projects / events / productions / commissions / mixes
2020
October - This Is Kafala - online exhibition and experimental music album. April - Okay. Ready. Let's Do It - online exhibition of free online noise-making tools. March - India Shorts - online exhibition of short films from India. February - Wretched of the Screen - group exhibition at the Magdalen Art Space, Oxford, UK. - interview with Simon Coates on the Young Blood Initiative website January - Station Electric - online exhibition of podcast episodes and radio programmes on human rights and freedom of speech theme. 2019 October - Art Licks Weekend, London - exclusive one-hour mix of the These Are Our Friends Too album for Art Licks Radio September - These Are Our Friends Too - spoken word/experimental music album in collaboration with FORWARD UK. Details here - Tse Tse Fly Middle East one-off, one-hour mix for UK radio station Noods. Listen online here March 5 - April 1 - Al-ḥarb al-ʼahliyyah as-sūriyyah - Guest Projects residency in Yinka Shonibare's London studio. Details here 2018 November / December - Instruments of the State - album and live event supporting War On Want and Stop The War. Details here August 18 - re-release of Tse Tse Fly Middle East debut album Easy Listening Vol.1 with bonus tracks. June 2 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East LIVE at Fringe Arts Bath 2018 in association with Amnesty International. Curated short films from practitioners with roots in the Middle East and live experimental music performances by Stereocilia, Ocean Floor and SALTINGS, all at the Walcot Chapel in Bath. April - Tse Tse Fly Middle East mix commissioned by electronic music website Stray Landings here March 16 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East, Landor Space, Clapham, London. Live sets from gooseberry (Mandhira de Saram, Steve Beresford and Klaus Bru) and Catherine Earnshaw & storywheel, with TTF curated experimental film and video from Iris Zaki, Ifrah Mansour and more. Supported charities/organisations: Reprieve, Womankind Worldwide, FORWARD UK, Labour Behind the Label and Index On Censorship. January 21 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East live in London at The Others in Stoke Newington. Live sets from Leslie Deere and Tonal Liberation Army with TTF curated experimental film and video from Iris Zaki, Sameer Tawde, Sohrab Hura, Fatma Al Mansoury, Vishal Kumaraswamy and more. Supported charities/organisations: Womankind Worldwide, FORWARD UK, Labour Behind the Label, Amnesty International and Index On Censorship. |
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2017
November 14 - Sonic Imperfections, UK. Tse Tse Fly Middle East DJ set alongside sonic experimental acts Extet, Gagarin and Cath Roberts & Seth Bennett in London. November 2 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East live in London at IKLECTIK in Waterloo. Live sets from Shama Rahman and Afasia Yuri with TTF curated experimental film and video, including the powerful 100 Balfour Road short. Supported charities/organisations: Womankind Worldwide, FORWARD UK, Labour Behind the Label, Amnesty International, Index On Censorship. September 9 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East - London Debut at IKLECTIK in Waterloo. Live sets from Tonal Liberation Army, Dushume and Kareem Samara plus Q&A with TTF and curated experimental film and video. Supported charities/organisations: FORWARD UK, Labour Behind the Label, Amnesty International, Index On Censorship and the International Labour Organisation. |
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July 12 - Sonic Imperfections, UK. Tse Tse Fly Middle East DJ set alongside sonic experimental acts Robin Foster, Map 71 and Phil S Maguire in London.
April 15 - 17 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East artwork exhibited as part of the FAS sound art festival in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. March 24 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East founder Simon Coates contributed a half-hour piece of experimental music to the global live sound art event ToBeContinued. March 13 - 27 - Tse Tse Fly exhibit Loa at the Fully Booked fair in Dubai. Loa is a handmade, one-of-a-kind box book containing a CD of an exclusive piece of experimental sonics created especially for the occasion. The event also featured a Tse Tse Fly-curated selection of sound art and experimental music plus video artwork with sound from the Arab world. |
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2016
- November 18 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East, Casa Latina, Dubai. Live sets from Isaac Sullivan, Golden Lion and Visqueen. - October 13 - 16 - Other Worlds Music Film Festival, UK. Tse Tse Fly Middle East curate an afternoon of sound art/experimental music/noise films and video artworks from the Middle East region for the Other Worlds Music Film Festival. - September 23 - Tse Tse Fly Album Playback, Casa Latina, Dubai. Celebration of the release of the debut TTF album Easy Listening Vol.1. Live sets from Black Line, Joao Menezes, Jonny Farrow and Visqueen. - September - release of Tse Tse Fly Middle East album Easy Listening Vol.1 on UK record label Must Die. - July 12 - Sonic Imperfections, UK. Tse Tse Fly Middle East DJ set alongside sonic experimental acts Simon Bookish/Leo Chadburn, Ghostmind and Conspirators of Pleasure in London. - April 15 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East on Al Noor Island. In association with the Maraya Art Centre, Tse Tse Fly hosted an open air event on Al Noor Island in Sharjah in the UAE. The night featured sound art with video from the region followed by live experimental music performances from Isaac Sullivan, Sanathana, Kumah and Karim Sultan. - April 7 - Other Worlds Festival, UK. Tse Tse Fly Middle East curated the opening night of the Other Worlds Festival, with the event featuring a selection of sound art and experimental music with video from the Arab region, live performances from TTF members plus a DJ set of Middle Eastern disco, funk and electronica from TTF founder Simon Coates. - March 18 - Tse Tse Fly Vs The Art World, Casa Latina, Dubai. Live performances from TTF members, a live noise set from Black Line, an experimental music DJ set from WYWY plus sounds from the Tse Tse Fly Sound {Art} System. - February 19 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East: Radio Dada, Casa Latina, Dubai. Short film celebrating the sounds of Dadaism, sound art on the screen curated by Simon Coates plus live performances from Kumah and Sanathana. - January 22/23 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East at Quoz Arts Festival 2016, Al Serkal, Dubai. Over two days Tse Tse Fly hosted live performances from Nour Sokhon, Isaac Sullivan, Jonny Farrow, Karim Sultan, plus curated sound art and experimental music videos and noise DJ sets from Black Line for Dubai's Quoz Arts festival. - January 8 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East Showcase, Casa Latina, Dubai. Sound art on the screen curated by Karim Sultan with live performances by Nour Sokhon and more. |
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2015
- November 27 - Distract and Disable Vs Tse Tse Fly, Casa Latina, Dubai. Club night curated by Jonny Farrow, with live sound art performances from Scott Fitzgerald and Joao Menezes, sound art on the screen plus a vintage electro-disco-prog dance party and a DJ set from the Tse Tse Fly Sound {Art} Sound System. - October 23 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East, Casa Latina, Dubai. The night featured UP-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT-BOOM curated by blogging collective Fat Nancy's New Diet, followed by live performances from Karim Sultan and Isaac Sullivan. - September 18 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East, Casa Latina, Dubai. Sound art on the screen curated by Tse Tse Fly plus a live performance from Jonny Farrow and a dub DJ set from A Taxi For My Uncle. |
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