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Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.

This episode features new music by Oubys, ASDB, Bruno Varvohza, The Black Monolith, Ignoto Militi, Richard Bégin and The Tapes.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

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.

In this episode, a Thanet Tape Centre communiqué using records, synthersizers, samples and noises, played, looped and arranged 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.

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.

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.

Electronic musician Theo Sayers transports listeners with a mix of electronic, ambient, spiritual and new age music.

This episode is a mix of field recordings taken within the city during two rainy days at the beginning of May. The second half of the show is a selection of street sounds that form a dense soundscape.

Recordings by ZEN - Relaxing Music channel on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGULij7wPkI.

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

Dronica meets event curators, creative directors and labels owners in 2021.

In this episode, Dronica meets Rick Vayo, co-founder and curator of Inveterate, an independent label based in London and founded by Tapefeed.

Rick Vayo is 1/2 of Tapefeed who started the solo project to release music material with no sonic boundaries in order to be able to experiment with sound further by blending genres and giving voice to all his different musical influences.

With Inveterate they will be focusing on releasing and supporting artists that share their sonic views and that can help them shape the label sound further with the aim of pushing the boundaries of techno by inviting producers to break the rules, to think outside the box, pushing creativity, and thus finding new and unexpected elements. Ultimately, they want to bring freshness and novelty to this genre and to their scene.

Inveterate: WE ARE CURSED, MORE THAN JUST A HABIT, MORE THAN AN ADDICTION, WE ARE INCURABLE.

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

In this episode, submissions from our open call on stress and release. A big thanks to all who have submitted. Featuring contributions from Timothy Roy, Bill Laybourne, Robert Gillespie, Dave Leith, Andromachi Vrakatseli, Gavino Ganau and Giovanni Dibeltulu, Sylvain Souklaye, Wajda Tamer.

Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts is a London-based sound art collective presenting new sound works, performances and discussions.

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.

This episode is a Japan special, running the temporal gamut of Japanese computer and electronic music.

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

Sideways research continues apace... This instalment of Asphyxia sees the return of a mysterious polymath possessed of unspecific 'inside information'.

Chit-chat about data security ensues (covertly recorded, ironically). Following this, the narrator bluffs his way past the security cabin at the Midland Road entrypoint to the British Library's goods yard, where a bin-dive yields an unknown writer's diaries, discarded by the library for uncertain reasons.

Meanwhile, the use of tin-foil to eliminate electromagnetic interference is trialled upon the narrator's Zoom recorder which is susceptible to 50Hz hum.

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.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

Walking, movement in place, in air, distance through time.

Walk south, cross the burn at the ford, walk through birchwood, pass the milepost to stand and look, turn, walk down the slope to the beach, back from Hallaig.

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Yosa Buson’s poem “vernal seas… / all day long swelling, falling / swelling, falling”.

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, a mixture of extracted sounds and music from all available media. Materials used in order of appearance:

Cinq Grimaces - Relaxing Vibraphonic + Police enforcing Covid, Markus Breuss - BRS2 (2020), Music for Robot Santa Number 7 by Very Tired Astronaut, Paul Myhalik (oktavist) 2, COVID-19: The New Variants, Orphan Fairytale _ Princesse Peignoir & Prince Pyama, Rusałka Ice Mix by Jeff Gburek, Over the fields we go by Łukasz Suchy, Semantic Radiation by Zebularin, Our Sailor Suits by The Smudge and Cinq Grimaces (played by Olga Scheps).

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).

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

In this episode, Jennifer plays some new releases and some goodies from last year.

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.

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

This episode features gibberish and experimental mouth sounds by Robert Wyatt, Jennifer Walshe, Ed Atkins, Elaine Mitchener, Diamanda Galas & Circuit des Yeux.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each month a selection of artists respond to the show on postcards and send them in as inspiration for the next. Running through the shows are a modular stem experiment in which musicians improvise live to original 15 minute compositions.