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

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.

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.

In this episode: The Locked Room. A collection inspired by detective fiction in film and literature, serving as a launching pad to explore sounds and musical theory associated with film noir. All tracks in the mix are written and produced by Harry Sumner and was released on Sonospace.

Monthly excursions into the world of Sonospace - audio archive and publisher involved with the research and documentation of field recording and sound art. Curated and presented by Harry Sumner.

Debut LP by Dutch vocalist Janneke van der Putten. Her voice emerges from deeper grounds, shaping the acoustic aura of architectural and natural spaces, exploring the limits of vocal techniques through site-specific performances. Becoming siren, becoming storm, a rose of resonance for a new world.



Janneke van der Putten (Amsterdam, 1985) is a visual artist and vocalist based in Rotterdam. Her voice is her main tool, guiding her through physical and sonic explorations in different landscapes. In her site-specific performances she uses extreme vocal techniques and architectural features to relate with the here and now.

Janneke is autodidact in various extended vocal techniques and studied North-Indian Dhrupad singing with Amelia Cuni and Marianne Svašek (Berlin & Rotterdam, 2009 – 2014). She completed her MMus in Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire (The Hague, 2013) and her BDes in TXT (Textile), Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam, 2009).

Solo exhibitions include: ‘All Begins with A’, TENT, Rotterdam, 2015; ‘Directed to the Sun’, Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, 2017; ‘Quitsa’, CINNNAMON, Rotterdam, 2017; and duo-show ‘[to]’, Kunstraum 34, Stuttgart, 2020. Her solo debut album ‘JNNK’ was released on the June 21st Solstice 2023. Her previous album was made together with Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta (PE) for their project 'Invisible Architecture' (Aloardi, 2015). Other composers Janneke collaborated with are Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (IN), Werner Durand (DE), Yvan Etienne (FR), Philemon Mukarno (ID/ NL), Rory Pilgrim (UK) and Marcus Schmickler (DE).


See more of her work on YouTube and listen on Bandcamp.

Experimental vocalist Janneke van der Putten presents her debut solo album JNNK.

This episode features Not Not Fun, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the label. Music from Unknown Me, Lorena Alvarez & Alejandro Palacios, Phil Geraldi, Acid Twilight, Yayoba , Wave Temples and more.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.

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.

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

In this episode: Lichene, founder and curator at Ancestral Futuro Remoto, in Berlin.

Lichene is one of the monikers of a dj(ane) and prolific curator of events based in Berlin. She graduated in Psychology and holds a specialisation in Psychotherapy in Italy, where she was born.

In 2013 she co-founded Ancestral Futuro Remoto, a Berlin-based series of events focused on ambient / experimental music, where she also curates DJ sets and visuals.

In her practice she investigates the possible meanings of "remote future", trying to understand to which extent we can still find traces of the faraway world of the ancestors in our present, and if there really is something primordial and atavistic inside of us.

In this show for Dronica radio show on Resonance Extra she mixed part of her collection of CDs and vinyls in a live session at Studio Liebig 12 in Berlin, where she is doing an artistic residency with other collaborators.

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

Sheltering from the rain under a bridge by the canal we encounter joggers, the odd curious dog, and the soft booming of nesting pigeons. We stand still, entranced by the swirling water and subterranean echoes, and our thoughts slowly turn to benches, the weather and recent storm warnings.

Featuring sounds, performances and poetry by Bettina Schroeder.

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.

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.

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 we explore the choral worlds of NYX and Kali Malone, get lost in Gazelle Twin’s occult incantations and check out new music from claire rousay, Beth Gibbons and BIG|BRAVE.

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

In this extract from the day, an unreleased album sent to us by Neil Luck and Benedict Taylor.

Neil Luck is a composer, performer, and director based in London. His work often explores the pathos and interaction between live human performance and multimedia, and attempts to frame the act of music making as something curious, or weird, or useful, or spectacular in and of itself.

Benedict Taylor is a solo violist, violinist and composer.

Archival recordings of a 7-hour radio event broadcast live from the Resonance Extra studios on the 29th January 2023, featuring live performances and new and exclusive audio works.

This half hour is mixed by Lolina.

Super Takeover was a 24-hour takeover on Resonance Extra organised by Superfluid.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

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, 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.