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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.

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

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

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

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.

In this episode, some long-form listening as well as our first special mix! Three lengthy tracks open this episode, which showcases the December releases for Flaming Pines. Featuring Tonkyn Pearson's rose-coloured Erbium which is inspired by the quietness of New Zealand's lockdowns.

Alabama composer Ben Link Collins explores field recordings as fiction in his new album Fictionalism, and Greek/Italian duo Valeria Miracapillo and Dimos Vryzas offer some improvised magic from their first studio session in Athens to be released as Discipline of The Slow.

The second half of the show is a special mix by Vietnamese composer Nhung Nguyen, who also releases as Sound Awakener, featuring her own compositions and field recordings from Hanoi.

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

In this episode, Chris Bohn plays tracks by Klein, Chaba Malika Medda, Raphael Rogiński, Lucy Liyou, Rie Nakajima, Olivia Louvel and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

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.

Communiques from Thanet Tape Centre, Hard drive sludge. audio tidal pools. Music sediment. Friends utterances, sea walls of noise, salt marsh drone.

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

Walking, movement in place, in air, distance through time.

In this episode: Iceland ... every three hours for 24 hours ... eight times ... daag einn I juni ... I stand and look east across the fell to the obelisk. Beyond it the northern shoulder of Burfell rises then slips away off its hog’s back summit.

Stand and listen to the plaintive pipe of the Golden Plover and the croak of the Snipe.

Stand … then move off ... down the slope; through the Marsh Marigolds; over the stream; cross two fences; cross the horse paddock to the leaning post; along the horse path; around to the fence to the left; over the fence; cross four streams; pass the waterfall; cross the marsh; cross the stream on stones; up the slope to gap in ridge; up the slope to the lip; around the obilisk; pause; retrace my steps ... eight walks ... eight sections ... split ... re-built ... into a day at random ... eight movements ... this is movement 3.

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

This episode features music and sound by Dang, S Glass, Brant/Krueger, Ezio Piermattei, Natalia Beylis, Maggiore/Rice, Ark Drane, FAT CHANCE, Anton Bruhin, Maria Teresa Luciani and more.

Sound collage, record spinning, havering, ear wonk and general head scratch with Dylan Nyoukis of the Chocolate Monk label.

It brings to the page live long-form works from the world’s largest exhibition of radio art, which took place as part of the European Capital of Culture Esch2022. Interspersed with micro-essays on radio form, practice and poetics, and illustrated throughout with unique images, the book performs an exquisite transformation from airwaves to paper and provides a treasury of ideas about radio as art.

Featuring (GMT):

• 18:00: Batophone - 'Ultrasonic Gramophonics' (bat detectors and wind-up gramophones)

• 18:15: Caroline Kraabel, Sofia Vaisman Maturana & Rowland Sutherland (saxophone, cello, flute and voices)

• 18:30: Ed Baxter with Steffan Cennydd - 'A hood-shy haggard' (In memoriam Willem de Ridder) (voice, music and sfx)

• 19:00: Catherine Kontz (prepared piano and dictaphones)

• 19:15: Dan Wilson - 'Miraculous Agitations' (lecture with visuals)

• 20:00: Shortwave Collective - Hannah Kemp-Welch & Georgia Muenster (voice and sounds)

• 20:15: Chris Weaver & Adam Bohman (microtape recordings)

• 20:30: Tricia & Sebastian - ‘Lucier in the Sky with Diamonds’ (piano, teapot and radio)

• 21:00: Nichola Scrutton (voice)

• 21:15: Xentos Fray Bentos & John Glyn (mayhem and saxophone)

• 22:00: King Alfaman & Needle Boy (electronics and record player)

• 22:15: Houseband

An evening of performances to mark the launch of the epochal Radio Art Zone book, edited by Sarah Washington. This wide-ranging publication (on sale tonight) explores the central themes, concepts and techniques of artist-made radio, emerging from over 20 years of practice in the field.

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.