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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 second episode begins with a short reconstruction of a conversation with former bookshop manager "Cynthia", who gives the programme-maker a list detailing the British Library's Suppressed Safe contents - a list which exceeds anything currently in the public domain.

"Cynthia" deemed it such a hot potato that she requested a voice actor completely re-record her voice. After receiving the list, oddly synchronicitous disturbances (of varying significance) materialise.

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 Jody DeSchutter.

Jody DeSchutter is a multi-disciplinary artist hailing from Canada, now living and working in London. She is one half of BAG, a spoken word and sound duo, alongside her partner Dan Allison. DeSchutter writes and performs in conversation with the immersive sound crafted by Allison, the two merging familiar and unknown, and ultimately building new landscapes and contexts.

DeSchutter practices painting and sculpture in tandem with spoken word and sound, working at their intersections and allowing edges to dissolve. She is interested in exploring these 'in between' and ever-shifting spaces.

In this episode, DeSchutter has collaged some favourite and formative work, ideas, and inspirations in anticipation of two BAG albums currently being moulded and burnished: a collaboration with sound and visual artist Charlie Behrens (BAG X BEHRENS) followed by a collaboration with producer, musician, and artist Laima Leyton (BAG).

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

Music by Accasari, Daniel & Mikael Tjernberg, Public Image Ltd, Ben Fleury-Steiner, Astralingua, Doctor Ellis, Sad Man, Renaldo & the Loaf, Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin, Lata Ramasar and Talk Talk.

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

A mix using cassettes and field recordings from Jeddah / Arabia found in Athens flea markets.

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.

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Marching bands, Kahoot players, industry workers, lovers of ‘corridos tumbados’, summer reague … all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

Knut Aufermann & Sarah Washington, Xentos Fray Bentos, Frauke Berg, Katharina Bihler & Stefan Scheib, DinahBird & Jean-Philippe Renoult, dieb13, Lloyd Dunn, Anna Friz and Lucinda Guy go live from Ürzig, Broughton, Düsseldorf, Saarbrücken, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Santa Cruz and Buckfastleigh.

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.

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.

This episode is In the South of an Imaginary Island: Movement 2.

"I have an imaginary island. As part of a Groundworks project, I made a walk around the south of my island. As per the project instructions I walked between randomly chosen stopping points, each with associated ‘prompt’ words. The result is this sound work; this first half played in January and this second half plays in February. More details, the associated text and a concertina-fold book can be viewed here."

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.

A preparations special. Joe selects a slew of prepared piano tracks ahead of Late Works: Preparations on 20th September at Café Oto. Featuring John Cage, Aphex Twin, Hauschka & Kelly Moran, as well as pieces from the pianists who will be performing (Finlay Clark, Aga Ujma & Max Syedtollan).

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.

This episode focuses on the rare experimental and deviant music that can conceptually be called the "dancefloor destroyer". Its narrative unfolds from early electronic, synthesizer and computer music and we discover that the only Soviet major label without any censorship boldly released music in the genres of EBM and no-wave, sympho-prog, acid-opera and even “post-pop”.

This episode is less about the music of all the countries of the Soviet Union – only focusing on Estonia, Latvia and Russia – but is rather my personal poetic statement, representing the diversity of Soviet experimental music in the late 80s and early 90s. This music sounds extremely modern right now. I chose the neo-romantic twist of Nochnoy Prospeckt's Antidisco Song as the main motif of the release, which opens and closes the show.

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.

A lowkey meditative show in this episode, featuring gems old and new from across the world. Look closely at the image and you can see my cheap but reliable field recorder recording the waterfalls.

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.

Urban Arts Berlin is a non-profit arts organisation which supports international sound artists. In this series Verónica Mota presents selections of works from the Urban Arts Berlin label.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kobayashi Issa’s poem “the cloud mountain / behind one blade of grass / vanishes”.

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!