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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.

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

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

This episode features music from latest Canti Magnetici releases by Federico Lupo, Marco Paltrinieri and Giovanni Di Domenico, Ab Uno, LI YILEY and Liberez.

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

He soon became London’s foremost Yiddish poet, founding the literary journal ‘Loshn un Lebn’ (Language and Life) and the weekly ‘Friends of Yiddish’ meetings at Toynbee Hall with its lively mixture of poetry, politics, literature and song, all part of his mission to keep the Yiddish language alive.

Presented by Rachel Lichtenstein – author of Rodinsky’s Room, On Brick Lane and Estuary – who continues to explore her deep connection with the Jewish East End, and featuring the many voices she has collected over the years of those who knew and loved Stencl.

Produced by Patrick Bernard. Archive material courtesy of the BBC and BFI. Head here for more information and a full list of credits visit.

A programme by Patrick Bernard about the extraordinary life and work of the Yiddish poet Avram Nachum Stencl (1897-1983) who went from an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community in southern Poland to the bohemian cafés of pre-war Berlin before finally escaping Nazi Germany to arrive in Whitechapel, the heart of the Jewish East End.

This episode is an open mic recording of a secret impro session that took place on the 31st of July 2018. Marking the celebration of my 36th birthday and also the 3rd birthday of our 4 cats, Bobos, Ichun, Ftiego and Vravris. The recording starts of with recordings of our guests and continues with parts selected from 3 live sets.

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

This episode takes a listen to the Icelandic aurora borealis, sounds from North Finland, underwater transmissions, Horspiel, and readings from the streets of New York.

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

Featuring (in order of appearance) …

Hannah Regel, Nicolette Polek, Iain Sinclair, David Grubbs, Lucy Sante, Imogen Cassels, Jess Cotton, Joan Brossa, Stanley Schtinter, Edwina Attlee, & Wayne Koestenbaum.

Order a copy of Seven Rooms direct from Prototype Publishing. Read Jaeckle & Chandler’s introduction to the collection, ‘Forethoughts.’

Seven Hundred Horses assembles a select thread of live recordings and materials from the London launch of Seven Rooms at Presse Books / FormaHQ (Regel, Sante, Cassels, Cotton, Attlee and Koestenbaum) alongside choice cuts from the Hotel Archive (Polek, Sinclair, Grubbs, Brossa, and Schtinter). 


& in which ... 

Hannah Regel reads Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘Eleven Stars Over Andalusia,’ Nicolette Polek reads a short story called ‘The Rope Barrier,’ Iain Sinclair reads ‘Animal Drums,’ a cut-up impromptu to SJ Fowler’s motion-picture-poem of the same name (at the Whitechapel Gallery, 2019), David Grubbs reads a slice of his feature-length poem, ‘Good night the pleasure was ours,’ Lucy Sante reads a poem called ‘Call My Baby,’ Imogen Cassels reads a poem called ‘Two Types of the Same Return’ and ‘Moss’ (as in Kate), Jess Cotton reads a poem called ‘States of Bewilderment’ and a poem called ‘Aloof,’ Stanley Schtinter reads Joan Brossa’s ‘Astral Summary’ (Parts I and II of III), Edwina Attlee reads a poem called ‘Refrigeration’ and a poem called ‘Australia Day,’ and Wayne Koestenbaum reads a poem called ‘Stigma Pudding.’

A Suite for Seven Rooms (700 Horses) was co-produced for Resonance Extra by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger-Meacham; the readings at Presse Books / Forma HQ were recorded on location by Caroline Heron.

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Hannah Regel is a writer based in London. She has been published in The Poetry Review, Fantastic Man, Granta, Hotel and Canal, amongst others. She has published two collections of poetry, When I Was Alive and Oliver Reed (both Montez Press, 2017 and 2020 respectively). Her debut novel, The Last Sane Woman, will be published by Verso Fiction in 2024. 


Nicolette Polek is the author of Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull, 2020) and the forthcoming novel, Bitter Water Opera (Graywolf Press, 2024). She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, and a recent graduate of Yale Divinity School.



Iain Sinclair is a British writer, documentarist, filmmaker, poet, flaneur, metropolitan prophet and urban shaman, keeper of lost cultures and futurologist.



David Grubbs is Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of Good night the pleasure was ours, The Voice in the Headphones, Now that the audience is assembled, and Records Ruin the Landscape (all published by Duke University Press, 2022, 2020, 2018, and 2014 respectively). He was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with Tony Conrad, Susan Howe, Pauline Oliveros, Will Oldham, Loren Connors, and many others. 



Lucy Sante’s books include Low Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), Kill All Your Darlings (Verse Chorus Press, 2007), The Other Paris (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2015), Maybe the People Would Be the Times (Verse Chorus Press, 2020), and—in 2024— the memoir I Heard Her Call My Name (Heinemann).



Imogen Cassels is the author of various pamphlets, including Chesapeake (Distance No Object, 2021), VOSS (Broken Sleep, 2020), Arcades (Sad Press, 2018), and Mother, beautiful things (Face Press, 2017). Her writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, and elsewhere.



Jess Cotton is a writer based in London. Her book on John Ashbery was recently published by Reaktion Books. 



Joan Brossa (Barcelona, 1919–1998) began writing when he was mobilised in the Spanish Civil War and would fuse political engagement and aesthetic experiment through sonnets, odes, theatre, sculpture and screenplay within a neo-surrealist framework. Brossa founded the magazine Dau al Set in 1948, and his collections include El saltamartí (1963), Poesia Rasa (1970), and the six volumes of Poesia escénica (published between 1973 and 1983).

Stanley Schtinter has been described as an ‘artist’ by the Daily Mail and as an ‘exorcist’ by the Daily Star.


Edwina Attlee is the author of two pamphlets, Roasting Baby (if a leaf falls press, 2016) and the cream (Clinic, 2016). She teaches history to students of architecture in London. 



Wayne Koestenbaum has published over twenty books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Ultramarine (Nightboat Books, 2022), The Cheerful Scapegoat (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents, 2021), Figure It Out (Counterpoint, 2020), Camp Marmalade (Nightboat Books, 2018), My 1980s & Other Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), amongst other publications. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Centre.

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A new entry in the occasional broadcast series from Tenement Press and Prototype Publishing, Railroad Flat Radio, Seven Hundred Horses is a suite of readings by eleven poets and makers to mark the publication of Seven Rooms, an anthology of works from across the Hotel series, 2016 to 2023, co-published by Tenement and Prototype, and edited by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Jess Chandler. 

A radio mix of his own works by Latvian beatmaker Oriole, one of the artists supported by SHAPE at the Skaņu Mežs festival. Oriole is one of the Dirty Deal Audio collective, a veteran of festivals in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland and Norway.

Sounds of the SHAPE Platform (Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe).

For the penultimate show in this run Ilia Rogatchevski presents a mix of club sounds from Olof Dreijer, Ana Zhdanova & Karpesh, ambient post-rock from Trupa Trupa, and remembers Montreal with recordings by Danielle Boutet, Open Reel Ensemble and Enfant Magique. Plus new music from Keeley Forsyth, Vanessa Bedoret and Laura Kampman.

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

In this episode, we feature two artists pushing back against the tyranny of the machine in electronic music - capturing inputs and processing outputs in ways that rely less directly on spending face time with the laptop screen.

Alex White talks about Nadir, his noise collaboration with Ben Byrne, which rejects dark, power noise in favour of a light and bright counterpoint; and jazz musician Jacques Emery discusses the wide range of electronic output on his Sounds Are Sounds label, all of which favour art over craft, and – much like jazz - focus on a constant refinement of improvisational practice.

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.

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of One of Us by Joan Osborne. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Gregorian monks, electrocombia lovers, metal minds, hardstyle dancers, satanics followers of Anton Lavey, sexy sax… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

'Passing Through' is the second episode of the series 'Strange Morals', brought to you by Nova Waves. Three short stories exploring life moments and exchanges between people. No strings attached.

Three short stories exploring life moments and exchanges between people, brought to you by Nova Waves.

Short Manual is a sound collage program & conceptual mix show with some original production included.

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

Walking, movement in place, in air, distance through time.

In this episode: Iceland ... every three hours for 24 hours ... eight times ... daag einn I juni ... I stand and look east across the fell to the obelisk. Beyond it the northern shoulder of Burfell rises then slips away off its hog’s back summit.

Stand and listen to the plaintive pipe of the Golden Plover and the croak of the Snipe.

Stand … then move off ... down the slope; through the Marsh Marigolds; over the stream; cross two fences; cross the horse paddock to the leaning post; along the horse path; around to the fence to the left; over the fence; cross four streams; pass the waterfall; cross the marsh; cross the stream on stones; up the slope to gap in ridge; up the slope to the lip; around the obilisk; pause; retrace my steps ... eight walks ... eight sections ... split ... re-built ... into a day at random ... eight movements ... this is movement 5.

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

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.

In this episode, an hour of recent releases by Late Works collaborators, featuring Bianca Scout, Still House Plants, Kiran Leonard, Cool Quiet, Caius Williams & more.

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.

The show from International Institut for Research on Radio and Magic. The correct translation for "Uscite dal mondo" is indeed "Exits from the world" and not "To leave the world.” The exits indicated here are openings, cracks towards possibilities. What is behind the curtain?

Performances and experimental music on concepts such as trance, magnetism, hallucination...

With: Eleonora Polato, Paul Courlet, Jonathan Frigeri, Liviu Poenaru, Alexandre Mezzorana, Simone Aubert, POL, Plastique Ono

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

A strange episode. I found my Ivor Cutler records and decided to play them randomly with recent purchases as well as some other bits and bobs, the effect is weirdly relaxing, sparse, fluid. Like a swim!

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.

Vibrations from past performances softly reverberating in air around which buildings reformulate. Dimensions shift. The echo remains.

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 Marco Alessi’s poem “What's a month for the sea / as the waves touch my feet / a shiver, endless”.

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 Phil England and Misha Farrant play music by Jim O’Rourke, Moor Mother, aya, Avalanche Kaito, Gyrofield, Lao, Beans and Cheer-Accident.

New music with The Wire Magazine.