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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.

David Bowie starts this episode of Looperama with chunks of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, that are blatantly appropriated ad nauseam, a remix of a remix of Grinderman/U.N.K.L.E - Hyper Worm Tamer and the voice of a cosmonaut from Out of the Present.

Patti Smith reclaims Rock & Roll ... interspersed with The Incredibles, Patti again, and introducing Ygor and his cloud paintings. A variety of bizarre sonic permutations are generated. Tiny Tim emerges unscathed.

At approximately the 43rd minute , Max Ernst speaks ...

Meanwhile - The Cat that Hated People with additional tamperings , via N. Senada,'s "Theory of Phonetic Organization".

"Now, just imagine..."

Lepke B's blissful disregard for the sacred in life has placed him as one of the testcard knights with a totally unique approach to sound plunderphonics and visual art.

All music in this episode is by f.ampism.

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

This episode features music from latest Canti Magnetici releases by Federico Lupo, Marco Paltrinieri and Giovanni Di Domenico, Ab Uno, LI YILEY and Liberez.

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

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

This episode features sounds from the beginnings of the recording era in Athens, Greece. Strictly locally found 78 RPM phonograph records from my archive, reproduced using an old HMV gramophone player from the 1920's. Featuring amongst others: Margio Salonikia (Manes Neva), Linda Hanoum, Bay Nadir, E.Lagoudakis aka Lagos, G.Manisalis, obscure Japanese phonograph records from Teichiku and more.

It is very interesting to notice that in the early 20s and 30s many of the records that were produced in Greece were in the Turkish language although they were Greek productions and many times by artists of mixed origin, there were no clear lines formed between the East and the West. Some of this tunes are 'entering the digital domain'' for the first time.

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.

Celebrating exclusively boundary pushing artists, this episode spans previous guests and featured artists of Connections to Sound.

Background music: Your Echoes by Kayla Painter.

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 mind-blowing covers and drifts of Mmmbop by Hanson. There are no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Sega Mega Drive gamers, jukebox enthusiasts, cats, country dancers, smurfs from all over the world, emos, best friends … all are welcome in Shuffle 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).

DJ Dany Nijensohn has maybe the biggest musical background within the local scene. Former painter, in charge of “El Agujerito” record store, he began his activity in 1975 as Resident DJ in Le Club (Puerto Madryn, Chubut) where he stood for four years. Back to Buenos Aires, he became Resident DJ at Cemento playing dark, techno pop and rock nacional to join in 1995 “El Morocco” as a head of latin and electronic music trends. He has played in countless underground parties and international festivals such as Creamfields. He’s also a member of “Agencia de Viajes” collective together with Graphic Designer Alejandro Ros, Journalist Pablo Schanton and musicians Leo García and Gustavo Lamas.

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

This episode of Out From Under is the second in a series which looks backwards to the early years of experimental music making in Australia. We explore the latter half of the 1970s, taking in the electroacoustic and multi-media collective WATT; early avant-garde work from renowned figure Carl Vine; prototype tape experiments from the foundation days of Severed Heads; Western Australian composer Ron Nagorcka whose work took a turning point on discovering John Cage; incredible acoustic recordings made in grain silos from Ros Bandt (pictured), and tracks from Jon Rose, one of the key influential composers and players in Australian experimental music, free improv and sound art.

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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.

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 5.

You can find out more about the work at here.

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 unusual experience. In a time out of time, this ceremonial night will take you into radio waves, exploring memory and the ephemeral.

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

In this episode Joe is joined by artist Zoe de Caluwé for an interview touching on Blue Whip, their arts-organisation which supports women, non-binary+ and trans sculptors, as well as their current show at the Saatchi Gallery which runs until 11th May.

With track selections including Japanese Breakfast & Black Country, New Road.

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, back to the free-styling roots that defined this show, records pulled randomly, a bunch of new stuff – not necessarily new releases but recent listenings down at Discrepant HQ.

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.

( God of electronic music , he invented it all . )

• 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 Takai Kito’s poem “paperweights / on the store’s comicbooks – / spring breeze.”

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.

In this edition, Edwina Attlee’s Book of Days.

“Garlands for the working conditions that underpin everything.”

A weathervane for New Year’s Day, a reading of the opening chapter from Edwina Attlee’s debut collection—A great shaking (Tenement Press, 2024)—as read by the poet. A suite of twelve poems written to (and from) the months of a year.

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A table can be overturned and a window can be smashed. However, those who believe that the state is also a thing or a fetish that can be overturned or smashed are sophists and believers in the Word. The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; i.e., by people relating to one another differently.

Gustav Landauer

Attlee’s debut collection, a great shaking, is a triptych of works—a gathering of songs, days, and hours—that detail the ways in which ‘a table can be overturned,’ an idea can be tilled, an hour can turn from something germinal to a quiet object of attention, an oblique artifact, a talisman for change. 

Gustav Landauer wrote that ‘the State is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition’—something impacted by the weather of our moods, by the small winds of our behaviour, by way of human contact and a romance of interrelation. In these poems, Attlee antagonises our consent to be governed, our will to be moved (in terms either emotive, temporal, or meteorological) to consider our ‘condition.’ ‘I want to tell you about the time conversations started to happen / and how it was the beginning of the room,’ Attlee writes.

Caught within an architecture wherein chance and design go bet on the horses, where we lose step with the gamble of a metaphor, Attlee segues her way through these collated hours and days to distil a poetry that is not about (or of) revolution, but about conditions. Hers is a poetry about steam; about diction; about how, to depict ‘the beginning of the room,’ you need question the porousness of its boundaries.

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Attlee’s Book of Days was recorded and produced for radio by Tenement’s Dominic J. Jaeckle and Resonance’s Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

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This profoundly exciting debut explores the complicated embodiments, politics and emotions of domestic life through the prism of the turning year. Attlee draws subtly luminous images from mundane, ordinary life—“I pat her gloves with apricot foam / blow bubbles in the dusk / with liquid from the pound shop”—allowing us to see the vivid, electric power of moments to which familiarity usually blinds us. At the same time, she is always aware of the vexed inequalities of family, time, class and gender—“joy unfurls from coupledom and a shared bank account / watch out or the big horse trudges on your head.” Her writing about childrearing is painfully tender yet radical: “they pack him differently at the nursery … am I letting them snuff it out / the little yellow flame.” In this beautiful, funny and innovative book, an important new poetic voice has emerged.

Rebecca Tamás, The Guardian

Echoing the tales and mysteries that were once our way of apprehending the world, Attlee's a great shaking allows one to feel close to the earth and the rhythms that govern it. It envelops you in its world with the steady confidence of a poet in full use of her powers. Both intimate and vast, A great shaking is like a skyline touched only by trees, land, and the stillness of forgotten time.

Vanessa Onwuemezi

A great shaking is such a rich gathering: endlessly surprising, bold and inventive. ‘Book of Days’ offers a fascinating riddle and rhyme of the seasons; the ‘Nursery Songs’ are full of secrets and vibrant flashes; while the ‘Archive Songs’ are curiously alluring. All together, they show undoubtable imagination and skill.

Lavinia Singer

In mediaeval manuscripts, engravings of the steps of life from birth to death often omitted women completely. In this fascinating collection, Attlee talks to them directly, making them entirely visible as she explores the legacies of indentured labour, the toils of women and the mythologies of motherhood, all in real time: “the crows eat up the corn / the baby is back / and the women open their legs to the stove / pushing soft porridge into his mouth / like companionable silence.” This empathy and companionship are the backdrop to her own negotiations of work, family and political activity, and expose how impossibly intermingled these are.

She weighs the magical thinking of folktale and childhood against the real world to expose the gap between there and here, while continuing the ancient task of trying to find a way to make it all work. Her language is present and exact, and razor sharp: “my mother is here / laughing like a broken plate.” Throughout, there is love and wry humour: “You are the word I will use to call the cows home at night” (‘Old English love song, Traditional’). This is a deeply affecting collection; these poems come from a very genuine sense of communion with all those semi-visible individuals who labour and have always laboured for love, family and fairness. “Forgive us this standing. Forgive us in strength. / Unforgive if forgiving undoes sorrow. Do not unstep your step.

Lesley Harrison

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Edwina Attlee is the author of two pamphlets, Roasting Baby (if a leaf falls press, 2016) and the cream (Clinic, 2016). She teaches history to students of architecture in London.

A roving, ongoing & growing catalogue of works for the radio from the Tenement Press wheelhouse, in collaboration with Prototype Publishing. Recorded and produced for radio by Tenement’s Dominic J. Jaeckle and Resonance’s Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

Here they present a radiophonic work based on the life cycle of the mayfly, performed at Pestival, Barnes Wetland Centre, 2006. Featuring Alistair McGowan, Sabina Meyer, Kay Grant and Ivor Kallin. The score is written by Veryan Weston, the text by Ed Baxter.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, engineers, sound-effects creators, actors, writers, composers and broadcasters devoted to making live radio-art. It is based in central London as the in-house artistic wing of Resonance104.4fm, under the direction of Ed Baxter.

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.