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Said the sky to the moon, shall we do a dance? I'll wait for you to make the move but please don't wait until you hear - the sound below the atmosphere. Ceylan Göksel and Sami Fitz reach subliminal heights with genre-busting spoken word, ambient textures, sound sculptures, and a different theme every show. We wish you a good night.

This episode features new works by Wahn, Nicolussi, Rapoon, Roberto Vodanović Čopor, Christophe Bailleau O'Farrell, TAK /Todd Anderson-Kunert, Automating, Ergonomic Sound Office, Beta Consciousness, whose body is this, Sándor Vály, & Epoch Collapse and Black Cactus.

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

A 22-hour radio project in 7 episodes about editing and the mind, created by Milo Thesiger–Meacham. Featuring 10-second audio extracts from over 6000 unseen videos found online, original sound recordings, music, hand-held camera audio and writing, Body Edit Mind follows an unnamed narrator as they move house and piece together a world of recording devices, names, crime, real-world characters and obscure media from across the globe. Follow Fox Neame on Instagram for more. Commissioned by Radio Art Zone, a temporary radio art station by Radio ARA and Mobile Radio for the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022.

2022's edition of the festival was an evening of music and poetry reading at London's iconic Café OTO on the 7th December, featuring performances by members and friends of Naviar, working in the fields of ambient, electronic, and contemporary classical music. Each set is introduced by a haiku selection recited by poets of The British Haiku Society.

Full lineup:

• Daniel Green

Daniel Green is an artist and educator. His artistic practice explores the objects and media we use to occupy our time, and how they are used to give our lives meaning. Daniel’s work has been exhibited within Campbelltown Arts Centre, Firstdraft, Pelt, Artspace and BUS Projects, and has performed at Electrofringe, The Now Now Festival, Liquid Architecture, Cementa and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

• Audio Obscura

Since 2014 Neil Stringfellow has released music as Audio Obscura - covering a variety of musical themes that touch on ambient, electronics and more experimental soundscapes. Audio Obscura albums have included a post-classical 'Anthropocene Trilogy' based on spoken word pieces around climate change, soundtracking the dystopia of George Orwells' 1984 novel, field recording in rural Norfolk Churches and recently a collaboration with a post-rock group themed around the NASA Voyager missions.

• Leon Clowes

Leon Clowes is a transdisciplinary artist that messes about with his lived trauma for artistic endeavour. He started in music and sound and now does all sorts. Wherever. In music/sound, these days, he mostly tries for quiet and peaceable stuff but does occasionally revisit pounding queer past.

• Encym & George Crowley

Encym explores un-guitaristic territory by layering, collaging and shaping improvised loops. Fused with polyrhythmic beats and noises to become cinematic, atmospheric, otherworldly ambiences, their grittiness owing to the many years Roland was based in London. George Crowley is a saxophonist, clarinettist, composer and promoter based in London. As a performer he is active across a range of styles, with improvisation at the heart of his work.

• Simon McCorry

Born in London to mixed Indian/British heritage, Simon studied music at The Centre for Young Musicians and Morley College, then philosophy at Durham University, and is now based in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Simon has worked as a composer & sound designer in theatre, film & contemporary dance. His recent work is a combination of loop-based cello compositions and atmospheric improvisations, field recordings and modular synth.

• Manja Ristić

Manja Ristić is a violinist, sound artist, published poet, curator and researcher. She graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Music (2001) and was awarded a PGDip as a Solo/Ensemble Recitalist from the Royal College of Music, London (2004). As a classical solo and chamber musician as well as a composer and an improv musician Manja has performed all across Europe and the US, and has been involved in collaborations with established conductors and performers, multimedia artists, poets, theatre and movie directors.

A series of annual events by Naviar Records broadcast live on Resonance Extra, featuring workshops, talks and live performances focused on experimental music and haiku, exploring how these two art forms can influence and inspire each other.

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.

Virgilio Oliveira explores the sonic environment in collaboration with Porto's Radio Manabras, presenting an hour of sound art and field recordings.

Featuring (in order of appearance) …

Hannah Regel, Nicolette Polek, Iain Sinclair, David Grubbs, Lucy Sante, Imogen Cassels, Jess Cotton, Joan Brossa, Stanley Schtinter, Edwina Attlee, & Wayne Koestenbaum.

Order a copy of Seven Rooms direct from Prototype Publishing. Read Jaeckle & Chandler’s introduction to the collection, ‘Forethoughts.’

Seven Hundred Horses assembles a select thread of live recordings and materials from the London launch of Seven Rooms at Presse Books / FormaHQ (Regel, Sante, Cassels, Cotton, Attlee and Koestenbaum) alongside choice cuts from the Hotel Archive (Polek, Sinclair, Grubbs, Brossa, and Schtinter). 


& in which ... 

Hannah Regel reads Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘Eleven Stars Over Andalusia,’ Nicolette Polek reads a short story called ‘The Rope Barrier,’ Iain Sinclair reads ‘Animal Drums,’ a cut-up impromptu to SJ Fowler’s motion-picture-poem of the same name (at the Whitechapel Gallery, 2019), David Grubbs reads a slice of his feature-length poem, ‘Good night the pleasure was ours,’ Lucy Sante reads a poem called ‘Call My Baby,’ Imogen Cassels reads a poem called ‘Two Types of the Same Return’ and ‘Moss’ (as in Kate), Jess Cotton reads a poem called ‘States of Bewilderment’ and a poem called ‘Aloof,’ Stanley Schtinter reads Joan Brossa’s ‘Astral Summary’ (Parts I and II of III), Edwina Attlee reads a poem called ‘Refrigeration’ and a poem called ‘Australia Day,’ and Wayne Koestenbaum reads a poem called ‘Stigma Pudding.’

A Suite for Seven Rooms (700 Horses) was co-produced for Resonance Extra by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger-Meacham; the readings at Presse Books / Forma HQ were recorded on location by Caroline Heron.

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Hannah Regel is a writer based in London. She has been published in The Poetry Review, Fantastic Man, Granta, Hotel and Canal, amongst others. She has published two collections of poetry, When I Was Alive and Oliver Reed (both Montez Press, 2017 and 2020 respectively). Her debut novel, The Last Sane Woman, will be published by Verso Fiction in 2024. 


Nicolette Polek is the author of Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull, 2020) and the forthcoming novel, Bitter Water Opera (Graywolf Press, 2024). She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, and a recent graduate of Yale Divinity School.



Iain Sinclair is a British writer, documentarist, filmmaker, poet, flaneur, metropolitan prophet and urban shaman, keeper of lost cultures and futurologist.



David Grubbs is Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of Good night the pleasure was ours, The Voice in the Headphones, Now that the audience is assembled, and Records Ruin the Landscape (all published by Duke University Press, 2022, 2020, 2018, and 2014 respectively). He was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with Tony Conrad, Susan Howe, Pauline Oliveros, Will Oldham, Loren Connors, and many others. 



Lucy Sante’s books include Low Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), Kill All Your Darlings (Verse Chorus Press, 2007), The Other Paris (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2015), Maybe the People Would Be the Times (Verse Chorus Press, 2020), and—in 2024— the memoir I Heard Her Call My Name (Heinemann).



Imogen Cassels is the author of various pamphlets, including Chesapeake (Distance No Object, 2021), VOSS (Broken Sleep, 2020), Arcades (Sad Press, 2018), and Mother, beautiful things (Face Press, 2017). Her writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, and elsewhere.



Jess Cotton is a writer based in London. Her book on John Ashbery was recently published by Reaktion Books. 



Joan Brossa (Barcelona, 1919–1998) began writing when he was mobilised in the Spanish Civil War and would fuse political engagement and aesthetic experiment through sonnets, odes, theatre, sculpture and screenplay within a neo-surrealist framework. Brossa founded the magazine Dau al Set in 1948, and his collections include El saltamartí (1963), Poesia Rasa (1970), and the six volumes of Poesia escénica (published between 1973 and 1983).

Stanley Schtinter has been described as an ‘artist’ by the Daily Mail and as an ‘exorcist’ by the Daily Star.


Edwina Attlee is the author of two pamphlets, Roasting Baby (if a leaf falls press, 2016) and the cream (Clinic, 2016). She teaches history to students of architecture in London. 



Wayne Koestenbaum has published over twenty books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Ultramarine (Nightboat Books, 2022), The Cheerful Scapegoat (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents, 2021), Figure It Out (Counterpoint, 2020), Camp Marmalade (Nightboat Books, 2018), My 1980s & Other Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), amongst other publications. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Centre.

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A new entry in the occasional broadcast series from Tenement Press and Prototype Publishing, Railroad Flat Radio, Seven Hundred Horses is a suite of readings by eleven poets and makers to mark the publication of Seven Rooms, an anthology of works from across the Hotel series, 2016 to 2023, co-published by Tenement and Prototype, and edited by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Jess Chandler. 

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.

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.

In the nineties, sampling technology reached a level of sophistication and control that allowed musicians to truly assert themselves over their materials. While some collagists innovated by conifdently stepping into the traditional role of the romantic composer, presenting the resulting music as an expression of self, others continued to explore the intrinsic meanings suggested by the craft itself.

In this episode we trace through examples of the popular music that brought the term 'remix' into the popular lexicon, hear the CD player joining the turntable as a live performance instrument, and connect digital sampling to the history of musical borrowing: written notation’s classical equivalent to the editing techniques that modern composers use to transform existing music into new compositions.

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

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This episode features Shit Creek, Charmaine Lee, Eloine, Posset, CBSM, Kuupuu, Maria Chavez, Alexandra Spence, Maria Estevez and Violent Onsen Geisha.

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

Fading Somewhere Else is a work by Morkebla & Dalhous. The short three-part series hopes to explore and streamline some of the music that has influenced their philosophy in the sound-exploration of unconscious states of self.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Yosa Buson’s poem “orchids by night – / within their fragrance looms / their blossoms’ white!”.

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.

In this episode, a journey to the source of the River Lea, its emergence marked at a neolithic earthwork reverberating with ongoing community. En-marshed improvisations in the long grass amidst chalk fields.

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.

In the first half of this episode, unperson traces Sheffield's experimental music from the DIY post-punk scene of the 1980s, through the pirate radio days of the 1990s, to the city's contemporary boundary pushers. In his words: "lots of bleeps, lots of bass".

In the second half, Elif Gülin Soğuksu weaves a path through the hum of Istanbul, a mix which she describes as "a glimpse into the sound world of stray dogs howling to the morning prayer in rural areas, street musicians playing traditional instruments, street vendors selling simit, fish, meat, and fruits in Beyoğlu ... Turkish classical music playing in the silversmith shop in Sultanahmet ... the micro sounds of rocks, dirt, and bushes near the historic Orthodox Orphanage in Princes' Island".

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

In this episode, Cary (mostly) does another showcasing of the underground scene of Central Appalachia.

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: The Critical Mass. When folk cannae afford to live in Swindon, lets just take a step back and breath, observe and breath again.

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An inner city dance grotto for self-expression.