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
The Light at the End of the Dial
BROADCASTS ACROSS GLASGOW ON 87.9FM
24 HOURS A DAY: 5th – 20th September, 2026
RADIOPHRENIA is a radio art collective, festival and art radio station broadcasting intermittently across Glasgow on 87.9FM and online.
The broadcast schedule for our 2026 edition includes a series of 20 newly commissioned radio works, public Live-to-Air performances, live in-studio shows and performances, long-form works, shorts and pre-recorded features. In making this year’s selections we were assisted by guest curator Semay Wu. Through our public engagement programme we have been working with seven 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. This year we have received so many submissions that we felt it necessary to extend our broadcast across an additional weekend just to squeeze it all in.
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 The websites from our previous festivals have been archived below.
Open Call for Sound & Radio Works
Now closed
The open call for our upcoming September 2026 season of broadcasts is now closed. We have had a tremendous response so it will take us some time to work our way through all of the amazing sounds we’ve been sent. We aim to notify everyone about whether we are able to include their work or not by the end of June. For proposed works we will be in touch over the coming months.
Lost in Transmission
Lost in transmission is a series of events presenting non-English language radio works with subtitled translations in cinema spaces around Scotland alongside performances by locally based artists working with voice and text.
Upcoming events:
Thursday, 11th June, 7pm, Andrew Stewart Cinema, Glasgow University.
For more details on our events and where to buy tickets visit our Events page.
Radiophrenia is managed as a co-operative by Mark Vernon, Timothea Armour, and Stevie Jones. Our Environmental & Sustainability Officer is Elina Bry. 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.
