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Now, A Year in the Clear – this past year's worth of Clear Spots and Micro Clear Spots, our open access slot for one-off, special and surprise broadcasts.

In partnership, Resonance FM & Extra broadcast a summer’s worth of radical radio featuring new and archival radiophonic artworks, community activism, sound art, experimental literature, documentary, innovative music and more.

Now, a short audio experiment – with spoken word elements – which seems experientially longer than it actually is. Its creator, Daniel Wilson, has supplied the following quasi-obscurantism to cushion you from any disquiet: "when shopping (for bread, perhaps) we often reach behind the items placed at the front of the supermarket shelves in the hope of discovering those with later best-before dates in the shadowy recesses. Likewise, this recording attempts to reach beyond 'meaning', towards something deeper and more enduring".

In partnership, Resonance FM & Extra broadcast a summer’s worth of radical radio featuring new and archival radiophonic artworks, community activism, sound art, experimental literature, documentary, innovative music and more.

In this extended programme Patrick Bernard follows in the footsteps of W. G. Sebald and his eponymous character Austerlitz as he explores the East End of London with poet Stephen Watts (a friend of 'Max' Sebald who accompanied him on many of his walks). They are joined by Nadia Valman and David Anderson from Queen Mary University of London as they visit many of the locations in the novel to uncover the layers of history hidden beneath the surface of the city and Sebald's text.

Patrick and his guests walk from Exchange Square behind Liverpool Street Station – where Austerlitz first arrives to London on the Kindertransport – to Brick Lane where Stephen reads a poem dedicated to Altab Ali and Bill Fishman. From there they continue to Alderney Road – where Austerlitz lives in the novel and also home to the oldest Ashkenazi Jewish cemetery in the UK – and finally arrive at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park behind St. Clement's Hospital where Sebald's character spends a long period of recovery.

Sound recorded by Milo Thesiger-Meacham and photography by Karen Lacey-Holder. Thanks to Leonard Shear of the United Synagogue.

In partnership, Resonance FM & Extra broadcast a summer’s worth of radical radio featuring new and archival radiophonic artworks, community activism, sound art, experimental literature, documentary, innovative music and more.

Now, Sun Ra Arkestra Live (2003). The legendary three hour+ live session for The Wire's Adventures in Modern Music, introduced by Tony Herrington, at Resonance's Denmark Street studio on 19 June 2003.

In partnership, Resonance FM & Extra broadcast a summer’s worth of radical radio featuring new and archival radiophonic artworks, community activism, sound art, experimental literature, documentary, innovative music and more.

The Pines documents the sound of a forest over the course of an entire year. Stereo recordings made from halfway up a pine tree in central New York State were collected using technology that allowed for continuous remote recording of 8760 hours.

The recordings were manually analysed using bioacoustics applications and composed into four one-hour chapters each representative of a season. The work is a representational collage of the year-long acoustic ecology of a forest and asks, how might a soundscape differ when a human listener exits the landscape? Produced by Joshua Bonnetta (Canada/D 2025) in collaboration with Silent Green, Berlin and Resonance.

In partnership, Resonance FM & Extra broadcast a summer’s worth of radical radio featuring new and archival radiophonic artworks, community activism, sound art, experimental literature, documentary, innovative music and more.

RROverload! An all-day sequence of works by the Resonance Radio Orchestra. We hear (with featured vocalists): Overheard 2 (excerpt), feat. Tam Dean Burn (2010). Attempted Breakfast, feat. Samuel Collings (2006). The Arthur Cravan Memorial Boxing Match, feat. Tam Dean Burn, Art Terry, Helena Stevens (2004). The Death of Kodak, feat. Rodney Earl Clarke, Richard Scott, Piers Gibbon (2015). Overheard 1, feat. Tam Dean Burn, Pene Herman Smith (2010). Songs of Dissolution and Practicality, feat. Sam Lee, Carole Finer, Rod Hunt (2013).

Gaddafi in Hythe, feat. Tam Dean Burn, Peter Lanceley (2017). Buddy Holly's Suitcase, feat. Art Terry (2014). Score For Open Heart Surgery On Charlie Watts, feat. Tam Dean Burn, Peter Lanceley (2015). Larry Shipping in der Abtei und Saaleaue bei Planena, feat. Marie Anne Fliegel, Peter Lanceley (2016). Second Sketch for Larry Shipping, feat. Tam Dean Burn, Peter Lanceley (2016). First Sketch for Larry Shipping, feat. Dudley Sutton, Peter Lanceley (2016).

Fifth Sketch For Ascent And Descent, feat. Willie Carr, Peter Lanceley (2014). Second Sketch For Ascent And Descent, feat. Tam Dean Burn, Peter Lanceley (2014). First Sketch for Ascent and Descent, feat. Dudley Sutton (2014). Heart Like A Duck, feat. Tom Graham, Peter Lanceley (2016). The Death Of Nero, feat. Johny Brown, Tam Dean Burn, Martyn Singleton, Kay Grant, Viv Corringham, Max O'Brien (2004). The Mayfly, feat. Kay Grant, Ivor Kallin, Sabina Meyer, Alistair McGowan (2006).

Texts, concept and direction: Ed Baxter. Musicians, composers, improvisers include: Tomomi Adachi, Sarah Angliss, Knut Aufermann, Ted Barrow, Ed Baxter, Tom Besley, Xentos Fray Bentos, Stephen Bloe, Fari Bradley, Barry Burns, Adam Bushell, Ali Butcher, Rowan Corkill, Benedict Drew, James Dunn, Luke Fowler, Lewis Gibson, Yedo Gibson, Louise Goodwin, Ivor Kallin, Andy Keep, Simon King, Keiko Kitamura, Peter Lanceley, Alistair Leslie, Cat Lee Marr, Chris Lee Marr, Elo Masing, Charlie Menzies, Kim Moore, Sarah Nicol, Max O’Brien, Joe Qiu, Alex Ressel, Markus Sasse, Milo Thesiger-Meacham, Richard Thomas, Michael Umney, Mark Vernon, Robin Warren, Sarah Washington, Chris Weaver, Veryan Weston, Lin Zhang and others accidentally overlooked – to whom apologies. Boxers Neil Danskin and Hamid Ahmed feature in Overheard 1.

More details: resonanceradioorchestra.wordpress

In partnership, Resonance FM & Extra broadcast a summer’s worth of radical radio featuring new and archival radiophonic artworks, community activism, sound art, experimental literature, documentary, innovative music and more.