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In this episode, acousmatic vibes and musique concréte set pieces. Innovators and new-schoolers massage our eardrums into the deepest recesses of sound mangling. Radiophonic mass pieces, trips to the Italian coast and fears of drowning all make an appearance. Classic avant-garde? More like gourmet music sounds, old and new.

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.

In this episode, a Thanet Tape Centre communiqué using records, synthersizers, samples and noises, played, looped and arranged by Benedict Drew.

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

In this episode, a piece of radio theatre about marriage in the Wolof culture. How does tradition intertwine with modernity?

Intergenerational benevolence promotes the advancement and development of other worldviews by integrating the heritage of the past into the present to shape a more open and tolerant future.

In French and Wolof languages.

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

This episode of Listening Experience consists of material acquired and created during the Multiversal MultiNorth IV tour of Oslo, Copenhagen, and Berlin, in January 2018. 

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

This episode features music from Disinformation, Big Pun, Dead Rat Orchestra, Beachers, Gareth JS Thomas, Jovana Backovic and S A R R A M.

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

Lena Mega and LoA are musical collaborators who explore a wide range of sounds and styles, from fast-paced rhythms to humorous and sensual tones, as well as otherworldly experiments and chopped beats.

Their shared research interests include topics such as plants, mushrooms, gardens, playing with mud, and ecological explorations, which often find their way into their music.

Based in and around Berlin, Lena Mega and LoA have created a unique sound that draws inspiration from their diverse interests and experiences. Their music can be found on Soundcloud, where they have multiple accounts featuring their individual and collaborative work.

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.

RadioActive – on Water is a six episode podcast series, exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist/group of artists who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio. This show contains two excerpts from each episode, selected by the series’ curators.

Creators: Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell and Hannah White), Lisa Blackmore and Leonel Vásquez, RE-PEAT, Margarida Mendes, Carlos Monleon and Nathaniel Mann, Meira Asher.

The episodes:

An Ear to River ~ counterflows by Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White) invites the audience to listen with the Channelsea river, a recovering waterway in East London and home to the city’s largest combined sewage outfall.

River song, singing rivers by Lisa Blackmore and Leonel Vásquez, navigates the Bogotá River in Colombia through a more-than-human song created in collaboration with the living forces that shape the watershed’s ecosystems.

Watered by RE-PEAT collective approaches water justice through imagining the perspective of water nself, by drawing stories and definitions of bodies of water, and n’s entanglement in relation with other bodies, bogs, bugs, sundew, moss and more.

Sonic Traces by Margarida Mendes, is a journey from the deep ocean to the Mississippi river, to expose how traces of pollution, sonic and chemical, travel through watery space impacting communities across ecosystems.

River Breathing by Carlos Monleon and Nathaniel Mann, examines the impact of irrigation systems on human and more-than-human communities through the Ebro river in Spain and its endangered clam population.

Liquidation by Meira Asher interrogates the politically engineered water crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Jordan Valley where Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian shepherd communities of access to water.

Curated by Meira Asher and Stephen Shiell
Production – Meira Asher, radioart106
Mastering – Daniel Meir
Web design – Laetitiia Boulud
Produced with the support of the Pais council for Culture and Art, Israel
Image by Pablo Sanz from a project along the Manzanares River in Madrid

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

This episode focuses on 'Synthesis'.

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.

For this month’s guest mix, Berlin-based artist Hüma Utku put together a selection of musical pieces dedicated to and inspired by the cycles of life/death/life.

Utku is an electronic music composer and sound artist who combines her musical practice with her academic studies in psychology through her works drawing inspiration from human condition and folklore. With an overall disregard for genres, she utilises melody and sound as tools for storytelling.

Her 2018 EP release ‘’Şeb-i Yelda’’ and the 2019 debut album ‘’Gnosis’’, via Karlrecords, earned Utku recognition for her unique approach to creating sonic story plots by merging concepts with experiments in electronic music.

Her new album ‘’The Psychologist’’ is released in May 2022 via Editions Mego, which has been cited as Utku's most ambitious and complex work yet.

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

In this episode: does music have to be serious? Does music have to be rational? Does music need to conform to the rules? According to contemporary postmodern artists, no.

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.

Set off with us for a session by Elizabeth Joan Kelly plus music by John Baker, Meat Beat Manifesto, John Foxx, Daniel John Williams, Die Tanzdiele, Crystal Jaqueline, Aphex Twin, Hardy Fox, The Residents and Suburban Lawns.

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

In the first half of this month's Third Space show, London-based sound artist and producer Ana Quiroga guides listeners through sounds past and present from her homeland of Asturias, Northern Spain. Recorded in the summer of this year, Ana's mix explores the region's rich folk traditions, industrial heritage, and fierce legacy of anti-fascist action; histories which have etched themselves into the area's beautiful coastal landscape and the communities that inhabit it.

The second half of this month's show was crafted by artist and researcher, Ale Hop. Originally from Peru, Ale Hop began cultivating her unique sonic practice in Lima's thriving underground scene before establishing new roots in Berlin. Her Third Space mix features the vibrant sonic contrasts of Uganda's capital, Kampala, where she recently undertook an artistic residency at the now-legendary Nyege Nyege studios.

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: "P.R.E" - The 'By Ear' recordings resume with Otto Willberg's double bass improvisation over Pike Ogilvy's drums, after loose association in response to Gvidas Pakarklis' postcards. Including recordings of Bridget Riley, Wassily Kandinsky, Björk & Walter Benjamin.

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.

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

In this episode, Meg Woof plays Tongue In The Mind, Gordan, Weird Weather, Marta Forsberg, Tadleeh, Aidan O'Rourke, Gomid and more.

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.

This episode features work by Anders Jakobsen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, VHS Head, Jon Collin & Demdike Stare, Tony Conrad, Datassette, DJ BLOBBY / AOTCI / OVT, The Durutti Column, Simon Heartfield, Berke Can Özcan featuring Arve Henriksen, Fugazi, Luke Sanger, Sciama, Air Liquide, Island People, Art School Girlfriend, Salvador Dali and Pub.

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.

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

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.