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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.

30/11/2025

Radiophrenia 2026 Open Call – now open for submissions

We are pleased to announce that Radiophrenia will be returning to the airwaves in September 2026 and our open call for radio works is now officially live. More details below. Please feel free to share this information with any interested parties.

Radiophrenia is an artist run FM radio station broadcasting in Glasgow and online.

We are seeking soundscapes, spoken word pieces, radio experiments, found sound, innovative approaches to drama and documentary, and radical and challenging new programme ideas. The broadcast schedule will include live shows, pre-recorded features and a series of in-studio performances.

Radiophrenia aims to promote the medium of radio as an art form and encourage experimental approaches to making radio that are not catered for by mainstream stations. We want to hear from radio makers who are seeking a platform for their work to reach new audiences. The call is open to artists, musicians and producers at any career stage. This opportunity is intended primarily for existing works. Local artists may also propose live shows or performances that will take place in the studio. Please note that there are no fees available for selected works.

To submit your work please visit our website for further details:
https://submissions.radiophrenia.scot/

Deadline for submissions: 14th February, 2026
Provisional broadcast dates: 7th – 20th September, 2026.

23/11/2025

Tonight we have a special night of live radiophonic performances beamed to you live from the Glad Café. We will be streaming the whole event online from our website between 8pm and 10.30pm GMT.

https://radiophrenia.scot/listen/

Hailing from the wild coast of Normandy, French composer Félicia Atkinson performs a newly commissioned radio work titled ‘Wilhelmina, Glaciers Chasms’ – an electro-acoustic piece for voice, field recordings, Fender Rhodes and electronics, inspired by the paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, in particular ‘Glacier Chasm’ from 1951. Transparencies, blue and grey, super-positions, free forms, resonance and sustains will infuse in this new electro-acoustic piece dedicated to the XXth century female Scottish painter.

And Glasgow based sound artist Matt Robin performs a new live piece that unearths field recordings from his personal archive, gathered in Caldelas, northern Portugal. What began as a study in the resonance of bells has evolved into something more elusive: a terrain where trembling drones and glimpses of memory unravel into an unfolding lament.

For more details on this event and the artists visit our website:
https://radiophrenia.scot/live-to-air/

This event is currently sold out but there may be some returns. You can check the Eventbrite ticket link for availability or to be added to the standby list.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/radiophrenia-presents-felicia-atkinson-matt-robin-tickets-1684490228619

Image courtesy of ©Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust - Glacier Chasm, 1951. Presented by the WBG Trust to the National Galleries of Scotland, via the Art Fund, 2012.

03/11/2025

Just a reminder that this Thursday is the first in a new series of events presenting non-English language radio works with subtitled translations in cinema spaces around Scotland.

Lost in Transmission #1 will take place at and is free but ticketed - tickets available on Eventbrite via the Radiophrenia website - the programme will start prompt at 7pm.

The first event is curated by Italian radio art festival LUCIA, whose annual international festival dedicated to the listening of radio works and podcasts is a celebration of the art of storytelling without images.

As well as these works from LUCIA, we're also very excited to present Nat Raha performing a new sonic interpretation of her book 'apparitions (nines)'...

30/10/2025

1 week to go until the first in our Lost in Transmission event series... 🗨🗯🎥✨
On Thursday 6 November at , alongside a programme of works curated by , Nat Raha will be joining us live with a new sonic interpretation of her new book, 'apparitions (nines)'. The event is free but ticketed - you can book on eventbrite via the Radiophrenia website.

Image credits: Nat's portrait by Phyllis Christopher ; book cover image - P. Staff To Live a Good Life V, 2022; poster design

23/10/2025

One month to go before we host Félicia Atkinson performing 'Wilhelmina, Glaciers Chasms' and a new live set by Matt Robin at on Sunday 23rd November. We're anticipating this being a busy one so make sure to get your tickets now (link on our profile) to avoid missing the chance to be in the live venue audience. 🎟 🎟 🎟

...If you'd prefer to listen from the comfort of your own home, you'll also be able to listen in live via our website.

17/10/2025

November is a busy month for Radiophrenia! November 6th sees the first in a new series of events presenting non-English language radio works with subtitled translations in cinema spaces around Scotland. Lost in Transmission #1 will take place at and is free but ticketed - tickets available on Eventbrite via the Radiophrenia website. 🗯🗨🎟✨

The first event is curated by Italian organisation LUCIA, whose annual international festival dedicated to the listening of radio works and podcasts is a celebration of the art of storytelling without images.

As well as these works from LUCIA, we're also very excited to present Nat Raha performing a new sonic interpretation of her book 'apparitions (nines)'

10/10/2025

At our upcoming live event at on November 23, Felicia Atkinson will be performing a new radiophonic work - 'Wilhemina, Glaciers Chasms'. an electro-acoustic piece for voice, field recordings, fender rhodes and electronics, inspired by the paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, especially ‘Glacier Chasm’ from 1951.

Tickets available now on Eventbrite via the link in Radiophrenia bio and on our website.

Images:
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham looking out to the landscape and drawing amongst the rocks [St Elia], 1955. Photo by David Lewis. ©Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Glacier Chasm, 1951. Presented by the WBG Trust to the National Galleries of Scotland, via the Art Fund, 2012. ©Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust

Felicia Atkinson portait by Bartolomé Sanson/ Shelter Press

08/10/2025

Artist spotlight: On November 23, as part of our live event at , Glasgow-based sound artist brings a new live performance built from the resonance of bells, sampled, fragmented and transformed into continuous sound. Reverberations multiply into waves, rising, falling and rising again. Matt Robin is a sound artist and composer working with electronics, field recordings, and percussion. His practice, both solo and collaborative, centres on exploring complexity through minimal means, using restraint to reveal sonic detail. Guided by curiosity, he explores the textures and tonal possibilities of acoustic and electronic tools through close listening and experimentation. He is a member of NEY, a Glasgow-based trio whose work combines voice, (electro)acoustic instruments, electronics, field recordings, and live processing.

Also on the bill: a new commission by Felicia Atkinson!

Tickets available now on Eventbrite with pay-what-you-can pricing via the link in the Radiophrenia bio and on our website.

image credits: colour image by Lizzie Urquhart, b&w by Lisa Fabian

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

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/

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!

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!

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