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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.

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

In this episode, sound artist Leonel Vásquez and researcher Lisa Blackmore navigate the Bogotá River in Colombia through a more-than-human song created together with the living forces that shape the watershed’s ecosystems.

Loaded with chemicals and sewage along its course, the river is largely devoid of the fish and freshwater crustaceans that for thousands of years teemed in its waters. People have turned their backs on the water body, even though it was once the centre of collective life.

How might listening to the river’s song renew bonds of relation and reverence for water in dis-enchanted times? Guided by Leonel’s compositions, River Song, Singing Rivers is sonic immersion that attends to the Bogota rivers bogs, meanders, and flows as a living being worthy and in need of care.

Lisa Blackmore is founder-director and curator of entre—ríos, exploring continuities between bodies of water, human bodies and territories, recognising rivers as active subjects. Lisa is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies and is the author of publications like Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space and Visuality in Venezuela 1948-1958 (2017), and co-editor of Hydrocommons Cultures: Art, Pedagogy and Care Practices in the Americas (LA ESCUELA__JOURNAL, 2024) and Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art (2020).

Leonel Vásquez is a Colombian sound artist exploring non-human sonic agencies: waters, trees, rocks... living and vibrant materials. Their interests include underwater noise, geo-resonances, relational listening, and vibroacoustics of planetary well-being. They have worked with the National Radio of Colombia, Ministry of Culture, and as a teacher of sound art at the University of Los Andes.

entre—ríos explores continuities between bodies of water and human bodies, recognising rivers as active subjects producing aesthetic forms and shaping memory. They believe in artistic practices as catalysts for collaborative experiments connecting us to the environment. Their practice traces hydrographies rendering borders porous, creating shared territories. They put into circulation ways of knowing and feeling bodies of water through creative methodologies and flow systems that create deltas of knowledge where arts and sciences, communities and institutions meet. Their project, **RÍO BOGOTÁ&&, connects community initiatives in one of Colombia's polluted rivers through culinary encounters and publications.

Collective Werebere focuses on communication and expressions between the human and natural world, based on the study of different bodies and their sounds. They have conducted research on resonance phenomena and subtle landscape signals. They lead the High Mountain Listening Station project, a space for contemplation and well-being practices towards the body and Sumapaz páramo territory.

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.

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.

This episode of Listening Experience is titled “Performances” and presents recordings of recent Listening Experience performances I have done in Berlin and elsewhere. It also includes a recording of Ko. Ko is a collaboration I have with Berlin-based sound artist and poet Martin Lau. This episode features a track called “Butterfly”, by Demzo. The final segment of this episode was performed at the Edge of Wrong 2018, in Johannesburg South Africa.

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

In this episode, Dronica meets Giuseppe Capriglione and Vince Gagliardi, founders and curators at Modern Bon, in Berlin.

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

Giuseppe Capriglione (a.k.a. Skrei) is a music producer. His live set is made up with loop-tape, guitar and synthesizer. Processing and working with multi-tracks tape recorders, he creates an alchemic mixture of Noise/Drone sounds. He is co-founder of “Modern Bön” and founder of the label and promotion agency “Metzger Therapie”. His latest album has been recently released on “Dio Drone”.

Vince Gagliardi (a.k.a. Vū) is a 3D artist and music producer. Vū is a dark electronic and ritualistic music project filled with different percussions and vocal mantras. He is the founder of the label “Vumantra Records”, co-founder and artistic director of the collective “Modern Bön” and creator of the audiovisual project “The Nent” (Cyclic Law), well-known for its impactful A∖V live performances.

In this podcast for Dronica radio show on Resonance Extra, they present a selection of Modern Bon favorite experimental electronic music.

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

Berenice Llorens is a guitarist, sound artist, producer and dj of experimental electronic music from Córdoba, Argentina. Her original works and dj/live performances are characterized by experimentation, creativity and the focus to break free from and push the boundaries of traditional genres and structures.

The Berlin-based composer is able to unleash her creativity and create new and unexpected sounds and ideas creating different states of psychedelic dance floor experiences.

Her unique blend of techniques and genres of sound art as deep listening, free improvisation, and the use of field recordings brought to club music creates an immersive and dynamic experience for listeners, offering a fresh perspective on the sonorities of techno, ambient and experimental music.

Berenice is able to capture and incorporate the natural and urban sounds around her, adding a layer of realism and complexity to her mixes. She has played in clubs and art spaces in Argentina, Berlin, and her works were exhibited at renowned festivals such as Mutek Montreal, Centro de arte Sonoro among others. As a member of the Amplify DAI women's network, she produced and curates the Amplify Radio programme and also she produces the radio show Beyond of line on Refuge WorldWide.

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.

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.

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.

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

Now: 'Silence' - the third experiment.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

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

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 music by Blaxleep, Gimu, Ike Yard, Beautify Junkyards, V.K and Sci-Fi, Sleep Data, Grouper, Grey Frequency, Sinoath, Mathieu Lamontagne & Emmanuel Toledo and Jumble Hole Clough.

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

In this episode, head of Paralaxe Editions, Dania, is joined by experimental duo Rosso Polare.

For the first hour of the show, Dania takes us on a soundwalk around Barcelona. The sounds of the city's residents singing in the park, reciting poetry, and playing the Iranian tar are mixed with traditional Catalonian music and recordings of Barcelona's infamous pigeon population.

In the second hour, Anna and Cesare (Rosso Polare) chart a journey from the Lombardy countryside into the urban bustle of Milan, accompanied by bursts of folk song and traditional chants from the region.

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.

The first of the drums By Ear recording vein is completed (BE 2.33) with Kiran Leonard's electric guitar improvisation on Sophie Moss' bass guitar improvisation on Pike Ogilvy's drum solo. Surrounding tracks selected from off-cuts of the past 18 months of broadcast, including Margaret Tait, Matana Roberts, John Zorn & BADSAUNA.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each week a new guest joins Joe in the studio to discuss and perform their work. Expect in-depth interviews, live performances, conversations and new event experiments.

This episode features new music by arcane device, Kreysing, Castrup & neau, The Pianos, Ab ovo, Michael Grunditz, Paolo L. Bandera, Mario Lino Stancati, Jarl and SITKA.

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

New music with The Wire Magazine.

An early evening at Middlesex Filter Beds as the longest day approaches.

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 music and sound works by Boom Bip & Nina Nastasia / Christian Marclay Trio / dESUS / Christian Marclay / Felix K / FINAL / The Shamen / TVO / Keith Fullerton Whitman / Bleaching Agent / Loki / CLAIR & Luke Turner / Leif Elggren / ee cummings / Oliver Coates / Evynid Kang / King Midas Sound & Fennesz / Pauline Oliveros / Phill Niblock / Greg Davis / Francisco Lopez / Kamran Sadeghi / Powerbooks For Peace / Robert Henke / Alva Noto / Megaheadphonboy / Chris Marker / Gat Decor.

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.