1-bit sound, spectral minimalism, sleep cassettes and the life and death of one the last great Romantics feature in a new episode of The Tonic, with Luke Fraser presenting some of the best new and recently released instrumental and electronic classical music from Cyprus, Greece, Canada and the US.

With music by Lena Platonos, Yannis Kyriakides, Angélique Ionatos & Nena Venetsanou, Claude Vivier, Barbara Monk Feldman, Patrick Giguère, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Tristan Perich, Pauline Anna Strom (Trans-Millenia Consort) and James Tenney.

The featured image shows Audible Chairs (2022), a study in mechanically produced sound, movement and interaction by Finnish designer Hemmo Honkonen.

Chromesthesia, a text-sound classic, dispatches from the Antarctic frontier, sixth-tone chords and a mega-cistern feature amongst others in a new episode of The Tonic, with Luke Fraser presenting some of the best new and recently released instrumental and electronic classical music from the Armenian Diaspora, Austria and the US.

With music by Joseph Bohigian, Charles Amirkhanian, Vahram Sarkissian, Judith Berkson, Lea Bertucci, Stuart Dempster, Clarice Jenson, Cheryl E. Leonard, Klaus Lang and Bernhard Lang.

The featured image shows Nonversation - a sound sculpture using found audio of U.S. politicians discussing climate change, by interdisciplinary sculpture artist Sara Dittrich.

Psychotropic strings, autonomous snare drums, cave music, the meta-voice and a trombone alone on the beach feature among others in a new episode of The Tonic, broadcasting this Wednesday between 1300-1430 (GMT), with Luke Fraser presenting some of the best new and recently released instrumental and electronic classical music from Latvia and the US.

With music by Georgs Pelēcis, Aulejas Sievas (women from Auleja), Maija Einfelde, Pēteris Plakidis, Uģis Prauliņš, Ben Vida, Odeya Nini, Samuel Adams, Noah Jenkins, Austin Wulliman, Yvette Janine Jackson and Andrew McIntosh.

The featured image shows 25 Woodworms, Wood, Microphone, Sound System (2009), a video installation by Swiss Artist and composer Zimoun. 

Interspecies communication, pipe organ techno, old time and a prelude for four diesel locomotives and harp feature in the latest episode of The Tonic, with Luke Fraser presenting some of the best new and recently released instrumental and electronic classical music from Belgium and the US.With music by Henri Pousseur, Ann Eysermans, Maxime Denuc, Pierre Slinckx, Baudouin de Jaer, Gabriela Smith, Michael Byron, Emily Pinkerton, Jim Nollman, Tyondai Braxton, Sarah Kirkland Snider, David Friend and Jerome Begin.The featured image shows Bass mit zwei saiten (1993), an interactive mechanical-electronic Sound Object by German artist Peter Vogel.

To mark the end of 2023 Luke Fraser presented a special edition of The Tonic including a personal selection of pieces featured in the show over the past twelve months.

Featuring some of the best new and recently released instrumental and electronic classical music from Belgium, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, the UK and USA.

Griot classics, hardanger fiddle, tactile transducers and Messiaen in a tiki bar all feature in a new episode of The Tonic, with Luke Fraser presenting some of the best new and recently released instrumental and electronic classical music from Canada, Norway and Mali.With music by Alison Cameron, Fjóla Evans, Emilie Cecilia LeBel, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Fodé Lassana Diabaté, Mamadou Diabaté, Rokia Traoré, Øyvind Torvund, Helga Myhr, Thov G. Wetterhus, Dei Kjenslevare and Jon Øivind Ness.The featured image shows Sound Sculpture (2023) from the exhibition Oh Lord, Don‘t Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me, by Austrian performance and media artist Valie Export.