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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.

Aspects of scuppered research continue to be explored ad nauseam in this fourteenth instalment of Asphyxia, in which the narrator yields to the drift of distractions like a carrier bag in the wind.

This episode boasts not one, but three difficulties: (1) The ongoing hum in the left-channel seemingly spreads to an audio repairperson's own left ear, (2) a fallen tree prompts consideration on the clichéd obstructiveness of those wooden timewasters, and (3) a newspaper report from over a decade ago - heavily critical of Pure Volunteering - is torn apart in still-burning righteous fury.

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 is dedicated to Australian-born London based sound artist, writer and photographer Kate Carr and her label Flaming Pines.

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

In this episode, music by Gwasg Gelert, M W Daniels, Halogen Star, The Leaf Library, Salook, Crows Labyrinth, Covolux, Princess Commodore 64, Obscure Formats and Wizards Tell Lies.

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

This episode is dedicated to my late grandmother Chrisanthi Miliopoulou Gavriilidou. She was my main influence growing up and a strong female figure. She was born in Istanbul in the 30s. She used to climb the huge cargo and oil tanker ships in the Bosporus sea, and dive from incredible heights. She was a storyteller...

She is still remembered as a historical figure in the area of Paşabahçe Turkey. Her late husband was a well-known doctor and they both had a huge impact on the local community, which was made up of many different nationalities and ethnicities. She taught me to respect people and to be a citizen of the world.

She bought me my first spray cans for my first graffiti and supported me in all my ventures until the last day of her life. She was an immigrant, a fighter and a strong maternal figure to many. She did not fear death, not even cancer. She will always be with her loved ones and with me forever.

Çok iyi insanlardı ışıklarda uyusun.

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.

This episode features live recordings from the Fractures album launch at Cafe Kino, Bristol on the 10th October 2024.

Fractures is the debut album from Kayla Painter, written about the NASA mission to Jupiter’s frozen moon, Europa.

A monthly show exploring our innate connection to sound, and how we express that through music, showcasing work that connects to our body and minds through rich compositional choices, through intricate processes in the studio, or music that is inspired by the way we interact with the outside world. Connections to Sound journeys through downtempo, electronic, ambient and beat driven music, featuring tracks from artists all around the world. Presented by Kayla Painter.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mindblowing covers and drifts of Numb by Linkin Park. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

A capella demons or angels, 80s dancers, emo gangs, followers of the missing beats, throat singers… 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).

This Is Not A Love Song [Radio] builds on an existing field recording project by artists Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier titled This Is Not A Love Song (Sound Archive): 200 field recordings, 200 countries; a collection of the ambient sounds of major art institutions around the world, created through recordings from a global community of contributors. The project appropriates sound to critically study the ambience of institutional space.

In this extract from the day, a live performance of improvised and reimagined music and text from the project Dead Cast Bounce – a collaborative performance work by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Waste Paper Opera, telling tales of time, money and the unmaking of reality in the wake of catastrophe.

The original piece unfolds over five vignettes, blurring the lines between capitalism and ritual, finance and nature, belief and manifestation. The original score merges the Baroque music of Niccolò Jommelli and J.S.Bach with mimetic improvisation, choral rounds, synthpop and the textures of public speaking. Dead Cat Bounce takes the form of an oratorio, a medium of vocal performance used to deliver a sacred narrative.

Music by James Oldham. Text by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Klara Kofen.

Violin – Chihiro Ono; drums – Cameron Graham; additional performer/band leader – James Oldham; banker/reader – Klara Kofen; banker/Namazu – Gary Zhexi Zhang; Mezzo soprano (Jeremiah) – Suzie Purkis; Baritone (Real Estate Agent of Miami) – Themba Mvula; chorus – Jacob Bolton, Keir Cooper, Gabriella Demczuk, Klara Kofen, Livvy Lynch, Themba Mvula, James Oldham, Suzie Purkis, Gary Zhexi Zhang. Thanks to Resonance Extra, Milo Thesiger-Meacham and Travis Yu.

Waste Paper Opera is an experimental music theatre collective currently based in London. Defining “Waste Paper” as any found text with the potential for recontextualisation, we write music, build structures, make costumes, and write stories using Waste Paper.

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.

Ela’s remarkable debut album mixed acappella, drone and tape loops, and subsequent work added dark synths, found sounds and drum machines into the mix. Her love of bare vocals and layered harmonies has also ensured that the craft of songwriting is central to her practice.

We take a trip through Ela’s career on this week’s Out From Under, with selection of tracks from her back catalogue as well as exclusive previews of music from two upcoming albums.

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 episode is dedicated to the work and music of Virginia Genta. We present you a mash-up of recordings from different live shows. Virginia solo on her instrument, with her band Jooklo Duo and in countless constellations with other awesome artists.

We mixed things together, cut off parts - god forbid - to open a portal into her universe. So if you want to enjoy the individual clean performances take the tracklist as a starting point for your own research and jump through the portal ring of pulsing energy. Please enjoy Virginia Genta’s saxophone bliss and other hidden gems.

The show ends with the piece A Way To Bring The Thunder that will only be played here once and not available for streaming. Virginia Genta: tenor sax / Mats Gustafsson: baritone sax / Jan St. Werner: electronics / Jason Adasiewicz: vibes' plates / John Corbett: recording / Recorded in a parking lot in Warsaw, 29.05.2024.

Monthly experimen†al kleptomaniac post digital free jazz spam channel operated by artists Tilman Hornig and Paul Barsch aka DRONE OPERATØR.

It’s September 2016, and I am on Fair Isle. Following John Cage’s thinking I identified 16 places ... places that were not a reflection of my moment-by-moment artistic interest but sites at which the present and available sounds would be the subject of listening.

Cage linked his sites as waltzes; I grouped my Fair Isle places as reels. The sounds offer a sonic version of movement, time and distance on Fair Isle, a re-hearing and re-imagining of those places presented through their sounds and the imagination of a listener.

https://martinpeccles.com/sound-works/reels-and-rants/

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.

Returning from our hiatus we have tracks selected in response to postcards sent in by Archie Winter, featuring Sonic Youth, Outch, Noam Lemish & Dziga Vertov. Also included is a recording from the 2019 Late Works: at first sight ahead of its second iteration on 21st October at the ICA, in collaboration with Worms.

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 first episode we travel to the East – to Transcaucasia and Asia in the 70s–90s: we listen to colourful Korean funk, sunny Azerbaijani jazz, desert Uzbek folk and traditional dance music from Laos and Burma. That's all folks!

I want to dedicate this show to the anniversary of the Melodiya label – it turns 60 years old on the 23rd of April 2024. And the best thing is that the label is still releasing music.

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.

Tracks straight from the on hand collection of records, tapes and files. A simple varied show this week.

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.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

• 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 Jason Richardson’s poem “stars on the pond... / again the pitter-pattering / freezing drizzle”.

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.