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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.

The recorder automatically dropped off his neck the next morning, to be retrieved a few hours later by following the location data collected. The project was developed with Forestry Commission England and Sound and Music as part of the Embedded residency programme.

Antoine Bertin is an artist who listens his way around the boundaries between documentary and fiction, the poetic and the political, the living and the artificial. His work consists of audio narratives combining elements of broadcast, walk, sculpture and publication. Weaving technology together with storytelling, he is curious about our relationship with the environment, the 'unreachable' and the idea of progress. Born in 1985, trained as a sound engineer at ENS Louis Lumière and graduating with an MA in Sound Art from London College of Communication, Antoine currently works in London, Paris and Brussels.

More information at www.antoinebertin.org and https://vimeo.com/115117308.

On the 31st of July 2014, artist Antoine Bertin attached a recording collar of his own making to a fox. With the help of the Harper Wildlife Rescue he let Ollie go at 6pm not too far from London, following his movements thanks to the GPS in his collar.

moving air

Rain ~ Bells

shared thoughts

Continuing our study of combining Pauline Oliveros' Sonic Meditations Pacific Tell and Energy Changes, Tarik Haskic (Slovenia) and Littoral Transmissions (UK) attempt to open up telepathic communication across time and space.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

A 22-hour radio project in 7 episodes by Milo Thesiger–Meacham. An unnamed narrator moves house and pieces together a world of recording devices, names, crime, real-world characters and media from across the globe, featuring 10-second audio extracts from over 6000 individual videos found online, original sound recordings, music, hand-held camera audio and writing. Commissioned by the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022 for the temporary radio art station Radio Art Zone. Follow Fox Neame for more.

A Sonorous Expedition presents a sound and visual, ecological and social research journey in Panama as a transformation to the environment of the Maxilla Space in London. In Panama, Ana Carolina was based in the indigenous community of Guna Yala, which encompasses rainforest and covers much of Panama’s eastern Caribbean coast; the aim was to learn from the indigenous community ecological and sustainable ways of living.

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.

40 years ago during the Summer of 1977 Muhammad Ali visited South Shields and Tyneside in the North East of England, touring South Shields in an open top bus and having his marriage blessed at the Al-Ahzar Mosque in the town. In November last year with first snow of winter blowing in we took a life size image of Ali around Jarrow, South Shields and South Tyneside retracing the route he took.

We used quotes from the outspoken world champion as prompts to ask people questions about life; South Shields, South Tyneside, their dreams, masculinity and identity. Interviews recorded with Sarah Cotton, Keeper of Contemporary Collecting, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.

The Tyneside Sounds Society is a monthly broadcast dedicated to the recording and reinterpretation of the sonic environment and sound heritage of Tyneside in the North East of England.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

This episode features Discrepancies from 2022, a run down of all the albums we released on the Discrepant and sisters labels, Sucata Tapes, Souk records and Pacific City Discs.

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.

Their words have been reaching you - but what about the voices that have reached them? Incoming. Peri is devastated when she discovers the truth.

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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.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Jessica Renee Dawson’s poem “beautiful chaos / the leaves’ quixotic dance / in autumn winds”.

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.

Episode 1 was recorded with haptictape labs_2046 and focuses on the twilit, grinning spectre of 1990s Memphis Rap.

Through found footage, field recording and tape rips, this episode traces the scene through its local-distribution cassette origins, later commercial success, and internet renaissance as it shape-shifts seamlessly between horror-film nightmare, biographical realism and sonic fantasy.

Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.