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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.

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.

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.

In this episode, Dronica meets the experimental duo Vādin, who have created a mix which journeys into obscure experimental, techno, drone, tribal and drone.

Vādin is a shapeshifter formed through sound, a seismic energy made up of sound artists Christian Duka and Lucie Štěpánková.

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

Paul Rekret presents excerpts from Amplification / Annihilation: In Sonic Defiance of Extinction, which took place at Cafe Oto on Sunday 20th August 2017. Featuring radio works by Leah Barclay (AUS), Robin Buckley (UK), Kate Carr (UK), Minerva Cuevas (MEX), Graciela Muñoz Farida (CHL), Anja Kanngieser and Polly Stanton (UK/AUS), Andrea Polli (MEX), Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (CAN), Ziibiwan (CAN).

This episode of Third Space features sonic explorations of Brussels and Manchester, with field recordings and local music curated and compiled by Adriaan de Roover and Hayley Suviste. In the first hour, Adriaan walks us through the Belgian capital via found sounds and music.

In a novel take on the Third Space format, the musical elements of Adriaan's mix have been drawn from a single artist - Brussels hip hop collective, STIKSTOF - whose work he has sampled and stretched into beautiful ambient pieces.

The second half of the show sees Hayley Suviste weave an assortment of standout tracks from Manchester's kinetic electronic music scene through a tapestry of sonic portraits documenting the city's ever-changing landscapes - from its near-wild edgelands to the heart of its inner-city development projects.

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

This episode takes the relationship between sound and space as its starting point. It features interviews with US academic and artist Brandon LaBelle, and British geographer George Revill. Brandon discusses the ways in which sound studies itself has carved out a particular space within academia, as well as the development of his own thinking on listening, acoustics and a sonic approach to politics. George examines the ways geographers have approached the relationship between sound and space, and discusses how sound might give us new ways of thinking about and communicating the complexities of environmental change.
Our artist showcase features the Mexican composer Angelica Castello.

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

Three thoughts in relation to an upcoming performance.

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

In this episode, Specimens takes us on a deep dive of his influences & favourites over the last year or so, many of which helped inspire his new album In The Dust of Idols released via SVS Records in collaboration with First Terrace.

A selection of experimental frequencies, interviews and sessions plus cuts from the First Terrace label by Alex Ives (Specimens) and Joe Summers.

This episode features tracks from Yves De Mey, Hyacinth & Aidan Baker, Isobel McKenna, EVOL, Southfacing, Dylan Henner, Hoavi, Inturist, Virusmoto, Glues Browling, and more.

An immersive psychosonic space, where sounds converse, collide and converge, featuring works, selections, edits, experiments, new music, non-music, archival objects, abstract artefacts, sound(system) and A/V art, pop, trash, noise, voice, and the associated mediums, processes and techniques that make up the ongoing audial investigations of Agents of the Culture Industry & OVT, all presented for art not profit.

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.

Brooklyn-based Olivia Bradley-Skill presents Lo-fi Goddesses, live sound collage and original radio artworks inspired by female-fronted post-punk bands and experimental dance music.