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12:00am - 1:00am
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1:00am - 2:00am
Auvikogue: Klangglomerat
Klangglomerat (german for "sound glomerate") by auvikogue (Peter Schubert and Andreas Usenbenz) was created as part of a cultural autumn event in the city of Geislingen an der Steige, centred around the theme "Geislingen's Underworlds." The artists collected field recordings from locations such as caves, abandoned mine tunnels and vaulted cellars and interacted with the material on site. The sounds were transformed into a dense sound collage which was presented in complete darkness as a 6-channel-audio performance, creating an immersive sound experience where all the sounds circled around the audience.
2:00am - 2:30am
Libramar: No Cure
Buchla Easel, 2x Revox A77, E.H. 45000. Persistent gono despite weeks of abstinence. LIBRAMAR is Association Head of Dronau Canal - non nepotistic collaborative exploration space in Vienna, Austria. New Reisebüro. Roy F. Culbertson III and Lucas Henao Serna. Visit Instagram @dronau_canal.
2:30am - 3:00am
Kerrith Livengood: Sparkling Wide Pressure
"The album, In The Name of the MOON, began when I imagined an ever-changing but static field of harmonies and pulses, intertwined with each other, and surrounding listeners like a galaxy of sounds. Sparkling Wide Pressure is the name of one of Sailor Jupiter's attacks. Sailor Jupiter is a character from the classic anime series 'Sailor Moon’. As I created this piece, I made some personal associations between the sounds I was crafting and the gestures and images I remembered from the TV show. Each of these "ambient character portraits" is full of shifting, intricate patterns of interwoven sounds. Yet each piece is balanced in content, maintaining equilibrium like bodies in the solar system.” Produced by Kerrith Livengood.
3:00am - 4:00am
Thleep: Broadcasts 01
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.
4:00am - 5:00am
Robin Mackay: By The North Sea
By the North Sea is a sonic exploration of the perplexities of time, disappearance, and loss, channelled through the fictions of H.P. Lovecraft, the speculative mythos of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (Ccru), and the ghost of Dunwich—a once prosperous English trading city now lost almost wholly to the sea. Produced by Robin Mackay, philosopher and founder of the UK publisher Urbanomic.
5:00am - 6:00am
Naisa Making Waves: Pigeon Band And Ensign Peak
On today’s show we listen to two works that capture animals and environments in interesting and unique ways. Both works come from the 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Radio Art Compilation, which is now available on soundcloud. We are going to spend the majority of the show listening to and talking about the multi-species project Pigeon Band, which began with the question: “Do pigeons like music?” Two toy synth keyboards were installed on Emmie Tsumara's kitchen window sill, awaiting the daily pigeon visitors. Over several months of practice, the pigeons learned to play the keyboard as they snacked on sunflower seeds. Though each pigeon can be hard to tell apart visually, they each have their own personalities and movements. With those differences they each play a different song. The Pigeon Band benefited from the collaboration of many artists, including Blunderspublik, D Badua, Julia Fenn, Charlie Glasspool, Sarah DeCarlo, Polly-Jean Vernon, Veronica Ing, The Burning Hell, Jas Nasty, Chris International, Babe Chorus, Anomalia and Charlie Petch. The album was produced by artist, designer and pigeonfluencer Emmie Tsumura and it is mastered by Julia Fenn. I had a conversation with both of them to tell us about Pigeon Band and how it came to be. At the end of the show we will go on an electromagnetic hike up Ensign Peak in Salt Lake City with sound artist Matthew Driggs McMurray in his piece Meta-Frequency Field Recording: Salt Lake City // Ensign Peak. Visit naisa.ca.
6:00am - 7:00am
Radio Active On Water: Sonic Traces By Margarida Mendes
"Embarking on a journey along hydrobodies - from the deep ocean’s abyssal planes all the way through the Mississippi river, outwards into Indonesian tropical rainforests - Sonic Traces expands on my personal inquiries and journey as an activist and researcher. It sets out to expose how the traces of pollution - be they sonic or chemical - travel through watery spaces, impacting communities across ecosystems. Taking the form of a speculative dérive, it includes field recordings, poetry, field notes, and philosophical wonders.” Produced by Margarida Mendes.
7:00am - 8:00am
Mat Warren: Cogitare Deambulare, Radio Montage
Cogitare Deambulare, derived from Latin, translating to "Think Walk”. A longform audio representation of a year spent walking with therapeutic intent. The recording serves as a document, chronicling the journey of a year spent walking, listening, reflecting, recording, and creating sounds. "Following a significant life-altering event, I found myself walking as a means of processing my experiences and emotions. Each step became a form of meditation, allowing me to navigate my thoughts and feelings while immersed in the natural world around me. As I walked, I listened to the environment.
Through this recording, I aim to share a few of the sounds I encountered and the insights gained during this introspective journey. It serves as a testament to the healing power of movement and contemplation, illustrating how the simple act of walking can lead to profound reflections and personal growth.” Produced by Mat Warren.
8:00am - 8:30am
Radiophrenia Shorts 11
1) Freya Dooley - Useless and Precious (8:32). 2) Andre Birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - EFFO ISN E (0:46). 3) John Roach - The Airborne Library – (15:40). 4) Barnabas Sharp - Swallow the Universe (7:30). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
8:30am - 9:00am
Radiophrenia Shorts 11
5) Kari Kraakevik - A Dream? (9:25). 6) Alica Tserkovnaja - Trace it (5:17). 7) Zhanraw - you have a way with rebar (10:31). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
9:00am - 9:30am
Birdman750: How The River Severn Got Its Name
The Severn bore is approaching. Who are these people on the banks of the river? What are they doing? And how did the Severn get its name? This piece combines spoken word, drama and field recordings from the River Severn, telling the dark story of the river goddess Sabrina, and how she is approached in different ways. Geoffrey of Monmouth writing nine centuries ago, is the source of this story, that begins when Britain was Albion and populated only by giants... Sandra Mutton and John Williams were the Narrators. Michele Wardall wrote Severine, Mother and Daughter and Estrildis and Guendoloena who were played by Florence Simpson and Naomi Zara. Hugh Manistre wrote the Podcaster, played by Kevin Keene and Rachel Freeth sang. The narration and music were recorded indoors, but everything else on the banks of the Severn. A Birdman750 Production. Dedicated to the memory of Sandra Mutton. Visit
stroudsoundmap.org.
9:30am - 10:00am
Dorka Szender Kisfaludy: A Drift A Shore
'a-drift-a-shore' is a body of work featuring a 24′38″ soundscape that contains multilingual spoken excerpts from individuals who have experienced migration. This workshop series explored storytelling through the metaphor of a drift seed. Participants engaged in creative writing, sculptural building, and collective map-making, revealing personal stories as a form of introspection and healing. The project aimed to open a dialogue on the complexities of migration and diasporic experiences, amplifying historically marginalized voices. Recorded sessions took place at the Glasgow School of Art, the Garnethill Multicultural Centre, the Maryhill Integration Network, and MILK between autumn 2022 and spring 2023. Produced by Dorka.
10:00am - 10:30am
Jess Hamilton: Sink
Takayna is covered in sinkholes. Over thousands of years, rain seeping into the soil dissolves the dolomite rock below, slowly forming hollows and voids above ground. Soil and rock fall inwards and are washed away and the void grows deeper. To our eyes, the sinkhole’s surface is still and reflective, obscuring the orchestra of life within its water body. With one ear above and one below the surface we listen to frogs, birds, the wind through the trees, aquatic insects buzzing like tiny fireworks, burrowing invertebrates and clawing crustaceans. Takayna holds the largest ancient temperate rainforest in Australia and one of the last undisturbed Gondwana rainforests in the world. Like many forest sites in Australia, it is threatened and surrounded by logging. Gratitude and respect to the palawa pakana traditional owners. Dedicated to the forest defenders. Produced by Jess Hamilton.
10:30am - 11:00am
Radiophrenia Shorts 45
1) Lin Li - Listen Now (12:00). 2) Luigi Morleo - CLIMATIC EXPRESSION (11:09). 3) Jules Bradley – melting (3:03). 4) Nick St George - Gentle Nymph (5:52). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
11:00am - 11:30am
Radiophrenia Shorts 45
5) Lananh Chu – polysyndeton 2 (2:42). 6) Phil McDonald - A Figure (8:40). 7) Olivier Julien - Peter Kay's Meat Grinder Chortle (6:58). 8) Frontera Glaciar – HERMANO FANTASMA (6:20). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
11:30am - 12:00pm
Buffer Zone
1) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 3 (5mins). 2) Cerpintxt - Acid Rain in the Nucleus of the Stone (4:25). 3) Ecka Mordecai - la charnière I (06:12). 4) Catalina Barroso-Luque - Cackles (3:00). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
12:00pm - 12:30pm
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: Sonic Psychogeographies Ii
"This radio work takes a critical position against cartography, and departs from its connections to colonial practices, of mapmaking and imperial borders. Drawing insights from alternative spatial practices in some of the Global Souths regions and cultures, and from radical-subversive practices in Europe, such as The Situationists, in this work I explore some listening-driven counter mapping practices, attuning with situated listening and drifting.” Produced by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
12:30pm - 1:00pm
Radiophrenia 2025: Tbc
For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/calendar.
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 25
1) Marie Cheneval - Derrière les munitions (19 :48). 2) Andre Birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations- EFFO ISN C (0:37). 3) Robert Gillespie – Legacy (15:39). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 25
4) Thiago R - Instruções de desenho/Drawing instructions (2:23). 5) Evagelia Siarvali – krousis (1:05). 6) Brodie Ainsworth - The Dissassociate (11:00). 7) Luis Arevalo – Akasha (7:44). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Public Engagement Workshops Listening Event
A Radiophrenia Public Engagement Workshops Listening Event. For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Jean Phillipe Drecourt: Barreiro Improvised, Radiophrenia Edition (Live Streamed Performance)
'Barreiro Improvised' is an electroacoustic journey through the sonic landscape of Barreiro near Lisbon, Portugal. Using field recordings from the Cidade Som archives, the project recontextualizes everyday sounds of the city, from the natural ambience of the Tagus River to the noises of its industrial heritage. Central to the performance is the Chaos Conductor, a custom Max/MSP instrument designed for spontaneous sound exploration and live soundscape creation. Introducing elements of unpredictability, it creates a unique dialogue between the performer and the machine that makes every live performance unique. This Radiophrenia broadcast offers an exclusive solo interpretation of the project. Live-streamed directly from Barreiro, it will feature the sound archive reimagined through improvisation, challenging listeners to discover the city's acoustic identity. Produced by Jean-Philippe Drecourt.
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Buffer Zone
1) Cerpintxt & Ruben Sonnoli - Dweller in the Eye (3:38) . 2) iT - Irena Tomažin - wanting needs - want it (2:18). 3) Carys Wall - El Poble (5:40). 4) I broke the vase - Sikinos (9.22). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
6:00pm - 6:20pm
Zara Joan Miller: Year Of The Dragon
Year of the Dragon. A mother draws a circle. Spins round. Pins everything but the tail on the donkey. She wants to know how the dragon makes fire, gets inside it. On the inside things slow. Written in the Year of the Dragon, Zara Joan Miller’s long poem traces fire across a year. The figure of Saint Margaret, who freed herself from the belly of a dragon, is relocated in living voices that challenge structures of oppression today. A year of feeding fire, of dousing and soft loving. A mother waits in disguise by the fire exit. Produced by Zara Joan Miller. Year of the Dragon is co-commissioned by TACO! and blurt, an experimental platform supporting artists to develop text-based works for live reading and performance, and synchronous live-to-air broadcast on rtm.fm. In this testing-site for testing text, four artists and artist-groups consider radio broadcast as an expanded form of publishing. This co-commission is supported by the Outlands Network exchange programme.
6:20pm - 6:40pm
Ben Byrne: Tumut
Tumut listens to Grey-headed Flying-foxes waking and heading out from their colony on an island in the Tumut river, below the town of the same name. The river flows through Wiradjuri Country in Australia. Recorded using an ambisonic microphone, the piece tracks an encounter between the flying-foxes, some of their neighbors, and the recordist. Flying-foxes cover great range and are found all along the east coast of Australia but have been documented to be moving south and becoming more localized in specific areas over the last decade, threatened by habitat destruction, global warming, extreme weather events, and food scarcity. The flying-foxes are important to healthy ecosystems, pollinating and dispersing the seeds of key tree species, but are often regarded as pests. The name Tumut is thought to be derived from a word for the area in the local Aboriginal language Wiradjuri, meaning 'quiet resting place by the river’. Produced by Ben Byrne.
6:40pm - 7:00pm
Verónica Cerrotta: Camadas Verticales
"Camadas verticales" is a collage of times and spaces. Of objects and landscapes. Of gestures, textures, paths and movements. It was made from field recordings taken between 2020 and 2022 in the interior of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Verónica Cerrotta: Field recordings and composition. Federico Fragalá: Mastering.
7:00pm - 7:30pm
Luke Fowler & David Grubbs: J’Ai Pensé Sans Paroles, Live At The Glad Café
Duo performance by Luke Fowler and David Grubbs with sound material provided by Brunhild Ferrari. Recorded live at the Glad Café, 15th March 2025 at a special Radiophrenia pre-festival event.
7:30pm - 8:00pm
Cerpintxt And Ruben Sonnoli: Refugees Of The Symbolic Network / أَسيرًا في مَصانعُ الحُلمُ
Recorded live at the Glad Café, 15th March, 2025 at a special Radiophrenia pre-festival event. Refugees of the Symbolic Network / أَسيرًا في مَصانعُ الحُلمُ is a hauntology series of Palestinian resistance and funeral music spatialised in the convolution reverb of the King's Chamber of the Giza Pyramid. Mainly deconstructing the work of the Izz al-Din Manasirah & Sargon Boulus. Some research suggests that the Great Pyramid could have functioned as a kind of geovibrational resonant amplifier on account of its construction of granite, a resonant quartzbearing rock which appears to have been tuned to precise frequencies. On a site visit to the King’s and Queen’s chambers of the Giza pyramid, the impulse response of the chambers was acquired. This impulse response is then mapped onto convolution sound effects, transposing the performance within the spectral footprint of the chambers. Visit www.cerpintxt.com.
8:10pm - 8:30pm
Secluded Bronte: A Phone Call From The Highlands
A man visits the Scottish Highlands for a winter break. On his first night he has what can best be described as an unusual experience. The following morning he telephones a friend in Surrey and recounts the events of the previous evening. Man in the Highlands - Guy Gregory. Man in Surrey - Jonathan Bohman. Dobson - Adam Bohman. "John" - Jonathan Bohman. Writer - Richard Thomas. Music and sound design - Richard Thomas. Field Recordings and Foley - Jonathan Bohman. Additional music cues – Secluded Bronte, Wagner, Schubert, Mendelsohn. Recorded at 360, 35 and on location. A Phone Call From The Highlands is a Secluded Bronte production.
8:30pm - 9:00pm
Jean Baptiste Masson: Rémanence
Rémanence is based on found materials, recorded by amateur sound hobbyists in France and Germany between the 1960s and the 1990s. The tapes and cassettes were collected in the two countries in Summer 2023, while on trip to investigate the sonic practices of French and German sound hunters. People were interviewed and sonic material gathered. Sound hunters were amateurs interested in sound, who from the 1950s, started to produce radio programmes, to organise national and international contests, to edit magazines, to gather themselves in tape recording clubs. This piece documents and poeticises their activities, that ranged from family recordings, to musique concrète, to the recording of bird songs, to the soundtracks of amateur films, to music, interviews and audio documentaries. Short electroacoustic compositions by me link and sometimes frame sound hunters’ recordings. The tapes and cassettes of this piece were collected thanks to a funding from the Deutsch-Französischer Bürgerfonds. Produced by Jean-Baptiste Masson.
9:00pm - 10:00pm
Frederico Pessoa: Transmitting Life From Deep Black Holes
Transmitting Life from Deep Black Holes harnesses a fusion of clipped and modified samples from diverse sources. These include snippets of sound transmissions from interplanetary probes that have journeyed through our solar system, intertwined with recordings of drones emanating from the machinery of Brazilian mining corporations, which carve massive cavities in the earth akin to entire neighborhoods. Additionally, it incorporates excerpts from interviews, lectures, and conversations broadcasted by the Brazilian media in recent years. By appropriating the electromagnetic waves permeating the cosmos, those pulsating within the Earth's core, and those engendering our collective existence, Transmitting Life from Deep Black Holes aims to stimulate contemplation on our existence and our interconnectedness with our environment. These electromagnetic waves transcend human agency, embodying manifold meanings and interpretations regarding our impact on and reception from our surroundings. Produced by Frederico Pessoa.
10:00pm - 11:00pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 39
1) IRIDE PROJECT & BERNARD CLARKE - The Witches of Montenerodomo (13:16). 2) Volker Ignaz Schmidt – EISSCHMELZE (8:06). 3) Katrina Brown - On Field Crossing (12:57). 4) Evamaria Müller - à l’heure du crepuscule (17:20). 5) Andre Birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - TANZ MIT OLAFUR ELIASON (6:36). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
11:00pm - 12:00am
Andre Birken: Conversations With No One/Conversas Com Ninguem
Eugenio de Almeida's famous stage piece re-interpreted for radio. A dramatic piece, narrated by the late Guilherme Freitas from Brazil, with music by Marcel Schweder from Germany. "I dislike small talk. But I love meaningful conversations, or simply deep listening. On my forays through the world, I walked through landscapes, museums, religious processions, bars, theater rehearsals and exhibitions. I accompanied a dear friend to the dentist, made field recordings, noise sessions, radio plays and gave vocal improvisation work shops or played music on corduroy cushions.” Produced by Andre Birken. With orchestral Music courtesy Marcel Schweder and the Voices of Guilherme Freitas, Sigtryggur Sigmarson and others. Thanks to Midus Chambel, Lourdes Nobre and Miguel Pacheco. Dedicated to Frank Hühnerbein.
12:00am - 1:00am
Spectral Transmissions Research Unit: Peripheral Visions
“Before it all seemed so simple, things cast shadows. But now it turned out that shadows cast things, or perhaps things didn’t exist at all” Peripheral Visions, as the shadows start to lengthen we turn our minds to the place where the street lights end. Out here on the periphery, flickering visions and half heard noises scuff our logic with their insistent truancy. Fragments of things unbound by our narrow grasping. “On cold winter nights we would occasionally perceive a strange glimmering of lights, a marked pulsating luminosity in the very edges of our vision accompanied by a vibrant oscillating frequency of sound, taking in certain cases, the form of bright circular waves, which seem to move from the periphery towards the centre, but if we tried to look directly at them to see them more clearly they evaded us, seeming to drift and fade, dissipating like so much smoke." 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.