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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.

In block five (the term 'episode' is no longer applicable here due to events exceeding the time-slot's duration, and time mismanagement on the part of the creator), the buzz in the left audio channel continues apace.

A visit is paid to the National Archives to view a document redacted to the point of insignificance, some Pure Volunteering is enacted, and attempts to meditate upon noise annoyances are experimentalised.

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

This episode features music by Yara Asmar, Catherine Christer Hennix, and Eimear Reidy & Natalia Baylis.

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 features Voltnoi. One absorbing, shimmering soundscape, mixing ambient electronic forms and noisy interference.

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

In the late nineteenth century two facts conspired to change the face of music: the collapse of common practice tonality (which overturned the certainties underpinning the world of Art music), and the invention of a revolutionary new form of memory, sound recording (which redefined and greatly empowered the world of popular music). A tidal wave of probes and experiments into new musical resources and new organisational practices ploughed through both disciplines, bringing parts of each onto shared terrain before rolling on to underpin a new aesthetics able to follow sound and its manipulations beyond the narrow confines of ‘music’. Probes tries analytically to trace and explain these developments, and to show how, and why, both musical and post-musical genres take the forms they do.

PROBES #3 continues to explore probes into pitch, this time through its effective obliteration through ceaseless movement, sliding tones, and radical portamenti which defy all quantisation.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130206/03probestranscripteng.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 7pm, repeats Sunday 7am, Tuesday 7am and Wednesday 9am)(r)

In this episode we’ll be listening to tracks that tell stories with no words, 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 Tina Turner's Private Dancer. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Public and private dancers, non-binary voices, Finnish superstars, peaches, orchestras, strong women, workers who hate their jobs … 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).

'Providencia' - Catriel Nievas, 2016

During my stay in Santiago de Chile in 2016, I tried to record relationship between the sound of the city, the cars, the people, the wind and the heavy clouds of smog that cross over buildings. The sound of the music in its different appearances and forms also became important. Within these relationships, dialogue in different languages contaminate each other, and finally become one.

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

On this week’s Out From Under, we explore decades-old Australian music, made available for a new generation of listeners via the unique archival label, Efficient Space. We talk with label founder Michael Kucyk and listen to a selection of off-kilter Australian music from the archives, exclusively curated by Michael for Out From Under.

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 4.

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

In this episode, The Parish News plays quite a few experimental poems and other spoken-word tracks. There is also quite a bit of free improv. The show ends with a Chris Watson field recording, taken from the album "In St Cuthbert's Time".

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.

Merrie Melodias is back with a new series and new rubrics! And that means new digger discoveries are waiting for you from the bottomless catalogue of the Soviet major label Melodia. As is good tradition, we start with an episode about folk music. This episode features melodies from Central Asia, the Lesser Caucasus, the Baltic States, Africa and South America and other countries of the world.

This episode highlights the intersection of the sound of the world's three main musical instruments - the lute, the lyre and the reed pipe - with each country having its own modification and name. This is the story of how the sound of a Burundian funk band's electric guitar transforms into the trill of an Uzbek dutar, the sigh of an Azerbaijani zurna turns into the moan of an Armenian duduk, and the tinkling strings of a Paraguayan harp turn into the dreamy chords of a Madagascar valiha.

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental TOPOT label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

In this episode, Joe plays tracks that were cut for time from the past 13 shows, including music by Annette Peacock, Riow Arai & Toni Iordache.

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.

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.

Monthly conceptual broadcast by Leipzig-based DJ and producer Rabia.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Andrea Cecon’s poem “thinking of us / the sound of wind / among the pines."

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.

Produced by Michael Umney and Sarah Nicol, Natural Selection presents slices of life from Kilfinane, Ireland, on location at the second HearSay International Audio Arts Festival, 20 to 22 November 2015.

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.