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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.

For a while now, DJ BONEY S and zikade have been playing with the idea of merging their respective sounds. It wouldn’t be the first time these two share the decks, though: under the name of DJ Frottée, they recently started a vinyl only project dedicated to classic 90s underground from techno to trance.

Finding the spaces where their individual sets collide, their new vinyl only back2back project Hypnotist will be a journey from techno, EBM and industrial to dark italo and disco-heavy electro. Sharing a deep understanding of the other one‘s musical taste and a similar vision for the dance floor, Hypnotist are excited to create something fresh.

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

Vagina Dentata Organ is an art and noise music project by Jordi Valls. Valls is from Catalonia, Spain, and cites the influence of the surrealists, especially Salvador Dali, on his work. His albums could be classed as especially bleak field recordings, dealing with subject matter such as sex, death and violence.

Valls' work is also concerned with the fetishism of art in general, record collecting particularly, with his own records being released in very limited edition.

Vagina Dentata Organ has provoked outrage on a number of occasions, namely by releasing the infamous recording of The Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. Their performance in 1984 on Spanish TV programme La Edad de Oro TV caused a public outcry as it included the destruction of three paintings.

A video documentary on the first three Vagina Dentata Organ albums was made by Julian Alvarez and won first prize in the 26th Semana de Cinema in Barcelona. In 1997, the arts and culture magazine Life Without Sex dedicated a whole issue to Vagina Dentata Organ.
More recently, Jordi Valls has concentrated on painting rather than recording, producing a large number of portraits of supermodels with his own blood.

Jose Macabra presents solo work and other collaborations.

ID Spectral is a multi-disciplinary record label and arts collective, showcasing the spectrum of innovative creative identities worldwide.

A tide line walk. Two coasts across two hundred miles. A saltmarsh estuary. A rocky shore. One tide cycle. Twelve and a half hours of high low high tide. Twelve walks. Walk one hour, rest one hour. Twelve walks divided and rebuilt at random. Twelve walks, each a new tide walk.

This is Tide Walk 3.

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

This contribution comes from Radio Papesse.

Armen is a sound work and collection related to diasporic music which Andrius Arutiunian has been developing since 2016. It traces obscure Armenian disco releases from the 80s, remakes little-known pop songs from different parts of the Armenian diaspora, and navigates this treacherous sonic field in polyphonous, and sometimes contradictory ways. Armen is also a homage to one of the most common Armenian names.

In 2017 an iteration of Armen was published as a vinyl release. As writer Monika Kalinauskaitė wrote in her text for this publication: “But right now, at this moment, on a rug, in a car, by the monotonous music machine, the only circles you draw are your first ones, spinning the body and thought, breaking the world’s axis into millions of dancing small figures. You may as well hear of those rivers – it’s a miracle, but they reach everywhere, populating the world with gold-headed fish. Only blood and bodies alter their flows, oh look, we are now trapped in an island that was not here before, I believe we are also humming songs we never knew, but somehow remember.”

Andrius Arutiunian is a sound artist and composer based in the Netherlands. He works through sound and hybrid forms of media, with a particular interest in sonic artefacts, aural identities, and digital, automated technologies.

Sonic dissent, alternate modes of political and musical organisation, and playful investigation of esoteric and vernacular histories form Arutiunian’s most recent works. Using hypnotic and enigmatic forms, Arutiunian’s works often question the notion of musical and political attunement.

In 2022 Andrius Arutiunian represented Armenia at the 59th Venice Art Biennale with a solo show entitled Gharīb. Other recent solo shows include Counterfates (Meduza Vilnius, 2023) Diaphonics (Centrala Birmingham, 2023), and Incantations (CTM and Silent Green, Berlin, 2021).

Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

This episode features a full recording of Anna Clegg's Stainless, an audio performance created for Love Letters on the 30th of September, and music by fellow performer tape_2046.

Love Letters was the closing event for Elli Antoniou and Beatrice Vorster's exhibition pinch to zoom at Generation and Display, London. It also featured new video work by Elli Antoniou and an opening mixtape by Nanzhen Yang.

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.

This episode features an original radio artwork by Mlin Patz – the solo project of Ukrainian artist Polina Matskevych, a member of Chillera – using sound recorded and composed by the artist, who has captured audio from a web-receiver over the last two months.

The project started in 2015 as an attempt to collage field recordings and electro-acoustic instruments; the debut EP TVRK was released on the platform Система and then, the dubbed 12'' EP Sunlimit on the Muscut label. Now the project has moved on to improvisation and sonic installations.

As the artist finished one project related to the research of radio as an instrument for spreading frequencies and as a source of information, this broadcast is about tradition and how people are using it in retrospect.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

In this episode, Meg Woof plays Clarissa Connelly, Keanu Nelson, bonebrokk, Martyna Basta and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

Thematic mixes and reflections, captured along the Dorset coastline by ATTN:Magazine's Jack Chuter.

In this episode, recordings from various underground locations in Athens, recording the sounds of the scavengers flea market plus found tapes with songs from the market and intonation recordings.

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

This episode features a guest mix by Adam Badí Donoval of Warm Winters Ltd.

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

Socialist Realness a mix series by GAJEK focusing on avant-garde and electronic music produced in the GDR and shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

This episode features brand new material from Casino Versus Japan, some ambient soul, a look back at some tracks from 1990 and the reappearance of Ulrich's smoker's cough.

Eclectic musical face-off between German electronic musician and producer Ulrich Schnauss and Nathaniel Cramp (Sonic Cathedral).

Celebrating exclusively boundary pushing artists, this episode spans previous guests and featured artists of Connections to Sound.

Background music: Your Echoes by Kayla Painter.

A monthly show exploring our innate connection to sound, and how we express that through music, showcasing work that connects to our body and minds through rich compositional choices, through intricate processes in the studio, or music that is inspired by the way we interact with the outside world. Connections to Sound journeys through downtempo, electronic, ambient and beat driven music, featuring tracks from artists all around the world. Presented by Kayla Painter.

~ Dana ~ the dwarf is now a tree ~ get you a show that can do both ~

Moods and preoccupations in a nonlinear narrative in and out of the club with COSI and The Source of Some Certainty - created by Corinna Triantafyllidis and Henry Rodrick.

This episode begins with a 40-minute guest mix from London-based musician BWU.

Having built a collection of live musical performances spanning 40 years, both found and recorded first-hand, BWU posits themselves as an apparition, transient and anonymous, an audience once-removed.

Revisited online and in solitude, these recorded, ripped and re-recorded audio files develop with their degradation a distinct, self-reflexive overlay of absence.

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, a guest mix from RM Francis. Their album Nth White Dot was released on Conditional.

Tracks from across the spectrum of electronic and computer music, with Calum Gunn of Conditional.

This episode features TVO, Spatial, Agents of the Culture Industry, John Coltrane, Delia Derbyshire, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Benjamin Zephaniah, Dean McPhee, Alva Noto, Disinformation & Savion Glover, Dadavistic Orchestra, Alexander Tillegreen, hoodie x James K, Cabaret Voltaire, Burning Woman, sideb0ard, Nivhek, Pantea, Mücha, Jo Johnson, JP Hartnett, Slavoj Žižek & Frank Sin'AI'tra

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.