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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.

"With the apocalyptic vision of Ballard and the acerbic attitude of Céline, MUEUM scatters human detritus over the shiny Perspex of our most dearly loved vitrines." – Chris McCabe

"A showcase, ransacked with horrid delight: Fowler's MUEUM presents the placid, lurid violences of surveillance and exhibition with startling and brutal stylishness. A seething triumph." – Eley Williams

A novella of ludic menace, a puzzle without pieces, SJ Fowler’s MUEUM pictures the amassing and dismantling of a public edifice, brick by brick, in prose that refracts and breaks the light emitted by history’s ornaments and history’s omissions. Suspended in unknowable time there is a city; in the city, an event, a conflict. Amid the ash, fog and cloud, there is the manufacturing of a space—a many-winged museum on the make.

On the plinths, exquisite remnants of life present and past—adorning the walls, portraits of gentle torture sit hand in hand with brutal and statuesque portrayals of camaraderie—and the gift-shop is littered with plastic curios and gilt revulsion. Goya, as atmosphere rather than artwork, hovers amid iron age ghosts, bronzed ideas, and antiqued anxiety.

Pacing the hall, atrium and corridor, there are those who keep the museum—the various midwives to the building’s demands—and those, like the reader, who merely visit; those who pass through the vacant galleries adrift with questions. What can I touch? What is next to Egypt? What is hidden in Mesopotamia? Where do we eat? Drink? Where is the entrance? The exit? Following the tradition of the Nestbeschmutzer authors (“one who dirties their own nest,” vis-à-vis Bernhard and Gombrowicz, et al), in Fowler’s curt, spiralling, and acute work, the museum’s keepers will answer.

A four-part, unabridged broadcast of SJ Fowler’s debut novella, MUEUM — as read by the author — recorded on location in Resonance Extra's South London studios. Produced by Dominic Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

In this episode, Dronica meets Jude Montague and Matt Armstrong.

Matt Armstrong & Jude Montague present influences and work that has stimulated their imagination in creating their avant-Hammond albums created DIY in their home studios in (formerly) Mottingham and Hastings which feature many rescued keyboards and machines of twentieth century music. Their next album ‘Modern Classics’ is out this autumn on Dimple Discs.

Bio: Matt Armstrong is the bass player in the acclaimed Kenny Process Team, the ambitious and playful guitar tune combo from East London described as ‘godlike’ in the NME, and plays professionally with British avant-folk genius Bill Fay.

Jude Montague is a poet and musician and has been creating content for Resonance FM since 2014 through her show which brings together news and arts, looking at histories of sounds and international stories, ‘The News Agents’. She learned to sing saluang music in Sumatra Barat and has a particular interest in singing Latvian folk songs and Baltic mythology. She has performed at Dronica Festivals with Ilia Rogatchevski and Lisa Ramirez McKendrick.

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

This episode: music by Go Ask Alice, Download, Blastcraft, α Ori & Filmy Ghost, Phono Ghosts, Negative Neutron, Djamain Sisters, Carl Matthews, Daphne Oram, Helen Kane, Dissolved, Mister Keys, Illl, Tangerine Dream and Vic Mars.

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

In this episode, more than just a simple independent music label, Eirkti constitutes a basic point of reference for the music that we are in fond of, the kind of music that we keep on listening to, following, loving and supporting.

We continue enjoying years of `liberating imprisonment΄ in a musical context that determines and is being determined by the way that we experience reality.

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 focuses on Ambient Owl Core; the genre tag Kayla created to describe ambient music she creates with field recordings of Owls and other night time creatures.This is a slow listening show, with detail, quiet and sound textures from field recordings of recent walks, sampling, and original Ambient Owl Core tracks.

Featuring additional samples from: Buddha Box 1, Buddha Box 4, Wildlife World - The Basics of British Owls with Owl Conservationist Ian McGuire, Field recordings from walks in St. Werburghs, Bristol, Fairy Cave Quarry with Neil.

Ears to the Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and Electronic Music by Ben Murphy.

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 Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Featuring special guest Mary Posa.

Autotune voices, cumbia rythms, plunderphonics minds, contemporary grunges, unrestrained accelerationists, wonderful and clever butterflies,… 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).

Whisky started in Brazil in 2014. Sharing videos and rehearsals around the jungles of São Paulo, Argentinians María Pérez and Macarena Fuentes decided to join forces in an experimental project where the music triggers other artistic experiences.

Inspired by viral videos and absurd regional beliefs, they use synthesisers and subliminal messages. They like to tell personal, intimate stories through lo-fi videos, in which they blend everyday situations with moments of fiction and dance.

The music demands contemplation and the videos demand dance. Between rhythm and noise, take a sip of this experience.

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

This episode: rewind back to the late '70s and early '80s, when genre boundaries fell away and gave birth to one of the most fertile periods in contemporary music - post-punk. Australia was not at all immune, and in this episode Stuart Buchanan delivers a 60-minute subjective soundtrack titled “... And The People Are Blowing Their Minds” - with music from Systematics (pictured), Ya Ya Choral, SPK, Severed Heads, Essendon Airport, Scattered Order, Makers of the Dead Travel Fast, Laughing Hands and more.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

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: Audio from points within the quantum field of the Spirit of Gravity collective, including Noteherder and McCloud live + a full hour from Brighton producer Ellis Warren - a.k.a. Zero Margin Reality presenting his Staly mode mixtape project - "A homage to Soundcloud poverty; a relentless stream of hyper self-awareness; a big ol slapp. Staly is the brine. This is R££L LYF£!"

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 2.

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, an hour of recent releases by Late Works collaborators, featuring Bianca Scout, Still House Plants, Kiran Leonard, Cool Quiet, Caius Williams & more.

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 episode, Radio Picnic travels with the pioneers of Asian experimental music.

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

Oddest of shows. A moody episode full of dark and sneaky shadows, arrhythmic beats, dark basement jamming, synth meddling and digital fiddling. An ode to a moonless night.

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.

All will belong to Brother Eye .

• 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 El Wud’s poem “Curve of time -/ a thought takes flight, / scent of a rose.”

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.

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.