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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.

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.

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

In this episode, Dronica meets Dan Allison, Sam Hailey-Watts and Holst, curators at Whitechapel Gallery Presents, in London.

Sam Hailey-Watts ///
Sam Hailey-watts is the founder of Calling Cards Publishing, a non for profit organisation that channels a specific focus of the intersection between visual and sonic arts, as well as the co-founder of new experimental and electronic label The Florist’s Mum.

Holst ///
Holst is the alias of DJ and producer Sam Williams. As well as co-curating Whitechapel Gallery Presents, he is one of the founders of London based record label B REC and plays in and produces a number of projects including Black Pixels, Kareni and GOMM as well as his own solo material. Interested in warping electronic music outside of genre confines, he regularly explores analogue tape degradation and sub frequencies.

Dan Allison ///
Performer, recording artist and curator, Dan Allison is half of BAG, a sound and spoken word project with partner Jody DeSchutter. He has recorded and released a self-titled album as GOMM recently. Dan has co-curated exhibitions as part of the Deptford X festival and also co-curates Whitechapel Gallery Presents as well as other performance and sound based events.

They present a selection of experimental electronic music.

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 Various world music LPs (found in the Athenian flee markets) with the addition of field recordings.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

Jon Leidecker presents an introduction to the history of sound appropriationism in 20th century composition, popular art and mainstream media, and the convergence of these trends in the present day.

The idea of a completely original piece of music is fairly recent. Music was passed on through sound, through generations, even for centuries after the invention of written music. Only in the 14th century did it become standard practice for a composer to sign his name to a piece of music and claim it entirely as his own, giving rise to the cult of the individual composer. But as recording supplanted sheet music in the 20th century, the presence of communal influence became unavoidably obvious once again as composers began to use recordings to make new recordings. We can now hear the presence of more than one voice. And there is a reason why people don't say they listen to a record – they say that they play a record. From the beginning, recordings have been instruments.

The first episode of this overview of appropriative collage in music covers the years 1909 through 1961, beginning with Charles Ives, who composed in a cut and paste style with sheet music in a way that anticipated what later composers would do with multi-track tapes and mixers. We skip through decades to arrive at "Twisting the Dials", the Happiness Boys' 1928 tribute to late night radio surfing, before moving to John Cage's proto-sampling pieces for radio and tape, "Credo in US" and the "Imaginary Landscapes". We witness the million-selling cut-in records of Buchanan and Goodman and the resulting lawsuits, Richard Maxfield's tape cut-ups of a sermonizing preacher, and conclude with James Tenney's dedicated dissection of a single recording of Elvis: "Collage No. 1", the first 'remix'. For more information on this episode, visit RWM Curatorial.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/variations/01Variationseng_script.pdf

Link to the complete series:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/variations_tag

For more information on this series and other podcasts, visit Ràdio Web MACBA.

In this episode we dive deep into ambient experimental music, shining a spotlight on long form tracks and textural, sonic soundscapes that exist in their own time.

We’ll be listening to tracks that tell stories with no words, that paint pictures with sound, and take us somewhere new and different, out of our regular surroundings and into the unknown.

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 mind-blowing covers and drifts of “Lay All Your Love On Me“ by the Swedish pop band ABBA. There's no order, no lists, just exclusive, overwrought fandom material: marching bands, metalheads, witches, vampires, Soundcloud stars, pioneers of the millennial sound, Mozarts of midi, musicians who run record labels... all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

Featuring two guests: Tuuun and Elbis Rever.

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).

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

This episode is another in our new music playlist series, presenting a selection of underground and experimental work being made right now in Australia.

We check out two compilations both surveying experimental electronic terrain - from labels Butter Sessions and Ice Age Productions; music from two Canberra labels, Dream Damage and Moontown Recordings, featuring Danger Beach and Scraps (pictured); new releases from Sydney artists M.O.B. and Lortica; abstract sounds from Sam Filmer; and a new recording from Half High, featuring Lucy Phelan and Matthew P Hopkins from Naked On The Vague.

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.

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

Walking, movement in place, in air, distance through time.

From a beach to a tide-race via a deserted village and a crowing cockerel. Island Suite presents two islands, two walks, four hours across one day. This is movement 5.

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, artist Joe Moss joins Joseph Bradley Hill in the studio to discuss upcoming shows, influences, brass bands & Harley Davidsons, with track selections including Pharaoh Sanders & Peter Gabriel.

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.

A special guest mix from Bruno Silva AKA Ondness this month, taken from a theatre piece he worked on. Here’s what AKA Ondness has to say about it:

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.

Going softly soporific ...

An Infinite Number of Monkeys

• 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 shima Ryōta’s poem “steady spring rains... / both dream and reality / Mount Yoshino!"

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 episode features WANDA GROUP, Kristin Malossi and Claire Tolan.

Exploring sound discovery in the internet era with Robin Buckley AKA rkss.

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.