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In this episode: soundscrapes and fumbled rhythms are the order of the day this episode, with hulking tracks from Wilted Woman, Nancy Dr0ne and HDMIRROR, and a very special guest mix from NY sound botherer Peter Seligman bringing some ferocity to proceedings.

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

Amsterdam's Shimmering Moods Records explores the many sides of experimental ambient music, into the far reaches of the imagination.

In this episode, Dani joins up for their first show and does a deep dive into the history and expansive catalog of Japanese punk, oi!, pogo, d-beat and hardcore.

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.

In this episode, Dronica meets DJ Comisarios de la Luz, co-curator at Magia Roja, in Barcelona.

Màgia Roja is a label/association/venue from Barcelona, specialized in non-conformist music and culture with a decidedly iconoclastic slant. Described as "Spain's most extreme and most important label-slash-venue " and "a place unlike any other in Spain, perhaps any other on earth" by the Quietus, Màgia Roja has become a reference point of the Spanish underground in recent years.

The first hour of the podcast is a mix trying to convey what a Màgia Roja night at HQ was about, done by the resident DJ Comisarios de la Luz.

The second hour of the episode is a selection of tracks from the artists in the label, including some to-be-released tracks.

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

ID Spectral is a multi-disciplinary record label and arts collective, showcasing the spectrum of innovative creative identities worldwide.

A selection of the most vibrant and exciting new sounds of Latin America's emerging talents.

London-based art, music and architecture writer Bobby Jewell plays a selection of ambient, jazz and classical music over two hours.

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.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by shima Ryōta’s poem “steady spring rains... / both dream and reality / Mount Yoshino!"

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.

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 new sound artwork composed during a blitz session in Studio Loos (Den Haag) by Leonie Roessler and Hagai Izenberg in November 2022.

A Mad Woman's Tale explores the surreal and often chaotic nature of daily life. Drawing on a range of everyday sounds, including a washing machine, a sewing instructional audio, and live radio sampling, the work invites the audience to immerse themselves in a world of familiar noises, creating their own interpretation of the piece.

Leonie Roessler is a composer and performer raised in Germany and the US, now based in The Hague, Netherlands. Leonie captures her environment with field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and instrumental compositions. She runs the radio branch of Studio LOOS in The Hague. Her works have been released through Musica Dispersa (Spain/UK), and Noise á Noise (Iran) and have been physically archived in the British Library.

Radio Concrete by **Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show focusing on live mixing and processing of field recordings together with contemporary music and soundscapes.

An ongoing event series at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, and soon to take residence at the Watershed in Bristol, Schtinter's project challenges all of the calcified criteria that is usually used to form and signpost a curated programme. The accompanying book, published by Tenement Press, has been described by Laura Mulvey as "very strange and deeply thought provoking," and by Alan Moore as "profound and riveting, a remarkable achievement."

Schtinter's other recent projects include Schneewittchen (IFFR, 2024), The Lock-In (Barbican Centre, 2022) and Important Books (or, Manifestos Read by Children) (Whitechapel Gallery, 2021-22). His writing is published by Tenement Press; his moving image work distributed by Light Cone; and he publishes film soundtracks and artist works under the banner of purge.xxx.

Gareth Evans is a London-based writer, editor, film / event curator and producer, host and documentary mentor. He works on special projects for the London Review of Books and curates their Screen at Home series. From 2012 - 2023 he was the Adjunct Moving Image Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery. He has written many catalogue essays and articles on place culture, artists and the moving image, as well as the extensive text for Radiohead's KID A MNESIA catalogue.

Artist and writer Stanley Schtinter is interviewed by producer and curator Gareth Evans about his most recent project, Last Movies, which is "an alternative view of the first century of cinema according to the final films watched by a selection of notable figures shortly before their deaths."

In this episode, they're joined live in the studio by Most Things.

Atomiser is a London based arts organisation that currently functions as an event series, label and production house of experimental film and sound work.

This episode is a documentation of the live event that took place on 4th March 2018 in Athens, featuring parts from live sets by Bill Anagnos, Kostadis, Turbo Teeth and Georgios Karamanolakis. Organized and curated by dj Not I aka Hard GPO for Habeat Records and Cannibal Radio press.

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

This episode features music from the latest release on the Spirit of Gravity label. Any money made from downloads will be donated to the fundraising scheme for venues that have supported Gravity Waves and The Spirit World for the last decade.

The first half contains a lengthy piece by Melbourne based artist Gillian Lever who has played for them several times as The Vainglories.

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

Jon Leidecker presents an introduction to the history of sound appropriationism in 20th century composition, popular art and mainstream media, and the convergence of these trends in the present day.

The idea of a completely original piece of music is fairly recent. Music was passed on through sound, through generations, even for centuries after the invention of written music. Only in the 14th century did it become standard practice for a composer to sign his name to a piece of music and claim it entirely as his own, giving rise to the cult of the individual composer. But as recording supplanted sheet music in the 20th century, the presence of communal influence became unavoidably obvious once again as composers began to use recordings to make new recordings. We can now hear the presence of more than one voice. And there is a reason why people don't say they listen to a record – they say that they play a record. From the beginning, recordings have been instruments.

The first episode of this overview of appropriative collage in music covers the years 1909 through 1961, beginning with Charles Ives, who composed in a cut and paste style with sheet music in a way that anticipated what later composers would do with multi-track tapes and mixers. We skip through decades to arrive at "Twisting the Dials", the Happiness Boys' 1928 tribute to late night radio surfing, before moving to John Cage's proto-sampling pieces for radio and tape, "Credo in US" and the "Imaginary Landscapes". We witness the million-selling cut-in records of Buchanan and Goodman and the resulting lawsuits, Richard Maxfield's tape cut-ups of a sermonizing preacher, and conclude with James Tenney's dedicated dissection of a single recording of Elvis: "Collage No. 1", the first 'remix'. For more information on this episode, visit RWM Curatorial.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/variations/01Variationseng_script.pdf

Link to the complete series:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/variations_tag

For more information on this series and other podcasts, visit Ràdio Web MACBA.

This episode features new works by Tescon Pol, BVHZ Bruno Varvohza, TRI.OBYTE, Cadlag, Richard Bégin, rauðvik, Mark Hjorthoy, Yousef Kawar, Pharmakustik, Small Things on Sundays, PNÉVMMA and Sea Of Wires.

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

In this episode, acousmatic vibes and musique concréte set pieces. Innovators and new-schoolers massage our eardrums into the deepest recesses of sound mangling. Radiophonic mass pieces, trips to the Italian coast and fears of drowning all make an appearance. Classic avant-garde? More like gourmet music sounds, old and new.

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.