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This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Den Sutejo’s poem “gale in the mountains – / watch how the fallen blossoms / carpet the water”.

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.

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 nine-part retrospective of the first five seasons of the Radia network’s epochal (and on-going) radio art series. Assembled by Lee Stapleford.

In this episode, An Trinse presents a hallucinogenic noisy live impromptu for vinyls, modular synths and Traktor.

As An Trinse, Northern Irish audiovisual artist Stephen McLaughlin reckons with the cultural history of Ireland with sound and image, mapping what he describes as “the uneasy atmospheres and silences left in the Irish psyche in the aftermath of colonial and religious repression, using archaeology and ancient history as a conduit.” – FACT Magazine about his A/V work Humic Acid Regress.

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

In this episode, Joe sits down with Zoë Mc Pherson to talk about her newly minted label SFX, her upcoming album ‘States of Fugue’ and all the things she impressively managed to squeeze into 2019. Lots of music from her as well as some unreleased FT exclusives & the usual mixes.

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 new music by Oubys, APickard, Daniele Ciullini, M. Lino Stancati, Loo(p)cy, Lars Bröndum, Joel Gilardini, Mombi Yuleman, HLER, Are Mundal and Sonologyst.

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

In this episode, a broad, eclectic selection of interviews. Hosted by Wes Freeman-Smith and Martin Clarke, we have audiovisual sensation Waterflower with new album 'Balta Gaisma' – midi-pop from Leipzig's Ariel My Friend – and a trio of international ensembles brought to you under the loving care of OEM Records.

The label's latest release, 'Flutuando Suspenso' by Thelmo Cristovam and Cassio Sales was described as "...a potent pole of sound invention within the universe of free music," while Waterflower has been described as "so free to experiment with her music that it truly sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before."

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

This show was created by Sunna Margrét (Lausanne) and multimedia artist, Anna Clegg (London).

Margrét’s half of the show, “Lullabies of Lac Léman”, brings together intimate sound recordings and music written by friends and musicians from her neighbourhood in Lausanne. The resulting mix is a captivating glimpse into a thriving art community that has been built on the banks of Lac Léman.

In the second half of the show, Clegg weaves together a personal archive of material spanning from late 2017 to the present day recorded in galleries, cinemas, clubs, bedrooms and buses throughout London.

In her own words: “Seldom used to record directly, my recording device was held outside windows, behind doors or at the back of the room as a DJ played at the front. Caught somewhere between fantasy, impression and occasional embodied reality (there are multiple interferences in the form of my own nervous laugh), the recordings attempt to present a version of time that is malleable, elastic.”

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.

Featuring the sounds of these film works:

• Syncromy (Norman McLaren)
• Five Film Exercises Film 1 (1943) (John & James Whitney)
• La Région Centrale (1971) (excerpt) (Michael Snow)
• La Région Decentrale (2016) (Gibson + Recoder)
• Sound Strip - Film Strip (Paul Sharits)
• On Illusionism and Generative Systems (Paul Sharits)
• Cycles (Guy Sherwin)
• Allures (Jordan Belson)
• Shot Film (Greg Pope)
• Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976) (Paul Sharits)
• Meshes of the afternoon (Maya Deren)
• Berlin Horse (Malcolm Le Grice)
• Aberration of Light (Olivia Block)
• At the Academy (Guy Sherwin)
• Light Music (Lis Rhodes)
• T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (Paul Sharits)
• Vowels and Consonants part 1 (Lynn Loo, Guy Sherwin, Sarah Washington, Knut Aufermann)
• Les Vautours (Igor Boldirev, Evgeny Sholpo)
• Surface Tension live at Kill Your Timid Notions (William Raban)
• Deck (Gillian Eatherley)
• Sundial (William Raban)
• Colour Neutral (Jennifer Reeves)
• Sound Cuts (excerpt) live at Kill Your Timid Notions (Lynn Loo, Guy Sherwin)
• Girl Chewing Gum (clip) (John Smith)

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

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

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.

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.

A spell dedicated to the good faith of Lera Kelemen's art.

Musical sketches by ENGLAND'S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS is a monthly mix of curation, recompilation and pseudepigrapha.

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.