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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 features sonic goodness from Michael Ranta, Ekolali, Bear Bones Lay Low and more.

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 Niya B, founder and curator of Translucent, London.

Translucent is an artist-led platform for performance work from trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming artists as well as artists whose work defies gender.

The show was produced by Niya B and Gisou Golshani with 32 contributions by 24 artists.

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

This month: Phantom Circuit brings you your first chance to hear tracks from the forthcoming album by Sieben and also offers the hot new sounds of Revbjelde, Buckner Building, Wizards Tell Lies, Dublock, Sevcom All Stars, Tom Ellard, Petridisch, Ivan Black, Confessor and Bloodkry.

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

This episode features V3sta.

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

This episode features music by Dietmar Diesner, Georg Katzer und Rose Schulze, and Jörg Thomasius.

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.

A 7-hour radio event broadcast live from the Resonance Extra studios on the 29th January 2023, featuring live performances and new and exclusive audio works.

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Certified Tonk showcases improvised music as a shared act of discovery, where meaning appears without being forced, and ego drops away for creativity to take over. This series is an invitation to listen differently, stay present and let the music lead. Andrew Backhouse is an artist and radio geek based in North Yorkshire who has always loved radio and sees it as a place for exploration, not answers.

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As this series moves into its final month, things stay chaotic with a freeform mix of singeli, noise, and techno variants, featuring everything from Sisso to Lightning Bolt to Ikue Mori.

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

This first episode unfolds as a cartography of remembered space dissolved collaboratively in real time.

Vague Wanderings is a bi-monthly collaborative live show from the 24-26 cohort of School of the Damned, exploring imagined spaces, temporary autonomous zones, collecting field recordings and the fertile topsoil of vague terrains.

Along with the regular selection of sonics from within the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity collective, this month features special contributions from Gagarin's live set at the Stanmer Park's The Ecomusicology Project, and the first of six transmissions from the Omnistitional Culture Research Unit (OCRU).

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.

From the shore walk up the slope to the cairn, follow the track north into birchwood, walk through the woods towards the waterfall, cross the burn, walk up the hill, up to Hallaig.

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.

Merrie Melodias is back with a new series and new rubrics! And that means new digger discoveries are waiting for you from the bottomless catalogue of the Soviet major label Melodia. As is good tradition, we start with an episode about folk music. This episode features melodies from Central Asia, the Lesser Caucasus, the Baltic States, Africa and South America and other countries of the world.

This episode highlights the intersection of the sound of the world's three main musical instruments - the lute, the lyre and the reed pipe - with each country having its own modification and name. This is the story of how the sound of a Burundian funk band's electric guitar transforms into the trill of an Uzbek dutar, the sigh of an Azerbaijani zurna turns into the moan of an Armenian duduk, and the tinkling strings of a Paraguayan harp turn into the dreamy chords of a Madagascar valiha.

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 artist Ellis Berwick for an interview amongst track selections featuring Bow Gamelan Ensemble, Test Dept and Lolo & Sosaku.

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.

In this episode, more stray transmissions, loosely orbiting a freshly rediscovered CD box set of Luc Ferrari's vast and unruly oeuvre. Recorded on the fly, as instinct dictates, the show drifts through organic tape experiments, dub mutations, private press psych, ritual percussion, fractured electronics and royal court music, with Ferrari’s presence threading in and out like a mischievous narrator.

No fixed style, no tidy arc — just sounds colliding, conversing, occasionally misbehaving. Drift in or disappear.

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.

In this episode, part 2 of two recent interviews with Mocrep and Ole Hübner, and a recording of Exvot III by Sara Cubarsi.

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 El Wud’s poem “slowly gliding — / a snail in the grass / follows the clouds.”

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: Beholder Halfway marks the forthcoming Melodies International reissue of the beautiful anti-war folk-soul ballad 'Blood of an American' by Bobby Wright (now Abu Talib). Little known and rarely heard, the record stages a reflection upon the unique intersection of popular music and radical politics in late 1960s and early 1970s soul music. This becomes an opportunity to think critically about the ways in which counter-cultural soundtracks have been sanitised and re-packaged in recent decades.

Monthly investigations of music politics with Paul Rekret.

In this episode, Emily Bick hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing tracks by Carl Stone & Asuna, Bonner Kramer/Thurston Moore, Éliane Radigue and many more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.