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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.

In this episode, one hour of music by Benedict Drew.

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 Sly & Family Drone, Stochastic Resonance, Disinformation, Armageddon and Pocket Signs.

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

This episode features DJ, composer and improviser Mariam Rezaei.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

Long-form gonzo radio exploration of artists on the outer edge with Eric Boros.

In this episode, a mix of tunes from a chat that I had with a friend on what music was playing in my house on a night many years ago. A mix of music and field recordings. A night in summer.

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

Now: recordings from Chris Watson and Etant Donnes plus 'resonant rock' compositions from Pauline Oliveros and Henning Christiansen.

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

In this episode: a DJ set with some recent favourites, and a studio session premiering the first batch of new tracks for the Is Under Location Surfaces album, which will be gradually expanding from now until January. Tracks available after broadcast here.

A 16-episode bi-weekly series alternating new and unheard live sounds from Trash Panda QC with DJ selections and guests.

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

In this episode of this series, Ilia Rogatchevski presents a mix that packs in carnal club sounds, spiritual jazz and ancient flutes. Plus new music from Luce Mawdsley, Adam Wiltzie and Damsel Elysium.

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

Now: the fifth episode in the first series of Out From Under, focused on two Australian artists working at the fringes of Australian popular music, albeit on radically opposing musical trajectories. Both are compelled by a deep desire to protect their own creative freedom. Via Tania discusses her twenty year career playing alongside artists such as Prefuse 73, Marcus Popp and Jori Hulkonnen.

Sydney producer Ghostgirl discusses her embarking on a spiritually-rich electronic project inspired by a chance encounter with two rookie soldiers on fleeting web phenomenon ChatRoulette.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

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.

Offering surreal glimpses of what might be identified as echoes of a post-Republic America, an imagined Middle East, and some other unnamed and unreachable world, Palace chronicles a vivid landscape of crumbling towers and heart-broken animals, eclipses, comets, and lovers in abandoned rooms. Produced by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger–Meacham.

Kyra Simone is a writer from Los Angeles, now based in Brooklyn. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary journals, including The Baffler, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Conjunctions, Fence, The Anthology of Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere. She is a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and part of a two-woman team running the editorial office of Zone Books.

"From the stuff we unfold in the morning and throw in the recycling bin at night, Simone coaxes the rhythms of cyclical life, that baseline on which extraordinary events and crises exert their pressure. The world she constructs is recognisable, textured, gently humorous—but also luminously, piercingly exact, possessed of the strangeness of seeing something for the first or the last time".

— Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun.

"I was hooked by the very first sentence of Kyra Simone’s Palace of Rubble: ‘A breaking wave collapses on the bank before two half-naked women on white Arabian horses.’ The sentence is so precise, down to the use of the erotic “collapses.” Plunged into this direct, clear, and mysterious arrangement of words, I was always left wondering what will happen next. Where will the next sentence take me? I was never disappointed. Simone is able to maintain and shift that propulsive curiosity throughout the book. While dancing with us, each sentence is a journey. Each story is a multi-faceted gem—a ‘beguiling dream of eternal cinema".

— John Yau, author of Genghis Chan on Drums.

"Majestic flights of fancy spun around ravaged landscapes and savage realities, these are remarkable prose poems for the 21st century".

— Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters.

"Reading Simone’s work is reminiscent of an archaeological excavation. The writing has dug to the past and emerged in the future, passing on its way those civilisations, kingdoms and palaces long since blown away or buried, it is covered in their dust. I can’t help but think, isn’t this madness? Isn’t life beautiful".

— Vanessa Onwuemezi, author of Dark Neighbourhood.

Temporary Palaces is a special triplicate of hour-long broadcasts that serialises an unabridged rendition of Kyra Simone's debut collection, Palace of Rubble (Tenement Press, 2022). Initially inspired by a photograph of one of Saddam Hussein’s demolished palaces, Simone’s Palace of Rubble is a collection of one-page stories composed primarily of single words culled each day from the front pages of the newspaper.

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: "ZETAGI ZETAGI" - more loose association in response to postcards sent in by listeners including music by Mica Levi, Tom Waits & Cab Calloway. The Late Works: By Ear recordings continue with piano from Francis Devine.

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, Radio Picnic travels with the pioneers of Asian experimental music.

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.

In this episode: unfurling of an estuarine walk. Diffusion. Sonic overflows.

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 Takahama Kyoshi’s poem “A distant mountain / Seen in the sunlight: / A desolate field”.

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 Chris Bohn plays tracks from John Butcher, Gudrun Gut, Woman Of Noise For Palestine, Otaco, Howlround, Li Jianhong, Glamorous Pharmacy, and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.