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mel sorgan is a musician based in London

Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.

This episode is a contribution by Radio WORM.

This new radio piece, recorded in the WORM studio over February and March 2024 by Palestinian sound artist Dirar Kalash, is made entirely out of sounds collected from Palestine, and is composed using field recordings of protests, nature, markets, city streets, all from different locations across Palestine.

These sounds were then heavily processed and composed, as an analogical approach to the political realities of Palestine, and the spatial and temporal transformation of both the land and the people – their movements, their lives, and their deaths.

Dirar Kalash (b. 1982) is a musician and sound artist whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of instrumental, compositional and improvisational contexts. Kalash also extends his practice into inter-disciplinary theoretical research. He has produced several solo and collaborative music albums and is active as an improvising musician.

Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

This episode features music by David Lee Myers, Deison, Nerthus, Loo(p)cy, Rapoon &Sonologyst, Howlround, Michael Bonaventure and Mitoma & Scald.

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.

Our first episode for 2023 has a bit of everything. We explore the massive double album China Life by Masayoshi Miyazaki. My (Kate Carr) latest attempt to make a fake field recording in False Dawn, and some forthcoming lo-fi beauty from the Blue Mountains in Australia by Broken Chip.

Plus Heinali's defiant tribute to Kyiv on Injazero Records, Lawrence English's recent solo and David Velez's attempt to use sound to grow fat and delicious beetroots.

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.

Mission creep is at full tilt by this seventh episode, where indigestions supercede investigations. Notably features ongoing earth hum, phone calls and gnarled trajectories.

The discovery of a bot-like content-aggregating YouTube channel spells disaster for the original thinker's mental equilibrium. Mouseclicks pave the way to fuller understanding of man's inhumanity to man.

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, presenter Theo Sayers is joined by electronic musician/DJ Massive Cat Person for an hour of eclectic music. Featuring songs by Jimi Hendrix, Oscar Peterson Trio and Maria Minerva.

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

Sleep walking into looping records with visitations from Kali Malone, Terry Riley, Delia Darbyshire, Meredith Monk amongst others.

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, we journey to Powys, Mid Wales and talk with Ellis Green to explore the musical genre of Dungeon Synth. We discuss its origins, aesthetics and shed light on Ellis' new DIY cassette-based label Verdant Wisdom.

The conversation is interspersed with a selection of Dungeon synth, Forest Ambient and other like-minded sonic offerings. Featuring tracks from Mortiis, Fåntratt, Lunar Womb, Sunken Grove, USKK, Oaklimb, Winter Seer, Middlewood. Find out more about the Verdant Wisdom label.

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

Mitamine presents a mashup of everything. Lots of feelings & emotions.

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.

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 Ōshima Ryōta’s poem “they spoke no words / the visitor, the host / and the white chrysanthemum”.

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 a live experimental set recorded with Yiftah Kadan in Schocken studio.

Kadan is an Israeli guitarist, sound artist and composer who plays experimental music, jazz and free improvisation.

Other sources used in this recording include an amplified old clock, recordings of bees, a vinyl of 'Israel’s Quest for Peace', and samples from speeches by Greta Gerwig.

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.

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

In this episode, Rob hits some of the finest in modern punk, looks back at Rip Off Records and puts all his eggs in one basket.

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.

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 Radio On (Remix) by Bruce Gilbert.

The soundtrack to Chris Petit's film, Radio On, ‘remixed’ by Bruce Gilbert.

Numbered + handmade to order in an edition of 50 copies only; includes a new text by Ben Slater, co-commissioner of the film; three riso-printed cigarette cards (of a possible seven) with stills from the film; no digital.

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.