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BROADCASTS ACROSS GLASGOW ON 87.9FM

24 HOURS A DAY: 7th – 20th April, 2025

RADIOPHRENIA is a radio art collective, festival and art radio station broadcasting intermittently across Glasgow.  

The broadcast schedule for our 2025 edition includes a series of newly commissioned radio works, public Live-to-Air performances, live studio shows, long-form works, shorts and pre-recorded features. For this year’s selections we were assisted by guest curator Riah Naief of Listen Gallery. Through our public engagement programme we will be working with four different community groups to realise a new series of sound and radio works. As in previous years the majority of the programme will be made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound art and radio works. Radiophrenia first began broadcasting in April 2015 with subsequent editions in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023. The websites from our previous festivals have been archived below.

 

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

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

 

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 Open Project Fund with additional support from Civic House and the Goethe-Institut. 
“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