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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.

"Nobody is entitled to simply walk into a business and work there. If there were no quality control safeguards in place, we would just have chaos." So grumbled some self-serving 'authority figure' circa 2012.

As if to wave a middle finger at the naysayers' edicts, the narrator continues to pursue 'pure volunteering', and interrogates concepts of "quality", "safeguards", "place", "have" and "chaos" via a palimpsest of found media, ranting, and cool, calculated disgrace.

Parallel to this, research continues into the contentious forbidden book, supposedly locked in the uncatalogued portion of the British Library's Suppressed Safe.

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.

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

This episode features Eastern Fear Ritual in session - plus music by Constant Light, Martin Rach, M.Nomized, Eko_Fisk, FVNGVM, Quimper, Norah Lorway and 4T Thieves & Pandacetamol.

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

This episode explores sounds from various fields of music from the city, with the addition of texts written and read by contemporary artist Thanasis Apostolou.

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 delves into the realm of kinetic, beat-driven music, from a more textural standpoint to music that makes us want to move, journeying to the more experimental use of language in music. Expect everything from modern day computer-generated communication to glitches, mistakes, human error and computer error.

Background music: Disintegration Loop DLP 2.1 by William Basinski.

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.

This episode is a guest mix from Agnès Pe, entitled Sound Storytelling Approaches Sound by Relating It to the Imagination and to the Memory of a Series of Amorphous Moods Triggered by the Temporality of Listening.

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A 16-episode bi-weekly series alternating new and unheard live sounds from Trash Panda QC with DJ selections and guests.

Verónica Daniela Cerrotta is an experimental artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied piano and visual arts. She composes music using her own field recordings, which she then mixes with other sounds and noises to create imaginary soundscapes. When she plays live she also uses her voice and a keyboard. She improvises music with friends in Buenos Aires and Río de Janeiro, completing a Sound Art residence in June 2017 and January 2018.

A selection of the most vibrant and exciting new sounds of Latin America's emerging talents.

This week’s Out From Under is is the second of a two part journey travelling back to 1980s Australia, surveying some of the most interesting experimental and underground music being made during the decade.

We’ll hear from key players in the proto-electronic and post-punk scene such as Scattered Order, Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast, Systematics, Prod and more; plus experimental music from Toy Division, The Horse He's Sick, Splendid Mess and composer Helen Ripley-Marshall, and from one of Andy Rantzen’s early projects, Pelican Daughters.

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.

I walk ... a birch forest below Búrfell ... I walk ... a freshmarsh in the Burnhams ... swing from one to the other ... matching the slow swing of the parabolic dish.

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.

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.

In this episode, Radio Picnic broadcasts from Festival Archipel in Geneva.

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

This episode leans heavily on the mysticlal downbeat side of things, to listen to in between ocean splashes during a now familiar heatwave…Featuring: more Ondness, more Jerry Blue, more Sculpture, more more more…

Photo: Teide Volcano area of experimentation, Tenerife, 2021.

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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• 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 Takakuwa Rankō’s poem “springtime woods / even birds of prey / nestled asleep”.

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.

Said the sky to the moon, shall we do a dance? I'll wait for you to make the move but please don't wait until you hear - the sound below the atmosphere. Ceylan Göksel and Sami Fitz reach subliminal heights with genre-busting spoken word, ambient textures, sound sculptures, and a different theme every show. We wish you a good night.