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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.

Derek Jarman was always an inspirational Renaissance figure, whose solidarity and commitment grounded his intense imagination. Here we can see for the first time how this remarkable conjunction of forces was present in his earliest work, and in a medium we did not associate with him—until now. – John Akomfrah

Written in 1971, Jarman’s Billboard is a surreal, fabular, lyrical work—a literary fairy-tale, acid-trip, road movie hybrid—the energies and details of which influenced much of his later work across media. The story serves as a foundational text, laying out many of the themes, images, and styling of his work in painting, film and design whilst also being haunted by the then emerging ecological crisis in its juxtaposition of the beauty of nature with the reckless consumption of modernity.

The House Sparrow Press edition features facsimile images of the story’s handwritten drafts from Jarman’s archive and is comprehensively informed by a vivid foreword from Philip Hoare, a deeply researched afterword by Jarman scholar Declan Wiffen, and a warm memoir by artist Michael Ginsborg, a close friend of Jarman’s throughout the period of the story’s writing.

In this blown-away piece of Jarman magic, a fantasy / fable about how to see differently and a cornucopic visual version of the psyche, Derek Jarman casually reconstructs notions of empire, the road trip, and the mid-twentieth century journey of the soul. Trippy, light, fantastic. – Ali Smith

The Resonance broadcast is introduced by a collage of comments from the publication’s launch at the London Review Bookshop (03.11.22), with contributions from (in order of appearance) Gareth Evans, Declan Wiffen and So Mayer, alongside excerpts from Benedict Drew’s Music for Bookshops. Listen to the launch event in full here (with thanks to Claire Williams and all at the Shop).

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) is one of the most influential figures in 20th century British culture. Best known as an iconoclastic filmmaker and polemical gay activist who channeled unparalleled energy into painting, writing, gardening and all manner of cultural activity, he was one of the primary catalysts for a generation of artists and filmmakers whose work is only now being fully recognised for its dark, subversive imagination and fluidity across media. Amongst his films, Jarman is particularly recognised for Jubilee (1977), arguably the first punk movie, Caravaggio (1986), and Blue (1993), a moving memoir about his degeneration from AIDS.

Formed in 2016 to publish A Sparrow’s Journey: John Berger reads Andrey Platonov, House Sparrow Press—an imprint of Prototype Publishing—is, in the best and multiple senses of the word (it is hoped) an ‘occasional’ venture. Based in Hackney, London, it seeks to publish creatively committed, collaborative works both at a time that is relevant and for reasons that feel compelling. It is drawn to manuscripts of hybridity, titles that might elude conventional publication over concerns of form or scale. It also believes in a modesty of style (but never of ambition) and a fecundity of ideas. Its moniker (drawn from its first venture) celebrates a creature that was once ubiquitous and yet is now threatened. The idea of a bird inhabiting and inspiring a place of residence also feels resonant. This is what the best books do too. There are wings at work here. In short, Emily Dickinson was right (again) when she observed that ‘hope is the thing with feathers.’ House Sparrow Press comprises publisher Jess Chandler and editor Gareth Evans.

Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping broadcasts on Resonance Extra and Resonance 104.4FM as a part of a collaborative series of radio works from Tenement Press and Prototype Publishing, Railroad Flat Radio. Thanks to Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

An archival reading of Derek Jarman’s sole work of narrative fiction, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping (Prototype Publishing / House Sparrow Press) — as read by the author — in a special broadcast to mark the 30th anniversary of Jarman’s death.

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

This episode features music from Torba, Twenty Three Hanging Trees, Chelidon Frame, Pascal Colman & Chase Foley, V-Stok, Menion and Eye Spirit & Matt Finney.

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

This episode features a candid story from the Genoa G8 Summit, 2001.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

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

This week Athens Inner City Broadcast presents the Athens based experimental label, Cohernt States.

This mix is a one hour collection of sound collages, musique concrète ideas, spoken word recitations, samples, loops, out-of-context rhythms, field recordings, electronics, cut-up manipulated noises, bongos, quitars, some old Elvis Priesley recordings and Immortal Tapirs released and unleashed by Coherent States in various times between 2015-2019.

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.

Time flies - in this episode, it's the final studio studio session for the album Is Under Location Surfaces! Plus, what might have been a deep listening mix gets sidetracked into computer music beats territory, with everything from LSD Dream Emulator to Big Stick to Mark Fell.

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

A one hour mix by SHAPE's Entrópia Architektúra, Hungarian ensemble drawing on industrial, ritual, experimental formed in Budapest in 2001.

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In this episode, RE-PEAT collective approaches water justice through imagining the perspective of water nself, by drawing stories and definitions of bodies of water, and n’s entanglement in relation with other bodies, bogs, bugs, sundew, moss, reeds, drops, rivers, will-o’-the-wisp and us.

Through collectivity, music and sounds, we follow a feminist subjectivity, watered, inspired by Astrida Neimanis’s call to “chart our politics of location in a way that recognises our diverse aqueous implications and responsibilities”.

With contributions from Moss Pit, the River Besòs in Barcelona and the Salween River in Thailand by Helen Ganya Brown.

RE-PEAT is a youth-led collective with a mission to change the narrative around peatlands across the UK and Europe - what we term a “peatland paradigm shift”. We strongly believe that peatlands are ecosystems for our times – representing both a vast existential risk and a huge potential for positive transformation, the course of which we follow depending on the actions of those alive today. We also see that these ecosystems can offer insights into a wide array of eco-societal features, including deep time, what we collectively choose to remember/forget, and how we can think beyond binaries.

A six-part series by Meira Asher and Stephen Shiell exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist or group who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio.

For six years, Nathan Jenkins was part of Australian extreme metal band The Amenta, known for their refusal to fully commit to any sense of what a metal band should be. After working within those extremities and contradictions, Nathan established a solo project titled Host, fusing dark ambient, noise and drone.

In this episode of Out From Under, Stuart Buchanan talks to Nathan about this transition and his highly ritualistic approach to music making, as well as his role as curator for the upcoming two-day event, Black Mountain.

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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: special sound art commissions from Brighton University MA students, audio from films made for the Barbican show 'Station to Station last year by LoneLady, excerpts from classic era-defining drum and bass cassettes, and an exclusive sneak peek at 2 new tracks from ex-Cabaret Voltaire man Steven Mallinder's unreleased modular synth album with his current band Wrangler, including a great mix by ex-Throbbing Gristle member Chris Carter... phew, what a scorcher!

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

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 7.

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.

This episode: to celebrate one year of Late Works: By Ear, Joe plays a selection of tracks that didn't make it into the previous 11 shows, including some songs in response to postcards sent in by Emii Alrai and Edwin Rostron. Featuring Quasimoto, Elaine Brown and Erik Satie.

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 with Johnny Haway. A radio concert from the Tennis Champagne Bienne.

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.

Mutual elevations bring the Pymmes Brook into babbling convergence with the Lee Navigation. Cheerfully swapping stories they flow on towards their meeting with old River Lea downstream.

This show consists of two approaches to repurposing the same sonic material gleaned from Littoral Transmissions' previous Lea wanders.

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 Tan Taigi’s poem “The cormorant in the forest; / The cherry blossoms / Along the evening path”.

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.

This episode hosted by new presenter Caroline Whiteley features new and unreleased tracks by A Song For You, Beings, Lamusa II, Emma DJ, HTRK, Iceboy Violet and Nueen, Enji, KMR & KMRU, Valentina Magaletti and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.