Wednesday 1st May 2024

Midnight BST

The Wire: Adventures In Music and Sound # 25th April 2024

In this episode, Chris Bohn plays music from Xinjiang, Siberia, Tuva, Japan,, Germany, the UK and US, including tracks by Wukir Suryadi, Senyawa, Sunik Kim, Minimum Wage Immanence Unit and more.


New music with The Wire Magazine.

1:30am BST Weekly, Monday, 6pm

Unexplained Sounds #293

This episode features music by Baishui, Richard Bégin, Crows Labyrinth, Distant Fires Burning, Jon Doe, One, Stratosphere, Sonologyst, BAD SECTOR, Mario Lino Stancati, Hermetic Brotherhood Of Luxor, Sigillum S, Runes Order and The Great Old Ones.


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

2:30am BST

FUNKT #3

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.

5:30am BST New!

Atmospheric Densities #7

This episode is opened by Leena Lee and Vania Fortuna introducing their album Niebla which examines the symbolism and mythologies of the quetzal bird.

We also hear Andrew Weathers heating up a TV dinner, a first listen to Timothy Fairless's Rising Water, and new releases from Renato Grieco, Tom White and Natasha Barrett.

The Weird Field Recording Album of the month is Michael Lightborne's Ring Road Ring. We close with a piece from Kaleidoscope, our fundraiser for Ukraine.


This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

7am BST

Lossless Communication #2


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

8am BST New!

Sonic Commune #7


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.

10am BST

MILLIONMOUSE A TUNER #3 - Fifty Fifty Returns and Ragamash Twrds Waterfalls

This episode features a special guest performance from New York: an aria by enourmousface aka Kalan Sherrard, alongside the sound of fatty b's three cylinder lister engine recorded on the River Lea by Walthamstow Marshes/Springfield.

With a series of resets prompted by let's return to the staircase in the first half, ragamash looking to guitar in the second half.

Chorus:

when then was

a her in him

alas dont do the snake

hit delete

refresh the source and ancestry


Weekly compositions, sketches and motifs by Anastasia Freygang.

Field recordings, experimental narration, ragamash mixes, big time polyrhythmics including fantasy language and hearsay from IRL and the World Wide Web.

11am BST

Listening Experience #3 - Delta

This episode focuses on the concept of Delta, with audio excerpts from Listen To Me by Jules Bryant-Funnell and the Falcon Heights shooting.


A monthly collection of audio experiments and listening objects with sound artist Matt Burnett from Berlin.

Midday BST Twice Monthly on the Second and Fourth Monday at 10pm New!

Resistance Through Ritual #4


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

2pm BST Monthly

Tyneside Sounds Society #13 - Tynedale Sounds

This show is dedicated to the sounds of Tynedale in the North East of England.

Tynedale is to the west of Tyneside in South West Northumberland and is marked by the spilt in the River Tyne - which turns intro River Tyne North & South. It's main centre is Hexham, it includes towns and villages like Wylam, Corbridge, St John Lee, Juniper, Haltwhistle and Bardon Mill. Part of Hadrian's Wall runs through it. It was a former local government district with a population of 58,000 it's now part of Northumberland.

The show is a mix of field recordings made by participants of number of Record-A-Thons in Hexham and around Tynedale.

There'll be an exhibition dedicated to Tynedale Sounds at Queen's Hall Arts Centre in Hexham that opens 4 August and runs until 8 September.

Thanks to Dom, Jim, Jimmy, Chris, Sally + Core Music Collective & the Hexham Village Band.


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.

3pm BST

Fae Ma Bit Tae Ur Bit #38


Sound collage, record spinning, havering, ear wonk and general head scratch with Dylan Nyoukis of the Chocolate Monk label.

4:50pm BST

Live on Extra (TEST)


TEST TRANSMISSION FROM SECRET LOCATION

5pm BST Weekly, Friday at 00.00am New!

Quintavant / QTV Series #2 w/ Space Charanga


Investigations of the Brazilian experimental music scene via Rio De Janeiro's Quintavant label in collaboration with Audio Rebel. With live performances and exploratory sounds produced in the context of Brazil's strange political situation, curated by Francisco Mazza, Bernando Oliveira and Pedro Azevedo.

6:17pm BST

Bab’s London Adventures : Talk Poems by SJ Fowler

Released by 8ox publishing. Mixed by Milo Thesiger-Meacham. Supported by Resonance Extra.

SJ Fowler is a poet, writer, performer, from London.


In your lucy locket, a series of encounters with London’s most loveable rogue, Babs the purple cat, whose improvised talk poems have become a staple of the UK’s avant garde poetry scene. Recorded at public performances, film shoots and specifically for this release, and featuring found sound recordings around the capital, Babs takes on what is possible for the improvised poem and for the poet as a character.

7pm BST Weekly on Wednesday at 7pm

Naviar Broadcast #317 - Deep in the Mountains

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Shinkei’s poem “Deep in the mountains - / falling into my heart / autumn streams”.

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.

7:30pm BST

Radio Concrete #34


Radio Concrete by **Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show focusing on live mixing and processing of field recordings together with contemporary music and soundscapes.

8pm BST New!

First Light's Third Space #9 - Chantal Michelle & Cucina Povera

In this episode, Chantal Michelle takes us on a journey around New York in the first portion of this month’s Third Space. Buskers, sirens and footsteps are caught between and across music that captures the frantic and conflicted relationship of the artist and the city.

In the second half of the show, Cucina Povera engages with the broad palette of sounds found around her. This mix focuses largely on sounds rather than composed music, but the musical inspiration that Cucina Povera finds in the city’s droning bells, natural ambiance and repetitive bird song melodies is pronounced.

"An inexplicable draw, a love affair that can’t end, a refusal. Compounded layers, disharmony, the occasional synchronicity that could be mistaken for meaning. Trying to “block it out” but efforts are futile; a bleeding. Pleasure in discord, fear. Joy when looking out the window." – Chantal Michelle


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.

10pm BST Weekly

Maximum Rocknroll Radio #1903

In this episode, Rob hits some of the finest in modern punk, looks back at Rip Off Records and puts all his eggs in one basket.


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.

11pm BST New!

Trash Panda QC Is Under Location Surfaces #12 - DJ Set + Studio Session 5

In this episode: the fifth studio session for the album Is Under Location Surfaces plus a mix keeping things 160 with footwork and noise rock.


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

Midnight BST New!

CWCH Collective #1 - The Same Boat

In this first episode artists Knut Aufermann, Sarah Washington, Katharina Bihler, Stefan Scheib, Anna Friz & Ralf Schreiber broadcast sounds from Ürzig, Saarbrücken, Santa Cruz & Cologne.

Produced by Mobile Radio with support from π-node


During the lockdown, a revolving group of sound artists from across Europe and the US convened live on air with a unified aim: to gather sound-pollen and transmit codified messages to kindred folk, exploring whatever was on their minds. Style guide: Anything goes.

Here we broadcast some selected live works by the CWCH Collective.

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