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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.

In this sixth episode, five sound artists hosted by TRAFO are interviewed, each representing a different perspective on technology in the context of contemporary music and sound art.

Jasmine Guffond presented Listening Back, exploring the subversive use of technology in the context of permanent internet surveillance. Jenny Gräf examined the space between technology and traditional craft. Ruben Rübe and Passepartout Duo introduced a new approach to musical instruments and composition. Finally, Mark Mushiva shared The Institute of Decolonial Technology, an initiative that blends artistic practice with scientific inquiry.

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.

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

This episode features two independent labels, Calling Cards Publishing and Italian cassette Canti Magnetici, first Sebastian Melmoth LP out on Artificial Dance and Stephen Shiell 'Sonance' on Linear Obsessional Recordings.

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

Featuring music by Tom Ellard, Dave Sarkys, David Bowie, Sieben, You're Alive but You Are Dead, †ḧΞ ШЇⱬ▲Яᶑ, The Young Gods, Jim & Tammy and their Friends, Suburban Lawns, Saloon, MacroNoise, Carl Matthews, Plinth, TimeControlledOrganism and .mp3Neptune.

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

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.

This episode features a special live mix by musician and sound artist Jo Johnson.

Background sounds: Waldeninsamkeit by Kayla Painter and field recordings of owls.

A monthly show exploring our innate connection to sound, and how we express that through music, showcasing work that connects to our body and minds through rich compositional choices, through intricate processes in the studio, or music that is inspired by the way we interact with the outside world. Connections to Sound journeys through downtempo, electronic, ambient and beat driven music, featuring tracks from artists all around the world. Presented by Kayla Painter.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of “Lay All Your Love On Me“ by the Swedish pop band ABBA. There's no order, no lists, just exclusive, overwrought fandom material: marching bands, metalheads, witches, vampires, Soundcloud stars, pioneers of the millennial sound, Mozarts of midi, musicians who run record labels... all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

Featuring two guests: Tuuun and Elbis Rever.

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’re playing recordings from our investigation into the Greenwich Park Reservoir. This space has been abandoned for 150 years and Greenwich Park has sealed the entrance tight. Fortunately, there are small vents above that are big enough for cameras, speakers and recorders.

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.

This episode is a Gagarin & Spectral Transmissions Research Unit special.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

Chance Encounters: One day on Eday (Set 2) works with 24 random samples from a 24-hour recording – island walks, the island circumference, a replicated walk across one day – to build a ‘one-hour-day’. Engage with an Orcadian island, listen to chance sonic encounters with Eday, hear one day.

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

In 1991, in the last year of the Soviet Union's existence, Melodiya decided to embark on a pioneering experiment in product marketing by launching the Signal Series of records. Each record in this series contained fragments of four new albums to be released, and the envelopes contained sketches of their artwork. The listener was invited to vote for their favorite artist by sending a written request to the major's editorial office to order the record through the label's official store. In essence, Melodiya launched the process of the first democratic elections in the Soviet Union.

In total, the series included 10 LPs with fragments of upcoming albums by 40 artists respectively. Most of them were bands playing the fashionable gorby rock - the so-called “red wave” guitar music of Gorbachev's perestroika period with screaming socio-political lyrics and manifestos. However, the series also included music by Russian art-rock bands, which at that time had already become cult in underground circles and had their own army of listeners (AuktsYon, NOM, NOL, Object of Mockery and others).

I compiled this episode from the music of projects that were less honoured by listeners - their albums were never released on Melodiya in full form. And the label was shut down shortly after the release of the last LP in the series. You will hear outsider new wave, occult hard rock, national reggae, free jazz and mesmerising folk. I'm kidding though - one project on this tracklist did release their debut LP on Melodia. You have one hour to guess who it was.

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental TOPOT label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

In this episode, Joe is joined in the studio by Josh Barfoot (Shovel Dance Collective, Gentle Stranger) for a live set on the hammered dulcimer, with an interview and track selections including Eric Chenaux, Annette Peacock & Robert Wyatt.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each week a new guest joins Joe in the studio to discuss and perform their work. Expect in-depth interviews, live performances, conversations and new event experiments.

This episode steams gently from the inside — towels on the floor, tiles sweating, something between a ritual and a very long shower. Dip in or out...

A loose drift through misaligned pop, outsider electronics, folk shards, radio ghosts and accidental hymns, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso. Visit www.discrepant.net/radio for more information.

This episode is produced by guest curator, Andy Ingamells.

Ensemble x.y is a contemporary ensemble that commissions and performs new music in a flexible and ever-changing lineup. Run without traditional roles or hierarchies, Ensemble x.y develops its thematically-charged programmes according to the taste and interest of its core players, as well as the developing working relationships between resident composers and instrumentalists.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by m&k’s poem “nobody home / one after another / the visiting stars."

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

This month: "sound activism" - including work by Ultra-Red, Christopher DeLaurenti, Terre Thaemlitz, and others. None of the pieces discuss UK political parties, but they do references political protests against the WTO, Greek austerity measures and their effects, US political parties, local gentrification processes in Los Angeles and ecological crisis.

Monthly investigations of music politics with Paul Rekret.

New music with The Wire Magazine.