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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.

A collage of multiple coincidences made from radio samples and rambling through LPs from another era. A unique, random journey that can not be reproduced twice.

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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 features new music by Gianluca Becuzzi, Wukir Suryadi, The Decaf Conspiracy, Samarobryn, wjerstean, Kokum, 400 Lonely Things, Eisengrau, Noise For No One and Happomeri.

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.

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 twentieth instalment is "mostly just talking" (as music-radio fusspots might say). The episode meditates upon the 'not knowingness' instilled by finding diaries of unknown authorship. It commences with a perusal of the diaries previously found in the British Library's bins.

And... finally: a moderating pragmatist appears in the form of a film-maker who agrees to be chatted to at length. An interview ensues, and a mysterious diary found on the roof of Oxford Street's flapship HMV music store is reminisced over. HMV's roof famously housed a cottage-like cabin of unknown purpose/origin.

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.

This month: presenter Theo Sayers is joined by guest Jasmine Brady (3 Bitches Karaoke, KNIGHT$) for this episode exploring portrayals of nightlife in cinema. Featuring music by Joel Grey, Sneaker Pimps and New Order.

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

THE JOB IS NOT THE WORK (in praise of the non-professional)

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, an interview and track selection with the artist SERVILE focused on the Birmingham (UK) techno scene and the wider movement including the psycho-social and ethical foundations as well as extrapolating potential futures.

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

Enriched by various discoveries from online sources and current or forthcoming promotional materials, this musical composition reflects on the poignant reunion with my dear friend, who passed away a few months ago.

During his memorial service, I encountered the concept of the 'Rainbow Bridge,' a mythical realm where pets transition after their departure, experiencing rejuvenation and vitality as they await the return of their human companions.

This episode evokes the notion of that idealised – perhaps imminent or far-off – reunion. It is dedicated to the cherished memory of Momo, my cat.

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: we’ll continue to broadcast the live recordings of the Festival Novas Frequencias 7th Edition that happened in Rio last December. This time, with Gabriela Mureb, Sanannda Acácia and Luisa Lembrgruber live at Audio Rebel.

And more: Death Raving, new record of Epilepsia, a peculiar collection of experiments mixing harsh noise, drone interludes, guitar solos and some irregular beats. Plus, the first release by SPIO (São Paulo Improvisers Orchestra), Conduction BR#5, edited in 2017 by Sê-lo, netlabel from Salvador, Bahia.

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 Darren Bourne’s poem “liquid flowers hum/ each donning Dali’s moustache - / Narcissus shatters”.

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.

( God of electronic music , he invented it all . )

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

This month we celebrate the release of H O M E, a new anthology of visual poetry featuring eleven collaborations between designers and poets. Graphic artists reinterpret the poets' words into a new visual piece, created between the two mediums, so this month we started with the question: what makes meaningful design? Introducing some of our poets to their corresponding designers for the first time, the show features work by Nikki Marrone, Daisy Thurston-Gent, Iris Colomb and Wesley Freeman-Smith.

The anthology is scored in an audio interpretation by Nick Murray, and we are joined by featured poet-musicians Antosh Wojcik and Aidan Baker – talking about Nadja's new record Luminous Rot.

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, Jennifer plays lots of new goodies.

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 first episode sees Cuttings pick up a mysterious voice on his ham radio receiver - a girl's voice calling for help. Disturbing memories kick in that seem to offer clues to what's happening - memories of the enigmatic Monday Man.

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A unique audio drama series created by writer/director Neil Cargill and musician/sound designer Simon James featuring an original electronic music score and full cast including Ian McDiarmid, famed for his role as Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars saga, as Cuttings – the radio ham who picks up a mysterious voice. The voice belongs to a girl (Joy McAvoy, from Ken Loach's The Angels' Share, and Filth) trapped in an abandoned amusement park called Akiha Den Den. Singer Wendy Rae Fowler (featured vocalist with bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age) lends her distinctive Alabama tones to the multi-layered soundscape as it becomes clear there's a whole community there, whose words and music become woven into a mesmerising plea for help. Everything becomes highly charged when one of the trapped inhabitants finds a way into our world – where his impact on us could be as devastating and far-reaching as an unknown, unseen virus.

In this edition, a recording of an improvised work performed live on the 6th November 2021 by Sanbonya (三本矢) featuring Neil Luck (synth, vocals), Chihiro Ono (violin, vocals) and Alex Paxton (trombone).

One-off live broadcasts from Resonance Extra's South London studios.

Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with The Secret of Futility by Bruce Gilbert.

Bruce Gilbert live recording from solo performance during Secret of Futility event at Kunstverein München, 2022.

Produced in a limited edition of 50 copies only to coincide with OTO XXX: purge.xxx's 2023 residency at Cafe Oto, London.

Includes unlimited streaming of The Secret of Futility via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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 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.