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DRONE OPERATØR RADIØ NR.8 ZTARTZ HARD AND ENDZ ZOFT.

+++ special 20min. guest set by German free jazz band SDW Trio +++ special 30min. mix of unfinished songs and audio sketches by UK musician Aircode +++

(can you step back from your own mind?)

Monthly experimen†al kleptomaniac post digital free jazz spam channel operated by artists Tilman Hornig and Paul Barsch aka DRONE OPERATØR.

Amsterdam's Shimmering Moods Records explores the many sides of experimental ambient music, into the far reaches of the imagination.

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.

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.

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 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.

This episode features a recording of Chihei Hatakeyama performing live at St Giles Church in Camberwell, South London.

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

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.

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.

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.

This episode: featuring a live set recorded with Yuval Shenhar and Hagai Izenberg. Yuval Shenhar is a guitarist, composer and producer, member of the duo JOOVE, currently dealing with slowness, suspension and stagnation of sounds.

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.

This first episode is dedicated to the work of Sholto Dobie, who was invited through the tekhnē open call for research projects at Q-O2 workspace for experimental music and sound art in Brussels.

Sholto Dobie Is a UK-born artist who lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. He uses an array of sound sources including home-made organs and bagpipes. He has explored ideas related to folklore and environment as sonic phenomenon and works with site specific methodologies.

Bi-monthly insights into the activities of the European project tekhnē, which started in 2023. The series showcases a selection of artists who share and discuss their work and listen to recorded material. By putting the focus on the user rather than the developer, this project aims to explore the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. Technology as an art of craft, appropriating and transforming existing tools, to imagine multiple ways of creative misuse. tekhnē is a collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union.

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.

Knut Aufermann & Sarah Washington, Xentos Fray Bentos, Frauke Berg, Katharina Bihler & Stefan Scheib, DinahBird, dieb13 & Billy Roisz, Anna Friz, and Ralf Schreiber broadcast live from Ürzig, Broughton, Düsseldorf, Saarbrücken, Paris, Vienna, Santa Cruz and Cologne.

During the lockdown, a revolving group of sound artists from across Europe and the US convened live on air with a unified aim: to gather sound-pollen and transmit codified messages to kindred folk, exploring whatever was on their minds. Style guide: Anything goes.

Here we broadcast some selected live works by the CWCH Collective.

The first hour this month begins with the second in a series of sound journeys around the letters SOG. This month we walked SOG around Brighton Pier.

Next up is Daniel Mackenzie with a piece composed for the Dear Serge presents: Sonic Rebellion Now event at 2 Temple Place, London on 15th March, 5pm to 9pm. Daniel will be performing the piece live and there will also be live performances from Ewa Justka and Audrey Chen.

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

In this episode, 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.

A six-part series by Meira Asher and Stephen Shiell exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist or group who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio.

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).

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.