Radiophrenia Glasgow

Radiophrenia Glasgow Radiophrenia aims to promote the medium of radio as an art form and encourage experimental approaches to making radio.

Radiophrenia is a radio art festival and temporary FM radio station broadcasting in Glasgow. In previous editions the station has been housed in Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts but for 2025 we relocate to Civic House. The broadcast schedule includes live shows, pre-recorded features and a series of live-to-air performances. Radiophrenia's first season of broadcasts took place in April 2015

with subsequent broadcasts in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023. For further details and for the live stream visit the Radiophrenia website: www.radiophrenia.scot

Frequency: 87.9fm

Broadcast dates: 7th - 20th April, 2025. This project is supported by Creative Scotland.

We are excited to announce a night of Radiophonic performances at the Glad Café on November 23rd! Get your tickets on Ev...
24/09/2025

We are excited to announce a night of Radiophonic performances at the Glad Café on November 23rd! Get your tickets on Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/radiophrenia-presents-felicia-atkinson-matt-robin-tickets-1684490228619?aff=oddtdtcreator

Hailing from the wild coast of Normandy, French composer Félicia Atkinson performs a newly commissioned radio work titled ‘Wilhelmina, Glaciers Chasms’. Glasgow based sound artist Matt Robin performs a new live piece in advance of his full scale production commission for Radiophrenia 2026.

Poster design:
Photo 1, Matt Robin: Lizzie Urquhart
Photo 2, Felicia Atkinson: Bartolomé Sanson/ Shelter Press

'The Dream' Radio continues up until 14th September. You can listen online here:https://www.dreamradio.net/To celebrate ...
06/09/2025

'The Dream' Radio continues up until 14th September. You can listen online here:
https://www.dreamradio.net/

To celebrate 25 Years at Somerset House artist Tai Shani presents, ‘The Spell or The Dream’ an ambitious installation incorporating a round the clock radio station. Amongst other contributors Radiophrenia were asked to put together a selection of works responding to the themes of the exhibition to be included in the broadcasts.

Over the 10-year period of our broadcasts, artists have explored dream worlds in many shapes and forms including pieces about sleep and dreaming, sound works made to induce dream states, surreal utopias and work that responds via radio to crises of all scales, through activism, escapism, subversion and storytelling. We are proud to share a small selection of these works as part of these broadcasts.

For more details and listen links see the Somerset House website: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk

Participating Radiophrenia artists include: Robert Barry, Gregory Whitehead, Julia E Dyck, xentos fray bentos, Gabriele Heller, Elizabeth Flood, SUBTERRA (Astrid Björklund & Marie-Chantal Hamrock), Catalina Barroso-Luque and Feronia Wennborg, The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, Manja Ristić & Marko Paunović, Anne Marie Deacy & Lesego Rampolokeng, Toni Dimitrov, Laura Phillips, Dmitri Miticov & Ivan Palacký, Kirsty Gallagher, Mark Vernon, José Alejandro Rivera, John Roach, Nicky Stott and Nat Grant with Luc Yong, Magali Daniaux & Cédric Pigot, Yara Asmar, Neolithic Cannibals, Marco Paltrinieri, Sille Kima, Netta Weiser and Nora Amin, Stevie Jones, Autumn Chacon, Nichola Scrutton, Shortwave Collective and Kari Kraakevik.

About ‘The Spell or The Dream’:

Uniquely bringing together sculpture, radio, live gatherings and a host of guest contributors, The Spell or The Dream is a multi-faceted work inviting audiences to collectively dream of new horizons.

Inviting you to wonder, imagine and dream is The Dream radio, running alongside the sculpture. Co-curated by Shani and broadcast globally via Channel, the 24/7 radio also features three new commissions. The Dream radio is a continuous broadcast; works will not be available on demand – tune in live or let it slip into the ether.

7th August – 14th September

https://www.dreamradio.net/

You may not know this, but many of our Radiophrenia commissions go on to become record releases in their own right.It’s ...
05/09/2025

You may not know this, but many of our Radiophrenia commissions go on to become record releases in their own right.

It’s also Bandcamp Friday so we thought it was a good time to share with you just a few of the many releases that have had their origins as one of our commissions. It’s also a great way to support the artists and to hear any of those pieces you may have missed during the broadcasts.

Persistence of Sound have just released Brunhild Ferrari’s commission from earlier this year - ‘Errant Ear’ paired with another composition ‘Capriccio for Velasca’:

https://persistenceofsound.bandcamp.com/album/errant-ear

Jenny Wicks’ 2025 commission ‘Home Truths’ is also available now as a limited edition cassette tape or download under her 'Invisible Creatures' pseudonym:

https://invisiblecreatures.bandcamp.com/album/home-truths-ic001

Jérôme Noetinger’s incredible 30-minute 2019 Live-to-Air performance ”Erase my Head” is included on the recent Chocolate Monk CD ‘intensior corda sonus’:

https://chocolatemonk.co.uk/choc655.html

Double Goocher Shop’s (Renato Grieco & Moss Hopkins) 2020 commission ‘Radio Carrion’ has just been released as a CD on Derek Baron’s Reading Group label:

https://readinggroupcompany.bandcamp.com/album/radio-carrion

And last but not least - crys cole’s 2019 commission ‘A Piece of Work’ (after further development and re-working) was released as an LP by Second Editions. Now available as a download from crys’s Bandcamp:

https://cryscole.bandcamp.com/album/a-piece-of-work

Or for last remaining vinyl copies:
https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=9469&menu=0

Happy listening!

As we head into the final day of Radiophrenia Rewind on and - keep tuned in for radio wonders such as… At 12pm, a 2025...
09/08/2025

As we head into the final day of Radiophrenia Rewind on and - keep tuned in for radio wonders such as…

At 12pm, a 2025 Radiophrenia commission: Matana Roberts’ ‘Chasing Hopes on the Star Atlantic’ – a radio collage and audio diary from a voyage from England to North America, working with a desire 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.

At 12.30, a surreal folkloristic sonic tale or a journey through memories encountered in a fever dream in Mondlane (Lisa Fabian)’s commission for Radiphrenia 2025. Scenic echoes intimately evolve, looped until they burst into strange atmospheres and rhythms.

The final teatime slot of the week is occupied by Radiphrenia’s very own Mark Vernon and Stevie Jones. First up at 5.30pm are two pieces by Mark Vernon: ‘Saturnine Orbit’, a radio work made for the Casa Museo Giorgio Morandi, followed by ‘A Loop Within a Loop’, featuring the sounds of the Glasgow Subway.
Then at 6.30pm, Stevie’s ‘Tarmachan Transmissions’, an experimental documentary of a collaborative recording session made at Tombreck, a sustainable housing collective on the banks of Loch Tay.

Thank you for listening, and many thanks to Resonance for hosting us!

09/08/2025

As we head into the final days of our summer holiday to and , let Hexakaidecagon take you back to the early days of spring in 'Wrong’uns Makin’ Rights or a series of events in which one induces or influences the next'...

It’s the penultimate day of Radiophrenia Rewind on and - here’s some of what’s coming up on Saturday 9th August. At 1...
08/08/2025

It’s the penultimate day of Radiophrenia Rewind on and - here’s some of what’s coming up on Saturday 9th August.

At 10.30am Bex Šik follows hidden pathways and the delicate line between physics and magic in ‘Dredging Echoes (Watersilver)’, taking in electromagnetic phenomena, satellites, bat echolocation and underwater field recordings.

Lunchtime is commission time and today you can hear Budhaditya Chattopadhyay’s work, Sonic Psychogeographies II, which investigates the sonic fabric and distortions of the German city Offenbach. The sound archaeology lends an ear to underheard corners in public spaces, exposing historical and social layers as acoustic material.
Right after that, ‘Tobraichean mo Sinnsearan/The Wells of My Ancestors’ - a layered Gaidhlig soundscape by Cashlin Ross MacKenzie, anchored in the voice of her great grandfather ‘Tuam Ross’ (1876-1960), speaking on the uses and behaviours of the different wells and springs of his local area.

Then at 2.30pm, wandering souls, superstition and the devil in a rural Italian folktale from audio drama duo: ‘LA FENESTRE DE RUSINELLE’ by IRIDE PROJECT

08/08/2025

'J’ai pensé sans paroles' a duo performance by Luke Fowler and David Grubbs with sound material provided by Brunhild Ferrari, took place at the Glad Cafe back in March. It was commissioned alongside a new work by Brunhild – 'ERRANT EAR - 2024' which you have another chance to hear at noon today.

As we head into the final weekend of Radiophrenia Rewind on and here’s just a few things coming up on Friday August 8t...
07/08/2025

As we head into the final weekend of Radiophrenia Rewind on and here’s just a few things coming up on Friday August 8th.

At noon, Brunhild Ferrari’s beautiful composition of sound moments, ‘Errant Ear 2024’, part of our programme of co-commissions with Kunst zum Hören ORF Ö.

Right after that at 12.30pm, from our residency exchange programme with .worm Rotterdam and part of a series of sketches that witness people in states of intense concentration, observed over days Ash Kilmartin spent walking Glasgow’s inner city grid: ‘Cadogan Street, girl with Ribena box’.

At 6pm you can hear Tom White’s sonic archaeology of the Oare Marshes in Kent, and its dark and tragic history of gunpowder manufacture, in ‘An Awful Energy’.

Then after that at 6.30pm, Simina Oprescu’s ‘Green Hermeticism’ guides listeners through a narrative on consciousness, matter, energy, and spirit in her binaural composition, inspired by Peter Lamborn Wilson’s text of the same name.

07/08/2025

Radiophrenia Rewind continues until Sunday on and . This evening, at 9pm, you can hear this performance, .vic's evolving tape loop soundscape, ‘Thank you for your clouds’.
from our live-to-air commissions programme again in full. ☁☁☁

A small sampling of what’s coming up on Thursday August on Radiophrenia’s 2025 Rewind on and … Anyone awake at 2am wil...
06/08/2025

A small sampling of what’s coming up on Thursday August on Radiophrenia’s 2025 Rewind on and …

Anyone awake at 2am will be lucky enough to hear the sounds of ‘Cameron Toll: European shopping centre of the year 1985’ in Ryan Frame’s lo-fi field recording composition.

Then at noon, a chance to hear Tokyo-based musician Phew!’s shortwave recollections in ‘Jamming 2025’ - one of our 2025 production commissions.

Heading into the evening, Matt Robin explores memory, loss, and cultural erasure through a phone call with his late grandmother in ‘Petra hoc’h eus kavet? (what did you find?)’.

Later, at 9pm, from a live-to-air performance as part of Radiophrenia 2025 recorded at Civic House, Augustė Vickunaitė’s evolving tape loop soundscape, ‘Thank you for your clouds’.

06/08/2025

Finnish duo Ahti & Ahti's acoustic exploration of Örö Island, a former military base off the Finnish west coast was performed at Civic House, Glasgow back in April, as part of our live-to-air commission programme. If you've been missing us since then, head over to for Radiophrenia Rewind for more radio reminiscing - on now until August 10th.

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