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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.

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.

A very special edition of the show featuring a sneak preview of the forthcoming lathe-cut release from Spirit of Gravity, mixed by Spirit of Gravity's very own 'midi error'.

The second half of the show features a selection of tracks from the recently re-released Spirit of Gravity compilation, Roots and Culture. And, sorry for the swift nag, but if you listen to the end of the show a very special secret bootleg mash-up that mysteriously appeared on a test pressing of our lathe-cut....

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

Mirror Transmission is a long form work basing itself on extensive repetition of small musical fragments derived from piano recordings and sine waves.

It is designed for meditative or attentive listening and explores a number of sonic polarities over the course of its duration, including the stereo field, temporal constructs, dynamics and harmonic symmetry.

Daniel W J Mackenzie produces work that explores various notions of listening to music and sound, combining composition, improvisation, non-musical sound and field recordings. Despite a broad range of tools and processes, there are consistencies in the nuances with which the work is constructed and presented, and the substantial presence of deep emotion and atmosphere.

As a sound artist he has been presented internationally, working with sound sculpture, multichannel sound, sound collage and conceptual visual art, in installations and exhibitions that refine the approaches towards noise, quietude and melody that define his released music.

Presented by Outlands, The Joyous Thing 3 is an annual gathering for the UK experimental music community and anyone with a curious ear. 2022's event featured an in person programme at MK Gallery, with newly commissioned works by Coby Sey, TACO!, ame, Lost Property, Eastern Ear, MK Gallery/Simon Wright, Tor Festival, Daniel W G Mackenzie, and Lukas Hornby; and live performances from emerging artists I Am Fya and Euso, plus DJ sets from Outlands members.

FUNKT offered 53 hours of electronic music and sound art from Cologne: computer music... self-invented instruments... DIY electronics... radio play... sound art... noise... data sonification... field recordings... radio art... sound studies... historical anchor points... niches... insider tips... different generations of Cologne's electronic + sound art landscape... join our music discovery journey... Full details, line-up and updates: 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.

What is the difference between data driven music and data sonification? When sound esthetics meet science and technology.

This report presents several sound pieces that were composed with the use of data by scientist-artist Daniel Maszkowicz. The pieces are presented with evocations of scientific and esthetic considerations, collected from several sources and materials, with references to other works by himself, or his inspirations

Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

Jay Glass-Dubs takes over.

A dense pathway to silence that allows no moments of recollection in its development. A crackle in time, reflected as a glimpse of memory. A layout of my practice dispersed and presented as a radio broadcast. An inside joke with myself when no one’s really laughing. Every sound played at once. Recorded in Athens,spring 2018. ''

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 Sine Buyuka, founder and owner of Injazero Records, an independent label based between London and Istanbul.

Sine Buyuka worked as a culture, arts and sports journalist, hosted a radio show and DJ’ed in her hometown Istanbul before moving to London in 2012 to do an MA in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College. After a placement at FatCat Records, she launched her own experimental and ambient label Injazero Records in 2015.

She kept freelancing for outlets like Dazed, Time Out Istanbul, the Ransom Note, the BBC while running Injazero, which now has a roster of eleven artists. She is currently doing a postgraduate course in electronic music at Guildhall as well as releasing music herself.

In this show, Sine will present in the first hour releases from Injazero Records and in the second hour, music from artists they've worked with so far, either on remixes, compilations or mastering.

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

In this episode, a mix of Japanese music inspired by a recent trip to Japan, featuring old favourites, new bits, as well as some releases on the label from recent years such as dj sniff and Sugai Ken.

Discrepancies is a global showcase of disparate music with a focus on earthly field recordings and international sounds, curated by the Discrepant record label, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso.

Thanks to Michele Chowrimootoo.

Patrick Bernard discusses The Great Tide by Hilda Grieve with writer and social historian Ken Worpole; Edward Platt, author of The Great Flood; and Anne Johnson, a storyteller who runs Everyday Magic, a London-based charity which sends storytellers into state primary schools, and who lived on Canvey Island at the time of The Great Flood of 1953, the worst natural disaster in Britain of the 20th century.

In this episode, new and strange emissions from N1L, Second Woman, Ewa Justka and Vytear, plus a guest mix from London's mighty Holodisc. Holodisc digs up prime cuts from Ophelia’s interviewing past. Meet Jamal Moss—the label’s unknowing spiritual godfather—repurposed to fit their selection of disembodied sounds.

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

In this episode: soft sonic sensations come your way, with woozy lullabies and percussive plonks, to soak ears and awaken the senses. This month Foldable Sounds mix indulges in conversation with Joseph Bradley-Hill, London based curator, designer and founder of experimental music and art collective Late Works. We first discuss what drew Joe to Sound, and their journey from studying Graphic Design to leading collaborative audio-visual events, touching on Late Works and the origins of the name.

Exploring Late Works’ presence on air, we discuss the capacity of radio to draw communities together: the challenges and joys of working in such a medium. Later we talk curating sonic works, touching on the potential of collaboration, as well as thoughts for the future as we move through physical, in-real-life circles once again.

The Foldable Sounds Collective presents Foldable Soundbath. The collective formed during the April 2020 lockdown and is composed of three artists: Daniela Maria Geraci, Lucy Rose Cunningham and Isabelle Pead. Individually dealing with sound as an archival, performative and narrational tool, collectively they interrogate sound’s potential to sonically transport the imagination outside one’s four walls, drawing on a global need for freedom of movement.

This twentieth instalment is "mostly just talking" (as music-radio fusspots might say). The episode meditates upon the 'not knowingness' instilled by finding diaries of unknown authorship. It commences with a perusal of the diaries previously found in the British Library's bins.

And... finally: a moderating pragmatist appears in the form of a film-maker who agrees to be chatted to at length. An interview ensues, and a mysterious diary found on the roof of Oxford Street's flapship HMV music store is reminisced over. HMV's roof famously housed a cottage-like cabin of unknown purpose/origin.

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.

Lena Mega and LoA are musical collaborators who explore a wide range of sounds and styles, from fast-paced rhythms to humorous and sensual tones, as well as otherworldly experiments and chopped beats.

Their shared research interests include topics such as plants, mushrooms, gardens, playing with mud, and ecological explorations, which often find their way into their music.

Based in and around Berlin, Lena Mega and LoA have created a unique sound that draws inspiration from their diverse interests and experiences. Their music can be found on Soundcloud, where they have multiple accounts featuring their individual and collaborative work.

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.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

Glasgow-based Bobby Jewell presents a series of ambient mixes for Resonance Extra with guest features by musicians and artists.

In this episode, Shane Woolman hosts a guest mix by artist, musician and cultural geographer Amy Cutler as well as playing new releases from Buzz’ Ayaz, disrupt, Muqata'a, Nadah El Shazly, NAH, Pruillip, Youmna Saba, and many more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This programme is a contribution by RADIA-Kollektiv-Vienna and features the anthropologist Bianca Ludewig who researches music and sound and plays with records as Jukebox Utopia. She will introduce her radio piece Jukebox Utopia's Snapshot which was part of the 2023 project Contingent Snapshot.

The piece is a sound collage she produced as a contribution for the Contingent Snapshot project by Eugenia Seriakov and Francesco Zedde, which took place in Linz in September 2023 as part of STWST48hours open Radiolab and was broadcasted on various international radio stations.

The core of the 12-hour programme consisted of contributions by the two curators exploring the facets and sounds of Linz, live improvisations by local and international musicians and sound contributions from their open call. For her audio snapshot, she associatively edited together found footage, sound pieces from her music archive and field recordings to create an audio essay for your enjoyment.

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, 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.