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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 & Jean-Philippe Renoult, dieb13, Lloyd Dunn, Anna Friz and Lucinda Guy go live from Ürzig, Broughton, Düsseldorf, Saarbrücken, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Santa Cruz and Buckfastleigh.

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 is a special edition, focussing on the Pacific City Sound Visions label.

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

In this episode, Dronica meets Jose Macabra for our monthly guest mix.

Jose Macabra is an inimitable artist, sound designer, improvised noise creator, producer and a beguiling solo live act.

His work performed in art establishment venues including The Barbican, Tate Modern , BFI and The Photographer’s Gallery among others. Works involving Jose’s sound design have toured major festivals in Madrid, Berlin, Athens, Brussels, Milan, Barcelona and other cultural centres.

Collaboration is at the heart of Jose’s work, be it in a straight-forward club setting or a soundtrack commission for theatre, a body-piercing performance or high art concept work.

Jose has worked with Ernesto Tomasini, Ron Athey, HR. Giger, Sally Mann, Empress Stah, Lydia Lunch, FFIN DANCE Company, UCL, Unite The Union, Katerina Valstur and many more.

Jose presents a two hour granular hybrid mix, blending music from almost hundreds different artists, as well as his music, into a cathartic journey.

"The ability to conjure such a richly populated, complex, and above all dark, sonic world is jaw dropping, masterful, sublime, wondrous." David M. Paganin

Artwork by pseudomagica.

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: Ulysses 13 and the Space Nomads. A mix based on anime and cartoon OSTs - sounds from the ‘70s, ’80s and ’90s.

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

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 explores the year through the seasons in a unique improvised recording. This journey travels through radio waves, tape players and field recorders; an analogue experience.

Each season features field recordings captured during that time. Join Kayla for a continuous hour of music and sound moving through life as the seasons change.

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 Smells Like Teen Spirit by the grunge band Nirvana. There's no order, no lists, just exclusive, overwrought fandom material. Guitarists, violinists, monks, deodorant lovers, octopuses, Soundcloud stars, cats,... all are welcome in Shuffle 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).

Time flies - in this episode, it's the final studio studio session for the album Is Under Location Surfaces! Plus, what might have been a deep listening mix gets sidetracked into computer music beats territory, with everything from LSD Dream Emulator to Big Stick to Mark Fell.

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

This episode: Tone Generation.

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

This special edition marks the passing of one the original SoG founding members: Steve Gillitt, AKA Minimal Impact. The first hour contains a helping of top grade experimental audio from around the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity collective, some choice cuts from recent SoG performers, and a sonic tribute to Minimal Impact.

The second hour continues with some essential and unreleased Minimal Impact recordings. Rest in noise Steve.

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

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

Walking, movement in place, in air, distance through time.

In this episode: Iceland ... every three hours for 24 hours ... eight times ... daag einn I juni ... I stand and look east across the fell to the obelisk. Beyond it the northern shoulder of Burfell rises then slips away off its hog’s back summit.

Stand and listen to the plaintive pipe of the Golden Plover and the croak of the Snipe.

Stand … then move off ... down the slope; through the Marsh Marigolds; over the stream; cross two fences; cross the horse paddock to the leaning post; along the horse path; around to the fence to the left; over the fence; cross four streams; pass the waterfall; cross the marsh; cross the stream on stones; up the slope to gap in ridge; up the slope to the lip; around the obilisk; pause; retrace my steps ... eight walks ... eight sections ... split ... re-built ... into a day at random ... eight movements ... this is movement 4.

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 academic Soviet music, its avant-garde and national currents. You will hear some stunning works by Russia's major experimental composers – Sofia Gubaidulina, Galina Ustvolskaya, Faraj Karayev and Alfred Schnittke.

Almost half of the programme, however, is dedicated to music with an equally complex narrative by composers from Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, digitised from rare LPs from my own collection. The programme concludes with an intricate and exotic late-Soviet piece by Siberian composer Boris Mourashkin, which he characterises as ‘bio-energetic’.

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.

Joe plays the full Late Works: of Noise album recorded over the last two weeks in collaboration with state51, using instruments built by Ellis Berwick, Dan Knight, Mosquito Farm, Robin Finch Pickering & David Sappa.

Featuring members of caroline, curbside lambsear, Exotic Sin, Flur, Gentle Stranger, Hot Chip, Kuunatic, mary in the junkyard, PUNCHBAG, Shovel Dance Collective, The Umlauts, wing! & more

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.

This week: Richard Hames interviews Christine Buras, Phonewifey drops a set and Elischa Kaminer’s new piece ‘Gretchen Sonate’.

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 Uejima Onitsura’s poem “Spring day— / in the garden, a sparrow / dust-bathing.”

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: Ketan Shankardass examines representations of stress and drug use in American hip-hop.

Monthly investigations of music politics with Paul Rekret.

In this episode, join Joseph Stannard for a cornucopia of cacophony including tracks from Kavari, dälek, Eve Maret, Master's Ashes, Spider Taylor, Knocked Loose, and more!

New music with The Wire Magazine.