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Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with In the Drownings / The Sun Looks Pale Upon the Wall by Alan Moore & Jason Williamson.

"Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods reads two stories by Alan Moore: The Drownings (AD 43) and The Sun Looks Pale Upon the Wall (AD 1841) from Voice of the Fire."

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.

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.

Guy Fleisher

"My process involves mainly the curation and reappropriation of the recorded materials. I build bespoke digital tools for specific pieces, based on FFT analysis, in order to capture specific data of the natural environment’s recordings, and resynthesise them into the composition.

The Piece “Giussy’s Meditation Song” is a meditative composition, meant to accompany meditation practice. In such a practice, breathwork and mental imagery is not important, and the main aim is at relaxing the psyche in order to be able to ‘just sit’, in the moment.
The piece is dedicated to Giussy Galo, who is a taoist practitioner and Qi Gong teacher, in Rome, Italy.

This initial intent determined the piece’s length, and informed the various sound objects used in the piece. It includes field recordings from Rome, Lazzio region, Jeffery’s Bay South Africa, and Beit Hanan, Israel. In my work I try to find a way of merging the recordings to create a scene in which the meditation practice evolves over time, as in guided meditation, through cognitive perception of salient audible details, and attention.

I was mainly focused on using the recorded environment sound descriptors (meaning) in order to progress the compositional process, and not the obvious relationships in enculturation and familiarity of the materials.

To me, this was very vivid in the process, as I was testing and trying out different materials, observing my own perception as it moved along with the piece, while 'letting go' of making conscious choices in technical possibilities. In it, the serendipity whenever I sat to work on it, became key. The hardest part was writing in a circular fashion, composing the piece inwards, without implying it in the composition itself. The sound objects refer to bells or gongs, used frequently in meditation in order to refocus the meditator's attention inwards, as one advances linearly over time.
Happy meditation practice!

Silent Illumination Lights

The heart

The song of nature

The veil of Maya"

Bretwalda

British-born, Bangkok-based, experimental musician focusing on investigating medieval culture through the lens of analogue electronics and cut-up. Topics include linguistics, Christian mysticism, social conditions and popular literature. Bretwalda’s first album, Barrowlands, was released last year; the material submitted will be issued on the forthcoming album Cammock Tongue.

These particular pieces are exercises in ‘drone linguistics’: using the uncanny sound of spoken Middle English, regional dialects and amplified articulation in post-industrial, musique concrete de-constructions. The second movement makes use of a 1486 poem by John Lydgate, The Dance of

Death, read by Middle English academic Dr. Elizaveta Strakhov (of Marquette University) using authentic pronunciation.

The Dance of Death

"Verba Auctoris

O creatures ye that ben resonable

The liif desiring wich is eternal,

Ye may se here doctine ful notable,

Youre lif to lede wich that is mortal,

Therby to lerne is especial

Howe ye shul trace the Dauce of Machabre, To man and womman yliche natural,

For deth ne spareth hy ne lowe degre."

Mali Baden Powell

"This piece represents the cognitive dissonance of the Afro Brazilian instrument the Berimbau and it’s relationship with the sea. The sea is represented in all forms by the synthesizers and sound design incorporated into the piece. On the one hand the Berimbau represents emancipation for Africans on Brazilian soil, but on the other, it is emblematic of the struggle my ancestors paid their lives for in grief, labour and mutilation."

The Raven

"The Raven speaks no language I understand

The call neither shrieks nor cackles

The nest is unfettered, filled with the remnants of another plan

The shirk of one wing to another grants freedom:

Flight is the essence of the human ideal

A super power most people would want

But to the raven, the ideal is the next meal

Calling to friends and foes to flaunt"

Words by Mali baden Powell

Written & produced by Mali Baden-Powell. Performed by Mali Baden-Powel. Additional percussion by Wazoo Baden-Powell. Recorded in Rhythm Section Studio.

Louis Grace presents Teaching Computers to Love. This is a collaborative platform for artists to develop an episode sonically with a 10-20 minute body of work.

William Fields explores the potential of algorithmic music through the process of recreating (and inventing?) genres with his musical operating system.

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.

On the long term effects of hiding. One of hour bee music by Ben Drew with additional vocals samples by Vito Acconci, Isla Cameron, Arianne Churchman and some people of YouTube.

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

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.

Calle record is an online archive project that intends to develop – through a multimedia platform – the recording, documentation and accessibility of music played in public spaces.

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 Shape of you by Ed Sheeran. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Users of google translate, notes alterers, carnatic indians contemporary, cumbia lovers, chemists and physicists, flute duets… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features a special guest, Malinda K. Reese, with her project Twisted Translations.

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.

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.

Yorgas Helmet / Yemeni Space Fighters, Arctic mystic B.

Composed in the early 90's. Performed in the future. Recorded last year.

For V3STA.

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

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

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

This episode features the lingual music of Lily Greenham, acousmatic compositions by Lionel Marchetti, sound collage with Australian artists Rik Rue and Warren Burt, and takes a trip beneath the forest floor with Hildegard Westerkamp.

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

Inara is a Scottish electronic music producer, DJ and instrumentalist based in Berlin, and is a resident at EHFM Community Radio and part of ÉclatCrewBerlin.

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 features a guest mix by Brueder Selke.

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

Neil Luck leads an ensemble of collaborators in a New Years Water Ritual live from Resonance Extra's studio. An offering of positive energy to all sufferers of holiday burst pipes and broken boilers. Engineered and mixed live by Milo Thesiger–Meacham.

In this episode, Emily Bick plays Chrystabell & David Lynch, Melt Banana, Sprung Aus Den Wolken, Steve Beresford & Anne Marie Beretta, Fin, Laurie Anderson, and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode is a contribution by ∏Node.

During lockdown, artist Alan Dunn established 'orchestras' across seven dementia care homes, using everyday objects as instruments and tongue twisters as lyrics.

To everyone's surprise, these tongue twisters became a precious activity, with participants (and the artist's 6-year-old grandson) creating new ones, reciting them in different styles and even mastering some of the world's hardest ones!

This new mix brings together versions from one of the care villages in Chester that was part of the longer Where the Arts Belong research project between Bluecoat and Belong. The recent publication The Jingle Book documents these tongue twister adventures that brought laughter and new verbal fluency to many during dark times.

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.