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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.

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.

Just a few of the things coming up on Wednesday August 6th on Radiophrenia’s 2025 Rewind on and ... Enjoy your morning...
05/08/2025

Just a few of the things coming up on Wednesday August 6th on Radiophrenia’s 2025 Rewind on and ...

Enjoy your morning coffee with best friends, gardeners and ‘kidnappers’, Gina and Raja, in Gabi Schaffner’s situation piece, ‘Kidnap Coffee’ at 9am.

Over lunch, there’s a chance to hear some of our Radiophrenia 2025 commissions:
At noon, adventurous voices set out to encounter Galician mythological beings, seeking the secrets etched in stone and the magical tales sedimented over millennia, in ‘Mouras’ by Anne Lepère.
Then at 12.30pm, in ‘A Line Drawn Downwards’ by Hannan Jones and Murray Collier and made on residency exchange at WORM Rotterdam - the ground opens up, we fall inwards, the shifting rubble opens to ineffable depths. A world unseen, but heard into being.

At 6pm, Zara Joan Miller’s long poem, ‘Year of the Dragon’ traces fire across a year. The figure of Saint Margaret, who freed herself from the belly of a dragon, is relocated in living voices that challenge structures of oppression today, in this piece co-commissioned with

There’s another commission at 7.30pm, with ‘J'ai pensé sans paroles’, a duo performance by Luke Fowler and David Grubbs with sound material provided by Brunhild Ferrari. Recorded live at the Glad Café, 15th March, 2025 at a special Radiophrenia pre-festival event.

At 9.50pm, an invitation to embody a yew tree through tuning into its particular aural experience – populated with sounds of dragonflies, beetles, slugs, dust, crows and other creatures from its immediate environment, in ‘death watch beetle’, by Diana Duta.

05/08/2025

As our week-long summer holiday over to continues into its second day, over here on socials we're sharing more clips from our live-to-air commissions that took place at Civic House back in April. Here's .isabel.chen with 'hyper-extensions for voice and analog electronics'

Just a few of the things coming up on Tuesday August 5th on Radiophrenia’s 2025 Rewind on and You can enjoy your breakf...
04/08/2025

Just a few of the things coming up on Tuesday August 5th on Radiophrenia’s 2025 Rewind on and

You can enjoy your breakfast in a bog in West Cork with Yulia Carolin Kothe, Katerina Sidorova, Max Brück, in‘How to Navigate a Bog’ at 9am.

Straight after that, Manja Ristić & Marko Paunović - ‘Rituals in Transfigured Time’ is made of field recordings from across Yugoslavia, from pristine nature to intoxicated lands and waters, from memorial sites to abandoned factories; analog instruments, radio appropriations; found sounds, voices long gone and forgotten.

Over lunch, there’s another chance to hear some of our 2025 commissioned works: ‘Bloodline of Flower’, by Charo Calvo, a drawn from poems by Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian poet and filmmaker (1934-1967) at noon, followed by Jennifer Wicks’ ‘Home Truths’ – spectral remnants, weaving fragmented memories and sonic decay into a textured exploration of fragility and persistence.

Later, at 6pm, in a co-commision with the Goethe Institut, Ute Wassermann interweaves her voice with field recordings of birds, insects, frogs - of creatures that move across the boundaries between air, water and earth and finds new and different resonance places far away from their original environment in ‘Imaginary Habitats’.

Then, at 6.30, ‘Raw & Baked’ by Margerita Brillada – a 30-minute electroacoustic composition with a focus on the disembodied radio voice.

04/08/2025

Continuing with our reminiscences, here's an excerpt from .k.alexander and 's live-to-air performance 'When Everything I Love Falls from the Sky, the World will be Covered in Darkness'. For further reminiscing, head on over to where we've taken over their summer schedule for a week, revisiting lots of the rest of our programme.

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