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Drone Operator returns after a two-year pause. We are happy to melt your fatuous little brains with the finest selection of free jazz, noisy electronics and avant-garde improvisation again. Sometimes shrill and loud, sometimes quiet and melodious, we will watch in amazement as the most delicate sound palaces collapse and disappear into chaos, only to be rebuilt in new forms shortly afterwards.

This episode features Alice Coltrane in a Slowed & Reverb Special and picks up exactly where the last one left off. A ten minute Kratzr Records Store live recording can also be found in this fine eclectic mix, which should sweeten your probably shitty day.

Monthly experimen†al kleptomaniac post digital free jazz spam channel operated by artists Tilman Hornig and Paul Barsch aka DRONE OPERATØR.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 Takashi Matsumoto’s poem “Flowing along / changing its colors / a soap bubble”.

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.

Summer 2022’s monumental Radio Art Zone allowed me the opportunity to work with the best actor of his generation, Steffan Cennydd, who I’d seen on the tv a few times and who luckily was free for a day to record a whole bunch of pieces. These are presented in a sequence here, four in English and one in his native Welsh. The idea in each is not to attempt a traditional radio play nor to produce a classic dramatic monologue. Rather each of these pieces tries to create a psychological object. They are all deliberately elliptical, fragmentary, allusive, but share some underlying themes (obsessions perhaps) and, inevitably, language. Ultimately it’s the actor’s voice that makes them work - you’ll hear that, I think. - Ed Baxter

• The Deserter (27.43)

Commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture.

• Butch Cassidy in Paris (Heart like a Duck, part 3) (27.20)

Commissioned by Hearsay International Audio Festival. Second voice: Willie Carr. Additional recording by Diarmuid McIntyre.

• Ar y Mynydd (On the Mountain) (19.51)

Text commissioned by Benedict Drew. Welsh translation: Ffion Emyr. Guitar loop sampled from a performance by Alasdair Roberts.

• Birdbrain (25.29)

Commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture. Baby’s voice: Ivor Forsyth-Lanceley. Additional recording by Peter Lanceley.

• My Life as Doug Yule (25.39)

Commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture. Additional recording by Trilby Baxter.

Thanks to all involved in these collaborations; to Knut, Sarah, Mathilde and Necef at RAZ; to Daniela Gargiulo; and, for their encouragement, Kersten Glandien, Anthony Moore, Milo Thesiger-Meacham and Jim Whelton.

Five Folk Tales for Radio (featuring Steffan Cennydd). Voice: Steffan Cennydd. Concept, text, sound design, montage by Ed Baxter. Recording engineer: Michael Umney.

Emerging from a collaborative process during a series of shared sessions, Penumbra comprises improvised music and sound structured by a score composed of video and lighting elements. Commissioned by Outlands, the project will take shape over a series of live shows in spring 2024.

• 8:20PM - Kenichi Iwasa

• 9PM - 9:15PM - Interval

• 9:15pm - Penumbra

Tickets available here

Resonance Extra broadcasts live from London's Ormside Projects as part of Outlands Network's current UK tour with Penumbra, an experimental performance created by vocalist Dali de Saint Paul, electronic composer and double bassist Maxwell Sterling, and visual artists Charlie Hope and Rebecca Salvadori. Plus support from Kenichi Iwasa. The event is also available to watch live.

In this episode, Victor Mazon presents Transitions, an update on Terra Ignota, a transdisciplinary research platform that studies the relationships between culture, nature, knowledge, and their various forms of representation

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

This mix imagines the sounds you might hear as you explore the backrooms of your mind when night bleeds into the morning. Sometimes the music is calm or playful, but mostly it is dark and foreboding, evoking anxious feelings that you struggle to shake as you wrestle with unpleasant and perplexing dreams.

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

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

This episode features a two-part guest mix by EURO TV, an ongoing sound collaboration between artists Nicholas Cheveldave and Will Sheridan Jr which began in 2021.

Field recordings made from a familiar assemblage of urban and inner city noise are pieced together in an attempt to emphasise a rhythm of ‘Interpersonal Sound’.

The second part of the mix comprises an audio piece from the duo titled Side A, which was premiered live in June at Emalin for the launch of Will Sheridan Jr's artist book, How Did You Want Me To Behave.

"What does a city sound like when you sleep

A night bus hauled through empty streets

Cash registrars opening and closing

Breaking glass

The sound of a journey through night,

In and out of bars and clubs

Cars and transport

through, soberness, romance, belligerence, and exhaustion

Voices that fade in and out

You can't remember when or where only that they existed"

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 music by Quiet Clapping, DAFAKE, zzoneman, Richard Bégin, Gianluca Becuzzi, Grey Frequency, Hector M. Reis, Lars Bröndum, Mombi Yuleman, The Great Old Ones, Hans Castrup and Mario Lino Stancati.

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 very special mix by Bardo Todol, aka Pablo Picco coming from Salsipuedes, Argentina. Pablo is at the foreground of tape experimentalism, collaborating with a myriad of local and international artists from his remote rural base in the Argentinian countryside. This is a mix of tape-only releases from his personal collection. You won’t find this on Spotify or any money grabbing streaming "service", enjoy!

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.