Midnight BST
Psychosonic Cinema #5 ▾
Renowned Australian soundtrack theorist Philip Brophy presents 90 minutes of loud and luscious soundtrack dynamite! Across 13 episodes, he covers five strains of film music: Electronic Soundscapes; Big Beat Jive; Hard Rock Freak-Out; Funked-Up Grooves; and Atomic Atonality. In all cases, great tracks that speak for themselves!
1:30am BST Weekly, Monday, 6pm
Unexplained Sounds #346 ▾
This episode features new music by Michael Grunditz, insectarium, pbk, Lady of the Candles, Ab ovo, Richard Bégin Jarl, The Decaf Conspiracy and Michael Bonaventure.
A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).
2:30am BST
FUNKT #15 ▾
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.
5:30am BST New!
Atmospheric Densities #9 ▾
In this episode: Australian composer Timothy Fairless's Rising Water is out on Friday and he introduces today's show as well as treating us to an aqueous mix to celebrate the release.
We also listen a little more to Vongoiva's Jatuli Observatory inspired by the stone gardens of giants, my own very niche piece 'resurfacing' about a surreal collective roadworks experience in London and a first listen to Hadi Bastani and Maryam Sirvan's wonderful trans.placed.
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.
7am BST New!
Asphyxia: The "Idiote", the Library Wifi and the Suppressed Safe #1 - Neck ▾
In this first episode, enduring the Metal Gear Solid alert sound effect in a real-world setting, the quasi-unemployed narrator introduces his controversial "work where you like" practice; being an archivist without portfolio, researching "media of unknown origin", and clawing at the British Library's "Suppressed Safe" of restricted-access books.
Abused necks - seats of human voice - are given special attention in this episode - anatomical points of interest in the unusual (and largely unknown) literary work of Marcus S. Chambers (aka "Exact Thinker") and his anarchist counterpart Sydney Hanson. The present-day obscurity of their work forms a self-fulfilling prophecy about the silencing of knowledge, lending much unease, mystery, and squirms to outmanoeuvre "crank" vibes.
Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.
8am BST New!
Sonic Commune #3 ▾
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.
10am BST
MILLIONMOUSE A TUNER #2 - Burning Down the House Ragamash ▾
In this episode: burning down the house, the rite of spring with Bernstein, appreciation, different languages, anti-presidency, sat on a meadow polyrhythmics, WW3, you make me wanna bliss and extasy.
Weekly compositions, sketches and motifs by Anastasia Freygang.
Field recordings, experimental narration, ragamash mixes, big time polyrhythmics including fantasy language and hearsay from IRL and the World Wide Web.
11am BST
Listening Experience #16 - A Rock Expends No Effort in Being Still, but a Person Does ▾
A monthly collection of audio experiments and listening objects with sound artist Matt Burnett from Berlin.
Midday BST Twice Monthly on the Second and Fourth Monday at 10pm New!
Resistance Through Ritual #123 ▾
Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.
2pm BST Monthly
Sonoridades #4 ▾
Virgilio Oliveira explores the sonic environment in collaboration with Porto's Radio Manabras, presenting an hour of sound art and field recordings.
3pm BST
Fae Ma Bit Tae Ur Bit #50 ▾
Sound collage, record spinning, havering, ear wonk and general head scratch with Dylan Nyoukis of the Chocolate Monk label.
5pm BST Weekly, Friday at 00.00am New!
Quintavant / QTV Series #17 - Novas Frequencias ▾
In this episode: we’ll continue to broadcast the live recordings of the Festival Novas Frequencias 7th Edition that happened in Rio last December. This time, with Gabriela Mureb, Sanannda Acácia and Luisa Lembrgruber live at Audio Rebel.
And more: Death Raving, new record of Epilepsia, a peculiar collection of experiments mixing harsh noise, drone interludes, guitar solos and some irregular beats. Plus, the first release by SPIO (São Paulo Improvisers Orchestra), Conduction BR#5, edited in 2017 by Sê-lo, netlabel from Salvador, Bahia.
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.
7pm BST Weekly on Wednesday at 7pm
Naviar Broadcast #329 - The Cloud Mountain ▾
This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kobayashi Issa’s poem “the cloud mountain / behind one blade of grass / vanishes”.
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.
7:30pm BST Monthly on the fourth Wednesday at 7.30pm
Littoral Transmissions #58 - Tidal Groundings ▾
sitting on marshland
sounding
what's left behind once the tide recedes
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.
8pm BST New!
Colliding Lines #2 - Reanimation: Visible Music ▾
This episode features performances from our live score series, re-imagining the visual music of 1920s Dada, where abstract painters explored the new medium of cinema through rhythm, geometry and colour. Interviews and new music from Bell Lungs, Merlin Nova and Pascal Coleman, and Lola de la Mata.
Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.
10pm BST Weekly
Maximum Rocknroll Radio #1914 ▾
In this episode, Rob does a deep dive into bands that played at 924 Gilman in 1987 and 1988. He looked through a ton of flyers from this era and chose some classics. Tune in to this fun retrospective and revisit some punk and hardcore tunes from Operation Ivy all the way over to Youth of Today.
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.
11pm BST New!
Where The Dead Voices Gather #9 ▾
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.
Midnight BST New!
purge.xxx #12 - Room Sound by Vindicatrix & New Noveta ▾
Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Room Sound by Vindicatrix & New Noveta.
Room Sound is the first release by musician and producer Vindicatrix and artists New Noveta, drawing on their extensive collaborations in performance and intervention.
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.