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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.

Released by 8ox publishing. Mixed by Milo Thesiger-Meacham. Supported by Resonance Extra.

SJ Fowler is a poet, writer, performer, from London.

In your lucy locket, a series of encounters with London’s most loveable rogue, Babs the purple cat, whose improvised talk poems have become a staple of the UK’s avant garde poetry scene. Recorded at public performances, film shoots and specifically for this release, and featuring found sound recordings around the capital, Babs takes on what is possible for the improvised poem and for the poet as a character.

In this episode, tracks selected in response to postcards sent in by Lucy Gogoliuk & Emma Crabtree, featuring Peter Brötzmann, Mort Garson, Margaret Tait & Cerith Wyn Evans.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each month a selection of artists respond to the show on postcards and send them in as inspiration for the next. Running through the shows are a modular stem experiment in which musicians improvise live to original 15 minute compositions.

This month: Stray Landings are joined by Martin and Lucia of London's forward-thinking SM-LL label.

Online music publication Stray Landings invites guests from across the electronic music spectrum to discuss themes and innovations.

Tracks from across the spectrum of electronic and computer music, with Calum Gunn of Conditional.

In this episode: an audio essay with Arianne Churchman exploring her ongoing research into the folklore of horses and practices of horse magic.

Chalk horses run across the landscape with the sun, and birth foals with magic in their mouths. Under the moonlight the frog's bone glimmers in the stream, waiting to be presented to the horse and set forth new forms of communication. We join the horse cult, sinking deeply in, and open our escape with them through a dream.

Communiques from Thanet Tape Centre, Hard drive sludge. audio tidal pools. Music sediment. Friends utterances, sea walls of noise, salt marsh drone.

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

A Bunch of Noise Festival, Shanghai 2024.

Exsonance Resonance Exchange is a bridging initiative led by SZKMD production. Exsonance is a link for Switzerland-based artists with far away places.

Radio Exsonance was set for A Bunch of Noise Festival 2024 in Shanghai.

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

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Tiny robots, string quartets, italian stars, celtic hearts, ukelele lovers, ghosts who feel lonely, instigators of collective happenings…all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features Shambush: Makers of The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience. Creators of imaginative, tailored, theatrical encounters, performance spaces and nonsensical events for five to five thousand.

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).

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.

This last episode of 2024 is a special mix from Félix Blume featuring a collage of field recordings made in Port au Prince early December 2016, Haiti. Some might remember a very special album we released in 2018, Death In Haiti; a vivid sound portrait depicting the way funerals and burials are lived in the Caribbean island of Haiti plunging the listener into a world of pain, loss and solemn celebration as each funeral comprises of its own live jazz band as well as a plethora of characters like the joker (le blaguer) who cracks jokes and tales about the recently deceased.

A beautiful document here expanded with some extra recordings featured on a recently released bonus disc edition condensed into more 43 minutes of brass bands, crying, masses, voices and field-recordings. Check Félix Blume’s Bandcamp for the ‘pay what you want’ bonus disc edition where every cent will go to the musicians struggling during very difficult times in Haiti.

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.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

First episode: analysis of cheesy music, German music, the meaning of life and commercials.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

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

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

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.

Tune in to a delightful journey through sound with our latest radio show, featuring a vibrant mix of fresh releases and captivating tracks from labels like Modern Love, Editions Mego, and ILIAN TAPE between others. Let’s celebrate the quirky vibes that encourage us all to embrace our unique selves, one beat at a time.

Dive into our eclectic tracklist, which showcases everything from Alto by Andrea Belfi & Jules Reidy to the enchanting Sunset, She Exclaims by Lucy Duncombe. Each piece invites you to revel in the carefree atmosphere that comes with expressing who you are.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

This episode features a guest mix by Ava Rasti, an Iranian-born artist, creating and composing out of the country's capital Tehran. Both a pianist and bass guitarist, in her late teens Rasti founded the post- punk girl group 'The Finches'.

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

A special episode celebrating Kayla’s latest release in the Ambient Owl Core series. Playing Ambient Owl Core volume 1 and 2 in their entirety alongside field recordings captured whilst writing these tracks.

Ambient Owl Core is a genre tag created by Kayla, these releases encompass tracks inspired by the world of the night, the secrets shared and stories told, for slow listening. Featuring moments from our feather friends and other woodland creatures.

All tracks written and produced by Kayla Painter. Ambient Owl Core exclusively released on Bandcamp.

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.

In this episode, Chris Bohn plays tracks by Ash Ra Tempel, Circuit des Yeux, Katharina Ernst & schne, Keiji Haino & Jun Morita, Tori Kudo and many more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode is a contribution by Wave Farm.

With a title that descends from a well-known passage in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, may it come that the sounds of the bardo shall be known as one’s own sounds, the piece opens with an improvised DIY ventilator that fails to sustain my bravewaves, waves that eventually flatline into a heavily decomposed electromagnetic soup.

Then comes a freely associative consideration of the Beefheart Affliction; the dangerous game of creating schizophonic monsters; the compost heap of radio’s intrinsic entropy and instability; the creative possibilities released through the fractures of a broken subjectivity; a synthetic voice ripened, to the point of bursting; a piece of flesh that we shall call Figgy Pudding; a bit of brain beneath a fingernail; a scratched radio thanatophony; and a pair of eyes reflecting a Hegelian Night that becomes —- awful.

Gregory Whitehead: Artist, writer, radiomaker, text/sound poet, singer of tales, playwright and media philosopher. Since his first tape and radio experiments made during the 1980s, he has created a long list of radio plays, hybrid documentaries and acoustic adventures for the BBC, Radio France, Deutschland Radio, Australia’s ABC, NPR and other broadcasters. Often interweaving documentary and fictive materials into playfully unresolved narratives, his aesthetic is distinguished by a deep philosophical commitment to radio as a medium for poetic navigation and free association. In his voice and text-sound works, he explores the tension between a continuous pulse and the eruption of sudden discontinuities, as well as linguistic entropy and decay.

Whitehead’s plays have won numerous awards, including a Prix Italia for Pressures of the Unspeakable, a Prix Futura BBC Award for Shake, Rattle, Roll and a Sony Gold Academy Award for The Loneliest Road, which was described by the jury as “a master class in sound”. His 2005 BBC production of Normi Noel’s play No Background Music, featuring Sigourney Weaver, also received a Sony Gold Academy Award. On the Shore Dimly Seen, a “boneyard cantata” enquiry into no-touch torture, was short-listed for the 2015 Prix Italia.

Whitehead has experimented and collaborated within acoustic theatre, puppet theatre, dance theater, installations and mixed media cabaret. In film, he wrote the script and played the main character Walter Sculley in the 2003 docufiction, The Bone Trade, later becoming the centerpiece for an installation at Mass MOCA. Over the past several years, he has contributed voiceworks and sound to two experimental documentaries: Awareness and Lift Up Your Voices, by Arttu Nieminen.

Co-editor of the pioneering anthology Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-Garde (MIT Press), his philosophical essays and hybrid speculative fictions have appeared in a wide variety of publications. A selection of writings has been published as Almanach de plaies insensées. Since 2012, he has published online exploratory researches within the context of an ever-mutating Desperado Philosophy.

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

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.