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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.

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.

While we undertake necessary maintenance tasks, we relay content from our partner station, Resonance FM. In the meantime, find us on Mixcloud.

While we undertake necessary maintenance tasks, we relay content from our partner station, Resonance FM. In the meantime, find us on Mixcloud.

Score for Open Heart Surgery on Charlie Watts was commissioned by and recorded live at Radiophrenia, CCA, Glasgow, on the 16th April 2015. Thanks to Barry Burns and Mark Vernon. It features Tam Dean Burn (voice), Ed Baxter (bass, music box), Peter Lanceley (electric guitar, voice), Kim Moore (viola), Michael Umney (electric guitar), and Mark Vernon (electronics, objects, etc). Text by Ed Baxter.

A recording of the Resonance Radio Orchestra's 'Score for Open Heart Surgery on Charlie Watts' realised as part of Radiophrenia 2015. It features Tam Dean Burn (voice), Ed Baxter (bass, music box), Peter Lanceley (electric guitar, voice), Kim Moore (viola), Michael Umney (electric guitar), and Mark Vernon (electronics, objects, etc). The text was written by Ed Baxter.

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.

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.

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 episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Shubham Dasgupta’s poem “in dark autumn nights / dew and the new bamboo shoots / reaching out to moon”.

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.

In this episode, tracks selected in response to postcards sent in by Patrick Thomas, as well as excerpts from the plates (x5) launch of Alphabetical Processions Laid Him on The Green Vol.1..

Featuring Caius Williams & feeo, M. NourbeSe Philip, Oneohtrix Point Never & Elizabeth Fraser, DUNCE and Matana Roberts.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each month a selection of artists respond to the show on postcards and send them in as inspiration for the next. Running through the shows are a modular stem experiment in which musicians improvise live to original 15 minute compositions.

While reel to reel tape loops and FM transmitter/receiver copulations compete in feeding signals back to their sources, visitors to the installation become the unwitting conductors of the noise produced.

With open mics in the subterranean space recording everything on the tape loops, and open circuit transmitters sensitive to every movement effecting the radio noise, visitors can’t help being the innocent culprits responsible for such spontaneous cacophonies which yearn to be big, but are confined and compressed by their own physical limitations.

This compressed noise, reacting to its own echoes in the unique shape of the cellar, evolves in time and space with every revolution of the tape loop.

Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

This episode is a Keroxen festival special and features various acts from the line up. Every year, from roughly October to December everyone gets together in a massive disused oil tank in downtown Santa Cruz to experience some of the most forward thinking music this island (and archipelago, and country?) gets to experience.

Enter the beautiful darkness with this mix and come shake a leg in the middle of the Atlantic. We might have plenty of sun and the sea but we don’t do lazy here!

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.

Glasgow-based Bobby Jewell presents a series of ambient mixes for Resonance Extra with guest features by musicians and artists.

In this episode: sounds and decomposes parts from the sound archive of diver and explorer Alexis Papadopoulos. With over 8.500 diving hours under his belt and alongside his beautiful and fearless daughter Titi Papadopoulos he has explored numerous sites, such as lost ancient cities, mystic spaces, lost shipwrecks and underwater caves. A remix of sounds and music from the films of Mr Alexis.

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

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