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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.

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

This special episode is a celebration of the music of Tim Barnes. Visit his GoFundMe page to support his care.

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

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.

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.

No.TFS is a hard techno DJ and part of fhainest collective located in Friedrichshain, Berlin. Her music is inspired by the darkness, sweaty bunkers and endless nights.

Pushy basses and rumbling sounds describe her grim style. Her music follows a clean industrial touch, developing into a hypnotic style. With her collective fhainest she organises events in various clubs in and outside of Berlin.

As a part of the Symbiotikka family you find her as a resident playing for KITKATs most famous event. On an international level No.TFS conquered recently the techno scene in Beirut and Singapore.

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 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.

In this first episode: new hit sound (John Cage - Radio Music 1956).

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

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.

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.

Now: archived episode focused on Italy through the lens of OSTs, classic pop jams, horror film trailers and eerie compositions. Music from Mario Schifano, Broadcast, Sensations Fix, Ennio Morricone and Father Murphy. Presented by Steven Dove.

Night Trippin' unearths alternative sounds from around the world, one country at a time.

Music by Room of Wires, Old Weird, Severed Heads, Smersh, Julien A. Lacroix, Heron & Crane, The Nautiloids, Gods Gift, Juana Molina, Jumble Hole Clough, Devon Loch, O.P.A.L., Visonia and Jeremy Stokes.

This episode's image is a detail of a photograph by Oliver Sjöström, used with thanks under licence.

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

In this episode we speak to poets and veteran podcasters Lizzy and David Turner about You Don’t Know, their collaborative literary, visual and audio series. Combining original writing with hand-made publications and podcasts, their series is a place to experiment with project ideas and push each other creatively – a process which has involved among other things robot voices, poetry printed on acetate sculptures, and NFL commentator found poems.

Co-presenter Theresa Elflein returns bringing an eclectic selection of independent artists found out there in the wild web and collected for you, and Nick Murray scores poems from our recently released anthology H O M E.

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, 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 episode features music by Internal Fusion, Loo(p)cy, Xoma, Kloob, vÄäristymä Castana, Sigillum S, Jurko Haltuu, Dēofol, Rajesh K. Mehta, Andromalar and a focus on Chunyang Yao (China).

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

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 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.

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.