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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.

Considerable efforts were expended on this ninth episode to disguise the identity of a veteran secretmonger who pays a visit to the basement antiquarian bookshop where hesitant steps in unravelling the British Library's Suppressed Safe are under way.

Ferreting around, a rare book is discovered which would be dodgy to mention in this blurb. Quite a boring episode if you're not interested in this sort of thing.

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.

In this episode, Dronica meets DJ Comisarios de la Luz, co-curator at Magia Roja, in Barcelona.

Màgia Roja is a label/association/venue from Barcelona, specialized in non-conformist music and culture with a decidedly iconoclastic slant. Described as "Spain's most extreme and most important label-slash-venue " and "a place unlike any other in Spain, perhaps any other on earth" by the Quietus, Màgia Roja has become a reference point of the Spanish underground in recent years.

The first hour of the podcast is a mix trying to convey what a Màgia Roja night at HQ was about, done by the resident DJ Comisarios de la Luz.

The second hour of the episode is a selection of tracks from the artists in the label, including some to-be-released tracks.

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 end of season special, Athens Inner City Broadcast goes sonically full circle, with a retrospective mix of its past 19 hours of material.

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 #7 examines some of the preparations applied to percussion and voice before beginning to look at the recovery and invention of extended performance techniques; starting with the piano. Between not touching it at all and reducing it to firewood many techniques have been proposed.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140305/Probes7_eng.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 dive deep into ambient experimental music, shining a spotlight on long form tracks and textural, sonic soundscapes that exist in their own time.

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 episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Tiny robots, string quartets, italian stars, celtic hearts, ukelele lovers, ghosts who feel lonely, instigators of collective happenings…all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features Shambush: Makers of The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience. Creators of imaginative, tailored, theatrical encounters, performance spaces and nonsensical events for five to five thousand.

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 episode is 100% new Australian experimental and exploratory music. We’ll be listening to: new sound works from both musician and composer Rosalind Hall and Sydney’s Alexandra Spence; the Melbourne duo of Tarquin Manek & Ying-Li Hooi on a celebratory compilation from Altered State Tapes; minimal electronics meets exquisite vocals in new work from Allume and Eitanr; plus new music from Logic 1000, Automating, J Campbell and the deliciously named Little Songs Of The Mutilated.

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.

In this episode, another round up of top class music and sound from within and around the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity collective. The second hour features the penultimate contribution from the Omnistitional Cultures Research Unit - Omnistitions 5: Transmissions from The Rehearsal Room.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

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.

Featuring Otti Albietz (guitar), Matt Armstrong (bass), Ted Barrow (electronics), Kit Bula-Edge (percussion), Toby Bula-Edge (saxophone), Adam Bushell (vibraphone), Fritz Catlin (drums), Helen Helina (voice), Stuart Griffiths (saxophone), Julian Juliano (percussion), Kitty McCarron (voice), Jude Montague (keyboards), Anthony Moore (electronics) and Tullis Rennie (trombone).

Performing: Another Green World (Brian Eno), Nadaam (Eiichi Hayashi), Pretty Fly - from Night Of The Hunter (Walter Schumann), El Derecho De Vivir En Paz (Victor Jara), Left Bank Two (Robert Dale), Bad Samaritan (Robert Storey), Love in Outer Space (Sun Ra) and Now O Now I Needs Must Part (John Dowland).

Statue of Liberty is a new big band devised by Ed Baxter. In this broadcast we hear its inaugural performance, as the finale of both XMTR and Sono-Electro festivals on Sunday 28 September at Electro Studios, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. Proceeds from this concert will be donated to the Refugee Buddy Project in Hastings - do support it if you like what you hear.

In this episode, Joe is joined in the studio by artist Natalya Marconini Falconer for an interview amongst track selections including Gülden Karaböcek, Smerz & Madonna.

Natalya Marconini Falconer is an artist and writer that lives and works between London and Italy. Working mainly between sculpture, installation and writing, their practice emerges from gaps in familial and regional memories of place.

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

A X-Mas Party at The Renshaws 2022 - Cocktails and impromptu solo exhibition

Side A - Voices

RENSHAWS_2A: Click and crackle of tape deck, train/storm T Renshaws Gallery; recording inside the gallery residency apartment. fade in chords. chanelle vocal. Cockatoos. drone slow down. Storm white noise and museum crowd and oliver on studio workshop timber router. Train running behind gallery with guitar drone and feedback, bird calls and distorted voice. Guitar hook

Side B - Beasts

RENSHAWS_3B: Renshaws Residency Fortitude Valley Brisbane.Bundanon birds. Kookaburras. Guitar high notes. Harmonics. Joe guitar Em slide D, C riff and crickets and lead. Crickets and museum crowd. Train, bird, train, bird. Triangle car pool laughter. 10:00 guitar fade in drones and samples, kookaburra tape slow down.

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 Natsume Seibi’s poem “dropped glass - / its ring / outlasts the fall”.

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.