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Ksenia Kamikaza, founder of Under festival and Platz für Tanz label, is the main moving force of rave culture in Latvia. Spinning records in places like London's Fabric club, Dommune in Tokyo, losing herself in music and dust at Burning Man, she varies from techno to ambient, from dark disco to IDM. In 2007 she founded the Platz für Tanz collective, bringing the sounds of international electronic music to Latvia.

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 show starts with an exclusive mix of Cookie's last release on The Spirit of Gravity label.

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

With the reopening of public social spaces this month the steady return to socialisation has presented a mixture of excitement and anxiety. For our show we’ve been thinking around the return to society.

This episode features performances by Erin Robinson, Nia Fekri, Giulio Dal Lago, Timo Koch, Toby Edwards, and Jamie Turner

If you would like to play and/or collaborate with us, please contact hello@subphonics.com

Quarterly noise from SubPhonics exploring themes of collaborative sound and performance.

Mateo Amaral is a multidisciplinary artist who develops his work using techniques such as drawing and painting, three-dimensional digital animation, distortion of video through software errors, exploration of audiovisual noise and production of electronic music.

His research leads him to experiment with hypnotic audiovisual landscapes, drawing parallels between primitive digital aesthetics and the individual construction of the reality model. All his work revolves around "Una piedra negra", an expanded feature film project that produces short films, paintings, installations, virtual reality pieces and live audiovisual performances.

In 2016, he was the winner of the first Virtual Reality award within the ITAU prize for visual arts. In addition to his individual work, he formed the artistic collective Oligatega with which in 2003 he was a scholar in the program of workshops dictated by Guillermo Kuitca and participated in the work clinics of Diana Aisemberg.

His work was exhibited at the Cultural Center of Belgrade (Serbia), Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, at the festivals ArtFutura, Mutek, Sonar, Robot and Trimarchi, at Artists' Television Access (San Francisco, USA), Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (Spain), Art Basel (Switzerland) and the Experimentation Center of the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires).

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

In this episode, Dronica meets Cerpintxt.

Cerpintxt is an electroacoustic progress report from the cosmic madhouse, through the medium of voice, auto-destruction, wind-guided experiments in protoconversation. Her work is concerned with generating an invented language of a particular strain of softness through phonetic entropy and augmented instrumentation.

The hauntological element of her work explores a form of sonic activism against the weaponization of love in Egypt. She curates the London-based event Boundary Condition. A durational sonic immersion for the rabidly sentimental: investigating the parallelization between dark-jazz, hauntology, and music concrete as nostalgia-centric practices trickling from the persistence and antagonistic fragmentation of certain memories.

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

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.

For this month’s guest mix, Berlin-based artist Hüma Utku put together a selection of musical pieces dedicated to and inspired by the cycles of life/death/life.

Utku is an electronic music composer and sound artist who combines her musical practice with her academic studies in psychology through her works drawing inspiration from human condition and folklore. With an overall disregard for genres, she utilises melody and sound as tools for storytelling.

Her 2018 EP release ‘’Şeb-i Yelda’’ and the 2019 debut album ‘’Gnosis’’, via Karlrecords, earned Utku recognition for her unique approach to creating sonic story plots by merging concepts with experiments in electronic music.

Her new album ‘’The Psychologist’’ is released in May 2022 via Editions Mego, which has been cited as Utku's most ambitious and complex work yet.

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

Joe and Chanelle’s audio recordings encompass ambient sounds, conversation, experimental composition and improvised instrumental response. Cassette drones, loop pedals, voice and guitar are used to echo, mimic or bend over bird calls, thunderstorms, night sounds, indistinguishable chatter, museum reverberations and urban movement. These moments captured to tape are presented in two halves as an A-side/B-side format.

Enriched by visual counterpoints for each episode, Bruna’s critical eye forms an ambiguous tonal narrative from Jake's method of stumbling into excellence. Mountain, valley, glacier, and urban horizon are presented in stereo format, to parallel the A-side/B-side format.

This program has been made on the stolen lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, we pay respect to the Elders both past and present.

Project lead and sound by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. Creative direction by Bruna Volpi. Photography by Jake Terrey.

Supported by Higher Ground Studios.

This episode was made as part of the Bundanon Trust artists in residence programme, and has been performed live at the Bundanon Museum. The Museum is on the stolen land of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups.

Field Notes

Side A - For Kites

• Sounds made on Residency, Bundanon Trust, October 2022, Development # 2.

A day in the rehearsal space, experimental sound, guitar pedals and vocals. Casio Watch Alarm; Fender Delux Reverb Tone Master Amplifier, Reverb, Vibrato; Boss ME-70 Multi Effects, Compression, Classic Distortion, Delay, Loop Pedal, Expression Pedal Octave Pitch Shift; Panasonic SlimLine RQ 2102 Cassette Recorder, Field Recording ; Boss VE-20 Vocal Performer, Reverb, Looper Pedal.

The Wind and the Sun. Playing the cassette BUN 2_8 Side A. In the grassy field where the kangaroos gather at dusk; a HEAVY wind. The Mona Lisa, a heavy kite. SOUND and sun blaring. Kite flyers running. Skin tingling. A concert to nature. Satisfying exhaustion. – Joe Wilson

Side B – The Storm

• Field Recording of a thunderstorm made on Residency at Bundanon Trust, August - October 2023, Development # 3 & 4.

A Personal Note, a Broken Heart, a Broken Body. Bundanon, a gully flat. Surrounded by hills. The storm is caught on the high rocks and is flung around the encroaching bushland. The lightning sheers across the last of the evening’s sunlight, across the way, a distance. The thunder chases the light, the sound chases the cut sky. Drawing closer. Volume rising. Bright white cracks become total for an instant. Birds continue to sing. Trees fall. – Joe Wilson

A monthly programme which blends textured audio from cassette recordings by Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier with tonal imagery by Bruna Volpi and Jake Terrey. Sound engineering by Ollie Brown.

This episode hosted by Shane Woolman features an exclusive guest mix from Anvar Kalandarov, musician and founder of Uzbek label Maqom Soul, as well as tracks by Cheb Bakr, tedzi, Stimulator Jones, DJ DIE SOON, Everything Is Psychedelic, U, Yashlik, Gonçalo F Cardoso and many more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

In this episode, Joe is joined in the studio by writer Lu Rose Cunningham for live readings and an interview alongside track selections including Meredith Monk, Kiran Leonard & The Durutti Column.

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.

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

In this episode we’ll be listening to tracks that tell stories with no words, paint pictures with sound, and take us somewhere new and different, out of our regular surroundings and into the unknown.

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.

This episode is a contribution by USMARADIO.

The minimalist musical composition, built from a few elements that repeat in cyclical and random patterns, serves as a dreamlike accompaniment to the transformation of the city, narrated through field recordings. It is a sonic narrative of the transition from a contemporary urban landscape to a city of the future, where nature plays a central role in our lives.

In April 2025, Giacomo Vanelli took part in the fourth edition of Radio Residenze, the series of artistic residencies dedicated to experimental radio and its connections with the performing arts. Hosted at Giardini Pensili in Rimini and organized by Usmaradio – Research Centre for Radiophonic Studies of University of San Marino, Vanelli developed a new work exploring the possibilities of modular synthesis and chance-driven composition. His residency culminated in a live performance broadcast on usmaradio.org, presented as part of the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on April 24.

More information about the Radio Residenze project is available here

Giacomo Vanelli is a musician known for his deep commitment to ambient and experimental electronic music. Vanelli is distinguished by his innovative approach to composition, where the modular synthesizer is not merely an instrument but a platform for exploring chance and self-imposed limitations. This method allows him to create complex and nuanced soundscapes that reflect a highly personal and introspective creative process.

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

In this episode, some long-form listening as well as our first special mix! Three lengthy tracks open this episode, which showcases the December releases for Flaming Pines. Featuring Tonkyn Pearson's rose-coloured Erbium which is inspired by the quietness of New Zealand's lockdowns.

Alabama composer Ben Link Collins explores field recordings as fiction in his new album Fictionalism, and Greek/Italian duo Valeria Miracapillo and Dimos Vryzas offer some improvised magic from their first studio session in Athens to be released as Discipline of The Slow.

The second half of the show is a special mix by Vietnamese composer Nhung Nguyen, who also releases as Sound Awakener, featuring her own compositions and field recordings from Hanoi.

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Tina Turner's Private Dancer. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Public and private dancers, non-binary voices, Finnish superstars, peaches, orchestras, strong women, workers who hate their jobs … all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio 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).

In this episode, Nathaniel Mann and Carlos Monleon discuss the activation of different bodies of knowledge and efforts of riverine conservation involved in the process of River Breathing.

River Breathing is an immersive sound installation in which the audience can experience the breathing of the rivers Ebro, Segre and other affluents as a symphony composed of the life cycles of the various species that participate in the pulse of the river. The protagonists of the installation are a choir of naiads, or freshwater clams, which are endangered throughout the Iberian Peninsula but especially in Catalonia and Aragon due to the relentless denaturing of their habitats ,the threat of several invasive (let's call them vigorous!) species, and increasing levels of river pollution.

This choir embodies and gives voice to the river, as the mythological Naiads -spirits of fountains and rivers in ancient Greece- once did. The work transforms scientific models of the metabolism of the Ebro river and its affluents based on historical and real-time data available through sensors and remote sensing systems into multi-channel sound in collaboration with musicians and the help of computer scientists from the UdL (University of Lleida) and biologists from IRTA (Catalunya) and IPE (Aragón).

A series of metabolic scores are produced from the data to be interpreted by musicians , the final composition is completed with underwater recordings of the clams in their conservation tanks. The installation consists of a sculptural sound system made in ceramics and other materials designed in collaboration with sound engineers. A lighting scheme completes the installation.

One of the project’s aims is to make known the complexity of the life of rivers and the delicate nature of maintaining their balance as a way of establishing a relationship of proximity with them and forming emotional bonds of care and responsibility with riparian ecosystems.

Scientific advisor: Rosa Maria Gil. River ecology: Enrique Navarro and Francisco Comín. Clam conservation work: Keiko Nakamura. Sound composition and lighting: Santiago Latorre. Castanets: Miguel Ángel Berna.

Carlos Monleon works with a variety of processes and materials, both living and non-living, that result in sculptural and participatory artworks.These span across different levels of bodily sensation and awareness; from the microbiological to the performative and social bodies. His main line of work traces evolutionary processes that stem from digestion and cognition and result in the distribution of biological processes across multi-species entanglements and cybernetic metabolisms.

Carlos has developed collaborative projects at spaces such as Autoitalia, Seventeen Gallery and Diaspore Project Space, London, Cráter Invertido, Mexico, Hangar, Lisbon as well as institutions such as CA2M, and Matadero, Madrid, HIAP Helsinki, and has shown his individual practice at LUMA Arles, Z33, Istanbul Design Biennial, Porto Design Biennial or the Tallin Biennial amongst others.

Nathaniel Mann (born 1982) is an experimental composer, performer and sound designer. Oscillating between music and sound, Mann has a compositional practice that is expansive in scope and varied in form. He takes on many roles in his work, including researcher, instrument-maker, archive-digger, surround-sound designer, filmmaker, broadcaster, storyteller, producer, curator, entrepreneur, sonic-artist and folksinger. He is also one third of the experimental folk ensemble, Dead Rat Orchestra.

Mann’s compositions probe history, politics and audio culture, resisting established formats and frameworks for creating music. Each work is crafted, adapted and nuanced towards its setting, fuelled by continued dialogue and collaboration with professionals and enthusiasts from varied fields. These have included filmmakers, musicians, visual artists, academics, curators, a pigeon fancier and a swordsmith.

Mann has explored many subjects including the colonial residue of recorded music in South Africa, in dialogue with Andile Vellum, a deaf dancer/choreographer based in Cape Town (Cape Sound Stories, 2016); the psycho-geographic horror of England’s public execution sites (Tyburnia, 2014-17); and the deeply rooted traditions interlinking noise and social control, creating bronze musical meat cleavers with swordsmith Neil Burridge (Rough Music, 2014). He was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Award 2019, Arts Foundation Fellow 2018 and his work Pigeon Whistles (2013), a flying orchestra of flute-carrying Birmingham Roller pigeons, won the George Butterworth Prize for Composition in 2015.

A six-part series by Meira Asher and Stephen Shiell exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist or group who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio.

This episode features guests TOLE and Ruth Angel Edwards. Show notes: pastebin.com/PFtAbbiR.

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Exploring sound discovery in the internet era with Robin Buckley AKA rkss.

Low Noise is an eight part study on a quieter side to noise - as a music or simply as its own aesthetic. Taking form as a collage of sound works from an international roster of artists and composers, the eight hour broadcast is interspersed with esoteric field recordings, film extracts & manipulated sound effects.

Btech and Eman Resu of Superfluid present sound, music, noise along with all their sources via talk, fiction and truth.

Weekly compositions, sketches and motifs by Anastasia Freygang.

Field recordings, experimental narration, ragamash mixes, big time polyrhythmics including fantasy language and hearsay from IRL and the World Wide Web.

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