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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.

Embarking on a journey along hydrobodies - from the deep ocean’s abyssal planes all the way through the Mississippi river, outwards into Indonesian tropical rainforests – Sonic Traces expands on my personal inquiries and journey as an activist and researcher. It sets out to expose how the traces of pollution - be they sonic or chemical - travel through watery spaces, impacting communities across ecosystems. Taking the form of a speculative dérive, it includes field recordings, poetry, field notes, and philosophical wonders.

I address research developed in the Lower Mississippi river petrochemical corridor, North Kalimantan in Borneo island, as well as introduce my practice as an activist concerned with deep sea mining and the impacts of ocean noise. I enquire how the water column is affected by chemical particles circulating through it, as new industries arise and expand from the seabed outwards towards land, tracing some of the cumulative impacts of human presence, while raising awareness into how one is embedded in wider webs of ecosystemic exchange.

For what if one were set to understand watery systems in novel ways that reorganize how one senses and partakes in the world?

Expanding on how traces bear witness to past actions and leave an intergenerational imprint, I explore the complex condition of partition-thinking in natural worlds, problematising human-centric ideas of containment and fixity, in otherwise fluid and interconnected spaces. By doing so, I expand on our conceptualisation of space and corporeality to introduce new perspectives on environmental thinking.

Margarida Mendes is a researcher, curator, artist and educator, exploring the overlap between systems thinking, experimental film, sound practices and ecopedagogy. She creates transdisciplinary forums, exhibitions and experiential works where alternative modes of education and sensory practices may catalyse political imagination and restorative action.

Mendes has long been involved in anti-extraction activism collaborating with marine NGOs, Universities, and institutions of the art world. She holds a PhD in Research Architecture by the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London and is a member of Natural Contract Lab, a transdisciplinary collective of lawyers and artists working on restorative justice and rights of nature across Europe.

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.

In this episode, Dronica meets Lucia H Chung, curator at Happened, London.

Lucia H Chung is Taiwanese experimental artist based in London. She performs and releases music under the alias ‘en creux’ where the sound creation springs from her fascinations in noise generated via feedback on digital and analog equipment, and her role as a ‘mediator-performer’ in the multifaceted relationship between the sonic events incurring within the self-regulated system.

She also works as an independent curator, producer and broadcaster at Happened.

Lucia presents a selection of experimental electronic music from Asian female artists that loosely follows the trajectory of her listening habit and her own creative development as an artist as well as an independent curator. The selected music features artists who are a huge influence in Lucia's own work, some who she has worked with at Happened, and others whose music she simply enjoys.

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

A collaborative session by Godmouth + Dim Red Glo plus music by Vejopatis, Anton Szandor LaVey, Daniel & Mikael Tjernberg, kAzooo, Quimper, EMBA Soundsystem, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Alio Die, Les Paul and Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin.

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

Featuring V3STA and yours truly. A mix of ambiences / a glimpse of a future past / a fragment of time... I want you to know, someday everything will better for you.

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

This episode features themes of desire, fear, and capitalism, with tracks from Sean Landers, Philemona Williamson, David Velez, and Ake Hodell.

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

Where the Dead Voices Gather is an indeterminate process driven radio experiment that uses the book 'Where The Dead Voices Gather' by Nick Tosches as its starting point.

Songs are chosen from a series of libraries based on the structure of a haiku. Each show has 17 songs / sounds therefore each show represents a sonic haiku.

Where the Dead voices gather is exploring the sonic potentials of written text and the indeterminate.

Bow To Each Other is an award winning Norwegian-Canadian indie pop duo. The band consists of Gunhild Ramsay Kristoffersen from Karmøy, Norway, and Megan Kovacs from Toronto, Canada, both based in Oslo. Megan is a songwriter, keyboardist and vocalist, while Gunhild is an arranger, programmer, keyboardist and vocalist. The band was formed when the two moved to Norway in 2010 after having lived in Liverpool for several years, where they both studied at LIPA.

This hour-long mix by BTEO includes tracks from the likes of Björk, Kraftwerk and The Smiths.

Bow To Each Other are part of the SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, supported by the EU's Creative Europe programme. For more information, please visit: http://shapeplatform.eu/.

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

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.

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.

Going softly soporific ...

An Infinite Number of Monkeys

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

A tide line walk. Two coasts across two hundred miles. A saltmarsh estuary. A rocky shore. One tide cycle. Twelve and a half hours of high low high tide. Twelve walks. Walk one hour, rest one hour. Twelve walks divided and rebuilt at random. Twelve walks, each a new tide walk.

This is Tide Walk 3.

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, "chopsticks turn matchsticks turned charcoal" - sounds in response to postcards received from James Owens, Rosalind Howdle, Amelia Galliford, Cecilia Reeve & Seth Randall-Goddard. Featuring Violence Grass Band, Marcel Broodthaers, Mal Waldron, Stevie Wonder & more, with excerpts from James Lee Byar's The World Question Center weaving in and out. Also the newest By Ear recording with Finn Carter (Endless Digital Birthdays) improvising piano over Otto Willberg's double bass improvisation over Pike Ogilvy's drums.

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 first episode we travel to the East – to Transcaucasia and Asia in the 70s–90s: we listen to colourful Korean funk, sunny Azerbaijani jazz, desert Uzbek folk and traditional dance music from Laos and Burma. That's all folks!

I want to dedicate this show to the anniversary of the Melodiya label – it turns 60 years old on the 23rd of April 2024. And the best thing is that the label is still releasing music.

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 this episode, subterranean tunnels make their presence felt above ground as they pursue their eventual confluence with the River Lea. Where trees gather along their courses they momentarily get drawn up through the roots to be converted into new forms. In such a place we are pleased to be joined by SEA MANTIS in sonic contemplation of the water's presence beneath our feet.

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 Ryōkan Taigu’s poem “out of my dreams / the distant croaking / green frogs”.

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.

William Fields explores the potential of algorithmic music through the process of recreating (and inventing?) genres with his musical operating system.

In this episode, Phil England plays new music by Ghetts, Meridian Brothers, Shark In A Bathtub, Kyosaku, Beth Gibbons, Omar Ahmad & Myyuh, Ergo Phizmiz & Depresstival, AnkAnum and Scree.

New music with The Wire Magazine.