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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.

This episode features selections by Sebastiano Carghini.

Glasgow-based Bobby Jewell presents a series of ambient mixes for Resonance Extra with guest features by musicians and artists.

This episode of Listening Experience is titled “A Balcony In Johannesburg”, and features field recordings I made in Johannesburg, South Africa. I was in Johannesburg to participate in the annual Edge of Wrong festival; these recordings were made from the apartment balcony where I was staying.

The recordings were made at various times of day; the progression of time in this episode reflects the progression of time in the field, starting from early morning and continuing through mid-afternoon.

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

Dronica meets events curators, creative directors and labels owners in 2021.

In this episode, Dronica meets Shahin Entezami, co-curator at SET Experimental Art Events, in Tehran.

Shahin Entezami, also known by his stage name “Tegh” is a musician and sound artist and practitioner based in Tehran, Iran. In his music, Tegh tries to bring new aural experiences to life by using various audio elements and complex soundscapes. These experiences usually manifest his personal perception of facing new stories, geographies and different situations. The ways he usually tries to express these ideas take root in Noise, Drone and Experimental electronic styles and sometimes manifest themselves in the form of electroacoustic compositions.

He has also released albums and singles on labels like Opal Tapes (UK), Zabte Sote (IR), Hibernate Recordings (UK), Dronarivm (RU), Inner Ocean Records (CA), Midira Records (GE), Futuresequence (US), Flaming Pines (UK), Bitrot Recordings (IR) and more.

Also, based on his eagerness to discover the world of other artists he has been involved in many collaboration projects like “Artirial”, “Temp-Illusion”, “Umchunga & Tegh” and so forth. He’s one of the curators at SET, Experimental Iranian festival in Tehran.

Shahin presents a two-hour mix focused on presenting music from my favorite artists considered as a part of Iranian Experimental Electronic Scene, from around the world, a mixture of both promising and well-known artists.

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

Gulnara Petzold, a multi-talented artist, is known for her expertise as a sound artist, composer, vocalist, and DJ. During her time at the University of Arts Berlin, she actively represented women and played a pivotal role in organizing a lecture and performance series featuring renowned female artists such as Gudrun Gut and Anika.

The vibrant music scene in Berlin greatly influenced her artistic development. Despite being self-taught, Gulnara has honed her musical skills to perfection. This year, she astounded audiences with an experimental electronic concert combining spoken word and captivating DJ sets at prominent venues like Ava Berlin, where she collaborated with the collective female:pressure.

Gulnara has released several tracks and collaborations under esteemed labels like Associated Paraboloid and Big Bells Records. Her most recent production gained recognition when it was featured in a video reel by the Russian underground club Blank to promote a forthcoming event. This summer, she is set to mesmerize audiences with her live performances and DJ sets at various art festivals and clubs, showcasing her exceptional talent and captivating audiences with her unique sound.

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.

Zéro Propos is a Lausanne-based hyperjective poetry group created in 2020 by Gäel Bandelier and Gilles Furtwängler. Following three residencies at *Duuu radio in Paris in 2021 and 2022, the group gave birth to the Zéro Propos. Zéro titre project, which is a double album of 13 tracks.

From scraps of sentences picked up in the street, on the internet, everywhere, they write with four hands, little by little, cutting, pasting, adding, mixing words and phonemes. The result is a material of sentences mixing everyday life, concrete and abstract poetry.

Composed by Gaël Bandelier and Gilles Furtwängler of Zéro Propos, and performed by Gaël Bandelier, Rachel Bazaïda, Sarah Calas, Martine Chesnau, Sarah Salomé Delétain, Gilles Furtwängler, Delphine Herscovici, Lucienne Larue, Michel Larue, Angeline Ostinelli, Anne-Marie Petit, Clara Rodriguez and Marielle Soca.

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

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.

This episode features a guest mix by Koray Kantarcıoğlu.

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

Experimenting with Austria has always fascinating results. Let’s see what happens when we heat Austria a bit (but not too much) and add some sonic interferences.

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Experiments in exploring humanity with Keno Westhoff of http://klanglabor.ayayay.eu.

This episode features work by Jörg Thomasius, Frederic Rzewski, Dieter Zobel, Robert Linke and more.

Socialist Realness a mix series by GAJEK focusing on avant-garde and electronic music produced in the GDR and shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Music by Front 242, Kane Ikin, Magma, Braindamage, R.E.K., Dubstar, Charmant Juliette and Darksider, Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin, Analogrunner, Tomita, Steve Hillage, You're Alive But You Are Dead, Moloko and White Russia.

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

Manchester / Berlin

The first half of this month's Third Space features Martina Bertoni, an artist who has pricked ears across the music world with her meticulous debut back-to-back releases. Bertoni's heady sonic dive into Berlin includes experimental mainstays, recordings of chanting and morning from Berlin icon Bob Rutman's funeral, along with sounds captured during journeys on the city's s-bahn.

Following on from that is Guillaume Dujat, a Manchester-based artist whose exciting solo material has been put out on First Light Records and who, alongside Joe Beedles, comprises half of computer music whiz kid project, WEȽ∝KER.

We welcome you to explore the sound and music of Manchester and Berlin in our first iteration of Third Space.

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, "chopsticks turn matchsticks turned charcoal" - sounds in response to postcards received from James Owens, Rosalind Howdle, Amelia Galliford, Cecilia Reeve & Seth Randall-Goddard. Featuring Violence Grass Band, Marcel Broodthaers, Mal Waldron, Stevie Wonder & more, with excerpts from James Lee Byar's The World Question Center weaving in and out. Also the newest By Ear recording with Finn Carter (Endless Digital Birthdays) improvising piano over Otto Willberg's double bass improvisation over Pike Ogilvy's drums.

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 music by Grey Frequency, cursed diamond, Loris Cericola and more.

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

In this episode, Chris Bohn plays Arooj Aftab, Nkisi, Keiji Haino, Wolfgang Seidel, Yui Onodera, and more

New music with The Wire Magazine.

In this episode: Drifting across the fields we keep an ear out for sonic paths in the undergrowth.

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 plays an eclectic selection of music from João Gilberto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, audiobooks and more.

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

This episode features a guest mix by photographer Isabel MacCarthy titled Child of Love.

Don't think -

Feel

and then

think-again.

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, an hour long edit of a binaural field recording made by Paul Freeman a week prior to this transmission, walking the length of the Hogsmill River in South West London.

The river is a rare chalk stream, one of only 210 in the world. It springs in Ewell Village and makes its way through suburban nature reserves, crossing under the occasional railway line and road until it joins the Thames at Kingston.

The recording was made using head mounted microphones to record in the binaural method, so for the full effect it's recommended to listen on headphones.

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.