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  1. Show 1085: When We Bow Down Our Heads by John Roach (Radia edit, Rádio Zero)
    2026/01/12

    This 27 minute radio version of When We Bow Down Our Heads was created by John Roach specifically for radia.fm. The work celebrates the resonance of wind and its promiscuous and borderless nature by combining 10 years of spatialized field recordings, live intervention of performers Wolf Robert Stratmann (double bass) and Inbal Hever (voice), and fragments of interviews that provide contextual turbulence. Two voices are heard in this edit, the interdisciplinary artist and composer Raven Chacon and the Geophysical Scientist Joonsuk Kang.

    A graphic score that places the various field recordings temporally, and guided Strattman and Hever’s performance, can be found here:

    John Roach is an interdisciplinary artist with a particular interest in sound and multisensory experience who builds environments that blur the line between what we see and what we hear. His work moves fluidly between intermedia installation, radio transmission, performance, object-making, and image-making. It is guided by a playful embrace of uncertainty – something that is often fully activated through collaboration. Many projects focus on themes related to ecological systems, biodiversity, and climate, such as the installation Scorched Honey Archive about the complex interconnections between humans and pollinators that was exhibited at NARS and BioBAT galleries in Brooklyn, NY.

    Show 112: The HASUER-birdmen by Ralf Wendt
    2007/05/21

    I am searching for years and years the HASUER- birdmen. The aim is not to catch him, more to learn that strange language of no sense but beauty

    made by Ralf Wendt- at Radio CORAX in Halle – E. Germany

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Past shows

  1. Show 1082: Spooky Aspic at a Distance by Ergo Phizmiz/Lottie Bowater (Soundart Radio, Devon, UK)

    Narrative is in a pretty pickle without the culture of experimental theatricals tossing off their posing pouches and expressing with wild abandon but, today in the studios of Soundart Radio, almost everybody is naked! That’s because devised theatre, in the most magical of spaces – the radiophonic environment – is back! Ghosts! Witchcraft! Savoury jelly! Welcome to the future dramaturgy! May or may not involve contributions from interstellar intelligences.
    jelly in space

    Produced by Dr Ergo Phizmiz and Lottie Depresstival Bowater with the Soundart Radio MASSIVE
    at the “PLAY” devised radio workshops, part of listen–play–experiment with thanks to funding from Devon and Torbay Combined Authority, Devon County Council and UK Shared Prosperity Fund “Essential Skills” programme.
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    Show 1083: Music Is Murder by Martin Djorlev (Kanal103)

    This episode captures the closing moments of Kanal 103’s marathon broadcast marking 81 years of Macedonian Radio, on 28.12.2025.
    After more than 15 hours on air and a never-ending closing live session, the scheduled program slowly dissolved into an open situation. Recorded around 4am, as the night tipped into morning, the studio shifted into a different mode. Using the station computer, Martin Djorlev began mixing live from multiple internet sources, navigating streams, fragments, and digital noise in real time.

    What emerged was an unplanned deep drone / ambient mix, imperfect, glitchy, unbalanced, marked by signal cracks and bleed from an old mixer worn down by years of use. Slow and immersive, the sound hovers somewhere between exhaustion and focus. A live navigation through online audio, shaped by the moment, the hour, and the accumulated energy of the broadcast.

    Martin Djorlev is a central figure in the new Macedonian music scene. Active across projects, genres, and formats, he plays almost nightly, releases constantly, and moves between live performance, composition, and experimentation. This set reflects that momentum, created without preparation, without pause, as if there were no tomorrow.

    Some of his recent music:
    https://zhivotni.bandcamp.com
    https://ubijdedo.bandcamp.com
    https://stotrojka.bandcamp.com

    Recorded live at Kanal 103, Skopje.

  2. Radia FM Episode 1080 und 1081
    Cyborg Lullaby from Gwen Sainte-Rose

    « Est-ce que vous avez des enfants ? »
    A cette question qui paraît anodine, celles qui ne sont pas mères peuvent apporter, chacune, une réponse et une histoire très différentes.
    Gwen y répond ici à sa façon, dans ce premier geste sonore qui raconte son histoire et son rapport à la non-maternité. D’autres créations sur cette question suivront, présentant les univers singuliers de chacune autour du projet : « Celles qui ne sont pas mères ».

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    « Cyborg Lullaby » from Gwen Sainte-Rose
    (1st part of upcoming “Those who are not mothers”)
    “Do you have children?”
To this seemingly innocuous question, those who are not mothers can each give a very different answer and tell a very different story.
Gwen responds in their own way, in this first sound piece that tells their story and their relationship with non-motherhood.
    It’s also about what they feel on a sensory level. How they live in a binary and heterosexual system. What is “natural” or not And how they find their way in there.
Other creations on this question will follow, presenting each person’s unique universe on this theme.
    

Gwen Sainte-Rose is a musician, composer and sound artist. Their creations are always guided by sensitive listening.
    For cello and loopstation, they composed “Collines – Racines”, two soundscapes inspired by the Forêt de Soignes and the Gaume region in South Belgium.
    They produced the radio documentary “Ne pleure pas !” (Don’t cry!), about child abuse.
Now they are also exploring links between videos they made with a microscope camera, sound and music, as in « Garden ».
    Production, sound design and music : Gwen Sainte-Rose
    Curation : Carine Demange

    The Wind of Heaven

    Hidden Valley seems to be far removed from our worlds. There, a musical encounter with Flies, Cicadas, Wombat Poo, and a little Waterfall unfolds. These characters become my Musickin—through the musicking—as the wind of heaven blows through the pipes of every critter.

    Later in my studio: A contemplation re-enfolds on the affordances of identity and identitylessness.

    The originary recording was made 2020, in the Budawang Mountains, southwest of Nowra, on the east-coast of Australia. This Country is the lead author of this work, and respects are paid to the Yuin people, who have been singing up these Mountains everywhen. My studio is on Gadigal Country.

    • Jim Denley, December 2025

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  4. This radiophonic piece is improvised from live broadcast, dubbed and mixed across four channels in real time, with effects layered in the moment. It explores the fleeting quality of sound — how something can be summoned into being just by pressing Play. It’s about listening as a kind of magic, where the act of playback becomes the act of creation, unfolding outward like a ripple
    from the centre. A quiet celebration of the ephemeral, the accidental, and the everyday wonder of tuning in.
    Andrew Backhouse is one of the founders of Harrogate Community Radio and an artist in his own right. Born in East Anglia and somewhat superstitious, Andrew has lived across the UK but now happily calls Harrogate home.
    More about Andrew Backhouse can be found

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