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A strange episode. I found my Ivor Cutler records and decided to play them randomly with recent purchases as well as some other bits and bobs, the effect is weirdly relaxing, sparse, fluid. Like a swim!

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.

Lepke B. is hard to find. Lepke B is an idea derived from science-fiction. Lepke B is the missing dimension in the world of matter and anti-matter. His brain is a neuronic network spread out over melodies and words that have been transmitted since the beginning of times.

This episode features music from Disinformation, Big Pun, Dead Rat Orchestra, Beachers, Gareth JS Thomas, Jovana Backovic and S A R R A M.

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

This episode is contribution by Rádio Zero.

This piece proposes a sonic journey through the depths of the unconscious mind. Patterns repeat, evolve, mutate and dissipate into other shapes, just like a dream where you can wander freely without ever knowing exactly where you are, when it begins or ends – just a blank space to be filled in the void.

Rita Silva (PT, 1993) is a Portuguese composer and multi-instrumentalist with a focus in analog synthesizers and algorithmic composition.
Part of this year’s roster of Shape +, a renowned european platform for innovative music and art.

Rita released in 2022 her debut album “the inflationary epoch“, which resulted in several media mentions and positive feedback. She has played in venues and festivals such as Out.FEST, Zigurfest, ZDB, GnrATION, Paard, Madeira DIG, The Grey Space In The Middle, among others.

Currently, her research is focused on the use of recursive melodic patterns that can manipulate the listener’s cognitive processes, where the boundaries between sound, space and time are intertwined in a psychoacoustic cosmos.

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

Urban Arts Berlin is a non-profit arts organisation which supports international sound artists. In this series Verónica Mota presents selections of works from the Urban Arts Berlin label.

An ongoing event series at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, and soon to take residence at the Watershed in Bristol, Schtinter's project challenges all of the calcified criteria that is usually used to form and signpost a curated programme. The accompanying book, published by Tenement Press, has been described by Laura Mulvey as "very strange and deeply thought provoking," and by Alan Moore as "profound and riveting, a remarkable achievement."

Schtinter's other recent projects include Schneewittchen (IFFR, 2024), The Lock-In (Barbican Centre, 2022) and Important Books (or, Manifestos Read by Children) (Whitechapel Gallery, 2021-22). His writing is published by Tenement Press; his moving image work distributed by Light Cone; and he publishes film soundtracks and artist works under the banner of purge.xxx.

Gareth Evans is a London-based writer, editor, film / event curator and producer, host and documentary mentor. He works on special projects for the London Review of Books and curates their Screen at Home series. From 2012 - 2023 he was the Adjunct Moving Image Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery. He has written many catalogue essays and articles on place culture, artists and the moving image, as well as the extensive text for Radiohead's KID A MNESIA catalogue.

Artist and writer Stanley Schtinter is interviewed by producer and curator Gareth Evans about his most recent project, Last Movies, which is "an alternative view of the first century of cinema according to the final films watched by a selection of notable figures shortly before their deaths."

Camilo Franco presents new and emerging sounds from Latin America.

Exploring sound discovery in the internet era with Robin Buckley AKA rkss.

This episode features Nevin Domer of Beijing-based Genjing Records.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

Long-form gonzo radio exploration of artists on the outer edge with Eric Boros.

This episode features music and field recordings capturing the sounds of Berlin and Mexico City, courtesy of Jana Irmert and Mabe Fratti.

In the first hour, Jana probes the intrigue of Berlin's streets and experimental music scene. Using cutting edge recording technologies, she offers us an unconventional angle on the city's soundscape, from the electronic signals surging through power boxes and neon signs to the subtle movements under the ice covering the Spree River.

In the second hour, Guatemalan cellist and composer Mabe Fratti takes us across Mexico City. Her mix features a selection of tracks from artists living and working in the city, combined with recordings of the everyday music that floods its streets: parents and children singing together, musicians improvising in bars and on street corners, and taxi drivers cranking up the radio to share their favourite songs.

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, an hour of recent releases by Late Works collaborators, featuring Bianca Scout, Still House Plants, Kiran Leonard, Cool Quiet, Caius Williams & more.

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.

This episode features music by Subversive Intentions, DAIMON, Sleep Orchestra & Nohltanon, CHÖD, Memorie Elettroniche Sonore, Lian YiYuan, Peristalith, Richard Bégin, Lars Bröndum and Joel Gilardini.

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

In this episode Chris Bohn plays tracks from John Butcher, Gudrun Gut, Woman Of Noise For Palestine, Otaco, Howlround, Li Jianhong, Glamorous Pharmacy, and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

In this episode: percolating down through sedimentation, sinking through sonic layers into the river current

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.

An immersive psychosonic space, where sounds converse, collide and converge, featuring works, selections, edits, experiments, new music, non-music, archival objects, abstract artefacts, sound(system) and A/V art, pop, trash, noise, voice, and the associated mediums, processes and techniques that make up the ongoing audial investigations of Agents of the Culture Industry & OVT, all presented for art not profit.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.

Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.