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

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.

Beset by all manner of mission creep, this wilderness media study concludes with readings from anonymous diaries, found in a previous episode, and a smattering of unknown lost media against an unwelcome backdrop of unsettling noise from nextdoor neighbours carrying out illegal, unlicensed, unregulated structural alterations.

Asphyxia was originally broadcast as a 22-hour single transmission by Radio Art Zone, and, as can be expected, this final hour is an implosion under the gravity.

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

An original audio work by Milo Thesiger–Meacham, originally commissioned by Outlands for The Joyous Thing 4. Two narrators on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean trace the events of a night lost in an unnamed city. Featuring original text, music and recordings made on various handheld devices, found material, improvised words by Kadence Neill, and viola playing by Benedict Taylor.

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

This episode features a guest mix by Snowdrops. Formed in 2015 by Mathieu Gabry and Christine Ott, Snowdrops draw from a unique combination of contemporary classical, jazz, electronic music and film score.

Alongside their contribution of piano, strings, mellotron, electronics and the Ondes Martenot, Gabry and Ott are joined by virtuosic viola player Anne Irène-Kempf for their latest album Missing Island.

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

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Elliot Carson’s poem “in pre-dawn darkness / the avant-garde soundtrack / of orchestral rainfall”.

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.

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 features new music by PTrampaluz, Lackluster, Daniel Barbiero & Gary Rouzer, Red Stars Over Tokyo, N.Strahl.N & Pythagora, and Mario Lino Stancati .

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

This episode focuses on three artists who compose with field recordings. We chat with Liz Helman, François Larini and Nhung Nguyen about their artistic themes, compositional techniques and geographical contexts.

These three very different artists work across ambient, drone, noise and music concrète, embracing found sound and techniques of sonic collaging as well as more traditional musical forms. They are based in London, Nice and Hanoi, respectively.

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

From 1984 until 1992 five National Garden Festivals were held in the UK. One of them was in Gateshead in the North East of England in 1990. It lasted 157 days across that summer and received over three million visitors.

The Garden Festivals were the idea of UK Conservative environment secretary Michael Heseltine in 1980. They were based on the German post-war Bundesgartenschau concept for reclaiming large areas of derelict land in cities.

All the festivals were held in designated areas — reclaimed land that had become derelict and poisonous in the wake of industrial decline. Other festivals were held in Liverpool, Stoke and Glasgow. They each cost between £25 — £70 million.

Michael McHugh is joined by artists and mytho-geosonic experts Tim Shaw and John Bowers for an exhaustive journey along the River Team and through the landscape and footpaths of the former festival on the eve of this years vernal equinox.

It's very different to how it was in 1990 and if you look closely, in amongst the empty bottles of white cider, 30 years of lager cans, discarded laptops, torn suitcases, condoms and nitrous oxide bulbs you’ll find remnants of the festival’s sculptures, landscaping and foundations.

It's an eerie interzone and that makes the aspiration and ambition of the 1990 festival feel somewhat unreal.

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.

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

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.

Now: "Who Cares? A Radio Tale", a special broadcast project recorded like at Gasworks, curated by MA students at the Royal College of Art, and commissioned by Resonance.

Strands is a programme of digital radio art commissions available to UK-based sound and radio artists under the age of 28 - supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

Joined once more by Montañera, this time sheltered by a much venerated bandstand with a green woodpecker's eye view of the river lea's encounter with the Stanstead Mill Stream.

The porous structure blurs inner and outer soundworlds, filtering birdsong, trees, and the reverberations of our thoughts as we dial through the frequencies, before eventually reemerging into early afternoon sunshine.

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.

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.