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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.

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

Sleep walking into looping records with visitations from Kali Malone, Terry Riley, Delia Darbyshire, Meredith Monk amongst others.

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

We continue to listen to rare records released on the Soviet major label Melodia. This time – and not for the last time – the episode is dedicated to jazz in all its manifestations.

We'll start with the first jazz composition in the history of the USSR (the Uzbek band under Pavel Chaplevsky made this recording in 1935), listen to balearic improvisations from Ukraine, electro-boogie from Kazakhstan, jazz-mughams from Azerbaijan and then dive headfirst into free jazz from the Baltic States and faraway places in Russia. Let jazz be free!

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental TOPOT label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

This month: field recordings of the S42 Ringbahn train, which loops in a ring around Berlin connecting with other inner-city transit systems, made by Matt Burnett shortly after his relocation to Berlin in 2014.

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

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

Lolo is an artist, DJ, painter, curator and entrepreneur from Akron, Cleveland and Detroit.

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 is a montage created from the Radio as a Space and a Material community workshop with Diffusion FM 91.9 held at 107 Redfern. For this event we invited the community to contemplate alternative radio space.

We also invited the wonderful Hethre Contant to participate which inevitably included an appearance of The Weekly Dream Report. Also big thanks to Ryan Morris for sharing his other consciousness with us.

Here are the results of workshop participants enjoying performative experiments. During these “jams” the usual suspects were utilised – extremely low-powered terrestrial radio wave technologies, other electromagnetic and time-based sensing tools, telephones, walkie-talkies, computers, deep sea cables, whatever paraphernalia came to hand and August Black’s telematic browser app Mezcal.

Most of the material was recorded using a very old H1 ZOOM with only one functioning microphone and mobile phones. The results are delightfully LoFi and in glorious mono!

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

This episode is dedicated to Berlin's Pink Waves Festival. More details here.

Urban Arts Berlin is a non-profit arts organisation which supports international sound artists. In this series Verónica Mota presents selections of works from the Urban Arts Berlin label.

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

Postnew is a modular theory, describing the fluid development of aesthetics. Every movement has a post-movement, every end is a beginning, every post-aesthetic will be followed by a post-post-aesthetic. Join the mailing list here.

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

Frenetic lullabies in a session by Whettman Chelmets plus music by AEM, Airboy Express, Rovi, The Gloss on Blood, Taxxess, Forseti, RW Able, Eko Fisk, Static Movement, Boards of Canada & Die Doraus und die Marinas.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

This month, the first half of Third Space features renowned Iranian musician, producer and promoter, Pouya Ehsaei. Subtle field recordings taken from across London are carefully placed and processed within a half hour of original music composed for the show, showcasing Pouya's ability to translate the labyrinthine city's diverse rhythms and sonic intricacies into modular synthesis.

Comprised of Farbod Maeen and Deniz Tafaghodi, Zerone Duo explore the sounds of their and Pouya's hometown, Tehran, in the second portion of the show. At times peaceful and at other times unnerving, synthesised sounds are masterfully woven into a tapestry of air brakes, announcements and indistinct conversations to interrogate the stirring emotions of a bustling city.

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.

In this episode: ‘Mindnyájan Hazugok Vagyunk’ by Chris Couch, ‘Bells’ by Hla Aye, the 'Soundwalks Budapest' concert featuring Polina Baitsym, Chris Couch, Bence Kollányi, Erika Lakatos and Anna Zilahi and ‘Difference’ by Polina Baitsym.

Budapest Soundwalks: field recordings and sound art from the community of the Central European University. The work was produced as part of an MA course in Sound Studies, led by Ian M. Cook, or as part of a workshop co-taught by Lucia Udvardyova and Judit Emese Konopas.

In this episode: "a whale swims down Holloway Road..." Loose association in response to postcards sent in by artists from Submit to Love, a charity-run collective of artists who have survived brain injury. Featuring Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Richard Hamilton & Dur-Dur Band.

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.

This episode features new music by Somnoroase Păsărele, AFTERVOLTER, Daniele Ciullini, Noise For No One, Sanctuary, phoanøgramma & Luca Ferro, Esa Ruoho and Kathodos.

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

In this episode, new music by FINAL, Rama Parwata, NikNak, Sun Kit, Il Sogno del Marinaio, and others.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

For this episode we dive beneath the subsurface of both the water and our archive with a re-mix of material originally put together to accompany Littoral Transmissions' live performance at Fort Process 2018. Featuring Worsicles from James Worse.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

In this episode, Theo Sayers is joined by filmmaker Rhys Votano for an hour of eclectic music. Featuring songs by Joan As Police Woman, New Order and J.J Cale.

Electronic musician Theo Sayers transports listeners with a mix of electronic, ambient, spiritual and new age music.

This episode features a full recording of Anna Clegg's Stainless, an audio performance created for Love Letters on the 30th of September, and music by fellow performer tape_2046.

Love Letters was the closing event for Elli Antoniou and Beatrice Vorster's exhibition pinch to zoom at Generation and Display, London. It also featured new video work by Elli Antoniou and an opening mixtape by Nanzhen Yang.

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.

In this episode, we celebrate the launch of Dychwelyd the new album from Welsh ambient experimental drone-folk duo Peiriant. The first half of the show contains a live performance from a recent gig at The Globe in Hay on Wye. The performance contains some improvised pieces, extracts from Dychwelyd, as well as a collection of older tunes.

The second half of the show contains Dychwelyd played from start to finish. This new release from Peiriant is due 5th July 2024. A first single **Taflu Dŵr* is released this Friday 7th June.

Peiriant are a duo of violin and electric guitar, who play with melody and tonality to create atmosphere and soundscape. Electronic equipment, samples and found objects also add to their semi-improvised pieces, which are spun from grounded ideas.

Peiriant draw from their foundation in folk and classical in addition to post-rock, minimalism and sound art to weave experimental music that is anchored in the Welsh landscape. They play with layers of drone and dissonance, contrasting with songs and pure tones to give a rich and sonorous auditory experience.

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

Moods and preoccupations in a nonlinear narrative in and out of the club with COSI and The Source of Some Certainty - created by Corinna Triantafyllidis and Henry Rodrick.

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.