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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.

Asphyxia's delirium continues in this episode with excerpts from a 1921 paranoid etymological tract - 'Puss in Pye Corner' - jutting into commuter-friendly low-budget podcast matter and dictaphonics.

Finally, a chance to inspect a British Library Suppressed Safe book is presented: 'Diving for Treasure' (1926) by G. Williams. Meanwhile, BBC Radio 4 implodes under its own gravitas, birthing a new star in the form of 'spoken word newspaper reports' from the early 2000s.

These mishaps befalling the narrator - filtered through newspaper bastardy - rehash quondam-embarrassments associated with bin-diving and aggressive Pure Volunteering.

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 Dead Neanderthals, Domiziano Maselli, Liberez, Gregory A Dugan, Cameraoscura, kNN, Disinformation, Otto Van Kleist and Pinna. 

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

Music by Bad Comfort, Filmy Ghost, Visonia, Dissolved, Polypores, Rogue Spore, Luke Lund, Superlauncher, NFL X, NNYZ?, The Sound, Onuma Singsiri and Experiment#508.

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 Believe by Cher. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Aliens, nu metal singers, banana lovers, bardcore makers...all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

This episode features music by two guest artists: Lower Mars and S1m0nc3ll0.

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, Annandale.

Field Notes

Side A - Urgently

Field recording of European museum with morning birds and amplifier feedback from guitar; complaints from Mum about washing clothes in the copper; undulating chords with vocal and crickets from Bundanon; pitch alteration on octave pedal; drone and feedback over museum sounds and harmonics in E major followed by a riff in E minor, ‘Heart Starts Beating Too Fast’.

Free Love: “A language that demands, urgently and violently: care. A generative exchange and agency in labour. A criticality through care, using play. A position that can be both active in participation and maintain the potential to deactivate, become divested. Doing something nice, flying a kite, or having a picnic. Just looking to be invited to converse, an extension of love to collapse two worlds; work and life.

Catered for by massive failure as a means of opening. Doing over making to relocate the work to the action. Relocating the site of art to the body and the use of time. A revolutionary release of time through play as resistance. Constructed relationships, situations, with an emphasis to act freely; to resist the positions of interest. A domain of emancipation and kinship for a subjective body." - Joe

Side B - Violently

Field recording of a visit to Palais Tokyo followed by a drone melody malady in G major with lead guitar; feedback with studio improvements such as making a shelf using a timber router, with museum crowd both clean and distorted; continuing drone sounds; crowds under compressed guitar handling and amp noise followed by chords with feedback; storm outside the studio and gallery opening night crowds.

A Lover’s Cheekbone: “A play that happens to be naturally abrasive to the system. It scratches against the sides on its way past. Maybe doing a bit of damage in the process of making contact. Not adversarial. It just doesn’t stay in its lane or conform to the right shape. Joyful and harsh. Always making a play for a kind of loving 'fuck you', full of intimacy and without concern for any consequence but enjoyment, kinship, friendship, comradery, the gang, the good life, the game.

A hypothetical but actually used playing field not made of spite or hate or jealousy. There are no sour grapes growing here. Just the things we do that happen to be antithetical to the status quo: hard work. The lazy artist. The drinking artist. The joker. The lark. All resistant. Revolutionaries even, if given enough purpose, and against the machine simply for not being welcome in its workings.

Not in protest, just not still enough to remain squarely in an assigned place. That place, comfortable to others, that is easily read. Forever willing to deploy a playful elbow to a ‘lover’s’ cheekbone to guard that sensitive spot, to avoid the grabbing of an unsuspecting nerve, a flinch in defense of submission, sometimes leaving a bruise, a wound, but necessary just the same. 'I will not show my belly if you will not show yours'. Not even for the promise of a kiss.” – Chanelle

Sounds (guitar, vocals, samples and pedals) by Joe and Chanelle. Oral storytelling by Jenny Magrath. Router sounds by Oliver Wagner

This episode was a cassette recording presented as 1 of 10 tapes for the Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (VAEF), with Artspace, Sydney. Presented in partnership with National Art School Gallery, curated by Scott Elliot, Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch.

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.

In this extract from the day, a live duet by Steven J. Fowler and Benedict Taylor.

Steven J. Fowler is a contemporary English poet, writer and avant-garde artist, and founder of the European Poetry Festival. He recorded his debut novella MUEUM in the Resonance Extra studio, which was recently broadcast as a series. Benedict Taylor is a solo violist, violinist and composer.

Archival recordings of a 7-hour radio event broadcast live from the Resonance Extra studios on the 29th January 2023, featuring live performances and new and exclusive audio works.

In this week’s Out From Under, Stu Buchanan talks with Sydney-based quintet Tangents; a band that somewhat defy categorisation, colliding between genres and forms, takeing cues from electronic production, post rock, jazz and free improvisation and more. Over the last six years, they’ve found critical acclaim for their three albums and two EPs, and have been remixed by artists such as Four Tet and Jim O’Rourke. We’ll hear from two of the band members - cellist Peter Hollo and electronic producer Ollie Brown - and spool through a selection of tracks from across the Tangents catalogue.

All music by Tangents.

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.

This month's show is drawn from two compilations featuring friends off the Spirit of Gravity. “WE DON’T BELONG HERE VOL.1” which is compiled by the Unwanted Attention night, and “Exploring an Exploding Soundtrack” compiled by Nil By Nose, both local, and both albums are available from Bandcamp.

“Before it all seemed so simple, things cast shadows. But now it turned out that shadows cast things, or perhaps things didn’t exist at all” – Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

In the second hour, Spectral Transmissions: Peripheral Visions, as the shadows start to lengthen we turn our minds to the place where the street lights end. Out here on the periphery, flickering visions and half heard noises scuff our logic with their insistent truancy. Fragments of things unbound by our narrow grasping.

“On cold winter nights we would occasionally perceive a strange glimmering of lights, a marked pulsating luminosity in the very edges of our vision accompanied by a vibrant oscillating frequency of sound, taking in certain cases, the form of bright circular waves, which seem to move from out on the periphery inward towards the centre, but if we tried to look directly at them to see them more clearly they evaded us, seeming to drift and fade, dissipating like so much smoke."

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

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, tracks selected in response to a postcard sent in by Archie Fooks-Smith, as well as an introduction to new Late Works offshoot plates plates plates plates - featuring Yoko Ono, Jackson Mac Low, Ryoji Ikeda, Cocteau Twins & Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.

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 strangest releases from the Soviet major label Melodia, which could be characterised simply as ‘Non-music’. Some records shocked me, some made me cringe — but these tracks seem to form a curious narrative on the verge of a numbing psychedelic journey.

So, within an hour you will hear reconstruction of a concert on mammoth bones, advertisement of the famous Lithuanian hoover ‘Audra’ and car fluids of Soyuzbytkhim factory, field recordings of crickets, toads and even fish singing, pioneers' signals, monologues of parrot Gosha and a patient with nonsense casual relations syndrome, and also hypnotherapy for alcoholics. Happy travelling!

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.

Music to watch the sun burn you by…

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.

-mercy mercy mercy

• 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 Tachibana Hokushi’s poem “I write, erase, rewrite / erase again, and then / a poppy blooms”.

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.