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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 instalment is almost entirely hogged by a supposéd radio show broadcast by BBC Radio 4 that somehow plops the narrator's inner psyche onto the airwaves as part of its daytime drama entertainment scheduling. Featuring: frustration, shoplifting and things to confuse Ofcom.

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.

Dronica meets event curators, creative directors and labels owners in 2021.

In this episode, Dronica meets Sine Buyuka, founder and owner of Injazero Records, an independent label based between London and Istanbul.

Sine Buyuka worked as a culture, arts and sports journalist, hosted a radio show and DJ’ed in her hometown Istanbul before moving to London in 2012 to do an MA in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College. After a placement at FatCat Records, she launched her own experimental and ambient label Injazero Records in 2015.

She kept freelancing for outlets like Dazed, Time Out Istanbul, the Ransom Note, the BBC while running Injazero, which now has a roster of eleven artists. She is currently doing a postgraduate course in electronic music at Guildhall as well as releasing music herself.

In this show, Sine will present in the first hour releases from Injazero Records and in the second hour, music from artists they've worked with so far, either on remixes, compilations or mastering.

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.

In this episode, a mix of tunes from a chat that I had with a friend on what music was playing in my house on a night many years ago. A mix of music and field recordings. A night in summer.

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.

This sixth programme continues to explore probes into pitch through the preparation and modification of conventional instruments – looking at the many tapings, wrappings, clampings, clippings, attachments and impairments applied across the family of strings, before moving on to the less familiar territory of prepared winds. Some people get up to some pretty strange behaviour in the pursuit of unusual sounds.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130909/06probestranscripteng.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, 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, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Where Is My Mind? by The Pixies. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Rumba bands, super special Youtube stars, eminences of bardcore, piano lovers, dutch speakers, Fight Club fans, Misters and misses robots, rocker babies, zoologists, … all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features a special guest: Youtuber shonkywonkydonkey. Since 2016, he's been regularly uploading memes, mashups and other quirky content he feels like uploading. Formerly known as "the firefly guy" and "the Onision vocoder guy". Now better known as 'the "but it's all my voice" guy'.

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.

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 7.

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.

In this episode, the sound of destruction. Bring items that definitely should get destroyed. Ceramics, glasses, figurines, tech, furniture, kitsch, presents that you never liked, and join the last breath of that rubbish in the ultimate radio show.

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 artist and writer Louis Scantlebury for some readings and an interview amongst track selections. Including Jon Brion, Alex G & Fire-Toolz.

Louis Scantlebury is an artist and writer who lives between London and Hamburg. He’s a co-editor of the plates article Memory After Memory, and performed a reading at our plates event earlier this month. He makes films with puppets, writes stories and draws comic books.

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.

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 The Renshaws; Higher Ground Studios.

Field Notes

Side A - Up Side

The Renshaws Minjerriba Retreat; Birds; The Running Bath; Chanelle Sings A Long Way From Home; Heavy Electric Guitar Riff In D; Island Frogs and Crickets; Daybreak Birds; Drone Loops; Delays; Vocal Loops; Open Atmosphere Guitar Loops; Steel Rings.

Side B - Down Side

Cassette Tape Deck; Guitar Loops in (Malady) G; Vocal; Birds; Pause - Resume.

From the Archive: ISLAND SIX A and ISLAND SIX B; Joe & chanelle were visiting artists at the The Renshaw Gallery Residency and Minjerriba Retreat, November to December 2022.

The Minjerriba Retreat is located 30km east of Brisbane on Minjerriba (North Stradbroke Island), the 2nd largest sand island in the world. Home to the indigenous Quandmooka people, Minjerriba is also rich in flora and fauna including rare and endangered animals. The residency is a two bedroom family holiday shack. Artists are invited to stay without working as a respite from demands of running an art practice.

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 Tagami Kikusha’s poem “revealing in the dark / the sadness of things / a fisherman's torch”.

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.