← Tuesday 6th December 2022 →

This episode features music by Anan Elbash, Zell, Bartama Project, Youmna Saba and many more.

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.

The station is managed by Mark Vernon and Barry Burns and is funded through Creative Scotland’s Open Project Funding with additional support from CCA Glasgow and the Goethe-Institut.

Tonight's extract from the 2022 edition of the festival features the following artists and broadcasts:

The Concrete Acid Echo Tapes by Luke Pendrell (02:00 - 02:30am GMT)

"The Concrete Acid Echo Tapes (Dr Raypower vs. His Majesties Ludd Púca) by Dr. Raypower from Live at the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre Christmas ’92, produced by Ludd Púca. The Concrete acid echo tapes resurface buried signals, emitted by spectres now cast out. The brutal dance echoes like sonic plattenbau. Undergirds the Real with a fluid solvent."

Earthloops by Tom Scott (02:30 - 3:00am GMT)

"This work is composed of analogue material recorded in the early 80’s reimagined with recent field recordings in 2021. The work maintains the presence of looped tape material and field recordings are processed via spectral filters until eventually only the spectural shifts are present. It explores the relationships between the movements of the environmental sounds and the materiality of the processed audio.

How do you listen? Position yourself in stillness."

Solar Radio by Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz (3:00 - 5:00am GMT)

"Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz are collaborating to produce a new outdoor sound installation for Wavefarm (located in Acra NY) in 2022. The piece centers around an automated radio station that is powered by the sun. It responds to its environment and the state of the sun by playing with simple AI sound synthesis algorithms – imitating the sounds of insects, birds, frogs, the wind moving through the trees, rain falling, magnetic phenomena and various waves.

This radio piece mixes the synthetic sounds of the AI with radiophonic sounds and field recordings – featuring on-site recordings made on the land at Wavefarm. Anna Friz and Absolute Value of Noise (Peter Courtemanche) are Canadian sound and radio artists. Anna Friz creates self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation and performance. Her compositions reflect upon public media culture, ecology and infrastructure (human and extra-human, acoustic, and electro-magnetic), time perception, and various fictions. Absolute Value of Noise creates radio and outdoor installations.

He likes to work with “gadgetry” – custom turntables, lamp filaments, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, magnetic transceivers, and “little electronic brains” that observe and respond to local phenomena. His outdoor works are a comment on bio-diversity, extinction, and fragility."

Thinning of The Veil by Helena Celle (5:00 - 6:00am GMT)

"Helena Celle is a Glaswegian artist and audio engineer. She is concerned with the participatory representation of the imaginal through the organisation of sound, image and language, and currently produces an hour (or more) of original work for patrons every month. She plays guitar in the band Herbert Powell (Lost Map Records), and previously played bass guitar in the band Anxiety (La Vida Es Un Mus Records)."

Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station that broadcasts for two weeks each year from the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow – a festival exploring current trends in sound and transmission arts. The broadcast schedule features newly commissioned radio works, live performances and live studio shows, shorts and pre-recorded features, and selections from an international open call.

Lepke B is hard to find. Lepke B is an idea derived from science-fiction. Lepke B is the missing dimension in the world of matter and anti-matter. His brain is a neuronic network spread out over melodies and words that have been transmitted since the beginning of times.

This episode features music from Dead Neanderthals, Dame Area, Skrei, Hermetic Brotherood Of Lux Or and Dusk Device.

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

Now: Episode #2 - Who's With You? Someone's watching. Squinting out from below a leaf, keeping an eye on the panatrope, the cantina, the wall all around. Silph sees everything.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

A unique audio drama series created by writer/director Neil Cargill and musician/sound designer Simon James featuring an original electronic music score and full cast including Ian McDiarmid, famed for his role as Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars saga, as Cuttings – the radio ham who picks up a mysterious voice. The voice belongs to a girl (Joy McAvoy, from Ken Loach's The Angels' Share, and Filth) trapped in an abandoned amusement park called Akiha Den Den. Singer Wendy Rae Fowler (featured vocalist with bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age) lends her distinctive Alabama tones to the multi-layered soundscape as it becomes clear there's a whole community there, whose words and music become woven into a mesmerising plea for help. Everything becomes highly charged when one of the trapped inhabitants finds a way into our world – where his impact on us could be as devastating and far-reaching as an unknown, unseen virus.

In this broadcast, Lloyd Dunn is in conversation with Sarah Washington at Radio Revolten, 12th October 2016. Multimedia artist and publisher Lloyd Dunn currently lives in Prague. His work began in 1983 with the project PhotoStatic Magazine, for which he served as editor, publisher and frequent contributor.

PhotoStatic was intended to focus primarily on art created specifically for the xerox machine, but quickly found itself in the burgeoning zine community that was so active during the 1980s and 90s. The last issue (no. 49) appeared in 1989. In 1987 he co-founded the multimedia group The Tape-beatles with John Heck and Ralph Johnson, and began the creation of a series of works that included sound and film collage, as well as live performance.

Dunn has remained closely involved in a variety of arts-related projects up to the present time. Dunn’s curent work is embodied in the filecast project http://nula.cc, which he began in 2009. New filecasts appear at the project’s 'online presence' at frequent, though irregular intervals, and may be freely downloaded and shared.

Radio Revolten was an international radio-art festival in Halle, Germany, which took place in October 2016 and featured an independent station, installations, live performances, conferences, workshops and public interventions.

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.

This episode features tracks selected in response to postcards sent in by Molly Martin. Featuring John Cage, Judy Garland, Carolee Schneeman, Debbie Harry, Shirley Kwan & more.

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.

Calle record is an online archive project that intends to develop – through a multimedia platform – the recording, documentation and accessibility of music played in public spaces.

Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

This episode is dedicated to the voice, human, animal, alien & transformed vocal cords. What started as a random selection of tunes eventually took an unexpected turn when I realised the quantity of records being played with the voice center stage.

The first half weise randomly pulled records, for the second half I had a plan in mind. Voice games, gutural drones, acapellas, cut ups, glurps, burps and singalongs for the festive season.

Discrepancies is a global showcase of disparate music with a focus on earthly field recordings and international sounds, curated by the Discrepant record label, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.

In this episode, Gwaith Swn’s Sonic Darts has been taken over by the collaborators of the V International Biennial Edition of Sound Art Sonandes, Bolivia. Compositions and works played during the show were made as the result of workshops carried out by international artists who were invited to the festival and a working group made up of local creators and composers.

Sonandes would like to extend a thank you to all collaborators and guest artists: Reni Hofmüller (AT), Valentina Vuksic (CH), Celeste Betancurt (CO), Felix Deufel (DE), Thomas Béguin (CA), Sam Conran (UK), Marcus Maeder (CH ), Camilo Cantor (CO), Asimtria (PE), La Fuga (BO), John Grzinich (EE), Cecilia Castro (AR), Santiago Johnson (AR), Rodrigo Rios Zunino (CL), Susana Chau (CL), Elisa Balmaceda (CL), Spectral Committee (CL), La Nueva Sensación (BO), Colectivo Ch’ixi (BO) and all the participants and audiences.

Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts is a London-based sound art collective presenting new sound works, performances and discussions.