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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.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, engineers, sound-effects creators, actors, writers, composers and broadcasters devoted to making live radio-art. It is based in central London as the in-house artistic wing of Resonance104.4fm, under the direction of Ed Baxter.

In this episode, a guest mix and interview with composer and producer Midori Hirano plus selections inspired by her work.

A selection of experimental frequencies, interviews and sessions plus cuts from the First Terrace label by Alex Ives (Specimens) and Joe Summers.

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

The entire first hour is given over to a sound piece called 'SOG Underscore' by Caleb Madden And Geoff Reader. The work consists of 4 recordings taken from the output of a de-tuned analogue radio at 4 different frequencies.

The recordings were made whilst driving around Brighton in a car following a route which was decided by writing 3 large letters (S,O,G) on a map of Brighton and then trying to drive as closely as possible to the outline. The route home along the straight line of the seafront underlined the letters nicely.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

In this episode: projects that are not finished. Stories that are not easy. Embryonic music. We're struggling! There will surely be technical problems!

Featuring: Andrea Marioni, Stefan Robert, Antoine Läng, Céline Roduit, Cyril Yeterian, Fhunyue Gao, Le voyant, Fuchsy Lady, Jerrycan, Kika Demange, Maxou Bisou, Laurent Schmid, Magda – Presence Absence, Mark Matter, Mathilde Maillard, Tzii, Jeff Gurda, Rodeus, Johnny Haway.

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

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Don’t You Want Me by The Human League. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Mariachis, Pets, mass choirs, rumba dancers, plastic chickens, bla …bla bla… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

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.

A special guest mix from Bruno Silva AKA Ondness this month, taken from a theatre piece he worked on. Here’s what AKA Ondness has to say about it:

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.

This time, Athens Inner City Broadcast mutates into Houston Inner City Broadcast for a special episode focusing on the city's rap scene.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

Now: 'Silence' - the third experiment.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

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

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

In this episode Andrew Jarvis digs deep into the archives of the ‘Polish Radio Experimental Studio’, discovering electro-acoustic sounds, field recordings, Sci-fi visions and Futurist Poetry from Poland’s former state broadcaster.

Theatre of the Ears is a programme exploring radio and transmission art, hosted by Andrew Jarvis.

This episode is driven by a sense of peculiarity, serving as the accompanying score for vivid dreams which resemble science fiction comics, in which perilous yet fantastical moments unfold.

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

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

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode is contribution by Usmaradio.

Vittoria Assembri is an experimental sound artist and independent researcher in sonic arts and public architecture. Her sound research is about field recording, sound objects, experimental music that reflect on the theme of marginal and liminal territory, in close relationship with urban plans and its crossing (human and non-human).

Her practice develops from site-specific deep listening, focusing on urban dynamics, sociocultural processes and public sphere, with which to rewrite an affective and political landscape of resistance.

Vittoria is currently in Japan since the beginning of May, where she is doing a live performance tour and working on a few artistic residencies’ projects (Kyoto Kinugasa Art Residence for Community in Kyoto, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Lake Haruna Artist Residence).

This track is a cut-up of her analog and digital recordings around Japan: Haruna and Fuji-san volcanoes, Kinugasa district in Kyoto, tatami’s and bonsai’s artisans in Okayama, izakayas in Shinjuku-Tokyo, Taka-san cellist, nightingale flooring of the Ryōn-ji Temple, shishi odoshi, radio fm-am interferences, jingles and alerts from megaphone loudspeaker, Aomori forest’s fauna, memorial songs from inhabitants and fishermen of the Haruna cadera, etc.

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

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.