Unconscious Collective: The Land Of The Escaping Sound

From an archive of sounds, something mysterious is said, sonics repeated so they change in nature, from the listening point a journey is taken. Informally, public domain refers to works that are publicly available; the formal definition states that it refers to works which are intangible to private ownership or are available for public use. As rights are country-based and vary, a work may be subject to rights in one country and not in another. Playing the cultural awareness game, putting things together is a technique where sound objects, are created from collage, also known as montage, the use of portions of found or various sources. Some rights depend on registrations with a country-by-country basis, and the registration absence in a particular country implies public domain status there. A library of sound files on several different time scales importation into the library of the editing and mixing programme use of the cursor.  The "unconscious collective project” is Jane Burton, Doris Lake, Samantha Brook and Rachel Parks. Visit instituteforalienresearchvariousartists.bandcamp.com.

The Asynchronous Drone Orchestra: 072024

The Asynchronous Drone Orchestra is a remote collaborative project by Chelidon Frame where different electronic musicians are asked to share one (or more) ten minutes sound - be it a drone, a field recording or a more elaborate soundscape - following a minimal set of rules. All those fragments and noises are then mixed and combined in a long and coherent track, resulting in a choral soundscape where the result is bigger than the sum of its parts. The track shared is the July 2024 iteration, featuring: Gianluca Ceccarini, Fallen, Manuel Carbone, Stefano Trezzi, Klaus Von Mork, Ian Vine, Rikard Fvs, Paul Beaudoin. Visit www.asynchronousdroneorchestra.eu.

Project Somnolence (Kevin Leomo + Maria Sledmere): Light Lapse

Following a Fife-based residency, Kevin Leomo and Maria Sledmere presented 'light lapse' at Civic House in July 2024, as part of Project Somnolence, a portable lab for exploring the ways people sleep and dream. 'light lapse' was an immersive evening, which re-presented the ambience of the residency. It featured an exhibition of photography and artwork, as well as a durational performance consisting of Sledmere’s 6:40 poem, combined with field recordings and live tenor saxophone from Leomo. The poem is an ambient field work which attunes to different voices and registers, split between memories and time zones, staging the intimacy of distance and the emotional minutiae of daily blips in energy. The poem metabolises the results into a multi-sensory encounter with time. Field recordings taken at various times of day throughout the residency, utilising hydrophones and contact mics, were presented across an array of immersive speakers. Visit www.projectsomnolence.com.

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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.

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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.

Hidegard Westerkamp: Mother Voice Talk

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.

Radiophrenia Shorts 50

1) Dariusz Mazurowski - Waveless Storm (10:10). 2) Leonie Roessler- what's gone is gone stays gone (12:14). 3) Jeff Gburek - Seismic Blush, July 4, 2024. 4) Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - TÔI ta _ ME we (1:04). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

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5) Simon Whetham – Channelling (5:20). 6) Pablo Paniagua - Sacred Noise (16:09). 7) Andre Birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations-  BLUESTRAIN (4:21). 8) Vincent Eoppolo - In Times of Chaos (3:10). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

Dalia Neis: Resting In The Membranes Guided Meditation

A meditation journey guided by writer, musician and vocalist Dalia Neis, drawing on revolutionary principles of collective liberation 'Doykayt' (Yiddish for 'Hereness'), Kabalistic techniques of 'no-thing', and the somatic lineages of Body-Mind centering, all set to minimal field recordings, and gentle percussion recorded in the forests of Frohnau, Berlin. "In this meditation, we will rest in the containers that hold space for your eyes, your brain, the organ of your heart, your cell, and finally, we will rest in the fluid membranes of space itself. By holding space for ourselves, and our organs, we soothe our nervous system, to be able to respond creatively, and imaginatively to the needs of the moment, supporting and cultivating, more deeply, our greater purpose, and path toward collective liberation.” Visit twicethesiren.info.

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1) Adrian Laugsch - Spasms Of My Aching Heart (6:21). 2) Andreas O. Hirsch – Rise (4:24). 3) Dariusz Mazurowski - Dossier of Oblivion (13:44). 4) Elizabeth Flood - Repetition as Transformation : Dream (7:01). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

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5) Frederico Pessoa - O lugar por onde a água corre (the place through which the water runs) (9:50). 6) Home Secretary – An Object (5:01). 7) Jorge Ramos – Paysage – (5:16). 8) Akari Komura - A piece of paper, a flutter of trees (5:13). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

Verónica Cerrotta: Spring Morning With Cicadas

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.

Martin P Eccles: Rònaigh

July. 40 miles off the top of the Outer Hebrides. Stand below St Ronan’s church. Walk south on lazy bed corrugations to the low cliffs. Turn east. Pass two geos. Walk up towards the lighthouse and the east coast peak, to stand above a land-slipped cliff edge. Walk west onto, along, over the ridge and down the long slope to the west side of the northern peninsula. Walk onto the rock field. Walk to the end of the peninsula. Walk round the tip and south along the eastern coast to the landing. Visit  martinpeccles.com.

Buffer Zone

1) Duncan MacLeod - Tidelines (7:11). 2) Neil Luck - Real Telepathy (10:25). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

Charo Calvo: Bloodline Of Flower

Bloodline of Flower is drawn from poems by Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian poet and filmmaker (1934-1967). She was published and was widely read by many Iranians during her lifetime, and has now become somewhat of a cult figure. Her poetry is one of protest and rebellion, yet it captures everyday experience without any intention of guiding, educating or directing. Her poetry is the portrait of a generation undergoing radical change. In this piece, her verse lines draw songs from wavetables or modulate the breathy tones of a Ney. Only sound remains. Voice: Carly Wijs. Ney: Arif Erkovan. Text: Forough Farrokhzad. Produced by Charo Calvo.

Unconscious Collective: Radio 15 Presents 'The Great Gestalt Twitch

Moving between them in quick succession recordings of trains continuous loop allowing him to trigger together the various train sounds as needed. The collage work may have a completely different tone than that of the component parts, even if the original parts are completely recognisable. Procedures such as the quodlibet and centonization differ in that the various elements in them are made to fit smoothly together, whereas in a collage clashes other discrepancies are important in helping the constituent elements and to convey the impression of a heterogeneous assemblage. What made their technique true collage, however, was the juxtaposition of the unrelated. Produced by London-based collective: Jane Burton, Doris Lake, Samantha Brook & Rachel Parks. Visit 
instituteforalienresearchvariousartists.bandcamp.com.

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1) Nichola Scrutton - At First Light (8:49). 2) Dominik Irtenkauf & Norman Mueller aka Smaely P - Dein und mein Meer (5:01). 3) Andi Cohen - (C)overt Communication (3:22). 4) Cláudio Pina - Book of Eternal Brass (9:56). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

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5) Egidija Medeksaite – Amithaba (12:22). 6) Myriam Bessette – Yoki (4:55). 6) Andre Birken  - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 4 (0:47). 8) Darren Xu - (Absent) Expressions (5:00). 9) Magda Lampropoulou – Twist (7:22). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

Diana Duta & Julia E. Dyck: T.R.A.N.C.E Community Hypnosis Session

A group hypnosis session inviting you to access the power of the trance state and potential of the subconscious to cultivate positive transformation. This experience combines the practice of hypnotherapy with the synergy of voice, electronic loops, and resonant instruments. This collective practice stimulates the imagination while gradually building a multi-sensory, layered experience where stories, ideas and sensations can come alive, create positive change and promote deep transformative shifts. This is a guided hypnosis, please do not listen while driving or operating machinery. Produced by Julia E. Dyck and Diana Duta.

Rotter Otter

Rotter Otter presents house music, a new semi-improvised live performance from the Radiophrenia studio with invited guests dialling in from their own homes (or wherever they happen to be). Typically, a Rotter Otter performance begins with a script as a springboard for Ben and Rebecca to sing, speak and regurgitate in-and-around the sway and drag of Rose's fx heavy cello and Hannah's synthesis. For house music,  the script will be more of a score - a shared rallying point for invited vocalists and musicians to call-in and contribute to the performance using the script-score by singing, talking, asking questions to the band, washing the dishes, drumming, working from home and playing their instruments whilst sharing the ambiences of wherever they might be. Rotter Otter is a Glasgow-based improvising quartet featuring Rose Dagul (cello), Hannah Ellul (synth/tapes), Ben Ellul-Knight (vocals) and Rebecca Wilcox (vocals/samples).

Mirror Lamp Press Special Audio Issue: I Pretend Too

This special audio edition of Mirror Lamp Press brings together a collection of original works inspired by the 1950s song "The Great Pretender," originally performed by The Platters, weaving through themes of identity, imitation, and performance. Freya Dooley’s The Double looks at inauthenticity and emotional labour, following a supermarket cashier’s imagined interactions with a shoplifting doppelgänger. In A Frog Prepares, Isadora Epstein offers a retelling of a classic fairytale, with music and sound production by Davy Kehoe. With Send in the Clowns, Sophie Robinson delivers a raw, reflective poem on heartbreak and self-betrayal, drawing inspiration from Stephen Sondheim’s sad clown archetype. Edy Fungs’s text-sound composition Soft Selves examines identity and unpredictability in music, featuring words by Andrea Bjurström. The glitchy sounds of a Vtech computer paired with Rachel Heavey’s childhood voice create a nostalgic and experimental atmosphere in Word Builder.

Speculum Bunny: My Heart, The Threshold

A live performance that investigates the intricate relationship between sound and the natural world. "The piece will incorporate found sounds and field recordings captured at key natural thresholds - such as beaches, caves, and crossroads - along with recordings from my own body. I aim to highlight the magical underpinnings of these phenomena, revealing how these intersections in nature possess unique acoustic properties that can evoke a sense of transformation and connection. The aim, to transport listeners to these magical natural places.” Produced by Clare Simpson. Visit Instagram @speculum_bunny.

Buffer Zone

1) Matana Roberts - for they do not know (6:55). 2) Paul Rooney - Words and Silence (13.21). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

Anne Lepère: Mouras

The Mouras guard the earth's hidden secrets. At the mouth of a cave, beneath a monolith, or in the mist of a hot spring, their enchanting presence watches over the entrances to mystical places, gauging the soul of anyone who wishes to enter these sacred sanctuaries. Adventurous voices set out to encounter these Galician mythological beings, seeking the secrets etched in stone and the magical tales sedimented over millennia. Will their songs reach the depths of the earth? Will they receive the Mouras' permission to pass? And will we be able to listen to the secrets that rise through geological layers, echoing as whispers in the hollows of our own bodies? Produced by Anne Lepère. Voices: Karina Mouriño, teacher of the school of Taboexa, Galicia, Marion Sage and Anne Lepère. Children’s voices: Emil Sebastião, Artai, Brais, Einar, Xurxo, Xián, Baia Rosalía, Seixo. Based on the legends of the Mouras and the stories of Karina Mouriño. Additional poetry, recordings, composition and mixing: Anne Lepère. Special thanks to Marion Sage, Thomas Wyatt, Karina Mouriño, Jeanne Debarsy and Mark Vernon. Photo credit: Marion Sage. Visit www.annelepere.net.

Richard Hamilton: Auscultation Points

Auscultation Points is a medical term for the different points along the human body where doctors listen in to the patients internal organs to diagnose the overall health of the individual. Originally recorded at the Morris Arboretum and Gardens in Philadelphia, PA, this soundscape in much the same way, acts as an audio diagnosis of the overall ecosystem of the Arboretum. Over several visits, Rich used various microphones such as ultrasonic and contact microphones to record a wide variety of sources from the sound of bats to the insides of trees. He then returned to his studio to layer, heavily process, and arrange the sounds. The result is a soundscape that reflects the beauty of the Arboretum while highlighting human encroachment on nature and the potential losses if we don’t change our ways. Produced by Richard Hamilton.

Verónica Cerrotta: Autumn Night

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.

Thomas Catlaw: Soundsketches Of A Desert Suburb

This work sonically tells a story of a day in the life of a suburb in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. It consists of four connected soundsketches based on field recordings at four locations central to the city’s life. Here, the forces of nature and urbanization create soundscapes both beautiful and brutal. Water, long gone from its original surface locations, re-emerges everywhere in human-made forms. “Bridge (Daybreak)” opens the work as the sun rises and day begins over a pedestrian bridge at Town Lake, once a dry river bed. “House (Morning)” travels to suburban tract housing, where swimming pools are an ecological affront and sanity-saving sanctuary in the face of climate change. “Canal (Afternoon)” visits a lifeline bringing water to the city from great distances. It is increasingly a space of recreation and development. In “Park (Twilight),” evening play, cicadas, and water dripping within a canal gate usher in the night. Produced by Thomas Catlaw.

Subespai: St. Lawrence

In "St. Lawrence", Subespai delves into the essence of tradition by weaving a mesmerising ambient soundscape around a looped traditional tune from Menorca's vibrant public festivities. Captured by his wife during the celebration, the melody serves as a heartfelt anchor, introducing listeners to a familiar cultural touchstone. As the piece unfolds, the recognisable elements gradually dissolve into a rich tapestry of textured drones and ethereal effects, inviting the audience on a journey of transformation and exploration. This sonic evolution reflects Subespai's signature approach, where sounds guide the narrative, creating an immersive experience that honours heritage while embracing abstraction. The result is a meditative soundscape that resonates with the listener, evoking a sense of place and introspection. Produced by Subespai.

Giuseppe: Un Guanciale Di Pietra

Sound device born as a piece of furniture that can intrigue and make you come closer to discover the sound it generates, or be ignored completely, like an old fridge or a clock with hands that compete in a kitchen with the TV, or the noise of dishes
perceived intimately in that transitory moment that strangles reality. Like the sudden sound of swallowing. Visit soundcloud.com/gustafturmak.

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1) Jesse Lou Lawson - How to Look 30 When You Are 30 (11:22). 2) katarina kadijević - The room was fulfilled with nothing (15:00). 3) Shaun Robert - Ça pic un peut quand meme (15:00). 4) Chin Ting - Resonant Collision (17:00). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.

French Theory (Elena Truuts/Martin Kikas): Et Tu Sais And You Know

The album was conceived as a fictional radio broadcast where the sound environment ensures continuity between the spoken poems, which reveal the chaotic fragility of bodies in space-time - a landscape familiar to all travellers, regardless of the reason for their journey: love, escape, migration. One thing is certain: this radically modern journey is by no means one of leisure. There is no verbal tourism in this unrhymed poetry. Texts and Voice: Elena Truuts. Sound Design: Martin Kikas. Visit frenchtheory.bandcamp.com.

Natalia Rivera Riffo: Resonance Of The Underearth: Dialogues With The Sonic Spirits Of Nature

An immersive radio work that explores the hidden depths of the Earth through sound. It emphasizes a decolonial perspective on ecology, inviting listeners to hear the voices of nature's sonic spirits. This piece blends natural recordings with artificial intelligence and technological tools to create a multi-layered sonic experience. Compositions such as "Scram the Glacier," "Shynte Aanda," "Respira," "Forêt Millenary Araucaria," and "Ritus" reflect different elements of the Earth's life forces. By giving a voice to nature, the work challenges anthropocentric perspectives and seeks to reconnect humanity with the planet's deep ecological wisdom. Produced by Natalia Rivera Riffo.

Spectral Transmissions Research Unit: Transmission #01

Cyclical time. Spectral media obliterates the boundaries between self and world, questions concerning the correct boundary between an alien everyday reality. Driven towards a madness. Resorting to illusory magical techniques. Fairies could once be heard making music under this artificial hill. The rustling of a woman's skirt could occasionally be heard behind the walls, as could ghostly music. A piano was said to play itself, even though most of the keys were broken. A ghostly black dog wearing a 1940s suit leaning on a bannister, Russian voices and music emerge from the jukebox. Within thirty seconds, the figure had vanished. Music is also said to be heard within the building when none should be playing. What was this abominable cipher? Made as part of Gravity Waves and The Spirit World. 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.