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Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.

As part of La Semaine du Son, GMEA offered a creative micro-residency to a group of 12 young international artists, selected by the different tekhnē partners. The group was invited to collectively develop listening devices in the public space of the city of Albi.

At the end of the residency, they presented their work at several places in the city. This podcast features excerpts – sound walks, installations, in-situ experiments – from the micro-residency.

With the artists Merlin Tessier, Emilia Elouardi, Leo Van Damme, Ana Kulakova, Qusay Awad, Hany Tea, Rita Santos, Élif Guilin Soguksu, Agita Reķe, Flurina Mia Häberli, Jacob Eckhardt and Isul Kim.

Bi-monthly insights into the activities of the European project tekhnē, which started in 2023. The series showcases a selection of artists who share and discuss their work and listen to recorded material. By putting the focus on the user rather than the developer, this project aims to explore the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. Technology as an art of craft, appropriating and transforming existing tools, to imagine multiple ways of creative misuse. tekhnē is a collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union.

A birdsong special featuring music by Ron Nagorcka, Cosmo Sheldrake, Duelling Ants and field recordings made by Antti Tolvi, Jani Hirvonen and f.ampsim.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

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

Phantom Circuit is celebrating its 10th birthday, so please join us for music by National Sound, Brian Hodgson, Don Harper, Peter Howell and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Jodie Lowther & A.R.C Soundtracks, M4T, The Last Little Bit, Flying Species, Georges Rodi, Noisense, John Callaghan, Kraftwerk, Laibach, Richard Grassby-Lewis & The Insects, The Hunted Hare, The Residents, Irmin Schmidt and Bridget St. John.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

This episode features Alexis Bathory. 'Carefree, mixed for the difficult days "or something like that" because... I wish people that are having a hard time to become a little more happy.'

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

This episode was created for the Winter Solstice of 2024, a time of extreme dark or light in either direction, a hunkering down in the wet earth or a baking out in the hot sun. The piece is composed by Stephen Shiell using original material from NSOTA scholars.

With contributions from Stephen Shiell, Rhona Eve Clews, Chris de Sel,** Sk.ye, **Lu(Lu)Lu, Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White), Clare Whistler, Michael Timmerman, and Simon McClelland Morris.

The New School of the Anthropocene is a radical experiment in alternative education, away from marketisation and arcane specialism towards co-sensing systems change through creative practice. This is an ecological transmission of DIY ethics, non-hierarchical structures, radical networks, interconnected sensing through sound, text, voice, spoken word, human and more-than-human collaborative practice, patchwork group thinking, and radio art.

As a guardian of the Slice, Stephen Shiell is exploring and understanding the site as both a public sculpture and a private environment that sits beyond the boundaries of the usual. These radio shows are recordings of live events, happenings to explore the tensions that exist between the public and private.

Curating the series around his own love for experimental electronics and improvisation is a way for me to bring communities into this setting, a chance to celebrate an underground London culture in a place that hasn’t been commercialised or capitalised, even though it lies in the heart of these very environments.

‘Naus’ refers to the Ancient Greek word for ship, and also recalls the word nausea, a ‘ship- sickness’, that reflects the artist’s feelings towards the neo-liberalist landscape surrounding the ship. The sounds created here are a form of electronic improvised noise resistance.

This episode features Anina Hug, Andrej Bako, Lucia H Chung, 4046 Group (Matt Atkins, Regan Bowering, Lucia H Chung, John Macedo, Flynn McHardy, James Shearman, Stephen Shiell, Vicky Sparrow, Paul Watson, Tom White, Angharad Davies).

Stephen Shiell is a London-based sound artist, composer and improviser working across experimental music, radiophonic art and site-responsive process. His work explores listening as a social, ecological and political act, engaging sound as a way of understanding place, environment and human presence.

A show of improvised electronics recorded live on board A Slice of Reality – a vertical section of an ocean going sand dredger that stands on the foreshore of the Thames at North Greenwich in London, since its placement there 25 years ago. Originally conceived of as a sound bite of lost industry to mark the turning of a millennium, the realities the ship witnesses are now very different - the high octane leisure industries of the Millennium dome and the docks, and the global finance district at Canary Wharf.

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Clocks by Coldplay. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Lovers of Sinaloan tambora music, anti-pop singers, vaporwave country dancers, atonal music gurus, watchmakers, salsa jumpers... 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).

William Fields explores the potential of algorithmic music through the process of recreating (and inventing?) genres with his musical operating system.

In this episode, we use the online video site Astronaut.io and multiple browsers to create compositions built from the textures and landscapes that are conjured up when time and geography are flattened.

These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unheard (by anyone but you).

Vague Wanderings is a bi-monthly collaborative live show from the 24-26 cohort of School of the Damned, exploring imagined spaces, temporary autonomous zones, collecting field recordings and the fertile topsoil of vague terrains.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

The programme moves between artist talks, panel discussions, audio artworks and live performance. Across these presentations, artistic research offers forms of situated knowledge production, operating alongside and in dialogue with social, scientific and technological methodologies.

The symposium takes place on the radio as a live broadcast accessible via FM in specific locations and globally via a dedicated online ‘listening room’ with a text-chat function for listeners to interact with and contribute to the ongoing broadcast. Live captions can be enabled via Chrome’s accessibility settings. Listeners are invited to tune in and out across the afternoon and evening, encountering the programme as a distributed, time-based experience.

This is a Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) event curated by artist-researchers Hannah Kemp-Welch, Lia Mazzari and Anna Clock. The symposium is hosted on the radio by artist cooperative Soundcamp and locally from their studio in London. The event is made possible by support from London College of Communication (LCC) Research.

Curated by artist-researchers Hannah Kemp-Welch, Lia Mazzari and Anna Clock.

Anna Clock // Anna Friz // Angus Carlyle // Celeste Oram // Claire Williams // Emiddio Vasquez // Hannah Kemp-Welch // Kathy Hinde // Lia Mazzari // Sébastien Robert + Rob Stammes // Shortwave Collective // Soundcamp

How might electromagnetic listening bring sound art, environmental research, and scientific sensing into closer relation? This symposium-on-the-radio brings together artists and researchers engaging with the electromagnetic spectrum as both material and site of inquiry. Fifteen contributors present work exploring natural radio phenomena, electromagnetic listening practices and questions of spectrum access.

Chris Bohn hosts this episode, playing Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins to mark the 95 year old saxophonist’s passing, plus Hilary Jeffery’s tribute to Keith Tippett featuring Julie Tippetts, and various collaborations including Tuvan throat singer Sainkho Namtchylak and composer Mirco Magnani, gogoj aka Sheng Jie & Deng Boyu, Dope Purple & Makoto Kawabata, and… Die Toten Hosen & Blixa Bargeld!

New music with The Wire Magazine.