibly yet radically altered.

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.

Featuring the sounds of these film works:

• Syncromy (Norman McLaren)
• Five Film Exercises Film 1 (1943) (John & James Whitney)
• La Région Centrale (1971) (excerpt) (Michael Snow)
• La Région Decentrale (2016) (Gibson + Recoder)
• Sound Strip - Film Strip (Paul Sharits)
• On Illusionism and Generative Systems (Paul Sharits)
• Cycles (Guy Sherwin)
• Allures (Jordan Belson)
• Shot Film (Greg Pope)
• Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976) (Paul Sharits)
• Meshes of the afternoon (Maya Deren)
• Berlin Horse (Malcolm Le Grice)
• Aberration of Light (Olivia Block)
• At the Academy (Guy Sherwin)
• Light Music (Lis Rhodes)
• T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (Paul Sharits)
• Vowels and Consonants part 1 (Lynn Loo, Guy Sherwin, Sarah Washington, Knut Aufermann)
• Les Vautours (Igor Boldirev, Evgeny Sholpo)
• Surface Tension live at Kill Your Timid Notions (William Raban)
• Deck (Gillian Eatherley)
• Sundial (William Raban)
• Colour Neutral (Jennifer Reeves)
• Sound Cuts (excerpt) live at Kill Your Timid Notions (Lynn Loo, Guy Sherwin)
• Girl Chewing Gum (clip) (John Smith)

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

Amsterdam's Shimmering Moods Records explores the many sides of experimental ambient music, into the far reaches of the imagination.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

In this episode we cast a spotlight on the Amsterdam-based label Artificial Dance, remember the work of minimalist composer Phill Niblock and journalist Neil Kulkarni, and report on Mary Ocher's latest UK tour. Plus new music from Loula Yorke, Dez Dare and Li Yilei.

Music journalist Ilia Rogatchevski presents a weekly selection of expansive sounds and adventurous music from the world of audio.com and beyond.

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

In this episode, an hour of power closes out the show in the form of a guest mix from the incomparable Kindohm, and plenty of old, new and forthcoming electronic and computer music from all over the place. RIP Mika Vainio.

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

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.

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.