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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, Nathaniel Mann and Carlos Monleon discuss the activation of different bodies of knowledge and efforts of riverine conservation involved in the process of River Breathing.

River Breathing is an immersive sound installation in which the audience can experience the breathing of the rivers Ebro, Segre and other affluents as a symphony composed of the life cycles of the various species that participate in the pulse of the river. The protagonists of the installation are a choir of naiads, or freshwater clams, which are endangered throughout the Iberian Peninsula but especially in Catalonia and Aragon due to the relentless denaturing of their habitats ,the threat of several invasive (let's call them vigorous!) species, and increasing levels of river pollution.

This choir embodies and gives voice to the river, as the mythological Naiads -spirits of fountains and rivers in ancient Greece- once did. The work transforms scientific models of the metabolism of the Ebro river and its affluents based on historical and real-time data available through sensors and remote sensing systems into multi-channel sound in collaboration with musicians and the help of computer scientists from the UdL (University of Lleida) and biologists from IRTA (Catalunya) and IPE (Aragón).

A series of metabolic scores are produced from the data to be interpreted by musicians , the final composition is completed with underwater recordings of the clams in their conservation tanks. The installation consists of a sculptural sound system made in ceramics and other materials designed in collaboration with sound engineers. A lighting scheme completes the installation.

One of the project’s aims is to make known the complexity of the life of rivers and the delicate nature of maintaining their balance as a way of establishing a relationship of proximity with them and forming emotional bonds of care and responsibility with riparian ecosystems.

Scientific advisor: Rosa Maria Gil. River ecology: Enrique Navarro and Francisco Comín. Clam conservation work: Keiko Nakamura. Sound composition and lighting: Santiago Latorre. Castanets: Miguel Ángel Berna.

Carlos Monleon works with a variety of processes and materials, both living and non-living, that result in sculptural and participatory artworks.These span across different levels of bodily sensation and awareness; from the microbiological to the performative and social bodies. His main line of work traces evolutionary processes that stem from digestion and cognition and result in the distribution of biological processes across multi-species entanglements and cybernetic metabolisms.

Carlos has developed collaborative projects at spaces such as Autoitalia, Seventeen Gallery and Diaspore Project Space, London, Cráter Invertido, Mexico, Hangar, Lisbon as well as institutions such as CA2M, and Matadero, Madrid, HIAP Helsinki, and has shown his individual practice at LUMA Arles, Z33, Istanbul Design Biennial, Porto Design Biennial or the Tallin Biennial amongst others.

Nathaniel Mann (born 1982) is an experimental composer, performer and sound designer. Oscillating between music and sound, Mann has a compositional practice that is expansive in scope and varied in form. He takes on many roles in his work, including researcher, instrument-maker, archive-digger, surround-sound designer, filmmaker, broadcaster, storyteller, producer, curator, entrepreneur, sonic-artist and folksinger. He is also one third of the experimental folk ensemble, Dead Rat Orchestra.

Mann’s compositions probe history, politics and audio culture, resisting established formats and frameworks for creating music. Each work is crafted, adapted and nuanced towards its setting, fuelled by continued dialogue and collaboration with professionals and enthusiasts from varied fields. These have included filmmakers, musicians, visual artists, academics, curators, a pigeon fancier and a swordsmith.

Mann has explored many subjects including the colonial residue of recorded music in South Africa, in dialogue with Andile Vellum, a deaf dancer/choreographer based in Cape Town (Cape Sound Stories, 2016); the psycho-geographic horror of England’s public execution sites (Tyburnia, 2014-17); and the deeply rooted traditions interlinking noise and social control, creating bronze musical meat cleavers with swordsmith Neil Burridge (Rough Music, 2014). He was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Award 2019, Arts Foundation Fellow 2018 and his work Pigeon Whistles (2013), a flying orchestra of flute-carrying Birmingham Roller pigeons, won the George Butterworth Prize for Composition in 2015.

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 DJ Comisarios de la Luz, co-curator at Magia Roja, in Barcelona.

Màgia Roja is a label/association/venue from Barcelona, specialized in non-conformist music and culture with a decidedly iconoclastic slant. Described as "Spain's most extreme and most important label-slash-venue " and "a place unlike any other in Spain, perhaps any other on earth" by the Quietus, Màgia Roja has become a reference point of the Spanish underground in recent years.

The first hour of the podcast is a mix trying to convey what a Màgia Roja night at HQ was about, done by the resident DJ Comisarios de la Luz.

The second hour of the episode is a selection of tracks from the artists in the label, including some to-be-released tracks.

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

Music by HAWN, David Cross, Karl Richter / Münchener Bach-Chor / Münchener Bach-Orchester, Portal, Jumble Hole Clough, Strange Lights, Grey Frequency, Astralingua, Eeem (Eim), Hypp Fractal, Wizards Tell Lies, Geckko and Repeated Viewing.

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

This time, Athens Inner City Broadcast mutates into Houston Inner City Broadcast for a special episode focusing on the city's rap scene.

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

In this episode Andrew Jarvis digs deep into the archives of the ‘Polish Radio Experimental Studio’, discovering electro-acoustic sounds, field recordings, Sci-fi visions and Futurist Poetry from Poland’s former state broadcaster.

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.

Fraction (Eric Raynaud) is a French musician, composer and producer of experimental electronic music whose work explores the boundaries of spatial sound composition within design of metaphysical immersive experiences.

After the release of his first EP Superposition on the French label InFiné, Raynaud moved away from traditional music fields to focus on digital arts, working on complex stage designs and hybrid writings that combine visual, sound and physical media.

In 2013, he developed DROMOS for Mutek Festival in Montreal, an impressive immersive performance that resonated with the blogosphere and subsequently had its OST released on InFiné. Since then, he has kept on merging 3D immersive sound with contemporary art and architecture, incorporating his questioning of themes that combine science and contemporary sociology.

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

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 another in our new music playlist series, presenting a selection of underground and experimental work being made right now in Australia.

We check out two compilations both surveying experimental electronic terrain - from labels Butter Sessions and Ice Age Productions; music from two Canberra labels, Dream Damage and Moontown Recordings, featuring Danger Beach and Scraps (pictured); new releases from Sydney artists M.O.B. and Lortica; abstract sounds from Sam Filmer; and a new recording from Half High, featuring Lucy Phelan and Matthew P Hopkins from Naked On The Vague.

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.

The entire first hour is given over to a sound piece called 'SOG Underscore' by Caleb Madden And Geoff Reader. The work consists of 4 recordings taken from the output of a de-tuned analogue radio at 4 different frequencies.

The recordings were made whilst driving around Brighton in a car following a route which was decided by writing 3 large letters (S,O,G) on a map of Brighton and then trying to drive as closely as possible to the outline. The route home along the straight line of the seafront underlined the letters nicely.

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

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 line walk 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.

The first of the drums By Ear recording vein is completed (BE 2.33) with Kiran Leonard's electric guitar improvisation on Sophie Moss' bass guitar improvisation on Pike Ogilvy's drum solo. Surrounding tracks selected from off-cuts of the past 18 months of broadcast, including Margaret Tait, Matana Roberts, John Zorn & BADSAUNA.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each week a new guest joins Joe in the studio to discuss and perform their work. Expect in-depth interviews, live performances, conversations and new event experiments.

In this episode: projects that are not finished. Stories that are not easy. Embryonic music. We're struggling! There will surely be technical problems!

Featuring: Andrea Marioni, Stefan Robert, Antoine Läng, Céline Roduit, Cyril Yeterian, Fhunyue Gao, Le voyant, Fuchsy Lady, Jerrycan, Kika Demange, Maxou Bisou, Laurent Schmid, Magda – Presence Absence, Mark Matter, Mathilde Maillard, Tzii, Jeff Gurda, Rodeus, Johnny Haway.

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

A special guest mix from Bruno Silva AKA Ondness this month, taken from a theatre piece he worked on. Here’s what AKA Ondness has to say about it:

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 the lowlight, eyes and ears dissolve. What sounds like the chirping of crickets could in fact be static from overhead cables. Are those really birds? Where does the sky begin? The lightning strike of empty, onrushing trains briefly sends the scene into stark relief, followed by brief silence before the dusk chorus resumes.

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 El Wud’s poem “white petals / on the stormy sea - / floating memories”.

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, Chris Bohn plays Arooj Aftab, Nkisi, Keiji Haino, Wolfgang Seidel, Yui Onodera, and more

New music with The Wire Magazine.