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The mountain sleeps; dreams stone. Festooned with power lines and communications towers, striated by long-ago meltwater and creeks that have since evaporated, blown bald by the prevailing winds. Some day, come earthrise or landfall, the mountain will walk out into the sea. Until then, micro-movements in the sediment and rock are its uneasy speech, while the antennae atop its massive breathing shoulders continue to call and respond.

The piece is inspired by coastal mountains that have been implicated in human long distance communications and listening, whether occupied by overland telephone and telegraph cables, military monitoring stations, radio and acoustic beacons for ships and airplanes, or 5G cell towers. Morse Mountain considers the ephemeral human occupations of signal space as they overlay mineral durations; fireflies buzzing around ancient beings that have merely paused to rest.

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, lamp filaments, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, magnetic transceivers, and "little electronic brains" that observe and respond to local phenomena. His outdoor works are a comment on bio-diversity, extinction, and fragility.

http://absolutevalueofnoise.ca/
http://nicelittlestatic.com/

The Conduction Series is a collaborative live radio broadcast produced by a group of sound and transmission artists across the Americas on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The group comes together on the first Friday of every month at 4:10pm ET using the web platform Mezcal. Emphasizing LIVE interactivity and media archaeological methods, the series explores themes of migration, feedback, user participation, low-key and on-site interaction with mobile devices, and remote collaboration at scale. AUGUST BLACK (Boulder, CO)•BETSEY BIGGS (Boulder, CO)•JEFF ECONOMY conductor (Kingston, NY)•MAXIMILIAN GOLDFARB (Hudson, NY)•PETER COURTEMANCHE (Vancouver, Canada)•VIRGINIA MANTINIAN (Denver, CO)

1st event:  the ferry, the rain, the dishwasher  (22:32)

2nd event:  the blues, the wind, the news  (24:01)

3rd event:  the birds, the planes, the ocean  (05:06)

Conceived for radio broadcast as a deep listening, radio theatre experience, this piece is composed from recordings made during a visit to the island of Ocracoke, NC in 2021. Classic themes of man vs nature & man vs machine recur.

Sam Sebren:  electronics, processed radio & tv tuning, field recordings, processed kalimba, vocals

Sam Sebren works in installation, collage, painting, photography, video, public works, and  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, also in film festivals, unsanctioned public interventions and non-profit spaces.  He hosts “The Nothing Is Real Radio Hour” and “Everything Is Real Radio” programs on Wave Farm/WGXC.

a few assorted links

RADIO:

Wave Farm Transmission Arts Artist link w/ works, shows, audio archives, images, broadcasts, and events:  https://wavefarm.org/ta/archive/artists/qa3dxc

Nothing Is Real Radio Hour: https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/2te0as

Everything Is Real Radio: https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/0hv018

SOUND:

Stick Sellers (solo sound projects):  https://sticksellers.bandcamp.com/

SS space systems (duo electronics project): https://ssspacesystems.bandcamp.com/

Bird Perverts (duo project): https://superdarkcollective.bandcamp.com/album/bird-perverts

VIDEO:

nothingisrealvideo  YouTube channel with many videos made for my own sound works or for sound collaborations, several have been in film fests: https://www.youtube.com/user/nothingisrealvideo/videos

ANNA FRIZ (Santa Cruz, CA)•AUGUST BLACK (Boulder, CO)•BETSEY BIGGS (Boulder, CO)•MAXIMILIAN GOLDFARB (Hudson, NY)

The Conduction Series is a collaborative live radio broadcast produced by a group of sound and transmission artists across the Americas on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The group comes together on the first Friday of every month at 4:10pm ET using the web platform Mezcal. Emphasizing LIVE interactivity and media archaeological methods, the series explores themes of migration, feedback, user participation, low-key and on-site interaction with mobile devices, and remote collaboration at scale.

https://conduction.wavefarm.org/

1 - Roberto D'Ugo Jr - The Stranger In The Nest (13:12)
2 - Diana Duta Ballade XIa (1:46)
3 - Ana María Romano G. - El sol festivo (5:02)
4 - Zo Bailly - Hungry My Handsome Man (10:47)
5 - Serge Bulat & Sean Ellis Hussey - EME(say)RGE (4:38)
6 - Stephen Lilly - The First (9:00)
7 - Wulf Steel - Consequence (2:39)
8 - Joanne Matthews -  at first and then (remixed) - (10:49)


1 - Roberto D'Ugo Jr - The Stranger In The Nest

An encrypted message sent into outerspace. COSMIC SILENCE: speechs fragments circulating in a estereophonic eternal return, just numbers (voices of unsuspecting sound operators). ARTE POVERA: tape loop voices manipulation; rolls of tapes wandering through 3 ANALOG RECORDERS, reverberations and noise STATIC, shorwaves textures. Feedbacks and mixing in real time. A melancholic minimalist composition played on toy keyboard CASSIO, recorded in a cassette tape, in the bright acoustics of a tiled bathroom (my old bathroom). Radio Art by Roberto D'Ugo Jr, inspired by the homonymous visual poem by Marcos Gross.

Roberto D'Ugo is a Brazilian artist-researcher dedicated to radio art. He creates works that explore interfaces between magic, technique and art. Based on listening to everyday life, his aesthetic investigation dialogues with surrealism. The ritualistic repetition of sound residues is a characteristic of his work. Some of his pieces have been broadcasted on CHIGIANAradioarte (Siena), Radiophrenia (Glasgow), Datscha Radio (Berlin), Radio CASo (Buenos Ayres) and Rádio Cultura FM (São Paulo). PhD in Arts from the Arts Institute of the UNESP. Professor of radio at Faculdade Cásper Líbero.

2 - Diana Duta - Ballade XIa

Ballades Infidèles is a research group working around the 'Ballades en jargon' – eleven poems composed by XVth century poet Françoys Villon and written in the secret tongue of the Coquillard·es, a posse of French rogues. These ballads repurpose medieval language to narrate social underworlds in code. They invite to a reflection on the possibility of otherness and the estrangement within a ’same’ language. In these excerpts, a translation of Ballade XI is modulated through a landscape of street vendors' cries. With Simon Asencio, Diana Duta, Chloe Chignell, Cee Fülleman, Loucka Fiagan, camille gerenton, Anouchka Oler, etaïnn zwer et al.

3 - Ana María Romano G. - El sol festivo

El sol festivo (2021-2022) is a soundscape commissioned by Brazilian sound artist and radio artist Renata Roman. I recorded on December 27, 2021, in the jurisdiction of Río Frío Occidental in Tabio, Cundinamarca, Colombia, at 1:00 pm. The edition was made in January 2022 for the WebSYN Radio program: Paysages Sonores d'Amerique Latine: une proposition de Renata Roman (aired from February 3rd to the 16th, 2022, Nimes, France).

Composer, interdisciplinary sound artist and improviser. Her creative interests converge at the intersection between gender, sexualities, sound and technology, listening, soundscape, space, the body, experimentation and the political dimensions of creative. Such interests have allowed her to work in acoustic, electroacoustic media, creation in fields such as installations, video, performing arts, podcasts, radio. She considers collective and collaborative work fundamental in all the areas of her life. Currently she teaches at Universidad El Bosque. She coordinates Plataforma Feminista En Tiempo Real and she is the co-founder of Paisajistas Sonoras América Latina. She is part of Red de Compositoras Latinoamericanas redcLa.

4 - Zo Bailly - Hungry My Handsome Man

Last year, I moved into a house I found on Facebook Marketplace. I met the roommates, signed the lease, and on the first night, I opened the door and Augie was there. He was really still in the hallway and I said: "oh". My Handsome Man is a piece about my relationship to sharing space and about what happens when the sharing goes wrong. It's about control and the struggle to collect evidence in your own home. There's a sprinkle of horror, a sprinkle of fur and a sprinkle of self-reflection.

My name is Zo Bailly (they/them). I work on audio docs about: inner-landscapes, capitalism, crushes, homes and strangers. I grew up in Canberra, Australia within a French-American family. I am most interested in collaborative projects where a thoughtful process > a perfect product. My work has appeared on: On Air Fest, WMPG, CJLO and at the Art Matters Festival. I am a recent graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Currently learning, making and keeping warm in Montréal.

zo.hotglue.me

5 - Serge Bulat & Sean Ellis Hussey - EME(say)RGE

The piece is a part of ‘Emerging Character of Identity’ project, to be premiered in Chicago's Constellation performance hub in 2023.
The project explores the depth of identity and becoming via sound and performance experimentation, promising a cathartic experience.

Serge Bulat is a multi-disciplinary artist, hailing from the Moldovan-Ukrainian border town. After experiments with various art forms, immigrated to the US and pursued a career in music. Known for the IMA-winning 'Queuelbum', psychological installation 'Inkblot' & the experimental game 'Wurroom'. In recent years traveled to 13 countries, collecting signature & disappearing sounds which are the basis for his sonic experimentations.

6 - Stephen Lilly - The First

The First is a short play with minimal dialog whose narrative unfolds through amplified sound.  Composed in celebration of my first anniversary, The First is both a musing on the beginning of a relationship as well as a study of the sounds associated with the traditional first anniversary gift.

Stephen Lilly is a DC-based composer, performer, audio engineer, and amateur poet. His music ranges from “dark” and “demanding” (The Retriever) to “‘performance art’...the sort of thing you are glad to have experienced without wanting to revisit” (The Washington Post). He can be microtonally abstract or theatrically satiric; he composes chamber music for friends and friends of friends as well as fixed media works for nobody in particular. Publications: Computer Music Journal, ink&coda, Organised Sound, Performance Research, Perspectives of New Music and SCI. Recordings: SEAMUS, SCI, C7 Music, and New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble.

7 - Wulf Steel - Consequence

An excerpt from the collection of poems Fallen. The full collection is yet to be completed but continues to ferment and grow. The excerpt here contains the poems Observing, Holding on, Downfall, Consequence and Ache which are grouped together in the collection.

Always been a writer and always wanting to get work out there. A lover of performance, and someone who likes to think.

https://www.cityofpoets.com/team/wulf             https://www.cityofpoets.com/items/clarity-is-sought

8 - Joanne Matthews - at first and then (remixed)

Remixed audio from ‘at first, and then’ a video and sound work. At first, and then (remixed) is a speculative fiction work set in a salty world, a collage of poetry, sound and silence. Part of a continuing project looking at a future, world, parallel, time  alternate, dimension, through a salted lens, set in an over salinated Portobello, Edinburgh, the work layers a 35 voice choir with crawling digital sounds, harking to sci-fis from the past projecting somewhere into the future.

Joanne Matthews is an artist and producer working collaboratively across performance, moving image, sound and installation. Their work is shaped by social-political contexts, research into deep ecology and queer speculative fiction.

http://www.jojomatthews.art           @jojo.maffyews on instagram

Traditionally it has been challenging for women to secure a career in the arts and becoming a mother could mean giving that up entirely. However, many women also feel a new surge of creativity during pregnancy and when entering motherhood, and there is scientific evidence that suggests that the physical changes brought on by motherhood promotes a new sort of creativity. This episode of Radio LOOS is an informal exploration of this topic, with contributions from Tatiana Kolganova, Asami Kiuchi Oishi, and Maya Felixbrodt. Curated and produced by Leonie Roessler for Studio LOOS, with funding from the Gemeente Den Haag.
 
Produced at https://www.loosdenhaag.com/

Leonie Roessler - Composer, performer and radio maker 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. She runs the radio branch of Studio LOOS in The Hague, has a monthly show called Tales in Sound on CAMP radio, and co-manages Iranian record label Noise à Noise. Her works have been released through Musica Dispersa (Spain/UK), and Noise á Noise (Iran), Biodiversitàs, Syrphe  and have been physically archived in the British Library.
 
http://www.leonieroessler.com
Facebook: Leonie Roessler
Instagram: ljroessler

Field recordings with interventions made over summer solstice on St Agnes, Scilly Isles. These remote and sparsely inhabited islands allow for undisturbed natural radio recordings (using Stephen P. McGreevy VLF/ELF receiver) picking up sferics from the magnetosphere, while hydrophones navigate the bubbles of a rock pool. On the shore, we practice ‘Expelling the Demons’ (Pauline Oliveros, 1971) in the gloaming light of the longest day, alongside the voices of herring gulls and northern wheateaters. In the dark of a cave we explore shifting tones with voice and a Peter Blasser ‘solar sounder’, (Tocante Phashi), day-charged by the solstice sun for night-time rock-reflected sound scribing. All recordings made by Stephen Shiell & Hannah White, with additional sound from Lucy White during ‘Expelling the Demons’. 

Blanc Sceol are artist duo Stephen Shiell & Hannah White. Their practice has emerged and expanded throughout their years of working together across performance, composition, participatory actions, deep listening facilitation, and somatic gatherings. They create recorded works and performances that have been described as ‘transcendent’ ‘other-worldly’ and ‘ethereal’, reflecting attempts to expand themselves, through listening and sound, beyond their physical limits and to extend this personal/performance practice into the collective. Their compositions, interventions and performances express their experience of place, anchored in what is found in a landscape but re-imagined into new territories.

Blanc Sceol

1 - Ela Orleans - Jeudi (4:52)
2 - Camille Hummel - Outside (7:03)
3 - GLAP COLLECTIVE - Neon (22:15)
4 - Diana Duta - A reading of Tulips by Sylvia Plath in Tour & Taxis park, Brussels (10:12)
5 - Mathias Guilbaud - Voies Urbaines: Rue Sainte-Catherine (6:58)
6 - Francisco Godinez Galay - 60 secs Radio 153: Mexican Fantasy (1:00)
7 - LANE/LOUISE - ode to Apollo (6:42)

1 - Ela Orleans - Jeudi

Made for the film by French artist Michel Zumpf on the basis of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a 1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton. The book has been described as a metaphysical thriller.The film is a two hour hauntological  tour de force between Paris and London, full of photographs, cinematic impressions, portraits of actors both amateur and professional who read or recite fragments of Chesterton's thriller or other related pieces of literature. A true masterpiece you might not be lucky enough to see as the artist nurses his mystery and obscurity.

2  - Camille Hummel - Outside

They are alone on one side or the other of the bars. The radio waves allow them to hold back a little longer.

Camille Hummel is a young french sound artist, working on ecology and societal topics. She likes to use sounds as tiny pieces of paper, trying to mix up everything, words, voices, fieldrecording, and sound-design to express herself. Besides, she does documentaries and writes stories for TV and video games.

https://camillehummel.com/

3 - GLAP COLLECTIVE - Neon

GLAP COLLECTIVE’s experimental writing for radio mixes narrative snippets of a dissolving fictional identity with abstracted noises, vocalizations and outdoor ambient sounds, presenting a sonic overlay of human and unearthly harmonics. Peppered with juddering and jumping words, this collectively authored transmission may or may not resemble an unpredictable data exchange in a nebulous dispersal into radio broadcasts. We are interested in what being part of a union does to an individual. Is it a space where one can speak louder, be heard by more ears through a multiplication of sound? Dialling a re-tuning of our collective listening experience.

John Hughes, Liz Murray, Simon Rattigan and Mia Taylor work collectively as GLAP COLLECTIVE. They make artworks combining the technologies of social media and robotics using text, sound, image and video. At the intersection between art and writing, with emphasis on how text might exist in a more expanded field, our work is critically engaged with the dissolution of historical distinctions between books, files, and artworks.
 
http://www.glapcollective.com

4 - Diana Duta - A reading of Tulips by Sylvia Plath in Tour & Taxis park, Brussels

The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in.  
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.  
I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.  
I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses  
And my history to the anesthetist and my body to surgeons.

5 - Mathias Guilbaud - Voies Urbaines: Rue Sainte-Catherine
 
Sainte-Catherine is a small street in Toulouse, France, close to my apartment. Attracted by its construction works, I decided to spend a few months recording and composing with the sounds of the street. Vibrant sounds, people working, engines, rhythms coiled inside barriers, so many textures depict the metamorphoses of our urban spaces. Tickling and shifting our listening, the sounds find a way to express themselves so that they can be heard, so that they unveil our cities and our relationships with them.

With a background in film studies, Mathias Guilbaud likes 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 he creates sound pieces where living spaces and intimate stories intertwine. Cities represent a privileged listening ground where he questions our relationship to public spaces and urban planning. Mathias works for theatre companies, community radios and cinema.

https://soundcloud.com/user-550379346/tracks

6 - Francisco Godinez Galay - 60 secs Radio 153: Mexican Fantasy

A dreamlike construction of a Mexican soundscape, based on real records from the Bosques de Chapultepec anda barrel organ in the Zócalo of Mexico City.
 
7 - LANE/LOUISE - ode to apollo

This work is inspired by the ambient noise of the apollo xiii mission, which we sampled then played along to using a nord rack, arturia microfreak, guitar and flangers. the mission audio is from day 7/7, returning to earth, ground elapsed time: 130:11:25:38, via https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/, with special thanks to ben feist for apollo in real time concept, research and restoration.

LANE/LOUISE is a duo based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada/Turtle Island consisting of amateur musician and group drone collaborator, CORINNE and her partner, artist and musician CHRIS who also performs as iderdown, a one person electronic, ambient, experimental act, and who forms one third of the band WITHIN.

https://on.soundcloud.com/5oaPZ

1) Ezio Piermattei - Guardatevi dalla raccolta punti (3:03)

 
1) Ezio Piermattei - Guardatevi dalla raccolta punti 
 
From the album 'Tre madri ludopatiche'.
 

‘Like a telepath’ pieces together a week-long journey of remote recordings. ‘Emitting’ and ‘receiving’ from a small island and from a city simultaneously, in order to mimick a radio device. To do this, we would start the recording of our parallel transmissions at the same moment in time, using the distance between us as a space to connect. What you hear is a photograph of a thought, a long, windy line tracing a series of synchronous compositions. Cover a moment, remain standing, crumpling paper in your hands. A phone rings – s in the past.

Brussels – L’Île-d’Yeu, May 2023

‘Like a telepath’ is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunstradio Radiokunst for Ö1, Austria.

Diana Duta is a Romanian-born, Brussels based artist working with sound in hypnotic ways, with a background in art and socio-cultural linguistics. Her work focuses on concepts of mimesis, translation and echoic memory, with an ear on our relationship to the non-human, embodied sound and the act of listening. She makes music performances (as DIAN), works for radio, sound installations and collaborative translation projects.

Her project Jambes founded in 2019 is a recording studio commissioning new work by artists experimenting with sound and the voice. Quille podcast is an limb branching out from Jambes that collects interviews with sound practitioners.

http://dianaduta.com

http://jaaambes.be

Florence Cats is a visual & sound artist and acupuncturist from Brussels who uses theremin, light, water, color and energies. Her ‘transparent music’ tunes in to space and ambient silence, and is inspired by natural radio. She has curated of a series of exhibitions around water, signs, transmutations, and is the co-author of several books including ‘Lavori in corso’ (primitive press, 2020). She released ‘Ys’ on ediçoes CN in 2022 and ‘correspondances’ on frissons in 2021. She was also a member of The Asocial Telepathic Ensemble (corvo records, 2022) and often collaborates with other musicians and artists, such as Brandon LaBelle, Clara Levy, Bogdana Dima, Mauricio Amarante, Joseph Charroy.

https://florence-cats.com/

https://florencecats.bandcamp.com/album/ys

With Satch Hoyt and the voices of those we don't always name but never forget.

Your voice is inseparable from your being, your history, your future and is the bridge between your inner and outer worlds. When there is a rift between what you express and how you actually feel, the truest part of you is abandoned. When you free your most authentic and natural voice, it is an act of self love, and essentially you are validating and freeing yourself.
You come back into wholeness and integrity with yourself, planting the seeds for true freedom, happiness and joy to bloom.

Satch Hoyt, born in London of British and African-Jamaican ancestry, is currently living and working in Berlin. He makes sculptures and installations accompanied with sound, as well as paintings and drawings. There is a dichotomy in the genres that define two sides of the same coin: a dual and complementary reflection on the African Diaspora and its multi-fold consequences. The sculptural trope in Hoyt’s work addresses the facts on the ground, so to speak, of black experience, while the drawings tap into a spirit of fantasy, refuge, and transcendence - they are vehicles for an imaginative journey beyond the obduracy and oppressiveness of history.
 
https://www.goethe.de/ins/it/en/sta/mai/ver/tri.html
 
 

The Red Forest is a loose knit assemblage based on affinities and  overlapping practices that grounds together research, art, political  imagination, and social actions striving for transformative justice  and ecological reparations. In 2021 they initiated a pan-continental  research focusing on the intersections between contemporary  extractivism and datification processes. Red Forest assembles and  organizes their work with infrastructures of collective reciprocity  and interdependency as actual potentiality. Their research contributes  to the theoretical framework of Energetic Materialism to conceptualize  urgent cultural and social processes in the defense of life and the  construction of pluriversal futures in dignified flux.    
 
Red Forest is mobilized by David Muñoz-Alcántara, Diana McCarty, Mijke  van der Drift and Oleksiy Radynski, after their collective practices  super collided during a 2019-2020 BAK Fellowship in Utrecht. It  unfolds as a growing constellation of artists, activists, researchers,  media producers, filmmakers, philosophers, educators and time  travelers realizing interdisciplinary projects. In 2021, their ongoing  research on Extractivism, Datafication, and Transformative Justice was  supported by the Kone Foundation in Finland led to: producing an  experimental social and durational performance series in Kyiv and  Berlin titled Sambatas Stagings, supported by Goethe-Institut  Co-Production Fund Kyiv and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and in  2022, they convened Red Forest Radiograms - Nomadic Cosmologies &  Fugitive Power - as the German Pavilion of the the 23rd Triennale  Milano. In 2023, their KONE supported research is on "Energy-Matters  in the context of war. Neo-extractivism, fossil fascism, and the  post-national question”. They are currently producing "On the Loss of  Energy. Radiogram from the remnants of collisions", an experimental  audio piece for the 2023 Helsinki Biennale.   

As part of our public engagement activities for 2023 we have worked with four diverse community groups to create a series of radio and sound works for broadcast on Radiophrenia.

‘Amina: the Muslim Women’s Resource Centre’ - Amina MWRC

Amina is Scotland’s resource centre for Muslim and BME women. Exploring their services through voice and sound, listeners are invited on an audio journey through the organisation’s work. From the perspectives of three teams – Helpline, Violence Against Women and Girls, and Employability, Adult Learning and Financial Inclusion – we hear how Amina supports and empowers vulnerable women, dismantles discriminatory sociopolitical structures, confronts cultural norms, helps to rewrite policy, challenges capitalist value systems, and amplifies the most marginalised of voices.

Recording, production and sound design by Riah Naief and Katie Revell, for Radiophrenia.

Amina - the Muslim Women’s Resource Centre empowers and supports Muslim, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women to create an inclusive Scotland in which they can contribute fully. We envision a world where Muslim and BME women are fulfilling their aspirations. Amina is an award-winning organisation, recognised for its pioneering and responsive approach to addressing key issues and needs of racially minoritised women and Muslim women.
Amina’s Helpline number is 0808 801 0301.

https://mwrc.org.uk

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‘Kicking the Can’ - Flourish House

In July 2023, Flourish House members - accompanied by visual and sound artists Eothen Stearn and Flora Zajicek - embarked on three afternoons of experimental radio workshops. Together they explored sound and memory, prompted by a theme of the four classical elements: fire, earth, water and air. Through collective listening, walking and meditating, the group created rhythms, soundscapes, poetry and stories. ‘Kicking the Can’ is a window into the workshops, meandering through our experiments and pausing to dwell on moments of remembered youth or reflections on what it means to listen and be heard. Recordings were made in the surrounding neighbourhood of Flourish House in the Woodlands area of Glasgow.

Flourish House is a mental health recovery community. We offer support to people with long-term mental illnesses, enabling them to gain a sense of well-being and to recover confidence. We encourage people to learn new skills to achieve social, financial and vocational goals, and to become active participants in the community.

https://www.flourishhouse.org.uk

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‘They’ve Not Got Ears, Per Se’ - Govanhill Baths Fishing Group

‘They’ve Not Got Ears, Per Se’ is a sonic and sometimes submerged imagining of what a fish’s world sounds like, maggot eating included - and what they make of us humans above the water. As well as moving above and below a fishery's pools, this piece also takes us between different fisher people; to hear about what fishing means to them, past prize catches (where fishes are as big as crocodiles), and what it feels like to hook a fish (and to be hooked, as a fish).

Created by Govanhill Baths Fishing Group, recorded in Summer 2023 at the Springwater Fishery, Ayr.  

Production and sound design by Ros Fraser and Flora Zajicek for Radiophrenia.

Govanhill Baths is a grassroots, activist-based organisation delivering health, wellbeing, arts, environmental and heritage projects. Govanhill Baths Fishing Group invites families, couples and individuals to meet new people, and to acquire skills in both fly and bait fishing, supported by the Scottish Federation for Coarse Angling (SFCA).

https://www.govanhillbaths.com/projects/whats_on/fishing-with-bob/

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We See You - ‘We Hear You’

“You see things in different lights, and see people in completely different ways…”

‘We Hear You’ is an immersive soundscape of stories and real-life experiences, poetry and music, created and designed by some of the many people supported by Simon Community Scotland’s We See You project.

Recording, production and sound design by Steve Urquhart, for Radiophrenia.

We See You supports people in Glasgow city centre who use substances, and who are experiencing homelessness. It offers creative sessions, walking groups, drama workshops and psychosocial support for people in a safe, inclusive and open environment, as well as access to harm reduction interventions and treatment, 365 days a year.  

https://www.simonscotland.org/we-see-you/

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1) Ezio Piermattei - Turismo dentale 7 (5:43) 
2) Sara Lehad - Essel (11:31)
 
1) Ezio Piermattei - Turismo dentale 7 
 
From the album 'Turismo dentale'.


2) Sara Lehad - Essel 
 
Essel means "listen" in kabyle. Listening is somehow a way of living when you can’t speak like Echo in Greek mythology condemned to repeat the words of Narcisse.
This piece aims to give a listen to things that are silenced like kabyle language, women and the trauma expressed by a scream.

Sara Lehad is a Paris based and Algiers born sound artist and researcher. She’s currently working on her PhD at l’Université Paris 8 and she studied electroacoustic music composition at le Conservatoire de Pantin. Her current research aims to decolonize her practice of music through a matrimonial interest in Amazigh-Kabyle women culture and through thematics such as listening, voice, border of speech, immemorial and intergenerational trauma. She has also a practice of improvisation through an electronic dispositive of no-input mixing board. She performed in les Instants Chavirés, le Non_Jazz, Doxa Esta and Cmptrmthmthcs.

https://soundcloud.com/sara-lhd-554471127
 

“ And with me in tow, you shuffle” I received this commission proposal on March 14. The same day, my Grandmother Lea turned 99. On the 4th of May, she passed away. Nearly all the field recordings on it were taken on these two dates, in and around  the nursing home where Nonna was cared for. Voice, tapes, instruments and electronics have been recorded at home after her departure. Ezio Piermattei (b. 1980) is an italian sound artist living in Turin, Piedmont. He  has released solo and collaborative recordings  through Chocolate Monk, More Mars,  My Dance The Skull, Steep Gloss, Discombobulate, Staaltape, Joy De Vivre, Nashazphone. Piermattei also plays in Triple Heater – a duo with Brighton’s F. Ampism – and runs the label Tutore Burlato.

The River Clyde’s history of imperialism haunts Glasgow, its presence unavoidable - the hold of the city. Water can be used to heal, but sometimes it requires its own healing. In lessons in memory, healing is sought through an underwater meditation that evokes the past into conversation with the present and future. Made using a Mbira with sounds recorded from The River Clyde, Forth and Clyde Canal, and the Atlantic Ocean. Final edit by Clara Hancock Natasha Thembiso Ruwona is a Scottish-Zimbabwean artist, researcher, and curator. Working primarily in film, she is interested in how Afrofuturism and psychogeography can meet through experimental forms of storytelling.  Through her practice, she investigates healing and well-being by exploring relationships between the environment and creativity. natasharuwona.com

A radio piece produced by Anne Lepère

Production – Babelfish asbl

2022, 53 Minutes (Galician and French with English subtitles)

CCA Cinema, 7pm, Thursday 24th August

Tickets: Pay what you can from the CCA Box Office

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This special screening of the English subtitled version of Anne Lepère’s radio play will coincide with a broadcast of the piece on Radiophrenia. Listeners at home can download a PDF translation of the script here and read along.

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Chimerical appearances in the Galician night.

Two mares surprise us.

Vivid and fleeting, they leave a trace in us.

From this appearance is born the desire to go back to the legend of the wild horses that populate Galicia.

This journey can be listened in different orders.

It is a twist of time where voices from the 16th century, telepathic visions of the future and rituals between humans and horses ricochet. Among them, we find the practice of farriery or the annual gathering Rapa das bestas during which humans meet wild horses.

This audio drama is about the connection between humans and horses and more specifically about a traditional practice that began four centuries ago in Galicia. This heritage is called: Rapa das Bestas (The Shave of the Beasts). This ritual involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain).

This tradition could be a Pre-Roman practice, given that various petroglyphs have been found in the area in which men are depicted on horseback.

This Radio Drama is also an attempt to propose a travel into space and time. Indeed the piece is composed of five sequences that took place at different period of time, and can be heard remotely. It’s possible to make the experience here: https://www.annelepere.net/fr/area

But for greater accessibility, there is an order that has been subtitled (SALT/IRON/MOSS/GOLD): https://videos.domainepublic.net/w/tEJRtSBrQGBnPgwk2idEsN

Credits:

Production, sound design, recordings, texts: Anne Lepère

Mixing : Jeanne Debarsy

Dramaturgy: Marion Sage

With the voices of Anne Thibault, animal telepath, the children, Maëlle Lùa and Malva Barros Mathurin, José Francisco Vieira, Gregorian singer, Sète, the blacksmith, José Antonio Sánchez Orgeira, Paulo Vicente, Sheila Miguez, inhabitants of Sabucedo.

With the complicity of the horses of Sabucedo, the horse Lùa of the horse club of Mondariz-Balnéario, the mare met in Redondela, the horses of equireliance in Bierges, the Galician mare met in Frasnes les Couvin with Brigitte. Thanks to Aurélie Brousse, Brigitte Wynant, Anne Baraquin and all the team of the ACSR.

Web design : Julien Clemmen – Be Capy

With the support of the “Fonds d’aide à la création radiophonique de la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles”, of the ACSR and of the “Brouillon d’un rêve de la Scam” and of the “La Culture avec la Copie Privée”.

Production Babelfish asbl

Production manager : Aurélie Brousse

Special broadcasts of electroacoustic poetry from poets on both sides of the Atlantic. The poets are: Brian K. Price (USA), Joan Schuman (USA), Ilaria Boffa (Italy), Tony Brewer (USA), Jeff Gburek (Poland), Marjorie Van Halteren (France).

These works from the last twelve months are all part of my current PhD practice research at London College of Music, University of West London. Using autoethnographic techniques, I'm exploring self-compassionate creative exploration of lived trauma (kinship care family, growing up gay during the AIDS crisis, addiction/abuse).

'Secrets keep us sick and pop music brings us closer' is an audio paper selected for Seismograf's 'Grief' edition.  (Radiophrenia broadcast 9pm, 24th Aug).

'My story with alcohol' is part of an installation at Open School East's Associate Artist exhibition. (Radiophrenia broadcast 11pm, 1st September).

'The Haunting' is a music, film and spoken word performance from Naviar Records Haiku Fest at Cafe Oto. (Radiophrenia broadcast 9:30pm, 3rd September).

In the last three years, leon clowes’ transdisciplinary artworks have featured in, and been commissioned by, Drake Music Scotland/NMC Recordings for pianist Siwan Rhys, BBC News and Sounds podcast, SPILL and Deptford X arts festivals, Frieze Art Fair, Cafe Oto, Squish Rotterdam, Queer Art Projects, Disability Arts Online, Margate Pride, Queer Contemporaries, Datscha Radio Berlin, Britten Pears Arts and Exploding Cinema. Together with Cathy Sloan, and working curatorially with international groups and artists, leon is using lived experience to establish the national Addiction Recovery Arts Network.

http://www.leonclowes.com

live, skive and direct from the ten23 Hovestraat way deep in the transmission sewage tubes. From  the tram twaaalf lijn in the sand  down by de dune sea cows. Zendapparaat from duinedorp zeecorp to the de galaarsde kat concrete ethereal filter fort.  

Don your yellow lense spectacles and lock down in your ariel...

Met the filmscoop IDZ to the IDiom televsiE

Whiskey and melk in a jarrtho...transmitty uber kone marktplein bar zare  tho...for the application of de dim light KP electricity in every bruine kamer zone...

From the Hoegvleett high-fleshed Lopik weiner mast far noorde west mid to jumbo bangers Langenberg tower via starlight and neptune  FM  shining the zonnen   to the rotunda in de CW. Short. long and muddle modulation mauve zon frecvență cârnați

Produced by mouth_in_Foot

https://soundcloud.com/mouth_in_foot

http://mouthinfoot.net

Produced by Pete Hazell

Radio Limbo offers an escape to its own world through plundered airwaves and curated music. Made with 90% recycled material (from irresponsibly sourced samples) this new mixtape is a compilation of the cut and paste highlights that bejewel our monthly shows.
It marks five years of our residency on Bristol’s Noods Radio, and is packed with hallucinatory skits, plunderphonic sketches, music edits and playful collage that seek to transport, amuse and maybe gently disturb the listener.
 

Pete Hazell has produced and hosted Radio Limbo for 5 years, and alongside creative collaborator Sean Lee, runs the cassette label Limbo Tapes.  As well as producing radio curiosities, Pete and Sean are musicians in their own right, making music as Titus 12 and Dive Reflex Service respectively. In 2022 they joined forces as World Of Repetitive Music for a collaborative album.
Their music, and Radio Limbo material is available via Limbo Tapes on Bandcamp.

This is… Radio Limbo tape & digital release
https://limbotapes.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-radio-limbo

Limbo Tapes on Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/limbotapes

Noods Radio
https://noodsradio.com/residents/radio-limbo

Radio Limbo Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/radiolimbo

1 - Peter Beeston - One Day We Will Swim In The Ocean Forever (1:50) 2 - Martha Riva Palacio Obón - Antología liquen (6:59) 3 - Ewan Cameron - How to be be Happy (17:59)
4 - Farmer wadams - Butter Thumbers (3:55) 5 - DiscountGnostic - The Matchstick Man Knows Where You Live! (6:59) 6 - Female Laptop Orchestra - Building a connection (5:45) 7 - Ilaria Boffa - Make Me Ready (1:30) 8 - Samvaran Rai - With time (9:15) 9 - Johnny Dixon - Patterned finger movements (0:42) 10 - Ariel Mioduser - Interference (2:50)

1 - Peter Beeston - One Day We Will Swim In The Ocean Forever

This was made in Autumn 2022 with the purpose of creating a small audio/radio drama narrative using only public domain sound effects and music (no lines of dialogue are spoken within it) Despite no dialogue, it still aims to have an identifiable and understandable main character and a narrative arc for them to travel; with situations and scenes that any person can understand and relate to (mainly about the stress of modern day life). It hopefully demonstrates unique methods of telling a story without dialogue.

Peter Beeston is a producer, director and editor who organises a local group called ‘Cornucopia Radio’ based in Sheffield, UK; which makes a wide variety of audio work across many forms. He has helped 100’s of people over the last 15 years turn their ideas into finished audio productions. He is always looking for new interesting ways to tell stories and present ideas in the audio medium. You can find out more at http://www.cornucopia-radio.co.uk

2 - Martha Riva Palacio Obón - Antología liquen

This sound essay is my take on the concept of holobiont proposed by Lynn Marulis. We are, were, will be bodies ecosystems lichen. Symbiosis: I record the sounds I make with my mouth when speaking and mix them in different frequencies with radio static. Resounding symbionts entangle opening a gap through which an infinity of possible worlds emerge. Cacophony, chaos, flow: it’s impossible to know if I’m one or a multitude.

Mexican sound artist and author. She studied a BA in Psychology and a MFA in Visual Arts and is member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.  https://twitter.com/martharp               

3 - Ewan Cameron - How to be be Happy

A darkly comic short story about mental health. An unnamed character begins following the advice of an online article titled ‘Ten things to do every day to become a happier you’. The article claims to make the reader happier in thirty days. However, after thirty days come and go, the character begins to quickly lose touch with reality.

Ewan is a writer and audio producer based in London. He’s the creator of Randomly Generated Thought, an experimental storytelling podcast. His work has been aired on BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts and has played at In the Dark Radio.

4 - Farmer wadams - Butter Thumbers

'Thumber' - My first attempt at making 'music', in bed, slightly delirious and full of covid. Samples, all recorded on my phone, are a ruler pinging off a desk and finger tapping, my dogs and local birdlife. 'Butter Thumbers' - attempt at a 'dance' remix of Thumber.
 
I have worked in animation for the past 25 years - currently Creative Director at Wild Child Animation, Stirling. I started out in club visuals and live AV performances, as part of a collective called Pointless Creations, and have always wanted to go back and make music of my own. Struggling to find time to learn music software, I decided to use Resolve, video editing software with which I was already familiar. So earlier this year I made my first track ill in bed with covid, which reflects the semi-delirious state I was in at the time.
https://soundcloud.com/farmerwadams

5 - DiscountGnostic - The Matchstick Man Knows Where You Live!

As the pipe smoke clears the Matchstick Man travels from the past to render your future in a Bryant & May. Seemingly friendly, this old uncle's gaze foretells the horror of the future as seen from the past and the viscous present of your predicament. The Matchstick Man always knows where you live...

DiscountGnostic is a sound artist and improviser based in London. His practice involves the recuperation of false memory and the unearthing of occulted energy through the manipulation of existing sound materials and a ritual approach to composition. Always searching for the unhomely presence of childhood anxiety as reality unfolds into something far more delinquent, DiscountGnostic is happy to engage with the tear in the curtain.

6 - Female Laptop Orchestra - Building a connection

In 2021, the Fair_Play network (Austria) and Tsuku Boshi Records (France) invited Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO) to produce music for their upcoming EP, Ghost Structures, as part of the ]FairTsuku[ project, presenting female and non-binary composers from various backgrounds.

Between September 2021 and September 2022, FLO members: Nela Brown (Croatia), Maria Mannone (Italy), Magdalena Chudy (Poland), Ariane Stolfi (Brazil), Sonia Wilkie (Australia) and Ada Methea Hoel (Norway), connected over the network from their respective locations to record four tracks for the EP, showing that even in times of great uncertainty, creativity knows no boundaries when afforded by technology!    https://femalelaptoporchestra.wordpress.com/

7 - Ilaria Boffa - Make Me Ready

How can we be change ready in this volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous era?
Field recording taken at the Antique Market/Mercatino delle Cose d'Altri Tempi, Piazzola sul Brenta (Padua) - Italy.

Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. She writes bilingual poetry and she has published three poetry collections to date.    https://linktr.ee/ilariaboffaIB
 
8 - Samvaran Rai - With time

With Time is based on the idea that time is a construct of the mind where one experiences material changes that run into space. With time, is an attempt to show the struggle of the mind to find a way to separate itself from time. The mind opens doors to different memory spaces yet every place in a memory space has existed before and this affects its present consciousness as it creates an incomprehensible warp of events and requires time to make sense of these material changes in the end.

Samvaran is from Darjeeling in India. He has been involved with music and storytelling from a very early age. He pursued his musical career south of India and then obtained an education in film sound design in Estonia. He is currently involved with Sonic arts and Interactive media at De Montfort university where he is a part of the Music Technology and Innovation program of study.

9 - Johnny Dixon - Patterned finger movements

10 - Ariel Mioduser - Interference

A perception of how sound enters my ears, excites all the inner organs and travels through the brain until it is conceived as sound. An external interference that undergoes internal processing.

I am a media artist focusing on sound art, animation, and digital painting. Along the years my sound works have evolved from the use of field recordings and electronic instruments to being mainly based on my voice in a broad sense, processed to the point where sometimes it is not recognizable as a human voice, but still carries the warmth and vibration of the original. The visual raw material is the bare pixel as the building block of digital art. In all my works, the visual and the sound combine into one experience.           https://arielmio4.wixsite.com/website

The mountain sleeps; dreams stone. Festooned with power lines and communications towers, striated by long-ago meltwater and creeks that have since evaporated, blown bald by the prevailing winds. Some day, come earthrise or landfall, the mountain will walk out into the sea. Until then, micro-movements in the sediment and rock are its uneasy speech, while the antennae atop its massive breathing shoulders continue to call and respond.

The piece is inspired by coastal mountains that have been implicated in human long distance communications and listening, whether occupied by overland telephone and telegraph cables, military monitoring stations, radio and acoustic beacons for ships and airplanes, or 5G cell towers. Morse Mountain considers the ephemeral human occupations of signal space as they overlay mineral durations; fireflies buzzing around ancient beings that have merely paused to rest.

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, lamp filaments, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, magnetic transceivers, and "little electronic brains" that observe and respond to local phenomena. His outdoor works are a comment on bio-diversity, extinction, and fragility.

http://absolutevalueofnoise.ca/
http://nicelittlestatic.com/

The mountain sleeps; dreams stone. Festooned with power lines and communications towers, striated by long-ago meltwater and creeks that have since evaporated, blown bald by the prevailing winds. Some day, come earthrise or landfall, the mountain will walk out into the sea. Until then, micro-movements in the sediment and rock are its uneasy speech, while the antennae atop its massive breathing shoulders continue to call and respond.

The piece is inspired by coastal mountains that have been implicated in human long distance communications and listening, whether occupied by overland telephone and telegraph cables, military monitoring stations, radio and acoustic beacons for ships and airplanes, or 5G cell towers. Morse Mountain considers the ephemeral human occupations of signal space as they overlay mineral durations; fireflies buzzing around ancient beings that have merely paused to rest.

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, lamp filaments, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, magnetic transceivers, and "little electronic brains" that observe and respond to local phenomena. His outdoor works are a comment on bio-diversity, extinction, and fragility.

http://absolutevalueofnoise.ca/
http://nicelittlestatic.com/