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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.
1:00am - 2:00am
Post Doom Romance: Glimmers On The Archipelago
One hour audio composition. This album was created at The AARK (Archipelago Art Residency in Korpo, Finland). More Glimmers …. As it was summer, the days were long, stretching into what would normally be considered night. Free of almost any responsibilities, we drifted in what felt like a timeless space that allowed for long meandering walks through the forests and shorelines, bicycle rides and sea kayaking. There was also the ferry taxi that takes people much further out to sea, where the islands are more sparsely populated and the blue expanse seems even larger. Some days we would ride bicycles on the curving road into town and sit at Hjalmar’s bar, sipping ciders and eating probably the best french fries Mykel has ever tasted. Sometimes it was quiet, other times the place would be full of travelers crossing through the archipelago on holiday. Produced by post doom romance: Mykel Boyd and seah (Chelsea Heikes).
2:00am - 4:00am
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. Produced by Tom Scott. Visit sites.google.com/view/acoustic-landscapes/other-works/storm.
4:00am - 5:00am
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.
5:00am - 6:00am
Naisa Presents: Making Waves, Performance Of Tree Frog Radio By Ben Donoghue
Today's episode is from a live performance of Tree Frog Radio by Ben Donoghue that took place on 1 February 2025. Tree Frog Radio in the Northern Gulf Islands is an unique underground FM radio initiative in British Columbia that uses trees as antenna masts for localized radio broadcasts – expanding a rural island community’s boundaries of the possible. In this radio art performance interviews and field recordings about Tree Frog Radio were mixed together using loopers and feedback systems in order to blur the space between audio documentary, drone and noise. Visit NAISATube channel for a video version of this radio episode, and naisa.ca for more information.
6:00am - 7:00am
Radio Active On Water: Watered By Re Peat Collective
In this programme, RE-PEAT collective approaches water justice through imagining the perspective of water nself, by drawing stories and definitions of bodies of water, and n’s entanglement in relation with other bodies, bogs, bugs, sundew, moss, reeds, drops, rivers, will-o’-the-wisp and us. Through collectivity, music and sounds, we follow a feminist subjectivity, watered, inspired by Astrida Neimanis’s call to “chart our politics of location in a way that recognises our diverse aqueous implications and responsibilities”. The programme includes contributions from Moss Pit, the River Besòs in Barcelona and the Salween River in Thailand by Helen Ganya Brown. Visit www.re-peat.earth.
7:00am - 8:00am
Route Émilie: Ivresses
Ivresses is a story between Jules and wine. Cyclical, immersive and sensitive, its setting is the arid vineyards of Corbières, the humid cellars of the Ariège mountains, the stifling heat of summer festivals. It's a loopy refrain in which pilfered harvests, pirate distillations, festive bottlings, bubbling vats, and wines that don't have time to age are intertwined. Produced by Émilie Route.
8:00am - 8:30am
Radiophrenia Shorts 10
1) Dixie Treichel - Beyond Reach (2:57). 2) M. Cristina Marras - Window of Contempt (5:29). 3) The Keeling Curve and Nastassja Simensky - Atoms-on-the-Wall : Slow Rotations (22:52). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
8:30am - 9:00am
Radiophrenia Shorts 10
4) Jeff Gburek - Heliopathy 1 (8:56). 5) SOAK LAB - Rock Pool (6:37). 6) Antoni Hidalgo - hman (9:59). 7) Giovanni Dibeltulu - Happiness is a warm dub (1:01). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit <a href="https://radiophrenia.scot/schedule" target="blank">radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
9:00am - 9:30am
Jacob Weinberg: After The Crisis
After the Crisis investigates the possibility (or rather, impossibility) of crisis aversion by re-presenting the thought of US military historian Roberta Wohlstetter, who with her husband Albert Wohlstetter, significantly impacted the military and nuclear strategy of post-war United States. It presents a spoken performance of Roberta Wohlstetter's publication, Cuba and Pearl Harbor: Hindsight and Foresight, which uses information theory to analyse the successes and inevitable failures of the United States' ability to predict and a prevent national catastrophe during these two events. By omitting the specific details from these events that were originally written into the text, the performance lays bare a narrative that both addresses and produces the crises shaping international conflict today. Centring the US military machine, the resulting work exposes the limits of a seemingly unyielding power, the perils of hindsight, and questions the ends of endless information collection in a world with multiple, uncertain futures. Produced by Jacob Weinberg.
9:30am - 10:00am
Ilaria Boffa: De Avitis Sonis
This three track sonic journey celebrates and honours the voice and presence of our most ancient ancestors, rocks and trees. Recorded in 2024, the work presents poems written in English and Italian. Sonopoems and Field recording for ‘La Calcara’ and ‘Spectres’ tracks taken by Ilaria Boffa at Grotte di Zungri (Southern Italy) using Zoom H6 recorder and JRF D-series hydrophone. Performance on violin and vocals by Ida di Vita; vocals by Fabio Nicora. Sonopoem and Field recording for ‘The Cedar Ballad’ taken by Ilaria Boffa in Fes and the Cedarwood Middle Atlas (Morocco) using Zoom H6 recorder and JRF C-series contact phone. Produced by Ilaria Boffa.
10:00am - 10:15am
Melissa Mc Carthy: Who Will Win? Episode 2
Join writer Melissa McCarthy here in the dug-out as she brings you the sports reports, the match updates, and the game theory. Dr Jekyll 4, Mr Hyde 1; War 5, Peace nil; Antony 3, Cleopatra 3. Walrus 7, Carpenter 2. For all the latest scores, the transference news, and the analysis, tune in to this three-part investigation into writing, listening, literature, and sport. Upcoming fixtures: Tom versus Captain Najork; the Harvards versus the Yales; God versus Satan. Who will win? Visit sharksillustrated.org.
10:15am - 11:00am
Steve Ashby And Vicki Hallett: Drawn And Twisted
Drawn and Twisted focuses attention on the sonic qualities of the heritage machines housed in the National Wool Museum of Australia. The work explores the stages of processing wool from raw fleece into commercial products. It portrays an interweaving of the hardship and prosperity inherent to the history of manufacturing sheep’s wool from herding to shearing to finished product. The process yields the thread of comfort and warmth brought to the world in the form of clothing, jackets, blankets, and socks. It has also polluted waterways adjacent to mills where the wool is cleaned, trampled the grasslands to dust with the herding of sheep, and impinged upon the freedom and vitality of indigenous people. Drawn and Twisted is a listening towards a future in which the knowledge from as yet untold stories and perspectives is foregrounded, where a reverence for the land embraces a returned vitality to its native grassland. Produced by Steve Ashby and Vicki Hallett.
11:00am - 11:30am
Sara Maino: Reti Del Discorso/Speech Networks
"By editing 20 years of oral memoirs of people collected in the valleys of Trentino, I ‘embroidered' a synchronised discourse of memories, views on life, affections, individual and collective stories. To be listened to together while weaving one's own story.” Produced by Sara Maino.
11:30am - 12:00pm
Buffer Zone
Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 2 (5mins). Cerpintxt - Exiled to the Hemisphere of Utterance (2:24). Brunhild Ferrari & Christoph Heemann - Stürmische Ruhe Part 2 (15:51). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
12:00pm - 12:30pm
Irena Tomažin: Radiophrenia 2025 Commission
For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
12:30pm - 1:00pm
Alex Quérel: Radio Gose Choeur Nomade
Choeur tact-til, a mixed sighted and non-sighted vocal ensemble, discovers multiple resonances with Japanese musical practices, and sets off to meet the Goze, nomadic Japanese blind women musicians. Radio Gose Ghoeur Nomade, a sound trip from Hokaido to the Kansai forest by Alex Quérel with the complicity of Natacha Muslera. With sound recordings by : Alex Quérel, Mélodie Duchesne, Lionel Marchetti, Natacha Muslera. Voices by : Kojiro Hirose (ethnomusicologist), Ryosuke Shiina (musicologist, musician and translator). And from Choeur tac-til : Mafalda Da Camara. Mélodie Duchesne, Chérifa Harzallah, Bruno Raby, Alex Quérel, François Parra, Natacha Muslera, Franck Omer, Angélique Huguenin. Produced by Alex Quérel.
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 24
1) Gustavo Chab - Flutervoice II (8:24). 2) Jo Kennedy - Now That You Ask (5:00). 3) Dixie Treichel - Pointing Away (2:19). 4) Eleni-Ira Panourgia - Soil narrations (6:34). 5) Ralph Hoyte – The Voyage of the Slaver the Snow Africa. For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 24
6) Helen McCrorie - Dawn, Spring 2020 (9:00). 7) Andrew Ramsey - Sonic Glasgow (2:41). 8) Droki Ouro – grind (8:00). 9) Eoin O'Sullivan - Oslo-Copenhagen (9:53). 10) Andre Birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations EFFO ISN I (0:27). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Tom Fisher: Confluence, 2024
Situated on the lower tidal reaches of London’s river Lea, Cody Dock is a centre for arts, community, culture and learning. Promoting collective ownership of Cody Dock and welcoming people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to join in the restoration of the dock itself and a celebration of the Lea River. Originally presented as a 6.1 sound installation on the site, Confluence takes cues from a recent ecology report detailing the wealth of unexpected biodiversity within Cody Dock’s superficially industrial and urban location, and looks to highlight this often hidden and unsung web of more-than-human life through sound recordings made during an extensive period of listening and field recording. A special thank you to the creatures whose voices feature in this work, including those from the River Lea whose identities remain a mystery. Confluence was created as the result of Cody Dock's 2023/4 Lighting Up The Lea environmental arts commission. With support from Cockayne Grants for the Arts, The London Community Foundation and National Lottery Heritage Fund. Produced by Tom Fisher. Visit www.actionpyramid.com.
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Bex Šik: Rekindling, For Crae
Rekindling (for Crae) is a collage of listening and trawling for recollections of emotions within archival interviews and the emotional arc of activism. It is a meditation on hope after defeat. The piece travels through the waves, rips, currents, ebbs and flows of turning tides, and is carried by voices spanning lifetimes of commitment to building something better. Accompanying them the music is inspired by and composed from a recording of a young child’s first exploration of a piano. The spoken excerpts are all from the Women in Communism interview series recorded by Neil Rafeek held at the National Library Scotland’s sound archive. (the voices you hear are Jessie Clark, Marion Henery, Jean Mackay, Frieda Park, Isa Porte, Jenny Richardson and Christine Sloan). Protest Sounds recordings by Bex, Bobby Jewell and Steven Myles. Produced by Bex Šik.
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Dorota Blaszczak: My Neighbor Ventilator
A hotel in a city with a local brewery, with its ventilator below the hotel window. It was “breathing” with a regular rhythm, adding its drone to many city sound solos from car drifting competition to morning birds recorded from the afternoon to the following morning. Depending on mode of listening it forms a collage of various known sounds objects or a complex, noise and harmonic sound composition. This is an audio timelapse, maintaining sequence and rhythm of events, created based on 18 hours of my recordings (Lublin, 20.04.2024, 3 pm - 21.04.2024, 9 am) closed into 15 minutes. Produced by Dorota Blaszczak.
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Matt Robin: Petra Hoc’H Eus Kavet? What Did You Find?
"This piece explores memory, loss, and cultural erasure through a phone call with my late grandmother who passed away in January 2024. In the conversation, she recounts her childhood in Brittany and sings “Petra hoc’h eus kavet, Yannig?” (What did you find, Yannick?)—a Breton song passed down orally from her grandmother. Once suppressed in France, the Breton language has now sadly been lost to our family. In my grief, I reach for lost connections, relying on imagination to fill gaps.” Produced by Matt Robin.
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 44
1) Mattia Benedetti - doorframes covered in masking tape (7:31). 2) Pete Stollery - Quiet City (12:12). 3) Dougie Taylor - The Midden (7:00). 4) Gracchi Administration – Other People (13:50). 5) Holger Mohaupt - CROSSTOWN - From Hell's Kitchen to Turtle Bay on the quietest day of the year (17:10). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Alicia Riccio: First Person Plural
First Person Plural #2 is the second iteration of a performance featuring live, digitally cloned and recorded voices. The work delves into the elusiveness of truth and identity, weaving together accounts of public deception from early radio and contemporary media with text that explores themes of collective listening and the desire to be witnessed. First Person Plural was originally performed and broadcast live in 2024 at Atelier Gallery in Philadelphia. Produced by Alicia Riccio.
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Buffer Zone
1) Cerpintxt & Ruben Sonnoli - Precursor Events (1:23). 2) Phoebe McIndoe - Red of Visibility (9:53). 3) Jakov Munižaba & Marija Stojnic - Shrub acoustica (8:00). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
6:00pm - 6:30pm
Brunhild Ferrari: Errant Ear
"This piece was composed at the end of 2024 with this feeling of wandering, of strolling in my memories that I was able to capture with my ears, my eyes, my nose, all my sensations, things that my life is made of and that I keep almost like treasures. Here, I feel free to enjoy surprises, to rediscover my memories, to give them new life. I had the pleasure of using sound moments lent to me by Luke Fowler, Chris Watson and Luc Ferrari, and I mixed them with my own recent recordings and some of my archives from the 1970s onwards - albeit sometimes with painful joy.” Brunhild Ferrari, 24 February 2025. Errant Ear is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunst zum Hören, Osterreich 1 produced with the support of Creative Scotland.
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Kristina Warren: Despite Sight
Despite Sight (2024) by Kristina Warren is a surreal soundscape constructed from a variety of recognizable, allusive, and opaque sounds. Through its deceptively representative sounds, Despite Sight thematizes the massive contemporary denial of various geopolitical and epidemiological events which can be plainly observed. Produced by Kristina Warren.
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Radio Active On Water: Liquidation By Meira Asher
There is currently a structural water crisis in the Palestinian Occupied Jordan Valley. Not a climate or geographical water crisis, a deliberate socially and politically engineered crisis. Israel, since it invaded the West Bank in 1967, controls every public aspect of civilian life in the Jordan Valley. Israel administers two populations, the Israeli settlers and the indigenous Palestinian residents. Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian farming communities of access to fresh, clean and reliable water supplies, water that is needed for crops and herds, as well as for the Palestinian farmers and herders. This can mean either not permitting them to be connected to municipal water supplies, despite the Israeli settlers having such access. It also entails not permitting Palestinian people to sink new wells on their own land, and blocking their access to existing wells and springs, either by fencing off the water source or destroying pipes bringing the water to the herders and farmers. The end result is frequently that either the farmers have to pay extortionate prices to purchase water from the Palestinian authority, or if they cannot afford this option they are forced to abandon their land and way of life. Featuring the water truck driver, co-activists Natasha and Nitsan, shepherds community of Khalet Makhul, shepherd ‘W’, shepherds community of Hirbet Samra and Aref Daragmah. Translation from Arabic: Laila Abd El-Razaq. Introductory text: Liam Evans. Visit meiraasher.bandcamp.com and mixcloud.com/radioart106.
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Andreas Usenbenz: The Invisible City, Binaural Headphone Concert
What do we perceive when our environment is reduced solely to its acoustic dimension? When we delve deep into the acoustic body – into a spectrum of sound that we usually ignore. Andreas Usenbenz collects sounds from various locations. By using special microphones, he captures sounds that usually remain hidden. Contact microphones, underwater microphones, or sensors reveal electromagnetic frequencies and the human impact on the immediate surroundings. Usenbenz immerses himself in these sounds, analyzing, fragmenting, deforming, and assembling them. Sound becomes a compositional element: contemplative, contemporary, martial, delicate, dissonant, and harmonious. Each listener will have the chance to create their own experience in total darkness, immersing.
9:00pm - 10:00pm
Assembling Land: Episode 3, I Am Of Water, Of Water Are You
The third episode of Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making, initiated in April 2024 in Essaouira, Morocco. Here, we gathered to reason around water as an ever-present, essential resource that implies questions of accessibility, land dispossession, and climate crisis, to foster communal strategies of resilience amidst systems of oppression and supremacy. Each story is carried by sounds of field recordings, original productions, traditional songs and contemporary compositions harvested for, or in response to, Assembling Land’s and our own individual trajectories. Our solidarity with Palestine remains at the core of our practice. This podcast intertwines and amplifies struggles across places and seas. I am of water, of water I am includes sonic works by Palestinian and Lebanese artists Jawaher Shofani, Maya al Khaldi, Sary Moussa and Charbel Haber, acting as intermissions and a closure to our sonic offering.
10:00pm - 10:30pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 38
1) Maryana Lysenko - f(A)_ l(D)- o(H) ? w(D) 1 (5:29). 2) Eve-Marie Bouché - The magic of waves (3:12). 3) Adrienne Murray - the unspoken, seen (7:39). 4) Benjamin Aman - Night with vanishing point (7:45). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 38
5) Fiona Grau - Blue pills and diamonds (12:31). 6) Rob Lye - 'Somewhere between May and September' (2024) (21:54). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
11:00pm - 11:30pm
Steve Ashby: Waiting On A Room
Waiting On a Room reflects on moments of transition. As opportunities await like a warm embrace, we wander into the new with a sense of excitement, a sprinkle of wonder, and a hint of what we will leave behind. Elements of lap steel, granular synthesis, and radio static merge with a foundation of tape loops to transmit the evolution of before, after, and between. Produced by Steve Ashby. Visit ashbysounds.org.
11:30pm - 12:00am
Blake De Graw: Study Iv For Voice And Fiction
Study IV for Voice and Fiction is an experimental spoken-word/choral composition for twenty-four participants, each reading from any work of fiction of their choosing. As they read, they receive audio signals through headphones prompting them to alter their voicing, inflection, cadence, volume, and ultimately their tone, gradually converting them from a chaotic cloud of whispers to a unified drone, changing colors many times along the way. All parts in the provided demo were performed and recorded by the composer, Blake DeGraw.
12:00am - 1:00am
Spectral Transmissions Research Unit: Out Of Office (Ooo)
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