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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.

Promises was a Canadian-based pop group that was founded 1978 in Thousand Oaks, California. The members were siblings Leslie
Maria Knauer (born August 20, 1957, Vancouver, vocals, bongos), Jed Knauer (born July 17, 1955, Toronto, guitar, piano) and Benny
Knauer (born October 21, 1958, Vancouver, keyboards and vocals).

Promises was formed, recorded and produced by Steve Verroca, who leased the group's album to EMI EAR Holland. In February 1979,
soft rock single "Baby It's You" became a smash hit around the world, especially in Europe, where it reached number 4 in the German
charts, and Promises received a Gold album there for selling more than 260,000 units. The song was also hugely popular in Australia,
largely due to the programming of its promotional video on Sunday evening television music show Countdown.
It also reached number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart for five weeks. "Baby It's You" was a success on South African television.

With their second single Lets Get Back Together being much less successful (only reaching number 18 in Germany), and Leslie wanting
the group to become more of a punk band, they broke up.
Curved Air are an English progressive rock group formed in 1970 by musicians from mixed artistic backgrounds, including classical, folk,
and electronic sound. The group decided the name using a shortened version of Terry Riley's composition A rainbow in curved air.
The resulting sound of the band is a mixture of progressive rock, folk rock, and fusion with classical elements.

Curved Air released eight studio albums, the first three of which broke into the UK Top 20, and had a hit single with Back Street Luv
(1971) which reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart.

Line-up / Musicians on Back Street Luv

• Sonja Kristina / lead vocals
• Francis Monkman / lead guitar, keyboards, VCS3 synthesizer
• Darryl Way / electric violin, piano , vocals
• Ian Eyre / bass
• Florian Pilkington-Miksa / drums

I Want More is a song from Can's seventh studio album, Flow Motion. Unusually, it features all of the members of the band on vocals
simultaneously and is characteristic of their Virgin era sound, with lyrics written by Peter Gilmour, the band's live sound engineer.

The single reached number 26 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1976.

The song ... And More, also on Flow Motion, repeats the chorus of this track, and was included as a B-side to the single release.

Man Who Dies Every Day is from Ha!-Ha!-Ha!, (1977) the second album by British pop group Ultravox, at that time known as
Ultravox!, with exclamation mark, as a nod to Neu!, (known for pioneering the "motorik" beat, a minimalist 4/4 rhythm associated with
krautrock artists.)

This is the Rock and Roll gas chamber. So, take a deep breath and dance...

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.

A birdsong special featuring music by Ron Nagorcka, Cosmo Sheldrake, Duelling Ants and field recordings made by Antti Tolvi, Jani Hirvonen and f.ampsim.

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

In this episode, Nicola presents live recordings taken from Day 3 of last 3-Day festival edition in April.

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 is a mix of field recordings taken within the city during two rainy days at the beginning of May. The second half of the show is a selection of street sounds that form a dense soundscape.

Recordings by ZEN - Relaxing Music channel on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGULij7wPkI.

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 fourth episode of VARIATIONS provides an overview as the art music tradition of collage music is joined by the popular culture tradition of hip hop, which would establish many of the same aesthetics and practices solidly in the mainstream. Featured composers include Grandmaster Flash, the Latin Rascals, David Byrne & Brian Eno & Negativland.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110623/04Variations_transcript.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)

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 Smells Like Teen Spirit by the grunge band Nirvana. There's no order, no lists, just exclusive, overwrought fandom material. Guitarists, violinists, monks, deodorant lovers, octopuses, Soundcloud stars, 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).

Nicolás Cordone is an Argentinian Photographer living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Influenced by the Cuban son and bolero, but with a very individual and exceptional Dominican touch from countryside and town around, La bachata is one of the most faithful and genuine expression, from art, about the life and culture in the Dominican Republic. Love and heartbreak, party, alcohol, suffering, poverty and debauchery are more expressed issues in La Bachata .

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

In this week’s episode, we hear new music from Melbourne electronic producer Ju Ca; Canberra’s Wives get remixed by Enderie Nuatal; there’s two releases from Hyperborea and Fia Fiell (pictured) through cassette label Nice Music ; new work from Cold House member Morgan McKellar recording as Bright Sea, plus tracks from Teef Record’s charity compilation Imperium In Imperio II featuring Making, Hence Therefore and Tracy Chen.

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 episode features a guest mix by Dr RAYPOWER.

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 6.

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.

This episode explores music on IKI GAGA, a new and exclusively tape-based label from Brussels, releasing unconventional music for unconventional people

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 in the studio by DUNCE for a live session. With an interview in-between track selections including Pierre Bastien, Lounge Lizards & PosuPosu Otani.

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.

This episode is a Seefeel Special show this week. One of my favourite and consistent bands throughout the years. Picking tunes from their catalogue is so easy, so many perfect loops to choose from as well as having the perfect balance between electronics and guitar oriented music. For rainy evenings or sunny mornings.

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.

This first episode sees Cuttings pick up a mysterious voice on his ham radio receiver - a girl's voice calling for help. Disturbing memories kick in that seem to offer clues to what's happening - memories of the enigmatic Monday Man.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

A unique audio drama series created by writer/director Neil Cargill and musician/sound designer Simon James featuring an original electronic music score and full cast including Ian McDiarmid, famed for his role as Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars saga, as Cuttings – the radio ham who picks up a mysterious voice. The voice belongs to a girl (Joy McAvoy, from Ken Loach's The Angels' Share, and Filth) trapped in an abandoned amusement park called Akiha Den Den. Singer Wendy Rae Fowler (featured vocalist with bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age) lends her distinctive Alabama tones to the multi-layered soundscape as it becomes clear there's a whole community there, whose words and music become woven into a mesmerising plea for help. Everything becomes highly charged when one of the trapped inhabitants finds a way into our world – where his impact on us could be as devastating and far-reaching as an unknown, unseen virus.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kobayashi Issa’s poem “caged bird / glaring with envious eyes / at butterflies!”

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.

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.