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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.

A Looperama smorgasbord, where mystery abounds! Unknown sounds and a mystery guest!

Commencing with some unidentified library music (aka production or stock music)... Bright and upbeat melody with urgent and propulsive beats, just right for the modern ear... neither alive or completely dead.

Featuring a segment of Offrandes for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra (1921) by Edgard Varese superimposed with random found (Professor Pyg?) radio broadcasts and fragments, some eerie music from a Halloween sound effects compact disc, other sonic snippets intersperse around the thudding ostinato of Electric Lady (1973 ) by Geordie, a British rock band from Newcastle, most notably active in the 1970s.

Geordie line-up included: Vic Malcolm (lead guitar), Tom Hill (bass guitar), Brian Gibson (drums) and Brian Johnson (lead vocals).

To conclude, a surprise appearance from a mystery guest ...guess who! With music that you can dance to, - whatever wavelength you're on!

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.

Featuring sounds from Lau Nau, Olli Aarni, Ernest Hood, Wave Temples, David Edren and more....

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.

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

This episode starts with a field recording piece from yours truly, formed with sounds from the scavengers market and various factories and continues as a semi-presentation of the exquisite new album by Dimitris Kamarotos on the newly formed Intersonic Records - https://www.facebook.com/intersonikrecordings/

Two pieces from Εlectromagnetic Landscapes (Unreleased Recordings 1983- 2016) are presented and then diffused by recordings made by Yiorgis Sakelariou in Thailand. Finally sounds from urban areas in Athens lead to Persepolis by Yiannis Xenakis.

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.

As the sixties came to a close, the progressive optimism of World music collages were met and tempered by a new strain of self-examination and critique. Composers shifted away from using obscure, generic, or safely public domain sources for their pieces, and began to work with instantly recognizable samples from commercial pop music on a much wider scale. As the focus turned from global to cultural, Utopian visions gave way to a pragmatic sense of musical research and development. This episode documents the collages of the 70's that began demolishing the distinctions between art and popular music, from concrète to dub to disco to the attention-deficit-disordering world of FM radio.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110615/03Variationstranscripteng_PDF.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

(Originally broadcast Thursday 6pm, repeats Sunday 6am, Tuesday 6am and Wednesday 8am)(r)

This episode features guest selections from electronic composer and sound designer Suki Sou, who has chosen tracks which inspired her acclaimed debut mini album Notes on Listening.

Background music: Along the Lines Afterdark by Kayla Painter and East River Dawn by Laurie Spiegel.

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, mind-blowing covers and drifts of All the Small Things by Blink 182. There's no order, no lists, just exclusive, overwrought fandom material. Guitarists, violinists, babies, acapella squirrels, octopuses, brainwaves, SoundCloud stars, dogs and cats,... 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).

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

On this week’s Out From Under, artists Andy Rantzen and Jochen Gutsch discuss their new collaborative project, which fuses Andy’s poetic spoken lyrics and Jochen’s diverse musical background, recording and performing as Hinterlandt. Highly conscious of the potential pitfalls of fusing poetry and experimental music, Andy and Jochen carve a path to an outcome that is tense and fascinating, and compels you to listen close. We also hear music from Jochen’s Hinterlandt Ensemble and take in back catalogue work from Andy’s Pelican Daughters project.

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.

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.

I.A. is a monthly radio series which showcases work by creatives – both staff and students – in the Sound Arts and Music departments at the London College of Communication. Produced by Zain Bador and Ed Baxter.

In this episode, Joe is joined live by artist Alia Hamaoui to discuss upcoming work, influences, rear-view mirrors & qabqaabs. With track selections including Rone, Cheb Hicham Sghir & Rosalía.

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 rough 'n’ rusty ride episode with industrial, backroom screamers and seven headed drone pistachios.

Some light moments here and there to level up the mood but it’s a scraggy affair on this one, clunky tape loops, screams, glitchy drones and dank cave jams, unstable cardiophonics.

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.

'Passing Through' is the second episode of the series 'Strange Morals', brought to you by Nova Waves. Three short stories exploring life moments and exchanges between people. No strings attached.

Three short stories exploring life moments and exchanges between people, brought to you by Nova Waves.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Marc Sheridan’s poem “cloud and mist alike / rendered unnoticeable – / bright moon tonight!”

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 guests FOURTH-WORLD IN STEREO Yoshitaka Hikawa and Barbara Rubel.

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.