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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.

Knut Aufermann & Sarah Washington, Xentos Fray Bentos, Frauke Berg, Katharina Bihler & Stefan Scheib, DinahBird, dieb13 & Billy Roisz, Anna Friz, and Ralf Schreiber broadcast live from Ürzig, Broughton, Düsseldorf, Saarbrücken, Paris, Vienna, Santa Cruz and Cologne.

During the lockdown, a revolving group of sound artists from across Europe and the US convened live on air with a unified aim: to gather sound-pollen and transmit codified messages to kindred folk, exploring whatever was on their minds. Style guide: Anything goes.

Here we broadcast some selected live works by the CWCH Collective.

This episode features brand new music from Rashad Becker, Gryke Pjye, Mondo Riviera, Bhajan Bhoy and more.

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

In this episode, Dronica meets Robbie Judkins, who has created a mix for the show.

Robbie Judkins is a composer, performer and DJ. He works under the name Left Hand Cuts off the Right; an outlet for exploratory methods and composition mixing zither, repetition, noise, bent electronics, piano and field recordings. He is the host of Parallax View on Threads Radio and creator of Animal Sounds on Resonance FM. His work has been featured in the ICA, Barbican, Wire Magazine, Cafe Oto, NTS, Whitechapel Gallery, Brachliegen Tapes and more.

The programme is a selection of sound and music that remain a source of inspiration and intrigue, have recently brought me joy or solace or have been made by those close to me. Traditional music, cyclical riffs, crackling and humming ambient, shining and shimmering noise, vast dub, pensive harmonies, strange grooves and more. Including Anne Briggs, Laaraji, Black to Comm, Lee Perry, Autopsy, Junior Kimbrough and more.

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

In this episode, music by Quimper, Jane and Barton, Buckner Building, on_14, Paddy Kingsland, Joe Frawley, Oneiroid Psychosis, Severed Heads, Annette Peacock, jmdkm, Nick R 61 & Kendall Wa, Zacharias, Alan Hawkshaw & Brian Bennett and Opus III.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

Featuring V3STA and yours truly. A mix of ambiences / a glimpse of a future past / a fragment of time... I want you to know, someday everything will better for you.

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

This first episode features music by Noria Alias T.N., Jörg Foth, Chor Chor Flame, A.F Moebius and many more.

Socialist Realness a mix series by GAJEK focusing on avant-garde and electronic music produced in the GDR and shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

This episode focuses on found sounds and the ways in which sound connects to us through mind and body. It explores moments in music that connect us to the present. Join Kayla for a journey through experimental tracks and immersive soundscapes.

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 Manic Monday by The Bangles. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Monday haters, Zumba dancers, German translators, early risers, comedians, Benedictine monks... 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).

In this episode: the fifth studio session for the album Is Under Location Surfaces plus a mix keeping things 160 with footwork and noise rock.

A 16-episode bi-weekly series alternating new and unheard live sounds from Trash Panda QC with DJ selections and guests.

In this episode: Feedback.

A monthly collection of audio experiments and listening objects with sound artist Matt Burnett from Berlin.

In the first hour, Gravity Waves: as preparation for her new album, some long overdue tracks from I Am Fya, some tracks from the new Xylitol & Alien Alarms albums, a couple of remixes from Nil by Noses new trains based album, and some pieces by friends of the Spirit of Gravity.

In the second hour, Spectral Transmissions: Midnight in the Haunted Karaoke. It is nighttime in the city. Tatty terraces and scattered concrete tower blocks, the detritus of a vast up-turned wheelie bin bathed in orange twilight. Around this time of year strange things happen. The ether is populated with unruly beasts.

Pipes can be heard tapping in the darkness, lightbulbs flicker, music plays on an unplugged jukebox and faint calls of distant laughter can be heard echoing in the subway. An empty karaoke booth crackles into life and the soft crooning lament drifts through the still corridors, someone has entered the building.

Contains fragments of: Stomu Yamash'ta's Red Buddha Theatre; What a way to live in modern times

With thanks to: Stephen Mallinder and antivoid alliance.

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

This episode works with 24 random samples from a 24-hour recording – island woodland, island walks, the island circumference – to build a ‘one-hour-day’. Engage with a hebridean island, listen to chance sonic encounters with Canna, hear one day.

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

The barely present cult Canadian stand-up comedian Baconface plays lengthy and mainly uninterrupted selections from his late brother's extensive record collection of '60s and '70s psychedelia, progressive rock, free jazz, folk, acid folk, folk rock, acid rock, electronic music, and ethnoforgeries. In association with the Chilliwack Office of Leisure.

This episode is dedicated to the first Meloman M-110 music machines in the Soviet Union. Cabinets with music weighing 130 kilograms began to appear in the 60s in places where citizens would rest – cafes and restaurants, sanatoriums and cruise ships. Each jukebox held fifty seven-inch records and accordingly allowed listening to two-hundred songs.

In total, Melodiya issued about two-hundred records for Meloman - they were not sold in ordinary shops, but the music recorded on them was popular among listeners. The cost of listening to one song was only five kopecks, while the price of a seven-inch record at retail was seventy kopecks and more.

Meloman's repertoire included mostly city pop music of the 60s and 70s in the languages of commonwealth countries. However, in this episode I tried to include not the biggest hits of those years. You will hear bubblegum pop from Poland and Japan, psychedelic rock from Azerbaijan, pop chorals from Georgia, foxtrots from the GDR, as well as a lot of jazz and swing from Russia and the Lesser Caucasus.

It is believed that it was through the Meloman's speakers that Soviet citizens first heard the The Beatles' music – not the original recordings, but performed on a Hammond organ. In 1967, Keith Buckingham recorded a medley of three songs by the Liverpool 4 and this was included in the repertoire of the Soviet Jukebox and in this episode (track 11).

It can seem that the repertoire of the Meloman music machine sounds rather utopian: "I walk and sing and the street sings. The traffic light winked: ‘Go ahead!’," – Soviet pop diva Edita Piekha squints with pleasure in her schlager. It seems to have been so! Meloman's popularity waned in the late 70s, when clubs with live ensembles began to appear in big cities, personal vinyl players became available to almost every worker, and soon the rough rock of Perestroika became fashionable.

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 is joined in the studio by Dan Knight for an interview amongst track selections including John Coltrane, Rosy Parlane & Philip Glass.

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 continuous stream of short musical creations, each under two minutes. Miniature masterpieces interwoven and occasionally interpolated, transitioning seamlessly from the briefest to the longest – a perpetual motion of sound.

Ensemble x.y is a contemporary ensemble that commissions and performs new music in a flexible and ever-changing lineup. Run without traditional roles or hierarchies, Ensemble x.y develops its thematically-charged programmes according to the taste and interest of its core players, as well as the developing working relationships between resident composers and instrumentalists.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Morikawa Kyoroku’s poem “autumn storm– / the scarecrow / falls first.”

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.

This month: a discussion of Sun Ra's groundbreaking use of synthesisers with writer and critic Francis Gooding.

Monthly investigations of music politics with Paul Rekret.

In this episode, Phil England plays new music from Shane Parish, Hen Ogledd, Tanya Tagaq, Proc Fiskal, Laurel Halo, Tashi Dorji, Praed and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.