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12:00am - 1:00am
Spectral Transmissions Research Unit: A Common Treasury
In the beginning of Time, the great Creator Reason, made the Earth to be a Common Treasury, Amid all our familiar scenes stand memorials of the people who were here before us. In the wild magic of midsummer night’s eve, we embark on an hallucinatory journey through weed choked lay-bys where normative logic bends and succumbs to the tangential, the wayward and the transcendental. Here the ether is populated with unruly beasts and revolting peasants, an insolent jumble of noises, fragments and connections, unobserved rites, wild anarchy and the violence that haunts the spectral pastoral. Includes elements of: Battle of the BeanField 1985 (Operation Solstice) Gareth Morris, Russel Morris and Neil Goodwin; U.K Free Festivals-The 1980s, BBC Documentary; Winstanley, Kevin Brownlow, 1975; Being and Doing, Ken McMullen and Stuart Brisley, 1984; A Celebration of Midsummer, East Anglia, 1964. The Spectral Transmissions Research Unit is a collaboration between Ben Branagan Luke Pendrell dedicated to the theoretical and practical construction, dissemination, transmission, observation and analysis of spectral emanations.
1:00am - 3:00am
Vedran Mehinovic: December Bells
December Bells is an ambient work of nearly two hours, an expansion of an eight-minute kantele (Finnish zither) composition by Pauliina Syrjälä. An instructor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, her piece Kirkonkellot (Church Bells) is based on a kantele recording from the early 20th century. The instrument is synonymous with Finnish identity, its creation attributed to the mythological shaman Väinämöinen, who chanted powerful spells. The densely overlapping textures of December Bells reflect this, along with the traditionally repetitive and interlocking nature of kantele performance, and similar singing styles of the Baltic region. Produced by Vedran Mehinovic.
3:00am - 4:30am
Sam Sebren: Ending Verizon
A bleak comedy of real life corporate dysfunction made from actual phone calls with Verizon customer service agents, including narration and on-hold muzak, creating a radio theatre experience about trying to escape corporate technological entanglements. A 21st century David and Goliath dystopian tale about a customer and a phone company. Also including the song "Cell Phone" by THIS. Produced by Sam Sebren. Visit: /wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/2te0as.
4:30am - 5:00am
Jess Hamilton: Sink
Takayna is covered in sinkholes. Over thousands of years, rain seeping into the soil dissolves the dolomite rock below, slowly forming hollows and voids above ground. Soil and rock fall inwards and are washed away and the void grows deeper. To our eyes, the sinkhole’s surface is still and reflective, obscuring the orchestra of life within its water body. With one ear above and one below the surface we listen to frogs, birds, the wind through the trees, aquatic insects buzzing like tiny fireworks, burrowing invertebrates and clawing crustaceans. Takayna holds the largest ancient temperate rainforest in Australia and one of the last undisturbed Gondwana rainforests in the world. Like many forest sites in Australia, it is threatened and surrounded by logging. Gratitude and respect to the palawa pakana traditional owners. Dedicated to the forest defenders. Produced by Jess Hamilton.
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5:00am - 6:00am
Naisa Present Making Waves: Omar Reyna's Sounds Of Turbulence
On today’s episode of Making Waves we will listen to Non-predictable by Omar Reyna. Afterwards we talk to Omar about his piece which is included in the soon to be released 19th compilation album from The Deep Wireless Festival. Over the next four episodes of Making Waves we will be featuring artists from Deep Wireless. Reyna’s work “Non-predictable” is an exploration of the sounds of turbulence in nature. Do the sounds of wind hitting trees or the tonal colours of moving water have emotions that fluctuate over time? This 45 minute long form piece is arranged in three sections that are approximately 15 minutes each and there is a radiophonic quality stemming from the associative qualities of the sounds of wind, rapids, ravens and breaking glass. Visit naisa.ca.
Listen live6:00am - 7:00am
Thleep: Broadcasts 02
THLEEP is an ongoing sound and light project exploring the therapeutic potential of neuro-acoustics and vision physiology to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Initially developed as live performances involving large-scale LED screens and projections, in 2023 we began developing a series of audio-only works intended for listening via radio. These pieces blend natural and ambient sounds, offering experimental audio experiences that explore how sound can passively shape mental and emotional states. Integral to the approach is the subversion of perceived stereotypes of meditative sounds. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne and Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project. Visit thleep.earth.
7:00am - 8:00am
Debbie Armour: Duet For One Singer And One Under 5
An iteration of a text score composed by Debbie Armour, from a collection of works to be performed domestically. Originally broadcast April 2024 for MOOAR Residency, Resonance FM. Visit www.debbiearmour.substack.com.
8:00am - 8:30am
Radiophrenia Shorts 9
1) Vortichez - Want Water (3:19). 2) Shortwave Collective - Collective Listening Across Distance (13:14). 3) Ben Gaunt - 303 Flings (For Beginners) (3:03). 4) Frontera Glaciar - Fantasma Antártico Gris (Grey Antarctic Ghost) (11:30). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
8:30am - 9:00am
Radiophrenia Shorts 9
5) Marc Perez - Hubs (Ft. People) – (4:26). 6) Julia Griner - Dorica Castra – (4:20). 7) Pete Cox - Blast Dunes/Beach (Leezie Lindsay) (10:44). 8) Tess Davidson - Shifting Shadows (3:58). 9) Andre Birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - REGENSCHAUKEL (+MYAMAN) (1:24). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
9:00am - 9:40am
Yulia Carolin Kothe, Katerina Sidorova, Max Brück: How To Navigate A Bog?
Walking through a bog is like stepping into another world, where the familiar rules of the land no longer apply. Your first step feels strange - the ground moves beneath you, soft and uncertain. During their residency in West Cork (Ireland) the artists Yulia Carolin Kothe, Katerina Sidorova and Max Brück worked on a growing archive of personal, historical and mythical stories about the bog shared by locals: The performance interview ‘Sfag’ + ‘nuhm ' made for ‘How to navigate a bog?’ by visual artist and psychotherapist Deirdre Johanna Humphrys, outtakes from a pub poetry and music event dedicated to bogs and secrets with locals from Schull and a soundscape by Yulia Carolin Kothe. This work is an invitation to navigate the bog through a collection of stories that the landscape preserves. It is an invitation to listen and a welcome to getting lost. Mastering: Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow.
9:40am - 10:00am
Manja Ristić & Marko Paunović: Rituals In Transfigured Time
The body of culture we were born into lost all its limbs, and since then we are repeatedly reminded that such a body never really existed. The places where we spent our childhood were contaminated with borders and harsh memories of war. Our original cultural identity is undesired, we are encouraged to redefine ourselves and identify with the necropolitics of new nationalisms. The country crumbled into bits, many lost their loved ones and their homes, the land was intoxicated and the death count never ceased. The Yugoslavian culture was proclaimed extinct. Strangely, we can still feel it deep inside us, it consists of many textures of belonging. “Rituals in Transfigured Time” is made of field recordings from across Yugoslavia, from pristine nature to intoxicated lands and waters, from memorial sites to abandoned factories; analog instruments, radio appropriations; found sounds, voices long gone and forgotten. Produced by Manja Ristić and Marko Paunović.
10:00am - 10:30am
Martyn Riley & Loreal Pristaj: 59,312.85
Discovered a decade ago in the Oxfordshire woods, an abandoned car, lacking any discernible documentation, became a conduit for personal experiences related to stories, loss, and memories—real or imagined; an Overwhelming fear and anxiety of losing one's memories. This sound-piece is a mileometer of recollections, interwoven narratives, featuring artist Loreal Pristaj voicing the artist's writings, filling in the gaps and redactions with her own experiences. Exploring a 'hyper-memory', decay, and the fear of losing one's identity, it inverts time, as dementia creates new spaces and erases old ones. (Self-)redacted fictions recall fantasised, half-forgotten, distinct yet inconsequential memories. The human limitations of encoding, storage, and retrieval disrupt spatio-temporal recollections. Briefly halted, the Datsun 'uncar' returns to a state of decay. Nowhere to elsewhere and back again. Visit martynriley.co.uk/.
10:30am - 11:30am
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: A Nomad’S Guide To Listening
The radio piece consists of two components, weaved together by a common thematic strand of migration, de-territorialisation, nature, and the lived environment. It starts with a performative reading from the artist’s recent book The Nomadic Listener - an augmented book on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation. The book is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of major contemporary cities through situated writing and field recording. Produced by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay.
11:30am - 12:00pm
Buffer Zone
1) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 1 (2:24). 2) iT - Irena Tomažin - outro- give up your crying game (10:44). 3) Jessica Syposz- The Buzzer (8:54). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
12:00pm - 12:20pm
Zara Joan Miller: Year Of The Dragon
Year of the Dragon. A mother draws a circle. Spins round. Pins everything but the tail on the donkey. She wants to know how the dragon makes fire, gets inside it. On the inside things slow. Written in the Year of the Dragon, Zara Joan Miller’s long poem traces fire across a year. The figure of Saint Margaret, who freed herself from the belly of a dragon, is relocated in living voices that challenge structures of oppression today. A year of feeding fire, of dousing and soft loving. A mother waits in disguise by the fire exit. Produced by Zara Joan Miller. Year of the Dragon is co-commissioned by TACO! and blurt, an experimental platform supporting artists to develop text-based works for live reading and performance, and synchronous live-to-air broadcast on rtm.fm. In this testing-site for testing text, four artists and artist-groups consider radio broadcast as an expanded form of publishing. This co-commission is supported by the Outlands Network exchange programme.
12:20pm - 12:40pm
Verónica Cerrotta: Entremarés
Field recordings, interviews, legends, poems, an astral map of the island, underwater sounds and vibrant surfaces are mixed with musical elements to compose Entremarés, a sound piece to be heard at sea, more specifically in the pedal boats of José Bonifácio Beach, on Paquetá Island, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Commissioned by the Novas Frequências Festival, 2021. Produced by Verónica Cerrotta.
12:40pm - 1:00pm
Tassia Mila Novaes: Overflowing Lines
"This audiopaper is about a concept I developed called Overflowing Lines, and from it, I begin to think about the human relationship with nature from the perspective of art and my indigenous origin, as well as the indigenous cosmoviews of Brazil, my country. I have been developing sonic pieces that draw such relationships: human and trans-humans forms of interactions and the disposition of my own body and voice to activate them and be a channel for transmitting nature-devenirs, in dialog with the concept of Deleuze and Guattari.” Produced by Tassia Mila Novaes.
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Upper Hurst: Babel Binaural
A basic binaural mix compiled from six one-hour recordings made over a period of three years. Each was recorded in the communal area before, during and shortly after the evening meal at either the Maighelshütte in the Swiss Graubünden or the Wiesbadener Hütte in the Austrian Silvretta. In each case, people of many nationalities come together to share the evening meal and swap stories about their mountain experiences. Visit www.mixcloud.com/UpperHurst.
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 23
1) Selma Augestad and Sam Ofili - GOOD ENOUGH (2:43). 2) Boyi Bai - Exploring Slience – Japan (11:49). 3) Daniel De Togni - A room so all alive (7:31). 4) Timo Kahlen - Resilience. Against All Odds (2:54). 5) Craig Gell - Flag Fen (1:11). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 23
6) Kim Walker - I Don't Need the Sound of the Radio (5:45). 7) Berenice Llorens - Lejos del monte.(4:30). 8) Mansoor Hosseini - I Am Not A Poet & I Am Really Not A Poet (8:25). 9) lane/louise - would be a lovely night (12:51). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Network Music Glasgow: New Works
This live performance will present a number of new works that have been composed and developed over the last few months. All pieces are based on patches in Max/MSP that share data through a Wifi network. Each of the performers has access to this data and is able to transform and manipulate the flow of data through the network. For some pieces MIDI data such as note pitches and durations are shared, for some works triggers are distributed throughout the network, producing emergent behavior that is different each time the piece is performed. Network Music Glasgow is a computer music group with currently three core members, Neil Quigley, Rachel Ní Chuinn and Simon Weins. We work with audio-visual programming languages to collaborate, compose and perform music in real-time through Wifi networks. Visit soundcloud.com/network-music-glasgow.
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Mark Vernon: Saturnine Orbit
“Mark Vernon revisits the life and work spaces of an isolated and meditative Morandi, making the debris of everyday life reverberate through spectral soundscapes and eerie tones: an exercise in modern hauntology.” Saturnine Orbit is a radio work made for the Casa Museo Giorgio Morandi and in the spaces of the Campiaro barns (a favourite subject of the Bolognese painter during his holiday periods in the Bolognese Apennines in Grizzana Morandi). Produced as part of the ART CITY Bologna 2024 festival in association with XING, MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna and NEU Radio. The piece was composed entirely from the sounds of Morandi’s summer house, his studio, replicas of the objects used in his still lifes and sounds recorded on the mountain trails he would often walk, starting behind the Casa Morandi. Visit meagreresource.com.
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Verónica Cerrotta: Summer Afternoon In The Forest
This is a series of field recordings made in the transition biome between the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro. The recordings were made in different seasons of the year, between 2023-2024, and at different times of the day. Each of the recordings has an approximate duration of sixty minutes. Produced by Verónica Cerrotta.
5:00pm - 5:45pm
Clarry M: Daily Record
Remember the app BeReal? Users took and posted ‘real' selfies of themselves at a random time of the day, every day, determined by when the app’s notification went off. Its popularity may have waned but its attempt to capture the ‘real' moments in people’s lives - no pre-planned posing, no filters, no warning, was a refreshing alternative to hyper stylised instagram content. "I decided to use BeReal’s daily prompt as an approach to field recording, recording at least 30 seconds of whatever can be heard around me when the notification pinged. By March 2025 I’ll have 6 months worth of daily recordings to play in sequence. This subverts my usual field recording process of choosing interesting, shinier sounds to capture, instead documenting daily, often mundane snippets of a life.” Produced by Clarry M. Visit soundcloud.com/clarrym.
5:45pm - 6:00pm
Buffer Zone
Including: iT - Irena Tomažin - nekaj v tebi (5:16). From the album 'Crying Games’. For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: Sonic Psychogeographies Ii (Radiophrenia 2025 Commission)
"This radio work takes a critical position against cartography, and departs from its connections to colonial practices, of mapmaking and imperial borders. Drawing insights from alternative spatial practices in some of the Global Souths regions and cultures, and from radical-subversive practices in Europe, such as The Situationists, in this work I explore some listening-driven counter mapping practices, attuning with situated listening and drifting.” Produced by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Radio Active On Water: An Ear To River, Counterflows By Blanc Sceol
This programme asks us to listen with the Channelsea River, a recovering waterway in East London, and home to London’s largest combined sewage outfall, historically discharging 16,000 million tonnes of raw sewage annually into the river. These discharges have largely stopped since the connection of the Lee tunnel in 2016, enabling the river to begin restoring itself, but it now faces a renewed assault as the new £4.5 billion ‘Tideway Tunnel’ is connected in the coming months. This massive infrastructure project will improve pollution events to London’s inner city rivers, but at great cost and against other more sustainable, lower impact options. The voice and field recordings bring us into contact with a slippery journey through underground pipes old and new, precarious river living, court battles, hope and uncertainty. Part of an ongoing series of site specific actions with the river, enacted by artist duo Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White) since, and in connection with, their part in the establishment of moorings and conservation cooperative Surge Coop in 2018.
8:00pm - 8:45pm
Toni Dimitrov: Graz Sketches
This is the seventh in the series of field recordings pieces from the field recordist and sound artist Toni Dimitrov dedicated to a city. After the field recordings from Athens, Milan, Ioannina, Belgrade, Bucharest and Berlin, this time the sound sketches were recorded in Graz, during his stay in the city while participating at Interpenetration festival at Club Wakuum in autumn of 2024. In the piece you can hear recordings from Graz streets, parks, galleries, the noise from public transport, fountains, interweaving subtly, blurring the line between field recording and sound art. Concept, field recordings, editing and directed by Toni Dimitrov File under: field recordings, soundscape, sound documentary. Visit elanvital.bandcamp.com and post-global.com.
8:45pm - 10:00pm
Assembling Land: Episode 2. Storytelling: Who Owns The Narrative?
From synchronicity to asynchronicity, affect to effect. In movement and stillness. Through somatic practices, we initiated a circular form of being together in space, sharing stories in non-linear ways. As a result, an ever-moving chain of sonic and written matter was assembled, creating a mode of sharing agencies and stories from sender to receiver; from receiver to receiver. This episode invites listeners to attend our chain of correspondences and letter-making, as reflections of personal and worldly perspectives—gestures of staying together. Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making is de Appel’s COOP study group at DAI Roaming Academy which unfolded throughout 2024.
10:00pm - 10:30pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 52
1) Jakov Munižaba & Marija Stojnic - Shrub acoustica (8:00). 2) Cat Hawthorn - Out of Order (14:17). 3) Eduardo Espinosa - sounds from the south (3:36). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 52
4) Nicola Cappelletti - Interno Pozzo (7:20). 5) Unconscious Collective - The Liverpool Pathway (12:00). 6) Andrew Ramsey - First Impressions (2:48). 7) Paul Meikle - Man Creates Nature Intervenes (9:28). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
11:00pm - 12:00am
Chantal Dumas: Oscillations Planétaires
Chantal Dumas, “Oscillations planétaires” (2017-18, 19) stereo fixed medium “Oscillations planétaires” evokes geology. In all the layers that make it, from its core to its surface areas, Planet Earth is inhabited by undulatory motions of extremely varied temporal scales. Some are inscribed in a geological timeframe while others follow a daily cycle. This oscillatory ensemble contributes to the mechanisms that rule the Earth’s dynamics. These are the phenomena evoked in the work: Earthquakes; Antarctic Plate; Oceanic Trench; Mantle Convection; Geysers; Mountain Building; Earth Tide; Geomagnetism; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Seismic Waves. Visit
avatarquebec.org/dialoguesavecchantaldumas/.
12:00am - 1:00am
Spectral Transmissions Research Unit: Above Us The Waves
"you wont never fynd no beginning its long gone and far pas." ‘If we look through the aperture which we have opened up onto the absolute, what we see there is a rather menacing power, something insensible, and capable of destroying both things and worlds, of bringing forth monstrous absurdities, of realizing every dream, but also every nightmare, of engendering random and frenetic transformations, or conversely, of producing a universe that remains motionless down to its ultimate recesses, like a cloud bearing the fiercest storms, then the eeriest bright spells, if only for an interval of disquieting calm.” “To push anything back into the past is equivalent to reducing it to its simplest elements. Traced as far as possible in the direction of their origins, the last fibres of the human aggregate are lost to view and are merged in our eyes with the very stuff of the universe.” The Spectral Transmissions Research Unit is a collaboration between Ben Branagan Luke Pendrell dedicated to the theoretical and practical construction, dissemination, transmission, observation and analysis of spectral emanations.