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joshua elza breen-tucci - the birth and death of a planet
7 April 2025 12:00 am - 12:45 am
'birth and death of a planet' is an imaginary acoustic-ecology/soundscape recorded across deep-time, tracing the life cycle of an earth-like planet. opperating somewhere between documentary field-recording, ambient electronic composition, and science fiction, the work follows the planet's life as it violently coalesces into a celestial body, matures, thrives, and inevitably succumbs to the cold lifelessness of the greater universe around it. as science fiction, the work invites listeners to experience an epic sonic drama, an adventure story of peril, awe, and wondrous discovery filled in by their imaginations. as documentary, the work is an impossible time-stretched audio-portrait of our own planet's journey, of the precariousness of life, and of the fate of impermanence shared by all things (perhaps even the universe itself). the work invites meditatation on the past, present and future of our planet and solar system, and of life and death itself, inescapable even at a celestial scale.
Artist bio:
joshua elza breen-tucci (b. 1991) is an intermedia artist interested in areas where human invention - from the social to technological - mediates subjective experiences and broader understandings of lived reality. through a practice based in the creation of machines, systems and situations, josh explores interplays between control and autonomy, order and chance, which challenge passive observation and invoke precarious relationships of co-authorship with his work. through this methodology and critical framework, josh seeks to draw attention to phenomena and machinations of everyday life which are invisible, obscured, or otherwise overlooked. His formal interests include sound, kinetic-sculpture, and text. -
Paul Rooney - Words and Silence
7 April 2025 12:45 am - 1:00 am
A call centre worker, cold-calling to sell insurance, has one of her calls go to answer machine. Instead of hanging up, she leaves a message: she tells stories about silence, distance and time.
Artist bio:
Paul Rooney is an artist based in Liverpool. His installations, videos, writings and records focus on the instabilities and deceptions of narrative, particularly in relation to representing place: its everyday life; its history and folklore; its familiar strangeness. He has shown work at Tate Britain; Tate Liverpool; BALTIC; The Arnolfini; and Whitechapel Gallery; and has exhibited internationally at places such as Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Two of his installations were purchased for the Arts Council Collection in 2015.
Website/social links
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Shaun Robert - Songs Of Love & Revolution
7 April 2025 1:00 am - 1:30 am
Short form variations in song form and the pure noise of emotion ; from states of love, heart break & longing . Interception draw from illusional trance in counter anthropocentric conclusions, where free will it's self is hung. Including : visión conjunta, climax, lovlynes, Perish, Katzelmacher, decimated heart & elixirCross talk & frequency drifting pulls the strings of his heart & relating to loops and rough editing , audio drop outs , a Sonic Organic. A mix of forms in an expanding wave , nudging & slating whim , composition dealt in reality , a truth of intimate confessional & intruding a microphone , the tension of triggered sounds to ape pictures of life
Artist bio:
Shaun Robert (1966 - ) has been working with sound from an early age , a natural extension of play. Starting like many with a domestic tape recorder ; years finger poised on the pause button ; tunnelling into the present & falling into deep concentration ; in a trance of coloured sound trials ; impromptu expressions processed & filtered into moments of congealed sound ; also using field recording , in voxpop & audio voyeurism , of hauntological stylings , spoken word & singing. Falling apart to come together ; feeling the next transition is about to happen.
Website/social links
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Limbo Calling Ep 2 - New Animals
7 April 2025 1:30 am - 2:00 am
Episode 2. NewAnimals
Perilous encounters with foxes, grizzly worms and a dubiousanimal collector... The Operator presents some unnerving wildlife discoveriesfrom across the Limbo airwaves, including a song that poses a poignant questionfor us all.
Produced by Pete Hazell with contributions from Sean Lee,Ania Balcerek and Karen Dews. ~ Thememusic by Alex Lupo ~ "Fates"by Caro (fox section) ~ “What Kind of Animal Are You?” by Titus 12
These archive recordings throw a light for those who seeshadow puppets in the noise and chaos radio airwaves. As we eavesdrop on thesolitary Operator's dispatches, we wonder what we can learn about Limbo, andlife at the ambiguous "outpost".
All episodes available here:https://limbotapes.podbean.com/
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Matthew Ward - Stranger
7 April 2025 2:00 am - 3:00 am
An immersive one hour broadcast, Stranger collages isolated street recordings, overheard candid conversations and interviews conducted with hundreds of chance encounters from around the world to create immersive soundscapes and audio essays. These pieces aim to explore and play with the medium of radio within a sound art context.
The project synthesises a wide-range of research areas including social documentary, surveillance, musique concrète, anthropology, street photography, genre art and audio description.
Artist bio:
Stranger is a sound art project by UK-based artist, composer and musician Matthew Ward. As of 2024, his work has included a full debut album, international radio broadcasts, film soundtracks and art installations.
Website/social links
https://matthewward.neocities.org/
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THLEEP - Broadcasts 01
7 April 2025 3:00 am - 4:00 am
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; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.
THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.
Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.
Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.
Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.
Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj
Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com -
Oliver Chapman & Phoebe Eccles - DOG FM
7 April 2025 4:00 am - 4:30 am
'DOG FM is the debut release by the London-based duo of field recordist Oliver Chapman and poet Phoebe Eccles. Combining Chapman’s seemingly banal snapshots of a family car journey with Eccles’ fantastic, reflective spoken verse, DOG FM deftly transports the listener through a series of uncanny and oft-times bizarre audio travelogs where tension and expanse alternate to disorientating effect. By exploring the dynamics of a typical close-quarters family exchange, and with repeated use of ‘canine’ annotation, Chapman reimagines the car as both a confine and a means of escape, with Eccles’ verse acting as thematic glue, bonding memory, dream and textural reference to the road map. DOG FM brings a multifaceted lens over a commonplace event, exploding our expectations, and allowing us to surrender the wheel —and our fate— to kismet outcomes. -
Martin P Eccles - Hallaig; 114 minutes 14 seconds
7 April 2025 4:30 am - 6:30 am
May.
The Hebridean island of Raasay.
From a beach below Gualann na Leac walk up the slope to the path, the cairn and the milepost. Follow the track north into the birchwood and walk down through the woods towards the waterfall; stop on a small bluff. Retrace my way, cross the Hallaig Burn, walk up the hill to the lost (by edict of a nineteenth century landlord) village of Hallaig.
Walk the stones of the houses.
Walk back, south, cross the burn at the ford. Walk on, beyond the milepost, then turn, and walk down the slope to the beach.
Artists biography:
I am a walking sound artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. My practice reflects my experience of being in, and walking through, natural environments. I use recorded sound to present time, distance, place and movement in the landscape, to provide an opportunity for a listener to consider what it means to move through the landscape at a human pace and scale. Spoken poetry offers detail to a listeners’ experience. I have exhibited nationally and internationally and have created radio works for Framework Radio, Resonance EXTRA and Radiophrenia. I have a PhD in Fine Art from Newcastle University.
Links to website and/or social media
https://martinpeccles.com
https://soundcloud.com/mpeccles -
Radiophrenia Shorts 47
7 April 2025 6:30 am - 7:00 am
1) Mattia Benedetti – fading (7:20)
2) Home Secretary - dry the tips of your hair (4:54)
3) Simon Whetham – Channelling Tk 6 (4:28)
4) Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - Làm phiền cả thế giới _ world-bothering (2:41)
5) Jorge Ramos - Song of Happiness #1 (11:00)
1) Mattia Benedetti – fading
… not quite collected, caught in fleeting emotions. This is a game of filters and mirrors: filters of different disciplines and rationalities (writing and reading , listening and composing); mirrors of different emotions and subjects (the lover leaks into the reader while the reader leaks into the composer while the composer leaks into the writer while…)
This is chaotic piece, not quite coherent, devoid of embellishment.
Mattia Benedetti is a composer. He lives in Venice.
He's trying to create music that resembles an open world, without a centre but full of internal connections and ambiguous self resemblances.
He's trying to create music that resembles an island, isolated from everything, an extreme habitat where only endemic organisms lives.
2) Home Secretary - dry the tips of your hair
From the LP Past Lilys
https://homesec.bandcamp.com/album/past-lilys or https://cardboardclub.bandcamp.com/album/stamen-and-pistil-are-husband-and-wife
3) Simon Whetham – Channelling Tk 6
Channelling is a kinetic sound performance that utilizes various components salvaged from discarded and obsolete consumer technology, reanimating them by piping amplified sound through them. The motors and mechanisms respond to these sound impulses in erratic and unpredictable ways. The actions of, and emanations from, the devices are subsequently amplified.
Since 2005 Simon Whetham has worked with sonic activity. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He also explores ways of creating physical traces of sound and transforming energy forms.
Whetham performs and exhibits internationally, has received a large number of commissions and awards, has many published composed works and regularly collaborates with other artists. In addition his practice covers giving active listening, field recording and technology repurposing workshops.
https://simonwhetham.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/simonwhethamartist/
https://vimeo.com/simonwhetham
https://simonwhetham.bandcamp.com/
4) Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - Làm phiền cả thế giới _ world-bothering
nHữNG NgÀY kHÓ ở Ở trêN đỜI // thoSE hArD-TO-liVe dAYS was a collection of 5 selected poets, written from 2021 - 2022 by Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao. Each of them was originally a statement of confrontation with the socially constructed so-called "nature", juggling between binaries of man & woman, love & hatred, individualism & collectivism, and so on.
As a way to deconstruct the "nature" concept, the anthologies were later exhibited in a digital space with an invitation for community manipulation. Readers were encouraged to rewrite or delete the words in their own interpretation and stylistic choices. The latter would work on the former's version/interpretation.
The audio version was captured in time of the 6th version, recorded and mixed by the original author as a means of reclaiming and authorship. The sound mixing is intentionally "left" because everything is not "right".
Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao is a Vietnamese writer and multidisciplinary artist. He embraces multimedia and expression, such as typography, photography, film, sound art, performance art with a core appreciation of poetry practices. His works have been featured in Vânguard Zine (Issue 6), Sui Generis (Bard College, 2024 Edition), WCBX Zine, etc. Bao is currently pursuing a BA Degree in Art and Media Studies at Fulbright University Vietnam.
https://www.instagram.com/nguyenhoanggiabao_/
5) Jorge Ramos - Song of Happiness #1
Song of Happiness # is a work with a strong passage in the form of a song in which I put together two of the activities that make me happier, writing music and making music. It is a live performance with a degree of freedom of interpretation so it is likely to sound different each time it is presented. The composition itself is rewritten every time I interpret it, that is, the interpretation is by itself the final act of the composition of this work. This piece is dedicated to the director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1990).
Jorge Ramos is a Portuguese multiple award-winning composer, sound artist, and researcher based in London. He has written solo, chamber, symphony, mixed, electroacoustic, live-electronics, film, stage, installations, and advertisement music for festivals, orchestras, ensembles, and soloists across Asia, North America, South America, and Europe, while also collaborating with other artists computer music design.
Jorge Ramos holds a Doctorate in Music Composition granted by the Royal College of Music London. He currently serves as a collaborator at The ACTOR Project — Orchestration practice in the 21st century (CAN) and CESEM ESML (PT). He is an European Network of Opera Academies Artist.
https://jorgefpramos.com
https://www.instagram.com/jorgefpramos/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgefpramos/
https://www.facebook.com/jorgefpramos/
https://www.youtube.com/JorgeFPRamos
https://x.com/jorgefpramos -
Radiophrenia Shorts 47
7 April 2025 7:00 am - 7:30 am
6) Vincent Eoppolo - Descending Night (2:33)
7) Frederico Pessoa - Biofonia (biophonia) (10:16)
8) Jeff Gburek - Heliopathy 4 (10:10)
9) Adrian Laugsch –Spasms Of My Aching Heart Lamento 3 (2:35)
6) Vincent Eoppolo - Descending Night
Living In Times of Chaos is a collection of 7 compositions that were composed in late 2023 through August 2024. The works are Electro Acoustic, Acousmatic and Musique Concrete in their forms. As the title suggests these works are mediations on the current state of affairs in our world.
Vincent Eoppolo born Wilmington, Delaware USA. Eoppolo’s compositions are a mix of various sound art traditions such as musique concrete, acousmatic music, electro-acoustic music and radio art. In recent years, Eoppolo’s fixed media works have been presented at the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Mise_En Place New Music Festival in Brooklyn, Utopie Sonore in Nantes, France and De Natura Sonorum in Rome, Italy. Eoppolo’s compositions have been released by Moscow based independent music label Meticulous Midgets and his works are regularly featured on new music radio and internet programs throughout Europe and North America
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CFAy7K6LpWMvtFN5EpKPT?si=01YRMOiARguOmFU8-aT8Dw
https://soundcloud.com/vincent-eoppolo
7) Frederico Pessoa - Biofonia (biophonia)
"Biofonia" is a sound piece composed from field recordings of birds singing at dawn during springtime. These recordings were altered through various filters, composing a new soundscape that calls for our attention to voices of beings we do not recognize but that are part of that complex sound environment full of life. As a metaphor for our deafness to the non-human beings that cohabit the world with us, the piece "Biofonia," with its piercing sounds, suggests breaking down the auditory barriers we have imposed between ourselves and our surroundings.
Frederico Pessoa is a musician who collects soundscapes and everyday occurrences for reinterpretation in electroacoustic and radio pieces, audiovisual works, and multimedia performances. He has written texts at the intersection of literature and the sociology of listening, aiming to explore, through words, the possibilities for mobilization created by sound. He holds a Ph.D. in Arts from UFMG/Brazil, and is a member of ESCUTAS: a research and study group in sonorities at the same institution. Additionally, he is one of the coordinators of the Laboratory of Sound Experimentation at UFMG, where he works as a sound designer.
http://www.fredericopessoa.net
@f__pessoa
https://www.facebook.com/frederico.pessoa.50/
8) Jeff Gburek - Heliopathy 4
After several month traveling and recording Very Low Frequency radio waves and taking measures to anticipate probable Schumann resonances from my locations, I have begun generative compositions with whole recorded segments and sampled fragments whille keeping the radio antenna window open locally. Most of these recordings took place during the Coronal Mass Ejections and resultant geomagnetic storms of 2024 as we reach solar maximum. While we notice the term heliocentric refers to a direction of attention, heliopathy addresses the globular sensorium and the feeling of the solar entity that informs our surroundings spherically -- with some cracks and gaps for extra radiation opening here and there.
Jeff Gburek is poet, field recordist, sound artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist exploring all strata of cosmophonic resolutions.Works increasingly focus on receptive listening and recognition of patterned chaos in the mind triggered by externally ordered phenomenon in flux.Microphones, detuned guitars, hydrophones, shortwave and VLF radios, ground spikes, bat detectors and electronics typify the research in the psycho-acousticsof Gaian whispers enveloping and composing existence.
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/
9) Adrian Laugsch –Spasms Of My Aching Heart Lamento 3
"Spasms of My Aching Heart" unfolds somewhere between a kitschy concept album and an AI-generated opera. Consisting of five originally AI-generated (but heavily revised) songs, the album delves deeply into the potential of technology in dialogue with trauma, kitsch, and pathos, striving to create a form of post-digital emotionality and artificial opulence. Shaped by kitsch theory, queer camp, and the aesthetics of Schlager music, the songs embrace their (over)expressivity with seriousness while remaining fully aware of their own absurdness.
Adrian Laugsch (*1997) is a german-polish composer/performer/soundartist.
Based on his musical interest in historical, (auto)biographical, and nostalgic sounds, his compositional work is significantly shaped by the desire for the substantive expansion of the sonic through theatrical, interdisciplinary, and multimedia strategies.
This may range from extra-musical concepts and narrative arcs to the explicit use of stage and video, intertwining traditional formats such as concert, radio play, album, music theater, and installation.
Consequently, his thematic focus lies on queer, hybrid, non-normative, and transgressive identities, as well as the exploration of post-digital artificiality and meta-religious opulence in the staging of socio-political mechanisms.
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Isabel Val Sánchez - From Lost to the River
7 April 2025 7:30 am - 8:00 am
From Lost to the River explores the ways in which the relationship between humans and other bodies of water that has been lost in the city of Târgu Mureș/Marosvásárhely, especially around the Mures/Maros river.
In the piece, layers of history are interwoven, and it remains a real question whose story we are witnessing: water is present in all its grandeur, in its alienness as a force of nature, and at the same time as an agent present within/among us that nourishes and supports direct human relationships or community and allows deep understandings.
The non-linear narrative of the piece creates a highly experiential space in which listeners can simultaneously discover traces of their own history and the all-pervasive presence of water by calling on time-traveling water and electromagnetic waves.
Artist bio:
Isabel Val (Barcelona, 1988) is an artist working across mediums with a special interest in sound, image and text. She researches nostalgia, grief and the invisible connections between past and present.
In her work, human experiences are transfused, opening up a multidimensional space that tingles with emotion and experience, interweaving us unobtrusively, opening up connections between humans, communities, knowledge and the other-than-human.
Link to download audio/images:
https://we.tl/t-wCOj8RrMww
Website/social links
https://www.isabelval.com/
https://www.instagram.com/isabel_val/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 1
7 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
1 Aleksandar Zečević - Calling-Raumforderungen (5:31)
2 Chin Li - A Few of Everything (11:47)
3 Jeff Gburek – Formicaphony (8:24)
4 Eve-Marie Bouché - The magic of waves (3:12)
1) Aleksandar Zečević - Calling-Raumforderungen
Sascha Stadlmeier from "Emrege label recorded sounds for the giant gas tank in Gaswerk in Augsburg, Germany. Using her recordings, I created “Musique concrète work that has a “leitmotif “ motive of call and response
Aleksandar started his career in sound design in 1986.Upon completion of a music conservatory and technical college, he started working in Radio Television Belgrade, Studio B, Radio Belgrade Studio for Electronic Music and Belgrade National Theater. Under the mentorship of the Belgrade University Professor of Sound Design and Radiophonic Art Zoran Jerković, he continued his education in theory and praxis of sound design, recording and electroacoustic until his departure to Canada in 1992. In Canada, he works as a freelance Sound Engineer, Audio Designer, Sound Artist and Electroacoustic Composer on film, television, multimedia media projects and performances until present
https://aleksandarzecevic.com
https://www.facebook.com/alekszecevic/
2) Chin Li - A Few of Everything
Poetry is but words / Words are but sound / Sound is movement of air brushing ear drum / When air stops, ear drum stays still / Words vanish / You would ask, would you not? / Where has the poet gone?
Chin Li is originally from Hong Kong but is now living in Edinburgh. He has worked as a clinical psychologist in the English as well as the Scottish NHS mental health services for many years before turning to writing full-time. His fiction and poetry are published in various literary journals and magazines, including Confluence, Glasgow Review of Books, Gnommero, Gutter, Litro, MAP, Postbox, Southword and Unpsychology. Some of his audio works have been broadcast on Radiophrenia over the past few years. He is still learning how to tell stories truthfully.
https://soundcloud.com/user-54598277
3) Jeff Gburek – Formicaphony
An ant hill mob associates with two exposed hydrophones on a summer day in 2024 in Wielkopolska.
Jeff Gburek is poet, field recordist, sound artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist exploring all strata of cosmophonic resolutions.Works increasingly focus on receptive listening and recognition of patterned chaos in the mind triggered by externally ordered phenomenon in flux.Microphones, detuned guitars, hydrophones, shortwave and VLF radios, ground spikes, bat detectors and electronics typify the research in the psycho-acousticsof Gaian whispers enveloping and composing existence.
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/
4) Eve-Marie Bouché - The magic of waves
“I discovered that I had magical powers, the powers to transform the world's soundtrack, to make it a better place to live...”
"The magic of waves" is an English adaptation of "La magie des ondes" (1rst prize (Short forms category) at Grand Prix Nova Romania 2023, 3rd prize at UK International Radio Drama Festival 2023).
Eve-Marie Bouché is an author (theater, children's book, radio drama...). In 2017, she learnt sound editing and loved this possibility of writing with sounds too, not just with words. Since then, she has taken technical training courses and began producing her own sound works.
Her self-produced plays have won several international awards (Grand Prix Nova Romania, UK International Radio Drama Festival...) and she has worked with professional audio producers (Kidsono/ Opéra de Paris, Falling Tree productions / BBC4, Arte Radio, France Inter...).
https://soundcloud.com/eve-marie-bouch
http://evemariebouche.net -
Radiophrenia Shorts 1
7 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
5 Simon Whetham – Channelling Tk11 (3:36)
6 Wilma Hultén – Elsewhere (14:13)
7 osvaldo cibils - a sound micro-story (9:07)
8 andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations – INKARNATMIX (1:57)
5) Simon Whetham – Channelling Tk11
Channelling is a kinetic sound performance that utilizes various components salvaged from discarded and obsolete consumer technology, reanimating them by piping amplified sound through them. The motors and mechanisms respond to these sound impulses in erratic and unpredictable ways. The actions of, and emanations from, the devices are subsequently amplified.
The project was developed through 2021and 2022 by support from Ferme-Asile (CH), Witte Rook (NL), AiR Niederösterreich (AT), HEAR and Espaces Sonore (FR) and Château Éphémère (FR).
Since 2005 Simon Whetham has worked with sonic activity. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He also explores ways of creating physical traces of sound and transforming energy forms.
Whetham performs and exhibits internationally, has received a large number of commissions and awards, has many published composed works and regularly collaborates with other artists. In addition his practice covers giving active listening, field recording and technology repurposing workshops.
https://simonwhetham.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/simonwhethamartist/
https://vimeo.com/simonwhetham
https://simonwhetham.bandcamp.com/
6) Wilma Hultén – Elsewhere
In the forest close to where I live, the city of Stockholm has put up signs to inform me that this is one of the more silent places you can find. The most apparent sound to me is still the motorway in the distance and the occasional airplane above me. For this piece, I have recorded sound from this area and combined it with other processed recordings and synthetic sound in an attempt to recreate the soundscape from memory. Not aiming for an exact reconstruction, but rather to artificially create stylized representations of birdsong, wind noise and airplanes, has opened up the possibility to extend the sounds beyond reality, to escape this place and go somewhere else.
Wilma Hultén is a Swedish composer of both acoustic and electronic music with a Bachelor's degree from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. In her practice, she explores layering of sounds, spectral density, monotonous repetitiveness and slowly changing processes that let the music unfold on its own terms. Her music has been released on Möller Records and XKatedral.
https://wilmahulten.github.io/
https://www.instagram.com/wilm_____ah/
7) osvaldo cibils - a sound micro-story
A sound micro-story with actions and noisy objects. Sound art piece made with field recordings and everyday artificial intelligence resources.
osvaldo cibils 1961 Uruguay. Artist in drawings, videoperformances, AI projects.
https://linktr.ee/osvaldocibils
8) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations – INKARNATMIX
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020)
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken -
Verónica Cerrotta - Winter morning
7 April 2025 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Field recordings from Brazil's Atlantic Forest
This is a series of field recordings made in the transition biome between the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro.
The recordings were made in different seasons of the year, between 2023-2024, and at different times of the day. Each of the recordings has an approximate duration of sixty minutes.
Artist bio:
Argentinean sound artist settled in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her artistic work is based on the use of field recordings and navigates between soundscape and experimental electroacoustic and concrete music, focusing on listening and sound imagination.
Since 2019, she has released solo works on the labels Impulsive Habitat, Música Insólita, Pakapi Records and Sello Postal.
She has also released the collaborative works ‘Slani pejzaži’(tsss tapes), with Manja Ristić and Joana Guerra, ‘In-Radius’ (Presses Précaires) with Pablo Díaz, and “Fase de Plegamiento’ (Green Field Recordings) with Juan José Calarco.
Website/social links
linktr.ee/veronica_cerrotta
https://veronicadaniela.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/veronicadanielacerrotta
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Ilaria Boffa - Beginnings & Other Tragedies
7 April 2025 10:00 am - 10:30 am
This sonic documentary has been recorded and produced as a soundscape by Ilaria Boffa for her poetry book Beginnings & Other Tragedies/Inizi e Altre Tragedie, published by Valley Press UK in 2023.
The book and the sonopoems presented here draw on ecopoetry, dystopian fiction, and Greek tragedy, and reimagine scientific and ecological language as sites of beauty, with the strength to change reality.
Field recording taken by Ilaria Boffa in Venice, the Euganean Hills and the Bacchiglione river (Italy) using Zoom H6 recorder and JRF D-series hydrophone. Performance on violin by Ida di Vita.
Artist bio:
Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. She writes bilingual poetry and she has published four poetry collections to date. She is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol. XL 2018. Her sono-poems, which combine poetry and field recording, have been played at international experimental sound art festivals, radio events and film festivals. She is a permanent member of EAPS international collective working with poetry and sound art and she is collaborating with the Swiss theatre group ‘Collettivo Treppenwitz’.
Website/social links
https://linktr.ee/ilariaboffaIB
https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/
https://www.instagram.com/ilaria.boffa/
https://www.facebook.com/ilaria.boffa.IB/ -
Christian Dimpker - 1 / 2 La naissance de la lumière à partir de l’esprit du feu
7 April 2025 10:30 am - 11:00 am
The semantic context of fire is antagonistic: on the one hand, it stands for renewal, warmth, light and cleansing. On the other hand, it stands for destruction and the cause of death. In art history, the fire has gained utmost importance through Otto Piene and Zero, but also Yves Klein. Piene’s smoke and fire paintings may be understood as part of a complex that aims at making immaterial light tangible. Klein focuses on the destructive force of fire in his public art campaigns and extensively transforms the surfaces of canvas by means of flamethrowers. Thematically, this piece narrates this semantic context of fire, originating from raw fire, through the fire myth, to the destructive power of fire, its creative force and of fire eventually becoming light.
Artist bio:
Christian Dimpker is a composer and art theorist with academic studies in Philosophy, History and Sound Studies as well as a doctoral dissertation in Musicology / Composition. Dimpker’s compositions explore unconventional fields of notation. This is enabled by an extensive notation system for extended playing techniques and electroacoustic music. This treatise with the title Extended notation: The depiction of the unconventional has been released by the LIT Verlag publishers. Currently, Dimpker further extends this research to the fields of visual arts, theatre and dance. The monograph Kinetic notations for the visual and performing arts forms the basis of this work.
Website/social links
https://christiandimpker.de -
Katie Revell - The only animal that can speak?
7 April 2025 11:00 am - 11:45 am
A creative audio documentary exploring questions of voice and listening from scientific, artistic, philosophical and political perspectives. Who – and what – do we deem capable of having a voice, and worthy of being listened to? And how does the way we listen affect our ability to hear the conversations that are going on around us? Samar Nasrullah Khan is philosopher whose work is focused on developing strategies for “listening to the other – the human, non-human, thing”. This piece explores Samar’s work listening to, and with, cows, and the experiences which have shaped their* fascination with ideas of voice.
Credits: Produced and edited by Katie Revell, under the mentorship of Yasmina Hamlawi. Mix and master by Ev Buckley. Featuring music by Col Gordon. Produced as part of the YASS! mentorship programme.YASS! You are so sound! is a one-to-one mentorshipprogram for emerging or experienced authors and audio artists of any age.
https://www.luciafestival.org/en/yass-mentorship-program-2324
Bio: Katie Revell is a Glasgow-based audio producer with a particular interest in food, farming and relationships between species. She has produced several podcast series and have also made pieces for Radio 4’s Short Cuts and Radio Scotland’s Out of Doors.
Links:
https://katierevell.com/
https://www.instagram.com/spokentwice/
https://www.luciafestival.org/en/ -
Buffer Zone
7 April 2025 11:45 am - 12:00 pm
Yve Lomax - Quer - ep 1: Upside down sunflowers (8.09)
Phew - Snow and Pollen (5:08)
Yve Lomax - Quer
ep 1: Upside down sunflowers
Synopsis: Quer is a single voice spoken performance that moves through various modes of address, mixing the poetic, philosophical and the everyday. It is an experiment in how to say something and touches upon things considered pressing for living today. This includes: violence and the cry Why am I being hurt?; attentiveness, justice and ceasing to treat the Earth as a property to be owned; nonviolence and the magic of compassion; dissolving the distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them’; the question of belonging and how saying ‘I am queer’ up-ends it. Quer ends with the assertion that all of life is profoundly transverse and plays upon the old meaning of ‘quer’ as oblique, transverse.
Credits: With thanks to Jono Lomax (sound) and Vit Hopley (script). Thanks also to Kristen Kreider.
Artist bio: Yve Lomax is a visual artist, writer and editor. She is currently a director of and editor for Copy Press publishers and its audio-visual platform Becoming Fireflies. Since the late 1970s she has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her first book of collected writings was published in 2000 under the title of Writing the Image. Recent publications: Here from There (a shared book with Vit Hopley, 2024); Nearness (2019); Figure, calling (2017); Pure Means (2014). Films/spoken performances include: Mad about justice (2022) and Political Life (2021). Formally, she was a Senior Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art and Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Besides feminism, a longstanding concern has been writing for spoken performances.
Website/social links:
copypress.co.uk
Phew - Snow and Pollen
From the album 'New Decade.
https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/music -
O.J.A.I. (Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence) - Administrative Embrace (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
7 April 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
"Administrative Embrace" grants unprecedented access to the inner workings and concealed logic of the enigmatic Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence. This transmission crosses rustbelt landscapes, pedestrian tunnels, flyovers, debris fields, and timelines, charting states of decline, delirium, immortality, and heroic obedience. Listeners are invited into the vast and impressive O.J.A.I. world headquarters. Through spoken word, modular sounds, architectural and bureaucratic fictions, lists, timelines, and ambient musical accompaniment, "Administrative Embrace" offers an hour-long exploration into institutional conjuring, information overload, camaraderie, and magic."
Produced by O.J.A.I. in 2024/25 for Radiophrenia Glasgow
Text and voice by Gary Farrelly
Sound and mix by Chris Dreier
Piano by Tim Löhd
Dexia Defunct (Sonic Explorations to the European Rustbelt) - Charleroi I (2021)
Dexia Defunct (O.J.A.I.) - Capital Flows (2023)
Dexia Defunct - Credit Rating (2016)
MK/CT (Chris Dreier/Tim Löhde) - MK7 Shieldfields (2017)
Dexia Defunct - Rücksichtslosigkeit (2016)
Dexia Defunct (O.J.A.I.) - Stay Off (2024)
Biography:
Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.) is the collaborative practice of artists Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly based in Brussels and Berlin. The work is fuelled by recurring fascinations with architecture, infrastructure, finance, esoteric practices and institutional power manifesting in postal correspondence, installations, sound, performance and walks as well as limited vinyl editions and publications. The work has been presented at Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin), Damien & the Love Guru (Brussels), Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris), Marres House for Contemporary Culture (Maastricht), De Garage (Mechelen) and Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati, US), among many others.
O.J.A.I. produces a monthly music radio show for Dublin Digital Radio and for Cashmere Radio Berlin.
Links:
https://jointintelligence.org/ @jointintelligence -
Radiophrenia Shorts 15
7 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1) Martyna Szmigiero – Clydebuilt (3:17)
2) Paige Wynn - Imprints of a Broken Woman (5:00)
3) SumVivus - Sound etchings (5:02)
4) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - O.T. BISHER (FEAT NO-ONE) (4:06)
5) Elizabeth Flood - wishes for and wandering towards the new year (8:51)
1) Martyna Szmigiero – Clydebuilt
A binaural soundscape, originally composed as an immersive soundtrack in Dolby Atmos for the short film “Clydebuilt” (2021), sonifies the rich history of Glasgow’s shipbuilding industry. Inspired by the documentaries “Seawards the Great Ships” (Harris, 1961) and “The Men Who Built the Liners” (BBC4, 2009), the piece captures the echoes of the River Clyde’s industrial past. This musique concrète-inspired soundscape weaves together found sounds, field recordings, and archival audio, evoking the spirit of the workers and the rhythmic pulse of the shipyards, once a hub of craftsmanship and industry.
Martyna Szmigiero, aka svefn, is an audiovisual artist and sound designer who creates electronic music, spatial audio experiences, and visual media scores. With a foundation in classical training from Lódź Music School, Szmigiero's work has developed into a distinctive style combining cinematic sound design with electronics. They have collaborated on various audiovisual projects, including scoring the trailer for “Noc Henny” (2022) and re-scoring classics like “Meshes of the Afternoon” (2021). Szmigiero's recent work with Higher Order Ambisonics showcases a technical ability to create immersive sound environments, demonstrating their commitment to innovation in music composition and sonic storytelling.
https://gsapostgradshowcase.net/martyna-szmigiero/
https://vimeo.com/martynaszmigiero
https://soundcloud.com/svefn_martyna_szmigiero
https://www.instagram.com/_svefn_/
2) Paige Wynn - Imprints of a Broken Woman
Imprints of a Broken Woman explores the feelings of emptiness and pain that come from loss and how they spiral out of control. The piece provides a window into a private moment when feelings can be released. In the shower we wash, find relaxation and vulnerability and in this vulnerability we feel our pain most deeply. This is an expression of a deep loss of my own, when love is forced to be let go and all that is left is the sounds of sobbing and screaming.
Paige Wynn is a trans composer, violinist, and educator with a passion for chamber and orchestral music. She is currently based in Worcester, Massachusetts and originally from Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Music (Composition) studying under teachers including Gary Kulesha and Abigail Richardson. She also completed a post-graduate program for Sound Design and Production at George Brown College in 2022. She is dedicated to the promotion of arts and has had her music and sound pieces performed in countries around the world, including Canada, Germany, and the United States.
https://www.paige-wynn.com/
https://www.instagram.com/questing_bard/
3) SumVivus - Sound etchings
This work is sounds that etch into our primal existence and help us leave the walls we have placed our selves in. It helps us separate from the separateness and sink into a trance we have always known. Or at least thats how my ears hear it. Who knows, you tell me...
SumVivus (Rashelle Reyneveld), a solo artist, creates ripples through vocal sound waves looped to create a choral ensemble of one. An ephemeral improvised or predefined ethereal expression of the space and time that she inhabits. An ever evolving experience creating honest intimacy with the moment. She uses collected sounds, piano, bells, singing bowls, chimes and whatever sparks imagination.
@sumvivus
4) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - O.T. BISHER (FEAT NO-ONE)
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
5) Elizabeth Flood - wishes for and wandering towards the new year
wishing for and wandering towards the new year is a radio collage made from audio diaries and field recordings taken during a year of play and learning in the East Leverett Meadow in Massachusetts. The piece was an act of self synthesis, an attempt at sharing the belief that we can hold sound as a way of knowing, we can know much through sound, specifically listening. The work explores the intimacies and vastness of radio, the speaker sharing desires directly to the listeners while the seasons blend into one another and sopping puddly land connects scene to scene. May it encourage you to listen openly.
Elizabeth Flood grew up in Massachusetts and currently lives in Chicago, IL. She likes to go on walks, talk on the phone, eat dinner with friends, and take ballet classes. Flood's radio work is interested in playing in the blurry space between transmission and reception, signal and noise, dreams and waking, here and there. She is curious about what radio would sound like if we didn’t listen ‘to know’? She tends to find work (and play) most interesting when creating a system and being curious about the outcome, rather than seeking a particular end result. -
Radiophrenia Shorts 15
7 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
6) Alexandra Bell – Vacuum (7:00)
7) Kristina Kapilin & Ojasvani Dahiya – FLUX (15:21)
8) Kyle Vanderburg - Creatures from the Black Bassoon (8:30)
6) Alexandra Bell – Vacuum
"Vacuum" presents the sound journey of a lone woman getting home after a Saturday night out in Glasgow. The title infers that women's safety fears are often not heard. The work was thematically inspired by movements such as 'Reclaim These Streets' and the 'Seven Steps' programme, which give practical advice how to be an active bystander near a woman walking alone. Seven footsteps are used repeatedly through the work as music concrete and a call to action for the listener. The piece was created using 1 a.m. recordings on public transport, outside clubs, lonely walkways and tunnels across Glasgow & Edinburgh, looped to represent lack of change. It is layered with spatialized sonic markers of visceral unease and cultural references such as gas lighting, moths to a flame, alarms, 1946 Ferrier recordings of Britten's 'Rape of Lucrezia' and interrupted voices.
Alex Bell is a multimedia artist, composer and chartered materials engineer who uses the sonic arts to confront entrenched ideologies and beliefs. Incorporating sound, music, moving image, sculpture, writing and performance, she creates immersive experiences which are designed to challenge perceptions and stimulate empathy for the counterargument. She explores the intersection between culture, politics, the arts, technology and science and believes that the creative process is universal regardless of domain.
Originally from Belfast, she now lives in East Lothian with a studio by the sea.
https://alexandrabellsound.com/
https://www.instagram.com/alexandrabellsound/
7) Kristina Kapilin & Ojasvani Dahiya – FLUX
Taking a hydro-feminist approach, FLUX highlights the interconnectedness of bodies of water through the use of hydrophone recordings, documentary storytelling and spatial sound.
Led by the interviewees’ discussions of their lived experiences, FLUX addresses the nostalgic view of rivers in childhood memories in juxtaposition to ecological crisis, colonial history, national identity and religious rituals, providing insight into the significance of rivers in communities worldwide.
Kristina Kapilin is a Danish-Faroese multi-discliplinary artist and sound designer based in London.
Her practice explores the relationship between voice, language and identity and our experience of landscapes, environments, ecologies, places and histories. Frequently collaborating with other artists and creatives, Kristina’s practice moves across sound, installation, performance and film.
Ojasvani Dahiya is creating interactive and immersive experiences that look at realities of the past and future which are grounded in the present. She is experimenting with emerging forms of technology to create visual experiences informed through sound. Her areas of interest are how post-colonial urban and natural landscapes inform identity.
Kristina Kapilin
Website: kristinakapilin.com
Instagram: @kristinakapilin
Ojasvani Dahiya
Instagram: @0jasvani
8) Kyle Vanderburg - Creatures from the Black Bassoon
Creatures from the Black Bassoon is, as the title suggests, a virtual menagerie of beasts and environments fashioned entirely from processed and unprocessed sounds of the bassoon. Key clicks, reed squeaks and squawks, multiphonics, notes played through various stages of assembly and disassembly, and other traditional and extended techniques are organized by similar properties into species. Some of our creatures appear to be cute, chirpy, fuzzy critters, while others are vicious predators. These beings are placed in a number of tableaus of length devised by the golden ratio, with certain sections designated as "windows" with substantial contrast to the surrounding sections.
Composer Kyle Vanderburg (b. 1986) grew up in Missouri where the Ozarks meet the Mississippi River valley. Raised on southern gospel and American hymnody, his music walks the line between eliciting nostalgia and devising innovative sonic worlds. His electronic works often play with familiar sounds in new contexts; his acoustic works feature memorable melodies and a very fluid sense of time.
He holds degrees from Drury University and the University of Oklahoma and has studied under Carlyle Sharpe, Marvin Lamb, Konstantinos Karathanasis, and Roland Barrett. He'd be delighted if you checked out KyleVanderburg.com.
https://kylevanderburg.com -
Amble Skuse - Sonic Lamp
7 April 2025 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm
This work is created from interviews and archive footage of people who served as medics in the armed forces. They range from the first world war to present day. The piece is intended to be a continuous loop, so you can come in and sit as long as you please, there is no start and no end.
The structure of the piece was based on data from the Office of National Statistics, detailing the amount of armed service people who died per year from the first world war to present day. Each year is attributed a minute in the piece, and the heartbeats that you hear are set at the bpm (beats per minute) to the number of deaths via a data-based algorithm. The intensity of the rain noise is also fluctuates with the frequency of the number of deaths.
A Cryptic Commission for Sonica Festival
Artist bio:
Amble Skuse is a musician and artist, working with found sound, voices, electronic processing, and site specific locations. She works with site specific compositions to explore myriad identities in myriad locations. She explores these ideas of identity and power through a lens of intersectional feminism. Her focus is on gender and disability, and she is currently studying for a PhD looking at ways in which a disabled composer / performer can ustilise technology as a tool for composing, improvising and performing.
Website/social links
http://www.ambleskuse.net -
Samuel van Ransbeeck - Smetana's Solitude
7 April 2025 3:20 pm - 4:00 pm
Smetana's Solitude is a soundscape composition in four chapters. In this composition, I imagine what Smetana might have heard and imagined during his stay in Pěčice (and Jabkenice). I made field recordings of four distinct categories (human activity, frogs, water, and birds) and dedicated a chapter to each category. I made collages out of the field recordings and further manipulated the sounds to symbolise Smetana's mental health problems and deafness. Through these health issues, I imagine he was not hearing the sounds in their natural way but rather imagined them. Smetana's Solitude was created during a month-long residency at the Cabin Studio in Pěčice, Czechia. The rural setting made it ideal to work with field recordings and experiment with hydrophones (to capture underwater sounds) and geophones (to record vibrations). It is combined with a soundwalk around the cabin studio.
Artist bio:
Samuel van Ransbeeck is a sound artist and researcher. His main interests are sonification, soundscape composition, and digital humanities. His work is interdisciplinary and collaborative, always looking for new ways of expression. He has worked at several Universities and research institution around the world like the University of Manchester, The Getúlio Vargas Foundation, INESC, and more. Currently he is working on FarmSonics, making data-driven soundscapes out of agricultural monitoring data.
Website/social links
http://www.samuelvanransbeeck.be --> you can also see more of the Smetana's Solitude work here.
https://www.instagram.com/samuelvanransbeeck/
https://soundcloud.com/thinksamuel -
Radiophrenia Shorts 36
7 April 2025 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
1) Gavin Inglis - Re:Connection (12:05)
2) Clarinda Tse – Abacus (5:55)
3) Hannah Kemp-Welch – Sanctuary (13:10)
1) Gavin Inglis - Re:Connection
The early months of COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the world of work. Social distancing kept us all in lockdown; employees were furloughed or fired. In time, government support manifested for various professions. One group was never considered, however: psychics who make their living by talking to the dead.
This light-hearted 'digital experiment' combines scripted spoken word, improvisation and music. It was commissioned for the Village Storytelling Festival 2022. I chose to address the commission theme, Re:Connection, on two levels. Here it refers to the act of reconnecting with a loved one beyond the veil; and it also refers to the familiar, frustrating Internet connection upon which we were forced to depend in the face of the virus.
Gavin Inglis is a writer and teacher based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He specialises in interactive narrative and games, with credits on Call of Cthulhu, Fallen London, Rivers of London RPG and Zombies, Run! He teaches at the University of Edinburgh, Super Power Agency and New Writing North. With Fin Cramb, he produced Not There, a short graphic novel to raise awareness of Functional Neurological Disorder. Gavin won the Nesta Alternarratives national competition with Reader Remix, an audio story which invites its listener to construct a live soundtrack using a simple DJ interface.
http://www.gavininglis.com
https://bsky.app/profile/gavininglis.bsky.social
2) Clarinda Tse – Abacus
This piece is a layered recording of improvisation with bronze jue 爵 --an ancient Chinese ritual vessel, golden coin turtle shell previously used for fortune telling and a wooden abacus. These objects are inherited from my grandfather who used to work in Chinese metaphysics-divinity realm (玄學). Translating these objects through sound by rubbing, movement and feedback, I am thinking about ancestral connection and time, presence of these objects, feeling through the nooks and crannies. What does the sound carry in this moment and does it predict something about the future?
The recording sessions are facilitated by Neil Quigley who is also my sound mentor.
Clarinda Tse aka Yung Kee 雍記 (she/they) is an interdisciplinary performance maker and embodied researcher, Hong Kong-
born and Glasgow-based. Their habitat explores emergent compositions of material ecologies through rituals, labour, and bodies, deconstructing capitalist time and extending imagination towards more-than-human entities. They currently think with seaweed
and microplastics.
clarindatse.com
instagram - @yungkeeshoes
3) Hannah Kemp-Welch – Sanctuary
On occassion of his exhibition at Kettle's Yard (University of Cambridge), artist Issam Kourbaj invited residents of North Cambridge to bring objects that made them think of 'home' to the local library. Listening carefully to their stories, I responded with field recordings both from my own collection, and from friends submitting to Radio Aporee: a field of rye in Poznan, Poland, Maciej Janasik; a ukulele concert by Coconami in Cologne, Udo Noll; a campfire burns in the countryside outside Berlin, Udo Noll; knitting with wooden needles, Lucy Warren; turning pages at the Women’s Art Library; a music box plays The Blue Danube; Sunday choir gathering, Lviv, Ukraine, Jüang Ren; Georgian musicians waiting at the gate in Boryspil Airport, Ukraine, John Grzinich; R. Lindum-Greene plays the handpan drum; playground, Amsterdam suburbs, Jillis Molenaar. The composition is installed alongside acoustic panels designed by Issam Kourbaj at Arbury Court Library in Cambridge.
Hannah Kemp-Welch is a sound artist with a social practice. She creates works collaboratively and in community settings, often responding to social issues. Recent projects include ‘The Right to Record’ (2021) - a creative campaign with disabled activists, which successfully lobbied the Government to change a harmful clause within the benefits system; ‘Meet Me on the Radio’ (2020-21) - a weekly Resonance FM programme co-produced with elders isolated during lockdown; and ‘o-o-radio!’ (2022) - a project at Wysing Arts Centre, constructing homemade radios with d/Deaf young people, to better understand how hearing aids operate.
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Radiophrenia Shorts 36
7 April 2025 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
4) Nicola Monopoli - 3 Visioni Fuggitive (11:30)
5) David Jason Snow - Mon cœur appartient à DADA: Hommage à la Baronne (5:32)
6) Jaime Cuervo Gómez – Incandescence (10:32)
4) Nicola Monopoli - 3 Visioni Fuggitive
Divided into three movements—Dolente, Feroce, and Lentamente—this acousmatic composition draws free inspiration from Sergei Prokofiev’s Visions Fugitives. The movement titles, borrowed from the original work, serve as a conceptual framework for crafting the sonic landscape using C-Sound, Mathematica, and Supercollider.
Dolente evokes a deep, pervasive sorrow that gnaws away both internally and externally, gradually pulling the listener into an emotional whirlpool.
Feroce represents an uncontrollable surge of anger, an outburst that attempts to calm but ultimately intensifies with renewed force.
Lentamente portrays a slow departure from everything, where the self drifts away from the chaos, while the world around spins in rapid motion. This final movement takes on new meaning as it reflects a retreat from the noise of the city, an auditory escape that resonates with environmental concerns such as the climate crisis, pollution, and the overwhelming impact of modern urban life.
Nicola Monopoli is an Italian composer born in Barletta in 1991. He holds the distinction of being the first composer to receive the Artist Diploma in Composition from The Royal College of Music in London, supported by a Clifton Parker Award and a scholarship from the Giovani Artisti Italiani Association. His compositions have been performed globally. He currently teaches Electroacoustic Composition and is PhD Coordinator at the 'U. Giordano' Conservatory in Foggia.
https://nicolamonopoli.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_nicolamonopoli_/
https://www.facebook.com/nicolamonopolimusic
https://mastodon.uno/@nicolamonopoli
5) David Jason Snow - Mon cœur appartient à DADA: Hommage à la Baronne
Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927) was a German-born avant-garde visual artist and poet active in Greenwich Village, New York from 1913 to 1923. As a neurasthenic, kleptomaniac, agent provocateur within New York’s modernist revolution, “the first American Dada” behaved with purposeful outrageousness, costuming herself with a coal scuttle upon her head, reclaiming found objects as sculpture (thus inventing the “ready-made” before Duchamp coined the term), and composing delirious verse. As a poet, she was profane and playfully obscene; the Baroness’s rebellious howls prefigure the Beats, and her intensity and psychological complexity anticipate the poetic utterances of Sexton and Plath.
The compositions of David Jason Snow have been performed in concert by the Ensemble Intercontemporain at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Banda Municipal de Bilbao at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao, The New Juilliard Ensemble at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and many other artists and ensembles internationally. His fixed media audio and visual works have been performed at the Musinfo Journées Art & Science Festival in Bourges, the Festival Exhibitronic in Strasbourg, the Festival Internacional de Video Arte y Música Visual in Mexico City, the Sound Thought Festival in Glasgow, and Echofluxx in Prague.
davidsnowmusic.org
6) Jaime Cuervo Gómez – Incandescence
Incandescence is a soundscape that emerges from the calm, deep ground. In this work, from this undisturbed essence will emerge some little (at first) actions or gestures which will perturb and distort it, as the human actions are slowly damaging the environment (which exists before us). It will go to a point where those sounds dominate the movement of the piece and they disguise the inicial sonority, breaking themselves as if they have calmly started burning, devouring themselves (that is the reason of the title of the piece). Finally, that tension will be dispersed letting be perceived the deep sound of the beginning of the work, such as the environment will resist our actions against it and it will persist after us, being capable of regenerating itself from its entrails.
I have recently completed (June of 2024) the Bachelor's Degree in Musical Composition at the Conservatorio Superior de Badajoz (CSMB), under the guidance of the professors Daniel Sprintz, Novel Sámano, Jerónimo Gordillo and Gonzalo Navarro. I have premiered works in various editions of the Contemporary Music Cycles at the CSMB between 2021 and 2024 (including works for diverse ensembles, electronic with acoustics instruments and electroacoustic compositions); as well as instrumentations of some Mussorgsky's and Feldman's pieces for different ensembles, taking on the role of conductor for both groups in their performances. Also, I exposed some photos in Portugal and Spain.
https://soundcloud.com/user-13156389?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing -
The Traveling Bubble Ensemble - Terms of Addition
7 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Terms of Addition is a radio play for strings (violin and viola), voices, and electronics. It is loosely based on a Ray Bradbury short story (Tomorrow's Child). Co-composed and adapted by Bevin Kelley and Michael Kelley. Michel Kelley plays viola and voice, Elise Kuder plays violin and voice, Hollis Mickey narrates, and Bevin Kelley has a small cameo as a party-goer. We have performed this radio play live several times.
Artist bio:
Bevin Kelley is an electronic music maker, composer, and performer. She plays and records as Blevin Blechdom and is half of the duo Blectum from Blechdom, with Kristin Galvin. Michael Kelley is a composer and violist, and records electronically as Kelley Polar. Elise Kuder is a violinist of much renown and a willing vocal participant. Hollis Mickey is an artist, actress, cook, and musician, and she contributes her vocal prowess. All together we exist under the umbrella of The Traveling Bubble Ensemble.
Website/social links
https://vimeo.com/150075780 (live performance)
https://www.facebook.com/blevin.blectum -
Buffer Zone
7 April 2025 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
1) Yara Asmar - a funeral is a party (1:16)
2) Phew - Feedback Tuning (6:03)
3) Alëna Korolëva - Night life on the Little Lakes (8:00)
4) Jennifer Wicks - Poetry and Abstract Thought (7:38)
1) Yara Asmar - a funeral is a party
2) Phew - Feedback Tuning
From the album New Decade.
https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/music
3) Alëna Korolëva - Night life on the Little Lakes
This composition is made from sounds recorded over four nights in June 2023 near Little Lakes on the Territory of the Anishnabek Nation also known as Huron County in Ontario, Canada. These lakes are located in a patch of old-growth forest which is currently under the threat of erasure by a gravel company.
While the local community has worked diligently to protect the forest and its irreplaceable ecosystem, the gravel company hired “experts” to make an environmental assessment which uncovered no significant animal life and specifically noted that there were no amphibians in this area. You might believe this statement if you stop by for a moment during the day, but if you happen to be there after dark, your ears will tell you a different story.
This composition features green frogs, American bullfrogs, coyotes, redwing blackbirds, black-capped chickadees, mourning doves, roosters, red squirrels, crickets, raccoons, rabbits, beavers, and a few unidentified species.
Artist bio:
Alëna Korolëva is an artist and curator, who works with sound, photo and video.
Her sound work is focused on field recordings, acoustic ecology, soundscape studies and acousmatic composition. Her technique employs elements of documentary storytelling and experimental music.
Based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada.
https://alenakoroleva.bandcamp.com/
alenakoroleva.com
4) Jennifer Wicks - Poetry and Abstract Thought
Acousmatic electroacoustic musique concrète designed for immersive installation (octophonic spatialisation). Incorporating a diverse range of sound sources, that have all been modified to create a sound montage; double bass, piano, dishwasher, birds, 16mm optical film and 16mm hand-drawn sound.
Jennifer Wicks is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans durational installations, audiovisual performances, sound art releases, and creative-critical writing. Her work interrogates memory, language, and states of being through experimental methods, emphasising light, time, and sound. Employing obsolete media, 16mm film, reappropriated materials, and custom light-to-sound instruments, she explores the materiality of sound and image. Using Media Archaeology and contemporary technologies, she treats them both as subjects of inquiry and as tools to critique the dominance of digital culture in shaping memory, perception, and our relationship with time.
Her solo live performances explore temporal dynamics, chance, and the mechanics of sound. Working at the intersection of industrial noise, sample culture, cut-up techniques, and expanded cinema, she addresses the limitations and possibilities of analogue film and sound systems. Using modified 16mm projectors, contact microphones, and multiple guitar effects pedals, she crafts immersive, textured, and dissonant audiovisual installations.
She has training in conventional music and holds an MLitt in Fine Art Practice (Glasgow School of Art) and an MSc in Sound Design and Audio-Visual Practice (University of Glasgow). She has received a Leverhulme-funded artist residency at Glasgow University (2011-2012) and was Artist in Residence at the University of Stirling (2022), working with the Norman McLaren archive. Her recent projects span international exhibitions and festivals. She makes music with WOMEN’S HOUR (Wicks and Contort Yourself head honcho Murray CY). LP released on L.I.E.S. Records, December 2023.
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Phew - Jamming 2025 (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
7 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:45 pm
As a child I travelled the world on BCL radio and was fascinated by the music and languages of distant countries with fading phenomena. Once, while checking the shortwave band, a 'pheeew' noise passed by.
The frequency range was very wide,and the overall frequency was heard to rise in a continuous sequence of changes.
What was that sound?
Jamming 2025 is an attempt to recreate that experience from memory.
Bio:
Phew is a musician based in Tokyo, Japan. While fronting Aunt Sally, one of Osaka’s earliest punk groups, Phew played a critical role in developing Japan’s underground music scene. Phew’s oeuvre spans a vast array of experimental sounds: from no-wavey synth-hymns; to poppy, shoegazing, industrial undertones; to eerie incandescent drones. Since the 1970s, Phew’s dynamic, compelling voice and her commitment to unfettered experimentation has been critical in shaping the sound of avant-garde music both in Japan and internationally.
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Netta Weiser and Nora Amin - Invisible Walks Across Tahrir Square - a radio-choreography
7 April 2025 6:45 pm - 7:00 pm
This piece is a collaboration between choreographer and sound artist Netta Weiser and performer and writer Nora Amin. The piece revolves around a choreographic poem the artists co-created in a process that combined somatic practice and collaborative writing. The text unfolds a body memory of Nora: walking across the pedestrian bridge over Tahrir Square, looking up at her mother’s legs exposed by a short skirt. This childhood memory manifests conditions that have changed considerably since then: The bridge no longer exists, Tahrir Square was the site of the 2011 revolution (in which Amin took a leading part), and short skirts are no longer allowed in public spaces in Cairo. Amin and Weiser wrote and rewrote this biographical memory finding a shared voice that raises the question: Who owns the memory? In this radiophonic composition, one can hear the voice of Nora, surrounded by sounds of moving, touching and humming bodies.
Artist bio:
Netta Weiser is an artist and choreographer based in Berlin, working across performance, sound installation, and experimental radio. In 2019, she established the long-term artistic research project Radio-Choreography, which explores the poetics and politics of transforming dance into sound, the relationship between live broadcasting and muted histories, and acts of listening as modes of being together. Her work has been presented internationally, most recently at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, Onassis Stegi Athens, WDR, Villa Medici Rome, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, and TONSPUR Micro Museum for Sound at MQ Vienna.
Website/social links
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Russell Gendron - The Mill
7 April 2025 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The Mill combines oral history and sound art to explore the forestry industry in British Columbia from the worker's perspective. Interviews, archives, environmental sounds and music made from machine noises help capture a more complete sonic scope of the impacts the industry has had on people, communities and the surrounding lands and waters, across generations.
Inspired by my time working in a sawmill as a boy and by the rough but caring people who I worked alongside, The Mill features current and former forestry workers (including myself) speaking about daily tasks at work, family, accidents, death, industry closures, environmental impacts and more. The timelines are blurry and the approach to narration is loose, making for a dreamy and collage-like composition. Soundscapes from workplaces, the natural environment as well as pitch shifted machine noises add ambience and counterbalance the voices and content being shared.
Artist bio:
Russell Gendron is an artist who investigates place and the relationships (human or otherwise) that make up the materiality of everyday life. Through sound, textiles and multidisciplinary research he attempts to capture and transpose these connections in order to imagine new perspectives. and create engaging ways of understanding our world and ourselves.
The people and places he encounters have been a source of curiosity and inspiration and his work seeks to reproduce this subtle and serene material. Being and working with others is his true passion and collaboration has been central to many of his projects.
Website/social links
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FAXEN - Overhear
7 April 2025 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Mairhofer, Norer and Six have been working together as the artist group FAXEN since 2004. In almost 20 years they have created a diverse body of work characterised by a focus on sound and collective working methods. This publication presents this oeuvre in a hybrid form of sound, graphics and text in order to offer a comprehensive insight and to open up additional references. One challenge is to make the sound works accessible in print, which is why three 10' vinyl discs are included, each containing 6 sound compositions of around 10 minutes in length. Marlies Stöger and André Tschinder were asked to visually comment on the works by designing a fictitious record cover for each piece.
For Radiophrenia 2025 we'll present the first of the 3 records as an excerpt and preview.
Artist bio:
Since 2004, Clemens Mairhofer, Lucas Norer and Sebastian Six work together in the artist collective FAXEN.
Acoustic experiments in connection with items of everyday life, sculptural assemblages and the physical element of sound are the main aspects of the group’s musical and visual compositions. The works of the artist group FAXEN deal with moments where noise becomes music and the difference between hearing and active listening is explored.
Alongside their artistic work FAXEN are running the artist-run gallery bb15 in Linz/Austria.
Website/social links
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Kustradio 1 - „noch kurz“ – ein Zufallsmix by divers
7 April 2025 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
More than forty short excerpts form the basis of "noch kurz" - a random mix. These mostly one-minute sound snippets come almost exclusively from Ö1 Kunstradio productions of the last twenty years. Ö1 Kunstradio was founded in December 1987 by art critic and journalist Heidi Grundmann as a venue for radio art. The program soon expanded far beyond the ORF broadcasting channels into art spaces and museums as well as other media and public spaces. Innovative projects were developed in collaboration with artists and artists' groups from all over the world, as well as with art associations, festivals and museums, which dealt intensively with the latest technologies and possibilities of the time, such as the World Wide Web, as the Internet was called in the early 1990s. New approaches and spaces for art and radio were sometimes experimented with for the first time in Ö1 Kunstradio and thus in national public broadcasting. Kunstradio Online was founded in 1995 by the visual artist and telecommunications art pioneer Robert Adrian X together with the artist group x-space (Horst Hörtner, Martin Schitter, Jutta Schmiederer and Gerfried Stocker). Kunstradio Online has served as a venue for innovative radio art projects such as Horizontal Radio or Art's Birthday, and also functions as one of the most comprehensive online archives for international radio art. And it is or was also a programme announcement. Short excerpts - usually one minute long - were offered in the programme calendar for each Kunstradio programme for announcements and a quick listen to a radio art work. For "Noch kurz - ein Zufallsmix", more than 40 excerpts were put together in a purely random order. An astonishing variety of speech, voices, sounds, natural noises and musical sounds from live and pre-produced Kunstradio pieces come together to form a new whole. -
Radiophrenia Shorts 29
7 April 2025 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm
1) Neil Luck - Real Telepathy (10:25)
2) Clemens von Reusner – REEHD (7:11)
3) Kate Wilson Hilferty - Two Channel // Rannoch Moor Pt 1 (5:01)
4) Ellie Cherry - Breaking News (12:00)
1) Neil Luck - Real Telepathy
Real Telepathy is a radiophonic work about the nature of broadcast and shortwave communication. This collective state might exists when many dispersed bodies listen simultaneously to the same broadcast. It also happens in the shortwave radio community; individuals across the world communicating with each other somewhat chaotically via publicly accessible long-distance antennas. These connections, messages, signals all represent for me some kind of ephemeral community of communications; a telepathic network. My interest in radio as a collective listening experience heightened during the lockdowns of 2020, and spurred me to conduce a series of experiments, performances, compositions and recordings based around the interception, or modulation of radio signals. Real Telepathy is a piecing together of those into a short dreamlike narrative around late night radiophonic communications between men in their sheds.
NEIL LUCK is a composer and artist based in the UK. His work often explores the pathos and interaction between live human performance and multimedia, and attempts to frame the act of music making as something curious, or weird, or useful, or spectacular in and of itself. Neil’s work takes a range of forms from music-theatre, to concert works, radio, public projects and recordings. He is the founder and director of the music-theatre ensemble ARCO; an experimental music-theatre company. ARCO has been commissioned to produce work for arts institutions, galleries and music institutions around the UK and overseas.
https://www.neilluck.com/
https://x.com/Neilluck
https://www.instagram.com/arcoarcoarcoarco/
2) Clemens von Reusner – REEHD
REEHD is not based on sounds of real instruments, but on sounds generated by physical modeling. Physical modeling allows to go beyond the limits imposed by real instruments as well as the limits imposed by human players. This can result in certain sounds no longer having any relation to known instrumental sounds. In REEHD sound objects interact as sound gestures as well as textures in a concept of composed spatial counterpoints in virtual spaces.
"But no one should be afraid that looking at signs leads us away from things; on the contrary, it leads us into the innermost of things." (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646-1716)
REEHD is awarded (honorary mention) at international composition competition MUSICA NOVA 2023, Prague, czech republic.
Spatialisation: ambisonic, 8-channel, 07:11
Clemens von Reusner, german composer (* 1957). His works of electroacoustic music and radiophonic audio pieces focus on both purely electronically generated sounds and sounds found in special places and processed in the studio. The work on sound itself, its arrangement and movement on individual tracks in the virtual acoustic spaces of multi-channel loudspeaker configurations are at the centre of his compositional work. He is member of the "Academy of German Music Authors". His works have been awarded with national and international prizes, most recently the Thomas-Seelig-Fixed-Media-Award 2024. They are performed worldwide at reknowned international festivals for contemporary music.
https://www.cvr-net.de/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZN7nx06m3qt7W5chIdKp7Q
3) Kate Wilson Hilferty - Two Channel // Rannoch Moor Pt 1
Two-channel recording diptych using a hydrophone and a homemade geophone in the piping network where water is released from the Rannoch Moor hydroelectric power station. The water, rich in peat, in extracted from the bogland, and funnelled in to the plant through pipes in the ground. When the water is released, the push resonates through the metal and plastic piping system in remote murmurs. A geophone on the exterior of the piping catches the sound of air and water in its release.
Bartender and field-recording hobbyist living in Glasgow. Interested in various methods of recording and enhancing concealed sounds with use of geophones, contact mics, and transducers.
https://soundcloud.com/user-380334898
4) Ellie Cherry - Breaking News
"Breaking News" is inspired by the historic feud between newspaper companies and their rival radio news broadcasting organizations at the beginning of the 20th century. Known as The Press-Radio War, the feud reached a head in 1938, when representatives of the printed press attempted to illegalise radio news broadcasts. Not having real legal grounds to ban radio news, the press exaggerated the panic caused by Mercury Theatre's 1938 broadcast of "War of the Worlds" to build the case that radio was dangerous for public safety. In "Breaking News," I satirically reimagine the printed press's melodramatic depiction of radio by stringing together a surrealist narrative from archival radio news bulletins and vintage office supplies played as percussion instruments. The result is a warped reality in which the radio not only has the power to influence emotions, but can also mind control humans, puppeteer their bodies, and distort the laws of time.
Ellie Cherry is an electroacoustic composer fundamentally compelled by the belief that as an artist she is first and foremost an observer: be it the acoustic properties of a beech tree or the childhood experiences of an audience member, every element in our shared reality is worthy of consideration. Her composition therefore takes a holistic approach, in which spectral theory, physics, psychoacoustics, and historical and political context are all intertwined.
https://www.elliecherrycomposer.com
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Radiophrenia Shorts 29
7 April 2025 9:30 pm - 10:00 pm
5) Julian Scordato - Study for a cosmic city (7:00)
6) Lori Mortimer - The Pain (1:40)
7) Jena Jang - Annoying Cantabilles (14:02)
5) Julian Scordato - Study for a cosmic city
"Study for a cosmic city" is inspired by a utopian urban planning proposal described by the composer and architect Iannis Xenakis in an essay entitled "La ville cosmique" (1965). The work is based on a graphic score that sends normalized parameter values to a laptop ensemble. Performers are free to map the score data to the variables of their favorite devices and algorithms. The aim is to preserve an autonomous design of digital musical instruments within a common environment based on data sharing. Performative gestures are left to the sensitivity of each musician.
Performed by Arazzi Laptop Ensemble (Giorgio Klauer, Luca Richelli, Julian Scordato, Giovanni Sparano, Paolo Zavagna) in October 2022.
Julian Scordato is a composer and artist whose practice focuses mainly on sound, graphics, algorithms, and interactivity. He studied composition and electronic music at the Conservatory of Venice and sound art at the University of Barcelona. In 2009 he co-founded the Arazzi Laptop Ensemble. In 2015 he joined and currently leads SaMPL - Sound and Music Processing Lab, an innovative platform based in Padua (Italy) dedicated to education, production and research in Sound and Music Computing. Coordinator of the Electronic Music School of the Conservatory of Padua, since 2017 he has been professor of electroacoustic music composition and performance.
https://www.julianscordato.com
6) Lori Mortimer - The Pain
In my deceased mother's garage, I found a cassette tape from the 1970s. It's a recording of the surprise party my extended family threw for my great-aunt and -uncle. Among the gems on the tape is the sound of my great-aunt Lorraine, who taped over the last 10 minutes of the party, reciting a series of meditations to help relieve her chronic back pain. The juxtaposition of the party's raucous joy with my aunt's solitary voice at the end, desperate for pain relief, took me aback. I condensed one of her meditations for Audio Playground assignment 19: "Create a 90-sec max piece that includes at least 10 seconds of [the supplied song], and also the sound of a wave. Guest prompt from Marcus Bagala." (http://www.audioplayground.xyz/assignments). I used the supplied music plus my own recording of the ocean.
Lori Mortimer is the creator of Mementos podcast, a member of Hub & Spoke (a nonprofit collective of independent podcasters), and the creator of Sound Off the Ground, a sound-design newsletter for new audio makers. A mid-life career-changer, Lori loves to sponge up as much as she can about creating audio. Most recently, she's been exploring sound art and acoustic ecology. She also enjoys sharing knowledge with other new(ish) audio makers through workshops such as "Music for Non-Musicians: Create Music on Your iOS Device," which was offered through AIR Media (professional org in the US).
http://www.lorimortimer.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorimortimer
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-302416140
IG and Twitter: @mortaymortay
7) Jena Jang - Annoying Cantabilles
"Annoying Cantabilles" reflects my rebellious approach to cantabile. My musical journey began at age three with classical piano, which deeply influenced me. I often played chords differently from the score, preferring to alter pieces slightly, and my teacher even suggested studying jazz or composition. Eventually, I stopped playing piano during secondary school, focusing on visual arts. However, I later explored samulnori percussion, classical guitar, and eventually experimental music through modern dance and studies in Europe. During the pandemic, I started composing with Ableton and, whenever possible, returned to the piano, recording my improvisations. Discovering synthesisers revealed my musical world rooted in piano, but I still dislike rigidly following scores. I love classical music but take a rebellious stance, always distorting and challenging its boundaries.
Jena Jang is a vocalist, experimental musician, and performance artist from South Korea, currently based in Prague, Czechia. Their work explores the boundaries of power electronics, extended vocal improvisation, and high-pitched frequencies generated through their hand-built modular synthesisers. Drawing inspiration from Buddhist chanting, yogic breath work, throat singing, and traditional Korean music forms like Pansori, Samulnori, and Shamanic rituals, their performances are raw, visceral expressions of energy. Physicality plays a central role, with movements such as head-banging, crawling, and repetitive gestures aimed at transforming past traumas and negative memories into positive, cathartic experiences.
https://database.shareimpro.eu/en/person/jena-jang
https://www.instagram.com/xena_xang/
https://www.youtube.com/@jenajang/featured
https://soundcloud.com/purplearsound
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Paul Nataraj & Masimba Hwahti in response to Julian 'Togar' Abraham - Soil Root Leaf
7 April 2025 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
In this project Paul and Masimba capture almost five years of fascinating conversations as they stood upon different soils in different geographies and time zones. Their work considers the complex entanglements of migrant stories, memory, identity, otherness, sonic and musical materiality in each of their practice. The basis of this piece is a modified record, which has been covered with calico, dyed with mud collected from a contentious location in Harare where the New Zimbabwe flag was hoisted in 1980. Alongside this 'earth dipped record' we hear field recordings of family prayers, onomatopoeic vocalisations, and experimental turntable practices using mediated records. The work remembers stories of myth, music, mantras and math, all rooted in our collective interest in factive, mnesonic practices of resistance and sonic action(s) may you - repeat 108 times. Masimba re-members how in Chidzimbahwe folklore, the soil hums ultra sound songs to the offspring of mice below the surface, subtle vibrational songs that humans cannot hear, songs of healing and comfort. This is part of a terra-ancestral ontology, nomadically sounding material memories, through leaf soil and root. Artist bio: Paul is an audio maker from Blackburn in Lancashire. His work explores diaspora, identity, musical materiality, memory, how our relationship with listening and the listened to, changes over time. His work is currently being shown as part of the major national touring show Jerwood Survey III. Masimba Hwati is a multi-disciplinary artist focusing on everyday forms of resistance/negotiation and micro-politics of sound and listening. He is a PhD in Art Practice candidate at the Academy of fine Art Vienna. He holds an MFA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He works in sculpture sound performance and other media. Website/social links https://www.paulnataraj.uk/ https://paulnataraj.bandcamp.com/ https://www.secondactgallery.co.uk/masimba-hwati https://www.youtube.com/@masimbahwati7490 https://www.instagram.com/masimbahwati/?hl=en-gb -
Radiophrenia Shorts 46
7 April 2025 11:00 pm - 8 April 2025 12:00 am
1) David Watt - A Scottish Minstrel's Song of the Waves (15:00)
2) Mendel Lee - Fast-Paced World (9:45)
3) Michele Abondano - The Inner of Matter (20:00)
4) Craig Gell – Arcade (15:00)
1) David Watt - A Scottish Minstrel's Song of the Waves
Soprano: Lisa Lulis (credit)
As a songwriter, Carolina Oliphant hid her identity in pseudonyms of Scottish Minstrel, SM, Mrs Bogan of Bogan, BB, for fear of not being taken seriously as a female songwriter (Donaldson, 2023). The exact extent of her work is not known. With Robert Burns, Baroness Nairne (as Carolina Oliphant became) was one of the foremost Scottish songwriters helping to transform the politics of resistance in the Jacobite rebellion to a national identity. A Scottish Minstrel's Songs of the Waves recasts Nairne’s work and collages three songs: Caller Herrin’, Charles’ Landing at Barodale; The Boat Song O’ Clyde) ) Each work explores the relationship of estuaries and water courses to the Scottish Landscape. In this work Nairne is reworked into the present day using sonic material processed from the vocal performances with found sounds of objects located close to the water courses.
David Watt is lecturer in music and sector Manager for music industries and theatre arts at UHI Perth, having previously completed doctoral study with Rajmil Fischman and Diego Garro at Keele University. Previous works have been performed at INTIME, Ai-maako, Portbello Film Festival, and explore connections made in structure and narrative through sound transformation.
https://linktr.ee/davidwatt
https://davidwatt.bandcamp.com/album/voices-landscapes
2) Mendel Lee - Fast-Paced World
Years ago I found myself wondering what it would sound and feel like to be standing or walking in the middle of a road with fast and loud vehicles speeding by me on all sides. I imagined closing my eyes, feeling the slipstream air whip my hair around as vehicles of all shapes and sizes passed by me. Because this would be hazardous to experience in real life, I set my sights on creating a digital audio work that could represent this phenomenon. Fast-Paced World is the result, an atmospheric work aimed at transporting the listener into what would be a dangerous sonic environment made safe and meditative by transforming the sounds into a peaceful virtual soundscape.
Mendel Lee (he/him) (b. 1975) is a New Orleans-based composer whose music explores both the evolution of singular ideas over a long period of time and layered syncopated rhythmic patterns and hemiolas over an underlying groove. Recognized as a VCCA Fellow and a NPN Take Notice Fund Grantee, he is committed to using his creative practice and entrepreneurial spirit to strengthen collaboration between composers, performers, and audience to show that new music can be for everyone.
https://mendellee.com/
https://instagram.com/mendelleemusic
https://youtube.com/@mendellee
3) Michele Abondano - The Inner of Matter
‘The Inner of Matter’ is the first electroacoustic composition of a series of timbrescapes that responds to the hybrid possibilities between the creation of a timbral experience and the interaction with a particular soundscape. Here, the soundscape was recorded and electronically processed. Objects of diverse materials were collected to create a set for improvisation sessions, which were recorded and processed as well, thus the compositional process focused on the timbral creation of a hybrid experience between the acoustic and the electronic entities. The inner in this work is approached as a scrutiny of the inside of each source. The search for the internal content and structure of matter in each object. Scraping, cutting, digging or extracting, I attempted to capture their uniqueness, expanding or even disrupting their nature.
Composer, experimental performer and researcher. Her work has been developed in the areas of instrumental and electroacoustic music, live electronics and collaborations with dance. Her main interest is to explore timbre, especially, its multidimensional and dynamic condition. She has been a fellow of the Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, an artist-in-residence at CMMAS, as well as a winner of the Ibermúsicas Prize of Composition and Premiere of Work, and the Grant for the Creation of Contemporary Music funded by the Colombian Ministry of Culture. Abondano was awarded a PhD in Composition at the University of Leeds.
https://micheleabondano.com/
4) Craig Gell – Arcade
‘Arcade’ is a montage of recordings made at Dymchurch amusement park in Kent. The piece was originally created to augment an installation by the artist genuinefake at the Folkestone Triennial in 2021, but was never used.
Craig Gell is an artist and composer from Bournemouth.
He has created multimedia installations, interactive apps and electroacoustic compositions largely informed by nature and the natural landscape - recording impulse responses in quarries (Lithoscapes), programming sonifications of live sea wave data (Wave Machine). Craig is also an experienced musician and composer of more conventional music, including for a number of short animated films.
craiggellmusic.com
Soundcloud.com/craiggell
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Seth Guy - Intermix 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
8 April 2025 12:00 am - 12:45 am
For each Intermix, I recorded a performance video where I resonated plastics with my body. This was sent to a collaborator; my wife Jennie Huggins, radio artist Joan Schuman, writer Hugo Danino, and poet Mark Anthony Pearce - who responded aurally to what they witnessed. Listeners are then invited to visualise what was performed solely from each collaborator's perspective.
I made these performances after discovering that plastics now exist within every body on Earth. Pollution and climate change appear so beyond our control, our governments reticent to act, it leaves one feeling powerless. Driven by our ambiguous relationship with plastics, material both useful and destructive; I wanted to engage with this material in a bodily way that would also confer the conflict I felt. In denying myself a voice, inviting others to speak, act on my behalf, there is I think an analogy to our relationship with the climate emergency.
Artist bio:
Seth Guy appropriates, reconfigures and juxtaposes materials to create playful performative works which explore the discourse between ear and eye. Influenced by his interests in experimental fiction, art, and music, Seth's research investigates the intersections of shared language, of memory, and imagination, in which the acts of listening and visualising are investigated. Often collaborating and devising projects of a participatory and experiential nature, Seth makes both sonic art and visual art - sound compositions, performances, and collage - work which is often humorous, and occasionally disquieting. Seth lives in London. His work is held in public and private collections worldwide.
Website/social links
https://sethguy.bandcamp.com
http://www.sethguy.co.uk
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Jonas Lerch - THE BEAUTY OF ERRROR
8 April 2025 12:45 am - 2:00 am
"THE BEAUTY OF ERROR" explores the poetic power of mistakes; viewing errors not as shortcomings, but as fertile sources of inspiration that, through their unpredictability, resist firmly established notions. The aim is to replace the illusion of perfection with the recognition of beauty in imperfection. In a time when technological singularity will soon no longer be a dystopia, when the pursuit of perfection is regarded as a noble virtue, and when visual worlds are shaped by artificial intelligence, we must acknowledge mistakes as added value, as indicators of humanity, and as signs of individuality.
The installation consists of an atmospheric network of fragmented interviews (with Mark Vernon, Rosa Menkman, Felix Kubin & Marta Zapparoli), distorted video collages, and a soundscape of glitch artifacts, found footage, field recordings, and synthetic sounds. It explores the tension between order and chaos, perfection and imperfection.
Artist bio:
Jonas Lerch (*1996) is a Hamburg-based artist and graphic designer recognized for his experimental approach and exploration of unconventional techniques. His work embraces digital imperfections, challenging traditional concepts of perfection while questioning rigid norms and the dominance of technology. By merging digital and physical elements, Lerch creates art that blurs boundaries, adding depth through printmaking techniques like riso and screen printing.
Website/social links
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Selenium Dust Particle - The Fall of the House of Usher - extended version
8 April 2025 2:00 am - 2:30 am
The soundtrack is made for the silent film The Fall of the House of Usher.
The movie was co-directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, and starred Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Lasell Watson and Melville Webber.It tells the story of a brother and sister who live under a family curse. An avant-garde experimental film running only 13 minutes,the visual element predominates, including shots through prisms to create optical distortion.One sequence features letters written in the air moving across the screen.
Selenium Dust Particle superimposed an imaginaired atom of a selenium particle in the movie.
This is the soundtrack extended version.
Artist bio:
Selenium Dust Particle investigates the mechanical sounds of instruments,
old grammophone records, wax cylinders, distortion in tape recorders, cassette players and short wave radio and brings them together into a whole new sounduniverse.
Website/social links
https://seleniumdustparticle.bandcamp.com
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Mutant Beatniks - Doppler Gyrations
8 April 2025 2:30 am - 3:00 am
Sonic landscapes; in disappearing echoes; shown on a wall; in a slow bounce; Engraving sounds texture; a Granulating pulses; in Gravity Waves; the Fruit that grows; inside a tree
Artist bio:
A international Group project with a ever changing line up which started in the mid eighties; Since there have been many times of inactivity, and lots of recordings have been lost down the years. Various members joined and left, lots of tapes of unlistenable noise were made, sold or given away, only to be played once, and mostly for only a few seconds. There's a story that a party in the late eighties was ruined by a Mutant Beatniks album being accidentally selected from a pile of cassettes. From the years of not self editing, a open space arrived, and in this clearing was a sound set with out ego
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Limbo Calling Ep 3 - Slug Rider
8 April 2025 3:00 am - 3:30 am
Episode 3. Slug Rider
Slug riding expert Reuben Simoncelli sheds some light on how to gain the trust of a slug. The Operator has a flashback to some uninvited guests, and plays a song that might just change your mind about our more slimy garden neighbours...
Produced by Pete Hazell with contributions from Sean Lee and Sam Langley. ~ Theme music by Alex Lupo ~ "Giant Centipede” by Titus 12 ~ Artwork by Everything Has Gone Wrong Other music available from Limbo Tapes ~ bandcamp & Soundcloud
These archive recordings throw a light for those who see shadow puppets in the noise and chaos radio airwaves. As we eavesdrop on the solitary Operator's dispatches, we wonder what we can learn about Limbo, and life at the ambiguous "outpost".
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THLEEP - Broadcasts 02
8 April 2025 3:30 am - 4:30 am
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; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.
THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.
Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.
Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.
Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.
Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj
Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com -
Hildegard Westerkamp - Once Upon a Time
8 April 2025 4:30 am - 5:00 am
This album wants to stir, unsettle and surprise. But unlike with breaking news in the regular media, it refuses to transmit feelings of helplessness, fear and terror. Instead it wants to energize and revitalize, even when it grapples with incidents of violence and death. The pieces presented here were created between 1988 and 2012. In their togetherness they highlight and celebrate voices that are often relegated to the personal domain: sounds of new life, of unusual artistic sensibilities, of children’s and female voices. They have the power to tip the balance in our lives, in favour of love, resilience and human compassion. If we choose to listen! “Breaking News invites the listener to surrender to a journey to the place and time of the recording, transitioning into an abstraction of the original sounds, guided by her studio practice with looping, filtering, equalising, resonating, reverberating. It brings all the technique, sound research and creative thinking of a career spanning half a century into the present moment where for Westerkamp, headphones are still for listening, not fashion.” Jo Hutton, The Wire 460, p. 45 (excerpt) ARTISTS MotherVoiceTalk features the voices of Roy Kiyooka, Hildegard Westerkamp, Agnes Westerkamp, Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka. Moments of Laughter features the voices of DB Boyko (performance vocals) and Sonja Ruebsaat (child's voice). Once Upon A Time narrators: Amber Martin-Ruebsaat and Sibling; girl’s voice: Sonja Ruebsaat. École polytechnique was performed by the choir of the Université du Québec à Montréal, directed by Miklós Takács.; Lori Freedman, bass clarinet; Lisa Rodrigue and Véronique Lucignano, trumpets; Daniel Fortin, percussion; and Johanne Latreille, bells. The original live recording by Charles Amirkhanian was the basis for the heightened listening experience presented here. Breaking News features the voice and sounds of the composer’s first grandchild. All tracks composed by Hildegard Westerkamp © 2021 (SOCAN) -
Radiophrenia Shorts 48
8 April 2025 5:00 am - 5:30 am
1) Andreas Oskar Hirsch -Teatime Unlimited (2:40)
2) John Roach - Source of Water (15:00)
3) Vincent Eoppolo - I Am Trying (5:00)
4) Ben Gaunt - German Canine Waltz Time (2:02)
5) Mattia Benedetti - Se Qatre Khun (5:32)
1) Andreas Oskar Hirsch -Teatime Unlimited
Part of Hirsch’s new album The Salamander Treaty, out on makiphon in spring 2025. The album title makes reference to ‚War with the Newts‘, an abysmal yet hilarious science fiction novel by Karel Čapek from 1936. The album is a sort of pacifist replica to this, with claims like Tea Time Unlimited and such. The album title and some of the track titles invite to play around with the phonetics and the meaning of the terms „treaty“, „tree“ and „tea“.
Andreas Oskar Hirsch is a Cologne based musician, visual artist and inventor of electroacoustic instruments. Together with Patricia Koellges he runs makiphon, a label for experimental music and artist records.
http://www.hirschonhirsch.com
http://www.makiphon.de
2) John Roach - Source of Water
The story of Zion National Park in Utah, USA is all about water. Not only did water carve the deep winding canyons, but it also became a contested resource that led to the expulsion or death of countless indigenous people in the region (like the Pa’Rus who lived along the Virgin river) as their springs and other water sources were forcibly stolen. This sound collage brings together the intensity of the natural landscape of the park including falling ice, wind and rushing water, with the voice of Daniel Bulletts from the Kaibab band of Southern Paiutes.
John Roach is a Queens, NY based artist and educator whose work is concerned with the often slippery role of sound in how we perceive the world. His most recent projects have explored the ability of sound to construct immersive portraits of places, and how the careful assembly of spatialized field recordings, sound design elements, and voices can connect a listener to unexpected impressions of a landscape or soundscape.
https://johnroach.net/
https://www.instagram.com/johnroachart/
3) Vincent Eoppolo - I Am Trying
Living In Times of Chaos is a collection of 7 compositions that were composed in late 2023 through August 2024. The works are Electro Acoustic, Acousmatic and Musique Concrete in their forms. As the title suggests these works are mediations on the current state of affairs in our world. The compositions include:
Vincent Eoppolo born Wilmington, Delaware USA. Eoppolo’s compositions are a mix of various sound art traditions such as musique concrete, acousmatic music, electro-acoustic music and radio art. In recent years, Eoppolo’s fixed media works have been presented at the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Mise_En Place New Music Festival in Brooklyn, Utopie Sonore in Nantes, France and De Natura Sonorum in Rome, Italy. Eoppolo’s compositions have been released by Moscow based independent music label Meticulous Midgets and his works are regularly featured on new music radio and internet programs throughout Europe and North America
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007788824642
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CFAy7K6LpWMvtFN5EpKPT?si=01YRMOiARguOmFU8-aT8Dw
https://soundcloud.com/vincent-eoppolo
4) Ben Gaunt - German Canine Waltz Time
In 2023, I was recording some material for another composition of mine, just outside Köln Cathedral. There were two dogs yapping at each other; I loved the sound, but it just didn't fit the piece.
In 2024, I was asked to perform a piece for the Music Patron launch event at the Groucho Club in Soho, London. I decided to make a new work, using a tiny snippet of the discarded dog sounds.
Ben Gaunt is a composer, sonic artist, and improviser. He has written for the London Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, and many other lovely people. He has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award, a British Composer Award, and is Professor in Composition at Leeds Conservatoire.
https://www.bengaunt.com/
https://x.com/bencomposer
https://www.bengaunt.com/epk-sonic-artist-and-composer
5) Mattia Benedetti - Se Qatre Khun
Three Drops of Blood is a cruel and melancholic short story, where a multitude of mirrors is staged just to see them broken and to scatter the reflections. In a madhouse, a sectioned patient, after a year, receive paper and pen for the first time. What starts is a game of projections and superimpositions, where what happened is progressively less clear. Sadegh Hedayat is a master of deceit : the same objects appears from multiple perspectives, sometimes opaque and trivial, sometimes shiny and mysterious. Three Drops of Blood is perhaps his best short novel: a cruel and melancholic glimpse of madness that stages an ensemble of mirrors and crashes them all. We descend into the abyss of an insane asylum, where after a year a sectioned patient can finally write his memories.
Mattia Benedetti is a composer. He lives in Venice.
He's trying to create music that resembles an open world, without a centre but full of internal connections and ambiguous self resemblances.
He's trying to create music that resembles an island, isolated from everything, an extreme habitat where only endemic organisms lives. -
Radiophrenia Shorts 48
8 April 2025 5:30 am - 6:00 am
6) Adrian Laugsch - Spasms Of My Aching Heart – Lamento 4 (8:53)
7) Jeff Gburek - Gamelanic Storm Ventilator (6:54)
8) Aurora Engine – DRONE (4:59)
9) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - EFFO ISN E (0:47)
10) Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 12 (5:40)
6) Adrian Laugsch - Spasms Of My Aching Heart – Lamento 4
"Spasms of My Aching Heart" unfolds somewhere between a kitschy concept album and an AI-generated opera. Consisting of five originally AI-generated (but heavily revised) songs, the album delves deeply into the potential of technology in dialogue with trauma, kitsch, and pathos, striving to create a form of post-digital emotionality and artificial opulence. Shaped by kitsch theory, queer camp, and the aesthetics of Schlager music, the songs embrace their (over)expressivity with seriousness while remaining fully aware of their own absurdness.
Adrian Laugsch (*1997) is a german-polish composer/performer/soundartist.
Based on his musical interest in historical, (auto)biographical, and nostalgic sounds, his compositional work is significantly shaped by the desire for the substantive expansion of the sonic through theatrical, interdisciplinary, and multimedia strategies.
This may range from extra-musical concepts and narrative arcs to the explicit use of stage and video, intertwining traditional formats such as concert, radio play, album, music theater, and installation.
Consequently, his thematic focus lies on queer, hybrid, non-normative, and transgressive identities, as well as the exploration of post-digital artificiality and meta-religious opulence in the staging of socio-political mechanisms.
https://www.adrianlaugsch.com
7) Jeff Gburek - Gamelanic Storm Ventilator
A turbanned roof-top air ventiltor during an heavy rain with some hail is augmented by anthropogenic percsussive accents.
Jeff Gburek is poet, field recordist, sound artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist exploring all strata of cosmophonic resolutions.Works increasingly focus on receptive listening and recognition of patterned chaos in the mind triggered by externally ordered phenomenon in flux.Microphones, detuned guitars, hydrophones, shortwave and VLF radios, ground spikes, bat detectors and electronics typify the research in the psycho-acousticsof Gaian whispers enveloping and composing existence.
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/
8) Aurora Engine – DRONE
Drawn to the intriguing sounds and communal habits of bees, Drone explores hive sounds of local honey bees collected from a series of trips to Edinburgh Based hives. Drunk on smoke, jumping, shouting and, of course, buzzing, the bees make different sounds depending on their mood, surroundings and time of year. Shaw reacts to the rhythms, tones and moods of this fragile species using harp, F horn and voice. This piece was initially premiered at Sound Festival 2022, then featured as part of the 2023 Made In Scotland Showcase show 'Terre' exploring Scotland's Landscape through sound. Recorded, produced and mixed by Deborah Shaw (Aurora Engine)
Deborah Shaw / Aurora Engine is a songwriter, composer and sonic artist from Edinburgh. Fusing real instruments (harp /piano), voice and progressive electronica, her work encapsulates a singular and striking sonic landscape. As a sonic artist she thrives on telling stories through sounds, engaging communities, whilst engaging with environmental issues. Recent works include a sonic exploration of Tourette's Syndrome funded by SMHAF, and an exploration a commission from Historic Scotland, capturing the historic sounds of the Paisley's Carillon. She is committed to amplifying the voices of women in sound and has engaged on a series of women focused sound projects.
http://www.auroraengine.com
http://www.instagram.com/aurora_engine
http://www.twitter.com/auroraengine
http://www.facebook.com/auroraengine
9) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - EFFO ISN E
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
10) Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 12
Channelling is a kinetic sound performance that utilizes various components salvaged from discarded and obsolete consumer technology, reanimating them by piping amplified sound through them. The motors and mechanisms respond to these sound impulses in erratic and unpredictable ways. The actions of, and emanations from, the devices are subsequently amplified.
The project was developed through 2021and 2022 by support from Ferme-Asile (CH), Witte Rook (NL), AiR Niederösterreich (AT), HEAR and Espaces Sonore (FR) and Château Éphémère (FR).
Since 2005 Simon Whetham has worked with sonic activity. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He also explores ways of creating physical traces of sound and transforming energy forms.
Whetham performs and exhibits internationally, has received a large number of commissions and awards, has many published composed works and regularly collaborates with other artists. In addition his practice covers giving active listening, field recording and technology repurposing workshops.
https://simonwhetham.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/simonwhethamartist/
https://vimeo.com/simonwhetham
https://simonwhetham.bandcamp.com/ -
RadioActive - on Water: River song, singing rivers By Leonel Vásquez & Lisa Blackmore
8 April 2025 6:00 am - 7:00 am
To listen is to open up the channels and currents that run deep inside us, to attune ourselves to the lives that endure in polluted rivers. This podcast is an invitation to navigate the Bogotá River in Colombia through a more-than-human song created by sound artist Leonel Vásquez together with the living forces that shape the watershed’s ecosystems.
Loaded with chemicals and sewage along its course, the river is largely devoid of the fish and freshwater crustaceans that for thousands of years teemed in its waters. People have turned their backs on the water body, even though it was once the centre of collective life.
How might listening to the river’s song renew bonds of relation and reverence for water in dis-enchanted times? Guided by Leonel’s compositions, River Song, Singing Rivers is sonic immersion that attends to the Bogota rivers bogs, meanders, and flows as a living being worthy
and in need of care.
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Lisa Blackmore is founder-director and curator of entre—ríos, exploring continuities between bodies of water, human bodies and territories, recognizing rivers as active subjects. Lisa is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies and is the author of publications like Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space and Visuality in Venezuela 1948-1958 (2017), and co-editor of Hydrocommons Cultures: Art, Pedagogy and Care Practices in the Americas (LA ESCUELA__JOURNAL, 2024) and Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art (2020).
Leonel Vásquez is a Colombian sound artist exploring non-human sonic agencies: waters, trees, rocks... living and vibrant materials. Their interests include underwater noise, geo-resonances, relational listening, and vibroacoustics of planetary well-being. They have worked with the National Radio of Colombia, Ministry of Culture, and as a teacher of sound art at the University of Los Andes.
https://www.leonelvasquez.com/
entre—ríos explores continuities between bodies of water and human bodies, recognizing rivers as active subjects producing aesthetic forms and shaping memory. They believe in artistic practices as catalysts for collaborative experiments connecting us to the environment. Their practice traces hydrographies rendering borders porous, creating shared territories. They put into circulation ways of knowing and feeling bodies of water through creative methodologies and flow systems that create deltas of knowledge where arts and sciences, communities and institutions meet. Their project, RÍO BOGOTÁ, connects community initiatives in one of Colombia's polluted rivers through culinary encounters and publications.
http://entre-rios.net
Collective Werebere focuses on communication and expressions between the human and natural world, based on the study of different bodies and their sounds. They have conducted research on resonance phenomena and subtle landscape signals. They lead the High Mountain Listening Station project, a space for contemplation and well-being practices towards the body and Sumapaz páramo territory.
https://www.instagram.com/eeam_werebere/ -
Diana Duta & Stefan Christoff - Portugal soundscapes
8 April 2025 7:00 am - 8:00 am
This mix came together after being in touch with sound artist Diana Duta. I recalled a conversation we had last year over a coffee in Brussels after we joined a Palestine solidarity protest together. We talked about how creating experimental non corporate sounds can possibly create ruptures in the flow of the hyper colonial capitalist death machine that is aiming to commodify everything. The soundscape blends together my own recordings from a visit I made to Portugal with my family in 2024, and Diana’s recordings from the 25th of April, which marked the 50 year anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal - a symbol of independence and freedom. It is really about listening and arriving at a solidarity that is about being open, also about taking action, but also reflecting in real time beyond the noise of colonial capitalist power that is trying to always occupy our minds.
Artist bio:
Diana Duta works with sound in hypnotic ways, from a background in art and socio-cultural linguistics. Her solo project DIAN makes things disappear with words, while performing an oracular striptease in the dark. She is part of monthly community hypnosis sessions t.r.a.n.c.e and runs Jambes, a recording studio commissioning new work by artists experimenting with sound and voice.
Stefan Christoff is a Canadian musician, community organizer, and journalist based in Montreal, Quebec. He has collaborated with artists such as Lori Goldston, Sam Shalabi, and Adriana Camacho. A lifelong community activist, he helps to coordinate the Musicians For Palestine project.
Website/social links
https://dianaduta.com/
https://jaaambes.be/
https://soundcloud.com/spirodon
https://www.instagram.com/musicians4palestine/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 2
8 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
1 Wolfgang Pérez - Memorias Fantasmas (9:55)
2 Troy David Ouellette - E-Air (2:35)
3 Dariusz Mazurowski - Summa Technologiae - Homo Sapiens (5:08)
4 Jorge Ramos - Electronik Peace (5:52)
1) Wolfgang Pérez - Memorias Fantasmas
Memorias Fantasmas is based on a 1982 concert recording by my family in a church in Segovia, Spain, thought lost but rediscovered last year. The composition uses loops from the original recording, with minimal new material added (e.g., simple oscillators). Each of the three sections begins with a loop that is repeated mantra-like, inviting listeners to focus on sonic details, which are gradually varied and developed. The piece follows principles of Reduced Listening (Pierre Schaeffer) and processes the sounds through sampling, downgrading, filtering, and distortion.
The work emphasizes the spaces between sounds, allowing imperfections to take on a life of their own. It reflects the nostalgia for lost futures described in Mark Fisher's Hauntology, as the resurfaced material represents a past I didn’t experience, yet feel connected to.
Wolfgang Pérez, a 30-year-old German-Spanish composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Essen, Germany, is known for blending experimental electronic music with pop. A graduate in electronic and pop composition from Folkwang University, his work explores unconventional structures and electroacoustic textures. His second album, AHORA (2024), sung in Spanish, mixes Latin rhythms with intricate electronic soundscapes, while his upcoming album, Só Ouço, inspired by his time in Brazil, brings Brazilian influences into his experimental pop style. He is currently focusing more on the electronic line in his body of work, experimenting with Soundscape composition and immersive Multi-Channel pieces.
https://www.instagram.com/wolfgangperezmusic/
2) Troy David Ouellette - E-Air
E-Air (2024) consists of sounds that reference place and time, foregrounding the sonic possibilities of Hyères, France and St. Catharines, Canada. Each chosen site resonated differently as the surroundings changed, yet one common theme remained via a tuning fork, which marks the space's sonic resonance. As an object of obsolescence in music, the tuning fork has taken on a contemporary function as a tool for healing through sound. It references the therapeutic nature of resort towns with littoral space as places of convalescence and respite. It also becomes a rudimentary instrument like a bell to transport the listener psychoacoustically from one passage to another.
Specializing in acoustic ecology, technology and conceptual art, Troy David Ouellette (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Design at Brock University's Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts. Ouellette is a founding member and former Chair of the London Ontario Media Arts Association (L.O.M.A.A.) and "Principal Organizer" of the Sound Art Innovation Lab (S.A.I.L.). Ouellette's research often extends notions of how culture, technology, and the environment might interact beyond anthropocentric concerns.
http://www.troydavidouellette.com/
https://www.soundartinnovationlab.org/
https://brocku.ca/miwsfpa/visual-arts/faculty-and-staff/troy-david-ouellette/
3) Dariusz Mazurowski - Summa Technologiae - Homo Sapiens
Originally, the piece "Summa Technologiae - Homo Sapiens" was composed as part of the extensive performance "Summa Technologiae", based on the book by Stanisław Lem of the same title, first published in 1964. It was commissioned by the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk as part of the series Tuesdays on the Wave 2021, concerts inspired by literature. It was performed live on November 16, 2021. Currently, it is an independent concert piece for prepared piano, synthesizer (or sampler), two actors and tape. It can be presented in various forms - as mentioned before, but also for just a piano with a tape, two voices with a tape, a piano and a synthesizer for one performer, etc. It all depends on what performers are currently available. It is possible to play the actors parts from a tape, or omit them completely and perform them on a piano with only an electronic layer.
Dariusz Mazurowski is a Polish electroacoustic music composer born and residing in Gdansk. While the majority of his compositional activity has focused on acousmatic works, he has also composed instrumental music in conjunction with electronics, soundscapes, and mprovised electroacoustic music. His works combine analog instruments with the digital technology and concrete sounds. Mazurowski’s music has been broadcast by various stations all over the world, and he has performed at festivals and other events in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. His installations, visual works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous galleries. His compositions has been released on numerous discs.
https://deemstudio.com/
https://www.facebook.com/people/Dariusz-Mazurowski/100086282450366/
https://www.youtube.com/user/DeeMstudio/videos
https://open.spotify.com/search/Dariusz%20Mazurowski
4) Jorge Ramos - Electronik Peace
During Mahatma Gandhi's stay in England in 1931, when the Columbia Gramophone Company requested him to make a record for them, Gandhi pleaded his inability to speak politics and added that, at the age of sixty-two, he could make his first and last record which should, if wanted, make his voice heard for all time. Confessing his anxiety to speak on spiritual matters, on October 20, 1931, he read out his old article On God.
For the purpose of this work, I extracted the following passage: There is a mysterious power that pervades everything.
Jorge Ramos is a Portuguese multiple award-winning composer, sound artist, and researcher based in London. He has written solo, chamber, symphony, mixed, electroacoustic, live-electronics, film, stage, installations, and advertisement music for festivals, orchestras, ensembles, and soloists across Asia, North America, South America, and Europe, while also collaborating with other artists computer music design.
Jorge Ramos holds a Doctorate in Music Composition granted by the Royal College of Music London. He currently serves as a collaborator at The ACTOR Project — Orchestration practice in the 21st century (CAN) and CESEM ESML (PT). He is an European Network of Opera Academies Artist.
https://jorgefpramos.com
https://www.instagram.com/jorgefpramos/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgefpramos/
https://www.facebook.com/jorgefpramos/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 2
8 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
5 Jane Draycott – Broken (6:05) 6 Clovis McEvoy - Calls for Cages (10:15) 7 Simon Hutchinson - Mental Upgrade (6:35) 8 Vincent Eoppolo - In These Times of Chaos - The Fog of Memory (7:48) 9 Colin James Woods - Near Finsbury Park (3:18) 5) Jane Draycott – Broken How simple really is the quick fix? How glorious, deep down, is the glorious scar? Inspired by the upbeat aesthetic of how-to videos and the popularity of the Japanese art of kintsugi, Broken brings together five voices in a poetic montage exploring fracture and mending, mental ill-health and repair. Recordings from the worlds of gold-panning and the DIY phone-fix, forensic psychology and shattered porcelain are threaded through with a meditation on the idea of beautiful imperfection, and the relation between deprivation and trauma. Grateful thanks are due to artist Momo Nishikawa-Toomey and Holly Price, CPsychol, for their contributions to 'Broken'. Jane Draycott is a UK-based poet with a particular interest in audio and collaborative work. Her poetry has been nominated variously for the T S Eliot Prize and Forward prizes for Best Collection, Best First Collection and Best Single poem, while her collaborative sound compositions with Elizabeth James have won a BBC Radio 3 Poem-for-Radio selection and a London Sound Art Award. Twice recipient of a BBC Writer’s award, her broadcast audio work includes features on BBC R3 (Between the Ears), LBC radio and Resonance FM, with installation work including Orleans House Gallery and The River and Rowing Museum. https://www.janedraycott.org.uk/ https://soundcloud.com/aneraycott 6) Clovis McEvoy - Calls for Cages Calls for Cages critically examines the practice of displaying animals in cages for human pleasure. It places the calls and songs of primates – recorded at the zoological and botanical gardens in Hong Kong - within an imagined natural landscape, before stripping that sound of its environmental context and brutally reshaping it to fit with a new, human imposed reality. In the closing section, we are finally presented with the original, unedited audio of the city waking up, and the animal calls slowly diminishing to silence. Clovis McEvoy is an award-winning composer, sonic artist, freelance writer, and a founding member of the artist group, Rent Collective. Born in New Zealand, he currently splits his time between NZ and the UK. Clovis’ creative practice incorporates acousmatic music, live electroacoustic music, interactive sound installations, and music for virtual reality experiences. His live and installation works have been presented in over fourteen countries. In 2026, Clovis will be artist in residence at Spreepark Art Space in Berlin, Germany, and Pier-2 Art Centre, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where he will be working on a series of audiovisual installations. https://www.clovismcevoy.art/ Instagram: @newlybruised 7) Simon Hutchinson - Mental Upgrade Timothy Morton writes “Thinking ecologically about global warming requires a kind of mental upgrade, to cope with something that is so big and so powerful that until now we had no real word for it.” On one hand, this could be interpreted as a reason for despair—we are not prepared to conceive something so large. We can, however, decide to focus on the hope of this statement instead, that a “mental upgrade” will help humans better engage with this challenging hyperobject. This piece, entitled Mental Upgrade, draws inspiration from Japanese kagura, Shinto music and dance. Shintoism is a religion concerned with multiple kami, sacred spirits that inhabit objects and nature, in a way simultaneously engaging with our perceptions and the sacred infinite. I am not a trained kagura performer, and I make no claim that my synthesized piece is aesthetically connected to this tradition, but, in creating Mental Upgrade, my Simon Hutchinson is a composer and interdisciplinary artist who uses technology as both a creative medium and a thematic focus. His work emphasizes the human dimensions of technology, challenging contemporary technoculture and advocating for a thoughtful approach to our digital age. https://simonhutchinson.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@SimonHutchinson 8) Vincent Eoppolo - In These Times of Chaos - The Fog of Memory Living In Times of Chaos is a collection of 7 compositions that were composed in late 2023 through August 2024. The works are Electro Acoustic, Acousmatic and Musique Concrete in their forms. As the title suggests these works are mediations on the current state of affairs in our world. Vincent Eoppolo born Wilmington, Delaware USA. Eoppolo’s compositions are a mix of various sound art traditions such as musique concrete, acousmatic music, electro-acoustic music and radio art. In recent years, Eoppolo’s fixed media works have been presented at the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Mise_En Place New Music Festival in Brooklyn, Utopie Sonore in Nantes, France and De Natura Sonorum in Rome, Italy. Eoppolo’s compositions have been released by Moscow based independent music label Meticulous Midgets and his works are regularly featured on new music radio and internet programs throughout Europe and North America https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007788824642 https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CFAy7K6LpWMvtFN5EpKPT?si=01YRMOiARguOmFU8-aT8Dw 9) Colin James Woods - Near Finsbury Park Processed field recording from a trip to London. Includes a jogger, birds and a single spoken word. Originally designed as part of an installation piece with a modified discarded mannequin as the diffusion source. Colin James Woods is an Irish-born freelance artist and sonic practitioner based in Belfast (N. Ireland). Colin was born in Belfast (N.Ireland) and moved to Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2002. Colin went back to study, gaining a Diploma in Contemporary Music (from Unitec, Auckland), a BMus (Hons) in Composition from the University of Auckland, and a Master’s Degree in Creative Technology from AUT (Auckland). He returned to Belfast in 2023 and is currently working on his PhD project at Ulster University, where his research uses his practice to examine the notion of the artist as co-creator. colinjameswoods.com -
Leonie Roessler - Shiraz
8 April 2025 9:00 am - 9:30 am
Leonie’s nomad project Cultural Spaces returned to Iran in 2019. Her sound portraits of Panjim and the Goan countryside were installed at Motorkhooneh Gallery - an art space that literally and figuratively operates underground. 20 meters underground to be precise, hidden at the lowest level of a parking garage. During her stay there she recorded the sounds you are hearing. They were transformed into this composition in 2023, when Cultural Spaces, with the pandemic finally and completely in the past, was able to come back to life at the Zwitschermaschine in Berlin. It is there that this piece was premiered, while Leonie recorded the sounds for the next stop of Cultural Spaces.
Artist bio:
Leonie Roessler - Composer and Performer raised in Germany and the US, now based in The Hague, Netherlands. Leonie captures her environment with field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and instrumental compositions. Part of her work is purely sound-based, however the theme of marginalization has become increasingly present in her radio works. She curates On Air - On Site Festival, and co-manages Iranian record label Noise à Noise with Soheil Soheili. Her works have been released through Musica Dispersa (ES/UK), Noise á Noise (IR), Biodiversitàs, Syrphe(DE), Antilounge(NL), and have been physically archived in the British Library.
Website/social links
http://www.leonieroessler.com
Facebook: Leonie Roessler
Instagram: ljroessler -
John Hall - Soil Balance / Dramatic Words
8 April 2025 9:30 am - 10:00 am
Soil Balance / Dramatic Words is an assembled melodrama around the themes of surveillance, conspiracy to murder , and transcendence. It was assembled by John Hall in Ulverston. It features the voices of Felix Bressart, Bernard Cribbins, Leslie Crowther James Gleason, Henry Kendall ·Richard Levitan, Ida Lupino John Mills, Chris Schenkel, Victor Stanley, Arnold Palmer, and William Powell, and additional material by Steve Tyson and Damian Rose
With original music by John Hall
It is dedicated to David Round.
Biog: John Hall is based in South Cumbria, He explores archives, rotting plastic bags in charity shops and all things inbetween to make audio, video,music and print about ritual, tradition and communal memory. He is artist / director of Artspace, produces Flypaper, a zine on vernacular creativity and is compiler editor of the book Play Summat We Know; Independent Music and Community in Barrow in Furness 1976-96, with Barrow Dock Museum.
"A weirdly thrilling project" (Wire magazine)
http://www.johnhallartist.com/
Website/social links
https://www.johnhallartist.com/ -
Monte Taylor - The Hanging Stranger
8 April 2025 10:00 am - 10:30 am
"The Hanging Stranger" is an electronic radio opera in 13 movements, commissioned for the 2021 Cohen New Works Festival as a collaboration between composer Monte Taylor and librettists Lena Barnard and Sam Mayer. Based on the (now public domain) short story by Philip K. Dick, "The Hanging Stranger" presents a modern reinterpretation of the themes of social paranoia and political violence present in the original story. When a hive of sentient insects take residence in a small American town in search of a better life for their kin, the social rot of the town and atomized neuroses of its residents bubbles to the surface. Eventually, the underlying problems of the town become impossible to reconcile with its existing social order, as the townsfolk seek violent retribution agains the insects, as well as each other. Artist bio: Monte Taylor is a composer and Clinical Assistant Professor of Music Technology at Purdue University. Monte’s compositions have been recognized though the KLANG! International Electroacoustic Composition Competition and the American Prize. In November of 2024, he will serve as a Fulbright Specialist on the project ‘Artificial Intelligence in Sound Design and Editing’. His works have been presented on conferences and festivals including Electronic Music Midwest, Matera Intermedia Festival, Novalis Festival, NYCEMF, SCI, SEAMUS, Seoul International Computer Music Festival, SPLICE Institute, TUTTI Festival, and Web Audio Conference by ensembles including Bent Frequency, Duo Tudor-Režić, Line Upon Line Percussion, and [Switch~ Ensemble]. Website/social links montetaylormusic.com -
Jenna Collins - Victory Monument to the Vanquishing of The Artists by The Engineers
8 April 2025 10:30 am - 11:00 am
'Victory Monument to the Vanquishing of the Artists by the Engineers' (built of text, wildly unstable and utterly unbuildable in any traditional sense) prematurely announces a victory.
Artist bio:
Jenna Collins' solo and collaborative artwork across media but primarily video and sound has been broadcast, exhibited and screened widely at venues across the UK and further afield.
Website/social links
http://www.jennacollins.com
insta: @jennacollinspa -
Anne Jeppesen - Reality Looks Back
8 April 2025 11:00 am - 11:20 am
When you watch a particle it acts like a particle. But when you look away, it does a whole other thing. This story explores modes of experiencing the strange quantum basis of an everyday life. It journeys through split déja-vu, Schrödinger’s hamster and the clouds of possibilities that are hiding just beyond our reach.
Credits: Produced by Anne Jeppesen, under the mentorship of Cristal Duhaime. Produced as part of the YASS! mentorship programme.
YASS! You are so sound! is a one-to-one mentorship program for emerging or experienced authors and audio artists of any age. https://www.luciafestival.org/en/yass-mentorship-program-2324/
Bio: Anne Jeppesen is a Copenhagen-based creator with a focus on immersive experiences for radio, museums and XR media. She co-directed the VR-film A Vocal Landscape that premiered in Venice Immersive in 2023 and won three awards, one of them being Best Theater in Show at Siggraph Asia 2024 in Tokyo. Anne’s main arena is working with the plasticity of the audio space and she’s is always seeking out new ways of combining the cosmic vastness with micro details from our every day world.
https://superposition.dk/
https://www.luciafestival.org/en/evento/reality-looks-back-2/ -
David Cowlard & Andrew Moon / RST - Western Line
8 April 2025 11:20 am - 11:40 am
A city symphony by David Cowlard and Andrew Moon/RST
The Western Line is the railway line that runs from the city centre of Auckland, New Zealand, to the outer suburbs and back again. Thousands of people ride the railway on their daily commute and the journey allows for a unique experience of the city as the railway cuts through closely packed urban housing, light industry, suburban homes and out into the greener rural landscapes. Passengers experience this flickering landscape while thinking of other things.
Western Line expands this fragmented terrain and explores the aural moments where the railway intersects with the urban fabric of west Auckland. Mixed from over 18 months of field recordings from stations, train rides and long walks along the railway line and improvisational drone guitar, the city and soundscape are interwoven; matching the situational experience from the trains and the spaces through which they pass
Artist bio:
David Cowlard is a filmmaker, sound artist, curator and educator. His interdisciplinary practice is located in the exploration of contemporary urban environments and includes working across photography, moving image, field recording and sound design. His work has been exhibited, screened and broadcast widely in New Zealand and internationally. David is the curator of http://www.unreliablelandscapes.net an exhibition platform for the digital city.
Andrew Moon / RST is an experimental musician and recording artist. He has performed widely in New Zealand and in China and his work has been released on labels such as Ecstatic Peace Records, boomkat and utech records.
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/photourbanist/
https://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rst
https://rstsound.bandcamp.com/album/western-line
https://audiofoundation.bandcamp.com/album/western-line -
Buffer Zone
8 April 2025 11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Yve Lomax - Quer - ep 2: The spirit of justice (7.05)
Yara Asmar - may (5:16)
Yve Lomax - Quer
ep 2: The spirit of justice (7.05)
Credits: With thanks to Jono Lomax (sound) and Vit Hopley (script). Thanks also to Kristen Kreider.
Synopsis: Quer is a single voice spoken performance that moves through various modes of address, mixing the poetic, philosophical and the everyday. It is an experiment in how to say something and touches upon things considered pressing for living today. This includes: violence and the cry Why am I being hurt?; attentiveness, justice and ceasing to treat the Earth as a property to be owned; nonviolence and the magic of compassion; dissolving the distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them’; the question of belonging and how saying ‘I am queer’ up-ends it. Quer ends with the assertion that all of life is profoundly transverse and plays upon the old meaning of ‘quer’ as oblique, transverse.
Artist bio: Yve Lomax is a visual artist, writer and editor. She is currently a director of and editor for Copy Press publishers and its audio-visual platform Becoming Fireflies. Since the late 1970s she has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her first book of collected writings was published in 2000 under the title of Writing the Image. Recent publications: Here from There (a shared book with Vit Hopley, 2024); Nearness (2019); Figure, calling (2017); Pure Means (2014). Films/spoken performances include: Mad about justice (2022) and Political Life (2021). Formally, she was a Senior Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art and Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Besides feminism, a longstanding concern has been writing for spoken performances.
Website/social links:
copypress.co.uk
Yara Asmar - may (from the album 'Stuttering Music') -
Yara Asmar - I am building a house so you can visit me (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
8 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Tape letters between two friends, one living in a blanket fort, the other in a house of paper, and both deeming each other’s homes unsound, can’t seem to agree on who should visit the other. So instead, one of them builds a house they can meet in, out of the safest material: Noise.
Biography:
Yara is a musician and puppeteer based in Beirut, Lebanon. She incorporates accordion, metallophone and electronics in her live performances. In addition to her musical work, she has participated in exhibitions where she featured sound and video installations including ‘Sonatina for 19 Music Boxes’ (interactive sound installation), ’The Cut-Throat Finch Preludes’ (tape loop installation), ‘I Liked it Better When We Lived on See-Saw Hill’ (video installation) and ‘Lapses’ (interactive sound installation). Last year she released ‘Mr. Samuel’s Teatime Stories for Good Kids and Confused Adults’ - A puppet film in four parts.
Links:
Website: https://yaraasmar.com/
Bandcamp: https://yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/stuttering-music
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/microwave.blues/
Related video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhLch7CdWAU -
Cashlin MacKenzie - Tobraichean mo Sinnsearan / The Wells of my Ancestors (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
8 April 2025 12:30 pm - 12:45 pm
The piece ‘Tobraichean mo Sinnsearan’ is a layered Gaidhlig soundscape weaving memory and place, anchored in the voice of my great grandfather ‘Tuam Ross’ (1876-1960). The piece is derived from field recordings taken by my Great Uncle and Great Aunt (James and Anne Ross) for ‘The Scottish School of Studies’ aural archive in 1957. In the field recordings they interview ‘Tuam’ on the uses and behaviours of the different wells and springs of his local area (Fàsach, Glendale) on the Isle of Skye. Some wells would dry up or get warm in the summer, while others would stay freezing cold at all times of year. There are some wells which are known to have healing properties. There is one he would visit to get water for his sisters or brothers when they were sick. His aged voice carries stories of water, earth, and tradition—of wells that served not just as lifelines, but as spiritual landmarks in the community. These transcripts are layered with contemporary field recordings I’ve taken at ‘Loch Shianta’- a health spring on the Isle of Skye located close to where my family was from. Cashlin is a Gaelic-speaking artist and experimental musician. Her work explores themes related to ecology and often investigates capitalism's relationship with nature and the human psyche. She enjoys examining subjects from different perspectives—ranging from the micro to the macro. She plays with time and the viewer's subjective understanding of space to reveal hidden perspectives and create illusions. -
Anne Versailles - Garanas lokte
8 April 2025 12:45 pm - 1:00 pm
Immersion in the far north, where the wind blows, the snow cracks and the ice rolls and scraps. Where one does not enter by chance, but by leaving the comfort of daily certainties. Where we lose our footing and our bearings, where we sink into these wide valleys dominated by icy mountains, until we let ourselves be crossed by the raven, which flies away.
How do we deal with the retreat of the North as we know it?
Garanas Lokte is composed exclusively with fieldrecording in Swedish Lapland. I never felt really welcomed by this landscape, until the day I started listening to it, with my microphones. From that moment on, I was able to begin to enter into a relationship with it. This power of listening allows us to find permeability, connection and wonder with our surroundings, to get rid of the ignorance that paralyzes us.
Artist bio:
Anne Versailles, lives and works in Brussels. Geopoet and walker, her work explores displacement, crossing and slowness. As a sound artist, she collects sounds while crossing territories and composes acousmatic works born from the energy of the crossed landscape that she then often diffuses in the form of in situ sound installations. She also composes for radio creation, theater or sound walks. She also writes and this literary work is not different from her sound work, the two are often mixed.
Website/social links
http://www.anneversailles.be -
Radiophrenia Shorts 16
8 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1) Carlo Patrão -改 善 Kaizen (5:21)
2) Rhiannon Clucas – Marmalade (5:28)
3) David Sappa - things we bring (18:00)
1) Carlo Patrão -改 善 Kaizen
改 善 Kaizen is a radiophonic sound collage of North American "tech speak" and "corporate jargon" that overuses the Japanese term Kaizen, meaning continuous improvement, as a form of control and shield against listening, responsibility, and reparation.
Carlo Patrão is a Portuguese radio artist and researcher based in NY.
2) Rhiannon Clucas – Marmalade
This work is an ode to ritual and morning, places where my memory of radio lives within.
I am a devoted enjoyer and sometimes maker of sounds.
instagram.com/rhiannonsianclucas
3) David Sappa - things we bring
From a game exploring involuntary memory retrieval and it's link to the environment - this sort of interplay between internal thoughts and projections, and external factors or triggers tugging those out of us - this materialised into an installation. I'v had these dictaphone memories sat with me for several years now - sharing a ligurian heritage with the voice you hear - it's felt somehow relatable and vivid to me and wanted to play with this dynamic further
I am a sound artist and experimental musician working through D.I.Y kinetic and interactive sound objects, improvisation, field recording, oral histories and quantum listening.
I am interested in sound for its tactile, textural and somatic qualities, and as modes for interrelatedness and interplay that can explore dynamics between our social, psychological and material entanglements within different environments.
https://davidlorenzosappa.cargo.site/
https://www.instagram.com/bloopdyblooop/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 16
8 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
4) Noel Zavala - African Lullaby Drone (5:00)
5) Maria Howard- Striations part 2 (3:04)
6) Roberto D'Ugo Junior - FORGOTTEN LOOPS' SKETCHBOOK (2023-2024) (17:09)
7) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations -DAS MEDIA CONTROL ORAKEL (2:58)
4) Noel Zavala - African Lullaby Drone
I sampled a few seconds of the song African Lullaby, by Bruce Haack and Esther Nelson from their Electronic Music for Children album, to create this remake as a drone version. The vocals were isolated using AI before being sampled, then the main notes of the bass line (transcribed from the Bruce Haack songbook) were used to generate a midi using MuseScore, then turned into different instrumental layers using a free online sequencer. Then all was edited an mixed intending a drone effect.
Noel Zavala (Monterrey, México, 1981) is a creator of concrete music and electronic music with his project sarabandPersona. He was part of the free improvisation groups Silent Twin, Talleres Cosmic and Hibridaciones Salvajes, with which they participated in local festivals and in the recording of several ambient, noise and psychedelia pieces. In 2024 he joined the sound experimentation and free improvisation collective, Tsunami Wave. In duo with Gerardo Colin he is working on a series of harsh noise albums for Otcrah Records.
https://linktr.ee/noelzavalaa?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=721230e0-6c48-4af2-98bf-a07d2e357729
5) Maria Howard- Striations part 2
From an ongoing series entitled ‘striations’ – repetitive and discordant sounds of fluting, fissures, strings, inspired by the loops of social reproduction and Glasgow's organic and architectural columns.
Featuring:
Fiddle versions of ‘Bella Ciao’ and ‘Fischia il Vento’ by Ruaridh Newman
Tones by an unknown organist at Glasgow Cathedral
Stridulations by anonymous collectives of cicadas in Italy and Scotland (with occasional frog vocals)
Maria Howard is a British-Italian artist and writer based in Glasgow. Working primarily with text and sculpture, her research-led practice is concerned with the poetic and political connections between memory and imagination, site and material, colonialism and climate, architecture and social reproduction. She is also a co-editor of Nothing Personal magazine.
mariahoward.org
@tenderasmemory (instagram)
6) Roberto D'Ugo Junior - FORGOTTEN LOOPS' SKETCHBOOK (2023-2024)
Life is a beautiful glitch. A rhythmic essay on our flaws and imperfections. An infinite list of small mistakes and forgetfulness that swirl and thicken in the mind of the poet, a sound artist. Beckettian anti-resolutions that emerge like a litany during a brief meditation on everyday life. The author's poem, presented by means of a superimposition of vocal lines made up of loops with different psychological framings of the text. Simultaneities. The irregularity of the loops used in the piece, the result of sudden gestures of improvisation on the recorded material, results in an approximation to the technical precariousness of sillon fermé, the closed groove inscribed on old acetate discs. Cuts and overlaps animate the resulting patterns. The piece is made up of three parts: parts 1 and 3, fast and essentially rhythmic. Part 2, broader, slower and cumulative; semi-discursive, punctuated by hesitations and squeaks. Voice: Anna Carl Lucchese.
Roberto D'Ugo Junior is an artist-researcher dedicated to radio art. His work explores interfaces between magic, technique and art. Based on a poetic-documentary listening to everyday life, he develops an aesthetic investigation that dialogues with surrealism and musical minimalism. The ritualistic repetition of speech residues and fragments of field recordings is a characteristic of his work. He holds a PhD in Visual Arts from the Institute of Arts at São Paulo State University. He was programme and production coordinator at Rádio Cultura FM in São Paulo. He teaches radio and sound media at Faculdade Cásper Líbero.
https://www.instagram.com/d_ugo_minimal_radio
https://soundcloud.com/user-48062083-271779683
https://www.facebook.com/roberto.dugo
7) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations -DAS MEDIA CONTROL ORAKEL
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020) -
Frank Ekeberg - humana|machina
8 April 2025 2:00 pm - 2:40 pm
"humana|machina" is an electroacoustic music composition that invites you into a sonic realm where the boundaries of human and machine dissolve. It takes as its starting point the more or less voluntary extension of – or intrusion into – human senses and capabilities by means of technology. The work is composed of sounds that are both organic and mechanical – sounds of machinery and electromagnetic fields generated by various kinds of electronic equipment ("machina") juxtaposed with the sounds of the human voice ("humana") in more and less manipulated forms. It is structured around a narrative generated by AI-based language models, performed by four voices, two male and two female created using AI voice synthesis, that each has a separate role in the narrative.
The work is originally composed for multichannel concert performance, and is presented here as a stereo version.
Artist bio:
Frank Ekeberg is a transdisciplinary artist, music composer and researcher working in the intersection of the natural and the constructed. His work explores issues of ecology, time, spatiality, and radical change, with a particular focus on nature spaces, technopolitics, and the interplay between human and non-human worlds. Primarily working with sound using obsolete as well as emerging technologies, Ekeberg’s artistic output includes generative installation art, electroacoustic music, photography, and interactive audio-visual creations. Site-specificity and integration of spatial elements in the compositional structure are at the core of most of his projects. Frank Ekeberg is based in Trondheim, Norway.
Website/social links
https://www.frankekeberg.no
https://www.instagram.com/fekeberg
https://frankekeberg.bandcamp.com -
Freya Dooley - Diamonds and Rust
8 April 2025 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm
Diamonds and Rust follows it's protagonist, Jane, as she finds and secures an undefined and precarious office job, where the manager wears designer socks and the hot desks remind the team of their vulnerability to replacement. In an attempt to define her own value, Jane oscillates between states of usefulness and dysfunction, production and refusal, eventually organising increasingly long cigarette breaks with colleagues: meetings where everyone contributes, and no one actually smokes. This work is an audio version of a film of the same name, produced for the solo exhibition False Note, at Site Gallery, Sheffield, 2024, co-commissioned by Site Gallery, Artes Mundi and Wales Venice 10. The soundtrack features vocals by, and music composed in collaboration with, Emma Daman Thomas. The first sonic iteration of Diamonds and Rust was commissioned by Goldsmiths CCA, London, as a performance in July 2022.
Artist Bio:
Freya Dooley is an artist based in Cardiff, UK. Her practice spans sound, writing, moving image and performance. Often rooted in close-range observations, layered narratives and soundscapes navigate the harmonies and tensions between personal and collective experiences, with a particular interest in structures of work and domestic living. Freya was the Creative Wales-BSR Fellow at The British School at Rome in 2021 and was awarded a PRS Women Make Music Award in 2023. Solo exhibitions include False Note, Site Gallery, Sheffield (2024), the Artes Mundi Wales Venice 10 Commission (2022-3) and Temporary Commons, Jerwood Solo Presentations, Jerwood Arts, London (2021).
Link to website and/or social:
http://www.freyadooley.com @freya_dooley (instagram) -
Radiophrenia Shorts 37
8 April 2025 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
1) Jo Kennedy - How To Save A Nutty Noise Maker (8:00)
2) Felice Sciorilli - Soundscapes of Mare Tuscum (3:52)
3) Catalina Barroso-Luque – Cackles (3:00)
4) Nicola Monopoli - Cinque poesie di Maria Luigia Troiano (7:30)
5) Tom Williams - Piano Trace (9:12)
1) Jo Kennedy - How To Save A Nutty Noise Maker
The piece is composed from field recordings, interviews and narrative and takes people on a journey up to Scotland and across the sea to the Isle of Tiree. This Inner Hebrides island is one of the UK's last remaining UK strongholds for an elusive, but noisy brown bird called the Corncrake. We hear from someone (my mother) who remembers hearing the bird at the bottom of her garden when she was little, and from the RSPB’s Tiree officer (John Bowler) who works with farmers on the island to secure the bird’s future. Tiree resident Jamie Macdonald also introduces us to old Gaelic names for the bird. It's a story of a once common sound (and bird), now lost to the countryside, and how we could bring it back.
Jo Kennedy is a Todmorden – based sound artist who uses field recordings, found sounds, spoken word and music to create immersive audio experiences, whether these be fixed pieces, soundwalks or installations. Recent commissions include sound design work for Breaking Barriers, the Artichoke Trust, BBC Radio 3 and the RSPB. Her own creative practice often engages explicitly with ecological issues, responding to questions about our relationship with the landscape and living world. She co-produces Nature Tripping podcast which is all about going out to connect with nature and listen in to what's around us.
http://www.jokennedysound.com
X: @chasingsticks
Instagram: jokennedysound
2) Felice Sciorilli - Soundscapes of Mare Tuscum
The recording was made on a cold January morning at the natural reef of the Etruscan coast (Castiglioncello, Tuscany, Italy) in the Tyrrhenian Sea using a hydrophone lying on the seabed. In the recording you can hear, in the foreground, the sounds produced by the buzzing of sea snails as they scrape rocky surfaces in search of food, and ticking alternating with hissing sounds; probably produced by the presence of crustaceans. Closing the scene, in the background, the waves of the sea can be heard gently breaking on the cliff.
Felice Sciorilli is a musician, field recordist and music teacher. He has a degree in classical guitar. After studying electronic music he started to deal with soundscapes, attracted by the symbolic and evocative aspect of sound. His research develops through the sound exploration of urban and natural contexts. He currently lives in Tuscany, Italy.
3) Catalina Barroso-Luque – Cackles
Experiments with cackling, wailing, croaking, screeching and scratching the strings of a piano. The piece plays with ideas about invoking spirits or being possessed by demons. Inspired by ghost stories, haunted houses, keening practices from Ireland and the north of Spain, and La Santa Muerte deity from Mexico. *This is the first sound piece I've made/recorded that wasn't born from my writing practice.
Catalina Barroso-Luque constructs stories inhabited by voices, texts, images, bodies and objects. She also writes in English and Spanish, using processes of performativity, self mythologization and translation. She has participated in projects at Wysing Arts Centre (UK), Deptford Project Spacce (UK), Glasgow International (UK), Intermedia Gallery (UK), Glasgow Sculpture Studios (UK), Radiophrenia Festival (UK), Swedish Museum of Performing Arts (SE), Centro de Cultura Digital (MX), Centro Cultural España (MX), Centro Cultural González Gallo (MX), cheLA (AR), amongst others. Her writing is published by Bricks from the Kiln, Gutter Magazine, Montez Press, Hoax!, post[s] (Universidad de San Francisco de Quito), MaMSIE.
http://catalinabarroso-luque.com/portfolio.html
insta: @blcata
4) Nicola Monopoli - Cinque poesie di Maria Luigia Troiano
This work, composed by Nicola Monopoli, features spoken words and electronics, inspired by poems written by the Southern Italian author Maria Luigia Troiano, specifically provided for this project. The performance stars Francesca Romana Garroni, an established actress known for her work with RAI, the Italian state television.
The piece explores various aspects of everyday life, ranging from the painful metaphor of an iceberg to the chaotic hegemony in family life, as well as reflections on the relationship with nature from a balcony perspective..
Nicola Monopoli is an Italian composer born in Barletta in 1991. He holds the distinction of being the first composer to receive the Artist Diploma in Composition from The Royal College of Music in London, supported by a Clifton Parker Award and a scholarship from the Giovani Artisti Italiani Association. His compositions have been performed globally. He currently teaches Electroacoustic Composition and is PhD Coordinator at the 'U. Giordano' Conservatory in Foggia.
https://nicolamonopoli.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_nicolamonopoli_/
https://www.facebook.com/nicolamonopolimusic
https://mastodon.uno/@nicolamonopoli
5) Tom Williams - Piano Trace
'Piano Trace' is an acousmatic composition that explores the sonic potential of a single instrument: the piano. This work is rooted in a series of recordings captured from the piano's soundboard, keys, pedals, and strings. These intimate sounds form the foundation upon which the composition is built.
Through digital manipulation and transformation, the original recordings are reimagined, yet their inherent timbre and character remain evident. This underlying trace, or sonic DNA, provides a sense of continuity and integrity throughout the piece.
Two distinct musical threads intertwine, forming the framework for the composition. These threads, like cords or ropes, suspend the shifting gestures and interruptions that unfold within the piece. The interplay between these threads creates a dynamic and engaging listening experience. Piano Trace was premiered at the Jauna Muzika festival, Lithuania, and was awarded Special Prize at the 4th Ise-Shima International Composition Competition.
Tom Williams is a composer whose work spans both acoustic and electroacoustic music. His compositions have been performed internationally, broadcast on the BBC, and recognized with awards including the Italian music medal "Città di Udine" and been nominated for an Ivor Novello Sonic Art Category award. He has collaborated with renowned musicians such as New York cellist Madeleine Shapiro, soprano Juliana Janes Yaffé, clarinettist Sarah Watts, percussionist Thierry Miroglio, and Orchestra of the Swan.
He has a doctorate in music composition from Boston University and currently leads the masters’ courses in music at Coventry University.
https://tw-hear.com/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 37
8 April 2025 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
6) Hector MacInnes - Noise!Impact!Assessment! (Windfarm Exoacoustics) (15:00)
7) Eleanor Lee (Hyo-Eun Lee) - Ariadne's thread (3:19)
8) STUMPED - Slumber, Young Summer (6:10)
6) Hector MacInnes - Noise!Impact!Assessment! (Windfarm Exoacoustics)
Noise!Impact!Assessment! is a wider project interrogating the way we listen when in spatial or temporal proximity to a real or imagined wind turbine. What are its exoacoustic properties? Not the way sound reverberates around its interior, but the way listening changes around its exterior. This piece is a windblown binbag of thoughts littered across the soundscape of an unbuilt development of turbines. It uses unshielded field recordings of wind, made at the locations of a proposed windfarm on the Isle of Skye, to fragment and scatter the aeolian reflections of Muirhall Energy Ltd, Hayes MacKenzie Acoustic Consultants, Yoko Ono, Tim Ingold, The Scorpions, Seumas Heaney, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Eachann Macfadyen, Richy Carey, Salome Voegelin, The committee for the abolition of outer space, TS Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Alvin Lucier, Holger Schulze, and Ursula le Guin.
Hector MacInnes is a socially engaged sound artist and researcher from the Isle of Skye in the Highlands of Scotland. He creates through spoken word, sonic fiction, installation, text, tech, music, radio and organising things, often in collaboration with other artists and a diverse range of communities. He is co-convenor of the We Have Questions artists' working group with Cat Meighan, and is currently undertaking a PhD exploring sonic rural futurism and the New Weird at Creative Research Into Sound Arts Practice.
http://www.hectormacinnes.com
instagram.com/hectormacinnes
7) Eleanor Lee - Ariadne's thread
This sampler instrument captures the interplay between various physical objects (i): piano,
singing bowls, and wine glasses, and the physical forces or events (ii): keys being
pressed, bowls resonating, and glasses filled with water and made to resonate by
fingers. I documented and analysed each event’s significance and playback by
examining the interactions between i and ii and the resulting evidence of an
unseen new world.
This composition draws inspiration from Reza Negarestani's speculative novel
"Cyclonopedia." "Cyclonopedia" is structured as a theoretical novel, integrating
various heterogeneous elements to present a unique worldview and
philosophical inquiry. The main theme revolves around viewing the Earth as a
living organism, where subterranean materials and energies interact with surface
events, influencing political and historical occurrences. I explored how these
seemingly irregular and unrelated dispersed activities (ii) form a cohesive whole,
akin to how the Earth, or in this case, the composition, is created.
Eleanor Lee is a London-based Korean composer, producer, sound artist, and interdisciplinary artist. She has created music for institutions such as The National Gallery, the Barbican Centre, ERCOL, and Vidal Sassoon Academy, as well as for numerous short films. Her work embodies an interdisciplinary approach influenced by contemporary art, seamlessly navigating between genres. Eleanor believes that music is more than just an auditory experience- it can transform into a multifaceted art form that encompasses social, political, and economic critique. She aspires to create research-based music and develop methods of sonic fiction.
https://eleanorlee.com
https://www.instagram.com/eleanorleemusic/
8) STUMPED - Slumber, Young Summer
"Slumber, Young Summer" is cumulative dial/wave surfing fondness from two folks raised in the eastern United States far from shore. It's difficult to explain why the idea of barreling down California State Route 1 while fiddling the dial to find just the right score to the drive resonates with either of the duo. It's also clear that the attempt to replicate this never-lived experience misses the mark, but instead hits another: daydreams of some faraway warm coast, fuzzing in and out of focus; of unattainable or missing environs which are never captured the same way in present as they are in the mind's eye. How water feels the present moment you break the surface versus the way one imagines the same cool, cool waters swallowing oneself from the sunlight when the ocean couldn't be further from sight.
Consisting of Berlin-based Page Swanson and Adam Buffington in Iceland, STUMPED strain field recordings and borrowed sounds through various analogue and electronic processes, resulting in a sonic puree that's never stodgy.
https://www.corephonesound.com/ -
Fossilised Frequencies Hakka Sounds Special - Listen Gallery ft. Peilin Shi
8 April 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Fossilised Frequencies is an experimental radio show combining hertz and voices found throughout different regions of the world - creating listening experiences that connect us to the vast ever present sonic landscapes of our world.
During the project in 2018 for Protection and Research of Language Resources of China, Peilin and the team recorded mountain songs, nursery rhymes, and folklores from local voices back in Peilin's mountainous hometown, Lianping, China, to preserve the rich oral culture of Hakka.
Fossilised Frequencies is a monthly radio project hosted by Riah from Listen Gallery at their residency at Radio Buena Vida. In the summer of 2024, Riah and Peilin produced this one hour broadcast layering archival material with live recorded singing in Hakka, bringing these raw recordings to ancient Hakka sounds to life.
Artist bio:
Peilin Shi, a (re)emerging wanderer based in Glasgow, practices on humanising historical contexts, by investigating archives to rethink the past in the context of the present and future. Her work involves anthropological inquiry on female migrant experience, into collective behaviours, shared human emotions and destinies under urbanisation and globalisation.
Riah Naief is a sound artist and worker behind Glasgow’s Listen Gallery. They are interested in sharing and curating listening experiences for all people, as an accessible practice rooted in care and love. Their Iraqi heritage inspires a passion for hospitality and informs how they make spaces to nurture creative exchanges.
Website/social links
https://www.listengallery.co.uk/home
linker.ee/PeilinShi
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Marvo Men - Broken Bridge (live in the studio)
8 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
'Broken Bridge' is a live radio play knitting together narrative voices; field recordings; movement and live instrumentation. Drawing on the artists’ childhoods in satellite towns in the North of England and Central Scotland respectively, the piece will explore the blurred remembered landscapes of youth and the shifting use, uselessness and transformation of the scrubby edgelands where childhood and teenage life unfurls. The live performance will start with a script inspired by walks through the places the artists knew - the childhood haunts on fallow fields, fishing lakes in open cast mines and the rapid re-developments of 24-hour supermarkets; housing estates and distribution centres that either stand shoulder to shoulder or change such landscapes beyond recognition. Broken Bridge will build a semi-improvised auditory world from the secret landscapes of fields, streams, mosses, vennels/jennels and motorway bridges to explore the secret places of childhood hidden away from the adult gaze. Artist bio: Marvo Men is the duo of Ben Ellul-Knight and Euan Currie. First performing together in the late 00s, showering spittle on audiences in both the experimental music and poetry scenes. They went onto release recordings on the legendary underground label Chocolate Monk and publish text scores in the journal Jacket2 before disappearing into the ether, presumed dead. In the intervening years, both members have veered through various projects spanning sound poetry, spoken word and rudimentary electronics before reuniting to traverse the hinterlands of repurposed landscapes and fading memories. Website/social links https://jacket2.org/poems/poems-marvo-men https://youtu.be/wtysuqyi7OE?si=3HcoDjSBxsuuDgIa -
Buffer Zone
8 April 2025 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
1) Phew - Days Nights (4:14)
2) Ale Borea - La humedad de la memoria (5:49)
3) Wolfgang Pérez - Memorias Fantasmas (9:55)
1) Phew - Days Nights.
From the album New Decade.
https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/music
2) Ale Borea - La humedad de la memoria
"La Humedad de la Memoria" is a sound piece created using samples from national Emergency Alert Systems (EAS) sourced from YouTube by audio enthusiasts. EAS is a public warning system that involves TV, radio, and cable networks, integrating elements of sonic warfare and social surveillance. This piece re-appropriates these sonic imprints to explore their post-mnemonic potential through creative reinterpretation, aiming to uncover new meanings. By decontextualizing these sounds from their original function—warnings of danger or catastrophe—it transforms them into a dreamlike soundscape. This approach invites reflection on the concept of "emergency," not just as a signal of threat, but as a space for the emergence of new possibilities. Vulnerability, alarm, and vigilance are stripped of their threatening connotations, suggesting the potential for a reimagined sonic future where the familiar sounds of alert evolve into creative expressions that challenge their intended purpose and invite new ways of listening.
Artist bio:
Ale Borea (Lima, 1993) is a Berlin-based percussionist and sound artist with a master’s degree in Philosophy, focusing on the phenomenology of listening. As an independent researcher, she writes about music for various publications and projects. She launched her solo project in 2020 and has released three EPs since then, in which she uses sound archive samples (mainly telecommunication noises) as carriers of affective resonance and collective memory. Her driving force is the aspiration to explore possible sonic deployments of these samples by expanding their inherent material vitality into dreamlike soundscapes.
http://www.instagram.com/borealeborea/
3) Wolfgang Pérez - Memorias Fantasmas
Memorias Fantasmas is based on a 1982 concert recording by my family in a church in Segovia, Spain, thought lost but rediscovered last year. The composition uses loops from the original recording, with minimal new material added (e.g., simple oscillators). Each of the three sections begins with a loop that is repeated mantra-like, inviting listeners to focus on sonic details, which are gradually varied and developed. The piece follows principles of Reduced Listening (Pierre Schaeffer) and processes the sounds through sampling, downgrading, filtering, and distortion.
The work emphasizes the spaces between sounds, allowing imperfections to take on a life of their own. It reflects the nostalgia for lost futures described in Mark Fisher's Hauntology, as the resurfaced material represents a past I didn’t experience, yet feel connected to.
Artist bio:
Wolfgang Pérez, a 30-year-old German-Spanish composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Essen, Germany, is known for blending experimental electronic music with pop. A graduate in electronic and pop composition from Folkwang University, his work explores unconventional structures and electroacoustic textures. His second album, AHORA (2024), sung in Spanish, mixes Latin rhythms with intricate electronic soundscapes, while his upcoming album, Só Ouço, inspired by his time in Brazil, brings Brazilian influences into his experimental pop style. He is currently focusing more on the electronic line in his body of work, experimenting with Soundscape composition and immersive Multi-Channel pieces.
Website/social links
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Jennifer Wicks - Home Truths (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
8 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:45 pm
The work emerges as a collage of spectral remnants, weaving fragmented memories and sonic decay into a textured exploration of fragility and persistence. It navigates the temporal erosion of sound and memory, uncovering layers of meaning through glitch, plunderphonics, and drones.
Using obsolete media (minidisc's / CD), loops, and layered field recordings, Home Truths incorporates re-recorded WhatsApp voice messages—modern-day answer machine fragments degraded through repeated transfers onto minidisc. In some instances, these recordings underwent extensive processing, including guitar pedals and vocoders, to craft the central sonic textures and motifs. Traditional musical elements—electric piano, guitars - were layered around this degraded archive of sound, creating harmonic interplay with the spectral echoes of friends, family and found radio recordings from the early 2000’s on minidisc. Special thanks to artist and friend Bel Gilbert Scott.
JW: acoustic & electric guitars, mini-disc players, CD players, electronics, field recordings, contact mics and objects.
Artist bio:
Jennifer Wicks is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans durational installations, audiovisual performances, sound art releases, and creative-critical writing. Her work interrogates memory, language, and states of being through experimental methods, emphasising light, time, and sound. Employing obsolete media, 16mm film, reappropriated materials, and custom light-to-sound instruments, she explores the materiality of sound and image. Using Media Archaeology and contemporary technologies, she treats them both as subjects of inquiry and as tools to critique the dominance of digital culture in shaping memory, perception, and our relationship with time.
Her solo live performances explore temporal dynamics, chance, and the mechanics of sound. Working at the intersection of industrial noise, sample culture, cut-up techniques, and expanded cinema, she addresses the limitations and possibilities of analogue film and sound systems. Using modified 16mm projectors, contact microphones, and multiple guitar effects pedals, she crafts immersive, textured, and dissonant audiovisual installations.
She has training in conventional music and holds an MLitt in Fine Art Practice (Glasgow School of Art) and an MSc in Sound Design and Audio-Visual Practice (University of Glasgow). She has received a Leverhulme-funded artist residency at Glasgow University (2011-2012) and was Artist in Residence at the University of Stirling (2022), working with the Norman McLaren archive. Her recent projects span international exhibitions and festivals. She makes music with WOMEN’S HOUR (Wicks and Contort Yourself head honcho Murray CY). LP released on L.I.E.S. Records, December 2023.
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Benoit Bories - Paléficat
8 April 2025 6:45 pm - 7:00 pm
Paleficat, summer 2024, production UMR LISST (DR), UT2J , Benoit Bories, stereo and 8.1 live performance version.
"Paleficat" tells the story of the uncertain future of a piece of land. The certainty of the transformation of a landscape whose new face almost no-one knows yet. Probably the disappearance of the last traces of the market garden belt in the Toulouse metropolitan area. In this "agricultural pocket", irrigated by the river Hers, but already surrounded by buildings, bordered by the ring road and bled by the Boulevard Ubrain Nord (BUN), there are plans for urban densification. Housing instead of fields. And the city filling in the gaps so that new residents can come and live here, in the Paléficat district.
This sound creation is part of a wider observatory project for the Paléficat district, supported as part of a LABEX research project (LABoratoire d'Excellence, operation 7) and led by the LISST.
Artist bio:
Benoit Bories is a sound artist. He has produced audio documentaries and sound art pieces for different public broadcast companies. Since 2016, he has been presenting his pieces in the form of "documentary concerts" and developing sound pieces for live performance, or installations. He has collaborated with several festivals and cultural venues for his performances and regularly participates in artistic residencies abroad. Benoit Bories has won several international awards and mentions for his sound work (Premios Ondas Prize, Prix Bohemia, Phonurgia Nova Awards, New York Radio Awards, Grand Prix Nova Romania, Prix Europa, IDA Awards).
Website/social links
https://faidosonore.net
https://soundcloud.com/user-945903241 -
Myriam Pruvot - Onda & Storia
8 April 2025 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
A child shares her vision of the world. From her tale emerge songs and places where past, present and future intertwine. A polyphonic choir punctuates this epic, recounting the adventures of an infanta as she travels through multiple landscapes. From a salt quarry to the ruins of a palace, from a nocturnal forest to the depths of a storm, Onda & Storia is both a documentary account of childhood, which does not evade violence, and a musical fiction: a modest opera. Onda & Storia is an adaptation and extension of the radio performance "Un opéra modeste" created in 2021, on a child's scale.
Artist bio:
Myriam Pruvot is an artist and musician. While her work borrows from a wide range of media - installation, performance, text, radio, film - composition - it is always nourished by the question of song, language and place. She is particularly interested in the political, poetic and philosophical dimensions of these objects. As a writer and performer, she has collaborated on numerous radio, musical and choreographic projects in Europe and beyond. Her radio works have been awarded the Grand Prix Nova (2024), the Brussels Podcasts Festival (2022) and the SCAM-SACD (2021).
Website/social links
http://www.myriampruvot.com/en
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Kunstradio 2 - Walking my Bangalore Broom through Malleswharam by katrinem
8 April 2025 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In January 2023, at the invitation of the Goethe Institute Bangalore and the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, the Berlin-based artist katrinem visited the Indian mega-city Bangalore and explored it - with a broom. For the artistic-acoustic urban research, the broom served as a musical instrument, but also for the metaphorical "cleaning up of impressions", and finally, katrinem also came into contact with people through sweeping - so she got her brushwood broom, which is not for sale in stores, but is self-made, as a gift from a street sweeper who happened to have two, katrinem reported, and: "The broomsticks always remain the same and are decorated quite individually (as you can see on mine), the sweeping part, the bamboo twigs, is changed more often. It is twisted in a special way and tied to the stick with a string. This holds amazingly well! My broom flew back to Berlin with me," says katrinem, and there, in the streets of Berlin, the broom will now be used. The audio material recorded during the five weeks of her stay feeds the art radio piece "BangloreKehren", which katrinem has divided into two parts. The first part is called "Walking my Bangalore broom through Malleswharam" - here we accompany katrinem as she walks through her residential area in Bangalore playing with her bamboo broom. In the rich soundscape of Malleswharam, the broom sound is a recurring and rhythmic motif. The second part are "Broom Songs", together with Sam Auinger. The many recordings from Bangalore were selected by katrinem and Auinger according to musical criteria such as rhythm and timbre. In the five-minute piece "Quartet in the city with Broom, Shehnai, Cow and Dog," four voices meet: a street musician with his shehnai, an excited dog, the tinkling of a cow walking around, and the broom. Apparently they communicate with each other. These sounds are part of the soundscape of Malleswharam and can be found there again and again. About "Broom Meditations in Cubbon Park" katrinem writes: "In the middle of the city lies Cubbon Park. There is also a subway station there. Brooms are forbidden in the subways. So my journey to the park was by rickshaws, which never refused to transport me with my broom. The park is like a large sound space without traffic sound in the near field. This dominates the Great Space and surrounds the park like a wall." „Broom & the City" is about traffic-intensive moving space. The noise of the broom repeatedly mixes beyond recognition with the noise of the motorized city. Passing motorcycles provide the deep voices in the piece. Animal and human voices are clearly audible only sporadically. The space is sonically defined by the moving sounds of traffic. The last of the „Broom Songs“, "Sam's Broom Memory from Benares" is a find from Sam Auinger's audio archive: "While working on and listening through katrinem's recordings from Bangalore, I remembered one of my 1996 recordings made in Benares, in which the sweeping sound of a broom takes on a musical role, in the interplay of all audible voices and sounds." -
leon clowes - Four days
8 April 2025 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
"Four Days" is a telling of my mother’s final days in hospital in June 2013.
As content warning, this story indirectly touches on taboo topics of incest, paedophilia, sexual assault, and death. I connect the arc of these four days to my growing in kinship care and through to my last drink of alcohol.
Since 2019, I’ve been writing and refining this story. It is now finished.
The recording of my reading this story took place at the Rose Shure Experience Centre in October 2024, with thanks to Shure UK. I'm also very grateful for the support from Wisebuddah, and of Matt Podd, who carefully processed my voice.
The music between story sections is "Rain Ritual", one of the first pieces I composed after a 30-year break from music. It was my debut for the weekly @naviar-records Haiku Music Challenge. Listen here to that: https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/rain-ritual-naviarhaiku3
Artist bio:
leon clowes is an artist researcher currently completing research into self-compassionate autoethnographic trauma-inspired performance practice at London College ofg Music.
An Open School East Associate Artist of 2022/2023, leon’s commissions include SPILL, Deptford X, Frieze and SUPERNORMAL festivals, Snape, NMC Recordings and LGBTQ+ Music Study Group for The British Music Collection.
leon is also a writer and editorial board member for Performing Recovery, the online magazine of the Addiction Recovery Arts Network. (https://recovery-arts.org/)
Website/social links
Website: https://www.leonclowes.com/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@leonclowes
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leonclowes/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClowesLeon -
Paul Rooney - Words and Silence
8 April 2025 9:00 pm - 9:15 pm
A call centre worker, cold-calling to sell insurance, has one of her calls go to answer machine. Instead of hanging up, she leaves a message: she tells stories about silence, distance and time.
Artist bio:
Paul Rooney is an artist based in Liverpool. His installations, videos, writings and records focus on the instabilities and deceptions of narrative, particularly in relation to representing place: its everyday life; its history and folklore; its familiar strangeness. He has shown work at Tate Britain; Tate Liverpool; BALTIC; The Arnolfini; and Whitechapel Gallery; and has exhibited internationally at places such as Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Two of his installations were purchased for the Arts Council Collection in 2015.
Website/social links
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Aled Simons, Bláithín Mac Donnell, Tom Cardew - Preserving Hole
8 April 2025 9:15 pm - 10:00 pm
A meteorite, a spoil tip, a mountain or an island. A fatberg. A co-authored story entangling fact, fiction and anecdotal prose. Three voices become one narrator, Celtic myth, folktales, traditions and superstitions are merged, layered and retold. A hole or a bog, subterranean preservation - like a time capsule in a biscuit tin with a dodgy lid, buried 40 years ago but the water got in. What happens when fact becomes anecdote?
‘There had been heavy rain, a week of torrential downpours, incessant waterfall, fields of crops washed away overnight. Usually after heavy rain they clear the drains of organic waste, leaves, trees, silt and mud. But this time, this time they found a coffin.’
Preserving Hole is a conversational collaboration emerging from research sharing and exploration of practice intersections; fused in tangential storytelling, narrative building and myth making. Unearthing spurious information and hearsay to present a loose-narrative audiobook.
Artist bio:
Aled Simons (Wales), Bláithín Mac Donnell's (Ireland) and Tom Cardew's (Wales) practices overlap at a point of storytelling, narrative building and myth making. They are interested in unearthing spurious information and hearsay, sharing research crossovers and thematic touchpoints to form an experimental and conversational approach to writing. Collectively assembled, almost like an exquisite corpse, to present loose-narrative writing and audio. Drawing on Celtic nation backgrounds, their gathered output encompasses superstition, anecdote and also; the past, present and future all at once. Recently Preserving Hole was shown at Division of Labour, Manchester, UK. A collaborative exhibition of audio, sculpture and textiles.
Website/social links
Instagram: @aled.simons @blaithinmacdonnell @cardewgram
https://www.aledsimons.com/home
http://www.blaithinmacdonnell.com
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Radiophrenia Shorts 30
8 April 2025 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm
1) Gregory Whitehead - How Still My Brainwaves (6:46)
2) Elisabetta Senesi, Ilaria Palloni - Flowing Pringipittu (PILL_01 Extended) (8:00)
3) Emma Diamond & Loris S Sarid – hair.wav (15:12)
1) Gregory Whitehead - How Still My Brainwaves
“His head was a mess, so his brain was a mess.”
A disintegrative composition for solo voice and cosmic crackle inspired by the structure and rhythm of a Langston Hughes poem, featuring a DIY ventilator that fails to sustain the patient.
https://gregorywhitehead.net
2) Elisabetta Senesi, Ilaria Palloni - Flowing Pringipittu (PILL_01 Extended)
The project was born from a desire to reflect upon universal and personal value of one’s native dialect, as well as the root from which it comes, made of physical and symbolic ties. The piece is a deconstructed sonic reinterpretation and an open oral score of well-known "The Little Prince" story book focused on territorial sounds/noises coming from the region of Marche, Central East of Italy, combining multiple layers of sonic transliteral flows with concrete and abstract spheres of voices, places and identities.This short initial piece of the entire project in which different sonic layers dialogue and conflict, is therefore open to multiple linguistic and auditory interpretations within a strong metanarrative and transdisciplinary contexts. Flute: Soprano, Side-Blow, Haynes Classic, Handmade, Silver, 2005 Microphones: XY, MS, Piezo Electric, H2N, IQ7 DAW: Mac Book Pro, NI Audio Komplete 2CH, Ableton, Reaper, Audition. Ideation, Creation, Voices, Electro Acoustics: E.Senesi, I. Palloni
Elisabetta Senesi
Artist and academic, she explores the relationship between sound and image, the everyday sonic spaces and aesthetical critical listening. Her work includes mixed media installations, public arts interventions, audio interactive works and experimental sonic compositions. She is lecturer/teacher in Sound Design at the Academy of Fine Arts.
http://elisabettasenesi.me/me.html
Ilaria Palloni
Flutist and musicologist, she collaborates with research groups in Italy and abroad, carries out her instrumental activity in various formations of chamber music, she teaches flute at some cultural associations with which she organises musical courses for children.
https://www.progettomusicaletiziatozzi.com/ilaria-palloni
3) Emma Diamond & Loris S Sarid – hair.wav
'hair.wav' is an immersive soundscape made with recordings of hair being cut, washed, razored & touched.
The piece was realised collecting recordings of Emma working with hair, emphasising the proximity and intimacy of the experience. Similarly to Emma's approach to cutting hair, the track wants to maintain the natural texture and organicity of the sounds collected, for this reason no effects were used apart re-pitching and stretching the sound sources. Melodic and unexpected sounds are the result of the extremely stretched recordings, to which occasional eq-ing was applied.
Best enjoyed in headphones!
Emma Diamond is a Glasgow based multi-disciplinary artist working mainly across hair, sound & found objects. Inspired by traditional folk-art & story telling, her work focuses on our connection to each other and the world around us, exploring mysticism in the every day.
Loris S Sarid is a Roman musician & sound artist, based in Glasgow since 2015. His work throughout the years has included songwriting, soundtracks and installation, blending elements of classic composition with improvisation and coding.
http://www.instagram.com/emmadiamondhair
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Radiophrenia Shorts 30
8 April 2025 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm
4) Diane Barbé - Recôncavo ao Redor (9:37)
5) Joan Schuman - Ghost Wolf (12:32)
6) Amirhossein Zeinali - Times Three (5:30)
4) Diane Barbé - Recôncavo ao Redor
Recôncavo ao redor is a sweaty listen to the banks of the Bahía de Todos os Santos, in Bahía, Northeast Brazil, at the start of the rainy season. The piece develops around different centres of attention, which trace out a possible, inaccurate and partial cartography of these tropical coasts, from the songs of crickets and the little weeping frogs, Razinha Choradeira, to the electromagnetic responses of scooters and generators on the streets. Also, a constant drone that floats over the salty lagoon –heavy, low, persistent. At night, as the mangrove silts snap and sparkle, the breeze brings back this wall of low-pitched hum. The warm waters gently lap on the enormous steel hulls of the container ships anchored in the bay. And slowly, they all seem to lean towards the largest petrochemical processing plant of South America, just a few kilometers up at the mouth of the Aratu estuary...
Diane Barbé explores the intersections of ecology and experimental music, working with field recording as much as with additive synthesis and wind instruments. Her work delves into the manifold practices of musicking: crafting flutes, globular whistles and percussion instruments from salvaged materials, developing practices of collective music ensembles with her project 'The Alien Kin', and kneading the relationship of sound and time through live looping, stretching and alterations. Her next album, Musiques Tourbes, comes out on forms of minutiae (Berlin) in the autumn 2024, unravelling a mixture of field recordings and additive analog synthesis –portrait of bogs and swamps.
https://www.dianebarbe.com/
https://www.instagram.com/diane.isadora/
5) Joan Schuman - Ghost Wolf
Ghost Wolf" imagines the sovereignty of disappearing beings. Through the listening frame of hollow spaces (the mouth and pelvis, a fist and the heart), there is a structure built of anger and wildness, weeping and wailing. From the long-standing hunting of hidden wolves to the contemporary battles of body sovereignty, questions arise: What is the country of 'otherness'? Which story do we choose to stand in?
My audiophilia whispers into the radio's ear via artist-curated programming. In 2015, I launched Earlid, a virtual space where I organize adventurous sound artistry and gather curious listeners. I listen and live along the rocky northern California coast.
Ghost Wolf (detail) https://www.joanschuman.com/hyperacousia/posts/ghost-wolf/
Joan Schuman (website) https://www.joanschuman.com/hyperacousia/
6) Amirhossein Zeinali - Times Three
In the composition titled “Times Three,” the numeral “3” assumes a pivotal significance. A majority of the sonic motifs, interruptions, and even surprises are linked to this numerical value, coalescing into a ternary structure. A substantial portion of the auditory elements emanates from the thematic exploration of “manuscripting” and the seamless integration of technology, thereby transitioning into the realm of mechanics imbued with the essence of computerized systems.
I am Amirhossein Zeinali (b. 2000), a composer and pianist from Iran. I hold a bachelor’s degree in music composition from the Art University of Isfahan and am currently pursuing a master’s degree in music composition at the University of Utah. Alongside my academic pursuits, I actively contributes to the field as a graduate teaching assistant, through instructing the Music Technology course at the University.
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Radiophrenia Shorts 46
7 April 2025 11:00 pm - 8 April 2025 12:00 am
1) David Watt - A Scottish Minstrel's Song of the Waves (15:00)
2) Mendel Lee - Fast-Paced World (9:45)
3) Michele Abondano - The Inner of Matter (20:00)
4) Craig Gell – Arcade (15:00)
1) David Watt - A Scottish Minstrel's Song of the Waves
Soprano: Lisa Lulis (credit)
As a songwriter, Carolina Oliphant hid her identity in pseudonyms of Scottish Minstrel, SM, Mrs Bogan of Bogan, BB, for fear of not being taken seriously as a female songwriter (Donaldson, 2023). The exact extent of her work is not known. With Robert Burns, Baroness Nairne (as Carolina Oliphant became) was one of the foremost Scottish songwriters helping to transform the politics of resistance in the Jacobite rebellion to a national identity. A Scottish Minstrel's Songs of the Waves recasts Nairne’s work and collages three songs: Caller Herrin’, Charles’ Landing at Barodale; The Boat Song O’ Clyde) ) Each work explores the relationship of estuaries and water courses to the Scottish Landscape. In this work Nairne is reworked into the present day using sonic material processed from the vocal performances with found sounds of objects located close to the water courses.
David Watt is lecturer in music and sector Manager for music industries and theatre arts at UHI Perth, having previously completed doctoral study with Rajmil Fischman and Diego Garro at Keele University. Previous works have been performed at INTIME, Ai-maako, Portbello Film Festival, and explore connections made in structure and narrative through sound transformation.
https://linktr.ee/davidwatt
https://davidwatt.bandcamp.com/album/voices-landscapes
2) Mendel Lee - Fast-Paced World
Years ago I found myself wondering what it would sound and feel like to be standing or walking in the middle of a road with fast and loud vehicles speeding by me on all sides. I imagined closing my eyes, feeling the slipstream air whip my hair around as vehicles of all shapes and sizes passed by me. Because this would be hazardous to experience in real life, I set my sights on creating a digital audio work that could represent this phenomenon. Fast-Paced World is the result, an atmospheric work aimed at transporting the listener into what would be a dangerous sonic environment made safe and meditative by transforming the sounds into a peaceful virtual soundscape.
Mendel Lee (he/him) (b. 1975) is a New Orleans-based composer whose music explores both the evolution of singular ideas over a long period of time and layered syncopated rhythmic patterns and hemiolas over an underlying groove. Recognized as a VCCA Fellow and a NPN Take Notice Fund Grantee, he is committed to using his creative practice and entrepreneurial spirit to strengthen collaboration between composers, performers, and audience to show that new music can be for everyone.
https://mendellee.com/
https://instagram.com/mendelleemusic
https://youtube.com/@mendellee
3) Michele Abondano - The Inner of Matter
‘The Inner of Matter’ is the first electroacoustic composition of a series of timbrescapes that responds to the hybrid possibilities between the creation of a timbral experience and the interaction with a particular soundscape. Here, the soundscape was recorded and electronically processed. Objects of diverse materials were collected to create a set for improvisation sessions, which were recorded and processed as well, thus the compositional process focused on the timbral creation of a hybrid experience between the acoustic and the electronic entities. The inner in this work is approached as a scrutiny of the inside of each source. The search for the internal content and structure of matter in each object. Scraping, cutting, digging or extracting, I attempted to capture their uniqueness, expanding or even disrupting their nature.
Composer, experimental performer and researcher. Her work has been developed in the areas of instrumental and electroacoustic music, live electronics and collaborations with dance. Her main interest is to explore timbre, especially, its multidimensional and dynamic condition. She has been a fellow of the Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, an artist-in-residence at CMMAS, as well as a winner of the Ibermúsicas Prize of Composition and Premiere of Work, and the Grant for the Creation of Contemporary Music funded by the Colombian Ministry of Culture. Abondano was awarded a PhD in Composition at the University of Leeds.
https://micheleabondano.com/
4) Craig Gell – Arcade
‘Arcade’ is a montage of recordings made at Dymchurch amusement park in Kent. The piece was originally created to augment an installation by the artist genuinefake at the Folkestone Triennial in 2021, but was never used.
Craig Gell is an artist and composer from Bournemouth.
He has created multimedia installations, interactive apps and electroacoustic compositions largely informed by nature and the natural landscape - recording impulse responses in quarries (Lithoscapes), programming sonifications of live sea wave data (Wave Machine). Craig is also an experienced musician and composer of more conventional music, including for a number of short animated films.
craiggellmusic.com
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Yol - health and safety broadcast
8 April 2025 11:00 pm - 11:15 pm
i recently got access to an old factory space as part of a residency i was doing with Hull Artists Research Initiative https://www.hullartistresearchinitiative.com and i started to think about health and safety aspects of these places, both from my perspective and the buildings. health and safety is often confusingly driven by what capitalism can get away with as opposed to actual safety for the employees. also the building might have its own agenda, it might want to hurt people, perhaps with a view to getting a bit of peace, or it might view injury as desirable somehow, i don't know for sure, i'm not a factory building. i've worked in a few though, and i think they might get sick of people...this piece is an attempt to explore this relationship.
Artist bio:
Yol is an artist working in performance, visual art and text. Found objects, mouth noise, mangled language. Starting points are space/situation, found objects, and self generated mangled text, explored alongside experimental vocal techniques. End point is broken sounds, broken words. Everything is an instrument, or nothing is, it’s hard to tell.
Website/social links
https://yolnoise.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/yol1971
https://mobile.twitter.com/brighthouse5
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Naledi Chai - Palace Flowers Hurt The Most
8 April 2025 11:15 pm - 9 April 2025 12:00 am
The piece is a collage of found sound, field recordings, and electro-acoustic compositions created by me using a turntable, portable turntable that plays deconstructed and destroyed vinyl discs and an old model cellphone. I also use text, excerpts, and conversations to give the piece a sense of home in a way that is intelligible to itself through sound. I used Bela Tarr's "The Turin Horse" to reference his visual themes of vastness and distance to create a similar sonic landscape using objects, methods, and processes from within the contexts of my environment.
Artist bio:
Naledi Chai is an interdisciplinary artist and experimentalist. Her disciplines span collage, video art, sound design, film, sound and event-based sonic experiments explored through DJing. Her practice is deeply rooted in exploring the intersection of sonic expression, technology, and human experience.
She is intrigued by the politics and potential of sound to evoke emotions, challenge perceptions, and create immersive environments that transcend traditional spatial boundaries. Her sound-based sculptural works have been shown at Brixton Light Festival and Stevenson Gallery in Johannesburg. Chai lives and works in Johannesburg.
Website/social links
https://linktr.ee/lovingparents?fbclid=IwY2xjawFzieNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHVWrvEN3XRKUulPkf4CH8kqQoghQOukUe11llo1IiAr935XZIYlJT7Dnqw_aem_FhWqOevW5-T0kFIdHj3yOQ
https://www.instagram.com/cu_xtremes/
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M. Elizabeth Scott and Soojin Chang - yang nrg under my press-ons
9 April 2025 12:00 am - 12:30 am
Improvised drone soundscape duet. Recorded in Glasgow, April 2024 Artist bio: M. Elizabeth Scott is a poet and esotericist living in Glasgow. Soojin Chang is a Korean-American non-binary multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Glasgow. Using technology to transmute in/visibility, Chang's ritual experiments convene intimacies in energetics. Their research spans multispecies consciousness, the Divine, birth/death continuums, and technological visions of immortality. -
Mariam Morshed & Chris Smith - Spiraal
9 April 2025 12:30 am - 1:00 am
Spiraal is a collaborative performance led by Mariam Morshed (US, IR) with Chris Smith (UK) drawing upon the paranormal, OSTs, field recordings, discordant melodies and restless dreams. Shifting sounds and structures, eerie nuances, all as a red sun labelled “record” blazes to life. This piece was performed in July 2023 at IKLECTIK supporting dj lostboi. Live electronic synthesis, humming harmonisations, and field recordings from horror films and video games from our respective childhoods interweave each other in a roaring soundscape. Tension and release are of utmost focus, as each signals the beginning of a new hauntological study. Together, the work aims to merge two contrasting philosophical and artistic approaches to ultimately arrive at a new interpretation on what it means to share a collective nostalgia. Artist bio: Mariam is an Iranian American sound artist and music researcher based in London. Her compositions take the form of dissonant soundscapes, noisy polyrhythmic loops and generative sound collages. Sampling and found sounds are at the core of every piece, referencing the ontological worlds of her favourite forms of source material – early video game music, classic horror film soundtracks, choir practice field recordings, traditional music from rural Iran. Her sonic installations are often conceptual and spatial, reflecting on various states of listening and psychoacoustic engagements with sonic bodies. Website/social links mariammorshed.carrd.co @mari.obj -
Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz - Water Line / Estuary Almanac (vers 1)
9 April 2025 1:00 am - 7:00 am
"Water Line" is a generative audio piece by Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz that imagines the space between the tides and between salt and fresh water - depending on the height of the tides, the listener is above or below the water surface. The lapping of mussels, the crawling and loud hissing of crabs, the pawing of sand fleas, the slow movements of shellfish. Real environmental sounds are mixed with compositional interpretations of bodies of water and their environment, from kelp forests and flood zones to mud flats and marshy areas, from flood plains to rocky coves.
The piece was originally commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Ö1 Kunstradio for the annual project KONTINUUM. It ran from April 2023 to June 2024 as an ongoing 1 year+ generative radio work.
Artist bio:
Anna Friz and Absolute Value of Noise (Peter Courtemanche) are Canadian sound and radio artists. Anna Friz creates self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation and performance. Her compositions reflect upon public media culture, environment and infrastructure (human and extra-human, acoustic, and electro-magnetic), time perception, and speculative fiction. Absolute Value of Noise creates radio and outdoor installations. He likes to work with "gadgetry" - custom turntables, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, magnetic transceivers, bio-electric circuits, and "little electronic brains" that observe and respond to local phenomena. His outdoor works are a comment on bio-diversity, extinction, and fragility.
Website/social links
http://absolutevalueofnoise.ca/
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Mutually Interfering - Number and Elegance of the Rooms
9 April 2025 7:00 am - 7:30 am
This piece is the result of blind cooperation of sorts; few limitations were set regarding the length of the recording, what should be used and what should not be used; subsequently, individual recordings were mixed where each track was lightly panned, left or right. Unplanned interplay began to appear. All sounds by Turmeric Acid and uœrhe -
Craig Hunter - Bits
9 April 2025 7:30 am - 8:00 am
I met someone in London this year who seemed embarrassed that he was doing 'bits and pieces', rather than an established career. I love doing bits. Here are some of them.
The backbone of the piece is an unedited recording from Ta Van village in northern Vietnam. I was struck by how well the dog was keeping time. This is overlaid with various other aural memories from the past two years, including squelching through a swamp in Finland, the rumbling of trains through Germany, cafe chat in Hanoi, Warsaw and Valencia, and a chorus of cicadas as I walked through the latter. Regular life also features via a barbecue, the Langside Road bird choir, wrapping a customer's belongings for a house move and working on a short film with friends.
Artist bio:
Craig is a former journalist based in Glasgow, who now spends his time doing bits and pieces of many things, including furniture removals, organic gardening, acting (mainly background), foraging, writing, and making things like this. His monthly Hazy Memories show on Radio Buena Vida combines drone, soundscapes, spoken word, field recordings and beatless ambient music.
Website/social links
https://soundcloud.com/search?q=hazy%20memories%20w/koala%20craig
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Radiophrenia Shorts 3
9 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
1 Hoyong Lee - The White Book (9:06)
2 Megan Hattie Stahl - Audio Postcard #2 (8:19)
3 Cecilia Assalini – Communication (10:24)
1) Hoyong Lee - The White Book
As reading creatures, we ingest words, and we are made of words. Especially, we may be explorers advancing through its pages, as well as the worms which devour the words and phrases in each page. In this context, this piece represents the invisible quest in wandering adrift which readers may virtually confronts inside the poetic short verses in Han Kang’s fiction 『The White Book』. Striving to create a surreal sonic world in which the real life and imaginary death coexist, this piece audibly considers the chain of metaphors that have described readers and their relationships to hidden text-that-is-the-world. In particular, this is an aural representation of a resonant space that evokes certain memories, ambiguous emotions, the contagiousness of fear based on the hidden tacit gestures in『The White Book』.
Hoyong Lee (Seoul, South Korea, Master of Music) is a composer, sound artist and essayist. His pieces have been presented at world-renowned electro-acoustic music conferences & festivals in USA, Europe, Canada over 15 countries. He was an Award of Distinction Winner in Matera Intermedia Festival 2016 in Italy and he was first -place winner in XRAY.FM Radio (Portland, USA) Storytelling Contest Prize (2017) as an experimental sound storyteller. Executing diverse intermedia projects, he published his compositional autobiography book "소리, 세상을 담다(2020)”, and he collaborated with Gwangju national science museum in Art-Science Festival in 2021.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3BCnRplvhGzjA7yIBtk4Zr
https://www.youtube.com/@hoyonglee9191
https://soundcloud.com/hnext5
2) Megan Hattie Stahl - Audio Postcard #2
An experimental sound collage combining recordings made and collected during the first eight months of 2024. Performed and overheard music, interviews, a voice memo about historical and geographical distance, and iPhone field recordings of New York, Oregon, California and Berlin.
Megan Hattie Stahl is a media artist and educator based in Brooklyn. She uses audio and new media to produce sound art, documentaries and place-based experiences, often investigating musical histories, realities and possibilities. Her work incorporates archives, social practice, psychogeography, interviewing, and music theory. Megan’s practice is informed by past lives as a DIY filmmaker, jazz pianist, French preschool teacher, community radio host and standup comedian. She is an MFA candidate in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College, and was a 2022-23 Social Practice CUNY Actionist Fellow, a Mellon Foundation-funded initiative for socially-engaged artists.
http://www.meganhattiestahl.com
@megan__hattie (Instagram)
3) Cecilia Assalini – Communication
We immerse ourselves in the perception of communication throughout time—a timeless experience within a social and cultural context. We perceive what is doomed to disappear, that which cannot, and perhaps should not, be preserved.
Cecilia Assalini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Composer and Sound Artist. She started developing her musical skills at an early age, beginning with the piano and now working with the cello. She graduated from the National School of Experimentation and Filmmaking (ENERC - Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica) and Musical Composition at the National Arts University in Buenos Aires - Argentina.
Since 2012 she has been working on Films, TV, Advertising and Animation projects making original music, experimental sounds, ambience & sound FX edition and Re- recording Mixer.
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Radiophrenia Shorts 3
9 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
4 Valerio Galadini - anamnesi, session #1 (8:37)
5 SOAK LAB – Conduits (5:46)
6 Whadat XP - B15 (Inner informations) (15:50)
4) Valerio Galadini - anamnesi, session #1
In “anamnesi, session #1”, dialogues (in Italian language) reminiscent of radio theatre create a compelling narrative set within a therapist's office on a rainy evening. Sounds of rain on glass, a cuckoo clock, and soothing music blend with the rhythmic tick of a pendulum metronome, forming a tranquil yet evocative atmosphere. The narrative follows a therapy session with a patient who can neither speak nor move, only able to communicate through blinking. The therapist uses an alphabet ordered by frequency to aid communication, with the patient replying to the therapist's questions through sounds, reflecting an intense inner dialogue and a desire for release from their condition. While the piece aims to partially heal the listener with its calming sonic landscape, it subtly acknowledges the dark feelings of death, which linger in the background and continually haunt the human experience, inviting introspection and empathy within this deeply personal and emotional soundscape.
Valerio Galadini is a composer and sound artist in the field of experimental and electroacoustic music, combining modern technologies with an aesthetic influenced by contemporary media. His music, called Sonadec, draws inspiration from Concrete Music, Glitch, Soundscape Composition, and Ambient. It uses ambient recordings, found objects, voices, and electronic sounds as narrative tools to evoke precise images through semantic association between sound and vision. His works are characterized by meticulous attention to detail, creating a sound collage that integrates various aspects of an environment, exploring the relationship between humans and technology, and addressing the dualism between natural and artificial.
https://www.instagram.com/valeriogaladini/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563174631984
5) SOAK LAB – Conduits
The aim is to improvise for radio, after-images of three days spent at the sea. Just as pollution is the how the sea carries memory of us, we might also allow the sea to infect our consciousness. We reproduce traces of the landscape and seascape of the Plymouth Sound through aural resonances and after-images.
To replicate the process, find a group of women and spend three days at the seaside with them. Feel how your body is made of salt water. Listen to rock-pools with a hydrophone. Catch a boat to a place with grasses and birds and seaweed. Listen to the voice of the grasses. Speak the language of seaweed. Walk along a promenade with a mirror in your hand, until you feel like the rippling sea catching sunlight. Dance by finding points of contact with each other. Improvise. Remember.
SOAK is a home for experimental multi-disciplinary practice in the South West of England. As well as curating our wildly successful SOAK Live Art Events, we run SOAK Lab, a space for skill sharing and community building, responding to tidal and river ecologies around Devon and Cornwall. These sessions are recorded and made into pieces for Soundart radio, Dartington. This work is an extension of Kerry Priest's research/practice into Polyphonic Poetry as a means of de-centering poetic lyricism by aligning it with contemporary choral practices, and Sarah Blissett's research/practice into sounding tidal ecologies through embodied performance.
https://www.instagram.com/soakliveart/
http://kerrypriest.com/
https://www.sarahblissett.net/work
6) Whadat XP - B15 (Inner informations)
On 17 March 2000, an 11,000 km2 piece of ice broke off from the Ross Ice Shelf, the largest ice barrier in Antarctica. For 18 years, the B15 iceberg drifted, fragmenting as a result of collisions, redrawing the maps of the Antarctic coastline and preventing many animal species from feeding. Its last fragment, B15z, evaporated off the coast of South Georgia after a long journey of 14 000 km.
This sound piece evokes the climate change through the changing states of the element water. This is the story of B15, a gigantic block of pure water condemned to a long and slow decay.
Gratuated with high honors from the Conservatory of Marseille in electroacoustic, Alexandre Ollivier (Whadat XP) came from electronic techno music and released some EP's before discovering concrete music. His electroacoustic and experimental music project Whadat XP engages the listening and the imagination of the listener by offering various immersive sound experiences with Acousmonium device. He regularly collaborates in various interdisciplinary projects (video, dance, scenography, radio, short film, installations, mixed electroacoustic piece, etc.) Sensitive to the ecological and political themes of the modern world, he has composed various sound pieces that questions our relationship to work, society & the future
http://www.instagram.com/dssworks
http://www.instagram.com/whadatxp
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Jim Lloyd - The Great Northern Diver
9 April 2025 9:00 am - 10:00 am
The Great Northern Diver is a 50 min radio production that combines spoken word, poetry, and field recordings. It tells the story of one man’s attempts to capture bird calls as he searches to understand what it might be like to be a bird. Using first and third person perspectives, scientific as well as poetic investigations, the work explores themes of migration, displacement, rootedness, home, and loss, highlighting the entanglement of human history, landscape, and ecosystems.
(The production contains two 20 sec excerpts of Passacaglia by GF Handel played by Marisa Robles, Pieces from my childhood 1979, UMG.)
Artist bio:
Jim Lloyd was a winner in The Rialto ‘Nature and Place’ poetry competition (2020). His poems have appeared in many places including: The Rialto, Stand, One Hand Clapping, Poetry Wales, and Nine Pens Press. He has an MFA (distinction) in Fine Art from Newcastle University, and he is now studying for an art practice-based PhD at Newcastle on the representations of avian perception. This research uses multiple methods, including creative writing, drawing, photography and field recording. He lives in Northumberland, UK.
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Megan Gette - Interference Patterns
9 April 2025 10:00 am - 10:30 am
Percussive gestures with a geophone on a floor loom play with technorational forms of listening. And recorded household objects as divining pendulums over a fraudulent blueprint of Texas oilfields (1920s).
Industrial listening includes the use of geophones and dowsing rods. Geophone arrays embedded at the earth’s surface connect to thumper trucks that “listen and reflect” acoustic waves in geological strata by inducing earthquakes. Despite the promises of accuracy, drilling companies still commission dowsers to wildcat (prospect for – sound) oil, minerals, or water underground. Mineral dowsing generally uses pendulums over topographical maps, while water dowsing uses coat hangers, witch hazel sticks or copper rods.
Fraudulent oil maps meant to deter drilling competition from landgrabbing, or to convince owners to sell, amid ongoing dispossession of Black and Indigenous lands. Divining over the map points to the dreamy indifference of wind and the uncertainties of tapping or untangling in acts of measurement.
Artist bio:
Megan Jeanne Gette approaches phonography (writing sound) through technologies of listening. She is author of Majority Reef (Inside the Castle Press, 2020), and several chapbooks. Her publications include Venti: a Journal of Air, Art and Aesthetics, Cleveland Review, Minor Literatures, Black Warrior Review, BAX: Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere. She has edited and written for many experimental art presses and journals, including the Visual and New Media Review at the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s Fieldsights, and is a member of the ethnographic sound art collective OS. She holds an MFA in poetry and a PhD in anthropology.
Website/social links
https://atrace.cargo.site/
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Extense - The Eternal Emissions of a Dying Star
9 April 2025 10:30 am - 11:00 am
This broadcast uses the decommissioning process of the Hunterston A and B Nuclear Sites to explore the exhaustion of the nuclear dream and the residues it has left on the Clyde coastline.
The surround of Hunterston is drawn out in sound, summoning the material and affective sediments that linger in and around the site, and the infrastructural overwriting enacted on the landscape by palimpsestic energy imaginaries.
The composition is centred around a series of geophone recordings taken during the FieldARTS residency with the Infrastructure Humanities Group. Low-frequency hums are drawn out from Hunterston’s material landscape to become drones, pulling in and out of harmony, evoking sonic spectres that linger beyond the edges of auditory perception.
Artist bio:
Extense is a collaborative project between Clara Hancock and Dianne Burdon. They are interested in how technologies, as sensuous extensions of the body, impact our interactions with infrastructures. Their shared research uses atypical cartographic tools to explore the futures being mapped through historical and contemporary sites of development, a project of playful study centred around untangling the epistemic constraints of energy futures.
Website/social links
https://clarah.cargo.site/
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Eliza Wagener - A Guide to Windowpecking
9 April 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
The word ‘Windowpecking’ describes the act of wandering through a city and becoming mesmerised by shop fronts and the windows of residential buildings and flats. Initially, the practice of ‘Windowpecking’ may be an act that occurs rather automatically when strolling around in unfamiliar areas. It is linked to the practice of drifting. ‘Windowpecking’ creeps its way into one’s walking, until one finally realises that there is a pattern in the randomly occurring, unplanned paths one takes and the gaze remains glued to certain panes of glass and lingers. Like a bird hammering on a window to request entry, ‘Windowpecking’ reminds us of the separation between internal and external, private and public, sidewalk and interior, of lantern light and bedside lamp. ‘A Guide To Windowpecking’ is a 30-minute original sound piece by Eliza Wagener. In her sound piece, the painter refers to an ongoing series of small-scale paintings that started with her move from Hamburg to Glasgow in October 2024. ‘Various depicted scenes show moments or direct glimpses of window frames as seen from the outside. Figures move across the images, bathed in mystical green and blue light, in almost monochromatic scenes, as if they aim to draw one into the space—both the exhibition and the pictorial space. Come closer, we are here, and you can look at us. Consciously or unconsciously, staged, or casual gazes?’ (Anne Meerpohl: A Rear Window Situation, Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine, February 2025) ‘A Guide To Windowpecking’ will be presented for the first time at Radiophrenia Glasgow and then broadcasted live for the second time from the exhibition ‘Windowpecking fortlaufend’ at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof in Hamburg via HALLO: Radio on April 26, 2025. Featuring the voices of Embla Graham, Calypso Keane and Colm Moore. Artist bio: *1994 in Hamburg, Germany EDUCATION: Since September 2024: MFA at Glasgow School of Art 2019-2024: BA in Painting at HFBK, Hamburg RADIOACTIVITY (SELECTION): 2023: Curation of event-series “The Flying Radio” during which the temporarily homeless HALLO: Radio broadcast in several locations (Golden Pudel Club, BEEK, FSK Radio, remoto records) in Hamburg 2022: Co-curation of HALLO: Festspiele, Hamburg 2021: Co-curation of “HALLO: Spuckzellenmodul” at altonale, Hamburg Since 2021: Co-running Hamburg based webradio HALLO: Radio Performances at PAPIRIPAR Festival, Floating Transmissions Festival, HALLO: Festspiele, HFBK Hamburg, Galerie LADØNS and many more. Website/social links Website: http://www.elizawagener.com Instagram: @elizawagener Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/elazer Selected Radioperformances: In den blauen Stunden, 2024: https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/in-den-blauen-stunden-eliza-w-14072024 Floating Witches, 2023: https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/floating-witches Between The Hawthorn And Extinction, 2022: https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/between-the-hawthorn-extinction-w-elazer Aus dem Kokon, 2021: https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/aus-dem-kokon-elazer-300 Selection of episodes of my monthly show on HALLO: Radio, which were dedicated to a specific topic: L’intérieur sauvage 31 - 18/04/2024 (Being Alone): https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/linterieur-sauvage-31-elazer-18042024?in=elazer/sets/linterieur-sauvage L’intérieur sauvage 27 - 21/12/2023 (Darkness): https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/linterieur-sauvage-27-elazer-21122023?in=elazer/sets/linterieur-sauvage L’intérieur sauvage 24 - 21/09/2023 (Autumn): https://soundcloud.com/hallo-radio/linterieur-sauvage-24-elazer-21092023?in=elazer/sets/linterieur-sauvage -
Buffer Zone
9 April 2025 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
1) Yve Lomax - Quer ep 3: Being born together (7.13)
2) Avi Ziv - Encounter With The Krell (6:19)
3) Catherine Street - Thought feels (3:16)
1) Yve Lomax - Quer - ep 3: Being born together
Synopsis: Quer is a single voice spoken performance that moves through various modes of address, mixing the poetic, philosophical and the everyday. It is an experiment in how to say something and touches upon things considered pressing for living today. This includes: violence and the cry Why am I being hurt?; attentiveness, justice and ceasing to treat the Earth as a property to be owned; nonviolence and the magic of compassion; dissolving the distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them’; the question of belonging and how saying ‘I am queer’ up-ends it. Quer ends with the assertion that all of life is profoundly transverse and plays upon the old meaning of ‘quer’ as oblique, transverse.
Artist bio: Yve Lomax is a visual artist, writer and editor. She is currently a director of and editor for Copy Press publishers and its audio-visual platform Becoming Fireflies. Since the late 1970s she has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her first book of collected writings was published in 2000 under the title of Writing the Image. Recent publications: Here from There (a shared book with Vit Hopley, 2024); Nearness (2019); Figure, calling (2017); Pure Means (2014). Films/spoken performances include: Mad about justice (2022) and Political Life (2021). Formally, she was a Senior Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art and Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Besides feminism, a longstanding concern has been writing for spoken performances.
Website/social links:
copypress.co.uk
2) Avi Ziv - Encounter With The Krell
We are all waves of energy. The Encounter With The Krell uses sonification of electromagnetic fields, emanating from both motors and magnetic tape, as the book ends to generative synthesized statements. The performer applies nuance and expression in response to every sound, forming a dialog. This improvisation was captured live, in one shot, and without any editing. Recorded using a micro cassette recorder, custom EMF sensors, an electromechanical plucked instrument, and a 0-coast synthesizer.
Artist bio:
Avi Ziv is a multi-instrumentalist, sound artist, instrument builder, and audio drama producer, working in the US.
Website/social links
Instagram: @evolving_door
3) Catherine Street - Thought feels
There is a layering of non-verbal vocalisations that have a comical or playful feel to them. The same voice, in a whisper, repeats the questions ‘is thought an event?’ and ‘is my body an event?’. The work explores verbal and non-verbal layering. The silly sounds coming from the body are interrupted by something more cerebral or philosophical, contrasting thought and feeling. This work relates to my research around the body-mind in its various forms. a practice of meditation and recovery from a serious illness. At the same time I am interested in the idea of ‘the event’ whether that be a thought, a movement, a body, a mistake, a trauma.
Artist bio:
I am an artist working with performance, video, sound, collage, writing and sculpture. My work speculates on the relationship between the body and language. How do ideas imposed by words affect the fleshy organs of human beings? My work tends to celebrate the body - its tenderness and vulnerability - against the brutality and insecurity around it and seeping through it.
Website/social links
https://catherinestreet.net/
Instagram - @catherine.street.art
X - @StreetCatherine
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Phew - Jamming 2025 (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
9 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
As a child I travelled the world on BCL radio and was fascinated by the music and languages of distant countries with fading phenomena. Once, while checking the shortwave band, a 'pheeew' noise passed by.
The frequency range was very wide,and the overall frequency was heard to rise in a continuous sequence of changes.
What was that sound?
Jamming 2025 is an attempt to recreate that experience from memory.
Bio:
Phew is a musician based in Tokyo, Japan. While fronting Aunt Sally, one of Osaka’s earliest punk groups, Phew played a critical role in developing Japan’s underground music scene. Phew’s oeuvre spans a vast array of experimental sounds: from no-wavey synth-hymns; to poppy, shoegazing, industrial undertones; to eerie incandescent drones. Since the 1970s, Phew’s dynamic, compelling voice and her commitment to unfettered experimentation has been critical in shaping the sound of avant-garde music both in Japan and internationally.
https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com -
Felix Kubin - Visit to the Blind Spot (Take 1)
9 April 2025 12:45 pm - 1:00 pm
Does the underground still exist? A report from the fringe of the angry smile. Featuring interviews and musical collaborations with Suzan Peeters, Nico Bogaerts, Guillaume Maupin, Èlg, Dennis Tyfus, Uj Bala, LEM and the crew of NHGE Bxl.
This edit is a taster of a longer radio feature that will be released in the future. All recordings were made during a residency at Q-O2 Brussles in July 2024.
Artist bio:
Felix Kubin likes to crawl under spirals and jump over cylinders.
Website/social links
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Radiophrenia Shorts 17
9 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1 ) Emma Bowen - 18fps – (3:20)
2) Jessica Syposz - The Buzzer (8:54)
3 ) Sebastiane Hegarty - a wymering (10:26)
4) Clare Roberts (Little Strings) - LET THEM HEAR (1:10)
1) Emma Bowen - 18fps
This short soundscape composition segues in and out of a single recording of a 50ft super 8 film projection. The film threads through the machine and onto the rear reel, while environmental and found sounds slip in and out. In reframing and repurposing these disappearing sounds - analogue technology, environment and found objects - I tried to develop a dialogue and awareness of contemporary environmental cultural practise.
Emma Bowen is an artist, facilitator and educator based in Scotland. She works collaboratively on bespoke learning, social care and AV art projects.
She has made noises with and for other people at; Concurrent, Edinburgh Art Festival, Glasgow International and for Sci-Fi theatre in Liverpool. She was awarded an honorary mention and best experimental audio for - 2 years - at Black & White Festival Internacional Audiovisual, Portugal. She exhibits and screens work locally and internationally.
http://www.emmagbowen.com
2) Jessica Syposz - The Buzzer
Lena can't stop listening. Her favourite radio station only transmits a single, eerie buzzing noise. The sound gets under her skin. It makes her feel safe, especially on lonely nights in her room while her menacing landlord prowls around the house. The more this vulnerable young woman listens to this radio station, the easier it is to forget the world around her, or to feel like it's even real at all. A monologue which culminates in an unearthly radiophonic soundscape, 'The Buzzer' is a journey into obsession and our desire to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Written by Jessica Syposz, starring Radhika Aggarwal, with sound design by Paul Dodgson. The radio station Lena listens to is a fictionalised version of the real UBV-76 frequency or ‘Buzzer,’ a short-wave radio station which has been transmitting an unexplained buzzing since 1983.
I am a writer from Birmingham, UK, working across prose, audio and theatre. I often layer my work on top of soundscapes drawn from field recordings and the crackle and hum of old analogue tech. My audio play ‘The Buzzer’ was featured at the 2023 UK International Radio Drama Festival. I am the fiction editor at interdisciplinary arts magazine, Porridge. My ten-minute monologue for stage, ‘Caterpillars’, was performed at The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham in April 2024 as part of their Write Away Scratch Night, where it won the audience vote for best piece.
https://jessicasyposz.co.uk/
3) Sebastiane Hegarty - a wymering
Wymering Manor is the oldest building in Portsmouth, and one of Britain’s most haunted.
This composition builds on a series of drawing, listening, and sounding workshops I delivered, as part of a collaborative architectural project, with Wymering Manor Trust, artist Belinda Mitchell and her MA Interior Architecture and Design students.
The workshops expand on drawing as a multi-sensory practice, exploring notions of the interior by tuning into the body. Through the choreography of touch, we focus in our bodily interior, listening, drawing and sounding out breath.
As the conversation develops, we correspond, we listen with the building, rolling pebbles to uncover the acoustic memories of rooms: a technique used in the Manor’s nightly ghost hunts.
The project culminates in a haunting: ‘a wymering' at Wymering, that mingles field-recordings – including the amorous tap of Death-watch beetle - with live drawings and instruments dismantled from domestic furniture and played by students.
As a visual artist working with sound, Sebastiane Hegarty’s practice explores the materiality of sound, silence and the unheard. These works are realised through text scores, failed phonographic objects and the weak signals of lost micro-FM transmission.
His work has been transmitted, performed, heard & unheard across the UK, Europe & Americas. Through performed texts he has presented his research at conferences including, RPTF 2023 (The Library of Congress, Washington 2023). In 2022, his text work, ‘I am not imagining this…’ was nominated for ‘Best Imagined Sound’ in The Sound of the Year Awards. It didn’t win.
https://sebastianehegarty.wordpress.com
Instagram: @sebastiane_hegarty / @listenthroughthewaves
4) Clare Roberts (Little Strings) - LET THEM HEAR
"LET THEM HEAR" is a powerful sound art poem that amplifies how marginalised voices are often overlooked. It blends spoken word with immersive soundscapes, amplifying overlooked voices. It’s a visceral experience where words echo, resonate, and demand to be heard. Are you ready to let them hear?
Clare graduated from The University of Glasgow with an MLitt in Creative Writing. She is a musician, writer, and performer whose work includes sonic art, music, and literature. Her sound art has been recognised through the “Mind Trees of The Urban Forest Exhibition” exhibition in Carlisle. Her latest experimental sonic art piece was published in Unpsychology Magazine. One of Clare’s proudest projects is "Vitiligo Song," a community arts project for The Vitiligo Society.
Clare is interested in how music and phonology intertwine to explore communication methods.
https://soundcloud.com/phloxwn/sets
https://instagram.com/littlestringsmusic -
Radiophrenia Shorts 17
9 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
5) Anastasija Stanojević – Krš (20:44)
6) Katie Suzanne Ballentine - Final Traverse (2:37)
7) Ioustini Koutsogianni - Measure of the Sea (10:00)
5) Anastasija Stanojević – Krš
This piece is a live, fully improvised soundcape that blends vocals, live looping and a variety of effects to create an immersive, almost meditative listening experience. Drawing inspiration from Bulgarian choirs and drone music, it opens with layers of ethereal vocal harmonies, evoking a sense of sacred space. The use of heavy reverb adds to the atmospheric depth, surrounding the listener in a sonic landscape that feels expansive and spiritual. The tranquility is intentionally broken by bursts of dissonant noises and harsh, somewhat disturbing textures, creating tension and unpredictability.
Rather than being chaotic, these interruptions serve to contrast the beauty of the harmonic sections, creating a dynamic interplay between serenity and disruption. Each performance is unique. The piece evolves in real-time, inviting listeners into a deep, reflective journey through sound and emotion.
Anastasija Stanojević, born 2001, is a versatile vocalist rooted in jazz, free improvisation and traditional Serbian folk music. Growing up in a religious environment, she sang in choirs throughout her life, shaping her deep connection to sacred music. After completing her undergraduate studies in Lucerne, Switzerland, she is now pursuing a Master‘s degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
During her studies she has worked and performed with renowned musicians like Magda Mayas, Julian Sartorius, Christian Weber, The Sun Ra Arkestra and Dave Holland, blending traditional and experimental elements to create unique and immersive performances.
https://www.instagram.com/steischa_/profilecard/?igsh=aTU3OHR1bnJqc3Zw
6) Katie Suzanne Ballentine - Final Traverse
Final Traverse is a collaborative piece made with Composer Anselm McDonnell. This audio work which draws inspiration from the club scene, intertwining this with climbing and indoor bouldering, was made as part of an immersive installation which formed my degree show for my Masters in Fine Art. It is a carefully constructed piece utilising heart rates, found sounds and interpretations of climbs and the movement of the body.
Katie Suzanne Ballentine is a Northern Irish artist based in Ballymena and Belfast.
As a recent graduate from the MFA programme at Belfast School of Art her practice continues to expand, making use of skills learned during her time there, from printmaking to avant-garde audio work, video production and expanded cinema.
Her practice currently focuses on sonic art and new forms of graphic notion, exploring and deepening her connection with these concepts through collaborations with musicians and climbing.
https://www.katiesuzanneart.com/
Instagram: @katiesuzanne.art
7) Ioustini Koutsogianni - Measure of the Sea
A Measure of the Sea is a collection of performance works that intertwine Queer ecology with timeless mythology, in a deep dive exploration of our interconnectedness with the ocean.
Each piece within this collection serves as a reflection, both personal and universal, on humanity's intricate relationship with the vast expanse of the ocean and how they affect each other.
The extract above is a soundscape created for a character trapped in a submarine who is slowly losing their sense of self whilst the sea is slowly taking over.
Ioustini is a multidisciplinary artist with a visual media and sound background. In her practice she draws from contemporary themes and everyday issues and combines them with mythology and folklore to make them more accessible to a wider audience.
https://www.instagram.com/j_koutsoyianni/profilecard/?igsh=MTI3djkwcHdrNTdkaw== -
Electroacoustical Poetical Society - Disappearance
9 April 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Electroacoustical Poetical Society poets Ilaria Boffa, Tony Brewer, Brian K. Price, Joan Schuman and Marjorie Van Halteren each respond to the theme "Disappearance." This is the resulting collection.
Artist bio:
The Electroacoustical Poetical Society is the invention of Marjorie Van Halteren, a poet, sound artist and composer living in Lille, France. Details at http://www.electroacousticalpoeticalsociety.com.
Website/social links
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Gravemere - torpor (Live stream)
9 April 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
by pressing record we create an edit. we select. by selecting what is recorded and what is not we create a reduction. a reduction creates a fantasy.
torpor is a live performance between an open network of live omni directional microphones transmitting ecological sound to the Locus Sonus server and compositions made of time stretched samples from past live transmissions.
fantasy - temporality - flat listening - slow radio - geologic time scale - local and planetary rhythms - networks - crowd shyness - omni-directional microphones without directional subject - language barriers - radio as communication technology - smiling as communication technology - thick air -
Artist bio:
gravemere is a front/stage/window/ for performance. using time-stretching and recordings from live transmissions gravemere documents a separation/grief/ache from the organic/real/physical world. an ephemeral practice suspended.
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Mort Drew is a creative technician working on live audio broadcasts, anti-hierarchical sound systems, and installations. Their practice explores ephemerality, activist radio, grief and displacement. Their work appears as broadcasts, workshops, publications, sound devices and performances.
Mort is a co-director of the arts cooperative Soundcamp.
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/gravemere/
https://www.instagram.com/mort_drew/ -
Elizabeth Flood - Alliteration : WFMU Radio Row
9 April 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Alliteration is a A radio on the radio play made from field recordings, audio diaries, and edits exploring the space between transmission and reception, signal and noise, dreams and waking, here and there. The first half of the show introduces the players, and the second half closes the gap between the spaces, bringing everyone into conversation. This work was originally made for WMFU's Radio Row series. Aired August 13, 2023. Artist bio: Elizabeth Flood grew up in Massachusetts and currently lives in Chicago, IL. She likes to go on walks, talk on the phone, eat dinner with friends, and take ballet classes. Flood's radio work is interested in playing in the blurry space between transmission and reception, signal and noise, dreams and waking, here and there. She is curious about what radio would sound like if we didn’t listen ‘to know’? She tends to find work (and play) most interesting when creating a system and being curious about the outcome, rather than seeking a particular end result. -
Max Farrel - co-opt radio (Live in the studio)
9 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
“co-opt radio” is an improvised performance project which uses sampling, manipulation, and layering of live radio to create sonic landscapes. All sound is improvised and no pre-recorded or synthesized sounds are used. Fragmenting, stretching, repeating, and blending scattered moments of sound to build unrecognizable sonic worlds. The resulting sonic landscapes move through pure noise to ethereal music, from dark and sombre textures to joyous and playful passages. Each performance is a unique reflection and response to the radio landscape, exploring acts of documentation, archiving, and collective listening through re-contextualizing our relationship to place, memory, and sonic culture. For Radiophrenia 2025 I propose to do an expanded co-opt radio live set to mirror the world frequency, starting by sampling local Glasgow radio then expanding the radius of source sounds to gradually include internet radio sources from across the globe. Note: the length can be varied according to programming.
Artist bio:
Max Farrell is a Glasgow-based visual artist, scientist, and composer of experimental music. His artistic work traverses video, electroacoustic and instrumental composition, improvised performance, and image-based sculpture. Across disciplines and media, he interrogates intersections between the material, informatic, and cognitive dimensions of documentation, perceptions of place at varying physical and temporal scales, and the processes by which humanity re-structures “natural” environments.
Link to download audio/images:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ht4KQKdbElGAd3G_AafFgXz7meXPO2Hb?usp=sharing
Website/social links
http://fakoandro.world/
https://www.instagram.com/fakoandro/ -
Buffer Zone
9 April 2025 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
1) Molar Fear - Psychic Improvisation Experiment (10:43)
2) Gregory Whitehead - How Still My Brainwaves (6:46)
3) Jennifer Wicks - Not Placed (20:16)
1) Molar Fear - Psychic Improvisation Experiment
So I had this idea right. People are always banging on about musical improvisers, ‘reading each other’s minds’ or ‘interpreting non-verbal cues’. All that jazz eh? But what if improvisers Molar Fear, really tried to psychically transmit their thoughts to each other? What if they focused their minds across the river Tyne and jammed their respective instruments in secret, only for their furtive tracks to be overlaid at the last minute? So that’s what we did. Four tracks, recorded independently, and without any discussion or planning that I slapped together, without editing or prior listening for you to enjoy. It’s a real experiment in seeing if our styles, some sharply percussive, some grimly grubby can melt like hot ear-butter. You are the judge! You decide dear listener! How did we do?
Molar Fear is an improvising quartet made up of two improvising duos. Molar Crime is Graeme Hopper (drums and production) and Joe Posset (dictaphones). Beer Fear is Natalie Halaseh (electronics and samples) Isaac Goldsbury Murray (voice). Together we are Molar Fear. Get it? What more do you need to know eh? Yeah, we’ve played a bunch of gigs in Newcastle-upon-Tyne where we live and we supported Wolf Eyes in 2024. That was fun. Expect a little bit of clatter and a little bit of skronk; mismatched warbles that, in the end, dovetail like magnetic ham and eggs.
https://molarfear.bandcamp.com/album/demonstration
2) Gregory Whitehead - How Still My Brainwaves
“His head was a mess, so his brain was a mess.”
A disintegrative composition for solo voice and cosmic crackle inspired by the structure and rhythm of a Langston Hughes poem, featuring a DIY ventilator that fails to sustain the patient.
Artist bio:
Gregory Whitehead is a lifelong radiomaker, audio artist, text-sound poet, singer of tales and philosopher of the electromagnetic soup.
Website/social links
https://gregorywhitehead.net
3) Jennifer Wicks - Not Placed
Not Placed is a live recording of an expanded cinema performance. Using 16mm projectors as sound instruments, guitar pedals, optical sensors, microcontrollers, and algorithmic light-sound software, 16mm optical film samples, the work explores time through experimental practice and the interconnectedness of sound and vision as they evolve in the performance space.
Jennifer Wicks is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans durational installations, audiovisual performances, sound art releases, and creative-critical writing. Her work interrogates memory, language, and states of being through experimental methods, emphasising light, time, and sound. Employing obsolete media, 16mm film, reappropriated materials, and custom light-to-sound instruments, she explores the materiality of sound and image. Using Media Archaeology and contemporary technologies, she treats them both as subjects of inquiry and as tools to critique the dominance of digital culture in shaping memory, perception, and our relationship with time.
Her solo live performances explore temporal dynamics, chance, and the mechanics of sound. Working at the intersection of industrial noise, sample culture, cut-up techniques, and expanded cinema, she addresses the limitations and possibilities of analogue film and sound systems. Using modified 16mm projectors, contact microphones, and multiple guitar effects pedals, she crafts immersive, textured, and dissonant audiovisual installations.
She has training in conventional music and holds an MLitt in Fine Art Practice (Glasgow School of Art) and an MSc in Sound Design and Audio-Visual Practice (University of Glasgow). She has received a Leverhulme-funded artist residency at Glasgow University (2011-2012) and was Artist in Residence at the University of Stirling (2022), working with the Norman McLaren archive. Her recent projects span international exhibitions and festivals. She makes music with WOMEN’S HOUR (Wicks and Contort Yourself head honcho Murray CY). LP released on L.I.E.S. Records, December 2023.
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O.J.A.I. (Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence) - Administrative Embrace (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
9 April 2025 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
"Administrative Embrace" grants unprecedented access to the inner workings and concealed logic of the enigmatic Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence. This transmission crosses rustbelt landscapes, pedestrian tunnels, flyovers, debris fields, and timelines, charting states of decline, delirium, immortality, and heroic obedience. Listeners are invited into the vast and impressive O.J.A.I. world headquarters. Through spoken word, modular sounds, architectural and bureaucratic fictions, lists, timelines, and ambient musical accompaniment, "Administrative Embrace" offers an hour-long exploration into institutional conjuring, information overload, camaraderie, and magic." Produced by O.J.A.I. in 2024/25 for Radiophrenia Glasgow Text and voice by Gary Farrelly Sound and mix by Chris Dreier Piano by Tim Löhd Dexia Defunct (Sonic Explorations to the European Rustbelt) - Charleroi I (2021) Dexia Defunct (O.J.A.I.) - Capital Flows (2023) Dexia Defunct - Credit Rating (2016) MK/CT (Chris Dreier/Tim Löhde) - MK7 Shieldfields (2017) Dexia Defunct - Rücksichtslosigkeit (2016) Dexia Defunct (O.J.A.I.) - Stay Off (2024) Biography: Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.) is the collaborative practice of artists Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly based in Brussels and Berlin. The work is fuelled by recurring fascinations with architecture, infrastructure, finance, esoteric practices and institutional power manifesting in postal correspondence, installations, sound, performance and walks as well as limited vinyl editions and publications. The work has been presented at Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin), Damien & the Love Guru (Brussels), Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris), Marres House for Contemporary Culture (Maastricht), De Garage (Mechelen) and Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati, US), among many others. O.J.A.I. produces a monthly music radio show for Dublin Digital Radio and for Cashmere Radio Berlin. https://jointintelligence.org/ @jointintelligence -
Keith de Mendonca - Industrial Sketch
9 April 2025 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
A meditative sound collage of field recordings of voices and machinery - from Ireland, Bali, China, England and Finland.
Artist bio:
Keith de Mendonca took his first tentative steps into field recording in 2000 and since then he has been a contributor to the long-running radio show “Framework” on Resonance FM. His audio recordings have been aired on the ABC, BBC, ORF and other radio stations worldwide. Keith’s work has been used in the soundtracks of experimental films, appeared on CDs and been the subject of a DivFuse installation in London. For the last 2 years Keith has also been photographing live music events in London.
Website/social links
https://frameworkradio.net/tag/keith-de-mendonca/
https://soundcloud.com/keith-de-mendonca
https://www.instagram.com/keithdmphoto -
Yulia Carolin Kothe - Poltergeist or some scene else
9 April 2025 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
‘Poltergeist or some scene else’ is an essayistic radio work by Yulia Carolin Kothe that takes the Barras Market's (Glasgow) syntax of artefacts as a starting point for creating an expanding and ever-evolving tableau of intense, uneasy acousmatic atmospheres. The conspicuous and omniscient narrator takes the listener on a rambling walk through the Barras entering private and public spaces, a remote cottage and various ambivalent territories home to disembodied voices and close up traces of life like a wet ring of a coffee cup just plucked from the scene. Kothe's own electronic compositions are juxtaposed with re-articulated oral histories, chopping up DIY recordings on cassettes purchased from the Barras Market, and combining with avantgarde German poems by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), Thekla Lingen (1866-1931), Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806) and Anna Ritter (1865–1921). Text by Caitlin Merrett King Artist bio: Yulia Carolin Kothe is an artist working between Glasgow and Frankfurt am Main. Her practice moves between sculpture, film, sound, writing, installation and performance, often responding to archival material, queer feminist theory and personal and oral histories. Through forensic expansion of these materials, Kothe creates new sites, both digital and physical, glitching fictional or often partially-remembered environments that seek to configure new relational and temporal experiences. Website/social links https://www.juliacarolinkothe.de https://www.instagram.com/yulia.ko_/ https://soundcloud.com/kothe-yulia -
Kunstradio 3 - SELTSAMEN by Thea Soti, Christine Schörkhuber and Verena Dürr
9 April 2025 8:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Thea Soti, Christine Schörkhuber and Verena Dürr are immersed in a joint research on how stories influence our perception of nature and with which narratives we confront the climatic changes on the planet, which we as humans significantly cause. The literary current of the NewWeird strives for a perspective that also includes the vague, the fluid. What expression can we give to the incomprehensible, the uncanny, the strange that we are confronted with in a globalised world? What can we learn from the strange and the weird in order to confront the ecological transformation processes that we are facing or are already in the midst of? Not only us humans, but all of us! How do we abolish ourselves as the centre of the world in order to see ourselves as part of the world, in order to feel responsible for the world again? It is about a practice of becoming permeable, of penetrating, of letting oneself be penetrated, of caring. It is about communicating with plants. About cooperating with the "inhuman". Even if and precisely because it is weird. SHAPE+, the platform for exciting new projects from the field of music and audiovisual arts of the festival network ICAS, was co-founded in 2014 by ORF musikprotokoll at steirischer herbst. It is funded by the European Union's Creative Europe programme. "SELTSAMEN" were initiated by ORF musikprotokoll and are a cooperation with Ö1 Zeit-Ton, Ö1 Kunstradio, XX Y X and Kluckyland. The storytelling lounge and installation "SELTSAMEN" by Thea Soti, Christine Schörkhuber and Verena Dürr can be experienced at Kluckyland in Vienna from 2.6.2023. -
Anne Versailles - Garanas lokte
9 April 2025 8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Immersion in the far north, where the wind blows, the snow cracks and the ice rolls and scraps. Where one does not enter by chance, but by leaving the comfort of daily certainties. Where we lose our footing and our bearings, where we sink into these wide valleys dominated by icy mountains, until we let ourselves be crossed by the raven, which flies away.
How do we deal with the retreat of the North as we know it?
Garanas Lokte is composed exclusively with fieldrecording in Swedish Lapland. I never felt really welcomed by this landscape, until the day I started listening to it, with my microphones. From that moment on, I was able to begin to enter into a relationship with it. This power of listening allows us to find permeability, connection and wonder with our surroundings, to get rid of the ignorance that paralyzes us.
Artist bio:
Anne Versailles, lives and works in Brussels. Geopoet and walker, her work explores displacement, crossing and slowness. As a sound artist, she collects sounds while crossing territories and composes acousmatic works born from the energy of the crossed landscape that she then often diffuses in the form of in situ sound installations. She also composes for radio creation, theater or sound walks. She also writes and this literary work is not different from her sound work, the two are often mixed.
Website/social links
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SUBTERRA - Ballad of the Fermyn
9 April 2025 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
In this radio play, told through the voice of the Narrator, we are presented with an eccentric cast of characters living with an ever disenchanted and hostile landscape made up of old mines, towering blast furnaces, an inexplicable blackness which seems to spread insidiously, and a strange red substance that emanates from the earth. The veil is thin in this world… Perhaps you best enter the Inn of Ill Omen, order a nice frothy pint and rest your aching soul by the hearth. In the dim light an open hand reveals a blood red ironstone, an amulet that will reveal the way to “that place”... or so the story goes.
Artist bio:
SUBTERRA is a collaboration between Astrid Björklund and Marie-Chantal Hamrock, creating works which navigates speculative narratives of the chthonic (of relating to or inhabiting the underworld) through text, poetry, soundscapes and music. Currently working together as curators for the Fermynwoods Podcast.
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/sub.terrestrials/
https://www.mixcloud.com/sub_terra/
https://fermynwoods.org/fermynwoods-podcast-24-subterra/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 31
9 April 2025 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm
1) Kristina Loring - DNA ASMR (3:00) 2) Gabi Schaffner - Horom Radio (6:00) 3) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 8 (0:27) 4) Sylvain Souklaye - INVISIBLE BODY (RAW NOISE) (10:00) 1) Kristina Loring - DNA ASMR In my real-life quest to find a sperm donor, it became an increasingly anxious activity. I have looked through nearly every cryobank in the United States. And some of the marketing of these sperm donors always struck me as so hilarious. Who was writing these descriptors? Was it the cryobank or the donors themselves? The queer act of choosing a donor is such a bizarre, complicated, weighted decision with so many factors that I wanted to playfully and absurdly highlight the reductionist aliases’ that become the first introduction to the donor you choose. Wrapping it in an ever so slight fictional framework that changes the reality of scrolling through websites and puts it into an ASMR-like - unboxing video of ‘essence’ vials - was an attempt to make tangible the abstraction that happens when you are choosing the DNA for possible human life in such a limiting, categorizing, essentialist way. Kristina Loring is a story editor, sound artist, and audio producer, who works across genre and form to create media experiences you feel in your body. She was the founding Head of Audio at Dipsea, leading teams of writers, producers, and sound designers to create feminist audio erotica. Before that, she created the interactive cooking show Cooking By Ear. Creating hands-on installations and interactive performances to bring the audio to life, her work blends documentary-style interviews, field recordings, and fiction to foster connection, intimacy, and new emotional realms for listeners to explore. https://www.kristinaloring.com/ 2) Gabi Schaffner - Horom Radio The ancient city of Horom is set in the southwest of Gyumri in Armenia. The hills are strewn with the remnants of ruins… one might guess that this has been a fundament – or that the color of the grassland had changed with what resided underneath. The air was filled with the drones of jets circling a sky with some clouds. The wind chased wilted thistles across the expanse of the land. We walked among the stones and turned my small radio on. We wondered whether the jet fighters that kept darting out of the blue had noticed us. We recorded the drones of the planes, the radio, the dead city and the rustle of the tumble thistles, being moved around. Gabi Schaffner works as a trans-disciplinary artist within the realms of radio art, composition and performance. Her artistic practice is inspired by the methods of poetic ethnography in connection with Fluxus-like mise-en-scènes, radio-making and sound art performances. Since 2012 she maintains “Datscha Radio”, a nomadic transmission project that links the medium of radio to ecological issues. Schaffner has been realising award-winning productions with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, radia.fm, Hessian Cultural Radio and ABC Australia. She lives (mostly) in Berlin. https://schaffnerin.net/ http://datscharadio.de/ 3) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 8 why so serious? can't art be futile? is neurosis really usefull? how to destroy authority by singing? of all tools, why do we not understand language or money? –– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits –– 1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020). https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/ https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken 4) Sylvain Souklaye - INVISIBLE BODY (RAW NOISE) INVISIBLE BODY (RAW NOISE) is a sonic and bodily exploration of parenthood. Created by Sylvain Souklaye during his residency at LEIMAY CAVE, just days after the birth of his daughter, the piece reflects the chaos and euphoria of this life-changing moment. Blindfolded, Souklaye navigated the studio space to reconnect with his body, rediscovering touch and movement. This disorienting process allowed him to lose and find himself simultaneously, creating an intense, raw transformation expression. The work questions the body’s evolving role and purpose in the real world. Sylvain Souklaye is a French Caribbean Brooklyn-based live artist, sonic maker, and author. His work explores broken bodies, environmental crises, and political retribution. Rooted in his Martinique and Lyon heritage, Souklaye’s early focus on DIY social justice evolved into immersive performances and sonic installations that emphasize collective intimacy. His notable works have been presented at venues like Judson Church and Grace Exhibition Space, with installations such as Liquid Soul and Soliloquy in Motion. Souklaye was also recognized among the top 100 Contemporary Artists by Aesthetica Art Prize. https://www.sylvainsouklaye.com https://www.instagram.com/sylvain.souklaye/ https://sylvainsouklaye.bandcamp.com -
Radiophrenia Shorts 31
9 April 2025 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm
5) Jamie Lemoine - KEZM easylistening (8:04) 6) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - The Benefits of Destroying Our Planet (1:09) 7) Adrian Laugsch - Spasms Of My Aching Heart Lamento 5 (12:40) 8) Juliette Liautaud - A-row (rayon vert) (8:10) 5) Jamie Lemoine - KEZM easylistening KEZM is a now defunct radio station, based in Los Angeles. This experimental audio piece was composed by Jamie in 2024, incorporating clips from KEZM broadcasts made in the 1970's. Jamie has worked with music and sound for several decades. An album he produced won best rap album at the California Music Awards in 2004. Jamie is now focused on creating experimental music and sound compositions, often including field recordings and found footage. The Irish Museum of Modern Art commissioned an original soundscape composition by Jamie in 2024, responding to an ecological site located in the grounds. A site-specific music composition of Jamie's was selected for inclusion in Sound Walk Berlin as part of the Month of Contemporary Music Berlin 2023. He works with partner Dervla Clarke as POND Studios. @pond.studios https://www.pondstudios.com/ https://soundcloud.com/mov_o123 6) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - The Benefits of Destroying Our Planet From Picking Trash to Save the Planet - a spoken word and music concept EP(3-INCH CD) about the struggle between modern life and mother nature. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is the unfortunately-titled solo project of Ryan Kuehn(Dead Peasant Insurance, Thursday Club, Hot Air Balloon Ride). Hailing from the musically-thriving city of Cleveland, Ohio in the USA, he has released over 50 solo albums of varying styles in the past 20 or so years, mostly on cassette and CD-R. While more often than not an outsider Synthesizer project, there are some albums that stretch out to other areas- just this year alone he has recorded a gong album, as well as his first parody album and spoken word EP! 😢 🎶 http://www.drquinnmedicinewoman.bandcamp.com http://www.thursday-club.net http://www.youtube.com/megasupernoise http://www.youtube.com/balloonytunes 7) Adrian Laugsch - Spasms Of My Aching Heart Lamento 5 "Spasms of My Aching Heart" unfolds somewhere between a kitschy concept album and an AI-generated opera. Consisting of five originally AI-generated (but heavily revised) songs, the album delves deeply into the potential of technology in dialogue with trauma, kitsch, and pathos, striving to create a form of post-digital emotionality and artificial opulence. Shaped by kitsch theory, queer camp, and the aesthetics of Schlager music, the songs embrace their (over)expressivity with seriousness while remaining fully aware of their own absurdness. Adrian Laugsch (*1997) is a german-polish composer/performer/soundartist. Based on his musical interest in historical, (auto)biographical, and nostalgic sounds, his compositional work is significantly shaped by the desire for the substantive expansion of the sonic through theatrical, interdisciplinary, and multimedia strategies. This may range from extra-musical concepts and narrative arcs to the explicit use of stage and video, intertwining traditional formats such as concert, radio play, album, music theater, and installation. Consequently, his thematic focus lies on queer, hybrid, non-normative, and transgressive identities, as well as the exploration of post-digital artificiality and meta-religious opulence in the staging of socio-political mechanisms. https://www.adrianlaugsch.com 8) Juliette Liautaud - A-row (rayon vert) Voices, forests and backlights – stretched start, in green stripes A-row (rayon vert) is an electroacoustic composition made of transformed found sounds of the BBC, concrete sounds objects and mutative voices that deals with an imaginary forest going to disappear. Originally made for being played on acousmonium, this is a broadcasting version of the piece aiming to be played as a stereo piece on radio. Juliette Liautaud is a visual artist and composer based in Marseilles, France. She holds a MFA from Villa Arson National School of Arts. Her work has been showed in various exhibitions and experimental festivals across France and internationally. Her body of work includes photography, installation, experimental film and electronic and electroacoustic compositions, always dealing with the power of Nature and its mysteries, creating visual and soundscapes with an eerie atmosphere. She recently joined Station Station radio and Lyl radio, with conceptual shows of mixtapes and poetry and she co-runs the independent publisher Stereo Editions focusing on artist's experimental publications. https://julietteliautaud.com/ https://www.instagram.com/juliette__liautaud/ https://soundcloud.com/lulland -
Ryan Frame - Cameron Toll: European shopping centre of the year 1985
9 April 2025 11:00 pm - 10 April 2025 1:00 am
Long form feature composed of lo-fi field recordings capturing the sounds and atmosphere of Cameron Toll shopping centre in South Edinburgh. European shopping centre of the year 1985. Arranged and edited in GarageBand with a few crass effects thrown into the mix. Artist bio: Lo-fi experimental field recording enthusiast from the Scottish central belt. Tracks mainly built around one take Iphone voice recordings. Everyday sounds of the streets, buses, random pub conversations and noise. Borderline sound art. -
Naledi Chai - Palace Flowers Hurt The Most
8 April 2025 11:15 pm - 9 April 2025 12:00 am
The piece is a collage of found sound, field recordings, and electro-acoustic compositions created by me using a turntable, portable turntable that plays deconstructed and destroyed vinyl discs and an old model cellphone. I also use text, excerpts, and conversations to give the piece a sense of home in a way that is intelligible to itself through sound. I used Bela Tarr's "The Turin Horse" to reference his visual themes of vastness and distance to create a similar sonic landscape using objects, methods, and processes from within the contexts of my environment.
Artist bio:
Naledi Chai is an interdisciplinary artist and experimentalist. Her disciplines span collage, video art, sound design, film, sound and event-based sonic experiments explored through DJing. Her practice is deeply rooted in exploring the intersection of sonic expression, technology, and human experience.
She is intrigued by the politics and potential of sound to evoke emotions, challenge perceptions, and create immersive environments that transcend traditional spatial boundaries. Her sound-based sculptural works have been shown at Brixton Light Festival and Stevenson Gallery in Johannesburg. Chai lives and works in Johannesburg.
Website/social links
https://linktr.ee/lovingparents?fbclid=IwY2xjawFzieNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHVWrvEN3XRKUulPkf4CH8kqQoghQOukUe11llo1IiAr935XZIYlJT7Dnqw_aem_FhWqOevW5-T0kFIdHj3yOQ
https://www.instagram.com/cu_xtremes/
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Doog Cameron - Highland Wildlife Park Drones On
10 April 2025 1:00 am - 1:30 am
The main sounds are live captured audio from Highland Wildlife Park (near Aviemore) in 2024 including a tiger talk, overheard discussions about snow leopards and general ambience. The first half features a low drone which is almost the same sound as tape style background noise but synth generated and on a separate audio track, this moves around (but not much) until the last fifteen minutes where the synth starts to come forward in the mix increasingly towards the end. Its an attempt to capture wide outdoor live sounds from the day and merge them into the made sounds of the night.
Artist bio:
Long term music, art and sound enthusiast with regular engagement and interaction with many Radiophrenia events over the years. Currently usually working with field recordings, synths, DAWs, bleeps and beats but also with an appreciations for classic albums and simple good music. Main music output varies from older more song based tracks to experimental, minimal and gonzo sonic journalism. I also work with and collaborate on some visual and video projects mainly for my own and other local artists music and output.
I am work with Ryan Frame on monthly collaborations for Campradio in a similar style.
Website/social links
https://soundcloud.com/theladywelllout
https://x.com/ladywelllout
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Mario van Horrik - Earth WAVES
10 April 2025 1:30 am - 2:00 am
A crocodile clip is connected to the radiator in my studio and the wire connected to it is the signal of a jack input in my mixing board. This delivers not only a 50Herz hum, but also functions as an antenna. The result is an unstable hum. The output of the mixer feeds a class D amp, which drives a shaker.
A shaker is a kind of loudspeaker, but it reproduces sound frequencies in the form of vibrations. There is a long (8 meters) string tensed in my studio. The shaker is connected to the string. A pickup from the string is plugged into a guitar amp/speaker. Small curtain hooks are hanging from the long string.
This is what you hear.
Artist bio:
Mario van Horrik is a Dutch sound artist. One of his interests is feedback. His research project WAVES is investigating the artistic possibilities of using shakers to produce acoustic feedback. Together with his wife Petra Dubach he presents installations, performances and concerts world wide. Their work has been published in writing, on the internet, on LP, DVD, Video and has been broadcast on radio and television, amongst others in Turkey, Poland and Spain.
Website/social links
https://petraenmario.bandcamp.com/
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Shaun Robert - Spontaneous Radio
10 April 2025 2:00 am - 3:00 am
Built from many spontaneous Instrument & object & planned field recordings to capture time and place , then ruthlessly compiled in quick mirrored responses . Voice recordings of a nature back in time, improvised jabber from old cassette tape . Cross talk & frequency drifting pulls the strings of his heart & relating to loops and rough editing , audio drop outs , a Sonic Organic. A mix of forms in an expanding wave , nudging & slating whim , composition dealt in reality , a truth of intimate confessional & intruding a microphone , the tension of triggered sounds to ape pictures of life
Artist bio:
Shaun Robert (1966 - ) has been working with sound from an early age , a natural extension of play. Starting like many with a domestic tape recorder ; years finger poised on the pause button ; tunnelling into the present & falling into deep concentration ; in a trance of coloured sound trials ; impromptu expressions processed & filtered into moments of congealed sound ; also using field recording , in voxpop & audio voyeurism , of hauntological stylings , spoken word & singing. Falling apart to come together ; feeling the next transition is about to happen.
Website/social links
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Tom Scott - Storm: 2 Hour
10 April 2025 3:00 am - 5:00 am
Early in 2024 one of the last storms of the winter was recorded overnight, resulting in ten hours of material. The material was divided into two hour segments for editing. The first two hours have been processed and edited resulting in a stand alone work entitled Storm: 2 Hours. This work is comprised of rain drops, wind, and movement all of which describes the dynamics of the storm, in this case the first two hours. Upon reflection of the sound work, considering that the night was stormy, loud, and invigorating the final recording comes across as quite a reflective sound, which incorporates moments of evolving sonic excitement.
Artist bio:
Tom usually works with video and sound and often delves into watercolours. Further info can be found on his web site.
Website/social links
https://sites.google.com/view/acoustic-landscapes/other-works/storm
https://sites.google.com/view/acoustic-landscapes/home
bellartlabs.com
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Limbo Calling Ep 4 - Help (Say What You See)
10 April 2025 5:00 am - 5:30 am
Episode 4. Help (Say What You See)
A sleepwalker is beckoned by a distant sound, a helpline receives a call about lost marbles, and The Operator is affected by cries for help...
Produced by Pete Hazell, with additional material by Sean Lee. ~ Theme music by Alex Lupo ~ "The Bridge" co-written and performed by Karen Dews (a.k.a. K148), with music by Lupo. ~ Music in "Helpline Marbles" is "Tempo Locked" by via dekum ~ Untitled track by Titus 12
These archive recordings throw a light for those who see shadow puppets in the noise and chaos radio airwaves. As we eavesdrop on the solitary Operator's dispatches, we wonder what we can learn about Limbo, and life at the ambiguous "outpost".
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THLEEP - Broadcasts 03
10 April 2025 5:30 am - 6:30 am
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; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.
THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.
Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.
Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.
Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.
Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj
Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
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Hildegard Westerkamp - Moments of laughter / école polytechnique
10 April 2025 6:30 am - 7:15 am
This album wants to stir, unsettle and surprise. But unlike with breaking news in the regular media, it refuses to transmit feelings of helplessness, fear and terror. Instead it wants to energize and revitalize, even when it grapples with incidents of violence and death. The pieces presented here were created between 1988 and 2012. In their togetherness they highlight and celebrate voices that are often relegated to the personal domain: sounds of new life, of unusual artistic sensibilities, of children’s and female voices. They have the power to tip the balance in our lives, in favour of love, resilience and human compassion. If we choose to listen! “Breaking News invites the listener to surrender to a journey to the place and time of the recording, transitioning into an abstraction of the original sounds, guided by her studio practice with looping, filtering, equalising, resonating, reverberating. It brings all the technique, sound research and creative thinking of a career spanning half a century into the present moment where for Westerkamp, headphones are still for listening, not fashion.” Jo Hutton, The Wire 460, p. 45 (excerpt) ARTISTS MotherVoiceTalk features the voices of Roy Kiyooka, Hildegard Westerkamp, Agnes Westerkamp, Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka. Moments of Laughter features the voices of DB Boyko (performance vocals) and Sonja Ruebsaat (child's voice). Once Upon A Time narrators: Amber Martin-Ruebsaat and Sibling; girl’s voice: Sonja Ruebsaat. École polytechnique was performed by the choir of the Université du Québec à Montréal, directed by Miklós Takács.; Lori Freedman, bass clarinet; Lisa Rodrigue and Véronique Lucignano, trumpets; Daniel Fortin, percussion; and Johanne Latreille, bells. The original live recording by Charles Amirkhanian was the basis for the heightened listening experience presented here. Breaking News features the voice and sounds of the composer’s first grandchild. All tracks composed by Hildegard Westerkamp © 2021 (SOCAN) -
Sonic Rituals by The Dyski Rosemerryn Sound Collective
10 April 2025 7:15 am - 8:00 am
In 2024, Drs. Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones undertook a Dyski artist residency in West Cornwall. Situated in woodland near Lamorna Cove, amid neolithic caves and standing stones, their project "Sonic Rituals" took participants on a sonorous journey deep into the landscape and its histories. As folklore activist and artist Ben Edge notes, "We are a ritual species." For Sonic Rituals, Rodgers and Jones employed various techniques - including sound art lectures, workshops, deep listening exercises, and performative rites - designed to invoke our primordial connection with sound and landscape. This experimental radio mix, created by Sally, features audio, sound, and music developed during the residency by both the artists and participants. It includes excerpts from workshop materials such as Hildegard Westerkamp's "Kitt's Beach" and works by John Cage and Murray R. Schafer. Other contributions come from participants Peter Rice, Adam McCreedy, Luanna McCallum, Charlotte Bourne, Liv Bartlett, Laura Irvin, Dan Cippico, Tom Gecim, Toby Edwards, Maria Shevchenko, and Dyski founder Dion Star. Artist bio: Various artists are featured on this group submission. Rodgers and Jones have a long history in electronic music production with millions of streams and sales under their aka A Man Called Adam. For Sonic Rituals the participants included professional theatrical sound designers Peter Rice and Adam McCreedy, musicians, dancers and performers Luanna McCallum, Charlotte Bourne, Liv Bartlett and Laura Irvin, nature sound artist Dan Cippico, horticulturalist & DJ Tom Gecim, electronic music maker Toby Edwards, Noods radio broadcaster and student at Paris' Science Po, Maria Schevchenko and Dyski organiser, artist and electronic musician Dion Star. Website/social links IG @amancalledadam_hq, IG @sallycalledada IG @dyski,co IG @dionstar -
Radiophrenia Shorts 4
10 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
1 andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations – ELLOIUSANDA (3:44)
2 Ulrike Janssen - I KEPT HAVING SOUND CRACKLES IN MY HEAD (16:26)
3 M Cristina Marras - Unwanted Intimacy (3:27)
4 Frederico Pessoa - Movimento, pausas e repetições (movement, pauses and repetitions). (6:00)
1) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations – ELLOIUSANDA
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
2) Ulrike Janssen - I KEPT HAVING SOUND CRACKLES IN MY HEAD
I KEPT HAVING SOUND CRACKLES IN MY HEAD from the years of my childhood, when I had played the same radio plays on records over and over again. They had got lost in the convolutions of my brain and had been creating their own patterns there ever since. I put my brain on the record player.
Ulrike Janssen, based in Cologne, Germany, works in the fields of text, sound, directing, dramaturgy, in the areas of radio, theatre, performance, installation. She has created over 30 features and audio pieces for radio. Her radio work has been awarded with the Karl Szcuka Grant Prize in 2011 and, together with Marc Matter, with the Karl Szcuka Prize in 2019.
http://www.ulrikejanssen.de
3) M Cristina Marras - Unwanted Intimacy
A haunting monologue, a power struggle between two vastly different entities. The speaker, seemingly a woman trapped in a toxic bond, reveals their pain and vulnerability, shattered by their partner's constant attacks. But amidst the despair, a chilling undercurrent of defiance emerges. The speaker unveils a disturbing truth: they are not a victim, but a force to be reckoned with, a presence that has infiltrated their tormentor's very being.
As the monologue progresses, the listener's perspective shifts, drawn in by the speaker's menacing words and the hint of a power far beyond their initial fragility. The final revelation, WHICH I DO NOT WANT TO SPOIL, leaves the listener reeling, questioning the true nature of the dominance and the unsettling reality that unfolds. The monologue concludes with a chilling declaration of power, leaving the listener to ponder the true meaning of the speaker's words and the unsettling implications of their strength.
M Cristina Marras is a multilingual storyteller who has been producing audio for over 20 years, beginning in Melbourne, where she worked as a radio journalist. M. Cristina defies conventional labels, embracing hybrid narratives that blend personal reflections and cautionary tales in unexpected ways. She has contributed to organisations like ABC Radio National and the Goethe Institute. Her work has been recognised internationally, with awards at the Transom Small, Random, and Meaningful prize, Audience Awards at the UK Audio Drama Festival and the Audionomia Sound Miniature Contest. Cristina's collaborations with international artists include projects with Stuart Fowkes, and Ross Sutherland.
httsp://http://www.cristinamarras.com
https://soundcloud.com/kommunic8
4) Frederico Pessoa - Movimento, pausas e repetições
"Movimento, pausas e repetições” (Movement, pauses, and repetitions) is a recording made in the city of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in which different spaces are recorded in a contiguous manner, revealing a plurality of sounds, rhythms, and dynamic interactions that translate a musicality present in everyday life—a musicality that is constituted through the circulation of human and non-human beings and the relationships established there, even if only momentarily. The Church of São Francisco de Assis, frequented by tourists exploring the city, along with its surroundings—the circulation of vehicles on cobblestone streets, alleys, and nearby restaurants—forms the origin of a snapshot of an ever-changing soundscape.
Frederico Pessoa is a musician who collects soundscapes and everyday occurrences for reinterpretation in electroacoustic and radio pieces, audiovisual works, and multimedia performances. He has written texts at the intersection of literature and the sociology of listening, aiming to explore, through words, the possibilities for mobilization created by sound. He holds a Ph.D. in Arts from UFMG/Brazil, and is a member of ESCUTAS: a research and study group in sonorities at the same institution. Additionally, he is one of the coordinators of the Laboratory of Sound Experimentation at UFMG, where he works as a sound designer.
http://www.fredericopessoa.net
@f__pessoa
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Radiophrenia Shorts 4
10 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
5 Radio Noise Duo - Run Time Errors (8:17)
6 Aurora Engine – Flutter (3:46)
7 Ralph Lewis - Dancing on the Airwaves Presents: Dick and Janes (13:13)
8 Chantal Francoeur - Requiem Ecolo (3:26)
5) Radio Noise Duo - Run Time Errors
The piece uses Software-Defined Radio architecture, which processes the sounds of tabla and electronic devices. Such an operation preserves the charecteristics of percussion sounds while generating digital errors. These in turn become the canvass for, created live, musical structure. Consequently, the radio space influences the sound of the whole. The radio becomes a kind of musical instrument.
Tomasz Misiak and Marcin Olejniczak (Radio Noise Duo) from Poland - looking for inspiration in electricity, radio noise and amplified everyday objects. Earlier the musicians were associated with groups like kalEka (Misiak) or Monopium (Olejniczak), but they also had some solo projects. Radio Noise Duo is a part of Radio Noise Orchestra- still continuing initiative focused on radio noise in various artistic activities.
https://www.facebook.com/AntennaNonGrata
https://antennanongrata.bandcamp.com/
6) Aurora Engine – Flutter
'Flutter' is the title track from a suite of sonic works inspired by the artists' lived experience of Tourette's Syndrome, vocal and physical tics. Commissioned by the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2024 these works for 4 voices (SAAT) and electronics blend spoken word, non verbal vocalisations, synths and song.
‘Flutter’ explores the constant interruption of Tourette’s to everyday life, through small sounds as well as the shame which can be experienced when experiencing tics. I
A collection of erratic, arhythmic voclisations are counterbalanced by soothing lullaby-esque humming, exploring both shame and empathy. Fragments of spoken word explore the complexities of this condition alongside public perception. The work addresses the festival theme of Invisible, particularly considering masking in women (Tourette’s is often underdiagnosed in women, or symptoms are less noticeable whilst still being present)
Deborah Shaw / Aurora Engine is a songwriter, composer and sonic artist from Edinburgh. Fusing real instruments (harp /piano), voice and progressive electronica, her work encapsulates a singular and striking sonic landscape. As a sonic artist she thrives on telling stories through sounds, engaging communities, whilst engaging with environmental issues. Recent works include a sonic exploration of Tourette's Syndrome funded by SMHAF, and an exploration a commission from Historic Scotland, capturing the historic sounds of the Paisley's Carillon. She is committed to amplifying the voices of women in sound and has engaged on a series of women focused sound projects.
http://www.auroraengine.com
http://www.instagram.com/aurora_engine
http://www.twitter.com/auroraengine
http://www.facebook.com/auroraengine
7) Ralph Lewis - Dancing on the Airwaves Presents: Dick and Janes
“Dancing on the Airwaves Presents: Dick and Janes” is a radio broadcast audio commentary of Sara Hook’s dance work “Dick and Janes.” The often inept on-air host (Ralph Lewis) struggles and sometimes succeeds to communicate about Hook’s choreography, Lewis’s music, Kayt MacMaster’s dancing, and Mike Minarcek’s percussion-playing. (This radio work is a playful take on a years-long dance collaboration between Hook, Lewis, MacMaster, and Minarcek presented in this transmission art environment).
Dr. Ralph Lewis is a composer and music theorist who currently serves as Adjunct Instructor of Music Composition and Music Theory at Millikin University. His compositions seek meeting points between sonorous music and arresting noise, alternative tunings and timbre, and the roles of performer and audience. Lewis’s music has been presented at festivals and conferences including TENOR and ACMC (Australia), Convergence, the ARC Project, Radiophrenia Glasgow, and Sonic Cartography (the United Kingdom), Pärnu Days of Contemporary Music Festival (Estonia), ICMC/ISSTA ( Ireland), the Orpheus Institute (Belgium), Audio Rocket Festival (Japan), as well as numerous events in the United States.
http://www.ralphlewismusic.com
https://www.sarahookdances.com/
8) Chantal Francoeur - Requiem Ecolo
Sandpipers meet with an unexpected four wheels on the foreshore. Science, poetry and ecological sounds in the background. A poignant requiem.
Chantal Francoeur is an audio artist/researcher.
She teaches Journalism at UQAM, Universite du Quebec in Montreal.
She works and lives in Quebec, Canada.
https://chantalfrancoeur.com
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Dinah & Molly Mullen - Echo Sister Audio Essays: Thank you for Listening
10 April 2025 9:00 am - 9:45 am
The two ‘sister’ sound works we are proposing to present are one outcome of the Echo/Ekho project. 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.
Artist bio:
Dinah is an experienced sound designer who creates works that explore our relationship to place, environment and each other. She makes works for both live and digital formats including: guided audio walks (Just Passing Through), immersive smartphone adventures (for the National Archives with Coney), podcasts (Afterthoughts, beyond arts), audio drama/essay (The You Play 1 & 2, for 45 North), Audio Installation (The last Taboo of Motherhood, for FUEL), and performance installation (FORGE, with Rachel Mars). With Fire and Rage, an interactive audio walk Dinah designed for Artists on the Frontline at EuroFestival Liverpool, won The Stage Digital Award 2023.
Website/social links
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Nichola Scrutton - Memory Dream Encounter 2
10 April 2025 9:45 am - 10:00 am
Memory Dream Encounter 2 is a second collection of micro-commissions curated by Nichola Scrutton during her Night Vision project in 2023. The works are composed by (in programme order):
Clara de Asis - Compass
Go Sing – Casual Friday
Liew Niyomkarn – Third Place
Nichola Scrutton – Hues
Ryoko Akama - Sounding
The composers/sound artists were invited to respond freely in sound to an abstract, light play photograph, which was taken during Nichola’s 2023 residency at Tramway Glasgow.
Artist bio:
Nichola Scrutton is a composer and artist based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Website/social links
https://www.nicholascrutton.co.uk/
Instagram: @nic_scruttonTwitter/X: @NicholaScrutton
BC: https://nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2bKegVEj2mTO0JlPDkE3qd (such it is) -
Ross Whyte - Songs from the Back of the Bus
10 April 2025 10:00 am - 10:30 am
An original ambient score accompanies the testimonies of those who lived through and campaigned for the repeal of the discriminatory Section 28 (or Clause 2A, as it was known in Scotland).
The interviewees reflect on this significant period of recent LGBTQ+ Scottish history and discuss their concerns for what may yet lie ahead.
Voices:
Alex Heatherington
Sue John
Val McDermid
Jim Mearns
Edwin Morgan
Martin Thain
Louise Welsh
Jim Whannel
Ross Whyte
Archival recordings of interviews with Val McDermid, Edwin Morgan, and Louise Welsh used with kind permission by OurStory Scotland.
Artist bio:
Ross Whyte, a Glasgow-based composer and sound artist, holds a PhD in Musical Composition focusing on impermanence in audio-visual intermedia. Collaborating across disciplines, he co-founded the duo WHYTE, known for modernising traditional Gaelic songs.
Website/social links
https://www.rosswhyte.com/
https://www.instagram.com/rosswhytemusic
https://www.facebook.com/rosswhytemusic
https://x.com/rosswhyte242
https://www.youtube.com/@RossWhyte -
Lila Meretzky - Quadraturin
10 April 2025 10:30 am - 11:00 am
A reading with musical underscoring and sound effects of the Soviet writer Sigizmund Krizhizhanovsky's surreal 1926 short story "Quadraturin". When a pushy salesman appears in the cramped doorway of the beleaguered Sutulin and foists a strange paint-like substance on him, his apartment transforms into a nightmarish abyss. Artist bio: Lila Meretzky is a composer, educator, and visual artist born and raised in New York City. She works primarily in chamber, vocal, electronic, and electroacoustic mediums, as well as in music for dance, film, and installation. Her work is often concerned with (the warping of) memory and language, and subjective experiences of time. Lila’s music has been programmed and commissioned by leading ensembles and institutions, including Contemporaneous, TAK Ensemble, the MATA Festival, Sandbox Percussion, Unheard-of//Ensemble, icarus Quartet, and percussionist Ji Hye Jung. Lila is a current composer-in-residence with the Cincinnati-based new music collective New Downbeat. Website/social links lilameretzky.com Instagram: @lil.meretz -
Gabi Schaffner - Kidnap Coffee
10 April 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
The devastating earthquake on December 6, 1988, destroyed the greatest part of the city of Gyumri in Armenia. With the Mush II District, a whole new living quarter was stomped out of the ground. Sturdy tenement buildings, a school, three supermarkets, a park with a varied fountain, a football arena, playing grounds and small garden patches, either in the yards or bordering on the overgrown meadows. When stopping by one of those gardens, I was spoken too and afterwards ‘kidnapped’ by two ladies (best friends and gardeners) and taken into the kitchen to drink coffee. English is overestimated as lingua franca once you travel east. I felt discombobulated and difficult. My translator-app worked for Russian only… which created much fun for Gina and Raja. I chose to submit this situation piece because its squeaky ambiguities are so well known to any field recording person/traveler. There is still much to learn.
Artist bio:
Gabi Schaffner works as a trans-disciplinary artist within the realms of radio art, composition and performance. Her artistic practice is inspired by the methods of poetic ethnography in connection with Fluxus-like mise-en-scènes, radio-making and sound art performances.
Since 2012 she maintains “Datscha Radio”, a nomadic transmission project that links the medium of radio to ecological issues. Schaffner has been realising award-winning productions with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, radia.fm, Hessian Cultural Radio and ABC Australia. She lives (mostly) in Berlin.
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/gabi_schaffner
https://schaffnerin.net
https://datscharadio.de -
Buffer Zone
10 April 2025 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
1) Yve Lomax - Quer - ep 4: Examples showing themselves (9.51)
2) Yara Asmar - home is nowhere - gloomy madeleine (1:53)
3) Hoyong Lee - The White Book (9:06)
1) Yve Lomax - Quer ep 4: Examples showing themselves
Synopsis: Quer is a single voice spoken performance that moves through various modes of address, mixing the poetic, philosophical and the everyday. It is an experiment in how to say something and touches upon things considered pressing for living today. This includes: violence and the cry Why am I being hurt?; attentiveness, justice and ceasing to treat the Earth as a property to be owned; nonviolence and the magic of compassion; dissolving the distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them’; the question of belonging and how saying ‘I am queer’ up-ends it. Quer ends with the assertion that all of life is profoundly transverse and plays upon the old meaning of ‘quer’ as oblique, transverse.
Artist bio: Yve Lomax is a visual artist, writer and editor. She is currently a director of and editor for Copy Press publishers and its audio-visual platform Becoming Fireflies. Since the late 1970s she has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her first book of collected writings was published in 2000 under the title of Writing the Image. Recent publications: Here from There (a shared book with Vit Hopley, 2024); Nearness (2019); Figure, calling (2017); Pure Means (2014). Films/spoken performances include: Mad about justice (2022) and Political Life (2021). Formally, she was a Senior Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art and Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Besides feminism, a longstanding concern has been writing for spoken performances.
Website/social links:
copypress.co.uk
2) Yara Asmar - home is nowhere - gloomy madeleine (1:53)
Yara is a musician and puppeteer based in Beirut, Lebanon. She incorporates accordion, metallophone and electronics in her live performances. In addition to her musical work, she has participated in exhibitions where she featured sound and video installations including ‘Sonatina for 19 Music Boxes’ (interactive sound installation), ’The Cut-Throat Finch Preludes’ (tape loop installation), ‘I Liked it Better When We Lived on See-Saw Hill’ (video installation) and ‘Lapses’ (interactive sound installation). Last year she released ‘Mr. Samuel’s Teatime Stories for Good Kids and Confused Adults’ - A puppet film in four parts.
Website: https://yaraasmar.com/
Bandcamp: https://yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/stuttering-music
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/microwave.blues/
3) Hoyong Lee - The White Book
As reading creatures, we ingest words, and we are made of words. Especially, we may be explorers advancing through its pages, as well as the worms which devour the words and phrases in each page. In this context, this piece represents the invisible quest in wandering adrift which readers may virtually confronts inside the poetic short verses in Han Kang’s fiction 『The White Book』. Striving to create a surreal sonic world in which the real life and imaginary death coexist, this piece audibly considers the chain of metaphors that have described readers and their relationships to hidden text-that-is-the-world. Especially based on the gestures of hidden whispers in 『The White Book』, this piece auditory represents the resonating spaces which evokes the certain memories and ambiguous emotion as well as the infectiousness of fear and hybridity of tacit gestures in 『The White Book』.
Artist bio:
Hoyong Lee (Seoul, South Korea, Master of Music) is a composer, sound artist and essayist. His pieces have been presented at world-renowned electro-acoustic music conferences & festivals in USA, Europe, Canada over 15 countries. He was an Award of Distinction Winner in Matera Intermedia Festival 2016 in Italy and he was first -place winner in XRAY.FM Radio (Portland, USA) Storytelling Contest Prize (2017) as an experimental sound storyteller. Executing diverse intermedia projects, he published his compositional autobiography book "소리, 세상을 담다(2020)”, and he collaborated with Gwangju national science museum in Art-Science Festival in 2021.
Website/social links
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3BCnRplvhGzjA7yIBtk4Zr
https://www.youtube.com/@hoyonglee9191
https://soundcloud.com/hnext5 -
Jennifer Wicks - Home Truths (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
10 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
The work emerges as a collage of spectral remnants, weaving fragmented memories and sonic decay into a textured exploration of fragility and persistence. It navigates the temporal erosion of sound and memory, uncovering layers of meaning through glitch, plunderphonics, and drones.
Using obsolete media (minidisc's / CD), loops, and layered field recordings, Home Truths incorporates re-recorded WhatsApp voice messages—modern-day answer machine fragments degraded through repeated transfers onto minidisc. In some instances, these recordings underwent extensive processing, including guitar pedals and vocoders, to craft the central sonic textures and motifs. Traditional musical elements—electric piano, guitars - were layered around this degraded archive of sound, creating harmonic interplay with the spectral echoes of friends, family and found radio recordings from the early 2000’s on minidisc. Special thanks to artist and friend Bel Gilbert Scott.
JW: acoustic & electric guitars, mini-disc players, CD players, electronics, field recordings, contact mics and objects.
Artist bio:
Jennifer Wicks is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans durational installations, audiovisual performances, sound art releases, and creative-critical writing. Her work interrogates memory, language, and states of being through experimental methods, emphasising light, time, and sound. Employing obsolete media, 16mm film, reappropriated materials, and custom light-to-sound instruments, she explores the materiality of sound and image. Using Media Archaeology and contemporary technologies, she treats them both as subjects of inquiry and as tools to critique the dominance of digital culture in shaping memory, perception, and our relationship with time.
Her solo live performances explore temporal dynamics, chance, and the mechanics of sound. Working at the intersection of industrial noise, sample culture, cut-up techniques, and expanded cinema, she addresses the limitations and possibilities of analogue film and sound systems. Using modified 16mm projectors, contact microphones, and multiple guitar effects pedals, she crafts immersive, textured, and dissonant audiovisual installations.
She has training in conventional music and holds an MLitt in Fine Art Practice (Glasgow School of Art) and an MSc in Sound Design and Audio-Visual Practice (University of Glasgow). She has received a Leverhulme-funded artist residency at Glasgow University (2011-2012) and was Artist in Residence at the University of Stirling (2022), working with the Norman McLaren archive. Her recent projects span international exhibitions and festivals. She makes music with WOMEN’S HOUR (Wicks and Contort Yourself head honcho Murray CY). LP released on L.I.E.S. Records, December 2023.
https://jenniferwicks.co.uk/ -
Jamie McNeill - The Concrete Seed: A New Town Fable
10 April 2025 12:45 pm - 1:00 pm
‘The Concrete Seed’ is an essayistic fiction that offers an idiosyncratic critique of the post-war British new town project, specifically in its relation to Scotland, and of top-down spatial planning more generally. Idiosyncratic, in that it presents a critique bound up in a satire that avoids didacticism in favour of an experimental approach combining a subjective voice with text and sound steeped in Scotch ostranenie. The narrative comprises a power struggle between the abstracted archetypes of Planner, Dwellers and New Town. "They envision objects given over to illegibility, cut through with desire lines and a hallucinatory organicism. Vertical and horizontal surfaces deliberately damaged to encourage rapid biofouling. Buildings that contract. Windows that sing. Occulting the cadastral gaze." Voices: Tom Fergus Arnott, Judith Hagan, Jamie McNeill, Berta Escobar Ramos. Artist bio: Jamie McNeill is an artist from Glasgow. Website/social links https://www.instagram.com/f0g0u/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B3py4USz0QxV236CyvCU-h8HSlscqFZ7/view https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o-j1MD7sKLkN96_rzdoAxGzzdCUd60dV -
Radiophrenia Shorts 18
10 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1) Ensemble Ex Materia – Migration (6:13)
2) Arthur Deligne - A dream within a dream within a dream feat E.A. Poe (4:30)
3) Daria Baiocchi – Oz (10:00)
4) Gabriel Mininberg – Valentine (5:00)
1) Ensemble Ex Materia – Migration
Migration from their second EP features:
Tessa Brinckman - percussion
Jerome Descamps - trombone
Johanna Sandels - drone 1
Strotter Inst. -drone 2
Peter Vukmirovic Stevens - piano and arrangements
Peter Vukmirovic Stevens -
An artist in the classical crossover genre, Stevens‘ music intersects the spirit of punk rock into concert music and sound art.
He leads Ensemble Ex Materia.
Recordings are available on Caliban/One Little Independent, London and Arpaviva Recordings, Paris.
His visual art is exhibited across Europe and North America.
Gallery representation by Iconoclastes Galerie Vendôme, Paris.
https://ensembleexmateria.com/
2) Arthur Deligne - A dream within a dream within a dream feat E.A. Poe
One day in an editing workshop in 2022, I was given this voice, this poem of Edgar Allan Poe, and a few sounds to assemble as an exercice. From there, I completely went overboard and took it as an opportunity to venture far off in sound design, effects and textures. After multiple edits and mixes over two years, I saw Radiophrenia's open call as a sign of the universe to finally to settle down on one definitive version. This creation is an homage to E.A. Poe's poem "A Dream within a Dream". Falling from one level of hell to another, we follow our reciting hero through various universes, meeting all kinds of creatures. Each scene is a dream leading to another, until reality kicks in... Or maybe?
Credits:
Edgar Allan Poe - A Dream within a Dream
Unknown voice artist
The Beatles - I'm only sleeping
Sounds from Aporee.org
Arthur Deligne is a Belgian sound artist, a musician and radio documentary maker with a background in journalism. From Charleroi to New-York, Arthur has been involved in various productions as author, producer, musician, editor and mixer. He is now aiming on creating musical and sound universes based on sensory and emotional experience.
https://www.instagram.com/arthurdeligne/
3) Daria Baiocchi – Oz
The main idea behind this work was to create a non-existent Galaxy based on soundscapes that would characterize different planets or stars. The starting point was to sample sounds that could distinctively characterize the sonic matter in various ways. All the sampled sounds has been electronically manipulated. In "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" (1543), Copernicus discusses the shape of the world and the precise symmetry of its parts and its harmonious perfection. This idea, when applied to harmony, identifies the relationship between what we call the fundamental note and its dominant, which is the fifth. This sound galaxy has a symmetry in microstructure and macrostructure and it is divided into an introduction, six sound planets, and a coda.
Daria Baiocchi achieved an MA in Piano, an MA in Classical Composition and an MA in Electroacoustic Music. She also owns a degree in“Classical Literature” from the University of Bologna. She’s actually main Professor of Harmony and Music Analysis in Fermo Conservatory of Music, Sound
Design Professor in Macerata Academy of Fine Arts and in Qu Fu Normal University (China).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariabaiocchi/
4) Gabriel Mininberg – Valentine
Valentine (2022); Original electronic composition featuring sampled nature sounds, spoken word, synthesizers, saxophone. Composition, production, saxophone, and spoken word by Gabriel Mininberg; text by Mehak Sarang.
Valentine satirically explores our quest to find love, the ways in which we publicize and memorialize it, and the self-importance and posturing implicit therein.
Puerto Rican saxophonist and composer Gabriel Mininberg is inspired by outer space, short stories, and sculpture. His music explores world rhythms, film-inspired harmonies, and experiments with new presentations of music through multimedia performance. Recent recorded work includes "Carta de Amor," a multimedia triptych for mixed chamber ensemble, sound-interactive video installation, and reverberant water tank. Other works include "Double Quartet," a sonata-length multimedia work for string quartet and jazz quartet, and "Valentine," for electronics, spoken word, and saxophone. He currently tours internationally with his jazz quintet, Daruma. Gabriel studied music at Yale University and grew up in Mexico, Venezuela, and Guatemala.
https://gabrielmininberg.com/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 18
10 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
5) Alireza Seyedi - Percentile 10th (7:10)
6) Brodie Ainsworth - The Dissassociate (11:00)
7) Vera Resnick - Calls in the Storm (9:50)
8) Marie Koppel – Menschensteine (3:44)
5) Alireza Seyedi - Percentile 10th
The piece began with a single, evocative word: "Scale". For several days, I intensified the ambient sounds around me through headphones, creating a sonic microscope that magnified even the most mundane of noises. The simple act of a bird flapping its wings became a source of intense anxiety, and the chirping of sparrows outside my window became gratingly unpleasant. The foundational material for this composition was exclusively derived from field recordings of my immediate environment, subjected to numerous layers of synthetic processing. While I initially found common ground with Pierre Schaeffer and the classical musique concrète movement, my artistic trajectory diverged from their foundational principles. My primary compositional focus was on granular synthesis. I began by working with large-scale sound structures, gradually decomposing them into increasingly minute granular components. This process of sonic reduction allowed me to explore the microscopic textures and temporal nuances inherent within the original recordings.
Alireza Seyedi was born in 2001 and belongs to the new generation of contemporary music in Iran. Traces of traditional music and the music of the regions of Iran that have been dissolved in the context of contemporary music can be traced in his works. This presence is sometimes clear and tangible and sometimes abstract and deeper. The influence of electronic music has always been clear in his works. Whether it was when electronics were present or when it was simply inspired by that music composition culture. He is music student in Tehran whose work has been featured at various festivals like Mixtur Barcelona, Spectro New Music Center Competition, Alfred Schnittke International Composition Competition in Lviv, Horizon Etendu Composition Academy scholarship, Roadrunner Trio Academy 2024, International computer music conference (ICMC) etc. Seyedi's music is a captivating fusion of tradition and modernity, reflecting his rich cultural heritage and artistic exploration. His artistic practice involves a deep exploration of sound, technology and cultural identity.
6) Brodie Ainsworth - The Dissassociate
The Disassociate by Brodie Ainsworth is a sound collage made during the composer's senior year of high school. The most consistent materials used throughout are a (typically reversed) audio of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes and a reading of a text by the composer, titled Dialogue One: Aromantics in the Park. The text is stylistically informed by writings by John Cage, such as Silence and M. The Disassociate also makes use of several hallmarks of the composer's electronic work, including disorienting panning changes and usage of crowd ambience. The piece showcases many episodes meant to demonstrate the feeling of panic in crowded spaces. The first main episode occurs while crowd ambience of an airport is played, and the second when the reversed audio of a hiogh school band playing a Sousa March, which follows audio of a marching band.
Brodie Ainsworth is a freshman at the Crane School of Music in SUNY Potsdam, NY, USA. He is pursuing a bachelors in composition. He lives in Corning, NY. Ainsworth is also a percussionist. He has had experience in competitive ensembles such as the Corning Painted-Post Competition Band, which has competed nationally in the US, and that town's Indoor Drumline. He has also marched internationally in parades such as the Ireland 2022 Saint Patrick's Day Parade, with the Corning Painted-Post Marching Band. He plans to compose for video games. He prioritizes eclecticism as a musical and compositional value.
https://www.instagram.com/verybluebrognie/
https://el-rombo.tumblr.com/
7) Vera Resnick - Calls in the Storm
Calls in the storm was developed using Ableton Live, sound from NASA, sounds from the BBC archives, Morse code, electronic noise and more. It is an attempt to orchestrate nature.
Composer and songwriter/singer. Involvement in music from an early age, return to school at age 60 for a 3-year full time program of music studies. Focusing on electroacoustic music, and on ways to use software, samples, vocals and more, to craft broad and varied means for self-expression. Currently exploring combinations of electronic noise, samples from nature and the world in general, vocals and text.
8) Marie Koppel – Menschensteine
At the Zentralfriedhof in Münster, Germany, there is a place where all the old gravestones go. They lie there, tipped over in a pile, waiting for their next form of existence. The old gravestones are turned into gravel for road construction. I got this fact from a cemetery worker, and I made a piece around it. The idea it represents is that what was once sacred becomes functional. Stone becomes rubble. Menschensteine shreds the stones and turns them into rhythm. The piece is built around this rhythm of the stones, with the speech entering rhythmically as well. The sentences and words are also shredded and reformed, taking on an almost incantatory nature, in which the ritual resonates.
Born in Essen, raised between Ruhr area, Rhineland, and Santiago de Chile. After finishing school, sold sandwiches in London. From 2015, studied Comparative Literature in Frankfurt. Came to love radio with the independent station radio x and the multilingual project Good Morning Deutschland. Moved back to Ruhr area in 2022, auditing Film & Sound courses in Dortmund. Worked as stagehand at a nightclub. Produced the radio play Wüstern (ein teurer Abend) on no budget, earning third place at Hörspielwiese Köln. Broadcast in 2024 on Deutschlandfunk Kurzstrecke and at TARMAC festival Leipzig. Teaching German as a second language, experimenting with sound.
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Charo Calvo - Qualia
10 April 2025 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Five women artists living in Brussels; all raised in several languages; each one from a different cultural background. They tell, in their mother tongue, a vital moment, an intense sensorial experience, that left a physical imprint. One of them is not telling the truth though. How to transmit thoses experiences only through language when their words are translated, albeit ‘properly’ by another woman? Qualia questions the body/mind problem, the impossibility of sharing with others the exact perception of a color, of the temperature of a hand or the taste of wine. Qualia questions the use of sound in storytelling, it’s power to reach the subconscious, it’s power to provoke physical reactions and to trigger mental images. Do you see what I mean? Credits: Voice and texts : Kitty Crowther, Zahava Seewald, Meryam Bayram, Sonia Pastecchia, Charo Calvo. Translation and english voice: Caroline Daish Recordings: Charo Calvo, Bastien Hidalgo Mastering: Bastien Hidalgo Studio : Acsr and author’s studio. Produced by ABC Soundproof Australia, with support of ACSR Belgium and FACR de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. -
Charo Calvo - Phonobiographie #1
10 April 2025 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
It was a winter day in Madrid. I took the express train “Puerta del Sol” to Brussels. At that time, Hendeva was the last station for our trains. The Spanish tracks and the French tracks were not the same width. A little defensive measure taken by Franco’s government. We got out of the train, suitcase in one hand, the other gripping our passport. In the middle of the night we crossed this space, open to the sky, fenced in with barbed wire, ‘tierra de nadie’ (“no man’s land”). On the other side, was waiting for me at least 26 years of another life and I thought that I could already make it out. That day, I was only 26. But before that day, there had been other days, thousands of days, that I can still hear…
Phonobiographie #1 , 17 min Creative documentary by Charo Calvo Produced by ACSR, Brussels -
Duncan MacLeod & Steve Ely - Orasaigh
10 April 2025 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Commissioned by Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, Orasaigh is an acousmatic setting of Steve Ely’s eponymous poem, inspired by the landscape surrounding the tidal island of Orasaigh, located off the coast of South Uist, in the Western Isles of Scotland. Ely’s visionary poem, while firmly grounded on the island, explores a wide range of themes, including sea level rise, the 'sixth extinction' crisis, history, culture, politics, conflict, and class.
As with Ely’s poem, the composition is rooted in the landscape through the presence of soundscape compositions, utilising immersive field recordings captured on location. Elsewhere, material for clarinet and highland bagpipes, along with creative reimagining of archival sound recordings from Uist, draws upon the Isles' rich musical heritage through Gaelic song and pibroch (an art music genre associated with the great Highland Bagpipe).
Artist bio:
Steve Ely is a celebrated poet known for his exploration of history, landscape, and identity. His poetry collections include Lectio Violant and The European Eel (2021). A founding member of the Ted Hughes Project, Ely is Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, where he supervises postgraduate students in creative writing and poetry.
Duncan MacLeod is an award-winning composer and sound artist whose work spans concert music, participatory arts, and interdisciplinary practice. Drawing on art, folklore, and socio-political issues, his work has been commissioned and performed internationally. He is Associate Professor in Music Composition at the University of Nottingham and a researcher at the Glasgow School of Art.
Website/social links
Steve Ely: https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-ely
Duncan MacLeod: http://duncanmacleod.org/
Duncan's socials @Leod_Music (on Instagram and X); Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/duncan-macleod
Link to photos from the project (copyright Mike Faint): https://www.ansolasoir.com/orasaigh -
Alëna Korolëva - Sunset at the Marble Quary
10 April 2025 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Sunset at the bottom of a giant abandoned marble quarry. Pigeons circle in the lower levels, offering the sound of wings, while starlings and swallows gather near the mouth of the pit, 50 meters above. The natural acoustics of the steep walls allow each bird cry to resonate in a living echo chamber, as if there were thousands not hundreds of birds gathering.
Recorded in Borba, Portugal. October 12, 2022
Artist bio:
Alëna Korolëva is an artist and curator, who works with sound, photo and video.
Her sound work is focused on field recordings, acoustic ecology, soundscape studies and acousmatic composition. Her technique employs elements of documentary storytelling and experimental music.
Based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada.
https://alenakoroleva.bandcamp.com/
alenakoroleva.com -
PUBLIC RETREAT - PUBLIC RETREAT Radio - Death
10 April 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Hello there, dear being. Are you perhaps on the other side already? Today we will reflect upon how death is one of very few constant, inevitable events in life. How we, humans and more-than humans, deal with this fact, how we deal with the process of dying and how we organize everything that comes after someone has died.
We will see what physical places we have reserved, in our increasingly dense cities, for the dead.Can you listen when you are dead -and what sounds do you hear?
Welcome to PUBLIC RETREAT Radio - today we will talk, listen and think about death.
A 12 episode long series of thought-provoking radio shows at radiOrakel (NO) that explores the intricate relationship between city, sound, and public space.
Through situated radio and soundworks, containing field recordings, poems, micro narratives, speculative future forecasts, bird monologues, + more, PUBLIC RETREAT reflects on these pressing questions.
Artist bio:
PUBLIC RETREAT is an interdisciplinary art project exploring our human, and more-than-human, common auditory worlds. Led by sound artist Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen (DK), visual artist Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse(NO), architect Johanna Fager(SE).
Currently: artistic research at Platform Stockholm (SE), solo exhibition at the Färgfabriken Architecture Triennale (SE), radio residency at radiOrakel (NO).
Earlier: situated meditative sound/radiowork + manuscript and performance for SPARK Malmö (SE), immersive sound/text/radio solo exhibition in Helsinki (FI) at Gallery Oksasenkatu 11, Nya Lövholmen Magazine.
Future: publication release and exhibition at Färgfabriken+Platform in January, symposium at Sound Art Lab (DK) and soundwork on Radio Sydväst (SE).
Website/social links
http://www.public-retreat.com
soundcloud.com/public_retreat
http://www.instagram.com/public_retreat/
linktr.ee/public_retreat
https://issuu.com/public_retreat
https://soundcloud.com/loevholmen-ljud
https://linktr.ee/nyalovholmen
https://issuu.com/nyalovholmenmagazine -
Lydia Davies - This little (Live in the studio)
10 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
'This little' is a live 20-minute vocal performance made for broadcast, sitting between storytelling and vocal improvisation. The narrator of 'This little' attempts to share a personal anecdote about a recent trip to an unfamiliar supermarket. As the story gets caught up in minor details and minute interactions within the scene, the voice begins to fray the edges of its words through semantic failures, erupting with nonsensical riffs, and recasting the sound of words in the mouth. 'This little' pushes the affective capacities of a voice at a distance: at the end of the dial, and at the edge of meaning. Using the detached intimacy of a single microphone, much like a supermarket tannoy announcement, this live-to-air performance pursues a connection with the audience through humour and frustration, seeking its dénouement in the overlap of speech, song and silly little noises. Artist bio: Lydia Davies is a Glasgow-based artist and writer working across moving image, sound, performance and bookmaking. Her practice is preoccupied with interpersonal dynamics, bodily gestures, and the shifting registers of voice and narration. Her work draws attention to the ways in which selves are both sustained and undone through their relations. Recent projects: 'The glass with the fingers dipped in', solo exhibition and performance, Fruitmarket (February 2025); 'LOVE STORIES', duo exhibition with Edward Gwyn Jones, Glasgow Project Room (2024); 'This one’s for the', radio broadcast and listening party performance, David Dale Gallery (2023). lydiadavies.co.uk @lydiaacdavies -
Buffer Zone
10 April 2025 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
1) Yara Asmar - it's today again (sung by gloomy madeleine) (1:38)
2) Anne Lepére - RAPOSA (8:56)
3) Len Goatzee - Magical Pony (7:02)
4) Carlo Patrão - Kaizen (5:21)
1) Yara Asmar - it's today again (sung by gloomy madeleine) (1:38)
2) Anne Lepére - RAPOSA (8:56)
3) Len Goatzee - Magical Pony (7:02)
4) Carlo Patrão - Kaizen
Kaizen is a radiophonic sound collage of North American "tech speak" and "corporate jargon" that overuses the Japanese term Kaizen, meaning continuous improvement, as a form of control and shield against listening, responsibility, and reparation.
Artist bio:
Carlo Patrão is a Portuguese radio artist and researcher based in NY.
Website/social links
radiooo.bandcamp.com
zepelimradio.com
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Yara Asmar - I am building a house so you can visit me (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
10 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Tape letters between two friends, one living in a blanket fort, the other in a house of paper, and both deeming each other’s homes unsound, can’t seem to agree on who should visit the other. So instead, one of them builds a house they can meet in, out of the safest material: Noise.
Biography:
Yara is a musician and puppeteer based in Beirut, Lebanon. She incorporates accordion, metallophone and electronics in her live performances. In addition to her musical work, she has participated in exhibitions where she featured sound and video installations including ‘Sonatina for 19 Music Boxes’ (interactive sound installation), ’The Cut-Throat Finch Preludes’ (tape loop installation), ‘I Liked it Better When We Lived on See-Saw Hill’ (video installation) and ‘Lapses’ (interactive sound installation). Last year she released ‘Mr. Samuel’s Teatime Stories for Good Kids and Confused Adults’ - A puppet film in four parts.
Links:
Website: https://yaraasmar.com/
Bandcamp: https://yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/stuttering-music
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/microwave.blues/
Related video:
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Cashlin MacKenzie - Tobraichean mo Sinnsearan / The Wells of my Ancestors (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
10 April 2025 6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
The piece ‘Tobraichean mo Sinnsearan’ is a layered Gaidhlig soundscape weaving memory and place, anchored in the voice of my great grandfather ‘Tuam Ross’ (1876-1960). The piece is derived from field recordings taken by my Great Uncle and Great Aunt (James and Anne Ross) for ‘The Scottish School of Studies’ aural archive in 1957. In the field recordings they interview ‘Tuam’ on the uses and behaviours of the different wells and springs of his local area (Fàsach, Glendale) on the Isle of Skye. Some wells would dry up or get warm in the summer, while others would stay freezing cold at all times of year. There are some wells which are known to have healing properties. There is one he would visit to get water for his sisters or brothers when they were sick. His aged voice carries stories of water, earth, and tradition—of wells that served not just as lifelines, but as spiritual landmarks in the community. These transcripts are layered with contemporary field recordings I’ve taken at ‘Loch Shianta’- a health spring on the Isle of Skye located close to where my family was from. Cashlin is a Gaelic-speaking artist and experimental musician. Her work explores themes related to ecology and often investigates capitalism's relationship with nature and the human psyche. She enjoys examining subjects from different perspectives—ranging from the micro to the macro. She plays with time and the viewer's subjective understanding of space to reveal hidden perspectives and create illusions. -
Lucas Norer - Der lange Atem
10 April 2025 6:45 pm - 7:00 pm
"Der lange Atem" is a sound art and research project focused on “celebration” and “hero organs,” instruments used as sonic monuments during the Nazi era. Built between the 1920s and 1940s in Germany and Austria, these organs were often dedicated to the victims of WWI or featured in National Socialist ceremonies. Many were installed in churches, Nazi festival halls, or secular spaces like schools. Only a handful of these instruments remain today.
The 15-minute sound piece explores three of the remaining organs through on-site recordings of their sound, acoustic environment, and the organists playing them. It also includes excerpts from a 1985 SWR radio program dedicated to organs from the Nazi era.
Artist bio:
*1982 in Innsbruck/Austria. Lives and works in Vienna. Lucas Norers works are characterised by an interdisciplinary approach and refer to auditory contents such as production and consumption of music, sound, noise, silence and its relation to social, political, architectural and artistic issues. As part of an extended research and manufacturing process he creates audio-visual installations, objects and projects in the public realm. In 2011 Norer graduated from The University of Art & Design Linz. Since then he has shown his work in gallery spaces, contemporary art museums and festivals.
Website/social links
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Luka Hvalc, Saška Rakef & Mojca Delač - Journey at the Edge of the Night
10 April 2025 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dr Evgen Bavčar has a special ritual. For over 40 years, he has been recording the nightingale singing on May nights in his hometown of Lokavec. Under the nocturnal cloak, in duet and in collaboration with the nightingale, the story unfolds into a narrative of the nightingales' blinding so they shall sing in perpetuity – a reflection on blindness as social castration, on existential proximities and distances, the position of the blind throughout time and the question: why should the pleasure of the night not be equal to the pleasure of the day? The work innovatively utilizes sound not only as a vital stimulus for blind people, but also for narrating time, duration, space, the essence of the moment, and human coexistence. In documentary, sound conjures various emotions of the protagonist and expands the listeners perception of temporal spatial coordinates of life.
Artist bio:
Saška Rakef, a playwright and director (Ars), Mojca Delač, a journalist and radio host (Prvi), and Luka Hvalc, a journalist and editor (Val202), are all actively involved in a variety of domestic and international projects, spanning different genres of radio production (Radio Slovenia). Known for their creativity and commitment to exploring innovative approaches to engage audiences, they continuously push the boundaries of the medium. This documentary marks their first collaborative endeavor and is unique in that it represents an experimental cohesion of storytelling for all three various radio programs and their audiences.
Website/social links
http://www.val202.rtvslo.si
http://www.prvi.rtvslo.si
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Kunstradio 4 - 54 - eine Hommage an die fließende Zeit by Elisabeth Schimana
10 April 2025 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
A river of sonic events, allowing time for slow transitions, non-regimented radio programming – just another utopia? For decades Ö1 Kunstradio has made such a format possible, 54 minutes of sonic flow with none of the unbearable chatter in between, no strictly imposed format. 54 lets time flow, 54 minutes of sonic flux. And sprinkled into the mix, roses for Ö1 Kunstradio and memories that float to the surface intermittently. (Elisabeth Schimana) Sound material from Elisabeth Schimana's archive Sound engineering: Elmar Peinelt Flowing time Sometimes it feels like time is standing still, other times time is passing by at breakneck speed. The feeling of time is influenced by many factors. In her new radio art work, Austrian composer and artistic director of IMA - Institute of Media Archaeology, Elisabeth Schimana, explores the flow of time. In "54 - a tribute to flowing time," the artist allows a flow of acoustic events to emerge. Schimana takes her time for slow transitions and starts from an almost utopian radio. A radio that is not clocked through, but is instead an acoustic flow for 54 minutes without intermediate moderations and without format constraints, as can always occur in Ö1 Kunstradio. Elisabeth Schimana has been a companion and cooperation partner of Ö1 Kunstradio for decades. Schimana explores the space of radio in many different ways. The first collaboration took place in 1991, when ten radio pieces by Austrian composers and artists, including Schimana, made an important contribution to ARTSAT. Initiated by media artist Richard Kriesche, the ARTSAT project was the first official art project on the MIR space station, which orbited the Earth from 1986 until its controlled crash in 2001. In the course of the more than 30-year collaboration between Schimana and Ö1 Kunstradio, many pre-produced radio works were created, including 2021's "Fugen - fragmentarisch vernetzt in 13 Bildern" (Fugues - fragmentary networked in 13 images), which was based on the Idoru (Bridge) trilogy by William Gibson, or 2022's "Die Bilder einer Ausstellung" (The images of an exhibition) on the exhibition "DigiDic - Aufruf zur digitalen Selbstverteidigung" (DigiDic - Call for digital self-defense) put together by IMA. For this, the exhibited objects were transferred into an acoustic walk-through. Schimana was involved in art radio projects worldwide with live contributions. These were not only on air on the radio, but already at the beginning of the World Wide Web they could be experienced on line and they manifested themselves on site. In 1996, for example, the artist organized the project "The Fugue" as part of the international radio and Internet project "Rivers & Bridges" with performances, installations, concerts and events at over 25 locations and with the participation of over 20 radio stations in Europe and overseas. At the border between Austria and Slovakia, "The Fugue" by Elisabeth Schimana, where the March flows into the Danube, was performed live on a ship as well as on the radio and the Internet. Four musicians played a composition and received instructions from four conductors or artists via the Internet. Elisabeth Schimana incorporates some of the joint radio moments with Ö1 Kunstradio into the acoustic radio river "54 - a homage to flowing time". (Text: Elisabeth Zimmermann) -
Nils Loret - Derrière les dunes (Behind the dunes)
10 April 2025 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Derrière les dunes is a documentary that questions love and sexuality by guiding the listener through open-air meeting places threatened with extinction. These rumoured meeting places exist just about everywhere, frequented exclusively by those who know what they are looking for: the fulfilment of a fantasy, the meeting of sexual partners, the excitement of the forbidden... The two characters in the documentary have frequented these cruising grounds together to explore their desires and build their love. They hit it off immediately. Together they defend a queer culture written in the furrows left by the coming and going of bodies in these open-air cruising grounds. Behind the dunes, skin heats up, bodies are lost and desires grow. Behind the dunes a culture is passed on, a heritage is eroded and a love is cemented. Behind the dunes, they show us the places where people cruise in silence.
Artist bio:
Born in 1990, Nils Loret lives and works in Paris. A jack-of-all-trades, he has worked in the social sciences, cultural programming, communications, political events, bartending and many other areas. He has also tried his hand at graphic design, theatre and performance. But it was by chance that he picked up a microphone in 2020. It was a revelation. All those years of dreaming about radio on the back seat of the car, letting the sound images fill his head with a thousand emotions, finally made sense. He trained as much as possible with professionals in sound creation and production, and
Website/social links
https://soundcloud.com/cocotte-nils
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Radiophrenia Shorts 32
10 April 2025 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm
1) Camilla Hannan - It won't be like this all the time (14:58)
2) The Argent Grub - Three Way Conversation (22:03)
1) Camilla Hannan - It won't be like this all the time
It won't be like this all the time was made after the COVID 19 pandemic had settled down and the world went back to 'normal' This is a work about grief, loss and the existential feelings I had when I realised that the world didn't appear to change for the better after what we all went through together.
Camilla Hannan is an Australian sound artist who for over 20 years has developed her sonic practice working primarily with field recordings. She processes these recordings into abstract representations of place and experience. She investigates the construction of urban and natural environments sonically, and spatially, morphing these elements into new sound worlds. Camilla’s work is centred on a deep fascination with the way in which we listen to our environment and how this listening impacts upon our micro and macro worlds.
website: camillahannan.com
Instagram: @camillahannan
2) The Argent Grub - Three Way Conversation
Three Way Conversation takes a conventional radio interview, separates out the audio of each speaker and aligns them end to end, rather than
combined as you would usually do for radio.
If radio is a medium for transmitting ideas, interviews are a key method to do that.
As a listener you are privy to that conversation but not part of it. You may talk back to the radio, but no-one in the radio will hear you. You’re not given space.
Breaking up the conversation raises a problem for radio. Silence (which I’ve filled with a recording from the Mary Cairncross Scenic
Reserve, Australia recorded via the Locus Sonus soundmap in 2021).
But for the listener this is an opportunity.
I hope to encourage people to take time, to stop, to give attention to listening, and enjoy the space and I guess that’s the idea I’m trying to transmit.
David Carpenter has been making music and sound as The Argent Grub since 2020.
His first release Listen Up sound tracked the speeches of Greta Thunberg, and featured on As if… radio during the Cop26 in Glasgow. Radiophrenia played Ardrossan from the first Field Recordings Album the same year.
A sound art project, A Sense Of Place, has brought listening experiences to audiences in the Bradford district in recent years, and David supports and is supported by the Bradford Sound Artist group.
Field Recordings For is in production and should be released later in the year.
https://theargentgrub.co.uk/
https://www.twitter.com/theargentgrub
https://instagram.com/theargentgrub
https://www.facebook.com/theargentgrub
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Radiophrenia Shorts 32
10 April 2025 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm
3) Jamie Lee - Circuits from Soft Frequencies (20:00)
4) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Modern Life- Pitted Organic Dates (0:50)
3) Jamie Lee - Circuits from Soft Frequencies
Circuits from Soft Frequencies is a sound piece and art installation that examines the materiality of sound and how it affects bodies, things and spaces. The work was produced and first presented in 2023 at Open School East and has since been shown at MK Calling (2024) MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, and will be released on record label Mortality Tables in November 2024.
The piece originated as samples from devices used to organise time in different cultural spaces, for example the clock, bell and gong. Samples were then collected during fieldwork to sites featuring huge, concrete ‘sound mirrors’, an archaic technology designed to sense the sonic vibrations of aircraft in wartime before the invention of radar. The composition is based on the terrains encountered when searching for these momentous objects, with each track representing a different place or time.
Jamie's practice is site specific and process driven, often working with field recording, found text and montage practices. His work investigates the materiality of sound and its relationship with site, using different recording mediums to sense and track movement. His recent projects explore the affects of unseen forces on bodies and objects, resulting in interactive installations featuring soundscapes and moving images. Recent selected projects include Circuits from Soft Frequencies (2023), completed at Open School East and exhibited at Milton Keynes Gallery (2024). Jamie was recently awarded WEVAA funding to support a field recording residency at Aq_Tushetii in Georgia.
jamieleeartist.com
@jamie_laurence_lee
vimeo.com/jamieleeartist
4) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Modern Life- Pitted Organic Dates
From Picking Trash to Save the Planet - a spoken word and music concept EP(3-INCH CD) about the struggle between modern life and mother nature.
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is the unfortunately-titled solo project of Ryan Kuehn(Dead Peasant Insurance, Thursday Club, Hot Air Balloon Ride). Hailing from the musically-thriving city of Cleveland, Ohio in the USA, he has released over 50 solo albums of varying styles in the past 20 or so years, mostly on cassette and CD-R. While more often than not an outsider Synthesizer project, there are some albums that stretch out to other areas- just this year alone he has recorded a gong album, as well as his first parody album and spoken word EP! 😢 🎶
http://www.drquinnmedicinewoman.bandcamp.com
http://www.thursday-club.net
http://www.youtube.com/megasupernoise
http://www.youtube.com/balloonytunes -
Ryan Frame - Cameron Toll: European shopping centre of the year 1985
9 April 2025 11:00 pm - 10 April 2025 1:00 am
Long form feature composed of lo-fi field recordings capturing the sounds and atmosphere of Cameron Toll shopping centre in South Edinburgh. European shopping centre of the year 1985. Arranged and edited in GarageBand with a few crass effects thrown into the mix. Artist bio: Lo-fi experimental field recording enthusiast from the Scottish central belt. Tracks mainly built around one take Iphone voice recordings. Everyday sounds of the streets, buses, random pub conversations and noise. Borderline sound art. -
Jeronimo Jimenez & John Friberg - Radio Tacos El Chupacabra
10 April 2025 11:00 pm - 11 April 2025 12:00 am
The piece is divided in 3 parts:
1. Ñaka Ñaka - Ké Huelga Radio (0:00-36:04)
I picked up on anti-imperialist pirate station Ké Huelga Radio on my drive to work and recorded the entire commute.
2. Jero Route 66 and John Friberg - Pt 2 (36:04-43:14)
Recorded in Mexico City, 2024.
3. Jero Route 66 and John Friberg- Pt 1 (43:14-51:13)
Recorded in Mexico City, 2024.
Artist bio:
Jeronimo Jimenez is an artist based in Mexico City. He performs as Ñaka Ñaka and Jero Route 66.
John Friberg is an artist based in Providence, RI. He is a member of the band Shots.
Website/social links
https://x.com/N4K4N4K4
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Chelidon Frame - Blues for a Shortwave Listener
11 April 2025 12:00 am - 1:00 am
“Blues for a Shortwave Listener,” is a three-part, one-hour soundscape inspired by radio noises and shortwave listening. It was assembled using field recordings, modular synthesizers, and radio recordings. Conceived and produced between 2020 and 2021, it was the aural part of a slow TV program broadcast in Oakland, California.
The soundscape is divided into three parts, as follows:
1. Check out the Future (00:00:00)
2. A Crescendo of Radio Hate (00:21:43)
3. Blues for a Shortwave Listener (00:34:13)
Artist bio:
Chelidon Frame is an experimental electronic music project that mainly works with field recordings, radio interferences, guitars, and processed sounds.
His installations are experience-based and suggest a dialogue between the location (both virtual and physical) and the sounds proposed, aiming to deliver a message in the simpler yet most effective way. The use of code, data analysis, and data-driven sounds, allow information to be experienced anew.
In his studio works and live sets, different layers of sounds - guitars, synthesizers, and custom-made instruments - pile up creating unexpected new soundscapes. He is the founder of the Asynchronous Drone Orchestra.
Website/social links
https://chelidonframe.site/
https://www.instagram.com/chelidonframe/
https://www.facebook.com/ChelidonFrame
https://x.com/ChelidonFrame
https://www.threads.net/@chelidonframe
https://chelidonframe.bandcamp.com/
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Mark Vernon - Otoconia
11 April 2025 1:00 am - 2:00 am
Named after the microscopic crystals of calcium carbonate within our inner ear that can cause vertigo when dislodged, Otoconia has an equally disorientating effect as all sense of time is dissolved in its delicate folds. Otoconia is an abstract and deeply immersive sonic experience crafted through the intricate interplay of field recordings and the EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer. The basis of the piece is formed from processed field recordings run through a chain of the Synthi's filters and effects. For the most part the piece was mixed live with some tinkering and adjustments after the fact. A significant departure from the work with found tapes and audio archaeology that Vernon has become known for.
https://grannyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/otoconia
Artist bio:
Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based artist who explores notions of audio archaeology, magnetic memory and nostalgia through his sound and radio works. At the core of his practice lies a fascination with the intimacy of the radio voice, environmental sound and the re-appropriation of found recordings.
http://meagreresource.com -
Andy Armstrong & Roy Culbertson - Centre Bildge
11 April 2025 2:00 am - 2:30 am
A decoupage of recent recordings by 2 off-and-on collaborators and expat Illinoisans Andy Armstrong and Roy Culbertson. A hodgepodge of boudoir synthesis, tape manipulation, pontoon reverberation, electromagnetic sounds, percussive banjo, feedback and hasty stops. Artist bio: Both Roy Culbertson and Andy Armstrong are musician/sound artists from Illinois, now living in Vienna and Rennes, France respectively. Website/social links https://saa4.tumblr.com/ https://libramar.bandcamp.com/ -
Bill Thompson - Last Night’s Stars
11 April 2025 2:30 am - 3:00 am
These works were recorded late at night during long solo improvisations. A small table lamp illuminated the Moog guitar laid flat on a table surrounded by assorted found objects and guitar pedals whose multicoloured lights blinked delicately in the near shadows. Time moved slower. A sense of stillness and solitude provided a quiet contrast to the sounds pulsating around the room. Each take made as if it were an actual performance, the rule being always to finish the set. As much about training the mind as discovering something new, nothing was premeditated before the first sound occurred, the end never final, always open. The pieces are meaningless in that way from the moment of their first unravelling to their final decay into silence. They are explorations of the material at hand, the objects on the table, a sound sensed but as yet undiscovered.
Artist bio:
Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in a number of groups including The Seen, Three Plus One and Airfield (with Ian Spink), and duos with Richard Sanderson, Phil Durrant, and Yoni Silver. Past collaborations include performances with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.
Originally trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for over 20 years. He now performs with a Moog guitar combined with electronics and miscellaneous tabletop devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.
He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the Venice Biennale, Organ Reframed, the Sound Festival, the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA Visual Arts Award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award.
Website/social links
http://www.billthompson.org
https://burningharpsichordrecords.com
Social Media:
https://www.facebook.com/professor.lofi/
https://www.instagram.com/prof.lofi/
https://www.youtube.com/user/proflofi
And to Ash: https://ashinternational.bandcamp.com/ -
Limbo Calling Ep 5 - What's in the Basement?
11 April 2025 3:00 am - 3:30 am
Episode 5. What's in The Basement?
Leonard convinces the operator to look for something in the basement. He finds it, and more... Also: We hear a show about a very special call centre, meet an interplanetary explorer, and listen to music about numbers.
Produced by Pete Hazell, with additional material by Sean Lee. ~ Theme music by Alex Lupo ~ Artwork by Everything Has Gone Wrong
These archive recordings throw a light for those who see shadow puppets in the noise and chaos radio airwaves. As we eavesdrop on the solitary Operator's dispatches, we wonder what we can learn about Limbo, and life at the ambiguous "outpost".
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THLEEP - Broadcasts 04
11 April 2025 3:30 am - 4:30 am
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; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.
THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.
Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.
Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.
Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.
Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj
Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com -
Vedran Mehinovic - December Bells
11 April 2025 4:30 am - 6:30 am
December Bells is an ambient work of nearly two hours, an expansion of an eight-minute kantele (Finnish zither) composition by Pauliina Syrjälä. An instructor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, her piece Kirkonkellot (Church Bells) is based on a kantele recording from the early 20th century. The instrument is synonymous with Finnish identity, its creation attributed to the mythological shaman Väinämöinen, who chanted powerful spells. The densely overlapping textures of December Bells reflect this, along with the traditionally repetitive and interlocking nature of kantele performance, and similar singing styles of the Baltic region. Syrjälä’s work can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHAxW_Gp7M.
Artist bio:
Vedran Mehinovic was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Composition from New England Conservatory, and a doctorate from UC Santa Cruz. In 2007, his piece RA was selected as one of just three orchestral works to be performed during the Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, winning Honorable Mention at the week’s end. An enthusiast of world arts, Mehinovic has organized concerts of Korean, Hindustani, Uyghur, and Chinese music. His works have been performed in Bosnia, Croatia, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Japan, Korea, and the United States.
Website/social links
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Kazuya Ishigami - Something too huge
11 April 2025 6:30 am - 7:00 am
This work symbolically depicts the complex and tense state of the global environment by beginning with footsteps, followed by the gradual overlapping and unfolding of ambient, unbalanced harmonies and noise.
The footsteps symbolize the traces of human existence and its impact on the global environment. Harmony and noise symbolize the dissonance caused by human intervention in the global environment.
The acoustic space of monotonous footsteps and noise may be heard as a space of wishful thinking that the environmental problems we are facing at the moment are just a dream.
The sustained resonance of harmonies may be heard as the cry of the earth.
The silence at the end may be interpreted in many ways as to what it means.
Artist bio:
KAZUYA ISHIGAMI (b. 1972, Osaka/JAPAN) is a composer, sound designer, sound performer and sound engineer in the field of Electroacoustic/Acousmatic/Post-Acousmatic/Ambient/Noise, etc.
Since 1992 he has created under the name of DARUIN. He began using computers for composition and improvisation in 1994 with the programming language Max/MSP and others.
His pieces have been performed at CCMC (Japan), FUTURA (France), MUSLAB (Mexico), SILENCE (Italy), ICMC (2015_USA/TEXAS), Music From Japan 2020 (USA/NY) among others. He has an independent label, NEUS-318, and has released more than 100 works.
Website/social links
https://neus318.bandcamp.com/
https://kazuyaishigami.bandcamp.com/
https://omodaru.bandcamp.com/
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Andrew O’Connor - Tune In: Homer
11 April 2025 7:00 am - 7:30 am
A recorded excerpt of a site-specific sound installation for radios and low watt FM transmitters created in Homer Alaska at the Bunnell Street Arts Centre. Multiple transmitters are set up in an array throughout the landscape, each broadcasting (on the same frequency 89.1FM) a unique collage of sound and story about the immediate surrounding. As you walk through the landscape with a radio tuned different signals fall in and out of range, each signal a unique collage of sound and story that explores the resonating history and memory that animates the landscape. Each collage is of a slightly different length and plays on a loop 24/7 creating a structure in constant flux, a narrative work with no fixed order that is never the same twice. The recording submitted is a snapshot of the work up and running, made on site through a radio in the streets and beaches of Homer.
Artist bio:
Andrew O’Connor is an independent radio producer, and sound artist based in Toronto Canada. His work reflects an interest in sound, storytelling, and transmission, and explores these ideas through formal broadcast radio as well as installation art, sound design, and pirate radio. Andrew’s work has been featured across the CBC Radio network, syndicated internationally, as well as featured at the Third Coast Filmless Festival, and the UK International Radio Drama Festival. Andrew currently hosts and produces a weekly pirate radio show called DISCO 3000 on his long running, clandestine radio project Parkdale Pirate Radio.
Website/social links
https://parkdalepirateradio.wordpress.com/
https://www.bunnellarts.org/tune-in-homer-audio-soundscape-by-andrew-oconnor/ -
George Burt, Raymond MacDonald & Gordon Maclean - The Tobermory Clock
11 April 2025 7:30 am - 8:00 am
A celebration of the surprising story behind an everyday monument from the Edwardian era. Songs and soundscapes have been derived directly from the streets of Tobermory and the words of Isabella L. Bird, pioneering explorer, traveller and author who was the first female member of the Royal Geographic Society. Her far-sighted appreciation for cultures and ways of life outside the strictures of her Victorian religious upbringing. "A woman's right to do what she can do well". "You must know that I am at heart a savage."
Artist bio:
George Burt is a composer, improviser and songwriter based in Glasgow. Founder member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.
Raymond MacDonald is a musician and academic whose work has placed him at the centre of the improvised music scene in Europe.
Gordon Maclean is one of Scotland's most revered record producers, and a central figure in Scotland's music and cultural scenes.
Website/social links
https://www.raymondmacdonald.co.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_MacDonald
https://gburt.blog/
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Radiophrenia Shorts 5
11 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
1 Aline Chambras - j'écoute marcher dans mes jambs (1:45)
2 Jaime Cid-Lara - Terramorfismos de una muerte glacial [Daying glacier's terramorphisms] (7:26)
3 zhanraw- i give you technology (4:04)
4 Prabuddha Mukhopadhyay - Reflected sounds to a third generation refugee (5:10)
5 Canaan Balsam - I hope this email finds us both dead (7:44)
1) Aline Chambras - j'écoute marcher dans mes jambs
Au gré et hasard des poèmes de René Char, une rengaine, des bribes, Parole d'Albatros
Avec des extraits de Bel édifice et les pressentiments, Loi oblige, Le visage Nuptial, L'Avenir non prédit.
Réalisatrice et compositrice sonore, je produis (prise de sons, montage et mixage) des documentaires, des reportages, des portraits sonores, des pièces électroacoustiques, des bandes-sons, de la poésie sonore, des objets sonores, etc. . Travaillant toujours au plus près du terrain, j'accorde une attention toute particulière aux paysages, aux voix et aux liens sensibles entre récits, rythmes et environnement . J'ai travaillé notamment pour la radio, des musées, des collectivités, des compagnies de spectacle vivant.
https://soundcloud.com/aline-chambras
https://www.atelier-sonart.com/
2) Jaime Cid-Lara - Terramorfismos de una muerte glacial [Daying glacier's terramorphisms]
The work is part of a project called Expedición Imaginaria, which combines arts, geology, and andinism. In this case, it is a sound art piece inspired by geological research conducted by Javiera Roco, a collaborator on the project. She studied the glaciers in the central regions of Chile and found many becoming buried under rocks. The composition integrates fictional voices that sound as if transmitted by radio (I can provide the translation if needed). This work premiered at the VI Congreso SOCHICRI, a cryosphere conference held in Punta Arenas, Chile, in May 2024.
Jaime Cid Lara (Chile, 1991) is a transdisciplinary artist specialized in merging artistic elements with technical and scientific components. A composer, media artist, programmer, art curator, and Chilean explorer. He holds a degree in Musical Arts and is a scholarship student in the Magíster en Artes Mediales at Universidad de Chile. He works as a creative director at Austral Games and is a member of the Canal Alpha collective. He is the creator of Expedición Imaginaria, a project in the intersection art-sciencie-andinism.
http://www.jaimecidlara.com
https://www.instagram.com/jotacidlara
3) zhanraw- i give you technology
Through field recordings of ocean waves, heartbeats, and urban noise, “i give you technology” is an experimental sound composition that juxtaposes the natural and artificial, reflecting an interpersonal romantic relationship and how love intertwines with the functional and the mundane.This auditory landscape prompts listeners to consider the relationship between parts and the whole, uncover hidden melodies, and observe themselves within varying ecologies. Each listen reveals new layers, prompting reflection on the delicate interplay between nature, technology, and personal experience, where forces shape and are shaped by one another in ways that are both transient and enduring.
Zhanna Rozenberg (aka zhanraw) is a multidisciplinary artist working in sound, film, poetry, performance, and installation. Her recent work, Unsaid (1/31 & 2/31), debuted in 2024 with a performance by the Bergamot Quartet, Payton MacDonald, multi-channel audio, and video projection. Like many prior works, it explores the interstitial and manifold aspects of experience: matters of attention, conditions of embodiment, perceptions of self, time, the other, and one’s one’s environment. Her interdisciplinary approach reflects her fascination with how technology can bridge the personal and the societal, turning complex questions into immersive experiences that provoke both thought and emotion.
https://www.instagram.com/zhanraw/
https://soundcloud.com/zhan_raw/sets/days-and-nights
4) Prabuddha Mukhopadhyay - Reflected sounds to a third generation refugee
During the partition of 1947 in India, my grandfather migrated from (now)Bangladesh to India. He left his home forever and never went back. Nobody from my family line has ever been to Bangladesh after that.
Till his last breath, his only wish was to get to that place, at least for once. He couldn't. The home, the roots that my grandfather left have vanished now, it does not exist. I have only heard stories of it, and will never be able to see it.
That time has gone by, and that space has become extinct. This work is a reflection of how I have searched for a space that doesn't exist anymore.
All the recordings were done in Bangladesh during a field trip.
Currently, I am a student of sound recording and design at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata, India.
I am a budding sound artist interested in Film sound design along with the urge to explore ‘Sound as an independent artform’ instead of just a tool to apply it in cinema.
My interest lies mainly in sound art and field recording and how to shape it in the context of new media.
As a budding field recordist and sound artist, I try to explore the possibility of sonic art in the medium of film through various devices.
https://www.instagram.com/prabuddha._.m/
https://vimeo.com/user104141219
5) Canaan Balsam - I hope this email finds us both dead
Canaan's work explores the dead space between ambient and new age music; the liminal zone between the harshness of industrial and the beatific serenity of devotional music. It is this balance between body horror electronics and the calming balm of serene noise that is mapped out across their body of work that aspires to a religious like intensity and serenity whilst at the same time being informed / waylaid / destroyed by a background in noise and industrial music.
Canaan lives and works in Edinburgh, and their previous projects include Naked and he is currently part of sound art project Dreamwreck and industrial noise Caustic Bliss (Venalism). Canaan has performed in an iteration of the late Damo Suzuki’s Sound Carriers.
https://www.instagram.com/canaan_balsam/
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Radiophrenia Shorts 5
11 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
6 Galo Durán - Sonidero Colombiano (8:16)
7 Nicolas Dumay - La Distance (16:38)
8 Avi Ziv - Encounter With The Krell (6:19)
6) Galo Durán - Sonidero Colombiano
Sonidero Colombiano is a soundscape, all sounds were recorder by Galo Duran in Cartagena and Bogota, Colombia in 2023, axcept one sampler about one sound of interview a Pablo Emilio Escoba Gaviria in the eighties ( 80 )
Galo Durán - México . Based in CDMX / Mexico city . Since 2002 makes music for films projects. 2010-Artistic residence in Buenos Aires, Argentina, ( Recorder sounds in Bs.As) 2011- Recorder sounds in Jamma el Fna, Marrakech, Moroco. He has also participated in the International Film Festival in buenos aires Argentina BAFICI 2010 and in the international film festival Rotterdam IFFR 2012 Netherlands. 2013-Nominee to an Ariel prize - original music 2015-Performances in Tokyo, Kioto and Wakayama Japan - Recorder Sounds in Tokyo. 2017- Performances in Bangkok, Thailand, and ho chi minh city ( Saigon ), Vietnam. -Recorder sounds
https://soundcloud.com/galo_duran
7) Nicolas Dumay - La Distance
In this work, the author, who lives in Devon (England), talks about the distance that separates him from his son, who is growing up on the continent. He talks about the guilt of making a life on the other shore. And between the two shores, the sea, physical obstacle and point of contact with the other side, but also an enveloping and a comforting element when crossing is not possible. In the meantime, friends help him reflect on the polysemy of the word 'distance' (geographical, sensory, affective, cognitive, metaphysical, etc.). Finally, comes the time to return to the continent, a long journey that the author makes alone, guided by the smiles of the awaited reunion.
Written and produced by Nicolas Dumay, with advice from Claire Gatineau (from the ACSR, Belgium). With the voices of Chloé Thibault, Daniel Modave, Cassiel Aristei-Dumay, and Andrew Norris (Bruxelles/Exeter, June 2024).
Nicolas Dumay teaches experimental psychology, at the University of Exeter (UK). His field of research sits at the cross-talk between three fields: linguistics, memory, and the influence of sleep. He has no artistic track record, but just an attraction to speech and sounds. In June 2024, he attended a workshop on sound writing led by Claire Gatineau at the Ateliers de la rue Voot in Brussels. The submitted piece is the actual work that the author wrote and produced as part of this workshop.
https://soundcloud.com/nicolasdumay/la-distance
8) Avi Ziv - Encounter With The Krell
We are all waves of energy. The Encounter With The Krell uses sonification of electromagnetic fields, emanating from both motors and magnetic tape, as the book ends to generative synthesized statements. The performer applies nuance and expression in response to every sound, forming a dialog. This improvisation was captured live, in one shot, and without any editing. Recorded using a micro cassette recorder, custom EMF sensors, an electromechanical plucked instrument, and a 0-coast synthesizer.
Avi Ziv is a multi-instrumentalist, sound artist, instrument builder, and audio drama producer, working in the US.
Instagram: @evolving_door -
Dinah & Molly Mullen - Echo Sister Audio Essays: Locating Echo
11 April 2025 9:00 am - 9:45 am
The two ‘sister’ sound works we are proposing to present are one outcome of the Echo/Ekho project. 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.
Artist bio:
Dinah is an experienced sound designer who creates works that explore our relationship to place, environment and each other. She makes works for both live and digital formats including: guided audio walks (Just Passing Through), immersive smartphone adventures (for the National Archives with Coney), podcasts (Afterthoughts, beyond arts), audio drama/essay (The You Play 1 & 2, for 45 North), Audio Installation (The last Taboo of Motherhood, for FUEL), and performance installation (FORGE, with Rachel Mars). With Fire and Rage, an interactive audio walk Dinah designed for Artists on the Frontline at EuroFestival Liverpool, won The Stage Digital Award 2023.
Website/social links
https://www.dinahmullen.com/echo
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Dariusz Mazurowski - Vanishing Signs on the Sky
11 April 2025 9:45 am - 10:00 am
Vanishing Signs on the Sky is the fourth part of a large-scale electroacoustic composition The Destroyer of Dreams and may be performed as a separate piece also. A very personal work, dealing with thoughts of happiness. Contains a large collection of various sounds – synthesized, concrete and many others. In this particular case, the whole sonic spectrum have been processed with both analog and digital tools to gain rather complex, hybrid textures. Composed and recorded at the De eM Studio, between April 2015 and June 2017. Main audio sources for this composition include complex analog, digital and hybrid synthesizer patches, various textures created with the use of phase vocoder technology, analysis and resynthesis of various sources. For the multichannel mix various advanced software processors were used to obtain a faithful spatial diffusion of the sounds. Premiere performance: April 15, 2018, Vox Electronica 2018 festival, Gunpowder Tower in Lviv (Ukraine).
Artist bio:
Dariusz Mazurowski is a Polish electroacoustic music composer born and residing in Gdansk. While the majority of his compositional activity has focused on acousmatic works, he has also composed instrumental music in conjunction with electronics, soundscapes, and mprovised electroacoustic music. His works combine analog instruments with the digital technology and concrete sounds. Mazurowski’s music has been broadcast by various stations all over the world, and he has performed at festivals and other events in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. His installations, visual works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous galleries. His compositions has been released on numerous discs.
Website/social links
https://deemstudio.com/
https://www.facebook.com/people/Dariusz-Mazurowski/100086282450366/
https://www.youtube.com/user/DeeMstudio/videos
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Shorts 43
11 April 2025 10:00 am - 10:30 am
1) John Roach - I am a Radio (3:45)
2) Woo Haran -윤슬 (Ever-Changing) (5:00)
3) BELLA COMSOM - Eucalyptus in the Forest, Almond Tree in the City (7:21)
4) Matt Mason - Synthetic Atmosphere (11:00)
1) John Roach - I am a Radio
Radio, algorithm and space are intermediaries that connect us to waves, ideas and bodies. They exist seemingly without substance but provide an armature for experience to which we may become attuned and hopelessly attached. The words of the Transmitter, spoken by Caroline Bouissou, express an affirmation of Self. A radio is, like any mediator (or medium), both a trusted guide and a good listener eager to please. A litany of “I ams” was generated by a more recently birthed intermediary agent—the Google algorithm in response to the query, “I AM A RADIO.” John Roach generated sounds from recordings in an abandoned power plant in Isola, an empty apartment in Pontevico (both in Italy) and a cave in Kefalonia, Greece.
John Roach is a NY-based artist concerned with the often slippery role of sound in how we perceive the world. Recent projects explore the ability of sound to construct immersive portraits of places, and how the assembly of spatialized field recordings, sound-design elements, and voices can connect a listener to unexpected impressions of a landscape or soundscape.
https://johnroach.net/
Caroline Bouissou's art/science practice uses a creative approach grounded in theoretical research. She joined the multidisciplinary research group AOEE (Université Côte d'Azur) to work on "We all have 7 million years” focused on memory and mental images connecting art, archaeology and neuroscience.
https://carolinebouissou.com/
2) Woo Haran -윤슬 (Ever-Changing)
윤슬 (Ever-Changing) is a music composition for an 8-key marimba, accompanied by two processed field recordings from The Wave Organ in San Francisco and the Santa Clara River in Santa Clarita, California. The piece features continuous dragging and tapping on the marimba, guided by inventive graphic notations. The delicate marimba sounds evoke the shimmering glitter on a water surface, which the title "윤슬" represents. This soundscape, paired with the processed recordings, crafts an immersive and richly textured auditory experience.
Woo Haran, born in 2000 in South Korea, excels in music composition and visual art, blending forms for dynamic storytelling. Rooted in the universe [O8kk], Woo's symbols of the moon, clouds, and stars form his conceptual backdrop.
Educated at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) with a BFA in music composition, Woo was mentored by Michael Pisaro, Ulrich Krieger, and Karen Tanaka. These influences shaped his vision and skills, pushing contemporary music and art boundaries.
https://wooharan.o8kk.com
Instagram: @woo_o8kk
3) BELLA COMSOM - Eucalyptus in the Forest, Almond Tree in the City
These sounds have been collected in Rio de Janeiro. The first is a 100 year old eucalyptus tree in the forest (Tijuca Forest), the other is an almond tree in the city. Neither tree is native to Brazil. The eucalyptus was introduced to Brazil to meet the demand for railways, and the almond tree is said to have been brought to Rio de Janeiro by the Portuguese in their first invasion ships, as it was used as a counterweight for ships. Here I translate the inaudible sounds of each tree and try to identify, through linstening, the different levels of complexity associated with each habitat.
BELLACOMSOM, brazilian sound artist, completed a Master's Degree in Arts in the field of Sonology at University of Sao Paulo. Her work takes the form of installations, videos, performances, and radio art. She approaches experimental and electronic lutherie as a means of developing her poetics. Through the design of antennas and extended listening, she links nature, technology and spirituality. Her work has been presented in festivals, exhibitons, and radio stations, in institutions such as Tsonami Arte Sonoro, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Radio Art Residency Weimar, Museum of Tomorrow, Sonic Matter Festival.
https://bellacomsom.com
https://instagram.com/bellacomsom
4) Matt Mason - Synthetic Atmosphere
Synthetic Atmosphere is an Electro-Acoustic hymn used in the production of Landscapes 01: Tuscon, Arizona, a multimedia dance, music, and film production in which the artists and dancers interact with the Arizona desert over the course of 6 hours. There are five total sections to this work, embodying different transformative processes: Synthetic Sun, Synthetic Metamorphosis, Synthetic Atmospheres, Synthetic Zeal, and ProtoSynthetic Landscape. Synthetic Atmosphere combines the sounds of desert birds, desert winds, and synthesizers controlled by weather-based phenomenon such as temperature. The result is a synthetic recreation of the Tuscon, Arizona's atmospheric sounds in audio form.
Matt A. Mason is a composer, pianist, and educator from Lincoln Illinois whose work has been described as brimming with "constellations of pitch and rhythm in a densely complex mesh." Matt's work as a composer draws deeply from his rural midwestern background, telling stories about queer visibility, nostalgia, social responsibility, and trauma. Matt's latest projects explore using the piano as an intermediary device in embodied performances. Matt is currently an Assistant Professor of Musicianship at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and a Ph. D in Music Composition and Theory (University of Iowa).
https://youtube.com/@matt-mason-new-music?si=_Ijiv2n8Vz2XCEJA
http://www.matt-masonmusic.com -
Shorts 43
11 April 2025 10:30 am - 11:00 am
5) Marc Perez - From The Roots Up (8:04)
6) Kate Wilson Hilferty - Two Channel // Rannoch Moor pt 2 (5:01)
7) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 1, 2, 5 & 6 (0:56)
8) Noel Zavala - Song of Naziret (3:03)
9) Frontera Glaciar – Gamboa (4:00)
10) Lananh Chu – polysyndeton (3:11)
11) Neil Milton - Sinister Remanance (6:34)
5) Marc Perez - From The Roots Up
From The Roots Up is a solo piece for muted brass & accompanying tape written and performed by Marc Perez.
The piece puts an emphasis on lush and natural occurring sine tones in combination with the natural harmonic spectrum occurring from hand manipulation of a harmon mute, stemming from the inspiration of a flower blooming over time.
The trombone itself in this recording only plays a single Dyad over the tape, however the score and form of this piece itself is open to interpretation, with additional notes and length of form varying, giving flexibility and variance within the piece that exists within nature as well.
Trombone Player, Composer, Improviser, Artist & Author Marc Perez utilizes his unique understanding and approach to improvisation in a broad range of interdisciplinary practices. His approach to sound, music perception & non traditional notation is quickly making Marc a sought-after collaborator and making his work quickly known.
https://www.marcperezmusic.com
https://www.instagram.com/mapmusiq/
6) Kate Wilson Hilferty - Two Channel // Rannoch Moor pt 2
Two-channel recording diptych using a hydrophone and a homemade geophone in the piping network where water is released from the Rannoch Moor hydroelectric power station. The water, rich in peat, in extracted from the bogland, and funnelled in to the plant through pipes in the ground. When the water is released, the push resonates through the metal and plastic piping system in remote murmurs. A geophone on the exterior of the piping catches the sound of air and water in its release.
Bartender and field-recording hobbyist living in Glasgow. Interested in various methods of recording and enhancing concealed sounds with use of geophones, contact mics, and transducers.
https://soundcloud.com/user-380334898
7) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 1, 2, 5 & 6
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
8) Noel Zavala - Song of Naziret
Sampled from the performance of Zamir Azyke of the Circassian folk Song of Naziret. The intro was converted from audio to midi file, then used to create different instrumental layers with a free online sequencer. After that, it was mixed with the sampled accordion and the previously isolated and looped vocals to create a new version of the song.
Noel Zavala (Monterrey, México, 1981) is a creator of concrete music and electronic music with his project sarabandPersona. He was part of the free improvisation groups Silent Twin, Talleres Cosmic and Hibridaciones Salvajes, with which they participated in local festivals and in the recording of several ambient, noise and psychedelia pieces. In 2024 he joined the sound experimentation and free improvisation collective, Tsunami Wave. In duo with Gerardo Colin he is working on a series of Harsh Noise albums for Otcrah Records.
https://linktr.ee/noelzavalaa?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZ9f3gVxPStirBqA7m02TzUR28zyOF_zGMk7K3POZr8kQqd0PJgQ9OgHms_aem_yDqEH9NMvTnYvNM1m8Zm8w
9) Frontera Glaciar – Gamboa
From EP “Patio Nevado”
Compilation of sounds and voices from Patagonia, including personal elements, natural and tourist spaces of Punta Arenas (Strait of Magellan, Plaza de Armas).
Ignacio Núñez Oyarzo (Patagonia, Punta Arenas) Graduate in Education (UMAG, 2015) Pedagogue (UMAG, 2016) and Master in Arts (PUC, 2020). Sound artist, producer and DJ. Frontera Glaciar is his artistic name and personal space in which Ignacio experiments and combines soundscapes of the Patagonian territory with various voices. His name is due to the fact that he was born and lives in the city of entry to the polar territory. His line of work is divided into the creation of sound series (radio art) and sound experimentation and live performance. And he develops projects linked to: climate change, territory.
https://fronteraglaciar.wixsite.com/site
https://www.instagram.com/fronteraglaciar/
https://www.youtube.com/@fronteraglaciar
https://soundcloud.com/frontera-glaciar
https://fronteraglaciar.bandcamp.com/album/patio-nevado
10) Lananh Chu – polysyndeton
I name it “polysyndeton” to contrast with "asyndeton," which is the effect of erasure or unhearing many sound elements in everyday life (Augoyard and Torgue 26). In the process of composing “polysyndeton,” I have listened, ardently and meditatively, to sounds around me, namely, water rising and water boiling and water dripping and leaves drying and flowers crumbling and boiler and heater and toaster and cooker and a vase long time no touched and a wine glass often thirsty and a fridge always moaning and my stomach forever hungry and foil and plastic and papers and ...
Lananh Chu is a Vietnamese maker and writer, who wants to listen with her/their flawed ears.
https://linktr.ee/lananhchu
11) Neil Milton - Sinister Remanance
Sinister Remanance is a sounscape inspired by David Toop's book 'Sinister Resonance'. It is an electroacoustic work featuring a college of manipulated found sounds. A remanance is the continuation of a sound that is no longer heard.
Neil Milton is a writer, DJ and audiovisual artist. Inspired by collage, experimental film, expanded cinema and VJing, his work is a dialogue between the elements of sound, [moving] image and textual language. In particular, he explores the relationship between words and their sonification, text as semantic signifier and aesthetic image. Previously immersed in club culture, thematically he is engaged by issues of consciousness, altered states, spiritual transcendence, meditative bodily expression, and furthering communication. He is also interested in the therapeutic aspects of sound and its use as a medium for exploring neurodivergence.
https://linktr.ee/Neiljmilton
http://www.neilmilton.com -
Giuseppe Mistretta - breathe in four - breathe out six (Live in the studio)
11 April 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
Giuseppe Mistretta is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. He works with synthesis and field recordings to create atmospheres for others to inhabit. Mistretta is interested in what can unfold in the present moment and how different variables can help shape it.
Website/social links
https://giuseppemistretta.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/seppe-mistretta -
Buffer Zone
11 April 2025 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
1) Yve Lomax - Quer - ep 5: Attentiveness is quite something (10.37)
2) Augustė Vickunaitė - one time ago (4:26)
3) Mondlane - tapeloopsdisintegrating (9:24)
1) Yve Lomax - Quer ep 5: Attentiveness is quite something (10.37)
Synopsis: Quer is a single voice spoken performance that moves through various modes of address, mixing the poetic, philosophical and the everyday. It is an experiment in how to say something and touches upon things considered pressing for living today. This includes: violence and the cry Why am I being hurt?; attentiveness, justice and ceasing to treat the Earth as a property to be owned; nonviolence and the magic of compassion; dissolving the distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them’; the question of belonging and how saying ‘I am queer’ up-ends it. Quer ends with the assertion that all of life is profoundly transverse and plays upon the old meaning of ‘quer’ as oblique, transverse.
Credits: With thanks to Jono Lomax (sound) and Vit Hopley (script). Thanks also to Kristen Kreider.
Artist bio: Yve Lomax is a visual artist, writer and editor. She is currently a director of and editor for Copy Press publishers and its audio-visual platform Becoming Fireflies. Since the late 1970s she has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her first book of collected writings was published in 2000 under the title of Writing the Image. Recent publications: Here from There (a shared book with Vit Hopley, 2024); Nearness (2019); Figure, calling (2017); Pure Means (2014). Films/spoken performances include: Mad about justice (2022) and Political Life (2021). Formally, she was a Senior Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art and Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Besides feminism, a longstanding concern has been writing for spoken performances.
Website/social links:
copypress.co.uk
2) Augustė Vickunaitė - one time ago
From the album DANCE ALONE
https://augustevickunaite.bandcamp.com/
3) Mondlane - tapeloopsdisintegrating
Mondlane is the solo moniker of sound artist Lisa Fabian, also in the Glasgow trio NEY. As Mondlane, she layers field recordings with processed vocals and manipulated fragments and electroacoustic instrumentation. She draws from a growing library of intimate recordings, using her narrative rich samples as instruments in improvised performances.
Interested in the personal and collective experience and unconscious, she explores the fragmentation and reassembly of narrative. Often touching on themes of intimacy, temporality, otherworldliness, and relationships that materialise in-between bodies and memories, as well as archival or collected material.
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Anne Lepère - Mouras (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
11 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
EN/ The Mouras guard the earth's hidden secrets. At the mouth of a cave, beneath a monolith, or in the mist of a hot spring, their enchanting presence watches over the entrances to mystical places, gauging the soul of anyone who wishes to enter these sacred sanctuaries. Adventurous voices set out to encounter these Galician mythological beings, seeking the secrets etched in stone and the magical tales sedimented over millennia. Will their songs reach the depths of the earth? Will they receive the Mouras' permission to pass? And will we be able to listen to the secrets that rise through geological layers, echoing as whispers in the hollows of our own bodies? GA/ As Mouras vixían os segredos soterrados da terra. No limiar dunha cova, baixo un monólito ou entre o vapor dunha fonte termal, as súas partículas enfeitizadoras gardan as entradas dos lugares místicos, avaliando a alma de quen queira penetrar neses santuarios sagrados. Voces aventureiras lánzanse entón ao encontro destas criaturas mitolóxicas galegas, na procura dos segredos gravados na pedra e dos relatos máxicos sedimentados ao longo dos milenios. Chegarán os seus cantos ás entrañas da terra? Recibirán o salvoconduto das Mouras? E saberemos escoitar os segredos que soben polas capas xeolóxicas ata se converteren en murmullos nas cavidades dos nosos propios corpos? FR/ Les Mouras veillent sur les secrets enfouis de la terre. A l’orée d’une grotte, sous un monolithe ou dans la vapeur d’une source d’eau chaude, leurs particules enchanteresses veillent aux accès des lieux mystiques, jaugeant l’âme de quiconque souhaite pénétrer ces sanctuaires sacrés. Des voix aventureuses se lancent alors à la rencontre de ces créatures mythologiques galiciennes, en quête des secrets gravés dans la pierre et des récits magiques sédimentés à travers les millénaires. Leurs chants parviendront-ils aux entrailles de la terre ? Recevront-ils le laissez-passer des Mouras? Et saurons-nous prêter l’oreille aux secrets qui remontent les strates géologiques jusqu’à devenir des murmures dans les cavités de nos propres corps? Credits: MOURAS - Produced by Anne Lepère Voices : Karina Mouriño, teacher of the school of Taboexa, Galicia, Marion Sage and Anne Lepère Children’s voices : Emil Sebastião, Artai, Brais, Einar, Xurxo, Xián, Baia Rosalía, Seixo Based on the legends of the Mouras and the stories of Karina Mouriño Additional poetry, recordings, composition and mixing : Anne Lepère Special thanks to Marion Sage, Thomas Wyatt, Karina Mouriño, Jeanne Debarsy and Mark Vernon. Photo credit : Marion Sage Biography: Anne Lepère – Sound artist, composer, and radio producer. Since beginning my journey in sound art, I have woven together sounds, breaths, and words to cultivate a poetic practice of everyday life, from urban to rural settings. Inspired by Brussels’ creative hubs like ACSR, BNA-BBOT, and Q-O2, I began producing radio pieces in 2013, ranging from essays and soundscapes to spoken word and documentary poetry. In 2016, my work expanded to the stage through the Prototypes III training at Royaumont Abbey (Paris), after which I began composing music and sound for theatre, performance, film, and dance, collaborating with directors, choreographers, and filmmakers across various projects. My radio work includes Autopoïèse (2019), a piece awarded the Palma Ars Acustica and the Phonurgia Nova Prix Art Sonore, and Area (2022), a sound poem nominated for the Marulic Prize (Croatia) and the Radio Drama Festival (UK). Both pieces have been featured at international festivals. Since 2023 I’m also leading sound creation workshops in Romania, Galicia, Togo,... introducing participants to the art of sound exploration. Currently, I am developing Nuages, a new long-form piece that uses clouds as a sound score and explores collective poetry through workshops. http://www.annelepere.net -
Jean-Baptiste Masson - Rémanence
11 April 2025 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
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. Artist bio: Jean-Baptiste Masson is a composer and researcher working on the cultural history of listening. His music is interested in beatings, the dramatisation of listening, the dynamism of stasis. After a PhD at the University of York, he is at the moment a Marie Skłodowska-Curie / Bienvenüe fellow based at the Université Rennes-2 and a research fellow at the Cinémathèque de Bretagne, where he works on a manual for the restoration of the sound of amateur films. Website/social links jbmasson.com jbmasson.bandcamp.com -
Radiophrenia Shorts 19
11 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1) Catherine Street - Thought feels (3:16)
2) Sandro Nicolussi - Fair Use 2.1 (12:32)
3) Claire Barwell - Flat Life #5 (Scaffolding) (1:00)
4) Jon Tjhia - Even Looser Ends (17:42)
1) Catherine Street - Thought feels
There is a layering of non-verbal vocalisations that have a comical or playful feel to them. The same voice, in a whisper, repeats the questions ‘is thought an event?’ and ‘is my body an event?’. The work explores verbal and non-verbal layering. The silly sounds coming from the body are interrupted by something more cerebral or philosophical, contrasting thought and feeling. This work relates to my research around the body-mind in its various forms. a practice of meditation and recovery from a serious illness. At the same time I am interested in the idea of ‘the event’ whether that be a thought, a movement, a body, a mistake, a trauma.
I am an artist working with performance, video, sound, collage, writing and sculpture. My work speculates on the relationship between the body and language. How do ideas imposed by words affect the fleshy organs of human beings? My work tends to celebrate the body - its tenderness and vulnerability - against the brutality and insecurity around it and seeping through it.
https://catherinestreet.net/
Instagram - @catherine.street.art
X - @StreetCatherine
2) Sandro Nicolussi - Fair Use 2.1
Fair Use 2.1 is a collage-like composition of improvised fragments and concrete sources – working with found sounds, abandoned dictaphone tapes and short wave radio. It sourced in the audio-visual live performance "Fair Use" Nicolussi developed and performed throughout 2024. It's like listening to an amateur broadcast that should have never been on air. After last years contribution "Paths yet do be defined" which was picked for Radiophrenia 2024 (back than under the now defunct alias BYDL), this is the second submission of Nicolussi to this great project.
In the audiovisual performance »Fair Use«, Vienna-based artist Nicolussi uses obsolete media and data carriers such as Mini DV, cassettes, mini discs or dictaphone tapes to open up a wide range of possible interpretations between borrowed originality, copying in artistic creation and handling of sensitive data. It features found footage and musical improvisation composed in real time. Nicolussi works in experimental sonic realms of Ambient, Drone, Techno and Noise. Electroacoustic systems, field recordings and everyday noises form the basis for his highly manipulated sound designs. Nicolussi released on labels like Objects & Sounds, Beach Buddies and Sama Recordings.
https://nicolussi.bandcamp.com
https://instagram.com/creating.by.habit
3) Claire Barwell - Flat Life #5 (Scaffolding)
The day they finally took the scaffolding down outside my flat. Noise pollution is a hidden menace to mental health.
Claire Barwell once made films and now makes (very short) sound pieces.
4) Jon Tjhia - Even Looser Ends
This piece was originally composed as a series of playful overlapping experiments with durations, aired on Short Cuts. Being a piece that relies on anticipated durations and a certain tempo, this simple time-stretched version is a playful realignment of the piece's key parameters, rerendering its internal logic.
Jon Tjhia is an artist, writer and editor working through radio and podcast, literature, photomedia, music and publishing. An award-winning radiomaker and award-losing writer, his recent work is published by BBC Radio 3/4, Un Magazine, LIMINAL, the Powerhouse, Avantwhatever and WFMU. He is widely disrespected as a musician.
https://informationjewellery.com
https://accesslab.world
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Radiophrenia Shorts 19
11 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
5) Tobi Belber - Leaving Traces (8:26)
6) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations THE ELEC.L.AND. (2:28)
7) Matilde Meireles - Magnetic Fields (13:17)
5) Tobi Belber - Leaving Traces
Not all beings are strictly present. Indeed, pubs are full of ghosts, as are the Scottish Highlands. ‘Leaving Traces’ excavates the temporal disjunctions concealed within both folk music and recording technology. The basis for this piece is a binaural recording of a folk session captured in an Edinburgh pub. The first section contains only the source material, which gradually distorts and then disappears into the abyss from which it will re-emerge in the second section. An ominous bird call, distant rumbles, and time-stretched footsteps usher us into the next section, where we find ourselves suspended in motion. A train can be heard moving through a great expanse, and we sense we are not the only souls wandering this barren land. A different spacetime (de)materialises, ‘plastic, stretchable and prophetic’ (https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/article/viewFile/378/391). From this great outdoors, a shimmering, de-substantialised voice emerges and asserts its being.
I have called Scotland home for 6 years and have found it an immensely inspiring environment for listening and creating. From participating in folk music sessions, to broadcasting and programming at Subcity Radio, I have been surrounded by an incredibly motivated and subversive community of artists. Recently, I had the privilege of completing the Sound Design & Audiovisual Practice MSc at Glasgow University, where I began developing my field recording and soundscape practice. Listening, recording, and blurring the sounds of my lifeworld has provided a means of exploring the essential ambiguity and undefined forces operating beyond our ordinary perception.
https://tobibelber.bandcamp.com/album/extracts
6) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations THE ELEC.L.AND.
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
7) Matilde Meireles - Magnetic Fields
'Magnetic Fields' is part of my latest album 'Loop. And Again.', which was released in early October 2024. The track revisits field recordings of various telecommunication boxes made with contact microphones and an electromagnetic sensor and reinvents them in various processed forms as the basis for generative loops.
‘Loop. And Again.’ delves into the dynamics of magnetic fields, intricate wiring arrangements, and their interconnectedness with the shifts in the surrounding landscape. The album is part of ‘X Marks the Spot’, a larger project which used sound to map specific telecommunication boxes—only those emitting an audible drone—in the city of Belfast between 2013-2019. In the project, sound suggests different ways to engage with Belfast, where walking routes could be improvised to incorporate the drones as part of how we experience the city.
Matilde Meireles is a sound artist who makes use of field recordings to compose site-oriented projects. Her work has a multi-sensorial, durational and multi-perspective critical approach to site, where Matilde investigates the potential of listening across spectrums and scales as ways to attune to various ecosystems and articulate plural experiences of the world. Some examples include the inner architectures of reeds and complex water ecologies, resonances in everyday objects, local neighbourhoods and the architecture of radio signals.
https://matildemeireles.com/index.html
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Shaun Robert - SPOKEN WORD
11 April 2025 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Both written and improvised ; recollections, word play & absurd prose . Including pieces titled : things to face , poltergeist , objects too singing , Ambrosia of Black Sun , OPEN MOUTH IN THE DARK , pluton outs , Answers about Noise , poignant springs , Black Crowl , mythology , dihari buruh , locks and spears.
Artist bio:
Shaun Robert (1966 - ) impromptu expressions processed & filtered into moments of congealed sound ; also using field recording , in voxpop & audio voyeurism , of hauntological stylings , spoken word & singing. Falling apart to come together . Importance of sounds from analogue radio , magnetic tape manipulation can not be understated. Cross talk & frequency drifting pulls the strings of his heart & relating to loops and rough editing , audio drop outs , a Sonic Organic.
Website/social links
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Toni Dimitrov - Berlin Sketches
11 April 2025 2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
This is the sixth in the series of field recordings pieces from the field recordist and sound artist Toni Dimitrov dedicated to a city. After the field recordings from Athens, Milan, Ioannina, Belgrade and Bucharest, this time the sketches were recorded in Berlin during his stay in the city while participating at Berliner Hörspielfestival radio art festival in 2021, where one of his sound art documentaries “How South Becomes North” was nominated for one of the prizes. In the piece you can hear recordings from the lively life of Berlin, sound of the streets, parks, a festival, conversations of and with people, the noise from the U-Ban, sound of art pieces in galleries, all interweaving subtly, blurring the line between field recording and sound art. Concept, field recordings, editing and directed by Toni Dimitrov File under: field recordings, soundscape, sound documentary Artist Bio: Toni Dimitrov is a multimedia artist, cultural producer, radio host, organizer, curator, label owner, mountain climber and nature lover, living in Macedonia. He connects all those with the love for music, sound art and field recordings. Have been curving his way into the new experimental music/sound art scene with his solo engagement, collaborative releases, radio art and art installations. Working in the field of sound art and experimenting with electronic music and radio for more than 20 years. Have released under several monikers, bands and collaborations, having countless albums and eps on diverse labels around the world and performed on many events and participated at several residencies. His radio programs are broadcasted on the music radio Kanal 103 and are dedicated to contemporary electronic music, ambient, soundscape and political discourse. The artistic career involves art installations, sound and sound installations, drawings, video, photography, exhibiting on various exhibitions locally and abroad. His last participation was at the historical sound art exhibition “Audiosphere Sound Experimentation 1980–2020” at Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, curated by Francisco Lopez. He is curating the labels post global recordings and élan vital recordings. The recent professional engagements were on projects related to political analysis of media. At the moment he is director of Cultural Informartion Center – Skopje. Website: elanvital.bandcamp.com post-global.com -
Cecilia Tyrrell - Night Waters
11 April 2025 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
A five-part soundscape, Night Waters combines field recordings of relaxing waves, underwater shells, and sea birds blended with ambient strings and female voices, to create a landscape found between waking and dreaming.
Artist bio:
Cecilia Tyrrell is a Sound Artist and composer from London. Her work combines field recording techniques, ambient voice and classical instrumental textures to create immersive soundscapes and compositions that explore hidden sonic landscapes of the natural world. Her compositions have been described as mindful and lucid, crafting dream worlds that escape reality. As an avid field recordist, Cecilia embraces a mindful approach to audio creation, traveling to unique locations to record sound and resonance that would otherwise go unheard. These recordings are used throughout her work, forming a space for nature and imagination to intertwine.
Website/social links
http://www.ceciliatyrrell.com
Instagram - @ceciliatyrrell -
John Roach - Royal Lady Sister
11 April 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
In this interview, artist Desiree Mwalimu Banks discusses the vibrational disruptions to honeybee well-being posed by telecommunication technologies, the need to re-establish the regal and matriarchal role of bees in our world, and the importance of deep listening in drawing nearer to the more than human. The work she describes was developed with sound artist Grant Cutler during their Transmission Arts residency at Wave Farm in upstate NY. https://wavefarm.org/wf/calendar/jtxkpp
Mwalimu Banks is a Zambian-born, East-Coast raised, artist, writer, curator, educator, diviner, and mother, whose work explores somatic relationships between indigenous identity, water ecologies, apiary culture, and the ecstatic, within the framework of the sacred feminine and the African diaspora.
The sound-world created for this work is derived from 5 years of sonic materials from projects by John Roach that focus on the relationship between humans and pollinators. Some of these sounds include:
● Honey burning on steel
● Bees and hives in Narrowsburg NY and Port Austin Michigan.
● Bee sounds re-recorded in a resonant abandoned radar station in Port Austin Michigan (thanks to Cindy Patrick at Port Austin AIR)
● Crystal Bowls, also in Port Austin (thanks to Beth Brilinski at Centered by Sound)
● Electrical lines in Chico California
● The sound of hot beeswax poured on speakers transmitting bee sounds
● Those same hot wax sounds radically and randomly jumping in time (bleeps, blips and bloops)
● Performance excerpts by the Foulbrood Orchestra at BioBAT Art Space in 2024. (Thessia Machado, Ranjit Bhatnagar, John Roach and Concetta Abbate)
Photograph by Bryan Zimmerman
Artist bio:
John Roach is a Queens, NY based artist and educator whose work is concerned with the often slippery role of sound in how we perceive the world. His most recent projects have explored the ability of sound to construct immersive portraits of places, and how the careful assembly of spatialized field recordings, sound design elements, and voices can connect a listener to unexpected impressions of a landscape or soundscape.
Website/social links
https://johnroach.net
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Leonie Roessler & Mark Vernon - No Fires or Floods Required
11 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
A meditation on memory and loss – lost things, lost data, lost memories – and the impulse to hold onto and preserve our personal past through objects, keepsakes, mementos, words, sounds and photographs. The things we can’t bear to be parted with for fear of losing some part of ourselves.
Produced during a micro residency at Studio LOOS, Den Haag in November 2023.
Biographies:
Leonie Roessler - Composer and Performer raised in Germany and the US, now based in The Hague, Netherlands. Leonie captures her environment with field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and instrumental compositions. Part of her work is purely sound-based, however the theme of marginalization has become increasingly present in her radio works. She runs the radio branch of Studio LOOS in The Hague, co-curates On Air - On Site Festival, and co-manages Iranian record label Noise à Noise.
https://leonieroessler.com/
Mark Vernon is a sound artist and radio producer whose work explores ideas of audio archaeology, magnetic memory and the re-appropriation of found sounds. He is a founding member of Glasgow art radio collective, Radiophrenia.
http://meagreresource.com -
Zara Joan Miller - Year of the Dragon (Live in the Studio)
11 April 2025 5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
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.
Zara Joan Miller is an artist working across poetry, performance and film. Her work seeks to unravel boundaries between human and non-human nature, often playing with movement and sound as a way of reimagining a body’s rhythm. Zara is the author of poetry collection BLUE MONDAY (JOAN Publishing, 2022), which was also released as a duo LP with cellist Ute Kanngießer (Reading Group 2023). Her work has recently been presented at Barbican Centre, Muse Gallery, Horse Hospital, Cafe OTO (London), In Vitro (Brussels), Default
Year of the Dragon is co-commissioned by TACO! and blurt. blurt is 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.
https://taco.org.uk/About-Us
https://zarajoanmiller.com/
https://outlands.network/ -
Buffer Zone
11 April 2025 5:45 pm - 6:00 pm
1) Augustė Vickunaitė - machina eterna (3:55)
2) Audrey Chen - sharpest tongue (4:12)
3) Matana Roberts - come away (5:25)
1) Augustė Vickunaitė - machina eterna
From the album DANCE ALONE
Augustė Vickunaitė is a sound experimentalist who employs vintage reel-to-reel tape recorders to play, record, and create sounds, articulating diverse layers of recordings including found material, field recordings, voice, music instruments, objects, and the whole spectrum of malfunctions of decaying technology. Auguste specializes in tape music, noise, and collage music, known for her theatrical and darkly humorous approach, often exploiting errors of analog audio equipment. Her solo work encompasses tape loops and collages of found audio tapes.
Since 2016, Auguste has been active in Europe and beyond, primarily as a solo performer, although she has collaborated with other artists too. She has self released solo CD album “Dance Alone”.
https://augustevickunaite.bandcamp.com/
https://archive.org/details/@augustevi
https://youtu.be/bvRfxetWxvc?si=oD6ehpMPOnVorPcr
2) Audrey Chen - sharpest tongue
AUDREY CHEN is a 2nd generation Chinese/Taiwanese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976. Parting ways with the family convention, she turned to the cello at age 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialization in early and new music, she parted ways again in 2003 to begin new negotiations with sound in order to discover a more individually honest aesthetic. Since then, using the voice, cello and analog electronics, Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised, is completely un-processed and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of an analog synthesizer, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language.
For nearly two decades, her predominant focus has been her solo work with the voice, cello and electronics, but she has more recently, in the last four years, begun to shift back towards the exploration of the voice as a primary instrument. Aside from her solo concerts, Chen performs currently in her longest running duo project since 2005 with Phil Minton; as BEAM SPLITTER with trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø; as MOPCUT with Lukas Koenig and Julien Desprez; in duo with electronic music artist Kaffe Matthews; and as a duo for voice/live digital process with Mexican sound artist Hugo Esquinca.
Among her more recent album releases include, "By the Stream" with Phil Minton - Subrosa (Brussels), "Hiss & Viscera" with Richard Scott - Sound Anatomy (Berlin), "Rough Tongue", BEAM SPLITTER'S debut LP - Corvo Records (Berlin) and latest “Split Jaw” on Tripticks Tapes (US), her solo album "Runt Vigor" - Karl Records (Berlin) and two records with MOPCUT, “Accelerated Frames of Reference” - Trost (AT) and “Jitter”, A split release on Opal Tapes (UK) and Ventil Records (AT).
Chen has performed across Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Canada and the USA. Since 2011, she relocated to Berlin, Germany from Baltimore, MD USA and continues to maintain an active international touring schedule.
http://www.audreychen.com
3) Matana Roberts - come away
From the album Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee -
Charo Calvo - Bloodline of Flower (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
11 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Bloodline of Flower is drawn from poems by Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian poet and filmmaker (1934-1967). She was published and was widely read by many Iranians during her lifetime, and has now become somewhat of a cult figure. Her poetry is one of protest and rebellion, yet it captures everyday experience without any intention of guiding, educating or directing. Her poetry is the portrait of a generation undergoing radical change. In this piece, her verse lines draw songs from wavetables or modulate the breathy tones of a Ney. Only sound remains..
Voice: Carly Wijs
Ney: Arif Erkovan
Text: Forough Farrokhzad
Biography
I may say that I devote most of my time to matters related to sound and music. Every now and then I leave the studio and walk the streets and, if luck is on my side I wander along beaches or up mountains. I produce works that help me to understand the world and that voice my questions, discoveries or feelings which are ment to be shared with a potential audience. My way of both learning and becoming a better human being is to make music and sound narratives that describe people and their environments, where sound communicates what words fail to do.
Charo Calvo is a Spanish electroacoustic composer, sound designer and teacher, living in Brussels. After having performed as a dancer with the influential Belgian dance company Ultima Vez, she started her studies on Electroacoustic Composition in 1992 with Annette Vande Gorne at Brussels Conservatory (now ARTS2 Mons). Graduated in 1999.
From 1992 her work as composer is being developed through different media, widely diffused on international venues and festivals, dance performances, theatre, film and radio. She has received several important awards such as Palma Ars Acustica 2014 EBU, Phonurgia Nova Awards Paris 2017/2023, Prix Marulic 2018 Croatia, Grand Prix Nova Bucharest 2019/2022 and was shortlisted for Prix Europa Berlin, Hearsay Prize Ireland.
Charo Calvo has been a guest the residential program for international artists in Berlin DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm during the year 2017/2018.
Last concerts at GRM-INA Paris, KONTAKTE FESTIVAL 17 Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Berlin; MIKROMUSIK, Daad Galery, AUSLAND Berlin, VILLA ELIZABETH Berlin in duo with Natasha Barrett, ELECTROBELGE, Brussels, HEROINES OF SOUND 2019, EPICENTROOM, St Petersburg, CITYSONIC CINEMA, Belgium, BELGIAN MUSIC DAYS, PLEAYADES, Madrid, CCCB Barcelona
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Jürgen Eckloff - Diese- Nichts & Solche
11 April 2025 6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Jürgen Eckloff - Diese, Nichts & Solche - (Excerpt) -
Mark Vernon - Drowned Villages of the Derwent Valley
11 April 2025 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
In the cold mists of the Derbyshire Peaks, beneath the leaden waters of Ladybower Reservoir, there are whispered legends of Derwent and Ashopton—the drowned villages. Once, they nestled quietly in the valley, their spires reaching upward as if in prayer. Now, the waters have swallowed them, murky and unyielding. Travellers along the reservoir’s edge sometimes claim to see shapes beneath the rippling surface: the suggestion of walls, the outline of roofs, a long-submerged memory surfacing for just a fleeting moment.
Yet there is more to these villages than stones and structures, more than just the unsettling stillness that hangs over the water’s edge. The bell tower of Derwent’s church, its pointed spire long submerged, is said to lie under the water like a crooked finger pointing accusingly to the heavens. But some nights—especially in autumn, when the mist grows thick and heavy—an echo has been heard ringing out from below the waves. It’s a faint, tremulous toll, as if the bell has not yet realised its own silencing.
Witnesses who have lingered in the hush by the water’s edge describe the sound as distant yet unmistakable, a mournful peal that stirs something deep in the bones. "Midnight bell," the locals have taken to calling it. Some say it tolls twelve times, each ring growing softer, more despairing, until only the listener’s heartbeat remains to fill the silence. They tell of a night watchman, barely more than a boy, who kept guard over the dam’s construction and swore he saw spectral figures walking along the invisible streets beneath the water’s surface. They seemed to move as if on their evening rounds, passing through half-familiar landmarks, slipping silently along shadowed paths. He claimed that, one evening in particular, he saw the flicker of a candlelight in the shape of an open window, shining dimly from beneath the dark waters.
The tales speak, too, of strange occurrences when the reservoir’s levels fall—when drought strikes and the waters recede just enough to reveal the tops of old stone walls and the fractured remnants of lanes. People have been known to venture closer, drawn by curiosity or some darker compulsion. And every now and then, one of these brave souls brings back a memento—a moss-covered stone, a shard of glass, a button—though not without consequence. There are whispers of strange dreams, of restless nights haunted by voices murmuring from the deep, unintelligible and insistent. More than one villager, I am told, has sworn to hear their name called in those dreams, a whisper rising up as if from beneath the waters.
To accommodate the increasing need for fresh water supplies for East Midlands residents in the early 1940’s the decision was made to build a new reservoir by flooding the two villages of Derwent and Ashopton. Residents were relocated to other areas and the new Ladybower reservoir was officially opened in 1945. Bodies from the graveyard of Derwent church were exhumed and reburied in the village of Bamford. Although most of the buildings were demolished the church spire remained as a memorial and was the last remnant of the village to endure before it too was finally submerged beneath the rising waters. To the consternation of many, on one particularly dry summer when water levels dropped the church spire emerged from the depths once more.
“At these times, locals would return to gaze at the eerie spectacle in morbid fascination, as if to remind themselves the village had once been a reality. Some swore they could hear the church bell ringing out across the waters…” *
Amidst concerns for safety the spire was dynamited in 1947 and the bell from the church was removed and later installed in the new church of St. Philips in Chaddesden, Derby in 1955 where it remains to this day. A recording I made of the Derwent bell in its new location provides the main source material for this composition along with field recordings taken around the present-day site of Ladybower reservoir.
Silt has covered the remains of the buildings of Ashopton village meaning that they will never re-emerge even in the event of low water levels. At the centre of the village was a Methodist chapel which was finally demolished in 1943. The final hymn to be sung before its doors closed forever was “The Day is Dying in the West”. Recordings of this hymn and readings of the lyrics have also been incorporated into the piece.
* Quote from ‘The lost villages of the Derwent Valley’ by Helen Moat.
Artist bio:
Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based artist who explores notions of audio archaeology, magnetic memory and nostalgia through his sound and radio works. At the core of his practice lies a fascination with the intimacy of the radio voice, environmental sound and the re-appropriation of found recordings.
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Omara Poppe - MOYO
11 April 2025 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
2 years ago, my father returned to his homeland Togo after 30 years. He left to set up a beer brewery 'MOYO BRASSERIE' . I had no idea if I would ever see him again. My father's life has always remained a dark stain. To my father avoiding my questions, I became accustomed as the years went by. Though frustration and curiosity about his story grew more. In January, I went to visit him for a month. Through the answers he finally gives me, I try to understand why he made certain choices and why he never wanted to talk about them. including why he decided to leave and leave us, his family, behind.
The audio documentary is set in an artisanal brewery on the warm beach of the of the Gold Coast. Together with my dad in the hammock, with his chickens, cats and his dog Moyo.
Artist bio:
Omara Poppe (°2002) is a Belgian audiomaker based in Brussels.
In 2024 she graduated with a master's degree in Radio from the RITCS School of Arts with the audio documentary ‘MOYO’ and participated in The Åke Blomström Masterclass at Prix Europa.
In 2023 she was nominated for the NTR Podcast Prize with her work Trɔ Va Tsɔ.
Meanwhile, she worked on several podcasts and audio works for museums, newspapers and the Public Broadcasting Service.
She is currently continuing her studies with a master's degree in Anthropology at KU Leuven.
Website/social links
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Kunstradio 5 - German Tapes by Runar Magnusson
11 April 2025 8:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Many years ago I was given a bag of cassette tapes containing recordings of radio drama from German radio in the early to mid 90´s. I have wanted to use these tapes for a project for a long time. When Kunstradio asked if I wanted to make a new work for them I knew the tapes would be coming out. In the summer of 2023 I spent 3 weeks in the Elektron Musik Studion in Stockholm where I digitised the tapes. I ran them trough various processes, mainly the Buchla modular synthesisers at EMS and recorded the results, hours or recordings. These recordings have become the soundsource for this piece. The German radio dramas and the Buchla 100 & Buchla200 modular systems. Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation -
Magda Lampropoulou - When in kitchen
11 April 2025 8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
“When in kitchen” composition was made with some sculptures of my recent sound installation “twist” which was presented in June 2024 at the Subset Festival and the Athens Epidaurus Festival. Sound sculptural constructions of objects and shapes with a feminine accent (bowls, plates and cutlery, faux pearls, seeds etc.) are twisting and turning in a synchronized dance balancing between the fragile nature of materials such as glass and the tenuous dynamics of their sounds. The outer shell of metal, paper, glass and ceramic surfaces and their inner elements create diverse qualities of sounds. Utilizing the kitchen tools and equipment as my musical instruments, I aim to give them the voice to say loudly our feminine song. Artist bio: Magda Lampropoulou (b. 1977 Athens) is a sculptress and sound artist based in Athens, Greece. Her artwork engages with diverse, expressive media including audio, performance, sculpture, installations, and video. With emphasis on issues such as discrimination, prejudice, and moral values imposed by a given society, she assumes a humanitarian approach to her work. She holds a degree in Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her participation in exhibitions, festivals, artistic radio podcasts and residencies (“Subset Festival”-Athens Epidaurus Festival/ "Tectonics Athens21", Onassis Cultural Centre), has resulted in her identifying her work methodology. https://magdoulas6.wixsite.com/magda-lampropoulou https://www.instagram.com/lampropoulou_magda/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009992858432 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063475181193 -
xentos fray bentos - Dream Escape Hatch
11 April 2025 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Radio is still the only location you can walk in a perfect circle and never arrive back at the same spot - and perhaps the only place where the face in the mirror is never expected to present the same image twice. Working both in and outside the unique coterminous space that radio offers us, Xentos Fray Bentos presents a series of concrete possibilities designed to disrupt, delight and facilitate a seamless exchange with multiple uncertainties. Dream Escape Hatch - as we journey from the surface of the moon back to a Waitrose shelf stocked with cans of bargain baked beans, we encounter a captive King Charles, a lyrical conundrum from the days of the Fab Four and discover an opportunity to dissolve in a ribald concussion of the senses.
Artist bio:
Xentos Fray Bentos is a sound, video and radio artist, writer and occasional performer now in living in delirious exile next door to sheep and long tailed tits in the decaying British countryside Over the last 30 years he has produced numerous collections of music and, alongside radiophonic works, has written original scripts for radio stations around the world. Currently, he is engaged in compiling the Die Trip Computer Die recording archive and transcribing selected parts of his extensive collection of writings for publication.
Website/social links
https://dietripcomputerdie.bandcamp.com
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Radiophrenia Shorts 33
11 April 2025 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm
1) Mark Contreras Waiss – Icaros (9:31)
2) Millikin Composers Collective - Static Ashes (2:00)
3) Arya Adyuta - Keep Walking (4:12)
4) Rabbitsquirrel - The vibrosocial communications between a Mech and her Pilot (8:51)
1) Mark Contreras Waiss – Icaros
Ícaros is the common name used to refer to the magical and sacred songs used in traditional Peruvian Amazonian medicine. They are songs used by healers, especially the Shipibo, in healing rituals.
Mark Contreras Waiss, a Peruvian academic composer, has forged his musical identity from the roots of his childhood in the picturesque city of Pucallpa, located in the jungle region of Ucayali, Peru. From an early age, Contreras was immersed in an environment rich in culture and nature, sparking his curiosity to explore music to connect with his roots and the natural surroundings that surrounded him. Graduating in musical composition from the National University of Music, he has excelled in numerous international competitions and contests. His compositions have been performed on prestigious stages in Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088498163053&locale=es_LA
2) Millikin Composers Collective - Static Ashes
"Static Ashes" is a piece derived from the poem, "Broken Record", by Karley Blau, creating an unstable and spiraling atmosphere as the final radio waves reach the end of their range.
Millikin Composers Collective is a central Illinois-based group focused on exploring composition and arranging in many forms. Members include Karley Blau, Colton Middleton, Abi Robison, Audrey Soetermans, Sciler Treacy, and Paolo Tonelli. They study music composition with Dr. Ralph Lewis.
https://millikin.edu/college-fine-arts/school-music
3) Arya Adyuta - Keep Walking
This audio-piece was meant to explore the questions and meanings of walking. By composing a series of field recordings from various walks, with some accompanying music and sound explorations, I seek to problematizes and reflect briefly on my walking experiences.
Arya Adyuta is an Indonesian arts researcher and audio producer. Most of his research focuses on issues regarding anthropology, popular music, and intergenerational relationships. Besides music, he likes to listen to stories people tell about themselves.
4) Rabbitsquirrel - The vibrosocial communications between a Mech and her Pilot
Much of the communication that happens between machine and operator is on a vibrational or haptic basis-- the machine becomes an extension of the body, and it's feedback becomes an expansion of the understanding of self.
A trope of near-future speculation has been the powered exoskeleton, where technology extends the capabilities of the human body past its natural limits while preserving the fundamental architecture.
This piece imagines the communication that happens between a vehicle and it's pilot from the perspective of the vehicle-- a conversation that happens as vibrations and alerts that are as much felt as heard. This piece is also meant to make use of radio's unique, ubiquitous placement within vehicles-- the resonate frequencies of the drone will be attenuated and filtered by each vehicle's unique construction. The vehicle becomes part of the piece.
rabbitsquirrel is an experimental drone project out of upstate New York with a penchant for excessively long song titles
https://soundcloud.com/rabbitsquirrel
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Radiophrenia Shorts 33
11 April 2025 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm
5) Edward Ruchalski - Radio Voices (2) (8:25) 6) Silvia Simons - Snapshots from Zurich to Syracusa (10:51) 7) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Picking Trash to Save the Planet (1:07) 8) Trevor Smith - on sober things of rich mundanity (11:42) 5) Edward Ruchalski - Radio Voices (2) Radio Voices (2) was created specifically for Radiophrenia’s open call. The source material was recorded from a short-wave receiver via the Wide-band WebSDR site, University of Twente. The various beeps, noises and tones, were processed by EQ, filters, and pitch shifting. The text was created by splicing various fragments of radio interviews together. What one hears is a person’s impression of the benefits of living in a city. This piece made from radio transmitted sounds is intended for radio broadcast. Edward Ruchalski is a composer, sound artist and field recordist. His compositions have been performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Mass MoCA, Symphony Space on Broadway and elsewhere. In 2020, Ruchalski’s acousmatic work, “Refined Localities”, was selected for inclusion in the exhibition, Audiosphere, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain. Ruchalski has been an artist in residence at Wave Farm in Acra, N.Y. During the residency he created a concept for a radio show with co-host Stephen Bradley called Bells, Bugs, Whispers & Plinks (WGXC 90.7 FM). edwardruchalski.com 6) Silvia Simons - Snapshots from Zurich to Syracusa This piece is created from some of the recordings I made with my little digital recorder over several years. It incorporates the eery creaking of a train from Zurich winding itself up the San Gottardo before descending towards Milano; a reciting poet in the labyrinth of narrow lanes in Genoa’s historical center; snippets of the Oratorium San Filippo Neri by Francesco Rossi (born in Bari 1625), captured per chance in a church concert in Rome; sounds of a Napoli outdoor market; recordings I made inside the impressive limestone cave Ear of Dionysius in Syracusa. I did not know if I recorded anything; it seemed still, silent in that big cave. However, like an Ancient Greek oracle, when I amplified the recording, ‘voices’, sounds revealed themselves. Recordings of my flute improvisations with the reverb of small chapels in remote Ticino mountain valleys also found their way into the 'Ear of Dionysius'. Silvia Simons is a multi-award-winning composer, sound artist, improviser, actor and director. She majored in Theater Arts and Music Composition at La Trobe University Melbourne. Postgraduate studies followed in Early Music, Japanese Theatre and more. Having grown up in Europe, she divides her time and artistic pursuits between Europe and Australia. Her works are broadcast and performed in Europe, USA and Australia. https://www.silviasimons.com/ 7) Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Picking Trash to Save the Planet From Picking Trash to Save the Planet - a spoken word and music concept EP(3-INCH CD) about the struggle between modern life and mother nature. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is the unfortunately-titled solo project of Ryan Kuehn(Dead Peasant Insurance, Thursday Club, Hot Air Balloon Ride). Hailing from the musically-thriving city of Cleveland, Ohio in the USA, he has released over 50 solo albums of varying styles in the past 20 or so years, mostly on cassette and CD-R. While more often than not an outsider Synthesizer project, there are some albums that stretch out to other areas- just this year alone he has recorded a gong album, as well as his first parody album and spoken word EP! 😢 🎶 http://www.drquinnmedicinewoman.bandcamp.com http://www.thursday-club.net http://www.youtube.com/megasupernoise http://www.youtube.com/balloonytunes 8) Trevor Smith - on sober things of rich mundanity This music is designed to utilize latency, poor connection, poor visual quality, and other realities of digital conferencing and communication as a way to develop a unique musical landscape. I particularly was looking to address concerns regarding the accessibility for creation and performance within digital communications spaces, as well as the conventions of artistic institutions with financial and technical ability to control a majority of artistic programming. "On sober things..." seeks to exploit the expressive capabilities of these platforms by embracing what may be conventionally perceived as limitations and reevaluating them as instruments that succeed in evoking an authentic experience of the current technological and cultural landscape. After the project was finished, I felt the audio was successful, while the visuals were not. I believe the standalone audio is the true work, formed out of the interactions of poor connection, latency, non-locality, found objects, and poor visual contact. Trevor is a music educator, composer, theorist, and percussionist. Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, he was introduced to music through local garage rock scenes, jazz and wind bands, and contemporary percussion chamber music. His compositions and research interests are also deeply inspired by the visual arts. His music has been performed internationally and by premiere ensembles, such as the United States Air Force Band, Hub New Music, the Florida Orchestra, and Beo String Quartet. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Tarleton State University. https://www.instagram.com/trevorjsmithmusic/ -
Jeronimo Jimenez & John Friberg - Radio Tacos El Chupacabra
10 April 2025 11:00 pm - 11 April 2025 12:00 am
The piece is divided in 3 parts:
1. Ñaka Ñaka - Ké Huelga Radio (0:00-36:04)
I picked up on anti-imperialist pirate station Ké Huelga Radio on my drive to work and recorded the entire commute.
2. Jero Route 66 and John Friberg - Pt 2 (36:04-43:14)
Recorded in Mexico City, 2024.
3. Jero Route 66 and John Friberg- Pt 1 (43:14-51:13)
Recorded in Mexico City, 2024.
Artist bio:
Jeronimo Jimenez is an artist based in Mexico City. He performs as Ñaka Ñaka and Jero Route 66.
John Friberg is an artist based in Providence, RI. He is a member of the band Shots.
Website/social links
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Otomax - Tales of mysogyny
11 April 2025 11:00 pm - 11:30 pm
The radioshow Tales of mysogyny is made by art collective Otomax, featuring Cristina with texts out of "How to ruin everything for dummies". All the tracks are recorded for the open call in a live studio set and edited afterwards.
Artist bio:
Otomax is a Dutch-Luxembourg artists' collective consisting of Nika Schmitt, Mike Moonen, Paul Devens, Fran Hoebergen, and Joep Hinssen. Otomax's work ranges from performances, print media, and music to installations. The productions of Otomax are always the sum of the input from each individual member, and the way this happens is through improvisation. The group engages with prevailing (pop) culture through irony. The materials used are secondhand, handmade, or repurposed. For example, music performances are staged with modified children's toys and old music electronics—using "circuit bending," hacked Gameboys, and self-built synthesizers and modified VJ equipment.
Website/social links
https://www.facebook.com/otomaxnonpop/
https://otomax.bandcamp.com/album/ways-to-prepare-pets-for-war
https://www.youtube.com/@otomax8711
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Dave Madden - We Three Nephites
11 April 2025 11:30 pm - 12 April 2025 12:00 am
Per The Book of Mormon, Jesus Christ visited the Americas during the three days between his death and resurrection. While there, he (sic) ordained twelve disciples, three of which asked for and were granted immortal life. Known as The Three Nephites, they have used the last 2000 years to lead souls unto Christ, all the while remaining anonymous and evading physical harm. Since the founding of Mormonism in 1830, its members ashamedly clamor for their visitations. Less elusive than Sasquatch, these persons will generally appear to someone in comparatively dire straits and produce a miracle. Further, the Three tend to materialize and then vanish either without warning or in a spectacular manner that leaves the audience frozen - as if tasting God’s time. This project began as an historical recording of the journal of my Great x5 Grandfather, Warren G. Child, which he kept between December 1872 and Feb. 1905.
Artist bio:
Dave Madden’s (aka Tulpamancers, nonnon, dj_webern) earliest memories are Magical Mystery Tour, “Paint it Black” and the guy who claimed to be the Lizard King. He uses percussion, found objects, laptop, turntables and an obsessive bending of sound to perform all over the world, from Montreal to Chico, California, in universities, museums and coffee shops, preferring the types of crowds who enjoy John Cage back-to-back with Anti-Pop Consortium. Dave is currently focused on Nowhere Mountain, a project with photographer Mark Regester. He is also a journalist for Squidco.com.
Website/social links
https://thenonnon.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@phenomenonnon
https://www.instagram.com/nononnon
https://www.instagram.com/nowhere_mountain/
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Dai Coelecanth - Radio Graveyard
12 April 2025 12:00 am - 6:00 am
Dai Koelakanth irate ranter curmudgeon skinflint here we go again RADIO GRAVEYARD six hours of bad sound hiss fuzz buzz trench warble despite it all the lad always does his best he is a living wart poet film maker artist villiany in the rear view who knows when those skills will be called upon again life can be rough hello listeners I love you all...
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Radiophrenia Shorts 49
12 April 2025 6:00 am - 6:30 am
1) Jeff Gburek - In Praise of the Shambolic (5:33) 2) Dariusz Mazurowski - Metropolis Balticum / Part 3 Industry (10:36) 3) Jess Hamilton - Dark Crystals (2:02) 4) Vincent Eoppolo - The Life Ascetic (3:27) 5) Jorge Ramos - Project 2 (5:52) 1) Jeff Gburek - In Praise of the Shambolic This is a segment of an in progress work of percussion based resampled manipulations. All attempts were first made to create orderly rhythms then submitted them to the discipline of deregulation. Sham for shamanism. Olic from symbolic. Praise from rays. Jeff Gburek is poet, field recordist, sound artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist exploring all strata of cosmophonic resolutions.Works increasingly focus on receptive listening and recognition of patterned chaos in the mind triggered by externally ordered phenomenon in flux.Microphones, detuned guitars, hydrophones, shortwave and VLF radios, ground spikes, bat detectors and electronics typify the research in the psycho-acousticsof Gaian whispers enveloping and composing existence. http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/ 2) Dariusz Mazurowski - Metropolis Balticum / Part 3 Industry The piece "Industry" is the third part of the extensive composition "Metropolis Balticum (Urbana Landscape)", a soundscape of Gdansk, my hometown. It was entirely created from field recordings that I made within the urban space, visiting various locations and searching for intriguing events with musical qualities. During the field recordings I visited many places – both those well-known and frequently visited by tourists, and many that even the citizens themselves often know little about. This piece consists of multiple phrases layered on top of each other, creating a sonic tapestry. The sounds of the city, bustling streets, industrial noises, the sea's roar, and the hubbub of human activity all become phrases contributing to this uniquely musical whole. This project was undertaken as part of the Cultural Grant of the City of Gdańsk, awarded in 2023. Dariusz Mazurowski is a Polish electroacoustic music composer born and residing in Gdansk. While the majority of his compositional activity has focused on acousmatic works, he has also composed instrumental music in conjunction with electronics, soundscapes, and mprovised electroacoustic music. His works combine analog instruments with the digital technology and concrete sounds. Mazurowski’s music has been broadcast by various stations all over the world, and he has performed at festivals and other events in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. His installations, visual works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous galleries. His compositions has been released on numerous discs. https://deemstudio.com/ https://www.facebook.com/people/Dariusz-Mazurowski/100086282450366/ https://www.youtube.com/user/DeeMstudio/videos https://open.spotify.com/search/Dariusz%20Mazurowski 3) Jess Hamilton - Dark Crystals This piece is part of a collaborative project with visual artists Sammy Hawker and Sam Tonkin. In her piece 'Dark Crystals', Sammy processed a photograph of Mollymook beach on Yuin Country (a place that holds personal significance to me) using salt water from the ocean at the site. In what she feels is an act of co-creation, the salt fractures and crystalises the image, almost completely obscuring the landscape beneath. The composition was created using data from the barely visible horizon line in this work, transposed through spectrograms into sound. It was played through chladni plates created by Sam Tonkin, creating a kinetic and sonic loop of communication with the photographic recording of place, during Sammy's solo show SALT. Gratitude and respect to the Yuin, Gadigal, Ngnunnawal and Ngambri custodians on whose land and sea country we live and work. Jess Hamilton is an audio producer and field recordist living on Gadigal land, Eora (Sydney). Her work explores memory, temporality and the hidden sounds of ecosystems through hydrophones and electromagnetic recorders, layered field recordings and found sound. Through a practice of listening, recording and manipulating sound, she attempts to make audible the anthropogenic influences of our time on ecosystems and soundscapes - particularly those that seem obscured from human senses. Her audio storytelling projects have featured at IFC AudioDocs Reykjavik, Rose D’Or and the Australian Podcast Awards. She is currently studying soundscape ecology through a Master of Marine Science. https://soundcloud.com/jessicajhamilton/sets/isafjordur-etc https://jessica-hamilton.com/ @mahssej Sammy Hawker: @sammyhawker https://sammyhawker.com/ 4) Vincent Eoppolo - The Life Ascetic Living In Times of Chaos is a collection of 7 compositions that were composed in late 2023 through August 2024. The works are Electro Acoustic, Acousmatic and Musique Concrete in their forms. As the title suggests these works are mediations on the current state of affairs in our world. Vincent Eoppolo born Wilmington, Delaware USA. Eoppolo’s compositions are a mix of various sound art traditions such as musique concrete, acousmatic music, electro-acoustic music and radio art. In recent years, Eoppolo’s fixed media works have been presented at the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Mise_En Place New Music Festival in Brooklyn, Utopie Sonore in Nantes, France and De Natura Sonorum in Rome, Italy. Eoppolo’s compositions have been released by Moscow based independent music label Meticulous Midgets and his works are regularly featured on new music radio and internet programs throughout Europe and North America https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007788824642 https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CFAy7K6LpWMvtFN5EpKPT?si=01YRMOiARguOmFU8-aT8Dw https://soundcloud.com/vincent-eoppolo 5) Jorge Ramos - Project 2 It all started with 2 frequencies shocking, and like almost everything, with time comes development and evolution. From a struggle between frequencies, effects, rhythmic games, aggressive panoramic and volume work and noise to a very beautiful moment of resonances which marks the decay of the early electronic processed ambient and the hatching of a very beautiful piano melody between the smoothness of electronic processing disappearing and the distant clarinet playing. In the end, with the hearing of the last note, everyone can realize that a struggle so simple as 2 frequencies shocking can be turned into a very beautiful melodious ambient... Jorge Ramos is a Portuguese multiple award-winning composer, sound artist, and researcher based in London. He has written solo, chamber, symphony, mixed, electroacoustic, live-electronics, film, stage, installations, and advertisement music for festivals, orchestras, ensembles, and soloists across Asia, North America, South America, and Europe, while also collaborating with other artists computer music design. Jorge Ramos holds a Doctorate in Music Composition granted by the Royal College of Music London. He currently serves as a collaborator at The ACTOR Project — Orchestration practice in the 21st century (CAN) and CESEM ESML (PT). He is an European Network of Opera Academies Artist. https://jorgefpramos.com -
Radiophrenia Shorts 49
12 April 2025 6:30 am - 7:00 am
6) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - EINER VON IHNEN (7:19)
7) Pablo Paniagua - Territorial Reminiscences: Buenos Aires Soundscapes and Biosonification at the Manzana de las Luces (19:35)
8) Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 5 (4:50)
6) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - EINER VON IHNEN
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
7) Pablo Paniagua - Territorial Reminiscences: Buenos Aires Soundscapes and Biosonification at the Manzana de las Luces
This proposal is part of the graphic art exhibition “Every Landscape is Cultural: Graphic Expressions of the Territory” (2024) by Facundo Medina Carabajal and María Belén Corso. I have designed a performance where real-time processing of soundscape recordings from various locations in the Province of Buenos Aires is interwoven with the sounds generated by a plant located in the Manzana de las Luces, connected to a biosonifier. This high-tech device converts the plant’s bioelectrical signals into sound, integrating the natural vibrations of the plant into the sonic composition. The sounds sourced from diverse natural environments will merge with the tones produced by the biosonifier, creating a symphony in constant evolution that will interact with both the exhibition and the historic space where the performance takes place. This proposal is one of the "poetic dialogues" featured in Facundo and María Belén's exhibition, along with contributions from Marcela Villagrán and Pola Gómez.
I am an artist and educator from Chubut, currently based in Buenos Aires, with a Master’s degree in Combined Artistic Languages. Since 2014, I have participated in national and international artistic events and received awards and grants. My recent work explores visual, auditory, and corporeal elements in specific contexts. As an educator, I teach at various levels of formal and informal education and conduct workshops in both public and private spaces.
https://pablopaniagua.com.ar/
https://www.instagram.com/pablopaniagua87/
8) Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 5
Channelling is a kinetic sound performance that utilizes various components salvaged from discarded and obsolete consumer technology, reanimating them by piping amplified sound through them. The motors and mechanisms respond to these sound impulses in erratic and unpredictable ways. The actions of, and emanations from, the devices are subsequently amplified.
The project was developed through 2021and 2022 by support from Ferme-Asile (CH), Witte Rook (NL), AiR Niederösterreich (AT), HEAR and Espaces Sonore (FR) and Château Éphémère (FR).
Since 2005 Simon Whetham has worked with sonic activity. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He also explores ways of creating physical traces of sound and transforming energy forms.
Whetham performs and exhibits internationally, has received a large number of commissions and awards, has many published composed works and regularly collaborates with other artists. In addition his practice covers giving active listening, field recording and technology repurposing workshops.
https://simonwhetham.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/simonwhethamartist/
https://vimeo.com/simonwhetham
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Paul Devens - Conspection
12 April 2025 7:00 am - 8:00 am
Conspection is an hour-long soundscape build from electro-magnetic sounds of cars passing by, underwater sounds of ship propellors and factories ashore, sounds of circuit bent Casio and Yamaha toy keyboards and speaking toys, both from the late '70-iets and the early '80-ies. Analogue synthesised sounds from intertwining layers.
The piece is somehow connected to ecological matters, as most of the sources are taken from fossil-fuel driven machinery and non-recyclable toys. These sources are somehow 'hacked' and turned into creative instruments.
Conspection is an obsolete word for observation with understanding.
Artist bio:
Paul Devens, Maastricht 1965 Drawing on a research-based approach within his artistic practice, Devens develops bodies of works that connect sound and architectural elements. As he generates and collects site-specific audio recordings, Devens actively considers the physical space and social context. He does this through selecting aspects from particular situations and implementing them in a new one, oftentimes critiquing the original situation. His research manifests in sound-based installations, performances, and record releases. He exhibits, performs and works in museums, non-profit art spaces, public space, etc, internationally.
Website/social links
http://pauldevens.nl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Devens
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Radiophrenia Shorts 6
12 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
1 Vanessa Valencia & Gerardo Flores - De ambulantes soy (6:41)
2 Rosie Trevill – Swell (7:30)
3 Jeff Gburek - Scops Owl Hop (7:08)
4 Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - Vòng đời _ The circle of life (1:21)
5 berni m janssen and vicki hallett - (p)each (21:18)
1) Vanessa Valencia & Gerardo Flores - De ambulantes soy
English:
An internal journey, like a thought expressed out loud: *'I am of the wanderers'* is a radio art piece that explores the sounds that inhabit us, we, the wanderers. We intertwine with a city that sometimes feels indifferent and, at other times, envelops us with its own nostalgic sounds.
Spanish:
Un viaje interno, como un pensamiento expresado en voz alta: 'De ambulantes soy' es un radioarte que explora los sonidos que nos habitan, a nosotros, los ambulantes. Nos entrelazamos con una ciudad que, a veces, resulta indiferente y, en otras ocasiones, nos envuelve con sus propios sonidos nostálgicos.
Vanessa Valencia: Realizadora y paisajista sonora.
Gerardo Flores: Sonidista y músico.
https://www.instagram.com/sinurgencia/
https://www.instagram.com/gerardonorvasc/
2) Rosie Trevill – Swell
A collection of found seascapes, remnants of Orcadian past, and song, ‘Swell’ is a series of fragments written in response to Orkney’s ecology and mythology. It draws on reflections of the climate collapse, the survivor-victim complex, and the healing power of ritual in community. Featuring Rebecca Ord and Pippa Thomas.
Rosie Trevill is an interdisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, specialising in writing, textile silk-screen printing, performance and installation. Rosie works both independently and collaboratively to address language and embodiment as acts of resistance and resilience within personal and societal frameworks, informed by queer and feminist discourse.
https://rosietrevill.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/rosieltstudio
3) Jeff Gburek - Scops Owl Hop
Based on the recording of the Eurasian Scops Owl near the Timiș River in Romania with added layers of elemental out of doors birdsy Balkan ambience, under water critters and home-spun rhythm speech. Geoidiomatic Music.
Jeff Gburek is poet, field recordist, sound artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist exploring all strata of cosmophonic resolutions. Works increasingly focus on receptive listening and recognition of patterned chaos in the mind triggered by externally ordered phenomenon in flux. Microphones, detuned guitars, hydrophones, shortwave and VLF radios, ground spikes, bat detectors and electronics typify the research in the psycho-acoustics of Gaian whispers enveloping and composing existence.
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/
4) Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - Vòng đời _ The circle of life
nHữNG NgÀY kHÓ ở Ở trêN đỜI // thoSE hArD-TO-liVe dAYS was a collection of 5 selected poets, written from 2021 - 2022 by Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao. Each of them was originally a statement of confrontation with the socially constructed so-called "nature", juggling between binaries of man & woman, love & hatred, individualism & collectivism, and so on.
As a way to deconstruct the "nature" concept, the anthologies were later exhibited in a digital space with an invitation for community manipulation. Readers were encouraged to rewrite or delete the words in their own interpretation and stylistic choices. The latter would work on the former's version/interpretation.
The audio version was captured in time of the 6th version, recorded and mixed by the original author as a means of reclaiming and authorship. The sound mixing is intentionally "left" because everything is not "right".
Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao is a Vietnamese writer and multidisciplinary artist. He embraces multimedia and expression, such as typography, photography, film, sound art, performance art with a core appreciation of poetry practices. His works have been featured in Vânguard Zine (Issue 6), Sui Generis (Bard College, 2024 Edition), WCBX Zine, etc. Bao is currently pursuing a BA Degree in Art and Media Studies at Fulbright University Vietnam.
https://www.instagram.com/nguyenhoanggiabao_/
5) berni m janssen and vicki hallett - (p)each
(p)each, inspired by the popular Japanese folktale Momotaro, responds to, and is also inspired by grassroots movements in troubled times across the world. The story of a boy born from a peach, who gathers unlikely allies, to fight the oppressors offers an example of bravery against unmatched odds, of how when we work together we can do the seemingly impossible.
It is a story of people’s struggles to overcome oppression, the injustices, whether it be war, corporate greed, climate change, demagogic tendencies (the list sadly is long), that threaten the planet and all inhabitants, lives, diversity, ways of living. It is a tribute to all people who have lost so much, including their lives, in these struggles.
(p)each, created and performed by berni m janssen and Vicki Hallett, entwines treated clarinet (Vicki Hallett), live and pre-recorded vocal texts and effects (berni m janssen). Sound Engineer, Michael Hewes.
berni m janssen is a maker of poems, performances, multidisciplinary art and preserves. She often works with composers, musicians, sound artists, performers and visual artists. She lives and works on the unceded land of the Dja Dja Wurrung in Australia.
Vicki Hallett is a musician, acoustic ecologist and composer. Her focus is to record, compose with, and feature ever-diminishing habitats and species. Highlighting unique sounds from the micro to the macro, Hallett utilises sounds we rarely or cannot hear. Hallett travels the world recording sounds as well as performing in environments in Africa (with hippopotami) and the Amazon jungle.
http://www.vickihallett.com -
Radiophrenia Shorts 6
12 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
5 berni m janssen and vicki hallett - (p)each (21:18)
6 Vincent Eoppolo - Illusion of Connection featuring Ilaria Boffa (5:00)
7 Justin Boyd - Used Dance Bin 1 (10:00)
5) berni m janssen and vicki hallett - (p)each (21:16)
(p)each, inspired by the popular Japanese folktale Momotaro, responds to, and is also inspired by grassroots movements in troubled times across the world. The story of a boy born from a peach, who gathers unlikely allies, to fight the oppressors offers an example of bravery against unmatched odds, of how when we work together we can do the seemingly impossible.
It is a story of people’s struggles to overcome oppression, the injustices, whether it be war, corporate greed, climate change, demagogic tendencies (the list sadly is long), that threaten the planet and all inhabitants, lives, diversity, ways of living. It is a tribute to all people who have lost so much, including their lives, in these struggles.
(p)each, created and performed by berni m janssen and Vicki Hallett, entwines treated clarinet (Vicki Hallett), live and pre-recorded vocal texts and effects (berni m janssen). Sound Engineer, Michael Hewes.
berni m janssen is a maker of poems, performances, multidisciplinary art and preserves. She often works with composers, musicians, sound artists, performers and visual artists. She lives and works on the unceded land of the Dja Dja Wurrung in Australia.
Vicki Hallett is a musician, acoustic ecologist and composer. Her focus is to record, compose with, and feature ever-diminishing habitats and species. Highlighting unique sounds from the micro to the macro, Hallett utilises sounds we rarely or cannot hear. Hallett travels the world recording sounds as well as performing in environments in Africa (with hippopotami) and the Amazon jungle.
http://www.vickihallett.com
6) Vincent Eoppolo - Illusion of Connection featuring Ilaria Boffa
Living In Times of Chaos is a collection of 7 compositions that were composed in late 2023 through August 2024. The works are Electro Acoustic, Acousmatic and Musique Concrete in their forms. As the title suggests these works are mediations on the current state of affairs in our world.
Vincent Eoppolo born Wilmington, Delaware USA. Eoppolo’s compositions are a mix of various sound art traditions such as musique concrete, acousmatic music, electro-acoustic music and radio art. In recent years, Eoppolo’s fixed media works have been presented at the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Mise_En Place New Music Festival in Brooklyn, Utopie Sonore in Nantes, France and De Natura Sonorum in Rome, Italy. Eoppolo’s compositions have been released by Moscow based independent music label Meticulous Midgets and his works are regularly featured on new music radio and internet programs throughout Europe and North America
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007788824642
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CFAy7K6LpWMvtFN5EpKPT?si=01YRMOiARguOmFU8-aT8Dw
7) Justin Boyd - Used Dance Bin 1
Using dollar bin or cheaper records I cut and manipulate the LP's to manually lock the grooves. Then using three turntables and a mixer I mix the records until I create a new composition I like. These are part of a larger body of my work that takes familiar sounds and through processing and manipulation transforms them into something new.
Justin Boyd is an artist and educator working in San Antonio, TX. He graduated from the University of Texas in San Antonio with a BFA in Ceramics and finished his MFA in Integrated Media at The California Institute of the Arts. He is an Assistant Professor of New Media and Sculpture at the University of Texas at San Antonio, plays music in a space country band and continues his long-standing radio show each week on KRTU 91.7 FM.
http://justintaylorboyd.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jutboyd/ -
'Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater' - THE GIANT’S GUITAR
12 April 2025 9:00 am - 9:45 am
Mary Farfisa is an eight-year-old space-girl who travels the Galaxies on her space-horse, Briscoe. Mary goes from planet to planet, searching for “songs and sounds and music and noise” to share with the rest of the Universe. Mary catches the songs and sounds and music and noise in her “audio lasso.” Then she brings them to the Listener’s Library – an intergalactic collection of sounds, curated by music-loving super-beings called the Listeners. 'Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater' was heard every Saturday morning for two years on local station KSZN in Flagstaff Arizona. Its entire run is available now as podcast. In this Episode - THE GIANT’S GUITAR – Mary and Briscoe head to the High Seas to rescue the lost guitar of Near-Sighted John Jumbo, the Blues Giant. Will they find it at the bottom of the Sea? And – since Near-Sighted John really WAS a giant – will they be able to haul it back up to the surface? As they search, Briscoe tells Mary the life story of the legendary guitar player’s life. A children's radio series written and produced by Jim Cheff. Starring Cara Alboucq, Terry Alan, Jim Cheff, Bonnie Dumdei, Miranda Marie, Bernie Poshpishel, and Jayden Robin. Original music by Terry Alan. ©2017 Jim Cheff, All Rights Reserved. -
Nadia Rossi - Digging Where We Stand
12 April 2025 9:45 am - 10:00 am
Digging Where We Stand (DWWS) was made in Spring 2024 for ‘Loose Tomatoes in the Back Yard’, an exhibition as part of GI Festival at Rumpus Room. The show brought a group of artists together to work with children and families to cultivate, build, write, make – becoming collective caretakers of the garden at Rumpus. It features 13 tracks recorded by kids in the yard who interviewed each other and shared stories from the garden alongside music made with Charlie Knox, Nadia Rossi, Angel Walker and Holly White. Track 8 features Jenny Pengilly and babies and carers from a playgroup called Romp Around, recorded in Autumn the year before at the Hidden Gardens, Glasgow. DWWS was mixed and mastered by Practice Good Practice at The Space, Glasgow, artwork by Nancy aged 5.
Artist bio:
Nadia Rossi is a Glasgow-based artist working in collaborative practice. Nadia embraces a do-it-together approach to explore how we can use play and performance as tools for social and political reimagining, often working with children and young people. Together they make things like sculpture, zines, banners, interventions and community events. Nadia is a co-founder of Rumpus Room, an artist-led org working on art & social action projects with kids and young people in Govanhill Glasgow, was part of the performance art group Fallope & the Tubes and is one also half of the artist collaboration Pester & Rossi.
Website/social links
https://nadiarossi.bandcamp.com/album/digging-where-we-stand
http://rumpus-room.org/ -
Jean-Philippe Renoult - Domestic Drones
12 April 2025 10:00 am - 10:30 am
They are my pets. They pulsate for hours at low volume in my studio, even when I'm not there. Once they have escaped from my machines, I don't interfere. I let them breathe in the open air, in a flow that I record with microphones and sensors. Between four and six channels are assigned to capture the sound generators, the space of the room and the vibrations of the surfaces. These drones are generous, they accompany and embellish the sounds around them. I like to call them my domestic drones, they infiltrate and subtly change my homescape, it is a discreet mix where the air of one match the vibrations of the other. Every now and again a distant melody can be heard. -
Siobhan Leddy - Activities for Listening
12 April 2025 10:30 am - 11:00 am
‘Activities for Listening’ is an experiment in listening. A mysterious nonhuman entity wants to teach us how to hear their name, which lies outside of ordinary hearing thresholds for most humans. Our narrator tries to teach us how to listen otherwise, guiding us through different ways of listening to extend our regular human sensing abilities. We listen into the sonic worlds of bats, the upper atmosphere, and the micro-vibrating honeycombs of a beehive. Music by Kevin Chow Mixed and mastered by by Johan Östman Image by Tal Chodos Artist bio: Siobhan Leddy is a researcher, writer and artist based between Berlin, Brno, and the forests of rural Sweden. In her posthuman practice, she is drawn to aesthetic or sensuous processes for creating meaning, such as art, sound, song and food. Website/social links siobhanleddy.com https://www.instagram.com/shivshivshiv___/ -
Elina Bry & Mark Vernon - Opera of the Body
12 April 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
The premise of this radiophonic work is the idea of the mute body. The body as a rebellious ‘other’ with whom communication has irretrievably broken down. We explore the sonification of biological processes and the idea of the mute body within a narrative framework based around personal experiences of health conditions and medical treatments. Through a series of pseudo-scientific medical experiments and strategies we attempt to coax, persuade or trick our bodies into speaking to us once more. If we listen closely, what can our bodies teach us? What will they say?
The first iteration of this idea took the form of a public performance at Gallery Celine in January 2020 titled ‘Prelude to an Opera of the Body’.
Artist bios:
Elina Bry is a French/Finnish, Glasgow based multidisciplinary artist and award-winning filmmaker. They work across video, storytelling and live performance, and are interested in listening to and re-staging the malfunctions of the human body. They are curious about the body as a sentient arena; as a responsive tool and as a protagonist of an everyday drama. By that, they investigate the known, model it and work in collaboration with the instability of their body. It is essential that they don't cause any harm as they want to challenge their body with the everyday, in order to give a stage and witness what is already there. The thematic undercurrents of ecology and slow travel prominently weave through their artistic endeavours. Through their multidisciplinary approach, they seek to unravel the nuanced interplay between the human form and its environment, exploring the intricacies of the body while maintaining a conscientious connection to ecological and sustainable principles.
https://www.elinabry.com/
Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based artist who explores notions of audio archaeology, magnetic memory and nostalgia through his sound and radio works. At the core of his practice lies a fascination with the intimacy of the radio voice, environmental sound and the re-appropriation of found recordings.
http://meagreresource.com -
Buffer Zone
12 April 2025 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
1) Yve Lomax - Quer - ep 6: Profoundly transverse (7.54)
2) Len Goatzee - NEKCIHC (9:09)
3) Audrey Chen - Live at H0l0 (17:54)
1) Yve Lomax - Quer
ep 6: Profoundly transverse
Credits: With thanks to Jono Lomax (sound) and Vit Hopley (script). Thanks also to Kristen Kreider.
Synopsis: Quer is a single voice spoken performance that moves through various modes of address, mixing the poetic, philosophical and the everyday. It is an experiment in how to say something and touches upon things considered pressing for living today. This includes: violence and the cry Why am I being hurt?; attentiveness, justice and ceasing to treat the Earth as a property to be owned; nonviolence and the magic of compassion; dissolving the distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them’; the question of belonging and how saying ‘I am queer’ up-ends it. Quer ends with the assertion that all of life is profoundly transverse and plays upon the old meaning of ‘quer’ as oblique, transverse.
Artist bio: Yve Lomax is a visual artist, writer and editor. She is currently a director of and editor for Copy Press publishers and its audio-visual platform Becoming Fireflies. Since the late 1970s she has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her first book of collected writings was published in 2000 under the title of Writing the Image. Recent publications: Here from There (a shared book with Vit Hopley, 2024); Nearness (2019); Figure, calling (2017); Pure Means (2014). Films/spoken performances include: Mad about justice (2022) and Political Life (2021). Formally, she was a Senior Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art and Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Besides feminism, a longstanding concern has been writing for spoken performances.
Website/social links:
copypress.co.uk
2) Len Goatzee - NEKCIHC
Len Goetzee is a queer artist living and working in Glasgow. Through a trans methodology of collapse and dispossession they excavate a past enmeshed with the non-human and the more than human. Binaries breakdown and temporalities become twisted; an anti-propulsive practise reversing into queer resistance and into old futures.
3) Audrey Chen - Live at H0l0 (17:54)
AUDREY CHEN is a 2nd generation Chinese/Taiwanese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976. Parting ways with the family convention, she turned to the cello at age 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialization in early and new music, she parted ways again in 2003 to begin new negotiations with sound in order to discover a more individually honest aesthetic. Since then, using the voice, cello and analog electronics, Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised, is completely un-processed and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of an analog synthesizer, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language.
For nearly two decades, her predominant focus has been her solo work with the voice, cello and electronics, but she has more recently, in the last four years, begun to shift back towards the exploration of the voice as a primary instrument. Aside from her solo concerts, Chen performs currently in her longest running duo project since 2005 with Phil Minton; as BEAM SPLITTER with trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø; as MOPCUT with Lukas Koenig and Julien Desprez; in duo with electronic music artist Kaffe Matthews; and as a duo for voice/live digital process with Mexican sound artist Hugo Esquinca.
Among her more recent album releases include, "By the Stream" with Phil Minton - Subrosa (Brussels), "Hiss & Viscera" with Richard Scott - Sound Anatomy (Berlin), "Rough Tongue", BEAM SPLITTER'S debut LP - Corvo Records (Berlin) and latest “Split Jaw” on Tripticks Tapes (US), her solo album "Runt Vigor" - Karl Records (Berlin) and two records with MOPCUT, “Accelerated Frames of Reference” - Trost (AT) and “Jitter”, A split release on Opal Tapes (UK) and Ventil Records (AT).
Chen has performed across Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Canada and the USA. Since 2011, she relocated to Berlin, Germany from Baltimore, MD USA and continues to maintain an active international touring schedule.
http://www.audreychen.com -
Matana Roberts - Chasing Hopes on the Star Atlantic (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
12 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
How can you use the art of sound to make painful memory joyful, without negating the importance of painful experience? What is myth? What is awe? How can you honor, yet document the unknown? Where do the personal, cultural, emotional politics collide in a rendering of sonicity? What does it mean to endure?
These are questions that currently fascinate me. My current work is focused on collaging experiential process through soundscape exploration, based on unique embodied experiences.
Just before the world shutdown in 2019 I voyaged on an English cargo ship from the United Kingdom to North America. I wanted to know…to embody the motion, movements of not only a history but of a wonder around sounds, memory, what we carry, what we leave behind whether by choice or force.
I carried with me a small “roberts radio”, that refused to work of course, b/c there was no signal. So I kept an audio diary and from that, a series of field recordings, and footage I made during this time, I present to you a radio collage, of a life changing moment for me not only as an artist, but as a person, entitled “Chasing Hopes on the Star Atlantic…”
‘Chasing Hopes on the Star Atlantic’ is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunst zum Hören, Osterreich 1 produced with the support of Creative Scotland.
Biography:
Matana Roberts is an internationally celebrated composer, performer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist, and mixed-media practitioner.
Working across many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, music composition, visual art, dance, poetry, and theatre, Roberts is perhaps best known for their acclaimed Coin Coin project - a multi-chapter work of 'panoramic sound quilting' mixed media performance work, that aims to expose the mystical roots and intuitive traditions of American creative expression, while maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrative, history, community and political expression within sonic structures.
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Katrina Niebergal & Bergur Anderson - come, Memory: fieldwork
12 April 2025 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
come, Memory was a long-dream-of, research-led project, begun in September 2021 by Katrina Niebergal, that centred around three research/recording trips taken to a series of ancient (especially Neolithic) European sacred sites. The project included: research; the recording of Super 8mm film, 35mm photo, and sound; the assembly of three short, experimental films, and the creation of a scenographic installation. come, Memory: fieldwork is another iteration of this project — an expanded research and sound document — collaboratively made by Katrina Niebergal and Bergur Anderson (the project’s field-recordist and film soundtrack composer). The project in all its facets, looked speculatively, through embedded, eroded and residual evidence, at the presence/absence of the divine womanly (or Great Mother), and at the idea and sens-o-reality of earth-sentience. It looked to the ancient (pre-capitalist and pre-patriarchal) past to think/feel into feminist futures.
Originally released as a limited edition cassette on Futura Resistenza, Brussels.
Artist bio:
Katrina Niebergal is an artist working across various media and processes, including research, filmmaking, installation, sculpture, sound and language. Increasingly, she is combining these into long-term, multifaceted, world-making projects with an emphasis on: poetic logic; the dubious and multiform subject of the womanly “irrational”; and the pre-historic and speculative-future epochs.
Bergur Anderson is a visual artist, producer-composer and sound-maker. His practice combines and exists somewhere between music, performance, world-making and conceptual sound art. Through various solo and collaborative projects he makes publications, performances and installations that reflect on his interests in polyphonic storytelling, orality and the transitory qualities of sound.
Website/social links
https://katrinaniebergal.com
https://www.instagram.com/katrina___niebergal/
&
http://berguranderson.info
https://www.instagram.com/bergur__anderson/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 20
12 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations GAUMENFREUDEN 7 (0:41)
2) Lidia Zielińska - Jako te biale myszki (8:04)
3) Stuart Low - mother grew us (1:24)
4) Pete Cox - Africa House (My Love is Like a Red Red Rose) (16.54)
1) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations GAUMENFREUDEN 7
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
2) Lidia Zielińska - Jako te biale myszki
Where an Anglo-Saxon sees pink elephants, a Pole (or a German, or Scandinavian) meets just white mice. Be it a partygoer’s morning, or workaholic’s rare pause, or anyone’s moment of distraction; always there are small gaps in perception, barely visible shapes in your eye corner, reiterating echoes, loads of déjà-vus.
Jako te białe myszki dwells on that borderline between sound and silence, dream and reality, half- filled and half-empty, using limited sources (sound of drop of water and rubbed and stroked glass) with utmost accuracy and not without a hint of subtle humour.
[Rafał Augustyn, 1998]
The piece was commissioned by Swedish Radio and realised at EMS in Stockholm in February '96 and in 1997 became the laureate of 24th International Electroacoustic Music Competition in Bourges.
Lidia Zielinska – Polish composer, professor of composition and director of the Electroacoustic Music Studio at the Academy of Music in Poznan; numerous awards for orchestral music, multimedia, electroacoustic works; books, articles, papers, guest lectures (topics: sound and music, acoustic ecology, Polish experimental music, traditional Japan music), summer courses, workshops in Europe, both Americas, China, Japan, New Zealand; electroacoustic compositions realised at the EMS Stockholm, SE PR Warsaw, IPEM/BRT Gent, ZKM Karlsruhe, Experimentalstudio des SWR Freiburg; vice-president of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music, former vice-president of the Polish Composers’ Union, programming committee member of the “Warsaw Autumn” Festival.
lidiazielinska.wordpress.com
https://soundcloud.com/lidia_zielinska
3) Stuart Low - mother grew us
bit more of my poetry and music software work..
i am disabled i work mostly from home in sound but have been known to use other mediums as paint and words. im 49
4) Pete Cox - Africa House (My Love is Like a Red Red Rose)
‘Excerpts from the Ardeer Peninsula’ is a series of three soundscapes each focusing on a specific area of the Ardeer Peninsula which is located in North Ayrshire between Irvine and Stevenston. It was formerly the site of the Nobel Munitions factory and was one of the area’s largest employers with over 13,000 employees. Since closing in the 1990’s, the site has fallen into a state of industrial disrepair with many derelict buildings remaining, whilst the wildlife on the peninsula has flourished and is now the largest brownland regeneration site in Scotland.
This piece focuses on the abandoned, derelict building 'Africa House', which served as a kitchen and canteen for factory workers, and now sits hidden amongst flourishing trees and banks of bluebells.
The pieces were constructed as recordings made in real time of improvisations using field recordings and guitar, processed and recorded through the Max package ‘Ppooll’.
Pete Cox is a Glasgow based sound artist and composer. His work spans field recording, improvisation and sound design practices with a focus on sonic spacial practice. Often using field recordings taken from places that have a personal, familial or environmental significance as a starting point, he explores how the sense of space can be expanded and abstracted though digital processing, looping, and improvised instrumental responses, and how these elements allow exploration into what is present, implied and absent from the spaces, and how this effects the experience of being there.
https://petecoxsound.hotglue.me/?start -
Radiophrenia Shorts 20
12 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
5) Alistair Zaldua - hearingprotection (7:22)
6) Neurale Research Institute- Timewaves II (19:27)
7) Michalis Andronikou - APrayer for the Singers (5:15)
5) Alistair Zaldua - hearing protection
These recordings bring together disparate musical energies in response to three texts created by Lauren Redhead. The performers are Stephen Altoft (19-tone trumpet and flugelhorn), Alistair Zaldua (e-violin), and Johannes Nied (contrabass). Recorded in August 2024 at the Experimental Studio (SWR) in Freiburg, they comprise improvised responses to the experimental writing. In each piece, the text was first read aloud and then the response recorded. The titles are: ‘the sea bass’, ‘prompts for analysis’, and ‘hearing protection’. The texts were made via Oulipo inspired processes and reflect the range of sources from which they are drawn: a recipe database, a guide to graphic notation, and a reflection on the 1980s geography of Manchester. The result is a confluence of ideas, sounds, tuning systems, and extra musical meanings.
Lauren Redhead is an organist, a composer of experimental music, and a musicologist who writes about the socio-semiotics of contemporary musics.
Alistair Zaldua is a composer, conductor, violinist and improviser. Both Alistair and Lauren are based in Manchester, UK.
FLOW Duo is Stephen Altoft (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Johannes Nied (contrabass) and has existed since summer, 2021 solely as an improvisation duo, and is based in Freiburg, Germany.
Lauren Redhead website: https://laurenredhead.eu/about
Alistair Zaldua website: http://www.alistair-zaldua.de
Stephen Altoft website: https://www.stephenaltoft.com
Johannes Nied: https://cnz.ch/johannes-nied
6) Neurale Research Institute - Timewaves II
How can we experience a desert or an ocean in its geological timescale of millions of years?
The Neurale Research Institute (NRI) invite listeners to abandon the human perception of space and time and enter an unknown territory beyond the anthropocentric perspective.
Recordings of guided meditations have enjoyed increasing popularity in the last decade. However, their potential for transformative experiences is commonly directed towards personal introspection. These recordings don’t frequently explore the ecosystem we inhabit or the perception of non-human creatures that surround us. In this era of ubiquitous introspection, NRI was founded to imagine other worlds, and other possible guided meditations to bring you to them.
Neurale Research Institute is a project founded by Daniel García and Milorad Stevanović to explore geological time through the experience of listening. The members of NRI have been active in the past in the work with sound through radio art, installations, documentaries and podcasts. Their work “Night ballad for the Rio Grande”, co-authored with David Dorado, was selected to participate at Radiophrenia 2022.
https://neuraleresearchinstitute.bandcamp.com/
7) Michalis Andronikou - A Prayer for the Singers
A collage of four vocal pieces, performed in four different countries:
1) 'Dum Spiro Spero' by Michalis Andronikou, performed by the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart (Soprano: Johanna Zimmer, Mezzo-Soprano: Truike van der Poel, Tenor: Martin Nagy, Baritone: Guillermo Anzorena, Bass: Andreas Fischer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9U6d30g28g
2) Alleluia (II) by Michalis Andronikou, performed by Sophie Varvounis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j25WQT-Bd0
3) I Love the Lord! (Psalm 116) by Michalis Andronikou
performed by bass-baritone Robert Feng, and pianist Katy Luo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ2dp2E8drw
4) Byzantium by Michalis Andronikou, performed by the RezonEns Vocal Ensemble, under Michael Serkov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1zg6NXivl4
Michalis Andronikou is a composer and musicologist currently residing in Calgary, AB. He holds a PhD in composition from the University of Calgary. He received his Bachelor’s and Integrated Master’s degrees in musicology from the Department of Music Studies, University of Athens, Greece. He has a Diploma in Classical Guitar, Clarinet and Music Theory from the Trinity College and the Royal Academy of Music, and a Diploma in Byzantine Music from the Argyroupolis Municipal Conservatory. Michalis gained credentials in Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, and Music Composition (with Theodore Antoniou) from the Hellenic Conservatory.
http://mandronikou.wixsite.com/website
https://www.youtube.com/user/musmich
https://soundcloud.com/musmich
https://www.reverbnation.com/andronikou
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Cecilia Tyrrell - Between Tides
12 April 2025 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Composed of field recordings from around the Salthouse area, Between Tides uses recordings of reeds, saltmarsh, wire fencing, water and shingle, broken down and reconstructed with the use of overtone chanting, reordered and performed by Cecilia in an abandoned oil silo in the North of Denmark.
The soundscape traverses through multiple cross-connecting coastal environments, both of vast and microscopic scales. As it wanders it listens, an experience extending beyond the auditory, listening between perception to a space where nature and imagination collide.
Artist bio:
Cecilia Tyrrell is a Sound Artist and composer from London. Her work combines field recording techniques, ambient voice and classical instrumental textures to create immersive soundscapes and compositions that explore hidden sonic landscapes of the natural world. Her compositions have been described as mindful and lucid, crafting dream worlds that escape reality. As an avid field recordist, Cecilia embraces a mindful approach to audio creation, traveling to unique locations to record sound and resonance that would otherwise go unheard. These recordings are used throughout her work, forming a space for nature and imagination to intertwine.
Website/social links
http://www.ceciliatyrrell.com
Instagram - @ceciliatyrrell -
IRIDE PROJECT - LA FENESTRE DE RUSINELLE
12 April 2025 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Translation:
https://radiophrenia.scot/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IRIDE-PROJECT-ROSINA_S-WINDOW-1.pdf
The story takes place in an Italian rural village.
Rusinelle, bedridden for years, dies alone in her bedroom. The window is closed and according to local superstition her soul gets trapped and can not ascend to Heaven, remaining at the mercy of the Devil. Her son Carmine feels the guilt of this accidental negligence. Funeral and burial follow carefully in a mix of Christian and Pre-Christian beliefs rooted in ancient Greek culture. The poor man is haunted by the thought of his mother's soul wandering in the World of the Living and so excluded from the Grace of God. Seeing that, a close friend of the family, driven by Christian faith and superstition, succeeds in getting in contact with the dead and finds out that the woman's soul is saved. A lifetime of humble and Christian behavior made Rusinelle worthy in the eyes of Jesus who gave her Eternal Salvation.
Artist bio:
Monica Miuccio & Massimo Daví began IRIDE PROJECT in 2013. Their electronic and Audio Drama works have been performed in Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Macedonia, United Kingdom, Finland, Germany, Czech Republic, Portugal and Ecuador in form of acousmatic performances, radio broadcasts and live shows. Monica is a performer and writer, her literary works have been awarded in various literary competitions and published in prestigious editions such as the Psychology magazine “Tecniche Conversazionali” (Milan, IT). Her scripts, poems and tales are the core of IRIDE PROJECT Audio Drama production. Massimo is a pianist and electronic/electroacoustic music composer. -
Ways toward something - Sound Out
12 April 2025 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A radio broadcast performed by artist collective ‘ways toward something’ and streamed live by ‘radio stall public dreaming’ - 5 artists perform improvised remixes of sonics recorded from around the rapidly evolving post-industrial landscape of Digbeth, Birmingham. Marking the closure of an industrial unit housing the creative organisation Vivid Projects, the work acts as a sonic archive of change and transition. Ft artists Emily Warner, Kathy Smith, Keara Stevens, Sam Owen and Laura Fox. Part of an ongoing audio research project exploring open ended experimentation with site and sound.
Artist bio:
ways towards something are a collaborative group who are convening on a monthly basis from Jan to July 2024 with Vivid Lab to produce experimental sound that harnesses the spirit and aesthetic of DIY.
They work with open-source software and low-cost tools and instruments to research what manifests when creative momentum is given time and space to evolve through noise and sound-making. The group are delivering lab sessions to provide a safe and open environment for experimentation with a focus on encouraging women, trans, non-binary and gender expansive people to engage with new sound making processes.
'ways towards something' is led by Emily Warner, Sam Owen & Laura Fox
Website/social links
http://www.vividprojects.org.uk/programme/ways-toward-something/
https://www.are.na/vivid-projects/ways-toward-something
https://emily-warner.com/ -
Northfield Lenox - Proof of Concept
12 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Bricks made of audio excerpts from 1970’s detective television programs are stacked in a cluttered formation. The samples used are not dialog, musical scores or intricate foley - but of the bits that remain. The shuffling, coughing, moving, activity of people; as well as incidental music, traffic, machines and the occasional radio burst. A mortar of ambient sounds fixes these bricks into a wall ripe for mediative viewing.
Artist bio:
A one person audio project focused on computer produced music combining virtual instruments with samples from media archives, radio, and other field & audio recordings. Also – occasionally collaborating with other actual humans. [Winnipeg - Canada]
Website/social links
https://northfield-lenox.com/
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Buffer Zone
12 April 2025 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
1) Charo Calvo - WILD TRACKS FOR YOU (11:50)
2) Len Goatzee - Its Good To Keep Up Tradition (6:03)
3) Augustė Vickunaitė - i invite you out (4:09)
1) Charo Calvo - WILD TRACKS FOR YOU
Poem: Sean Street
Voice: Mira Matthew
Editing, recording, mixing, idea: Charo Calvo
Recording of frontline fighting in Ukraine: Pieter Jan de Pue
This piece is part of the Red Light trilogy around poetry and field recordings.
The poem Wild Track by Sean Street - English poet, writer and BBC radio producer - resumes the fascination of field recording and the infinite possibility it opens up to the recordist and the future listener. Writing with sounds, editing and mixing them is like facing a blank page full of possibilities.
Transmission through sound is effective and extremely attractive. Here I make a selection of some of my peaceful recordings from Spain to Iceland or Russia, and sometimes, I insert a self-reference to some of my old radio pieces with transformed sounds. The sound of the fighting on the front line in Ukraine in 2014 was recorded by a good friend who was lucky enough to return for a while with that documentary wild track lasting for hours. He was there documenting the start of that war, and unfortunately he's still there after 10 years. As Sean Street writes, the world brushes against us, and we should do our best not to shut it up, to listen, document it and transmit to others to and make a better world.
<Wild Track
Wild track they call it.
The soundof air going on round us.
The moment happening while
our back’s turned. To get away
from it, build a box. Time switched
on by a red light, its walls
suddenly listening live.
Perfect acoustic silence,
carte blanche. The infinite page.
A blank empty room filled with
possibility. Beyond
it the wide transparent space
where the wild track waits,
beating wings on the air.
The world brushes against us. We may shut it out, but its voices are still murmuring, speaking, singing and shouting on the other side of the wall, beyond the windows, against the glass.>
2) Len Goatzee - Its Good To Keep Up Tradition
Len Goetzee is a queer artist living and working in Glasgow. Through a trans methodology of collapse and dispossession they excavate a past enmeshed with the non-human and the more than human. Binaries breakdown and temporalities become twisted; an anti-propulsive practise reversing into queer resistance and into old futures.
3) Augustė Vickunaitė - i invite you out
From the album DANCE ALONE
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Mondlane (Lisa Fabian) - I hear her call: Salome...? Danu...? Come ah-come... (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
12 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
‘I hear her call: Salome...? Danu...? Come ah-come...’ is a surreal folkloristic sonic tale or a journey through memories encountered in a fever dream. Scenic echoes intimately evolve, looped until they burst into strange atmospheres and rhythms. We meet a hopelessly entangled voice, haunted and lost. Bewildered by fragmented distortions she attempts to unpick a series of flickering scenes. Delving into the emotional world of both adult and child. Something significant that happened. Imprinted in memory. Amorphous and vague. A lament. The forest is crying against a blurred background. A ritual unfolds, lifts a spell of silence. Hidden behind the noise she remains indistinct. Vibrant matters pulsating. A gatekeeper of invisible worlds. An empty corridor filled with footsteps. She flees into the river. A ghostly figure. A cry. A flower left on the kitchen table. A chant. She leads us through chaotic waters of electro acoustic instrumentation, field recordings, noise, singing, spoken narration, decaying tape loops, and a rich tapestry of both analogue and digital experimental recording processes. Mocking, hiding, guiding, waking, haunting, lost, mourning, grieving, she runs through rhythmic glimpses, moving between nuances of lightness and downfall. Biography: Mondlane is the solo moniker of sound artist Lisa Fabian, also in the Glasgow trio NEY. As Mondlane, she layers field recordings with processed vocals and manipulated fragments and electroacoustic instrumentation. She draws from a growing library of intimate recordings, using her narrative rich samples as instruments in improvised performances. Interested in the personal and collective experience and unconscious, she explores the fragmentation and reassembly of narrative. Often touching on themes of intimacy, temporality, otherworldliness, and relationships that materialise in-between bodies and memories, as well as archival or collected material. Most recent work was shown at: The Old Church Stoke Newington (London), Cafe Oto (London), The Old Hairdressers (Glasgow), EXIT (Glasgow), 90mil (Berlin), Globe Gallery (Berlin), The House of Bell Street (Glasgow), The Briggait (Glasgow), Hoxton 253 (London), Keep in touch Gallery (Seoul), CCA - Centre of Contemporary Arts (Glasgow) amongst others. Recent residencies include CCA Creative Lab Glasgow (2023), Countdown Grabowsee Berlin (2024), Countdown Grabowsee Berlin (2023). -
Una Lee - Imaginary Conversations
12 April 2025 6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
‘Imaginary Conversations’ is a piece of radiophonic storytelling, filled with obscure words, names and verses apparently with little to no explanations attached. In the centre sits ‘Heo Nanseolheon’, a prodigy poetess from 16th century Korea, followed by a string of poems cryptically unfolding her tragic life story which was due to her gender at the time. Some of these poems are rather limerick-like, written by myself in the manner of ‘seconding rhyme’, an ancient Sino-Korean poetic technique of taking the rhymes of an honoured poet (Heo in this instance) and creating new ones as sign of respect. This piece also addresses the story of Lucia Galvani, the wife of Luigi Galvani, who played a crucial role in her husband’s scientific work, but was never credited, expressed through verses penned by the poet Jo Shapcott excerpted from opera ‘Alive and Kicking’, and an entry from Encyclopedia Britannica.
Artist bio:
Una Lee is an artist working with sounds, stories and sensations, in perpetual pursuit of alternative storytelling. She seeks innovation in the contemporary marriage between performance and poetry, exploring human condition, memory, time, and our relationship with art and ecology through narratives often drawn from her autobiographical events as a non-native in her current habitat. She is an Oram Award winner and Ivor Novello Composers Award nominee. She has gained support from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council England, and PRS Foundation, among others, and been featured on BBC Radio 3, BBC Ulster/Foyle, and RTÉ lyric fm.
Website/social links
http://www.unalee.org
http://www.facebook.com/singinguna
http://www.instagram.com/singinguna -
Mathias Guilbaud - Voies Urbaines: Rue Mespoul
12 April 2025 6:45 pm - 7:00 pm
This creation relates the relationship I had with this construction site (a hospital being destroyed and renovated to make housing for the elderly) which I followed over several months. This piece reflects how I imagine these places when I feel them, how I regain a form of control over them by letting them express themselves. Trying to trigger an imagination, playing with urban sounds and more specifically construction sounds, so that can transgresses their origins. The empty buildings fill up, they breathe and become active where there was only noise and residue.
A painting, an autopsy of my imagination when it comes to open microphones to these places under construction, when it comes to dealing with and through these environments.
Artist bio:
With a background in film studies, I like to work and question the way sound can awaken the senses and question our relationship with spaces. It is through this practice combining documentary, acousmatic and phonographic composition, that I create sound pieces where living spaces and intimate stories intertwine. Cities represent a privileged listening ground where it questions our relationship to public spaces and urban planning. I am currently working on a project called Voies Urbaines, a project on the sounds of construction sites, on the specificity of these sounds and what they tell us about the evolutions of our cities.
Website/social links
https://mathiasguilbaud.fr/
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Live-to-Air performances - Augustė Vickunaitė / Audrey Chen / FK Alexander & Cat Boyd / Len Goetzee
12 April 2025 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Running Order TBC:
Augustė Vickunaitė
Audrey Chen
FK Alexander & Cat Boyd
Len Goetzee
Augustė Vickunaitė - Thank you for your clouds
In this work I use reel-to-reel tape recorders to create sound. I craft evolving collaged soundscapes that boldly reflect the changing environments I grew up in—ranging from personal spaces to shifting socio-political trends. These sonic landscapes are inhabited by characters collaged from the voices of my childhood VHS tapes, voice messages, old TV shows, and my mum’s and family’s songs. This project is a deeply personal collage that, in the end, becomes collective.
Bio
Augustė Vickunaitė is a sound experimentalist who employs vintage reel-to-reel tape recorders to play, record, and create sounds, articulating diverse layers of recordings including found material, field recordings, voice, music instruments, objects, and the whole spectrum of malfunctions of decaying technology. Auguste specializes in tape music, noise, and collage music, known for her theatrical and darkly humorous approach, often exploiting errors of analog audio equipment. Her solo work encompasses tape loops and collages of found audio tapes.
Since 2016, Auguste has been active in Europe and beyond, primarily as a solo performer, although she has collaborated with other artists too. She has self released solo CD album “Dance Alone”.
https://archive.org/details/@augustevi
https://youtu.be/bvRfxetWxvc?si=oD6ehpMPOnVorPcr
Audrey Chen - (hyper-extensions for voice and analog electronics)
AUDREY CHEN is a 2nd generation Chinese/Taiwanese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976. Parting ways with the family convention, she turned to the cello at age 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialization in early and new music, she parted ways again in 2003 to begin new negotiations with sound in order to discover a more individually honest aesthetic. Since then, using the voice, cello and analog electronics, Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised, is completely un-processed and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of an analog synthesizer, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language.
For nearly two decades, her predominant focus has been her solo work with the voice, cello and electronics, but she has more recently, in the last four years, begun to shift back towards the exploration of the voice as a primary instrument. Aside from her solo concerts, Chen performs currently in her longest running duo project since 2005 with Phil Minton; as BEAM SPLITTER with trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø; as MOPCUT with Lukas Koenig and Julien Desprez; in duo with electronic music artist Kaffe Matthews; and as a duo for voice/live digital process with Mexican sound artist Hugo Esquinca.
Among her more recent album releases include, "By the Stream" with Phil Minton - Subrosa (Brussels), "Hiss & Viscera" with Richard Scott - Sound Anatomy (Berlin), "Rough Tongue", BEAM SPLITTER'S debut LP - Corvo Records (Berlin) and latest “Split Jaw” on Tripticks Tapes (US), her solo album "Runt Vigor" - Karl Records (Berlin) and two records with MOPCUT, “Accelerated Frames of Reference” - Trost (AT) and “Jitter”, A split release on Opal Tapes (UK) and Ventil Records (AT).
Chen has performed across Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Canada and the USA. Since 2011, she relocated to Berlin, Germany from Baltimore, MD USA and continues to maintain an active international touring schedule.
http://www.audreychen.comFK Alexander and Cat Boyd - When Everything I Love Falls from the Sky, the World will be Covered in Darkness
Through sound, voice, incantation and the body, FK Alexander and Cat Boyd fuse their long running obsessions together to present a new live collaboration, specifically for Radiophrenia.
Compelled by repetition, chant, poetic fragments, and the materiality of inheritance, they blur the boundaries between past, present, and future; death drive, lifeblood and love.
Together they pry open a portal to our collective cosmic sorrow, mourn history and conjure a fragile, scorched hope and song.
Bios
FK Alexander is a performance artist from Fife. FK’s deathwork has been hanging on noise music, duration and medication in a gaudy attempt to briefly alleviate the trauma of living for some years now. This work has been made for graveyards, nightclubs, cassette tapes and car parks, as well as theatres, music venues and art galleries. The work is incredibly profound and entirely meaningless. More recently ,this has been taken the form of stripped back short sets and tapes of chord organ, drone and collage.‘’A vitally important artist’’ - Dorothy Max Prior, Total Theatre Magazine
Cat Boyd is a Glasgow-based writer and poet, fanatical about how class, agency, and history meet the supposedly non-Political: love, grief, memory, and domestic life. Informed by her role in the trade union movement, her poetry-installations and performance pieces incorporate lullabies and collected ephemera with themes of deindustrialisation, labour, and lost landscapes. Cat asks whether rituals and poetic alchemy can open portals to help piece us back together. These works are filled with both foreboding optimism and joyful pessimism; always affectionate and bittersweet. A recent graduate of Glasgow University’s MLitt in Creative Writing, she was awarded a distinction for her work.
Len Goetzee - Red Peter
Made in response to Paul B Preciado’s book; 'Can The Monster Speak', Len offer’s a musing on the nature of becoming and unbecoming through the tale of Red Peter, a captured ape learning to behave humanlike as a method of survival then sharing the account of his transformation at a scientific conference in Franz Kafka’s short story; ‘A Report to the Academy’. With song fragmented by intimate pondering and supported by a musical score to reflect these changing states, Len uses his trans voice to build and then un-build an existence in duality.
Len Goetzee is a queer artist living and working in Glasgow. Through a trans methodology of collapse and dispossession they excavate a past enmeshed with the non-human and the more than human. Binaries breakdown and temporalities become twisted; an anti-propulsive practise reversing into queer resistance and into old futures.
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Radiophrenia Shorts 34
12 April 2025 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm
1) Gregory Kramer - Midnight Mission 7 (12:15)
2) Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - Y.Ê.U _ L.O.V.E (1:04)
3) Beth Robertson – Puddles (22:00)
1) Gregory Kramer - Midnight Mission 7
Midnight Missions is a series of live-recorded soundworks incorporating shortwave and emergency/public safety radio channels among other instruments, some of which I’ve modified from discarded electronics. The sessions use sound as ritual to project out-of-body into the night, visiting other cities via their radio transmissions and weaving them into the recorded piece.
Gregory Kramer is a multidisciplinary artist and musician working with sound and space. Taking inspiration from his archaeological curiosity of abandoned places, he seeks ghosts among ruins and unearths evidence of forgotten histories. He works with field recordings, electronics, video and found materials, as well as builds sound sculptures and installations. His work has been in exhibitions at Spain’s Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Belgium’s Site Specific, Mexico’s SONOM Sound Art Festival and Indonesia's Setia Darma Museum of Masks and Puppetry. He has album releases on Taâlem, MuteAnt Recordings, Pharmafabrik, Monotype Series and Impulsive Habitat.
http://www.gregorykramerstudio.com
@gregorykramerstudio
2) Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - Y.Ê.U _ L.O.V.E
nHữNG NgÀY kHÓ ở Ở trêN đỜI // thoSE hArD-TO-liVe dAYS was a collection of 5 selected poets, written from 2021 - 2022 by Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao. Each of them was originally a statement of confrontation with the socially constructed so-called "nature", juggling between binaries of man & woman, love & hatred, individualism & collectivism, and so on.
As a way to deconstruct the "nature" concept, the anthologies were later exhibited in a digital space with an invitation for community manipulation. Readers were encouraged to rewrite or delete the words in their own interpretation and stylistic choices. The latter would work on the former's version/interpretation.
The audio version was captured in time of the 6th version, recorded and mixed by the original author as a means of reclaiming and authorship. The sound mixing is intentionally "left" because everything is not "right".
Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao is a Vietnamese writer and multidisciplinary artist. He embraces multimedia and expression, such as typography, photography, film, sound art, performance art with a core appreciation of poetry practices. His works have been featured in Vânguard Zine (Issue 6), Sui Generis (Bard College, 2024 Edition), WCBX Zine, etc. Bao is currently pursuing a BA Degree in Art and Media Studies at Fulbright University Vietnam.
https://www.instagram.com/nguyenhoanggiabao_/)
3) Beth Robertson – Puddles
Puddles is a 20 minute composition of sounds from beneath, above and around ponds, puddles, tide pools, streams, flushes and potholes. All of which are below 50 hectares, the smallest size a body of water can be to be legally protected by the Water Framework Directive in Europe. These little bodies of water are incredibly important as habitats for plants, amphibians and insects, cultivating even more biodiversity than larger bodies of water.
All of the sounds have been compiled from the past few years of field recording. Included are cave ponds on the Isle of Eigg, tide pools on Troon beach and kids wellies as they splash in London’s street puddles. Some are only with us at certain times of the year and some come and go in only a few hours, giving us little time to marvel at their strange celebration of uneven ground and shifting topographies.
Beth Robertson is a sound artist based in London and Glasgow. Through the use of field recordings, photography and composition she create sound maps and installations that explore local ecologies and playfully experiment with different mediums of listening. Within her work she seeks to queer the relationship we have with our environment through sound and put collective listening into practise as a form of environmental activism. She has a monthly radio show on Resonance FM exploring the entangled urban identities of London’s local wildlife.
http://www.wohnensound.com
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Radiophrenia Shorts 34
12 April 2025 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm
4) Anatole De Baerdemaeker - à la droite de Robert (2:22)
5) Kit Beaufoy - Exploration #1 For Two Radios (9:42)
6) Thomas Ott – Ordinary Rituals I (11:38)
4) Anatole De Baerdemaeker - à la droite de Robert
Hockey games, repeating themselves, repeating themselves, repeating themselves, wherever you go.
Anatole De Baerdemaeker is a Quebec-based artist from Belgium. Sometimes as a sound designer, sometimes as a documentarist but always as a storyteller, Anatole explores the sounds of the daily life and tries to encourage community.
In 2024 Anatole releases his first experimental audio documentary, Creuser Mon Corps, which visits eating disorders in men.
In 2025, Anatole will start a longterm project. A audio docu-fiction about the opening of a copper mine in his region.
https://www.instagram.com/anatolitolitana/
https://soundcloud.com/anatoledb
https://www.facebook.com/anatoledebaerdemaeker/
5) Kit Beaufoy - Exploration #1 For Two Radios
Exploration #1 For Two Radios is the discovery of a beast. A beast that lurks in the electromagnetic waters. A creature formed from the familiar sounds of analogue radio that is awoken by the turning of a dial sending ripples across the radio waves. Over the course of the piece, the listener is hunted down through the radio, chased by a beast that is not confined to a single frequency and exists all around, silently stalking, watching, waiting until it is illumined by your receiver.
Kit Beaufoy is a sound artist and composer who works with a series of transmitters and receivers, performing within the radio, in an attempt to reanimate and reframe analogue radio listening in the 21st century. His work proposes an alternative use for the radio spectrum - as a compositional device that is considered a whole rather than individual monolithic stations separated by static.
@kitbeaufoy
kitbeaufoy@icloud.com
6) Thomas Ott – Ordinary Rituals I
'Ordinary Rituals I' is the first of series of pieces exploring the sounds which form the backdrop of our everyday lives and which we often tune out. Each piece starts with a field recording of these ambient sounds, and this is then expanded using the Pareidoliac Method to create meditative drone pieces. The Pareidoliac Method starts with the original field recording and through active listening an additional layer is adding seeking to supplement and draw out sounds already present. The track is mixed down after each layer, so the second layer is added to supplement aspects of result of the initial recording and the first layer, in this way the track is built up organically.
Thomas Ott is an experimental musician, noise artist and drone merchant based on the East Coast of Scotland. Best known for his work with experimental metal band Catafalque and Harsh Noise Project The Dead Yesterdays, his solo drone work is a vehicle for developing and exploring his Pareidoliaic Method.
https://thomasott.bandcamp.com/
https://catafalque.bandcamp.com/
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Chris MacInnes and Krystle Patel - I'm not paralyzed, but
12 April 2025 11:00 pm - 11:30 pm
A collaboration between Chris MacInnes and Krystle Patel that considers the flattening of information in contemporary news media. The resulting overwhelming sensation of noise and misrepresentation is expressed through modular synths and the voice. The language used in the performance expresses the experience of cultural visbility and the violence of representation. The subsequent flattening of cultural identities and ideas of Britishness and/or Indianness collide here as a response to an over saturation of information alongside a laziness to appear to respond to contemporary questions about identity, imperialism and privilege.
Artist bio:
Krystle Patel is a London-based Asian artist. She gained a degree in Dentistry and completed her MFA at Goldsmiths University. She was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Goldsmiths Alumni commission, had work acquired for the Government Art Collection and was the artist in residence at UCL's Institute of Neurology.
Chris MacInnes is a British-American artist raised in Sheffield. Currently based in London his recent exhibitions include: Terra Regis, Terra Neminis, Phoenix Centre, Leicester (2023); Imagine Escape in Darkness, Offsite Projects, online; Long Range Correlations, Schimmel Projects, Dresden (2019); and Whale Fall, Gossamer Fog, London (2019).
Website/social links
https://youmockedmeonce.com
https://www.instagram.com/youmockedmeonce
https://www.instagram.com/stickyvectors/
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Dave Madden - We Three Nephites
11 April 2025 11:30 pm - 12 April 2025 12:00 am
Per The Book of Mormon, Jesus Christ visited the Americas during the three days between his death and resurrection. While there, he (sic) ordained twelve disciples, three of which asked for and were granted immortal life. Known as The Three Nephites, they have used the last 2000 years to lead souls unto Christ, all the while remaining anonymous and evading physical harm. Since the founding of Mormonism in 1830, its members ashamedly clamor for their visitations. Less elusive than Sasquatch, these persons will generally appear to someone in comparatively dire straits and produce a miracle. Further, the Three tend to materialize and then vanish either without warning or in a spectacular manner that leaves the audience frozen - as if tasting God’s time. This project began as an historical recording of the journal of my Great x5 Grandfather, Warren G. Child, which he kept between December 1872 and Feb. 1905.
Artist bio:
Dave Madden’s (aka Tulpamancers, nonnon, dj_webern) earliest memories are Magical Mystery Tour, “Paint it Black” and the guy who claimed to be the Lizard King. He uses percussion, found objects, laptop, turntables and an obsessive bending of sound to perform all over the world, from Montreal to Chico, California, in universities, museums and coffee shops, preferring the types of crowds who enjoy John Cage back-to-back with Anti-Pop Consortium. Dave is currently focused on Nowhere Mountain, a project with photographer Mark Regester. He is also a journalist for Squidco.com.
Website/social links
https://thenonnon.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@phenomenonnon
https://www.instagram.com/nononnon
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The Knob, The Finger & The It - Poller Wiesen Session, 29 June 2024
12 April 2025 11:30 pm - 13 April 2025 12:00 am
Outside session at the river banks of Cologne, using battery-powered miniature drums, DIY kalimba, harmonica, effects, supercollider and extended shbobo shnth. The music is improvised, played at low volume through small bluetooth speakers and recorded with a stereo microphone. The surrounding soundscape resonates in these recordings, and occasionally clearly defined signals emerge from the distance. Experimental campfire electronics in the spirit of field recording.
Artist bio:
The Knob, The Finger & The It is a Cologne based trio with a penchant for experimental electronics, DIY, electro-acoustic bricolage and field recording. The Knob, The Finger & The It are Tobias Grewenig, Andreas O. Hirsch and Volker Hennes.
Website/social links
http://www.thekfi.bandcamp.com
http://www.thekfi.de
http://www.makiphon.de
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unconscious collective - The Land Of The Escaping Sound
13 April 2025 12:00 am - 1:00 am
From an archive of sounds, something mysterious is said, sonics repeated so they change in nature, from the listening point a journey is taken. Informally, public domain refers to works that are publicly available; the formal definition states that it refers to works which are intangible to private ownership or are available for public use. As rights are country-based and vary, a work may be subject to rights in one country and not in another. Playing the cultural awareness game, putting things together is a technique where sound objects, are created from collage, also known as montage, the use of portions of found or various sources. Some rights depend on registrations with a country-by-country basis, and the registration absence in a particular country implies public domain status there. A library of sound files on several different time scales importation into the library of the editing and mixing program use of the cursor…
Artist bio:
Started sometime in the 1950's by William Strong, the unconscious collective project was a completely under the radar affair, issuing tape reels at sporadic junctures, of extreme small volumes, which were listened to, so sent back and wiped with large magnets, to be reused, so only fragments survive. Years later after befriending a librarian, in central London the it was reborn with Jane Burton, Doris Lake, Samantha Brook & Rachel Parks. Their logo is a Hammer and a Cabbage and they use various monikers to create under including Public Domain.
Website/social links
https://instituteforalienresearchvariousartists.bandcamp.com/album/the-land-of-the-escaping-sound -
The Asynchronous Drone Orchestra - 072024
13 April 2025 1:00 am - 2:00 am
The Asynchronous Drone Orchestra is a remote collaborative project by Chelidon Frame where different electronic musicians are asked to share one (or more) ten minutes sound - be it a drone, a field recording, or a more elaborate soundscape - following a minimal set of rules.
All those fragments and noises are then mixed and combined in a long and coherent track, resulting in a choral soundscape where the result is bigger than the sum of its parts.
The track shared is the July 2024 iteration, featuring: Gianluca Ceccarini,Fallen, Manuel Carbone, Stefano Trezzi, Klaus Von Mork, Ian Vine, Rikard Fvs, Paul Beaudoin (https://www.asynchronousdroneorchestra.eu/iterations/202407)
Artist bio:
The Asynchronous Drone Orchestra is a remote collaborative project by Chelidon Frame where different electronic musicians are asked to share one (or more) ten minutes sound - be it a drone, a field recording, or a more elaborate soundscape - following a minimal set of rules.
All those fragments and noises are then mixed and combined in a long and coherent track, resulting in a choral soundscape where the result is bigger than the sum of its parts.
Website/social links
https://www.asynchronousdroneorchestra.eu/
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Project Somnolence (Kevin Leomo + Maria Sledmere) - light lapse
13 April 2025 2:00 am - 3:45 am
Following a Fife-based residency, Kevin Leomo and Maria Sledmere presented 'light lapse' at Civic House in July 2024, as part of Project Somnolence, a portable lab for exploring the ways people sleep and dream. 'light lapse' was an immersive evening, which re-presented the ambience of the residency. It featured an exhibition of photography and artwork, as well as a durational performance consisting of Sledmere’s 6:40 poem, combined with field recordings and live tenor saxophone from Leomo. The poem is an ambient field work which attunes to different voices and registers, split between memories and time zones, staging the intimacy of distance and the emotional minutiae of daily blips in energy. The poem metabolises the results into a multi-sensory encounter with time. Field recordings taken at various times of day throughout the residency, utilising hydrophones and contact mics, were presented across an array of immersive speakers.
Artist bio:
Leomo is a curator, researcher, and practitioner of experimental music. His practice involves collaboration, improvisation, critical listening practices, non-standard notation, and working cross-culturally. He is the Community and Engagement for the College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Glasgow, and Chair of Sound Thought CIC.
Sledmere is an artist, writer and managing editor of SPAM Press. She is lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde and her latest poetry collection, Cinders, was published by the Bay Area press Krupskaya. Her most recent book, a creative-critical monograph, Midsummer Song (Hypercritique) was published by NoUP/Tenement Press.
Website/social links
http://www.projectsomnolence.com
http://www.kevinleomo.com
http://www.mariasledmere.com
Instagram: @kev_leomo + @cherry_melancholic
Twitter/X: @kevin_leomo + @mariaxrose -
THLEEP - Broadcasts 05
13 April 2025 3:45 am - 4:45 am
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; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.
THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.
Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.
Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.
Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.
Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj
Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com -
THLEEP - Broadcasts 06
13 April 2025 4:45 am - 5:45 am
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; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.
THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.
Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.
Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.
Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.
Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj
Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com -
Hidegard Westerkamp MotherVoice Talk
13 April 2025 5:45 am - 6:00 am
This album wants to stir, unsettle and surprise. But unlike with breaking news in the regular media, it refuses to transmit feelings of helplessness, fear and terror. Instead it wants to energize and revitalize, even when it grapples with incidents of violence and death. The pieces presented here were created between 1988 and 2012. In their togetherness they highlight and celebrate voices that are often relegated to the personal domain: sounds of new life, of unusual artistic sensibilities, of children’s and female voices. They have the power to tip the balance in our lives, in favour of love, resilience and human compassion. If we choose to listen! “Breaking News invites the listener to surrender to a journey to the place and time of the recording, transitioning into an abstraction of the original sounds, guided by her studio practice with looping, filtering, equalising, resonating, reverberating. It brings all the technique, sound research and creative thinking of a career spanning half a century into the present moment where for Westerkamp, headphones are still for listening, not fashion.” Jo Hutton, The Wire 460, p. 45 (excerpt) ARTISTS MotherVoiceTalk features the voices of Roy Kiyooka, Hildegard Westerkamp, Agnes Westerkamp, Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka. Moments of Laughter features the voices of DB Boyko (performance vocals) and Sonja Ruebsaat (child's voice). Once Upon A Time narrators: Amber Martin-Ruebsaat and Sibling; girl’s voice: Sonja Ruebsaat. École polytechnique was performed by the choir of the Université du Québec à Montréal, directed by Miklós Takács.; Lori Freedman, bass clarinet; Lisa Rodrigue and Véronique Lucignano, trumpets; Daniel Fortin, percussion; and Johanne Latreille, bells. The original live recording by Charles Amirkhanian was the basis for the heightened listening experience presented here. Breaking News features the voice and sounds of the composer’s first grandchild. All tracks composed by Hildegard Westerkamp © 2021 (SOCAN) -
Radiophrenia Shorts 50
13 April 2025 6:00 am - 6:30 am
1) Dariusz Mazurowski - Waveless Storm (10:10)
2) Leonie Roessler- what's gone is gone stays gone (12:14)
3) Jeff Gburek - Seismic Blush, July 4, 2024
4) Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - TÔI ta _ ME we (1:04)
1) Dariusz Mazurowski - Waveless Storm
This piece for for viola and tape was composed for Polish viola player Krzysztof Komendarek-Tymendorf, with his recording project under the name ALTOTRONICA in mind. The viola is used not only as a melodic instrument, but also as a percussion instrument or creating music using innovative, contemporary performance techniques, such as tapping, pizzicato or string plucking, pressing the bow to the instrument, dirty glissando, crazy ponticello scratching, arpeggios, tremolo, flageolets, etc. All these elements are present in "Waveless Storm", in which the viola plays the role of a sonoristic sound source, treated in an unorthodox way and juxtaposed with often quite aggressive and rough electronics. Both parties - instrumental and electronic - have equal rights here and function in complete symbiosis.
Dariusz Mazurowski is a Polish electroacoustic music composer born and residing in Gdansk. While the majority of his compositional activity has focused on acousmatic works, he has also composed instrumental music in conjunction with electronics, soundscapes, and mprovised electroacoustic music. His works combine analog instruments with the digital technology and concrete sounds. Mazurowski’s music has been broadcast by various stations all over the world, and he has performed at festivals and other events in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. His installations, visual works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous galleries. His compositions has been released on numerous discs.
https://deemstudio.com/
https://www.facebook.com/people/Dariusz-Mazurowski/100086282450366/
https://www.youtube.com/user/DeeMstudio/videos
https://open.spotify.com/search/Dariusz%20Mazurowski
2) Leonie Roessler- what's gone is gone stays gone
A market in Berlin and the increasing absence of that market, replaced with sounds of empty hallways from the gigantic housing complex right next to it. Stark contrasts that serve as a commentary in this time in which entire civilian populations are exterminated while governments around the world are watching - or actually paying for it. This market could be any market around the world. A market with regular people going about their day. A market that could be erased with the push of a button if it happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Leonie Roessler - Composer and Performer raised in Germany and the US, now based in The Hague, Netherlands. Leonie captures her environment with field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and instrumental compositions. Part of her work is purely sound-based, however the theme of marginalization has become increasingly present in her radio works. She curates On Air - On Site Festival, and co-manages Iranian record label Noise à Noise with Soheil Soheili. Her works have been released through Musica Dispersa (ES/UK), Noise á Noise (IR), Biodiversitàs, Syrphe(DE), Antilounge(NL), and have been physically archived in the British Library.
http://www.leonieroessler.com
Facebook: Leonie Roessler
Instagram: ljroessler
3) Jeff Gburek - Seismic Blush, July 4, 2024
Sesimic Blush is a a generative environment of vibrational memabranes seeking to simulated plate tectonics in a more rounded form. The tools include sine wave generator, ring modulator and resampled hydrophone recordings.
Jeff Gburek is poet, field recordist, sound artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist exploring all strata of cosmophonic resolutions. Works increasingly focus on receptive listening and recognition of patterned chaos in the mind triggered by externally ordered phenomenon in flux. Microphones, detuned guitars, hydrophones, shortwave and VLF radios, ground spikes, bat detectors and electronics typify the research in the psycho-acoustics of Gaian whispers enveloping and composing existence.
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com
4) Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - TÔI ta _ ME we
nHữNG NgÀY kHÓ ở Ở trêN đỜI // thoSE hArD-TO-liVe dAYS was a collection of 5 selected poets, written from 2021 - 2022 by Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao. Each of them was originally a statement of confrontation with the socially constructed so-called "nature", juggling between binaries of man & woman, love & hatred, individualism & collectivism, and so on.
As a way to deconstruct the "nature" concept, the anthologies were later exhibited in a digital space with an invitation for community manipulation. Readers were encouraged to rewrite or delete the words in their own interpretation and stylistic choices. The latter would work on the former's version/interpretation.
The audio version was captured in time of the 6th version, recorded and mixed by the original author as a means of reclaiming and authorship. The sound mixing is intentionally "left" because everything is not "right".
Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao is a Vietnamese writer and multidisciplinary artist. He embraces multimedia and expression, such as typography, photography, film, sound art, performance art with a core appreciation of poetry practices. His works have been featured in Vânguard Zine (Issue 6), Sui Generis (Bard College, 2024 Edition), WCBX Zine, etc. Bao is currently pursuing a BA Degree in Art and Media Studies at Fulbright University Vietnam.
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Radiophrenia Shorts 50
13 April 2025 6:30 am - 7:00 am
5) Simon Whetham – Channelling (5:20)
6) Pablo Paniagua - Sacred Noise (16:09)
7) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations- BLUESTRAIN (4:21)
8) Vincent Eoppolo - In Times of Chaos (3:10)
5) Simon Whetham – Channelling
Channelling is a kinetic sound performance that utilizes various components salvaged from discarded and obsolete consumer technology, reanimating them by piping amplified sound through them. The motors and mechanisms respond to these sound impulses in erratic and unpredictable ways. The actions of, and emanations from, the devices are subsequently amplified.
The project was developed through 2021and 2022 by support from Ferme-Asile (CH), Witte Rook (NL), AiR Niederösterreich (AT), HEAR and Espaces Sonore (FR) and Château Éphémère (FR).
Since 2005 Simon Whetham has worked with sonic activity. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He also explores ways of creating physical traces of sound and transforming energy forms.
Whetham performs and exhibits internationally, has received a large number of commissions and awards, has many published composed works and regularly collaborates with other artists. In addition his practice covers giving active listening, field recording and technology repurposing workshops.
https://simonwhetham.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/simonwhethamartist/
https://vimeo.com/simonwhetham
https://simonwhetham.bandcamp.com/
6) Pablo Paniagua - Sacred Noise
"Sacred Noise" is an improvisational performance combining recordings of the Chubut River, a guitar prepared with objects found along its banks, and real-time sound processing. The piece explores the concept of "sacred noise" by invoking the river and local environmental conflicts, using riverbank objects as significant elements and actants. The work, resulting from over three years of research funded by a grant from the National University of the Arts, was presented at the Museo del Hambre in 2023 and was part of my master's thesis defense.
I am an artist and educator from Chubut, currently based in Buenos Aires, with a Master’s degree in Combined Artistic Languages. Since 2014, I have participated in national and international artistic events and received awards and grants. My recent work explores visual, auditory, and corporeal elements in specific contexts. As an educator, I teach at various levels of formal and informal education and conduct workshops in both public and private spaces.
https://pablopaniagua.com.ar/
https://www.instagram.com/pablopaniagua87/
7) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations- BLUESTRAIN
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
8) Vincent Eoppolo - In Times of Chaos
Living In Times of Chaos is a collection of 7 compositions that were composed in late 2023 through August 2024. The works are Electro Acoustic, Acousmatic and Musique Concrete in their forms. As the title suggests these works are mediations on the current state of affairs in our world.
Vincent Eoppolo born Wilmington, Delaware USA. Eoppolo’s compositions are a mix of various sound art traditions such as musique concrete, acousmatic music, electro-acoustic music and radio art. In recent years, Eoppolo’s fixed media works have been presented at the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Mise_En Place New Music Festival in Brooklyn, Utopie Sonore in Nantes, France and De Natura Sonorum in Rome, Italy. Eoppolo’s compositions have been released by Moscow based independent music label Meticulous Midgets and his works are regularly featured on new music radio and internet programs throughout Europe and North America
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007788824642
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CFAy7K6LpWMvtFN5EpKPT?si=01YRMOiARguOmFU8-aT8Dw -
Dalia Neis - 'Resting in the Membranes' - Guided Meditation
13 April 2025 7:00 am - 8:00 am
“In this meditation, we will rest in the containers that hold space for your eyes, your brain, the organ of your heart, your cell, and finally, we will rest in the fluid membranes of space itself. By holding space for ourselves, and our organs, we soothe our nervous system, to be able to respond creatively, and imaginatively to the needs of the moment, supporting and cultivating, more deeply, our greater purpose, and path toward collective liberation. ” A meditation journey guided by writer, musician, and vocalist Dalia Neis, drawing on revolutionary principles of collective liberation 'Doykayt' (Yiddish for 'Hereness'), Kabalistic techniques of 'no-thing', and the somatic lineages of Body-Mind centering, all set to minimal field recordings, and gentle percussion recorded in the forests of Frohnau, Berlin. Artist bio: Based in Berlin and Glasgow, Dalia Neis is a writer, somatic trainer, musician and vocalist for Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm. Previous publications include The Swarm (The Elephants) Zephyrian Spools: An Essay, a Wind (Knives, Forks & Spoons), and Hercules Road (MA Bibliothèque). Website/social links https://twicethesiren.info/ https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/track/un-cavretico https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/dali-muru-the-polyphonic-swarm https://www.instagram.com/wanda.portal/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 7
13 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
1 Adrian Laugsch - Spasms Of My Aching Heart (6:21)
2 Andreas O. Hirsch – Rise (4:24)
3 Dariusz Mazurowski - Dossier of Oblivion (13:44)
4 Elizabeth Flood - Repetition as Transformation : Dream (7:01)
1) Adrian Laugsch - Spasms Of My Aching Heart
"Spasms of My Aching Heart" unfolds somewhere between a kitschy concept album and an AI-generated opera. Consisting of five originally AI-generated (but heavily revised) songs, the album delves deeply into the potential of technology in dialogue with trauma, kitsch, and pathos, striving to create a form of post-digital emotionality and artificial opulence. Shaped by kitsch theory, queer camp, and the aesthetics of Schlager music, the songs embrace their (over)expressivity with seriousness while remaining fully aware of their own absurdness.
Adrian Laugsch (*1997) is a german-polish composer/performer/soundartist.
Based on his musical interest in historical, (auto)biographical, and nostalgic sounds, his compositional work is significantly shaped by the desire for the substantive expansion of the sonic through theatrical, interdisciplinary, and multimedia strategies.
This may range from extra-musical concepts and narrative arcs to the explicit use of stage and video, intertwining traditional formats such as concert, radio play, album, music theater, and installation.
Consequently, his thematic focus lies on queer, hybrid, non-normative, and transgressive identities, as well as the exploration of post-digital artificiality and meta-religious opulence in the staging of socio-political mechanisms.
https://www.adrianlaugsch.com
2) Andreas O. Hirsch – Rise
Part of Hirsch’s new album The Salamander Treaty, out on makiphon in spring 2025. The album title makes reference to ‚War with the Newts‘, an abysmal yet hilarious science fiction novel by Karel Čapek from 1936. The album is a sort of pacifist replica to this, with claims like Tea Time Unlimited and such. The album title and some of the track titles invite to play around with the phonetics and the meaning of the terms „treaty“, „tree“ and „tea“.
Andreas Oskar Hirsch is a Cologne based musician, visual artist and inventor of electroacoustic instruments. Together with Patricia Koellges he runs makiphon, a label for experimental music and artist records.
http://www.hirschonhirsch.com
http://www.makiphon.de
3) Dariusz Mazurowski - Dossier of Oblivion
"Dossier of Oblivion" is the second part of Hidden Dimensions another large-scale electroacoustic composition, in three parts, each having its own dramatic structure and profile. Again, in this case each part may also be performed as a separate piece. It contains a large collection of various sounds – mostly pure electronic and synthesized, but also those derived from vocal sounds. For this work, the entire sonic spectrum has been processed with both analog and digital tools, including phase vocoder technology, analysis and re-synthesis of various source samples, physical modeling, complex hybrid processing and many other techniques.
Dariusz Mazurowski is a Polish electroacoustic music composer born and residing in Gdansk. While the majority of his compositional activity has focused on acousmatic works, he has also composed instrumental music in conjunction with electronics, soundscapes, and mprovised electroacoustic music. His works combine analog instruments with the digital technology and concrete sounds. Mazurowski’s music has been broadcast by various stations all over the world, and he has performed at festivals and other events in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. His installations, visual works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous galleries. His compositions has been released on numerous discs.
https://deemstudio.com/
https://www.facebook.com/people/Dariusz-Mazurowski/100086282450366/
https://www.youtube.com/user/DeeMstudio/videos
https://open.spotify.com/search/Dariusz%20Mazurowski
4) Elizabeth Flood - Repetition as Transformation : Dream
Beginning in the body, with language of the body, with dream language, Repetition as Transformation is interested in what is lost, found, created, and felt when recounting a dream through language. Using a dream diary recording and playing with systematically removing parts of speech and rearranging, this sound collage was an exercise in recreating the feeling of language in a dream and the difficulty of finding it when waking.
Elizabeth Flood grew up in Massachusetts and currently lives in Chicago, IL. She likes to go on walks, talk on the phone, eat dinner with friends, and take ballet classes. Flood's radio work is interested in playing in the blurry space between transmission and reception, signal and noise, dreams and waking, here and there. She is curious about what radio would sound like if we didn’t listen ‘to know’? She tends to find work (and play) most interesting when creating a system and being curious about the outcome, rather than seeking a particular end result. -
Radiophrenia Shorts 7
13 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
5 Frederico Pessoa - O lugar por onde a água corre (the place through which the water runs) (9:50)
6 Home Secretary – An Object (5:01)
7 Jorge Ramos – Paysage – (5:16)
8 Akari Komura - A piece of paper, a flutter of trees (5:13)
5) Frederico Pessoa - O lugar por onde a água corre
"O lugar por onde a água corre (the place through which the water runs) was created from recordings in Cachoeira das Andorinhas Park, where the source of the Rio das Velhas is located. This river flows through much of Minas Gerais and is a tributary of the São Francisco, one of Brazil's largest rivers. The different sounds, rhythms, and flows of water running over the various surfaces and landscapes of the park combine with excerpts of the oral expressions of Indigenous brazilians about rivers. Reflections by Ailton Krenak, a member of the Krenak ethnicity, Glicéria Tupinambá, of the Tupinambá ethnicity, and Antônio Bispo dos Santos, a quilombola from the Quilombo Saco Curtume, offer a poetic expression of their experience and knowledge about the complexity present in the waters and the life that exists in and flows through them. Voz: Flávia Péret.
Frederico Pessoa is a musician who collects soundscapes and everyday occurrences for reinterpretation in electroacoustic and radio pieces, audiovisual works, and multimedia performances. He has written texts at the intersection of literature and the sociology of listening, aiming to explore, through words, the possibilities for mobilization created by sound. He holds a Ph.D. in Arts from UFMG/Brazil, and is a member of ESCUTAS: a research and study group in sonorities at the same institution. Additionally, he is one of the coordinators of the Laboratory of Sound Experimentation at UFMG, where he works as a sound designer.
http://www.fredericopessoa.net
@f__pessoa
https://www.facebook.com/frederico.pessoa.50/
6) Home Secretary – An Object
https://cardboardclub.bandcamp.com/album/stamen-and-pistil-are-husband-and-wife
7) Jorge Ramos – Paysage
Dennis Smalley (b. 1946) defines source bonding as the natural tendency to relate sounds to supposed sources and causes and to relate sounds to each other because they appear to have shared or associated origins. Thus, bonding play is an inherent perceptual activity. Consequently, I began to rethink how and what to think about ‘sound’ and its behaviour, and most importantly, to hear ‘sound’ differently. This self-reflection on my sonic somatic knowledge led to a broader perspective on what I, as a composer and researcher, should consider sound as music. Hence, I wrote Paysage, a soundscape piece based on the processing of the sounds that surrounded me during the writing process. This effect was enhanced by the imposed limitations during confinement, which meant that I had to share the same house to work and to live in, which made me realize how musical sound is constantly all around us.
Jorge Ramos is a Portuguese multiple award-winning composer, sound artist, and researcher based in London. He has written solo, chamber, symphony, mixed, electroacoustic, live-electronics, film, stage, installations, and advertisement music for festivals, orchestras, ensembles, and soloists across Asia, North America, Central America, South America, and Europe, while also collaborating with other artists and/or institutions on artistic contributions and computer music design. He held a composer residency at various prestigious institutions including the Calouste Gulbenkian Orchestra, Estúdios Victor Córdon, Sentidos Ilimitados, and Grand Théâtre Luxembourg. Jorge Ramos holds degrees from Conservatório de Música Calouste Gulbenkian de Braga, Escola Superior de Música
https://jorgefpramos.com
https://www.facebook.com/jorgefpramos/
https://www.instagram.com/jorgefpramos/
https://www.youtube.com/JorgeFPRamos
8) Akari Komura - A piece of paper, a flutter of trees
The piece engages with an intimate dimension in listening. The work reconstructs recorded sounds from slowly tearing pieces of paper that gradually develop into a modified assemblage of various timbres and rhythms. With reference to musique conréte, "A piece of paper, a flutter of trees" experiments with finding the intersection of sonic and tactile sensory experiences. "
Akari Komura (b.1996) is a composer-vocalist from Tokyo, Japan. She is interested in curating a participatory performance space that invites both performers and listeners for a collective and ritualistic act of listening and soundmaking. Her works have been presented at the Atlantic Music Festival, Composers Conference, Montreal Contemporary Music Lab, Nief-Norf, and soundSCAPE. She holds an M.M. in Composition from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Vocal Arts from the University of California, Irvine. Akari is currently a Ph.D. composition student at the University of California San Diego.
https://www.akarikomura.com/
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Verónica Cerrotta - Spring morning with cicadas
13 April 2025 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Field recordings from Brazil's Atlantic Forest
This is a series of field recordings made in the transition biome between the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro.
The recordings were made in different seasons of the year, between 2023-2024, and at different times of the day. Each of the recordings has an approximate duration of sixty minutes.
Artist bio:
Argentinean sound artist settled in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her artistic work is based on the use of field recordings and navigates between soundscape and experimental electroacoustic and concrete music, focusing on listening and sound imagination.
Since 2019, she has released solo works on the labels Impulsive Habitat, Música Insólita, Pakapi Records and Sello Postal.
She has also released the collaborative works ‘Slani pejzaži’(tsss tapes), with Manja Ristić and Joana Guerra, ‘In-Radius’ (Presses Précaires) with Pablo Díaz, and “Fase de Plegamiento’ (Green Field Recordings) with Juan José Calarco.
Website/social links
linktr.ee/veronica_cerrotta
https://veronicadaniela.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/veronicadanielacerrotta
https://www.instagram.com/veronica_cerrotta/ -
Martin P Eccles - Rònaigh
13 April 2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am
July.
40 miles off the top of the Outer Hebrides.
Stand below St Ronan’s church. Walk south on lazy bed corrugations to the low cliffs.
Turn east. Pass two geos. Walk up towards the lighthouse and the east coast peak, to stand above a land-slipped cliff edge.
Walk west onto, along, over the ridge and down the long slope to the west side of the northern peninsula.
Walk onto the rock field. Walk to the end of the peninsula. Walk round the tip and south along the eastern coast to the landing.
Artist bio:
I am a walking sound artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. My practice reflects my experience of being in, and walking through, natural environments. I use recorded sound to present time, distance, place and movement in the landscape, to provide an opportunity for a listener to consider what it means to move through the landscape at a human pace and scale. Spoken poetry offers detail to a listeners’ experience. I have exhibited nationally and internationally and have created radio works for Framework Radio, Resonance EXTRA and Radiophrenia. I have a PhD in Fine Art from Newcastle University.
Links to website and/or social media
https://martinpeccles.com
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Buffer Zone
13 April 2025 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
1) Duncan MacLeod - Tidelines (7:11)
2) Neil Luck - Real Telepathy (10:25)
1) Duncan MacLeod - Tidelines
Tidelines is a collection of soundworks combining spoken word, environmental sound, and music, reflecting the unique coastal landscape of Uist, Western Isles of Scotland. Created in collaboration with the Uist Writers Group, the project features poems written and narrated by local writers, with music and soundscapes composed by Duncan MacLeod, musician-in-residence at Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre.
At its core, this work seeks to capture the essence of Uist's shores, interweaving voices, sounds, and music to evoke the deep connections between community and landscape. Supported by the University of Nottingham, with funding from Research England’s Participatory Research Fund, Tidelines is a creative exploration of place through sound and language.
The selection of poems featured here include ‘Arriving’ by Pauline Prior Pitt, ‘Low Tide East Beach’ by Thelma Marl (narrated by Calum Ferguson), ‘The World is So Beautiful’ by Kirsty O’Connor (narrated by Ciorstaidh Monk), and ‘Stonechat’ by Loriana Pauli.
Artist bio:
Uist Writers Group celebrates the literary creativity of its members through monthly meetings and collaborative projects. Based at Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, the group draws inspiration from the unique cultural and natural heritage of Uist, often publishing anthologies of their work. They also host poetry readings and events featuring local and visiting writers.
Duncan MacLeod is an award-winning composer and sound artist whose work spans concert music, sound installations, and participatory arts. Drawing on art, folklore, and socio-political issues, his work has been commissioned and performed internationally. He is Associate Professor in Music at the University of Nottingham and a researcher at the Glasgow School of Art.
Website/social links
Uist Writers Group (part of Uist Arts Association)
Website: https://uistarts.org/writers-group/
X: @UistArts
Instagram: @uistarts
Duncan MacLeod
Website: http://duncanmacleod.org
Instagram & X: @Leod_Music
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/duncan-macleod
2) Neil Luck - Real Telepathy
Real Telepathy is a radiophonic work about the nature of broadcast and shortwave communication. This collective state might exists when many dispersed bodies listen simultaneously to the same broadcast. It also happens in the shortwave radio community; individuals across the world communicating with each other somewhat chaotically via publicly accessible long-distance antennas. These connections, messages, signals all represent for me some kind of ephemeral community of communications; a telepathic network. My interest in radio as a collective listening experience heightened during the lockdowns of 2020, and spurred me to conduce a series of experiments, performances, compositions and recordings based around the interception, or modulation of radio signals. Real Telepathy is a piecing together of those into a short dreamlike narrative around late night radiophonic communications between men in their sheds. Recordings have been gathered in a variety of ways over the last few years.
Artist bio:
NEIL LUCK is a composer and artist based in the UK. His work often explores the pathos and interaction between live human performance and multimedia, and attempts to frame the act of music making as something curious, or weird, or useful, or spectacular in and of itself. Neil’s work takes a range of forms from music-theatre, to concert works, radio, public projects and recordings. He is the founder and director of the music-theatre ensemble ARCO; an experimental music-theatre company. ARCO has been commissioned to produce work for arts institutions, galleries and music institutions around the UK and overseas.
Website/social links
https://www.neilluck.com/
https://x.com/Neilluck
https://www.instagram.com/arcoarcoarcoarco/
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Charo Calvo - Bloodline of Flower (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
13 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Bloodline of Flower is drawn from poems by Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian poet and filmmaker (1934-1967). She was published and was widely read by many Iranians during her lifetime, and has now become somewhat of a cult figure. Her poetry is one of protest and rebellion, yet it captures everyday experience without any intention of guiding, educating or directing. Her poetry is the portrait of a generation undergoing radical change. In this piece, her verse lines draw songs from wavetables or modulate the breathy tones of a Ney. Only sound remains..
Voice: Carly Wijs
Ney: Arif Erkovan
Text: Forough Farrokhzad
Biography
I may say that I devote most of my time to matters related to sound and music. Every now and then I leave the studio and walk the streets and, if luck is on my side I wander along beaches or up mountains. I produce works that help me to understand the world and that voice my questions, discoveries or feelings which are ment to be shared with a potential audience. My way of both learning and becoming a better human being is to make music and sound narratives that describe people and their environments, where sound communicates what words fail to do.
Charo Calvo is a Spanish electroacoustic composer, sound designer and teacher, living in Brussels. After having performed as a dancer with the influential Belgian dance company Ultima Vez, she started her studies on Electroacoustic Composition in 1992 with Annette Vande Gorne at Brussels Conservatory (now ARTS2 Mons). Graduated in 1999.
From 1992 her work as composer is being developed through different media, widely diffused on international venues and festivals, dance performances, theatre, film and radio. She has received several important awards such as Palma Ars Acustica 2014 EBU, Phonurgia Nova Awards Paris 2017/2023, Prix Marulic 2018 Croatia, Grand Prix Nova Bucharest 2019/2022 and was shortlisted for Prix Europa Berlin, Hearsay Prize Ireland.
Charo Calvo has been a guest the residential program for international artists in Berlin DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm during the year 2017/2018.
Last concerts at GRM-INA Paris, KONTAKTE FESTIVAL 17 Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Berlin; MIKROMUSIK, Daad Galery, AUSLAND Berlin, VILLA ELIZABETH Berlin in duo with Natasha Barrett, ELECTROBELGE, Brussels, HEROINES OF SOUND 2019, EPICENTROOM, St Petersburg, CITYSONIC CINEMA, Belgium, BELGIAN MUSIC DAYS, PLEAYADES, Madrid, CCCB Barcelona
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Unconscious Collective - Radio 15 presents 'The Great Gestalt Twitch'
13 April 2025 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Moving between them in quick succession recordings of trains continuous loop allowing him to trigger together the various train sounds as needed. The collage work may have a completely different tone than that of the component parts, even if the original parts are completely recognisable. procedures such as the quodlibet, and centonization differ in that the various elements in them are made to fit smoothly together, whereas in a collage clashes other discrepancies are important in helping the constituent elements and to convey the impression of a heterogeneous assemblage. What made their technique true collage, however, was the juxtaposition of the unrelated. musical compositions, or recordings using portions of previously made recordings an eclectic assortment algorithm to position each sound at a specific time-point or time-points, editing of the duration, amplitude, and spatial positions of all sounds Communication made to the whole world, whose only pretension is to the discovery
Artist bio:
Central London based collective; Jane Burton, Doris Lake, Samantha Brook & Rachel Parks; Their logo is a Hammer and a Cabbage And use various monikers to create under sometime in the 1950's by William Strong, the Public Domain project was a completely under the radar affair, issuing tape reels at sporadic junctures, of extreme small volumes, which were listened to, so sent back and wiped with large magnets, to be reused, so only fragments survive. Years later after befriending a librarian, in central London the it was reborn. The project has used many names; including unconscious collective
Website/social links
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Radiophrenia Shorts 21
13 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1) Nichola Scrutton - At First Light (8:49)
2) Dominik Irtenkauf & Norman Mueller aka Smaely P - Dein und mein Meer (5:01)
3) Andi Cohen - (C)overt Communication (3:22)
4) Cláudio Pina - Book of Eternal Brass (9:56)
1) Nichola Scrutton - At First Light
At First Light – one from Nichola’s archive - a vocal meditation inspired by the play of light at sunrise.
Nichola Scrutton is an award-winning composer, performer and artist who produces self-directed works across various media, and collaborates on a range of interdisciplinary and participatory projects.
https://www.nicholascrutton.co.uk/
Twitter/X: @NicholaScrutton
Instagram: @nic_scrutton
https://nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2bKegVEj2mTO0JlPDkE3qd (such it is)
https://soundcloud.com/nic-2-1
Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/gihZh9
2) Dominik Irtenkauf & Norman Mueller aka Smaely P - Dein und mein Meer
As a mirror to the world, "Your and my sea" in its compression takes a broad look at a possible future. The oceans of our home planet are reclaiming the mainland. We are moving into a maritime culture. Our short radio play tries to sense this possible future acoustically and in terms of content. When it comes to sound realisation, the question arises as to how we can capture decay and destruction acoustically; field recordings, feedback and various objects and musical instruments are used in a sound collage. The plot of the radio play presented is unreal and at times phantasmatic. As in fantastic literature, ambivalences are presented. What will it look like when the sea levels on our planet Earth continue to rise? The ambivalence of the sea, from which the human species emerged, permeates this short radio play. It reflects our difficult relationship with nature and the wilderness.
Dominik Irtenkauf: concept and text
Smaely P (aka Ypsmael): voice, direction, composition, sound design and production (via NM Soundindex)
Dominik Irtenkauf (*1979), freelance author and journalist, lives in Berlin and writes for, among others, TELEPOLIS and DAS SCIENCE FICTION JAHR.
Smaely P is a pseudonym for experimental and noise music by the Black Forest-born improviser and composer NM (aka Ypsmael, Aelypsm, etc.). Current solo releases and collaborations can be found on the labels Chocolate Monk, Public Eyesore / Eh?, Steep Gloss, and Spalt-Ung.
Smaely P aka Ypsmael:
ypsmael.com
https://linktr.ee/ypsmael
NM Soundindex: soundindex.de
https://www.instagram.com/soundindex.de/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089071166798
Dominik Irtenkauf:
http://anthropop.de/
3) Andi Cohen - (C)overt Communication
A soundscape of recordings of found sounds on shortwave radio. I have been investigating communications within publicly-accessible spaces. This work explores themes of inclusion/exclusion and marginalised communities.
I am currently a full-time art student at Goldsmiths, University of London. Coming from a background of working in mental health services in the NHS, my work explores themes of interpersonal relationships, what we consciously and unconsciously hide or reveal about ourselves and the narratives we develop about ourselves and others.
4) Cláudio Pina - Book of Eternal Brass
Book of Eternal Brass is an electroacoustic piece based on the prophetic book of William Blake, The Book of Urizen.
Urizen's books contain his laws governing the four departments of life. Each is made of four metals, Gold, Silver, Iron and Brass. The most important is the Book of Brass, or sociology. It contains Urizen's laws for establishing an ideal society.This piece depicts an imaginary realm and the slow forging of the Book of Brass by Urizen.
The sound objects are several recordings of factories and industrial apparatus, mimicking a giant blacksmith's forge. This process is a cathartic metaphor on the idea of progress and technology, versus the society and environment. Urizen, portrayed by the composer narration on the introduction, introduces the piece.
Sound artist and composer. Titular of the historical organ of the Parish church of Ajuda. Integrated Researcher in GIMC/CESEM, FCSH-UNL. Holds a Diploma in Advanced Studies in Musical Arts (FCSH/ESML) in the field of contemporary organ music. Master in Musical Arts, in the field of electroacoustic music and contemporary organ music, with distinction on the Dean’s Honour Roll, Best Master 2018/19 (FCSH). He is currently finishing his PhD, in the same academic field. Was a FCT research fellow from 2021/24. He studied at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon, Hot Jazz Club and Physics Eng. at FC-UL.
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Radiophrenia Shorts 21
13 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
5) Egidija Medeksaite – Amithaba (12:22)
6) Myriam Bessette – Yoki (4:55)
7) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 4 (0:47)
8) Darren Xu - (Absent) Expressions (5:00)
9) Magda Lampropoulou – Twist (7:22)
5) Egidija Medeksaite – Amithaba
Amithāba is the principal Budhha in Pure Land Buddhism, who is known as Amitāyus. Amithāba means “Infinite Light” or “Infinite Life” in Sanskrit.
The structure of Amithāba is based on a textile weave, where each voice has its own repetition. Throughout the piece, the change of each repetition depends on theimprovisation of singers who can use the “techniques” of the oldest singing style known as Drupha Darbar, which uses sounds and syllables rather than words. I am using the scale of Indian Sāranga raga, which expresses no pathos, but only tenderness.
Over the course of the work, the role of the interweaving-repetitive patterns is to create the sound of the abstract, which goes beyond boundaries and is limitless.
Dr Egidija Medekšaitė (b. 1979) received a PhD in composition from the Durham University by Prof. Richard Rinjvos and Dr Sam Hayden in 2016. She studied composition at the universities of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Prof. Rytis Mažulis), and Stuttgart Academy of Music, where her teachers included Marco Stroppa and Caspar J. Walter. In 2003 she took part in the Programme of Composition and Music Technology in Tampere (Finland). In 2004 she attended master classes in Istebna (Poland), Dundaga (Latvia) and the Acanthes Composition Workshop in Metz (France), where she studied with Jonathan Harvey, Philippe Manoury and Martin Matalon. The composer participates in various interdisciplinary projects, writes music for dance performances and movies, her music is constantly performed in contemporary music festivals in Lithuania and abroad.
https://on.soundcloud.com/b2gj7RcaE11yYn7Z9
6) Myriam Bessette – Yoki
Live modulated field recordings form an intricate tapestry of human interactions during a solar eclipse, reminding us of our connection to nature in this Anthropocene era.
With a background in visual arts, Myriam Bessette explores drawing and sound sampling, which she transforms and animates using technological tools. Her works, rhythmic and synesthetic, are generated by elements captured in perpetual permutation, reconciling the traditional notion of the unique and eternal artwork with the contemporary one, characterized by recycling and high data variability. She works with electronic reality to offer us consistently surprising sound creations.
https://linktr.ee/myriambessette
7) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 4
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
8) Darren Xu - (Absent) Expressions
This piece explores another side of expression where instead of blatant and astounding displays of disagreement and grief, more subtle and quiet voices are given more light. These soft sounds may seem undiscernible at first, but they eventually grow and gain presence.
Chinese Canadian composer Darren Xu is a PhD student at the Royal College of Music, where he was recently rewarded the Artist Diploma. He enjoys writing music for acoustic instruments, films, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. He has had the opportunity to work with various collaborators, including Standing Wave, the Wallace Collection, the English National Ballet School, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, TorQ Percussion Quartet, Roadrunner Trio, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. His film score, Stargazer, was awarded Best Score by New York Film Awards in November 2018.
https://www.darrenxucomposer.com
darrenxu.composer (Instagram)
https://on.soundcloud.com/6hywjqP6btxW9smY6 (Soundcloud)
9) Magda Lampropoulou – Twist
This audio piece is an excerpt from my playing with the 36 hanging sound sculptures which consisted the main part of my new in situ sound installation “twist”. This installation was opened to the public from 10 to 14 June 2024 at the Arts Lounge of the Athens Conservatoire in the context of the Subset Festival (curated by Gasparatos Stavros) and the Athens Epidaurus Festival. The audience were navigated among floating ever-changing in shape and sound sculptures and objects with a feminine accent. Participants could freely touch them and were thus led to discover diverse qualities of sounds emanating from physical contact with the outer shell of metal and paper surfaces and their unseen inner elements as well.
Magda Lampropoulou (b. 1977 Athens) is a sculptress and sound artist based in Athens, Greece. Her artwork engages with diverse, expressive media including audio, performance, sculpture, installations, and video. With emphasis on issues such as discrimination, prejudice, and moral values imposed by a given society, she assumes a humanitarian approach to her work. She holds a degree in Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her participation in exhibitions, festivals, artistic radio podcasts and residencies (“Subset Festival”-Athens Epidaurus Festival/ "Tectonics Athens21", Onassis Cultural Centre/ "Works for Radio #4",The Lake Radio), has resulted in her identifying her work methodology.
https://magdoulas6.wixsite.com/magda-lampropoulou
instagram.com/lampropoulou_magda/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009992858432
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Diana Duta & Julia E. Dyck - t.r.a.n.c.e community hypnosis session
13 April 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
A group hypnosis session inviting you to access the power of the trance state and potential of the subconscious to cultivate positive transformation. This experience combines the practice of hypnotherapy with the synergy of voice, electronic loops, and resonant instruments. This collective practice stimulates the imagination while gradually building a multi-sensory, layered experience where stories, ideas and sensations can come alive, create positive change and promote deep transformative shifts.
This is a guided hypnosis, please do not listen while driving or operating machinery.
Artist bio:
Julia E. Dyck is an artist, hypnotist and radio producer originally from Treaty One Territory/ Winnipeg who currently works and lives between Brussels and Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. In 2022, she completed a two year training in clinical hypnotherapy under National Hypnosis Guild certified mentor, Andrea Iya Young.
Diana Duta’s research explores the voice and sound as both objects of theoretical reflection and cultural practices. In 2023, she received a training in Sound therapy from the Institut Français de Sonothérapie at the Abbaye de Valsaintes, France.
Website/social links
https://tr4nc3.com/
https://juliaedyck.bandcamp.com/track/octopus-hypnosis
https://dianaduta.com/
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Rotter Otter
13 April 2025 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Rotter Otter will present house music, a new semi-improvised live performance from both in the Radiophrenia studio and with invited guests dialling in from their own homes (or wherever they happen to be). Typically, a Rotter Otter performance begins with a script as a springboard for Ben and Rebecca to sing, speak and regurgitate in-and-around the sway and drag of Rose's fx heavy cello and Hannah's synthesis. For house music, the script will be more of a score - a shared rallying point for invited vocalists and musicians to call-in and contribute to the performance using the script-score by singing, talking, asking questions to the band, washing the dishes, drumming, working from home and playing their instruments whilst sharing the ambiences of wherever they might be. Artist bio: Rotter otter is a Glasgow-based improvising quartet featuring Rose Dagul (cello), Hannah Ellul (synth/tapes), Ben Ellul-Knight (vocals) and Rebecca Wilcox (vocals/samples). Having also worked in different configurations in the past, and on solo projects, we give attention to, and riff on the tensions between language, voice, instrument and sounds of interference. We recently performed for Rob Bidder's I'm a Bellmaker book launch, and made performances at The Old Hairdressers (Glasgow), Nan Moors (Todmorden) and Portland Works (Sheffield). -
Mirror Lamp Press Special Audio Issue - I Pretend Too
13 April 2025 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
This special audio edition of Mirror Lamp Press brings together a collection of original works inspired by the 1950s song "The Great Pretender," originally performed by The Platters, weaving through themes of identity, imitation, and performance.
Freya Dooley’s The Double looks at inauthenticity and emotional labour, following a supermarket cashier’s imagined interactions with a shoplifting doppelgänger.
In A Frog Prepares, Isadora Epstein offers a retelling of a classic fairytale, with music and sound production by Davy Kehoe.
With Send in the Clowns, Sophie Robinson delivers a raw, reflective poem on heartbreak and self-betrayal, drawing inspiration from Stephen Sondheim’s sad clown archetype.
Edy Fungs’s text-sound composition Soft Selves examines identity and unpredictability in music, featuring words by Andrea Bjurström.
The glitchy sounds of a Vtech computer paired with Rachel Heavey’s childhood voice create a nostalgic and experimental atmosphere in Word Builder.
Artist bio:
Mirror Lamp Press is a digital publishing project that explores the intersection of art and literature through the newly commissioned work of artists and writers. The project aims to publish writing on and around contemporary art and literature that is well-researched, thoughtful, surprising, playful and sometimes experimental. MLP is committed to working with writers in a way that is open, receptive, and dedicated to embracing their authorial voice. It is edited by Gwen Burlington and Eoghan McIntyre and designed by Paul Mulgrew.
Website/social links
https://www.mirrorlamppress.com/
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Speculum Bunny - My heart, the threshold (Live in the studio)
13 April 2025 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
I would like to propose a live performance for Radiophrenia 2025 that investigates the intricate relationship between sound and the natural world. Over the past 18 months, I have been collecting sound and exploring themes of transition, liminal spaces, and thresholds, both in nature and within the human body and experience. This piece will incorporate found sounds and field recordings captured at key natural thresholds—such as beaches, caves, and crossroads—along with recordings from my own body. I aim to highlight the magical underpinnings of these phenomena, revealing how these intersections in nature possess unique acoustic properties that can evoke a sense of transformation and connection. I would do this by weaving a sound tapestry of drone with bowed bass guitar, shruti box and voice alongside field recordings captured at various thresholds in nature and my own body. The aim, to transport listeners to these magical natural places. Artist bio: Clare Simpson is a somatic sound artist, sound healer, performance artist, and mixed media composer based in Glasgow. With over 20 years of experience, her work is a deeply personal exploration of sound as a transformative force. At the core of Clare’s work is a profound engagement with feminine archetypes and the intricacies of transitional spaces. In her art, Clare creates a sanctuary for reflection and transformation, encouraging listeners to explore the depths of their own being. Clare holds seasonal sound tapestries in Glasgow twice a month. She frequently rehearses with her band, is an avid musical improviser and has has great success with her solo project ‘speculum bunny’, playing a variety of different experimental music nights and performances. She recently spoke and performed at The Experimental noise artists seminar in Newcastle. Website/social links https://www.instagram.com/speculum_bunny/ https://speculumbunny.bandcamp.com/ -
Buffer Zone
13 April 2025 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
1) Matana Roberts - for they do not know (6:55)
2) Paul Rooney - Words and Silence (13.21)
1) Matana Roberts - for they do not know
From Coin Coin Chapter Five : In The Garden
2) Paul Rooney - Words and Silence
A call centre worker, cold-calling to sell insurance, has one of her calls go to answer machine. Instead of hanging up, she leaves a message: she tells stories about silence, distance and time.
Artist bio:
Paul Rooney is an artist based in Liverpool. His installations, videos, writings and records focus on the instabilities and deceptions of narrative, particularly in relation to representing place: its everyday life; its history and folklore; its familiar strangeness. He has shown work at Tate Britain; Tate Liverpool; BALTIC; The Arnolfini; and Whitechapel Gallery; and has exhibited internationally at places such as Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Two of his installations were purchased for the Arts Council Collection in 2015.
Website/social links
https://www.paulrooney.info/
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Anne Lepère - Mouras (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
13 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
EN/
The Mouras guard the earth's hidden secrets. At the mouth of a cave, beneath a monolith, or in
the mist of a hot spring, their enchanting presence watches over the entrances to mystical places,
gauging the soul of anyone who wishes to enter these sacred sanctuaries.
Adventurous voices set out to encounter these Galician mythological beings, seeking the secrets
etched in stone and the magical tales sedimented over millennia.
Will their songs reach the depths of the earth? Will they receive the Mouras' permission to pass?
And will we be able to listen to the secrets that rise through geological layers, echoing as whispers
in the hollows of our own bodies?
GA/
As Mouras vixían os segredos soterrados da terra. No limiar dunha cova, baixo un monólito ou
entre o vapor dunha fonte termal, as súas partículas enfeitizadoras gardan as entradas dos
lugares místicos, avaliando a alma de quen queira penetrar neses santuarios sagrados.
Voces aventureiras lánzanse entón ao encontro destas criaturas mitolóxicas galegas, na procura
dos segredos gravados na pedra e dos relatos máxicos sedimentados ao longo dos milenios.
Chegarán os seus cantos ás entrañas da terra? Recibirán o salvoconduto das Mouras? E
saberemos escoitar os segredos que soben polas capas xeolóxicas ata se converteren en
murmullos nas cavidades dos nosos propios corpos?
FR/
Les Mouras veillent sur les secrets enfouis de la terre. A l’orée d’une grotte, sous un monolithe ou
dans la vapeur d’une source d’eau chaude, leurs particules enchanteresses veillent aux accès des
lieux mystiques, jaugeant l’âme de quiconque souhaite pénétrer ces sanctuaires sacrés.
Des voix aventureuses se lancent alors à la rencontre de ces créatures mythologiques galiciennes,
en quête des secrets gravés dans la pierre et des récits magiques sédimentés à travers les
millénaires.
Leurs chants parviendront-ils aux entrailles de la terre ? Recevront-ils le laissez-passer des Mouras? Et saurons-nous prêter l’oreille aux secrets qui remontent les strates géologiques jusqu’à
devenir des murmures dans les cavités de nos propres corps?
Credits:
MOURAS - Produced by Anne Lepère
Voices : Karina Mouriño, teacher of the school of Taboexa, Galicia, Marion Sage and Anne Lepère
Children’s voices : Emil Sebastião, Artai, Brais, Einar, Xurxo, Xián, Baia Rosalía, Seixo
Based on the legends of the Mouras and the stories of Karina Mouriño
Additional poetry, recordings, composition and mixing : Anne Lepère
Special thanks to Marion Sage, Thomas Wyatt, Karina Mouriño, Jeanne Debarsy and Mark Vernon.
Photo credit : Marion Sage
Biography:
Anne Lepère – Sound artist, composer, and radio producer.
Since beginning my journey in sound art, I have woven together sounds, breaths, and words to cultivate a poetic practice of everyday life, from urban to rural settings. Inspired by Brussels’ creative hubs like ACSR, BNA-BBOT, and Q-O2, I began producing radio pieces in 2013, ranging from essays and soundscapes to spoken word and documentary poetry.
In 2016, my work expanded to the stage through the Prototypes III training at Royaumont Abbey (Paris), after which I began composing music and sound for theatre, performance, film, and dance, collaborating with directors, choreographers, and filmmakers across various projects.
My radio work includes Autopoïèse (2019), a piece awarded the Palma Ars Acustica and the Phonurgia Nova Prix Art Sonore, and Area (2022), a sound poem nominated for the Marulic Prize (Croatia) and the Radio Drama Festival (UK). Both pieces have been featured at international festivals.
Since 2023 I’m also leading sound creation workshops in Romania, Galicia, Togo,... introducing participants to the art of sound exploration. Currently, I am developing Nuages, a new long-form piece that uses clouds as a sound score and explores collective poetry through workshops.
http://www.annelepere.net -
Richard Hamilton - Auscultation Points
13 April 2025 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Auscultation Points is a medical term for the different points along the human body where doctors listen in to the patients internal organs to diagnose the overall health of the individual. Originally recorded at the Morris Arboretum and Gardens in Philadelphia, PA this soundscape, in much the same way, acts as an audio diagnosis of the overall ecosystem of the Arboretum.
Over several visits, Rich used various microphones such as ultrasonic and contact microphones to record a wide variety of sources from the sound of bats to the insides of trees. He then returned to his studio to layer, heavily process, and arrange the sounds. The result is a soundscape that reflects the beauty of the Arboretum while highlighting human encroachment on nature and the potential losses if we don’t change our ways.
Artist bio:
Richard Hamilton is the co-owner of Dragonfly Audio Post and an award-winning sound designer, mixer, and film/tv composer with over a decade of experience. He has mixed and sound designed for clients such as Google, NASA, Verizon, and many others.
Website/social links
https://www.dragonflyaudiopost.com/
https://www.instagram.com/richhamilton89/
https://www.instagram.com/dragonflyaudiopost/ -
Verónica Cerrotta - Autumm Night
13 April 2025 7:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Field recordings from Brazil's Atlantic Forest
This is a series of field recordings made in the transition biome between the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro.
The recordings were made in different seasons of the year, between 2023-2024, and at different times of the day. Each of the recordings has an approximate duration of sixty minutes.
Artist bio:
Argentinean sound artist settled in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her artistic work is based on the use of field recordings and navigates between soundscape and experimental electroacoustic and concrete music, focusing on listening and sound imagination.
Since 2019, she has released solo works on the labels Impulsive Habitat, Música Insólita, Pakapi Records and Sello Postal.
She has also released the collaborative works ‘Slani pejzaži’(tsss tapes), with Manja Ristić and Joana Guerra, ‘In-Radius’ (Presses Précaires) with Pablo Díaz, and “Fase de Plegamiento’ (Green Field Recordings) with Juan José Calarco.
Website/social links
linktr.ee/veronica_cerrotta
https://veronicadaniela.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/veronicadanielacerrotta
https://www.instagram.com/veronica_cerrotta/ -
Thomas Catlaw - Soundsketches of a Desert Suburb
13 April 2025 8:20 pm - 9:00 pm
This work sonically tells a story of a day in the life of a suburb in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. It consists of four connected soundsketches based on field recordings at four locations central to the city’s life. Here, the forces of nature and urbanization create soundscapes both beautiful and brutal. Water, long gone from its original surface locations, re-emerges everywhere in human-made forms.
“Bridge (Daybreak)” opens the work as the sun rises and day begins over a pedestrian bridge at Town Lake, once a dry river bed. “House (Morning)” travels to suburban tract housing, where swimming pools are an ecological affront and sanity-saving sanctuary in the face of climate change. “Canal (Afternoon)” visits a lifeline bringing water to the city from great distances. It is increasingly a space of recreation and development. In “Park (Twilight),” evening play, cicadas, and water dripping within a canal gate usher in the night.
Artist bio:
In Arizona and the Sonoran Desert, the struggle to secure reliable water sources is perpetual. This makes those sources enchanted places for human, animal, and floral gathering. My work seeks to make these enchanted places more present to us aurally, and to make figurative the ways that desert life is shaped by encounters with water. Development and urbanization also increase sonic incursions—“noise”—into the desert’s unique physical and imagined soundscapes. I am interested in exploring how the subjective experience of these sounds helps to frame thinking about development and conservation.
Website/social links
http://www.thomascatlaw.com
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Subespai - St. Lawrence
13 April 2025 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm
In "St. Lawrence", Subespai delves into the essence of tradition by weaving a mesmerising ambient soundscape around a looped traditional tune from Menorca's vibrant public festivities. Captured by his wife during the celebration, the melody serves as a heartfelt anchor, introducing listeners to a familiar cultural touchstone. As the piece unfolds, the recognisable elements gradually dissolve into a rich tapestry of textured drones and ethereal effects, inviting the audience on a journey of transformation and exploration. This sonic evolution reflects Subespai's signature approach, where sounds guide the narrative, creating an immersive experience that honours heritage while embracing abstraction. The result is a meditative soundscape that resonates with the listener, evoking a sense of place and introspection.
Artist bio:
Subespai is an experimental ambient and drone music artist from Menorca, Spain. The name is a Catalan word that translates to "subspace," reflecting the artist's focus on creating immersive and minimal soundscapes. Subespai's music often features deep, textured layers of sound, blending electronic drones, field recordings, and processed instruments.
His work typically falls within the ambient, drone, and experimental music genres, drawing inspiration from natural environments and introspective moods. Subespai often releases his music on small independent labels, appealing to listeners who enjoy meditative, abstract, or atmospheric audio experiences.
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/subespai/
https://subespai.bandcamp.com/music
https://soundcloud.com/subespai
https://www.youtube.com/@subespai8650
http://subespai.net/ -
giuseppe - un guanciale di pietra
13 April 2025 9:30 pm - 10:00 pm
dispositivo sonoro nato come un suppellettile che puo incuriosire e farti avvicinare a scoprire il suono che genera oppure essere ignorato totalmentecome un frigo vecchio o un orologio a lancette che competono in una cucina con la tv o il rumore delle stoviglie
percepiti in intimita.in quell'attimo transitorio che strozza la realta. come il suono improvviso del deglutire
sound device born as a furnishing that can arouse curiosity and bring you closer to discovering the sound it generates or be totally ignored like an old fridge or a clock with hands that compete in a kitchen with the TV or the noise of the dishes
perceived intimately. in that transitory moment that strangles reality. like the sudden sound of swallowing
Artist bio:
artigiano sonoro che divide il suo tempo fra la produzione di suoni ed il suo lavoro
da quando non sviluppa pellicole fotografiche si concentra sui suoni per creare paesaggi
Website/social links
https://soundcloud.com/gustafturmak
httpshttps://www.youtube.com/@gustafturmak6156
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Radiophrenia Shorts 35
13 April 2025 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Shorts Comp 35
1) Jesse Lou Lawson - How to Look 30 When You Are 30 (11:22)
2) katarina kadijević - The room was fulfilled with nothing (15:00)
3) Shaun Robert - Ça pic un peut quand meme (15:00)
4) Chin Ting - Resonant Collision (17:00)
1) Jesse Lou Lawson - How to Look 30 When You Are 30
I found a pamphlet of advice for trans masculine people published in 1985 by Lou Sullivan. It had a section called How to Look 30 When You Are 30: about how people often mistake 30 year old trans mascs for 14 year old boys, and what to do about it. So I followed all of Lou’s instructions. This is a piece about the beautiful and enduring mutual aid of trans communities, and reclaiming our history in the context of a moral panic that presents transness as a new and threatening phenomenon. It features Fen Williams, Susan Stryker and Tuck Woodstock.
Jesse Lawson is a multi award winning freelance audio producer, sound designer, and community facilitator. Their work so far has explored themes including queerness, the prison industrial complex, and narratives that are historically excluded. Two projects they're very proud of are Because the Boss Belongs to Us, and Fear of Missing Out. More info and contact information: jesselawson.me.
jesselawson.me
Twitter: @JesseLRadio
Instagram: @jesseloulawson
2) katarina kadijević - The room was fulfilled with nothing
Sound system of politic(s)
The room was fulfilled with nothing
And the nothing was the everything
Every day I check in
that my foots carry me
floods
check in and check out
in my hand i carry plastic bag
in which are three croissants of chosen Earthly delights.
And I open my hands and become nothing
(work in progress, linked to the ongoing exploration on Self–composting strategies)
Polyphonic structures. Extremities. Process within process, landscape undertones. katarina kadijević, id-entity work in progress, is a temporary hybrid state, which likes to seek and look in- into-at different kinds of communication mechanisms, ways, possibilities, connections with the space, place, plants, animals, objects, human. Inhabiting my body, I communicate through movement, voice, poetry, listening to spaces and communicating with them. Silence is a dear friend and compass which guides me. Currently studying at Institute of Sonology, explores the realms of sound, vibration and transmission.
https://www.instagram.com/postintrotwone/
https://olpuas.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/eyel-aibrthngngh
3) Shaun Robert - Ça pic un peut quand meme
A burn't hauntology wrought from a synthesis of existential plain vox recordings , pulled absurdly into relationships dialed ; top form lopsided in strange grandeur . Soundscape of limbo walking haze in the shopping centred ; closed at night ; and mannequin smiles
Shaun Robert (1966 - ) Starting like many with a domestic tape recorder ; years finger poised on the pause button ; tunnelling into the present & falling into deep concentration ; in a trance of coloured sound trials ; impromptu expressions processed & filtered into moments of congealed sound ; also using field recording , in voxpop & audio voyeurism , of hauntological stylings , Cross talk & frequency drifting pulls the strings of his heart & relating to loops and rough editing , audio drop outs , a Sonic Organic. A mix of forms in an expanding wave , nudging & slating whim , composition dealt in reality , a truth of intimate confessional & intruding a microphone , the tension of triggered sounds to ape pictures of life & spoken word & singing. Falling apart to come together ; feeling the next transition is about to happen , tape phasing sound on sound ; skimming back to make collusion edits ; building deep relationships with that aesthetic ; this interaction shows itself in within all his works . And the importance of sounds from analogue radio , magnetic tape manipulation can not be understated.
https://shaunrobert.bandcamp.com
4) Chin Ting - Resonant Collision
Everything in the universe oscillates in predictable or unpredictable patterns. When things come in proximity, they collide, but after a while, they begin to synchronize and resonate at similar frequencies. The collisions of different sound materials are used as a metaphor for our intricate interaction and relationship with nature as well as other living beings. It reminds us to focus on what we have in common rather than how we differ, to facilitate connections rather than conflicts. We all share the same world that we ought to preserve, where we should strive to connect spiritually with those who live in it.
Composer Patrick Chin Ting CHAN grew up in Hong Kong and came to the United States in 2003. He has been featured in events including Ars Electronica, IRCAM's ManiFeste, ISCM World Music Days, UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers, and Venice Art Biennale, among others. He has worked with ensembles such as City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Ensemble intercontemporain (France), Ensemble Metamorphosis (Serbia), eighth blackbird (U.S.), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Mivos Quartet (U.S.), and New York New Music Ensemble, with performances in more than thirty countries. His scores are published through BabelScores and Universal Edition.
http://www.chintingchan.com -
French Theory (Elena Truuts / Martin Kikas ) - Et tu sais - And you know
13 April 2025 11:00 pm - 11:15 pm
The album was conceived as a fictional radio broadcast where the sound environment ensures continuity between the spoken poems, which reveal the chaotic fragility of bodies in space-time—a landscape familiar to all travelers, regardless of the reason for their journey: love, escape, migration... One thing is certain: this radically modern journey is by no means one of leisure. There is no verbal tourism in this unrhymed poetry.
Texts and Voice: Elena Truuts
Sound Design: Martin Kikas
Cover photo: Kristina Rubinova
Artist bio:
Elena Truuts is an Estonian poet who writes in French. She lives and works in Tallinn. She completed a thesis on Nathalie Sarraute’s radiophonic theatre at the University of Paris 8. Her poems, written in French, explore the potential of an experimental translingual literary form that she calls "proses contre-proses".
Martin Kikas is a sound artist and music producer, co-founder of Ö Stuudio. For “Et tu sais,” Martin decided to capture the soundscape of Tartu, a university town in southern Estonia that has been named the European Capital of Culture 2024. He recorded voices, languages, urban noises.
Website/social links
https://frenchtheory.bandcamp.com
Poems by Elena Truuts
With English translation
1. Introduction
Ceux que tu laisses partir
Pour aller plus loin
Voyagent en prose
Those you let go
to go further
travel in prose
2.
L’année terrible m’a appris à me répéter cette phrase ordinaire : Saan hakkama. Il n’y a pas de temps futur en tant que forme grammaticale en estonien, mais il est bien connu que dans toutes les langues on trouve le moyen d’énoncer le passé, le présent et le futur. Saan hakkama veut dire à la fois je m'en sors, je vais m’en sortir et je m'en sortirai. Comme une grande. L’audace de hakkama saama, celle de pouvoir commencer, rend possibles le présent, l’intention et la promesse. « Nothing’s gonna hurt you baby. » Rien n’atteindra ton coeur, bébé, à part les missiles qui déchirent l'humanité.
The terrible year taught me to repeat this ordinary sentence to myself: Saan hakkama. There is no future tense as a grammatical form in Estonian. In all languages we find a way to conceive the past, the present and the future. Saan hakkama means at the same time I'm getting out of it, I'm going to get out of it and I will get out of it. Like a big girl. The audacity of hakkama saama, being able to start something, makes the present, the intention and the promise possible. Nothing's gonna hurt your heart baby, except the missiles that tear humanity apart.
3.
Les plantes, pour la plupart d’entre elles, vivent ancrées dans le sol, à la différence des animaux et des êtres humains. J’ai entendu ça hier dans une émission sur France Culture. Les animaux, disait-on, peuvent s'en sortir en fuyant, pareil pour les humains. Les végétaux restent plantés là où ils sont. Ils font avec. À chaque fois, je voudrais me sauver mais je suis ici, enracinée. Ça fait de moi une belle plante.
Plants, for most of them, live anchored in the ground, unlike animals and human beings. I heard about it yesterday in a programme on France Culture. Animals, they said, can escape by running away, same for humans. Plants remain where they are. They deal with. Each time, I would like to flee away but I am here, rooted. Makes me a beautiful flower.
4.
ma liste d’attente n’est pas une wishlist
ce n’est pas non plus une liste de courses
qu’on rédige dans son cahier de devoirs
quand on apprend une langue étrangère
mais un répertoire de choses
à faire avant le départ
à savoir embrasser ma mère
plier tous mes pulls oversize
ranger mes playlists dans l’ordre
que je désire
[tout le monde sait que la musique
est une sorte de thérapie
surtout la voix de Léonard Cohen
et un peu les chansons de Bob Dylan]
c’est un inventaire de questions
qui s’achève sur celle que tu me poses
— Mais qu’est-ce que tu attends ?
my waiting list is not a 'wishlist'
nor is it a shopping list that you write in your notebook
when you learn a foreign language
but a list of things to do before I leave:
kiss my mother
fold all my oversized jumpers
arrange my playlists in the order I desire
(everyone knows that music
is a kind of therapy
especially the voice of Leonard Cohen
and a little Bob Dylan's songs)
it's an inventory of questions
ending with the one you're asking me
— But what are you waiting for?
5.
et tu sais
on prend l’avion
on dort dans le train
pour que ça fasse deux
je voyage
comme un amour lambda
fièvres, plumes
tout en vrille
on profite de l’éloignement
sans jamais se guetter
et pourtant
chambre, appartement, cabane
lac, ville et bois
font un
and you know
we take the plane
we sleep in the train
to make it two
I travel
like any love
fevers, feathers
all in a spin
we take advantage of the distance
without ever keeping an eye on each other
and yet
room, apartment, hut
lake, town and woods
make one
6.
j’ai la voix cassée
je ne sais plus quoi dire
dois-je la réparer ?
je fais comment ?
toute une ressource en vrac :
brisures, éclats, désir d’un verbe plat
mais c’est avec une voix comme ça que
je m’autorise d’être absente
pour te raconter mon périple,
peu importent la pluie
les cordes tendues
et le froid
My voice is broken
don't know what to say
should I fix it?
how could I do?
a whole loose resource:
breaks, bursts, desire for a flat verb
but it's with such a voice
that I allow myself not to be here
to tell you about my voyage
rain or shine
the streched ropes
and the cold
7.
déneiger le silence
c'est comme si
j'avais passé ma vie à huis clos
et lui il me dit
je te donne tout à voir
unsnow the silence
it is as if I had spent my life behind closed doors
and he tells me
I will show you everything
8.
un chien marin se roule
dans la poussière
à défaut d’océan
le spring roll
au gîte des corps célestes
âmes sensibles, méfiez-vous
je suis toujours beaucoup
plus jeune que mes cheveux
le temps est en amont
parce que c’est par amour
qu’il s’agite
NB : this is not a literary translation = to be translated
a sailor dog rolls around
in the dust
in the absence of the ocean
the spring roll
at the lodge of celestial bodies
sensitive souls, beware
I'm still a lot
younger than my hair
time is ahead
because it's out by love
that he is agitated
9
La maladresse et l’autodérision, indispensables. C’est comme glisser sur une route couverte de glace en robe et talons, très en retard au premier rendez-vous amoureux. Avides de vivre, on bouscule les codes, se fait des films, et tout un spectacle. Toute sorte de situation comique, je suis à votre service. Jean qui rit, Jean qui pleure. J’oublie mes mots et je bégaie, oh la princesse du Sud de l’Estonie. Mais la fragilité de ces instants imparfaits où on rougit et trébuche nous remplit de liberté qui est la source de notre interminable jeunesse.
Clumsiness and self-mockery are essential. It's like sliding down an icy road, dressed up and wearing high heels, very late for your first date. Eager to live life to the full, we turn codes upside down, playing the cinema like a show. In every comic situation, I'm there, at your service. One's laugh, one's cry. I forget my words and stammer - oh, princess of Southern Estonia. But the fragility of these imperfect moments when we blush and stumble fills us with freedom, the source of our endless youth. -
Natalia Rivera Riffo - Resonance of the underearth: Dialogues with the sonic spirits of nature
13 April 2025 11:15 pm - 14 April 2025 12:00 am
"Resonance of the Underearth: Decolonial Dialogues with the Sonic Spirits of Nature" is an immersive radio work that explores the hidden depths of the Earth through sound. It emphasizes a decolonial perspective on ecology, inviting listeners to hear the voices of nature's sonic spirits. This piece blends natural recordings with artificial intelligence and technological tools to create a multi-layered sonic experience. Compositions such as "Scram the Glacier," "Shynte Aanda," "Respira," "Forêt Millenary Araucaria," and "Ritus" reflect different elements of the Earth's life forces. By giving a voice to nature, the work challenges anthropocentric perspectives and seeks to reconnect humanity with the planet's deep ecological wisdom.
Artist bio:
Short Bio EN Natalia Rivera Riffo is a multidisciplinary artist-researcher born in 1982 in Temuco, Chile, whose deep connection with nature has profoundly influenced her journey. Living and working in Paris, she primarily explores sound arts, drawing, performance, and video. Her approach questions territorial and landscape imaginaries, relating geological, climatic, and biological materials while examining the impact of extractivist practices on the land. Her works, both poetic and metaphorical, play with materiality and the paradoxes of form. Natalia adopts a transdisciplinary approach, blending sound, writing, and performance, where she addresses themes such as instability, chaos, and the visceral dimension, combining
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/nato.rivera.riffo/
https://nataliariverariffo.com/
https://soundcloud.com/natalia_rivera_riffo
https://linktr.ee/natalia.rivera.riffo
https://nerr.bandcamp.com/track/ritus -
The Knob, The Finger & The It - Poller Wiesen Session, 29 June 2024
12 April 2025 11:30 pm - 13 April 2025 12:00 am
Outside session at the river banks of Cologne, using battery-powered miniature drums, DIY kalimba, harmonica, effects, supercollider and extended shbobo shnth. The music is improvised, played at low volume through small bluetooth speakers and recorded with a stereo microphone. The surrounding soundscape resonates in these recordings, and occasionally clearly defined signals emerge from the distance. Experimental campfire electronics in the spirit of field recording.
Artist bio:
The Knob, The Finger & The It is a Cologne based trio with a penchant for experimental electronics, DIY, electro-acoustic bricolage and field recording. The Knob, The Finger & The It are Tobias Grewenig, Andreas O. Hirsch and Volker Hennes.
Website/social links
http://www.thekfi.bandcamp.com
http://www.thekfi.de
http://www.makiphon.de
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Spectral Transmissions Research Unit - Transmission #01
14 April 2025 12:00 am - 1:00 am
Cyclical time. Spectral media obliterates the boundaries between self and world, questions concerning the correct boundary between an alien everyday reality. Driven towards a madness. Resorting to illusory magical techniques. Fairies could once be heard making music under this artificial hill. The rustling of a woman's skirt could occasionally be heard behind the walls, as could ghostly music. A piano was said to play itself, even though most of the keys were broken. A ghostly black dog wearing a 1940s suit leaning on a bannister, Russian voices and music emerge from the jukebox. Within thirty seconds, the figure had vanished. Music is also said to be heard within the building when none should be playing. What was this abominable cipher?
Made as part of Gravity Waves and The Spirit World.
Artist bio:
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. Comprising a diverse spectrum of entities of various degrees of stability and tangibility. In as much as linear time can be applied, members of the STRU could, have, and or will include(d): Ludd Püca, JohnFrum, Kay Jackson, T-J.Cut, Dr. Ray Power, Proff. Jock Moxter, EKA-Francium, Dr. Tinkerpaw, Kaspar Brøcken, and The Coincidence Sprite.
Website/social links
https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-spectral-transmissions-audio-collage-28th-april-2024/ -
Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz - Water Line / Estuary Almanac (vers 2)
14 April 2025 1:00 am - 7:00 am
"Water Line" is a generative audio piece by Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz that imagines the space between the tides and between salt and fresh water - depending on the height of the tides, the listener is above or below the water surface. The lapping of mussels, the crawling and loud hissing of crabs, the pawing of sand fleas, the slow movements of shellfish. Real environmental sounds are mixed with compositional interpretations of bodies of water and their environment, from kelp forests and flood zones to mud flats and marshy areas, from flood plains to rocky coves.
The piece was originally commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Ö1 Kunstradio for the annual project KONTINUUM. It ran from April 2023 to June 2024 as an ongoing 1 year+ generative radio work.
Artist bio:
Anna Friz and Absolute Value of Noise (Peter Courtemanche) are Canadian sound and radio artists. Anna Friz creates self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation and performance. Her compositions reflect upon public media culture, environment and infrastructure (human and extra-human, acoustic, and electro-magnetic), time perception, and speculative fiction. Absolute Value of Noise creates radio and outdoor installations. He likes to work with "gadgetry" - custom turntables, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, magnetic transceivers, bio-electric circuits, and "little electronic brains" that observe and respond to local phenomena. His outdoor works are a comment on bio-diversity, extinction, and fragility.
Website/social links
http://absolutevalueofnoise.ca/
http://nicelittlestatic.com/ -
Manja Ristić- genesis
14 April 2025 7:00 am - 7:30 am
"Genesis" is inspired by the subtle relationships between sound and space, the phenomenology of sound, and contemporary research on communication systems in nature and ecology. In addition to the violin and EMS Synthi 100, the artist uses field recordings from Montreal, Portugal, the islands of Vrnik, Mljet, and Silba, various locations in Thailand, Lake Miraflores near the Panama Canal, and the slopes of Avala near Belgrade.
http://manjaristic.blogspot.com/ -
Leonie Roessler - Cuban Radio Stories
14 April 2025 7:30 am - 8:00 am
This piece is an informal exploration of Cuban Radio Culture, made of material Leonie collected during her excursion to Cuba in February of 2024. It contains snippets of the program as well as an interview with the station manager Anita of Radio Cadena Habana, a station with 70 employees located near the Plaza de la Libertad in Havana, which plays Cuban Music only. Furthermore you will hear poetry and excerpts of "NOTAS DE ACORDES EN EL AIRE" by Luis Hidalgo Ramos, read to us by Reynier Rodriguez Ribalta, as well as field recordings that Leonie took in Havana and at at the Caribbean Sea.
Artist bio:
Leonie Roessler - Composer and Performer raised in Germany and the US, now based in The Hague, Netherlands. Leonie captures her environment with field recordings, which she uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and instrumental compositions. Part of her work is purely sound-based, however the theme of marginalization has become increasingly present in her radio works. She curates On Air - On Site Festival, and co-manages Iranian record label Noise à Noise with Soheil Soheili. Her works have been released through Musica Dispersa (ES/UK), Noise á Noise (IR), Biodiversitàs, Syrphe(DE), Antilounge(NL), and have been physically archived in the British Library.
Website/social links
http://www.leonieroessler.com
Facebook: Leonie Roessler
Instagram: ljroessler -
Radiophrenia Shorts 53
14 April 2025 8:00 am - 9:00 am
1 ) Marco Lampis - Phantom Materials, Paolo Crimam’s exhibition at Infinite Display (12:02) 2 ) Ruptured World - Haunted Radio (10:37) 3) Emmie McLuskey – The A - Z of Movement - Part Three: A to G for voice and double bass (22:20) 4) Luba Diduch - Snow melting with a backbeat (3:21) 5) Female Laptop Orchestra - Telematic City Jam-Glasgow (10:08) 1) Marco Lampis - Phantom Materials, Paolo Crimam’s exhibition at Infinite Display Conceived as an audio guide for an imaginary artwork created by a fictional artist and hosted in a fictional museum, the track guides the listener inside the museum hall, where the main artwork takes shape. PM is the natural continuum of my research, which broadly focuses on the relationship between listening and seeing. It is an extension of my previous works, such as Object Shape Description, where I “described” objects using subtle labial sounds, and Before the Eyes, a series of audio descriptions of contemporary art exhibitions for the visually impaired. This work reflects my fascination with language and sound as descriptive tools, capable of guiding the listener in the exploration of mental images drawn from their own personal experience. This allows them to construct an imaginary world— in this case, the exhibition spaces and the artwork— transforming their role from a passive listener to an active spectator. I am an interdisciplinary artist exploring the intersections between echolocation, laser scanning, and ekphrasis, as I seek connections between these interests. My artistic research is driven by the pursuit of an intellectual sympathy that allows me to align and tune myself with objects and reality in an absolute way. Over the years, I have worked on various projects that merge sound, perception, and space, constantly pushing the boundaries of how we experience the world through different senses. My practice is shaped by a deep curiosity for how sound can influence visual understanding, leading me to explore new and immersive ways. marcolampis.tumblr.com http://www.beforetheeyes.vision 2) Ruptured World - Haunted Radio "Haunted Radio" is an exploration of the weird and the eerie in relation to radio noise and the sonic extremities of the radio medium. Ali Rennie (Ruptured World) is a sonic artist and composer from Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Rennie has an MSc in Sound Shaping and Audiovisual Practice from the University of Glasgow and is currently studying for a PhD in sonic arts at the University of Aberdeen. He has released several albums under the name of Ruptured World with the cinematic dark ambient record label Cryo Chamber and is also known as a writer of weird fiction, publishing the novel "BleakWarrior" in 2016 and the fiction collection "Hardweird" in December 2024. alistairrennie.com rupturedworld.com 3) Emmie McLuskey – A to G for voice and double bass A live recording made in London in May 2023, the first day of hot sunshine that year. This twenty minute piece is part of a larger body of work by Emmie made in collaboration with choreographer Janice Parker. Taking the alphabet as it's starting point the pair have created a vocabulary for movement that every 'body' can do. In Part Three we hear vocalist Robyn Haddon and double bassist Otto Wilberg use the prompts 'A is for Angle, B is for Balance, C is for Circle, D is for Dab, E is for Elastic, F is for Fall and G is for Grow to improvise a new piece that unfolded outside on the streets in Chalk Farm. Emmie McLuskey is an artist and producer who lives in Glasgow. Recent presentations have taken place at Govan Project Space, Talbot Rice Gallery, The Travelling Gallery, Collective, Sissi Club Marseille, Dogo Residenz für Neue Kunst, Switzerland, nadine, Brussels and KW, Berlin. Since 2021 Emmie has led The School of Plural Futures with ATLAS Arts and in 2022, she was the Associate Artist for Edinburgh Art Festival. Emmie is currently working towards a new children’s book titled The A - Z of Movement with choreographer Janice Parker. 4) Luba Diduch - Snow melting with a backbeat This track was made by using a hydrophone that was submerged in a pile of melting snow and vernal pool in the springtime. I was surprised to discover the amount and variety of sound this recording generated. Vernal pools predictably appear with a seasonal rhythm – arriving and departing at the same general time and place, sometimes for thousands of years. They are the result of melting snow and are a safe predator-free habitat for certain species. My art practice explores notions of interactivity that evolve due to the presence of expanding and transforming architectonic schemes in and around artworks. In both research and art practice, I am particularly interested in the ways in which audiences with highly differential levels of commitment with an artwork provide possibilities for the examination and understanding of co-creativity. Collaborative and participatory projects that explore how environments such as the world’s forests and wild spaces can be seen as creatively productive spaces and are of particular interest in my practice as an artist who often works in the wilderness of Canada. https://soundsfromthebiome.bandcamp.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/luba-d-727319a/ 5) Female Laptop Orchestra - Telematic City Jam-Glasgow ‘Telematic City Jam - Glasgow’ explores network resources jointly with a new instrument, the CubeHarmonic that mixes up chords and is based on the Rubik’s Cube. The entirely digital 4D-CubeHarmonic (coded by T. Yoshino, Japan, and conceptualized by FLO member Maria Mannone), is accessed from different locations, and sounds are transmitted from each laptop to Loopback. A remotely-accessed IBM quantum circuit is a decision-making helper for chord-variation maximization. During the performance, the live audio streams (acoustic and prepared instruments, voice, live electronics, environmental loops, synthesizers and Web Audio instrument Playsound.space) will be sent by FLO members from Brazil, Australia, Croatia, Poland and Italy, and mixed in Spain. The resulting blend of distributed music will be recorded (in February 2025) so that it can be streamed as part of Radiophrenia 2025. The work is a networked musical performance joining computer science, mathematics, and quantum physics and is currently under development. Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO), a music research project established in 2014 by Nela Brown, connects female musicians, sound artists, composers, engineers and computer scientists globally, through co-located and distributed collaborative music creation. Each FLO performance is site-specific and performer-dependent, mixing location-based field recordings, live coding, acoustic instruments, voice, sound synthesis and real-time sound processing using Web Audio API’s and VR environments with audio streams arriving from different global locations (via the internet and mobile networks). From stereo to immersive 3D audio (and everything in between), FLO pushes the boundaries of technology and experimentation in ensemble improvisation and telematic collaboration. https://femalelaptoporchestra.wordpress.com -
Radiophrenia Shorts 8
14 April 2025 9:00 am - 9:30 am
1 Soheil Shirangi - The Vital Sounds(For Fixed Media And Accordion) (6:31)
2 Timothy Roy - Bromtpon & Braeswood (11:10)
3 Adam McNeil - Sand and Wind (6:27)
4 daniel blinkhorn - unequal forms 1 – 3 (16:20)
1) Soheil Shirangi - The Vital Sounds(For Fixed Media And Accordion)
The vital sounds (For Fixed Media And Accordion)
The purpose of this work Visualization is an environment. An environment that converts to audio, incidentally,
The vital sounds are each of us, A collection of regular and irregular rhythms And beat that Trying to Always be there.
Year Of Creation: March 2017
Composer and Accordion Player: Soheil Shirangi
Premiered: May 2020 World performance for the Corona Time by Lake Radio.
Soheil Shirangi Now is a student of San Francisco State University at Master of Composition. Graduate of Tehran Conservatory. Second Person Tehran International Electronic Music Festival Award(2017).Candidate best composers Thirty-third Fajr festival(2018). Earning a diploma of the III International Contest of Choral Composing named after AD Kastalsky(2018). Scholarship holder at the Hamburg Media Festival(2019).Earning a diploma of the third person of the Orginsky International Composing Competition(for orchestra) in Belarus(2020),- 2022 The winner of the second place of the composition of the CBU University scholarship for writing the work of Samat(Duet For Violin and Cello).
http://soheilshirangi.com/
2) Timothy Roy - Bromtpon & Braeswood
"Brompton & Braeswood" is an acousmatic piece inspired by my personal experience living through Hurricane Harvey. The title derives from the street intersection where my wife and I were living at the time, along Brays Bayou in Houston. Central to my piece is a library of field recordings I captured at that intersection and along the bayou in the days immediately prior to Harvey making landfall. Some of these recordings were made with a Soundfield SPS-200 microphone; others were made with a matched pair of DPA miniature omni microphones clipped to the brim of a baseball cap, which allowed me to capture a quasi-binaural stereo image. In composing "Brompton & Braeswood," I sought to present a series of vignettes of contrasting mood and representation. The storm is initially heard directly, then — after a door slams shut — from the perspective of someone taking shelter. The remainder of the piece
Timothy Roy composes music steeped in imagery and allusion, which seeks to elicit a sense of time, place, and feeling. His music has received performances at such venues and events as the National Theater of Taipei, Music Biennale Zagreb, BEAST, Ars Electronica, Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, and the International Electroacoustic Music Festival of Chile, “Ai-maako.” Recent honors include the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award (1st Prize, 2022), ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Award (1st Prize, 2023), Prix CIME (Distinction, 2023) and Giga-Hertz Prize from ZKM Karlsruhe (Honorable Mention, 2022). Tim resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with his wife and cattle dog Ziggy.
http://www.timothyroymusic.com
3) Adam McNeil - Sand and Wind
A short story.
I am a sound artist based in Glasgow.
4) daniel blinkhorn - unequal forms 1 – 3
‘unequal forms 1 – 3’ – link unequal forms 1 - 3 ‘unequal forms 1 – 3’ symbolise 3 distinct collections of biomes found within the Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Australia. Each collection exhibits its own unique morphological archetype, from the ‘Rare and Threatened’ collection of Victorian native plants, to the cacti and succulents of the ‘Arid Garden’ and lastly, an entire microclimate of ferns that comprise ‘Fern Gully’. In each instance, field recordings of biomes have been meticulously recorded and placed alongside studio recordings from the violin (performed by Anna McMichael) and percussion (performed by Louise Devenish) family of instruments. The final composition taking shape through a series of gestures and phrases designed to mimic the way sound propagates across the 3 habitats
Daniel is an Australian composer, sound and new media artist currently residing in Sydney. He has worked in a variety of creative, academic, research and teaching contexts, and is currently lecturer in composition and music technology at the Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. He is an ardent location field recordist, where he has embarked upon a growing number of recording expeditions throughout Africa, Alaska, Amazon, Australia, Cuba, West Indies, Mexico, Madagascar, Middle East, Northern Europe, and the high Arctic/ North Pole region of Svalbard. His creative works have received a number of awards at important international composition competitions.
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Radiophrenia Shorts 8
14 April 2025 9:30 am - 10:00 am
4 daniel blinkhorn - unequal forms 1 – 3 (16:20)
5 Laboratório Experimental do Som - Gryllus bimaculatus (14:22)
6 Louary - Shared Echoes (Glasgow City Sound Walk) 3 – 2 – 1 (4:13)
4) daniel blinkhorn - unequal forms 1 – 3
‘unequal forms 1 – 3’ – link unequal forms 1 - 3 ‘unequal forms 1 – 3’ symbolise 3 distinct collections of biomes found within the Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Australia. Each collection exhibits its own unique morphological archetype, from the ‘Rare and Threatened’ collection of Victorian native plants, to the cacti and succulents of the ‘Arid Garden’ and lastly, an entire microclimate of ferns that comprise ‘Fern Gully’. In each instance, field recordings of biomes have been meticulously recorded and placed alongside studio recordings from the violin (performed by Anna McMichael) and percussion (performed by Louise Devenish) family of instruments. The final composition taking shape through a series of gestures and phrases designed to mimic the way sound propagates across the 3 habitats
Daniel is an Australian composer, sound and new media artist currently residing in Sydney. He has worked in a variety of creative, academic, research and teaching contexts, and is currently lecturer in composition and music technology at the Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. He is an ardent location field recordist, where he has embarked upon a growing number of recording expeditions throughout Africa, Alaska, Amazon, Australia, Cuba, West Indies, Mexico, Madagascar, Middle East, Northern Europe, and the high Arctic/ North Pole region of Svalbard. His creative works have received a number of awards at important international composition competitions.
http://www.danielblinkhorn.com
5) Laboratório Experimental do Som - Gryllus bimaculatus
Gryllus bimaculatus, is a collectively constructed piece, provoked by the project Premissa Híbrida, in Flores Island, at Azores archipielago, as a geocatching art project, in search of the sounds of the place. https://www.instagram.com/premissa_acores/ Crickets were the subject of attention, as they were the most constant sound that manifested itself in the ecosystem I inhabited during the project, even more than the sound of the ocean. This piece has been generated through Sonic Bloom, and constructed as an experience to be felt in an auditorium, with eyes closed.
In case that this piece is selected, we suggest a panning of the stereo channels, quite strong. Leaving silences on the right and even on the left side. Recorded with a Zoom H3-VR 360º, smashed into stereo and edited with Audacity.
The Laboratório Experimental de Som is a nomadic project that uses soundscapes as a resource for the construction of inter-species dialogues and sensorial awareness of natural reality, where the body is integrated as a sensor. It works with sound creation processes and the production of workshops for the transmission of listening methodologies, field recording practices and the study of acoustic dynamics to approach the practice of the art of storytelling and sensory regeneration.
"In nature we trust, through soundscapes we dream"
https://www.instagram.com/laboratorioexperimentaldosom/
https://soundcloud.com/laboratoriodoexperimental
https://laboratorioexperimentaldosom.com/
6) Louary - Shared Echoes (Glasgow City Sound Walk) 3 – 2 – 1
Shared Echoes is a collection of four soundscape compositions created using field recordings of a circular walk around Glasgow City (Central station - George Square - Glasgow Green - River Clyde - Central Station). Drawing inspiration from the city’s sonic environment - mechanical familiarity, conversation choirs, the flutter of pigeon wings, distant bagpipes - Louary responds to and mimics its character through raw synthesised sequences, bright electric guitars and her own voice. Conceptualised during the Covid 19 pandemic, Louary explores the use of field recordings in her composition process to capture a sense of Glasgow in that moment of time. Without separating herself from her surroundings, Louary openly places the sound of her footsteps and translated emotional state into this work, spurred by a deep need for connection during this time.
Canadian-Scottish musician and producer Louary draws on her sensitivity to sound in everyday life and passion for ambient music. Fascinated by the complexities of sound, Louary’s music often incorporates field recordings and malleable instruments, such as analog synthesiser, to evoke emotion out of sound objects and sonic environments. As an avid music listener she hosts a monthly radio show, 'Field Trip', on Radio Buena Vida exploring the wide use of field recording within music composition. In her most recent work, Louary takes inspiration from electro-acoustic and soundscape composers such as Fennesz, Hildegard Westerkamp, CLAIR and Flora Yin Wong.
Bandcamp: https://louary.bandcamp.com/
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Melissa McCarthy - Who Will Win? Episode 1
14 April 2025 10:00 am - 10:15 am
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?
Artist bio:
Melissa McCarthy’s books include Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated Companion (Sternberg, 2019), on the balance between who’s moving over the face of the water and what’s lurking underneath; Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro (Sagging Meniscus, 2023), which considers flowers, photography, and explosions; and Exceptional Subjects, a collaboration with photographer Norman McBeath (Easel Press, 2024), on cameras, space exploration, and the persistence of voice and image. She’s a contributing editor at Exacting Clam magazine, writing on topics ranging from translation to typewriters, orcas to authors, football to photography.
http://sharksillustrated.org
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CONVERSATIONS ON BELONGING a 900 Voices Project - Episode 1 - What Does Belonging Mean to You?
14 April 2025 10:15 am - 10:30 am
Four short radio pieces drawing on the extensive archive of recorded conversations created as part of 900 Voices. These 4 episodes provide a curated dip into conversations with people in Edinburgh, from all walks of life as they reflect on what belonging means to them. The conversations were recorded all over the city in libraries, community centres, schools and homes. Originally shared as a generative sound installation in St Giles' Cathedral during Edinburgh International Festival 2024 as part of the Cathedral's 900th anniversary celebrations, the archive consists of over 300 hours of recorded conversation on belonging, connection and community and will be publically available through the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh from next year. 900 Voices is by Zoë Irvine in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Produced by Zoë Irvine. Artist bio: Converse comes out of 900 Voices. Initially conceived by Zoë Irvine and created in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Zoë Irvine is an artist and sound designer who lives and works in Edinburgh. https://www.zoeirvine.net Jules Rawlinson is an audiovisual composer https://www.pixelmechanics.com/ Lindsay Perth is a Public Artist & Designer https://lippi.org/ Website/social links https://www.900voices.org/ insta 900.voices Audio documentation of the installation https://on.soundcloud.com/ZTg5TKdbFWdeRkEW9 (the proposed radio transmissions would not have cathedral reverb!) booklet that accompanied installation: https://www.900voices.org/s/A6_AUGEIF-website.pdf -
Margherita Brillada - Raw & Baked
14 April 2025 10:30 am - 11:00 am
"Raw & Baked" is a 30-minute electroacoustic composition with a focus on the disembodied radio voice. Inspired by daily actions in reverse order, the piece uses field recordings from Delft in spring 2024, blending raw and processed sound with found samples. Sharp cuts and softly processed sounds create a dynamic texture, with a tribute to Italian actress Monica Vitti. Premiering on Czech Radio's ARS ACUSTICA on May 29, 2024, this radio artwork showcases the composer's approach to radio art and soundscape composition.
Artist bio:
Margherita Brillada is a sound artist and radio maker based in The Hague. Currently a research associate at the Institute of Sonology, she is working on a PhD research project titled “Re-thinking Radio Art: Community Radio and WebRadio.” Founder of On Air – On Site, a sound investigation of 48 hours non-stop streaming, in partnership with West Den Haag and the Institute of Sonology. Margherita’s practice focuses on creating radio artworks that blend soundscape compositions with field recordings, voices, and found samples. She explores the urban soundscape and the role of the disembodied voice in the radiophonic context.
Website/social links
https://margheritabrillada.com
https://onaironsite.com/artists/margherita-brillada-2
https://bugradio.org
https://www.instagram.com/onair.onsite/
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Maestrale - Sottopelle
14 April 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
“Sottopelle” (Italian for “Under the Skin”) is a sound project that blends spoken word, resynthesis, and sampling to create an intimate and surreal auditory journey. Narrated by the evocative voice of Yan Leiva, it guides the listener through dreamlike landscapes where reality and imagination intertwine. Each segment unfolds like a metaphor, reflecting on themes of human connection, the chaos of existence, and the search for meaning within disorder. The narration serves as the core around which the entire composition revolves, connecting atmospheric soundscapes with melodic elements that range from ethereal to deep, resonant tones. Through careful layering of ambient textures and reimagined samples, “Sottopelle” strikes a delicate balance between light and darkness, vastness and intimacy, inviting the listener to a space that is both introspective and expansive. Like a story whispered before bedtime, but crafted for adults. Artist bio: Maestrale is a Frankfurt-based dancer and electronic music composer who primarily creates music for dance companies. Notable works include “Arcipelago” for Balletto Teatro di Torino, which won an award at the Torino Film Festival, and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” presented at the Cocotte Festival in Lyon. Outside of this, Maestrale explores new sounds through club DJ sets, mixing genres from ambient to techno, with his recent set featured on NTS. He is currently composing for “Join,” a production by Ioannis Mandafounis for the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. Website/social links @emanuelepiras_ @____maestrale____ -
CONVERSATIONS ON BELONGING a 900 Voices Project - Episode 2 - Community - Face Me, I Face You
14 April 2025 11:30 am - 11:45 am
Four short radio pieces drawing on the extensive archive of recorded conversations created as part of 900 Voices. These 4 episodes provide a curated dip into conversations with people in Edinburgh, from all walks of life as they reflect on what belonging means to them. The conversations were recorded all over the city in libraries, community centres, schools and homes. Originally shared as a generative sound installation in St Giles' Cathedral during Edinburgh International Festival 2024 as part of the Cathedral's 900th anniversary celebrations, the archive consists of over 300 hours of recorded conversation on belonging, connection and community and will be publically available through the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh from next year. 900 Voices is by Zoë Irvine in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Produced by Zoë Irvine. Artist bio: Converse comes out of 900 Voices. Initially conceived by Zoë Irvine and created in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Zoë Irvine is an artist and sound designer who lives and works in Edinburgh. https://www.zoeirvine.net Jules Rawlinson is an audiovisual composer https://www.pixelmechanics.com/ Lindsay Perth is a Public Artist & Designer https://lippi.org/ Website/social links https://www.900voices.org/ insta 900.voices Audio documentation of the installation https://on.soundcloud.com/ZTg5TKdbFWdeRkEW9 (the proposed radio transmissions would not have cathedral reverb!) booklet that accompanied installation: https://www.900voices.org/s/A6_AUGEIF-website.pdf -
Buffer Zone
14 April 2025 11:45 am - 12:00 pm
1) Matana Roberts - enthralled by her curious blend (3:55)
1) Matana Roberts - enthralled by her curious blend
From Coin Coin Chapter Five : In The Garden -
Mondlane (Lisa Fabian) - I hear her call: Salome...? Danu...? Come ah-come... (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
14 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
‘I hear her call: Salome...? Danu...? Come ah-come...’ is a surreal folkloristic sonic tale or a journey through memories encountered in a fever dream. Scenic echoes intimately evolve, looped until they burst into strange atmospheres and rhythms. We meet a hopelessly entangled voice, haunted and lost. Bewildered by fragmented distortions she attempts to unpick a series of flickering scenes. Delving into the emotional world of both adult and child. Something significant that happened. Imprinted in memory. Amorphous and vague. A lament. The forest is crying against a blurred background. A ritual unfolds, lifts a spell of silence. Hidden behind the noise she remains indistinct. Vibrant matters pulsating. A gatekeeper of invisible worlds. An empty corridor filled with footsteps. She flees into the river. A ghostly figure. A cry. A flower left on the kitchen table. A chant. She leads us through chaotic waters of electro acoustic instrumentation, field recordings, noise, singing, spoken narration, decaying tape loops, and a rich tapestry of both analogue and digital experimental recording processes. Mocking, hiding, guiding, waking, haunting, lost, mourning, grieving, she runs through rhythmic glimpses, moving between nuances of lightness and downfall. Biography: Mondlane is the solo moniker of sound artist Lisa Fabian, also in the Glasgow trio NEY. As Mondlane, she layers field recordings with processed vocals and manipulated fragments and electroacoustic instrumentation. She draws from a growing library of intimate recordings, using her narrative rich samples as instruments in improvised performances. Interested in the personal and collective experience and unconscious, she explores the fragmentation and reassembly of narrative. Often touching on themes of intimacy, temporality, otherworldliness, and relationships that materialise in-between bodies and memories, as well as archival or collected material. Most recent work was shown at: The Old Church Stoke Newington (London), Cafe Oto (London), The Old Hairdressers (Glasgow), EXIT (Glasgow), 90mil (Berlin), Globe Gallery (Berlin), The House of Bell Street (Glasgow), The Briggait (Glasgow), Hoxton 253 (London), Keep in touch Gallery (Seoul), CCA - Centre of Contemporary Arts (Glasgow) amongst others. Recent residencies include CCA Creative Lab Glasgow (2023), Countdown Grabowsee Berlin (2024), Countdown Grabowsee Berlin (2023). -
Ruaridh Law - No Roof Only Sky
14 April 2025 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
"No Roof Only Sky" was the tenth and final of my films for Repeater Radio's "Their Tells" series. It told an intertwined narratives of two voices lamenting love and loss, and the ultimate impossibility of love, over a textured electronic background. Here it is presented without visuals as a radio play/poetry of sorts.
Artist bio:
Ruaridh Law is an artist and musician based in North Ayrshire, Scotland. He makes films, composes music, installs things in- and out-side and writes & publishes words, often via his No Roof Only Sky imprint.
Website/social links
http://ruaridhTVO.com
@ruaridhlaw (IG)
@ruaridhTVO (Twitter/X)
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Radiophrenia Shorts 22
14 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1) Anna Piva (Suhabart) - Transmission / For Alice Duration (14:00)
2) Cecilia Assalini – Desarticular (1:56)
3) MME dUO - Jumbo Shrimp Flottante (16:30)
1) Anna Piva (Suhabart) - Transmission / For Alice Duration
The Transmission / For Alice is a 14-minutes montage/edit of an audio art installation exhibited in Radio Alice: Linguaggi e Creativita’ (2017) for the 40th anniversary of the closure, in March 1977, of the Bologna free radio station Radio Alice by the armed police forces. The installation soundscape is a reshape of Radio Alice’s archival recordings, provided by Valerio Minnella, one of the founders of the radio. The assemblage includes the sounds of its final transmission, during the youth uprising which followed the killing by the Carabinieri of the student Francesco Lo Russo, with the voice of Valerio broadcasting live during the armed police break-in which led to his arrest and the forced closure of the radio in March 1977. These archival sources are traced and dubbed in a layered composition mixed with atmospherics, electronics and field recordings, to evoke a sense of personal memory, deep time, and present resonance.
https://www.mixcloud.com/SOASradio/playlists/altertimes-by-suhabart/.
2) Cecilia Assalini – Desarticular
"Desarticular" is an experimental piece I created during the pandemic, a time of confinement and isolation that led me to question the boundaries between noise, sound synthesis, and musical structure. The piece explores the fragmentation of sound and the deconstruction of traditional sonic landscapes, using techniques of synthesis and digital processing. Through layers of noise and electronic textures, "Desarticular" seeks to transform chaos into an auditory language that reflects on rupture and reconstruction, both personal and artistic. This project represented an opportunity to dismantle my own creative limits and find new forms of expression within disruption.
Cecilia Assalini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Composer and Sound Artist. She started developing her musical skills at an early age, beginning with the piano and now working with the cello. She graduated from the National School of Experimentation and Filmmaking (ENERC - Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica) and Musical Composition at the National Arts University in Buenos Aires - Argentina. Since 2012 she has been working on Films, TV, Advertising and Animation projects making original music, experimental sounds, ambience & sound FX edition and Re- recording Mixer.
https://soundcloud.com/ceassalini
3) MME dUO - Jumbo Shrimp Flottante
We were there for studio recordings, les voisines in residence.
When storm Ciàran swept through Finistère in early November last year.
Electricity went out. We saw the village vanishing in still darkness.
The storm thinned out forests and gardens. And opened the view into them.
Behind this open curtain we saw Petri mourning for his trees.
That night the jumbo shrimp encountered us.
Moi et toi là.
Jumbo Shrimp Flottante is a 16:30 min battery based recording, edited for a floating listening to a non-electrified sound.
Since 2016 Cologne based Patricia Koellges and Tamara Lorenz make use of a variety of instruments and devices: DIY electroacoustics, small synths, loopers, tuning forks, e-bass, percussion and voice are thrown into the game and shape a sound in the tradition of Musique concrete, Post Punk and factual Dada that is as diverse as it is striking in it’s interplay between dissonant sounds and harmonic sequences, breaks between a-tactical accents and continuous rhythms, the supposed familiarity of spoken language, which is nevertheless alienated by fragmentation.
mme-duo.de/
makiphon.de/
mmeduo.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/makiphon
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Radiophrenia Shorts 22
14 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
4) Mary Hooper & Kate Illes - Please Write me (5:00)
5) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 9 (0:27)
6) Tom Davison - A very Fine Substance (5:27)
7) Audrey Soetermans - Silver Spheres (4:00)
8) Lise Lebleux - I listen to whether the bells are sick (8:49)
4) Mary Hooper & Kate Illes - Please Write me
"Please Write Me" is a collaboration between myself and artist Kate Illes. These tracks are provide a contextural soundworld for the wall mounted artwork that she created for her MA degree show. I have recorded and sampled the audio & soundscapes and composed the tracks. Kate and I both collaborated on the sound design and concept of how the sound should be integrated into the artwork. She summarises her work 'Please Write Me' here: ' The contents of a discovered suitcase cannot present a complete narrative of a life, instead, the focus lies on the delicate, fragmented nature of a personal archive, the snapshots and vignettes contained within. The gaps in information, unanswered letters, and unseen details provoke contemplation and inquiry for the viewer. With much of Popsy's life represented as blank spaces between correspondences, it is imperative for us to approach the material with a sense of respectful curiosity
My arts practice is site-specific, using of a wide range of materials and processes to create installations, objects, and sound-works. I often collaborate with artists from different disciplines, writers and musicians, incorporating research into the narratives of place, people, the patina of human occupation, and the geographical impact of the location on the way we live. I work to commission or developing self-initiated projects developing ideas through research and working with partners and groups in the community to generate the content and material for the artwork. The thing that constantly fascinates me is ‘Sense of Place’ and peoples stories
https://soundcloud.com/last-station
https://soundcloud.com/mary_2020
Instagram: @ma.hooper1
5) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 9
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
6) Tom Davison - A very Fine Substance
A very fine substance is the Sonic disassembling of a fridge rattling harmonically by the sea on a Kefalonian Beach, Greece.
Listen attentively enough and you can hear the clouds rub against the sky.
It is part of a wider project called News From Nowhere, an album of organic drones and sonic landscapes, entirely comprised of field recordings that point to the state of meditation.
Tom Davison is a field recordist and sound designer working in London and the Wessex area. His work is folk-inspired, mostly working with drones and found sound to let the natural world compose itself, of its own accord and nature.
He is currently performing live shows in London and releasing an Album at the end of the Year.
https://www.instagram.com/tomdavisonpyjamas/
https://soundcloud.com/tommyersdavison
7) Audrey Soetermans - Silver Spheres
“Silver Spheres” is a radio drama composition where two characters interact in a world of drones and filters. One welcomes the other home to this unlikely sonic terrain, this uncanny home away from home.
Audrey Soetermans is a Junior Commercial Music honors student at Millikin University from Rockford, Illinois. She is currently in the Composition Studio under the instruction of Dr. Ralph Lewis. She volunteered for the Welcome to 1979 Music Production Summit in 2022 in Nashville, had an internship at the Post Punk Industrial Museum in Chicago, had an internship reviewing albums for the Los Angeles based company Mxdwn, and toured singing in France and Belgium last summer. She is also the Secretary of the recording studio Millitrax, President of the Millikin Music Business Club and is VP Membership under Sigma Alpha Iota.
https://www.instagram.com/audrey_lou21/
https://music.mxdwn.com/author/audrey-soetermans/
8) Lise Lebleux - I listen to whether the bells are sick
A man quickly climbs the narrow old wooden steps, reaches to the top of the bell tower and, with a bold gesture, strikes the massive bell. The imposing frequency then spreads as far as the eye can see across the village soundscape. It meets the elements, such as the wind and the birds, and is reflected on the walls of the surrounding mountains. The sound gradually spreads throughout the Austrian valley, entering houses and passing through the ears of the local people. At this precise moment, the presence of this man and his voice inhabit the place, creating a striking symbiosis between him and his environment.
Lise Lebleux lives and works between Paris and Vienna. Her artistic practice consists of creating sound compositions based on her own field recordings. She focuses in particular on the links that exist between individuals and their acoustic environments. The idea is to follow these people as they make her listen to their environment and to cross-reference these sonic moments with the wider acoustics of the area. In this way, each sound piece is the result of recordings of a specific space, with its own intrinsic conditions. She is currently working on a radio broadcast with Kunstradio ORF Ö1 in Vienna.
https://liselebleux.fr
https://www.instagram.com/lise_lebleux/
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La Quadrature - Processus Lowbrow
14 April 2025 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Lowbrow Process is a cycle of Lo-fi short fictions inspired by the arts of the lowbrow movement. Rénoviction takes place in the middle of the housing crisis in Quebec where the wild eviction of tenants has created a movement of graffiti on the buildings of real estate sharks. The Barbe.Blu episode is a typical mise en abyme of video games where the distinction between the player and his avatar is deliberately blurred. The Paradox episode was recorded in an important art gallery (a paradoxical place for lowbrow arts) where speakers broadcast sound elements along the journey of the storyteller Paul Bradley who tells us about his visit to a strange and fictitious museum. Collage episode takes extracts from the 20 sound tests produced during the research phase with the fifteen participating artists, in order to create an fragmented poetic story.
Artist bio:
La Quadrature is a research and creation organization in contemporary storytelling led by Paul Bradley, Céline Jantet and Nicolas Rochette. La Quadrature question the very act of the action of telling. Active on stage as well as in public spaces and on the web, La Quadrature's creations have received several distinctions including the NUMIX 2020 - sound and experimental fiction and the English Sound of the Year prize - innovation in sound technology.
Lowbrow Process main artists:
Paul Bradley, Étienne Legast, Simone d'Ambrosio, Jérome Bérubé, Isabelle St-Pierre.
Website/social links
https://www.laquadra.ca
https://www.facebook.com/laquadratureconte/ -
CONVERSATIONS ON BELONGING a 900 Voices Project - Episode 3 - A Feeling of Connection
14 April 2025 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Four short radio pieces drawing on the extensive archive of recorded conversations created as part of 900 Voices. These 4 episodes provide a curated dip into conversations with people in Edinburgh, from all walks of life as they reflect on what belonging means to them. The conversations were recorded all over the city in libraries, community centres, schools and homes. Originally shared as a generative sound installation in St Giles' Cathedral during Edinburgh International Festival 2024 as part of the Cathedral's 900th anniversary celebrations, the archive consists of over 300 hours of recorded conversation on belonging, connection and community and will be publically available through the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh from next year. 900 Voices is by Zoë Irvine in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Produced by Zoë Irvine. Artist bio: Converse comes out of 900 Voices. Initially conceived by Zoë Irvine and created in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Zoë Irvine is an artist and sound designer who lives and works in Edinburgh. https://www.zoeirvine.net Jules Rawlinson is an audiovisual composer https://www.pixelmechanics.com/ Lindsay Perth is a Public Artist & Designer https://lippi.org/ Website/social links https://www.900voices.org/ insta 900.voices Audio documentation of the installation https://on.soundcloud.com/ZTg5TKdbFWdeRkEW9 (the proposed radio transmissions would not have cathedral reverb!) booklet that accompanied installation: https://www.900voices.org/s/A6_AUGEIF-website.pdf -
Edka Jarzab - Major Arcana of Fungi
14 April 2025 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Major Arcana of Fungi is an action inspired by radical mycology. Audio here is an excerpt from 22-hours long radio show. The participating artists were asked to interpret a Tarot card they drew from the pack in a sound form. This could be related to the fungal body and their personal impression of the given symbol. They could refer to the EDAPHONE: the sound of life underneath forest litter as it grows fluidifies and decomposes into smaller parts through hyphae's microchannels or they could offer initiation into personal secrets and intuition. ‘‘I am here as a product of the connection and collaboration of many others’’ refering to the underground imaginary, to the mycelium as a network of neural connections that create ever-changing, learning membranes - each card can also be interpreted as an emanation of this great field of interrelations. Major Arcana of Fungi is an action inspired by radical mycology. Audio here is an excerpt from 22-hours long radio show. The participating artists were asked to interpret a Tarot card they drew from the pack in a sound form. This could be related to the fungal body and their personal impression of the given symbol. They could refer to the EDAPHONE: the sound of life underneath forest litter as it grows fluidifies and decomposes into smaller parts through hyphae's microchannels or they could offer initiation into personal secrets and intuition. ‘‘I am here as a product of the connection and collaboration of many others’’ refering to the underground imaginary, to the mycelium as a network of neural connections that create ever-changing, learning membranes - each card can also be interpreted as an emanation of this great field of interrelations. This piece is a mix of compositions and fragments sent by collaborating artists in this order: ASTMA, Zosia Hołubowska, Martyna Poznańska, Ania Kamecka, Mario de Vega, Anna Jurkiewicz, Gosia Wrzosek, FOQL, Milena Soporowska Artist bio: Sound artist, practicing deep listening as a starting point for sound activism. Interested in voice as a bridge between the public and private sphere; listening, singing, and improvisation as a practice of social resistance. Using extended voice techniques, radio waves, field recording and electronics - she creates an audiosphere for her personal and collaborative performance works. She co-creates the Warsaw-based community Radio Kapitał and is the author of poetic radio plays and interventions. From 2020 to 2021 she was a resident of the experimental studio WORM in Rotterdam; permanent collaborator of the interdisciplinary platform Q-O2 based in Brussels and Goethe-Institute. Website/social links https://secondaryarchive.org/artists/edka-jarzab/ -
Alessandro Bosetti - Il cielo uno è
14 April 2025 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
In November 2023, Alessandro Bosetti was invited by musician Donato Epiro to Castrignano de Greci, a Grika-speaking town (with Byzantine and ancient Greek roots) in Salento, to work on the sonic particularities of this unique language, preserved over the centuries in an enclave of a few thousand speakers in the heart of the Mediterranean. In “il cielo uno è” a list of nouns consistently repeated and declined in the instances of the Grika language is compiled. Such a list maps a world that not only extends horizontally over the territory of Salentinian Greece but also sinks deeply along the vertical of time and from which it brings out words and meanings that are ancient but still surprisingly close.
Artist bio:
Alessandro Bosetti, born in Milan and living in Marseille, is a composer and sound artist with a particular interest in the musicality of language and in the voice, conceived as an autonomous object and an instrument of expression. His works enacts a dialogue among language, voice, and sound within complex tonal and formal constructions, often crossed by oblique irony. Bosetti creates surprising pieces and devices questioning aesthetic categories and listening postures.
Website/social links
http://www.melgun.net
https://www.instagram.com/alessandrobosetti2023/
https://www.facebook.com/alessandro.bosetti.5 -
Diego Véliz - Sound Desert
14 April 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
"Sound Desert" is the outcome of an artistic exploration carried out in Arica; the [current] Chilean city that borders Peru and Bolivia, in the heart of the Atacama Desert.
The project consists of five works as diverse as the territory inhabited by them. A sort of auditory promenade along the coast, the multiplicity of voices in an international bus terminal and in a farmer’s market, the ecosystem of an endangered wetland, and the ghosts of an unoccupied train station; are the elements that invite you to hear the sounds of a borderland.
Artist bio:
Historian graduated from the University of Tarapacá and Master in Creative Documentary from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has also received training in documentary filmmaking through various courses held in Chile, Cuba and Spain. He lives and works in the tri-border area of Chile, Peru and Bolivia, where he develops artistic and cinematographic projects with his production company: Candelabro Films. "Sound Desert" is his first sound art project, which won the Field Recording Award at the 28th Phonurgia Nova Awards in France. The sound piece has also been selected to the Longueur d'ondes, RIDM Montreal, Tsonami festivals, among others.
Website/social links
http://www.desiertosonoro.com
https://www.instagram.com/candelabro.films/ -
Jim Colquhoun & Jamie McNeill - Interrogating the Archive (Live in the studio)
14 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Jamie McNeill & Jim Colquhoun have been collaborating for over 20 years and in that time they have each amassed an individual archive that tells its own/conflicting story of their shared experience of wandering a variety (the same but different) of edgeland sumps and wobbling brown moorlands: photos, objects, wounds, train tickets, beer-induced paranoia (the Wetherspoons Syndrome), failed relationships and so forth. For Radiophrenia they propose to conduct a live-to-air conversation/performance/reenactment/primal scream in which they would present each other with items from their respective archives, using them as prompts from which to provoke discussion/arguments about the items’ provenance and place within their ‘shared’ story - “was this from Neilston?” “Was this the time we enraged the farmer with the sheeps face that warned us off the trackway by his farm?” “Remember the devil dog that nearly ripped us limb from limb?” This conversation/performance will be accompanied by a live ‘remix’ of audio elements from their archives - phone-recordings patched through guitar fx pedals, fingers jammed into cassette players, the ritual stroking of broken phones in an attempt to tease out meaning, (any meaning will do), make us feel better about ourselves and force it all to make some kind of sense.
Artist bio:
Colquhoun & McNeill go to the places you don’t want to in an ongoing attempt to scrape away the surface layers of place and commune with the slippery rotting and frankly quite smelly genius loci they are convinced (against all evidence) is waiting to engage with them in some profound manner or other.
They have shown work/performed in a variety of contexts over the decades including as the band Widowzzz featuring Jim’s then six year old daughter on vocals and in the environs of North Ayrshire on several occasions.
Website/social links
https://soundcloud.com/colquhoun-mcneill
https://www.collective-edinburgh.art/programme/2006-jim-colquhoun
https://brutjournal.com/article/jim-colquhoun-questioning-what-drawing-is-with-sly-humor/ -
CONVERSATIONS ON BELONGING a 900 Voices Project - Episode 4 - Belonging Not Belonging
14 April 2025 5:30 pm - 5:50 pm
Four short radio pieces drawing on the extensive archive of recorded conversations created as part of 900 Voices. These 4 episodes provide a curated dip into conversations with people in Edinburgh, from all walks of life as they reflect on what belonging means to them. The conversations were recorded all over the city in libraries, community centres, schools and homes. Originally shared as a generative sound installation in St Giles' Cathedral during Edinburgh International Festival 2024 as part of the Cathedral's 900th anniversary celebrations, the archive consists of over 300 hours of recorded conversation on belonging, connection and community and will be publically available through the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh from next year. 900 Voices is by Zoë Irvine in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Produced by Zoë Irvine. Artist bio: Converse comes out of 900 Voices. Initially conceived by Zoë Irvine and created in collaboration with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson. Zoë Irvine is an artist and sound designer who lives and works in Edinburgh. https://www.zoeirvine.net Jules Rawlinson is an audiovisual composer https://www.pixelmechanics.com/ Lindsay Perth is a Public Artist & Designer https://lippi.org/ Website/social links https://www.900voices.org/ insta 900.voices Audio documentation of the installation https://on.soundcloud.com/ZTg5TKdbFWdeRkEW9 (the proposed radio transmissions would not have cathedral reverb!) booklet that accompanied installation: https://www.900voices.org/s/A6_AUGEIF-website.pdf -
Buffer Zone
14 April 2025 5:50 pm - 6:00 pm
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Matana Roberts - Chasing Hopes on the Star Atlantic (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
14 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
How can you use the art of sound to make painful memory joyful, without negating the importance of painful experience? What is myth? What is awe? How can you honor, yet document the unknown? Where do the personal, cultural, emotional politics collide in a rendering of sonicity? What does it mean to endure? These are questions that currently fascinate me. My current work is focused on collaging experiential process through soundscape exploration, based on unique embodied experiences. Just before the world shutdown in 2019 I voyaged on an English cargo ship from the United Kingdom to North America. I wanted to know…to embody the motion, movements of not only a history but of a wonder around sounds, memory, what we carry, what we leave behind whether by choice or force. I carried with me a small “roberts radio”, that refused to work of course, b/c there was no signal. So I kept an audio diary and from that, a series of field recordings, and footage I made during this time, I present to you a radio collage, of a life changing moment for me not only as an artist, but as a person, entitled “Chasing Hopes on the Star Atlantic…” ‘Chasing Hopes on the Star Atlantic’ is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunst zum Hören, Osterreich 1 produced with the support of Creative Scotland. Biography: Matana Roberts is an internationally celebrated composer, performer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist, and mixed-media practitioner. Working across many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, music composition, visual art, dance, poetry, and theatre, Roberts is perhaps best known for their acclaimed Coin Coin project - a multi-chapter work of 'panoramic sound quilting' mixed media performance work, that aims to expose the mystical roots and intuitive traditions of American creative expression, while maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrative, history, community and political expression within sonic structures. https://www.matanaroberts.com/ -
Mutant Beatniks - from a silent room
14 April 2025 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
A piece for radio without words, only Atmospheres, audio acoustic; narrative patterns. A portmanteau of following sounds; in a sequence that a range of ideas referring to the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past, as in the manner of a ghost in the machine.
Artist bio:
A international Group project with a ever changing line up which started in the mid eighties; Since there have been many times of inactivity, and lots of recordings have been lost down the years. Various members joined and left, lots of tapes of unlistenable noise were made, sold or given away, only to be played once, and mostly for only a few seconds. There's a story that a party in the late eighties was ruined by a Mutant Beatniks album being accidentally selected from a pile of cassettes. From the years of not self editing, a open space arrived, and in this clearing was a sound set with out ego
Website/social links
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Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz - Water Line / Estuary Almanac
14 April 2025 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
"Water Line" is a generative audio piece by Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz that imagines the space between the tides and between salt and fresh water - depending on the height of the tides, the listener is above or below the water surface. The lapping of mussels, the crawling and loud hissing of crabs, the pawing of sand fleas, the slow movements of shellfish. Real environmental sounds are mixed with compositional interpretations of bodies of water and their environment, from kelp forests and flood zones to mud flats and marshy areas, from flood plains to rocky coves.
The piece was originally commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Ö1 Kunstradio for the annual project KONTINUUM. It ran from April 2023 to June 2024 as an ongoing 1 year+ generative radio work.
Artist bio:
Anna Friz and Absolute Value of Noise (Peter Courtemanche) are Canadian sound and radio artists. Anna Friz creates self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation and performance. Her compositions reflect upon public media culture, environment and infrastructure (human and extra-human, acoustic, and electro-magnetic), time perception, and speculative fiction. Absolute Value of Noise creates radio and outdoor installations. He likes to work with "gadgetry" - custom turntables, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, magnetic transceivers, bio-electric circuits, and "little electronic brains" that observe and respond to local phenomena. His outdoor works are a comment on bio-diversity, extinction, and fragility.
Website/social links
http://absolutevalueofnoise.ca/
http://nicelittlestatic.com/ -
Good Vallis - The Tellings
14 April 2025 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm
‘The Tellings’ is a sound collage with spoken word performances forming 20 fragmentary narratives situated in an eclectic soundscape with elements of hip hop, post punk, DIY cassette music, VHS soundtracks and atmospheric recordings. Like the music, the narrative element jumps around in tone, voice and setting. It uses the bizarre, imaginative qualities of alien abduction stories as its source material in order to highlight the potentially unsettling and lonely nature of individual perception. It is written in a manner which suits the ADHD mindset; looking at a subject from multiple angles simultaneously and in a non-linear way. Both words and sound combine to create a woozy, immersive experience somewhere between a radio play and a mixtape. 'The Tellings' was previously released on a small run of cassettes (on Spirit Duplicator, 2024). The words are mine and are performed by me, Nathalie Boobis, Micheal Orrell, Emily Furneaux and Lewis Henson.
Artist bio:
I work under the name Good Vallis and create sound and written works. Coming from a background in hip hop, I take the collaged aspect of sample-based production and expand it to draw on a wide range of influences. I am driven by the written word and the vivid images and narratives this creates. Most of my interest lies in the intersection of sound and words, but I also write short fiction. I have ADHD and I draw on this in my creative processes to both understand and represent the fragmentary and non-linear ways in which I experience the world.
Website/social links
https://goodvallis.bandcamp.com/album/the-tellings
https://www.instagram.com/anth_nyday/ -
Pete Hazell - Limbo Calling - Ep. 1 “Fear Swim”
14 April 2025 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
These are the dispatches of a “83”, a solitary Radio Operator stationed at a remote outpost in Limbo.
His duty is to monitor the blizzard of static and report back anything of note….
As the characters, music and ambiguous broadcasts emerge the Operator comments on the recordings as well as life at the mysterious Outpost.
But why does HQ never answer?
Where are the broadcasts coming from?
And who is Old Leonard?
In Episode 1 we meet the organiser of a horror swimming event, hear a song about a crocodile and 83 reflects on a supernatural experience.
Episodes 1-6 plus bonus episodes are at limbotapes.podbean.com
Artist bio:
Pete Hazell (a.k.a. Titus 12) is the artist/producer/presenter behind Limbo Tapes, Radio Limbo and Limbo Calling. Based in Bristol, he juggles these three entities with help from Sean Lee.
These platforms are home to cassette releases of electronic music, Radio shows on Bristol’s Noods Radio, and the fiction/comedy/variety podcast Limbo Calling.
Website/social links
https://limbotapes.podbean.com/
https://soundcloud.com/limbotapes
https://limbotapes.bandcamp.com/ -
Assembling Land - Episode 1: Imagining Land (on Palestine)
14 April 2025 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
ASSEMBLING LAND PODCAST SERIES Episode 01: Imagining Land (On Palestine) Weaving together found footage, Palestinian folk songs, musings on resistance and solidarity, we rehearse a sonic protest in search for alternative ways of sharing knowledge. A series of podcasts are taking shape through our confluence in sessions of Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making articulated in the various locations where we meet. The podcasts are formed in chapters corresponding to our peer-to-peer learning around Land, Housing and Out/Institution, each time seeking ways to question ourselves and by way of listening to the varied and polyrhythmic offerings from the people and places we encounter. In this process of place-making, we explore our practices and transmit through the broadcasting platform and extended community of Radio Alhara. Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making is de Appel’s COOP study group at DAI Roaming Academy unfolding throughout 2024. Through the group’s monthly encounters, five podcasts will share the harvest of each iteration with attuned overarching themes as departure points. This first episode was initiated in January 2024 at Nida Art Colony in Lithuania, during Confluence 1: Imagining Land & Water. Dutch Art Institute (DAI) is a nomadic accredited MA program landing in various locations and for seven times (confluences) per academic year with the student body and crew. The study groups, which last the full academic year, are one of the pillars of its program and are carefully composed of and conducted by collaborations with an art institution, in this case de Appel in Amsterdam. AR: تخيّل الأرض الحلقة الاولى (عن فلسطين) معاً قمنا بنسج بعض اللقطات الجاهزة، وأغاني الفلكلور الفلسطيني، وتأملات حول المقاومة والتضامن، كمحاولة القيام باحتجاج صوتي ، باحثين من خلالها عن طُرُقٍ بديلة لمشاركة المعرفة. تقوم مجموعة "تجميع الأرض: تجارب نحو تشكيل المكان" بإنتاج مدونات صوتية في الأماكن الجغرافية المختلفة كحصاد لهذه اللقاءات. تتشكل المدونات من عدة فصول مماثلة للجلسات التي نقوم فيها بتبادل المعرفة حول مفاهيم الأرض، والإسكان، و المؤسسة (داخلها، عبرها وخارجها). في كل مرة نبحث عن طرق لمساءلة أنفسنا عن طريق السماع الى العروض المتنوعة والمتعددة الإيقاعات من الأشخاص الذين نقوم باستضافتهم والأماكن التي تستضيفنا. في هذه الصيرورة التي تهدف الى فهم تشكيل المكان، نستكشف ممارساتنا ونقوم بنقلها على شكل مدونات صوتية إلى المجتمع الموسع لراديو الحارة. "تجميع الأرض: تجارب نحو تشكيل المكان" هي مجموعة دراسية تعاونية في De Appel بالشراكة مع معهد الفنون الهولندي DAI، والتي تستمر على مدار العام الدراسي 2024. من خلال لقاءات المجموعة الشهرية، سنقوم بمشاركة خمسة مدونات صوتية كحصاد لجميع تلك اللقاءات، والتي تأخذ الثيمات العامة التي تُعنى بها التعاونية كنقطة انطلاق لها. تم البدء بهذه الحلقة في يناير 2024 في مستعمرة الفنون في نيدا Nida Art Colony في ليتوانيا اللقاء الأول: تخيّل الأرض والماء معهد الفنون الهولندي هو برنامج ماجستير تجوالي حيث يهبط في مكان مختلف في كل شهر مع فريق الطلاب والموظفين سبع مرات في السنة. تُعتبر المجموعات الدراسية التي تستمر على مدار العام الدراسي أحد أعمدة البرنامج، بتم تكوينها وتنسيقها بعناية من خلال التعاون مع مؤسسات فنية مختلفة، وفي هذه الحالة مع De Appel في امستردام When does the land become a territory? Chapter 1, Land w/ Sara Alberani, Qiaoling Cai, Saverio Cantoni, Echo Guo, Kıvanç Sert متى تصبح الأرض مُلكاً؟ الفصل الأول، الأرض مع سارة البراني، كياولينج تساي، سافيريو كانتوني، إيكو جو، كيفانش سيرت Acknowledgements: شكرا وتقدير Collective Reading of Love On The Palestinian Way (1999), PAF, March 2024; Sabreen - Love On The Palestinian Way (1999); Fuck Your Lecture On Craft, My People Are Dying by Noor Hindi (2020); Catastrophic Sonnet - Issam Zineh; Checkpoint 303 - Gaza Sea Minor (Gaza Mixtape EP); Collective clapping intermission, PAF, January 2024; We Planted the Sage - زرعنا المرمية performed by Alzinnar; Music from Foragers (2022) by Jumana Manna; Forensic Architecture: Notes from Fields and Forums - The Pyramids of Gaza; Palestine Solidarity Demonstration in Berlin, February 2024. How does the landscape tell the history or stories of the land? Chapter 2, Housing w/ Part 1- Eszter Dobos, Sille Kima; Sound design & mix: Sille Kima Part 2- Federica Nicastro, Francesca Pionati; Sound design & mix: Alberto Boni, Francesca Pionati Part 3- Shaza Omran, Meii Soh; Sound design & mix: Sille Kima; Voice: Randa Awad كيف تروي المناظر الطبيعية تاريخ الأرض أو قصصها؟ الفصل الثاني، الإسكان الجزء الأول: إيستر دوبوس، سيل كيما؛ تصميم الصوت والمزج: سيل كيما الجزء الثاني: فيديريكا نيكاسترو، فرانشيسكا بيوناتي؛ تصميم الصوت والمزج: ألبيرتو بوني، فرانشيسكا بيوناتي الجزء الثالث: شذى عمران، مي سوه؛ تصميم الصوت والمزج: سيل كيما؛ الصوت: رندا عوض Acknowledgements: شكرا وتقدير Eye on Palestine; Resistance News Network’ Al Jazeera; Middle East Monitor; Gaza by Kyles Soundpack - 2016 Gaza City on freesound.org; Mohannad Abu Rizk (@mohannad.aburizk); YouTube: Rim Banna - ‘On Top of The Mountain’; poet Abu Najji singing improvised poetry on the occupied land of Palestine; improvised melange of traditional palestinian and spanish songs ‘Ya Talein El-jabal’ & ‘Panadera’ by Terez Sliman & Sophia Adriana on a boat in Cairo. What does an institution of resistance sound like? Chapter 3, Out/Institution: Foad Alijani, Chloë Janssens, Tuba Kılıç, Anastasia Nefedova, Thamyres VM كيف يبدو صوت مؤسسة المقاومة؟ الفصل الثالث: المؤسسة (داخلها، من خلالها وخارجها): فؤاد عليجاني، كلوي جانسنس، توبا كيليج، أناستاسيا نيفيدوفا، ثاميريس Acknowledgements: شكرا وتقدير Refaat Alareer (via @bintdisco); Palestine Solidarity Demonstration in Rotterdam (via @himhili); @sheih.jpg singing with Hajje Safiye; @rabetbypipd Im Mohammed baking taboun bread; @motaz_azaiza “Never forget to say Free Palestine ✌️”. -
Radiophrenia Shorts 51
14 April 2025 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm
1) I broke the vase – Sikinos (9:22)
2) Laura Phillips - Rhybudd 4 munud/ 4 minute warnings (16:00)
1) I broke the vase – Sikinos
This piece was developed the past summer during a residency on Sikinos, a Cycladic island in the Aegean Sea. The sound work is part of a larger performance that features original music and texts, written on-site and inspired by our exploration of the island’s landscapes and history—marked by pirate raids and its past as a place of exile. The work also draws on a recent tragic event: the disappearance of two women hikers, which left a lasting impression on our time there.
I broke the vase (Eva Matsigkou, Nefeli Sani) was formed in 2018. They create performances blending listening, free improvisation, and composition using instruments, voices, electronics, and site-specific elements. Their work incorporates autoethnographic texts, soundwalks, and feminist, care-centered practices. They’ve produced the experimental film The Greatest Love of All and the award-winning podcast Sonic Memorabilia. Their projects have featured in festivals like Tectonics Athens and Electric Nights, and in exhibitions including Plásmata and Sheltered Gardens. They’ve been artists in residence at Syros Sound Meetings and the University of Michigan, and participated in 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture.
https://rekemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/--3
https://ibrokethevase.wordpress.com
https://www.instagram.com/ibrokethevaseduo
https://www.facebook.com/Ibrokethevase
https://soundcloud.com/ibrokethevase
2) Laura Phillips - Rhybudd 4 munud/ 4 minute warnings
4 tracks which began as sonic research with the CND Cymru archives in Aberystwyth. Included are interviews, field-recordings, pirate broadcasts by the Voice of Nuclear Disarmament, old tapes & optical sound & an organ in Ceredigion. Presented as a psychogeographical meandering in the welsh landscape; these works were inspired by the 1982 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Cymru & Women for life on Earth (WFLOE) marched from Cardiff to RAF Brawdy. RAF Brawdy was a US Submarine Tracking Station (NAVFAC) and in fact the largest terminal in a worldwide network of undersea listening stations tracking Soviet submarine movements in the northern Atlantic. Brawdy on the face of it seems very nondescript and unassuming, but it's amazing what lies beneath and the significance of this place and the extent of militarism in Wales.
Laura Phillips b.1986 Bristol, is a non-smoking, sagittarius, dysgwr (welsh learner) who is often found loitering around the A44 & A470. She is an artist who uses a mixture of 16mm photochemical film processes & field recordings. Often working at the intersection of visual-music, expanded film and performance, her work explores obsolescence, ideas of the commons & information infrastructures. Her Work ‘Geoluread & Genie’, 2017, was purchased by the Arts Council England Acquisition Committee 2018. Her most accomplished outputs include climbing Aran Fawddwy, solo exhibition at Mirror, Plymouth & undertake a Fellowship at the British School in Rome.
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Radiophrenia Shorts 51
14 April 2025 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm
3) Alexandra Bell - The Pink Glass Swan (13:30) 4) Claire Barwell Flat Life #4 (1:00) 5) Hannah Aliza Goldman - Summer in Brooklyn (3:12) 6) Studio Cybi - Post-Contemporary Commodification (5:29) 7) Sarah Rossman and Andy Li - Intrusive Thot: Episode 1 (Gloria) (8:35) 3) Alexandra Bell - The Pink Glass Swan "The Pink Glass Swan" is a sound play which satirises the art world, inspired by Lucy Lippard's 1977 essay of the same name. The essay describes the curious class hierarchy of the art world, where artists are persistently working 'upwards' to be accepted; whilst the art industry (which critiques, exhibits and purchases art) works 'downwards' to identify with the artists as workers and creative associates. Factual references shows the dilemmas at play in a mostly middle class system (such as Nicholas Serota's application for the Tate Directorship, entitled 'Grasp the Nettle' and his Dimbleby lecture where he justified his pay); Arts Councils' diversity strategies; and artybollocks.com artist statement generators). The work uses a fairy tale, humorous style to illustrate that nothing in life is black and white - our society exists through interdependencies, compromises and games. Alex Bell is a multimedia artist, composer and chartered materials engineer who uses the sonic arts to confront entrenched ideologies and beliefs. Incorporating sound, music, moving image, sculpture, writing and performance, she creates immersive experiences which are designed to challenge perceptions and stimulate empathy for the counterargument. She explores the intersection between culture, politics, the arts, technology and science and believes that the creative process is universal regardless of domain. Originally from Belfast, she now lives in East Lothian with a studio by the sea. https://alexandrabellsound.com/ https://www.instagram.com/alexandrabellsound 4) Claire Barwell Flat Life #4 Children play in the garden below my flat. Sometimes they call out! Claire Barwell once made films and now makes very short sound pieces. 5) Hannah Aliza Goldman - Summer in Brooklyn Recorded in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn in July 2024. Hannah Aliza Goldman (she/her) is a producer, performer, and voiceover artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her original audio play, "In the Kitchen," had a sold-out run in 2020 and was featured at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. "In the Kitchen" wove the stories of Jewish women from Arab lands with original musical compositions and poetry, and was paired with a recipe box by Awafi Kitchen. As a producer, Hannah has worked for Citizen Racecar and the CWA Oral History Project. She is a proud graduate of the Salt Institute of Documentary Studies. Instagram @imhannahgoldman 6) Studio Cybi - Post-Contemporary Commodification Recently, SC has expanded into online broadcasting, creating audio poems that continue their commitment to experimental, multidisciplinary work blending art, sound, and narratives of marginalised communities. This initiative enhances their exploration of contemporary issues through diverse media. The poem "Post-Contemporary Commodification" critiques the commodification of life and art in modern society, highlighting alienation, systemic oppression, and environmental degradation. It contrasts the sacred, referencing ancient practices like sacrifice at Llyn Cerrig Bach, with contemporary realities, where institutions and state agendas slowly crush individuality and authenticity. The imagery of cheap bread affecting gut flora symbolises capitalism's negative impact on human well-being, while art on dead walls critiques the commercialisation of culture. The soundscape laments the erosion of values, focusing on survival in a society disconnected from community and tradition. STUDIO CYBI (SC) is a curatorial duo from Holyhead, North Wales, comprising artists Iwan Lewis and Rebecca Gould. Their practice is rooted in shared experiences of living in communities facing challenges under a hostile political climate. SC's practice is a symbiosis of art and curatorial work, consistently driven by a focus on political and social realities, particularly those affecting communities in Wales. Since 2016, SC has been curating site-specific exhibitions and projects, engaging with unconventional spaces such as local holy wells and their own dining room, while addressing issues of place, community, and politics. http://www.studiocybi.com http://www.instagram.com/studiocybi 7) Sarah Rossman (words) and Andy Li (sound design) - Intrusive Thot: Episode 1 (Gloria) This is a pilot episode of a semi-autobiographical podcast series that is meant to give the listener access to the experience inside the mind of someone with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In each episode, the narrator tries to accomplish a mundane task but gets derailed by her OCD. Sarah Rossman is a writer/performer based in NYC. She strives to generate narratives about mental illness and trauma that combat stigma and spark joy and laughter. Sarah's work has been performed at the Williamstown Theater Festival, the American Repertory Theater, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, and The Other Palace Theater. Andy Li is a Chinese-American composer/sound-designer based in NYC. Andy’s work has been performed at the Hudson Guild Theatre, Joe’s Pub, and The BringAbout. His commissioned solo carillon will premiere at the 2025 GCNA Congress. Li and Rossman both received MFA degrees from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. http://www.sarahrossman.com -
Blevin Blectum - OmniiMultitudesOfVenom
14 April 2025 11:00 pm - 15 April 2025 12:00 am
Two sci-fi inspired electronic soundscapes - Omnii, the lush vampy ballard-esque shifting sands of the universe, and Multitudes of Venom, the fractal cousin of Omnii who displays disembodied fervor for extra dimensions.
Artist bio:
Blevin Blectum is an electronic musician living in Willits, California, USA, on a mountain top in a forest with her cat Lu.
Website/social links
ttps://http://www.facebook.com/blevin.blectum
https://vimeo.com/user2673719
https://soundcloud.com/blevinblectum
https://blevinblectumx.bandcamp.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blevin_Blectum -
Natalia Rivera Riffo - Resonance of the underearth: Dialogues with the sonic spirits of nature
13 April 2025 11:15 pm - 14 April 2025 12:00 am
"Resonance of the Underearth: Decolonial Dialogues with the Sonic Spirits of Nature" is an immersive radio work that explores the hidden depths of the Earth through sound. It emphasizes a decolonial perspective on ecology, inviting listeners to hear the voices of nature's sonic spirits. This piece blends natural recordings with artificial intelligence and technological tools to create a multi-layered sonic experience. Compositions such as "Scram the Glacier," "Shynte Aanda," "Respira," "Forêt Millenary Araucaria," and "Ritus" reflect different elements of the Earth's life forces. By giving a voice to nature, the work challenges anthropocentric perspectives and seeks to reconnect humanity with the planet's deep ecological wisdom.
Artist bio:
Short Bio EN Natalia Rivera Riffo is a multidisciplinary artist-researcher born in 1982 in Temuco, Chile, whose deep connection with nature has profoundly influenced her journey. Living and working in Paris, she primarily explores sound arts, drawing, performance, and video. Her approach questions territorial and landscape imaginaries, relating geological, climatic, and biological materials while examining the impact of extractivist practices on the land. Her works, both poetic and metaphorical, play with materiality and the paradoxes of form. Natalia adopts a transdisciplinary approach, blending sound, writing, and performance, where she addresses themes such as instability, chaos, and the visceral dimension, combining
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/nato.rivera.riffo/
https://nataliariverariffo.com/
https://soundcloud.com/natalia_rivera_riffo
https://linktr.ee/natalia.rivera.riffo
https://nerr.bandcamp.com/track/ritus
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Spectral Transmissions Research Unit - A Common Treasury
15 April 2025 12:00 am - 1:00 am
In the beginning of Time, the great Creator Reason, made the Earth to be a Common Treasury, Amid all our familiar scenes stand memorials of the people who were here before us. In the wild magic of midsummer night’s eve, we embark on an hallucinatory journey through weed choked lay-bys where normative logic bends and succumbs to the tangential, the wayward and the transcendental. Here the ether is populated with unruly beasts and revolting peasants, an insolent jumble of noises, fragments and connections, unobserved rites, wild anarchy and the violence that haunts the spectral pastoral.
Includes elements of:
Battle of the BeanField 1985 (Operation Solstice) Gareth Morris, Russel Morris and Neil Goodwin
U.K Free Festivals-The 1980s, BBC Documentary
Winstanley, Kevin Brownlow, 1975
Being and Doing, Ken McMullen and Stuart Brisley, 1984
A Celebration of Midsummer, East Anglia, 1964
Artist bio:
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. Comprising a diverse spectrum of entities of various degrees of stability and tangibility. In as much as linear time can be applied, members of the STRU could, have, and or will include(d): Ludd Püca, JohnFrum, Kay Jackson, T-J.Cut, Dr. Ray Power, Proff. Jock Moxter, EKA-Francium, Dr. Tinkerpaw, Kaspar Brøcken, and The Coincidence Sprite.
Website/social links
https://extra.resonance.fm/series/gravity-waves
https://outlands.network/members/the-spectral-transmissions-broadcast-monitoring-research-unit/
https://www.instagram.com/lukependrell/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/the_joyful_cut/ -
Vedran Mehinovic - December Bells
15 April 2025 1:00 am - 3:00 am
December Bells is an ambient work of nearly two hours, an expansion of an eight-minute kantele (Finnish zither) composition by Pauliina Syrjälä. An instructor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, her piece Kirkonkellot (Church Bells) is based on a kantele recording from the early 20th century. The instrument is synonymous with Finnish identity, its creation attributed to the mythological shaman Väinämöinen, who chanted powerful spells. The densely overlapping textures of December Bells reflect this, along with the traditionally repetitive and interlocking nature of kantele performance, and similar singing styles of the Baltic region. Syrjälä’s work can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHAxW_Gp7M.
Artist bio:
Vedran Mehinovic was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Composition from New England Conservatory, and a doctorate from UC Santa Cruz. In 2007, his piece RA was selected as one of just three orchestral works to be performed during the Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, winning Honorable Mention at the week’s end. An enthusiast of world arts, Mehinovic has organized concerts of Korean, Hindustani, Uyghur, and Chinese music. His works have been performed in Bosnia, Croatia, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Japan, Korea, and the United States.
Website/social links
https://www.babelscores.com/VedranMehinovic -
Sam Sebren - Ending Verizon
15 April 2025 3:00 am - 4:30 am
A bleak comedy of real life corporate dysfunction made from actual phone calls with Verizon customer service agents, including narration and on-hold muzak, creating a radio theatre experience about trying to escape corporate technological entanglements. A 21st century David and Goliath dystopian tale about a customer and a phone company. Also including the song "Cell Phone" by THIS.
Artist bio:
Sam Sebren works in installation, collage, painting, photography, video, public works and also sound-based works with ties to noise and experimental music. His radio works for Wave Farm/WGXC have been broadcast nationally and internationally on Pacifica stations and on the Radia Network. He was awarded a Wave Farm residency and produced “Re:Search” an un-documentary about the history of radio artists. Sebren has exhibited widely in galleries and universities, film festivals, non-profit spaces, and unsanctioned public interventions. He hosts the “Nothing Is Real Radio Hour” and “Everything Is Real Radio” programs on WaveFarm/WGXC.
Website/social links
Nothing Is Real Radio Hour: https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/2te0as
Everything Is Real Radio: https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/0hv018
nothingisrealvideo (YouTube channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcjSRcDDlP8EDOHfYG9Oj7Q -
Jess Hamilton - Sink
15 April 2025 4:30 am - 5:00 am
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.
Artist bio:
Jess Hamilton is an audio producer and field recordist living on Gadigal land, Eora (Sydney). Her work explores memory, temporality and the hidden sounds of ecosystems through hydrophones and electromagnetic recorders, layered field recordings and found sound. Through a practice of listening, recording and manipulating sound, she attempts to make audible the anthropogenic influences of our time on ecosystems and soundscapes - particularly those that seem obscured from human senses. Her audio storytelling projects have featured at IFC AudioDocs Reykjavik, Rose D’Or and the Australian Podcast Awards. She is currently studying soundscape ecology through a Master of Marine Science.
Website/social links
https://soundcloud.com/jessicajhamilton
jessica-hamilton.com -
NAISA present - Making Waves: Omar Reyna's Sounds of Turbulence
15 April 2025 5:00 am - 6:00 am
On today’s episode of Making Waves we will be listening to “Non-predictable” by Omar Reyna. Afterwards we will talk to Omar about his piece which is included in the soon to be released 19th compilation album from The Deep Wireless Festival. Over the next four episodes of Making Waves we will be featuring artists from Deep Wireless.
Reyna’s work “Non-predictable” is an exploration of the sounds of turbulence in nature. Do the sounds of wind hitting trees or the tonal colours of moving water have emotions that fluctuate over time? This 45 minute long form piece is arranged in three sections that are approximately 15 minutes each and there is a radiophonic quality stemming from the associative qualities of the sounds of wind, rapids, ravens and breaking glass.
Omar Reyna is a Mexican-Canadian interdisciplinary artist. He focuses on the intersection of research and the activity of making. And believes that the process of making art while experimenting serves as a form of physical thinking. Much of his artistic practice takes place in the Boreal Forest near Whitehorse, Yukon, where he now lives and works.
https://naisa.ca/ -
THLEEP - Broadcasts 02
15 April 2025 6:00 am - 7:00 am
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; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.
THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.
Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.
Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.
Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.
Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj
Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com -
Debbie Armour - Duet for One Singer and One Under-5
15 April 2025 7:00 am - 8:00 am
An iteration of a text score composed by Debbie Armour, from a collection of works to be performed domestically.
(Originally broadcast April 2024 for MOOAR Residency, Resonance FM)
Find a quiet time. 30 - 60 mins should be enough, but be open to change
Sit on the floor together
Arrange a quiet activity for the under-5
The Singer begins to sing, something familiar
Stop each time you are interrupted by the under-5
Respond gently to each interruption, re-engage the under-5 with their activity or allow them to join in if they indicate they would like to
Recommence your song where you left off
Keep going for as long as you can
Repeat the score on a few different occasions
Notice any changes in responses from the under-5 during each iteration
Note how many songs you can complete, if any
Notice how it feels to be interrupted, for each of you
Artist bio:
I am a traditional singer and artist working with sound and performance. I am motivated by persistence, resonance, deep cultural roots and celebrating traditional materials. My practice sparks interest in shared heritage through world building, and recontextualising song, story and archetype.
Website/social links
http://www.burdellen.com
http://www.debbiearmour.substack.com
http://www.instagram.com/debbie.armour.sound
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Radiophrenia Shorts 9
15 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
1 Vortichez - Want Water (3:19)
2 Shortwave Collective - Collective Listening Across Distance (13:14)
3 Ben Gaunt - 303 Flings (For Beginners) (3:03)
4 Frontera Glaciar - Fantasma Antártico Gris (Grey Antarctic Ghost) (11:30)
1) Vortichez - Want Water
The electronics in this piece are entirely those of thirsty trees, recorded with highly sensitive acoustic sensors and generously shared by physicist Alex Ponomarenko, manipulated by the composer using Trevor Wishart's CDP (Composers Desktop Project) software.
Trees under drought emit short ultrasound "clicks" whose origin is not clear, but discovered by Alex Ponomarenko to be linked to the appearance of bubbles. The short clicks have been expanded by the composer to engage more deeply with trees' slower timescale.
As we communicate with trees, their thirst can be made known to us. Scientists can use these findings to reconcile stressed trees to long periods of drought brought on by climate change.
Want Water was selected for the Art & Science Days in Bourges, diffused during the Musinfo "Tempus" multimedia concert.
For more information about Alex Ponomarenko's project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWL0EoZh09w
Vortichez is an electroacoustic project manipulating and reconstructing diverse sound sources into abstract sound worlds. Her work has been released on several independent labels, performed by the composer at the University of Birmingham's BEAST FEaST, and featured at Arts & Science Days in Bourges.
https://linktr.ee/vorticex_
instagram: @_vorticeX
2) Shortwave Collective - Collective Listening Across Distance
Originally a live performance, this piece shares the praxis and the thinking behind our methodology of listening across distance. Through a distributed group practice, we listen for the electromagnetic transmissions embedded within a soundscape. We combine our individual and topical experiences into a collective network of listenings. We celebrate the fragility of what is heard, the intricate buzzes and clicks alongside the voices and music, reception as determined by the atmospheric conditions of the moment, or the sound of nothing at all when things do not work or there is nothing that we can hear. It is a plurality of possibilities that we listen to, rather than an illusion of singularity where there is one way of being and one body. These processes allow us to listen to the environmental transmissions that surround us in a way that is open and accessible to all.
Shortwave Collective is an international, interdisciplinary artist group, brought together by an interest in feminist practices and the radio spectrum. We spend time together making, testing and sharing DIY 'Open Wave-Receivers', antennas, and other radio-related technologies, often reusing various components from found and everyday objects. We use radio-listening to reflect together on the situatedness and the material and cultural ecologies at stake in signal transmitting and receiving. Shortwave Collective are: Alyssa Moxley, Brigitte Hart, Georgia Leigh-Münster, Hannah Kemp-Welch, Karen Werner, Kate Donovan, Lisa Hall, Maria Papadomanolaki, Meira Asher, Sasha Engelmann and Sally Applin.
https://www.shortwavecollective.net/
Instagram: @shortwavecollective
Twitter: @SWaveCollective
https://mstdn.social/@ShortwaveCollective
3) Ben Gaunt - 303 Flings (For Beginners)
As part of mjf hothouse 2023/24 Ben Cottrell participated in a number of 'flings'; short-lived collaborations with various musicians of different disciplines/genres. I was very excited when Ben asked me to work on a fling with him.
We both work at Leeds Conservatoire; one afternoon we set up some microphones in practice room 303, and made sounds with everything we could find. Plant pots, chairs, windows, bins... we recorded everything except for the musical instruments, which were left untouched.
This is my fling, and it is a piece about how I hated practising scales and arpeggios when I was a student. In writing the piece, the number 303 became important; it is 3:03 long and 303 beats per minute. If you listen to it 303 times, I will be very happy!
Using the same recordings, Ben has made his own fling.
Ben Gaunt is a composer, sonic artist, and improviser. He has written for the London Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, and many other lovely people. He has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award, a British Composer Award, and is Professor in Composition at Leeds Conservatoire.
https://www.bengaunt.com/
https://x.com/bencomposer
https://www.bengaunt.com/epk-sonic-artist-and-composer
4) Frontera Glaciar - Fantasma Antártico Gris (Grey Antarctic Ghost)
Antarctic Gray Ghost (2025) It is a radio project in which sound experimentation is carried out based on recent scientific studies of Antarctica. At the end of 2023, studies were presented related to the Antarctic cod, a large specimen that lives on the white continent and that can bring answers related to climate change and timely help to the sub-Antarctic ecosystem. Frontera Glaciar that lives in Patagonia, gateway to Antarctica, builds, through sounds, screams, voices and marine spaces of the south, a mini international symposium in which three Latin American scientists (Chile, Brazil and Argentina) participate, alerting us about the importance of their studies and the danger that can occur if timely protection is not provided. In this journey of sounds, the Antarctic cod itself is present.
Ignacio Núñez Oyarzo (Patagonia, Punta Arenas) Graduate in Education (UMAG, 2015) Pedagogue (UMAG, 2016) and Master in Arts (PUC, 2020). Sound artist, producer and DJ. Frontera Glaciar is his artistic name and personal space in which Ignacio experiments and combines soundscapes of the Patagonian territory with various voices. His name is due to the fact that he was born and lives in the city of entry to the polar territory. His line of work is divided into the creation of sound series (radio art) and sound experimentation and live performance. And he develops projects linked to: climate change, territory.
https://fronteraglaciar.wixsite.com/site
https://www.instagram.com/fronteraglaciar/
https://www.youtube.com/@fronteraglaciar
https://soundcloud.com/frontera-glaciar
https://fronteraglaciar.bandcamp.com/album/patio-nevado -
Radiophrenia Shorts 9
15 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
5 Marc Perez - Hubs (Ft. People) – (4:26)
6 Julia Griner - Dorica Castra – (4:20)
7 Pete Cox - Blast Dunes/Beach (Leezie Lindsay) (10:44)
8 Tess Davidson - Shifting Shadows (3:58)
9 andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - REGENSCHAUKEL (+MYAMAN) (1:24)
5) Marc Perez - Hubs (Ft. People)
This is a track made up of various field recordings that took place during early 2023, across 3 different airports in 3 different states within the U.S.
The story created here from these field recordings is one of autonomy amongst various ecosystems of humans, and stories. We have immense identity, yet none all in the same. I hope the world created here brings forth a sense of unity rather than unease, and allows the listener to feel more connected to those they have never met. We are not isolated. We are just waiting for the time, means, and moment to connect to someone new.
Trombone Player, Composer, Improviser, Artist & Author Marc Perez utilizes his unique understanding and approach to improvisation in a broad range of interdisciplinary practices. His approach to sound, music perception & non traditional notation is quickly making Marc a sought-after collaborator and making his work quickly known.
Marc is part of the experimental jazz duo “Frog n’ Toad”, makes electronic music under “Chilaquiles”, makes video game music under “mapmusiq” & leads the exciting and experimental large ensemble, “The Tapestry”.
https://www.marcperezmusic.com
https://www.instagram.com/mapmusiq
6) Julia Griner - Dorica Castra
Dorica castra, named after the Latin doubling process of chain rhyme, is a radio attempt at sound concatenation.Orchestrating a discussion between songs and archives, I feed an exquisite corpse narrating the story of a lifejacket while resonating with my artistic influences. Listen closely as the life vest floats away from your overturned ears. An imaginary journey made up of detours through the worlds of leeks, whistles and snow without ever really straying from your life vest, this radiophonic concatenation was designed to buoy up anyone who fell into boredom.
A graduate of the Sound Design master's degree from Esad TALM, in partnership with Ircam (Institute for Acoustic/Music Research and Coordination), Julia Griner is a musician and sound artist. She is interested in questions of gender in her sound manifestations, the title of her master thesis.
Diversion, collage, shift, obsolete technologies, Bach, aliens, ghosts and the sonification of data are at the heart of her practice.
In parallel with her wanderings towards sound material, Julia Griner pursues sound design activities for museum institutions.
https://juliagriner.com
7) Pete Cox - Blast Dunes/Beach (Leezie Lindsay)
‘Excerpts from the Ardeer Peninsula’ is a series of three soundscapes each focusing on a specific area of the Ardeer Peninsula which is located in North Ayrshire between Irvine and Stevenston. It was formerly the site of the Nobel Munitions factory and was one of the area’s largest employers with over 13,000 employees. Since closing in the 1990’s, the site has fallen into a state of industrial disrepair with many derelict buildings remaining, whilst the wildlife on the peninsula has flourished and is now the largest brownland regeneration site in Scotland.
This piece focuses on the adjacent beach, where reverberant concrete tunnels reach out into the sea, with the sounds of waves and wind rushing through them.
The pieces were constructed as recordings made in real time of improvisations using field recordings and guitar, processed and recorded through the Max package ‘Ppooll’.
Pete Cox is a Glasgow based sound artist and composer. His work spans field recording, improvisation and sound design practices with a focus on sonic spacial practice. Often using field recordings taken from places that have a personal, familial or environmental significance as a starting point, he explores how the sense of space can be expanded and abstracted though digital processing, looping, and improvised instrumental responses, and how these elements allow exploration into what is present, implied and absent from the spaces, and how this effects the experience of being there.
https://petecoxsound.hotglue.me/?start
8) Tess Davidson - Shifting Shadows
This is a soundscape that explores the ways in which doorways are a portal between the anonymity of harsh urban environments and private sanctuaries — and how they contain multitudes, from the claustrophobia and isolation a city brings, to the expansive, joyful potential of welcoming your community.
Tess Davidson is an audio producer and writer from the north of Ireland currently based in London. She has produced for organisations such as the Tate Britain and the Serpentine, as well for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and RTÉ in Ireland. She won bronze for Best New Producer in the UK’s Audio Production Awards 2023 and is currently developing her first play with Soho Theatre, London.
Instagram - @tessie_davidson
Twitter/X - tess_davidson
9) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - REGENSCHAUKEL (+MYAMAN)
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken -
Yulia Carolin Kothe, Katerina Sidorova, Max Brück - How to navigate a bog?
15 April 2025 9:00 am - 9:40 am
Walking through a bog is like stepping into another world, where the familiar rules of the land no longer apply. Your first step feels strange - the ground moves beneath you, soft and uncertain.
During their residency in West Cork (Ireland) the artists Yulia Carolin Kothe, Katerina Sidorova and Max Brück worked on a growing archive of personal, historical and mythical stories about the bog shared by locals: The performance interview ‘Sfag’ + ‘nuhm ' made for ‘How to navigate a bog?’ by visual artist and psychotherapist Deirdre Johanna Humphrys, outtakes from a pub poetry and music event dedicated to bogs and secrets with locals from Schull and a soundscape by Yulia Carolin Kothe.
This work is an invitation to navigate the bog through a collection of stories that the landscape preserves. It is an invitation to listen and a welcome to getting lost.
Mastering: Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow
Artist bio:
Yulia Carolin Kothe is a visual artist based between Glasgow and Frankfurt am Main. Her practice moves between sculpture, sound, writing and performance, often drawing on collaborative forms of working.
Katerina Sidorova is a visual artist and reseacher based in The Hague. Working with installation, performance, and text, she looks at multiple facets of mortality and necropolitics in her practice.
Max Brück is a visual artist focused on sculpture and memory. His work explores personal and collective memory through objects and spaces, challenging territorial boundaries.
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/yulia.ko_/
https://www.instagram.com/katerina_sidorova_news/
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Manja Ristić & Marko Paunović - Rituals in Transfigured Time
15 April 2025 9:40 am - 10:00 am
The body of culture we were born into lost all its limbs, and since then we are repeatedly reminded that such a body never really existed. The places where we spent our childhood were contaminated with borders and harsh memories of war. Our original cultural identity is undesired, we are encouraged to redefine ourselves and identify with the necropolitics of new nationalisms. The country crumbled into bits, many lost their loved ones and their homes, the land was intoxicated and the death count never ceased. The Yugoslavian culture was proclaimed extinct. Strangely, we can still feel it deep inside us, it consists of many textures of belonging. “Rituals in Transfigured Time” is made of field recordings from across Yugoslavia, from pristine nature to intoxicated lands and waters, from memorial sites to abandoned factories; analog instruments, radio appropriations; found sounds, voices long gone and forgotten.
Finalist of Palma Ars Acustica 2024.
Artist bio:
Manja Ristić & Marko Paunović have been creating together since 2014. They strive to build unique immersive experiences with their work, using a synthesis of field recording, instrumental improvisation, tape loops & various analogue instruments, found sounds, and ambient music. In their performances they often surprise with a bio-political element, reflecting on the conceptual heritage of 20th-century installation and performance art.
Website/social links
https://manjaristic.blogspot.com/
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Martyn Riley & Loreal Prystaj - 59,312.85
15 April 2025 10:00 am - 10:30 am
Discovered a decade ago in the Oxfordshire woods, an abandoned car, lacking any discernible documentation, became a conduit for personal experiences related to stories, loss, and memories—real or imagined; an Overwhelming fear and anxiety of losing one's memories. This sound-piece is a mileometer of recollections, interwoven narratives, featuring artist Loreal Prystaj voicing the artist's writings, filling in the gaps and redactions with her own experiences. Exploring a 'hyper-memory', decay, and the fear of losing one's identity, it inverts time, as dementia creates new spaces and erases old ones. (Self-)redacted fictions recall fantasised, half-forgotten, distinct yet inconsequential memories. The human limitations of encoding, storage, and retrieval disrupt spatio-temporal recollections. Briefly halted, the Datsun 'uncar' returns to a state of decay. Nowhere to elsewhere and back again. Loreal's work delves into themes of alchemy, exploring the cycles of life, death, and rebirth within the realms of consciousness Artist bio: Martyn Riley is an artist whose collaborative spirit defines his solo practice, and rather than focusing on theory or practice, he embraces playfulness and the depth of others. Based in London, Martyn explores themes of memory, decay, and found objects; often incorporating sound. His practice is a dynamic interplay and internal battle of mixed-specialisms: tapes, samples, found sounds, sculpture, words, and photography. A unifying element is the power of storytelling, evoking memories and experiences—both real and imagined. Loreal Prystaj’s work delves into themes of alchemy, exploring the cycles of life, death, and rebirth within the realms of consciousness. Website/social links https://martynriley.co.uk/ https://www.instagram.com/martyn_riley_sound/ -
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay - A Nomad’s Guide to Listening
15 April 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am
The radio piece consists of two components, weaved together by a common thematic strand of migration, de-territorialisation, nature, and the lived environment. It starts with a performative reading from the artist’s recent book The Nomadic Listener - an augmented book on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation. The book is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of major contemporary cities through situated writing and field recording.
Each text is an act of contemplative listening, where the author records his surrounding environment and attempts to attune to the sonic fluctuations of movement and the passing of events. What surfaces is a collection of meditations on the minutiae of life movingly interwoven with the author’s own memories, associations, desires and reflections. The performative reading draws up a tender map of contemporary urban experience, and the often lonely, surprising, and random interactions found in the quotidian. The radio piece ends with a sketch from Towards an Amicable End, a new work in progress. It is composed of field recordings of climate variables, radio interference translating environmental phenomena, and musical instruments in free improvisation, investigating human estrangement from nature and lived environment.
https://budhaditya.org/ -
Buffer Zone
15 April 2025 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
1) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 1 (2:24)
2) iT - Irena Tomažin - outro- give up your crying game (10:44)
3) Jessica Syposz- The Buzzer (8:54)
1) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 1
Using small white single-use plastic items from everyday foodstuffs visual scores have been created on a black background. A vocal sound palette is suggested and in the six five minute sound pieces used for four voices to render the plastic pieces as imagined fragments of letters of the Roman alphabet. The scores can be viewed and listeners are invited to soundalong with the pieces by using the palette and following some basic suggested instructions - or by using their own sounds. The scores and the palette can be read here https://daily-bread-rp2025.blogspot.com/2025/02/?m=1
Artist bio:
Johnny Dixon is Irish and lives in London.
2) iT - Irena Tomažin - outro- give up your crying game
From the album Crying Games.
3) Jessica Syposz- The Buzzer
Lena can't stop listening. Her favourite radio station only transmits a single, eerie buzzing noise. The sound gets under her skin. It makes her feel safe, especially on lonely nights in her room while her menacing landlord prowls around the house. The more this vulnerable young woman listens to this radio station, the easier it is to forget the world around her, or to feel like it's even real at all. A monologue which culminates in an unearthly radiophonic soundscape, 'The Buzzer' is a journey into obsession and our desire to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Written by Jessica Syposz, starring Radhika Aggarwal, with sound design by Paul Dodgson. The radio station Lena listens to is a fictionalised version of the real UBV-76 frequency or ‘Buzzer,’ a short-wave radio station which has been transmitting an unexplained buzzing since 1983.
Artist bio:
I am a writer from Birmingham, UK, working across prose, audio and theatre. I often layer my work on top of soundscapes drawn from field recordings and the crackle and hum of old analogue tech. My audio play ‘The Buzzer’ was featured at the 2023 UK International Radio Drama Festival. I am the fiction editor at interdisciplinary arts magazine, Porridge. My ten-minute monologue for stage, ‘Caterpillars’, was performed at The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham in April 2024 as part of their Write Away Scratch Night, where it won the audience vote for best piece.
Website/social links
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Zara Joan Miller - Year of the Dragon (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
15 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
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.
Zara Joan Miller is an artist working across poetry, performance and film. Her work seeks to unravel boundaries between human and non-human nature, often playing with movement and sound as a way of reimagining a body’s rhythm. Zara is the author of poetry collection BLUE MONDAY (JOAN Publishing, 2022), which was also released as a duo LP with cellist Ute Kanngießer (Reading Group 2023). Her work has recently been presented at Barbican Centre, Muse Gallery, Horse Hospital, Cafe OTO (London), In Vitro (Brussels), Default
Year of the Dragon is co-commissioned by TACO! and blurt. blurt is 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.
https://taco.org.uk/About-Us
https://zarajoanmiller.com/
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Verónica Cerrotta - Entremarés
15 April 2025 12:20 pm - 12:40 pm
Field recordings, interviews, legends, poems, an astral map of the island, underwater sounds and vibrant surfaces are mixed with musical elements to compose Entremarés, a sound piece to be heard at sea, more specifically in the pedal boats of José Bonifácio Beach, on Paquetá Island, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Piece commissioned by the Novas Frequências Festival, 2021.
Artist bio:
Argentinean sound artist settled in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her artistic work is based on the use of field recordings and navigates between soundscape and experimental electroacoustic and concrete music, focusing on listening and sound imagination.
Since 2019, she has released solo works on the labels Impulsive Habitat, Música Insólita, Pakapi Records and Sello Postal.
She has also released the collaborative works ‘Slani pejzaži’(tsss tapes), with Manja Ristić and Joana Guerra, ‘In-Radius’ (Presses Précaires) with Pablo Díaz, and “Fase de Plegamiento’ (Green Field Recordings) with Juan José Calarco.
Website/social links
https://linktr.ee/veronica_cerrotta
https://veronicadaniela.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/veronicadanielacerrotta
https://www.instagram.com/veronica_cerrotta/ -
Tassia Mila Novaes - Overflowing Lines
15 April 2025 12:40 pm - 1:00 pm
This audiopaper is about a concept I developed called Overflowing Lines, and from it, I begin to think about the human relationship with nature from the perspective of art and my indigenous origin, as well as the indigenous cosmoviews of Brazil, my country. I have been developing sonic pieces that draw such relationships: human and trans-humans forms of interactions and the disposition of my own body and voice to activate them and be a channel for transmitting nature-devenirs, in dialog with the concept of Deleuze and Guattari.
Artist bio:
I am sound and visual composer, weaver - I make hand-knit pieces - and experimental artist.
I compose sonic/sound and visual books, sonic and visual tales, stories and imaginations; I research the practice of experimental cinema and the survival of images, their presence, appearances, persistence, their generational transmissions, their movement in the fabric of time-space and beyond.
I was born and raised in Jequié-Maracás, in Bahia. My family comes from the countryside region of the city Maracás, with Kiriri-Tupinambá peoples origin. I currently live and work in São Paulo Capital City and I'm studying Fine Arts at USP-University
Website/social links
https://www.tassiamila.com/
https://www.instagram.com/tassia_mila/
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UpperHurst - Babel Binaural
15 April 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
A basic binaural mix compiled from six one-hour recordings made over a period of three years. Each was recorded in the communal area before, during and shortly after the evening meal at either the Maighelshütte in the Swiss Graubünden or the Wiesbadener Hütte in the Austrian Silvretta. In each case, people of many nationalities come together to share the evening meal and swap stories about their mountain experiences.
Artist bio:
UpperHurst is the working name of Sheffield-based musician, sound artist and documentary-maker Peter Brooks. He works using conventional musical instruments, synthesisers and other electronic instruments, field recordings and other found sounds.
Website/social links
https://www.mixcloud.com/UpperHurst/
https://soundcloud.com/user-901965358
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Radiophrenia Shorts 23
15 April 2025 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
1) Selma Augestad and Sam Ofili - GOOD ENOUGH (2:43)
2) Boyi Bai - Exploring Slience – Japan (11:49)
3) Daniel De Togni - A room so all alive (7:31)
4) Timo Kahlen - Resilience. Against All Odds (2:54)
5) Craig Gell - Flag Fen (1:11)
1) Selma Augestad and Sam Ofili - GOOD ENOUGH
GOOD ENOUGH is a collaboration between artists Selma Augestad and Sam Ofili. With thanks to Lea for lending her voice.
GOOD ENOUGH is a confessional script read in two voices, two languages becoming a conversation between past and present. GOOD ENOUGH is a trial and an offering, a bid for acceptance and a final test of love.
The script to GOOD ENOUGH was first exhibited by Selma as bleach and coffee stained linen, in COMFORT ME - exhibition in South Block Glasgow, September 2024. It was reimagined as an audio work by Sam and Selma in October 2024.
COMFORT ME reflects on undesirable expressions of emotions testing the conditionality of love. COMFORT ME is both a provocation and a plea. A dare - to love, when it is inconvenient, ugly and dark. If it’s easy, it means nothing.
Selma Augestad is a Norwegian visual artist based in Scotland. Through a practice of untangling and interpreting personal memories, Selma explores wider social themes with influence from mythology and rituals, as sites of connection, struggle and liberation.
Sam Ofili is a Glasgow based DJ. She is inspired by the use of sound and movement to connect with and uncover emotions.
https://www.selmaaugestad.com/
@solskinnskroken
2) Boyi Bai - Exploring Slience – Japan
In Japan, amidst bustling environments, you can hear delightful bird songs that offer brief moments of auditory respite, momentarily alleviating the weariness of travel. Despite their surroundings' cacophony, these sounds retain a pristine purity. Their most captivating essence emerges when they persist unadulterated by noise, bravely standing against the tumultuous world. "Exploring Silence - JAPAN" harmoniously blends ambient music and evocative soundscapes. Continuous drone and background sounds act as a cohesive frame, enveloping these captivating soundscapes and . inviting the audience to step into Japan's auditory world and experience the adventure of silence.
Boyi Bai is a composer, sound artist, sound mixer, and soundscape researcher fascinated by the blend of technology and sound. He enjoys exploring the harmony between virtual reality and sound, creating immersive experiences. Currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Soundscapes Research at the University of Sheffield under the esteemed guidance of Professor Adrian Moore, Boyi continues to explore the intricate relationship between sound, environment, and musical composition. His exceptional talent, academic prowess, and extensive professional experience make him an outstanding figure in the fields of music production, soundscape research, and artistic expression.
https://soundcloud.com/zion-bai
3) Daniel De Togni - A room so all alive
The creative nexus of this project was through recording the poetry of visual artist Rayne Cottrell. Her stream-of-consciousness, yet vulnerable style of delivery and narration is the very center of this recording. The music and sonification surrounding the poetry is made up of two distinct soundworlds. The first of these soundworlds is contained in the first half of the piece, where bass clarinet and clarinet sounds are edited to sound like an organ. The second soundworld, second half of piece, is where the poetry opens up in vulnerability and a post-rock, lo-fi, ambient landscape underlies the text.
As a composer and artist who primarily works with sound, Daniel is fascinated with the concept of space in sound/music. The psychological space that music inhabits in our minds as listeners, performers and/or creators, how sonic objects interact with each other in real-time and space, as well how a sound can evoke an image or landscape in our minds. It is truly astonishing how music can act as a catalyst between memory and real-time, how by listening to a piece of music, or hearing a sound, a world/memory (that perhaps no longer exists) from many years ago can be recalled.
https://www.danieldetogni.com/
4) Timo Kahlen - Resilience. Against All Odds
Timo Kahlen's „Resilience. Against All Odds“, 2024 creates an ambivalent and disquieting acoustic metaphor - drawing the fine line between resilience, deescalation and aggression. The audio miniature is based on growls and purrs.
Sound sculptor and media artist Timo Kahlen (* 1966 in Berlin) chooses to work with wind and steam, with light and shade, with pixels and dust, with sound, noise and vibration. His intermedia work has been presented in 250 solo and group exhibitions of contemporary media art since the mid-1980s: including „FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video" (Greece 2024), „Passages“ (Frankfurt 2022), „Back into the Future of Photography“ (Frankfurt 2016), „Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art“ (ZKM Karlsruhe 2012), „MANIFESTA 7: Scenarios“ (Italy 2008), and his solo exhibition “Timo Kahlen: Works with Wind“, inaugurating the KUNST-WERKE Berlin in 1991.
http://www.timo-kahlen.de
5) Craig Gell - Flag Fen
‘Flag Fen’ is a stereo recording made inside the preservation hall at Flag Fen Archaeology Park near Peterborough, where a section of an excavated Bronze Age causeway, discovered by Francis Pryor in 1982, is kept constantly wet using an elaborate sprinkler system.
Craig Gell is an artist and composer from Bournemouth.
He has created multimedia installations, interactive apps and electroacoustic compositions largely informed by nature and the natural landscape - recording impulse responses in quarries (Lithoscapes), programming sonifications of live sea wave data (Wave Machine). Craig is also an experienced musician and composer of more conventional music, including for a number of short animated films.
craiggellmusic.com
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Radiophrenia Shorts 23
15 April 2025 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
6) Kim Walker - I Don't Need the Sound of the Radio (5:45)
7) Berenice Llorens - Lejos del monte.(4:30)
8) Mansoor Hosseini - I Am Not A Poet & I Am Really Not A Poet (8:25)
9) lane/louise - would be a lovely night (12:51)
6) Kim Walker - I Don't Need the Sound of the Radio
This sound work is the combined outcome of a series community workshops exploring sound art, sound walks, contemporary sonic art practice, concepts of Deep Listening and the composition of a soundwalk for Hospitalfield’s Physic Garden. I Don’t Need the Sound of the Radio was inspired by participants experiences within the garden and exploring the garden together. The idea of connecting to the ‘traces’ of the past through contemporary practice, and creating a new rendering informed by personal histories, old and new. Participants input, opinion and experiences were key to how the artwork developed, as they shared their stories and worked with Kim, with personal experiences becoming integral to the final composition. You can listen to this artwork when you visit Hospitalfield's Physic garden by scanning the available QR code.
I Don't Need the Sound of the Radio is commissioned by Hospitalfield and THAT (Tayside Healthcare Arts Trust).
Kim Walker is a Scottish artist working with sound, video, installation, and performance. Her work was nominated for the 2011 Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Prize for Emerging Artists at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, longlisted for the 2018 Ivan Juritz Prize, and she was a finalist in the 2020 Mother Art Prize curated by Procreate Projects. She has extensive experience delivering creative, informal learning projects for individuals, community groups and schools across Tayside. Recent projects include Wild Escapes Eco School; ARTIST ROOMS: Young People’s Projects; The People’s Story; Reconnect; and Sounds and Stories with THAT and Hospitalfield.
https://www.kimwalkerart.co.uk/I-Don-t-Need-the-Sound-of-the-Radio-2023
7) Berenice Llorens - Lejos del monte.
"Lejos del monte" is an artificial soundscape created from sounds and field recordings of the native forest of Córdoba, Argentina. The piece explores the interaction between the natural environment and technology: the forest is recorded, reinterpreted, and imitated through processes involving prepared electric guitar, processes and digital synthesis. Through improvisation and composition, the forest sounds—endangered and at risk of extinction—gradually transform into an artificial imitation, reflecting the disappearance of these ecosystems due to wildfires caused by the climate crisis and the extractivist policies of capitalist governments in Latin America.
Berenice Llorens is a composer, guitarist, and experimental artist, born in Córdoba, Argentina, based in Berlin. In her practice, Llorens records and reinterprets sounds from nature, the city, and machines, creating evolving sonic ecosystems—an exercise of bringing the outside in and the inside out—provoking deep reflection on our relationship with the environment we inhabit. Llorens works are a mixture of performances, compositions, radio, audiovisual works, drawings, writings, and collaborations in dance and theatre. She produces the Beyond of_line radio show on Refuge Worldwide, and she researches in AI, computer music and sound.
https://berenicellorens.com
https://berenicellorens.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/berenicellorens
8) Mansoor Hosseini - I Am Not A Poet & I Am Really Not A Poet
An experimental work, a speaker's voice being cut, not allowing the word or sentence to be completed. Uncertainty makes the speaker retake her speech only to doubt again yet not giving up to express herself.
Mansoor Hosseini is a Swedish sound artist, composer, script writer and film maker. He has studied composition at Conservatories in Paris, Brussels and Gothenburg. Later studying scriptwriting and film music at Gothenburg University. Mansoor’s research and studies with the composer Georges Aperghis encouraged him to compose for theatrical music, inspired by martial arts, contemporary dance and theater. Mansoor has collaborated with dancers, film makers, poets, video artists, ensembles and theater productions.
https://www.musicalmo.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsKgs__fKVU
https://www.youtube.com/@GothenburgMusic
https://www.youtube.com/@mmamusicmanagement3836
https://themusensemble.com/
9) lane/louise - would be a lovely night
This track, "would be a lovely night," is inspired by the ingrained sometimes fearful nostalgia that exists within the experience of listening to old radio plays, long lost voices forever communicating.
LANE/LOUISE is a duo based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada/Turtle Island consisting of amateur musician and group drone collaborator, CORINNE (she/her) and her partner, artist and musician CHRIS (he/him) who also performs as iderdown, a one person electronic, ambient, experimental act, and who forms one third of the band WITHIN.
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/yrlittlecore website:
https://www.iderdown.com/ instagram:
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Network Music Glasgow - New Works (Live in the studio)
15 April 2025 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
This live performance will present a number of new works that have been composed and developed over the last few months. All pieces are based on patches in Max/MSP that share data through a Wifi network. Each of the performers has access to this data and is able to transform and manipulate the flow of data through the network.
For some pieces MIDI data such as note pitches and durations are shared, for some works triggers are distributed throughout the network, producing emergent behavior that is different each time the piece is performed.
Artist bio:
Network Music Glasgow is a computer music group with currently three core members, Neil Quigley, Rachel Ní Chuinn and Simon Weins. We work with audio-visual programming languages to collaborate, compose and perform music in real-time through Wifi networks.
Website/social links
https://soundcloud.com/network-music-glasgow -
Mark Vernon - Saturnine Orbit
15 April 2025 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
“Mark Vernon revisits the life and work spaces of an isolated and meditative Morandi, making the debris of everyday life reverberate through spectral soundscapes and eerie tones: an exercise in modern hauntology.”
‘Saturnine Orbit’ is a radio work made for the Casa Museo Giorgio Morandi and in the spaces of the Campiaro barns (a favourite subject of the Bolognese painter during his holiday periods in the Bolognese Apennines in Grizzana Morandi). Produced as part of the ART CITY Bologna 2024 festival in association with XING, MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna and NEU Radio.
The piece was composed entirely from the sounds of Morandi’s summer house, his studio, replicas of the objects used in his still lifes and sounds recorded on the mountain trails he would often walk, starting behind the Casa Morandi.
Alongside field recordings collected on site during a production residency, Vernon employed Morandi’s objects as sound instruments, using the negative space of bottles, pots, jugs and vases from the Casa Morandi studio as small resonant chambers, while the environmental field recordings of the surrounding countryside were played from inside these objects using tiny speakers amplified by microphones. Through this process the outside becomes the inside: the world in a bottle. The piece also features excerpts from the only extant recording of the Bolognese artist’s voice.
Artist bio:
Mark Vernon is a sound artist and radio producer whose work explores ideas of audio archaeology, magnetic memory and the re-appropriation of found sounds. He runs and co-curates the Glasgow art radio station and festival, Radiophrenia.
http://meagreresource.com -
Verónica Cerrotta - Summer afternoon in the forest
15 April 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Field recordings from Brazil's Atlantic Forest
This is a series of field recordings made in the transition biome between the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro.
The recordings were made in different seasons of the year, between 2023-2024, and at different times of the day. Each of the recordings has an approximate duration of sixty minutes.
Artist bio:
Argentinean sound artist settled in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her artistic work is based on the use of field recordings and navigates between soundscape and experimental electroacoustic and concrete music, focusing on listening and sound imagination.
Since 2019, she has released solo works on the labels Impulsive Habitat, Música Insólita, Pakapi Records and Sello Postal.
She has also released the collaborative works ‘Slani pejzaži’(tsss tapes), with Manja Ristić and Joana Guerra, ‘In-Radius’ (Presses Précaires) with Pablo Díaz, and “Fase de Plegamiento’ (Green Field Recordings) with Juan José Calarco.
Website/social links
linktr.ee/veronica_cerrotta
https://veronicadaniela.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/veronicadanielacerrotta
https://www.instagram.com/veronica_cerrotta/ -
Clarry M - Daily Record (Live in the studio)
15 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Remember the app BeReal? Users took and posted ‘real’ selfies of themselves at a random time of the day, every day, determined by when the app’s notification went off. Its popularity may have waned but its attempt to capture the ‘real’ moments in people’s lives - no pre-planned posing, no filters, no warning, was a refreshing alternative to hyper stylised instagram content.
I decided to use BeReal’s daily prompt as an approach to field recording, recording at least 30 seconds of whatever can be heard around me when the notification pinged. By March 2025 I’ll have 6 months worth of daily recordings to play in sequence. This subverts my usual field recording process of choosing interesting, shinier sounds to capture, instead documenting daily, often mundane snippets of a life.
Artist bio:
Clarry M is a Glasgow based DJ and sound artist hosting regular radio shows on Subcity radio, Clyde Built radio and on a monthly Radio Buena Vida residency. She often uses field recordings as a source material for sonic experimentation.
Website/social links
https://buenavida.co.uk/dj-amtrak/
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Buffer Zone
15 April 2025 5:45 pm - 6:00 pm
iT - Irena Tomažin - nekaj v tebi (5:16)
From the album 'Crying Games'. -
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay - Sonic Psychogeographies II (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
15 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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 of meandering 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 by migratory movement and drifting. Within this discursive context, I present my artistic method of nomadic listening and sonic psychogeography, manifest in this work, which investigates the sonic fabric and distortions of the German city Offenbach, a poorer post-industrial urban terrain during a residency. The sound archaeology lends an ear to underheard corners in public spaces, exposing historical and social layers as acoustic material. Incorporating radio interferences and field recording traces, I try to demonstrate how an unfolding auditory situation holds acts of listening open, instead of closing it down in the form of a soundscape. Here I take liberty to critique Murray Schafer’s soundscaping and acoustic design approach, as for a listening-based artist, it is crucial to perform acts of adaptive perception in intersubjective listening, attunement, and to trace these situations for sharing in the form of drifting and shifting personal narratives. Biography: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer. Chattopadhyay produces works for exhibition, installation and live performance addressing contemporary issues of environment and ecology, migration, and decoloniality. His works have been widely exhibited, performed, or presented across the globe. Chattopadhyay has an expansive body of scholarly publications in media arts history, artistic research, media theory and aesthetics in leading peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of five books, including The Nomadic Listener (2020), The Auditory Setting (2021), Between the Headphones (2021), and Sound Practices in the Global South (2022). Chattopadhyay holds a PhD in Artistic Research and Sound Studies from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), Basel, Switzerland, and a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), University of Bergen, Norway. https://budhaditya.org/ -
The Traveling Bubble Ensemble - Terms of Addition
15 April 2025 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Terms of Addition is a radio play for strings (violin and viola), voices, and electronics. It is loosely based on a Ray Bradbury short story (Tomorrow's Child). Co-composed and adapted by Bevin Kelley and Michael Kelley. Michel Kelley plays viola and voice, Elise Kuder plays violin and voice, Hollis Mickey narrates, and Bevin Kelley has a small cameo as a party-goer. We have performed this radio play live several times.
Artist bio:
Bevin Kelley is an electronic music maker, composer, and performer. She plays and records as Blevin Blechdom and is half of the duo Blectum from Blechdom, with Kristin Galvin. Michael Kelley is a composer and violist, and records electronically as Kelley Polar. Elise Kuder is a violinist of much renown and a willing vocal participant. Hollis Mickey is an artist, actress, cook, and musician, and she contributes her vocal prowess. All together we exist under the umbrella of The Traveling Bubble Ensemble.
Website/social links
https://vimeo.com/150075780 (live performance)
https://www.facebook.com/blevin.blectum -
RadioActive - on Water: An Ear to River ~ counterflows By Blanc Sceol
15 April 2025 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
This programme asks us to listen with the Channelsea River, a recovering waterway in East London, and home to London’s largest combined sewage outfall, historically discharging 16,000 million tonnes of raw sewage annually into the river.
These discharges have largely stopped since the connection of the Lee tunnel in 2016, enabling the river to begin restoring itself, but it now faces a renewed assault as the new £4.5 billion ‘Tideway Tunnel’ is connected in the coming months. This massive infrastructure project will improve pollution events to London’s inner city rivers, but at great cost and against other more sustainable, lower impact options.
The voice and field recordings bring us into contact with a slippery journey through underground pipes old and new, precarious river living, court battles, hope and uncertainty.
This sound piece is part of an ongoing series of site specific actions with the river, enacted by artist duo Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White) since, and in connection with, their part in the establishment of moorings and conservation cooperative ‘Surge Coop’ in 2018.
Surge Cooperative is a collaborative effort to benevolently occupy the Channelsea river in London, as a place for people to live on the water, and a way to acknowledge the living systems that are already present. Our research as artists within and without this cooperative seeks to live with, listen with and act with this vital living system, finding new ways to tackle problems of neglect and misuse whilst navigating ancient acts of parliament and institutional backwaters to advocate on behalf of this waterway.
Throughout this practice, listening with, live streaming and recording the sounds of the river has fed our actions and activities, becoming a sustaining stream that encourages us to flow as a river, attempting to connect bodies and organisations across geographical, social and political boundaries. Over our time with the river we’ve created a series of local engagement activities, proposing common actions with those connected to the river or local to the area, and encouraging collective efforts to listen with and celebrate its rich natural heritage.
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We are Blanc Sceol, an artist duo whose work has emerged & expanded, throughout our years of working together, to encompass performance, improvisation, composition, participatory actions, deep listening facilitation, somatic & ritual gatherings.
Since 2018 we have been working site specifically with Channelsea River in London. Our regular practices with river are invitations to ourselves and others to gather, listen, observe and learn through a variety of containers, from workshops to walks, to reading groups, deep listening, live transmissions and collaborations. Through each of these actions our attempts to understand and support river grow and change as we uncover more about the forces at work, both within and without.
http://www.blancsceol.co.uk
http://www.surge.coop
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Toni Dimitrov - Graz Sketches
15 April 2025 8:00 pm - 8:45 pm
This is the seventh in the series of field recordings pieces from the field recordist and sound artist Toni Dimitrov dedicated to a city. After the field recordings from Athens, Milan, Ioannina, Belgrade, Bucharest and Berlin, this time the sound sketches were recorded in Graz, during his stay in the city while participating at Interpenetration festival at Club Wakuum in autumn of 2024. In the piece you can hear recordings from Graz streets, parks, galleries, the noise from public transport, fountains, interweaving subtly, blurring the line between field recording and sound art. Concept, field recordings, editing and directed by Toni Dimitrov File under: field recordings, soundscape, sound documentary Artist Bio: Toni Dimitrov is a multimedia artist, cultural producer, radio host, organizer, curator, label owner, mountain climber and nature lover, living in Macedonia. He connects all those with the love for music, sound art and field recordings. Have been curving his way into the new experimental music/sound art scene with his solo engagement, collaborative releases, radio art and art installations. Working in the field of sound art and experimenting with electronic music and radio for more than 20 years. Have released under several monikers, bands and collaborations, having countless albums and eps on diverse labels around the world and performed on many events and participated at several residencies. His radio programs are broadcasted on the music radio Kanal 103 and are dedicated to contemporary electronic music, ambient, soundscape and political discourse. The artistic career involves art installations, sound and sound installations, drawings, video, photography, exhibiting on various exhibitions locally and abroad. His last participation was at the historical sound art exhibition “Audiosphere Sound Experimentation 1980–2020” at Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, curated by Francisco Lopez. He is curating the labels post global recordings and élan vital recordings. The recent professional engagements were on projects related to political analysis of media. At the moment he is director of Cultural Informartion Center – Skopje. Website: elanvital.bandcamp.com post-global.com -
Assembling Land - Episode 2 - Storytelling: Who owns the narrative
15 April 2025 8:45 pm - 10:00 pm
From synchronicity to asynchronicity, affect to effect. In movement and stillness. Through somatic practices, we initiated a circular form of being together in space, sharing stories in non-linear ways. As a result, an ever-moving chain of sonic and written matter was assembled, creating a mode of sharing agencies and stories from sender to receiver; from receiver to receiver. Departing from the title “Storytelling: Who owns the narrative?” as the premise of our second confluence within the sessions of Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making, this episode invites listeners to attend our chain of correspondences and letter-making, as reflections of personal and worldly perspectives—gestures of staying together. The podcasts are formed in chapters corresponding to our peer-to-peer learning around Land, Housing and Out/Institution, each time seeking ways to question ourselves by listening to the varied and polyrhythmic offerings from the people and places we encounter. In this process of place-making, we explore our practices and transmit through the broadcasting platform and extended community of Radio Alhara. Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making is de Appel’s COOP study group at DAI Roaming Academy unfolding throughout 2024. Through the group’s monthly encounters, five podcasts will share the harvest of each iteration with attuned overarching themes as departure points. After our first confluence in Nida (Lithuania), this second episode was initiated in March 2024 at PAF Performing Art Forum in France, during Confluence 2: Storytelling: Who owns the narrative?. Dutch Art Institute (DAI) is a nomadic accredited MA program landing in various locations and for seven times (confluences) per academic year with the student body and crew. The study groups, which last the full academic year, are one of the pillars of its program and are carefully composed of and conducted by collaborations with an art institution, in this case de Appel in Amsterdam. Listen through @radioalhara AR: راديو تجميع الأرض الحلقة 2 من يملك السرد؟ من التزامن الى عدم التزامن, من التأثير إلى النتيجة في حركة و سكون من خلال حركات جسدية بترتيب دائري تشاركنا المكان نتبادل القصص بغير تسلسل وبالنتيجة سلسلة مستمرة من الأصوات والمحتوى المكتوب تم تجميعها لنخلق نهج تعاوني نتبادل القدرات والقصص من المرسل إلى المتلقي و ايضا من المتلقي إلى المتلقي بالانتقال من العنوان "سرد القصص" من يملك السرد؟ كما الفرضية من التقائنا الثاني ضمن جلساتنا " تجميع الأرض: بروفات لصنع المكان", تدعو هذه الحلقة المستمعين لحضور سلسلة مراسلاتنا اتصالاتنا انعكاسات لوجهات النظر الشخصية والدنيوية لضمان وحدتنا و بقائنا البرامج الصوتية تشكلت على هيئة فصول لتتوافق بين الزملاء مع موضوعات التعلم حول الأرض و الإسكان و المؤسسات في كل مرة نسعى لطرق لاستجواب أنفسنا من خلال الاستماع الى العروض والمتعددة الإيقاعات من الاشخاص و الاماكن التي نواجهها في عملية صنع المكان هذه, نستكشف ممارساتنا ونرسل عبر منصة البث والمجتمع الموسع لراديو الحارة تجميع الأرض: بروفات لصنع المكان" هي مجموعة دراسة COOP التابعة ل de Appel في أكاديمية DAI المتنقلة تحدث على مدار 2024 من خلال اللقاءات الشهرية للمجموعة خمسة ملفات صوتية يشارك حصاد لكل تكرار مع موضوعات شاملة و متناغمة كنقطة بداية بعد اجتماعنا الأول في نيدا (ليتوانيا) بدأت الحلقة الثانية في آذار من هذه السنة، في Paf Performing Art Forum في فرنسا وأثناء التقائنا الثاني: رواية القصص. من يملك السرد؟ مؤسسة الفنون الهولندية (DAI) هو ماجستير متنقل معتمد ينزل في مواقع مختلفة سبع مرات على مدار السنة مع الهيئة التدريسية والطلابية تعدّ مجموعات الدراسة و التي تستمر للعام الدّراسي بأكمله أحد ركائز برنامجها و يتمّ تشكيلها بعناية و تدار بالتعاون مع مؤسسة فنية، في هذه الحالة de Appel في أمستردام. -
Radiophrenia Shorts 52
15 April 2025 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm
1) Jakov Munižaba & Marija Stojnic - Shrub acoustica (8:00)
2) Cat Hawthorn - Out of Order (14:17)
3) Eduardo Espinosa - sounds from the south (3:36)
1) Jakov Munižaba & Marija Stojnic - Shrub acoustica
Shrub acoustica, is a radio play that reinterprets the soundscape of the Botanical Garden “Jevremovac” in Belgrade, and creates a sonic symbiosis between its inhabitants—plants, animals, humans, machines. Delving deep into the inaudible parts of the spectrum, where bats reside and perhaps other yet-to-be-discovered beings, the work invites the listener to merge their perception with the mediated stimuli of the garden and open a new playful space within themselves.
Composed from recordings made in the garden, utilizing temporal sound manipulation, and featuring original composition by Jakov Munižaba performed on the EMS Synthi 100 in the Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade, this work reveals previously inaccessible and speculative sonic spaces of the garden.
The piece is a part of the collection “Garden of Sound” by Marija Stojnić and Jakov Munizaba, created for the Center for the Promotion of Science, in collaboration with Jevremovac Botanical Garden, and Radio Belgrade, in Serbia, 2024.
Jakov Munižaba designed sound for over 100 films, many of which have screened at Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Sundance. He directs radio drama, composes film music, teaches sound in Belgrade and Podgorica, and collaborates with Radio Belgrade's EMS electronic music studio.
Marija Stojnić is a film director, producer and artist-researcher. Her film about Radio Belgrade, "Speak So I Can See You" has screened at MoMA, and at festivals in Amsterdam, Thessaloniki, Melbourne, Munich. She is a co-founder of the vocal group Rosa.
http://www.marijastojnic.com
ig: marija_stojnic, mstojnic
ig: knjigofaci
2) Cat Hawthorn - Out of Order
‘Out of Order’ is a soundscape composition that explores the acoustic environments of public toilets. The piece features a series of recordings made in four different bathrooms across Glasgow. Unedited stereo recordings of each site are placed alongside processed recordings of sounds ‘hidden’ within the sonic environment: creaking pipes, rumbling cisterns and gargling plug holes. These contrasting perspectives create two distinct sonic landscapes; the public ‘exterior’ and the personal ‘interior’ space. In the intimate moments of the piece, I speak directly to the listener, reflecting on my thoughts and feelings as I occupy each space. Gradually moving between the two, ‘Out of Order’ reveals the precarious nature of these sites; where the boundaries between public and private, personal and shared experience are blurred.
Cat Hawthorn is a Sound Designer and Artist currently based in Glasgow. For the past seven years, they have collaborated with artists and organisations across the U.K. to create sound for theatre, film and installation. From 2019-2021 they were part of the Almeida Theatre’s Young Resident Designer programme and in 2023 they completed an MSc in Sound Design and Audiovisual Practice at the University of Glasgow. Their work considers the interplay between sound, technology and the physiological and political dimensions of the human body.
https://www.cathawthornsounds.co.uk
3) Eduardo Espinosa - sounds from the south
I did this while on summer vacation in my home country. I recorded sounds from things like a coffee maker (the first sound that appeared) and a prepared piano for some of the metallic sounds. My main goal was to integrate water sounds with metallic and electronic sounds. The piece is called Sounds from the South because all of that happened in South America.
Eduardo Espinosa is a Colombian composer. His two favorite kinds of music are orchestral and electronic (which he also uses for ambient). He is in the third semester of his master's in music composition at Ohio University. He would like to work on music for the screen, video games, and radio, all involving music and sound.
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Radiophrenia Shorts 52
15 April 2025 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm
4) Nicola Cappelletti - Interno Pozzo (7:20)
5) Unconscious Collective - The Liverpool Pathway (12:00)
6) Andrew Ramsey - First Impressions (2:48)
7) Paul Meikle - Man Creates Nature Intervenes (9:28)
4) Nicola Cappelletti - Interno Pozzo
Interno pozzo (int. well) is part of a larger site-specific work dedicated to the city of Montepulciano. With a cinematic and sonic point of view, the piece investigates the soundscape of the city, subjected to heavy tourist flows, voluntarily hiding itself from the sight of the sound source for an acousmatic awareness. The result is a reconstruction from inside a well of an image of the city, in which ecosystemic elements attempt a new coexistence.
Nicola Cappelletti (ITA/FRA) is an electroacoustic sound artist. His artistic research focuses on the relationship between acoustic sound and electronic treatment in relation to contemporary music and arts, with forays into rock and club music, concerts of radical improvisation for prepared violin, prepared electric bass and live electronics.
http://www.nicolacappelletti.com
https://www.instagram.com/nikcplt/
https://www.facebook.com/nicola.cappelletti
5) Unconscious Collective - The Liverpool Pathway
The Liverpool Pathway manipulates, edits, and comments on material found within uses material from radio, records and & internet. The work often mirrors the collective unconscious through the use of voyeurism and dark humour. The resulting work is a collage of real experiences to collage and montage to reflect upon the things they love, and simultaneously place them in ridicule. Various elements are produced to fit together smoothly, whereas other clash. Then discrepancies convey an impression of a heterogeneous assemblage; a careful randomness of disparate elements and collisions. The work critiques the uses of the public domain and plays with the endless juxtaposition of media. Taking the elements from around us and making them into music. A collage of reality, times, experience. This being evolved towards radio. Including voyeurism and black humour. Reflecting the things we love, and placing thing in ridicule. Putting the disparate and colliding them, in careful randomness
Central London based collective; Jane Burton, Doris Lake, Samantha Brook & Rachel Parks
Their logo is a Hammer and a Cabbage
And use various monikers to create under
https://instituteforalienresearchvariousartists.bandcamp.com/album/making-banana-sounds
6) Andrew Ramsey - First Impressions
After applying and being accepted as an artist, I participated in the Cities and Memories - Migration Sounds Project reinterpreting a field recording submitted by Linda Koncz. The original recording encompassed the sounds of a rainy afternoon captured from a window in Lisbon, Portugal. Koncz’s description of the intense Portuguese rainfall and the impression they made of the city, after relocating from Hungary, inspired me to recollect on my first impressions of Lisbon, and other cities I have traveled and relocated to over the years. When transforming the original recording into a new composition I utilized personal field recordings from the first time I visited Lisbon interwoven with the submitted recording to create a rich soundscape portraying a story of memories collected throughout the city. I then reharmonized the sonic elements in order to enhance the trace they imprint on the listener, drawing attention to the ones sonic world.
My name is Andrew Ramsey, I am a sound designer and audio artist originally from Louisville, Kentucky. I relocated to scotland to originally persue a MSc in Sound Design at the University of Edinburgh. I now live in Glasgow, Scotland and work as a sound designer at Junkfish games. My other audio practices heavily focus on field recording, acoustic ecology, and deep listening practices in order to draw attention to ones surroundings through sound.
andrewramseysounds.com
https://www.instagram.com/andrewmunro47/
7) Paul Meikle - Man Creates Nature Intervenes
Man Creates, Nature Intervenes is an album created in 2017 during a one-month residency at Satellietgroep in The Hague, focusing on the Zandmotor, a man-made peninsula designed to protect the coastline from erosion and support marine life. I visited the area almost daily, collecting objects, taking photos, and making field recordings. The album seeks to document the ever-changing, often harsh environment, capturing my genuine impressions of the space. I made instruments from found beach objects, recorded and resampled them, and manipulated sounds with sand and water. By embracing imperfect recordings made on the beach, I explored ways to transform them into musical and textural elements. The final album is a collection of memories, reflecting my feelings and impressions from these visits. By working with the space, rather than striving for pristine sound, I aimed to capture its authentic essence. (condensed mix of the album attached)
Edinburgh-based artist Paul Meikle explores environments and objects altered by time, erosion, intentional and unintentional damage, and weather. He captures these transitional processes in his sound work using fabricated external elements. By employing lo-fi tape equipment for field recordings and destructively processing sound, he condenses long environmental reactions such as ageing and erosion, while preserving the unique character of these natural processes.
https://paulypocket.com/
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Blevin Blectum - OmniiMultitudesOfVenom
14 April 2025 11:00 pm - 15 April 2025 12:00 am
Two sci-fi inspired electronic soundscapes - Omnii, the lush vampy ballard-esque shifting sands of the universe, and Multitudes of Venom, the fractal cousin of Omnii who displays disembodied fervor for extra dimensions.
Artist bio:
Blevin Blectum is an electronic musician living in Willits, California, USA, on a mountain top in a forest with her cat Lu.
Website/social links
ttps://http://www.facebook.com/blevin.blectum
https://vimeo.com/user2673719
https://soundcloud.com/blevinblectum
https://blevinblectumx.bandcamp.com/
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Chantal Dumas - Oscillations planétaires
15 April 2025 11:00 pm - 16 April 2025 12:00 am
Chantal Dumas, “Oscillations planétaires” (2017-18, 19) stereo fixed medium “Oscillations planétaires” evokes geology. In all the layers that make it, from its core to its surface areas, Planet Earth is inhabited by undulatory motions of extremely varied temporal scales. Some are inscribed in a geological timeframe while others follow a daily cycle. This oscillatory ensemble contributes to the mechanisms that rule the Earth’s dynamics. These are the phenomena evoked in the work: Earthquakes - Every year, there are between 800,000 and 1,000,000 earthquakes worldwide. Most of these tremors are too weak to be felt or happen in uninhabited areas. Antarctic Plate - Tectonic plates move in relation to one another. The Antarctic Plate moves slowly at a speed of a few millimetres to two centimetres per year, depending on its contact zones with the dozen or so plates and microplates hooked to its perimeter. Subduction happens when two plates collide. The densest plate dives under the other one, sinking into an extremely hot layer of the Earth called the mantle, dragging along water and the sediments that accrued on it over millions of years. Oceanic Trench - Challenger Deep is the deepest point known on Earth. It hides at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, at a depth of close to 11 kilometres under the surface of the Western Pacific Ocean, near the Mariana Islands. Mantle Convection - Plate tectonics revolutionized Earth sciences when it was formulated as a theory in the 1960s, giving birth to several hypotheses about the mechanics that set plates in motion. Today, we know that the key of this mystery resides in the convection of the Earth’s depths. Geysers - are naturally occurring phenomena that are extremely frail and sensitive to earthquakes. Their activities vary according to the impact earthquakes have on their structure. Mountain Building - Mountain ranges are mostly formed in subduction zones. When a continental plate encounters an oceanic plate, the latter, denser, slides under the former, which, now under tremendous pressure, ridges and rises. Earth Tide - In 1994, Maya Tolstoy, a renowned marine geophysicist and scientist, discovered the first concrete evidence that tides — the movements of oceans and solid earth in response to astronomical forces — can trigger underwater earthquakes. “On sea floors, where the weight of the ocean exerts downward and upward pressures, the floor moves with the water in relation to this distortion,” she tells. “It is as if the seabed was breathing along with the tides.” Geomagnetism - The magnetic field of the Earth has a strange ability: it can flip, meaning that the North Pole becomes the South Pole and vice versa. Magnetic inversions happen periodically, but at irregular, unpredictable intervals. The Earth has known hundreds of such inversions in its lifetime. The last one happened about 780,000 years ago. Mid-Atlantic Ridge - The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is part of a wide network of underwater volcanic mountain ranges. It runs for 10,000 kilometres through the Atlantic Ocean. And despite an average height of 3,000 metres, it emerges at only nine spots where it forms volcanic islands and rocky peaks. Seismic Waves - When an earthquake is triggered, a front of seismic waves propagates through geological layers to reach the surface of the Earth. These waves are very fast and elastic; they run in all directions from their point of origin. Artist bio: In her productions, Dumas approaches various themes, some of them more often: time, space, territory, the elsewhere, listening. Cartography inserts itself naturally as a subtext in her compositions, acting as a structural element. Dumas’s works have earned her awards and distinctions Oscillations planétaires in nomination at Prix Opus (2019), and from Prix Opus (Québec, 2009-10). She also got Prix Bohemia Radio (Czech Republic, 2010), Concours international Phonurgia Nova (France, 1997, 2001). Website/social links https://avatarquebec.org/dialoguesavecchantaldumas/ https://electrocd.com/fr/album/6044/Chantal_Dumas/Oscillations_planétaires chantaldumas.org
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Spectral Transmissions Research Unit - Above Us The Waves
16 April 2025 12:00 am - 1:00 am
"you wont never fynd no beginning its long gone and far pas." ‘If we look through the aperture which we have opened up onto the absolute, what we see there is a rather menacing power, something insensible, and capable of destroying both things and worlds, of bringing forth monstrous absurdities, of realizing every dream, but also every nightmare, of engendering random and frenetic transformations, or conversely, of producing a universe that remains motionless down to its ultimate recesses, like a cloud bearing the fiercest storms, then the eeriest bright spells, if only for an interval of disquieting calm.” “To push anything back into the past is equivalent to reducing it to its simplest elements. Traced as far as possible in the direction of their origins, the last fibres of the human aggregate are lost to view and are merged in our eyes with the very stuff of the universe.”
Artist bio:
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. Comprising a diverse spectrum of entities of various degrees of stability and tangibility. In as much as linear time can be applied, members of the STRU could, have, and or will include(d): Ludd Püca, JohnFrum, Kay Jackson, T-J.Cut, Dr. Ray Power, Proff. Jock Moxter, EKA-Francium, Dr. Tinkerpaw, Kaspar Brøcken, and The Coincidence Sprite.
Website/social links
https://extra.resonance.fm/series/gravity-waves
https://outlands.network/members/the-spectral-transmissions-broadcast-monitoring-research-unit/
https://www.instagram.com/lukependrell/
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post doom romance - glimmers on the archipelago
16 April 2025 1:00 am - 2:00 am
One hour audio composition. This album was created at The AARK (Archipelago Art Residency in Korpo, Finland). More Glimmers …. As it was summer, the days were long, stretching into what would normally be considered night. Free of almost any responsibilities, we drifted in what felt like a timeless space that allowed for long meandering walks through the forests and shorelines, bicycle rides and sea kayaking. There was also the ferry taxi that takes people much further out to sea, where the islands are more sparsely populated and the blue expanse seems even larger. Some days we would ride bicycles on the curving road into town and sit at Hjalmar’s bar, sipping ciders and eating probably the best french fries Mykel has ever tasted. Sometimes it was quiet, other times the place would be full of travelers crossing through the archipelago on holiday. Artist bio: Who we are: post doom romance. What Mykel Boyd and seah (Chelsea Heikes) have in common when forming their collaborative artist group, post doom romance, is a keen eye and ear for textures. In both sound and image, we have been solo artists working both in the music industry and the fine arts world. Together, we produce sound, video, and still image compositions that are sensitively layered and textural. Our aesthetic is such that we do not heavy-handedly depict. Rather, we ruminate together in the feeling space of both literary and physical spaces, building our aural and visual language through Website/social links http://www.postdoomromance.com https://somnimage.bandcamp.com/album/glimmers-on-the-archipelago -
Tom Scott - Storm: 2 Hour
16 April 2025 2:00 am - 4:00 am
Early in 2024 one of the last storms of the winter was recorded overnight, resulting in ten hours of material. The material was divided into two hour segments for editing. The first two hours have been processed and edited resulting in a stand alone work entitled Storm: 2 Hours. This work is comprised of rain drops, wind, and movement all of which describes the dynamics of the storm, in this case the first two hours. Upon reflection of the sound work, considering that the night was stormy, loud, and invigorating the final recording comes across as quite a reflective sound, which incorporates moments of evolving sonic excitement.
Artist bio:
Tom usually works with video and sound and often delves into watercolours. Further info can be found on his web site.
Website/social links
https://sites.google.com/view/acoustic-landscapes/other-works/storm
https://sites.google.com/view/acoustic-landscapes/home
bellartlabs.com
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THLEEP - Broadcasts 03
16 April 2025 4:00 am - 5:00 am
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; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.
THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.
Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.
Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.
Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.
Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj
Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com -
NAISA presents - Making Waves: Performance of Tree Frog Radio by Ben Donoghue
16 April 2025 5:00 am - 6:00 am
Today's episode is from a live performance of Tree Frog Radio by Ben Donoghue that took place on February 1, 2025. Tree Frog Radio in the Northern Gulf Islands is an unique underground FM radio initiative in British Columbia that uses trees as antenna masts for localized radio broadcasts – expanding a rural island community’s boundaries of the possible. In this radio art performance interviews and field recordings about Tree Frog Radio were mixed together using loopers and feedback systems in order to blur the space between audio documentary, drone and noise.
Online listeners experienced a special video feed of the performance while in-person audiences got to wander the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River and both listen to the audio on a localized radio broadcast and visit Ben Donoghue in a small studio performing on a modular synthesizer. Following the performance the two audiences joined together in a discussion about the performance and to learn more about Tree Frog Radio from its founders and members who were in attendance. Visit NAISATube channel for a video version of this radio episode.
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RadioActive - on Water: watered By RE-PEAT collective
16 April 2025 6:00 am - 7:00 am
In this programme, RE-PEAT collective approaches water justice through imagining the perspective of water nself, by drawing stories and definitions of bodies of water, and n’s entanglement in relation with other bodies, bogs, bugs, sundew, moss, reeds, drops, rivers, will-o’-the-wisp and us. Through collectivity, music and sounds, we follow a feminist subjectivity, watered, inspired by Astrida Neimanis’s call to “chart our politics of location in a way that recognises our diverse aqueous implications and responsibilities”.
The programme includes contributions from Moss Pit, the River Besòs in Barcelona and the Salween River in Thailand by Helen Ganya Brown.
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RE-PEAT is a youth-led collective with a mission to change the narrative around peatlands across the UK and Europe - what we term a “peatland paradigm shift”. We strongly believe that peatlands are ecosystems for our times - representing both a vast existential risk and a huge potential for positive transformation, the course of which we follow depending on the actions of those alive today. We also see that these ecosystems can offer insights into a wide array of eco-societal features, including deep time, what we collectively choose to remember/forget, and how we can think beyond binaries.
https://www.re-peat.earth -
Route Émilie - Ivresses
16 April 2025 7:00 am - 8:00 am
(Google Translation)
Ivresses is a story between Jules and wine. Cyclical, immersive and sensitive, its setting is the arid vineyards of Corbières, the humid cellars of the Ariège mountains, the stifling heat of summer festivals. It's a loopy refrain in which pilfered harvests, pirate distillations, festive bottlings, bubbling vats, and wines that don't have time to age are intertwined.
Artist bio:
My practice mainly revolves around sound creation and documentary. But I also like making images, whether they are drawn, cyanotypes, screen printed, engraved, filmed, and I also like working with archives. I studied anthropology, Fine Arts and a master's degree in documentary filmmaking. I am currently working with two artist collectives, Les Obliques and La Disquette, with whom we create frescoes, drawings, video and sound installations, documentaries, workshops and sound walks. I also occasionally participate with my friends in the radio shows Menstruelles and Alerte Météo Terre.
Ivresses est une histoire entre Jules et le vin. Cyclique, immersive et sensitive, elle a pour décor les vignes arides des Corbières, les caves humides des montagnes d'Ariège, la chaleur étouffante des fêtes estivales. C'est une ritournelle bouclée dans laquelle s’enchevêtrent des vendanges chapardées, des distillations pirates, des mises en bouteilles festives, des cuves qui bouillonnent, et des vins qui n'ont pas le temps de vieillir.
Artist bio:
Ma pratique s’inscrit principalement autour de la création sonore et du documentaire. Mais j’aime aussi faire des images, qu’elles soient dessinées, en cyanotypes, sérigraphiées, gravées, filmées, et j'aime aussi travailler avec des archives. J'ai fait des études d'anthropologie, les Beaux-Arts et un master de réalisation documentaire. Je travaille actuellement avec deux collectifs d'artistes, les Obliques et la Disquette, avec lesquels on fait des fresques, des dessins, des installations vidéo et sonores, des documentaires, des ateliers et des balades sonores. Je participe également ponctuellement avec les copines aux émissions de radio les Menstruelles et Alerte Météo Terre.
Website/social links
https://cargocollective.com/ladisquette/qui-est-LA-DISQUETTE
https://lesobliques.me/
https://www.instagram.com/eemilieroutee/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 10
16 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
1 Dixie Treichel - Beyond Reach (2:57)
2 M. Cristina Marras - Window of Contempt (5:29)
3 The Keeling Curve and Nastassja Simensky - Atoms-on-the-Wall : Slow Rotations (22:52)
1) Dixie Treichel - Beyond Reach
Beyond Reach is an experimental sound art composition listening for the far aspects
of the environment around us that we might ignore. It was created with field recording, piano and found sounds.
Dixie Treichel is a composer, sound artist, sound designer and radio broadcaster.
She is a sonic explorer who likes creating with any and all sounds, generating rich sonic textures that invite the listener on a journey into the unknown. Her works have been heard internationally on radio, in art galleries, sound art festivals, new music concerts, theaters and streaming festivals.
https://soundcloud.com/dixie-treichel
2) M. Cristina Marras - Window of Contempt
This story reflects my own regret over how I behaved during the lockdown. Stuck in my apartment, my only view of the outside world was through the window, where I watched my city become eerily empty. The silence was broken only by the sound of ambulances. Fear and paranoia took hold of everyone, and I remember how even a simple cough from a neighbour filled me with suspicion.
One moment still haunts me: I saw two teenagers kiss in the street, and instead of feeling joy at their connection, I was consumed by anger and judgment. I feared they were putting their families at risk. Now, I’m ashamed of how I reacted. I wish I had embraced their moment of love instead of giving in to fear. Looking back, I see how easily fear distorted my perception, making me forget what really matters—compassion and hope.
M Cristina Marras is a multilingual storyteller who has been producing audio for over 20 years, beginning in Melbourne, where she worked as a radio journalist. M. Cristina defies conventional labels, embracing hybrid narratives that blend personal reflections and cautionary tales in unexpected ways. She has contributed to organisations like ABC Radio National and the Goethe Institute. Her work has been recognised internationally, with awards at the Transom Small, Random, and Meaningful prize, Audience Awards at the UK Audio Drama Festival and the Audionomia Sound Miniature Contest. Cristina's collaborations with international artists include projects with Stuart Fowkes, and Ross Sutherland.
https://www.cristinamarras.com/
https://soundcloud.com/kommunic8
3) The Keeling Curve and Nastassja Simensky - Atoms-on-the-Wall : Slow Rotations
Atoms-on-the-Wall : Slow Rotations is an continuation of the collaboration between electronic music duo The Keeling Curve and artist Nastassja Simensky. Atoms-on-the-Wall explores the landscape of the Blackwater Estuary, home to a Special Protection Area, Site of Special Scientific Interest, the Othona pacifist Christian community, 7th century chapel St Peter-on-the-Wall, and the decommissioned Bradwell A nuclear power station. It is also the location of the planned Bradwell B station which will cover an area roughly 5 times the size of Bradwell A. Atoms-on-the-Wall: Slow Rotations incorporates spoken text into a musical soundscape composed for violin and modular synthesizer. The live violin sound is picked up and processed by the synth alongside field recordings from the local area including badgers and birdlife, the bars and echoes from the power station, and the singing of the Othona community.
The Keeling Curve is an electronic music duo comprising composer Will Frampton and violinist Rhiannon Bedford. They make work exploring environment and place. They have received funding awards from Sound and Music and Arts&Heritage and their work 'Mersey Beat' was shortlisted for the Inaugural Tippett Medal in 2021. Nastassja Simensky is an artist who often works collaboratively to make writing, place-specific performances, events, sound work and films as a form of ongoing fieldwork. Nastassja is currently completing a PhD at the Slade and coordinates the Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network at UCL.
https://linktr.ee/keelingcurve
https://www.instagram.com/the_keeling_curve/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/nastassjasimensky/
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Radiophrenia Shorts 10
16 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
4 Jeff Gburek - Heliopathy 1 (8:56)
5 SOAK LAB - Rock Pool (6:37)
6 Antoni Hidalgo - h_man (9:59)
7 Giovanni Dibeltulu - Happiness is a warm dub (1:01)
4) Jeff Gburek - Heliopathy 1
After several month traveling and recording Very Low Frequency radio waves and taking measures to anticipate probable Schumann resonances from locations, I have begun generative compositions with whole recorded segments and sampled fragments whille keeping the radio antenna window open locally. Most of these recordings took place during the Coronal Mass Ejections and resultant geomagnetic storms of 2024 as we reach solar maximum.
Jeff Gburek is poet, field recordist, sound artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist exploring all strata of cosmophonic resolutions.Works increasingly focus on receptive listening and recognition of patterned chaos in the mind triggered by externally ordered phenomenon in flux.Microphones, detuned guitars, hydrophones, shortwave and VLF radios, ground spikes, bat detectors and electronics typify the research in the psycho-acousticsof Gaian whispers enveloping and composing existence.
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/
5) SOAK LAB - Rock Pool
The aim is to improvise for radio, after-images of three days spent at the sea. Just as pollution is the how the sea carries memory of us, we might also allow the sea to infect our consciousness. We reproduce traces of the landscape and seascape of the Plymouth Sound through aural resonances and after-images.
To replicate the process, find a group of women and spend three days at the seaside with them. Feel how your body is made of salt water. Listen to rock-pools with a hydrophone. Catch a boat to a place with grasses and birds and seaweed. Listen to the voice of the grasses. Speak the language of seaweed. Walk along a promenade with a mirror in your hand, until you feel like the rippling sea catching sunlight. Dance by finding points of contact with each other. Improvise. Remember.
SOAK is a home for experimental multi-disciplinary practice in the South West of England. As well as curating our wildly successful SOAK Live Art Events, we run SOAK Lab, a space for skill sharing and community building, responding to tidal and river ecologies around Devon and Cornwall. These sessions are recorded and made into pieces for radio and installation. This work is an extension of Kerry Priest's research/practice into Polyphonic Poetry as a means of de-centering poetic lyricism by aligning it with contemporary choral practises, and Sarah Blissett's research/practice into sounding tidal ecologies through embodied performance.
https://www.instagram.com/soakliveart/
http://kerrypriest.com/
https://www.sarahblissett.net/work
6) Antoni Hidalgo - h_man
I think human dignity is the foundation of our society. It's essential to respect each other and create a fair society that looks after the environment
But human dignity is being challenged by armed conflicts and globalization
Article 1 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union says: "Human dignity is inviolable. It must be respected and protected.”
But what happens if I say that sentence without the vowels U (from Union) and E (from European)?
“H_______man dignity is inviolabl______. It m______st b______ r_______sp_______ct_______d and prot______ct______d”
That's the sentence I used in the work H_man. It was hard to say the words without the vowels. I made a lot of mistakes, and my voice was nasal and weird. I was out of breath, coughing, and overall, I felt really uncomfortable
Maybe it's the same discomfort many people feel
(Music by Antoni Hidalgo)
Antoni Hidalgo (born in 1969) is an artist based in Mollet del Vallés, Barcelona. He studied Labor Relations at the University of Barcelona and took painting courses at Escola Massana, Art and Design School. His current work focuses on experimental music and video art
https://selenics.blogspot.com/
7) Giovanni Dibeltulu - Happiness is a warm dub
The piece, composed in 2024, whose title is clearly obtained by paraphrasing a famous Beatles song, is inspired by dub culture: the main intent, however, is to give it an electroacoustic imprint. It is a “lysergic” journey that takes the mind away from everyday problems, those that compromise our well-being, our happiness.
Giovanni Dibeltulu Sassari, 1967 is an Italian self-taught musician. Since 2022 he has been part of the electronic duo LanD ExcapE, founded by the musician
and visual artist Gavino Ganau. Your piece "Happiness is a warm dub" was broadcast on the Radioarte (Siena, Italy) and Radio Tsunami (Valparaiso, Chile). The same piece was broadcast on onaironsite.com "Programme 2024" (West Den Haag, Netherlands).
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Jacob Weinberg - After the Crisis
16 April 2025 9:00 am - 9:30 am
After the Crisis investigates the possibility (or rather, impossibility) of crisis aversion by re-presenting the thought of US military historian Roberta Wohlstetter, who with her husband Albert Wohlstetter, significantly impacted the military and nuclear strategy of post-war United States. It presents a spoken performance of Roberta Wohlstetter's publication, Cuba and Pearl Harbor: Hindsight and Foresight, which uses information theory to analyse the successes and inevitable failures of the United States' ability to predict and a prevent national catastrophe during these two events. By omitting the specific details from these events that were originally written into the text, the performance lays bare a narrative that both addresses and produces the crises shaping international conflict today. Centering the US military machine, the resulting work exposes the limits of a seemingly unyielding power, the perils of hindsight, and questions the ends of endless information collection in a world with multiple, uncertain futures.
Artist bio:
Jacob Weinberg (b. 1991, Harrisburg, PA) makes work that highlights slippages between the technical and social dimensions of inherited institutions. Working across media, including video, sound, and installation, he operates within the details of mechanisms that both haunt and shape contemporary conditions of rationality, uncertainty, and subjectivity.
Website/social links
http://www.jacobweinberg.net
@wacob_jeinberg -
Ilaria Boffa - De Avitis Sonis
16 April 2025 9:30 am - 10:00 am
This 3 track sonic journey celebrates and honours the voice and presence of our most ancient ancestors, rocks and trees.
Recorded in 2024, the work presents poems written in English and Italian.
Sonopoems and Field recording for ‘La Calcara’ and ‘Spectres’ tracks taken by Ilaria Boffa at Grotte di Zungri (Southern Italy) using Zoom H6 recorder and JRF D-series hydrophone. Performance on violin and vocals by Ida di Vita; vocals by Fabio Nicora.
Sonopoem and Field recording for ‘The Cedar Ballad’ taken by Ilaria Boffa in Fes and the Cedarwood Middle Atlas (Morocco) using Zoom H6 recorder and JRF C-series contact phone.
Artist bio:
Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. She writes bilingual poetry and she has published four poetry collections to date. She is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol. XL 2018. Her sono-poems, which combine poetry and field recording, have been played at international experimental sound art festivals, radio events and film festivals. She is a permanent member of EAPS international collective working with poetry and sound art and she is collaborating with the Swiss theatre group ‘Collettivo Treppenwitz’.
Website/social links
https://linktr.ee/ilariaboffaIB
https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/
https://www.instagram.com/ilaria.boffa/
https://www.facebook.com/ilaria.boffa.IB/ -
Melissa McCarthy - Who Will Win? Episode 2
16 April 2025 10:00 am - 10:15 am
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?
Artist bio:
Melissa McCarthy’s books include Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated Companion (Sternberg, 2019), on the balance between who’s moving over the face of the water and what’s lurking underneath; Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro (Sagging Meniscus, 2023), which considers flowers, photography, and explosions; and Exceptional Subjects, a collaboration with photographer Norman McBeath (Easel Press, 2024), on cameras, space exploration, and the persistence of voice and image. She’s a contributing editor at Exacting Clam magazine, writing on topics ranging from translation to typewriters, orcas to authors, football to photography.
http://sharksillustrated.org
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Steve Ashby and Vicki Hallett
16 April 2025 10:15 am - 11:00 am
Drawn and twisted focuses attention on the sonic qualities of the heritage machines housed in the National Wool Museum of Australia. The work explores the stages of processing wool from raw fleece into commercial products. It portrays an interweaving of the hardship and prosperity inherent to the history of manufacturing sheep’s wool from herding to shearing to finished product. The process yields the thread of comfort and warmth brought to the world in the form of clothing, jackets, blankets, and socks. It has also polluted waterways adjacent to mills where the wool is cleaned, trampled the grasslands to dust with the herding of sheep, and impinged upon the freedom and vitality of indigenous people. Drawn and Twisted is a listening towards a future in which the knowledge from as yet untold stories and perspectives is foregrounded, where a reverence for the land embraces a returned vitality to its native grassland.
Artist bios:
Steve Ashby is a musician, composer, and sound artist based in the United States. Ashby work focuses on sound found in the natural and digital world to discover places of intersection which engage in the art of listening. Recent performances and residencies include ICMC 2022, Soundpedro, Moxsonic, EMS Stockholm Guest Composer Series, Radiophrenia Scotland, Cube Fest at Virginia Tech, New Music Gathering, Sound Arts Richmond, and the NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival.
Vicki Hallett is a versatile musician, field recordist, sound artist, composer, music practitioner and educator. Her focus is to record, compose with, and feature the ever-diminishing habitats and species of our planet. Highlighting unique sounds from the micro to the macro, Hallett utilises sounds we rarely or cannot hear. She has composed, produced and performed in live concerts, international conferences, solo recordings and videos ranging from chamber music to exploratory work with sound art. Hallett travels the world recording nature’s sounds as well as performing in acoustically interesting environments including Mabolel Rock (South Africa) with a pod of Hippopotami and the Amazon jungle.
Website/social links
https://ashbysounds.org/
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Sara Maino - RETI DEL DISCORSO/SPEECH NETWORKS
16 April 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
By editing 20 years of oral memoirs of people collected in the valleys of Trentino, I “embroidered” a synchronized discourse of memories, views on life, affections, individual and collective stories. To be listened to together while weaving one's own story.
Artist bio:
I am a professional multimedia artist with 20 years of experience in sound and video art, project management, education, and cultural community initiatives.
Website/social links
https://www.saramaino.it
https://www.flickr.com/photos/saramaino/albums/72177720320156327 -
Buffer Zone
16 April 2025 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 2 (5mins)
Cerpintxt - Exiled to the Hemisphere of Utterance (2:24)
Brunhild Ferrari & Christoph Heemann - Stürmische Ruhe Part 2 (15:51)
1) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 2
Using small white single-use plastic items from everyday foodstuffs visual scores have been created on a black background. A vocal sound palette is suggested and in the six five minute sound pieces used for four voices to render the plastic pieces as imagined fragments of letters of the Roman alphabet. The scores can be viewed and listeners are invited to soundalong with the pieces by using the palette and following some basic suggested instructions - or by using their own sounds. The scores and the palette can be read here https://daily-bread-rp2025.blogspot.com/2025/02/?m=1
Artist bio:
Johnny Dixon is Irish and lives in London.
2) Cerpintxt - ‘Exiled to the Hemisphere of Utterance’
An excerpt from the ‘Refugees of the Symbolic Network’ iteration presented at Another Sky Festival in Cafe Oto, 2024. The piece is derived from Izz al-Din Manasirah's resistance poem 'Acid Rain', which I rearranged into cutups to form verses such as:
"I hear the wind with my nails
And when life and death were cast out, embracing,
To the last rock that overlooks the abyss,
I was exiled, naked, from the paradise of forgetting
To the paradise of the word.
It floats on the barricades stained with blood, and from violence,
From the long patience stripped of slaves, this need that overflows
Into the vessel filled with torn stars.
This is the forbidden land
Where the living are separated from the dead."
3) Brunhild Ferrari & Christoph Heemann - Stürmische Ruhe Part 2 -
Luke Fowler & David Grubbs - J'ai pensé sans paroles (live at the Glad Café)
16 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
J'ai pensé sans paroles - 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. Luke Fowler is an artist, filmmaker, and musician based in Glasgow. Fowler creates poetic portraits with 16mm and archival material. His most recent series N’importe Quoi focuses on the life and work of Brunhild Ferrari, whilst previous subjects include radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing, Marxist-historian E.P. Thompson, Scottish filmmaker Margaret Tait, and Fowler’s mother, the sociologist Bridget Fowler. He is represented by The Modern Institute and Gisela Capitain Galleries and is a core member of the groups Rude Pravo, Lied Music, and AMOR. David Grubbs is a musician and writer based in Brooklyn. He was a founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with the Red Krayola, Will Oldham, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Loren Connors, Susan Howe, and many others. His books include Good night the pleasure was ours, The Voice in the Headphones, Now that the audience is assembled, and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (all published by Duke University Press). Grubbs is a 2024-25 Berlin Prize recipient from the American Academy in Berlin as well as Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. BRUNHILD FERRARI: “Like most of my fellow human beings, I was born, I grew up, I attended schools, I passed exams, I failed, I loved, I worked hard sometimes, I enjoyed life; I continue. I worked with Pierre Schaeffer in the ORTF research department on the relationship between sound and image. Of German origin, I have had an activity as an interpreter and translator. Following Luc Ferrari's advice in matters of life, music, and composition, and working with him over the course of our 40 years together, I made my own Hörspiele and radio plays broadcast on France Culture, in the United States, and the main German radio stations. Since Luc left us in 2005, I have taken care of the preservation of his vast archives; founded the "Association Presque Rien - Friends of Luc Ferrari"; initiated and organized the biennial -
Alex Quérel - Radio Gose Choeur Nomade
16 April 2025 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Choeur tact-til, a mixed sighted and non-sighted vocal ensemble, discovers multiple resonances with Japanese musical practices, and sets off to meet the Goze, nomadic Japanese blind women musicians. Radio Gose Ghoeur Nomade, a sound trip from Hokaido to the Kansai forest by Alex Quérel with the complicity of Natacha Muslera. With sound recordings by : Alex Quérel, Mélodie Duchesne, Lionel Marchetti, Natacha Muslera Voices by : Kojiro Hirose (ethnomusicologist), Ryosuke Shiina (musicologist, musician and translator) And from Choeur tac-til : Mafalda Da Camara. Mélodie Duchesne, Chérifa Harzallah, Bruno Raby, Alex Quérel, François Parra, Natacha Muslera, Franck Omer, Angélique Huguenin Artist bio: Alex Quérel is vocalist in the Choeur tac-til and radio reporter since 2010 for different community radio in France. -
Radiophrenia Shorts 24
16 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1) Gustavo Chab - Flutervoice II (8:24)
2) Jo Kennedy - Now That You Ask (5:00)
3) Dixie Treichel - Pointing Away (2:19)
4) Eleni-Ira Panourgia - Soil narrations (6:34)
5) Ralph Hoyte – The Voyage of the Slaver the Snow Africa
1) Gustavo Chab - Flutervoice II
Flutervoice II is a piece for flute and electronic sounds in quadraphonic format. It has an approximate duration of 8 minutes and was composed during the year 2021. There is the possibility of defining it as an acousmatic piece to be spatialized in 8 channels together with the original recording in stereo format, which includes the participation of the flutist Patricia García. Flutervoice II emerges from previous experiences that manage to redefine themselves. Different treatments of the material of the instrument such as air sounds, vocal and percussive sounds that are used through different procedures. There are actions that can be played inside or across the Instrument; air sounds with vowels and consonants are combined to achieve different colorations which are represented using abstract notation. Performance in transit requires a medium and slight resonant place and amplification to achieve a fluent and expressive environment in balance with the fixed media;
Gustavo Chab Argentina-Spain (b. Buenos Aires, 1964) Composer of mostly electroacoustic works that have been performed in the Americas and Europe. He composed his first electroacoustic piece in 1993, specializing in composition techniques in electroacoustic. His compositions include multi-channel electroacoustic pieces, radiophonic work and performances. Frequently explores the spatialization of sound in composition, combining instruments and electroacoustic sounds.
https://gustavochab.blogspot.com/p/bio.html
https://www.facebook.com/gustavo.chab.1/
2) Jo Kennedy - Now That You Ask
A piece of queer sound art giving voice to those (human and more-than-human) less often heard. Inspired by the theme of Mummurations. Created in response to a call-out for audio and visual pieces by safe+sound for their beach hut installation at XMTR Audio Arts Festival, St Leonards-on-Sea, September 2024. Composed from field recordings, musical material and recorded chats with friends. The bird you hear is a Nightingale and was recorded at Knepp,West Sussex, - a 3500 acre estate that has ditched farming in favour of rewilding. Once absent, Nightingales are now in resurgence and love the scrubland habitat.
Jo Kennedy is a Todmorden – based sound artist who uses field recordings, found sounds, spoken word and music to create immersive audio experiences, whether these be fixed pieces, soundwalks or installations. Recent commissions include sound design work the Artichoke Trust, BBC Radio 3 and the RSPB. Her creative practice often engages explicitly with ecological issues, responding to questions about our relationship with the landscape and living world. This piece is instead an exploration of her queer identity and maybe the start of a larger auto-ethnographic audio-based investigation into living through the 20th & 21st centuries as a lesbian.
http://www.jokennedysound.com
X; @chasingsticks
Instagram: jokennedysound
3) Dixie Treichel - Pointing Away
Pointing Away is an experimental sound art collage exploring the possible directions
we might go and choices we make every day.
Dixie Treichel is a composer, sound artist, sound designer and radio broadcaster.
She is a sonic explorer who likes creating with any and all sounds, generating rich sonic textures that invite the listener on a journey into the unknown. Her works have been heard internationally on radio, in art galleries, sound art festivals, new music concerts, theaters and streaming festivals.
https://soundcloud.com/dixie-treichel
4) Eleni-Ira Panourgia - Soil narrations
'Soil narrations' (2024) is a sound experimentation that uses processed geophone recordings to explore ecological and listening perspectives in soil. Soil signals transmitting the activity of organisms are transformed to create audible manifestations that emphasize non-human movement, communication and perception. Speculative sonic narratives are developed to propose ways of attuning to non-human processes and relationships through an interplay across textures, frequencies and rhythms. The generated sonic events invite listeners to engage with an underground sensory experience of environmental change from the earth’s perspective.
Eleni-Ira Panourgia is a sound and visual artist, and researcher. Her work focuses on the development of new forms of expression and creative methods that combine sound, objects, spaces and environments. She explores the potential of such complex morphologies within artistic, design, social and ecological processes. Eleni-Ira’s work has been presented internationally in museums, galleries, festivals, exhibitions, radio shows, academic journals, edited volumes and conferences. Eleni-Ira completed a PhD in Art at the University of Edinburgh as a Scholar of the Onassis Foundation. She is currently a Teaching and Research Fellow at Gustave Eiffel University.
https://eleniirapanourgia.com/
5) Ralph Hoyte – The Voyage of the Slaver the Snow Africa
Arrangement of content - specifically the voyage of the Snow Africa - from 'Colston's Last Journey', Ralph Hoyte's work of located soundart about Bristol and the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans.
Concept, script, director, producer: Ralph Hoyte
Voice Actors: Alan Coveney, Jade Fearon, Kerry-Ann Waison, Aaron Iyiih, Ralph Hoyte
Music/Ambient: Phill Phelps, Saki Yamada
Colston's Last Journey - the work of located soundart - was supported by Arts Council England, Bristol Ideas & the University of the West of England Regional History Centre
Ralph Hoyte is a Bristol-based, poet, writer and located audio designer (audio triggered on location on your smartphone). As a poet, Hoyte writes for his voice or for multiple voices, his work tending towards the epic in length. Hoyte is a Visiting Fellow at the University of the West of England (Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education) and a Resident of the Pervasive Media Studio/Bristol. Current projects include Riot1831, geo-locating the 1831 reform riots in the Georgian West country, and Colston’s Last Journey – a work of soundart whose theme is Bristol and the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans.
https://ralphhoyte.org/
https://satsymph.co.uk/
https://colstonslastjourney.uk/
https://quantockpoetrytrail.uk/
Instagram: hoyte.ralph
FB: Ralph Hoyte - poet, writer, located sound designer -
Radiophrenia Shorts 24
16 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
6) Helen McCrorie - Dawn, Spring 2020 (9:00)
7) Andrew Ramsey - Sonic Glasgow (2:41)
8) Droki Ouro – grind (8:00)
9) Eoin O'Sullivan - Oslo-Copenhagen (9:53)
10) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations EFFO ISN I (0:27)
6) Helen McCrorie - Dawn, Spring 2020
An intimate sound work, recorded in the first few weeks of the first lockdown, Helen captured the dawn chorus from her bedroom window early one morning. At this time the sounds around us began to change; there were few cars and planes, wildlife thrived, but also how we paid attention to these sounds and to our own breath changed. Sometimes they seemed to carry new meaning, sometimes they seemed to echo or contrast with our emotional state.
Helen McCrorie is an artist based in rural Scotland, working in film, video and sound, having lived in France, Singapore and Hong Kong. She makes films and sound works that explore sites of work, play and learning, and often feature collaboration with community groups. Her work features in UK & international exhibitions and festivals including a solo show in Travelling Galllery 2024, Radiophrenia and Cine Astra 2023; London and Glasgow Short Film Festivals, Alchemy, Offline, Experiments in Cinema, Braziers-winner of Glaister Award (2022), The Tetley and solo show at COLLECTIVE (2019) Her BBC/Lux Scotland commission was broadcast on BBC3 (2021)
@helenmccrorie
7) Andrew Ramsey - Sonic Glasgow
This is a collection of field recordings captured in Glasgow, Scotland. Using microphones such as the SOMA Ether and LOM Geofone, I am able to capture sounds of the city that are not normally audible. Allowing an unheard soundscape of the city to make an imprent on the listener in ways they would not normally experience, while also using recordings of ambiences collected throughout the city to draw attention to ones surroundings. The focus of my work is the sounds of ones environment and the more conviental musical elements are used to enhance the feelings I find portrayed within the recordings.
My name is Andrew Ramsey, I am a sound designer and audio artist originally from Louisville, Kentucky. I relocated to scotland to originally persue a MSc in Sound Design at the University of Edinburgh. I now live in Glasgow, Scotland and work as a sound designer at Junkfish games. My other audio practices heavily focus on field recording, acoustic ecology, and deep listening practices in order to draw attention to ones surroundings through sound.
andrewramseysounds.com
https://www.instagram.com/andrewmunro47/
8) Droki Ouro – grind
Approximately five hundred billion plastic cups are used each year, of which roughly six billion end up in landfills. grind attempts to symbolize the faulty business and political ideologies that ultimately contribute to a lack of environmental sustainability through the destructive morphology of a single sound source: a plastic Keurig coffee pod hitting the floor.
Droki Ouro is a composer framing pictorial properties found in visual art, namely color, shape, balance, and space, with organizing principles of philosophical, sociological, and metaphysical intent. Their music has been commercially released with Navona Records, PARMA Recordings, and RMN Music. Droki currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music Technology in Knoxville, TN.
https://www.drokiouro.com
9) Eoin O'Sullivan - Oslo-Copenhagen
This ambient piece was recorded during the night aboard a commercial ferry traveling from Oslo to Copenhagen. It represents the growing trend toward alternative modes of international travel that bypass the need for flying. The absence of human sounds evokes a melancholic awareness of the passenger that the turn to more sustainable transport may have come too late, leaving behind only the lifeless shells of machines and a nature indifferent to mankind.
Eoin O'Sullivan is an audio producer, writer, and improvisational performer based in Scandinavia.
10) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations EFFO ISN I
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
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Action Pyramid - Confluence, 2024
16 April 2025 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Situated on the lower tidal reaches of London’s river Lea, Cody Dock is a centre for arts, community, culture and learning. Promoting collective ownership of Cody Dock and welcoming people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to join in the restoration of the dock itself and a celebration of the Lea River.
Originally presented as a 6.1 sound installation on the site Confluence takes cues from a recent ecology report detailing the wealth of unexpected biodiversity within Cody Dock’s superficially industrial and urban location, and looks to highlight this often hidden and unsung web of more-than-human life through sound recordings made during an extensive period of listening and field recording.
The work draws on material gathered with various field recording methodologies including ‘drop rig’ overnight recording setups, ultrasonic bat monitoring devices, audio from a riverside hydrophone listening station, as well as underwater soundscapes from the river, dock and pond, alongside contact microphone recordings of hidden vibrations within the site’s plants and soils.
A special thank you to the creatures whose voices feature in this work, including those from the River Lea whose identities remain a mystery.
Confluence was created as the result of Cody Dock's 2023/4 Lighting Up The Lea environmental arts commission. With support from Cockayne Grants for the Arts, The London Community Foundation and National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Biography
Tom Fisher is a sound artist and musician working primarily under the name Action Pyramid. His projects vary from site-specific sound installations for galleries and museums, to experimental radio works, documentary film and music.
His creative practice involves using sound and composition to facilitate a reconsideration of our surroundings, examining the relationship between ourselves and the nonhuman, and our part in the wider ecologies of landscapes.
With a multitude of recording techniques, often aimed at exploring and re-interpreting the seemingly unnoticed and unheard elements of our surroundings, he looks to present compositional and spatial expressions of these acoustic phenomena in a way that attempts to offer up alternative perspectives regarding perceptions of scale, hierarchical bias and the interconnectedness of living things.
His work has been featured at LUX, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Cafe OTO, The Grant Museum of Zoology, London Transport Museum, Project DIVFUSE, Cody Dock (UK), Musée Réattu, Bibliothèque Nationale de France & Jardin des Plantes (FR), the Fjuk Art Center and Husavik Whale Museum (IS), as well as on BBC Radio 3 & 4, Resonance Fm, Radiophrenia, and as part of Archipel Festival (CH) & Open City Documentary Festival (UK). He is the recipient of Phonurgia Nova Award 2021 in the Field Recording category.
He has also led numerous workshops in collaboration with Goldsmiths, University College London and University of the Arts London and participated in artist residencies at RIVERSSSOUNDS (Online/Ukraine/Romania), Fjuk Arts Centre (Iceland), and BioArctica (Finnish Arctic).
In addition to his independent projects Fisher writes and performs music as a member of the band ILK, with their debut album being released in collaboration with Matthew Herbert (New BBC Radiophonic Workshop) in 2017 on Herbert’s Accidental imprint. This release was followed by a remix EP in 2018. The band have played shows with some of London’s most noteworthy promoters including Eat Your Own Ears and Parallel Lines. Both ILK and his solo music have received airplay on BBC Radio 1 & BBC 6 Music.
@actionpyramid
+447905554346
Artist website / http://www.actionpyramid.com/
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Bex Šik - Rekindling (for Crae)
16 April 2025 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Rekindling (for Crae) is a collage of listening and trawling for recollections of emotions within archival interviews and the emotional arc of activism. It is a meditation on hope after defeat. The piece travels through the waves, rips, currents, ebbs and flows of turning tides, and is carried by voices spanning lifetimes of commitment to building something better. Accompanying them the music is inspired by and composed from a recording of a young child’s first exploration of a piano. The spoken excerpts are all from the Women in Communism interview series recorded by Neil Rafeek held at the National Library Scotland’s sound archive. (the voices you hear are Jessie Clark, Marion Henery, Jean Mackay, Frieda Park, Isa Porte, Jenny Richardson and Christine Sloan).Protest Sounds recordings by Bex, Bobby Jewell and Steven Myles. Insta: @bexsik -
Dorota Blaszczak - My neighbor ventilator
16 April 2025 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
A hotel in a city with a local brewery, with its ventilator below the hotel window. It was “breathing” with a regular rhythm, adding its drone to many city sound solos from car drifting competition to morning birds recorded from the afternoon to the following morning. Depending on mode of listening it forms a collage of various known sounds objects or a complex, noise and harmonic sound composition. This is an audio timelapse, maintaining sequence and rhythm of events, created based on 18 hours of my recordings (Lublin, 20.04.2024, 3 pm - 21.04.2024, 9 am) closed into 15 minutes. Artist bio: Dorota Blaszczak works in radio archives and at University of Music in Warsaw. She teaches interactive sound, works with sound preservation, creates audio works and interactive projects, some based on long-term ecoacoustic observations. She has designed sound for VR and early computer games. Website/social links dorotablaszczak.pl -
Matt Robin - Petra hoc’h eus kavet? (what did you find?)
16 April 2025 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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.
For the piece, I played back and re-recorded her song in a room until only the resonant frequencies shaped by the melody remained, which I then further manipulated through granular synthesis to create a new sonic language. Processed ocean sounds recorded at Westport Beach evoke Brittany’s shores, symbolizing transformation and erosion. This piece reflects on how audio processing can reimagine cultural loss and give rise to new sonic narratives.
Artist bio:
Matt Robin is a Glasgow-based sound artist, musician, producer and a member of the band NEY. His practice spans experimental composition, collaborative improvisation and sound design. His electronic work explores raw textures and elements of drone mixed with rhythms that shift between controlled pulses and chaotic bursts — often paired with acoustic drums, percussion and other electroacoustic instruments. Matt’s work dissolves boundaries between sound and sensation, engaging both body and ear. He also experiments with field recordings, manipulating fragmentation, error, and decay to reshape meaning, create new sonic narratives, and invite listeners to reimagine time, place, and memory.
https://www.instagram.com/mattemattik/profilecard/?igsh=bmlqaHhnNTlqazFp
https://www.instagram.com/n___e___y___?igsh=MXhmdHI2cmJiM3ZodQ== -
Radiophrenia Shorts 44
16 April 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
1) Mattia Benedetti - doorframes covered in masking tape (7:31)
2) Pete Stollery - Quiet City (12:12)
3) Dougie Taylor - The Midden (7:00)
4) Gracchi Administration – Other People (13:50)
5) Holger Mohaupt - CROSSTOWN - From Hell's Kitchen to Turtle Bay on the quietest day of the year (17:10)
1) Mattia Benedetti - doorframes covered in masking tape
doorframes covered in masking tape is a piece that employs percussions, concatenative synthesis and voice fragments to explore an empty space.
Warehousing - corporations buying entire floors (entire buildings) just lo leave them empty and raise the prices. At the center of our cities, this creates a vacuum - a space barely seen, barely existing.
The piece is not a naturalistic description - it’s a vaguely distorted mirror of the subjective feelings this kind of liminal space evokes.
Mattia Benedetti is a composer. He lives in Venice.
He's trying to create music that resembles an open world, without a centre but full of internal connections and ambiguous self resemblances.
He's trying to create music that resembles an island, isolated from everything, an extreme habitat where only endemic organisms lives.
2) Pete Stollery - Quiet City
I crowdsourced details of a number of locations in Aberdeen where the sound had changed as a result of COVID-19 lockdown. I received many perceptive reflections on what those changes meant to people and how these presented challenges for others, e.g., the pedestrianisation of part of Union Street which, for many, brought a welcome place to dwell and enjoy the calm of a relatively quiet place; however, the lack of access to this part of Union Street by buses meant a longer and more inconvenient journey to the shops for those with mobility issues. Quiet City is an immersive work, using recordings from these locations, which moves from recognisable (and some unrecognisable) soundscapes through non-real world transformed soundscapes reflecting on a sonically changed city and how we relate to it.
Pete Stollery studied composition with Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham, where he was one of the first members of BEAST (Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre) in the early ’80s. He composes music for concert hall performance, particularly electroacoustic music and more recently has created other sound art work, including installations and internet projects. In 1996 he helped to establish the Scottish acousmatic collective invisiblEARts and in 2004 he was part of the setting up of sound, a new music incubator in NE Scotland. His music is published by the Canadian label empreintes DIGITALes.
http://www.petestollery.com
http://www.petestollery.com/quietcity
3) Dougie Taylor - The Midden
The Midden is a live sound art performance that uses a piece of fly-tipped urban waste ground as a site for unearthing hidden sonic histories. Using multiple looper pedals, contact mics, bone conduction speakers, field recordings and discarded midden objects reimagined as sound sculptures, a slowly shifting collage of long asynchronous loops builds and decays through various moods and textures. No effects are used, instead the inherent resonance of the objects is allowed to speak. The field recordings are played through bone conduction speakers which are then used as a vibration tool to resonate metal objects. The sound sculptures are played using feathers, animal bones, violin bow and broken piano parts. The overall effect is delicate, shimmering, gamelan-like, transcendant and maybe a bit melancholy.
The term “midden” refers to ancient refuse heaps, inviting listeners to reflect on the history and stories embedded in modern waste.
I am a 56 yr old neurodivergent artist (ADHD / autism). For decades I made art, but never felt able to share it. Recently this has changed and I have begun performing and making installations. I’m interested in finding ways to use the poetic qualities of litter as a material and sound source for art making. Restricting my materials to litter means the work evolves in a haphazard and improvisational way. Fundamentally my work is about blurring the boundaries between the various human and non-human worlds.
4) Gracchi Administration – Other People
Other People is a work created with found sound. A binaural headset microphone was used to capture the sounds of different spaces. The resulting material was spliced together with other instrumental sounds to create a moving sonic montage of spaces. It explores the rhythm of language and voice as a contrapuntal device. Here, any aesthetic meaning is not conveyed through the semantics of the language, but through its sonic texture. Inspiration for this work came from Glen Gould's experimental radio piece, "The Idea of North".
Aedan Mollen creates sound work under the "Gracchi Administration" name.
He is a multi-instrumentalist working in London.
His main interests are sound installation, radio works, audio visual composition and field recording.
https://vimeo.com/user15535459
5) Holger Mohaupt - CROSSTOWN - From Hell's Kitchen to Turtle Bay on the quietest day of the year
The experience of our present day city in every day life is increasingly a hybrid one, it is made up of both physical and mediated experiences that mutually influence, extend or contradict each other.
Urban culture has always been a negotiation between the spatial embodied ideals of architects and the messy practices of everyday life.
CROSSTOWN is a sonic travelogue across Manhattan on a bike along 42nd street. It was recorded just after sunrise on 4th July, American Independence Day, ‘the quietest day in Manhattan’, according to the waiter in the diner around the corner from our hotel. 42nd street was part of the commissioner’s plan of 1811, establishing the Manhattan street grid. It is one of the 15 original crossroads, 2 miles long and 30 feet wide.
Holger Mohaupt is an artist and filmmaker based in Scotland. Born in Germany, Holger studied visual communication and anthropology at the Art Academy in Hamburg and completed his PhD at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee.
His distinct audio and lens-based work has been broadcast and exhibited internationally at festivals and in galleries.
Holger’s current research practice is informed by his interest in immersive narratives and the navigation of landscapes. Holger is senior lecturer in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University.
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Alicia Riccio - First Person Plural (Live streamed performance)
16 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
First Person Plural #2 is the second iteration of a performance featuring live, digitally cloned, and recorded voices. The work delves into the elusiveness of truth and identity, weaving together accounts of public deception from early radio and contemporary media with text that explores themes of collective listening and the desire to be witnessed. First Person Plural was originally performed and broadcast live in 2024 at Atelier Gallery in Philadelphia.
Artist bio:
Alicia Riccio is an artist and educator currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Working with video, sound, print, and performance, their practice fragments and interpolates language to subvert histories and the authorial voice in an expanded exploration of care, loss, and queerness. Riccio is a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania's MFA program and SMFA at Tufts University’s BFA program. They were a 2021-2022 participant of The Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program and attended the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Thematic Residency in 2024. Selected exhibitions include, Elizabeth Foundation For the Arts (New York); Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia); Atelier Gallery, (Philadelphia); M.A.R.S at Engaru Metro Plaza (Hokkaido); Charles Addams Gallery (Philadelphia); Heroes Gallery (New York); Estudio Marte 221, (Mexico City); Rinomina, (Paris); Galería Agustina Ferreyra LLC, (San Juan); New Art Center, (Newton).
Website/social links
website- aliciariccio.com
instagram- alicia__riccio -
Buffer Zone
16 April 2025 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
1) Cerpintxt & Ruben Sonnoli - Precursor Events (1:23)
2) Phoebe McIndoe - Red of Visibility (9:53)
3) Jakov Munižaba & Marija Stojnic - Shrub acoustica (8:00)
1) Cerpintxt & Ruben Sonnoli - ‘Precursor Events’
An excerpt from a liveset performed at IKLECTIK Art Lab in Boundary Condition, 2022.
2) Phoebe McIndoe - Red of Visibility
Growing up I went to a catholic primary school where the school emblem and colour was red. We had a visiting doctor who would see us in the head mistress' study without our red uniforms on. In this red space I had my first experience of bad touch. Or as I now call it, sexual assault. This piece is an attempt, years later, to explore and reclaim the colour red.
Artist bio:
Phoebe McIndoe is an award-winning radio journalist and co-producer of the podcast Telling Stories which featured in Bello Collective's top 100 Outstanding Podcasts and was nominated for most Inspiring podcast in the The International Women's Podcast Awards. Her work has been nominated for Prix Marulic, HearSay and 60 Sec Radio. At the ARIAs her co-production ‘Lights Out: The Last Taboo’, won the Silver Award for Best Factual documentary and her recent work County Lines was nominated by DIG's awards for outstanding international journalism.
Website/social links
http://www.phoebemcindoe.com
@smallaudioart_
@phoebesound
3) Jakov Munižaba & Marija Stojnic - Shrub acoustica
Shrub acoustica, is a radio play that reinterprets the soundscape of the Botanical Garden “Jevremovac” in Belgrade, and creates a sonic symbiosis between its inhabitants—plants, animals, humans, machines. Delving deep into the inaudible parts of the spectrum, where bats reside and perhaps other yet-to-be-discovered beings, the work invites the listener to merge their perception with the mediated stimuli of the garden and open a new playful space within themselves.
Composed from recordings made in the garden, utilizing temporal sound manipulation, and featuring original composition by Jakov Munižaba performed on the EMS Synthi 100 in the Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade, this work reveals previously inaccessible and speculative sonic spaces of the garden.
The piece is a part of the collection “Garden of Sound” by Marija Stojnić and Jakov Munizaba, created for the Center for the Promotion of Science, in collaboration with Jevremovac Botanical Garden, and Radio Belgrade, in Serbia, 2024.
Artist bio:
Jakov Munižaba designed sound for over 100 films, many of which have screened at Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Sundance. He directs radio drama, composes film music, teaches sound in Belgrade and Podgorica, and collaborates with Radio Belgrade's EMS electronic music studio.
Marija Stojnić is a film director, producer and artist-researcher. Her film about Radio Belgrade, "Speak So I Can See You" has screened at MoMA, and at festivals in Amsterdam, Thessaloniki, Melbourne, Munich. She is a co-founder of the vocal group Rosa.
Website/social links
http://www.marijastojnic.com
ig: marija_stojnic, mstojnic
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Brunhild Ferrari - Errant Ear (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
16 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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, 24th of February, 2025
‘Errant Ear’ is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunst zum Hören, Osterreich 1 produced with the support of Creative Scotland.
CeLe pièce a été composée fin 2024 avec ce sen<ment d'errance, errance dans mes souvenirs que j'ai pu capter avec mes oreilles, mes yeux, mon nez, tous mes sens, des choses dont ma vie est faite et que je garde presque comme des trésors. Ici, je me sens libre de profiter des surprises, de redécouvrir mes souvenirs, de leur donner une nouvelle vie. J'ai eu le plaisir d'u<liser des moments sonores prêtés par Luke Fowler et Luc Ferrari, et je les ai mélangés à mes propres enregistrements récents et à certains de mes archives depuis les années 1970 - parfois avec une joie douloureuse.
Brunhild Ferrari Montreuil, le 24 février 2025
“Like most of my fellow human beings, I was born, I grew up, I attended schools, I passed exams, I failed, I loved, I worked hard sometimes, I enjoyed life; I continue. I worked with Pierre Schaeffer in the ORTF research department on the relationship between sound and image. Of German origin, I have had an activity as an interpreter and translator. Following Luc Ferrari's advice in matters of life, music, and composition, and working with him over the course of our 40 years together, I made my own Hörspiele and radio plays broadcast on France Culture, in the United States, and the main German radio stations. Since Luc left us in 2005, I have taken care of the preservation of his vast archives; founded the "Association Presque Rien - Friends of Luc Ferrari"; initiated and organized the biennial competition PRESQUE RIEN Prize by providing artists with original sound material from Luc's sound recordings; and edited a book of his writings and documents (Musiques dans les spasmes, published by les Presses du Réel, France) as well as one more book in English together with Catherine Marcangeli (Luc Ferrari: Complete Works, published by Ecstatic Peace library). I composed music; I continue.” -
Kristina Warren - Despite Sight
16 April 2025 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Despite Sight (2024) by Kristina Warren is a surreal soundscape constructed from a variety of recognizable, allusive, and opaque sounds. Through its deceptively representative sounds, Despite Sight thematizes the massive contemporary denial of various geopolitical and epidemiological events which can be plainly observed. Artist bio: Kristina Warren (kmwarren.org) is a sound artist and improviser based on Narragansett land also known as Providence, Rhode Island [US]. Described as "beautifully organic" (Peter Bruyn) and displaying "a finesse of timbral traces" (Frédéric Cardin), work by Warren has been presented internationally at venues including Espacios Sonoros [AR], Experimentik [DE], and WORM [NL]. Currently a MacColl Johnson Fellow of the Rhode Island Foundation, Warren previously taught electronic music and multimedia at Brown University in Providence. Website/social links kmwarren.org kmwarren.bandcamp.com instagram: @kmwarren.sound -
RadioActive - on Water: Liquidation By Meira Asher
16 April 2025 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
There is currently a structural water crisis in the Palestinian Occupied Jordan Valley. Not a climate or geographical water crisis, a deliberate socially and politically engineered crisis. Israel, since it invaded the West Bank in 1967, controls every public aspect of civilian life in the Jordan Valley. Israel administers two populations, the Israeli settlers and the indigenous Palestinian residents. Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian farming communities of access to fresh, clean and reliable water supplies, water that is needed for crops and herds, as well as for the Palestinian farmers and herders.
This can mean either not permitting them to be connected to municipal water supplies, despite the Israeli settlers having such access. It also entails not permitting Palestinian people to sink new wells on their own land, and blocking their access to existing wells and springs, either by fencing off the water source or destroying pipes bringing the water to the herders and farmers. The end result is frequently that either the farmers have to pay extortionate prices to purchase water from the Palestinian authority, or if they cannot afford this option they are forced to abandon their land and way of life.
Featuring the water truck driver, co-activists Natasha and Nitsan, shepherds community of Khalet Makhul, shepherd ‘W’, shepherds community of Hirbet Samra and Aref Daragmah.
Translation from Arabic: Laila Abd El-Razaq
Introductory text: Liam Evans
English language transcript for this piece here:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/661195e59e4bb80a525e87ee/t/6628d8b89596ed5ab0d9a00c/1713952953099/Liquidation_Transcript.pdf
Meira Asher is a composer, performer and Human Rights activist. She primarily uses the medium of Sound-art and Radio-art. Graduate of CalArts and KonCon, she was co-founder of the ‘bodylab art foundation’ with Guy Harries (2001-11) where they produced several projects including Infantry and Woman See Lot of Things. Former lecturer at Haifa university's Art School (2012-2022) and producer of the independent Radio-art show radioart106 since 2014.
Her works were released on Crammed, Sub Rosa, Auditorium, Raash Records and Ultima Ratio labels. Her recent works include Antonin Artaud’s radio essay To Have Done with the Judgement of God, Sonic Voyage of Resistance for Radio Art Zone 2022, and the Catastrophe trilogy by duo Asher.Zax featuring Dave Phillips, Ensemble Musica Nova, and more.
meiraasher.bandcamp.com
mixcloud.com/radioart106
@meira.asher
@radioart106
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Andreas Usenbenz - "THE INVISIBLE CITY" - A Binaural Headphone Concert
16 April 2025 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
What do we perceive when our environment is reduced solely to its acoustic dimension? When we delve deep into the acoustic body – into a spectrum of sound that we usually ignore. For his work, Andreas Usenbenz collects sounds from various locations. By using special microphones, he captures sounds that usually remain hidden. Contact microphones, underwater microphones, or sensors reveal electromagnetic frequencies and the human impact on the immediate surroundings. Usenbenz immerses himself in these sounds, analyzing, fragmenting, deforming, and assembling them. Sound becomes a compositional element: contemplative, contemporary, martial, delicate, dissonant, and harmonious. Each listener will have the chance to create their own experience in total darkness, immersing. Artist bio: Andreas Usenbenz, active since 2000, creates sound art, using field recordings, and explores drone, ambient, and musique concrète. Website/social links http://www.andreasusenbenz.com https://youtube.com/@andreasusenbenz?si=X_BbYEwTAGVvkS1y https://klanggold.bandcamp.com/album/drawing-in-sound-2 https://klanggold.bandcamp.com/album/bells-breath-3 -
Assembling Land Episode 3: I am of water, of water are you
16 April 2025 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
I am of water, of water I am is the third episode of Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making, initiated in April, during our confluence in Essaouira, Morocco. Here, we gathered to reason around water as an ever-present, essential resource that implies questions of accessibility, land dispossession, and climate crisis, to foster communal strategies of resilience amidst systems of oppression and supremacy.
Each story is carried by sounds of field recordings, original productions, traditional songs and contemporary compositions harvested for, or in response to, Assembling Land’s and our own individual trajectories.
In thinking, and feeling, through our respective geographies, our solidarity with Palestine remains at the core of our practice. Yet again, this podcast intertwines and amplifies struggles across places and seas. I am of water, of water I am includes sonic works by Palestinian and Lebanese artists Jawaher Shofani, Maya al Khaldi, Sary Moussa and Charbel Haber, acting as intermissions and a closure to our sonic offering.
The podcasts are formed in chapters corresponding to our peer-to-peer learning around Land, Housing and Out/Institution, each time seeking ways to question ourselves by listening to the varied and polyrhythmic offerings from the people and places we encounter. In this process of place-making, we explore our practices and transmit through the broadcasting platform and extended community of Radio Alhara.
Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making is de Appel’s COOP study group at DAI Roaming Academy unfolding throughout 2024. Through the group’s monthly encounters, five podcasts will share the harvest of each iteration with attuned overarching themes as departure points. This third episode was initiated in Essaouira, Morocco, in April 2024.
Dutch Art Institute (DAI) is a nomadic accredited MA program landing in various locations and for seven times (confluences) per academic year with the student body and crew. The study groups, which last the full academic year, are one of the pillars of its program and are carefully composed of and conducted by collaborations with an art institution, in this case de Appel in Amsterdam.
Listen through @radioalhara
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أنا من الماء، ومن الماء أنت هو الحلقة الثالثة من "تجميع الأرض: بروفات نحو صناعة المكان"، والتي بدأت في نيسان، خلال تجمّعنا في الصويرة، المغرب. هنا، اجتمعنا للتفكير والتأمّل في الماء كونه موردًا دائمًا وأساسيًا يطرح أسئلة حول الوصول إليه، سلب الأراضي، وأزمة المناخ، بهدف تعزيز استراتيجيات جماعية للصمود في وجه أنظمة القمع والتفوق.
كل قصة يتم حملها بواسطة أصوات تسجيلات ميدانية، إنتاجات أصلية، أغاني تراثيّة ومؤلفات معاصرة تمّ جمعها من أجل، أو استجابةً لـ "تجميع الأرض" ومساراتِنا الفردية.
في تفكيرنا وشعورنا من خلال جغرافيتنا المختلفة، يبقى تضامننا مع فلسطين في صميم ممارستنا. و مرة أخرى، هذا البودكاست يربط ويعزّز النضالات و التّحدّيات في أماكن مختلفة. "أنا من الماء، ومن الماء أنت" يتضمن أعمالًا صوتية لفنانين فلسطينيين ولبنانيين: جواهر شوفاني، مايا الخالدي، ساري موسى وشربل حابر، تعمل كفَواصِل وختام لهذا العرض الصوتي.
Artist bio:
Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making is de Appel’s COOP study group at DAI Roaming Academy unfolding throughout 2024. Through the group’s monthly encounters, five radio broadcasts will share the harvest of each iteration with attuned overarching themes as departure points. The broadcasts are formed in chapters corresponding to our peer-to-peer learning around Land, Housing and Out/Institution, each time seeking ways to question ourselves by listening to the varied and polyrhythmic offerings from the people and places we encounter. This third episode was initiated in Essaouira, Morocco, in April 2024.
Website/social links
https://www.mixcloud.com/AssemblingLand/
https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/20713/2023-2024-coop-study-group-~-assembling-land-rehearsals-towards-place
https://www.instagram.com/de_appel/
The group collaborators are Anastasia Nefedova, Chloë Janssens, Echo Guo, Eszter Dobos, Federica Nicastro, Foad Alijani, Francesca Pionati, Kıvanç Sert, Meii Soh, Qiaoling Cai, Sara Alberani, Saverio Cantoni, Shaza Omran, Sille Kima, Thamyres VM, Tuba Kılıç, Noor Abuarafeh and Marina Christodoulidou. -
Radiophrenia Shorts 38
16 April 2025 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm
1) Maryana Lysenko - f(A)_ l(D)- o(H) ? w(D) 1 (5:29)
2) Eve-Marie Bouché - The magic of waves (3:12)
3) Adrienne Murray - the unspoken, seen (7:39)
4) Benjamin Aman - Night with vanishing point (7:45)
1) Maryana Lysenko - f(A)_ l(D)- o(H) ? w(D) 1
The soundscape demonstrates the chaotic thought process of a person diagnosed with AHDH. Blocks of musical materials and text episodes (which describe the process of layering thoughts and ideas) turn into a single stream. The timbres and material of the fragments are very contrasting, but they turn into something integral, repeating each other's structure.
Maryana Lysenko is a composer, performer, video- and sound artist, based in France. Working in field between electronics, instrumental music, video and performance. Studied composition with A.Tchakovsky in Moscow State Conservatory, with Simon Steen-Andersen in Hochschule der Künste Bern. She has works for symphony orchestra, Russian folk orchestra, chamber music and opera. The works from last several years mostly concentrated on discovering musical possibilities of different objects, specific reactions of the public to various types of environmental sounds through imperial perception with using video, electronics, life-amplifying, tape and different type of noise.
maryanalysenko.com
2) Eve-Marie Bouché - The magic of waves (3:12)
“I discovered that I had magical powers, the powers to transform the world's soundtrack, to make it a better place to live...”
"The magic of waves" is an English adaptation of "La magie des ondes" (1rst prize (Short forms category) at Grand Prix Nova Romania 2023, 3rd prize at UK International Radio Drama Festival 2023).
Eve-Marie Bouché is an author (theater, children's book, radio drama...). In 2017, she learnt sound editing and loved this possibility of writing with sounds too, not just with words. Since then, she has taken technical training courses and began producing her own sound works.
Her self-produced plays have won several international awards (Grand Prix Nova Romania, UK International Radio Drama Festival...) and she has worked with professional audio producers (Kidsono/ Opéra de Paris, Falling Tree productions / BBC4, Arte Radio, France Inter...).
https://soundcloud.com/eve-marie-bouch
http://evemariebouche.net
3) Adrienne Murray - the unspoken, seen
'the unspoken, seen' was made as an accompanying audio track for my degree show installation which featured porcelain megaphone sculptures with tree roots balanced within. The installation suggested at the human experience of contained innermost thoughts and feelings, fear, longing and the need for self expression. The track contains ambient noise such as bird song, the interaction of rain against a window, and faraway noise from cars, which are then layered with the sounds of hand drumming on wooden tables and chairs. Eventually vocal sounds of humming and harmonised melodies surface, exploring environmental perceptions of closeness and distance within the context of the unspoken.
Adrienne Murray is a recent art graduate whose focus is on social, spatial and ecological experiences of disconnect. These interests are informed by life within the digital age, and questions of how we experience the space in-between immaterial forces and the tactile within everyday life. Adrienne is a recipient of the RSA New Contemporaries 2025, and a shortlisted artist for the Visual Arts Scotland Graduate Showcase Award. Within her sound work she makes use of sounds from everyday objects and ambient noise, and is interested in the connective potential of sound as a means of evidencing movement and tactility.
https://www.instagram.com/adriennemurrayart/
4) Benjamin Aman - Night with vanishing point
I recorded this piece during the summer 2024, during a "blue moon" night. I was in a garden in the mountains of north Italy, very quiet, dark and windy at times.The wind I was breathing was the same making the clouds move, the moon disappear and reappear. Everything was calm and full of unrest at the same time. Landscape seemed to fall above me into pieces. Back at the studio, I plunged in these field recordings of that night and some electronic devices such as wave generators, modular synth. Both of electronic and environmental sounds intend to build new colours, new horizon, and finally a new land.
Benjamin Aman is a sound and visual artist. His work has been shown in France and abroad in solo shows (PA, Paris, Kunstraum Michael Barthel in Leipzig) and group shows (Centre Georges Pompidou, Museum of Contemporary Art in Rochechouart, Les Instants Chavirés in Montreuil), concerts and radio programs (Berlin Biennale VI, Transmediale X, Mex Series in Dortmund, The Wire on Air and Resonance FM in London...). He is also at the head of the music label Razzle Dazzle publishing the work of artists at the frontiers of visual and sound practices.
http://www.benjaminlaurentaman.com
https://www.instagram.com/benjamin_l._aman/
https://benjaminaman.bandcamp.com/
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Radiophrenia Shorts 38
16 April 2025 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm
5) Fiona Grau - Blue pills and diamonds (12:31)
6) Rob Lye - 'Somewhere between May and September' (2024) (21:54)
5) Fiona Grau - Blue pills and diamonds
„Blue pills and diamonds“ is an experimental soundpiece of 12:31 minutes. The author works as an artist and as a farmer. With the piece she transforms her experience of being a farmer, poisoning slugs during an exceptionally humid year in a sort of song. The piece has different soundscapes building its inner architecture: the sound of a street representing what the artist hears while composing and thinking about her complex position being at the same time the carer of the field and the poisoner of slugs, and sounds from the field itself. We also hear the act of sowing the poisonous blue pills as if they were seeds. The voice of the artist accompanies us through the daily gestures that we hear and takes us into her mental world. We sink into a state close to meditation, mirrored by an ever repeating, singing voice and the sounds of imaginary slugs.
Fiona Grau, born 1986 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. She has her own farming project in Brussels, Belgium with @bluette_maraichage_et_fleurs (Instagram), writes and composes. Her soundart is marked by the proximity with nature that she experiences in her activity as a farmer. If she would have an aim with what she does in her art, it would probably be to open up the listener’s ears to the intense life going on in every handful of earth, on every leaf. For her current art project you will find more detail on @terres.volubiles (Instagram).
@bluette_maraichage_et_fleurs (instagram, farming project)
@terres.volubiles (instagram, collective art project)
https://audioblog.arteradio.com/blog/208438/soundspiele-jeux-sonores (sound blog)
6) Rob Lye - 'Somewhere between May and September' (2024)
Somewhere between May and September’ (2024) 21.54 mins.
Ambisonic Sound rendered to Stereo.
"Somewhere between May and September" is a recent ambisonic spatial work that invites listeners to traverse a complex auditory landscape, intertwining elements of recent English history with natural and sociopolitical soundscapes. The piece utilises a diverse array of audio sources, including recordings of an ancient Cornish hedgerow, a far-right march in central London, waves crashing on a beach, underwater sounds from a countryside lake, and the resonances of a military exercise, all interwoven with the haunting tones of a prepared piano.
It continues an arc of work exploring the perception of time and its relationship to a larger idea of aural history.
Rob Lye is an artist and musician born in Wiltshire living in London. > His time based utilises video, sound music print and performance. Recent work has explored technology, landscape and psychotropic drugs, specifically Lithium and the burgeoning 'green' economy. He recently received an ACE research grant to travel to Bolivia to visit the Salar de Uyuni and the Bolivian Amazon rainforest. > Recent research has the utilised ambisonic sound.
He has presented work at Modern Art Oxford, LUX, Cafe Oto, Iklectik, ICA etc. He is one half of the legendary noise group Chora active throughout the 00s.
http://www.robertlye.co.uk
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Chantal Dumas - Oscillations planétaires
15 April 2025 11:00 pm - 16 April 2025 12:00 am
Chantal Dumas, “Oscillations planétaires” (2017-18, 19) stereo fixed medium “Oscillations planétaires” evokes geology. In all the layers that make it, from its core to its surface areas, Planet Earth is inhabited by undulatory motions of extremely varied temporal scales. Some are inscribed in a geological timeframe while others follow a daily cycle. This oscillatory ensemble contributes to the mechanisms that rule the Earth’s dynamics. These are the phenomena evoked in the work: Earthquakes - Every year, there are between 800,000 and 1,000,000 earthquakes worldwide. Most of these tremors are too weak to be felt or happen in uninhabited areas. Antarctic Plate - Tectonic plates move in relation to one another. The Antarctic Plate moves slowly at a speed of a few millimetres to two centimetres per year, depending on its contact zones with the dozen or so plates and microplates hooked to its perimeter. Subduction happens when two plates collide. The densest plate dives under the other one, sinking into an extremely hot layer of the Earth called the mantle, dragging along water and the sediments that accrued on it over millions of years. Oceanic Trench - Challenger Deep is the deepest point known on Earth. It hides at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, at a depth of close to 11 kilometres under the surface of the Western Pacific Ocean, near the Mariana Islands. Mantle Convection - Plate tectonics revolutionized Earth sciences when it was formulated as a theory in the 1960s, giving birth to several hypotheses about the mechanics that set plates in motion. Today, we know that the key of this mystery resides in the convection of the Earth’s depths. Geysers - are naturally occurring phenomena that are extremely frail and sensitive to earthquakes. Their activities vary according to the impact earthquakes have on their structure. Mountain Building - Mountain ranges are mostly formed in subduction zones. When a continental plate encounters an oceanic plate, the latter, denser, slides under the former, which, now under tremendous pressure, ridges and rises. Earth Tide - In 1994, Maya Tolstoy, a renowned marine geophysicist and scientist, discovered the first concrete evidence that tides — the movements of oceans and solid earth in response to astronomical forces — can trigger underwater earthquakes. “On sea floors, where the weight of the ocean exerts downward and upward pressures, the floor moves with the water in relation to this distortion,” she tells. “It is as if the seabed was breathing along with the tides.” Geomagnetism - The magnetic field of the Earth has a strange ability: it can flip, meaning that the North Pole becomes the South Pole and vice versa. Magnetic inversions happen periodically, but at irregular, unpredictable intervals. The Earth has known hundreds of such inversions in its lifetime. The last one happened about 780,000 years ago. Mid-Atlantic Ridge - The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is part of a wide network of underwater volcanic mountain ranges. It runs for 10,000 kilometres through the Atlantic Ocean. And despite an average height of 3,000 metres, it emerges at only nine spots where it forms volcanic islands and rocky peaks. Seismic Waves - When an earthquake is triggered, a front of seismic waves propagates through geological layers to reach the surface of the Earth. These waves are very fast and elastic; they run in all directions from their point of origin. Artist bio: In her productions, Dumas approaches various themes, some of them more often: time, space, territory, the elsewhere, listening. Cartography inserts itself naturally as a subtext in her compositions, acting as a structural element. Dumas’s works have earned her awards and distinctions Oscillations planétaires in nomination at Prix Opus (2019), and from Prix Opus (Québec, 2009-10). She also got Prix Bohemia Radio (Czech Republic, 2010), Concours international Phonurgia Nova (France, 1997, 2001). Website/social links https://avatarquebec.org/dialoguesavecchantaldumas/ https://electrocd.com/fr/album/6044/Chantal_Dumas/Oscillations_planétaires chantaldumas.org -
Steve Ashby - Waiting on a room
16 April 2025 11:00 pm - 11:30 pm
Waiting On a Room reflects on moments of transition. As opportunities await like a warm embrace, we wander into the new with a sense of excitement, a sprinkle of wonder, and a hint of what we will leave behind. Elements of lap steel, granular synthesis, and radio static merge with a foundation of tape loops to transmit the evolution of before, after, and between.
Artist bio:
Steve Ashby is a musician, composer, and sound artist based in the United States. Ashby work focuses on sound found in the natural and digital world to discover places of intersection which engage in the art of listening. Recent performances and residencies include the International Symposium of Electronic Art, Australasian Computer Music Conference, International Computer Music Conference 2022, the Society of Electro-Acoustic Musicians in the United States, Soundpedro, Moxsonic, EMS Stockholm Guest Composer Series, Radiophrenia Scotland, Cube Fest at Virginia Tech, New Music Gathering, Sound Arts Richmond, and the NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival.
Website/social links
https://ashbysounds.org
instagram: @ashbysounds
bluesky: @ashbysounds
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Blake DeGraw - Study IV for Voice and Fiction
16 April 2025 11:30 pm - 17 April 2025 12:00 am
Study IV for Voice and Fiction is an experimental spoken-word/choral composition for twenty-four participants, each reading from any work of fiction of their choosing. As they read, they receive audio signals through headphones prompting them to alter their voicing, inflection, cadence, volume, and ultimately their tone, gradually converting them from a chaotic cloud of whispers to a unified drone, changing colors many times along the way.
All parts in the provided demo were performed and recorded by the composer.
Artist bio:
Blake DeGraw is a composer, bandleader, and sound installation artist from Seattle, WA, USA. He studied euphonium performance at Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts, and composition at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
DeGraw is the founder of FHTAGN, an experimental chamber ensemble and choir with over 70 rotating members, and the Northwest Experimental Guitar Orchestra, an 18-piece ensemble dedicated to performing new works for guitar. Both ensembles are DeGraw’s primary means of exploring his interests in chance procedures, deep-listening, alternative forms of conduction, and extremes in spatial dispersion.
Website/social links
https://blakedegraw.bandcamp.com/
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Spectral Transmissions Research Unit - Out of Office (OOO)
17 April 2025 12:00 am - 1:00 am
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Artist bio:
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. Comprising a diverse spectrum of entities of various degrees of stability and tangibility. In as much as linear time can be applied, members of the STRU could, have, and or will include(d): Ludd Püca, JohnFrum, Kay Jackson, T-J.Cut, Dr. Ray Power, Proff. Jock Moxter, EKA-Francium, Dr. Tinkerpaw, Kaspar Brøcken, and The Coincidence Sprite.
Website/social links
https://extra.resonance.fm/series/gravity-waves
https://outlands.network/members/the-spectral-transmissions-broadcast-monitoring-research-unit/
https://www.instagram.com/lukependrell/
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auvikogue - Klangglomerat
17 April 2025 1:00 am - 2:00 am
The piece "Klangglomerat" (german for "sound glomerate") by auvikogue (Peter Schubert and Andreas Usenbenz) was created as part of the cultural autumn event in the city of Geislingen an der Steige, centered around the theme "Geislingen's Underworlds." The artists collected field recordings from locations such as caves, abandoned mine tunnels, and vaulted cellars, interacted with the material on site or intervented the places bringing double bass, cymbals and singing bowls to the underground. all those sounds had been transformed into a dense sound collage which had been presented in complete darkness as a 6-channel-audio performance, creating an immersive sound experience where all the sounds circled around the audience. It will also be presented as a 6-channel-concert in a church during lab30 media art festival in Augsburg in the end of October 2024. The download link leads to the stereo mixdown of our work suitable for radio transmissions.
Artist bio:
auvikogue questions, listens, researches, drifts, absorbs, destroys, rearranges, moves, changes, bothers and stays, unadapted.
auvikogue, the alter ego of peter schubert, is working in the field of sound art, field recording, mail art, experimental music, performance and installation since 1999. meanwhile auvikogue has grown to a kind of art collective and performances under that project with various artists from the audio or visual scene had been played. permanent member since 2021 is andreas usenbenz.
auvikogue is located in the south of germany.
Website/social links
https://auvikogue.org
https://auvikogue.bandcamp.com
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LIBRAMAR - no cure
17 April 2025 2:00 am - 2:30 am
Buchla Easel, 2x Revox A77, E.H. 45000. Persistent gono despite weeks of abstinence.
Artist bio:
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.
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Kerrith Livengood - sparkling wide pressure
17 April 2025 2:30 am - 3:00 am
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, of course, 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.
https://kerrithlivengood.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-name-of-the-moon
Artist bio:
Composer Kerrith Livengood’s works have been performed at the SEAMUS Conference, KISS 2018, ACO’s SONiC Festival, June in Buffalo, Bargemusic, CCM’s MusicX festivals, the North American Saxophone Alliance annual conference, the Atlantic Music Festival, the Contemporary Undercurrent of Song series, the Cortona Sessions, and Alia Musica Pittsburgh’s Conductors Festival. She has written works for the JACK Quartet, Third Angle Ensemble, Duo Cortona, Altered Sound Duo, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Beattie and pianist Adam Marks, soprano Amy Petrongelli, and the h2 Quartet. Her music features controlled randomness, lyricism, noise, and humor. She is also a flutist, drummer, technologist, and improviser.
Website/social links
http://kerrithlivengood.com
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THLEEP - Broadcasts 01
17 April 2025 3:00 am - 4:00 am
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; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.
THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.
Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.
Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.
Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.
Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj
Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com -
Robin Mackay - By The North Sea
17 April 2025 4:00 am - 5:00 am
Following on from Mark Fisher & Justin Barton’s On Vanishing Land and Kode9’s Astro-Darien, the third release on Flatlines, Hyperdub’s sub label for audio essays and sonic fiction, is By the North Sea by Robin Mackay, philosopher and founder of the UK publisher Urbanomic. The project 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. Described by Mackay as a ‘radio play afflicted by ontological rot’, the audio essay interweaves field recordings, recovered video footage, voice performance, and original music. The voices of Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, actors Peter Marinker and Phyllida Nash, Angus Carlyle, Lisa Blanning, diver Stuart Bacon, and Morgan Caines of Dunwich Museum, loop and twist around Mackay’s narration in a dense, multi-levelled sonic hyperstition that lends itself to repeated listening. Mackay began writing By the North Sea in 2017 in the week immediately following the death of Mark Fisher, returning to the archives of a project that he and Mark had embarked upon in 2001, with the themes of the original ‘Dunwich Project’ taking on a new character in the wake of Fisher’s death, and becoming a device for asking questions about finality, about things that could now never happen, about the possibility of continuing, and about a distanced friendship marked by depressive absences and constantly deferred promises to spend time together. The ‘definitively unfinished’ version of a project that does not, has not, and never will exist, By The North Sea tells of the search for a mode of time where nothing passes definitively and everything can, with the correct procedures, be accessed, re-synthesised, and recast. In a series of resonating narratives across different moments in time (1949, 1968, 2001, 2017), characters including anthropologist Echidna Stillwell, time-travelling professor Randolph Templeton, Lovecraft, and Fisher and Mackay themselves emerge and are submerged in turn, swirling continually around the conceptual figure of Dunwich, as their search takes on the character of a repetition compulsion–a collective return to the site of an impersonal trauma. Robin Mackay is a philosopher and founder of the UK publisher Urbanomic, which aims to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production. He has written and spoken on art and philosophy and has also worked with a number of artists developing cross-disciplinary projects, as well as translating innumerable essays and various book-length works of French philosophy. -
NAISA Making Waves: Pigeon Band and Ensign Peak
17 April 2025 5:00 am - 6:00 am
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.
https://naisa.ca/ -
RadioActive - on Water: Sonic Traces by Margarida Mendes
17 April 2025 6:00 am - 7:00 am
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.
I address research developed in the Lower Mississippi river petrochemical corridor, North Kalimantan in Borneo island, as well as introduce my practice as an activist concerned with deep sea mining and the impacts of ocean noise. I enquire how the water column is affected by chemical particles circulating through it, as new industries arise and expand from the seabed outwards towards land, tracing some of the cumulative impacts of human presence, while raising awareness into how one is embedded in wider webs of ecosystemic exchange.
For what if one were set to understand watery systems in novel ways that reorganize how one senses and partakes in the world?
Expanding on how traces bear witness to past actions and leave an intergenerational imprint, I explore the complex condition of partition-thinking in natural worlds, problematising human-centric ideas of containment and fixity, in otherwise fluid and interconnected spaces. By doing so, I expand on our conceptualisation of space and corporeality to introduce new perspectives on environmental thinking.
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Margarida Mendes is a researcher, curator, artist and educator, exploring the overlap between systems thinking, experimental film, sound practices and ecopedagogy. She creates transdisciplinary forums, exhibitions and experiential works where alternative modes of education and sensory practices may catalyse political imagination and restorative action. Mendes has long been involved in anti-extraction activism collaborating with marine NGOs, Universities, and institutions of the art world. She holds a PhD in Research Architecture by the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London and is a member of Natural Contract Lab, a transdisciplinary collective of lawyers and artists working on restorative justice and rights of nature across Europe.
http://www.instagram.com/margarida___mendes/
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Mat Warren - Cogitare Deambulare (radio montage)
17 April 2025 7:00 am - 8:00 am
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.
Artist bio:
Mat Warren is an experimental guitarist, sound designer, recording engineer and producer known for his complex improvisational style using his guitar both in a traditional way and also feeding it through machines, devices and software. Utilising looping, generative techniques and complex signal-chains, He creates evocative sound-scapes that twist and morph from ethereal organic pads to sheets of distorted noise. Having developed his musical foundations across the UK, Mat has been based in the north-west of Ireland since 2016. From his studio in County Leitrim, Mat continues to develop his production style exploring improvisation, field recording, noise, generative music and drones.
Website/social links
https://linktr.ee/whoismatwarren -
Radiophrenia Shorts 11
17 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
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)
1) Freya Dooley - Useless and Precious
Useless and Precious is an experimental composition produced from a personal archive of vocal recordings, intercepted by samples of a monologue from Fellini’s 8 ½ (1963); a film about a self-involved director’s struggle through a fragmented creative process. The composition is created solely from manipulated voices which ventriloquise the instruments of an erratic orchestra. A polyphony of disparate voices collides and briefly syncopates.
Freya Dooley is an artist based in Cardiff, UK. Her practice spans sound, writing, moving image and performance. Often rooted in close-range observations, layered narratives and soundscapes navigate the harmonies and tensions between personal and collective experiences, with a particular interest in structures of work and domestic living. Freya was the Creative Wales-BSR Fellow at The British School at Rome in 2021 and was awarded a PRS Women Make Music Award in 2023. Solo exhibitions include False Note, Site Gallery, Sheffield (2024), the Artes Mundi Wales Venice 10 Commission (2022-3) and Temporary Commons, Jerwood Solo Presentations, Jerwood Arts, London (2021).
http://www.freyadooley.com
@freya_dooley (instagram)
2) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - EFFO ISN E
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
3) John Roach - The Airborne Library
The Airborne Library uses Charles Babbage’s Ninth Bridgewater Treatise (1837) to explore the persistence of transmitted sound in the media. Babbage, an eccentric mathematician whose “difference engine” was a precursor to the first computers, posits that sounds, once uttered, are permanently inscribed in our atmosphere, he writes: “The momentary waves raised by the passing breeze, apparently born but to die on the spot which saw their birth, leave behind them an endless progeny, which, reviving with diminished energy in other seas, visiting a thousand shores...will pursue their ceaseless course till ocean be itself annihilated." Despite Babbage’s imperfect understanding of the physics of sound, his suggestion that our words endlessly circle the globe, provides a powerful metaphor for the transmission of sound. It is a harbinger of our current mediascape in which the inscription of fleeting events becomes permanently etched into the public record.
John Roach is a Queens, NY based artist and educator whose work is concerned with the often slippery role of sound in how we perceive the world. His most recent projects have explored the ability of sound to construct immersive portraits of places, and how the careful assembly of spatialized field recordings, sound design elements, and voices can connect a listener to unexpected impressions of a landscape or soundscape.
https://johnroach.net/
https://www.instagram.com/johnroachart/
4) Barnabas Sharp - Swallow the Universe
This is an experimental audio score composed and performed by myself, which is inspired by the comic book of the same name by João Caridade (used with permission).
Caridade describes the comic book as a journey that "combines the processes of digestion with sci-fi influences"; I decided to combine pitch-manipulated vocal recordings of nasal and throat 'noises' to create a soundscape that pairs universal creation with the human digestion process.
Barnabas Sharp is a composer and vocal performer. Their compositions range from neo-classical to experimental in genre, and have written for solo piano, song, choir, orchestra, film score and electronic performances. They enjoy manipulating classical forms and expectations to please and surprise a 21st-century audience, featuring themes of religion, queerness, nostalgia and hope. They are a professional tenor/baritone/bass and currently sing with the Queen's College Choir at Oxford, and are also a tenor choral clerk at St. Michael's of the North Gate.
bsharpproductions.co.uk
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Radiophrenia Shorts 11
17 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
5 Kari Kraakevik - A Dream? (9:25)
6 Alica Tserkovnaja - Trace it (5:17)
7 Zhanraw - you have a way with rebar (10:31)
5) Kari Kraakevik - A Dream?
A Dream? is an electro-acoustic collage in which the created and recorded sound samples depict bedtime routines, activities in ones brain, last thoughts before falling asleep, and of course, the REM, or dream cycle. This piece starts with sounds of a typical end-of-the-day routine, brushing teeth, talking to loved ones, preparing the bed, nighttime prayers etc…coupled with thoughts or reflections on the days events. As one becomes more tired, reality and conscious conversations become intertwined with past or present subconscious thoughts and conflictions. The remaining discord between conscious reality and subconscious thought reveals the theme of this piece. Finally, when sleep overcomes consciousness, the subconscious fears and buried spiritual and or emotional turmoil triumphs over reality. However, restless sounds and the consistent heartbeat remind the listener of the dual nature of sleep: reality vs. the subconscious thoughts and fears coexisting in the same body. Waken from the chaos of this duality, the subject, alarmed, asks the perennial question; “was it just a dream?” thus, reflecting on the ambiguity of sleep and consciousness, the ambiguity of reality and disillusion and the ambiguity within us all. This was composed, recorded and edited using digital and sequencing software such as Protools, LogicStudio, SampleTank and MetaSynth 4.
Kari Kraakevik is a composer currently living in Boulder, Colorado, where she obtained her Masters in Music in 2011. Her body of work consists of chamber, orchestral, vocal, electroacoustic and even jazz, often using textualism as her main palette of sound. She creates stories with or without words that paint a tone-picture. Composition has always been my her love, and forever constant in her life. She is currently an entrepreneur of two successful arts businesses in Boulder, CO for the past eleven years, and her goal is to pass on her love of interdisciplinary media arts to her students.
http://www.take2tunes.com
@take2Tunes (insta)
6) Alica Tserkovnaja - Trace it
Trace it
It's what you could do - with the capacity you had
It's what you did - with what you were given
It's what you found when you clicked and played and played - can you trace it? Sniff it? Climb it?
Alica Tserkovnaja - (b. 1988) based in Stockholm (SE) - works through expanded choreography, acting, text, sound and moving image. She seeks out attentiveness and rhythm, the now, drawn to the dreamy and alluring. Alica holds an MA in Music Performance from Malmö Music Academy and a Bachelor in Mime Acting from Stockholm University of the Arts. Tserkovnajas works has been shown at Konträr, Stockholm(SE), Inter Arts Center, Malmö(SE), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow(SCT) and Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh(SCT).
http://www.alicatserkovnaja.com
7) Zhanraw - you have a way with rebar
“you have a way with rebar” - This incendiary piece erupts with the tumultuous emotions of anger and frustration, laying bare a destructive force that narrows perception to a razor-thin pinhole.The raw energy of these feelings crashes against a desperate yearning for connection, revealing the profound isolation that often accompanies such intensity. It dares to expose the cracks in our emotional armor, suggesting that fragility and tenderness can harness and tame the raging bull of our fury. This work is a brutal invitation to confront the searing moments that flicker amidst our vulnerability, highlighting the volatile connection between ferocity and gentleness. Ultimately, "you have a way with rebar" serves as a jarring reminder of our capacity to uncover strength in delate states, demanding we grapple with the dark corners of our psyche to forge connection through raw understanding and unapologetic empathy.
Zhanna Rozenberg (aka zhanraw) is a multidisciplinary artist working in sound, film, poetry, performance, and installation. Her recent work, Unsaid (1/31 & 2/31), debuted in 2024 with a performance by the Bergamot Quartet, Payton MacDonald, multi-channel audio, and video projection. Like many prior works, it explores the interstitial and manifold aspects of experience: matters of attention, conditions of embodiment, perceptions of self, time, the other, and one’s one’s environment. Her interdisciplinary approach reflects her fascination with how technology can bridge the personal and the societal, turning complex questions into immersive experiences that provoke both thought and emotion.
https://www.instagram.com/zhanraw/
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Birdman750 - How The River Severn Got Its Name
17 April 2025 9:00 am - 9:30 am
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.
Artist bio:
Birdman750 aka Hugh Manistre was born in London, educated in Newport Pagnell and Milton Keynes, and left school with an A-level in music. After failing to become a rock star, trained as a psychiatric nurse, specialised in electronic health records, then worked for a software company in Sheffield.
Currently working on various birdsong recording projects, oral histories and developing the Stroud Sound Map, recordings of the local 'anthropophony, biophony and geophany'.
Website/social links
https://stroudsoundmap.org
Other work on Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/user-11077807 -
dorka szender-kisfaludy - a-drift-a-shore
17 April 2025 9:30 am - 10:00 am
'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.
Artist bio:
dorka plays in the overlapping spaces of social design, art, and community. Born and raised in Hungary, she is currently based in Scotland. She approaches all her work as an exercise in storytelling, and researching things beyond their physical or temporal bounds. Collaboration and collective making enrich the self and are centred in her work. Play is the heart of dorka’s practice – an endeavour toward seeing with a child’s eye, tracing lines and living inside them.
Website/social links
https://dorkamaking.cargo.site/
@orkababa -
Jess Hamilton - Sink
17 April 2025 10:00 am - 10:30 am
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.
Artist bio:
Jess Hamilton is an audio producer and field recordist living on Gadigal land, Eora (Sydney). Her work explores memory, temporality and the hidden sounds of ecosystems through hydrophones and electromagnetic recorders, layered field recordings and found sound. Through a practice of listening, recording and manipulating sound, she attempts to make audible the anthropogenic influences of our time on ecosystems and soundscapes - particularly those that seem obscured from human senses. Her audio storytelling projects have featured at IFC AudioDocs Reykjavik, Rose D’Or and the Australian Podcast Awards. She is currently studying soundscape ecology through a Master of Marine Science.
Website/social links
https://soundcloud.com/jessicajhamilton
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Radiophrenia Shorts 45
17 April 2025 10:30 am - 11:00 am
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)
1) Lin Li - Listen Now
Listen Now is a collage of spoken words, original recordings and found sounds about time, with a focus on the concept and the conscious experience of ‘Now’.
It consists of sounds in the public domain, a clip from the Youtube video "Thich Nhat Hanh on the Present Moment – Walk with Me" by the Irish Film Institute; extracts from "T. S. Eliot reads ‘Burnt Norton’ (1935)" by brainpicker on soundcloud.com. It also includes a quotation from Bernardo Kastrup’s article "Solving the Mystery of Time" published in 2023 on iai.tv, and a widely quoted passage written by Albert Einstein in 1955 in a personal letter.
The words were spoken by Lin Li and synthesized voices.
Lin Li is based in Edinburgh. Her creative practice centres on the use of sounds, along with both still and moving images. Her audio works have been broadcast in previous editions of Radiophrenia.
http://www.linli-art.com
2) Luigi Morleo - CLIMATIC EXPRESSION
CLIMATIC EXPRESSION is the latest electronic work by Luigi Morleo, dedicated to the climate change of our planet. This song aims to raise awareness of the climate problem; with the sounds of our planet Earth it is possible to create a sound expression.
Luigi Morleo (born 16 November 1970 in Mesagne, Province of Brindisi) is an Italian percussionist and composer of contemporary music, who lives in Bari and teaches at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory. He uses varied musical and artistic styles like minimalism, rock-cross-over, folk-Pop, jazz, electronica and DJ. Many of his works have been played at PASIC (Percussive Arts Society) in Nashville-USA, Federation Bells of Melbourne-Australia, and at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival-USA and Festival MUSLAB from Mexico, Festival Futura Electronic – France, Festival En Chair et en Son - France, Jasmin Vardimon Company from Ashford-UK.
https://www.instagram.com/luigi_morleo/
3) Jules Bradley – melting
melting is a audio meditation on scale and the fascination with apocalypse. It asks listeners to sit with melting ice in multiple forms: global and catastrophic to molecular and mundane.
Jules Bradley is a producer, sound artist, and oftentimes farmer living between Maine and Brooklyn, USA. She’s had works appear on BBC4 Short Cuts, Audio Flux, the Radio Project, and more. She is currently a creative producer at Vox Creative as well as a freelance producer and teacher. She’s also the co-creator of Inherited, a youth storytelling podcast.
juliannabradley.com
jayy_gee_bee
4) Nick St George - Gentle Nymph
The title is ironic. Sabrina, the nymph/goddess of the Severn is far from gentle these days. Towns along the Severn such as Bewdley, Upton and Tewkesbury regularly suffer from severe flooding. The piece comprises primarily processed hydrophone recordings of the Rivers Severn and Teme (one of its tributaries) taken when both rivers were in spate. There are also readings from Milton's masque "Comus", first performed at Ludlow Castle in 1634, and which features Sabrina: "...a gentle Nymph, not farr from hence/That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream". Ludlow sits on the Teme.
Reader: Cheryl St George.
An earlier version of this piece was made for the Worcester Open Art Exhibition (theme: flooding) in 2023.
Nick St George is a former radio and television producer/director/presenter, now making sound art in Worcestershire. His audio pieces have been exhibited at at the Bath Fringe Festival, the Wells Literature Festival, the Little Islands Festival and the Monitor Festival (both the latter in Greece). His work has been broadcast on Resonance-FM, Mayfest Radio and Frome-FM. He has compiled and presented two mixtapes for 'Sound and Music', and in 2018 won the Orchestra of Samples Remix Competition. "Don't Be Alarmed", his short film with a soundtrack based on manipulated field recordings, was screened at this year's Borderlines festival.
https://soundcloud.com/yesonsofart -
Radiophrenia Shorts 45
17 April 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
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)
5) Lananh Chu – polysyndeton 2
I name it “polysyndeton” to contrast with "asyndeton," which is the effect of erasure or unhearing many sound elements in everyday life (Augoyard and Torgue 26). In the process of composing “polysyndeton,” I have listened, ardently and meditatively, to sounds around me, namely, water rising and water boiling and water dripping and leaves drying and flowers crumbling and boiler and heater and toaster and cooker and a vase long time no touched and a wine glass often thirsty and a fridge always moaning and my stomach forever hungry and foil and plastic and papers and ...
Lananh Chu is a Vietnamese maker and writer, who wants to listen with her/their flawed ears.
https://linktr.ee/lananhchu
6) Phil McDonald - A Figure
Caitlin is a moving drama that celebrates contentment in solitude. The tone is meditative and philosophical with hypnotic ambient music. Told in snapshots of normality, the everyday poignant observations become epic, revelling in specific human details, celebrating the life of a serene and detached woman. We move from Caitlin narrating her own life in the third person as free indirect discourse, to those she crosses paths with, as she inadvertently affects them. The introspective nature of the character and the pace and tone in which she experiences the world lends itself to audio in particular. Her meditative eyes on the world lean into the medium of audio narration and, with the use of soundscapes and ambient soundtracks, the episodes would become a personal and enchanting listening experience. People might enjoy it on a dog walk, drifting off to sleep or just escaping.
Phil is a teacher and writer. He has had a piece of work with Radiophrenia in 2023 under the name butteredfeet but this submission is him working alone. He has been making Caitlin for a year now and enjoyed something of a cult following. Before becoming a teacher in a secondary school in Newcastle he worked as a Script Editor in the film industry.
https://open.spotify.com/show/0nYr0AEniW7EMT22NCpvIv?si=o2MP59ZFTFq7Ay0-mjVg4Q
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/caitlin/id1703310815
Instagram: caitlinisalone
7) Olivier Julien - Peter Kay's Meat Grinder Chortle
Whilst consultants hum chuckle to memories of this n that a select group of civic engineers mad on embroidered drool and UB40 drill to the centre of the earth in search of Heaven or Hell only to find nothing (nothing), nothing: nothing.
I am an artist working with sound, performance and video based in Glasgow. I work with found objects, text and memories and attempt to bring them back into the world, converse with them and re-substantiate them. I love the phrase salvage punk.
https://www.olivierjulien.co.uk/
8) Frontera Glaciar – HERMANO FANTASMA
From EP “Patio Nevado”
Compilation of sounds and voices from Patagonia, including personal elements, natural and tourist spaces of Punta Arenas (Strait of Magellan, Plaza de Armas).
Ignacio Núñez Oyarzo (Patagonia, Punta Arenas) Graduate in Education (UMAG, 2015) Pedagogue (UMAG, 2016) and Master in Arts (PUC, 2020). Sound artist, producer and DJ. Frontera Glaciar is his artistic name and personal space in which Ignacio experiments and combines soundscapes of the Patagonian territory with various voices. His name is due to the fact that he was born and lives in the city of entry to the polar territory. His line of work is divided into the creation of sound series (radio art) and sound experimentation and live performance. And he develops projects linked to: climate change, territory.
https://fronteraglaciar.wixsite.com/site
https://www.instagram.com/fronteraglaciar/
https://www.youtube.com/@fronteraglaciar
https://soundcloud.com/frontera-glaciar
https://fronteraglaciar.bandcamp.com/album/patio-nevado -
Buffer Zone
17 April 2025 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
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)
1) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 3
Using small white single-use plastic items from everyday foodstuffs visual scores have been created on a black background. A vocal sound palette is suggested and in the six five minute sound pieces used for four voices to render the plastic pieces as imagined fragments of letters of the Roman alphabet. The scores can be viewed and listeners are invited to soundalong with the pieces by using the palette and following some basic suggested instructions - or by using their own sounds. The scores and the palette can be read here https://daily-bread-rp2025.blogspot.com/2025/02/?m=1
Artist bio:
Johnny Dixon is Irish and lives in London.
2) Cerpintxt & Ruben Sonnoli - ‘Acid Rain in the Nucleus of the Stone’
An improvised excerpt from ‘Refugees of the Symbolic Network’ album.
Refugees of the Symbolic Network – أَسيرًا في مَصانعُ الحُلمُ is a series of funeral music spatialized in the convolution reverb of the King’s Chamber of the Giza Pyramid, transposed within the spectral footprint of the chambers. Deconstructing the work of the Izz al-Din Manasirah & Sargon Boulus, the pieces deploy speech as an instrument whose tonal-dynamical structure reveals harmonic ciphers embedded in the fabric of the language. An inquiry into the ritualistic nature of submission to utterance as a spiritual force, to sculpt a cavern of voices of the forsaken, refugees of the symbolic network.
3) Ecka Mordecai - la charnière I
From the album Promise & Illusion
4) Catalina Barroso-Luque - Cackles
Experiments with cackling, wailing, croaking, screeching and scratching the strings of a piano. The piece plays with ideas about invoking spirits or being possessed by demons. Inspired by ghost stories, haunted houses, keening practices from Ireland and the north of Spain, and La Santa Muerte deity from Mexico. *This is the first sound piece I've made/recorded that wasn't born from my writing practice.
Artist bio:
Catalina Barroso-Luque constructs stories inhabited by voices, texts, images, bodies and objects. She also writes in English and Spanish, using processes of performativity, self mythologization and translation. She has participated in projects at Wysing Arts Centre (UK), Deptford Project Spacce (UK), Glasgow International (UK), Intermedia Gallery (UK), Glasgow Sculpture Studios (UK), Radiophrenia Festival (UK), Swedish Museum of Performing Arts (SE), Centro de Cultura Digital (MX), Centro Cultural España (MX), Centro Cultural González Gallo (MX), cheLA (AR), amongst others. Her writing is published by Bricks from the Kiln, Gutter Magazine, Montez Press, Hoax!, post[s] (Universidad de San Francisco de Quito), MaMSIE
Website/social links
http://catalinabarroso-luque.com/portfolio.html
insta: @blcata
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Budhaditya Chattopadhyay - Sonic Psychogeographies II (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
17 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
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 of meandering 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 by migratory movement and drifting. Within this discursive context, I present my artistic method of nomadic listening and sonic psychogeography, manifest in this work, which investigates the sonic fabric and distortions of the German city Offenbach, a poorer post-industrial urban terrain during a residency. The sound archaeology lends an ear to underheard corners in public spaces, exposing historical and social layers as acoustic material. Incorporating radio interferences and field recording traces, I try to demonstrate how an unfolding auditory situation holds acts of listening open, instead of closing it down in the form of a soundscape. Here I take liberty to critique Murray Schafer’s soundscaping and acoustic design approach, as for a listening-based artist, it is crucial to perform acts of adaptive perception in intersubjective listening, attunement, and to trace these situations for sharing in the form of drifting and shifting personal narratives. Biography: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer. Chattopadhyay produces works for exhibition, installation and live performance addressing contemporary issues of environment and ecology, migration, and decoloniality. His works have been widely exhibited, performed, or presented across the globe. Chattopadhyay has an expansive body of scholarly publications in media arts history, artistic research, media theory and aesthetics in leading peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of five books, including The Nomadic Listener (2020), The Auditory Setting (2021), Between the Headphones (2021), and Sound Practices in the Global South (2022). Chattopadhyay holds a PhD in Artistic Research and Sound Studies from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), Basel, Switzerland, and a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), University of Bergen, Norway. https://budhaditya.org/ -
Hannan Jones & Murray Collier - 'A Line Drawn Downwards' (WORM residency exchange / RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
17 April 2025 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
A Line Drawn Downwards “We are tapping into the invisible currents of the Earth, sending messages through the ether…” — Nikola Tesla, early radio experiments, c. 1900 The ground opens up, we fall inwards, the shifting rubble opens to ineffable depths. A world unseen, but heard into being. The synth becomes the conduit, transmitting in frequencies, straddling the boundaries between organic and artificial sound, guiding the antipodeal line through layered interiors; crust, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mantle, and core. The synthesizer is not an instrument of control but a porous interface navigating the imaginary of the natural datum. Turbulence shapes new forms, inverted waveforms, liminal cocoons, subharmonics and overtones, a cartography of the unexplored. The tunnel wall fractures, revealing not just space, but something beyond the reach of engineered design. A cavernous expanse. Above, renewal? Or at least, a reckoning? A Line Drawn Downwards blurs the space between history, prophecy, and fiction; folded into the Earth. We bore into the hum of the world and hope something answers. Recorded at WORM Sound Studio in Rotterdam, this sonic cartography unfolds through the distinct textures of each instrument; Kawai 100F, Syntron Syrinx, Soma Enver, Korg MS20, Korg PS3210, Optigan, Moog Prodigy, ARP 2600, EMS Synthi, Publison DHM89 B2, Yamaha CS100, ARP Odyssey, Roland TB303, Blippoo Box, Juno 60, Organelle, Boss DD7, Paia Proteus, Roland SP404, Roland D50, Yamaha 40M, Yamaha 60M, Phillips Philicorda, and the Fender Rhodes. Commissioned by Radiophrenia, 2025. Murray Collier is a musician and producer from Ayrshire, now working in Glasgow. He has released music on Sacred Summits (Emotional Response/ Firecracker Recordings), 12th Isle, Real Landscape, Optimo Music and Domestic Exile. He has performed at the Tate Modern, Turner Contemporary, the ICA, and Tramway, and for festivals such as Rewire (Den Haag), Glasgow Film Festival, Counterflows, 53100 (Siena, Italy) and Donau Festival (Krems, Austria). Hannan Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose current research expands hybridity, language, and rhythms associated with cultural and social migration, and psychogeography. Underpinning her practice is an evolution of sound, Hannan works with electronics, music concrete, improvisation and analogue recordings. Using samples and layering of audio material, she reclaims parallel histories, and reimagines connections between them. She is a graduate from Glasgow School of Art’s Sculpture and Environmental Art department. From 2020-21 she was an Associate Artist at Open School East. In 2023, she became a recipient of the Oram Award, a platform to elevate the work and voices of women and gender non-conforming artists innovating in sound, music and related technology. Hannan has performed at Counterflows, Glasgow; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Cafe Oto, London; REWIRE; The Hague; The Tate Modern, London; New Radicalisms, Rotterdam. -
Radiophrenia Shorts 25
17 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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)
1) Marie Cheneval - Derrière les munitions
In France, during two thousand years a lot of cities have huge place where ammunitions are making. To Toulouse, the place named Cartoucherie and it mesure hundred hectares. In the 80s, about 4000 peoples worked in the factorie.
Now, the factorie doesn't exist anymore and have been replaced by a new area with restaurants, a cinema, a school and a lot of habitations.
In order to don't forget the industrial history, I have realised 4 episods about the production, the workers, the site and the history, 200 years of manufacturing of ammunition.
Derrière les munitions is the first chapter, in whiwh workers explain their work and how they product ammunitions.
I am french and i live to Toulouse, in the south of France. I am making sound documentary to tell stories in the words of others. I love voices, accents and expressions who tell about people so many things and are unique for each person. Moreover the voices, sounds tells stories, also. So when you mix the two, a new world a new world appears.
https://mariecheneval.fr/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073238140964
2) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations- EFFO ISN C
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
3) Robert Gillespie – Legacy
A sound art collage of anthropophonic urban field recordings from Derry, Northern Ireland and London. Sounds including traffic, household appliances, heavy machinery and voices trace the story of my relocation from Derry to Richmond upon Thames.
Robert Gillespie is a multi-disciplinary artist from Derry, Northern Ireland, currently residing in London. He grew up during the Troubles and the difficulties and complexities of the era pervade his work in ways that may not be immediately obvious and at times counter intuitive.
@robert_gillespie_art -
Radiophrenia Shorts 25
17 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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)
4) Thiago R - Instruções de desenho/Drawing instructions
Instruções de desenho/Drawing instructions is a sound piece narrated by the artist Thiago R., in which verbal instructions guide the audience through exercises that promote drawing as a practice of freedom. The work is presented in two languages: Brazilian Portuguese, the artist's mother tongue, and English. The bilingual format seeks to establish a dialogue between listeners from the Global South and the Global North, based on drawing as a form of expression that goes beyond the simple reproduction of images and emphasizes its emancipatory character.
Thiago R is a sound artist and art teacher. He lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the State University of São Paulo - UNESP. His hybrid artistic practice articulates relationships between sound, image, and their contexts, working across installations, sound pieces, event scores, drawings, etc. He recently participated in The Wrong Biennale - Kamîm Tuhut Pavilion, Sessão Encruzilhadas (online, 2024); and the Brazilian Electroacoustic Music Collection Mix-FOF-cv-bang! (online, Paraná, Brazil, 2024).
https://thiago-ruiz.blogspot.com
https://soundcloud.com/thiago-rrrrr
https://www.instagram.com/thiagor_na_escuta
5) Evagelia Siarvali – krousis
my work contains elements of nature in combination with percussion and
is edited on a computer. I am sending you the same in two versions
EVAGELIA SIARVALI PLACE OF BIRTH: AUSTRALIA PLACE OF RESIDENCE: THESSALONIKI DIRECTORATE Kragia 1Ampelokipoi sq. 56121 TIL.2310739726 MOBILE: 6973716080 MUSIC EDUCATION Degree Composition Byzantine Music CHOIR Student Club THESSALONIKI 2004-2006 Theodromes Byzantine Choir Church 2006-2009 Agios Konstantinos KORAIS 2007-2008 BYZANTINE Conservatory of Ampelokipoi 2009-2010,2010-2011 Dance Ensemble of St.Sophia Dance Thessaloniki 2002-2005 WORK: Music Teacher in Public Schools 1999-2000 2004-2005 Music lessons Now unemployed. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: a little piano guitar. FestIval competitions. 2009 in a musical composition competition, with modern music of the Municipal Conservatory of Neapolis, Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the Colorado Music Academy 2011 Competition Concert Fountouki Conservatory with modern
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6) Brodie Ainsworth - The Dissassociate
The Disassociate by Brodie Ainsworth is a sound collage made during the composer's senior year of high school. The most consistent materials used throughout are a (typically reversed) audio of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes and a reading of a text by the composer, titled Dialogue One: Aromantics in the Park. The text is stylistically informed by writings by John Cage, such as Silence and M. The Disassociate also makes use of several hallmarks of the composer's electronic work, including disorienting panning changes and usage of crowd ambience. The piece showcases many episodes meant to demonstrate the feeling of panic in crowded spaces. The first main episode occurs while crowd ambience of an airport is played, and the second when the reversed audio of a hiogh school band playing a Sousa March, which follows audio of a marching band.
Brodie Ainsworth is a freshman at the Crane School of Music in SUNY Potsdam, NY, USA. He is pursuing a bachelors in composition. He lives in Corning, NY. Ainsworth is also a percussionist. He has had experience in competitive ensembles such as the Corning Painted-Post Competition Band, which has competed nationally in the US, and that town's Indoor Drumline. He has also marched internationally in parades such as the Ireland 2022 Saint Patrick's Day Parade, with the Corning Painted-Post Marching Band. He plans to compose for video games. He prioritizes eclecticism as a musical and compositional value.
https://www.instagram.com/verybluebrognie/
https://el-rombo.tumblr.com/
7) Luis Arevalo – Akasha
Akasha, the Sanskrit word for ether or the fifth element, represents the divine, the infinite, and the essence of all things. The music is inspired by this concept, aims to evoke a sense of timelessness and transport listeners to a realm beyond the material world.
By incorporating these elements, the music piece can become a sonic representation of Akasha, inviting listeners to step into the infinite and experience the essence of all things.
Luis Arevalo 1977 Composer, sound artist, cultural manager and yoga instructor. He studied composition at the Instituto Cardenal Miranda (CDMX), Associated Board in Music Theory Crisitism and Literature at Trinity College London (UK), postgraduate in Composition with New Technologies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (BCN). He has participated in several contemporary music festivals in Mexico, Germany, Canada, Cuba, Chile, France, Ecuador, Spain, USA, Guatemala, UK and Sweden. He has received support from the rockefeller foundation, unesco and VVCA.
https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/artist/6yZMoHavi6YAn1QNoqm5R7?si=fO_gcpXFRv-aaGOhpLbtEAhttps://soundcloud.com/luis-hilario-ar-valo
https://www.instagram.com/luis_harevalo/ -
Public Engagement Workshops Listening Event
17 April 2025 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
In 2025 our public engagement team worked with four different local community groups over a period of several months. Through a series of tailored workshops the participants created their own sound works and radio programmes. You can find more details on the groups and listen to the works they produced below.
The works created during these workshops will be broadcast as part of a special afternoon listening event from 2pm – 4.30pm on Thursday 17th April 2025.
2.00pm
Flourish House – The Ballad of Rosebud and Taiko
2.45pm
Rumpus Room - We Spring From the Ground Up
3.00pm
Men's Shed Govan - Please Adhere to the Noise Nuisance
3.30pm
Boots & Beards - Tongue Trails
Our Workshop programme is supported by Creative Scotland. -
IRIDE PROJECT - LA FENESTRE DE RUSINELLE
17 April 2025 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Translation:
https://radiophrenia.scot/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IRIDE-PROJECT-ROSINA_S-WINDOW-1.pdf
The story takes place in an Italian rural village.
Rusinelle, bedridden for years, dies alone in her bedroom. The window is closed and according to local superstition her soul gets trapped and can not ascend to Heaven, remaining at the mercy of the Devil. Her son Carmine feels the guilt of this accidental negligence. Funeral and burial follow carefully in a mix of Christian and Pre-Christian beliefs rooted in ancient Greek culture. The poor man is haunted by the thought of his mother's soul wandering in the World of the Living and so excluded from the Grace of God. Seeing that, a close friend of the family, driven by Christian faith and superstition, succeeds in getting in contact with the dead and finds out that the woman's soul is saved. A lifetime of humble and Christian behavior made Rusinelle worthy in the eyes of Jesus who gave her Eternal Salvation.
Artist bio:
Monica Miuccio & Massimo Daví began IRIDE PROJECT in 2013. Their electronic and Audio Drama works have been performed in Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Macedonia, United Kingdom, Finland, Germany, Czech Republic, Portugal and Ecuador in form of acousmatic performances, radio broadcasts and live shows. Monica is a performer and writer, her literary works have been awarded in various literary competitions and published in prestigious editions such as the Psychology magazine “Tecniche Conversazionali” (Milan, IT). Her scripts, poems and tales are the core of IRIDE PROJECT Audio Drama production. Massimo is a pianist and electronic/electroacoustic music composer. -
Jean-Phillipe Drecourt - Barreiro Improvised - Radiophrenia edition (Live streamed performance)
17 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
'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.
The OUT.RA creative grant 2024 winner 'Barreiro Improvised' made its live debut in September and culminated in a collaborative performance in Barreiro in December 2024.
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.
Artist bio:
Sound artist Jean-Philippe Drecourt is driven by a deep curiosity for sound's transformative power in reshaping our perception of our everyday soundscapes. Inspired by the World Soundscape Project, musique concrête's reduced listening and his engineering background, his music invites audiences to engage with the often-overlooked textures that surround us. After years of creating fixed media compositions, he now focuses on improvisation, blending field recordings with electronic manipulation through custom-built software to produce immersive, spontaneous performances. Having previously shared his compositional work on Radiophrenia in 2020, JP aka the Noise Wrangler is looking forward to sharing the fruits of his latest live sonic explorations.
Barreiro Improvised at O Espaço (Part 2) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8kAFGUw_U&t=1414s
Beached Thunder (early improvisation with the Chaos Conductor) - https://noisewrangler.bandcamp.com/album/beached-thunder
Website - https://noisewrangler.art/
Instagram - https://instagram.com/noise_wrangler -
Buffer Zone
17 April 2025 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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)
1) Cerpintxt & Ruben Sonnoli ‘Dweller in the Eye’
From Cerpintxt’s debut album ‘microtubule encoded memory’, which was performed live at IKLECTIK Art Lab in Boundary Condition, 2023
microtubule encoded memory is a longform study in systematic harmonic erosion, materialised within a wall of cascading and spectrally smeared vocal layers, retrograding guitar pulses and speech-driven composition. a corrosive vocal terrain that is the backdrop against which skeletal frequency swells flicker. the cyclical narrative bleeds into an exploration of phonetic entropy mechanisms of autocomposition; voices without bodies reflecting off each other like a recurring dream.
2) iT - Irena Tomažin - wanting needs - want it
From the album 'Crying Games'.
3) Carys Wall - El Poble
El Poble is a soundscape of a protest in Valencia, on the 9th of November 2024, when over a hundred thousand people demanded the resignation of the Valencian president in response to the DANA flooding which killed over 200 people and caused catastrophic damage. I took my recorder and ended up feeling compelled to make a record of this extraordinary time with so much anger, fear and grief in the air, as well as solidarity, resilience and hope. People chant "while you were eating, the people were dying" and "they're not deaths, they're murders".
Carys Wall is an audio producer based in Spain who likes to Live, Laugh and Listen to Weird Audio. They have produced work for Short Cuts, the Food Programme and BBC World Service's Amazing Sports Stories.
https://www.instagram.com/soniquetesaudio/
https://x.com/Ccaarryyss
4) I broke the vase - Sikinos
This piece was developed the past summer during a residency on Sikinos, a Cycladic island in the Aegean Sea. The sound work is part of a larger performance that features original music and texts, written on-site and inspired by our exploration of the island’s landscapes and history—marked by pirate raids and its past as a place of exile. The work also draws on a recent tragic event: the disappearance of two women hikers, which left a lasting impression on our time there.
Artist bio:
I broke the vase (Eva Matsigkou, Nefeli Sani) was formed in 2018. They create performances blending listening, free improvisation, and composition using instruments, voices, electronics, and site-specific elements. Their work incorporates autoethnographic texts, soundwalks, and feminist, care-centered practices. They’ve produced the experimental film The Greatest Love of All and the award-winning podcast Sonic Memorabilia. Their projects have featured in festivals like Tectonics Athens and Electric Nights, and in exhibitions including Plásmata and Sheltered Gardens. They’ve been artists in residence at Syros Sound Meetings and the University of Michigan, and participated in 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture.
Website/social links
https://rekemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/--3
https://ibrokethevase.wordpress.com
https://www.instagram.com/ibrokethevaseduo
https://www.facebook.com/Ibrokethevase
https://soundcloud.com/ibrokethevase -
Zara Joan Miller - Year of the Dragon (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
17 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
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.
Zara Joan Miller is an artist working across poetry, performance and film. Her work seeks to unravel boundaries between human and non-human nature, often playing with movement and sound as a way of reimagining a body’s rhythm. Zara is the author of poetry collection BLUE MONDAY (JOAN Publishing, 2022), which was also released as a duo LP with cellist Ute Kanngießer (Reading Group 2023). Her work has recently been presented at Barbican Centre, Muse Gallery, Horse Hospital, Cafe OTO (London), In Vitro (Brussels), Default
Year of the Dragon is co-commissioned by TACO! and blurt. blurt is 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.
https://taco.org.uk/About-Us
https://zarajoanmiller.com/
https://outlands.network/ -
Ben Byrne - Tumut
17 April 2025 6:20 pm - 6:40 pm
‘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'.
Artist bio:
Ben Byrne is a listener. He creates and inhabits situations for listening that foster experimental, ethical, and sustainable ways of being in response to technological pressure, climate crisis, and hegemonic power. This involves ongoing listening, making sonic works, commissioning and organizing sonic programs, teaching, writing sonic theory, building community connection and engagement, and working to preserve and archive sonic practice.
Website/social links
https://www.benbyrne.com.au/
https://avantwhatever.org/@benbyrne -
Verónica Cerrotta - Camadas Verticales
17 April 2025 6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
"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.
Artist bio:
Argentinean sound artist settled in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her artistic work is based on the use of field recordings and navigates between soundscape and experimental electroacoustic and concrete music, focusing on listening and sound imagination.
Since 2019, she has released solo works on the labels Impulsive Habitat, Música Insólita, Pakapi Records and Sello Postal.
She has also released the collaborative works ‘Slani pejzaži’(tsss tapes), with Manja Ristić and Joana Guerra, ‘In-Radius’ (Presses Précaires) with Pablo Díaz, and “Fase de Plegamiento’ (Green Field Recordings) with Juan José Calarco.
Website/social links
https://linktr.ee/veronica_cerrotta
https://veronicadaniela.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/veronicadanielacerrotta
https://www.instagram.com/veronica_cerrotta/ -
Luke Fowler & David Grubbs - J'ai pensé sans paroles (live at the Glad Café)
17 April 2025 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
J'ai pensé sans paroles - 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. Luke Fowler is an artist, filmmaker, and musician based in Glasgow. Fowler creates poetic portraits with 16mm and archival material. His most recent series N’importe Quoi focuses on the life and work of Brunhild Ferrari, whilst previous subjects include radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing, Marxist-historian E.P. Thompson, Scottish filmmaker Margaret Tait, and Fowler’s mother, the sociologist Bridget Fowler. He is represented by The Modern Institute and Gisela Capitain Galleries and is a core member of the groups Rude Pravo, Lied Music, and AMOR. David Grubbs is a musician and writer based in Brooklyn. He was a founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with the Red Krayola, Will Oldham, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Loren Connors, Susan Howe, and many others. His books include Good night the pleasure was ours, The Voice in the Headphones, Now that the audience is assembled, and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (all published by Duke University Press). Grubbs is a 2024-25 Berlin Prize recipient from the American Academy in Berlin as well as Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. BRUNHILD FERRARI: “Like most of my fellow human beings, I was born, I grew up, I attended schools, I passed exams, I failed, I loved, I worked hard sometimes, I enjoyed life; I continue. I worked with Pierre Schaeffer in the ORTF research department on the relationship between sound and image. Of German origin, I have had an activity as an interpreter and translator. Following Luc Ferrari's advice in matters of life, music, and composition, and working with him over the course of our 40 years together, I made my own Hörspiele and radio plays broadcast on France Culture, in the United States, and the main German radio stations. Since Luc left us in 2005, I have taken care of the preservation of his vast archives; founded the "Association Presque Rien - Friends of Luc Ferrari"; initiated and organized the biennial -
Cerpintxt and Ruben Sonnoli - Refugees of the Symbolic Network / أَسيرًا في مَصانعُ الحُلمُ
17 April 2025 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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 spatialized 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.
The live performance involves reading selected excerpts in a compositional speech system; multi-layering of utterances and organums over several cycles, until a new language or syllabic melody is unearthed. The prime resonant frequencies of the chambers continue to sculpt the compositional material, by accentuating the words’ phonetic motifs as the piece unravels. The idea is using speech as an instrument whose tonal or dynamical structure arises solely from the weight of the words, and how they interweave to reveal harmonic ciphers embedded in the fabric of the language and contexts which created it. This process is an inquiry into the ritualistic nature of submission to utterance as a spiritual force. It seeks to precipitate a funerary sonic practice; a type of chant to mourn and resist in the same breath. To perpetuate the writers’ voices not by merely echoing them; but by roaming their caverns of dialectical systems, as form of resistance to oppressive and colonialist forces. To paint a tapestry of voices of the forsaken, refugees of the symbolic network, the countless “lives buried in the belly of the whale that is called history”.
Biography:
Cerpintxt is an electroacoustic progress report concerned with generating an invented language of a particular strain of softness through phonetic entropy and augmented instrumentation. Working with cut-ups and dialectical chaos magick to dissipate the parasitic structures of language, blending ritual with precision in an exhaustive process of erosion into protoconversation. The textural counterparts include wind instruments, broken turntablism, tape recorders, granular and modular synthesis.
Refugees of the Symbolic Network – أَسيرًا في مَصانعُ الحُلمُ is a series of funeral music spatialized in the convolution reverb of the King’s Chamber of the Giza Pyramid, transposed within the spectral footprint of the chambers. Deconstructing the work of the Izz al-Din Manasirah & Sargon Boulus, the pieces deploy speech as an instrument whose tonal-dynamical structure reveals harmonic ciphers embedded in the fabric of the language. An inquiry into the ritualistic nature of submission to utterance as a spiritual force, to sculpt a cavern of voices of the forsaken, refugees of the symbolic network.
https://www.cerpintxt.com -
Secluded Bronte - A Phone Call From The Highlands
17 April 2025 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
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. -
Jean-Baptiste Masson - Rémanence
17 April 2025 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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. Artist bio: Jean-Baptiste Masson is a composer and researcher working on the cultural history of listening. His music is interested in beatings, the dramatisation of listening, the dynamism of stasis. After a PhD at the University of York, he is at the moment a Marie Skłodowska-Curie / Bienvenüe fellow based at the Université Rennes-2 and a research fellow at the Cinémathèque de Bretagne, where he works on a manual for the restoration of the sound of amateur films. Website/social links jbmasson.com jbmasson.bandcamp.com -
Frederico Pessoa - Transmitting life from deep black holes
17 April 2025 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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.
Artist bio:
Frederico Pessoa is a musician who collects soundscapes and everyday occurrences for reinterpretation in electroacoustic and radio pieces, audiovisual works, and multimedia performances. He has written texts at the intersection of literature and the sociology of listening, aiming to explore, through words, the possibilities for mobilization created by sound. He holds a Ph.D. in Arts from UFMG/Brazil, and is a member of ESCUTAS: a research and study group in sonorities at the same institution. Additionally, he is one of the coordinators of the Laboratory of Sound Experimentation at UFMG, where he works as a sound designer.
Website/social links
http://www.fredericopessoa.net
@f__pessoa
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Radiophrenia Shorts 39
17 April 2025 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
1) IRIDE PROJECT & BERNARD CLARKE - The Witches of Montenerodomo (13:16)
2) Volker Ignaz Schmidt – EISSCHMELZE (8:06)
3) Katrina Brown & Frankie Williams - 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)
1) IRIDE PROJECT & BERNARD CLARKE - The Witches of Montenerodomo
"Le Streghe di Montenerodomo" by Monica Miuccio was published by Keltia Editrice © 1996
(Aosta, Italy) after winning the Second Prize at "Ti Voglio Raccontare" Keltia's literary contest.
English adaptation and narration by Bernard Clarke.
"The members of an archaic community embody their fears of natural calamities in a
manifestation of Devil: Witches. The people engage in a fight against them revealing that
their superstition is not rooted in mere ignorance, but in a pre-Christian belief that their
isolation has preserved, and that now lives side by side with the Word of Gospel. But more
than prayers and magic can their sense of unity and by relying on each other in a circle of
strength they defeat the Witches in the very same moment they defeat fear. So strong is
their belief in their actions that history takes the shape of their creed, turning reality into a
legend".
Monica Miuccio & Massimo Daví began IRIDE PROJECT in 2013. Their works have been performed in Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Macedonia, United Kingdom, Finland, Germany, Czech Republic, Portugal and Ecuador in form of acousmatic performances, radio broadcasts and live shows. Bernard Clarke is a radio broadcaster (RTÉ lyric fm). He either won or been a runner up in the Prix Marulic, URTI, Grand Prix Nova, Prix Italia, Prix Europa, Prix Phonurgia Nova, Black And White, New York Festivals. His works have been broadcast in Ireland, Croatia, Romania, Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the USA, Spain and Australia
https://irideproject.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/irideproject
2) Volker Ignaz Schmidt – EISSCHMELZE
The installation uses underwater sound recordings of melting polar ice shelf recorded by the Alfred Wegener Institute.
These soundscape recordings interact with sounds produced by the audience as well as with the movement of the audience in the room captured by an ultrasonic sensor. The sounds get mixed up, enriched with a pathetic cello drone tone and morphed using granular synthesis.
Timbre, space and form of the installation is controlled by aleatoric processes and by sound and movement actions of the audience in the room.
This creates a fragile and psychotic sound ecosystem.
The 4-channel installation is realized with Pure Data in combination with an Arduino controlled sensor setup. This is a 2 channel excerpt of the installation.
Volker Ignaz Schmidt (born 1971 in Germany) studied computer science although his passion is music. He has composed solo works, chamber music, vocal pieces, orchestral music, one opera, conceptual and electronic music. He has written piano textbooks and he worked in school projects on contemporary music.
http://www.volkerischmidt.de
3) Katrina Brown & Frankie Williams - On Field Crossing
On Field Crossing is an audio work for radio exploring ideas of time, place and (dis)orientation, based on a long spring walk up St Cyres Hill on the outskirts of Honiton, East Devon. Walking up one side of the hill in late afternoon sun, crossing over the hill plateau in gradually fading light and rising full moon, walking down the other side of the hill to arrive on the edge of Honiton in the dark. We were following the route on the OS map but somehow became lost. A narrative of two walkers navigating their way home, buzzard views, mischievous forces at play and misplaced time already starting to evolve, later fed by research on topography, geology, town borders and folklore.
Written and performed by Frankie Williams and Katrina Brown.
Creative sound production by Shelley Hodgson.
‘Turn Your pockets inside out’ musically arranged and sung by Darcey Williams.
Artist Frankie Williams combines video, photography, performance and writing in explorations of interior and exterior landscapes of the self, memory, place and time - uncovering what is beneath the seemingly ordinary as a way for viewers to experience or glimpse a different perspective of what might be overlooked and multiple stories and voices human and non-human.
https://www.frankiewilliams.art/
https://www.instagram.com/frankiewilliamsart/?hl=en-gb
Choreographer Katrina Brown has a hybrid research-based arts practice; working experientially through the body in an entangled process of moving, drawing and writing from which to gather sensory-visual-sonic-textual data. Her work is presented as performance-installation events, written-graphic scores, text-image publications and voice-sonic pieces.
https://katrinabrown.net/projects/
https://www.instagram.com/katrina_a_brown/?hl=en-gb
4) Evamaria Müller - à l’heure du crepuscule
An evening walk through a small water-rich village in the French Pyrenees in summertime. The open windows and doors, the transition from day to night allow for a complex soundscape between the going to sleep and the waking up of different creatures. These field recordings are accompanied by a synth-heavy improvisation with tape loops and effect pedals.
In her artistic research, Evamaria Müller uses sound and recording to investigate the forming of landscapes and the natural, technical and cultural mixing processes involved. By directly engaging with specific places, their histories and their acoustic signatures, her works examine the sounds, structures and objects of our environment to emphasize the voices they contain.
http://www.evamariamueller.net
Instagram: gmorrk
5) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - TANZ MIT OLAFUR ELIASON
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
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Andre Birken - Conversations With No One / Conversas com Ninguem
17 April 2025 11:00 pm - 18 April 2025 12:00 am
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.
The title conversations with nobody refers to the play Frei Luis De Sousa, The Portuguese Macbeth of sorts, which contains the line: Who are you? The enigmatic answer is Nobody, Ninguém (neengame). I supplemented the already ironic 1844 play with an acid commentary by a narrator, because history, like all reality, is subjected to interpretation. This is a recycled radio piece, a commissioned work that was rejected, and became an acoustic dream journey through the human condition – a fall into inside depths, reflecting what I think of as molting: shedding a skin in order to change. Listening to one's own thoughts can be like a conversation with no-one … else. I challenge you to empty your mind!
(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 †
Artist bio:
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
Website/social links
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrebirken/
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Blake DeGraw - Study IV for Voice and Fiction
16 April 2025 11:30 pm - 17 April 2025 12:00 am
Study IV for Voice and Fiction is an experimental spoken-word/choral composition for twenty-four participants, each reading from any work of fiction of their choosing. As they read, they receive audio signals through headphones prompting them to alter their voicing, inflection, cadence, volume, and ultimately their tone, gradually converting them from a chaotic cloud of whispers to a unified drone, changing colors many times along the way.
All parts in the provided demo were performed and recorded by the composer.
Artist bio:
Blake DeGraw is a composer, bandleader, and sound installation artist from Seattle, WA, USA. He studied euphonium performance at Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts, and composition at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
DeGraw is the founder of FHTAGN, an experimental chamber ensemble and choir with over 70 rotating members, and the Northwest Experimental Guitar Orchestra, an 18-piece ensemble dedicated to performing new works for guitar. Both ensembles are DeGraw’s primary means of exploring his interests in chance procedures, deep-listening, alternative forms of conduction, and extremes in spatial dispersion.
Website/social links
https://blakedegraw.bandcamp.com/
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Spectral Transmissions Research Unit - Peripheral Visions
18 April 2025 12:00 am - 1:00 am
“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."
Artist bio:
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. Comprising a diverse spectrum of entities of various degrees of stability and tangibility. In as much as linear time can be applied, members of the STRU could, have, and or will include(d): Ludd Püca, JohnFrum, Kay Jackson, T-J.Cut, Dr. Ray Power, Proff. Jock Moxter, EKA-Francium, Dr. Tinkerpaw, Kaspar Brøcken, and The Coincidence Sprite.
Website/social links
https://extra.resonance.fm/series/gravity-waves
https://outlands.network/members/the-spectral-transmissions-broadcast-monitoring-research-unit/
https://www.instagram.com/lukependrell/
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Gary Wilkinson - BOTOX/COLLAGEN/SILICONE
18 April 2025 1:00 am - 1:30 am
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.
Artist bio:
Orchestral music created using cut-ups from public domain classical pieces, covering subjects from left behind former mining communities.
Wilkinson’s music was part of Michael Begg’s award winning “Be Mine in Patience”.
His pieces have been played on NTS, Resonance FM, BBC and released on TUSK, Industrial Coast, Wormhole World and others.
This year he has performed his pieces alongside Flora Yin Wong, Aja (Ireland), Abigail Toll and Matekoi around the country.
A number of his audio visual pieces have been displayed in art galleries with two solo gallery exhibitions for the piece BOTOX/COLLAGEN/SILICONE.
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/garywilkinsonmusic/
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Soft Noise Ensemble - Moaning and sighing toward Aeolus
18 April 2025 1:30 am - 2:00 am
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.
Artist bio:
Soft Noise Ensemble (S.N.E.) are a Norway-based experimental trio operating somewhere at the junction of jazz, free-improv and (soft) noise, comprised of artists and musicians Eline Rafteseth, Omar Johnsen and Luke Drozd.
Website/social links
https://softnoiseensemble.bandcamp.com/
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Yashique - Stream Of Conciousness
18 April 2025 2:00 am - 2:30 am
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.
My favourite moment in this piece takes place at duration 8:30 when the evolving feedback loop gets cut off and then brought back in with only certain highlighted fragments. Similarly at 14:00.
Artist bio:
Sound Designer and Developer with a background in Electronics Engineering. My goal is to bridge the gap between embedded technology and audio production, fostering a deeper physical connection in how we, as artists and sound designers, create music and sound. By combining the realms of analog, digital, and AI-driven technology, I aim to innovate and expand the possibilities within the audio production landscape.
Website/social links
https://yashiquechalil.com/
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THLEEP - Broadcasts 04
18 April 2025 2:30 am - 3:30 am
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; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.
THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.
Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.
Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.
Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.
Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj
Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com -
Dinah & Molly Mullen - Echo Sister Audio Essays: Thank you for Listening
18 April 2025 3:30 am - 4:15 am
The two ‘sister’ sound works we are proposing to present are one outcome of the Echo/Ekho project. 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.
Artist bio:
Dinah is an experienced sound designer who creates works that explore our relationship to place, environment and each other. She makes works for both live and digital formats including: guided audio walks (Just Passing Through), immersive smartphone adventures (for the National Archives with Coney), podcasts (Afterthoughts, beyond arts), audio drama/essay (The You Play 1 & 2, for 45 North), Audio Installation (The last Taboo of Motherhood, for FUEL), and performance installation (FORGE, with Rachel Mars). With Fire and Rage, an interactive audio walk Dinah designed for Artists on the Frontline at EuroFestival Liverpool, won The Stage Digital Award 2023.
Website/social links
https://www.dinahmullen.com/echo
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Dinah & Molly Mullen - Echo Sister Audio Essays: Locating Echo
18 April 2025 4:15 am - 5:00 am
The two ‘sister’ sound works we are proposing to present are one outcome of the Echo/Ekho project. 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.
Artist bio:
Dinah is an experienced sound designer who creates works that explore our relationship to place, environment and each other. She makes works for both live and digital formats including: guided audio walks (Just Passing Through), immersive smartphone adventures (for the National Archives with Coney), podcasts (Afterthoughts, beyond arts), audio drama/essay (The You Play 1 & 2, for 45 North), Audio Installation (The last Taboo of Motherhood, for FUEL), and performance installation (FORGE, with Rachel Mars). With Fire and Rage, an interactive audio walk Dinah designed for Artists on the Frontline at EuroFestival Liverpool, won The Stage Digital Award 2023.
Website/social links
https://www.dinahmullen.com/echo
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NAISA - Making Waves: VLF Radio with Dan Tapper
18 April 2025 5:00 am - 6:00 am
This episode features a conversation with Dan Tapper about his interest in VLF. VLF is 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."
This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective.
Produced by Darren Copeland.
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RadioActive - on Water: River Breathing By Carlos Monleon and Nathaniel Mann
18 April 2025 6:00 am - 7:00 am
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.
The protagonists of the installation are a choir of naiads, or freshwater clams, which are endangered throughout the Iberian Peninsula but especially in Catalonia and Aragon due to the relentless denaturing of their habitats ,the threat of several invasive (let's call them vigorous!) species, and increasing levels of river pollution.
This choir embodies and gives voice to the river, as the mythological Naiads -spirits of fountains and rivers in ancient Greece- once did.
The work transforms scientific models of the metabolism of the Ebro river and its affluents based on historical and real-time data available through sensors and remote sensing systems into multi-channel sound in collaboration with musicians and the help of computer scientists from the UdL (university of Lleida) and biologists from IRTA (Catalunya) and IPE (Aragón).
A series of metabolic scores are produced from the data to be interpreted by musicians , the final composition is completed with underwater recordings of the clams in their conservation tanks.
The installation consists of a sculptural sound system made in ceramics and other materials designed in collaboration with sound engineers.
A lighting scheme completes the installation.
One of the project’s aims is to make known the complexity of the life of rivers and the delicate nature of maintaining their balance as a way of establishing a relationship of proximity with them and forming emotional bonds of care and responsibility with riparian ecosystems.
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
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Carlos Monleon works with a variety of processes and materials, both living and non-living, that result in sculptural and participatory artworks.These span across different levels of bodily sensation and awareness; from the microbiological to the performative and social bodies. His main line of work traces evolutionary processes that stem from digestion and cognition and result in the distribution of biological processes across multi-species entanglements and cybernetic metabolisms.
Carlos has developed collaborative projects at spaces such as Autoitalia, Seventeen Gallery and Diaspore Project Space, London, Cráter Invertido, Mexico, Hangar, Lisbon as well as institutions such as CA2M, and Matadero, Madrid, HIAP Helsinki, and has shown his individual practice at LUMA Arles, Z33, Istanbul Design Biennial, Porto Design Biennial or the Tallin Biennial amongst others.
https://carlosmonleon.com/riverbreathing
Nathaniel Mann (born 1982) is an experimental composer, performer and sound designer. Oscillating between music and sound, Mann has a compositional practice that is expansive in scope and varied in form. He takes on many roles in his work, including researcher, instrument-maker, archive-digger, surround-sound designer, filmmaker, broadcaster, storyteller, producer, curator, entrepreneur, sonic-artist and folksinger. He is also one third of the experimental folk ensemble, Dead Rat Orchestra.
Mann’s compositions probe history, politics and audio culture, resisting established formats and frameworks for creating music. Each work is crafted, adapted and nuanced towards its setting, fuelled by continued dialogue and collaboration with professionals and enthusiasts from varied fields. These have included filmmakers, musicians, visual artists, academics, curators, a pigeon fancier and a swordsmith.
Mann has explored many subjects including the colonial residue of recorded music in South Africa, in dialogue with Andile Vellum, a deaf dancer/choreographer based in Cape Town (Cape Sound Stories, 2016); the psycho-geographic horror of England’s public execution sites (Tyburnia, 2014-17); and the deeply rooted traditions interlinking noise and social control, creating bronze musical meat cleavers with swordsmith Neil Burridge (Rough Music, 2014). He was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Award 2019, Arts Foundation Fellow 2018 and his work Pigeon Whistles (2013), a flying orchestra of flute-carrying Birmingham Roller pigeons, won the George Butterworth Prize for Composition in 2015. -
Ilia Rogatchevski / The Radiophonic Travel Agency - A Trip To Maunsell Forts
18 April 2025 7:00 am - 8:00 am
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.
Artist bio:
Ilia Rogatchevski is an audio producer, music writer and artist working at the intersections of sound, performance and visual media. His work as a solo artist, and as part of the duo Mute Frequencies, has been exhibited at various venues in the UK and performed at festivals such as Radio Revolten, Dronica, Splice, Supernormal, Open House and End of the Road. His compositions often investigate inaudible frequencies of the audio spectrum, the potential of electromagnetic waves to convey information and ideas relating to imperceptibility.
Website/social links
https://radiophonictravel.agency/
https://www.instagram.com/radiophonictravelagency/
https://www.instagram.com/radiophonicinstitute/
https://www.instagram.com/iliarogatchevski
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Radiophrenia Shorts 12
18 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
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)
1) Home Secretary - piano and tape
From the LP Past Lilly’s
https://homesec.bandcamp.com/album/past-lilys
https://cardboardclub.bandcamp.com/album/stamen-and-pistil-are-husband-and-wife
2) Heidi Hörsturz – Simulation
VERVE
Heidi Hörsturz works in a wide range of computer animations, audiovisual performances, soundart and multimedia installations. Her works examine the influence of new technologies and the social questions that have arisen as a result of digital development. After completing her studies at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands she presented her work worlwide at festivals and venues like ICA London, Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Gaida festival LT, Göteborg Art Sounds, IEM Graz, FILE Sao Paulo, Sonic Matter CH, Madatac Madrid and V2 Rotterdam.
https://www.heidihoersturz.com/
3) Vincent Eoppolo - Omaggio a David Shapiro
Living In Times of Chaos is a collection of 7 compositions that were composed in late 2023 through August 2024. The works are Electro Acoustic, Acousmatic and Musique Concrete in their forms. As the title suggests these works are mediations on the current state of affairs in our world.
Vincent Eoppolo born Wilmington, Delaware USA. Eoppolo’s compositions are a mix of various sound art traditions such as musique concrete, acousmatic music, electro-acoustic music and radio art. In recent years, Eoppolo’s fixed media works have been presented at the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Mise_En Place New Music Festival in Brooklyn, Utopie Sonore in Nantes, France and De Natura Sonorum in Rome, Italy. Eoppolo’s compositions have been released by Moscow based independent music label Meticulous Midgets and his works are regularly featured on new music radio and internet programs throughout Europe and North America
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007788824642
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CFAy7K6LpWMvtFN5EpKPT?si=01YRMOiARguOmFU8-aT8Dw
4) Andreas Oskar Hirsch - Teaoism International
Part of Hirsch’s new album The Salamander Treaty, out on makiphon in spring 2025. The album title makes reference to ‚War with the Newts‘, an abysmal yet hilarious science fiction novel by Karel Čapek from 1936. The album is a sort of pacifist replica to this, with claims like Tea Time Unlimited and such. The album title and some of the track titles invite to play around with the phonetics and the meaning of the terms „treaty“, „tree“ and „tea“.
Andreas Oskar Hirsch is a Cologne based musician, visual artist and inventor of electroacoustic instruments. Together with Patricia Koellges he runs makiphon, a label for experimental music and artist records.
http://www.hirschonhirsch.com
http://www.makiphon.de
5) Mary Hooper – Funghilious
A series of 4 short tracks made for an installation by Radiator Arts Hastings about the wonder of Funghi and the world of Mycellium for 'A Curious Town Dreams' Family Festival In Hastings 2024
The tracks are composed from voices of the artists and my recordings of moss and trees and water.
Short Bio: My arts practice is site-specific, using of a wide range of materials and processes to create installations, objects, and sound-works. I often collaborate with artists from different disciplines, writers and musicians, incorporating research into the narratives of place, people, the patina of human occupation, and the geographical impact of the location on the way we live. I work to commission or developing self-initiated projects developing ideas through research and working with the community to generate the content and material for the artwork. COmposing sound pieces is my main practice focusing on stories of people and place.
https://on.soundcloud.com/iQvSQLkXDLkQJn7D9
https://soundcloud.com/last-station
https://www.instagram.com/ma.hooper1/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 12
18 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
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)
6) Sam C. Shin - Imagined Spaces
Mixed and virtual realities are growing in sophistication and accessibility, with corporations and consumers spending billions on this technology. “Imagined Spaces” uses field recordings of natural and mechanical sounds from everyday life—such as birds chirping and motorcycle engines—alongside spatialized audio signal processing techniques commonly found in virtual reality that simulate a sound’s distance, width, and direction. The combination of real-world sounds with spatialization techniques and audio manipulation explores the tension between superficiality and immersion and simulacrum and reality in experiences that mimic or “extend” reality.
Sam C. Shin is a southern California-based audiovisual composer and researcher whose work explores the impact of technology through the lens of Korean studies and experimental electronic music. His work has been presented at festivals and conferences such as the International Computer Music Conference, the International Conference on New Music Concepts, and the SEAMUS National Conference. Sam is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Digital Composition at UC Riverside where he studies with Ian Dicke, Dana Kaufman, and Paulo Chagas. Sam has an M.M. from Bowling Green State University and a B.A. in music and East Asian studies from Brandeis University.
https://www.samcshin.com/
7) Adrian Laugsch - Spasms Of My Aching Heart
"Spasms of My Aching Heart" unfolds somewhere between a kitschy concept album and an AI-generated opera. Consisting of five originally AI-generated (but heavily revised) songs, the album delves deeply into the potential of technology in dialogue with trauma, kitsch, and pathos, striving to create a form of post-digital emotionality and artificial opulence. Shaped by kitsch theory, queer camp, and the aesthetics of Schlager music, the songs embrace their (over)expressivity with seriousness while remaining fully aware of their own absurdness.
Adrian Laugsch (*1997) is a german-polish composer/performer/soundartist.
Based on his musical interest in historical, (auto)biographical, and nostalgic sounds, his compositional work is significantly shaped by the desire for the substantive expansion of the sonic through theatrical, interdisciplinary, and multimedia strategies.
This may range from extra-musical concepts and narrative arcs to the explicit use of stage and video, intertwining traditional formats such as concert, radio play, album, music theater, and installation.
Consequently, his thematic focus lies on queer, hybrid, non-normative, and transgressive identities, as well as the exploration of post-digital artificiality and meta-religious opulence in the staging of socio-political mechanisms.
https://www.adrianlaugsch.com
8) Adrienne Murray - The Weight of Distance
‘The Weight of Distance’ was made for an installation which combined both sculpture and sound. The sculpture was first conceived of on a train journey, looking out through the window as the landscape passed by and noticing the sight of a disconnected telephone pole. In the resulting work the telephone pole acts as an intersection between the connective tactility of the glass, steel, and wooden vessels which are displayed. The track was made with recorded sounds from these three objects, as well as hydrophone recordings of water sounds contained within them, and a melody made with a kalimba. The intentions of the work were to explore the acoustic qualities of the materials included and to reflect upon an everyday poetry which can only be experienced through the senses as opposed to sensory disconnect.
Adrienne Murray is a recent art graduate whose focus is on social, spatial and ecological experiences of disconnect. These interests are informed by life within the digital age, and questions of how we experience the space in-between immaterial forces and the tactile within everyday life. Adrienne is a recipient of the RSA New Contemporaries 2025, and a shortlisted artist for the Visual Arts Scotland Graduate Showcase Award. Within her sound work she makes use of sounds from everyday objects and ambient noise, and is interested in the connective potential of sound as a means of evidencing movement and tactility.
https://www.instagram.com/adriennemurrayart/
9) Fil Corbitt - Stovepipe Windharp Summons the Frogs
A house fire leaves a pile of rubble. Among the rubble, a
stovepipe. Using scraps and nylon string, the stovepipe
becomes a wind harp, with which to filter the sound of the
smokey air, months later, during the worst wildfire season in
recorded history. That year, the heavy winter leaves shelves
of snow and ice on the alpine pond, unnamed on the maps.
As it recedes, the frogs emerge in spring. Using a binaural
microphone and a pair of hiking boots, I am able to record
their communications from the edge of the lake, which will
months later, be enveloped in the heaviest wildfire smoke in
recorded history.
Fil Corbitt (they/them) is a radiomaker working in the Sierra Nevada outside Reno, Nevada, USA. They
make a podcast called The Wind from a handmade desk in the mountains.
http://www.thewind.org
https://instagram.com/thewind_org
https://tiktok.com/@thewind_podcast
https://www.youtube.com/@thewind_podcast
10) Deborah Shaw (Aurora Engine) – Tintinnabulation
'Tintinnabulation' Comissioned in 2023 by Historic Scotland / One Ren Council to create a a series of sonic responses surrounding the installation of the newly restored Carillon in Paisley Town Hall. ‘Tintinnabulation’ is a sonic work made from sounds collected in the clock tower. Using mallets, hands, voice to the artist harvests sounds from 10 clock bells, iniitally unstalled in 1875, reflecting on Paisley Town's past and present, using technology to record its sonic landcape in 2023. This was showcased during the opening season of the Town Hall, whenre listeners could access via headphones. This was part of a wider commission engaging the community in composing new ‘chimes’ for the new Carillon.
Deborah Shaw / Aurora Engine is a songwriter, composer and sonic artist from Edinburgh. Fusing real instruments (harp /piano), voice and progressive electronica, her work encapsulates a singular and striking sonic landscape. As a sonic artist she thrives on telling stories through sounds, engaging communities, whilst engaging with environmental issues. Recent works include a sonic exploration of Tourette's Syndrome funded by SMHAF, and an exploration a commission from Historic Scotland, capturing the historic sounds of the Paisley's Carillon. She is committed to amplifying the voices of women in sound and has engaged on a series of women focused sound projects.
http://www.auroraengine.com
http://www.instagram.com/aurora_engine
http://www.twitter.com/auroraengine
http://www.facebook.com/auroraengine -
Mark Vernon - A Loop Within A Loop
18 April 2025 9:00 am - 9:30 am
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.
Artist bio:
Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based artist who explores notions of audio archaeology, magnetic memory and nostalgia through his sound and radio works. At the core of his practice lies a fascination with the intimacy of the radio voice, environmental sound and the re-appropriation of found recordings.
http://meagreresource.com -
Francesc Llompart - Viatge cap al buit
18 April 2025 9:30 am - 10:00 am
"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...
Artist bio:
Francesc Llompart's initial production is instrumental, but gradually he delves into electroacoustic music for acousmonium and mixed music. Subsequently, he explores free improvisation as a violinist and collaborates with other improvisers, combining composition with elements of conducted improvisation, indeterminacy, and graphic scores. His music has been programmed at festivals around the world such as "Mixtur" (Barcelona), "New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival" (New York), "OUA Electroacoustic Music Festival" (Osaka), "MUSLAB" (Mexico), and "Klangraum Festival" (Stuttgart).
Website/social links
http://www.francescllompart.com -
Melissa McCarthy - Who Will Win? Episode 3
18 April 2025 10:00 am - 10:15 am
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?
Artist bio:
Melissa McCarthy’s books include Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated Companion (Sternberg, 2019), on the balance between who’s moving over the face of the water and what’s lurking underneath; Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro (Sagging Meniscus, 2023), which considers flowers, photography, and explosions; and Exceptional Subjects, a collaboration with photographer Norman McBeath (Easel Press, 2024), on cameras, space exploration, and the persistence of voice and image. She’s a contributing editor at Exacting Clam magazine, writing on topics ranging from translation to typewriters, orcas to authors, football to photography.
http://sharksillustrated.org
instagram: mccarthysharks -
Wastelands: Walleys Quarry by Magz Hall & musician Mieko Shimizu and the people of Newcastle-Under-Lyme
18 April 2025 10:15 am - 11:00 am
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.
After over a decade of complaints from local people and members of action group Stop the Stink, Walley’s Quarry legacy will live on. Unfortunately, it’s the tip of the iceberg of a national scandal caused by current legislation, regulation and management of landfill in the UK and with that the legacy of air and water pollution left behind.
In Oct 2024 it was found emissions of hydrogen sulphide emitted from the site had been under recorded by the EA between 2016 and 2023, in Oct 2024. Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council took legal action against the firm and finally the EA took action to close the site in Dec 2024, however the stench continues as they cap it off and deal with the mess.
The artist Magz Hall became aware of a growing national scandal after experiencing the stench from Shelford landfill Canterbury during lockdown, it led me to research this site and others which she plans to document in the future. She hopes the work will give a voice to some of the many people and communities directly affected by landfills built far too close to homes and allow the audience to experience what it’s like to be gassed in your home on a daily basis.
Thanks to the community of Newcastle-Under-Lyme and Stop the Stink for contributing.
New research shows landfill leachate treatment, which is the water cleaning process at such sites is creating and increasing banned PFAS chemicals substances into UK water table, all hugely concerning.
The work also features geranium plants from the artists radio air garden project, inspired by landfill air pollution as they are great absorbers of pollution. 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.
Artist Producer Magz Hall
Music Mieko Shimizu
Supported by Screen South and Arts Council England
Artist bio:
Magz Hall is a UK sound and radio artist born in Keynsham Somerset, she is concerned with art the art for the environment, expanded radio, expanded sculpture, with a focus on wireless technology across the spectrum. She been developing a series of expanded sound art works around air pollution for her Radio Air Garden Project. She was awarded an Oram Award in 2021 and nominated for an Ivor Novello in Sound Art for Waves of Resistance also aired on Radiophrenia for Galway 2020. Tree Radio at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park was nominated for a BASCA in sound art.
Website/social links
https://magzhall.com/
https://www.instagram.com/hallmagz/
https://www.instagram.com/radioairgarden_/
https://www.facebook.com/magzz.hall/
https://www.facebook.com/radioarts.org.uk
https://x.com/expandedradio -
SHHE - Como é o som do Guaíba
18 April 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
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? Artist bio: SHHE is a Scottish-Portuguese sound artist, musician and producer based in Dundee, Scotland. Her work explores themes of identity and connection at the intersection of sound and space, environment and ecology, and research and performance. Sound works, performances and installations have been presented at V&A Dundee co-commissioned by MSCTY Tokyo, Sonica Glasgow, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Edinburgh Festival, Celtic Connections, Radiophrenia (Scotland) and in Portugal, Iceland, Italy, Egypt, Brazil, and Iraq-Kurdistan. http://www.shhemusic.com @shhemusic (instagram and X) -
Buffer Zone
18 April 2025 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
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)
1) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 4
Using small white single-use plastic items from everyday foodstuffs visual scores have been created on a black background. A vocal sound palette is suggested and in the six five minute sound pieces used for four voices to render the plastic pieces as imagined fragments of letters of the Roman alphabet. The scores can be viewed and listeners are invited to soundalong with the pieces by using the palette and following some basic suggested instructions - or by using their own sounds. The scores and the palette can be read here https://daily-bread-rp2025.blogspot.com/2025/02/?m=1
Artist bio:
Johnny Dixon is Irish and lives in London.
2) Ecka Mordecai - Show up or shut up
From the album Critique + Prosper.
3) iT - Irena Tomažin - intro- the crying game
From the album Crying Games.
4) Frontera Glaciar - Meditar
From the EP 'Patio Nevado'
Compilation of sounds and voices from Patagonia, including personal elements, natural and tourist spaces of Punta Arenas (Strait of Magellan, Plaza de Armas).
Artist bio:
Ignacio Núñez Oyarzo (Patagonia, Punta Arenas) Graduate in Education (UMAG, 2015) Pedagogue (UMAG, 2016) and Master in Arts (PUC, 2020). Sound artist, producer and DJ. Frontera Glaciar is his artistic name and personal space in which Ignacio experiments and combines soundscapes of the Patagonian territory with various voices. His name is due to the fact that he was born and lives in the city of entry to the polar territory. His line of work is divided into the creation of sound series (radio art) and sound experimentation and live performance. And he develops projects linked to: climate change, territory.
Website/social links
https://fronteraglaciar.wixsite.com/site
https://www.instagram.com/fronteraglaciar/
https://www.youtube.com/@fronteraglaciar
https://soundcloud.com/frontera-glaciar
https://fronteraglaciar.bandcamp.com/album/patio-nevado
5) Niko-Matti Ahti - Kaivajaiset Part 1.2
From the album Kaivajaiset
Best known for his work alongside his partner Marja as Ahti & Ahti, Niko-Matti has been an active participant in the Finnish underground since the late 1990s. "Kaivajaiset" is his first solo recording and was originally conceived of as an installation. Part horspiel, part musique concrete, it is a piece of music that draws comparisons to the work of pioneering avant-garde composers such as Henning Christiansen, Annea Lockwood, Luc Ferrari, and Pierre Mariétan. Ahti weaves vivid foley and domestic recordings together with oration and classical instrumentation (violin, clarinet, bass clarinet, and flute) to arrive at an expansive, narrative, and at times thrilling composition. “Kaivajaiset" was exhibited in two Finnish galleries: B-Galleria in Turku (2019) and 3H+K in Pori (2020). The installation drew inspiration from The Diggers' 1649 pamphlet and Michel Foucault's extension of Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of genealogy, and consisted of sounds, opinion pieces, a print copy of the pamphlet, and four cardboard collages. This record is a summary of the sounds of the installation. -
Brunhild Ferrari - Errant Ear (RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
18 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
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, 24th of February, 2025
‘Errant Ear’ is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunst zum Hören, Osterreich 1 produced with the support of Creative Scotland.
CeLe pièce a été composée fin 2024 avec ce sen<ment d'errance, errance dans mes souvenirs que j'ai pu capter avec mes oreilles, mes yeux, mon nez, tous mes sens, des choses dont ma vie est faite et que je garde presque comme des trésors. Ici, je me sens libre de profiter des surprises, de redécouvrir mes souvenirs, de leur donner une nouvelle vie. J'ai eu le plaisir d'u<liser des moments sonores prêtés par Luke Fowler et Luc Ferrari, et je les ai mélangés à mes propres enregistrements récents et à certains de mes archives depuis les années 1970 - parfois avec une joie douloureuse.
Brunhild Ferrari Montreuil, le 24 février 2025
“Like most of my fellow human beings, I was born, I grew up, I attended schools, I passed exams, I failed, I loved, I worked hard sometimes, I enjoyed life; I continue. I worked with Pierre Schaeffer in the ORTF research department on the relationship between sound and image. Of German origin, I have had an activity as an interpreter and translator. Following Luc Ferrari's advice in matters of life, music, and composition, and working with him over the course of our 40 years together, I made my own Hörspiele and radio plays broadcast on France Culture, in the United States, and the main German radio stations. Since Luc left us in 2005, I have taken care of the preservation of his vast archives; founded the "Association Presque Rien - Friends of Luc Ferrari"; initiated and organized the biennial competition PRESQUE RIEN Prize by providing artists with original sound material from Luc's sound recordings; and edited a book of his writings and documents (Musiques dans les spasmes, published by les Presses du Réel, France) as well as one more book in English together with Catherine Marcangeli (Luc Ferrari: Complete Works, published by Ecstatic Peace library). I composed music; I continue.” -
Lia Kohl - Variations on a Topography
18 April 2025 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
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. Artist bio: Lia Kohl is a cellist, composer, and sound artist based in Chicago. Her wide-ranging practice includes composition and performance, installation, improvisation, and collaboration. She tours nationally and internationally, working in theater, jazz, rock, and experimental contexts. Her work centers curiosity and patience, an exploration of the mundane and profound possibilities of sound. More info about Lia at liairenekohl.com Website/social links liairenekohl.com @liairenekohl on Instagram -
Radiophrenia Shorts 26
18 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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)
1) Marco Dibeltulu - Due atomi di idrogeno e uno di ossigeno
The piece was composed for World Water Day. We are made of water but sometimes we take it for granted, while scientists hope to find traces of it on other planets. The piece was composed by processing a series of environmental recordings at the fountains on Monte Limbara. It has a tripartite structure and leads the listener through three different sections with a narrative intent. The first part is made up of synthetic sound bands, which evoke the origin of water in an indefinite space and in an ancient time before arriving on our planet. A second concrete section follows, where the infinite timbral nuances of water emerge. However, there is no shortage of sound processing, which coincides with the human presence on Earth. The piece concludes with a section of synthetic sounds, which this time evoke the passage of water from the Earth to larger spaces and unknown places.
Marco Dibeltulu (Alghero, Italy, 1971) studied at the Conservatory of Cagliari Composition, Choral Music and Electronic Music (with Francesco Giomi, Elio Martusciello). He teaches Musical Technologies at the Liceo Musicale “D. A. Azuni”, Sassari. His compositions have been selected in many competitions, as 24th International Electronic Music Competition “Luigi Russolo” – Varese; 6th International Computer Music Competition “Pierre Schaeffer” 2007 (1st Prize) – Pescara; ICMC 2012 – Ljubljana; NYCEMF 2014, 2015 – New York City; Soundcinema Düsseldorf 2022 (1st Prize); The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2023. He performed at Festivals: Synthèse – Bourges; AKOUSMA XV - AKOUSMA_INTERNATIONAL – Montréal;
http://www.marcodibeltulu.it/
https://soundcloud.com/marco-dibeltulu
https://rmnmusic.com/marco-dibeltulu/
2) Domenico De Simone - PEACE WIND
The WIND has no borders, it cannot be stopped. PEACE WIND is based on the sound of a WIND, the same WIND that caressed my face as a child, when my SOUL was still INNOCENT, when my SOUL didn't yet know to BE. I have entrusted the task of making the WIND "speak" to MUSIC, or rather of making it "sing" words of PEACE, but in an "unheard of" and "inaudible" language, intelligible only to the most intimate and profound part of our being, thus hoping that our SOUL, finally "free", can let itself be moved and transported to an IDEAL WORLD, where the condition of "normality" is PEACE, where the only "imaginable" WAR is to save our EARTH. PEACE doesn’t shout. PEACE WIND: WIND of PEACE, PEACE in the WIND.
Professor of Electroacoustic Composition at the Music Conservatory of Foggia. Graduated in Composition, Electronic Music, Piano and Jazz. He was awarded with the diploma of merit in Film Music by Ennio Morricone and in Composition by Franco Donatoni. His compositions have been performed in more than one hundred concerts in Italy and abroad (China, Latvia, Canada, Chile, Argentina, Romania, Malta, USA, Ireland, UK, Spain, Austria, Brazil, France, Ecuador, Australia, Poland, Germany, etc).
https://www.facebook.com/domenico.desimone.7587
3) Elsa Vass-de-Zomba - safe spaces
This is the second piece of two, from a project done in collaboration with No More Superheroes. I was experimenting with electroacoustic audio creation for theatre, creading soundscapes intended to provoke questions. These pieces were created on the topic of land rights and the Kinder Scout trespass. I used field recordings taken from Ryebank Fields, a beautiful green space in South Manchester near my home. It's under threat of development, but the crickets don't know that.
Elsa Vass-de-Zomba is a composer and activist from Manchester, England. They like exploring the intersection of music and politics, and finding an outlet in nature. Their other work includes writing for orchestral instruments and leading protest choirs.
https://linktr.ee/elsatries
4) Marie Koppel - Er hat mich verlassen 2000/2024
At age nine, my girlfriends and I had a band. This is when the song "Er hat mich verlassen" was created, a pop song about being left by a boyfriend that we all had never actually had at that time. Twenty-four years later, I improvised over that song, blending my voice with that of my younger self, becoming both one and two distinct voices. I view this piece more as a vocal experiment than a song-song.
Born in Essen, raised between Ruhr area, Rhineland, and Santiago de Chile. After finishing school, sold sandwiches in London. From 2015, studied Comparative Literature in Frankfurt. Came to love radio with the independent station radio x and the multilingual project Good Morning Deutschland. Moved back to Ruhr area in 2022, auditing Film & Sound courses in Dortmund. Worked as stagehand at a nightclub. Produced the radio play Wüstern (ein teurer Abend) on no budget, earning third place at Hörspielwiese Köln. Broadcast in 2024 on Deutschlandfunk Kurzstrecke and at TARMAC festival Leipzig. Teaching German as a second language, experimenting with sound.
https://soundcloud.com/user-405110167
5) Bruno Belardi – Antropocene
What will be the future of humanity in a world we have irreparably altered? Human action, intense and relentless, takes ceaselessly without giving anything back. Rapid progress has left behind a trail of destruction, exploiting the planet beyond its sustainable limits. I have tried to imagine and represent this chaos, where every sound becomes a call to the reality of a world in crisis. In my travels, I have collected sound material to capture the different nuances of various landscapes, urban and natural, noticing how human impact is not only physical and structural, but above all sonic. In this piece, I have used recordings collected from different journeys.
Bruno Belardi is a musician and composer from Naples. He studies Classical Double Bass and continues his journey in Electronic Music under the guidance of Elio Martusciello at the "San Pietro a Majella" Conservatory in Naples. Currently, he is engaged in international concert activities as a member of Ars Nova Napoli. His acousmatic works are beginning to receive initial recognition, including being selected as a finalist for MA/IN, Soundcinema Düsseldorf and the "NEW SOUND FIELDS COMPETITION" by Nuovi Territori Sonori.
https://www.instagram.com/bruno_belardi/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 26
18 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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)
6) Renée LoBue - "A Place Like Home I"
“A Place Like Home I” is the audio component of Renée LoBue’s two-part audiovisual installation, A Place Like Home I & II, currently featured in the Sovereignty exhibition at The Space in Montclair, NJ. Written, recorded, produced, and performed by LoBue, this sound piece evokes the sensations of air travel, symbolizing displacement, whether from home or country. Through immersive soundscapes, LoBue’s voice, taking on the role of a female pilot, conveys a sense of hope and the freedom to rebuild life anew. The narrative highlights the resilience required to find a new sense of home in unfamiliar surroundings, blending themes of loss, renewal, and empowerment. This piece serves as a key element in the installation, reflecting on both personal and collective experiences of starting over.
Renée LoBue is an American multidisciplinary artist who seamlessly blends music, visual art, photography, performance art, fiction, and installations to create immersive experiences. Self-taught and prolific, she has released 11 albums and EPs with her bands Elk City and Flowers of America (FOA) and has crafted hundreds of visual artworks and thousands of fantasy self-portraits. In her audiovisual installations, she acts as a narrative tour guide, leading audiences through her creations. LoBue’s work often tackles themes of empowerment and social issues. She is recognized for her reinterpretation of Keith Haring’s mural that once graced the Houston-Bowery wall in NYC in the 1980s. Notable musicians she has worked with include Lloyd Cole and members of the legendary indie bands Luna and Versus. She co-founded the Magic Door independent record label. Her art has been exhibited at Edinburgh Fringe, The Rochester Center of Contemporary Art (RoCo), Brooklyn’s Gallery GAIA, and the Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation in Barcelona. LoBue’s intuitive improvisation across mediums enables her to craft spontaneous and deeply personal works that delve into complex feminist narratives and the empowered journeys of women across generations.
https://linktr.ee/reneelobue
7) Solen Fluzin - Windswept Whispers
Windswept Whispers is a journey observing the intricate relationship between human life and the forces of nature on the Shetland Islands. This extract invites the listener inside the belly of a ferryboat as it approaches the island of Yell. From the raw, mechanical pulses of the engine, the vessel's breath slowly emanates.
This journey started in August 2024 at the invitation of artist-researchers and educators Ayşe Köklü and Helen Frosi for the AuralPluralities Network's first field trip project: Windworks.
Sol is a sound artist and cultural worker passionate about sound, space and fair economy. Trained as an architect in France, Australia, The Netherlands and the US, she has led programmes on site-specific sound art, participatory multimedia art, experimental architecture and environmental engineering. In her sound work, she traces landscapes by walking and mapping rhythms and echoes of atmospheres encountered. Gently pulling her ears to listen to the soft whispers of nature coaxing hidden stories to the surface.
http://www.solenfluzin.com
8) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - EFFO ISN G
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
9) Katrina Brown & Sarah Scaife - sound of Sound
An audio piece by Katrina Brown & Sarah Scaife. 'sound of Sound' emerged from a walking conversation in August 2021, skirting the nautical borders of the port and city of Plymouth, Devon. Re-directing the focus of our CAMP Go-See-Bursary to visit the Liverpool Biennial 2021, needing to stay closer to home due to pandemic shielding we turned towards Plymouth, a city that like Liverpool is a port with a colonial legacy and a community of artists. We followed old routes across the peninsular to edge up to the port from behind. Our conversation considered body and port. intimate and global. close and far. visible and tangible. and belonging. Also reflecting – through the body – on how we had not been able to travel, and had to reorient our connection to body, other, world. On the edges of land [port] and the edges of writing-scripting-voicing [exchange].
Choreographer Katrina Brown works across moving, drawing and writing as an entangled process of gathering sensory-visual-sonic-textual data. Her work considers (dis)-orientation (low, dorsal, hesitant), animal-human-thing co-presence and ecologies of materials, bodies, surfaces. She is Senior Lecturer Choreography at Falmouth University, Cornwall.
http://www.katrinabrown.net
https://www.instagram.com/katrina_a_brown/?hl=en-gb
Artist Sarah Scaife is currently a doctoral research student in the University of Exeter, using practice-based performance research methods to explore "medicines of uncertainty". Her work is concerned with the stories people tell themselves and each other and how they affect a sense of the world, human and more-than-human. Listening and slow radio are integral to her practice.
https://cargocollective.com/berrybrowngown/
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Studio Cybi - Alone Together, Ar Ben Ein Hunain Gyda’n Gilydd
18 April 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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.
Located on an island off the northern tip of Wales, Studio Cybi seek to redefine art’s purpose, steering away from the conventional contemporary art world. They aspire to transform art into a ritual, activating both matter and landscape, while questioning the corporate and sterile aspects of the mainstream art scene. The project aims to connect individuals, fostering a deeper engagement with art beyond the boundaries of the conventional art world.
Artist bio:
STUDIO CYBI (SC) is a curatorial duo from Holyhead, North Wales, comprising artists Iwan Lewis and Rebecca Gould. Their practice is rooted in shared experiences of living in communities facing challenges under a hostile political climate. SC's practice is a symbiosis of art and curatorial work, consistently driven by a focus on political and social realities, particularly those affecting communities in Wales. Since 2016, SC has been curating site-specific exhibitions and projects, engaging with unconventional spaces such as local holy wells and their own dining room, while addressing issues of place, community, and politics.
Website/social links
http://www.studiocybi.com
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Nichola Scrutton / Zoe Strachan - Test-pitting (Live in the studio)
18 April 2025 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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. We see this piece as solidifying our previous works, which we excavated during our recent residency at Glasgow Project Rooms. The residency culminated in a more physical performative offering. Artist bio: Nichola Scrutton is an award-winning composer, performer and artist who produces self-directed works across various media, and collaborates on a range of interdisciplinary and participatory projects. Zoë Strachan is an award-winning fiction writer and librettist. She is Professor of Creative and Interdisciplinary Practice at University of Glasgow. Nichola and Zoë have been collaborating since 2016. Website/social links https://www.nicholascrutton.co.uk/ Twitter/X: @NicholaScrutton and @zoestrachan Instagram: @nic_scrutton and @strachanzoe BC: https://nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/ SC: https://soundcloud.com/nic-2-1 Mailing List: short link - http://eepurl.com/gihZh9 -
Joseph James Francis - Shadows and Tender Frailties
18 April 2025 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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.
Artist bio:
I'm a Berlin-based sound artist, composer, and visual artist embracing the atonal and percussion-less. I create a blend of ambient music and musique concrète. My process invites play, possibility, and randomness, giving my work a distinctive, gridless feel. Adopting and extending the musique concrète approach which uses recorded sounds as raw material in a form of artistic assemblage, I record improvisations on modular synthesisers, noise machines, and acoustic instruments then assemble these sounds in the studio. I am very interesting in creating works for radio, film and theatre.
Website/social links
https://www.josephjamesfrancis.com/
https://www.instagram.com/josephjamesfrancis/
https://soundcloud.com/josephjamesfrancis
https://josephjamesfrancis.bandcamp.com/album/shadows-and-tender-frailties -
Derek Walmsley - Reduce, Reuse, Re-cycle
18 April 2025 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm
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. Derek Walmsley is a writer and bicycle mechanic based in London, and the former editor of The Wire. His bylines have appeared in Electronic Sound, The Quietus, London Review Of Books and elsewhere, and he teaches at the London College of Communication. You can find him blogging at slowmotion.blog Weblink: slowmotion.blog -
Ni & katerina - Interfere/Conjunct/Displace
18 April 2025 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
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? In the piece we work with coils and field recordings. The coils act as receivers and amplifiers for the EM field around us, including sound emissions of the broadcasting equipment; but also as speakers - transmitters of the past. Combining and processing field recordings from the past and various places we decontextualise them, and reflect on ever-present change, memory and the position in the sound field. Throughout the piece we facilitate an interaction between the existing soundscapes - those within and those beyond human perception, bringing them into contact with each other - a process sometimes resulting in attunement. Artist bio: Ni and katarina, are currently based in Den Haag, Netherlands. They are delving into terra spaces where paces and rhythms are subtly morphing, shifting, sedimenting like geological formations and (our) memory. Points of reference are temporal. Moments are transient. We are oscillating in a fault zone. Ni works as a sound designer for film and audio forms editor. They work with analog electronics, field recording, always curious and conscious of the systems and structures that surround them. katarina (id-entity work in progress) is coming from body weather background. Currently studying at Institute of Sonology, they explore the realms of sound. Website/social links https://www.instagram.com/postintrotwone/ https://olpuas.bandcamp.com http://www.instagram.com/sonoronja/ http://www.lllfr.bandcamp.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9416108/ -
Jean-Phillipe Renoult - Unfrequented Frequencies (Live streamed performance)
18 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm
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.
My first contact with electronic music came from a radio set, more specifically the interferences that could be heard between SW stations. As a child, I spent hours fiddling with the radio dial looking for modulations. As an adult, I record these frequencies, I archive them on audio cassettes. Then I bring them back to life by playing the cassettes at different speeds, filtering them and changing them with effect pedals.
These frequencies are enhanced by being imprecise. They are surrounded in silence without being silent. They are unfrequented, but alive
Unfrequented Frequencies has been commissioned, performed or broadcast in various places since 2023, including : La Generale (Paris), Chapelle du Musée de l’Hospice St Roch (Issoudun France), UrbanSound Art festival (Norway), Floating Transmissions Festival (Hamburg Germany) Sound Art: Kunst zum Hören (ORF-Austria).
Jean-Philippe Renoult : A man of sound, a man of radio. Since the 1980s, he has been involved in sound writing inherited from montage and collage techniques. Since then, he has been developing installations and radio features involving pre-recorded noises, loops, music and voices. Since 2016, Jean-Philippe uses radio sounds and shortwave interferences as a musical instrument for the performance series « Unfrequented Frequencies ». In its research of unusual use of radio waves, he produced with DinahBird the "Antenna Gods" series, which combines surveys, sound recordings, photographic works and lectures on the secret use of algorithms and radio waves in high-frequency trading.
https://bird-renoult.net/
https://bird-renoult.net/un-frequented-frequencies-frequences-infrequentees/ -
Buffer Zone
18 April 2025 5:45 pm - 6:00 pm
Ecka Mordecai - Hot Tarmax (1:21) From the album Critique + Prosper. -
Ash Kilmartin - Cadogan Street, girl with Ribena box (WORM residency exchange / RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
18 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Cadogan Street, girl with Ribena box attempts to describe a moment of complete absorption: a stranger on a Glasgow street, a child, stopping to sip from a juice box. Selected from a series of sketches that witness people in states of intense concentration, observed over days Kilmartin spent walking Glasgow’s inner city grid, the poem is expanded, looped, erased and supplemented in an editing process that, like the writing, tries to get inside the unexpected corners of a consuming, if fleeting, everyday experience.
Written, spoken and edited by Ash Kilmartin with bass improvisation by Dada Phone.
Produced as part of a residency / exchange with Radio WORM, Rotterdam.
Ash Kilmartin is an artist and radiomaker from Aotearoa New Zealand who lives in the Netherlands. She is interested in the uses and meanings of the speaking voice and in finding ways to document the small moments of private and collective experience that shape the way we think our own lives. She likes to play with the gaps. She holds an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. From 2020 to 2022, she opened the doors at a shop called LIFE. Since then, she is part of the team behind Radio WORM, and the publishing collective Short Pieces That Move!
ashkilmartin.net
radio.worm.org -
Matt Robin - Petra hoc’h eus kavet? (what did you find?)
18 April 2025 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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. For the piece, I played back and re-recorded her song in a room until only the resonant frequencies shaped by the melody remained, which I then further manipulated through granular synthesis to create a new sonic language. Processed ocean sounds recorded at Westport Beach evoke Brittany’s shores, symbolizing transformation and erosion. This piece reflects on how audio processing can reimagine cultural loss and give rise to new sonic narratives. Artist bio: Matt Robin is a Glasgow-based sound artist, musician, producer and a member of the band NEY. His practice spans experimental composition, collaborative improvisation and sound design. His electronic work explores raw textures and elements of drone mixed with rhythms that shift between controlled pulses and chaotic bursts — often paired with acoustic drums, percussion and other electroacoustic instruments. Matt’s work dissolves boundaries between sound and sensation, engaging both body and ear. He also experiments with field recordings, manipulating fragmentation, error, and decay to reshape meaning, create new sonic narratives, and invite listeners to reimagine time, place, and memory. https://www.instagram.com/mattemattik/profilecard/?igsh=bmlqaHhnNTlqazFp https://www.instagram.com/n___e___y___?igsh=MXhmdHI2cmJiM3ZodQ== -
Electroacoustical Poetical Society - Entropy
18 April 2025 7:00 pm - 8:20 pm
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.
Artist bio:
EAPS was created by Marjorie Van Halteren, a poet, sound artist and composer living in Lille France. Find details at http://www.electroacousticalpoeticalsociety.com.
Website/social links
http://www.electroacousticalpoeticalsociety.com,
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Bariya - Delhi Polyphones
18 April 2025 8:20 pm - 9:30 pm
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.
Read full description here - https://tinyurl.com/delhipolyphones
Artist bio:
Riya Raagini & Pratyush Pushkar a.k.a. Bariya is a queer transdisciplinary artist and writer duo from New Delhi, India.
Their practice flowers from sincere ecological & decolonial awareness and meditation probing through subjective consciousness(ing) with a request to examine and host alternative forms of cognition, listening, un-identity, spirituality, and active resolve. Navigating through creating/rediscovering queer/granular cognitive responses, rigorous poetic probes, collaborative ecological & bioacoustic listening, running an ecological radio station and meditating on ever-present everyday sonic reconciliations. Their recent listening undertakings have been focused around polyphony, speculative bio-acoustics, and granular timesthesia.
Website/social links
Website: https://www.bariyastudio.com/
Instagram: @bariyastudio -
Dosimat - Many Variations Of A Stoat Tail
18 April 2025 9:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Ease into spring. Artist bio: A Collaborative ensemble of Dosimat is a polyglot depot for municipal events. -
Radiophrenia Shorts 40
18 April 2025 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm
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)
1) Juliette Chartier & Anaïs Cabandé - ambre jaune (yellow amber)
"ambre jaune" is an electroacoustic composition by Juliette Chartier and Anaïs Cabandé featuring crackling, electromagnetic waves and bat sounds. The title refers to its Greek translation êlektron. In ancient times, people discovered that rubbing yellow amber produced an attraction to other objects, so they called this force electricity.
ambre jaune was conceived as part of "1485khz", a collective sound installation. Somewhere between documentary, sound poetry and electroacoustic composition, the listening devices questioned the way sounds inhabit us, haunt us and affect bodies and minds. The title 1485khz refers as much to radio, and the fantasies it conveys, as to the physical phenomena that affect the sound wave, and our intimate perception of it.
Juliette Chartier is a sound artist, at the crossroads of several practices: sound documentary, electroacoustic composition and radio exploration. Her work, rooted in a documentary approach, is based on sound collection and field-recording. From this material, she creates sound documentaries as well as compositions for concerts and installations.
https://juliettechartier.fr/
https://www.instagram.com/juliette__chrt/
Anaïs Cabandé is a sound artist, composer & engineer based in Marseille.
https://www.instagram.com/anais_cab/
https://soundcloud.com/anais-cabande
Juliette and Anais are part of Copie Carbone, a radio collective based in Marseille, France.
Active members of the Copie Carbone sound creation collective, they take part in collective sound adventures: ephemeral radios, collective creations and listening sessions.
2) Jorge Carrillo Jardón - Duality with noise pollution
This piece is about how noise pollution is already part of our day and how a large portion of this pollution, both visual and auditory, comes from advertisements or publicity, affecting our travels, stays, or simply the enjoyment of being static in the face of this pollution.
Traveling on the metro through the great cities of the world makes each trip different, but one thing that is always present on metro or train journeys is listening to or seeing advertisements, which are often clearly unwanted by users. But to what extent do our headphones or distractions on our phones free us from these ads?
Jorge Carrillo is a digital artist focused on video art, who seeks to address normalized issues today such as visual pollution. From a very young age, he felt a connection with technology, which gave him the foundation to enter the world of digital art. Digital art student at the Faculty of Arts at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. I have exhibited in several galleries such as "Refugio Para Emergencias Visuales" and "El Teatro Municipal de Tenango."
Currently, Jorge Carrillo is working on video art pieces with a more critical approach.
https://www.instagram.com/elcompitascorpius/?hl=es
https://capocarrillo.wixsite.com/scor
3) Kevin Poulton – Resonance
Resonance was inspired by the composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros and the album Deep Listening recorded in the Dan Harpole underground cistern in Port Townsend Washington. I love recording sound in large spaces with huge natural reverberation and recently had the opportunity to record at Block 336 Art Gallery in Brixton. The Gallery is in the basement of a Brutalist Concrete Building built in the 1950’s. The Instrument featured is a Waterphone with 42 brass rods. The sound of the Waterphone has featured in many films as part of the music soundtrack and as a sound effect. An unusual feature in the gallery is a drain which collects the buildings rainwater. It was raining during the recording session and it felt appropriate that the sound of the water running through the pipes became part of the final work. The Waterphone was played using a violin bow and mallets.
Kevin Poulton is a Sound Artist based in Waterloo, London. He is also one half of the electronics duo pig7 and a member of the Arts Collective Flux Soup.
https://kevinpoulton.bandcamp.com
4) Jamie Lemoine - Tree 68 Outtakes
Experimental Ambient Soundscape using original compositions I created as part of my creative development process for an ecological art installation commissioned by the Irish Museum of Modern Art as part of "Earth Rising" Eco Festival, September 2024. With my partner Dervla, we developed a low impact eco learning and immersive audio experience with a Horse Chestnut tree — Tree 68. We spent 6 weeks visiting and sitting with this one urban tree in the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Quietly listening and observing. The compositions in this soundscape were created in response to this ecological site.
Jamie has worked with music and sound for several decades. An album he produced won best rap album at the California Music Awards in 2004. Jamie is now focused on creating experimental music and sound compositions, often including field recordings and found footage. The Irish Museum of Modern Art commissioned an original soundscape composition by Jamie in 2024, responding to an ecological site located in the grounds. A site-specific music composition of Jamie's was selected for inclusion in Sound Walk Berlin as part of the Month of Contemporary Music Berlin 2023. He works with partner Dervla Clarke as POND Studios.
@pond.studios
https://www.pondstudios.com/
https://www.pondstudios.com/tree68
5) maia harding - IL,CD
IL,CD is a collection of three experimental works made using nodal composition techniques in 2023. Each began as a process of sound collection, using a combination of field recordings and sounds collected from the internet to build complimentary soundscapes. The sounds were selected with a focus on tactility and realism - I wanted everything in the work to be organic, to contrast the highly digital composition method. I then designed a MIDI node network for each, triggering the samples as part of longform improvisations, each note chosen at random by my computer from paths I had laid out. Through realtime parameter manipulation and lots of editing, I sought to find as much musicality as possible in these randomised improvisations.
maia is a multidisciplinary early career artist, composer and theatre maker. Her practice interweaves field recording, synthesis, and live performance, with a strong emphasis on devising, creative collaboration and improvisation. She also writes for spoken word. Her work explores self-determination and the queer+trans experience. She is interested in non-normative composition methods which foreground ephemerality, randomisation and performability.
http://www.maiaharding.uk
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Radiophrenia Shorts 40
18 April 2025 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm
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)
6) Paul Oehlers – Automaton
Written as an homage to unending Rube Goldberg devices, Automaton employs different sounds according to Luigi Russolo’s classifications in roughly equal amounts. The sounds were remotely recorded by the composer and assembled in the construction of the piece. Additional sounds come from the convolution of sounds and resonant filters.
Paul A. Oehlers is most recognized for his “extraordinarily evocative” film scores. (Variety) Films incorporating his music have won the Grand Jury prize at the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Atlanta International Film Festival, and the Indiefest Film Festival. In addition, films with his music have screened at dozens of festivals in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Paul was named the Margaret Lee Crofts Fellow by the MacDowell Colony for the year 2006. He is currently Associate Professor of Audio Technology at American University in Washington, DC.
7) Paul Baran - The Barrier
The Barrier is a sound metaphor of the Architecture and structures built to segregate the marginalized in Society from participating in Daily living, within the constraints of the post Capitalist World.
Paul Baran is a Sound Artist based in Glasgow, UK. He is primarily concerned with using the bridge between the electroacoustic world of sound and the current political landscape. He has released three albums acting as a series of interventions into the inherent structural weaknesses of a Global Society, transitioning from the post modern to the post human.
https://paulbaran.bandcamp.com/
8) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - GAUMENFREUDEN 2
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
9) Jeff Gburek - Grodjdibodu Romania Well Water Echoes
In the Romanian village of Grodjibou (pronounced grow-jee-bee-do) there is a church-yard with a well whose shaft runs 33 meters down to the water
and the sound of excess water droplets richohets back up to our recording device. No special effects here.
Jeff Gburek is poet, field recordist, sound artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist exploring all strata of cosmophonic resolutions.Works increasingly focus on receptive listening and recognition of patterned chaos in the mind triggered by externally ordered phenomenon in flux.Microphones, detuned guitars, hydrophones, shortwave and VLF radios, ground spikes, bat detectors and electronics typify the research in the psycho-acousticsof Gaian whispers enveloping and composing existence.
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/
10) Camilla Hannan – Spital
Spital is composed from field recordings made in and around Glenshee, Scotland in the summer of 2024 during the Murmuration residency organised by Jez Riley French. Its a reflection of my ongoing thoughts around landscape, how we engage with it and how difficult it seems for us to walk lightly within it.
Camilla Hannan is an Australian sound artist who for over 20 years has developed her sonic practice working primarily with field recordings. She processes these recordings into abstract representations of place and experience. She investigates the construction of urban and natural environments sonically, and spatially, morphing these elements into new sound worlds. Camilla’s work is centred on a deep fascination with the way in which we listen to our environment and how this listening impacts upon our micro and macro worlds.
http://www.camillahannan.com
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Andre Birken - Conversations With No One / Conversas com Ninguem
17 April 2025 11:00 pm - 18 April 2025 12:00 am
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.
The title conversations with nobody refers to the play Frei Luis De Sousa, The Portuguese Macbeth of sorts, which contains the line: Who are you? The enigmatic answer is Nobody, Ninguém (neengame). I supplemented the already ironic 1844 play with an acid commentary by a narrator, because history, like all reality, is subjected to interpretation. This is a recycled radio piece, a commissioned work that was rejected, and became an acoustic dream journey through the human condition – a fall into inside depths, reflecting what I think of as molting: shedding a skin in order to change. Listening to one's own thoughts can be like a conversation with no-one … else. I challenge you to empty your mind!
(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 †
Artist bio:
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
Website/social links
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrebirken/
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gobscure - sing singe
18 April 2025 11:00 pm - 11:30 pm
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 ahout the environment)
Artist bio:
gobscure. tyneside-based and self-taught, we layer field-recordings with words and manipulated sound, encouraging listeners to slow down and feel. we bring childlike wonder and playfulness to our sound-collages. samples ov rivers, a nuclear power station, marbles, home-made percussion and fragments ov childhood-song might be woven to address issues such as homelessness, disability and bisexuality (all lived experience). live, we craft unique experiences which are inclusive, friendly and immersive. our sounds have been supported by 2 Sound&Music awards, a.n. bursary, Unlimited, radiophrenia, the auxiliary teesside, Future's Venture Foundation, Alma Zevi Venice. alumni of Glasshouse International Centre for Music Gateshead
Website/social links
https://gobscure.bandcamp.com
https://linktr.ee/gobscure
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A. A. Walker - SNAFU (Situation Normal, All Fucked Up)
18 April 2025 11:30 pm - 19 April 2025 12:00 am
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.
Artist bio:
A. A. Walker is a Scots-Irish writer and performer.
Occurring somewhere else between fiction, poetry, drama and the essay, A. A. Walker’s literary works are informed by experimental and avant-garde writing, innovative poetics, hypertext literature and surrealism, and have been described by the French philosopher Frédéric Neyrat as 'meta-poetic fiction / para-philosophical text / intra-political subversion'.
Published in US, European and Indian literary magazines and websites such as Great Works, Cauldron and Net, Muse Apprentice Guild, Droomschaar, Prakalpana Literature, Carnivorous Arpeggio, Plinth, Alienocene, Fugitives & Futurists, Agon, and others.
Author of Licentia (published by Thin Man Press).
Website/social links
https://aawalker.net
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Spectral Transmissions Research unit - The Path
19 April 2025 12:00 am - 1:00 am
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Contains elements of: The Path By Ivor Cutler. Women Gathering Mushrooms: The Book of Music & Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts, David Rothenberg & Marta Ulvaeus. Music of the Babenzele people and sounds of their forest home.
Artist bio:
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. Comprising a diverse spectrum of entities of various degrees of stability and tangibility. In as much as linear time can be applied, members of the STRU could, have, and or will include(d): Ludd Püca, JohnFrum, Kay Jackson, T-J.Cut, Dr. Ray Power, Proff. Jock Moxter, EKA-Francium, Dr. Tinkerpaw, Kaspar Brøcken, and The Coincidence Sprite.
Website/social links
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Dai Coelecanth - Radio Graveyard
19 April 2025 1:00 am - 7:00 am
Dai Koelakanth irate ranter curmudgeon skinflint here we go again RADIO GRAVEYARD six hours of bad sound hiss fuzz buzz trench warble despite it all the lad always does his best he is a living wart poet film maker artist villiany in the rear view who knows when those skills will be called upon again life can be rough hello listeners I love you all...
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Marco Paltrinieri - The Weaver
19 April 2025 7:00 am - 7:30 am
The Weaver is the debut solo album by the multidisciplinary artist and Discipula collective member Marco Paltrinieri. Merging spoken words with field recordings, electro-acoustic textures and relics of found melodies, The Weaver brings to life, across 6 movements, the memories and thoughts of a creature living in a world in which the distinction between reality and simulation, as well as between psychic space and external environment seems to have definitely collapsed. The album stems from Paltrinieri’s ongoing interest in the cognitive and perceptual mutations caused by the irreversible technologization of our lives. Drawing upon the speculative power of fiction, The Weaver aims at creating a multilayered and non-linear narrative in which sounds and words are used to conjure images from an unknown and yet unsettlingly familiar dimension. Inspired by the imaginative power of musique concrète masters such as Pierre Henry and Luc Ferrari, by the early experiments of the American composer Robert Ashley and by the enigmatic short stories of Buzzati, Kafka and Ballard, The Weaver represents a new step in Marco Paltrinieri’s practice; an attempt to bring together his interest in sound and writing with some of the themes that have always characterised his research: the multifarious effects of technology on human psyche and consciousness, the re-engineering of reality by systems of power and the adoption of surrealism and existentialism as strategies through which to investigate the contemporary. Music and Words: Marco Paltrinieri Voice: Lucie Page Additional Mixing: Nicola Ratti Mastering: Giuseppe Ielasi *** Marco Paltrinieri has been a member of the post-punk band To The Ansaphone and he is a founding member of the artistic research collective Discipula whose works have been exhibited in galleries, museums and festivals in Italy and around the world. Working with sound, video and writing, his solo practice is concerned with humanity’s struggle between advancing technology, decay and mortality. -
Jess Hamilton - takayna
19 April 2025 7:30 am - 8:00 am
Takayna holds the largest ancient temperate rainforest in Australia, stretching across the northwest of Tasmania. This soundscape meanders through tall trees entangled with ferns. Gently flowing rivers. Mosaics of vibrant mosses and fungi. An ancient sinkhole alive with frogs, birds and underwater insects. Rich, wet soil. Deep green. This is one of the last undisturbed Gondwana rainforests in the world. Like many forest sites in Australia, it is threatened and surrounded by logging. Recorded as part of a collaboration with visual artist Sammy Hawker (@sammyhawker), recorded with a stereo mic and hydrophone.
Gratitude and respect to the palawa pakana traditional owners. Dedicated to the forest defenders.
Artist bio:
Jess Hamilton is an audio producer and field recordist living on Gadigal land, Eora (Sydney). Her work explores memory, temporality and the hidden sounds of ecosystems through hydrophones and electromagnetic recorders, layered field recordings and found sound. Through a practice of listening, recording and manipulating sound, she attempts to make audible the anthropogenic influences of our time on ecosystems and soundscapes - particularly those that seem obscured from human senses. Her audio storytelling projects have featured at IFC AudioDocs Reykjavik, Rose D’Or and the Australian Podcast Awards. She is currently studying soundscape ecology through a Master of Marine Science.
Website/social links
https://soundcloud.com/jessicajhamilton/sets/isafjordur-etc
jessica-hamilton.com
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Radiophrenia Shorts 13
19 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
1 Awadh Baryoum - From the Fruits of a Suspended Ode (1:17)
2 Pablo Paniagua - The States of Water - Chubut River (14:31)
3 Ben Gaunt - Air Arc Air (4:00)
4 Alistair Zaldua - the sea bass (6:24)
1) Awadh Baryoum - From the Fruits of a Suspended Ode
This project represents the culmination of my experimental studio practice, where I seek to bridge my passions for language and painting. By juxtaposing texts and paintings, I explore the interactions between these mediums, creating non-linear narratives that are deeply personal. At the heart of this work is the South Arabian alphabet, also known as al-Musnad, which dates back to the 9th century BCE and is distinct from modern Arabic script. I have revived this ancient writing system, adapting it to the Arabic language by introducing new vowel characters. This led to the creation of a custom typeface that facilitates the digital production of Arabic texts using the South Arabian script. Beyond its linguistic innovations, this project examines the relationship between word and image, challenging traditional artistic boundaries.
Awadh Baryoum, an Ethiopian-born Canadian artist, was raised and educated through university in Aden, Yemen. He holds an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in the United States. Baryoum is a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship and a research grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. His works have been widely exhibited in the United States.
https://www.instagram.com/a.baryoum.art/
2) Pablo Paniagua - The States of Water - Chubut River
This piece explores the territorial tension caused by megamining and its environmental impact. From a posthumanist perspective, it challenges the anthropocentric view by using sounds captured from the Chubut River, combined with improvisations on an oscillator, a homemade monochord bass, and audio processing. The work aims to reflect on our activities' impact on aquatic ecosystems and encourages rethinking our relationship with nature as a dynamic system rather than just a resource. It was selected for the Chicharra Festival 2023 in Spain, presented in a 14-channel format for an immersive experience.
I am an artist and educator from Chubut, currently based in Buenos Aires, with a Master’s degree in Combined Artistic Languages. Since 2014, I have participated in national and international artistic events and received awards and grants. My recent work explores visual, auditory, and corporeal elements in specific contexts. As an educator, I teach at various levels of formal and informal education and conduct workshops in both public and private spaces.
https://pablopaniagua.com.ar
https://www.instagram.com/pablopaniagua87/
3) Ben Gaunt - Air Arc Air
This piece was composed in response to the work "Walking in Air in Glasgow" by Emmanuelle Waeckerlé and Will Montgomery, part of the RMA Music and/as Process Conference: Environment, Space & Place (28th - 30th June 2024, University of Glasgow).
After being provided with provocations/guidelines on how to "walk in air", participants went for a stroll, and then were invited to "take some time to reflect upon our experience and gather our traces (words, images, recordings...)"
This composition is my trace. I respond not only to the prompt above but also to the conference as a whole. I recorded air sounds within and outside the Advanced Research Centre (ARC), both naturally occurring and artificially created (e.g. air conditioning units).
Ben Gaunt is a composer, sonic artist, and improviser. He has written for the London Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, and many other lovely people. He has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award, a British Composer Award, and is Professor in Composition at Leeds Conservatoire.
https://www.bengaunt.com/
https://x.com/bencomposer
https://www.bengaunt.com/epk-sonic-artist-and-composer
4) Alistair Zaldua, Lauren Redhead & FLOW Duo - the sea bass
These recordings bring together disparate musical energies in response to three texts created by Lauren Redhead. The performers are Stephen Altoft (19-tone trumpet and flugelhorn), Alistair Zaldua (e-violin), and Johannes Nied (contrabass). Recorded in August 2024 at the Experimental Studio (SWR) in Freiburg, they comprise improvised responses to the experimental writing. In each piece, the text was first read aloud and then the response recorded. The titles are: ‘the sea bass’, ‘prompts for analysis’, and ‘hearing protection’. The texts were made via Oulipo inspired processes and reflect the range of sources from which they are drawn: a recipe database, a guide to graphic notation, and a reflection on the 1980s geography of Manchester. The result is a confluence of ideas, sounds, tuning systems, and extra musical meanings.
Lauren Redhead is an organist, a composer of experimental music, and a musicologist who writes about the socio-semiotics of contemporary musics.
Alistair Zaldua is a composer, conductor, violinist and improviser. Both Alistair and Lauren are based in Manchester, UK.
FLOW Duo is Stephen Altoft (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Johannes Nied (contrabass) and has existed since summer, 2021 solely as an improvisation duo, and is based in Freiburg, Germany.
Lauren Redhead website: https://laurenredhead.eu/about
Alistair Zaldua website: http://www.alistair-zaldua.de
Stephen Altoft website: https://www.stephenaltoft.com
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Radiophrenia Shorts 13
19 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
5 James William Lansdowne - Streaming Music (15:59)
6 Hans Kadensia - _L00P_ (7:14)
7 Una Walker - I, a solitary drama (1:00)
8 Radio Noise Duo - Run Time Errors (8:17)
5) James William Lansdowne - Streaming Music
the piece takes the form of a Stream but with individual, identifiable tracks (with field recordings made across Britain), beginning with a thunderstorm in London; an electrical point of focussed energy,ending as a continual process of re-energisation through synchrony, embedded intelligence, and the ultimate fact that everything changes.
With works spanning from internet anti-pop to pure sonic art, he balances light and dark, minimalism and maximalism, loud and quiet, in a way which echoes through time.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0OoxvLuwVsh4Km7iwuKgO8?si=DwNfDG0HQe2fcvAcsX7bNA
6) Hans Kadensia - _L00P_
_L00P_ is a composition for cello and tape, featuring my recordings of sounds such as crickets and waves. This piece aims to offer a new perspective on how we hear and engage with the sounds of nature. In this work, I seek to confer a powerful dimension and sovereignty to my samples, making them independent within the composition. In this way, nature violently reclaims its rights, asserting itself in the sonic space. The cello interacts in a duet with the tape throughout the piece, imitating the most organic textures possible. Through this work, I aim to denounce and expose current environmental issues, inviting the listener to reflect on our relationship with nature.
Hans Kadensia (Olessia DUPUY) is a 20-year-old French cellist, improviser, and electroacoustic composer. Her work blends the cello with environmental samples, which are reworked and used to create tape. In her pieces, the cello takes a central role, transformed in real-time with effects and interacting with the tape. She aims to fuse technology and music, allowing them to evolve together. Olessia's classical training is fundamental to her artistic approach. She began her studies at the Lyon Conservatory and performed with the Youth Orchestra of the Orchestre National de Lyon under Victor Jacob while exploring solo improvisation on stage.
https://www.instagram.com/hans.kadensia/
7) Una Walker - I, a solitary drama
A solitary walk in the forest, the crunch of gravel underfoot, bird song, incessant cawing of crows, and an internal monologue, searching for self.
Una Walker is an artist and writer based at Flax Art Studios, Belfast and has exhibited extensively in Ireland and internationally, making site and context specific installation and audio and video works. Site specific installation works have been constructed in diverse locations including military fortifications in Ireland, Scotland and Finland, a derelict factory in Poland, and cathedral in Wales. During the Covid lockdowns she became acutely aware of the immediate surroundings of her home in County Down, and started making audio field recordings. A series of audio and video works followed including I, a solitary drama.
http://www.unawalker.com
@utwalker00
8) Radio Noise Duo - Run Time Errors
The piece uses Software-Defined Radio architecture, which processes the sounds of tabla and electronic devices. Such an operation preserves the charecteristics of percussion sounds while generating digital errors. These in turn become the canvass for, created live, musical structure. Consequently, the radio space influences the sound of the whole. The radio becomes a kind of musical instrument.
Tomasz Misiak and Marcin Olejniczak (Radio Noise Duo) from Poland - looking for inspiration in electricity, radio noise and amplified everyday objects. Earlier the musicians were associated with groups like kalEka (Misiak) or Monopium (Olejniczak), but they also had some solo projects. Radio Noise Duo is a part of Radio Noise Orchestra- still continuing initiative focused on radio noise in various artistic activities.
https://www.facebook.com/AntennaNonGrata
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'Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater' - MARY GOES TO SCHOOL
19 April 2025 9:00 am - 9:30 am
Mary Farfisa is an eight-year-old space-girl who travels the Galaxies on her space-horse, Briscoe. Mary goes from planet to planet, searching for “songs and sounds and music and noise” to share with the rest of the Universe. Mary catches the songs and sounds and music and noise in her “audio lasso.” Then she brings them to the Listener’s Library – an intergalactic collection of sounds, curated by music-loving super-beings called the Listeners. 'Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater' was heard every Saturday morning for two years on local station KSZN in Flagstaff Arizona. Its entire run is available now as podcast. In this Episode - MARY GOES TO SCHOOL - Mary Farfisa is terrified when she finds out she has to go to School. Will she have evil teachers? What if the other kids don't like her? And what if an intergalactic emergency happens, while Mary is stuck in class doing nothing? A children's radio series written and produced by Jim Cheff. Starring Cara Alboucq, Isaac Andrews, Nancy Andrews, Leslie Baker, Jim Cheff, Katie King, April Stalder and Jag Thacker, featuring music by Tim Young. ©2017 Jim Cheff, All Rights Reserved. -
Neolithic Cannibals
19 April 2025 9:30 am - 10:00 am
Neolithic Cannibals is a socially engaged sound art project and exhibition from the young people of Whitehawk and East Brighton, and artist Simon James, who was born and raised in Whitehawk. As part of the Class Divide campaign for fairer education, the project confronted issues of stigma and what it means when we listen to the unheard and invisible. Textures, shapes and patterns derived from archaeological materials place the Neolithic Cannibals soundscape deeply within the heritage and history of Whitehawk in Brighton. The listening spans thousands of years, from Neolithic Flint Knapping to the early 20th century geophysical techniques used to discover Whitehawk Camp, and now the young artists from Whitehawk creating a contemporary artefact using the sounds of their environment. Communities connecting across thousands of years through listening.
Artist bio:
The artists are a group of young people from Whitehawk in East Brighton, uninhibited by experience or knowledge and any preconceived ideas of what sound art should be. They bring an instinctive, playful and raw energy; turning sounds inside out, carving new shapes, oscillations and resonances. Supporting them is Simon James, a self trained sound artist and composer engaging in deep listening to the unheard and hidden - mixing environmental field recordings with electronic and electroacoustic sources.
Website/social links
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Gabriele Heller - Utopia More and more
19 April 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Utopia has been in our consciousness since the beginning of humanity. Where is this elusive land of equality and happiness and how can we enter? Utopia M&m invites you on an exploration of the utopian ideal, a journey into the past as well as the future. Fusing prerecorded texts and music fragments with a live performance this interlaced audio piece creates a rich tapestry that plays with perception, form and genre. Wander with us through a space filled with dreams, political activism, philosophical dispute, belief and disbelief. What do Thomas More, the mysterious voice, Plato, Robert Owen and the miracle of Wörgl have in common? Are you in or are you out? Join our utopian quest into a land of skepticism, aspiration, reflection and hope.
Artist bio:
Gabriele Heller is a German born artist working across theatre, music, live art and sound. She is the director of theatre-between, part of Tuesday’s Childe theatre collective and member of various jazz ensembles. Gabriele holds an MA in German Literature and Theatre studies and is a founding member of the fast food theater, Munich. Gabriele worked as an assistant audio director at the Bavarian Radio Broadcast and as a tutor in Northumbria University and Newcastle University. In 2011 she co-directed the Festival Robert Walser in Newcastle. Since 2001 Gabriele lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Website/social links
http://www.gabrieleheller.com ; https://www.johnpopebass.co.uk ; https://johngarner.co.uk ; -
Bex Šik - Dredging Echoes (Watersilver)
19 April 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
In Dredging Echoes (Watersilver) aspects of stealth, scavenging, (counter)surveillance and the commons are intertwined through an exploration of the hobbies of two individuals, a Zombie Satellite Tracker and a Magnet Fisher. The piece uses the echo as both concept and effect to explore fields and forces invisible to the human eye. Bringing to light covert activities, hidden pathways and the delicate line between physics and magic. Composed with custom built musical instruments that harness the power of magnetic fields and weaving through investigations into bat echolocations, underwater field recordings, electromagnetic phenomena and the sun-earth connection. The work was made because radio is magic, to pay homage to the obsessions of amateurs and hobbyists and to embodied knowledge that sits outside language. Insta: @bexsik -
Buffer Zone
19 April 2025 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
1 ) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 5 (5:00)
2) Hexakaidecagon (3:53)
3) Ecka Mordecai - la charnière II (1:12)
4) Niko-Matti Ahti - Kaivajaiset Part 1.3 (6:51)
1 ) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 5
Using small white single-use plastic items from everyday foodstuffs visual scores have been created on a black background. A vocal sound palette is suggested and in the six five minute sound pieces used for four voices to render the plastic pieces as imagined fragments of letters of the Roman alphabet. The scores can be viewed and listeners are invited to soundalong with the pieces by using the palette and following some basic suggested instructions - or by using their own sounds. The scores and the palette can be read here https://daily-bread-rp2025.blogspot.com/2025/02/?m=1
Artist bio:
Johnny Dixon is Irish and lives in London.
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3) Ecka Mordecai - la charnière II
From the album Promise & Illusion
4) Niko-Matti Ahti - Kaivajaiset Part 1.3
From the album Kaivajaiset
Best known for his work alongside his partner Marja as Ahti & Ahti, Niko-Matti has been an active participant in the Finnish underground since the late 1990s. "Kaivajaiset" is his first solo recording and was originally conceived of as an installation. Part horspiel, part musique concrete, it is a piece of music that draws comparisons to the work of pioneering avant-garde composers such as Henning Christiansen, Annea Lockwood, Luc Ferrari, and Pierre Mariétan. Ahti weaves vivid foley and domestic recordings together with oration and classical instrumentation (violin, clarinet, bass clarinet, and flute) to arrive at an expansive, narrative, and at times thrilling composition. “Kaivajaiset" was exhibited in two Finnish galleries: B-Galleria in Turku (2019) and 3H+K in Pori (2020). The installation drew inspiration from The Diggers' 1649 pamphlet and Michel Foucault's extension of Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of genealogy, and consisted of sounds, opinion pieces, a print copy of the pamphlet, and four cardboard collages. This record is a summary of the sounds of the installation. -
Ash Kilmartin - Cadogan Street, girl with Ribena box (WORM residency exchange / RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
19 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Cadogan Street, girl with Ribena box attempts to describe a moment of complete absorption: a stranger on a Glasgow street, a child, stopping to sip from a juice box. Selected from a series of sketches that witness people in states of intense concentration, observed over days Kilmartin spent walking Glasgow’s inner city grid, the poem is expanded, looped, erased and supplemented in an editing process that, like the writing, tries to get inside the unexpected corners of a consuming, if fleeting, everyday experience. Written, spoken and edited by Ash Kilmartin with bass improvisation by Dada Phone. Produced as part of a residency / exchange with Radio WORM, Rotterdam. Ash Kilmartin is an artist and radiomaker from Aotearoa New Zealand who lives in the Netherlands. She is interested in the uses and meanings of the speaking voice and in finding ways to document the small moments of private and collective experience that shape the way we think our own lives. She likes to play with the gaps. She holds an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. From 2020 to 2022, she opened the doors at a shop called LIFE. Since then, she is part of the team behind Radio WORM, and the publishing collective Short Pieces That Move! ashkilmartin.net radio.worm.org -
Williwaw - Radio-fringe
19 April 2025 12:20 pm - 1:00 pm
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Radiophrenia Shorts 27
19 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1) Diana Duta - death watch beetle (8:08)
2) Mark Griffiths - We will forget their songs (6:23)
3) Petri Kuljuntausta - The Big Reveal (In C) (10:35)
4) Craig Stewart Johnson - Passages and Combinations (15:00)
1) Diana Duta - death watch beetle
An invitation to embody a yew tree through tuning into its particular aural experience – populated with sounds of dragonflies, beetles, slugs, dust, crows and other creatures from its immediate environment. The piece was commissioned for ‘Whisperings of the taxus trees’ - a research initiated by Karolien Polenus exploring the history, energetic power, and properties of the Taxus tree. The project aims to highlight the importance of nature in the urban landscape and to remember that we are all nature, and that we connect with her at any time.
Diana Duta is an artist working with sound in hypnotic ways, with a background in art and socio-cultural linguistics. Her work focuses on concepts of mimesis and reiteration within the linguistic and the natural worlds, our relationship to the non-human and acts of listening. Her solo project DIAN makes things disappear with words, while performing an oracular striptease in the dark. She is part of the monthly community hypnosis sessions t.r.a.n.c.e and runs Jambes, a recording studio commissioning new work by artists experimenting with sound and voice. She is a citizen of Romania, Belgium and Elgaland-Vargaland.
https://dianaduta.com/
https://jaaambes.be/
https://www.instagram.com/dianaduta_/
https://barramovement.com/whisperings-of-the-taxus-trees/
2) Mark Griffiths - We will forget their songs
“We will forget their songs” explores the phenomenon of Shifting Baseline Syndrome (also known as Environmental Generational Amnesia.)
What we think of to be a healthy environment now, would have been regarded by past generations as impoverished. What we judge to be degraded now, the next generation will perceive as the norm. As a result, our expectations of ecologies are lowered, generation by generation.
The work combines narrative, and soundscapes based on bird song. The narrative includes both personal experience and objective statistics.
Four formerly common birds were used to as examples, we start with their natural songs*, but as the piece proceeds, they are electronically processed or recreated as an analogy for the degradation of our memories.
*Recordings of the Turtle Dove, Yellowhammer, Skylark and House Martin are from the British Library archive (Creative Commons Attribution 4 international licence)
Mark Griffiths (b.1959), is a composer living just outside of Oxford, England. He began creating Musique Concrète in the late 70s before moving to ambient and electronica works. He started producing more experimental material again in the 2020s using digital manipulation of real sounds as well as modular synthesis. That work explores dreams, memory, mental states or environmental issues, while some is purely abstract.
He publishes his more conventional material under the name of Mark Ellery Griffiths, the less conventional under the name Mark Dalton Griffiths.
https://markdaltongriffiths.bandcamp.com
https://markdaltongriffithsmusic.blogspot.com
3) Petri Kuljuntausta - The Big Reveal (In C)
The Big Reveal (In C) is one of the AI choral parts of the upcoming electronic media opera. The voices of the choir have been sung by real singers, but the control of the choir's voices takes place with the help of artificial intelligence in real time. The choir starts with one pitch and finally returns to the same pitch (C). During the sound journey, the vocalization of the choir thickens and the intensity increases, and we hear microclusters between the notes C–C#–D. Choir singers sing phonemes and produce combinations of phonemes. If the listener hears language-like words in the sound fields of the work, however, these language-like structures are the result of chance or imagined. In addition to the choir, the opera ensemble includes real & artificial intelligence vocal soloists and a synthesizer orchestra. Parts of the opera have been performed as a theatrical version in 2023.
Petri Kuljuntausta is a Finnish media composer, sound artist, adjunct professor of sound art and electronic music, a doctor of philosophy and author of three books on electronic music and sound art. Kuljuntausta's keen interest in sound and its different dimensions has lead him to work in multiple fields of art and science. He started out as a composer and guitarist who played several instruments and created compositions with multi-track technology. Kuljuntausta is currently researching sound communication and making music with other species, especially birds.
kuljuntausta.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_Kuljuntausta
https://www.facebook.com/petri.kuljuntausta
https://www.instagram.com/petriear
4) Craig Stewart Johnson - Passages and Combinations
'Passages and Combinations' is a work that considers space, as opposed to place, as something constantly under construction. It asks whether we favour time over place, where we place our bets. Recordings of multiple spaces are layered in a spatiotemporal collage, taking the listener to one place, then another, always in flux, never settled.
Touching on how DIY, underground or otherwise experimental art practices work tactically within structures of power, 'Passages and Combinations' positions this temporality not as something to be ignored but as something full of potential.
In fluctuating space, we enact processes of deconstruction and reconstruction, reversal and transversal, working within solid structures to create something fluid, a place where plurality can exist.
Craig Stewart Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He is currently undertaking his PhD research at Northumbria University in the department of Fine Arts, researching the ecologies and economies of the experimental music scene referred to as the no-audience underground. His work revolves around experimental art forms and DIY underground cultures, threads which influence both his artistic and research output.
https://www.craigstewartjohnson.com
https://www.instagram.com/craigstewartjohnson/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 27
19 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
5) Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky - Body Becoming (2:06)
6) Katie McMurran – Ants (2:26)
7) Jacqueline Jay Wilde - Freddy! Wait, don't start. (3:06)
8) Franco Falistoco - GOLEM (BOLETíN de RE-Escritura) (9:06)
5) Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky - Body Becoming
My practice is both diaristic and informed by research into subjects such as geopoetics, queer ecology, species extinction, poetry, and ritual. Body Becoming is an exercise in Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros, and a response to Oliveros' Sonic Meditations. The piece aims to bridge the language barrier between the human, non-human, and more-than-human by listening, responding to, and amplifying the language(s) of the natural world.
Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky is a multidisciplinary artist from Montreal, Canada, currently pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. They have exhibited their work in Canada, the United States, Italy, and Scotland, and have recently shown their work at the Museo Spazzio Pubblico (Bologna, 2023), Maison de la Culture de Pointe-aux-Trembles (Montreal, 2023), Artch (Montreal, 2021), and as part of a large-scale architectural projection with Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles (2021). They have completed artist residencies with Art Souterrain (Montreal, 2021), Franconia Sculpture Park (Minnesota, 2021), and Atelier Silex (Trois Rivières, 2023).
https://www.michellepawlowsky.com/
https://www.instagram.com/michellepawlowsky/
6) Katie McMurran – Ants
This is a very short work I created around a battle I waged this past year against the ants that had overtaken my hummingbird feeder. It's centered around a musical motif (a little punk rock chorus) that I composed in my head one day, and fleshed out with my own (and two very professional) field recordings.
Katie McMurran is an audio engineer, sound designer and composer currently living in northern California. She studied music technology at CalArts.
Jacqueline Jay Wilde - Freddy! Wait, don't start.
Using fragments of radio broadcast - cut up dialogue and and an intermittent orchestral concert coupled with distorted voice with the intention of creating a discordant and disorientating atmosphere. A few lines are repeated which leave interpretation open.
Jacqueline Jay Wilde is a writer, actor and sound artist. Jacqueline performs her poetry at open mics, acts regularly on stage and in the occasional short film. She trained at Edinburgh College of Art and Acting Coach Scotland and has had sound works performed at Lights Out Listening Group, and broadcast by Radiophrenia, Writers Block Radio Hour and Pulse Radio.
https://soundcloud.com/jjw51
https://www.instagram.com/jacjayw
7) Franco Falistoco - GOLEM (BOLETíN de RE-Escritura)
"Sometimes a beastly rumour breaks the silence."
-| Gustav Meyrink
Experimental radio piece inspired by texts by Gustav Meyrink and The Invisible Generation by William S. Burroughs.
Using as axis a nocturnal sound walk, real time recordings of WSDR sounds and processes and effects on instruments.
Radioartist and cultural manager.
He bases his work on the idea that sound communicates in all its variants, appealing to intimate and collective emotions.
Dedicated to sound experimentation, being radio art and sound art the formats where he channels his artistic concerns.
For the last 15 years, he has been producing El RUIDO es el Mensaje (The NOISE is the Message), a radio laboratory of sound alchemy that uses noise (within the sound axis of a cultural context) as part of the language of sound.
He currently runs the digital label CALATHEA experimenta (calathea.ar).
IG: https://www.instagram.com/noiseisthemessage/
WEB: https://www.calathea.ar
IG: https://www.instagram.com/calathea.experimenta/ -
Verónica Cerrotta - Tiny little river - Autumn Afternoon
19 April 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Field recordings from Brazil's Atlantic Forest
This is a series of field recordings made in the transition biome between the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro.
The recordings were made in different seasons of the year, between 2023-2024, and at different times of the day. Each of the recordings has an approximate duration of sixty minutes.
Artist bio:
Argentinean sound artist settled in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her artistic work is based on the use of field recordings and navigates between soundscape and experimental electroacoustic and concrete music, focusing on listening and sound imagination.
Since 2019, she has released solo works on the labels Impulsive Habitat, Música Insólita, Pakapi Records and Sello Postal.
She has also released the collaborative works ‘Slani pejzaži’(tsss tapes), with Manja Ristić and Joana Guerra, ‘In-Radius’ (Presses Précaires) with Pablo Díaz, and “Fase de Plegamiento’ (Green Field Recordings) with Juan José Calarco.
Website/social links
linktr.ee/veronica_cerrotta
https://veronicadaniela.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/veronicadanielacerrotta
https://www.instagram.com/veronica_cerrotta/ -
Anna Friz - Revenant
19 April 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Revenant is a radio art work which explores mortality, rot, and regeneration, using electronic and radiophonic instruments, and field recordings made both below and above ground. The first part reflects on a summer of extreme heat and wildfire, and the desire to escape into the safety of a burrow underground. The second reconsiders the mythical journey of the living into the underworld, wondering what kind of organism does one need to become to burrow down to the earth in order to reunite with a deceased loved one? The creatures who move easily through the soil are often considered abject: insects, rodents, serpents, worms. A journey to the underworld requires metamorphosis of body and senses on the quest for visitation with the dead. Commissioned by ORF Kunstradio and recorded in the mighty RP4 studios of the ORF Funkhaus in Vienna and on various locations in Santa Cruz, California.
Artist bio:
Anna Friz is a Canadian radio, sound and media artist, who creates audio compositions, broadcasts, installations, short films, and live performances. Her curiousity continually returns to themes of transmission ecologies and the intimacies of signal space, environment and land, infrastructures, time perception and durational performance, and critical fictions. Since 1998, she has created radiophonic works in which radio is often the source, subject, and medium of the work; she also composes for theater, dance, film, and public practice performance. Anna is Associate Professor in the Film and Digital Media Department of University of California, Santa Cruz.
Website/social links
https://nicelittlestatic.com -
Margo Misiak-Orlovic - Z/G/T/H/
19 April 2025 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
The name Z/G/T/H references Rosi Braidotti’s zoe/geo/techno asemblages (to which Margo reintroduces ‘human’, an agent still being processed) and the wider conversation on the possibility of a re-imagined posthuman subject which emerges from our rejection of the dominant role of Anthopos and an attempt to dehierarchise the multispecies and global relationships.
Work created for the RCA2024 graduate show where a version of it was playing using as speakers experimental copper-and-enamel objects created by Margo.
Field recording as a material research method originated from the need for a non-destructive way of working with soil and other natural materials, which were full of life that required acknowledgement and respect.
The recordings include voices of various animals, a number of natural water sources, electromagnetic waves of personal and commercial devices, friends encountered inside the workshops, tools and materials activated by human hand, things being activated by other things in the environment, manipulated ultrasounds.
Artist bio:
Margo Misiak-Orlovic is a London-based interdisciplinary artist and material[ity] researcher whose jewellery-and-metal-native practice is interested in radical dehierarchising of material relationships and engaging in experimental, collaborative, boundary-dissolving material practices. Rejecting human-imposed [power] narratives, through their material engagement Margo explores the possibilities for more just, free and participatory ways of being in the world.
Graduated from MA RCA Jewellery and Metal in 2024.
Recipient of Graham Hughes Award for Outstanding Student in Jewellery and Metal, Behrens Foundation Bursary and RCA Vice Chancellor’s Achievement Scholarship.
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/margo_orlovik/
https://margoorlovik.com/pages/rca2024-j-m
https://soundcloud.com/m-mo-169021752/zgth -
Tom White - An Awful Energy
19 April 2025 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
The Oare Marshes Nature Reserve in Kent was once used to manufacture gunpowder for the first world war effort. On 02 April 1916 a series of massive gunpowder explosions took the lives of 108 people (including White’s Great Grandfather, Sydney Clubb) and injured many more. The blast left a crater 40 yards wide and 20 feet deep. The explosion was so huge it was reportedly felt in Norwich and heard in France.
Remnants of the site remain to this day among the rich ecosystem of birds, insects and non-native marsh frogs. An Awful Energy attempts to draw connections with the past and its present inhabitants/uses of the space; the tragic consequence of a singular event and the development of a very different ecology. Through site specific recordings and actions tracing fading lines in the landscape; a sonic demarcation or archeology can be felt.
Artist bio:
Tom White is a Ramsgate-based artist focusing predominantly on sound-based practices such as live performance, installation, recordings, composition for dance and film. Past projects include commissions and appearances for Radiophrenia, Glasgow (CCA); BRAUBLFF (KRAAK & De Player); Whitechapel Gallery, London & Colour out of Space Festival, Brighton. Recent collaborators include Surface Area Dance Theatre, Maya Dunietz, Ben Knight, Renato Grieco and Lia Mazzari. He has performed extensively across the UK and Europe, traveled to North America & Japan and had work published by labels such as Takuroku (Cafe OTO), Glistening Examples, Calling Cards Publishing and many others.
Website/social links
https://tomwhitesound.com/
https://www.instagram.com/tomwhitesound/ -
David Sappa & Caitlin Kiely - The Walker in the Landscape
19 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
The Walker in the Landscape began as a narrative script written and recorded by artist Caitlin Kiely in 2020. The spoken word audio was intended to be listened to as the walker or listener moved through a landscape or environment. The idea being that they occupy the space between the two characters – the Walker and the Narrator — as they temporarily locate the narrative in the physical space they occupy.
As a sound artist and experimental musician with a field recording component to their practice, David heard Caitlin’s script and began recollecting sonic memories of landscapes and environments they’d experienced, leading to conversations with Caitlin around the research and contexts surrounding her work. This prompted a collaboration which saw David conduct visits to re - wilding sites of prior extraction over the course of several years - in Wales, Cornwall and Kent (UK) - culminating in a series of field recordings and on-site material improvisations, which were then used as the basis for a composition that underpinned Caitlin’s narrative, alongside de-constructed folk improvisations (zither and saw).
David was drawn to the performance of power within Caitlin’s characters, and how these repeat and play out across multiple layers both spoken and unspoken within the narrative; from the singular, small scale character traits of the walker/antagonist to the upscaled larger affects of organising around such traits - as the landscape changes through time with human intervention. These dynamics were considered and meditated on within the compositional processes, seeing field recording and improvisation as modes for listening to, and having dialogs with, landscapes. Contrastingly, acousmatic experimentation within the computer were seen as extractive, but useful for smudging the lines between the different intersecting membranes and voices held within the dialog.
The ongoing talks and considerations around both of our practices have lead to new ideas about how we may approach these ideas going forward, which we’ll be continuing to develop in 2025.
Thanks to:
Grace Emily Manning - Voice - Narrator
Roland Ross - Voice - Walker
Dominic Lewis - sound assistance in Wales
Caitlin Kiely is an artist who investigates our relationships with landscapes, through a narrative and feminist lens. She situates herself and practice between fieldwork, archive and studio – whilst occupying the role of investigator, witness and storyteller. (contact : https://www.caitlinkiely.co.uk/ // https://www.instagram.com/caitkiely/ )
David Sappa is a sound artist interested in sound for its tactile, textural and somatic qualities, and as modes for interrelatedness and interplay that can explore dynamics between our social, psychological and material entanglements within different environments. (contact : https://davidlorenzosappa.cargo.site/ // https://www.instagram.com/bloopdyblooop/ ) -
Buffer Zone
19 April 2025 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
1) Marc Perez - the mouth cries, the eyes kill (2:48)
2) Studio Descrittivo di Base - Suoni Del Devoto Ballo (4:02)
3) Nichola Scrutton - At First Light (8'49)
1) Marc Perez - the mouth cries, the eyes kill
This work is meant to highlight and illustrate a struggle in sonic communication between two entities. One is searching for love, guidance, and something warm that will validate their existence. The other seemingly responds in lack of care, not only in a micro sense but a macro sense, showing the other entity they mean nothing.
Artist bio:
Trombone Player, Composer, Improviser, Artist & Author Marc Perez utilizes his unique understanding and approach to improvisation in a broad range of interdisciplinary practices. His approach to sound, music perception & non traditional notation is quickly making Marc a sought-after collaborator and making his work quickly known.
https://www.marcperezmusic.com
https://www.instagram.com/mapmusiq
2) Studio Descrittivo di Base - Suoni Del Devoto Ballo
Ispirata alla poesia *Suoni* di Guido Ballo, un affresco sinestetico in cui sonorità naturali e immagini sviluppano corrispondenze, materializzando un paesaggio selvatico e avvolgente. La composizione musicale interpreta l'essenza del testo in chiave elettroacustica ed analogica, con registrazioni d'ambiente, suoni ancestrali di launeddas e voce.
Artist bio:
SDDB nasce a Bologna nel 2014 dall'incontro tra due artisti italiani, Antonio Nuvoli e Antonio Orlando.
Studio Descrittivo di Base. Concettuale, aleatorio, elettronico ed acustico, analogico e concreto, é ricerca senza soluzione di continuità, fluida e irripetibile come la vita.
digiugnoalessandro.wixsite.com/studio-descrittivo-d
soundcloud.com/studiodescrittivodibase
http://www.youtube.com/studiodescrittivodibase
google translation:
Inspired by the poem *Suoni* by Guido Ballo, a synesthetic fresco in which natural sounds and images develop correspondences, materializing a wild and enveloping landscape. The musical composition interprets the essence of the text in an electroacoustic and analogue key, with ambient recordings, ancestral sounds of launeddas and voice.
Artist bio:
SDDB was born in Bologna in 2014 from the meeting between two Italian artists, Antonio Nuvoli and Antonio Orlando.
Basic Descriptive Study. Conceptual, random, electronic and acoustic, analogue and concrete, it is research without a solution of continuity, fluid and unrepeatable like life.
3) Nichola Scrutton - At First Light
Synopsis of piece:
At First Light – one from Nichola’s archive - a vocal meditation inspired by the play of light at sunrise.
Artist bio:
Nichola Scrutton is an award-winning composer, performer and artist who produces self-directed works across various media, and collaborates on a range of interdisciplinary and participatory projects.
Website/social links
https://www.nicholascrutton.co.uk/
Twitter/X: @NicholaScrutton
Instagram: @nic_scrutton
BC: https://nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2bKegVEj2mTO0JlPDkE3qd (such it is)
SC: https://soundcloud.com/nic-2-1
Mailing List: short link - http://eepurl.com/gihZh9 -
Ute Wassermann - Imaginary Habitats (RADIOPHRENIA / GOETHE INSTITUT 2025 commission)
19 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Ute Wassermann interweaves her voice with field recordings of birds, insects, frogs - of creatures that move across the boundaries between air, water and earth and finds new and different resonance places far away from their original environment. Fragile, seemingly natural sounds, such as the buzzing of bees under water, can be transformed into technoid drones. Snippets of soundscapes ghost through objects. Does the singer retain her identity or does she become the ‘other’? The boundary between self and environment becomes fluid, so that the latter itself becomes an illusion in favour of a more complex reality. The binaries of animal and human, object and human, nature and technology are turned upside down in favour of interwoven relationships based on reciprocity. Ute Wassermann: voice, bird whistles Felix Blume: field recordings 'Imaginary Habitats' is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Goethe Institut Glasgow. Bio Ute Wassermann is one of the outstanding contemporary vocal artists of our time. She combines composition, improvisation and performance art to create her own form of Gesamtkunst, in which environmentally relevant themes play an essential role. At the centre of her research is the continuous and uncompromising exploration of her voice. Ute Wassermann's singing goes far beyond the human voice and manifests itself in multidimensional sculptural sounds that oscillate between electronic, animal, inorganic and human qualities. She takes this to the extreme by creating a visceral sound space through the use of different types of microphones. In addition, she expands and alienates her voice through the use of bird whistles, lo-fi electronics, resonators, field recordings and objects. She has been touring the world as an improviser and performer of contemporary music for many years. In the last ten years, she has increasingly realised audiovisual performances, installations and compositions for soloists and ensembles. https://utewassermann.com -
Simina Oprescu - Green Hermeticism
19 April 2025 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
This binaural composition, inspired by Green Hermeticism by Peter Lamborn Wilson, intertwines spoken word and psychoacoustic phenomena, guiding listeners through a narrative on consciousness, matter, energy, and spirit. Drawing on key citations from the text, the work explores unconventional belief systems, where the symbolic becomes real, and nature is seen as a perceptive entity. With references to Ilya Prigogine's theories and Novalis' hermetic science, it delves into how consciousness shapes the natural world, unfolding through rhythm and transformation—from mineral to plant, animal, human, and divine. This journey reflects hermetic principles of unity and creation, as consciousness seeks itself through all metamorphoses.
Photo cover: Musaeum Hermeticum, Frankfurt edition, 1749
Narrators voice at the beginning: Zach Hart
Recorded, designed and composed by Simina Oprescu
Artist bio:
Simina Oprescu (b.1993) is a Romanian composer of electroacoustic music and sound artist based in Berlin, Germany, submersing herself in the intricacies of sound's acoustic and spectral properties. Her compositions embrace a diverse array of instruments, spanning from analog synthesizers to computer music or string instruments. Simina employs acoustic artifacts from physical or natural spaces as recordings, showcasing techniques cultivated through an investigative electroacoustic composition approach.
Her praxis unfolds with a fusion of synthetic and aural elements, ranging from intricate, detail-oriented maximalist stereo compositions to immersive multi-channel sonic minimalism, reshaping the contours of acoustic spaces, and audio-visual. Simina's exploration takes her deep into structures and phenomena, weaving potent yet nuanced harmonic narratives influenced by psychoacoustics, consciousness studies, spatial arts, and theoretical or physical sound-sculpture installations.
Her artistic thinking centers on unified immersion, sound movement, and gesture, infusing philosophical meaning into her work.
Her work was presented in numerous festivals, music/radio platforms, galleries and museums, collaborating with various international video artists, and her sound compositions were exhibited in EVA International | Ireland’s Biennial, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Märkisches Museum Berlin, MOTA Museum Ljubljana, n.b.k Berlin, Hošek Contemporary, Suprainfinit Gallery Bucharest, MARe museum Bucharest (Museum of Recent Art), SONICA, Cynetart, Rokolectiv, Simultan or ORF musikprotokoll and having her work mentioned in various magazines, like Positionen Berlin or The Wire. In 2020 she was selected to be part of the SHAPE+ platform artist roster.
Website/social links
http://siminaoprescu.net
instagram.com/siminaoprescu -
Live-to-Air performances - Ahti Ahti / Hexacaidecagon / Semay Wu & Juana Adcock / Ecka Mordecai
19 April 2025 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Running order TBC:
Ahti Ahti
Hexakaidecagon
Semay Wu & Juana Adcock
Ecka Mordecai
Ahti & Ahti - Tidal Broom
Ahti & Ahti is a duo comprising Finnish sound artists Marja Ahti (b. 1981, Luleå) and Niko-Matti Ahti (b. 1976, Ulvila), working in composition and performance. Their material often consists of recordings of everyday spaces and events, simple instrumentation, amplified everyday objects and electronic sound sources. They currently live in Turku where they are also organizing events.
At Radiophrenia, Ahti & Ahti will give a live-to-air performance of their new piece Tidal Broom, developed in residence at the solitary Örö Island, a former military base off the Finnish west coast. Work on the island included acoustic explorations, opening up to the materiality of sound in the continuous movement of natural life, tracing sand patterns and mind patterns, exploring the architectural sonic particularities of bunkers and caves. The performance brings together gathered sounds, sounding materials and traces of processes unseen but felt.
https://ahtiahti.bandcamp.com/
https://marjaahti.bandcamp.com/
https://niko-matti-ahti.bandcamp.comHexakaidecagon - Wrong’uns Makin’ Rights or a series of events in which one induces or influences the next
Hexakaidecagon will be performing an epic 3 hour piece for radio condensed into a 30 minute package. It will be a series of chain reactions and potentials situated throughout the performance space played on an array of found and altered devices. We will use a multichannel array going through homemade speakers and activated elements of Civic House’s architecture which will then be mixed to stereo signal for radio broadcast.
Very little is known about Hexakaidecagon. Rumours about them have been seeping into unexpected places. Hexakaidecagon are the Ruby Slippers, Grand Ole Opry and The House on the Rock. They are a whirlwind survey of knocking in the night and rushing tides. Hexakaidecagon is a duo that shares band members with Benicio del Trainwreck, Ego Depletion, Dome Riders and Peeesseye. They are thrilled to welcome a situation in which possibilities overpower intentions.Semay Wu & Juana Adcock - Bicycle Lights in the fog
Synopsis: Reading some Ivor Cutler, “Texts, leaving soft holes for the sun to glitter through like bicycle lights in the fog.” And “He tries to fill the space, so he sings a song about porridge trapped by a dam.” Random, sometimes absurd, thoughts light up and take shape, allowing us to jump into whole new worlds in a single speck of time.
BIOs:
Semay Wu is a composer, cellist, improviser, and media/sound artist. Influenced by free improvisational frameworks, Semay composes primarily in electroacoustic sounds: most recently with graphic scores, field recordings and live electronics. She has also developed video pieces, performance/interactive-installations, as well as an online audio cookbook for Manchester’s communities: Sounds Like Scran, in 2021.
Semay’s solo performances use sampling and improvisation, of cello, voice and everyday objects, and has released four albums: Raspberry Hotel (Akashic Records, 2022), Sharmanka & Unsteady Stones (Scatter Archive, 2023 & 2024), and The Spinal Cactus #001 (self-released), made for her first UK tour (as solo) in 2024.
https://semaywu.com/
Juana Adcock, born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, is a poet writing in both English and Spanish. She is the author of Manca (Tierra Adentro, 2014), Vestigial (Stewed Rhubarb, 2022), and Split (Blue Diode, 2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and I Sugar the Bones (Out-Spoken Press, 2024). She is co-editor of the anthology Temporary Archives: Poetry by women of Latin America (Arc, 2022) and translator of Laura Wittner’s Translation of the Route (Bloodaxe/PTC, 2024) and Hubert Matiuwaa’s The Dogs Dreamt. She performs regularly at literary festivals in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
https://jennivora.com/
Ecka Mordecai - Violet Pavane
A re-imagining of the medieval pavane for‘cello, harp, footsteps and the scent of violets.
Bio: Ecka Mordecai is an artist working with sound, performance and scent. First trained in Elizabethan and Renaissance music (Viola de Gamba, Rebec, Recorder, cello) she later attended art schools in Brighton and London, specialising in sound and performance art.
Between 2010-2020 she was an avid improviser, developing extended techniques for cello which took inspiration from the British free-improv movement and text scores of the 1960/70s Fluxus art movement. Since 2020 her work has become more compositional, exploring themes of intimacy as they relate to acts of listening.
She composed two solo albums for Cafe Oto’s in-house labels Takuroku (Critique + Prosper, 2020) and Otoroku (Promise & Illusion, 2022), a collection of soundscape-inspired perfumes for Aequill (Sound 01/02/03, 2022), and composed for Kamila Kuc’s experimental short film I was there, 2025.
She has a project with Valerio Tricoli (Mordecoli, Château Mordécoly, 2022) and is in a trio with Andrew Chalk and Tom James Scott (Circæa, The Bridge of Dreams, 2017). -
Radiophrenia Shorts 41
19 April 2025 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm
1) Gardika Gigih - Mikrokosmos 1 (10:14)
2) Renán Zelada Cisneros - No recuerdo las montañas (16:48)
1) Gardika Gigih - Mikrokosmos 1
Composed by Gardika Gigih In Collaboration with Fernand Deroussen (audio-naturalist), Nanang Bayu Aji (Gamelan), Hye-Ohn Park (Daegeum) “Mikrokosmos” is a series of quadrophonic compositions that combine nature soundscape archives and instruments from various cultures, including Javanese Gamelan, Korean Daegeum, piano, and synthesizer. This composition was created during the Odyssée Residency 2023 in Abbaye de Noirlac, supported by Association des Centres Cultures de Recontre (ACCR) Europe and the French Ministry of Culture. Gardika Gigih composed Mikrokosmos, using the nature soundscape archive around Noirlac, recorded by renowned French audio-naturalist Fernand Deroussen, as the basic structure. Starting with birds, insects, water, and frogs sounds. Then, the instrument part was composed, in collaboration with his friend Nanang Bayu Aji, a Gamelan musician from Kasunanan Palace Surakarta, and Hye-Ohn Park, a Daegeum musician and lecturer at Ewha Women University and Gugak Center Seoul, and Gardika himself, playing the synthesizer.
Gardika Gigih is an Indonesian composer, pianist, and soundscape researcher. His works span numerous genres, from concerts to contemporary improvisation, film scoring, and sound ethnography. In 2019, Gardika received a fellowship from The Japan Foundation Asia Center to conduct soundscape research as cultural narratives in Southeast Asia, Japan (http://www.lostinsound.art). In 2023, he stayed in New York as an Asian Cultural Council Fellow to study multicultural collaboration. May 2023 at the British Library, his composition “Mimpi Owa: A Duet with Javanese Javanese Gibbons” won the “Sound of the Year Awards” initiated by the BBC Radiophonic Institute and the Museum of Sounds.
https://lostinsound.art/
instagram: @gardikagigih
https://www.artlink.ch/turntables/directory/profiles/gardika-gigih-pradipta
https://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/about-acc/stories/a-conversation-with-gardika-gigih-pradipta
2) Renán Zelada Cisneros - No recuerdo las montañas
Our world is full of noise. The incessant comings and goings of our economic activity have filled our daily lives with innumerable artificial sounds, from machinery to alarms to endless songs playing on our smartphones. As someone who gets overwhelmed by noise pretty easily, I have been working on music that invites a slowing down of our perception and a focus on the minutiae of specific sounds and noises. In this case, I time-stretched a single sample of a mechanical noise 100 times and then reconstructed its main frequencies using basic synthesizers. The music invites the listener to sometimes listen, sometimes trail off on a different train of thought, then come back and listen some more. Maybe it serves as a reflection on the kind of world we would like to build, perhaps one with less stimuli, where the wind, the trees, bees, birds, are the prominent noises we hear.
Renán Zelada Cisneros (b. 1993) is a Dutch-Venezuelan composer currently living in Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, and the Amsterdam Conservatoire, in the Netherlands. His music is frequently inspired by other art forms such as literature, visual arts, and architecture, often relating to social and environmental themes. Together with writing music for the concert stage, Renán also collaborates regularly with filmmakers internationally in both fiction and documentary films.
https://renanmusic.eu/
https://renanmusic.bandcamp.com/
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Radiophrenia Shorts 41
19 April 2025 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm
3) Dariusz Mazurowski - Metropolis Balticum Interiors (7:18)
4) Nicola Monopoli - 3 Stanzas (7:47)
5) Mattia Benedetti - nel buio (2:53)
6) Pablo Paniagua - Improvisación con Hongos (14:46)
3) Dariusz Mazurowski - Metropolis Balticum Interiors
The piece "Interiors" is the sixth part of the extensive composition "Metropolis Balticum (Urbana Landscape)", a soundscape of Gdansk, my hometown. It was entirely created from field recordings that I made within the urban space, visiting various locations and searching for intriguing events with musical qualities. During the field recordings I visited many places – both those well-known and frequently visited by tourists, and many that even the citizens themselves often know little about. This piece consists of multiple phrases layered on top of each other, creating a sonic tapestry. The sounds of the city, bustling streets, industrial noises, the sea's roar, and the hubbub of human activity all become phrases contributing to this uniquely musical whole. This project was undertaken as part of the Cultural Grant of the City of Gdańsk, awarded in 2023.
Dariusz Mazurowski is a Polish electroacoustic music composer born and residing in Gdansk. While the majority of his compositional activity has focused on acousmatic works, he has also composed instrumental music in conjunction with electronics, soundscapes, and mprovised electroacoustic music. His works combine analog instruments with the digital technology and concrete sounds. Mazurowski’s music has been broadcast by various stations all over the world, and he has performed at festivals and other events in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. His installations, visual works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous galleries. His compositions has been released on numerous discs.
https://deemstudio.com/
https://www.facebook.com/people/Dariusz-Mazurowski/100086282450366/
https://www.youtube.com/user/DeeMstudio/videos
https://open.spotify.com/search/Dariusz%20Mazurowski
4) Nicola Monopoli - 3 Stanzas
This piece explores cycles of personal and environmental renewal in three parts. The first represents writing unwanted memories, tearing the paper, and burning it—symbolizing emotional purification and reflecting humanity's need to discard unsustainable practices. The second part, with strong ritualistic breathing, introduces catharsis and transformation, akin to the changes required for ecological sustainability. The third part returns to reality, where life’s struggles and environmental challenges repeat in a cyclical manner.
The trigger/matchstick sound that opens and closes the piece suggests a loopable structure, symbolizing the endless cycles of personal and natural regeneration. The composition aligns its form with themes of renewal and sustainability, contributing to a broader discussion on how art can raise awareness of ecological issues. By linking emotional and environmental cycles, this work participates in the interdisciplinary dialogue on culture and sustainability, serving as a metaphor for continuous transformation in both realms.
Nicola Monopoli is an Italian composer born in Barletta in 1991. He holds the distinction of being the first composer to receive the Artist Diploma in Composition from The Royal College of Music in London, supported by a Clifton Parker Award and a scholarship from the Giovani Artisti Italiani Association. His compositions have been performed globally. He currently teaches Electroacoustic Composition and is PhD Coordinator at the 'U. Giordano' Conservatory in Foggia.
https://nicolamonopoli.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_nicolamonopoli_/
https://www.facebook.com/nicolamonopolimusic
https://mastodon.uno/@nicolamonopoli
5) Mattia Benedetti - nel buio
solitude (or: the necessary distance from others);
pseudo-gothic fascination (or: the obsessiveness of choice);
daily objects as clocks and paper (or: ¿how strange they sound out of context?)
literature and the human voice (or: the possibility of communication)
nel buio is a brief piece, after Juan Rodolfo Wilcock short story.
Is a portrait of a very specific way of living; a marginal, selective and mysterious point of view.
Mattia Benedetti is a composer. He lives in Venice.
He's trying to create music that resembles an open world, without a centre but full of internal connections and ambiguous self resemblances.
He's trying to create music that resembles an island, isolated from everything, an extreme habitat where only endemic organisms lives.
6) Pablo Paniagua - Improvisación con Hongos
Recording of an improvisation in which I explore the intersection of biology and sound art by utilizing sounds from gray oyster mushrooms (homegrown) connected to a biosonifier. This sonic experiment is situated within a free improvisation that incorporates a prepared electric guitar and sound processing, challenging and reconfiguring the boundaries between the organic and the technological.
From a posthumanist perspective, this improvisational exercise opens a space for reflection on co-creation with non-human entities. It suggests an expansion of our sensory perception beyond conventional limits, promoting a reconfiguration of our relationships with the environment and other living beings. By integrating biological entities into the creative process, it questions the primacy of human creativity, opening new possibilities for creative agency within an ecologically interconnected framework.
I am an artist and educator from Chubut, currently based in Buenos Aires, with a Master’s degree in Combined Artistic Languages. Since 2014, I have participated in national and international artistic events and received awards and grants. My recent work explores visual, auditory, and corporeal elements in specific contexts. As an educator, I teach at various levels of formal and informal education and conduct workshops in both public and private spaces.
https://pablopaniagua.com.ar
https://www.instagram.com/pablopaniagua87/ -
Christina Shelagh Mongelli - The On Love, Death & Life: Daerth mixtape
19 April 2025 11:00 pm - 11:30 pm
The On Love, Death & Life: Daerth mixtape is an immersive sonic journey, weaving through echoes of ancient worlds, ethereal soundscapes, and timeless myths. Emanating from the mysterious depths of the Luray Caverns, the world’s largest lithophone—the stalacpipe organ—plunges us down into Medusa’s gaze, turning us to stone, where Italo Calvino’s exploration of ‘Lightness’ opens up a road of perspective and liberation, as a means of transcending worldly hardships. The journey spirals into the depths of time as French filmmaker Marguerite Duras transports listeners 30,000 years back to the Magdalenian Caves, where hand impressions evoke humanity’s first feelings of love and loneliness. Then, descending into the coal-stained valleys of South Wales, mining songs echo and the spirit of the land whispers after delivering a third of the world’s coal in the 20th century. The tale continues with the sorrowful and warped performance of Adelina Patti, lamenting the swift and unexpected demise of a flower, hoping her tears will revive it as Amina in Vincenzo Bellini’s opera La Sonnambula, her voice intertwining with Pauline Oliveros’s experimental soundscapes. Calvino’s reflections on software and hardware reverberate through a pottery workshop, with the ASMR sounds of throwing and turning clay. Blending the music and sound art of contemporary artists with field recordings, spoken word, and cinematic soundscapes, the mixtape travels through past and present. Each track revisits and reimagines moments in time, offering a unique fusion of voices and atmospheres that spans from ancient myths to modern reflections. Tracklist: Siân Landau - A Rocky, Horror, Picture Show The Great Stalacpipe Organ - Moonlight Sonata Italo Calvino - Lightness (read by A Poetry Channel) Siân Landau - A Rocky, Horror, Picture Show Siân Landau - Stone Tape #4 Frantz Casseus - Suite No. 1: Petro Marguerite Duras - Les Mains Negative (Film,1978) / Excerpts Banwen Miners Marching Band - Unknown Neath to Brecon & Newport Steam South Wales Steve Reich - Different Trains (Part 1) Bill Fontana - Landscape Sculpture with Fog Horns, Installation Version 1981 Joseph Evans - Bow Test Arianne Churchman & Benedict Drew - As We Walked Through the Meadows, A Handful of May 4 / Excerpt Pauline Oliveros - I of IV Adelina Patti - Ah! Non Credea Mirarti ( by Vicenzo Bellini) / Warped Daphne Oram - Rotolock Throwing and Turning / Pottery Sounds Italo Calvino - Lightness (read by A Poetry Channel) Los Indios Tabarajas - Ave Maria No Morro Artist's bio: Christina-Shelagh Mongelli (b. Athens, 1991) is a multi-disciplinary artist, radio producer and educator of Greek-British-Italian heritage, whose practice focuses on time-based media such as sound, performance, and video. Her research aspires to narrate new mythologies showcasing contemporary political, social, and environmental concerns and to present oscillations between dissonance and euphony, machine and organism, fiction and reality. -
A. A. Walker - SNAFU (Situation Normal, All Fucked Up)
18 April 2025 11:30 pm - 19 April 2025 12:00 am
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.
Artist bio:
A. A. Walker is a Scots-Irish writer and performer.
Occurring somewhere else between fiction, poetry, drama and the essay, A. A. Walker’s literary works are informed by experimental and avant-garde writing, innovative poetics, hypertext literature and surrealism, and have been described by the French philosopher Frédéric Neyrat as 'meta-poetic fiction / para-philosophical text / intra-political subversion'.
Published in US, European and Indian literary magazines and websites such as Great Works, Cauldron and Net, Muse Apprentice Guild, Droomschaar, Prakalpana Literature, Carnivorous Arpeggio, Plinth, Alienocene, Fugitives & Futurists, Agon, and others.
Author of Licentia (published by Thin Man Press).
Website/social links
https://aawalker.net -
Cloud Circuit (Jeremy Young & Deanna Radford) - The Length of a Wave
19 April 2025 11:30 pm - 20 April 2025 12:00 am
"The Length of a Wave" was created for the launch of Occulto's R A D I O zine on January 12, 2024 at Errant Sound, Berlin, to which Deanna Radford contributed a poetic work. Recorded at Les Ateliers Belleville in Tio’tià:ke tsi ionhwéntsare / Mooniyang / Montreal. R A D I O is a poetry zine in print and sound released in September 2023. It emerged from a rediscovered passion for poetry blended with collective reflections on sustainable self-publishing, a decade-long involvement with sound experiments, and a soft spot for ‘radio’ as medium, technology, and (multilingual and multimeaning) word.
Artist bio:
Cloud Circuit:
Deanna Radford (word events, paper, walkie talkie)
Jeremy Young (radio, oscillator, EMF)
with special guest: Martín Rodríguez (radio, modular processing).
Website/social links
https://cloudcircuit.ca/
https://rdzmartin.com/
https://www.occultomagazine.com/radio-1
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Christie Blizard - The New World
20 April 2025 12:00 am - 12:20 am
This was recorded live using all analog synthesizers and electricity. I was trying to evoke the space beyond life and death.
Artist bio:
Christie Blizard was born in rural Indiana and lives and works in Texas. Their work moves between music, poetry, and visual art in an attempt to understand what is beyond the death dimension. Since a communication with the ghost of Daniel Johnston in 2021, they have been working on their first full length album to be released soon and hope to tour with the work very soon. They were a participant of Skowhegan in 2018 and attended MacDowell and Artpace. Shows include those at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, School of Visual Arts, and Black Mountain College.
Website/social links
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Dirk D'Hulster Tellurian Bell
20 April 2025 12:20 am - 1:00 am
Tellurian Bell is the 2nd installment of the audio-visual installation Bell Officium based on the Nieuwpoort carillon near the Belgian coast.
(The 1st is ’Harvest Bell’)
It contains geophonic recordings, percussion sounds and datasonification of photographs of the carillon
In addition, spectral sound of the different bells with overtones are added with great detail.
The sound part consists of an 8 channel track system and can be performed on various speakers.
This is the stereo version made for radio.
The carillon is extensively documented with photographic collodion glass plates.
Book :
https://nl.blurb.com/books/11430361-harvest-bell
Lp : Artist Edition of 1.
Artist bio:
My work is located at the intersection of visual art and sound. I merge digital and photographic techniques to create a bridge between the present and the past. I use both data sonification and geophonic recordings.
exhibitions : London, Brussels, Antwerp
Website/social links
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Prepodavatelsky Sostav - Birds of ruins
20 April 2025 1:00 am - 1:45 am
To describe the concept of the performance, it is necessary to tell a little about the independent exhibition Zabroshka. This cultural event regularly takes place in Yekaterinburg in abandoned territories. Initially, the exhibition was a self-organized flash mob of street art artists of the city. Later, institutional artists, art groups and musical communities joined it. Artists choose the location, theme of the exhibition, distribute places among themselves and for a month paint on the walls and make site-specific installations inspired by the authentic look and features of the territory. The exhibition lasts one day.
The performance of Prepodavatelsky Sostav consisted of an experiment with a combination of electronic noise, female voice, romantic poetry and mixing all the components with delay effects to achieve a psychoacoustic effect on the listener.
The setup was quite simple: Microphone, DIY synthesizer from the legendary noise creator Papa Srapa through the overdrive effect and the delay effect in the reverse send.
Audiovisual component of the performance. The performance took place during the independent exhibition Zabroshka in a huge abandoned railway hangar of a former freight yard on a stage assembled from Soviet office furniture lying around the yard. The musicians decorated the stage with vintage signposts and industrial lamps found in neighboring buildings. The word "sostav" in railway terms means a train, a train of carriages. The result was a play on words - “Prepodavatelsky Sostav”-"Train of teachers". Cognitively dissonant mixing of meanings that do not intersect in everyday life parallel to the mixing of cognitively dissonant and non-intersecting sounds.
Artist bio:
Prepodavatelsky Sostav (Teaching Staff) is a spontaneous collaboration of sound artist and noise musician Viktor Sapronov (Ryeshta), poetess Anna Sitnikova (Leleyapoems) and musician Tatyana Trachevskaya (blcb8a). The name of the group is a reference to the education and professional activities of the participants (Prepodavately means teachers in English). Anna is an English teacher at school. Viktor teaches biology at the university. Tatyana was taught to be a teacher of drawing and painting. The word "sostav" in railway terms means a train, a train of carriages. The result was a play on words - “Prepodavatelsky Sostav”-"Train of teachers".
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/blcb8a?igsh=MTl6N3Zobmlpb21vcw==
https://www.instagram.com/leleyapoems?igsh=MTlkbmlpOHptMDVvaA==
https://t.me/Cult_transit/619
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THLEEP - Broadcasts 05
20 April 2025 2:00 am - 3:00 am
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; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.
THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.
Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.
Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.
Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.
Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj
Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com -
THLEEP - Broadcasts 06
20 April 2025 3:00 am - 4:00 am
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; by using more everyday and mechanical environmental sounds to produce rhythmic lulls, and gradual bpm and volume declines and inclines to create passages of tension and release, we induce states often associated with more stereotypical meditative 'music'.
THLEEP present 6 pieces for broadcast that utilise the inherent psychological safety and comfort of the radio format to offer a restorative and experiential program for the audience.
Artist bio:
THLEEP; Therapising For Sleep; a series of sound and light investigations; combined as a synaesthesia to reduce anxiety and promote healthier sleep cycles. The works are developed by a collective of artists, with Damian Rayne & Amit Rai Sharma being continuous members across the project.
Damian Rayne is a UK based professional focussing on arts practice and promotion, culture and community.
Amit Rai Sharma is global majority soundartist with a background in applied audio psychology - based between the UK and Taiwan.
Individually and collectively their work and performances have been exhibited in UK, Europe, and Asia.
Website/social links
Project website - https://thleep.earth
Thleep at Trellick 50 in 2022 - https://youtu.be/WE4ySQvUG6I?si=y72ueXZ5qOGFmz76
Synaesthesia session (lockdown session) - https://youtu.be/_8hS8wt2xYc?si=GVPpX1KXi4Q01LCj
Artists
Damian Rayne IG - https://www.instagram.com/deetzschk
Amit Rai Sharma artist website - https://www.amitrsharma.com -
Limbo Calling Ep 6 - Tonight's the Night
20 April 2025 4:00 am - 4:30 am
Episode 6. Tonight's The Night
On the anniversary of the visitation, 83 is preparing to go back to the... Thing, in the basement. But why does Leonard suddenly think it's not a good idea? Events at the outpost take a new turn in the season 1 finale. Also, we hear from a radio caller who has a somewhat more tender experience with those from beyond the veil, and we meet the people behind the exciting creative agency, Delphi's.
Written, performed and produced by Pete Hazell, featuring Sean Lee. ~ Follow Delphis Studio on Instagram to learn more about Delphi's. ~ Theme music by Alex Lupo ~ Artwork by Everything Has Gone Wrong
These archive recordings throw a light for those who see shadow puppets in the noise and chaos radio airwaves. As we eavesdrop on the solitary Operator's dispatches, we wonder what we can learn about Limbo, and life at the ambiguous "outpost".
All episodes available here: https://limbotapes.podbean.com/ -
Martin P Eccles - Tide Walk
20 April 2025 4:30 am - 8:00 am
May.
Canna.
Six walks around a Hebridean harbour six days across the cycle of the tide.
Listen to three and a half hours listen to 13 miles.
Hear the ebb and flow of place across time and distance.
Artist bioI am a walking sound artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. My practice reflects my experience of being in, and walking through, natural environments. I use recorded sound to present time, distance, place and movement in the landscape, to provide an opportunity for a listener to consider what it means to move through the landscape at a human pace and scale. Spoken poetry offers detail to a listeners’ experience. I have exhibited nationally and internationally and have created radio works for Framework Radio, Resonance EXTRA and Radiophrenia. I have a PhD in Fine Art from Newcastle University.
Links to website and/or social media
https://martinpeccles.com
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Radiophrenia Shorts 14
20 April 2025 8:00 am - 8:30 am
1 Gareth John and Laura Tansley - After You Laura Dern (2:04)
2 andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - FÜR DOLBY FÜR (3:19)
3 philippe neau - Paysage. Cercles (7:59)
4 Lucy Cathcart Frödén - Plural Slices (10 :32)
5 Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 3 (4:41)
1) Gareth John and Laura Tansley - After You Laura Dern
An audio poetry collaboration between musician Gareth John and writer Laura Tansley, in anxious worship of Laura Dern.
Gareth John and Laura Tansley met at Cardiff University in 2002. Laura went on to study Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow and gained a PhD for her work on very short fiction in 2011. Gareth has been writing and performing music since 2000 and currently runs the label Weak Friends. Gareth and Laura began collaborating in 2021 and are overjoyed at the creative turn their friendship has taken. There work has previously been presented on Radiophrenia (2020), and at GLEAM festival (2023).
x.com/laura_tans
2) andre birken - 31 monstrous demonstrations - FÜR DOLBY FÜR
why so serious?
can't art be futile?
is neurosis really usefull?
how to destroy authority by singing?
of all tools, why do we not understand language or money?
–– the ether as realm of ideas and spirits ––
1992 i founded the experimental radio collective "Freundsender Morgenstern", with fixed monthly broadcast schedule until 1995. In 1997 I founded "Radio Namaste“, again with a fixed monthly broadcast slot on Radio Westfalica (until 2006). 1998 sound art with Ulrich Eller, 2004 “MELATONIN®forte” (premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival). In 2005 I moved permanently to Portugal. 2018 ENTRESERES, awarded Best Documentary Short Film (Kosice 2020).
https://www.instagram.com/b_i_r_k_e_n/
https://www.facebook.com/AndreBenBirken
3) philippe neau - Paysage. Cercles
“landscape. circles.” would like to appear as a motionless walk or a sound painting, not realistic, nor narrative of places listened to, probed, surveyed, lived but the culmination of an experience of the landscape in the garden of the house, close to the city. A sound landscape, sensitive and vibrant to the surrounding comings and goings, to natural movements, to the multiple passages and colors that unfold. The “painting” becomes dense and textured. The sounds resonate. Hearing enters the material of the place, composite and organic. A “presence” resonates in us.
All my work attempts to shape an imaginary landscape.
Paintings, installations, films and music are an attempt to create this "place", a place of the order of the "mental landscape".
My music would like to summon these imaginary spaces by a non-narrative form. It is made of muffled field-recordings, organic sound collages, abstract notes, sometimes rumbling glitches, atonal melodies, metallic textures and distant voices. The atmosphere can be dense. The sound palette is contrasted and plays with hues between "dog and wolf". It envelops "the listener to immerse him in the experience of an intriguing sound place.
https://linktr.ee/philippe.neau
4) Lucy Cathcart Frödén - Plural Slices
This piece explores the potential of sound to capture and travel through multiple temporalities at once. It was created for the 10th anniversary celebration of a journal called PARSE - Platform for Artistic Research in Sweden. It uses sonic fragments gathered by attendees at the event, layered with reflections and quotes on themes of time and listening. The title, 'Plural Slices', comes from a quote by sound artist and theorist Salomé Voegelin, used in the piece.
Lucy Cathcart Frödén has a background in community development work and community art processes. During her practice-based PhD at the Glasgow University, she worked with people who have experience of prison or of migration, and used workshops in music and sound to explore practices of social integration, care and solidarity. She now lives in Sweden, and is currently working on a project at the University of Oslo called Prisons of Note, all about the roles and complexities of music and sound in prison systems. She’s also a parent of three children, and loves sea swimming and potato-based snacking.
https://linktr.ee/raukarna
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5) Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 3
Channelling is a kinetic sound performance that utilizes various components salvaged from discarded and obsolete consumer technology, reanimating them by piping amplified sound through them. The motors and mechanisms respond to these sound impulses in erratic and unpredictable ways. The actions of, and emanations from, the devices are subsequently amplified.
The project was developed through 2021and 2022 by support from Ferme-Asile (CH), Witte Rook (NL), AiR Niederösterreich (AT), HEAR and Espaces Sonore (FR) and Château Éphémère (FR).
Since 2005 Simon Whetham has worked with sonic activity. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He also explores ways of creating physical traces of sound and transforming energy forms.
Whetham performs and exhibits internationally, has received a large number of commissions and awards, has many published composed works and regularly collaborates with other artists. In addition his practice covers giving active listening, field recording and technology repurposing workshops.
https://simonwhetham.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/simonwhethamartist/
https://vimeo.com/simonwhetham
https://simonwhetham.bandcamp.com/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 14
20 April 2025 8:30 am - 9:00 am
6 Marjorie Van Halteren – Cheesing (7:15)
7 Kat Currie - Sonic Portrait (8:29)
8 Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - mai táng tuổi thơ wav _ childhood eulogy (2:18)
9 Jeff Gburek - Works and Days (6:17)
10 Pig7 - Black Peak (3:32)
6) Marjorie Van Halteren – Cheesing
A short, humorous sound essay by Marjorie Van Halteren about the pitfalls of language.
Marjorie Van Halteren born in Detroit, Michigan, is aociety.com poet, sound artist and composer living in Lille, France.
http://www.electroacousticalpoeticalsociety.com.
7) Kat Currie - Sonic Portrait
An ongoing project that collected the audio recording of portrait drawing. A recent assault has left me the most vulnerable I have ever felt. Now I seek the feeling of power in situations. The most visible I have felt was when I was the subject to be drawn in an art class, the sensation of the artists using ‘slow looking’ upon me focusing in on specific details I can become the muse. I now find that I associate the sound of mark making on a page with this sensation so when I discovered ASMR I found myself listening to hours of drawing sounds and feeling the pleasant tingle it produces on my scalp. I instructed the artists to be in control of my position and how I will appear on the page this plays with the power dynamics of artist/muse and of my vulnerability in this situation.
http://www.katiecurrie.co.uk
8) Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao - mai táng tuổi thơ wav _ childhood eulogy
nHữNG NgÀY kHÓ ở Ở trêN đỜI // thoSE hArD-TO-liVe dAYS was a collection of 5 selected poets, written from 2021 - 2022 by Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao. Each of them was originally a statement of confrontation with the socially constructed so-called "nature", juggling between binaries of man & woman, love & hatred, individualism & collectivism, and so on.
As a way to deconstruct the "nature" concept, the anthologies were later exhibited in a digital space with an invitation for community manipulation. Readers were encouraged to rewrite or delete the words in their own interpretation and stylistic choices. The latter would work on the former's version/interpretation.
The audio version was captured in time of the 6th version, recorded and mixed by the original author as a means of reclaiming and authorship. The sound mixing is intentionally "left" because everything is not "right".
Nguyen Hoang Gia Bao is a Vietnamese writer and multidisciplinary artist. He embraces multimedia and expression, such as typography, photography, film, sound art, performance art with a core appreciation of poetry practices. His works have been featured in Vânguard Zine (Issue 6), Sui Generis (Bard College, 2024 Edition), WCBX Zine, etc. Bao is currently pursuing a BA Degree in Art and Media Studies at Fulbright University Vietnam.
https://www.instagram.com/nguyenhoanggiabao_/
9) Jeff Gburek - Works and Days
This is a soundscape instrumental prelude to a longer work based on Hesiod's poem. A work in progress.
Jeff Gburek is poet, field recordist, sound artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist exploring all strata of cosmophonic resolutions. Works increasingly focus on receptive listening and recognition of patterned chaos in the mind triggered by externally ordered phenomenon in flux. Microphones, detuned guitars, hydrophones, shortwave and VLF radios, ground spikes, bat detectors and electronics typify the research in the psycho-acoustics of Gaian whispers enveloping and composing existence.
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com
10) Pig7 - Black Peak
A remix and reworking of processed field recordings made in Glen Einich in the Highlands of Scotland in September 2024. The title refers to one of the local peaks above the Glen.
pig7 are an experimental improv electronics duo formed by Kevin Poulton and Stuart Fisher (aka Genghis Attenborough) in 2006. They have composed and performed a number of film scores to classic silent films as well as short and feature length films. -
Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon - Calypso's Dream
20 April 2025 9:00 am - 9:45 am
"Cruel folk you are, unmatched for jealousy, you gods who cannot bear to let a goddess sleep with a man." (Calypso to Hermes, who has just ordered her to release Odysseus. Homer, Odyssey 5.120)
Calypso’s Dream is a soundscape collection sculpted from the subtle sonic morphologies of the micro-environments on the island of Mljet in the South Adriatic. The collection serves as a conceptual counterpoint to Homer’s Odyssey and a critical reflection on commercial island attractions such as Odysseus’s Cave, where he was supposedly held captive for seven long years by the nymph Calypso.
In search of a different gender approach to the ancient Greek myth and its contemporary commercial appropriation, we created a simple narrative from Calypso’s perspective, inspired by the work of the renowned writer Margaret Atwood, who wrote The Penelopiad, and tried to unravel the archetypal mystery by narrating the Odyssey from the perspective of his wife Penelope, who was left for 20 years to defend the kingdom and raise their children.
Calypso’s Dream is an attempt to create a symbolic micro-episode of The Penelopiad within the medium of sound art, woven from the dense spectrum of the island’s biophony, instrumental and improvised narratives, critically reflecting on the commercial appropriation of culture, advocating for the importance of a listening culture, and emphasizing the urgency of raising ecological awareness.
The island of Mljet is one of the oldest European protected natural zones, still, there is so much more that can be done to keep this Adriatic marvel away from harsh trends of mass tourism.
This project was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, and the Dubrovnik-Neretva County Department for Education and Culture.
All sounds recorded and edited by Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon
Hydrophones used for underwater recording — JrF & Aquarian
Mastering by Goran Simonoski / La Plant Studio
Cover art, images, text by Manja Ristić
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Kirsty Gallagher - The Collective Voice of Greenham
20 April 2025 9:45 am - 10:00 am
Celebrating the courage and resilience of women, this feature delves into the historic Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp of 1981. For 20 years a series of women only camps were established to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. Using first-hand accounts and archival sound, it amplifies the voices of those who fought for peace, shedding light on their dedication to activism and social change. Thank you to Laila Namdarkhan, Jane Roffe and Elizabeth James for sharing stories of their time at the Peace Camp. Credit and thanks to Luisa Gersteirn, Tanya Auclair and Deep Throat Choir for providing me with their rendition of the 1970's protest song 'Like a Mountain' heard at the end of the documentary. Artist bio: Kirsty is a recent graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London with an MA in Audio & Radio. She joins the audio circuit in London as a freelance audio producer in long form audio projects. Investigating how sound design and music can craft compelling audio documentaries that delve into the human experience. She loves all sounds weird and wonderful! -
Olive Jones - Spooks
20 April 2025 10:00 am - 10:20 am
‘Spooks’ is a composition of voice notes and sound recordings from 2019ish to present. I am drawn to documenting my experiences through sound as it can let you enter mystical realms that get a bit numbed in a late capitalist, relentless, ever expanding visual world. In this composition I create an experience that explores the idea of place, memory, boundaries and disrupts notions of linear time. It meanders across psychic spaces and experiences. It pulls at the edges of grief and sadness. Making a sensory experience which is overwhelming and enthralling. A subjective processing of the world, sonically drawing out beauty and abundance/ absurdity and excess. It includes reversed and distorted ambient sounds, chatter in a bus station, sounds of seaweed, snippets of conversation, bouncing basketballs, laughter, moorland wind rumbles, cat purrs, distant parties and resonant gongs. Artist bio: Olive is an artist, bodywork practitioner and mother based in Glasgow. Her work spans many disciplines and mediums including sound, moving image, drawing and sculpture. Some methodologies and research interests include documenting the everyday/domestic space and using her practice to disrupt and create moments of play and surrealism. Centring care and intimacy as foregrounding concepts. -
Landforms - Liquid Polyphonies.
20 April 2025 10:20 am - 10:40 am
Liquid Polyphonies is a sound composition that is based on a field research in the European parts of the North Sea (2022). By weaving together anthrophone, biophone, and technophone sounds, and by searching for sonic analogies between the human and non-human through a combination of voice recordings, foley recordings, and field recordings, Lotte and Gillis create an electro-acoustic composition that emphasizes the interconnectedness between human and non-human entities at sea. Liquid Polyphonies is part of the residency program of Phonurgia Nova (FR) and was created during a residency at GMEM in Marseille.
Artist bio:
Landforms is the sound collective of Gillis Van der Wee and Lotte Nijsten. Together they create radio documentaries, sound walks, sound compositions, and transdisciplinary performances that approach the fragile relationship between humans and (micro)landscapes from the perspective of Acoustic Ecology and Sound Studies. Landforms' artistic research is currently centered around interspecies listening and sonic intimacy, by investigating how a sense of interconnectedness can be forged through the ear. Lotte and Gillis' works are featured on radio stations, festivals, museums, and theaters, and were selected for multiple awards, including: Best radiofiction (Prix Europa, 2020), Prix Découvert (Phonurgia Nova, 2022).
Website/social links
https://www.landforms.be/
https://www.instagram.com/_landforms/
https://www.instagram.com/lottenijsten/
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Stevie Jones - Tarmachan Transmissions
20 April 2025 10:40 am - 11:00 am
Tarmachan Transmissions is an experimental documentary of a collaborative recording session made at Tombreck, a sustainable housing collective on the banks of Loch Tay. It works with off-cuts and disused, peripheral sounds from a make-shift studio set up in the community’s Big Shed. This piece acts as a recursive, companion piece to the Quinie album, Forefowk Mind Me, which was produced by Stevie with Josie Vallely and musicians Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Harry Gorski-Brown and Ollie Pitt. Tarmachan Transmissions is as much a sonic portrait of place and community, located listening and DIY infrastructures as it is of co-creation and residency recording. Stevie Jones is a musician, sound artist and improviser based in Glasgow. A serial collaborator, he is currently working with Quinie, New String Collective and Arab Strap among others. Stevie co-runs the Radiophrenia collective and is studying towards a PhD at Glasgow University in site responsive sonic collaboration within eco-critical communities. -
No Noise Projects (Chris Biddlecombe & David Trouton) - Death of a Supranaturalist
20 April 2025 11:00 am - 11:30 am
Our earlier investigations into the lost pioneers of ‘sound-recording-as-art’ led us to the enigmatic character of Charles Glancer - the North American composer, sound-recordist and obscurest philosopher. We created a performance piece about Glancer’s curious death for The Festival of Death at CCA in 2015. Since then we have continued to research and make sense of the many stories that revolve around his final recorded composition - was his body found at the piano… or did he completely disappear? For those that follow his strongly held “idealist” position on the function of the artist, his end could be seen as a metaphysical conjuring trick – the vibrations of the artist transforming into the artwork itself. Through the reconstruction of original tapes this broadcast will piece together side-ways thoughts, intricate details, mood and sound and silence - flowing and merging - before, during… and after his death. Artist bio: Chris Biddlecombe is a sculptor who creates mixed media installations and performances in the UK and internationally. David Trouton is a musician with a history of working in theatre, dance and other collaborative art-forms. Together as No Noise Projects, Chris and David have worked together since 1999 creating audio / sculptural collaborations and theatre. Their sound works often use musical instruments, spoken word, found sounds, electronica and sampling, aligned to multi media installations. Their projects research historical and contemporary truths, listen to curious logic and lateral whispers, to then go on to create new interpretations, hidden stories and believable fictions. -
Buffer Zone
20 April 2025 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
1) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 6 (5mins)
2) Heidi Hörsturz - Negative Vinyl - How does the negative of an audio composition sound like? (3:56)
3) KARL - The Incident (7:22)
4) SisterArt Collective - DIKTATS (de la beauté) - DIKTATS (of beauty) (4:31 )
1) Johnny Dixon - Daily Bread 6
Using small white single-use plastic items from everyday foodstuffs visual scores have been created on a black background. A vocal sound palette is suggested and in the six five minute sound pieces used for four voices to render the plastic pieces as imagined fragments of letters of the Roman alphabet. The scores can be viewed and listeners are invited to soundalong with the pieces by using the palette and following some basic suggested https://daily-bread-rp2025.blogspot.com/2025/02/?m=1
Artist bio:
Johnny Dixon is Irish and lives in London.
2) Heidi Hörsturz - Negative Vinyl - How does the negative of an audio composition sound like?
The 'Negative Vinyl' is not a normal record. It is the first vinyl that represents a real analog negative sound of traditional classical compositions.The records are produced by casting 2- component plastic on records of classical composers like Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Mozart etc. The resulting imprint is physically and acoustically the negative of the original composition. Even the grooves and edges of the vinyl have taken each other's places. By doing this the principle of a photo negative was transferred into an audio composition. For this work Heidi Hörsturz used 2- component plastics and laser-technology. The grooves of the vinyl are exactly antithetical from the original records. The whole composition is inverted. Where normally the grooves were before are now the highest points of the vinyl. Therefore the needle of the turntable is constantly on search between the vinyl-grooves, combining the sound of one groove with the delayed sound of the previous one. Heidi Hörsturz presented this development among others at IEM Graz, MTF Music Tech Fest / Musikmesse Frankfurt and at the Art Werk - Forum for Creative Industries in the Contemporary Art Center Winzavod in Moscow.
Artist bio:
Heidi Hörsturz deals with the various facets of the moving image and sound. She works in a wide range of computer animations, audiovisual performances, soundart and multimedia installations.
Her works examine the influence of new technologies and the social questions that have arisen as a result of digital development.
With her approach to art as a medium for exploring social coexistence and as a means of ending the structural suppression of people, fantasies and visions, she takes the media overload of stimuli to the absurd.
After completing her studies at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands she has presented her work worldwide. She performed in venues like ICA London, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow and CultureHub NYC. Her works were shown at Göteborg Art Sounds, FILE Sao Paulo, European Media Arts Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, EYE Amsterdam, Electro Mechanica festival Saint Petersburg, Gaida Vilnius, Madatac Madrid among others.
https://www.heidihoersturz.com/3) KARL - The Incident
Cut-up audio piece made using public domain samples from Archive.org's NASA Audio Collection.
Artist bio:
KARL (Karl Ronneburg, he/him) is a composer, percussionist, and performance artist based in New York City, where he is the Associate Dramaturg at the Metropolitan Opera, helping to shape commissions and new works from their inceptions to their premieres. He is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Fifth Wall Performing Arts with Grey Grant and has worked with artists and companies including Radiolab, Meredith Monk, Carnegie Hall, Nico Muhly, Sō Percussion, Elliot Cole, Alkemie Early Music, Missy Mazzoli, Contemporaneous Ensemble, New Music Detroit, Anthony Davis, Christopher Rountree, Joyce DiDonato, Metropolis Ensemble, Jeanine Tesori, and the Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors’ Lab.
https://karl-allmusic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/karl.allmusic
4) SisterArt Collective - DIKTATS (de la beauté) - DIKTATS (of beauty)
Diktats (of beauty) is an immersive and incisive sound work that criticizes today's beauty canons, which promote an ‘algorithmical beauty’. Based on a poem of Laure Gervais (French), denouncing the instrumentalisation of beauty, this immersive and incisive sound work plunges the listener into a cold surgical atmosphere. The artwork underlines the obsession with self-image through the over-consumption of beauty products and cosmetic surgery. The perfect beauty complex leads to extreme behaviours, to the point of losing one's identity and uniqueness. The perfect symmetrical beauty many women tend to seek is cold and rigid. In fact, it is a morbid concept of beauty. The soundtrack is both French (poem) and English text. Diktats (de la beauté) / Diktats (of beauty) is a composition by the SisterArt collective with Laure Gervais, visual and performance artist and Catherine Nowak, actress and drama teacher based in Brussels, Belgium.
Artist bio:
SisterArt is a collective of multidisciplinary artists who combine a passion for visual art with that of performing art based in Brussels, Belgium.
Founded in 2009 by Laure Gervais, visual artist, author and sociologist, and Catherine Nowak, actress and drama teacher, the collective joined forces in 2019 to create a non-profit organisation by surrounding themselves with stage and audio-visual professionals. SisterArt Collective is author and producer of its own multi-faced creations : screendance short movies, experimental soundtracks, drama plays and live performances.
http://www.sisterart.be
Website/social links
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Ute Wassermann - Imaginary Habitats (RADIOPHRENIA / GOETHE INSTITUT 2025 commission)
20 April 2025 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Ute Wassermann interweaves her voice with field recordings of birds, insects, frogs - of creatures that move across the boundaries between air, water and earth and finds new and different resonance places far away from their original environment. Fragile, seemingly natural sounds, such as the buzzing of bees under water, can be transformed into technoid drones. Snippets of soundscapes ghost through objects.
Does the singer retain her identity or does she become the ‘other’? The boundary between self and environment becomes fluid, so that the latter itself becomes an illusion in favour of a more complex reality. The binaries of animal and human, object and human, nature and technology are turned upside down in favour of interwoven relationships based on reciprocity.
Ute Wassermann: voice, bird whistles
Felix Blume: field recordings
'Imaginary Habitats' is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Goethe Institut Glasgow.
Bio
Ute Wassermann is one of the outstanding contemporary vocal artists of our time. She combines composition, improvisation and performance art to create her own form of Gesamtkunst, in which environmentally relevant themes play an essential role. At the centre of her research is the continuous and uncompromising exploration of her voice. Ute Wassermann's singing goes far beyond the human voice and manifests itself in multidimensional sculptural sounds that oscillate between electronic, animal, inorganic and human qualities. She takes this to the extreme by creating a visceral sound space through the use of different types of microphones. In addition, she expands and alienates her voice through the use of bird whistles, lo-fi electronics, resonators, field recordings and objects.
She has been touring the world as an improviser and performer of contemporary music for many years. In the last ten years, she has increasingly realised audiovisual performances, installations and compositions for soloists and ensembles.
https://utewassermann.com -
Jimmy Peggie - Climatic Voices
20 April 2025 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Climatic Voices is a sound art observation of meteorological themes. It is a sound collage made using treated environmental recordings, radiophonic transmissions, infrasound and electromagnetic frequencies. These types of sound waves are obtained from the atmosphere that surrounds our planet.
The use of atmospheric acoustics plays an important function within modern meteorology and is used to predict weather patterns and other meteorological phenomena. This helps with many things including improving weather forecasting, aiding climate change studies as well as safeguarding lives and property.
Artist bio:
Jimmy Peggie is an artist based in Phoenix, AZ who uses sound and image in his creative practice. His artistic work is focused on natural and man made environments.
He has been participated and recorded 40+ sound related albums. He has had work featured at art exhibits, installations and festivals around the world. He records and presents a monthly sound art show on Camp Radio (France).
Website/social links
website - http://www.jimmypeggie.com
social media - @avantologist -
Radiophrenia Shorts 28
20 April 2025 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1) Matt Browne - Hello from the Children of Planet Earth (6:00)
2) HUO Jung - The truth of the platform announcement (0:55)
3) Joe Posset - All the buskers in Newcastle city centre on 28th September 2024 slowed down (9:54)
4) Esther Hesketh and Lily Frances - I think of a moth (12:25)
1) Matt Browne - Hello from the Children of Planet Earth
A musique concrète composition utilizing audio material from the NASA Voyager Golden Record, launched in 1977. Material includes natural sounds, spoken greetings and poetry, and a selection of eclectic music ranging from Navajo Chant to Bach to Chuck Berry.
The piece aims to imagine an advanced alien civilization discovering and playing the golden record, and then tinkering with it to either make sense of it or warp it into something they like.
The music of Colorado-based composer Matt Browne (b. 1988) has been praised for its “unbridled humor” (New Music Box) and described as “witty” (The Strad) and “beautifully crafted and considered” (What’s On London).
Dr. Browne has had the honor to collaborate with such ensembles as the Minnesota Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, PRISM Quartet, and the Eastman Wind Ensemble, and has received honors such as the ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize and a BMI Student Composer award.
He received his DMA from the University of Michigan, studying with Michael Daugherty.
https://mattbrownecomposer.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mattbrownecomposer
2) HUO Jung - The truth of the platform announcement
Whenever there is a train delay, the authorities always release a vague reason, and I never know the actual truth. Some say this is to avoid panic. This state of neither lying nor revealing the truth reminds me of the ambiguous rhetoric often found in politics.
The audio content is my imitation of the SNCF platform announcement during train delays, rewritten to reflect national themes and read aloud.
Transcript of the audio: (music) "Your attention, please. Track 2, due to traffic regulation, due to national regulation, due to a personal accident, due to a political accident, due to intervention by law enforcement, due to intervention by foreign forces, the TER train number 3911 to Bourges, initially scheduled to depart at 9:52, will now depart with a delay of approximately 2 hours. Thank you for your understanding."
Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1997. My work encompasses installation, sound, video, and performance. I focus on daily and ritual gestures and actions, extracting small moments of discomfort and transforming them into a dislocation of tangible objects, capturing the poetic elements within their political significance.
junghuotw.wixsite.com/site
instagram : jung.huo
3) Joe Posset - All the buskers in Newcastle city centre on 28th September 2024 slowed down
Buskers are great yeah but what if they just played incredibly slowly? I recorded a bunch of buskers on my dictaphone on a busy Saturday in Newcastle City Centre. I then slowed down the recordings and overlaid them to make a montage of chopped and screwed standards. The sounds are a gloopy mush, like wading through dreams. You might pick up a hint of melody then it’s smeared like mascara in a downpour. And it seems like, no matter how hard you try, you can’t crush Pink Floyd into oblivion. Still…it’s fun to try eh? Keep listening!
Joe Posset is an amateur musician and gonzo writer. His work focuses on the sound properties of cassette tape, dictaphones and goofy language to create indistinct and evocative soundscapes. Posset has released almost 100 tapes and CDrs on numerous DIY labels over the last 20 years and is a frequent collaborator in one-off and longer-lasting collaborative projects (see Molar Crime and Papal Bull). Recently his work has explored ideas of accessibility, inclusion and privilege in the underground music scene.
https://posset.bandcamp.com/
https://allmyideasarestolen.wordpress.com/
4) Esther Hesketh and Lily Frances - I think of a moth
An experimental sound art piece, ‘I think of a moth' centres around a recital of a meditative monologue, developed from an art writing piece written by Hesketh. A sprawling rumination, the text is curious, poetic, playful and anxious. The narrator occasionally stumbles over her words, laughing and apologising. “There is a possibility of inhabiting this space,” she says.
The backing track collages recordings from a sound bath with ambient sounds from both nature and Frances’ home – birds, rain, footsteps, a band rehearsing, and Neil Young on the radio.
The work samples, mentions, or indirectly references various grounding practices; listening (to music, to the stream, to the sounds of nearby animals); attending a sound bath; taking an ordinary bath; tending to personal grooming; and spending time writing or making artwork.
Esther Hesketh is an artist and technician based between Glasgow and Bristol. Their practice works with narrative and material processes to develop sculptural and performative installations, text pieces and audio.
Lily Frances is a practice-based PhD researcher at University of Bristol. An artist and poet, Lily is interested in touch, ritual, and metaphysical energy. Her research examines the work of experimental filmmaker Chantal Akerman, with a focus on Akerman’s use of sound.
Together, Esther and Lily have collaborated on text and exhibition works, producing inter-medial and spatial explorations of language, identity and the everyday.
http://instagram.com/lily.francs/
http://instagram.com/byeshesketh/
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Radiophrenia Shorts 28
20 April 2025 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
5) Irving Kinnersley - Estuary 1 (13:44)
6) Owen Ho – Katabasis (10:00)
7) Gracchi Administration - Tiffany with an I (2:24)
8) Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 9 (2:16)
5) Irving Kinnersley - Estuary 1
Estuary 2 explores temporal ambiguity along the vast shoreline of Bridgewater Bay, part of the Bristol Channel. Powerful tidal and geological forces form a backdrop to fragile human presences. The recurring solitary walker and the human interactions with stones and pebbles are temporally ambiguous, whereas the sounds of humans playing on the beach are clearly contemporary. Temporal heterogeneity extends to sounds which have disappeared from the present but are reconstituted in the piece, such as the foghorn which last sounded in 1980 and the traces static and morse code referencing Marconi’s early experiential radio transmissions from Bridgewater Bay across the Bristol Channel to Wales.
Irving Kinnersley is a composer of elecroacoustic and soundscape music based in Somerset England. He has studied literature at the University of London and Kent University and electroacoustic composition at Bath Spa University and Manchester University.
His work has been performed at numerous peer reviewed festivals. His piece Elegy 1 was awarded first prize (student section) at the 2021 KLANG International Electroacoustic Music Competition and Estuary 2 was selected as a finalist at the 2023 Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition.
irvingkinnersley.com
6) Owen Ho – Katabasis
Katabasis is a piece that delves into the mythical ancient Greek concept of katabasis—a descent into the underworld and the transformative experience that arises from such an undertaking. The sound is composed of various field recordings from the historic Mecklenburgh Square Garden in London. It is, in essence, a morphology of sounds: trees, branches, leaves, wind, grass, peregrine falcons, and more, all manipulated and arranged into a form that reflects the dramatic tripartite structure of the narrative, showcasing some of the most intense and surreal moments encountered while journeying through the underworld.
Owen Ho is a shortlisted composer to represent the UK in the ISCM World New Music Days (Sound and Music). He has written works for notable bodies across the world such as the Bloomsbury Festival (London) and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, amongst others. He is a prizewinner of numerous composition competitions, such as the International Composition Competition for Chromatic Harmonica and the Association Of English Singers And Speakers Composition Competition. His musical output includes works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, voice, solo instrument, dance, film, electroacoustic music, and sound installation.
https://owenhomusic.com/
7) Gracchi Administration - Tiffany with an I
Tiffany with an I is influenced by the world of social media and online dating.
Here, after taking inspiration from a friends experience, I recorded a female friend reading a scripted audio message into a dictaphone.
This was mixed with distorted instrumental sounds to create a short sound work.
Aedan Molllen creates sound work under the Gracchi Administration name.
He is a multi instrumentalist working in London.
His main areas of interest are sound installation, field recording, audio visual composition and radio work.
https://vimeo.com/user15535459
8) Simon Whetham – Channelling tk 9
Channelling is a kinetic sound performance that utilizes various components salvaged from discarded and obsolete consumer technology, reanimating them by piping amplified sound through them. The motors and mechanisms respond to these sound impulses in erratic and unpredictable ways. The actions of, and emanations from, the devices are subsequently amplified.
The project was developed through 2021and 2022 by support from Ferme-Asile (CH), Witte Rook (NL), AiR Niederösterreich (AT), HEAR and Espaces Sonore (FR) and Château Éphémère (FR).
Since 2005 Simon Whetham has worked with sonic activity. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He also explores ways of creating physical traces of sound and transforming energy forms.
Whetham performs and exhibits internationally, has received a large number of commissions and awards, has many published composed works and regularly collaborates with other artists. In addition his practice covers giving active listening, field recording and technology repurposing workshops.
https://simonwhetham.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/simonwhethamartist/
https://vimeo.com/simonwhetham
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Oliver Chapman & Phoebe Eccles - DOG FM
20 April 2025 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
'DOG FM is the debut release by the London-based duo of field recordist Oliver Chapman and poet Phoebe Eccles. Combining Chapman’s seemingly banal snapshots of a family car journey with Eccles’ fantastic, reflective spoken verse, DOG FM deftly transports the listener through a series of uncanny and oft-times bizarre audio travelogs where tension and expanse alternate to disorientating effect. By exploring the dynamics of a typical close-quarters family exchange, and with repeated use of ‘canine’ annotation, Chapman reimagines the car as both a confine and a means of escape, with Eccles’ verse acting as thematic glue, bonding memory, dream and textural reference to the road map. DOG FM brings a multifaceted lens over a commonplace event, exploding our expectations, and allowing us to surrender the wheel —and our fate— to kismet outcomes. -
Manja Ristić- genesis
20 April 2025 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
"Genesis" is inspired by the subtle relationships between sound and space, the phenomenology of sound, and contemporary research on communication systems in nature and ecology. In addition to the violin and EMS Synthi 100, the artist uses field recordings from Montreal, Portugal, the islands of Vrnik, Mljet, and Silba, various locations in Thailand, Lake Miraflores near the Panama Canal, and the slopes of Avala near Belgrade.
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Han - Response to Annie Mac's Tweet (2018)
20 April 2025 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Annie Mac can't see the sunset as she broadcasts so asks listeners to describe theirs. This live radio broadcast describes the conditions the broadcaster finds themselves in and asks for descriptions in return from the broadcastees. This highlights the specific and unique medium of radio - temporally homogenous yet spatially heterogenous, nodes in a network, and individual experiences becoming shared through audio.
https://twitter.com/anniemacmanus/status/986689649543471104
Artist bio:
Han is an experimental musician, sound designer, healthcare worker, and ex-biomedical engineer based in Glasgow. She likes to make weird music about institutions, informed by her commitment to degrowth and her work within the NHS; and through her artistic practice seeks to explore the future of healthcare in relation to climate breakdown. Her recent release on cult label The Trilogy Tapes is a sprawling extraction of the surreal from the quotidian humdrum of consumerism, while her GLARC release coalesced around a fictional Institute of Ecoterrorism. She was recently announced as a recipient of the 2024 Help Musicians Electronic Award.
Website/social links
boosterhoo.ch
instagram.com/boosterhooch -
Hans Kuzmich - Transmissions from a Carceral State
20 April 2025 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
"Transmissions from a Carceral State" derives from a practice of listening to the electromagnetic and acoustic environments of active and decommissioned prisons in New York's Hudson Valley in autumn 2024. The work layers field recordings, electromagnetic emissions, and performed elements based on intercepted radio communications between prison guards. Evoking the prison as a physical structure and a discursive site, the performance listens to its past, present, and future in an attempt to imagine imprisonment's afterlife. The original iteration of this piece was developed during an artist residency at Wave Farm in Acra, NY. Bio: Hans Kuzmich is a Belarus-born artist based in Los Angeles whose work examines gender as an interface between subjects and the state, seeking to unsettle their regulatory logics. Using transmission arts, media installation, and performance, his practice is grounded in site-specific listening and sonic fiction methodologies. Kuzmich is currently completing a hybrid doctoral dissertation in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His recent exhibitions and residencies include Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania; Wave Farm, Acra, NY; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; The 8th Floor, New York, NY; and SOMA, Mexico City. He holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, a BFA from the Cooper Union, and was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program. hanskuzmich.info (website) @hanskuzmich (IG) -
Radiophrenia Shorts 42
20 April 2025 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
1) Andrew Davis - Static Surfing (3:30)
2) UpperHurst - Synthfest Binaural (10:00)
3) Daniel McKemie - Practical Environments No 1 (17:46)
1) Andrew Davis - Static Surfing
Static Surfing is a short piece that melds the sounds of older radio broadcasts, static, everyday objects, and more into a jarring, yet cohesive collage. It is the first movement in a larger, yet-to-be-completed work that focuses on older radio broadcasts as a means of sonic exploration. The piece attempts to simulate the overload of auditory information we get in modern society due to the saturation of technology in our everyday lives.
Andrew Davis is a composer and electric guitarist from Columbia, MD who has written for a variety of media both acoustic and electroacoustic. His works have been performed by groups such as the JACK Quartet, PRISM Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, Daedalus Quartet, the Argento Ensemble, and loadbang. He earned a B.A. in music from Yale University, an M.M. in composition from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012, a PhD in composition from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017, and an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University in 2018. He currently teaches at Ursinus College.
andrewdaviscomposer.com
2) UpperHurst - Synthfest Binaural
A basic binaural mix compiled from thirteen recordings made over a period of three years. Each was recorded walking the floor of the UK Synthfest exhibition held in Sheffield each autumn.
UpperHurst is the working name of Sheffield-based musician, sound artist and documentary-maker Peter Brooks. He works using conventional musical instruments, synthesisers and other electronic instruments, field recordings and other found sounds.
https://www.mixcloud.com/UpperHurst/
https://soundcloud.com/user-901965358
https://upperhurst.bandcamp.com
3) Daniel McKemie - Practical Environments No 1
This work was recorded in the backyard of the bar Mama Tried in Brooklyn, New York, as was conceived as part of the BOUQUETS series; where artists are asked to perform in duet with the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway just across the street. Two shotgun mics were placed on the roof of the bar and the audio feed brought onto the stage, where performers can choose to process, perform, improvise, alongside the traffic.
My first ideas of using freeway sounds as source material date back to 2009 when I would pass under the 980 in West Oakland while walking downtown. This small stretch connected the 880 to the 580 as a running overpass alongside Telegraph Avenue. Many spots under it would yield rich resonances and reverberation of cars hitting potholes, sirens wailing, horns blaring, and all the rest of the sonic canvas that has become familiar to urban dwellers.
Daniel McKemie is a composer, percussionist, electronic musician, researcher, and arranger based in New York City. His current work includes using techniques rooted in Music Information Retrieval to develop new sound palettes and approaches to audio processing. He also focuses on utilizing the internet and browser technology to realize a more accessible platform for multimedia art. He also develops new ways of interfacing handmade circuitry, modular synthesizers, and embedded systems to various softwares both new and old. This recent work has allowed for complex, interactive performance environments to emerge.
https://www.danielmckemie.com
https://www.instagram.com/danielmckemie/ -
Radiophrenia Shorts 42
20 April 2025 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
4) Gabriele Hasler - wood, metal and air (5:21)
5) Renán Zelada Cisneros - Y siguió escribiendo en la arena (8:20)
6) Roberto Vodanović Čopor - the day they brought down factory (4:55)
7) Luigi Morleo - CLIMATE EXPRESSION 3 (7:45)
4) Gabriele Hasler - wood, metal and air
In August 2024 I practiced on the baroque organ of the St. Johanniskirche in Dannenberg (Northern Germany) for a freely improvised duo concert with the Cologne alto saxophonist Angelika Niescier. I gradually became familiar with the instrument and its registration options. Once I made a recording with my iPhone, which I placed on the organ's music stand. At home I discovered that, in addition to the organ playing, it had recorded the clattering of the keys as a "bycatch". I was thrilled, I had never heard anything like it before! From this I produced the piece “wood, metal and air.” By the way, the concert went very well...
Gabriele Hasler has been active in the field of contemporary jazz since the early 80ies and has toured worldwide for the Goethe Institute, among others. In 1985 she received the SWF Jazz Prize, and with the prize money she founded her own label "Foolish Music", on which 22 productions have been released to date. She received numerous composition commissions, including for choirs and musical theater, and took part in numerous television and radio productions (NDR, RB, SR, HR, BR, SWR, RBB, ÖR, ZDF). In 2013, she received the German record critics' award for her solo CD "im bauch der vokale". The CD “fundstücke” was released in October 2016, which she recorded together with Günter Baby Sommer for Laika Records. In May 23, her new CD “pAtTeRnS” was released as an artist edition.
https://www.gabrielehasler.de
5) Renán Zelada Cisneros - Y siguió escribiendo en la arena
The quote from John 8:8, in Arabic, repeats over and over again, the words losing any meaning, merging with the layers and layers of sound, "and again He stooped down and wrote on the ground." What begins as a simple, dismissive gesture, becomes the precursor of thousands of lines and words written on the sand, only to be blown away by the wind again and again. The images repeat over and over again but are always different, always slightly distorted, sometimes unrecognizable. We try to define the universe around us in patters, rules, borders. But the universe is always changing, always defying our little definitions. People are all different, all the same, like sand. The lines we draw on the ground to separate one another are just that: lines in the sand that will eventually disappear.
This work includes recordings of Alistair Sung (cello) and Mustafa Kur (spoken word).
Renán Zelada Cisneros (b. 1993) is a Dutch-Venezuelan composer currently living in Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, and the Amsterdam Conservatoire, in the Netherlands. His music is frequently inspired by other art forms such as literature, visual arts, and architecture, often relating to social and environmental themes. Together with writing music for the concert stage, Renán also collaborates regularly with filmmakers internationally in both fiction and documentary films.
https://renanmusic.eu/
https://renanmusic.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/renan_zelada_music/
6) Roberto Vodanović Čopor - the day they brought down factory
This audio recording is isolated audio from a video recording recorded with an old camera.
It is video of the demolition of a textile factory.
In the best days, during communism and Yugoslavia, more than seven thousand people worked in the factory.
In the nineties, war broke out, Yugoslavia fell apart and Croatia became an independent state. In the new capitalist system, the factory is destroyed, people lose their jobs. The factory is being demolished, and buildings and banks have been built in its place.
Roberto Vodanović Čopor is a multimedia artist and researcher from Zadar, Croatia. He explores sound, word, image and movement intuitivly. He often combines his experimental music with the sounds of nature, cities and the sounds he creates from everyday objects. He releases his albums independently but also for many independent publishers such as Sirr-ecords, Green Field Recordings, Sono Space, Novaki Music, Camembert Électrique, Warm Milk Recordings, Mahorka, Kalamine…
https://copor.bandcamp.com/
7) Luigi Morleo - CLIMATE EXPRESSION 3
CLIMATE EXPRESSION 3 is the third electronic work by Luigi Morleo, dedicated to the climate change of our planet. This song aims to raise awareness of the climate problem; with the sounds of our planet Earth it is possible to create a sound expression.
Luigi Morleo (born 16 November 1970 in Mesagne, Province of Brindisi) is an Italian percussionist and composer of contemporary music, who lives in Bari and teaches at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory. Many of his works have been played at PASIC (Percussive Arts Society) in Nashville-USA, Federation Bells of Melbourne-Australia, and at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival-USA and Festival MUSLAB from Mexico, Festival Futura Electronic – France, Festival En Chair et en Son - France, Jasmin Vardimon Company from Ashford-UK, Percussion Ensemble from Academy of Music STANISLAW MONIUSZKO in Gdansk-Poland, Percussion Ensemble from University of Music of Miskolc-Hungary
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Ruaridh Law
20 April 2025 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Territory II is a newly updated version of the online work Territory (https://ruaridhtvo.com/Territory) from 2021. Whilst that performance was based around mapping sound from a walk onto one performance (via 2 turntables and a Max/MSP patch), this new iteration extends the idea of performing a DJ mix with maps by mixing together audio from two different walks - one pre-carried out, and the other live and phoned back to the performers in the studio.
The instructions for the original version are the same (1 Draw a spiral on a map, 2 attempt to walk that spiral as closely as possible 3 Record via field recording and voice interesting things whilst you walk). One walk would be carried out beforehand (likely a spiral radiating out from my home in Ayrshire), recorded and then played back in the studio on a single turntable using control vinyl running into a Max patch to process the audio (allowing physical manipulation of the playback, with the spiral representing the grooves of the vinyl ), and the other walk would take place during the broadcast in a spiral with the studio as the centre, with the walker calling back into the studio via phone or Teams and the audio mixed in/processed live.
The piece plays with the idea of callers dialling in to radio shows as well as DJs performing on radio (albeit with field recordings / spoken word, rather than old hardcore records....)
Artist bio: Ruaridh Law is an artist and musician based in North Ayrshire, Scotland. He makes films, composes music, installs things in- and out-side and writes & publishes words, often via his No Roof Only Sky imprint. (lots more info and a longer bio at ruaridhtvo.com )
ruaridh law / tvo / broken20 / no roof only sky. / logicofthesignifier
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Buffer Zone
20 April 2025 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
1) Stephane Borrel - Les Pleureuses (The Mourners) (7:40)
2) Maeve - The wind is lilting (4:30)
3) Kalli Anderson - Concurrents (12:33)
1) Stephane Borrel - Les Pleureuses (The Mourners)
Les Pleureuses (The Mourners) is an excerpt from an electroacoustic work untitled Laughing Tonalities.
It is customary to contrast laughter with crying. On a purely sonic level, however, things seem much less clear-cut. Sometimes we cannot tell by ear whether the person we hear is laughing or sobbing, and to know, we must search in their face.
The vocal sounds produced during funeral ceremonies leave no room for doubt. But nerves are sometimes so tried that laughter can arise without us expecting.
Moreover, we remember that there still exist (in China, India, Africa) professional mourners hired to feign grief during funerals in order to give an augmented impression of importance to the tribute paid to the deceased.
These various remarks are provided to suggest possible readings of the piece that mobilizes two, then three, and finally four women's voices.
Artist bio:
Stéphane Borrel (1974) lives and works in Lyon, France. He writes for different ensembles and diverse electronics, ranging from chamber music (Facétie, Extinction, Toutes choses ont leur saison) to the symphony orchestra (Faits de masque, Main-d’oeuvre), from mixed music (Orée, Prospectus in musica, Toute la mer) to sound installations (Smartland-Divertimento) or acousmatic pieces (Laughing Tonalities – Anthologie du rire). He has worked with ensembles such as the Instant Donné ensemble, the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Orchestre National de Lyon, Ictus ensemble, Cairn ensemble, Divertimento ensemble, Vortex ensemble and so on. He was the prize-winner of the Phonurgia Nova scholarship in 2009, and Hervé Dugardin Prize of the SACEM in 2013. Since 2003, he teaches composition at Conservatoire de Lyon (C.R.R. de Lyon).
https://www.stephaneborrel.fr/
https://www.instagram.com/stephaneborrelmus/
2) Maeve - The wind is lilting
The work takes a field recording from a night lying on the floor of Hutchinson's Bothy in the Cairngorms. Each element of the beat is taken from the field recording creating complex and folk inspired beats present in the information captured from the wind.
Artist bio:
Maeve is a harpist and writer, she is interested in folk tradition and how it sings and emanates beyond the voice of the individual, communicating a timeless truth that speaks to a relationship with the natural world.
3) Kalli Anderson - Concurrents
Concurrents is a documentary sound art composition that invites us into soundscapes that are reaching toward the subjective experience of feeling one's body in a space and of existing in two or more places/soundscapes at once. It features field recordings in or near bodies of water made on my visits to my ancestral homelands in the Scottish highlands, Western France, Western Ireland and Ontario, Canada. By pairing field recordings from similar but disparate spaces and presenting them in tandem/unison, this composition plays with the imagined distinctions between external/internal, human/non-human, presence/absence and interrogates what it means to really know a place and how that knowing has been ruptured settler colonialism. It includes narration moving the listener through the soundscapes and some short excerpts from archival recordings of traditional songs and stories, and of a talk by sound artist Pauline Oliveros about the nature of deep listening.
Additional field recordings by Kaija Siirala
Archival recording courtesy of the School of Scottish Studies Archives, originally recorded by Hamish Henderson and Allie Edwards Munro.
Sound mixing and engineering assistance from Chad Bernhard and Brendan Baker
Artist bio:
Kalli Anderson is a Canadian award-winning documentary-maker, filmmaker and sound artist. Her work has been broadcast, podcast and exhibited around the world and has been recognized by the Third Coast Competition, The Hearsay International Audio Festival, The Canadian Digital Publishing Awards and The National Magazine Awards. The first incarnation of tis work was a head-tracked spatial audio installation In Side Out Side In, which was part of the In the Field II Exhibition in London curated by Cannach MacBride and she recently completed Orchard Chorus, a site-specific composition for an apple orchard commissioned by the Oral History Summer School in Hudson, NY. She is the director of audio journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and she lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Website/social links
https://kallipearl.com/
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Hannan Jones & Murray Collier - A Line Drawn Downwards (WORM residency exchange / RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission)
20 April 2025 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
A Line Drawn Downwards “We are tapping into the invisible currents of the Earth, sending messages through the ether…” — Nikola Tesla, early radio experiments, c. 1900 The ground opens up, we fall inwards, the shifting rubble opens to ineffable depths. A world unseen, but heard into being. The synth becomes the conduit, transmitting in frequencies, straddling the boundaries between organic and artificial sound, guiding the antipodeal line through layered interiors; crust, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mantle, and core. The synthesizer is not an instrument of control but a porous interface navigating the imaginary of the natural datum. Turbulence shapes new forms, inverted waveforms, liminal cocoons, subharmonics and overtones, a cartography of the unexplored. The tunnel wall fractures, revealing not just space, but something beyond the reach of engineered design. A cavernous expanse. Above, renewal? Or at least, a reckoning? A Line Drawn Downwards blurs the space between history, prophecy, and fiction; folded into the Earth. We bore into the hum of the world and hope something answers. Recorded at WORM Sound Studio in Rotterdam, this sonic cartography unfolds through the distinct textures of each instrument; Kawai 100F, Syntron Syrinx, Soma Enver, Korg MS20, Korg PS3210, Optigan, Moog Prodigy, ARP 2600, EMS Synthi, Publison DHM89 B2, Yamaha CS100, ARP Odyssey, Roland TB303, Blippoo Box, Juno 60, Organelle, Boss DD7, Paia Proteus, Roland SP404, Roland D50, Yamaha 40M, Yamaha 60M, Phillips Philicorda, and the Fender Rhodes. Commissioned by Radiophrenia, 2025. Murray Collier is a musician and producer from Ayrshire, now working in Glasgow. He has released music on Sacred Summits (Emotional Response/ Firecracker Recordings), 12th Isle, Real Landscape, Optimo Music and Domestic Exile. He has performed at the Tate Modern, Turner Contemporary, the ICA, and Tramway, and for festivals such as Rewire (Den Haag), Glasgow Film Festival, Counterflows, 53100 (Siena, Italy) and Donau Festival (Krems, Austria). Hannan Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose current research expands hybridity, language, and rhythms associated with cultural and social migration, and psychogeography. Underpinning her practice is an evolution of sound, Hannan works with electronics, music concrete, improvisation and analogue recordings. Using samples and layering of audio material, she reclaims parallel histories, and reimagines connections between them. She is a graduate from Glasgow School of Art’s Sculpture and Environmental Art department. From 2020-21 she was an Associate Artist at Open School East. In 2023, she became a recipient of the Oram Award, a platform to elevate the work and voices of women and gender non-conforming artists innovating in sound, music and related technology. Hannan has performed at Counterflows, Glasgow; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Cafe Oto, London; REWIRE; The Hague; The Tate Modern, London; New Radicalisms, Rotterdam. -
Yulia Carolin Kothe - Poltergeist or some scene else
20 April 2025 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
‘Poltergeist or some scene else’ is an essayistic radio work by Yulia Carolin Kothe that takes the Barras Market's (Glasgow) syntax of artefacts as a starting point for creating an expanding and ever-evolving tableau of intense, uneasy acousmatic atmospheres. The conspicuous and omniscient narrator takes the listener on a rambling walk through the Barras entering private and public spaces, a remote cottage and various ambivalent territories home to disembodied voices and close up traces of life like a wet ring of a coffee cup just plucked from the scene. Kothe's own electronic compositions are juxtaposed with re-articulated oral histories, chopping up DIY recordings on cassettes purchased from the Barras Market, and combining with avantgarde German poems by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), Thekla Lingen (1866-1931), Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806) and Anna Ritter (1865–1921).
Text by Caitlin Merrett King
Artist bio:
Yulia Carolin Kothe is an artist working between Glasgow and Frankfurt am Main. Her practice moves between sculpture, film, sound, writing, installation and performance, often responding to archival material, queer feminist theory and personal and oral histories. Through forensic expansion of these materials, Kothe creates new sites, both digital and physical, glitching fictional or often partially-remembered environments that seek to configure new relational and temporal experiences.
Website/social links
https://www.juliacarolinkothe.de
https://www.instagram.com/yulia.ko_/
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Rislane Hakym - Schizophonies
20 April 2025 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Put an end to an unbearable silence, to decompartmentalize the story of a family fractured by illness. Told by the sister of a young man, whose schizophrenia declared itself 12 years ago. A decade of suffering and adaptation to psychiatric vertigo. Years, during which the attention paid to the suffering brother, made invisible the impact of an altered daily life on the other child: me.
“Schizophonies” vacillates between an atypical psychic world and the pragmatic reality of a
society where so-called “madness” is still worth being locked away.
Artist bio:
Born in northern France in 2001, Rislane Hakym is a qualified audiovisual technician. Social issues are at the heart of both her multidisciplinary practice. She has worked on a number of audiovisual projects with disabled people, around autism, sexual assistance, but also with young people in a medical-educational institute, or with a mutual aid group. Her interest in real-life cinema led her to enroll in the Master's program in documentary writing and creation (CREADOC, Angoulême), to produce her first sound documentary, “Schizophonies”. An autobiographical project focusing on her brother's schizophrenia, its repercussions for her and her family.
Website/social links
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Verónica Cerrotta - Sunset on the shores of the lake - Winter
20 April 2025 7:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Field recordings from Brazil's Atlantic Forest
This is a series of field recordings made in the transition biome between the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro.
The recordings were made in different seasons of the year, between 2023-2024, and at different times of the day. Each of the recordings has an approximate duration of sixty minutes.
Artist bio:
Argentinean sound artist settled in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her artistic work is based on the use of field recordings and navigates between soundscape and experimental electroacoustic and concrete music, focusing on listening and sound imagination.
Since 2019, she has released solo works on the labels Impulsive Habitat, Música Insólita, Pakapi Records and Sello Postal.
She has also released the collaborative works ‘Slani pejzaži’(tsss tapes), with Manja Ristić and Joana Guerra, ‘In-Radius’ (Presses Précaires) with Pablo Díaz, and “Fase de Plegamiento’ (Green Field Recordings) with Juan José Calarco.
Website/social links
linktr.ee/veronica_cerrotta
https://veronicadaniela.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/veronicadanielacerrotta
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Kazuya Ishigami - Something too huge
20 April 2025 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm
This work symbolically depicts the complex and tense state of the global environment by beginning with footsteps, followed by the gradual overlapping and unfolding of ambient, unbalanced harmonies and noise.
The footsteps symbolize the traces of human existence and its impact on the global environment. Harmony and noise symbolize the dissonance caused by human intervention in the global environment.
The acoustic space of monotonous footsteps and noise may be heard as a space of wishful thinking that the environmental problems we are facing at the moment are just a dream.
The sustained resonance of harmonies may be heard as the cry of the earth.
The silence at the end may be interpreted in many ways as to what it means.
Artist bio:
KAZUYA ISHIGAMI (b. 1972, Osaka/JAPAN) is a composer, sound designer, sound performer and sound engineer in the field of Electroacoustic/Acousmatic/Post-Acousmatic/Ambient/Noise, etc.
Since 1992 he has created under the name of DARUIN. He began using computers for composition and improvisation in 1994 with the programming language Max/MSP and others.
His pieces have been performed at CCMC (Japan), FUTURA (France), MUSLAB (Mexico), SILENCE (Italy), ICMC (2015_USA/TEXAS), Music From Japan 2020 (USA/NY) among others. He has an independent label, NEUS-318, and has released more than 100 works.
Website/social links
https://neus318.bandcamp.com/
https://kazuyaishigami.bandcamp.com/
https://omodaru.bandcamp.com/
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Shaun Robert - Una habitación real a partir de la imaginación
20 April 2025 9:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Cross talk & frequency drifting pulls the strings of his heart & relating to loops and rough editing , audio drop outs , a Sonic Organic. A mix of forms in an expanding wave , nudging & slating whim , composition dealt in reality , a truth of intimate confessional & intruding a microphone , the tension of triggered sounds to ape pictures of life. The work under the Shaun Robert moniker is inhabited with conventional instruments including guitar , drums , bass , violin , various keybroads , melodica , trumpet , accordion , mandolin , harmonica , stylophone and various toys ; Objects are treated like instruments & vice versa.
Artist bio:
Shaun Robert (1966 - ) has been working with sound from an early age , a natural extension of play. Starting like many with a domestic tape recorder ; years finger poised on the pause button ; tunnelling into the present & falling into deep concentration ; in a trance of coloured sound trials ; impromptu expressions processed & filtered into moments of congealed sound ; also using field recording , in voxpop & audio voyeurism , of hauntological stylings , spoken word & singing. Falling apart to come together ; feeling the next transition is about to happen , tape phasing sound on sound ; skimming back to make collusion edits ; building deep relationships with that aesthetic ; this interaction shows itself in within all his works . And the importance of sounds from analogue radio , magnetic tape manipulation can not be understated.
Website/social links
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Long Live the New Sound
20 April 2025 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
L L t N S (http://longlivethenewsound.com) is a podcast feed where you can listen to unexpected, eclectic, precise, messy and otherwise sounds. It's freeform and non-commercial, a public-access-style podcast. Episodes are added by whoever. Amateurs, artists, archivists, producers and anyone else can contribute sounds as they like whenever they like. New or old work, short or long, good or bad, LLtNS is an open channel for the kinds of et cetera that exists at the margins of sound stuff. All episodes are presented as they are uploaded, without additional hosts, context, ads or active curation.
00:00 : ASLEEPerd by sleep number beds1:29 : Cracking Through by Lily Sloane
2:36 : Ferk by This American Life
7:56 : Episode 1 : The Circles by Matters of Truth
8:30 : Episode 2 : The Change by Matters of Truth
8:50 : Frogs by al
9:01 : On the village cricket pitch by SDU
11:29 : MY LEG FELL OFF by BART
15:02 : Now and Tomorrow by Cristina Marras
17:46 : 920am by Jazmine (JT) Green
18:34 : Tonic Immobility by Eloise Bertil
26:14 : Smashing Glass by Jessica Jones
27:31 : Doubléferk by 99 percent invisible
27:56 : Fiend by Lily Sloane
31:52 : Sherry's Health Insurance Nachos by Henrici Tai
32:21 : Mindferk by The Shallows
32:37 : bugs on a bike by adriene
37:29 : We Went Camping by Regan Hutchins
39:27 : Sand by Ari Mejia
42:37 : Podiatrist by Lily Sloane
43:37 : the time in front by time studies
44:30 : I'm On My Way by Olivia 88
57:54 : This is absolutely, definitely not a test. And the previous episode was too long. by vegetarian nachos
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Storyteller - Hanging on the Telephone
20 April 2025 11:00 pm - 11:30 pm
A reimagining of the 1970's classic pop song by Blondie in an Arte Povera style from the perspective of a child murderer...
Artist bio:
STORYTELLER is an electro-acoustic Spoken word collaboration between writer & occasional filmmaker Bruce McClure and sound artist Bjørn Hatleskog.
Website/social links
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Cloud Circuit (Jeremy Young & Deanna Radford) - The Length of a Wave
19 April 2025 11:30 pm - 20 April 2025 12:00 am
"The Length of a Wave" was created for the launch of Occulto's R A D I O zine on January 12, 2024 at Errant Sound, Berlin, to which Deanna Radford contributed a poetic work. Recorded at Les Ateliers Belleville in Tio’tià:ke tsi ionhwéntsare / Mooniyang / Montreal. R A D I O is a poetry zine in print and sound released in September 2023. It emerged from a rediscovered passion for poetry blended with collective reflections on sustainable self-publishing, a decade-long involvement with sound experiments, and a soft spot for ‘radio’ as medium, technology, and (multilingual and multimeaning) word.
Artist bio:
Cloud Circuit:
Deanna Radford (word events, paper, walkie talkie)
Jeremy Young (radio, oscillator, EMF)
with special guest: Martín Rodríguez (radio, modular processing).
Website/social links
https://cloudcircuit.ca/
https://rdzmartin.com/
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Media Petros - Between the Interlude (The Machine Never Stops)
20 April 2025 11:30 pm - 21 April 2025 12:00 am
A social media influencer journeys outside the comfortable world of her online homelife, with startling results, in this retro-futuristic radio drama.
Artist bio:
Pete Petrisko (aka Media Petros) is a multi-media artist based in Phoenix, AZ (USA)
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/mediapetros/
https://www.facebook.com/PetePetrisko
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Media Petros - Between the Interlude (The Machine Never Stops)
20 April 2025 11:30 pm - 21 April 2025 12:00 am
A social media influencer journeys outside the comfortable world of her online homelife, with startling results, in this retro-futuristic radio drama.
Artist bio:
Pete Petrisko (aka Media Petros) is a multi-media artist based in Phoenix, AZ (USA)
Website/social links
https://www.instagram.com/mediapetros/
https://www.facebook.com/PetePetrisko
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Radiophreniathe light at the end of the dial