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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.
1:00am - 1:30am
Gary Wilkinson: Botox/Collagen/Silicone
An exploration of aesthetic beauty treatments and the relationship we have with our bodies and appearance. The piece looks at the fragility of the human condition both physical and mental and what forms our interpretation of beauty. The role of social media and the exploitation of people in areas of low income and low self esteem. Considering the ageing process and the passing of time which writes itself all over our bodies and taking a sympathetic view of the minute details of our appearance that we obsess over. The piece is composed using fragments of music from Brahms, Holst, Bruckner, Korsakov, Smetana and Chopin, each fragment chosen using a random number generator to enable the piece to be ultimately programmed so each iteration can be unique, reflecting the individualistic theme of the work. Produced by Gary Wilkinson.
1:30am - 2:00am
Soft Noise Ensemble: Moaning And Sighing Toward Aeolus
Giving forth or marked by a moaning or sighing sound or musical tone produced by or as if by the wind. 'Moaning and sighing toward Aeolus' is a new work for strings and wind harp by Soft Noise Ensemble, commissioned by String Attached/NyMusikk Bergen. This recording is a live recording taken at the Strings Attached festival at Landmark, Bergen, April 2024. Visit /softnoiseensemble.bandcamp.com.
2:00am - 2:30am
Yashique: Stream Of Consciousness
"This piece was composed by sending Tartinis Devil's Trill Sonata through a micro delay plugin, I developed during my master's in Sound Design in Scotland. The plugin takes in the input audio and then splits it into 20 different buffers, uniquely processes each buffer and then joins them back together creating a sonic mosaic of the original piece. The title Stream of Consciousness mirrors the intensity and flow of a frightening or impactful dream with the aim to reimagine Tartini's journey to deconstruct the dream that inspired him to compose the original Sonata in G Minor.” Produced by Yashique Chalil.
2:30am - 3:30am
Thleep: Broadcasts 04
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.
3:30am - 4:15am
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.
4:15am - 5:00am
Dinah & Molly Mullen: Echo Sister Audio Essays, Locating Echo
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.
5:00am - 6:00am
Naisa Making Waves: Vlf Radio With Dan Tapper
This episode features a conversation with Dan Tapper about his interest in VLF - Very Low Frequency Radio or what is often referred to as Natural radio because it makes audible to human ears the electromagnetic waves that encircle the earth. Dan Tapper is a British sound artist based in Toronto and in the second half of the show we will play his radio piece about VLF called "Some Call it Noise". In the interview Dan referenced a documentary about VLF called "Sun Song" that was made by Patrick Sykes. Click Here to listen to "Sun Song.” Produced by Darren Copeland. Visit naisa.ca.
6:00am - 7:00am
Radio Active On Water: River Breathing By Carlos Monleon And Nathaniel Mann
Nathan and Carlos discuss the activation of different bodies of knowledge and efforts of riverine conservation involved in the process of River Breathing. River Breathing is an immersive sound installation in which the audience can experience the breathing of the rivers Ebro, Segre and other affluents as a symphony composed of the life cycles of the various species that participate in the pulse of the river. Collaborators:
Scientific advisor Rosa Maria Gil. River ecology: Enrique Navarro and Francisco Comín
Clam conservation work: Keiko Nakamura. Sound composition and lighting: w/ Santiago Latorre. Castanets: Miguel Ángel Berna. Visit carlosmonleon.com/riverbreathing.
7:00am - 8:00am
Ilia Rogatchevski/The Radiophonic Travel Agency: A Trip To Maunsell Forts
The Maunsell Forts were constructed in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War. Their imposing and somewhat alien shape – tall platforms balancing atop legs jutting out from the sea – is reminiscent of the Martian Tripods from “The War of the Worlds”. Following their decommission, in the 1950s, some of the forts were squatted and used for broadcasting pirate radio. One even became a micronation called The Principality of Sealand. This recording documents a family trip to Whitstable, Kent. You can hear the family exploring the town, beachfront and harbour before boarding the Vulcan and setting out on a boat trip to the forts at Red Sands. The recording is part of the Radiophonic Travel Agency, a series that allows anyone from across the world to visit unusual and sometimes impossible locations. Produced by Ilia Rogatchevski. Visit radiophonictravel.agency.
8:00am - 8:30am
Radiophrenia Shorts 12
1) Home Secretary - piano and tape (3:46). 2) Heidi Hörsturz – Simulation (11:56). 3) Vincent Eoppolo - Omaggio a David Shapiro (6:08). 4) Andreas Oskar Hirsch - Teaoism International (3:00). 5) Mary Hooper – Funghilious (6:00). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
8:30am - 9:00am
Radiophrenia Shorts 12
6) Sam C. Shin - Imagined Spaces (5:00). 7) Adrian Laugsch - Spasms Of My Aching Heart (8:25). 8) Adrienne Murray - The Weight of Distance (5:40). 9) Fil Corbitt - Stovepipe Windharp Summons the Frogs (2:54). 10) Deborah Shaw (Aurora Engine) – Tintinnabulation (3:36). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
9:00am - 9:30am
Mark Vernon: A Loop Within A Loop
The Glasgow underground is a simple circular, concentric route travelling in both directions. The Inner Circle or the Outer Circle are the only choices - and if you plumped for the wrong one it takes only 24 minutes to do a complete circuit. Although at times incredibly noisy (you sometimes leave the train feeling mildly traumatised by the sound) the subway is undeniably one of Glasgow’s best-known and most familiar soundmarks. A Loop Within a Loop re-imagines the sounds of the subway network in an exploration of circularity, repetition and looped systems. Featuring field recordings made on the underground and interviews with former train drivers - voices and sounds, loop and repeat, come and go, ebb and flow - evoking the sensations of the subway - the rhythms, sounds and smells, the motion of the train, the grinding repetition experienced by the drivers, the impenetrable darkness and the light at the end of the tunnel. Produced by Mark Vernon. Visit meagreresource.com.
9:30am - 10:00am
Francesc Llompart: Viatge Cap Al Buit
"Viatge cap al buit" (Journey to the Void) offers the listener a slow and transformative excursion through a series of landscapes where the real blends with the surreal and the impossible. The journey begins in darkness, with a screen of noise that evokes the sound of a plane landing, gradually transforming into water. A succession of environments follows, sometimes diurnal, sometimes nocturnal, where sounds detach from the landscape and embark on their own journey, ever-changing. The void refers to the intangible, the non-material that exists beyond our world. Through sound processing, this unreal otherworldly realm comes into contact with ours; the different elements that make up the scene wander between their boundaries: we hear supernatural echoes from the other side, and as they approach us, we discover a person walking. They sit down. The image they contemplate evaporates... Produced by Francesc Llompart.
10:00am - 10:15am
Melissa Mc Carthy: Who Will Win? Episode 3
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
Wastelands: Walleys Quarry By Magz Hall With Mieko Shimizu And The People Of Newcastle Under Lyme
A pressing immersive radiophonic journey sharing the personal accounts of those living next to Walley’s Quarry a Landfill in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, run by Red Industries who breached its permit over 111 times and caught fire this summer. Thanks to the community of Newcastle-Under-Lyme and Stop the Stink for contributing. This is stereo mix of the work which was initially made as 16 speaker immersive radiophonic doc for the WinterSounds Festival and is being shared across platforms. Produced by Magz Hall. Music by Mieko Shimizu. Supported by Screen South and Arts Council England.
11:00am - 11:30am
Shhe: Como é O Som Do Guaíba
In November 2024, sound artist and musician SHHE travelled to Porto Alegre in Brazil for a month-long residency with Kino Beat Festival. In May 2024, the river broke its banks, contributing to the worst flooding that Brazil has experienced in 80 years, impacting 2.3 million people and displacing 600,000 across Porto Alegre and the surrounding regions. What does it mean to live on the margins of such a powerful water body? Combining field recordings, testimonials and experiences shared through a multitude of voices - human and nonhuman – the sound work resonates around the question, Como é o som do Guaíba? Produced by SHHE.
11:30am - 12:00pm
Buffer Zone
1) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 4 (5:00). 2) Ecka Mordecai - Show up or shut up (2:48). 3) iT - Irena Tomažin - intro- the crying game (2:13). 4) Frontera Glaciar - Meditar (5:04). 5) Niko-Matti Ahti - Kaivajaiset Part 1.2 (6:46). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
12:00pm - 12:30pm
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.
12:30pm - 1:00pm
Lia Kohl: Variations On A Topography
Variations on a Topography is constructed in stratified layers, each containing a recording of a full scan of the AM/FM spectrum from bottom to top and back down again. Tuning through the spectrum in the same place every time, Kohl charts a map of her specific signal, showcasing the geographic specificity of radio and drawing out its topography with additional musical sounds. Cello and synthesizer highlight moments of clarity and static, creating a counterpoint ruled by the dichotomy between them. These “signal sweeps” also offer a sedimentary view of time, capturing multiple 28 minute sections of what would otherwise be completely ephemeral sounds. The recordings, taken over the span of a few months, speak in various ways to the passage of time – the weather gets colder, traffic patterns shift, wars break out. The signal, like a ghostly mountain range, hovers around us. Produced by Lia Kohl.
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 26
1) Marco Dibeltulu - Due atomi di idrogeno e uno di ossigeno (9:10) . 2) Domenico De Simone - PEACE WIND (6:55). 3) Elsa Vass-de-Zomba - safe spaces (5:20) . 4) Marie Koppel - Er hat mich verlassen 2000/2024 (1:24). 5) Bruno Belardi – Antropocene (3:09). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 26
6) Renée LoBue - "A Place Like Home I" (2:15). 7) Solen Fluzin - Windswept Whispers (7:48). 8) Andre Birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - EFFO ISN G (1:47) . 9) Katrina Brown & Sarah Scaife - sound of Sound (20:35). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Studio Cybi: Alone Together, Ar Ben Ein Hunain Gyda’N Gilydd
Studio Cybi’s, Ar Ben Ein Hunain Gyda’n Gilydd, is an hour long audio poem, blending synth, archival sounds (from The Slatemakers a 1980 Horizon documentary and assorted YouTube recordings taken from old raves) and spoken word into a manifesto-prayer fusion. Produced by Studio Cybi, a curatorial duo from Holyhead, North Wales, comprising artists Iwan Lewis and Rebecca Gould. Visit www.studiocybi.com.
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Nichola Scrutton & Zoe Strachan: Test Pitting
"Our collaborative test-pitting practice gestures towards the archaeological process of delving into a site of enquiry to reveal layers gathered over time, fragmented artefacts, traces of presence. We create a palimpsest of sound that combines composition and improvisation, explores new or re-imagined lines of connection across time and place, and interweaves ideas of inner/outer ecologies. This live-to-broadcast sound work uses field recordings from a new site, with some live manipulation, a prepared instrument, words and voice materials. Found text will come from SEPA, including flood and river flow data.” Produced by Nichola Scrutton and Zoë Strachan.
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Joseph James Francis: Shadows And Tender Frailties
"The work Shadows and Tender Frailties is a composition using modular synthesis and field recordings. I created this work with the idea of creating a piece that felt like a lonely soundtrack searching for a film. I wanted to let the listener fill in the characters, and the narrative, creating their own film in the theater of the mind. This idea came about after performing previous works and audience members explaining the things that they saw and felt when listening to my music. I feel like this would work well on radio where the listener could be in their own chosen environment to experience the work. The title Shadows and Tender Frailties refers to the profound and often hidden parts of us that lie dormant. Our tender frailties refer to the delicate and sensitive weaknesses inherent in our humanity.” Produced by Joseph James Francis.
4:00pm - 4:15pm
Derek Walmsley: Reduce, Reuse, Re Cycle
The click of the derailleur, the whirr of the hub, the hum of a carefully lubricated chain – in an era of climate breakdown and energy scarcity, the bicycle is an orchestra of sounds that embody attributes of energy-efficiency and recycling that will be essential to an low carbon future. Reduce, Reuse, Re-cycle takes the listener inside the bicycle workshop via a forensic collage of repair sounds as beat-up bikes get nurtured back to smooth working order. Chain-lines are analysed, barrel adjusters are manipulated, hanger alignment is checked and bottom brackets are checked as the low-carbon vehicles of the future are forged. Produced by Derek Walmsley.
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Ni & Katerina: Interfere/Conjunct/Displace
Most of the time radio is used by and for people to communicate with each other, to project sounds into the invisible space, to make causal connections and statements. We are curious about the sound of that invisible space - what can it communicate back to us if we shift our perception of the senses? We aim to explore the ephemeral, that which lies beyond our regular range of hearing and perception. By listening, we ask where, when and how do we exist in the sound field? Produced by
Ni and Katarina. Visit Instagram @postintrotwone and @sonoronja.
5:00pm - 5:45pm
Jean Phillipe Renoult: Unfrequented Frequencies
Radio glitches and short wave interferences as a musical instrument. Unfrequented Frequencies is a solo improvisation by JPRRR, who uses shortwave radio interference as the basis for live performances. Produced by Jean-Phillipe Renoult.
5:45pm - 6:00pm
Buffer Zone
Including: Ecka Mordecai - Hot Tarmax (1:21). From the album Critique + Prosper. For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
6:00pm - 6:30pm
Irena Tomažin: Radiophrenia 2025 Commission
For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
6:30pm - 7:00pm
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.
7:00pm - 8:20pm
Electroacoustical Poetical Society: Entropy
Electroacoustical Poetical Society poets Ilaria Boffa, Tony Brewer, Brian Price, Joan Schuman, Marjorie Van Halteren and Gregory Whitehead each respond to the theme "Entropy." This is the resulting collection. EAPS was created by Marjorie Van Halteren, a poet, sound artist and composer living in Lille France. Find details at www.electroacousticalpoeticalsociety.com.
8:20pm - 9:30pm
Bariya: Delhi Polyphones
Where must the prayers hide in the sound of the city so that clouds could reach them and water? An undertone of the city? An overtone? A polyphone? Millions of them in a cosmic float? Delhi Polyphones is a series of multichannel compositions, performances, and rituals, composed of Delhi’s undertones, overtones, and many other polyphones. After recording soundscapes from around Delhi, including tombs, railway stations and tracks, lakes, atmospheric virtual tones, parks, industrial areas, bridges, underpasses, universities, and ultrasonic environments, using inverse notch filters and new pure data devices, the collaged soundscapes were synthesized in their polyphony to return to the city as a natural body and hear its many paraphonic polyphonic voices- interdependently making up our sonic environments -to access aural auroras of the city which reach out to the skies in feebler, nobler intonations and gestures. Produced by Riya Raagini and Pratyush Pushkar aka Bariya. Visit www.bariyastudio.com.
9:30pm - 10:00pm
Dosimat: Many Variations Of A Stoat Tail
Ease into spring. A collaborative ensemble of Dosimat is a polyglot depot for municipal events.
10:00pm - 10:30pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 40
1) Juliette Chartier & Anaïs Cabandé - ambre jaune (yellow amber) (6:19). 2) Jorge Carrillo Jardón - Duality with noise pollution (5:11). 3) Kevin Poulton – Resonance (4:02). 4) Jamie Lemoine - Tree 68 Outtakes (5:39). 5) Maia Harding - IL,CD (8:14). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
10:30pm - 11:00pm
Radiophrenia Shorts 40
6) Paul Oehlers – Automaton (6:09). 7) Paul Baran - The Barrier (5:56). 8) Andre Birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 2 (0:27). 9) Jeff Gburek - Grodjdibodu Romania Well Water Echoes (1:39). 10) Camilla Hannan – Spital (10:00). For the full listing of Radiophrenia's 24/7 broadcasts visit radiophrenia.scot/schedule.
11:00pm - 11:30pm
Gobscure: Sing Singe
“Our queered version ov folk-song twa corbies is buried in this mix ... carrion species tidy the planet of homo sapiens mess and we demonise them for it ... weve always loved crows (and the whole corvidae family) ov raggedy, scavenging survivors while a murder ov crows are no more than the collective learning who killed one ov their own and passing the word on ... (yes its about the environment)”. Produced by gobscure.
11:30pm - 12:00am
A. A. Walker: Snafu (Situation Normal, All Fucked Up)
SNAFU is an anti-narrative fiction dealing with themes of morality, the news, art, and the political corruption of the Social Bureaucrat Party. Its main protagonist is Nasrul, a 'facilitator for the non-hierarchy of projected imaginative phenomena’. Written and performed by A. A. Walker with sound art from Riah Naief of Listen Gallery, Glasgow. Visit aawalker.net.
12:00am - 1:00am
Spectral Transmissions Research Unit: The Path
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