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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.

This episode focuses on found sounds and the ways in which sound connects to us through mind and body. It explores moments in music that connect us to the present. Join Kayla for a journey through experimental tracks and immersive soundscapes.

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.

This episode features Not Not Fun, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the label. Music from Unknown Me, Lorena Alvarez & Alejandro Palacios, Phil Geraldi, Acid Twilight, Yayoba , Wave Temples and more.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

This is a two hour extract from the festival, featuring sound art, computer music, homemade instruments, DIY electronics, radio play, noise, data sonification, field recordings, radio art, sound studies, historical anchor points, niches, insider tips, and different generations of Cologne's electronic and sound art landscape.

Full details and line-up: https://www.gerngesehen.de/funkt

The FUNKT programme was developed under the project management of Georg Dietzler by Anke Eckardt, Claudia Robles-Angel, Dietmar Bonnen, Dirk Specht and Felix Knoblauch, in cooperation with Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann.

Thanks to sponsors Musikfonds e. V. with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the special programme Neustart Kultur, Kunststiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Endowment for the Arts), the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.

FUNKT was a festival of electronic music and sound art from Cologne, which took place on the 16th, 17th and 18th of April 2021.

In this episode, a preview of SubPhonics Live show, one of which we have coming up soon for TIDES (run by our very own Giulio Dal Lago). Please follow @tides.soundart on Instagram for more info.

We Are actively looking to expand our group of collaborators and more permanent members, If you’d like to work with us or would like to book us for a show then please contact Jamie on hello@subphonics.com.

Artwork by Erin Robinson.

Quarterly noise from SubPhonics exploring themes of collaborative sound and performance.

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

This inaugural episode features an exclusive contribution from artist Claire Tolan.

Theatre of the Ears is a programme exploring radio and transmission art, hosted by Andrew Jarvis.

Dronica meets events curators, creative directors and labels owners in 2021.

In this episode, Dronica meets Shahin Entezami, co-curator at SET Experimental Art Events, in Tehran.

Shahin Entezami, also known by his stage name “Tegh” is a musician and sound artist and practitioner based in Tehran, Iran. In his music, Tegh tries to bring new aural experiences to life by using various audio elements and complex soundscapes. These experiences usually manifest his personal perception of facing new stories, geographies and different situations. The ways he usually tries to express these ideas take root in Noise, Drone and Experimental electronic styles and sometimes manifest themselves in the form of electroacoustic compositions.

He has also released albums and singles on labels like Opal Tapes (UK), Zabte Sote (IR), Hibernate Recordings (UK), Dronarivm (RU), Inner Ocean Records (CA), Midira Records (GE), Futuresequence (US), Flaming Pines (UK), Bitrot Recordings (IR) and more.

Also, based on his eagerness to discover the world of other artists he has been involved in many collaboration projects like “Artirial”, “Temp-Illusion”, “Umchunga & Tegh” and so forth. He’s one of the curators at SET, Experimental Iranian festival in Tehran.

Shahin presents a two-hour mix focused on presenting music from my favorite artists considered as a part of Iranian Experimental Electronic Scene, from around the world, a mixture of both promising and well-known artists.

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

In this episode we explore the choral worlds of NYX and Kali Malone, get lost in Gazelle Twin’s occult incantations and check out new music from claire rousay, Beth Gibbons and BIG|BRAVE.

Music journalist Ilia Rogatchevski presents a weekly selection of expansive sounds and adventurous music from the world of audio.com and beyond.

In this first episode, we take a deep dive into ‘Pretty Gritty’ - an intimate experimental music event in Sydney’s Redfern district, where you’re greeted at the door with delicious home baking and a warm welcome from curator Gail Priest. Plus, interviews and music with three artists from the most recent ‘Pretty Gritty’ event - vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Astrid Zeman; Sydney sound artist Daniel Whiting and Canberra musician Happy Axe, who lulls beautiful and eerie tones from her violin and musical saw.

Hosted by Stu Buchanan, Out From Under dives deep beneath the surface of the Australian music scene, celebrating experimental and eclectic music from the far end of the world.

Amsterdam's Shimmering Moods Records explores the many sides of experimental ambient music, into the far reaches of the imagination.

Debut LP by Dutch vocalist Janneke van der Putten. Her voice emerges from deeper grounds, shaping the acoustic aura of architectural and natural spaces, exploring the limits of vocal techniques through site-specific performances. Becoming siren, becoming storm, a rose of resonance for a new world.



Janneke van der Putten (Amsterdam, 1985) is a visual artist and vocalist based in Rotterdam. Her voice is her main tool, guiding her through physical and sonic explorations in different landscapes. In her site-specific performances she uses extreme vocal techniques and architectural features to relate with the here and now.

Janneke is autodidact in various extended vocal techniques and studied North-Indian Dhrupad singing with Amelia Cuni and Marianne Svašek (Berlin & Rotterdam, 2009 – 2014). She completed her MMus in Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire (The Hague, 2013) and her BDes in TXT (Textile), Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam, 2009).

Solo exhibitions include: ‘All Begins with A’, TENT, Rotterdam, 2015; ‘Directed to the Sun’, Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, 2017; ‘Quitsa’, CINNNAMON, Rotterdam, 2017; and duo-show ‘[to]’, Kunstraum 34, Stuttgart, 2020. Her solo debut album ‘JNNK’ was released on the June 21st Solstice 2023. Her previous album was made together with Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta (PE) for their project 'Invisible Architecture' (Aloardi, 2015). Other composers Janneke collaborated with are Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (IN), Werner Durand (DE), Yvan Etienne (FR), Philemon Mukarno (ID/ NL), Rory Pilgrim (UK) and Marcus Schmickler (DE).


See more of her work on YouTube and listen on Bandcamp.

Experimental vocalist Janneke van der Putten presents her debut solo album JNNK.

In this extract from the day, a live solo performance by Merlin Nova, who is a London-based experimental vocalist, composer and performer.

Archival recordings of a 7-hour radio event broadcast live from the Resonance Extra studios on the 29th January 2023, featuring live performances and new and exclusive audio works.

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.

Joseph Bradley Hill introduces the series accompanied by Evie Hilyer-Zieglers on violin, and plays works by Allen Ginsberg, Marcel Duchamp, Marshall McLuhan, Tacita Dean, Monty Python & Fire!

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.

In this episode, a sleep project live from Le Commun, Geneva.

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

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.

This episode is an improvisation featuring Gardyloo. Returning to nature's throne at the kingfisher's golden blue hour, we tune in once more to the ever rushing waters of old River Lea.

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.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Yosa Buson’s poem “vernal seas… / all day long swelling, falling / swelling, falling”.

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.

Btech and Eman Resu of Superfluid present sound, music, noise along with all their sources via talk, fiction and truth.

In this episode, Shane Woolman hosts a guest mix by artist, musician and cultural geographer Amy Cutler as well as playing new releases from Buzz’ Ayaz, disrupt, Muqata'a, Nadah El Shazly, NAH, Pruillip, Youmna Saba, and many more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.