Sat 12

12 April 2025

  • 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...
     
    https://dkoelakanth.neocities.org/

  • 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
    https://simonwhetham.bandcamp.com/

  • 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
    https://www.facebook.com/paul.devens

  • 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.

    https://www.matanaroberts.com/

  • 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

     

  • 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/
    https://soundcloud.com/northfield-lenox/albums

  • 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 
    https://augustevickunaite.bandcamp.com/ 

  • 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/
    @mathias.guilbaud for Instagram

  • 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.com


    FK 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.
     
     

     

  • 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
    https://www.instagram.com/woh.nen/

  • 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/
    https://deadyesterdays.bandcamp.com/

  • 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/
    http://christophermacinnes.com

  • 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

13 April 2025

  • 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