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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!

This episode features new music by Les Antonymes, Bruno Varvohza, Richard Bégin, David Kovacs, Clinker, Kaunsel, Mark Hjorthoy and M.B. & Sonologyst.

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

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.

This episode opens with a special introduction by Greek composer Savvas Metaxas who chats about his new album For How Read Now which explores the creative and conceptual possibilities in errors. We also take a closer listen to two other error-inspired albums: Kamran Arashnia's Bounds Elimination and Jonathan Higgins' Good Thanks, You? composed via glitching CD DJs.

We also dive into Rubbish Music's forthcoming debut album via a composition based on a field recording of a recycling centre as well as Australian composer Alexandra Spence's new oceanic release on mappa, a mysterious album by Michigan's Lalén Ríos Luna and we celebrate the arrival of agri-ambient with Michael Lightbourne's Slí na Fírinne.

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.

This third instalment introduces a number of irritants, including roadworks and a malfunctioning audio recorder suddenly beset with earth hum.

Perseveringly, a Zen-like zone is sought whereby the research into the Suppressed Safe can proceed without hindrance; this involves partaking in dubious meditation clickbait and learning to embrace amateurism.

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.

In this episode, Theo Sayers plays an eclectic selection of vintage pop, electronic and ambient music. Featuring tracks by Roedelius, Jimmy “Preacher” Ellis and Pulp.

Electronic musician Theo Sayers transports listeners with a mix of electronic, ambient, spiritual and new age music.

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

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.

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

In this episode, Dan Linn-Pearl has produced a montage and homage to the river Wye which flows near his home in the border town of Hay. Field recordings, hydrophone capture and improvised synthesiser sketches are broken up with audio from a film made by Friends of the Upper Wye.

This collective has organised a citizen science project to test water pollution levels and seek out solutions to reverse the decline of the river and its wildlife. In recent years, a build up of algae is threatening the ecosystem of the river. Evidence shows an increased amount of nitrates and phosphates in the water.

These are often a waste product of farming and in particular the 'run-off' from the intensive chicken farming which takes place throughout the area. Other potential causes are the increasingly inadequate sewage systems and the 'government policy' which allows raw sewage to be distributed directly into the river. For more information visit: www.fouw.org.uk.

Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts is a London-based sound art collective presenting new sound works, performances and discussions.

This show is dedicated to the amazing Fungi World! Inspired by Merlin Sheldrake's book titled 'Entangled Life'. Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from the University of Cambridge for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is a musician and keen fermenter.

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

Virgilio Oliveira explores the sonic environment in collaboration with Porto's Radio Manabras, presenting an hour of sound art and field recordings.

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

In this episode, new records of Thiago Miazzo (Recycled C20), Marcos Campello (li o vão o sol) and the duo Lex + Bramir, ZYB. Opening the show is one of last QTV releases, a collaboration between 4Zero4 and Verjault.

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 music made by Naviar's community inspired by Sôen Nakagawa’s poem “Imagine a temple, / where only white azaleas bloom— / a pure white haven.”

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.

This episode features Shaul Kohan, a guitarist & composer who deals with both improvised and written music. The meeting point of his different works is the strive for consistency and the reduction of an idea to its core.

Shaul Kohan - Guitar, Objects, Cymbals.


Hagai Izenberg - Field Recordings, Objects, Police Scanner.

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.

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.

In this episode, Zu From All Over confronts her anger with the best Hardcore, Beatdown, and Youth Crew from classic to modern, in order to survive this punishing heat wave.

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.

This show was curated by Angus Carlyle.

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.

Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales 2​.​0 by Stanley Schtinter.

Described as 'the People's Vote Turner Prize winner', this release comprises the short film (DVD) documenting the word-for-word recreation of Princess Diana's funeral at Salford's The White Hotel, along with the full, unedited audio recording (CD) from the ceremony.

Comes with myriad printed matter on riso plus a sticker featuring Stanley Schtinter's 'Purge Royal Standard Flag' (designed to drape over Diana's second coffin), and reviews from the London Review of Books and the Daily Star.

Film by Stanley Schtinter. Cinematography by Louis Benassi, Matthew Carter, Susu Laroche. With: Jonathan Meades, Chris Petit, James Norton, Isabel Sutton, Lijana Siuchina, Alice Stephenson, Austin Collings, Rob Thornber, Louis Benassi, Stanley Schtinter. Music by Mariachi Rey. Audio mastered by James Torrance.

Filmed on location at The White Hotel, Salford, with thanks to Ben Ward, Lucy Blackledge and all TWH workers and mourners. Event produced by Austin Collings. Design by Traven T. Croves with images from the film and photographs by Ben Jackson; the ‘Purge Royal Standard’ flag by Schtinter

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.