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1:00am - 1:30am
Doog Cameron: Highland Wildlife Park Drones On
The main sounds are live captured audio from Highland Wildlife Park (near Aviemore) in 2024 including a tiger talk, overheard discussions about snow leopards and general ambience. The first half features a low drone which is almost the same sound as tape style background noise but synth generated and on a separate audio track, this moves around (but not much) until the last fifteen minutes where the synth starts to come forward in the mix increasingly towards the end. It's an attempt to capture wide outdoor live sounds from the day and merge them into the made sounds of the night. Produced by Doog Cameron. Visit soundcloud.com/theladywelllout.
1:30am - 2:00am
Mario Van Horrik: Earth Waves
"A crocodile clip is connected to the radiator in my studio and the wire connected to it is the signal of a jack input in my mixing board. This delivers not only a 50Herz hum, but also functions as an antenna. The result is an unstable hum. The output of the mixer feeds a class D amp, which drives a shaker. A shaker is a kind of loudspeaker, but it reproduces sound frequencies in the form of vibrations. There is a long (8 meters) string tensed in my studio. The shaker is connected to the string. A pickup from the string is plugged into a guitar amp/speaker. Small curtain hooks are hanging from the long string. This is what you hear." Produced by Mario van Horrik. Visit petraenmario.bandcamp.com.
2:00am - 3:00am
Shaun Robert: Spontaneous Radio
Built from many spontaneous instruments, objects and planned field recordings to capture time and place, then ruthlessly compiled in quick mirrored responses. Produced by Shaun Robert. Visit shaunrobert.bandcamp.com.
3:00am - 5:00am
Tom Scott: Storm: 2 Hours
Early in 2024 one of the last storms of the winter was recorded overnight, resulting in ten hours of material. The material was divided into two hour segments for editing. The first two hours have been processed and edited resulting in a stand alone work entitled Storm: 2 Hours. This work is comprised of rain drops, wind and movement all of which describes the dynamics of the storm, in this case the first two hours. Upon reflection of the sound work, considering that the night was stormy, loud and invigorating the final recording comes across as quite a reflective sound, which incorporates moments of evolving sonic excitement, dense with anticipation. Produced by Tom Scott. Visit sites.google.com/view/acoustic-landscapes/other-works/storm.
5:00am - 5:30am
Limbo Calling: Episode 4 Help (Say What You See)
A sleepwalker is beckoned by a distant sound, a helpline receives a call about lost marbles and The Operator is affected by cries for help. Produced by Pete Hazell with additional material by Sean Lee. Theme music by Alex Lupo. "The Bridge" co-written and performed by Karen Dews (a.k.a. K148), with music by Lupo. Music in "Helpline Marbles" is "Tempo Locked" by via dekum. Untitled track by Titus 12. All episodes available at limbotapes.podbean.com.
5:30am - 6:30am
Thleep: Broadcasts 03
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.
6:30am - 7:15am
Hildegard Westerkamp: Moments Of Laughter/École Polytechnique
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!
Moments of Laughter features the voices of DB Boyko (performance vocals) and Sonja Ruebsaat (child's voice). 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. All tracks composed by Hildegard Westerkamp © 2021 (SOCAN)
7:15am - 8:00am
Sonic Rituals By The Dyski Rosemerryn Sound Collective
In 2024, Drs. Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones undertook a Dyski artist residency in West Cornwall. Situated in woodland near Lamorna Cove, amid neolithic caves and standing stones, their project "Sonic Rituals" took participants on a sonorous journey deep into the landscape and its histories. For Sonic Rituals, Rodgers and Jones employed various techniques - including sound art lectures, workshops, deep listening exercises, and performative rites - designed to invoke our primordial connection with sound and landscape. This experimental radio mix, created by Sally, features audio, sound, and music developed during the residency by both the artists and participants. It includes excerpts from workshop materials such as Hildegard Westerkamp's "Kitt's Beach" and works by John Cage and Murray R. Schafer. Other contributions come from participants Peter Rice, Adam McCreedy, Luanna McCallum, Charlotte Bourne, Liv Bartlett, Laura Irvin, Dan Cippico, Tom Gecim, Toby Edwards, Maria Shevchenko and Dyski founder Dion Star.
8:00am - 8:30am
Radiophrenia Shorts 4
1) Andre Birken - 31 Monstrous Demonstrations – ELLOIUSANDA (3:44). 2) Ulrike Janssen - I KEPT HAVING SOUND CRACKLES IN MY HEAD (16:26). 3) M Cristina Marras - Unwanted Intimacy (3:27). 4) Frederico Pessoa - Movimento, pausas e repetições (movement, pauses and repetitions). (6:00). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
8:30am - 9:00am
Radiophrenia Shorts 4
5) Radio Noise Duo - Run Time Errors (8:17). 6) Aurora Engine – Flutter (3:46). 7) Ralph Lewis - Dancing on the Airwaves Presents: Dick and Janes (13:13). 8) Chantal Francoeur - Requiem Ecolo (3:26). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
9:00am - 9:45am
Dinah & Molly Mullen: Echo Sister Audio Essays: Thank You For Listening
When New Zealand’s border closures prevented sisters, Dinah and Molly Mullen from meeting in person, they began an online exchange, resulting in a cyber-feminist reworking of the myth of Echo. In the male-authored myths, Echo is depicted as being punished, deprived of her communicative agency; absorbed into the earth she must forever return the sound made by others. These sonic fictions explore the possibilities and politics of online communication, exploring the generative potential of echoes as intimate entanglements of sound and stone that are essential to processes of sensing, locating and relating. Picking up where the Greek and Roman myth-versions leave Echo, the two audio tales suggest she has long inhabited the rock beneath the earth’s surface, causing earthquakes, volcanoes and provoking continental shift in her grief, trauma and rage. Visit www.dinahmullen.com/echo and profiles.auckland.ac.nz/m-mullen.
9:45am - 10:00am
Nichola Scrutton: Memory Dream Encounter 2
Memory Dream Encounter 2 is a second collection of micro-commissions curated by Nichola Scrutton during her Night Vision project in 2023. The works are composed by (in programme order): Clara de Asis - Compass; Go Sing – Casual Friday; Liew Niyomkarn – Third Place; Nichola Scrutton – Hues; Ryoko Akama - Sounding. The composers/sound artists were invited to respond freely in sound to an abstract, light play photograph, which was taken during Nichola’s 2023 residency at Tramway Glasgow. Produced by Nichola Scrutton.
10:00am - 10:30am
Ross Whyte: Songs From The Back Of The Bus
An original ambient score accompanies the testimonies of those who lived through and campaigned for the repeal of the discriminatory Section 28 (or Clause 2A, as it was known in Scotland). The interviewees reflect on this significant period of recent LGBTQ+ Scottish history and discuss their concerns for what may yet lie ahead. Voices: Alex Heatherington, Sue John, Val McDermid, Jim Mearns, Edwin Morgan, Martin Thain, Louise Welsh, Jim Whannel, Ross Whyte. Archival recordings of interviews with Val McDermid, Edwin Morgan, and Louise Welsh used with kind permission by OurStory Scotland. Produced by Ross Whyte.
10:30am - 11:00am
Lila Meretzky: Quadraturin
A reading with musical underscoring and sound effects of the Soviet writer Sigizmund Krizhizhanovsky's surreal 1926 short story "Quadraturin". When a pushy salesman appears in the cramped doorway of the beleaguered Sutulin and foists a strange paint-like substance on him, his apartment transforms into a nightmarish abyss. Produced by Lila Meretzky.
11:00am - 11:30am
Gabi Schaffner: Kidnap Coffee
The devastating earthquake on 6 December 1988, destroyed the greatest part of the city of Gyumri in Armenia. With the Mush II District, a whole new living quarter was stomped out of the ground. Sturdy tenement buildings, a school, three supermarkets, a park with a varied fountain, a football arena, playing grounds and small garden patches, either in the yards or bordering on the overgrown meadows. When stopping by one of those gardens, I was spoken too and afterwards ‘kidnapped’ by two ladies (best friends and gardeners) and taken into the kitchen to drink coffee. English is overestimated as lingua franca once you travel east. I felt discombobulated and difficult. My translator-app worked for Russian only, which created much fun for Gina and Raja. Produced by Gabi Schaffner.
11:30am - 12:00pm
Buffer Zone
1) Yve Lomax - Quer - ep 4: Examples showing themselves (9.51). 2) Yara Asmar - home is nowhere - gloomy madeleine (1:53). 3) Hoyong Lee - The White Book (9:06). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
12:00pm - 12:45pm
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.
12:45pm - 1:00pm
Jamie Mc Neill: The Concrete Seed, A New Town Fable
An essayistic fiction that offers an idiosyncratic critique of the post-war British new town project, specifically in its relation to Scotland and of top-down spatial planning more generally. Idiosyncratic, in that it presents a critique bound up in a satire that avoids didacticism in favour of an experimental approach combining a subjective voice with text and sound steeped in Scotch ostranenie. The narrative comprises a power struggle between the abstracted archetypes of Planner, Dwellers and New Town. Voices: Tom Fergus Arnott, Judith Hagan, Jamie McNeill, Berta Escobar Ramos. Produced by Jamie McNeill. Visit Instagram @f0g0u.
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 18
1) Ensemble Ex Materia – Migration (6:13). 2) Arthur Deligne - A dream within a dream within a dream feat E.A. Poe (4:30). 3) Daria Baiocchi – Oz (10:00). 4) Gabriel Mininberg – Valentine (5:00). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 18
5) Alireza Seyedi - Percentile 10th (7:10). 6) Brodie Ainsworth - The Dissassociate (11:00). 7) Vera Resnick - Calls in the Storm (9:50). 8) Marie Koppel – Menschensteine (3:44). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Charo Calvo: Qualia
Five women artists living in Brussels; all raised in several languages; each one from a different cultural background. They tell, in their mother tongue, a vital moment, an intense sensorial experience, that left a physical imprint. One of them is not telling the truth. How to transmit thoses experiences only through language when their words are translated, albeit ‘properly’ by another woman? Voice and texts : Kitty Crowther, Zahava Seewald, Meryam Bayram, Sonia Pastecchia, Charo Calvo. Translation and english voice: Caroline Daish Recordings; Charo Calvo, Bastien Hidalgo Mastering: Bastien Hidalgo Studio. Acsr and author’s studio. Produced by ABC Soundproof Australia, with support of ACSR Belgium and FACR de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.
2:45pm - 3:00pm
Charo Calvo: Phonobiographie #1
It was a winter day in Madrid. I took the express train “Puerta del Sol” to Brussels. At that time, Hendeva was the last station for our trains. The Spanish tracks and the French tracks were not the same width. A little defensive measure taken by Franco’s government. We got out of the train, suitcase in one hand, the other gripping our passport. In the middle of the night we crossed this space, open to the sky, fenced in with barbed wire, 'tierra de nadie' (no man's land). On the other side, was waiting for me at least 26 years of another life and I thought that I could already make it out. That day, I was only 26. But before that day, there had been other days, thousands of days, that I can still hear…
Phonobiographie #1 , 17 min Creative documentary by Charo Calvo Produced by ACSR, Brussels
3:00pm - 3:45pm
Duncan Mac Leod & Steve Ely: Orasaigh
Commissioned by Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, Orasaigh is an acousmatic setting of Steve Ely’s eponymous poem, inspired by the landscape surrounding the tidal island of Orasaigh, located off the coast of South Uist, in the Western Isles of Scotland. Ely’s visionary poem, while firmly grounded on the island, explores a wide range of themes, including sea level rise, the 'sixth extinction' crisis, history, culture, politics, conflict, and class. As with Ely’s poem, the composition is rooted in the landscape through the presence of soundscape compositions, utilising immersive field recordings captured on location. Elsewhere, material for clarinet and highland bagpipes, along with creative reimagining of archival sound recordings from Uist, draws upon the Isles' rich musical heritage through Gaelic song and pibroch (an art music genre associated with the great Highland Bagpipe). Produced by Steve Ely and Duncan MacLeod.
3:45pm - 4:00pm
Alëna Korolëva: Sunset At The Marble Quary
Sunset at the bottom of a giant abandoned marble quarry. Pigeons circle in the lower levels, offering the sound of wings, while starlings and swallows gather near the mouth of the pit, 50 meters above. The natural acoustics of the steep walls allow each bird cry to resonate in a living echo chamber, as if there were thousands not hundreds of birds gathering. Recorded in Borba, Portugal. October 12, 2022. Produced by Alëna Korolëva.
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Public Retreat: Public Retreat Radio Death
Hello there, dear being. Are you perhaps on the other side already? Today we will reflect upon how death is one of very few constant, inevitable events in life. How we, humans and more-than humans, deal with this fact, how we deal with the process of dying and how we organize everything that comes after someone has died.
We will see what physical places we have reserved, in our increasingly dense cities, for the dead. Can you listen when you are dead -and what sounds do you hear? Visit www.public-retreat.com.
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Lydia Davies: This Little
A live 20-minute vocal performance made for broadcast, sitting between storytelling and vocal improvisation. The narrator of 'This little' attempts to share a personal anecdote about a recent trip to an unfamiliar supermarket. Produced by Lydia Davies.
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Buffer Zone
1) Yara Asmar - it's today again (sung by gloomy madeleine) (1:38). 2) Anne Lepére - RAPOSA (8:56). 3) Len Goatzee - Magical Pony (7:02). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
6:00pm - 6:30pm
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.
6:30pm - 6:45pm
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."
6:45pm - 7:00pm
Lucas Norer: Der Lange Atem
"Der lange Atem" is a sound art and research project focused on "celebration" and "hero organs", instruments used as sonic monuments during the Nazi era. Built between the 1920s and 1940s in Germany and Austria, these organs were often dedicated to the victims of WWI or featured in National Socialist ceremonies. Many were installed in churches, Nazi festival halls, or secular spaces like schools. Only a handful of these instruments remain today. The 15-minute sound piece explores three of the remaining organs through on-site recordings of their sound, acoustic environment, and the organists playing them. It also includes excerpts from a 1985 SWR radio program dedicated to organs from the Nazi era. Produced by Lucas Norer.
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Luka Hvalc, Saška Rakef & Mojca Delač : Journey At The Edge Of The Night
Dr Evgen Bavčar has a special ritual. For over 40 years, he has been recording the nightingale singing on May nights in his hometown of Lokavec. Under the nocturnal cloak, in duet and in collaboration with the nightingale, the story unfolds into a narrative of the nightingales' blinding so they shall sing in perpetuity – a reflection on blindness as social castration, on existential proximities and distances, the position of the blind throughout time and the question: why should the pleasure of the night not be equal to the pleasure of the day? Produced by Saška Rakef, Mojca Delač and Luka Hvalc. Visit www.val202.rtvslo.si.
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Kunstradio 4: 54, Eine Hommage An Die Fließende Zeit By Elisabeth Schimana
A river of sonic events, allowing time for slow transitions, non-regimented radio programming – just another utopia? For decades Ö1 Kunstradio has made such a format possible, 54 minutes of sonic flow with none of the unbearable chatter in between, no strictly imposed format. 54 lets time flow, 54 minutes of sonic flux. And sprinkled into the mix, roses for Ö1 Kunstradio and memories that float to the surface intermittently. (Elisabeth Schimana). Sound material from Elisabeth Schimana's archive. Sound engineering: Elmar Peinelt.
At the border between Austria and Slovakia, "The Fugue" by Elisabeth Schimana, where the March flows into the Danube, was performed live on a ship as well as on the radio and the Internet. Four musicians played a composition and received instructions from four conductors or artists via the Internet. Elisabeth Schimana incorporates some of the joint radio moments with Ö1 Kunstradio into the acoustic radio river "54 - a homage to flowing time". (Text: Elisabeth Zimmermann).
9:00pm - 10:00pm
Nils Loret: Derrière Les Dunes (Behind The Dunes)
A documentary that questions love and sexuality by guiding the listener through open-air meeting places threatened with extinction. These rumoured meeting places exist just about everywhere, frequented exclusively by those who know what they are looking for: the fulfilment of a fantasy, the meeting of sexual partners, the excitement of the forbidden. The two characters in the documentary have frequented these cruising grounds together to explore their desires and build their love. They hit it off immediately. Together they defend a queer culture written in the furrows left by the coming and going of bodies in these open-air cruising grounds. Behind the dunes, skin heats up, bodies are lost and desires grow. Behind the dunes a culture is passed on, a heritage is eroded and a love is cemented. Behind the dunes, they show us the places where people cruise in silence. Produced by Nils Loret.
10:00pm - 10:30pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 32
1) Camilla Hannan - It won't be like this all the time (14:58). 2) The Argent Grub - Three Way Conversation (22:03). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 32
3) Jamie Lee - Circuits from Soft Frequencies (20:00). 4) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Modern Life- Pitted Organic Dates (0:50). 3) Jamie Lee - Circuits from Soft Frequencies. For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
11:00pm - 12:00am
Jeronimo Jimenez & John Friberg: Radio Tacos El Chupacabra
The piece is divided in 3 parts: 1. Ñaka Ñaka - Ké Huelga Radio (0:00-36:04)
I picked up on anti-imperialist pirate station Ké Huelga Radio on my drive to work and recorded the entire commute. 2. Jero Route 66 and John Friberg - Pt 2 (36:04-43:14)
Recorded in Mexico City, 2024. 3. Jero Route 66 and John Friberg- Pt 1 (43:14-51:13)
Recorded in Mexico City, 2024. Produced by Jeronimo Jimenez and John Friberg.
Visit X @N4K4N4K4.
12:00am - 1:00am
Chelidon Frame: Blues For A Shortwave Listener
A three-part, one-hour soundscape inspired by radio noises and shortwave listening. It was assembled using field recordings, modular synthesizers, and radio recordings. Conceived and produced between 2020 and 2021, it was the aural part of a slow TV program broadcast in Oakland, California. The soundscape is divided into three parts: 1. Check out the Future (00:00:00); 2. A Crescendo of Radio Hate (00:21:43); 3. Blues for a Shortwave Listener (00:34:13). Produced by Chelidon Frame.