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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.

This instalment contains opportunistic content made during a 'pure volunteering' trespass into an archival recording facility, where a vanishingly rare - possibly unique - acetate record (originally found in a bin) is digitised, cryptically titled Baz Kromagnum. Varying fidelity ensues.

Fittingly, this old record - nominally skiffle - sings of unresponsive culture, failed endeavour, and perseverance, heralding sympathetic elongated remixes, and philosophical enquiry on the nature of experiment, passion, presentation, and pratfall.

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

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

In this episode, Dronica meets Eraldo Bernocchi for our first guest mix of the year.

Eraldo Bernocchi is an Italian composer, arranger, producer and guitarist with a solid reputation as an all round sonic sculptor. Starting his career in the late 70’s, Eraldo co-founded the conceptual audio project SIGILLUM S, a highly acclaimed international cult act.

In the 90’s, together with his wife, the visual artist Petulia Mattioli, Eraldo established Verba Corrige Productions, which became the base for a raft of notable audio visual projects and cooperations.

A relentless sound explorer, Eraldo Bernocchi has collaborated with numerous artists including Mick Harris, Bill Laswell (official), Nils Petter Molvaer, Harold Budd, Russell Mills, Toshinori Kondo, Raiz, Almamegretta, Spectre, Sensational, DJ Disk, Professor Shebab, Thomas Fehlmann, Zu, DJ Olive, Markus Stockhausen, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Robin Guthrie, Colin Edwin and Balazs Pandi, among many others.

In addition to regular work scoring music for adverts and other multimedia projects, Eraldo has composed film music for Academy Award winner Gabriele Salvatores and produced numerous art installations with Petulia Mattioli, as well as other artists including Russell Mills and Harold Budd.
Uniquely, Eraldo is also known for being invited to play and organise several special events for H.H. The Dalai Lama in Italy.

In 2008, together with music lover Giacomo Bruzzo, Eraldo founded RareNoise Records, a new London based label, which aims to showcase a wide range of cutting edge music. The label has since become an important conduit championing several forward thinking and original artists, as well as releasing a number of Eraldo’s own recordings, including with Tony Wakeford, Colin Edwin, Ted Parsons just to name a few.

In may 2018, the long awaited Cy Twombly documentary film soundtrack album he composed, was presented at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art NYC. After that, many other great collaborations and releases followed, such as the duo with electronic music wonder Nadia Struiwigh or the duo with Gareth Davis among others. Eraldo recently released an amazing new solo work as SIMM on the excellent Ohm Resistance.

Eraldo presents a selection of music and speech (in the following order) by Gaudi, Nadia Struiwigh, Mark Stewart & Nadia Struiwigh, Nils Petter Molvaer, Nils Petter Molvaer, Paolo Bandera, Nils Petter Molvaer, Nadia Struiwigh, Alex Patterson, Leon Switch, Hoshiko Yamane, Paolo Bandera & Jo Quail, Christopher Chaplin, Colin Edwin, Jo Quail, Midori Hirano.

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

This episode features music by Blaxleep, Gimu, Ike Yard, Beautify Junkyards, V.K and Sci-Fi, Sleep Data, Grouper, Grey Frequency, Sinoath, Mathieu Lamontagne & Emmanuel Toledo and Jumble Hole Clough.

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

This episode: Ulysses 13 and the Space Nomads. A mix based on anime and cartoon OSTs - sounds from the ‘70s, ’80s and ’90s.

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

Virgilio Oliveira explores the sonic environment in collaboration with Porto's Radio Manabras, presenting an hour of sound art and field recordings.

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.

A radio mix of his own works by Latvian beatmaker Oriole, one of the artists supported by SHAPE at the Skaņu Mežs festival. Oriole is one of the Dirty Deal Audio collective, a veteran of festivals in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland and Norway.

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.

On this week’s Out From Under, artists Andy Rantzen and Jochen Gutsch discuss their new collaborative project, which fuses Andy’s poetic spoken lyrics and Jochen’s diverse musical background, recording and performing as Hinterlandt. Highly conscious of the potential pitfalls of fusing poetry and experimental music, Andy and Jochen carve a path to an outcome that is tense and fascinating, and compels you to listen close. We also hear music from Jochen’s Hinterlandt Ensemble and take in back catalogue work from Andy’s Pelican Daughters project.

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.

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

In this episode, a tide walk. Two coasts across two hundred miles. A salt marsh 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 1.

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, "two vast and trunkless legs of stone" - selections in response to postcards sent in by Chica Seal, Daisy Link, Francisco G Pinzón Samper & Shawn Sawyers. Featuring Meredith Monk, Pina Bausch, Jacob Samuel, Allen Ginsberg, black midi & Damo Suzuki!

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 Phantom Frequencies, a radio play by Felix Kubin.

The recordings of this programme cannot be trusted. They were made unintentionally or occurred without any human interaction. Some of them – like electromagnetic interferences - can be explained scientifically, others cannot. What connects all of them is their unexpected appearance. These sounds emerged from nothingness – like phantoms. They manifested on old tapes, online streaming channels, disrupted hard discs and broken studio gear, recordings played at the wrong speed or accidentally contaminated by outer signal interferences.

Featuring recordings by Burkhard Friedrich, Dieb13, Diet Schütte, Dorit Chrysler, Mark Vernon, Eli Gras, Florian Bräunlich, Jenny Abouav, Jean-Marc Montera, Jérôme Noetinger, Ken Montgomery, Kiwa, Laura Maes, Marc Hollander, Mary Ocher, Meeuw, Nele Möller, Raul Keller, Richard von der Schulenburg, Scott Haggart, Victoria Keddie, Yoshino and Felix Kubin.

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 Mukai Kyorai’s poem “night deepening… / following my neighbour, / I too try to cool myself outside”.

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.

Renowned Australian soundtrack theorist Philip Brophy presents 90 minutes of loud and luscious soundtrack dynamite! Across 13 episodes, he covers five strains of film music: Electronic Soundscapes; Big Beat Jive; Hard Rock Freak-Out; Funked-Up Grooves; and Atomic Atonality. In all cases, great tracks that speak for themselves!