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This series for Resonance Extra is the first time much of the label's catalogue has been available to hear outside of its material form. It accepts the invitation by Resonance on the basis that none of these sounds are stored. If you want to hear it you need to be able to access the radio at midnight BST every Thursday.

Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, beginning here with Chris Petit and Mordant Music's In What's Missing, Is Where Love Has Gone (000).

purge.xxx releases music. It has been celebrated by The Wire magazine for its ‘disregard for the music industry, self-promotion and prevailing cultural norms,’ and an ‘ability to elevate distinct works and the obscure artists behind them.’ purge.xxx only releases music physically, unless a digital alternative has specifically been requested by a collaborating artist. It considers even the recording a compromise, but advocates things.

In this extract from the day, a live solo performance by Chihiro Ono

Born in Chiba, Japan, Chihiro Ono is a London-based Japanese sound artist and violinist specialising in chamber music, experimental music and sound art.

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.

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.

Btech and Eman Resu of Superfluid present sound, music, noise along with all their sources via talk, fiction and truth.

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.

Communiques from Thanet Tape Centre, Hard drive sludge. audio tidal pools. Music sediment. Friends utterances, sea walls of noise, salt marsh drone.

This episode features a one hour mix by AAS collective entitled "Half-Sun Gift" plus music from Shatter, Gish Billions, Olivia Louvel and f.ampism in The Spirit World. For a full track-listing, visit: pastebin.com/k1xVW9gF.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

In this episode, extemporaneous composition by Alexandre Joly & Johnny Haway. Looper, electric motor, gong, ventilator, sticks, musicbox, strings, voices, organ…

Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Tina Turner's Private Dancer. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Public and private dancers, non-binary voices, Finnish superstars, peaches, orchestras, strong women, workers who hate their jobs … all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

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.

Embarking on a journey along hydrobodies - from the deep ocean’s abyssal planes all the way through the Mississippi river, outwards into Indonesian tropical rainforests – Sonic Traces expands on my personal inquiries and journey as an activist and researcher. It sets out to expose how the traces of pollution - be they sonic or chemical - travel through watery spaces, impacting communities across ecosystems. Taking the form of a speculative dérive, it includes field recordings, poetry, field notes, and philosophical wonders.

I address research developed in the Lower Mississippi river petrochemical corridor, North Kalimantan in Borneo island, as well as introduce my practice as an activist concerned with deep sea mining and the impacts of ocean noise. I enquire how the water column is affected by chemical particles circulating through it, as new industries arise and expand from the seabed outwards towards land, tracing some of the cumulative impacts of human presence, while raising awareness into how one is embedded in wider webs of ecosystemic exchange.

For what if one were set to understand watery systems in novel ways that reorganize how one senses and partakes in the world?

Expanding on how traces bear witness to past actions and leave an intergenerational imprint, I explore the complex condition of partition-thinking in natural worlds, problematising human-centric ideas of containment and fixity, in otherwise fluid and interconnected spaces. By doing so, I expand on our conceptualisation of space and corporeality to introduce new perspectives on environmental thinking.

Margarida Mendes is a researcher, curator, artist and educator, exploring the overlap between systems thinking, experimental film, sound practices and ecopedagogy. She creates transdisciplinary forums, exhibitions and experiential works where alternative modes of education and sensory practices may catalyse political imagination and restorative action.

Mendes has long been involved in anti-extraction activism collaborating with marine NGOs, Universities, and institutions of the art world. She holds a PhD in Research Architecture by the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London and is a member of Natural Contract Lab, a transdisciplinary collective of lawyers and artists working on restorative justice and rights of nature across Europe.

A six-part series by Meira Asher and Stephen Shiell exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist or group who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio.

Featuring fragments of songs sounds and information found while browsing the networks.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

In this show, Mark Leckey entrusts Kinn with re-contextualising several of the Turner Prize-winning artist’s works from 1999-2021. From his recent commission at the Tate Britain, O’Magic Power of Bleakness (2019) which was released on vinyl by Boomkat earlier this year, to his greatly influential Dream English Kid, 1964 - 1999 AD (2015) and Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999).

Providing Kinn with access to his archive, Kinn began extracting the audio from his films, re-harmonising and sampling moments that possessed “musical potential” or "evocative phrasing" and transforming them into instruments which he then wrote the album with, delving into the contemporary artist’s conceptual framework as inspiration for the music.

The result is Mark Leckey’s career-spanning vision translated into the format of music, his favoured themes of nostalgia, dread and anxiety are exaggerated and punctuated by bold and articulate musical expression, providing an emotionally rich auditory journey which fans of both artist’s works will recognise and love. Resonance Extra premiers this collaborative work as more of an album transmission akin to the early days of John Peel Sessions rather than a radio DJ mix.

Kinn describes the work as “sitting firmly in the middle of my last record (Anamnesis Landscape, released on First Light Records last year) and where I am moving forward with my sound, a schism of classic instrumentation and harmony being enhanced by contemporary sound design, Albini-fan-boy recording techniques and studio wizardry”.

Also features additional instrumentation by Will Langstone (Cello) & Louis Giannamore (Percussion).

Channelling an array of fervent interests in many genres through different mediums (Film, Music, Sound Art and more), Kinn - the brooding-electronics project of London based artist Freddy Lomas - and his guests use original soundscapes and compositions to weave together an original concept for each month's show.

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

In this episode, Andrew Jarvis takes a listen to the wider realms of the electromagnetic spectrum with an exclusive contribution from Jez Riley French, sounds from Christina Kubisch, ultrasonic bat calls and new releases from Rosanne Robertson and Alessandro Bosetti.

Theatre of the Ears is a programme exploring radio and transmission art, hosted by Andrew Jarvis.

Slvj, hailing from Madrid, Spain, is an accomplished DJ and music creator. Embracing a butch aesthetic, she crafts captivating music that seamlessly blends field recordings, vocals, and electronic beats. Her unique sound has caught the attention of renowned labels such as FuturepastZine, Solar Complex, and Caballito Netlabel, which have featured her tracks.

As a dedicated sound researcher, Slvj fearlessly traverses musical genres, erasing the boundaries that confine them. Her versatility has led her to perform at a diverse array of venues and radio stations, including CA2M Móstoles, Matadero Madrid, Festival Sonoras Valencia, Hafenklang Hamburg, Buka Milano, El Parche Bogotá, and Drift Ashore Radio Berlin, among others.

Slvj passion for inclusivity and representation is evident in her involvement with TeKM, an exclusive party collective in Madrid that welcomes and celebrates women and the LGTBIQA+ community. By actively participating in TeKM, Slvj strives to create an inclusive and empowering space within the music scene.

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

This episode features a guest mix by Chantal Michelle.

Injazero Records founder Siné Buyuka plays a selection of electronic, experimental, ambient and contemporary classical tracks.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

In this episode, Emily Bick plays Shellac, Earth Ball, Tomeka Reid Quartet, Sisso & Maiko, Robyn Rocket, and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode is a contribution by Radio Panic.

Unbewitch Finance (2017) is a self-proclaimed, Brussels-based lab composed of researchers, activists, artists, designers and various allies engaged to reclaim power over parts of our life in society which are owned by the economic and the financial system. Through rituals, speculative writings, radio documentaries, hybrid performances and exhibitions, the lab develops a pragmatical magic meant to unbewitch ourselves from the curse of TINA* and to think of desirable futures.

*There Is No Alternative

Standard Sono Magique is a sound ritual recorded at Recyclart (BXL) during the release party for the a five chapter radio documentary, Glossary of Finance and Sorcery (Glossaire de la Finance et de la Sorcellerie).

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

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.