38 Best Experimental Music Podcasts

1. Tabs Out Cassette Podcast

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All cassette podcast featuring experimental noise, drone, etc.
Hosts Mike, Dave, Joe B
Producer/Network Mike, Dave, and Joe
Email ****@tabsout.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 104Facebook 3.4KTwitter 13.2K Avg Length 107 min Format Extended Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. A Duck in a Tree

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:zoviet*france: presents A Duck in a Tree, a 59 minute continuous mix of some of the best genre-refusing, zero BPM, hypnatropic and maximinimalist recordings that have grabbed their attention.MORE Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 105 Avg Length 54 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

3. KPFA - Over the Edge

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Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air from a variety of formats and equipment. There is a plan and there is no plan. The mix consists of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues. OTE sometimes employs 'Receptacle Programming,' which means you.***To view a PLAYLIST for an episode that has broadcast, click on the episode's title.*** MORE Producer/Network KPFA
Email ****@kpfa.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 59 Avg Length 180 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

4. Do or DIY with People Like Us | WFMU

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Surreal, arty sound collage incorporating music, found audio, and pop culture relics, glued together by People Like Us.
Producer/Network People Like Us and WFMU
Email ****@wfmu.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 72 Avg Length 55 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

5. Crucial Listening

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Experimental musicians and sound artists discuss the albums that are important to them. A bi-weekly podcast from ATTN:Magazine.
Host Jack Chuter
Producer/Network ATTN:Magazine
Email ****@attnmagazine.co.uk
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 44Twitter 924 Avg Length 68 min Format Long form Since Oct 2009 Get Email Contact

6. NOISEXTRA - The noise podcast.

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Noisextra is a weekly deep dive into the world of noise in all of its forms and features album spotlights and in depth conversations with those residing in the noise world. Hosted by Greh Holger, Tara Connelly and Mike Connelly, the podcast takes a historical look at the many tentacles of noise, industrial, and experimental sounds from their distant roots to everything in between and beyond, predominantly from the pre-millennium era.MORE Hosts Greh Holger, Mike Connelly, Tara Connelly
Producer/Network Chondritic Sound
Email ****@noisextra.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 210Twitter 1.9KInstagram 8.6K Avg Length 53 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Free Form Freakout

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Free Form Freakout is a weekly radio show that plays a broad mix of popular and obscure music and produces bi-monthly podcasts focused on underground and experimental music.
Hosts Carl Nordmeier, David Perron
Producer/Network Free Form Freakout
Email ****@hotmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest Chris Berry
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 43Twitter 1.8K Avg Length 120 min Format Extended Since Dec 2013 Get Email Contact

8. The Eternal Now with Andy Ortmann | WFMU

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A comprehensive exploration of contemporary experimental, psychedelic, noise & other obscure music. Hosted by Andy Ortmann (curator of the Nihilist Records label and member of longtime noise project Panicsville) presenting his obsessive perspective on the new difficult music. Peripheral and relating genres, including ethereal, electronic & extreme metal should also be expected in this weekly program. Sit back and relax into the hallucination amplification of The Eternal Now.MORE Host Andy Ortmann
Producer/Network Andy Ortmann and WFMU
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 35 Avg Length 63 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

9. Other Minds Podcast

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The Other Minds Podcast features interviews with some of today's leading composers and performers of new and experimental music. The podcast is produced by Other Minds in San Francisco, which hosts concerts, a record label, a weekly radio program, an archive, and a yearly festival of contemporary music. Season 3 of the podcast features interviews hosted by Joseph Bohigian with a range of musicians and authors, including the composers featured on our 28th Festival, which will be held on September 25 28, 2024 at the Brava Theater in San Francisco, California.MORE Producer/Network Other Minds
Email ****@otherminds.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 12Facebook 2.8KTwitter 1.7KInstagram 2.7K Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

10. Some Assembly Required

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Some Assembly Required is a weekly audio art show focused on works of audio appropriation. 'Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions and turntable creations.' More information, online at: www.some-assembly-required.netMORE Host Jon Nelson
Producer/Network Some Assembly Required
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 19 Avg Length 58 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. The Holmes Archive of Electronic Music

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Thom Holmes is your curator and guide to vintage electronic music recordings and audio experimentation. Drawing from his collection of vintage electronic music recordings spanning the years 1930-1985, each episode explores a topic or theme of historical interest. Holmes is the author of the book, Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, 2020.MORE Producer/Network Thom Holmes
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 17 Avg Length 76 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

12. Sound Propositions

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Sound Propositions features conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Each episode combines interviews with music, field-recordings, and experimental sound design.For fans of experimental music, field-recording, drone, electro-acoustic, ambient, modern composition, and other contemporary electronic music ****@acloserlisten.comhttps://www.patreon.com/soundpropositionsMORE Host Joseph Sannicandro
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 10Twitter 12.3K Avg Length 52 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

13. Cassette Culture

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The stories of the global underground movement that shaped experimental music and culture, told by the artists that were there… For two decades during the '80's and '90's, the international mail system fostered a network of underground artists, exchanging cassette tapes of music and homemade artwork all under the radar of mainstream media. Taking the DIY message of Punk as a jumping off point, we travel through the network to find the creators of the fanzines, the music, the labels and events.MORE Producer/Network East Coast Studio
Email ****@eastcoaststudio.com.au
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guest Richard Allen
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 5 Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

14. Mid-Valley Mutations

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Austin Rich mixes experimental music and art to create Audio Essays and sonic pallets that you've never heard before.
Host Austin Rich
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4Facebook 538Twitter 56 Since Jan 2005 Get Email Contact

15. Library Apocalypse

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A genre-spanning podcast exploring DIY experimental music from around the world.
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 8 Avg Length 74 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

16. Mindcast by Mindwaves-Music

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Podcast for experimental electronic music. Exclusive DJ mixes and live sets from artists who we feel related with. Hosted by Pat Flanders.
Producer/Network Mindwaves-Music
Email ****@mindwaves-music.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 8Facebook 2.9KTwitter 156Instagram 1.5K Avg Length 79 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

17. Borealis : Talking Experiments

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Talking Experiments by Borealis: A new podcast of conversations with composers, artists and musicians playing at Borealis 2022. Get to know the people beind the music and experiments  spanning the musical, social and political. Presented by Jennifer Torrence.MORE Producer/Network Borealis – a festival for experimental music
Email ****@borealisfestival.no
Recent Guest Raven Chacon
Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

18. Ultima Podcast

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Going deeper into the music with the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival. The team behind one of the biggest contemporary music festivals in Northern Europe open up the diverse and fascinating world of modern music and experimental sound with innovative sonic portraits with composers and performers. Ultima Festival happens every year in September: see ultima.no for details.MORE Host Rob Young
Producer/Network Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Email ****@ultima.no
Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

19. Decipher This!

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Members of the technology-focused, experimental music group Ensemble Decipher interview their collaborators on composing and performing music with vintage, contemporary, and emerging technologies.MORE Hosts Joseph Bohigian, Chelsea Loew, Taylor Long, Rob Cosgrove, Eric Lemmon, Niloufar Nourbakhsh
Producer/Network Ensemble Decipher
Email ****@ensembledecipher.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2Facebook 531Twitter 778Instagram 1K Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Since Feb 2021 Get Email Contact

20. New Music by Karlheinz Essl

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Born 1960 in Vienna. Austrian composer, improviser and performer. He studied composition with Friedrich Cerha and musicology in Vienna. Besides writing experimental instrumental music, he performs on his own electronic instrument m@ze°2, develops software environments for computer-aided composition and creates generative sound and video environments. Since 2007 professor of composition for electro-acoustic and experimental music at the University of Music in Vienna.Karlheinz Essl performs on a laptop computer that he has transformed into a live electronic musical instrument...MORE Host Karlheinz Essl
Email ****@essl.at
Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 13 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

21. IMPROVISOR

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A monthly podcast of conversation, music and sound art, featuring improvising and experimental musicians and artists.
Producer/Network Hutch Demouilpied
Email ****@icloud.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

22. Into the Noise

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Into the Noise is a podcast in which Jim Reeve-Baker talks to experimental composers, musicians, and sound artists about their music and background. In each episode the guest brings in several pieces of their music, which we listen to and discuss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.MORE Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 79 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

23. Minimum Waves

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Welcome to Minimum waves podcast where we showcase underground ambient, experimental, and drone artists.Our goal is to bring you a unique listening experience by highlighting the work of artists who are pushing the boundaries of music. From haunting soundscapes to abstract compositions, each episode will feature a selection of tracks that will take you on a journey through the depths of sound.MORE Producer/Network Twelve sense media
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 56 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

24. Ears Have Eyes

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How do our ears see? Perhaps in a brighter, more dynamic technicolour than our eyes can begin to imagine.Ears Have Eyes is an auditory exhibition space for sound art on the radio. Artists respond to a monthly theme, making new compositions and sharing existing sound artworks on CJSW's radio waves.Ears Have Eyes invites local, national, and international artists to share auditory aesthetics, spatial soundscapes, spoken word, experimental music, and other recorded media.MORE Producer/Network CJSW 90.9 FM
Email ****@cjsw.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Get Email Contact

25. Motte and Bailey

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One-person songs written in apartments to worldwide grand collectives. Sprawling emotional esoteric epics to fun and catchy songs. Forgotten visionaries to modern trailblazers. Are your playlists more unorganized than a poorly run library? Do you want to listen to new things and challenge yourself? Join Milan Uyeno as he guides you through the sprawling, engaging, nerdy, and ever-expanding world of experimental music and beyond on Motte and Bailey.MORE Host Milan Uyeno
Producer/Network CJSW 90.9 FM
Email ****@cjsw.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
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26. Strange Attractors

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You there! Listener! Does your life follow a series of routines? Are your usual playlists feeling overplayed? When you look in the mirror do you see an amorphous blob of grey, staticky energy? No, just us??? Well, in any case, feel free to tune into Strange Attractors with your host, Mataea, as she delves into the endless expanse of experimental music each week. Let's get in your weekly dose of weird!MORE Producer/Network CJSW 90.9 FM
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27. Soundologia

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Podcast on New & Experimental Music, Arts & Technologies
Producer/Network Pedja Kovacevic
Email ****@yahoo.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 94 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

28. Sound mosaics for a broken world

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Our world is breaking. Ecosystems are collapsing, our house is burning. But we can fix it like a mosaic, sticking it back together piece by piece. Here's a soundtrack for the recovery process, incorporating sound art, experimental music, audio essays and field recording. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.MORE Producer/Network Adrian Newton
Recent Guest Helen Moore
Avg Length 60 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

29. Subterranean Changes

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Subterranean Changes is Parastatal Sound Series focusingon genealogies of experimental music and sonic engagement beyond western modernism. The goal is to enable new conversations on race and technology through shared listening sessions and critical sound practice. Sound, noise, and the inaudible provide the stuff for a reshaping of the intersections between time, place and being.https://parastatal.art/sound-series/@subterraneanMORE Avg Length 41 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

30. Listening to the Landscape: Holbrook

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I am an experimental musician, sound artist and performer whose work explores the rural landscape of Suffolk (with a particular focus on the morphology of working class soundscapes). I also explore how conceived notions of the pastoral landscape inform and influence ideas of national identity. My work uses manipulated field recordings, homemade instruments, music concrete and modified electronics salvaged from potential landfill to create textural explorations of timbre with instinctive, chance-based arrangements that mimic the rural soundscape.​My current project is an ACE funded explora..MORE Producer/Network Matthew Shenton
Email ****@icloud.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 11 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

31. Crank Playthings

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A weekly improvised noise session.
Producer/Network James E Robinson
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Apple Reviews 2 Since Feb 2017 Get Email Contact

32. Mad Scientists of Music Documentary

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Ireland is home to a variety of underground music scenes, from electro acoustic, to new music to noise to free improv. I've interviewed dozens of Irish experimental musicians who are pushing the boundaries of what music is and can be. This series takes you on a tour of the fringes of music, and introduces you to a world of new sounds. It focuses in particular on circuit bending, chiptune and collaborative music.The show explores the world of Circuit Bending, Chip Tune, and Electroacoustic music in Ireland...MORE Producer/Network Gareth Stack
Email ****@garethstack.com
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Get Email Contact

33. Extracted Sounds

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Norbergfestival: Experimental and contemporary music and arts festival in Norberg, Sweden. 4.-6.7.2024Run by non-profit association Anrikningsverket.
Producer/Network Norbergfestival
Email ****@norbergfestival.com
Apple Rating 4/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 34 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

34. Ribosome Radio

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Ribosome Radio is a regular podcast of experimental music, including sampling, sound manipulation, synthesizer, and computer music, and invented or unusual instruments. Hosted by Matt Davignon, a musician from Oakland, California.MORE Avg Length 69 min Format Long form Since Jul 2020 Get Email Contact

35. The Soundsmiths

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Exploring a weightless world of experimental music. 🚐 Float FM // The Soundsmiths Show Enter our 🌍 ↓
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 6 Avg Length 4 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

36. Robert Ziino's Podcast

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Strange experimental music, film cues, and satire by Robert Ziino, founder of experimentalartists.com ®
Producer/Network Robert Ziino
Email ****@experimentalartists.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 3 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

37. Monumental Movement Podcast

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'Where sound becomes culture, and culture becomes a living archive of the unheard.' This podcast explores music not as entertainment alone, but as a cultural force, a historical thread, and an ever-shifting field of experimental possibilities. Each episode dives into the worlds of avant-garde composition, underground movements, contemporary sound practices, and the hidden connections that shape the way we listen today...MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 1/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

38. unexpected bowtie

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Experimental music with Game Boys, guitars, and the occasional musical saw. This is my scrapbook.
Twitter 186 Avg Length 3 min Format Bite size Since Jan 2016 Get Email Contact