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

New music with The Wire Magazine.

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).

This is a three hour extract from the festival, featuring sound art, computer music, homemade instruments, DIY electronics, radio play, noise, data sonification, field recordings, radio art, sound studies, historical anchor points, niches, insider tips, and different generations of Cologne's electronic and sound art landscape.

Full details and line-up: https://www.gerngesehen.de/funkt

The FUNKT programme was developed under the project management of Georg Dietzler by Anke Eckardt, Claudia Robles-Angel, Dietmar Bonnen, Dirk Specht and Felix Knoblauch, in cooperation with Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann.

Thanks to sponsors Musikfonds e. V. with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the special programme Neustart Kultur, Kunststiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Endowment for the Arts), the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.

FUNKT was a festival of electronic music and sound art from Cologne, which took place on the 16th, 17th and 18th of April 2021.

Joan by Whettman Chelmets is out this week and he introduces the show from his car discussing the inspiration behind this work which celebrates his grandmother.

A preview of my own piece fake creek where I try and create an underwater field recording is out next month and I play an excerpt from that and we take a first listen to Andrew Weather's forthcoming Sciatic Assemblage: a spikey, jangling and discombobulating take on our domestic spaces.

Plus a special mix from Leena Lee and Vania Fortuna drawing on work which inspires them and relates to their wonderful new album Niebla.

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

Dusty, bimonthly, high-density mixtapes and exclusive material from London duo Sirius, digging loop-holes and following their nose for the God scent.

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.

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

In this episode: Lichene, founder and curator at Ancestral Futuro Remoto, in Berlin.

Lichene is one of the monikers of a dj(ane) and prolific curator of events based in Berlin. She graduated in Psychology and holds a specialisation in Psychotherapy in Italy, where she was born.

In 2013 she co-founded Ancestral Futuro Remoto, a Berlin-based series of events focused on ambient / experimental music, where she also curates DJ sets and visuals.

In her practice she investigates the possible meanings of "remote future", trying to understand to which extent we can still find traces of the faraway world of the ancestors in our present, and if there really is something primordial and atavistic inside of us.

In this show for Dronica radio show on Resonance Extra she mixed part of her collection of CDs and vinyls in a live session at Studio Liebig 12 in Berlin, where she is doing an artistic residency with other collaborators.

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

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.

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.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

Virgilio Oliveira explores the sonic environment in collaboration with Porto's Radio Manabras, presenting an hour of sound art and field recordings.

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

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.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Natsume Soseki’s poem “the figure of a man / swallowed by the world / hanafubuki”.

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.

This episode features a live set recorded earlier this year in Berlin with Eric Bauer and Samuel Hall and myself.

Eric Bauer is working with electronics and other objects. Since 2014 the majority of sound is generated via basic synthesizer modules and extended techniques.

Samuel Hall is an Australian born, European based Improvising Percussionist.

Other materials used include a new track by Stefano Lazzari (ITA), made with 24 ping pong balls on the piano strings, then manipulated with reels, and a new recording made with Illi Adato (UK)

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.

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.

This episode is in honour, solidarity, and celebration of pride month. Dani is hosting with some tunes from both classic and newer queer bands.

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.

Where the Dead Voices Gather is an indeterminate process driven radio experiment that uses the book 'Where The Dead Voices Gather' by Nick Tosches as its starting point.

Songs are chosen from a series of libraries based on the structure of a haiku. Each show has 17 songs / sounds therefore each show represents a sonic haiku.

Where the Dead voices gather is exploring the sonic potentials of written text and the indeterminate.

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, continuing here with The Communist Manifesto read by Boy, 8, South East London.

"Released to mark the launch of Stanley Schtinter's 'Important Books (or, Manifestos Read by Children)' at Whitechapel Gallery in London, this double cassette release contains The Communist Manifesto read in full by an 8-year-old boy from South East London."

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.