Midnight BST
SHAPE w/ Gábor Kovács ▾
This episode: SHAPE's Gábor Kovács, a Budapest-based musician and visual artist working under the dual monikers of Céh and Új Bála, presents a mix of industrial punk, noise rock, psychedelia and fringe techno following releases on Baba Vanga and Altered State Tapes. For more information visit: http://shapeplatform.eu/artist/cehuj-bala/.
1am BST Weekly, Thursday at 11pm
Phantom Circuit #236 - Spirit Answerphone ▾
This episode features music by Charles Bobuck, Taxxess, Gurdonark, Mattin, Headband, Ginny Arnell, Severed Heads, Red Plane, Carya Amara, Alan Feanch, Vi Res, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Masover and Mikra.
Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.
2am BST Monthly on the First Wednesday at 8pm
Shimmering Moods Records #70 ▾
Amsterdam's Shimmering Moods Records explores the many sides of experimental ambient music, into the far reaches of the imagination.
4am BST Weekly
Maximum Rocknroll Radio #1906 ▾
In this episode, Dani shares some working class and revolutionary tracks from iconic oi! and street punk bands from the past four decades.
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.
5am BST New!
Sonic Commune #8 ▾
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.
7am BST Weekly, Friday at 00.00am New!
Quintavant / QTV Series #7 ▾
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.
9am BST
Lossless Communication #5 ▾
Exploring sound discovery in the internet era with Robin Buckley AKA rkss.
10am BST Monthly on the Second Tuesday at 8pm
First Terrace #5 - Mechanical, Self Playing & Automatic Music + Pierre Bastien Mix ▾
This episode was inspired by Pierre Bastien, and takes a look into a few examples of mechanical and self playing instruments and other automatic music. Selections from Pierre’s back catalogue in hour two.
A selection of experimental frequencies, interviews and sessions plus cuts from the First Terrace label by Alex Ives (Specimens) and Joe Summers.
Midday BST Weekly, Thursday evening at 11:00pm New!
The Parish News #247 ▾
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.
2pm BST Weekly on Wednesday at 7pm
Naviar Broadcast #320 - Face of the Winter Pond ▾
This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Nakamura Kusatao’s poem “Face of the winter pond / doesn't reflect / even a leaf.”
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.
2:30pm BST Monthly
Tse Tse Fly Middle East # February 2017 ▾
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.
4:30pm BST
Radio Concrete #21 ▾
This episode features the first side of the album National History by Alvin Curran.
Curran, who was a member of the vital Musica Elettronica Viva group, constructed Natural History out of his archive of field recordings, layering sounds on top of each other to completely change how they feel and what they mean.
The list of the sounds used:
• Mowing the Lawn, Providence RI, ca.1980
• Starlings en masse, Lungotevere, Rome, ca. 1980
• "Electric Iron" electronic music from a Serge synthesiser, ca. 1980
• Cicadas in olive groves, La Serra di Lerici, Italy, early 1970
• Maritime Rites ship horn mix, Port of Amsterdam, Bay of La Spezia, 1982 • Fireworks Little Italy NYC, Fourth of July 1983
• "Jump Rope" children toys - Found by Melissa Gould on Canal St. NYC.
• "Tunnel Loops" in Lerici with children calling, 1969
• Loon, Burckhardt House, Searsmont Maine, late 1970's
• "Open Mix" for Monumenti, Alte Oper Frankfurt, with jump rope toys, 1980 • Pile Drivers, World Trade Center, NYC, 1968-69, with children in tunnel
• Via St. Elisabetta, Florence - woman singing, Bells of the Duomo, 1968
• Rome footsteps at night , dripping toilet and water inside moving train
• For Horns at Battery Park NYC, 1982
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.
5pm BST Twice Monthly on the Second and Fourth Monday at 10pm New!
Resistance Through Ritual #5 ▾
Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.
7pm BST New!
CWCH Collective #3 - Wormhole Variations ▾
In this episode, artists Knut Aufermann & Sarah Washington, Xentos Fray Bentos, Frauke Berg, Katharina Bihler & Stefan Scheib, DinahBird, dieb13 & Billy Roisz, Anna Friz, and Ralf Schreiber broadcast live from Ürzig, Broughton, Düsseldorf, Saarbrücken, Paris, Vienna, Santa Cruz and Cologne.
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.
8pm BST Monthly
Gravity Waves and The Spirit World # Gagarin & Spectral Transmissions Research Unit ▾
This episode is a Gagarin & Spectral Transmissions Research Unit special.
Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.
10pm BST
MILLIONMOUSE A TUNER #6 - Ikea Takeover ▾
In this episode: a love letter to pedagogy, alphabets, abjabs, syllabaries and also that time Usher went on Sesame Street, featuring Arabic, Tuvan, Inuktitut, Finnish, Mongolian, Bulgarian, Hopi, English, Colville-Okanagan Salish, Klallam and Māori music, not necessarily in that order.
With grateful respect to the elders of those nations and tribes keeping tongues burning, and the youth who learn.
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.
11pm BST Weekly, Monday, 6pm
Unexplained Sounds #342 ▾
This episode features new music by arcane device, Michael Grunditz, Noise For No One, oubys, Sanctuary, Tsath and Zabbaleen.
A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).
Midnight BST Monthly / First Tuesday / 8pm
Discrepancies #56 ▾
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.