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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.

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.

London-based art, music and architecture writer Bobby Jewell plays a selection of ambient, jazz and classical music over two hours.

Mixed recordings of mornings at the balcony of my house. The place has become a loved spot for listening. It is in front of a church, a school and trees, so the environmental matter varies a lot.

Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.

Miguel Isaza is a philosopher and sound artist from Medellín, Colombia, founder of ÉTER Lab, and editor of Sonic Field.

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of fifteen short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout South America. Entitled « South American PhoNographic Mornings » this series for Resonance Extra forms part of a wider project, « Each Morning of the World », which invites sound artists, composers and recordists globally to share their own specific point of listening, either through a raw field recording or original composition.

In this episode, to celebrate The Rottenslushy Show #50, we have a guest mix from The Maghreban. Massive respect to Big A for providing this killer selection of obscure new wave.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Don’t You Want Me by The Human League. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Mariachis, Pets, mass choirs, rumba dancers, plastic chickens, bla …bla bla… 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).

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

This final episode in our first series examines the practice of listening. It features interviews with the Swiss artist and academic Salomé Voegelin and the Canadian composer Hildegard Westerkamp.

Salomé reflects on the last 10 years within sound studies, and the development of her thinking and practices of listening and sound making over this time.

Hildegard takes us back to the very early years of soundscape awareness, discussion and analysis. Beginning with her work with Murray Schafer in Vancouver in the early 1970s, she reflects on her profound and multifaceted journeys into listening, composition and soundwalking.

The Field Recording Show is a programme exploring the soundscape, recording, listening and composing hosted by Kate Carr and Luca Nasciuti.

Chopwell is an isolated rural village in West Gateshead with a really interesting heritage. Enduring bitter 50 mph winds and below freezing wind chill TSS venture out to unearth the occult sounds of Anglo Saxon burial mounds and explore the communist roots of this erstwhile industrialised Tyneside village. Less slow radio and more of a sludge sonic escapade - Thanks to Chopwell residents John & Nina who served as our guides and Tim Shaw for the sonic paranormal investigative apparatus.

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.

Offering surreal glimpses of what might be identified as echoes of a post-Republic America, an imagined Middle East, and some other unnamed and unreachable world, Palace chronicles a vivid landscape of crumbling towers and heart-broken animals, eclipses, comets, and lovers in abandoned rooms. Produced by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger–Meacham.

Kyra Simone is a writer from Los Angeles, now based in Brooklyn. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary journals, including The Baffler, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Conjunctions, Fence, The Anthology of Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere. She is a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and part of a two-woman team running the editorial office of Zone Books.

"From the stuff we unfold in the morning and throw in the recycling bin at night, Simone coaxes the rhythms of cyclical life, that baseline on which extraordinary events and crises exert their pressure. The world she constructs is recognisable, textured, gently humorous—but also luminously, piercingly exact, possessed of the strangeness of seeing something for the first or the last time".

— Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun.

"I was hooked by the very first sentence of Kyra Simone’s Palace of Rubble: ‘A breaking wave collapses on the bank before two half-naked women on white Arabian horses.’ The sentence is so precise, down to the use of the erotic “collapses.” Plunged into this direct, clear, and mysterious arrangement of words, I was always left wondering what will happen next. Where will the next sentence take me? I was never disappointed. Simone is able to maintain and shift that propulsive curiosity throughout the book. While dancing with us, each sentence is a journey. Each story is a multi-faceted gem—a ‘beguiling dream of eternal cinema".

— John Yau, author of Genghis Chan on Drums.

"Majestic flights of fancy spun around ravaged landscapes and savage realities, these are remarkable prose poems for the 21st century".

— Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters.

"Reading Simone’s work is reminiscent of an archaeological excavation. The writing has dug to the past and emerged in the future, passing on its way those civilisations, kingdoms and palaces long since blown away or buried, it is covered in their dust. I can’t help but think, isn’t this madness? Isn’t life beautiful".

— Vanessa Onwuemezi, author of Dark Neighbourhood.

Temporary Palaces is a special triplicate of hour-long broadcasts that serialises an unabridged rendition of Kyra Simone's debut collection, Palace of Rubble (Tenement Press, 2022). Initially inspired by a photograph of one of Saddam Hussein’s demolished palaces, Simone’s Palace of Rubble is a collection of one-page stories composed primarily of single words culled each day from the front pages of the newspaper.

In this programme, Chelplexx’s concert recorded last december at Festival Novas Frequências 2017, Rio de Janeiro. Chelplexx is a collaboration between multimedia trio Chelpa Ferro and Duplexx, a duo that combines synths and percussions. Following, Henrique Iwao's latest work, Coleções Digitais, which consists in audio collections of the recurrent gestures and motives in an artist output, selected and edited by the author from 2007 to 2017.

Investigations of the Brazilian experimental music scene via Rio De Janeiro's Quintavant label in collaboration with Audio Rebel. With live performances and exploratory sounds produced in the context of Brazil's strange political situation, curated by Francisco Mazza, Bernando Oliveira and Pedro Azevedo.

This episode marks the handover of the controls from spearmint Caleb Maddeen to the Think Twice, a fewtime past time guest. Think Twice will be occupying half of the two-hour slot for the next six months.

Mohammad Adam has been ushered in with a gentle gesture, bringing a dark cloud of smoky glooming dank from the Morrisons car park in Leicester, that dark haze in the whip, the silence because nobody's talking to each other but everyones dark brains are so loud. The holiday, the relaxation of it all. the blanket of blankness and the roach inside.

Afterwards, a spirit of gravity analysand Remember Glaciers cools us down with the subzero that's starting to rise, has bin starting to rise for a while. Darkness. Thinking."

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

DJ and producer IvaNNa is currently based in Montevideo, Uruguay, and started her career in 2017. She is founder of the platform FUSION UY ES.

She performs in different music venues across Uruguay, Argentina and Spain. IvaNNa delivers powerful sets with sounds that go from melodic to industrial.

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

Injazero Records founder Siné Buyuka plays a selection of electronic, experimental, ambient and contemporary classical tracks.

It ranges from radical ethnics from Turkmenistan to African rhythms from Azerbaijan, epic Mongolian avant-garde to psychedelic rock from Uyguria, as well as unprecedented folk - and even some synth-pop - from Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan-based DJ and TOPOT label boss Eugenie Galochkin presents a mix of rare vinyl rips of Central Eurasian music released on the Melodiya label between 1956-1991.

In this episode, Phil England plays Matana Roberts, Hearsay, Raidan and more, and presents a guest mix by Misha Farrant featuring tracks by Dhangsha, KAVARI, CIX, emmadj, ex.sses and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

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.