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This episode hosted by Phil England features a guest mix by Bristol-based improvising guitarist and promoter Matthew Grigg plus Phil's selection of new releases by Tashi Wada, Mourning [A] BLKstar and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode features new music by Silvia Cignoli, David Strother, DJINN, v​Ä​ä​ristymä, Capricorni, Wahn and Capricorni Pneumatici.

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.

The first Atmospheric Densities show in six months, and of course that means there is a lot to listen to! We go deep with Cody Yantis' new album Opticks, a meditation on the landscape of America's Southwest made from two field recordings and one synthesiser.

We also dip into two release from the label late last year: Metal the energetic collaboration between Czech inventor and musician Petr Válek and improvisers Ondřej Merta and Jara Tarnovski, performed in part on Válek's metal sculptures. And Liz Helman's drone and field recording work The Colour of Water produced out of her daily ritual of walking in London.

I had a few things which came out late last year so I play a few pieces from these releases, namely: A Field Guide to Phantasmic Birds, and my ode to sauerkraut On cabbages, salt, bacteria and transformations.

And we close with the two pieces from Soundwalkscapes the forthcoming album from the legendary improviser Viv Corringham who has an album launch at Hundred Years Gallery on March 15th. Be there or miss out!

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.

At this mid-point crisis in the Asphyxia series, a discourse on the new genre of music known as 'creepbeat' is provided. Creepbeat emerged as a viable "going concern" during investigations into a remote music event.

As with breakbeat, sampled 'beats' are creepily sought, albeit dulled through distance - the creepbeat producer works with the sonic dregs of a faraway revelry, filtered by environmental pressures and obstructions.

Just like the researcher of suppressed material, the creepbeat producer works with incomplete and compromised artefacts. This necessitates various forms of cognitive leaps to complete the bigger picture.

In the case of creepbeat, this involves identifying patterns; the half-audible melodies and rhythms are accentuated, creepily re-painted back into definition. Analogous to the investigation of suppressed materials, the task is one of recuperation - following the ghost of the gesture. The show's creator may release an album if enough interest is shown.

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 and his brother, musician Miles Courtney, play an eclectic selection of songs written/performed by siblings. Featuring The Mills Brothers, The Beach Boys and The Shaggs.

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.

Experimentation and collaboration with Esmé and Avel of ATATA, a vessel for live and recorded music.

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

In this episode Gwaith Swn travels sonically through the 11-track mixtape of self-produced music by the Leipzig-based artist Omzehn.

Time Crisis 2 2020–2024, is a continuation of experiments in algorithmic production and is the sequel to Time Crisis which was released in 2020. As its predecessor it loosely flicks between the best ideas and outcomes of consistent practice and despite its influence from multiple genres is tied together via a common thread of subtle but ever present algorithmic processes.

We also premier the artists 4-track EP made with DJ Derg, which was recorded, mixed and mastered over 3 days in Frank Glynn’s shed at Loch Derg in west Ireland in 2023.

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

In this episode, MitamineLab present a selection of current favourites, including some poems taken from “Terres mutilées”, an exhibition based on a montage of texts by René Char, presented by Hélène Martin at the Festival d'Avignon in 1966. This selection also includes Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, a potent philosophical, clinical, literary and political analysis of the deep effects of racism and colonialism on the experiences, lives, minds and relationships of black people and people of colour.

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 Inoue Shiro’s poem “daybreak! / the tempest interred / in snow”.

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 solo live recordings by Stefan Voglsinger, captured over the past seven years across the globe, and remixed and edited by Hagai Izenberg. Exclusively released and archived on Radio Concrete, Resonance Extra (UK).

Stefan Voglsinger, born 1986, is a musician and performer based in Vienna. He studied drums at the Vienna Music Institute, Music & Movement Pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and Sound for Films at the Escuela internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba. He focuses on interdisciplinary experiments working with sound and image, developing performances or audiovisual installations including selfbuilt or hacked electronic circuits.

At Setzkasten he modifies analog film projectors, works in the darkroom and the sound studio. As a curator he organizes regularly concerts and transdisciplinary evenings, holds Circuit Cooking soldering workshops in schools and at festivals. He works at the Filmmuseum Vienna, is co-curator of Klangmanifeste and plays with The Vegetable Orchestra.

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.

In this episode, a broad, eclectic selection of interviews. Hosted by Wes Freeman-Smith and Martin Clarke, we have audiovisual sensation Waterflower with new album 'Balta Gaisma' – midi-pop from Leipzig's Ariel My Friend – and a trio of international ensembles brought to you under the loving care of OEM Records.

The label's latest release, 'Flutuando Suspenso' by Thelmo Cristovam and Cassio Sales was described as "...a potent pole of sound invention within the universe of free music," while Waterflower has been described as "so free to experiment with her music that it truly sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before."

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, Cary showcases the underground music scene of central Appalachia.

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.

Take the heat out of this July by dipping into the crystal clear waters of our third Foldable Soundbath. Explore its wild and wavy depths, with ambient drones, high pitched strings and haunting voices, created by musicians and sound artists alike.

This month we are also featuring an interview with Samra Mayanja, an artist and writer whose central concern is what moves us and what it is to be moved. Samra talks about her work Blueprint for the Deep, the importance of the choir and the role her voices plays within her work.

The Foldable Sounds Collective presents Foldable Soundbath. The collective formed during the April 2020 lockdown and is composed of three artists: Daniela Maria Geraci, Lucy Rose Cunningham and Isabelle Pead. Individually dealing with sound as an archival, performative and narrational tool, collectively they interrogate sound’s potential to sonically transport the imagination outside one’s four walls, drawing on a global need for freedom of movement.

Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Avebury by ** Nkisi**.

Future music by NKISI, ancient music by NKISI: ‘Ndombala’ (A) is the original score for Journey to Avebury, Stanley Schtinter’s video remake of Derek Jarman’s film of the same name. ‘Centripetal Vortex’ is its own parallel ritual, made as part of the same sessions.

numbered + handmade in an edition of 250 copies only; 180gr vinyl in custom-made screen-printed outer (sealed), containing two risograph inserts with a specially commissioned essay by Sukhdev Sandhu

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.