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In this episode, artists Knut Aufermann & Sarah Washington, Frauke Berg, Katharina Bihler & Stefan Scheib, DinahBird, dieb13 & Billy Roisz, Anna Friz, and Ralf Schreiber broadcast live from Ürzig, Düsseldorf, Saarbrücken, Paris, Vienna, Santa Cruz and Cologne.

During the lockdown, a revolving group of sound artists from across Europe and the US convened live on air with a unified aim: to gather sound-pollen and transmit codified messages to kindred folk, exploring whatever was on their minds. Style guide: Anything goes.

Here we broadcast some selected live works by the CWCH Collective.

This episode is dedicated to the first Meloman M-110 music machines in the Soviet Union. Cabinets with music weighing 130 kilograms began to appear in the 60s in places where citizens would rest – cafes and restaurants, sanatoriums and cruise ships. Each jukebox held fifty seven-inch records and accordingly allowed listening to two-hundred songs.

In total, Melodiya issued about two-hundred records for Meloman - they were not sold in ordinary shops, but the music recorded on them was popular among listeners. The cost of listening to one song was only five kopecks, while the price of a seven-inch record at retail was seventy kopecks and more.

Meloman's repertoire included mostly city pop music of the 60s and 70s in the languages of commonwealth countries. However, in this episode I tried to include not the biggest hits of those years. You will hear bubblegum pop from Poland and Japan, psychedelic rock from Azerbaijan, pop chorals from Georgia, foxtrots from the GDR, as well as a lot of jazz and swing from Russia and the Lesser Caucasus.

It is believed that it was through the Meloman's speakers that Soviet citizens first heard the The Beatles' music – not the original recordings, but performed on a Hammond organ. In 1967, Keith Buckingham recorded a medley of three songs by the Liverpool 4 and this was included in the repertoire of the Soviet Jukebox and in this episode (track 11).

It can seem that the repertoire of the Meloman music machine sounds rather utopian: "I walk and sing and the street sings. The traffic light winked: ‘Go ahead!’," – Soviet pop diva Edita Piekha squints with pleasure in her schlager. It seems to have been so! Meloman's popularity waned in the late 70s, when clubs with live ensembles began to appear in big cities, personal vinyl players became available to almost every worker, and soon the rough rock of Perestroika became fashionable.

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental TOPOT label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

Featuring original music and field recordings, and spoken contributions by writer and translator Cristina Viti and filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji, Audible Heat ranges across continents, embracing Greek tongue twisters, the poetry of Ibn Quzmān and Harry Crosby, African-American mathematician Benjamin Banneker’s lost wooden clock, Plato’s Phaedrus, cicadas on the film sets of Sergio Leone’s ‘Spaghetti Westerns,’ the body language of Clint Eastwood, the apocalyptic premonitions of the Wampanoag, Geronimo’s hatred of telegraphy, and botanist Donald C. Peattie’s terror of the inescapable buzz of mortality.

Equal parts academic argument, travelogue, and critical collage, this synthesis of ideas pulls upon a wide-ranging bibliography of materials to examine the omnipresent sound of the cicada throughout human history and culture. Herein, this climatic sound acts as a conduit between ecology, identity and mortality, and the cicada’s sonic inference emerges as a codification of the unknown and unfamiliar—as a spiritual weathervane in desert settings—and as a means of teasing out the sensorial limits of human understanding.

Audible Heat was written, read, recorded, produced & scored by Milo Thesiger-Meacham. It was first commissioned and broadcast as a work for radio by Radiophrenia, September 2023.

As a manuscript Audible Heat was shortlisted for the inaugural edition of the Prototype Prize, 2024, and was published as a book by Tenement Press, February 2025. Its radiophonic counterpart will be released on CD by World Service, March 2025.

“A wonderful bringing together of natural and cultural histories.”

– Tom McCarthy, author The Remainder & Man Booker Prize nominee

“A work of great refinement and intelligence, entailing some beautifully crafted surprises.”

– Elizabeth Price, artist & 2012 Turner Prize winner

"Almost Borgesian in the levity by which it seems effortlessly to embody encylopaedic multitudes ... we understand – and appreciate the – the intricate assembly of fragments, quotations and images that factor in distance, as much as intimacy, as an engine to the work ... Audible Heat balances both the warmth of genuine passion for its material with a controlled and 'cool' gaze that makes for a singular outcome."

– Gareth Evans, writer, editor, film & event producer

"... nibbling at the edges of philosophy, entomology, anthropology, poetry, music, film and diverse technologies ... like a latter-day Langland, the author “wente wide in this world wondres to here” only to find in a sound at once familiar and uncanny, eternal and pregnant with anticipation and dread, a hall of mirrors for the restless human soul. Like the sun, the cicada looms like likeness itself and we are led down garden paths that form a maze of amazing information, suggestion and nuance ... It also speaks of the limits of species entrainment, of our faltering efforts at empathic behaviour, and tells us a lot about how we act in relation to other creatures, how culture sits with nature. Perhaps more important is how it subtly suggests how we should or might act."

– Ed Baxter, writer, sound-artist, co-founder Resonance, co-editor Works of Thomas De Quincey

“Beautifully written.”

– Bhanu Kapil, poet & Windham-Campbell Literature Prize winner

Many thanks to Max Syedtollan and Dominic Jaeckle. Thanks also to Cristina Viti, Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji, Dr Gene Kritsky, Dr Douglas Yanega & Matthias Loibner for their kind contributions. Thanks to Tom McCarthy, Bhanu Kapil and Elizabeth Price for shortlisting the text, and to Mark Vernon, Jess Chandler, Rory Cook and Gareth Evans. And for their help and encouragement, a heartfelt thanks to my dear friends Ed Baxter and Valentina Bacci. 

Milo Thesiger-Meacham is an artist, composer, performer and creative director of the community arts radio stations Resonance FM and Resonance Extra.

Milo Thesiger-Meacham’s Audible Heat is an extended documentary, a fitful academic essay, a mass-media probe, an idiosyncratic piece of travel writing, a densely illustrated sound-art montage, and a deep dive into man’s complex relations with the seemingly eternal sound of the cicada as ‘audible heat’ in human consciousness.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra presents 'Score for Open Heart Surgery on Charlie Watts' as part of Radiophrenia. As an integral part of its week-long celebration of the best and most innovative ideas in radio art, Radiophrenia presents a series of specially commissioned ‘live-to-air’ performances, of which this is but one. Selected artists have been asked to respond to the unique circumstances of creating a work that is simultaneously a live performance and a radio broadcast, reflecting the fact that there will be an audience present in the theatre in addition to an unseen audience of listeners at home.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, engineers, sound-effects creators, actors, writers, composers and broadcasters devoted to making live radio-art. It is based in central London as the in-house artistic wing of Resonance104.4fm, under the direction of Ed Baxter.

In this episode: a DJ set with some recent favourites, and a studio session premiering the first batch of new tracks for the Is Under Location Surfaces album, which will be gradually expanding from now until January. Tracks available after broadcast here.

A 16-episode bi-weekly series alternating new and unheard live sounds from Trash Panda QC with DJ selections and guests.

In this episode, a radiophonic work by Benedict Drew.

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

Along with the regular selection of sonics from within the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity collective, this month features special contributions from Gagarin's live set at the Stanmer Park's The Ecomusicology Project, and the first of six transmissions from the Omnistitional Culture Research Unit (OCRU).

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

In this episode, Joe is joined by musical guest otta, who will be performing live songs from her new EP WITH LOVE FROM EVERYWHERE.

Also featuring an interview with Anna and track selections including Steve Kuhn, Nina Simone & William S Fischer.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each week a new guest joins Joe in the studio to discuss and perform their work. Expect in-depth interviews, live performances, conversations and new event experiments.

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and mind-blowing covers and drifts of Mmmbop by Hanson. There are no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Sega Mega Drive gamers, jukebox enthusiasts, cats, country dancers, smurfs from all over the world, emos, best friends … all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

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.

In this episode, a very special mix by Bardo Todol, aka Pablo Picco coming from Salsipuedes, Argentina. Pablo is at the foreground of tape experimentalism, collaborating with a myriad of local and international artists from his remote rural base in the Argentinian countryside. This is a mix of tape-only releases from his personal collection. You won’t find this on Spotify or any money grabbing streaming "service", enjoy!

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.

In this episode, Otomo Hava takes over with a mix of Athenian field recordings with Otomo's special music choices. More than 10 years active in the Athenian noise scene Otomo Hava is one of my personal favorite projects from Athens.

He is also the producer on Notes From Chaos, a Podcast series which is focused on electronic, experimental, noise, post industrial and other anti-comformist (or not?) musical genres. Guests From Chaos is a sub-podcast series where noisicians / musicians / artists doing their own mix sets to present their own works / label / tastes

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

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.

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

A Looperama smorgasbord, where mystery abounds! Unknown sounds and a mystery guest!

Commencing with some unidentified library music (aka production or stock music)... Bright and upbeat melody with urgent and propulsive beats, just right for the modern ear... neither alive or completely dead.

Featuring a segment of Offrandes for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra (1921) by Edgard Varese superimposed with random found (Professor Pyg?) radio broadcasts and fragments, some eerie music from a Halloween sound effects compact disc, other sonic snippets intersperse around the thudding ostinato of Electric Lady (1973 ) by Geordie, a British rock band from Newcastle, most notably active in the 1970s.

Geordie line-up included: Vic Malcolm (lead guitar), Tom Hill (bass guitar), Brian Gibson (drums) and Brian Johnson (lead vocals).

To conclude, a surprise appearance from a mystery guest ...guess who! With music that you can dance to, - whatever wavelength you're on!

Lepke B's blissful disregard for the sacred in life has placed him as one of the testcard knights with a totally unique approach to sound plunderphonics and visual art.

Mitamine presents 'Thirsty', a random show inspired by some current favourites and a gorgeous video gem of Terence McKenna sipping water for two minutes.

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

This episode features a special guest mix by Jiyeon Kim, a Seoul-based sound artist and 11 is her musical moniker. "11" is a name derived from the shape of 틈(/teum/, meaning a gap), from which she often finds her creative force. She is also a music composer and sound designer for film and tv documentary.

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

Celebrating exclusively boundary pushing artists, this episode spans previous guests and featured artists of Connections to Sound.

Background music: Your Echoes by Kayla Painter.

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 music from Nadah El Shazly, Arturas Bumsteinas, Wukir Suryadi, Li Jianhong, IZ, Noor Zehra Kazim, & more; plus some East and West German archive releases from Damo Suzuki +1-A Düsseldorf, SYPH and Der Expander Der Fortschritts.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

Light Hesitates is a text-voice piece and a contemplation on hesitation. (glitch, interval, this way-that way dubiousness, slight delay, sharp intake, split second gap) Hesitancy being present in the body and perhaps a useful tactic to disrupt linear progression and certainty, to notice other ways of seeing.

Ideas of partial visibility and translucency (mist, tracing paper, dusk) and of navigation in relation to light (moth, dung beetle, ear) crept into the work from the periphery. The texts stem from a summer artist residency at Hospitalfields Arbroath Scotland in 2023.

"As choreographer I was experimenting with writing that emerged from an immediacy of experience and of moving. I am curious how language inhabits and how the body inhabits language, how words resonate from the body and fold back into the body. How certain words organised in score-like structures become dance partners. In writing for radio, as a new way of making a choreographic work, I was working perhaps with how words are held in a voice as an extension of the body, how to bring lightness and spatiality to words spoken aloud and play with what surfaces between writing, reading, speaking, listening."

Written and performed by Katrina Brown. Additional voices Myrte Blanken and Juno Brown. Produced by Lucinda Guy for Soundart Radio.

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.