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A spiritual continuation to last month’s gateways show (ep 71). This one a more freeflowing affair replaying some artists but going more random between worlds. Up and down beat, home taped music, the future happened a long time ago!

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 S*Glass, Maryanne Amacher, Shadow Pattern, Matt Atkins, Food People, Dang, Panic Boner, Eddie Gale, the Shadow Ring and more.

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

Glasgow-based Bobby Jewell presents a series of ambient mixes for Resonance Extra with guest features by musicians and artists.

This episode comes live from L'Usine, Geneva, with a performance by Blanktapes.

Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

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

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

Sonnorus expresses her presence by providing undoubtedly bold sets which include hypnotic, psychedelic, electric, deep sounds, and pure energy.

The rising multidisciplinary artist from Tbilisi's underground scene is never afraid to show off her honest character with trance tunes shaped in classy techno beats.

She gets her inspiration from different kinds of art, and often creates and shares her own because the power of an idea is never shaped in one form.

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.

Against the backdrop of Slovakia’s terrifying socio-political turmoil, this documentary radio piece explores Bratislava’s vibrant and courageous independent music and cultural scene and some of the community spaces in which it develops. Now they are facing their biggest challenge, to keep it alive and kicking.

We’ve been there (for the bad parts mostly), and we are still stuck there.

From Skopje to Bratislava, with love.

Recorded and edited by Gjorgji Janevski (summer 2024)
Additional interviews and recordings by Vid Bešter (Radio Študent)

Voices: Jonáš Gruska, Matúš Kobolka, Adela Mede, Poli, Daniel Vadas, Janneke Van Der Putten, Oliver from the garages, Olja Triaška Stefanović, Rozalia Vlaskova, Tomaš Hučko.

Music excerpts from Adela Mede, Bolka, Jonáš Gruska, Fissures, Patrick Balthrop, Rrrr

The publication of this article is part of PERSPECTIVES – the new label for independent, constructive, multiperspective journalism. The project PERSPECTIVES is being implemented by seven editorial teams from Central Eastern Europe under the leadership of the Goethe-Institut. The author of this article participated in the PERSPECTIVES Journalists-in-Residence Programme at the Goethe-Institut Bratislava.

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

• audio / visual decomposer Lepke B posits the question - "How will we live in the 21st Century?"

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

Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur,
Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur.
Ad mortem festinamus peccare desistamus.

Experiments in exploring humanity with Keno Westhoff of http://klanglabor.ayayay.eu.

This third episode features four artists who took part in a research residency at GMEA (Albi, France) as part of the Tekhnē, initiated in 2023:

• Gauthier Deplaude in an informal discussion with Benjamin Maumus about his project Horloges etc.. This work uses two quartz clocks and their electrical environment as the sole sound sources, within a unique technical setup created by the artist, without effects or attempts at control.

• Rodolphe Bourotte tested his latest music production software, COMMA, during his residency. He engages in an informal discussion about his program and insights from his residency week.

• Yann Leguay shares an anecdote about one of his early projects, Dead Media, which centered on reversing the recording process in a vinyl pressing factory in France that has since closed. He reflects on the notions of trace, media, and collective memory.

• Abigail Toll presents Where Words Fail: World Building With Data, Sound, and Co-creation, a sound and interdisciplinary visual study that explores algorithmic herd behaviour in nature and its connections to surveillance practices.

Bi-monthly insights into the activities of the European project tekhnē, which started in 2023. The series showcases a selection of artists who share and discuss their work and listen to recorded material. By putting the focus on the user rather than the developer, this project aims to explore the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. Technology as an art of craft, appropriating and transforming existing tools, to imagine multiple ways of creative misuse. tekhnē is a collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union.

In this episode, music by Simon Heartfield, Aupheus, Xavier Corbera, Lucy Gooch, Kanal Drei, Signs, Temple Ov Saturn, The Northern Lighthouse Board, Baker Street Philharmonic, Rezo Glonti, Lata Ramasar, Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin, Murray Ewing and Norah Lorway.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

The first half of this episode is curated by sound and visual artist Olli Aarni, who brings together recordings of Helsinki's soundscape with a selection of music from other Finnish artists - including some previously unreleased tracks.

Olli's mix is followed by an hour of field recordings and local music chosen and mixed by Manchester-based sound artist, Hayley Suviste.

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

From the most abrasive to the unbelievably sublime, Hope Valley Cement Works attempts to curate a selection of experimental music and sounds, from collected field recordings and sound collages, to serene ambience, impressive drone and the odd deconstructed club track. A series by Kris Cooper.

This episode features new and reissued music by Die Sonne Satans, Adriano Zanni, Leo Okagawa, vÄäristymä, Paolo L. Bandera, Capricorni Pneumatici and e.dulanowsky.

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

In this episode, Joseph Stannard plays new releases and reissues from the likes of Alan Lamb, AR Kane, Pat Thomas, Magazine, Red Brut, and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode:

On a winter's morning we set out in the rain, cross the Lea and venture out into the marshes. Lulled by the wind in the reeds the sun breaks through the clouds, it's cold crisp light revealing a new horizon in the flowing water.

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.

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.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.

Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.