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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 sixth chunk of the long-duration series opens with an experiment in combining meditation with ranting. Meanwhile, an unexplained electrical fire at the British Library scuppers research into its Suppressed Safe collection.

To while away the downtime, extra shifts are taken on at the nearby antiquarian bookshop, where a friendly conspiracy theorist quizzes staff on cover-ups, before being told by the manager: "I'm going to have to stop you there. It's fascinating, but we've got to get on with things. Another time, maybe", to the disappointment of Asphyxia's creator, to whom conspiracy theories are like nectar to a hummingbird.

A hum remains in the left audio channel.

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.

Iker Ormazabal is a London-based experimental musician from Spain. He started his solo project IOM circa 2004. He has also been a member of bands like Atomoog, Sorkun, FFT Players, Soizu, Oilbag, Mnemoniic, Warren Schoenbright and has published music in labels such as: Zulo Beltzak, RONF, Doministiku, Desetxea, Afeite Al Perro, Astral Noize, Attenuation Circuit, Mattoid and Hominid Sounds.

He has previously worked alongside other artists such as Arturo Blasco, Jordi Aligué, Borja Ramos, Miguel A García, Raxil4, Itto Morita, Minako Seki, Gonzalo Catalinas among others. In 2017, he was awarded with the John Leckie Award for Innovation in Audio Production for a soundtrack to "Elementary Tryptych of Spain" by Jose Val del Omar. He also runs his own effects-pedal brand, IOHM Fx.

Since 2004, London-based Iker Ormazabel has been progressing experimental music in different forms, through solo projects (as IOM or Iker Ormazabal), alongside dance performers (Itto Morita, Soizu, Minako Seki), improvising with other musicians (Miguel A. Garcia, Oier Iruretagoiena, Andrew Page, Arturo Blasco) and in bands (Mnemonic, Warren Schoenbright, Fft Players, Oilbag).

This solo work is heavily inspired by acousmatic composers, and acousmatic listening, the music and writings of Pierre Schaeffer, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, Francisco Lopez, taking inspiration from what is known as ‘deep listening’, listening with intent or acousmatic listening. 45 copies.

For this Dronica show, he presents a selection of Spanish industrial and experimental music from the 80s.

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

In this episode: Music by Willie Wonder, Pyrolator, Henrique Martins Duarte, Go Ask Alice, Laibach, The Rockin' Ramrods, Lewis Francis, DR, Severed Heads, Transient, Psychics, Piero Umiliani, McDonald & Sherby, Folded Grid and Cloud Diameter.

The image is derived and adapted from a photograph, taken by Finlay McWalter, of one of the chess pieces discovered in Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. It is used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en.

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

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 edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of “Lay All Your Love On Me“ by the Swedish pop band ABBA. There's no order, no lists, just exclusive, overwrought fandom material: marching bands, metalheads, witches, vampires, Soundcloud stars, pioneers of the millennial sound, Mozarts of midi, musicians who run record labels... all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

Featuring two guests: Tuuun and Elbis Rever.

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).

In this episode, Concepción Huerta and Fe Sexta share a wide range of music, recordings, and sounds that influenced them on their journey towards mapping relationships between personal and collective memory across regions of South America, which resulted in the commissioned work MAPS : Electronic Resonances Between Ecuador and Mexico premiered this year at CTM Festival.

MAPS aimed to revive audio archives of pioneering electronic music composers in Mexico and Ecuador, active in the 1970s.

Bi-monthly insights into the activities of the European project tekhnē, which started in 2023. The series showcases a selection of artists who share and discuss their work and listen to recorded material. By putting the focus on the user rather than the developer, this project aims to explore the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. Technology as an art of craft, appropriating and transforming existing tools, to imagine multiple ways of creative misuse. tekhnē is a collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union.

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.

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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.

Today’s episode is Kittiwake Triptych No. 1: Cullernose.

This is the second of a triptych of recordings of my walking to “the same place” – a Kittiwake colony – twenty minutes sitting at the place and my walking away back to my starting point. The three “same places” are one in rural Newfoundland and two in rural Northumberland. At each site, on another day, or at a different time of the same day, each recording would have been different.

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 dog...?" - A new By Ear recording improvisation by Tara Cunnigham on electric guitar complements a selection of tracks in response to postcards sent in by Lucy Clitheroe, Joe Gamble, Willa Hilditch, Holly Mills & Troy Rosewell.

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 is dedicated to the folk music of the indigenous peoples of Russia. On the territory of the Russian Federation, according to the latest data, there are 193 peoples who speak 277 languages and dialects. In its time, the Soviet major label Melodiya did a huge amount of work trying to record the traditional music of many regions, travelling thousands of kilometres on ethnographic expeditions.

Many records released in the wake of those trips are now rare artefacts. I can say the same about digitised copies - there are not many music files on the web, which somewhat limits the breadth of modern research.

Even so, an hour-long episode cannot contain even a tenth of the folklore music that was released on Melodiya. I worked with broad strokes, showing the music of only 20 indigenous peoples of the country – including the Pooziorets of Vitebsk. We hear traditional tunes from the westernmost region - Karelia. Then, we listen to the cheerful sunny melodies of the peoples of the Volga region, the free music of Kalmykia and the North Caucasus, and delve into the cold shamanic rhythms of the Far North.

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.

Take this 2021! (and 2020!), here’s a selection of (mostly) non discrepant music enjoyed at Discrepant HQ over 2021. A rag tag assemblage of artists making highly original and personal music, setting the mark off the mono culture world of today’s techs algorithm of doom. This is old and new and future and … Nappy Nappy years!

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.

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Danielson - Almost Live from Joyful Noise

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

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Ichihara Tayo-Jo’s poem “Other than the woodcutter / there’s nobody here; / late-blooming cherries”.

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.

From the most abrasive to the unbelievably sublime, Hope Valley Cement Works attempts to curate a selection of experimental music and sounds, from collected field recordings and sound collages, to serene ambience, impressive drone and the odd deconstructed club track. A series by Kris Cooper.