← Tuesday 7th April 2026 →

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.

An ongoing event series at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, and soon to take residence at the Watershed in Bristol, Schtinter's project challenges all of the calcified criteria that is usually used to form and signpost a curated programme. The accompanying book, published by Tenement Press, has been described by Laura Mulvey as "very strange and deeply thought provoking," and by Alan Moore as "profound and riveting, a remarkable achievement."

Schtinter's other recent projects include Schneewittchen (IFFR, 2024), The Lock-In (Barbican Centre, 2022) and Important Books (or, Manifestos Read by Children) (Whitechapel Gallery, 2021-22). His writing is published by Tenement Press; his moving image work distributed by Light Cone; and he publishes film soundtracks and artist works under the banner of purge.xxx.

Gareth Evans is a London-based writer, editor, film / event curator and producer, host and documentary mentor. He works on special projects for the London Review of Books and curates their Screen at Home series. From 2012 - 2023 he was the Adjunct Moving Image Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery. He has written many catalogue essays and articles on place culture, artists and the moving image, as well as the extensive text for Radiohead's KID A MNESIA catalogue.

Artist and writer Stanley Schtinter is interviewed by producer and curator Gareth Evans about his most recent project, Last Movies, which is "an alternative view of the first century of cinema according to the final films watched by a selection of notable figures shortly before their deaths."

This episode features far-out sounds from The Natural Information Society, The Necks, Emily A Sprague, Hui and more.

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

This episode features music from Hayward Versus Harmergeddon, Duchamp, BAG, Cerpintx, Pillars of Golden Misery, Minus Pilots and TFT.

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.

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.

Joining Kayla in this episode is award-winning film composer, performing artist and multi-instrumentalist Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres.

Her critically-acclaimed work blends sound worlds with her love for the piano, orchestrated into a rich palette of electronica and classical music.

Background music: Echoes of Pluto by Kayla Painter.

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 Bitter Sweet Symphony. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Chip tuners, bardcore (or contemporary medieval stuff), Rolling Winds, karaoke stars, babies, brave bands from Mexico, copyright victims by copyright fanatics, cumbia - Britpop dancers,… 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).

William Fields explores the potential of algorithmic music through the process of recreating (and inventing?) genres with his musical operating system.

In this episode, sounds and stories from Alkaline. This is the journey of a collective creating space for sounds, art and community in Guangzhou, China.

Alkaline: We're not a club, nor an art space. We're a collectively-built, hands-on reality. A body conceived in the city's nooks and crannies, constantly sublating, growing, resonating.

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.

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

Chance Encounters: One day on Eday (Set 1) works with 24 random samples from a 24-hour recording – island walks, the island circumference, a replicated walk across one day – to build a ‘one-hour-day’. Engage with an Orcadian island, listen to chance sonic encounters with Eday, 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.

We continue to listen to rare records released on the Soviet major label Melodia. This time – and not for the last time – the episode is dedicated to jazz in all its manifestations.

We'll start with the first jazz composition in the history of the USSR (the Uzbek band under Pavel Chaplevsky made this recording in 1935), listen to balearic improvisations from Ukraine, electro-boogie from Kazakhstan, jazz-mughams from Azerbaijan and then dive headfirst into free jazz from the Baltic States and faraway places in Russia. Let jazz be free!

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 plays tracks that were cut for time from the first half of the autumn season shows, featuring Smog, Smerz & Donna Summer.

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.

This month's episode moves between different worlds and alternate bedroom views. A skewed broadcast stitched from shadow jazz, ritual electronics, dubby residue and low-slung, off-kilter rhythms — assembled sideways, mixed by feel. Look out your window…

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.

This week on x.y FM, we hear an excerpt of Elischa Kaminer's 'song for Naomi' for violin and electronics performed by Mayah Kadish at the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam in January 2018.

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 Anne Curran’s poem “first light - / a flock of birds dart / in and out of the fig tree."

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 songs and struggle around the 1978 Ford workers strike with historian Eoin O'Cearnaigh.

Monthly investigations of music politics with Paul Rekret.

In this episode Chris Bohn plays tracks by Albert Ayler Quintet, Black Nile, and Lucy Liyou + a special tribute to Mania D/Malaria!’s singer/saxophonist, Bettina Koester.

New music with The Wire Magazine.