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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.

In this instalment the teachings of Marcus S Chambers (aka Exact Thinker) regarding the Idiote's plight are abutted against futile ploughing against the grain. Meanwhile, the British Library found diaries are delved into, hardcorely.

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.

In this episode, Dronica meets Marco Bonini and Cristiano Latini, curators at Klang, in Rome.

Marco and Cristiano present a selection of experimental electronic music by curating an hour each of this mighty mixtape including artists who have performed at Klang from the Italian underground scene as well as the International scene.

Since 2018, Marco Bonini has been music event co-curator of KLANG, a club in Rome dedicated to experimental music.
Marco Bonini is also a guitarist, arranger and electronic manipulator from Rome, born in 1981. From 2000 to 2010 he plays and record with several project in the avant-contemporary jazz scene (Roberto Gatto, Ettore Fioravanti). In the meantime he attended Saint Louis Music School , Tor Vergata DAMS University and “Licinio Refice” Conservatory where he develops passion for electronic music. From 2010 he’s founder and member of MAMAVEGAS, a band inspired from indie/folktronic scene that goes around the world with three albums. From 2011 he is member of ACRE, an improvisational and radical trio. His solo project uBiK is strongly influenced by ambient electronic music. He writes, composes and arranges for movies, theatre and television.

Cristiano Latini is the founder, administrator and co-curator at Klang Roma.

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

Featuring music by Homogenized Terrestrials, Tom Dissevelt, Getdizzzy, Toxic Chicken, Jodie Lowther, Willie Wonder, Whettman Chelmets, Ghosts of Electricity, Malcolm [1], Malcolm [2], Doris Norton, Skipism, The Little Hand of the Faithful, and Univers Zero.

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

In this episode, sounds from various fields of music from the city, with the addition of field recordings and found tapes.

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.

A special episode celebrating Kayla’s latest release in the Ambient Owl Core series. Playing Ambient Owl Core volume 1 and 2 in their entirety alongside field recordings captured whilst writing these tracks.

Ambient Owl Core is a genre tag created by Kayla, these releases encompass tracks inspired by the world of the night, the secrets shared and stories told, for slow listening. Featuring moments from our feather friends and other woodland creatures.

All tracks written and produced by Kayla Painter. Ambient Owl Core exclusively released on Bandcamp.

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 episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Tiny robots, string quartets, italian stars, celtic hearts, ukelele lovers, ghosts who feel lonely, instigators of collective happenings…all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features Shambush: Makers of The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience. Creators of imaginative, tailored, theatrical encounters, performance spaces and nonsensical events for five to five thousand.

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).

Pablo Reche is a musician born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who works in the field of experimental music. His sound productions juxtapose pieces based on field recordings with the manipulation of distinct sound sources, using the noise as the principle aesthetic-expressive element.

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

This second episode features an interview with renowned Australian improvisational trio, The Necks - celebrating the release of their new record, ‘Vertigo', and their current 30th anniversary tour, which takes in Europe and North America over the next two months. Chris Abrahams and Tony Buck discuss their wholly-improvised live shows and their approach to studio recording, plus there's music from ‘Vertigo’ and their 1989 debut ‘Sex’, along with unreleased music from both Chris’ upcoming solo album on Room 40 and the new album from Tony’s collaborative project, Circadia.

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.

Another selection of tracks from around The Spirit World. Plus 2 new sonic works for the second half of the show from Dan Powell and an extended 42 minute mash appropriation from Antivoid Alliance.

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

Seven days in June, seven replicated walks, each walked once, on one of seven consecutive days – seven days in June, each in the ‘same place’ - across Beringia, on Iñupiat land. This episode is Movement 1.

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.

This episode celebrates the imminent release on Cafe Oto's Otoroku of Late Works: Preparations ii, an album of recordings of prepared piano performances by Dear Laika, Finn Carter, Ted Mair & Ed Bernez at the second iteration of our event Preparations in February.

Preparations ii will be released on the 7th of August this year.

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: Radio Picnic with Johnny Haway. A radio concert from the Tennis Champagne Bienne.

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 is dedicated to the voice, human, animal, alien & transformed vocal cords. What started as a random selection of tunes eventually took an unexpected turn when I realised the quantity of records being played with the voice center stage.

The first half weise randomly pulled records, for the second half I had a plan in mind. Voice games, gutural drones, acapellas, cut ups, glurps, burps and singalongs for the festive season.

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.

In this first episode: new hit sound (John Cage - Radio Music 1956).

• 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 Darren Bourne’s poem “liquid flowers hum/ each donning Dali’s moustache - / Narcissus shatters”.

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.

This month: working in music with special guests Ewa Justka and Manni Dee.

Online music publication Stray Landings invites guests from across the electronic music spectrum to discuss themes and innovations.

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.