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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.

There is currently a structural water crisis in the Palestinian Occupied Jordan Valley. Not a climate or geographical water crisis, a deliberate socially and politically engineered crisis. Israel, since it invaded the West Bank in 1967, controls every public aspect of civilian life in the Jordan Valley. Israel administers two populations, the Israeli settlers and the indigenous Palestinian residents. Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian farming communities of access to fresh, clean and reliable water supplies, water that is needed for crops and herds, as well as for the Palestinian farmers and herders.

This can mean either not permitting them to be connected to municipal water supplies, despite the Israeli settlers having such access. It also entails not permitting Palestinian people to sink new wells on their own land, and blocking their access to existing wells and springs, either by fencing off the water source or destroying pipes bringing the water to the herders and farmers. The end result is frequently that either the farmers have to pay extortionate prices to purchase water from the Palestinian authority, or if they cannot afford this option they are forced to abandon their land and way of life.

Featuring the water truck driver, co-activists Natasha and Nitsan, shepherds community of Khalet Makhul, shepherd ‘W’, shepherds community of Hirbet Samra and Aref Daragmah. Translation from Arabic: Laila Abd El-Razaq. Introductory text: Liam Evans

Meira Asher is a composer, performer and human rights activist. She primarily uses the medium of sound-art and radio-art. Graduate of CalArts and KonCon, she was co-founder of the Bodylab art foundation with Guy Harries (2001-11), where they produced several projects including Infantry and Woman See Lot of Things. Former lecturer at University of Haifa's Art School (2012-2022) and producer of the independent radio-art show radioart106. since 2014.

Her works have been released on Crammed, Sub Rosa, Auditorium, Raash Records and Ultima Ratio labels. Her recent works include Antonin Artaud’s radio essay To Have Done with the Judgement of God, Sonic Voyage of Resistance for Radio Art Zone 2022, and the Catastrophe trilogy by duo Asher.Zax featuring Dave Phillips, Ensemble Musica Nova, and more.

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.

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

This episode features music from Nina Hoppas, Simon McCorry, Bad Girl, Halfcastle, Grundik Kasiansky and The Seer.

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

This episode features music by Charles Bobuck, Taxxess, Gurdonark, Mattin, Headband, Ginny Arnell, Severed Heads, Red Plane, Carya Amara, Alan Feanch, Vi Res, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Masover and Mikra.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

In this episode, come with us on a hypnotic journey that will take you back in the times of the goat god Dionysus, when people danced and celebrated, drunk whine and scared death away. Traditional music recorded on the streets of various Greek villages during pagan ''dromena''. Masked ''bouloukia'' goat headed masks, monsters and huge vaginas and dicks against death.

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.

As this series moves into its final month, things stay chaotic with a freeform mix of singeli, noise, and techno variants, featuring everything from Sisso to Lightning Bolt to Ikue Mori.

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

This episode: SHAPE's Gábor Kovács, a Budapest-based musician and visual artist working under the dual monikers of Céh and Új Bála, presents a mix of industrial punk, noise rock, psychedelia and fringe techno following releases on Baba Vanga and Altered State Tapes. For more information visit: http://shapeplatform.eu/artist/cehuj-bala/.

In this episode, artists Knut Aufermann & Sarah Washington, Xentos Fray Bentos, Frauke Berg, Katharina Bihler & Stefan Scheib, DinahBird, dieb13 & Billy Roisz, Anna Friz, and Ralf Schreiber broadcast live from Ürzig, Broughton, Düsseldorf, Saarbrücken, Paris, Vienna, Santa Cruz and Cologne.

During the lockdown, a revolving group of sound artists from across Europe and the US convened live on air with a unified aim: to gather sound-pollen and transmit codified messages to kindred folk, exploring whatever was on their minds. Style guide: Anything goes.

Here we broadcast some selected live works by the CWCH Collective.

This episode is the latest in the new music playlist series, surveying the terrain of eclectic and experimental music across Australia.

We hear from experimental quintet Tangents (pictured), a quasi super group of sorts exploring the outer ranges of rock and jazz; Canberra’s Reuben Ingall on a new cross-continental split series; Melbourne artist & musician Lisa Lerkenfeldt; brand new material from Brisbane avant-garde trio Feet Teeth, Melbourne’s Fad and ModB, NSW duo School Girl Report, and the collaborative project of Andy Rantzen & Jochen Gutsch; plus a trio of tracks from one of Australia’s longest running tape labels, Altered States.

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.

Tam Lin opens this episode introducing their album bluelightnospaceflattime which comes out on Flaming Pines on June 14 2024.

We also dip into two other forthcoming releases: East by Fortresses, an EP which comes out of Sam Ashton's move from London to Portland, and an excerpt from Zippered Time, Winged Dialogue by the trio of David Birchall, Tullis Rennie and Kate Carr.

The final hour of the show is a special mix by Tam Lin of music which relates to the themes and compositional approach they took in bluelightnospaceflattime.

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

Furbytronics by Peter Rockmount

• audio / visual decomposer Lepke B posits the question - "How will we live in the 21st Century?"

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 2.

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: "a whale swims down Holloway Road..." Loose association in response to postcards sent in by artists from Submit to Love, a charity-run collective of artists who have survived brain injury. Featuring Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Richard Hamilton & Dur-Dur Band.

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.

We continue to listen to rare records released on the Soviet major label Melodia. This time – and not for the last time – the episode is dedicated to jazz in all its manifestations.

We'll start with the first jazz composition in the history of the USSR (the Uzbek band under Pavel Chaplevsky made this recording in 1935), listen to balearic improvisations from Ukraine, electro-boogie from Kazakhstan, jazz-mughams from Azerbaijan and then dive headfirst into free jazz from the Baltic States and faraway places in Russia. Let jazz be free!

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental TOPOT label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

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 a garden by the lea, the space between two rain showers slows time for snails to sound.

Score & alto saxophone: Artur Vidal. Clarinet: Stephan Barrett. Sonic clouds: Adam Kinsey.

Mémoire Imagination is part of an ongoing series of slow improvisations that often take place outdoors. The music is set to the pace of breathing cycles to allow time for observing musicians’ internal and external sonic environment. Beatings, unisons, harmonics, chords, microtones, dissonances and multi-phonics may occur.

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 Nakamura Kusatao’s poem “Face of the winter pond / doesn't reflect / even a leaf.”

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 presents a special guest mix from Avalanche Kaito and also plays new and recent music by People Like Us, Liliane Chlela, Marewrew, Ahmed Malek, Sound Breaking Sky, Kiwanoid and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.