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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Sep 5

Persistence of Sound have just released Brunhild Ferrari’s commission from earlier this year - ‘Errant Ear’ paired with another composition ‘Capriccio for Velasca’:
persistenceofsound.bandcamp.com/album/errant...

Errant Ear, by Brunhild Ferrari

5 track album

persistenceofsound.bandcamp.com

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Aug 3

Only 6 hours to go until our 2025 Rewind broadcast begins! Tune in tonight from midnight on Resonance 104.4FM and Resonance Extra.

RADIOPHRENIA - Rewind 2025
4th – 10th August, 2025
www.resonancefm.com

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Jun 12

Radio Sound Walk with Anna Khvyl & Piotr Armianovski
11am UK time, Saturday, 14th June.

Anyone can join and walk from any location, listening together while moving through their own surroundings. Justconnect to the broadcast at 20ftradio.net from any location you'd like to begin your walk from.

Time Based: Sonic Interventions Festival — Arts & Parts

Sonic Interventions 11-15 June 2025: A festival of experimental music, sound art and cross-cultural collaborations between Ukrainian and Scottish artists.

www.artsandparts.co.uk

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · May 28

This Saturday, 31st May - the fantastic Nika Son is in town for a live performance at the Glad Café alongside Glasgow's own Luke Fowler and DJ Nina. Not to be missed!

www.thegladcafe.co.uk/events/2025-...

Nika Son + Nina (DJ) + Luke Fowler at The Glad Cafe, Glasgow on 31 May 2025

Buy tickets for Nika Son + Nina (DJ) + Luke Fowler at The Glad Cafe, Glasgow

www.thegladcafe.co.uk

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · May 23

On air now - broadcasting live from Den Haag - 48 hours of radio art brought to you by our friends at On Air - On Site.

Live performances, soundscapes, radio dramas, sound poetry and much more...

Listen online here:
onaironsite.com

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 29

That’s a wrap for the 2025 edition of Radiophrenia.

Thanks so much to everyone who submitted work, to the artists, volunteers, continuity announcers, workshop leaders and participants, and to all the artists who sent us their work from near and far.

And not least, thanks to you - the listeners!

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 20

Live in the studio at 3pm - Han with 'Response to Annie Mac's Tweet' A piece highlighting the specific and unique medium of radio - temporally homogenous yet spatially heterogenous, nodes in a network, and individual experiences becoming shared through audio.

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 20

It's the last day of our broadcasts for this edition of Radiophrenia but we still have lots of great radio to come - including new commissions, radio plays, live studio performances from Han and Ruaridh Law and sound pieces submitted to our open call. We'll be here up until midnight so stay tuned…

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 20

A1 10.40 this morning – it’s Radiophrenia’s own Stevie Jones with an experimental documentary focussed on a collaborative recording session made at Tombreck – a sustainable housing collective on the banks of Loch Tay.

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 19

There is still time to get your tickets for tonight's Live-to-Air performances:

Ahti & Ahti / Hexakaidecagon / Semay Wu & Juana Adcock / Ecka Mordecai

Performances will start at 7pm prompt.

www.eventbrite.com/e/radiophren...

Radiophrenia 2025 - Live-to-air at Civic House - Week 2

Radiophrenia presents an evening of live-to-air performances from Ahti Ahti, Hexakaidecagon, Semay Wu & Juana Adcock and Ecka Mordecai.

www.eventbrite.com

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 18

Set up for tomorrow night's Live-to-Air performances is underway - Hexacaidecagon have brought everything but the kitchen sink.

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 18

Live in the studio at 3pm, Nichola Scrutton / Zoe Strachan - Test-pitting - Their collaborative test-pitting practice gestures towards the archaeological process of delving into a site of enquiry to reveal layers gathered over time—fragmented artefacts, traces of presence.

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 18

Today at 12:30pm, Lia Kohl - 'Variations on a Topography', is constructed in stratified layers, each containing a recording of a full scan of the AM/FM spectrum from bottom to top and back down again.

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 18

On now, ‘Como é o som do Guaíba’ by Dundee-based Scottish-Portugese sound artist, musician and producer, SHHE. Made on residency in Porto Alegre in Brazil Kino Beat Festival, it explores the impact of May 2024 flooding of the River Guaíba - the worst flooding that Brazil had experienced in 80 years.

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 17

This Saturday - our last night of Live-to-Air Performances

Ahti & Ahti / Hexakaidecagon / Semay Wu & Juana Adcock / Ecka Mordecai

Saturday, 19th April @ CIVIC HOUSE
First act 7pm prompt.

radiophrenia.scot/live-to-air-...

Tickets available through Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.com/e/radiophren...

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 17

Today at midday - ‘A Line Drawn Downwards’ - a new commission by Hannan Jones and Murray Collier, part of Radiophrenia’s residency exchange with WORM Rotterdam.

The ground opens up, we fall inwards, the shifting rubble opens to ineffable depths. A world unseen, but heard into being...

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 15

At 6pm today - our daily Radiophrenia commission is 'Sonic Psychogeographies II' by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay - a radio work that takes a critical position against cartography and departs from its connections to colonial practices of mapmaking and imperial borders.

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 15

Live in the studio at 5pm, Clarry M with 'Daily Record' - using BeReal’s daily prompt as an approach to field recording Clarry recorded 30 seconds of whatever could be heard around her for the past 6 months in sequence.

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 13

6pm at the Old Hairdressers today - The Official Radiophrenia Phringe! (this is a live non-broadcast event).

WilliWaw (AKA top Radiophrenia presenter Bill Whitmer) and Mags Smith present a special live adaptation of the Ray Bradbury short story 'There Will Come Soft Rains'...

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 11

LIVE-TO-AIR performances, this Saturday, 12th April @ CIVIC HOUSE. Doors 6pm, first act 7pm.

 Audrey Chen / Augustė Vickunaitė / FK Alexander & Cat Boyd / Len Goetzee
 radiophrenia.scot/live-to-air-...

Tickets: Pay what you can - available through Eventbrite:  www.eventbrite.com/e/radiophren...

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 11

At 9pm tonight - A surreal sonic journey from the moon to the supermarket in Xentos Fray Bentos' 'Dream Escape Hatch'.

Expect captive monarchs, Beatles-era riddles, and a playful disintegration of the senses—radio as a portal to the beautifully unpredictable.

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 11

Coming up at 6.30pm - Mark Vernon submerges himself in a radiophonic elegy for the drowned Derbyshire towns of Ashopton and Derwent in 'The drowned villages of the Derwent valley'.

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 11

At 6pm today the debut of 'Bloodline of Flower' by Charo Calvo — a RADIOPHRENIA 2025 commission.
This work draws on the poetry of Iranian poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad (1934–1967), a cult figure whose writing reflects protest, rebellion, and intimate everyday experience.

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 11

At 4pm today ‘Royal Lady Sister’ - a conversation with artist Desiree Mwalimu Banks on the vibrational disruptions facing honeybee well-being due to telecommunication technologies, and the urgent need to re-centre bees in their regal, matriarchal roles. radiophrenia.scot/royal-lady-s...

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · Apr 11

LIVE-TO-AIR performances, this Saturday, 12th April @ CIVIC HOUSE. Doors 6pm, first act 7pm.
 
Audrey Chen / Augustė Vickunaitė / FK Alexander & Cat Boyd / Len Goetzee

Tickets: Pay what you can - available through Eventbrite -  www.eventbrite.com/e/radiophren...

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