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Returning to their roots in bass music, Miri Malek has fresh enthusiasm to make queer dance-floors in Berlin more low-end. Their creative approach is guided by a blend of influences, such as the UK bass/breaks scene, a deep appreciation for percussion-rich tracks from diverse corners of the globe, and various mixing techniques on digital and vinyl. This episode includes tracks from exclusively trans, non-binary and women artists.

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 month's show is drawn from two compilations featuring friends off the Spirit of Gravity. “WE DON’T BELONG HERE VOL.1” which is compiled by the Unwanted Attention night, and “Exploring an Exploding Soundtrack” compiled by Nil By Nose, both local, and both albums are available from Bandcamp.

“Before it all seemed so simple, things cast shadows. But now it turned out that shadows cast things, or perhaps things didn’t exist at all” – Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

In the second hour, Spectral Transmissions: Peripheral Visions, as the shadows start to lengthen we turn our minds to the place where the street lights end. Out here on the periphery, flickering visions and half heard noises scuff our logic with their insistent truancy. Fragments of things unbound by our narrow grasping.

“On cold winter nights we would occasionally perceive a strange glimmering of lights, a marked pulsating luminosity in the very edges of our vision accompanied by a vibrant oscillating frequency of sound, taking in certain cases, the form of bright circular waves, which seem to move from out on the periphery inward towards the centre, but if we tried to look directly at them to see them more clearly they evaded us, seeming to drift and fade, dissipating like so much smoke."

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

In this episode, a preview of SubPhonics Live show, one of which we have coming up soon for TIDES (run by our very own Giulio Dal Lago). Please follow @tides.soundart on Instagram for more info.

We Are actively looking to expand our group of collaborators and more permanent members, If you’d like to work with us or would like to book us for a show then please contact Jamie on hello@subphonics.com.

Artwork by Erin Robinson.

Quarterly noise from SubPhonics exploring themes of collaborative sound and performance.

In this episode, RE-PEAT collective approaches water justice through imagining the perspective of water nself, by drawing stories and definitions of bodies of water, and n’s entanglement in relation with other bodies, bogs, bugs, sundew, moss, reeds, drops, rivers, will-o’-the-wisp and us.

Through collectivity, music and sounds, we follow a feminist subjectivity, watered, inspired by Astrida Neimanis’s call to “chart our politics of location in a way that recognises our diverse aqueous implications and responsibilities”.

With contributions from Moss Pit, the River Besòs in Barcelona and the Salween River in Thailand by Helen Ganya Brown.

RE-PEAT is a youth-led collective with a mission to change the narrative around peatlands across the UK and Europe - what we term a “peatland paradigm shift”. We strongly believe that peatlands are ecosystems for our times – representing both a vast existential risk and a huge potential for positive transformation, the course of which we follow depending on the actions of those alive today. We also see that these ecosystems can offer insights into a wide array of eco-societal features, including deep time, what we collectively choose to remember/forget, and how we can think beyond binaries.

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.

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

Music to watch the sun burn you by…

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.

This episode features a guest mix by musician and artist Richard Bundy.

“The result of all that came before, are we. Bound to a legacy of inherited trials and tribulations. Music shapes our space and time; dissolved within its solution, emotion, memory and magic. Transporting us, altering time; past, present and future. It looses us in a stream of forever; the now crumbles into what was and what could be.” – Richard Bundy

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

This episode was made in collaboration with Jo Morrison.

Surrounded by sunlit waters at the Town Hard, where small boats launch into the Walton Mere and then on to the River Twizzle and on once more out to sea or further into the Essex marshes. Sounds drift ghostly in the air as seagulls swirl, and sunken wrecks resurface.

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.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode focuses on the strangest releases from the Soviet major label Melodia, which could be characterised simply as ‘Non-music’. Some records shocked me, some made me cringe — but these tracks seem to form a curious narrative on the verge of a numbing psychedelic journey.

So, within an hour you will hear reconstruction of a concert on mammoth bones, advertisement of the famous Lithuanian hoover ‘Audra’ and car fluids of Soyuzbytkhim factory, field recordings of crickets, toads and even fish singing, pioneers' signals, monologues of parrot Gosha and a patient with nonsense casual relations syndrome, and also hypnotherapy for alcoholics. Happy travelling!

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental TOPOT label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

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

This episode focuses on the darker shades of ambient music as well as the sounds of life, collage-esque music, tracks that experiment with the messiness and randomness of our existence.

Featuring new and archival releases from an array of artists working with ambience, found sounds, and our environment.

A monthly show exploring our innate connection to sound, and how we express that through music, showcasing work that connects to our body and minds through rich compositional choices, through intricate processes in the studio, or music that is inspired by the way we interact with the outside world. Connections to Sound journeys through downtempo, electronic, ambient and beat driven music, featuring tracks from artists all around the world. Presented by Kayla Painter.

This episode is contribution by Resonance FM and Resonance Extra.

Readers, in order of appearance — Nadia de Vries; Cíntia Gil; Diamanda La Berge Dramm; Mark Lanegan; Stanley Schtinter; Becket Flannery; Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset; Matthew Shaw; & Duke Garwood.

An exquisite corpse of an “I” played out in a multiplicity of voices, Verse & Chorus is an experimental act of collaborative reworking that quilts and collages cuts from two manuscripts (Jaeckle and de Vries) into an imagined third object. In order of appearance, the piece assembles readings from Nadia de Vries, Cíntia Gil, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Mark Lanegan, Stanley Schtinter, Becket Flannery, and Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset, with an accompaniment of borrowed songs and original music from Matthew Shaw, Mark Lanegan, and Duke Garwood.

Jaeckle and de Vries writings are excerpted from two collections published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe; Jaeckle’s 36 Exposures and de Vries’ I Failed to Swoon, 2021. Verse & Chorus was first broadcast on Montez Press Radio (New York), 29.01.21, and was broadcast thereafter as an element of the online programme for the 2021 edition of Rewire Festival (The Hague, Netherlands), 06.05.21.

Jaeckle's 36 Exposures is forthcoming in a new edition from John Cassavetes / Tenement Press, and is available for preorder here. Nadia de Vries' I Failed to Swoon is available here.

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This twitter-verse feed takes philosophy personally, mixmasters it up with best friends and late-night movie simulations. While there are encounters by the galore, and biographical instants dropped like crumbs on a forest walk, the focus here is not on the story, but the lighting, the staging, the choreography of digression. Talk about talking. In these mirrors are reflections of a lost brother, an almost date, an almost self, on the times we used to have, the blood rites we shared until we couldn’t. (…) Pensive, coiled, we are dropped in the midst of a drama that will need to bury a few Russian philosophers before life can begin again. And coursing through it all this essential belief: that the right painted apple, the right sentence, the right thought: would change the world. The revolution is in the waiting room.

Mike Hoolboom, on Jaeckle’s 36 Exposures

I Failed to Swoon fails to swoon; it relays; it blurts; like someone breaking bad news to you, but about themselves and with no bedside manner, who then moves to sit somewhere else while maintaining eye contact; De Vries is a poet of barbed brevity, brutal idiom, figgety desire and delicious deadpan, like fresh white spit on a patent leather shoe; what can you do but hold up your fist of horns and believe her entirely?

Jack Underwood, on de Vries’ I Failed to Swoon

With aphorism, deep pith, and humour, Nadia de Vries delivers her sly lines and contrarian point of view with great force, making an uncomfortable music. I Failed to Swoon keeps it real. It has menace.

Peter Gizzi, on de Vries’ I Failed to Swoon

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

This episode kicks off with a piece from Homework, the alchemical collaboration between Italian composer MonoLogue and London-based percussionist Matt Atkins.

We also take a first listen to Ginestra, the forthcoming album by Iranian multi-instrumentalist Ava Rasti.

The rest of this show is given over to an exploration of the Greek experimental music scene, starting with Cafe Oto's release of violinist Dimos Vryzas' wonderful live set from January.

Dimos has also prepared a beautiful mix of music from the Greek experimental and alternative music scene which comprises the second half of the show.

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.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Hello by Adele. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Squirrels, electric toothbrushes, reague fanatics, babies, mermaids and newts… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features a special guest, Milo Thesiger–Meacham: Soundcloud // Vimeo // Instagram.

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).

Edited Arts present a series investigating UK music scenes divided by postcode area with a view to drawing attention to the often overlooked areas of the UK's artistic heritage of music, sound and speech.

Tonight, naafi live from Glasgow's Tramway.

Known for their DJ and production work, Glasgow-based naafi has turned their hand to making music of their own.

Influenced in equal parts by contemporary electronic artists and the formative dance music that would be played on the car stereo when they were young, their debut EP UVA – featuring the single Magnolia – is a quartet of glimmering, pulsing, garage-inflected dancefloor fillers. Come and see one of Glasgow’s great young talents forging a thrilling new strand in their career.

Now in its eight edition, Sonica is Glasgow's 11 day biennial festival for curious minds and adventurous spirits. Produced by Cryptic, Sonica 2024 showcases new work from international audio-visual artists and musicians from Egypt, Myanmar, Viet Nam, Australia, Quebec, Austria, Ukraine, The Netherlands and more alongside platforming homegrown Scottish talent.

This new and extraordinary documentary ranges across continents – from the sound-induced fears of early colonists in Northeastern America and the apocalyptic premonitions of the indigenous Wampanoag to Greek tongue twisters, Medieval Moorish poetry, Socrates's dread of dehydration in Plato's Phaedrus, the hurdy-gurdy, Geronimo's hatred of telegraphy.

And then on to contemporary and historical entomology, the body language of Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone's Spanish Westerns, the botanist Donald C. Peattie's terror of the inescapable buzz of mortality, and ancient cooking implements.

Commissioned and originally broadcast by Radiophrenia at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, September 2023.

A meditation by Milo Thesiger–Meacham on the sound of the cicada as "audible heat" in human history and culture. Featuring spoken contributions by writer and translator Cristina Viti and filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji, field recordings, original music and a smattering of celebrity interviews.

In this episode: a new studio setup with a guitar, a track from the best black metal album of all time, Melinoë by Akhlys, Meshuggah, Sarahsson, E-GIRLS ARE RUINING MY LIFE! ft. Savage Ga$p, Stay Out of My Swamp (feat. Tre_' Perdue) by The Ogre Packet Slammers and more.

Musical sketches by ENGLAND'S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS is a monthly mix of curation, recompilation and pseudepigrapha.

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

An Easter special. Two hours of contemporary jazz and electronic music from Russia and an exclusive guest set by legend Vadim Petrenko.

Monthly experimen†al kleptomaniac post digital free jazz spam channel operated by artists Tilman Hornig and Paul Barsch aka DRONE OPERATØR.