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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.

This sixth chunk of the long-duration series opens with an experiment in combining meditation with ranting. Meanwhile, an unexplained electrical fire at the British Library scuppers research into its Suppressed Safe collection.

To while away the downtime, extra shifts are taken on at the nearby antiquarian bookshop, where a friendly conspiracy theorist quizzes staff on cover-ups, before being told by the manager: "I'm going to have to stop you there. It's fascinating, but we've got to get on with things. Another time, maybe", to the disappointment of Asphyxia's creator, to whom conspiracy theories are like nectar to a hummingbird.

A hum remains in the left audio channel.

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.

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

For this episode, guest artist Emilie De’Ath, who performs as Luxul, has put together a mix of her own music, tracks from members of the London Noise scene, and music from further afield.

This varied collage of sounds encompasses tracks, ideas, and an insight into the imperfect process of relearning piano pieces from her childhood as well as a guest piano contribution from one of her cats.

This is a segment born of a hypomanic flurry of productivity that truly reflects her current place in her musical journey.

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 #4 concludes our excursion into portamenti, looking at its use in popular music, before moving on to wholly unpitched probes that begin to map the many aspects of differentiated noise.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130527/04probestranscripteng.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, a deep dive into ambient experimental music, shining a spotlight on evoking a sense of deep emotion through crafted soundscapes and production choices.

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 episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Bitter Sweet Symphony. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Chip tuners, bardcore (or contemporary medieval stuff), Rolling Winds, karaoke stars, babies, brave bands from Mexico, copyright victims by copyright fanatics, cumbia - Britpop dancers,… 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).

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

This week’s Out From Under is a new music special, taking a deep dive into an ocean of new music releases from Australian experimental artists. We’re going to be listening to tracks from the new album and companion remix package from Melbourne’s avant industrial and dark ambient masters My Disco; plus deconstructed club adventures from the Eternal Label; the latest alt.jazz excursion from Australian / Scottish collaboration Sensaround (featuring Shoeb Ahmad from Tangents), and much more.

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.

The first hour of this episode features tracks from the Alien Alarms album Dystopias dismantled, and also a couple of tracks we missed in the last episode month. For the second hour, the latest instalment from the OCRU - Omnistitions 4: Transmissions from the Horse Hospital.

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.

This episode is hosted by DJ Johnny Haway.

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

The show returns from Summer break with Joe joined in the studio by artist and poet Hannah Machover for an interview around track selections including Ivor Cutler, Nick Drake & Geese.

Hannah is co-editor of the newest plates article "Memory After Memory" and they will be discussing the upcoming event at The Social on Monday 15th September.

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 loose drift through misaligned pop, outsider electronics, folk shards, radio ghosts and accidental hymns, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso. Visit www.discrepant.net/radio for more information.

Joe and Chanelle’s audio recordings encompass ambient sounds, conversation, experimental composition and improvised instrumental response. Cassette drones, loop pedals, voice and guitar are used to echo, mimic or bend over bird calls, thunderstorms, night sounds, indistinguishable chatter, museum reverberations and urban movement. These moments captured to tape are presented in two halves as an A-side/B-side format.

Enriched by visual counterpoints for each episode, Bruna’s critical eye forms an ambiguous tonal narrative from Jake's method of stumbling into excellence. Mountain, valley, glacier, and urban horizon are presented in stereo format, to parallel the A-side/B-side format.

This program has been made on the stolen lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, we pay respect to the Elders both past and present.

Project lead and sound by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. Creative direction by Bruna Volpi. Photography by Jake Terrey.

Supported by Higher Ground Studios, Artspace, Create NSW and Resonance Extra.

Field Notes - “Let Me Stop You Right There”

Side A - Kinship

Mixtape 9: Electronic high notes to museum recording and fading in chords on guitar; max delay and screaming children distorted from the vinyl record; G major riff with applause on vocal pedal loop and storytelling of washing past; shaking drones with ringtone from missed call message bank; indistinguishable talking in the studio and use of power tools; recording of bus engine over museum crowds; handling of cassette tapes and players; music sample; A minor and F major riff on guitar with offset vocal loop.

Side B - Body

Mixtape 9: Screams in an institution and guitar noises; Lp needle taps with heavy distortion and delay; creaking guitar handling through high compression; feedback and chords and scales; offset vocal loop over distorted museum; guitar in G major and indistinguishable voices; birds and language lessons; phone calls and studio visits; artist borscht picnic chats; feedback on amp; Bundanon morning birds and crickets with museum sounds and guitar.

A monthly programme which blends textured audio from cassette recordings by Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier with tonal imagery by Bruna Volpi and Jake Terrey. Sound engineering by Ollie Brown.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Yatsuka Ishihara’s poem “pulling light / from the other world . . . / the Milky Way."

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.