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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.

This episode features a cosmic flow of melodies plucked from the astral. Sourced from the source. A voyage of light and love.

At the 01:37:33 mark, a guest mix by Deptford Northern Soul Club.

Mat Eric Hart presents a sedated sojourn through worldly and mystical sounds.

From the crow's nest of Lightship 95 moored at Trinity Buoy Wharf looking seawards to the further reaches of the Thames past Greenwich and beyond to the estuary we open our ears to a full circumference of sound. Tracing the Lea's final meander from this great height we take in the peninsula and try to make out the precise point at which the two rivers merge. Drawn in by the landscape we forsake our vantage point and climb down to explore further.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

Getting close to the 100th iteration of the show, episode 1 is now more than 7 years ago, back in January 2016, and it's been a wild monthly ride ever since.

This episode features a bunch of discrepancies, opening with the new album by Marc Codsi, a track by yours truly and a beautifully discordant composition by Babau, from a tape we will release very very soon!

For now, enjoy the wild random rides to shores you should know by now.

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.

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.

In this episode, take a look behind the Iron Curtain, with Moscow-based Dmitry Vasilyev (Monochrome Vision) mixed against live art Russian and Italian live music.

Russian experimental music and synthesizers, information control and information overload. Cosmonauts and Astronauts... Italian experimental music and the amazing Viva Italia Book ! A talk that holds many many surprises. Episode features a talk by Dmitry Vasilyev (Monochrome Vision) in Athens, mixed with Russian and Italian avant garde music by your host.

Dmitry Vasilyev is self-taught journalist based in Moscow. For many years he is active in the local and international underground music scene, running the label Monochrome Vision since 2004 (and released over 50 CDs with experimental music from all over the world). Recently, he is also one of the jury members for the Prix Russolo international music contest.

His career began with the Independent Electronic Music magazine founded in 1995, which progressed from very small run fanzine to the professional edition within just four issues. Currently he transformed the idea of reviewing music into podcast format, published over 230 radioshows covering many genres and names in the experimental music field. IEM podcast is the series of weekly radioshows, each one is devoted to the particular artist or label, and spreading the information through the web.

Also he is known as the concert promoter who organized a number of concerts and festivals for experimental music in Russia and Ukraine, for those he is inviting some outstanding artists from many european countries since the year 2002 up to this moment, mainly as self-supporting outlet. Monochrome Vision was expanded to one of the most active music distribution networks in Russia and working directly with dedicated and innovative labels from all over the world.

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

In this month's episode, the theme is imprint: artists talk about a place, person or event that influences the way they think about working with sound.

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

A one-off winter special by audio / visual decomposer Lepke B.

ARCO is Neil Luck, Adam de la Cour, Chihiro Ono and Benedict Taylor. Recording captured, and engineered live by Matt Saunders. Mixed by Neil Luck.

Costumes by Monika Czyżyk with characters from Bodyssey series and 4k videos. 360 video by Mateusz Ścibor.

Live recordings of a work by ARCO performed on loop at Colourscape, September 2023. More info here.

In this episode, Naha by Andreas Tilliander & Elin Franzén:

"The field recording was recorded in Naha one beautiful, but very warm and humid day in May, and you can hear a protester chanting, traffic and some birds chirping. Back in Sweden, we added some fitting music in the studio, inspired by our first visit to Okinawa and Naha."

Elin Franzén (born 1982) is an ethnologist and field recording artist. 

Andreas Tilliander (born 1977) is a music producer and mastering engineer.

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of fifteen short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout East Asia. This series for Resonance Extra forms part of a wider project, 'Each Morning of the World', which invites sound artists, composers and recordists globally to share their own specific point of listening, either through a raw field recording or original composition.

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.

Radical Translations is an interdisciplinary project which explores the role of translation in the spread of radical, democratic ideas during and after the French Revolution. The students translated the manifesto during a series of workshops led by the poet and translator Cristina Viti.

They also interpreted and adapted the text to the stage with the help of the dramaturge Simon Hatab and the French theatre collective La Phenomena, in a dialogue with the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the philosopher Jacques Rancière, as well as the music of Mozart in The Marriage of Figaro (1786), culminating in a performance at Sands Films Studio in London.

An audio essay and documentary which follows a group of students from King’s College London as they translate The Manifesto of Equals (1796) by Sylvain Maréchal from one language, time and context into another, but also to the stage in the presentation of Performing Utopia. Written and produced by Patrick Bernard, it explores how politics, theatre and translation transform our understanding of the world, and reflect a desire to make words and ideas manifest. For more information visit Tenement Press who are publishing an anthology of radical translations, An Anarchist Playbook, in January 2024.

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For this fourth episode of his collected recordings he presents 5 works:

• (Fail We May) Sail We Must' (2013)

This work includes two recordings of different rehearsal sessions in the halls of a music school. The musicians in the recordings practice their pieces and repeat them over and over again. Their perseverance encourages listeners to understand failure as a necessary step in the process of growth. There's no mistake you can't learn from...

• 'I Have Always Wanted To Be In A Band' (2019)

This work is a series of recordings of Davide drumming in his room when he was 12 years old. The work contains comments made by Davide’s mum recorded while she was listening to the recordings 25 years later.

• 'This Is My House' (2009)

This work consists of the voice of a little boy taking the listener on a tour of his house. It aims to communicate everyone’s basic need to have a place containing their own memories and affections.

• 'This Kind of Hugs' (2005)

This is a musical dedication by an 8 year old boy to his girlfriend, in the form of two short and sweet compositions, like cuddling in bed and falling asleep.

• 'Neighbours' (2009)

This work consists of Davide singing along with the music of a band rehearsing next door. Rather than ask them to stop he decided to get involved and become a secret member of the band. In this case negotiation was more enjoyable than arguing!

Davide Tidoni is an artist and researcher interested in the relational dimension of listening, and in the physical experience of sound. He works with live performance, intervention, audio recording, video, and guided listening. He recently published a sound ethnography on the ultras group BRESCIA 1911. 'Collected Recordings' is a series of works selected by Tidoni from his extensive back catalogue.

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

This episode features new releases on Chocolate Monk from Points Of Friction, Karen Constance, Robert Millis, Tongue Depressor and Cody Brant.

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

This episode explores the year through the seasons in a unique improvised recording. This journey travels through radio waves, tape players and field recorders; an analogue experience.

Each season features field recordings captured during that time. Join Kayla for a continuous hour of music and sound moving through life as the seasons change.

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.

In this winter holiday special, Chris Bohn and special guest host Anla Li – music and culture writer and Wire contributor, and former manager of B10 Live, Shenzhen – explore pathways into Chinese music opened up since attending the Tomorrow Festival in Shenzhen in 2015.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This contribution comes from Usmaradio.

A collaborative network radio performance conceived by Roberto Paci Dalò and performed at Tactus Radio Festival, Republic of San Marino and worldwide, December 2023. Broadcast on Usmaradio together with a global network of radio stations.

Live performers: Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, L’Impero della Luce, NicoNote, Roberto Paci Dalò, Tobia Bandini, Vittoria Assembri, Anna Friz, alien productions (Andrea Sodomka and Robert Math), Bauhaus Radio Ensemble (Tilman Böhnke, Fritzi Buhtz, Adrian Ciesielski, Lefteris Krysalis, Finn Röhmer-Litzmann, João Afonso Soares Leiria Parreira Ticão, Amir Shokati, Karlotta Sperling).

The challenge was to work on radical improvisation without any conduction and prior rules, giving maximum freedom to the participants. Most of the artists – performing from different locations – didn’t know each other and actually never talked to each other before the performance and were performing together on-site in the Republic of San Marino and remotely from the USA, Germany, and Austria.

The result was surprising. Subtle sound textures with amazing moments of silence despite the massive use of live electronics. The performance somehow proved that the planned lack of conduction can be balanced by the level of attention and involvement from the performers. It was a mesmerizing immersion in an acoustical world where electronics graciously merged with acoustical instruments and voices. A nocturnal winterreise across galaxies.

CONTINUUM aimed to bring together both independent and broadcasting corporations in order to act in our present and investigate the possibilities of today’s technologies. A suivre…

General coordination by Alessandro Renzi. Mixed by Lorenzo Ricci. Mastered by Alessandro Renzi.

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

This new and extraordinary documentary ranges across continents – from the sound-induced fears of early colonists in Northeastern America and the apocalyptic premonitions of the indigenous Wampanoag to Greek tongue twisters, Medieval Moorish poetry, Socrates's dread of dehydration in Plato's Phaedrus, the hurdy-gurdy, Geronimo's hatred of telegraphy.

And then on to contemporary and historical entomology, the body language of Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone's Spanish Westerns, the botanist Donald C. Peattie's terror of the inescapable buzz of mortality, and ancient cooking implements.

Commissioned and originally broadcast by Radiophrenia at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, September 2023.

A meditation by Milo Thesiger–Meacham on the sound of the cicada as "audible heat" in human history and culture. Featuring spoken contributions by writer and translator Cristina Viti and filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji, field recordings, original music and a smattering of celebrity interviews.