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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, Katharina Bihler & Stefan Scheib, DinahBird, dieb13 & Billy Roisz, Lloyd Dunn, Anna Friz, Ralf Schreiber, Rodrigo Ríos Zunino and Nástio Mosquito go live from Ürzig, Broughton, Saarbrücken, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Vancouver, Cologne and Valparaíso.

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.

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

In this episode, Dronica meets Dan Allison, Sam Hailey-Watts and Holst, curators at Whitechapel Gallery Presents, in London.

Sam Hailey-Watts ///
Sam Hailey-watts is the founder of Calling Cards Publishing, a non for profit organisation that channels a specific focus of the intersection between visual and sonic arts, as well as the co-founder of new experimental and electronic label The Florist’s Mum.

Holst ///
Holst is the alias of DJ and producer Sam Williams. As well as co-curating Whitechapel Gallery Presents, he is one of the founders of London based record label B REC and plays in and produces a number of projects including Black Pixels, Kareni and GOMM as well as his own solo material. Interested in warping electronic music outside of genre confines, he regularly explores analogue tape degradation and sub frequencies.

Dan Allison ///
Performer, recording artist and curator, Dan Allison is half of BAG, a sound and spoken word project with partner Jody DeSchutter. He has recorded and released a self-titled album as GOMM recently. Dan has co-curated exhibitions as part of the Deptford X festival and also co-curates Whitechapel Gallery Presents as well as other performance and sound based events.

They present a selection of experimental electronic music.

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.

A mix using cassettes and field recordings from Jeddah / Arabia found in Athens flea markets.

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 celebrates the release of new music, including Kayla’s new EP Ambient Owl Core Vol.1. A journey through releases, live tape loop improvisations and soundscapes.

Background music: What is keeping you alive makes me want to kill them for by Kathryn Joseph (Unofficial Jilk Remix).

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 Believe by Cher. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Aliens, nu metal singers, banana lovers, bardcore makers...all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

This episode features music by two guest artists: Lower Mars and S1m0nc3ll0.

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).

The series ends the way it started, with a full episode of exclusive, unreleased tracks and sessions from SDEM, David B. Applegate, Shimmering Ice Puzzle, and enn kdog, plus one more live set from the Trash Panda QC archives.

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

This month: field recordings of the S42 Ringbahn train, which loops in a ring around Berlin connecting with other inner-city transit systems, made by Matt Burnett shortly after his relocation to Berlin in 2014.

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

In the first hour of this midwinter episode, Gravity Waves: **Founder v Founder, with tracks from one of the founders mixed by another, plus more remixes from McCloud, something new from *Spirit of Gravity** member MelJoann, plus music from around our orbit.

In the second hour, Spectral Transmissions: Fallen Shrines: A New Myth. Scrawled in spidery script on the torn remnants of the label on a scuffed C60 are the words: PART ONE: historical development. You take it home and press play: We found you! Thanks for subscribing! You'll receive an email confirmation in 1 hour.

For now, here is your 10% discount code to copy and paste at the checkout: A team of people standing around a table, actively participating in a discussion and exchanging thoughts. A man and woman stand on the moon, gazing at a photo of themselves, surrounded by the vastness of space. Congratulations, you have successfully adjusted your set.

Please find herein directions for Irregular operational activity. Find out how to Invoke a weirded and haunted modernity. Some listeners have been chosen arbitrarily. Others for their ability to haphazardly determine the thought of an era. A diverse group of individuals gathered around a table, engaged in conversation and collaboration.

A shadowy group of figures looms by the roadside, their faces obscured, as darkness creeps in around them. Two individuals are depicted in police mug shots, showcasing their faces and identification details for law enforcement records. You have a chance to be one of them.

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

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 focuses on the strangest releases from the Soviet major label Melodia, which could be characterised simply as ‘Non-music’. Some records shocked me, some made me cringe — but these tracks seem to form a curious narrative on the verge of a numbing psychedelic journey.

So, within an hour you will hear reconstruction of a concert on mammoth bones, advertisement of the famous Lithuanian hoover ‘Audra’ and car fluids of Soyuzbytkhim factory, field recordings of crickets, toads and even fish singing, pioneers' signals, monologues of parrot Gosha and a patient with nonsense casual relations syndrome, and also hypnotherapy for alcoholics. Happy travelling!

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 fellow Resonance broadcaster Will M Hall (Dig That Treasure!), who will be interviewed amongst track selections, including songs by artists performing at the upcoming Dig That Treasure! festival in May.

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 on x.y FM: We hear the first two parts from the new improvisation series b**** got talent by London based composer/performer Alex Paxton together with Violinist Mayah Kadish, phonewifey drops a new set and we will hear an excerpt from Elischa Kaminer's tableau vivant/ or: in the forest by the lake grew daisies, small pathetic daisies performed by ensemble x.y at the Roy O.Disney Hall, Los Angeles.

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 Kobayashi Issa’s poem “when you return / don't forget my house! / departing swallows.”

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 with media scholar Marie Thompson about her new book, Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism (Bloomsbury). We discuss different conceptions of 'noise', as anti-music or the cacophony of industrial society, competing theories of noise and Marie's powerful argument that noise is neither inherently bothersome nor transgressive. We end by discussing some of the musicians and sound artists that Marie argues transcend the dominant morality by which noise is related to.

Marie Thompson is a Lecturer in Lincoln School of Film and Media. Her research centres on the affective, material and gendered dimensions of sound, noise and music. She is the author of Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism (Bloomsbury, 2017) and the co-editor of Sound, Music, Affect: Theorizing Sonic Experience (Bloomsbury, 2013). She has also published a number of chapters and articles on the intersections of noise and femininity.

Monthly investigations of music politics with Paul Rekret.

In this episode, Shane Woolman hosts a very special guest mix from artist and musician Mary Ocher, which she describes as “radical, minimalist, boundary-pushing music as social commentary”, alongside tracks by BCUC, Taymour x Bareetlblad, Los Sara Fontan, KINACT avec Manza, Fetter, Junior Delgado, Pharoah Chromium, Laurel Halo and many more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.