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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.

In this episode, Jennifer plays her favorite new releases.

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 episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Hosai Ozaki’s poem “Wordless / all day long / the shadow of a butterfly”.

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.

2022's edition of the festival was an evening of music and poetry reading at London's iconic Café OTO on the 7th December, featuring performances by members and friends of Naviar, working in the fields of ambient, electronic, and contemporary classical music. Each set is introduced by a haiku selection recited by poets of The British Haiku Society.

Full lineup:

• Daniel Green

Daniel Green is an artist and educator. His artistic practice explores the objects and media we use to occupy our time, and how they are used to give our lives meaning. Daniel’s work has been exhibited within Campbelltown Arts Centre, Firstdraft, Pelt, Artspace and BUS Projects, and has performed at Electrofringe, The Now Now Festival, Liquid Architecture, Cementa and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

• Audio Obscura

Since 2014 Neil Stringfellow has released music as Audio Obscura - covering a variety of musical themes that touch on ambient, electronics and more experimental soundscapes. Audio Obscura albums have included a post-classical 'Anthropocene Trilogy' based on spoken word pieces around climate change, soundtracking the dystopia of George Orwells' 1984 novel, field recording in rural Norfolk Churches and recently a collaboration with a post-rock group themed around the NASA Voyager missions.

• Leon Clowes

Leon Clowes is a transdisciplinary artist that messes about with his lived trauma for artistic endeavour. He started in music and sound and now does all sorts. Wherever. In music/sound, these days, he mostly tries for quiet and peaceable stuff but does occasionally revisit pounding queer past.

• Encym & George Crowley

Encym explores un-guitaristic territory by layering, collaging and shaping improvised loops. Fused with polyrhythmic beats and noises to become cinematic, atmospheric, otherworldly ambiences, their grittiness owing to the many years Roland was based in London. George Crowley is a saxophonist, clarinettist, composer and promoter based in London. As a performer he is active across a range of styles, with improvisation at the heart of his work.

• Simon McCorry

Born in London to mixed Indian/British heritage, Simon studied music at The Centre for Young Musicians and Morley College, then philosophy at Durham University, and is now based in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Simon has worked as a composer & sound designer in theatre, film & contemporary dance. His recent work is a combination of loop-based cello compositions and atmospheric improvisations, field recordings and modular synth.

• Manja Ristić

Manja Ristić is a violinist, sound artist, published poet, curator and researcher. She graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Music (2001) and was awarded a PGDip as a Solo/Ensemble Recitalist from the Royal College of Music, London (2004). As a classical solo and chamber musician as well as a composer and an improv musician Manja has performed all across Europe and the US, and has been involved in collaborations with established conductors and performers, multimedia artists, poets, theatre and movie directors.

A series of annual events by Naviar Records broadcast live on Resonance Extra, featuring workshops, talks and live performances focused on experimental music and haiku, exploring how these two art forms can influence and inspire each other.

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

In this episode, a mix by Yon Eta.

Missed a show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

Viral Radio dives deep into the rabbit hole of internet music culture.

For this months Tyneside Sounds Society we went on an excursion out of Tyneside in November and joined the delegates at the Museums Association annual conference and exhibition.

The conference is a big deal for museums in the UK, there are 100s of delegates who attend from all over the country representing different museums. The conference and exhibition also includes many companies and organisations that are connected to what is called the heritage industry or museum sector; designers, consultants and people selling things to museums. This year it took place at the Manchester Conference Centre in the North of England.

We went round with a roving mic and asked delegates about failure. Why don't museums talk about it? Why don't they admit failure? Or do they? What is failure to them?

This is an edit of some of the interviews mixed together with an emotional and fun playlist of failure themed tracks.

Thanks to Katy Swift and Jessica Turtle from Museums Association Transformers programme and Festival of Change

The Tyneside Sounds Society is a monthly broadcast dedicated to the recording and reinterpretation of the sonic environment and sound heritage of Tyneside in the North East of England.

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 guest live set from noise artist and occasional Trash Panda QC collaborator Shimmering Ice Puzzle, plus a mix featuring tracks from GS Sultan, ari liloia, pantea, Eon, SDEM, and more.

A 16-episode bi-weekly series alternating new and unheard live sounds from Trash Panda QC with DJ selections and guests.

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.

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

This episode features analogue electronics maverick Tom Bugs.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

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

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” - Dracula

On the sonic chopping block - juicy meat from the torso of Cinema, the mother of celluloid monsters.

Lepke B's blissful disregard for the sacred in life has placed him as one of the testcard knights with a totally unique approach to sound plunderphonics and visual art.

In this episode, Sticky Buttons travel across the fertile crescent to the birthplace of civilisation with a selection of intense jazz, disco gold and appearances from the Zurna, a Turkish traditional instrument.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

Roamer's Gap is a unique exploration of global sounds through the medium of vinyl records by Sticky Buttons' Alex Wight, Jack Headford and Alex Headford.

This episode features a mix by Pooch Karton with music by Michael Masaru Flora and Justin Meyers.

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

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