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The Light at the End of the Dial

RADIOPHRENIA is a radio art collective, festival and art radio station broadcasting intermittently across Glasgow on 87.9FM and online.

The station aims to promote radio as an art form, encouraging challenging and radical new approaches to the medium. Radiophrenia first began broadcasting in April 2015 with subsequent editions in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The websites from our previous festivals have been archived below.

2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2019 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023 | 2025

In advance of the broadcasts we would also like to announce a special night of newly commissioned live performances that will be recorded for later broadcast

• A new collaborative exchange between Brunhild Ferrari, David Grubbs and Luke Fowler that takes the form of a fixed radiophonic composition by Brunhild Ferrari incorporating recordings made by Fowler, titled Errant Ear – and J’ai pensé sans paroles a live performance by the duo of Grubbs and Fowler based around material supplied to them by Ferrari. MORE…

 

Refugees of the Symbolic Network – أَسيرًا في مَصانعُ الحُلمُ a new live audio-visual performance by Cerpintxt (AKA Alaa Yussry) with special guest Ruben Sonnoli. Refugees of the Symbolic Network – أَسيرًا في مَصانعُ الحُلمُ is a hauntology series of Palestinian resistance and funeral music spatialized in the convolution reverb of the King’s Chamber of the Giza Pyramid. MORE…

Saturday, 15th March

Doors 7pm, first act 8pm sharp

The Glad Café, 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow, G41 2HG

Limited capacity. Advance tickets through EVENTBRITE
Pay what you can: £0 / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 / £10

 

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A Night of Radiophonic Performances at the Glad Café

Sunday, 23rd November, 2025

Hailing from the wild coast of Normandy, French composer Félicia Atkinson performs a newly commissioned radio work titled ‘Wilhelmina, Glaciers Chasms’ – and Glasgow based sound artist Matt Robin performs a new live piece ‘A Breath of Bronze’ in advance of his full scale production commission for Radiophrenia 2026.

The Glad Café, 1006A Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow G41 2HG

Doors 8pm, first act 8.30pm sharp • Limited capacity • Pay what you can: £5 / £10 / £15

Lost in Transmission
Subtitled radio works from around the world

Lost in transmission is a series of events presenting non-English language radio works with subtitled translations in cinema spaces around Scotland. The captioning allows audiences to experience the wealth of radio art available from all over the globe in its original language in the comfortable space of a cinema – in much the same way as you might go to see a foreign language film – only here there are no pictures, just the sounds, the words and your imagination.

The first of these events is curated by the Lucia festival team and also features a special live performance from Nat Raha. The screening event will take place in the GMAC cinema space in Glasgow on the 6th November.

Radiophrenia is managed as a co-operative by Mark VernonTimothea Armour and Stevie Jones.  Our Public Engagment programme is co-ordinated by Steve Urquhart. Radiophrenia is funded through Creative Scotland’s multi-year funding strand. As an organisation Radiophrenia is commited to advancing the Scottish Government’s Fair Work principles. Radiophrenia is part of a list of Scottish Cultural Organisations who endorse PACBI (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel). We strongly urge the government to stop arming Israel, end the siege on Gaza and free Palestine.
“Radiophrenia is an accumulation, rather than an overarching theme or idea, brought together through a common medium: live events, produced commissions, live studio performances, compilations of short works, long form works, documentaries, field recordings, experimental music, sound art, drama, poetry and (perhaps mostly) lots of material that lies in between or beyond. At times recordings blend together, at others they are punctuated by an announcer’s voice. Ongoing and literally refreshing, becoming anew with each work, each space of reception.”
Anna McLauchlan
“Radiophrenia is a collective experience of ephemeral encounters. There is no playback and no way to know who else is listening. Expectations of replay, rewind and fast-forward are replaced by the certainties of start and stop. Choose a radio programme from the schedule or opt to drop in by chance. Alight on a musical phrase, traffic, glacial thaw or birdsong, a swallow. This widely cast variety engenders different modes of listening. I could take notes and learn something, do some ecstatic dance, submit to the story of a strange land, or enter a trance, my inner eye replete with conjured images. My understanding of each ‘segment’ will not be static. Some things will turn me off and some on… The Radiophrenia project has an open-endedness unlike anything to be found in material work such as painting or immersive sculpture. Vision can deceive, walled off in its world of surfaces. Radiophrenia occurs as an open system, a crystal palace full of interstices. I position myself within and without. The terrain of hearing is equally illusory, given the appearance of confinement within the skull: it not only consumes inner space entirely, but makes it seem infinite.”
Daniella Watson Hughes