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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.

Mission creep is at full tilt by this seventh episode, where indigestions supercede investigations. Notably features ongoing earth hum, phone calls and gnarled trajectories.

The discovery of a bot-like content-aggregating YouTube channel spells disaster for the original thinker's mental equilibrium. Mouseclicks pave the way to fuller understanding of man's inhumanity to man.

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.

This episode features music from Sly & Family Drone, Stochastic Resonance, Disinformation, Armageddon and Pocket Signs.

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

This week: Music by Jean-Claude Risset, Jay-Dea Lopez, Harold Budd/Ruben Garcia/Daniel Lentz, Chelidon Frame, Fabrik, Cisfinitum, Rephazer, Marcy, Peter Ivers, The Master Musicians of Dyffryn Moor, Beau, Kirill Mazhai, Remetemen and Anjelika Akbar.

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.

In this episode: Marco Alexandre presents field recordings from the Iberian Peninsula.

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 All Star by the American band Smash Mouth. There's no order, no lists, just exclusive, overwrought fandom material. Noise theorists, Youtube star, Coldplay fans, banh mi verlag chief conductor, melon lovers, pianists, smashup creators... all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

This episode features two guests: Jack Callahan and Mattin.

Jack Callahan introduces us to the work All Star Mixtape released on his own label, Bánh Mì Verlag, and Mattin gives us an insight into the ideology behind the music video, as well as offering us a cover of the song.

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).

Joe and Chanelle’s audio recordings encompass ambient sounds, conversation, experimental composition and improvised instrumental response. Cassette drones, loop pedals, voice and guitar are used to echo, mimic or bend over bird calls, thunderstorms, night sounds, indistinguishable chatter, museum reverberations and urban movement. These moments captured to tape are presented in two halves as an A-side/B-side format.

Enriched by visual counterpoints for each episode, Bruna’s critical eye forms an ambiguous tonal narrative from Jake's method of stumbling into excellence. Mountain, valley, glacier, and urban horizon are presented in stereo format, to parallel the A-side/B-side format.

This program has been made on the stolen lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, we pay respect to the Elders both past and present.

Project lead and sound by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. Creative direction by Bruna Volpi. Photography by Jake Terrey.

Supported by Higher Ground Studios.

This episode was made as part of the Bundanon Trust artists in residence programme, and has been performed live at the Bundanon Museum. The Museum is on the stolen land of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups.

Field Notes

Side A - For Kites

• Sounds made on Residency, Bundanon Trust, October 2022, Development # 2.

A day in the rehearsal space, experimental sound, guitar pedals and vocals. Casio Watch Alarm; Fender Delux Reverb Tone Master Amplifier, Reverb, Vibrato; Boss ME-70 Multi Effects, Compression, Classic Distortion, Delay, Loop Pedal, Expression Pedal Octave Pitch Shift; Panasonic SlimLine RQ 2102 Cassette Recorder, Field Recording ; Boss VE-20 Vocal Performer, Reverb, Looper Pedal.

The Wind and the Sun. Playing the cassette BUN 2_8 Side A. In the grassy field where the kangaroos gather at dusk; a HEAVY wind. The Mona Lisa, a heavy kite. SOUND and sun blaring. Kite flyers running. Skin tingling. A concert to nature. Satisfying exhaustion. – Joe Wilson

Side B – The Storm

• Field Recording of a thunderstorm made on Residency at Bundanon Trust, August - October 2023, Development # 3 & 4.

A Personal Note, a Broken Heart, a Broken Body. Bundanon, a gully flat. Surrounded by hills. The storm is caught on the high rocks and is flung around the encroaching bushland. The lightning sheers across the last of the evening’s sunlight, across the way, a distance. The thunder chases the light, the sound chases the cut sky. Drawing closer. Volume rising. Bright white cracks become total for an instant. Birds continue to sing. Trees fall. – Joe Wilson

A monthly programme which blends textured audio from cassette recordings by Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier with tonal imagery by Bruna Volpi and Jake Terrey. Sound engineering by Ollie Brown.

This found-sound-symphony uses mathematical proportions to build a musical framework inside which musical and radiophonic elements are seamlessly weaved together. For more information, visit Stace Constantinou's Bandcamp.

Stace's Constantinou's electroacoustic radiophonic work Trainofthoughts explores the claustrophobia experienced when commuting to work inside a small underground carriage.

In this first episode of the new season of Out From Under, we’re talking with Melbourne musician and composer Carolyn Schofield, who has released two albums on the Nice Music label and writes and performs as experimental electronic artist Fia Fiell.

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.

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

This is the first of a triptych of recordings of my walking to “the same place” - a Kittiwake colony - 20 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.

Photo by JM Grimshaw.

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.

Late Works: Preparations (Live at Cafe OTO) album release special • Finlay Clark, Aga Ujma & Max Syedtollan's full prepared piano performances from September 2021 are framed by three intriguing new prepared piano works by Steve Argüelles, Zoe Efstathiou & Mitsuhisa Sakaguchi. Preparations is out now, co-released by OTOROKU.

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 episode, Empire Sauvage delights us with a live improvisation, using their modular system to deeply explore electronic rhythms and sounds.

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

a rough 'n’ rusty ride episode with industrial, backroom screamers and seven headed drone pistachios.

Some light moments here and there to level up the mood but it’s a scraggy affair on this one, clunky tape loops, screams, glitchy drones and dank cave jams, unstable cardiophonics.

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.

Sea Mantis has risen again. The Middlesex Filter Beds sonically contains them on a hazy summer evening.

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 Ōshima Ryōta’s poem “In the light of the lamp / I can see the wind - / snowy night”.

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.

mel sorgan is a musician based in London

Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.