Seth Guy: Intermix 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

For each Intermix, Seth Guy recorded a performance video where he resonated plastics with his body. This was sent to a collaborator; Jennie Huggins, radio artist Joan Schuman, writer Hugo Danino, and poet Mark Anthony Pearce - who responded aurally to what they witnessed. Listeners are invited to visualise what was performed solely from each collaborator's perspective. He made these performances after discovering that plastics now exist within every body on Earth.

Jonas Lerch: The Beauty Of Error

"THE BEAUTY OF ERROR" explores the poetic power of mistakes; viewing errors not as shortcomings, but as fertile sources of inspiration that through their unpredictability, resist firmly established notions. The aim is to replace the illusion of perfection with the recognition of beauty in imperfection. In a time when technological singularity will soon no longer be a dystopia, when the pursuit of perfection is regarded as a noble virtue, and when visual worlds are shaped by artificial intelligence, we must acknowledge mistakes as added value, as indicators of humanity, and as signs of individuality. The installation consists of an atmospheric network of fragmented interviews (with Mark Vernon, Rosa Menkman, Felix Kubin & Marta Zapparoli), distorted video collages, and a soundscape of glitch artifacts, found footage, field recordings, and synthetic sounds. It explores the tension between order and chaos, perfection and imperfection. Produced by Jonas Lerch.

Selenium Dust Particle: The Fall Of The House Of Usher. Extended Version.

A soundtrack made for the silent film, The Fall of the House of Usher. The movie was co-directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber and tells the story of a brother and sister who live under a family curse. An avant-garde experimental film running only 13 minutes, the visual element predominates, including shots through prisms to create optical distortion. One sequence features letters written in the air moving across the screen. Selenium Dust Particle superimposed an imaginaired atom of a selenium particle in the movie. This is the soundtrack extended version.

Mutant Beatniks: Doppler Gyrations

Sonic landscapes; in disappearing echoes; shown on a wall; in a slow bounce; Engraving sounds texture; a Granulating pulses; in Gravity Waves; the Fruit that grows; inside a tree. Produced by Mutant Beatniks. Visit mixseriescollection.bandcamp.com.

Limbo Calling: Episode 3 Slug Rider

Slug riding expert Reuben Simoncelli sheds some light on how to gain the trust of a slug. The Operator has a flashback to some uninvited guests, and plays a song that might just change your mind about our more slimy garden neighbours. Produced by Pete Hazell with contributions from Sean Lee and Sam Langley. Theme music by Alex Lupo. Giant Centipede” by Titus 12. Artwork by Everything Has Gone Wrong. Other music available from Limbo Tapes at Bandcamp and Soundcloud. All episodes available at: https://limbotapes.podbean.com.

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. 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.

Hildegard Westerkamp: Once Upon A Time

This album wants to stir, unsettle and surprise. But unlike with breaking news in the regular media, it refuses to transmit feelings of helplessness, fear and terror. Instead it wants to energize and revitalize, even when it grapples with incidents of violence and death. The pieces presented here were created between 1988 and 2012. In their togetherness they highlight and celebrate voices that are often relegated to the personal domain: sounds of new life, of unusual artistic sensibilities, of children’s and female voices. They have the power to tip the balance in our lives, in favour of love, resilience and human compassion. If we choose to listen! 

MotherVoiceTalk features the voices of Roy Kiyooka, Hildegard Westerkamp, Agnes Westerkamp, Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka.. Moments of Laughter features the voices of DB Boyko (performance vocals) and Sonja Ruebsaat (child's voice). Once Upon A Time narrators: Amber Martin-Ruebsaat and Sibling; girl’s voice: Sonja Ruebsaat. École polytechnique was performed by the choir of the Université du Québec à Montréal, directed by Miklós Takács.; Lori Freedman, bass clarinet; Lisa Rodrigue and Véronique Lucignano, trumpets; Daniel Fortin, percussion; and Johanne Latreille, bells. The original live recording by Charles Amirkhanian was the basis for the heightened listening experience presented here. Breaking News features the voice and sounds of the composer’s first grandchild. All tracks composed by Hildegard Westerkamp © 2021 (SOCAN).

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1) Andreas Oskar Hirsch -Teatime Unlimited (2:40). 2) John Roach - Source of Water (15:00). 3) Vincent Eoppolo - I Am Trying (5:00). 4) Ben Gaunt - German Canine Waltz Time (2:02). 5) Mattia Benedetti - Se Qatre Khun (5:32). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

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6) Adrian Laugsch  - Spasms Of My Aching Heart – Lamento 4 (8:53). 7) Jeff Gburek - Gamelanic Storm Ventilator (6:54). 8) Aurora Engine – DRONE (4:59). 9)  andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - EFFO ISN E (0:47). 10) Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 12 (5:40). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

Radio Active On Water: River Song, Singing Rivers By Leonel Vásquez & Lisa Blackmore

To listen is to open up the channels and currents that run deep inside us, to attune ourselves to the lives that endure in polluted rivers. This podcast is an invitation to navigate the Bogotá River in Colombia through a more-than-human song created by sound artist Leonel Vásquez together with the living forces that shape the watershed’s ecosystems.  Loaded with chemicals and sewage along its course, the river is largely devoid of the fish and freshwater crustaceans that for thousands of years teemed in its waters. People have turned their backs on the water body, even though it was once the centre of collective life. How might listening to the river’s song renew  bonds of relation and reverence for water in dis-enchanted times? Guided by Leonel’s compositions, River Song, Singing Rivers is sonic immersion that attends to the Bogota rivers bogs, meanders, and flows as a living being worthy and in need of care. Visit entre-rios.net and Instagram @eeam_werebere.

Diana Duta & Stefan Christoff: Portugal Soundscapes

"This mix came together after being in touch with sound artist Diana Duta. I recalled a conversation we had last year over a coffee in Brussels after we joined a Palestine solidarity protest together. We talked about how creating experimental non corporate sounds can possibly create ruptures in the flow of the hyper colonial capitalist death machine that is aiming to commodify everything. The soundscape blends together my own recordings from a visit I made to Portugal with my family in 2024, and Diana’s recordings from the 25th of April, which marked the 50 year anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal - a symbol of independence and freedom. It is really about listening and arriving at a solidarity that is about being open, also about taking action, but also reflecting in real time beyond the noise of colonial capitalist power that is trying to always occupy our minds.” Visit dianaduta.com and soundcloud.com/spirodon.

Radiophrenia Shorts 2

1) Wolfgang Pérez - Memorias Fantasmas (9:55). 2) Troy David Ouellette - E-Air (2:35). 3) Dariusz Mazurowski - Summa Technologiae - Homo Sapiens (5:08). 4) Jorge Ramos - Electronik Peace (5:52). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

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5) Jane Draycott – Broken (6:05). 6) Clovis McEvoy - Calls for Cages (10:15). 7) Simon Hutchinson - Mental Upgrade (6:35). 8) Vincent Eoppolo - In These Times of Chaos - The Fog of Memory (7:48). 9) Colin James Woods - Near Finsbury Park (3:18). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

Leonie Roessler: Shiraz

Leonie Roessler’s nomad project Cultural Spaces returned to Iran in 2019. Her sound portraits of Panjim and the Goan countryside were installed at Motorkhooneh Gallery - an art space that operates 20 metres underground. During her stay there she recorded the sounds you are hearing. They were transformed into this composition in 2023 when Cultural Spaces was able to come back to life (post-pandemic) at the Zwitschermaschine in Berlin. It is there that this piece was premiered, while Leonie recorded the sounds for the next stop of Cultural Spaces.

John Hall: Soil Balance/Dramatic Words

Soil Balance/Dramatic Words is an assembled melodrama around the themes of surveillance, conspiracy to murder and transcendence. It was assembled by John Hall in Ulverston. Featuring the voices of Felix Bressart, Bernard Cribbins, Leslie Crowther  James Gleason, Henry Kendall, Richard Levitan, Ida Lupino, John Mills, Chris Schenkel, Victor Stanley, Arnold Palmer and William Powell. Additional material by Steve Tyson and Damian Rose. With original music by John Hall. Dedicated to David Round.

Monte Taylor: The Hanging Stranger

An electronic radio opera in 13 movements, commissioned for the 2021 Cohen New Works Festival as a collaboration between composer Monte Taylor and librettists Lena Barnard and Sam Mayer. Based on the (now public domain) short story by Philip K. Dick, "The Hanging Stranger" presents a modern reinterpretation of the themes of social paranoia and political violence present in the original story. Visit montetaylormusic.com.

Jenna Collins: Victory Monument To The Vanquishing Of The Artists By The Engineers

'Victory Monument to the Vanquishing of the Artists by the Engineers' (built of text, wildly unstable and utterly unbuildable in any traditional sense) prematurely announces a victory. Produced by Jenna Collins.

Anne Jeppesen: Reality Looks Back

When you watch a particle it acts like a particle, but when you look away, it does a whole other thing. This story explores modes of experiencing the strange quantum basis of an everyday life. It journeys through split déja-vu, Schrödinger’s hamster and the clouds of possibilities that are hiding just beyond our reach. Produced by Anne Jeppesen under the mentorship of Cristal Duhaime as part of the YASS! mentorship programme. Visit superposition.dk.

David Cowlard & Andrew Moon/Rst: Western Line

A city symphony by David Cowlard and Andrew Moon/RST. The Western Line is the railway line that runs from the city centre of Auckland, New Zealand, to the outer suburbs and back again. Thousands of people ride the railway on their daily commute and the journey allows for a unique experience of the city as the railway cuts through closely packed urban housing, light industry, suburban homes and out into the greener rural landscapes. Passengers experience this flickering landscape while thinking of other things. Western Line expands this fragmented terrain and explores the aural moments where the railway intersects with the urban fabric of west Auckland. Mixed from over 18 months of field recordings from stations, train rides and long walks along the railway line and improvisational drone guitar, the city and soundscape are interwoven; matching the situational experience from the trains and the spaces through which they pass.

Buffer Zone

 
Yve Lomax - Quer - Episode 2: The spirit of justice (7.05). Quer is a single voice spoken performance that moves through various modes of address, mixing the poetic, philosophical and the everyday. With thanks to Jono Lomax (sound) and Vit Hopley (script). Thanks also to Kristen Kreider. Visit www.copypress.co.uk. Yara Asmar - may (5:16).

Yara Asmar: I Am Building A House So You Can Visit Me

Tape letters between two friends, one living in a blanket fort, the other in a house of paper, and both deeming each other’s homes unsound, can’t seem to agree on who should visit the other. So instead, one of them builds a house they can meet in out of the safest material: noise. Produced by Yara Asmar.

Cashlin Mac Kenzie: Tobraichean Mo Sinnsearan /The Wells Of My Ancestors

"Tobraichean mo Sinnsearan is a layered Gaidhlig soundscape weaving memory and place, anchored in the voice of my great grandfather Tuam Ross (1876-1960). The piece is derived from field recordings taken by my Great Uncle and Great Aunt (James and Anne Ross) for The Scottish School of Studies aural archive in 1957. In the field recordings they interview ‘Tuam’ on the uses and behaviours of the different wells and springs of his local area (Fàsach, Glendale) on the Isle of Skye."

Anne Versailles: Garanas Lokte

Immersion in the far north, where the wind blows, the snow cracks and the ice rolls and scraps. Where one does not enter by chance, but by leaving the comfort of daily certainties. Where we lose our footing and our bearings, where we sink into these wide valleys dominated by icy mountains, until we let ourselves be crossed by the raven, which flies away. How do we deal with the retreat of the North as we know it?
Garanas Lokte is composed exclusively with field recording in Swedish Lapland by 
Anne Versailles.

Radiophrenia Shorts 16

1) Carlo Patrão -改 善 Kaizen (5:21). 2) Rhiannon Clucas – Marmalade (5:28). 3) David Sappa - things we bring (18:00). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

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4) Noel Zavala - African Lullaby Drone (5:00). 5) Maria Howard- Striations part 2 (3:04). 6) Roberto D'Ugo Junior - Forgotten Loops’ Sketchbook (2023-2024) (17:09). 7) Andre Birken - 31 Monstrous Demonstrations - Das Media Control Orakel (2:58). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

Frank Ekeberg: Humana|Machina

An electroacoustic music composition that invites you into a sonic realm where the boundaries of human and machine dissolve. It takes as its starting point the more or less voluntary extension of – or intrusion into – human senses and capabilities by means of technology. The work is composed of sounds that are both organic and mechanical – sounds of machinery and electromagnetic fields generated by various kinds of electronic equipment ("machina") juxtaposed with the sounds of the human voice ("humana") in more and less manipulated forms. It is structured around a narrative generated by AI-based language models, performed by four voices, two male and two female created using AI voice synthesis, that each has a separate role in the narrative. The work is originally composed for multichannel concert performance, and is presented here as a stereo version. Produced by Frank Ekeberg.

Freya Dooley: Diamonds And Rust

Diamonds and Rust follows its protagonist, Jane, as she finds and secures an undefined and precarious office job, where the manager wears designer socks and the hot desks remind the team of their vulnerability to replacement. In an attempt to define her own value, Jane oscillates between states of usefulness and dysfunction, production and refusal, eventually organising increasingly long cigarette breaks with colleagues: meetings where everyone contributes, and no one actually smokes. This work is an audio version of a film of the same name, produced for the solo exhibition False Note, at Site Gallery, Sheffield, 2024, co-commissioned by Site Gallery, Artes Mundi and Wales Venice 10. The soundtrack features vocals by, and music composed in collaboration with, Emma Daman Thomas. The first sonic iteration of Diamonds and Rust was commissioned by Goldsmiths CCA, London as a performance in July 2022. Produced by Freya Dooley.

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1) Jo Kennedy - How To Save A Nutty Noise Maker (8:00). 2) Felice Sciorilli - Soundscapes of Mare Tuscum (3:52). 3) Catalina Barroso-Luque – Cackles (3:00). 4) Nicola Monopoli - Cinque poesie di Maria Luigia Troiano (7:30). 5) Tom Williams - Piano Trace (9:12). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

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6) Hector MacInnes - Noise!Impact!Assessment! (Windfarm Exoacoustics) (15:00). 7) Eleanor Lee  (Hyo-Eun Lee) - Ariadne's thread (3:19). 8) STUMPED - Slumber, Young Summer (6:10). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

Fossilised Frequencies Hakka Sounds Special: Listen Gallery Ft. Peilin Shi

Fossilised Frequencies is a monthly radio project hosted by Riah from Listen Gallery at their residency at Radio Buena Vida. In the summer of 2024, Riah Naief and Peilin Shi produced this one hour broadcast layering archival material with live recorded singing in Hakka, bringing these raw recordings to ancient Hakka sounds to life. Visit www.listengallery.co.uk/home.

Marvo Men: Broken Bridge

'Broken Bridge' is a live radio play knitting together narrative voices; field recordings; movement and live instrumentation. Drawing on the artists’ childhoods in satellite towns in the North of England and Central Scotland respectively, the piece will explore the blurred remembered landscapes of youth and the shifting use, uselessness and transformation of the scrubby edgelands where childhood and teenage life unfurls. The live performance will start with a script inspired by walks through the places the artists knew - the childhood haunts on fallow fields, fishing lakes in open cast mines and the rapid re-developments of 24-hour supermarkets; housing estates and distribution centres that either stand shoulder to shoulder or change such landscapes beyond recognition. Broken Bridge will build a semi-improvised auditory world from the secret landscapes of fields, streams, mosses, vennels/jennels and motorway bridges to explore the secret places of childhood hidden away from the adult gaze.
Produced by Marvo Men - a the duo of Ben Ellul-Knight and Euan Currie. Visit jacket2.org/poems/poems-marvo-men.

Buffer Zone

1) Phew - Days Nights (4:14). 2) Ale Borea - La humedad de la memoria (5:49). 3) Wolfgang Pérez - Memorias Fantasmas (9:55). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit https://radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

 

Jennifer Wicks: Home Truths

A collage of spectral remnants, weaving fragmented memories and sonic decay into a textured exploration of fragility and persistence. The work navigates the temporal erosion of sound and memory, uncovering layers of meaning through glitch, plunderphonics and drones. Using obsolete media (minidiscs /CD), loops and layered field recordings, Home Truths incorporates re-recorded WhatsApp voice messages - modern-day answer machine fragments degraded through repeated transfers onto minidisc. Special thanks to artist and friend Bel Gilbert Scott. Produced by Jennifer Wicks.

Benoit Bories: Paléficat

Paleficat tells the story of the uncertain future of a piece of land. The certainty of the transformation of a landscape whose new face almost no-one knows yet. Probably the disappearance of the last traces of the market garden belt in the Toulouse metropolitan area. This sound creation is part of a wider observatory project for the Paléficat district, supported as part of a LABEX research project (LABoratoire d'Excellence, operation 7) and led by the LISST. Produced by Benoit Bories. Visit https://faidosonore.net.

Myriam Pruvot: Onda & Storia

A child shares her vision of the world. From her tale emerge songs and places where past, present and future intertwine. A polyphonic choir punctuates this epic, recounting the adventures of an infanta as she travels through multiple landscapes. From a salt quarry to the ruins of a palace, from a nocturnal forest to the depths of a storm, Onda & Storia is both a documentary account of childhood, which does not evade violence, and a musical fiction: a modest opera. Onda & Storia is an adaptation and extension of the radio performance "Un opéra modeste" created in 2021, on a child's scale. Produced by Myriam Pruvot.

Kunstradio 2: Walking My Bangalore Broom Through Malleswharam By Katrinem

In January 2023 Berlin-based artist katrinem visited the Indian mega-city Bangalore and explored it - with a broom. The audio material recorded during the five weeks of her stay feeds the art radio piece "BangloreKehren", which katrinem has divided into two parts. In the first part, "Walking my Bangalore broom through Malleswharam”, we accompany katrinem as she walks through her residential area in Bangalore playing with her bamboo broom. The second part, "Broom Songs” is produced with Sam Auinger. The recordings from Bangalore were selected by katrinem and Auinger according to musical criteria such as rhythm and timbre.

Leon Clowes: Four Days

"Four Days is a telling of my mother’s final days in hospital in June 2013. As content warning, this story indirectly touches on taboo topics of incest, paedophilia, sexual assault and death. I connect the arc of these four days to my growing in kinship care and through to my last drink of alcohol. The recording of my reading this story took place at the Rose Shure Experience Centre in October 2024, with thanks to Shure UK. I'm also very grateful for the support from Wisebuddah and of Matt Podd, who carefully processed my voice.” Produced by Leon Clowes.

Paul Rooney: Words And Silence

A call centre worker, cold-calling to sell insurance, has one of her calls go to answer machine. Instead of hanging up, she leaves a message: she tells stories about silence, distance and time. Produced by Paul Rooney.

Aled Simons, Bláithín Mac Donnell, Tom Cardew; Preserving Hole

A meteorite, a spoil tip, a mountain or an island. A fatberg. A co-authored story entangling fact, fiction and anecdotal prose. Three voices become one narrator, Celtic myth, folktales, traditions and superstitions are merged, layered and retold.  A hole or a bog, subterranean preservation - like a time capsule in a biscuit tin with a dodgy lid, buried 40 years ago but the water got in. What happens when fact becomes anecdote? Preserving Hole is a conversational collaboration emerging from research sharing and exploration of practice intersections; fused in tangential storytelling, narrative building and myth making. Unearthing spurious information and hearsay to present a loose-narrative audiobook. Produced by Aled Simons (Wales), Bláithín Mac Donnell (Ireland) and Tom Cardew (Wales).

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1) Gregory Whitehead - How Still My Brainwaves (6:46). 2) Elisabetta Senesi, Ilaria Palloni - Flowing Pringipittu (PILL01 Extended) (8:00). 3) Emma Diamond & Loris S Sarid – hair.wav (15:12). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit <a href="https://radiophrenia.scot/schedule" target="blank">radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

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4) Diane Barbé - Recôncavo ao Redor (9:37). 5) Joan Schuman - Ghost Wolf (12:32). 6) Amirhossein Zeinali - Times Three (5:30). 4) Diane Barbé - Recôncavo ao Redor. For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

Yol: Health And Safety Broadcast

“I recently got access to an old factory space as part of a residency I was doing with Hull Artists Research Initiative and started to think about health and safety aspects of these places, both from my perspective and the buildings." Produced by Yol.

Naledi Chai: Palace Flowers Hurt The Most

A collage of found sound, field recordings and electro-acoustic compositions created using a portable turntable that plays deconstructed and destroyed vinyl discs and an old model cellphone. With text, excerpts and conversations to give the piece a sense of home in a way that is intelligible to itself through sound. Produced by Naledi Chai.

M. Elizabeth Scott And Soojin Chang: Yang Nrg Under My Press Ons

Improvised drone soundscape duet by M. Elizabeth Scott and Soojin Chang. Recorded in Glasgow, April 2024.