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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.

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.

This first episode features interviews with composer Simon Scott and artist and academic Cathy Lane. The pair survey the field recording scene today and discuss their practices.

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

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

Dronica meets event curators, creative directors and labels owners in 2021.

In this episode: Lichene, founder and curator at Ancestral Futuro Remoto, in Berlin.

Lichene is one of the monikers of a dj(ane) and prolific curator of events based in Berlin. She graduated in Psychology and holds a specialisation in Psychotherapy in Italy, where she was born.

In 2013 she co-founded Ancestral Futuro Remoto, a Berlin-based series of events focused on ambient / experimental music, where she also curates DJ sets and visuals.

In her practice she investigates the possible meanings of "remote future", trying to understand to which extent we can still find traces of the faraway world of the ancestors in our present, and if there really is something primordial and atavistic inside of us.

In this show for Dronica radio show on Resonance Extra she mixed part of her collection of CDs and vinyls in a live session at Studio Liebig 12 in Berlin, where she is doing an artistic residency with other collaborators.

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

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: A DJ mix which combines field recordings from Tyneside in the North East of England and sounds sourced from the global sound map aporee with a dense and emotional selection of tracks for high altitudes and arcane practices.

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, 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.

The first episode of Atmospheric Densities showcases new and not so new releases moving from saxophone soundscapes, electronics markets in China, unreleased ice rink tunes and hippos in South Africa.

Hosted by Kate Carr.

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.

This episode features new music by Abu Ama + BedouinDrone, Rafael Diogo, Jarl, Ardemar, Loo(p)cy, Mario Lino Stancati, Triswara, Yudol & Hladna.

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

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

In this episode, Theo plays an eclectic selection of music from The Divine Comedy, Tangerine Dream, Nico and more.

Electronic musician Theo Sayers transports listeners with a mix of electronic, ambient, spiritual and new age music.

This episode features a guest mix by photographer Isabel MacCarthy titled Child of Love.

Don't think -

Feel

and then

think-again.

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.

In this episode, Sonic Darts is extremely happy to welcome the artist Victor Mazon and to hear about the transdisciplinary research platfrom Terra Ignota.

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

This episode explores sounds from the Greek avant-garde of the 60's - 70's with the addition of field recordings found tapes etc... Athens Inner City Broadcast aims to create a lucid state between being alert and dreaming, based on the notion of a Site specific transmission.

In memory of my Grandfather Giorgis Karamanolakis.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

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.