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In making this year’s selections Radiophrenia was assisted by guest curator Semay Wu. Through a public engagement programme Radiophrenia has been working with seven different community groups to realise a new series of sound and radio works.

As in previous years the majority of the programme will be made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound art and radio works. This year Radiophrenia received so many submissions that we felt it necessary to extend our broadcast across an additional weekend just to squeeze it all in.

The station aims to promote radio as an art form, encouraging challenging and radical new approaches to the medium. Radiophrenia first began broadcasting in April 2015 with subsequent editions in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025.

The schedule for today's broadcasts:

Dirk D'Hulster - Notes on the Administrative Life of Resonance

9 September 2026 12:00 am - 12:45 am

Notes on the Administrative Life of Resonance, is a project by Dirk D’Hulster in which sound and photography are treated as administrative systems rather than expressive media.
This project approaches resonance as trace rather than sound. Through a sound installation and photographic studies of piano strings, resonance is examined as a material process that leaves marks, accumulates residues, and undergoes regulation.
Sound and image function as parallel archives. What is heard disappears; what remains persists as material inscription.
The book on this project functions as an administrative artifact: a record of what remains.

Artist bio:

My work is located at the intersection of visual art and sound. I merge digital and photographic techniques to create a bridge between the present and the past. I use both data sonification and geophonic recordings.
exhibitions : London, Brussels, Antwerp,...

Website/social links

http://www.dirkdhulster.org/
Stefan Voglsinger エコー

9 September 2026 12:45 am - 1:30 am

エコー contains field recordings, snippets from live sets and line recordings I made in capsule hotels during my trip to Japan in May 2025. Trains, pachinko parlours, re-recorded radio transmissions, nature and urban ambience are collaged and recomposed throughout the album. All material was recorded in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka. The two tracks Kagayaki and Kodama are both named after trains; their names translate to “glitter” and “echo.” Recording and editing: Stefan Voglsinger Mastering: Aras L. Seyhan Lable: TestToneMusic Nagoya 2025 Artist bio: Stefan Voglsinger *1986 is a musician and performer based in Vienna. He improvises with sine waves and noise generators sent through resonators, objects and membranes. Using open-source instruments for live sampling, he fuses these signals with filtered field recordings gathered during his travels. This practice moves the studio into the environment, unfolding through improvisation with unstable feedback systems and direct interaction with the surrounding context. He focuses on interdisciplinary experiments working with sound and image, developing performances or audiovisual installations including selfbuilt or hacked electronic circuits. Website/social links voglsinger.klingt.org setzkastenwien.at @knarx3
Jamie Lee - We are All Lichens Now

9 September 2026 1:30 am - 2:00 am

We are All Lichens Now comes from an exhibition of the same name at Nunhead Cemetery Chapel, 2025. The exhibition combined ceramic artworks by Emily Stapleton-Jefferis that drew from her ongoing research into lichens and a sound installation created for the event. Pioneer species, lichens are among the first species to colonise bare rock. Through chemical weathering they draw minerals from inert objects into the cycles of the living. Emily’s artworks, sculpted from foraged London clay show how lichen exist by presenting them at a macro scale. Taking inspiration from Emily’s sculptures and the histories, ecology and lichen of Nunhead Cemetery, Jamie’s accompanying sound installation transported the viewer into an emergent landscape of unique sounding organisms. Arranged around the inside and at the gates of the space, the diverging and overlapping layers of the sound piece divided the serene inside and chaotic outside of the chapel and cemetery.

Artist bio:

Jamie Lee (b. Bristol; based in South London) works across sound, moving image, photography, installation and printmaking. His hybrid practice is rooted in the history, context and design details of various sites and questions how places are constructed by the interaction of found objects, bodies and the architecture that contains them. Past projects involve recording the results of performances with cymbals on cliffs along the South Coast of the UK, where huge, monolithic concrete forms known colloquially as ‘Sound Mirrors’ represent the leaps in technological advancement during wartime. His music is released on record label Mortality Tables (2025).

jamieleeartist.com
https://www.instagram.com/jamie_leeartist/
Manja Ristić - Islands Live 45

9 September 2026 2:00 am - 3:00 am

Special mix for a special summer of 2026, of recent releases by Manja Ristić.
Including: Nine Sacred Mountains (excerpt) from Devet, released on Flung (2026); Barge (excerpt) from Lisoba, self-released (2026); Transgressive Bodies (2026) from the paper cuts, released on Scatter Archive (2026); tiho spuštanje (excerpt), yet to be published on Rekem Records in 2027; 9,999 Rooms of the Forbidden City, from Devet, released on Flung (2026); Nymphs of the Great Lake, from Calypso’s Dream by Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon, self-released (2024); tiho spuštanje (excerpt), yet to be published on Rekem Records in 2027; and, Genesis (excerpt), self-released (2025).

Manja Ristić is a violinist, sound artist, published poet, curator, and researcher. Ristić’s sound-related research, besides contemporary performance in the field of instrumental electro–acoustics, is focused on interdisciplinary approaches to sound and field recording as well as experimental radio arts. Ristić has created commissions for ORF musikprotokoll, INA Grm, Radiophrenia, Radio Art Zone, Kunstradio—Radiokunst, Semi-Silent, Radia.FM, Framework Radio, and all national broadcasting agencies across SE Europe. The winner of several distinctive awards for solo and chamber classical music, holds an honourable mention from the Phonurgia Nova Awards, and a Golden Award for extended media from the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia. She is a founding member of CENSE – Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies.

https://manjaristic.blogspot.com/
Conduction Series 2

9 September 2026 3:00 am - 4:00 am

The 2025/6 Conduction Series Truths Under Construction 12/5/2025 August Black, Peter Courtemanche, Florencia Curci, Anna Friz, Jimmy Garver, Maximilian Goldfarb, Virginia Mantinian, Rodrigo Ríos Zunino Emphasizing live radio, interactivity, and media archaeological methods, The 2025/6 Conduction Series explores themes of migration, noise, feedback, speculative fiction, transmissive theatrics, and recreational aesthetics. The collective comes together on the first Friday of every month at 3:02pm ET using custom-made software. Some sessions don't have a description and the one on October 3th doesn't have even a title. However, some have a more detail description as in The Spiral: The record groove or a strip of tape moves forward by circling, slipping into another layer each time. That coiling motion echoes how time forms paths that don’t quite repeat. The spiral frames the way patterns return at different scales, from tiny biological curves to movements that shift light, air, and weather. A shared structure keeps resurfacing and shows how things grow and reorganize, how memory drifts, and how repetition comes back slightly off axis, opening another turn. Artist bio: The Conduction Series is a collaborative live radio broadcast produced by sound and transmission artists across the Americas on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. Artists names are: Betsey Biggs, August Black, Peter Courtemanche, Florencia Curci, Jeff Economy, Anna Friz, Jimmy Garver, Maximilian Goldfarb, Virginia Mantinian, and Rodrigo Ríos Zunino. The Conduction Series is syndicated on Radio MonteAudio in Montevideo, Uruguay, Radio Tsonami in Valparaíso, Chile, Radio CASo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, CITR FM in Vancouver, Canada, New Adventures in Sound Art in Ontario, Canada, and on Radio 1190 in Boulder/Denver, USA. https://conduction.wavefarm.org/
Radiophrenia Shorts 2A

9 September 2026 4:00 am - 4:30 am

1 Emilie Mousset - Remue la Nuit (10:40)
2 Adrián Velasco – lespontanea (5:35)
3 Giovanna Turrini - ALL THIS CHATTERING AROUND. IN THESE FRACTURED TIMES (12:36)

1) Emilie Mousset - Remue la Nuit

Written and composed for Ondes de nuit#2 on the occasion of the winter solstice, at the invitation of Radio Canut. Broadcast on 21 December 2024 on Radio Canut 102.2 FM in Lyon (Lyon), for an entire night of live airtime. The proposed theme was ‘the longest night’. From this simple phrase emerged a text, oral and rhythmic, a poem that I recited and set to music in an intimate form. The title is a distant reference to Henri Michaux's text ‘La nuit remue’ as well as a kind of playful call, an invitation to the night, to continue and vibrate as long as possible. The piece was then selected for the Supersonique festival in Marseille and performed to an orchestra of loudspeakers on Sunday 7 September, during a day of concerts and long-distance listening, from noon to midnight, at the GMEM.

Emilie Mousset is a sound artist and electroacoustic composer. After studying literature and dramaturgy, she trained in sound techniques at the INA and in electroacoustic composition at the CRD in Pantin (France) with Christine Groult. Her work combines radio and musical writing with broadcasting devices that favour listening in specific contexts: concerts of acousmatic pieces, installations in public spaces or landscapes. She also composes for the performing arts and visual arts, and regularly collaborates with directors, musicians and visual artists. She is a trainer at the INA (Paris) and runs workshops for a variety of audiences (schools, hospitals, prisons, etc.).

http://www.emiliemousset.net
https://emiliemousset.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/emilie-mousset/

2) Adrián Velasco – lespontanea

Some captions published on a private Instagram account were verbalizing many thoughts that I hadn't yet been able to formulate.
This piece collects some writings by @rosello.alba, attempting to find that curious point in her texts where the chaotic nature of the micro manages to balance with the coherent nature of the macro, without taking away the work's virtue of spontaneity.

Adrián Velasco (2002, Malaga - Spain) is a composer and multimedia artist based in Hamburg. His work is characterized by a fragmented and maximalist language that investigates the dialogue between contemporary and pop/urban aesthetics. Attentive to the concerns of his generation, he addresses issues related to Internet culture, multiple identities and privacy in the digital age. His pieces have been performed in renowned national venues such as the Auditorio Nacional, Ateneo de Madrid, Museo Reina Sofía, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Centro Cultural Villa de Nerja, Sala Berlanga, among others.

adrivelasco.com
@adrivelaasco

3) Giovanna Turrini - ALL THIS CHATTERING AROUND. IN THESE FRACTURED TIMES

Sonic narrative about the rift between anthropogenic noise and non-human planetary pulse, weaving together (see credits) hydrographic datasets, vocal compositions/experimentations from Ezra Pound, the logic of the algorithm vs. art possibility, ending up with the "Comédie humaine" of world-famous line Ridi, Pagliaccio/Laugh, You Joker juxtaposed with democratic protest.
AI-TTS generated voices set against human vocal composition/experimentation. Certain hydrographic files, breath, final humming are processed by the Po River’s urban shores through the static amplifier Vaiacube made out of the resonating red spruce of the Vaia Storm destroyed "Violin Forest" (Dolomites).
Further sounds/voices include original gramophone sound, river rowing training, plastic cork rhythmics, error signal, wood amplifier caressing.
The work challenges the present algorithmic logic and (social platforms') chattering intertwined with the human and non-human perilous, present condition, singling out waters (and sound) as the connecting agency beyond borders and species.

Giovanna Turrini – BRIDGES – she/her, M.A.: Venetian vocal inter-media composer and sound researcher, registered Music Composer at SIAE (Italian PRS) since 2004. With a solid academic backup (Venice, Seattle, Düsseldorf) and proven experience managing complex projects (budgets up to €20k), her work focuses on acoustic authenticity through a three-octave vocal range, original hydrographic datasets, own field recordings, and A.I. critical experiments (no use of audio libraries/presets/plugins).
Her productions include works featured by Goethe-Institut Turin, Jewish Community of Turin/Regione Piemonte, Poetry Biennale Alessandria, and Festival CHIGIANAradioarte.it 2025. In 2026, she is scheduled for a monographic series (four "studiezondag") on radioarte.it.

new.express.adobe.com/webpage/Rkel3QrhISiEv
http://www.youtube.com/@BRIDGES-giovannaturrini
bridgesgiovannaturrini.bandcamp.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/giovannaturrini
Radiophrenia Shorts 2B

9 September 2026 4:30 am - 5:00 am

1 Yonca Yildirim - cyanea lamarckii (9:52)

2 Aled Simons - Hover-bored (05:20)
3 Sylvain Souklaye - instant + instinct + absence (4:41)
4 Frontera Glaciar - Fantasma Azul Imaginario (10:00)

1) Yonca Yildirim - cyanea lamarckii

This sound work 'cyanea lamarckii' is understood as an exploration of a drift of a blue jellyfish toward its final destiny on the shore, moving from the distant sound of the waves to the subtle resonance of shells beneath the water, and finally to the last drops of water on the sand. The sound piece itself is not a chronological narrative of this event, but rather examining the awareness and consciousness of time.
A sonic deterritorial experience culminating in the jellyfish’s demise. The beach as a place of foreign space of alienation and impuissance. The wave as a force that dissolves sonically into space, an oceanic gesture revealing both the beauty and danger of nature.

Yonca Yildirim (1993, based in Cologne), part of the Mimosa Collective and séances
sonores, works across installation, photography, and sound at the Academy of Media Arts
Cologne. Her works emerge from the exploration of diverse materials and the interplay of components, incorporating layers, reflections, and transparencies as well as elements of fragmentation and abstraction.

https://www.instagram.com/yonca.yil/

2) Aled Simons - Hover-bored

Hover-bored—written and narrated by Aled Simons—offers an imagined conversation with a real-life Marty McFly impersonator. An urge to ask this lookalike about growing up, and his relationship to past, present and future. Spiralling through speculative future fashions, time capsules on TV, Blue Peter in 1971 and Y2K. Zombie websites, link rot and the tomb of Saint Walpurga. The work observes the parallel space of doppelgängers and fakes. What imitations reveal about their counterparts, and vice versa, questioning if a counterfeit holds its own authenticity or remains just a reflection—an echo. An attempt to decipher what we choose to remember and how we decide to venerate; in what way should we dispose of that which we wish to forget? Specially adapted for radio, Hover-bored was originally commissioned by Nick Davies for forthcoming publication ‘Y Dyfodol Presennol / The Future Present’ set for release in 2026.

Aled Simons' practice investigates anecdote, pseudo-science, ritual and memory. He often employs looping or repetition: animated gifs and half-forgotten memes. Early 1990s television and its specific place at the shift between analogue broadcast and on-demand viewing. Occupying a space between the tension release of a laugh and the awkwardness of things that go on too long or fall flat and fail. An attempt to preserve a skewed legacy of humankind; amassed debris at the shoreline after a catastrophic wave has wiped out most of what we once knew, or half-remember—re-interpreting or misunderstanding the idea of an heirloom.

https://www.aledsimons.com
https://www.instagram.com/aled.simons

3) Sylvain Souklaye - instant + instinct + absence (4:41)

INSTANT + INSTINCT + ABSENCE is unfiltered and untreated.
The more I listen to the noise of tyranny, the less I can process it. I decided to improvise around immediacy, intimacy, and the raw nature of sound, thought, and voice, and to develop a language of resistance.

Sylvain Souklaye is a French-Caribbean, Brooklyn-based live artist and public researcher whose practice activates epigenetic dialogues and democratic interactions in public space through performance, action poetry, electroacoustic and spatial audio, and collective intimacy experiences. His socially engaged and politically radical work has been featured internationally at Chelsea Factory, Judson Church, New York Live Arts, Center for Performance Research, IRCAM, the Barbican, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Performance Philosophy Biennial, and Ars Electronica, among others.
He is a recipient of the Puffin Foundation Theater Grant 2025, fellow at Harvestworks 2025 and Target Margin Theater 2024, commissioned by International Contemporary Ensemble 2024.

https://www.sylvainsouklaye.com
https://www.instagram.com/sylvain.souklaye/
https://sylvainsouklaye.bandcamp.com

4) Frontera Glaciar - Fantasma Azul Imaginario

In Fantasma Azul Imaginario (Imaginary Blue Ghost) an experiment with sounds is developed to create a project based on a real case.

In March 2020, news broke of a sei whale stranding in the waters off Tierra del Fuego (Patagonia, Chile), and the incident was closed without anyone being held responsible. Ignacio (Frontera Glaciar), who has lived in the region his entire life, read the shocking news, conducted an investigation, and developed a project that seeks to bring to light, through voices and Patagonian marine spaces, the case that left suspicions about what really happened to this marine animal.

Frontera Glaciar is a sound artist, performer, experimental musician, and DJ from Punta Arenas who blends Patagonian soundscapes with diverse voices. His work encompasses radio art, music production, sound experimentation, and live performance. He has created the shows “Fantasma Azul Imaginario” (2023) and “Fantasma Antártico Gris” (2025), which focus on science and daily life in Magallanes. In 2024, he released the ambient and experimental EP “Patio Nevado.” His concerts integrate synthesizers, machines, MIDI controllers, vocals, and sound objects, creating a playful and unique performance.

https://fronteraglaciar.wixsite.com/site
https://www.instagram.com/fronteraglaciar/
https://www.youtube.com/@fronteraglaciar
Radiophrenia Shorts 7A

9 September 2026 5:00 am - 5:30 am

1 Ilaria Boffa - +1 (5:17)
2 Yasmeen Al-Qaisi - May my tears moist your salt, Dead Sea (12:22)
3 Tristan Rhys Williams - Llech-Tal-Môn (Lôn y Bwbach) (14:42)

1) Ilaria Boffa - +1

This work is a collaboration with Italian musician Marco Lucchi and the sonopoem is a practice of Listening Across Species & more-than-human beings. How would we feel if we embodied others’ bodies?
Sonopoem by Ilaria Boffa, music by Marco Lucchi.
Ilaria Boffa is an Italian bilingual poet and sound recordist. She has published four poetry books to date and her work was included in the 2018 NeMLA Publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’. Her sono-poems, combining poetry and field recording, have been played at international poetry film festivals and radio art events. She is a permanent member of EAPS poetry and sound art collective and in 2025 she performed an experimental poem with the Swiss theatre group ‘Collettivo Treppenwitz’ at LAC Lugano. One of her sono-poems is part of a permanent sound installation at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford/London.

https://linktr.ee/ilariaboffaIB
https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa
https://www.instagram.com/ilaria.boffa/
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi

2) Yasmeen Al-Qaisi - May my tears moist your salt, Dead Sea

Synopsis of piece: In the centre of this underwater sound fable is a shāʿir’s melisma in a hammam in Ottoman Istanbul, who does everything possible to get in the hammam at night so he can mourn the future loss of Dead Sea. He manages to enter the hammam by walking in the city at night without a torch which was an act punishable by night patrols with forcing one to work in the furnace. The furnace worker helps him sneak into the bath-house to mourn. While singing the melisma and the words Baynans 3ysh wa millh بيننا عيش و ملح "We have shared bread and salt", the poet’s tears drop in maqam rhythms. While walking out of the hammam, a pair of Desert owls become the confirmation that his cry is heard. The shāʿir foresees our murderous geopolitical present: the diversion of Jordan River and potash extraction in the lowest place on earth.

Sound design for fire and water music: Will Kent-Daggett
XC395906 and XC781536 - Desert Owl - Strix hadorami on xeno-canto.com

Yasmeen Al-Qaisi (frequently misspelled) is a poet.

https://jasminescu.com/

3) Tristan Rhys Williams - Llech-Tal-Môn (Lôn y Bwbach)

One of two companion ambulatory sound works on Ynys Môn, designed as slow walks through landscape, listening, and deep time. Hauntological in character, they approach place obliquely—through echoes, textures, and residues rather than clear narrative—treating movement itself as the work’s focus. The pieces are distinguished by their recording sites: Lôn-y-Bwbach near Llanddyfnan, layered with historical and folk memory, and the beach below Castell Mawr at Traeth Coch, where tides, river flow, and birds shape an exposed acoustic field. Across both, field recordings intertwine with the artist’s compositions and worn fragments of Welsh song, appearing like eroded sonic artefacts. The shared title draws on the myth of Llech-Tal-Môn as preserved and elaborated by Wil Ifan o Fôn in Bonedd y Cymru neu Lyfr Hynafion Byd, which describes an ancient cave system imagined as secretly linking road, farmland, hill, and coast—an unseen subterranean architecture mirrored in the works’ shifting, tunnel-like sound world.

Tristan makes soundworks based on the psychogeographic charge from Ynys Môn (the isle of Anglesey). They work towards a ritualistic, degraded aesthetic informed by the elements and ancient sites in the environs. Recent works have appeared on the ‘Listen to the Voice of Fire’ collections: ‘The Shining Pyramid’, ‘The Surface of Past Time’ and 'Dylan Eil Ton'. Discreet Archive released YrbrydMôn in 2025 and Tristan collaborated with poet Rhys Trimble on the album Ynys Dywyll released by Ty Cerdd.

https://tristanrhyswilliams.com/
https://www.instagram.com/trissyrhys/
Radiophrenia Shorts 7B

9 September 2026 5:30 am - 6:00 am

1 Paul Collins - Radio Spots - Figures Rythmiques (1:00)
2 Wolfgang Pérez - I AM TRANSFORMING (5:02)
3 Ellie Cherry - We All Became Moss (8:30)
4 KAZUYA ISHIGAMI - Beyond Houge Houge-Jaku (6:58)
5 Sooji - First Loves #1 - Gisele she walks, she floats (4:39)

1) Paul Collins - Radio Spots - Figures Rythmiques

This is a series of 17 one-minute radio-spots that use the radio itself as the primary source material. Random FM stations, in both Canada and France, were recorded and then manipulated using a variety of experimental methods and techniques. These one minute radio-spots are not designed to be played as a continous piece, but as individual elements, punctuating a day's programming or broadcast. A minute here, a minute there.

Paul Collins is a Toronto-born, Paris-based visual artist and musician. His paintings are represented by General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto. His prints are published by Michael Woolworth Publications, Paris. His most recent recording, Bez Vremena (2025), with Quentin Rollet and Marija Kovacevic, is now out on Astre d'Or Records. Collins is an active member of the Paris experimental music scene, playing frequently in such venues as Les Instants Chavirés, La Guillontine, Le Non_Jazz, Le Chair de Poule and Le Peine Perdue. He was a member of the Glenn Branca Orchestra.

https://www.instagram.com/paul___collins/
https://soundcloud.com/paul-collins
https://www.generalhardware.ca/paul-collins
https://www.michaelwoolworth.com/paul-collins/

2) Wolfgang Pérez - I AM TRANSFORMING

In a Workshop with the great Meredith Monk I received the following task: "Choose any form from the outside world that strikes you. It can be natural (for instance, a tree) or manmade (for instance, a building). Take a picture of it. Study its structure. How is it put together? What are its units? What is the relationship between the units and the whole? Use that structure as a template to compose a 3-5 minute piece." This is the result. I took a photo of beautiful cliffs in Portugal (Aljezur) and was inspired by how they look like frozen waterfalls. They look static, frozen in time, but really they are always transforming, shaped by the waves - over millions of years - deep time sedimentation.

I carefully chose 6 notes on my Juno 60 each one entering after 30 seconds + some harsh piano attacks to symbolize the heavy waves.

Wolfgang Pérez is a half-German, half-Spanish songwriter, arranger, and guitarist from Germany, currently based in Cologne. With three albums released - WHO CARES WHO CARES (2021), AHORA (2024), Só Ouço (2025) - Wolfgang made his way into stages such as Moers Festival and the Cologne Philharmonie. He experimented with different formats and styles in his career, mixing pop, chamber music and soundscape composition. More recently Pérez has been diving into the rich Brazilian culture in his last endeavour - “Só Ouço”. The album has been critically acclaimed with Reviews in The Wire, Mojo Magazine and NPR Music.

https://wolfgangperez.bandcamp.com/album/s-ou-o
https://wolfgangperez.bandcamp.com/album/memorias-fantasmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx2lc3olcHM
https://www.instagram.com/wolfgangperezmusic/

3) Ellie Cherry - We All Became Moss

"We All Became Moss" is a soundscape created entirely from field recordings gathered in the Scottish Highlands. Rather than present the field recordings in their literal forms, I wanted to shape them into something more representational of the abstract emotional landscapes I often find myself wandering when returning to memories of the mountains. Shapes shift; emotions blur. Flora, fauna, my flesh, and the ferns all dissolve into something old and strange.

Ellie Cherry is a composer and sound artist whose work is a surreal amalgam of acoustic and
electronic elements that explores the nebulous spaces between reality and perception. Fascinated
with the microscopic subtleties of natural phenomena, her artistic practice incorporates found
sound and improvisation, embracing the duality of acceptance and control, questioning notions
of ownership and exactness in how we create and experience sound.

https://www.elliecherrymusic.com/

4) KAZUYA ISHIGAMI - Beyond Houge Houge-Jaku

"Houge-Jaku" means to throw away one's attachments. "Houge" means to throw away. "Houge Houge-Jaku" means to throw away "Houge-Jaku".
In order to live comfortably, we should not be attached. However, if we are too concerned about not being attached, we may end up becoming attached to it.
Furthermore, beyond attachment, where do we go?

KAZUYA ISHIGAMI (b. 1972, Osaka/JAPAN) is a composer, sound designer, sound performer and sound engineer in the field of Electroacoustic/Acousmatic/Post-Acousmatic/Ambient/Noise, etc.
Since 1992 he has created under the name of DARUIN. He began using computers for composition and improvisation in 1994 with the programming language Max/MSP and others.
His pieces have been performed at CCMC (Japan), FUTURA (France), MUSLAB (Mexico), SILENCE (Italy), ICMC (2015_USA/TEXAS), Music From Japan 2020 (USA/NY) among others. He has an independent label, NEUS-318, and has released more than 100 works.

https://soundcloud.com/kazuya_ishigami
https://kazuyaishigami.bandcamp.com/
https://neus318.bandcamp.com/
https://omodaru.bandcamp.com/

5) Sooji - First Loves #1 - Gisele she walks, she floats

First Loves #1 is recorded on the Sequential Prophet VS from 1986. It is a series of vignettes derived from improvisations from a single session, a brief dive into the capabilities of this instrument and was the precursor to First Loves: Sequential Prophet 10, released in 2022.

Sooji is a Naarm-based musician creating works that explore adventurous sonic territories through performance, composition and spatialised sound installations. Working primarily with synthesisers and electronics, she embraces the unexpected outcomes that arise from collaboration and improvisation.
Influenced by diverse sources such as classical music and Italian electronic composers, Sooji’s intuitive approach to composition creates works that sit outside of traditional genre classification and often manifest as surreal sonic landscapes.

https://eternalmusicprojects.bandcamp.com/
Radiophrenia Shorts 8A

9 September 2026 6:00 am - 6:30 am

1 Agapi Zarda - Unbalanced Cycles (8:45)

2 Cat Parasite - You Feel Me... Pulsing (5:00)

3 Matilde Meireles – Three (11:49)
4 Linda Rae Dornan - Transcription: LoveLanguageLoss (5:27)

1) Agapi Zarda - Unbalanced Cycles

The Unbalanced Cycles composition refers to unsuccessful and repeated treatment cycles that I have undergone over the past two years. It’s a narrative about me, trying to be functional and creative during an autoimmune disease and a cancer diagnosis.

Agapi Zarda is a graduate of the Department of Science of Physical Education and Sports (UoA, 2011) with specialisation in Creative Dance, and the Department of Early Childhood Education (UTH, 2019) with research interest in Creative Music Pedagogy and Sound Technologies. In recent years, she has been engaged in electroacoustic composition and creative coding, exploring notions of interactivity, space – place and materiality. She holds a MA degree in sound art, “Sonic Arts and Audio Technologies” (Ionian University, 2024). She plays and studies trumpet focusing on the practice of free improvisation. She is member of Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association.

https://agapiz.netlify.app

2) Cat Parasite - You Feel Me... Pulsing

First track from album "Toxoplasmosis." Recorded at Messiah Riff Studios. The album is about personal experiences of mental health and systematic procedures for receiving diagnosis. This song is about the early warning signs and masking/hiding inner voices/ Pretending everything is ok. It touches on hypersexuality as a "symptom."

Meow

Catparasite.bandcamp.com
Instagram - Cat Parasite

3) Matilde Meireles – Three

Three compiles raw biodiversity recordings collected around Stranmillis Weir into a looping, exploratory narrative that examines the rich yet incomplete nature of field recording. The recordings include animal calls, animal movements and the occasional sound distortion. A narrator catalogues both recorded species and those present but absent from the sound files — exploring the gaps between actual presence and what technology can document in a fleeting period of time.

DRIFT was a collaborative floating architectural installation and public space that fostered new perspectives on city-river connections along Belfast's River Lagan during summer 2024. As part of this exploration, Wild Belfast—a Belfast-based conservation advocacy group—documented biodiversity around the pavilion using a Wildlife Acoustics Song Meter across a 4-day period within a 500-metre radius. DRIFT was commissioned by Belfast City Council and brought together OGU Architects, MMAS Architects, and myself.

Matilde Meireles is a sound artist and researcher who makes use of field recordings to compose site-oriented projects. Deeply exploratory, blending improvisation and other sonic flows with multiple approaches to recording, her work takes shape through live performances, installations, album releases, community-driven projects, workshops and both academic and creative publications.

https://matildemeireles.com
mtld_meireles (instagram)

4) Linda Rae Dornan - Transcription: LoveLanguageLoss

This is an audio art piece about dementia and caregiving recorded over many years as I cared for my partner, John Asimakos. Transcription reverses text from my journal, uses cutup techniques and constant repetition collaged with John’s own voice as he tried to communicate. Constant repetition references the incomprehension and deterioration of language evident within the gradual decline of dementia patients.

The audio work attempts to share an interior space of intensity and tenderness within the isolated world of dementia.

Linda Rae Dornan’s art practice is performative and interdisciplinary, inclusive of video, installation, performance, sound and writing. Each feeds into the other exploring how we speak/communicate and connect to each other, and the land around us. She has screened her videos and created performance artwork in China, Europe, and the Americas, and has attended many artist residencies. She is the recipient of the Linda Joy Media Arts Award for NB, the Stratbutler Award, The Sheila Hugh McKay International Artist Residency Grant and has been recognized by multiple arts grants. Since 2017, she has co-organized PERFform Biennale.

https://lindaraedornan.ca/
http://www.perfform.ca/
Radiophrenia Shorts 8B

9 September 2026 6:30 am - 7:00 am

1 Root Coiled - Merely Mended / Sterile Cap (15:27)

2 Paul Collins - Radio Spots - Phone In, Phone (1:00)
3 Water Feature - Various Birds - cream-faced loon (1:33)
4 Kate Paul - Grasses Interlude (19:34)

1) Root Coiled - Merely Mended / Sterile Cap

A visit to the endodontist. A root canal is paid for. You open your mouth, they lock the jaw open.

ROOT COILED is a sound art project of Pittsburgh based artist and educator, Dylan John Sidoriak. The project utilizes field recordings, ambient noise, and audio collages, to reflect and immerse oneself into the state of; sometimes forgetting about the center. Dylan John Sidoriak is involved with other experimental sound projects; The Ill-Fitting Party, and Stare Rail.

https://www.instagram.com/rootcoiled/

2) Paul Collins - Radio Spots - Phone In, Phone

https://www.instagram.com/paul___collins/
https://soundcloud.com/paul-collins
https://www.generalhardware.ca/paul-collins
https://www.michaelwoolworth.com/paul-collins/
https://badge3.bandcamp.com
https://www.bisou-records.com/produit/paul-collins-patrick-muller-thierry-muller-quentin-rollet-correspondant-a-une-lettre/

3) Water Feature - Various Birds - cream-faced loon

A collection of somewhat convincing birdsong and foley created entirely on a small battery-powered drum machine. Many imaginary and fanciful 'species' including the Pond Bather, Golden Nuthatch and Brown Yipper are featured. A long-form sound collage of many species is the central work, and 'close-ups' are also included. In one sense the project is a sincere tribute to bird identification records and tapes one would find in garden centres in the 90s, of which the artists have a large collection. In another sense it is an uncanny objection to a contemporary relationship with nature that romanticises and objectifies it from a safe distance. The sounds have been sampled in records by other artists, used in an extended arrangement for an installation in the Jardin Des Plantes in Paris, presented with narration by a supposed ornithologist, and are played constantly via an internet radio station.

Water Feature is a 'collage band' formed of several contributors, creating utopian, absurd and low-fidelity environmental(ist) music. There is a strong reactionary and naive spirit to the project which aims to replace lifeless, boring, synthetic ambient music with an alternative chaotic, colourful and organic musique concrète. Recording and composition revolves around improvisation with cheap gear, tape-splicing and other uncivilised practices and accidents. 3 records (including Various Birds) have been released through the DIY Morsels label/collective.

https://variousbirds.net
https://morsels.website
https://www.instagram.com/morsels.website/

4) Kate Paul - Grasses Interlude

'My sadness is so joining and deep. The sky looks down at this plate of us with a strange
expression, like it must have entered the wrong room.'

A poem on dependency and existential threat in tall grasses, with sound by Ezra Berrnico and Carle Gent.

Kate Paul is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. Her work with text, audio, facilitation, and performance has been exhibited/published with NoBounds Radio, Fieldnotes, Presse Books, NTS Radio, Hot Potato Magazine, Phytology, Ruskin School of Art, South London Gallery, Market Gallery, the ICA, and Conditions Studio Programme. She makes collaborative writing and performance events with noï neneh and Roya Zahra Shadmand. In 2023 she was a recipient of a Shady Dealings with Language grant. In 2025 she had a solo exhibition at Listen Gallery in Glasgow called Whatever is Called the World (38 min 28 sec).

https://www.are.na/kate-paul-nfpxkafoju4/channels

@bait.ball
Radiophrenia Shorts 22A

9 September 2026 7:00 am - 7:30 am

1 BORȘ - vers pervers (5:06)
2 Alicia Elirena - Seeping Disharmonic Waves (9:45)
3 Viv Corringham - A walk by the lost river Walbrook (11:09)
4 Filipa da Cunha Gomes – Caustics (10:37)

1) BORȘ - vers pervers

This track/thing/piece opens a conversation with the 1946 famine in Moldova—a catastrophe often remembered in fragmented, contradictory ways. Some recall it as a famine caused by drought, others as a deliberate act of ethnic cleansing by the USSR. The narrative shifts depending on who you ask, but what remains is the silencing, distortion, absurdity of memory and the chaotic ways it performs. [...] This piece is not just about the past but about the present, about resisting the false and perverse memory still propagated through Russian disinformation today. The act of remembering, of unearthing silenced stories, is an act of healing.

Concept, composition and production by Mădălina Ciocanu
Mixing and mastering: Alexe Pupăzan
Translation in English supported by ORIZONT SONOR festival, Bucharest: https://vimeo.com/1156034503
Distribution: https://semisilent.ro/

Mădălina Ciocanu, un/commonly known as BORȘ (/bôrSH/), is a Moldovan sound artist, DJ, and researcher. Her practice explores Bessarabian relational animism, oral memory, and decolonial ontologies through folklore. She’s released both dance tracks (I’m Going to Chișinău) and sonic testimonies like vers pervers (on the 1946 famine) and Leagăn (with folklorist Natalia Țurcan). She leads the collective listening workshops Ciulește Urechile and co-hosts AICI Chișinău, a micro daytime dance party. Sometimes these explorations become conceptual installations (Simultan Festival, Au Gust Fest), other times — collective workshops (Porocity, Timișoara).

FB: https://www.facebook.com/madalina.ciocanu
IG: https://www.instagram.com/bors.beets/

2) Alicia Elirena - Seeping Disharmonic Waves

This piece is an exploration and an ode to using our voice, in the form of humming, and with the natural element of water, to create a soothing, as well as eerie feeling tones and sounds. The process of this piece was motivated and accompanied by a short film also named, Seeping Disharmonic Waves, depicting myself swimming naked in the ocean. This was a way to challenge myself to take up space, and be vulnerable with something I am scared of, the ocean. The process of making this audio piece was therapeutic, and it is my desire to offer that feeling to others as well. It is a playful and vulnerable project of recording the hums that may be "disharmonic", and shaping my own equilibrium from it, together with rushing waves, water droplets and running streams, layering on top of each other, one after another.

I'm Alicia, an artist currently based in Germany. I completed my Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2024 at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Now I am working within an interdisciplinary art practice that encompasses photography/videography, performance art, textile and sound. I like to describe myself as a tactile documentarian: someone that researches through physical means, and where the process is part of the work itself. My work touches on notions of identity, embodied knowledge and care systems from the perspective of a person of color, with the focus to bring more togetherness in our social surroundings.

instagram.com/aliciaelirena
www. aliciaascamera.com

3) Viv Corringham - A walk by the lost river Walbrook

In this work I follow one of London's "lost rivers" through the city to the Thames. As I walk I sing in response to what I'm hearing, and I tell what I know about this old vanished river. The work is part of a year-long project in 2023 called Soundwalkscapes, where I took a walk on the first monday of every month, wherever I happened to be. As I walked I recorded my sung and spoken responses along the way and later created pieces according to my memory of the walk. These were released as 2 CDs on the Flaming Pines label. This one occurred in September.

Since the late 1970s Viv Corringham has been singing a wide range of music: free improvisation,
Greek rembetika, Turkish folk and spontaneously created songs that often include field recordings and vocal processing.
Walking has long been an essential part of her work. She leads group soundwalks and listening
workshops based on her studying and working with Pauline Oliveros. On solo walks she
improvises with environmental sounds, and in her ongoing series Shadow-walks she responds to the
memory of walks that individuals chose as special for them.

http://vivcorringham.org
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/an-audio-introduction-to-viv-corringham

4) Filipa da Cunha Gomes – Caustics

“Thought is a transition, a passage to another place. At the same time, it remains on the threshold.” – Byung-Chul Han
It is necessary to find the right spots to have the body. The wait can take a while. It may even be that the whole experience resides in the waiting. Other thoughts are purified: those that we know do not pray, do not show, do not suspend the world nor lie down in it.
While I wait for something to emerge, I feel a total connection with everything around me: the noises outside, the cars, the melodies in my head, phrases… There is something that makes me stay present, not travel too far. There is peace, a questioning of the mystery that is observed, that’s going through my cells.
I travel, slowly. So I can remember I am free to live in my own pace.

A multidisciplinary artist who has explored and developed herself in the areas of interpretation, poetry, music (voice, violin, sound exploration), art for children and sound art, seeking to work with art as an element of reflection, a way to think, to stay present, to rescue human purity and essence, and as an element of resistance to the brutality of the speed and mechanization of contemporary life.

instagram: @fiilipagomes
https://radiovaivem.pt/hosts/filipa-gomes
Radiophrenia Shorts 22B

9 September 2026 7:30 am - 8:00 am

1 Congee Rats - Fake Your Behaviour Life Long (6:46)

2 Gabriele Hasler - Hymn of Perplexity (3:40)

3 pxyxy - Processed Live (9:56)

1) Congee Rats - Fake Your Behaviour Life Long

Voice sampled from an interview: "If people can fake their behavior (to fit the social expectation) lifelong, wouldn't it be really good?" Electroshock therapy provider, Yang Yongxin, 2009.
This track is dedicated to victims of inhumane therapies.

Congee Rats is the solo project of Dong Zhou, where electronic music serves as the core of cross-genre experiments, spanning influences from punk to world music. The songs are deeply reflective, often delving into pressing societal issues, particularly the experiences and struggles of marginalized communities.

https://dongzhou.live/2023/10/08/congee-rats/

2) Gabriele Hasler - Hymn of Perplexity

Hymn of Perplexity Chwsssdchauchnch (ich weiß es doch auch nicht | I don't know either) is a piece of spatial sound, or rather, a piece about what happens when I remove space from language, that is, when I omit the vowels and stumble from consonant to consonant. In this case, there isn't even a single voiced consonant, but a multitude of consonants that can be sustained by breath for a long time, creating a hissing and snarling sound, a whistling sound on the brink of cluelessness, no space! Yes, how is this supposed to continue? A voiceless hymn of perplexity, the opposite of the carefree optimism "wsssllschnsn?" (was soll schon sein? | what could possibly happen?), with which the heroine plunges forward her whole life. And what happens to the distant vowel spaces, the i - ei - e - o - au-i, the pitiful howl...

Gabriele Hasler's sound and tonal language is influenced by her involvement with contemporary jazz, electronic sound art and avant-garde pop. The exploration of the voice as an instrument led to a sophisticated collection of vocal techniques. Her voice is used both purely acoustically or amplified. In her "Hörfeld" thematic field recordings, soundscapes and loops are added. Hasler has been releasing on LAIKA Records since 2016, her solo-release."Herden und andere Büschel" received the German Record Award 1/2021 in the Grenzgänge category.

gabrielehasler.de
@gabriele-hasler (youTube)

3) pxyxy - Processed Live

Processed Live is an attempt to imagine the sonic experiences of those who claim to be victims of so-called electro weapons or mind control. If the claim that radio waves are attacking the mind and body of humans is not a mere conspiracy theory but is true, they have the ability to hear things that are not normally audible to the human ear, such as radio frequency signals used in wireless communication. The only problem is that the very ability to create a reality beyond simply recognizing the real-world is not controllable.

Boryeon Choi is an artist based in Seoul, South Korea. She is the author of K-OS (2020, Mediabus), a investigation into accelerationist modes of thought experimentation, and Processed Live 加工實況 (2025, Artpress Heem), which examines the epistemological problem of listening and the inferential limits of understanding others’ minds, in relation to sound. As part of her ongoing inquiry into what she terms sonic epistemology, she founded C.C.C. (Compulsive Credit Corp.), a platform dedicated to the study of belief, trust, and the acoustic conditions of knowledge formation.

http://www.boryeon.site
Radiophrenia Shorts 5A

9 September 2026 8:00 am - 8:30 am

1 Sara Maino - When the drops meet the mountains (4:05)
2 Dariusz Mazurowski – Excerpts from Metropolis Balticum (Urbana Landscape) (21:00)
3 Geert Vlieger - Echoes of Peace in South Sudan (05:09)

1) Sara Maino - When the drops meet the mountains

A surreal blue-hour journey unfolds as a displaced spirit wanders through the temporal landscape of an isolated hill in the Apennines.
Guided by a thin wire dividing a field, where faint and fragile raindrops rest, the spirit pauses to observe the layers that slowly reveal themselves to the eye: a chain of droplets, a chain of mountains, a chain of birdsong. Physical forms and drifting sounds dissolve into a sequence of memories—echoes of past encounters where water meets stone, movement meets stillness.
Intrigued by this encounter, the spirit returns home to pose a fundamental question: “What happens when the drops meet the mountains?” Where water meets the mountain begins life and danger alike—a threshold of transformation, of new currents, and of motion yet to unfold.

Sara Maino is an Italian sound and audio-visual artist, poet and performer, film and theatre director, and a community-engaged researcher.

http://www.saramaino.it
https://www.instagram.com/maino9800
https://www.facebook.com/mainosara/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-maino-66285738/

2) Dariusz Mazurowski – Excerpts from Metropolis Balticum (Urbana Landscape)

Water, Air, Streets and People are parts of the composition Metropolis Balticum (Urbana Landscape) – this is 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. Each had its own acoustic aura, atmosphere and sound universe. Each of the eight parts of the composition consists of multiple phrases layered on top of each other, creating a sonic tapestry. As a result of these techniques, some parts resemble a journey through the city, with smooth transitions between layers and locations, while others are more distinctly musical impressions blurring the lines between soundscape and concrete music.

Dariusz Mazurowski is a Polish electroacoustic music composer, born and currently 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. His works combine analog instruments with the sonic potential of digital technology and computers. His compositional approach is dynamic in that it involves live electronics and live sound diffusion across multi-speaker systems. Mazurowski’s music has been broadcast by various radio stations all over the world, and he has performed at festivals and other events in Europe, North America, South America and Asia.

https://deemstudio.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086282450366
http://www.youtube.com/user/DeeMstudio

3) Geert Vlieger - Echoes of Peace in South Sudan

Emmanuel remembers how he as a child learned to warn people for in coming wild animals - especially elephants - using a certain whistle technique. When asked, Emmanuel couldn’t reproduce the whistle - which isn’t surprising, as for most of his life, dangerous animals were no longer a threat. The 21-year-long war in Sudan, filled with gunfire and very restricted freedom to move, didn’t just force the people to flee the country - it also drove the animals away to safer neighbouring countries like Uganda. But when peace came, elephants were spotted again and Emmanuel probably regrets not having practised more.

Geert Vlieger is a Dutch audio documentary maker and musician living on the outskirts of Amsterdam. He has a love for stories about communities that live with nature. And while the Netherlands isn’t the best place for that - although he tries, living in a wooden house on the shore of Holland’s biggest lake - he occasionally sinks his teeth into projects where people inspire him with their way of living somewhere else in the world.

https://www.geertvlieger.nl/
https://www.instagram.com/geertvlieger/
Radiophrenia Shorts 5B

9 September 2026 8:30 am - 9:00 am

1 Malu Hatoum - Refluxus 1 or Ruminat Beat (6:40)
2 Owen Duff - The Meaning of Alexa (Ambient) 1 - How do you feel (11:59)
3 BBB_ - Ontology of Interdependent Matter (11:30)

1) Malu Hatoum - Refluxus 1 or Ruminat Beat

The composition Refluxus 1 - or Ruminate Beat is based on the indigestible feeling and condition of our society. It physically conveys the idea that if we were ruminant animals with five stomach cavities, we might have the stomach for this society. For this composition, only two sound sources were used and modified: the conversation of two deer, which are ruminants, and the author's voice.

Malu Hatoum
Sound artist, performer, producer, singer, and writer, she currently researches transspecies communication through the body-voice.
She has held solo and group exhibitions in Latin America and Europe.
2024 - PhD student in Contemporary Arts Studies, Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Brazil; 2019-21 Master's degree in Sound Art, University of Barcelona, Spain; 2012-14, Undergraduate degree in Psychology, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
Co-founder of the Refluxus Collective, 2019. Member of Soma_Lab, the Sound Arts Research Group at the Fluminense Federal University, Brazil, since 2024. Curator and producer of Chicharra Nomadic Listening Festival

https://www.museuapellesfenosa.cat/es/expo/reverberant/
https://bilbaoarte.eus/exposicion-aqui-feroz-malu-hatoum/
https://www.instagram.com/maluhatoum/
https://soundcloud.com/maria-luiza-gimenes-peres
https://www.instagram.com/refluxuscolectivo/
https://colectivorefluxus.wordpress.com/
https://soundcloud.com/refluxus-colectivo

2) Owen Duff - The Meaning of Alexa (Ambient) 1 - How do you feel (11:59)

These are selections from a long-form work I have just completed, derived from an improvised piano and vocal ‘duet’ with an Amazon smart speaker which I recorded and then processed with extreme time stretching, editing and sound design. I also included audio of what the smart speaker recorded during the duet from Amazon’s servers.

With this piece I wanted to evoke in sound the space between human expression, represented by my freely improvised playing and sung questions, and AI’s understanding of it. I also wanted to explore the blurring lines between humans and the technology we have invented, and to play with the dichotomy between our ideas of freedom and a digital capitalism which has promised to deliver that freedom, but has arguably removed our liberty to reject capitalism.

Owen Duff works across multiple artistic fields, from his work as a singer-songwriter with many albums and videos released over 20 years, to his work making music for screen such as the Queerty-nominated series Kissing Walls. As a sonic artist Owen was Highly Commended in the 'Composed with Sound' category at Sound of the Year Awards in 2023, created the sound art/poetry collaboration 'Ghost Dance' with poet Emily Berry, which was a featured premiere on BBC's Late Junction in 2024, and had work selected for an In The Dark listening event the same year.

http://www.owenduff.co.uk
http://www.instagram.com/owenduffmusic
owenduff.bandcamp.com

3) BBB_ - Ontology of Interdependent Matter

Ontology of Interdependent Matter is part of the Songs of Cyborgeoisie project by BBB_. A mesmerising PC gaming experience and audio-visual journey through a sci-fi universe, populated by technological, organic and fantastic beings, such as the Queer Feminist AI, Raving Narcissistic Algorithm and Other Intelligences, who tell of their sorrows and hopes, in order to heal human imagination from the pervading techno-dystopian narratives.

Artisitc direction & Concept: BBB_
Lyrics and Voice: allapopp
Composition and music production: Alexander Sahm
Choir: Deniza Popova, Santrra Oxyd, Elisabeth Rudi, Cassandra Schwermer

https://homepage-bbb.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tHi1i-1Chk
IG @allapopp
IG @alexandersahm_
Shhh: A Soft Shell Broadcast

9 September 2026 9:00 am - 9:30 am

Shhh is A Softshell Broadcast brought together through a collaborative recording day and later woven together with found sound and music to produce an immersive sonic landscape. The sound work is punctuated with recorded chatter and discussion from the recording booth, a gesture to what can occur through collaboration.

Shhh is based on a series of texts, each at varying points in their process. They are experiments in overlaps, thresholds, and skirting around the edges. Objects appear and reappear in different voices, whilst sounds clatter and whistle through adjacent rooms. This is a translation of text to sound.

The sound piece is 33 minutes long and is a combination of recorded voice, field recordings and instrumental music.

Artist bio:

Will Farmer, Esther Hesketh, Maisie Wills, Emma Mortimer, Toby Üpson, Beth Emsden, and Sophia Kelly-Keegan are Art Writers, currently on the Art Writing course at Glasgow School of Art. Their collective practices explore a shared curiosity of the thresholds of form, objects, text and landscape.
Soft Shell Broadcast is an iterative process of translating text to sound. It incorporates performances, recordings and readings.

Website/social links https://theyellowpaper.org.uk
Anamaria Pravicencu & Manja Ristić - Gardens of Christiane. The Palestine from before.

9 September 2026 9:30 am - 10:00 am

In the shade of Palestinian gardens, memory once bloomed — fragrant with olive groves and the quiet gestures of care. These were spaces of closeness, of which Christiane Dabdoub Nasser recalls inviting us into her childhood and Palestinian culture from another time, where the Mediterranean breathed through shared rituals of tending and living in harmony with the land. Rooted in practices of cultivation, refuge, and sensory proximity, such intimacy has been systematically disrupted by the colonial project of the Israeli state, which reconfigured land into instruments of control and dispossession. Today, the relational fabric of Palestinian landscapes lies fractured — yet the soil remembers.
Through powerful storytelling, family history, and enduring friendship, this piece gathers what remains: the rustle of leaves under siege, the echo of footsteps in forbidden groves, the persistence of tenderness in a terrain marked by erasure. It traces how ecological and cultural memory endure despite spatial fragmentation and political violence.
Manja Ristić engages with sounds gathered from war-torn landscapes and towns across the former Yugoslavia, from WWII memorial sites to intoxicated rivers — bearing witness to how the land carries its wounds in silence, while the echoes of war still tremble through every pore of the heart.

Concept and direction: Anamaria Pravicencu
Storytelling by Christiane Dabdoub Nasser, with the support of Maya Nasser
Sound design and composition: Manja Ristić
Presentation text: Manja Ristić
Mixing: La Plant Studio, Belgrade
A production of SEMI SILENT and tranzit.ro/ Bucharest

Artis bios:

Anamaria Pravicencu is a sound artist based in Bucharest and founder of the platform SEMI SILENT (2016), dedicated to podcasting, sound art, radio art, and field recording. She also developed the SONIC FUTURE RESIDENCIES program (2018, 5 editions) to support mobility in contemporary sound art. In 2022–2024, she co-curated Sonic Narratives (Simultan) in Timișoara as part of the European Capital of Culture, and in 2024-2025, she co-curated Orizont Sonor (French Institute in Romania and SEMI SILENT). She is a founding member of CENSE – Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies.

Website/social links
https://semisilent.ro/
https://manjaristic.blogspot.com/
Radiophrenia Shorts 37A

9 September 2026 10:00 am - 10:30 am

1 Kateryna Ziabliuk - Spivanka (5:03)
2 Mathias Guilbaud – Roar (22:27)

1) Kateryna Ziabliuk - Spivanka

The piece was recorded live in 2025 in the legendary MONOM - one of the Funkhaus sound studios in Berlin. It is based on folk tunes from Ukrainian Transcarpathian region, that used to be the way of communication between highlanders working on the mountain fields. Together with one of the most unpredictable sound sources - audio feedback from no input mixer - and live sampling, the piece reassembles the mysticism, richness of the soundscape and the beauty (rather importance) of repetitiveness. There also was an unpredicted result of this experiment - at the certain point, the mixer started “catching” frequencies from samples, and its random glitches sounded like a parody on the melody of the flute.

Kateryna Ziabliuk is a Kyiv-born, Krakow-based sound artist, multi-instrumentalist and improviser educated at the music academies in Krakow, Kyiv and Milano. She performs across Europe with her band Hilarious Disasters and the all-female group O.N.E., and researches Ukrainian musical modernism, Ukrainian and Polish folk music, contemporary improvisation and electroacoustic techniques.
Katrù is her artistic identity, dedicated to reshaping Ukrainian folk music through free improvisation and experimental electronics. As an artist who has been educating across Europe and the USA, her work deeply reflects the experience of migration — balancing nostalgia, cultural preservation, and the constant process of assimilation.

https://linktr.ee/katruziabliuk
https://instagram.com/katrututu

2) Mathias Guilbaud – Roar

My city roars. Like yours, it is constantly changing, driven by silent, powerful forces. Beneath my feet, an invisible metro line cuts through ruins — neighborhoods, dead ends, streets. Construction sites, machines, bodies in motion. Clatter, tremors, textures: raw, living, untamed sounds. I walk with microphones, gathering these sounds not to freeze them, but to move through them — to hear what, amid the chaos, tries to speak differently. These noises become stories, presences that awaken a numb urban imagination. Reactivating it is a form of situated resistance, rooted in places, cracks, and transformation. By letting these often-dismissed sounds resonate, construction sites stop being mere breaches in the city and become breaths. Giving voice to places in transition, reclaiming through listening a power over what slips away.
Roar is a sound piece built entirely from field recordings produced by Semi Silent.

Mathias Guilbaud is a Toulouse-based sound artist working with field recordings and acousmatic composition. His work explores the sonic textures of urban transformation, the poetics of construction sites, and the intimate intersections between public spaces and personal narratives. Through his electroacoustic pieces, he seeks to awaken new ways of listening to cities in flux, revealing the hidden layers beneath everyday noise.

A multidisciplinary artist, Mathias collaborates with performing arts companies, community radios, and film projects.

https://mathiasguilbaud.fr/
@mathias.guilbaud
Radiophrenia Shorts 37B

9 September 2026 10:30 am - 11:00 am

1 Andrew Paine - (Tectonic) Notes For 3 Cassette Recorders (7:00)

2 Panayiotis Kokoras - Useless Box (11:00)

3 jonesy jones - woolf worldings - pomona (0:44)

4 BORȘ - Murmuration of crumbles (8:35)

5 Andre Perim/ Eye P - Life Insists (3:09)

1) Andrew Paine - (Tectonic) Notes For 3 Cassette Recorders

I recently found the notes I had been writing prior to my performance at Tectonics 2019.
I thought it might be interesting to record these notes ‘live’ into three vintage cassette recorders simultaneously. I had original mics for each of them but no real idea how effective they might be. In addition, I used vintage, second hand tape to make the recordings.
The results are (to my ears) very satisfying. Difference in quality and on-going degradation of recordings are clearly marked. No FX have been added, I’ve simply moved the vocal around a little, to make it more interesting.
The Tectonics performance itself, featured bowed guitar, morse code, SW Radio, Cassettes, iPod, & spoken word.
I have added the morse code from that performance to this recording.

Andrew Paine is a Glasgow based musician: his work ranging from solo voice, howling guitars, gentle piano interludes, radio, oblique electronics and wherever he likes in between.
He initially broke cover collaborating with Richard Youngs in their progressive rock group project Ilk. Following their second album “Canticle” (VHF, 2005), he became particularly prolific, releasing many collaborative albums with Youngs as well as several solo projects.
Current duties extend to ambient alter-ego ‘Lord Tobacco’ and duo, The Domestiques (w/ Kevin McCarvel); guitars in tune with the energies of 70s rock & Japanese psych and electronics akin to the 80’s industrial experimenters.

https://andrewpaine.bandcamp.com/
https://lordtobacco.bandcamp.com/

2) Panayiotis Kokoras - Useless Box

Useless Box appears as an ordinary wooden container whose resonant knocks unfold into an unpredictable sonic world. Drawing on the myth of Pandora’s Box, the piece reveals how the seemingly harmless can unleash chaos, oscillating between the mechanical and the organic, the playful and the ominous. Integrating performance, robotics, sound design, and theatricality, the work employs spectromorphological and transcontextual transformations to create a surreal drama. Quotations from Julius Fučík’s Entry of the Gladiators frame the piece, reinforcing irony and illusion. Beneath its playful surface, Useless Box explores uncertainty, paradox, and agency, transforming the box into a liminal space of sonic and philosophical tension.

Panayiotis Kokoras is an internationally acclaimed composer and computer music innovator, currently Regents Professor of Composition and Director of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI) at the University of North Texas. His music treats sound as the sole structural element of form and is articulated through his concept of Holophonic Musical Texture, in which each independent sound contributes equally to the total. His work integrates electroacoustic composition, physical computing, robotics, spatial sound, and Music Information Retrieval–based strategies. Kokoras has received major international awards, commissions, and fellowships from institutions including the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, IRCAM,

https://www.facebook.com/pkokoras
https://www.instagram.com/panayiotiskokoras/
https://www.panayiotiskokoras.com/

3) jonesy jones - woolf worldings - Pomona

old memory
hits a ghost artery
sparking
a l c h e m y

This is the first dive in to the instinctive otherness of the expansive worldings of sounds.
This is a memory glitch switch making queer cacophony with the ghosts.
This is a Woolf swish fish in to the swirling abyss of ghost paths and archaic messagings.
This is river life, woolfing in the luminous dark, curious in the heart beat -
pulsing the deeps - trans-ing the cares - immersing in the kindnesses

of the non human world.
it seeks to be our P O M O N A

a fugitive in the sound world
an escape artist from the theatre world
sometimes up - sometimes down - mostly upside down
dancing - looping - listening
making - sometimes - faking
always d.i.y
in the radicals of resistances - deviances - protestas
seeking discoveries of new bellisimos queerissimos
for all our glory days

4) BORȘ - Murmuration of crumbles

am dizolvat, am lăsat să putrezească. look, it’s rotting! the myth, the foundation, the loop, the repeat, the on repeat, tot așa, tot-ș-aceeași, tot rot, autoritatea epistemică, exprimarea se screme. exprimere – to express, or rather squeeze out (of?). ne scremem. ne scremem să naștem murmurări noi. noi scremem noutăți express. ce mai e nou? this is where we express in the crumbles and murmurations of crumbles. crumble ‘til you forget how not to. murmur ‘til you forget words, to world. apoi uită din nou… remember to forget all over in fragments, smaller… smaller… that we can’t measure any longer. shorter… shorter… that we no longer store and hoarder. liquid, back to liquid, then vapour again, always in flight, escaping the lines, the rise, the wise men. but who can? [...]

Recordings, composition and mixing by Mădălina Ciocanu for SEMI SILENT
Co-produced by Simultan
SONIC FUTURE RESIDENCIES 2024

FB: https://www.facebook.com/madalina.ciocanu
IG: https://www.instagram.com/bors.beets/

5) Andre Perim/ Eye P - Life Insists

Two artists come together to share a reaffirmation of life in the face of difficulty. Art emerges as a means of resilience.

Andre Perim is a Brazilian musician, composer, and multimedia artist. Eye P is an Italian poet and spoken-word artist. Together, in 2025, they released the album Songs for Errors and Victory, which includes the track “Life Insists.”

https://linktr.ee/andreperim
https://linktr.ee/AntonellaEyePorcelluzzi
Gemma Jones

9 September 2026 11:00 am - 11:30 am

"We are in this together" is a 30-minute live broadcast exploring care based practices in the form of listening. This originates from the artist's experience of being read to which has become an everyday ritual in the management of chronic pain. I propose to read aloud a series of chosen texts regarding performance, landscape and chronic Illness to honor a shared space of radical tenderness and reflection. Navarro, Eduardo “Riverbed Meditation”. Meandering Art, Ecology and Metaphysics Ruwona, Natasha Thembiso. “What is held between waters”. Institute of Postnatural studies, Compost Reader 2 Neimanis, Astrida. “Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water.” Undutiful Daughters: Mobilizing Future Concepts, Bodies and Subjectivities in Feminist Thought and Practice Halprin, Anna. ”The Body as a Healer”, Returning to health with Dance Movement and Imagery Halprin, Anna.”Nature as Healer Part 2 The Use of Visualization”, Returning to Health with Dance Movement and Imagery Artist bio: I am a Glasgow-based visual artist working at the intersection of Disability Justice, Somatics, Embodiment, and Landscape. My work combines performance, drawing, writing and sound to explore new languages and or possibilities of the body. I create performances that are not rehearsed where I use my time before to research extensively, draw, write and gather images with a plan to respond to the live present moment. Documenting performance continues to excite me where I find drawing, writing and sound interesting tools to transform the ephemeral nature of live performance into a new form with the same magic. Website/social links Website: gemmajonesperformance.cargo.site Instagram: @gemmajonesperformance
Buffer Zone

9 September 2026 11:30 am - 12:00 pm

1) Ernests Vilsons & Ada Ruszkiewicz - swing of the day - Ģenerāļa Baloža iela (1:55)
2) Gareth John and Laura Tansley - This morning an anticlimactic (8:03)
3) ri - you must have asked for it (4:36)

1) Ernests Vilsons & Ada Ruszkiewicz - swing of the day - Ģenerāļa Baloža iela

This "catalogue of noisy swing recordings" is an expanding catalogue of recordings that capture noisy swings co-created with Ada Ruszkiewicz. The catalogue is made up of several dozen sound recordings featuring squeaky, creaking, screeching or otherwise noisy swing sets. The reasons for swing noise are various – loose connections or fasteners, aging of the materials used in the construction of the swing, weather conditions affecting them, as well as the load and overload to which the swing is subjected. Although most of the recordings feature swings that only minimally differ in terms of mechanics, construction and materials used, their noise is never identical, providing a sound testimony to the environment in which the swing is placed. Swinging, photos – Ada Ruszkiewicz; Idea, recording, editing and mixing – Ernests Vilsons.

Artist bio: Ernests Vilsons is a Latvian composer living in Rīga. He writes music for acoustic instruments and electronic means, creates sound installations and performances, and collects field recordings. He is interested in harmony, time, silence, chance, representation and transcription.
E. Vilsons studied at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. His master's research project “Well-Structured Vocalizations: An Attempt To Imitate Birdsong” was awarded the Konrad Boehmer Foundation Prize in 2020.
https://ernestsvilsons.com/
https://soundcloud.com/ehovi-s

2) Gareth John and Laura Tansley - This morning an anticlimactic

A poetic sound piece exploring anxiety and parenting.

Artist bio: Gareth John and Laura Tansley have been combining their words and music for several years now having first met at university in Cardiff. Gareth lives in London, Laura lives in Glasgow.

3) ri - you must have asked for it

Trigger warning: This audio contains discussions of emotional and psychological abuse, abusive relationships, and the process of leaving an abusive partner. It includes voice messages addressed to the perpetrator that may contain distressing or emotionally intense material. Please take care while listening and pause or stop if needed.

Freeing oneself from an abusive partner is not linear. this audio stems from the desire to hear the perspective of someone who is in the process of breaking free from a relationship with an abusive person and is going through various emotional phases. what you will hear are voice messages that were sent to the perpetrator.

Artist bio: radio and theatre maker. loves impro, clown*ing, the absurd and grotesque. supporting and organizing self-help groups for those affected of sexual violence. living with three kids, complex ptsd and neurodivergences. at the moment working with a friend on a theatre piece about rape myths.
Vanessa Rossetto - A Face For Radio

9 September 2026 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

An exploration of ideas of attractiveness via an actual radio broadcast in the form of a fake radio broadcast

Cast:
Neil: Vanessa Rossetto
Gloria: Matthew Revert
Rivka: Amy Johnson
with
Christina the Turkey as Herself

'A Face For Radio' is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunstradio produced with the support of Creative Scotland.

Biography:

Vanessa Rossetto is an American composer and chipper-shredder, processing whatever sounds cross her path into sprawling, long-form narratives. Trained as a painter, Rossetto began working with sound in 2007 as a way to incorporate the element of time into her work. If you have met her, she probably recorded you.

http://www.musicappreciationrecs.com/
https://vanessarossetto.bandcamp.com/
Louisa Fairclough - The world went out of tune with itself

9 September 2026 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

The sound piece draws from a written testimony in which I have endeavoured to convey the distinct logic of my thought processes and the associations I was making during a lengthy psychosis. The monologue is non-chronological and echoes my fragmented memories. My spoken voice overlays a digital soundtrack in which I have woven together vocal pieces and music that I made on my computer whilst experiencing mental distress: an archive of that time. Artist bio: ‘The world went out of tune with itself’ is part of a wider auto-ethnographic project exploring Louisa Fairclough’s lived experience of psychosis funded by an Arts Council England DYCP award, and will be performed at Figments: Madness, Health & Creativity conference at University of Glasgow, June 2026. Louisa’s solo show, Mental Falls, was at Danielle Arnaud Gallery (2024) and MIRROR Arts University Plymouth (2025). To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, Louisa curated Welcome to my World, a weekend programme of artists' screenings, performances and talks at the Arnolfini in Bristol in May 2025. Louisa is co-founder of BEEF (Bristol Experimental & Expanded Film). Website/social links www.louisafairclough.co.uk
Radiophrenia Shorts 21A

9 September 2026 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

1 Laura Romero Valldecabres - Hidden Speakers (4:42)

2 Son Hanson - The Signal (2:44)
3 Luba Diduch - Angels' Voices in Pine Needles (1:52)
4 Cristian Fierbințeanu – Total (22:13)

1) Laura Romero Valldecabres - Hidden Speakers

“Tsugi wa” (Japanese for “the next one”) is a reflective soundscape inspired by the artist’s journey through Japan’s vast railway networks. Moving from station to station, she encounters “hidden speakers,” a word that resonates as both loudspeakers and disembodied voices. These "acousmatic" announcements (relentless directions, train schedules, simulated birdsong guiding passengers to platforms and exits) form an omnipresent sonic architecture designed to assist navigation, including for the visually impaired. Amid this constant flow of information, the artist contemplates her own life path, asking, “What’s next?” The phrase "tsugi wa" becomes both practical instruction and existential question. The walk culminates at a "suikinkutsu" in Kyoto, where resonant drops of water evoke intimacy and presence, contrasting with the mechanical mediation of recorded sound. Suspended between natural acoustics and technological voices, the work explores displacement, time, and the search for orientation.
Headphones are recommended for full immersion.

Laura Romero is a freelance audio artist and researcher from Spain. She creates audio design and storytelling projects for radio, podcasts, and sound installations. Her work intertwines bioacoustics, cultural heritage, orality, soundscapes, and poetry, with a strong commitment to preserving memory across diverse territories. She has received First Prize at the Grand Prix Nova International Radio Drama Festival (2021), UK International Audio Drama (2022), and the Bronze Award for Best Documentary at Prix Marulic (2023). Holding a PhD in Communication and Sound Studies, she works across artistic and academic contexts and regularly organizes public listening sessions in Iberian Peninsula.

http://www.laura-romero.com
https://www.instagram.com/lauraromerovall
https://www.facebook.com/laurahum
https://vimeo.com/lauraromerovall

2) Son Hanson - The Signal

The Signal is a found recording of a shortwave radio broadcast. It initially appears to be an experimental guided meditation that transmits subtle electromagnetic tones intended to ''awaken the inner child'', but as the tape circulates, listeners have reported unsettling experiences that linger beyond the act of listening.

This piece draws on Michael Persinger's ''God Helmet'' experiments, which used weak electromagnetic fields to alter perception and induce the sensation of another presence, as well as the occult history of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), often associated with radio transmission and the belief that the voices of the deceased can surface through electronic media.

This Signal blurs the boundary between signal and spirit, leaving it uncertain whether the voices emerge from the mind, the medium, or something beyond.

Son Hanson is a documentarian based in Montreal. Her work explores space, liminality, and the fluid boundaries between self and environment.

3) Luba Diduch - Angels' Voices in Pine Needles

This recording was made in two phases. My intention was to explore relationships between drawing and audio recording. 'Angels' Voices in Pine Needles' was composed using scanned drawings that I had made using pine needles as drawing instruments. I experimented with changes in pitch and duration in an audio program when I converted the drawings into audio tracks. A few happy accidents occurred when working on this project. Through experimentation, I discovered that adjusting different levels and pitches revealed angelic and otherworldly sounds. Eerily, the 'angel' sounds seemed to echo through the scanned pine needle shapes as though they were singing and taking breaths between notes.

My art practice explores notions of responsiveness that evolve within expanding and transforming architectonic schemes in and around artworks. These expansions are reflected in my collaborations with audiences as well as in my own responses and perspectives. Individual and participatory projects that explore the ways in which environments such as the world’s forests can be seen as creatively productive spaces. This is of particular interest in my practice as an artist who often works in the wilderness of Alberta as well other locations in Canada. My ongoing projects involve the creation of sonic recordings and compositions, drawings, and interactive digital

https://www.instagram.com/lubartist/

4) Cristian Fierbințeanu – Total

This composition was created by Cristian Fierbințeanu in the frame of SONIC SPORTS, a project produced by SEMI SILENT in 2024 (unreleased)

SONIC SPORTS invited sound artists into new territories of exploration involving field research, dialog with athletes and support teams, field recording, as well as intimate or fictional writing, for a series of sound and radio art pieces. Presented in listening sessions of authored works, a national open call and a vocal expression workshop followed by a performance, the project proposes a sensitive reading of the role of sport in our lives and the intimate relationships we create with our bodies and the communities involved, from the very close-up, a breath or heartbeat away, through the perspective of the spectator in the stands or the football of children behind the block, through memories, histories and personal recollections.

Cristian Fierbinteanu is an independent artist, member of art-pop group Fierbinteanu, active in music, sound & video art. As part of Fierbinteanu, he has performed on European scenes, including Berlin Konzerthaus, and released records via independent labels. The works of Fierbinteanu have been presented and awarded in international festivals: RVK Fringe Fest (Reykjavik - Iceland 2021), Seasoning Spring (United Cowboys/Eindhoven 2021), Phonurgia Nova (Paris 2020), Grand Prix Nova (Bucharest 2020), Nuit de la fiction sonore à Arles (France 2019), Arts and Science days (St. Etienne/France 2019), 60 Seconds Radio (Canada 2019), Dvorak Marathon (Berlin Konzerthaus), Dvorak remix (The Czech [...]

http://www.fierbinteanu.com/
https://fierbinteanu.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/fierbinteanu
https://www.youtube.com/@fierbinteanumusic
https://www.facebook.com/cristian.fierbinteanu/
https://www.instagram.com/fierbinteanu.music/
Radiophrenia Shorts 21B

9 September 2026 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

1 Nat Grant - Folding - Permanent Ordinary (2:20)
2 Borja Flames & Barbara Dang - SOY TIERRA (I am earth / I am land) - Identidad / Identity (5:04)
3 Angela Moreno Cascante / altera - Invocación a la lluvia (Calling the rain) (22:32)

1) Nat Grant - Folding - Permanent Ordinary

Folding generates environments that both nurture and delineate smaller folds within them, akin to nesting dolls.
Folding represents the convergence of layers, the bending and intertwining of forms that give rise to new dimensions of existence. It embodies the fluidity of change, the inherent beauty found in the folding of time, space, and perception.
What was once flat and constrained now expands and flourishes. This form of folding doesn't signify resignation, but rather embodies a transformative process, embracing change and growth.
There is wonder in contemplation, and this work explores the possibilities that emerge when we embrace the nonlinear nature of existence.

Dr. Nat Grant is a composer and sound artist working on unceded Wurundjeri country, producing works for live performance, recording and broadcast, digital arts, and community arts. Nat’s work focuses on the creation of multidisciplinary and longform musical compositions, performance events, and installations using traditional and graphic notation as well as improvisation.
natgrantmusic.com
@natgrantmusic

2) Borja Flames & Barbara Dang - SOY TIERRA (I am earth / I am land) - Identidad / Identity

(poem by Agata Navalon - Spain)

Barbara Dang (France) plays prepared piano. Borja Flames (Spain) speaks/sings and plays electronics.
We have composed this pieces together, and they are part of a 9 tracks album recorded in june 2025, not yet released.

This collection of pieces go under the name SOY TIERRA (I am earth / I am land), and are based on contemporary latin-american and spanish poems. The poems explore the relationship between the body and its environment and society, ranging from metaphysical introspection to earthly and cosmic thought, and narratives of interpersonal relationships, love, and desire—the driving forces of life and purpose.

Spanish composer and singer Borja Flames lives in Normandy, France. Has published several solo albums, and collaborated with Marion Cousin, John Greaves, Areski Belkhacem and many others. Pianist, composer, and improviser Barbara Dang lives in Lille, France. Has worked with Sophie Agnel, Ensemble Dedalus, Tom Johnson, Radu Malfatti, Michael Pisaro, Halory Goerger, David Boinnard. They both tour often in France and Europe, together, solo, or with their different projects. More info in the website below.

https://www.muraillesmusic.com/artistes/borja-flames-barbara-dang-soy-tierra/

3) Angela Moreno Cascante / altera - Invocación a la lluvia (Calling the rain)

Three friends wander along Quebrada La Vieja while invoking the elemental forces for rain to come back to Bogotá and fresh water flows over its land again.

Angela Moreno Cascante is a Colombian sound artist and filmmaker. She is interested in experimental research creations processes related to live arts. Her work gathers art, technology and ecology from conceptual and sensory approaches. At the momento, Angela is distributing Entrada al bosquE, a performative sound installation which explores an interspecies relationship with Oyster mushrooms through contemplation, care and nourishment.

https://www.instagram.com/altera_nm/
https://www.instagram.com/entradaalbosque/
Lost in Transmission 3 - Johanna Linsley

9 September 2026 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

A live performance for Lost in Transmission, Steps Theatre, Dundee, 24th February, 2026, curated by dundee radio club. A Radiophrenia/dundee radio club event produced with the support of Creative Scotland.

Johanna Linsley is an artist, writer and producer. Her work is iterative, research-based and focused on performance. It often results in projects with multiple versions or outcomes. Current interests include documentation, procedure, listening (especially eavesdropping), queer domesticity, collaboration, and formations of the public. An interest in the speculative and fantastical underlies this work.

Johanna is part of the London-based live art team I’m With You, which investigates queerness, domesticity, private life and public space. She is also a founding partner of UnionDocs, a centre for documentary art in Brooklyn, New York. Johanna is a researcher on the Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘Challenging Archives’ at the Theatre Collection Live Art Archives at the University of Bristol.

https://www.jhlinsley.com/

Lost in transmission was a series of events presenting non-English language radio works with subtitled translations in cinema spaces around Scotland. The captioning allows audiences to experience the wealth of radio art available from all over the globe in its original language in the comfortable space of a cinema – in much the same way as you might go to see a foreign language film – only here there are no pictures, just the sounds, the words and your imagination.

For each of these programmes of radio works there was an additional short voice based live performance by a local artist.
Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sames - Dark, Sloshing

9 September 2026 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

'Dark, Sloshing' is an audio work by Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sames created in response to the heavily industrialised and neglected riparian worlds of Silverthorne Lane in East Bristol.

The composition weaves field recordings and voice, moving above and below water as it follows canals, bridges, electric grids, train lines, and highways. It reveals muted ecologies that interrogate the altered dynamics of earthly and urban processes, reflecting the city’s imperial, infrastructural, and ecological entanglements. Commissioned by Gingko Projects, 'Dark, Sloshing' forms part of a larger project led by artists Rachael Champion and Jonathan Trayte.

Artist bios:

Sonia Levy is an artist filmmaker with a Berber-Polish background. Her work, marked by site-specific and interdisciplinary inquiries, delves into the implications of Western expansionist and extractive logics, exploring how these forces manifest in the transformation and governance of hydrosocial worlds.

Lucy A. Sames is a curator, writer, and researcher based in rural South Wales. Her research proposes a feminist, queer and posthuman concept of ‘excess’ modulated by the materiality and metaphor of the liquid, to develop disruptive, embodied, queer, collective practice.

Website/social links

https://sonialevy.net/
https://www.lucyasames.com/

https://www.instagram.com/sonia__levy/
https://www.instagram.com/lucyasames/
EAPS 2 - Accumulation

9 September 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

EAPS is a collective of six sound poets that respond to a prompt to create works that are gathered into a program. Prompt: Accumulation.

Poets:
Marjorie Van Halteren, Northern France
Joan Schuman, Northern California
Tony Brewer, Indiana
Ilaria Boffa with Marco Lucchi, Italy
Gregory Whitehead, Massachussets
Brian Price, with Eleanor Price, Indiana

Artist bio:

Marjorie Van Halteren was born in Detroit, Michigan. She lived in New York for 20 years, where she was a radio producer. She shared in three Peabody Awards for her work in creative documentary and live radio. Her work has also appeared on Radiophrenia, BBC Radio 3 and 4, WDR, Radio Netherlands, NPR and Studio 360 in the US. She has lived in the North of France since 1992, and is a member of the Muzzix collective in Lille, France. She records, composes, sings, and plays electronic instruments, solo, as well as in collaboration with other musicians.

Website/social links http://www.electroacousticalpeoticalsociety.com
Radiophrenia Shorts 62

9 September 2026 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

1 Emanuele Costantini - The train rolls south in pitch black darkness and I forgot to shut a window back home (20:04)
2 williwaw - And still the drone of the bus (11:25)
3 Christian Rosales Fonseca - AKEI (15:46)

4 Andrew B - Nanjing Dong Lu 87.5 MHz (5:36)
5 cecilia moodz - Una ciudad (3:09)
6 Coims – FONNEL (1:38)

1) Emanuele Costantini - The train rolls south in pitch black darkness and I forgot to shut a window back home

The dense city streets unwind through unmanageable traffic, street vendors and stallholders, workers slipping through cars on their scooters, office employees wedged into dust orange buses in stale sweat, not far from small artisan shops, markets, and poultry. Distances are taken through temples submerged by tourists in frantic meditative activity, then slipping out into chaotic countryside of motorcycles and insects in chorus.
Night sounds like a stone.
Galloping rain, slimy, slapping with swarming waves
Time to return.

Emanuele Costantini is a Director, Photographer, Sound Designer, and Producer of sound-based films and art installations, Involved in a wide area of media sound and industry, born in Florence (Italy), and British naturalised, living in London (UK ). His first attempt in production became the award-winning documentary “GRA: Graffiti Roman Art” followed by few immersive installations, broadcasted on sound art radio shows (Framework, BBC3 Late Junction) and events such as Design Week in Bangkok, to name one. He keeps lending his sound skills to the film industry, getting involved in documentaries, commercials, and films while progressing with other productions.

http://www.ecsound.net

2) williwaw - And still the drone of the bus

There is a particular sense of doom in riding the bus. Will it ever get there? Will we ever get there? Where is there? There has been scant reflection on the geo-existential dread of bus riding, save for a poem by suffragette V. H. Friedlaender from 1922, Bus Ride In A Fog:

"...And still the drone of the bus,
Like a coma, a swoon, a drug..."

Here, through some archaic mathematical processes and mistakes, we let the bus speak and swoon. We hear the fog.

williwaw routinely explores the aesthetics of technological failure through the medium of heavily amplified ’ukulele.

http://www.donkeyscratch.com

3) Christian Rosales Fonseca - AKEI

In Akei, I bring together two distinct yet interwoven sonic worlds. The work begins with recordings I made from a historical phonograph from the early twentieth century. I spent several hours with the device, exploring its mechanics, experimenting with different playback speeds, and closely listening to the specific sounds produced in the processes of recording and reproduction. I did not treat these so called “noises” as interference, but as sonic traces of the technical and colonial practices through which voices and songs were once transferred into European archives.
I place these sounds in dialogue with recordings I made in close collaboration with the Kággaba community in the Sierra Nevada de Gonawindúa, Colombia. Recorded in the sacred territory, they reveal unexpected resonances with the phonograph’s rotating textures.
Through Akei, I explore the friction between colonial regimes of preservation and a territory in which sound remains relational and alive.

Christian Rosales Fonseca (1993, Bogotá, Colombia) is a composer, improviser, and electric guitar performer based in Bremen, Germany. His artistic practice is situated at the intersection of contemporary composition, free improvisation, and transdisciplinary artistic research, with a strong emphasis on political, social, and decolonial perspectives. He is currently a PhD candidate in the binational Artistic Research Program between the University of the Arts Bremen and the University of Groningen. His doctoral research examines Indigenous sound ontologies and colonial phonographic archives, focusing on early twentieth-century recordings of the Kággaba community and the cultural practice of "pagamento".

https://crofon.com/
https://crofon.bandcamp.com
Instagram: @crofon

4) Andrew B - Nanjing Dong Lu 87.5 MHz

Andrew is a Canadian electronic musician living in China who integrates chaotic, analog circuits to create unpredictable performances.

This piece uses radio as both a source of audio and control signals. Captured opportunistically in Shanghai on the Nanjing Dong Lu walking street, the recording documents the live interaction between radio signal, performer, and chaotic electronic circuits. The radio signal is the basis of the sounds used, and is also slowed down through frequency dividing circuits to serve as control signals for other parts of the audio processing chain. Every moment reflects the performer's response to the signal being received in an attempt to shape it into a sound event.

5) cecilia moodz - Una ciudad

Una ciudad is a three-minute piece that proposes an immersive sonic experience where space becomes territory. Using recognizable sounds without electronic processing — raw, direct, and without effects — the work builds a moving sonic architecture.

Spatialization is the central element, but not just technicque, the sensation: sounds do not simply happen, they inhabit, circulate, and move, like bodies inside a living city. Each sound keeps its identity, allowing the listener to orient themselves within this sonic landscape, and at the same time, to get lost in it.

Rather than describing a specific city, the piece suggests the idea of a city as an organism: layers, paths, encounters, and distances revealed through listening. Una ciudad does not represent a place; it activates it

I am a transdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work moves between sound, image, and writing. My practice takes a sensitive approach to memory, space, and time, focusing on processes of resonance, forgetting, tenderness, and error as creative forces. I am currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Documentary Film, where I continue to explore the relationship between listening, image-making, and narrative as forms of inquiry and artistic research.

https://soundcloud.com/cecilia-moodz
https://vimeo.com/ceciliamooodz

6) Coims – FONNEL

FONNEL WAS PERFORMED AND RECORD LIVE WITH BOTH PERFORMERS LISTENING VIA HEADPHONES TO TWO DIFFERENT RADIO STATIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY. THE OUTCOME CAPTURING UNIQUE FEEL AND CHOATIC VIBE.

Coims are an experimental sound duo, often using modern percussion and fretted instruments to create primitive sonic freedom.

https://coims.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/coims_sound/
Kate Donovan - Portal

9 September 2026 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm

One of the world's largest collections of wax cylinder audio recordings resides in Berlin, at the much contested space of the Humboldt Forum. The sounds are held there in a state of stasis, while machines work to control the climate of the room, keeping the temperature and humidity stable. This live audio transmission is a way to create a kind of portal, allowing an institutional space that houses dormant recordings to disperse out of the walls and onto the airwaves, or perhaps rather to allow listeners inside these walls from afar.

This is part of a larger project supported by the 4A_Lab in Berlin (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut | Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) that proposes transmission-from-archive as a form of critical practice that makes institutional thresholds porous without reproducing the collections that they hold, thus positioning radio as a means of thinking through the ambivalences of archival holdings.

Artist bio:

Kate Donovan is an artist and researcher based in Berlin working on and with radio, listening, ecological thinking, and the more-than-human. Much of her practice is together with others and circles around knowledge exchange and experimentation. She was part of the research group SENSING: the Knowledge of Sensitive Media (Potsdam), with a PhD project on "Radio as Relation", and is a fellow of the 4A_Lab Berlin, Institute for Art History, Florence - Max-Planck-Institut. She is also the co-founder of Radio Otherwise, an artistic research project motivated by the many knots which art, knowledge-making/sharing and communication encounter.

Website/social links

mattersoftransmission.net
https://www.instagram.com/mattersoftransmission/
https://www.khi.fi.it/en/forschung/4a-laboratory/2025-26/donovan-kate.php
Buffer Zone

9 September 2026 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm

1) Félicia Atkinson - Shirley to Shirley (4:14)
2) Katalin Ladik - Three Orphans (13:25)
3) Tony Morris – Can You Think (1:00)

1) Félicia Atkinson - Shirley to Shirley

From the album 'The Flower And The Vessel '

2) Katalin Ladik - Three Orphans

From the album 'Water Angels' .

This work juxtaposes Ladik’s electronically modified voice with wax cylinder phonograph recordings of Hungarian folk songs made in Transylvania during 1940, creating an astounding duet between past notions of culture and song, and the most forward thinking, avant-garde conception of what such a thing might be, with the artist’s screams, whispers, chants, laughter, giggles, and singing blurring time and creative boundaries in a single go.

3) Tony Morris – Can You Think

Tony Morris has been a fixture on the Glasgow underground music scene for the past several years and dabbles in most of the genres that typify it: from the avant garde to dance music. He sees himself as a kind of deviant cabaret artist who spills his guts on stage to a soundtrack of electronica. Being 73 years old, he has listened to an awful lot of music in his time and channels those memories into his act which is a compendium of tropes from Ready, Steady Go, Chicago blues clubs, his own dreams and whatever venue he happens to be playing in. He specialises in 1-minute duration ‘kind of’ songs – often with accompanying videos. There are hundreds of them on his Instagram account. This is one of them.

Tony Morris will be performing with his leaf blower as part of our live-to-air performances on Saturday, the 19th September. Tickets available through Eventbrite – see the Radiophrenia website for more details.

https://www.instagram.com/tonymorrisssss/
YoshimiO - Gutta ta Aaata（グッタタアアアータ）

9 September 2026 6:00 pm - 6:40 pm

I love spending time at home. For nearly 10 years now, right in front of our house has been a forest of evergreen broad-leaved trees in the satoyama. I can observe the lives of creatures other than humans there. During the rainy season, moss clogged our gutters, and the sound of raindrops falling through them began to create an unpredictable rhythm. I played the electric piano in my room while listening to the rhythm of the raindrops. My family recorded it on Zoom. When the “Higurashi” cicadas start chirping, the rainy season ends. It’s always like that. Collecting the sounds of my home and jamming with them soothes my sound-filled mind. The snoring of a friend who sleeps well at our house sounds like a didgeridoo player offering a prayer for a good night’s sleep. There are moments like my solo performance at YoshimiO at Shiso-kan, a place dear to us. And sometimes I go to a studio with people I trust and pour out my desire to bring all these sounds together. I love singing while channeling my breath through a flute—sometimes a KHEAN, sometimes an ARGOZA.

わたしたちの家で過ごすことが好きです。もう10年ちかく家の目の前には里山における照葉樹林の森があります。人以外の生き物の暮らしを観察することもできます。梅雨のあいだ、家の雨どいに苔がつまり、雨どいを通って落ちる雨垂れ音は予測のつかないリズムを刻みだしました。うちの雨垂れビートを聴きながら部屋の中でエレピを弾きました。家のひとはZOOMで記録しました。ひぐらしが鳴き始めると梅雨はおわります。いつもそう。家の音の収集とその音たちとのセッションは音にあふれたわたしの脳を癒します。うちでよく寝れた友人のいびきは良き睡眠がとれますようにと祈りのディジリドゥー奏者のようです。わたしたちの大事な場所、四三館でのYoshimiO solo演奏など。そしてときどき気の知れたスタジオにいき、それらをまとめたいという想いを吐き出します。わたしはわたしの呼吸を笛に通しながら歌うことが好きです。ときには KHEANに、ときにはARGOZAに。

YoshimiO _ Voice, Ereki Bass Tanpura, Keyboard Synthesizer, Electric Piano, Effects, Khean, Argoza, Minmin, Percussion
HAMA _ Reyong, Gangza
Kawamura Kohey-Sai _ Gangza
Engineered by Kabamix
Sound collected by Ooido Syoujou
mixed by YoshimiO
big thanks to shisokan ”四三館”

A Radiophrenia commission produced with the support of Creative Scotland.

THE VOICE FALLING UPON REYONG (5’22)
GANGZA PASSED BY (5’25)
A BIG MARIMBA CARRIED BY. (3’45)
THE HOUSE OF HIGURASHI. (5’27)
THE SHISOKAN. (3’40)
INORIBIKI (1’28)
ALONG WITH THE RAINDROPS_#1. (3’22)
ALONG WITH THE RAINDROPS_#2. (4’48)
ALONG WITH THE RAINDROPS_#3. (2’53)
ARGOZA GLIDES TO THE RAINDROP BEAT (3’06)

https://shochy.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/emeraldragonfly/?hl=en
Marco Ferrazza - Medeterranea

9 September 2026 6:40 pm - 7:00 pm

Medeterranea is a narration in sonic images of a journey through memories. From the macroscopic to the minute, between density and rarefaction, between the clarity of the soundscape and the analytical nature of micro-editing.

The piece is the result of research and a residency at the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille (GMEM) in 2024.

Artist bio:

M.F. is an Italian musician, performer and composer working in the field of electroacoustic music. His acousmatic and audiovisual works have been featured at festivals across Europe and internationally. His practice engages with musique concrète for fixed media, exploring sound objects in their material and perceptual dimensions, in search of a language shaped by clarity, reduction, and structural precision.

Website/social links https://www.marcoferrazza.com/
Radiophrenia Shorts 52A

9 September 2026 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

1 Sofía Matus Cancino – Saturno (7:00)

2 Melanie Sevcenko - Listen (2:21)

3 Susanne Skog – Kontinenten (10:45)

4 Stephane Borrel - La Grenouille de Lycie (The Frog From Lycia) (5:17)

5 Moniek Darge – MaltaSoundies (7:20)

1) Sofía Matus Cancino – Saturno

Saturno is an acousmatic work inspired by Francisco de Goya's painting "Saturno devorando a
su hijo". Using algorithmic composition, the sounds are presented and deconstructed by their original
signal.

Sofía Matus Cancino is a Mexican artist based in Phoenix, Arizona, exploring the convergences of visual music, embodied sound, and algorithmic composition. Her work proposes environments shaped by the ominous, the intimate, and the displacements of contemporary life. Her work has been featured at SEAMUS, ARS Electronica, Visiones Sonoras, PRISMS, SPLICE, among others, and performed by ensembles including Bent Frequency, ACME, and the Low Frequency Trio. Matus has received awards in Data Sonification, Composition, and Artistic Career Achievement. She is currently developing her first EP under the Jóvenes Creadores Fellowship from Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA).

https://www.sofiamatusc.com/
https://www.instagram.com/sofia.matus

2) Melanie Sevcenko - Listen

"Listen" is part of a larger literary audio project called "Educated Ear." Currently a work-in-progress, "Educated Ear" is my second poetry collection which contains five chapters – Listen, Field Recordings, Production, Mixing & Mastering, and Performance – with the 60-plus poems categorized into each section. The overarching themes of the collection include memory, archiving, recording, interpreting beauty, and the art of listening. Accompanying the collection is a "playlist" that includes ten of the poems produced as pieces of sound art, which will then become an interactive sound installation. "Listen" is a work of sound art produced from the first poem of the collection (also called "Listen"), which includes "instructions" on how to tune into the world around you.

Melanie Sevcenko is an audio editor & producer, reporter, writer, and sound artist. Based in Portland, OR, she currently edits and produces Live Wire, a nationally-syndicated public radio variety program from PRX. She's also reported for numerous outlets, including The Guardian, American Public Media, NPR, BBC World Service, CBC, and Deutsche Welle, among others. As a poet, her debut collection "I Still Go to Bed with Water" was published by Unsolicited Press in 2022. She's also the recipient of a Portland Arts Project Grant and has attended several artist residencies in the Pacific Northwest.

https://www.msevcenko.com/
https://www.instagram.com/melaniesevcenko/

3) Susanne Skog – Kontinenten

There was a continent. This is the sound of its absence.

There is a hole in this sonic texture. The contour of the hole follows the coastline of a fictitious continent. The form of this silent negativity shapes the gestures in this piece.

Susanne Skog (Sweden) works with sound art, composition, and text, drawing on experimental radio, radio drama, documentary practices, and narrative art forms. Her sonic works are built from field recordings gathered around the world and transformed into spatial, immersive compositions that explore friction, resonance, and perception.
She is also an arts journalist and editor at Nutida musik and a teacher at the Electronic Music Studio (EMS) in Stockholm. She co-runs the project halffloor and is also part of the team behind the digital platform radioart.se.
Her work has been presented internationally at festivals, art spaces, and in radio contexts.

susanneskog.se

4) Stephane Borrel - La Grenouille de Lycie (The Frog From Lycia)

For example, it would be The Smiling Spider by Odilon Redon (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) or The Cyclops Polyp (National Gallery of Art, Washington): works which, from simple and realistic elements, make the strange or bizarre emerge – but without mockery, without sensationalism, without trying to be frightening; a kind of imaginary, “fantastic” animality, in the romantic sense of the term.
In a somewhat similar way, La Grenouille de Lycie (The Frog of Lycia) takes advantage of a young woman's rather peculiar laughter to give it a curious turn, and imply that the grainy and staccato squeak of the voice would be a croak. The title, a nod to a myth taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, thus suggests that the character would be both woman and frog.
In the coda, one hears an authentic pelophylax ridibundus (“laughing frog”).

Stéphane Borrel lives and works in Lyon, France. He writes for different ensembles and diverse electronics, ranging from chamber music (Facétie, Extinction, Toutes choses ont leur saison) to the symphony orchestra (Faits de masque, Main-d’oeuvre), from mixed music (Orée, Prospectus in musica, Toute la mer) to sound installations (Smartland-Divertimento, Bascules) or acousmatic pieces (the Laughing Tonalities cycle). He was the prize-winner of the Phonurgia Nova scholarship in 2009, Hervé Dugardin Prize of the SACEM in 2013, and ULJUS electroacoustic composition competition 2024 (Smederevo, Serbie). He teaches composition at Conservatoire de Lyon (C.R.R. de Lyon).

https://www.stephaneborrel.fr
https://www.instagram.com/stephaneborrelmus/

5) Moniek Darge – MaltaSoundies

The island of Malta, surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, is extremely vulnerable to climate change. This threat is depicted in the soundscape MaltaSoundies realized in 2025.

Moniek Darge Moniek Darge is active as composer, violinist, performer and audio artist. She has built light- and soundsculptures, installations, musical instruments and for many years has been constructing a series of alternative music boxes, with which she also performs. Darge has specialised in both soundscapes and live-art performances in which visual and musical aspects are combined and in interactional improvisation on violin. Since 1970 she has performed around the world and has been active on stage, first with the Logos Ensemble, then with Logos Duo, and the M&M robot ensemble. She also founded Logos Women Ensemble.

https://www.logosfoundation.org/index-mon.html
Radiophrenia Shorts 52B

9 September 2026 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm

6 Ben Gaunt - Artillery of Nonsense (6:02)

7 Matilde Meireles - Two (Another Way) (7:00)
8 Jai Martone - The Bells of Cappuccini (7:06)

9 Bowen Wu – Scotory (6:09)

6) Ben Gaunt - Artillery of Nonsense

This piece is dedicated to my friend Rob Bentall, who describes my chaotic and bizarre sense of humour as an “artillery of nonsense.” We both work at Leeds Conservatoire and, as a result, he has often stayed over at my place. I have developed a habit of waking him with a deliberately awful playlist (Ben Gaunt’s Horror Show Chill Vibes 3000) a ritual I find far funnier than he does.
The piece draws on heavily processed fragments from that playlist, combined with a selection of unusual recordings I made over the previous two years, alongside a number of private references to my friendship with Rob.

Ben Gaunt is a Yorkshire-based composer, sonic artist and improviser, and Professor of Composition at Leeds Conservatoire. His music has been performed internationally by the London Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Psappha, the Ligeti Quartet, Rarescale, Grimethorpe Colliery Band and many others. His music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, premiered at hcmf//, and he has been nominated for a British Composer Award and an Ivor Novello Award. His electroacoustic work has been selected through international open calls, including winning Bent Frequency’s Underscore competition, leading to a performance in Atlanta.

bengaunt.com

https://soundcloud.com/bencomposer
https://x.com/bencomposer/

7) Matilde Meireles - Two (Another Way)

Two (another way) is an improvisation built from loops I made of water movements and raw electromagnetic pulses, recorded with a VLF Antenna and electromagnetic sensor. These were transformed into drones, rhythmic pulses, and imagined animal calls. 

It's the lead single from Four Tales, my new album coming out on 10 March. Two (another way) emerged from listening sessions I created for DRIFT, a collaborative floating architectural installation along Belfast's River Lagan that fostered new perspectives on city-river connections during summers 2024 and 2025. DRIFT was commissioned by Belfast City Council and brought together OGU Architects, MMAS Architects, and myself.

https://matildemeireles.com
@mtld_meireles (instagram)

8) Jai Martone - The Bells of Cappuccini

'The Bells of Cappuccini' is a soundscape composition constructed entirely from found sounds recorded in the composer's ancestral village in Campania, Italy.
The titular bells are recorded at the village's historic Cappuccin monastery, located on a hill and immersed in its own citrus tree orchard, which dates back to the Renaissance. The piece takes its listeners on a journey through time, from the sibylline medieval settlement, to the sepia-toned scenery of the 20th Century, through to the bustling modern-day Italian kitchen - the nucleus of the family home. The sounds explore the sonic transformation that the natural landscape has experienced over generations of human activity, with evolution and change being constant. However, one thing is always certain - the seemingly omniscient bells of Cappuccini are ever present.

Jai Martone is an emerging composer of Italian descent based in Cardiff, Wales, currently studying Composition & Creative Music Technology at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. With a particular interest in sound art being a vessel for narrative storytelling, their music is frequently direct, unapologetic, ambitious and emotional, with references to their Neapolitan heritage often evident across their work. Their versatility spans soundscape composition, acousmatic music, electronic music using spoken word, and plunderphonics - a recent example being a work entirely from samples from the FX comedy horror series 'What We Do in the Shadows'.

https://sites.google.com/view/jaimartone/links-contact

9) Bowen Wu – Scotory

This radio work re-composes three recordings from the National Library of Scotland sound archive: a spoken broadcast (“BBC Town and Country VHF Area”), church bells (“Magnus Bells”), and fire engine bells (“Old Leith”).

As a foreigner living in Scotland, my relationship to this history is mediated entirely through recordings, documents and stories rather than lived experience. The archive becomes a place I can only access by listening. The bells function as temporal signals, while the broadcast voice appears as a distant authority, guiding the listener through fragments of place.

Through layering and displacement, the work constructs a speculative memory — an imagined Scotland assembled from transmission, repetition and acoustic traces rather than direct memory.

Wu is a composer based in Glasgow. His practice explores sound art, electroacoustic composition, moving image and live electronics, often working with archival material, spatial listening and custom-built systems. His work has been presented internationally at festivals and exhibitions including ArteScienza, GLEAM Festival and the NLS Festival of Broadcast, as well as at conferences such as ICMC. He previously worked as a keyboardist and music director in live music contexts before moving toward experimental and research-based practices. Wu holds an MSc in Composition from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow.

https://bowenwu.uwu.ai/#
Kunstradio 3: Claire Serres - Grotte song or the underground voices

9 September 2026 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Broadcast: September 18th, 2022, Kunstradio

With the voices by Gérard Gorsse, François Villeneuve, Sandra Laborier, Delphine Dora, Esther Haller, Natalie Rubchenko, Necef Mengüverdi, Carlos Entringer, Rebecca Bremin, Daniel Pantaleoni, Sara Steinmoen, Odile Jacquot, Cécile Babiole, Gaëlle Coëffeur, Alice Quérel, Caroline Tricotelle, Corinne Castel, Marion Lacas, Véronique Guillien, Malika Lahcen.

Grotte song or the underground voices is a underground crossing, sung and sounded a cappella by a women's choir. The piece is inspired by medieval chansons de geste, between fable and sung poem, it tells the cave legend. The voices constitute the subterranean landscape, like the interior of an immense, vibrating and humid body.

Guttural, bony, blown and shouted voices inhabit this fantasized place, at the origin of our desires and our fears. We walk at a slow pace in the dark, along a deep and hoarse rale, attracted by the reassuring click of the water drops, the tongue slapping against the palate, close to the microphone. Then a voice crosses the cavity to our ears, powerful and sensual. To find our way back, we sing the ritornello, the one we have known since childhood:

This is the story I was told
It is possible that you know it
It happened in a cave
At the cave bottom she lived
In the cave she lived in peace
She saw no one no one saw her
No one had ever been there
It seemed that her look was killing
They always wanted to chase her away
They always wanted she never exist
All the time they condemned her
Of all the evils of all the sins
This is the story I was told
In the cave she lived in peace
In all times she was killed
Always she rose again
From her death life was reborn

https://www.kunstradio.at/2022B/18092022.html
Alain Damasio & Floriane Pochon - Time Grows By

9 September 2026 9:00 pm - 9:40 pm

Time Grows By is an immersive audio drama conceived as a soundwalk, where listening becomes the primary narrative force and the listener’s body is part of the experience. Set in a garden imagined as a temporal anomaly, the piece explores a world where past, present and future coexist, interfere and take root.
Guided by a fictional character claiming to come from the future, the listener moves through shifting temporal states rather than a linear story. Industrial ruins, vegetation, water and unrealized futures surface and dissolve. Time no longer passes: it thickens, bifurcates and accumulates in bodies and materials.
Through poetic narration and spatialized sound, the piece destabilizes perception and invites pauses and moments of uncertainty. Originally created as a site-specific work, Time Grows By functions fully as an autonomous audio drama, proposing imagination as a form of care and resistance.

Artist bios:

Alain Damasio is a French writer whose work bends language toward politics, ecology and speculative futures, with a strong attention to rhythm, voice and collective imagination. Floriane Pochon is a sound artist, founder of Phaune Radio, where listening is treated as a form of relation rather than representation.
For over a decade, they have collaborated on sound pieces that unsettle linear narration and fixed points of view. Their shared practice weaves voice, space and sound into immersive situations where time slips, perception shifts and meaning remains in motion, inviting listeners to inhabit uncertainty and imagine other ways of being together.

Website/social links

https://phauneradio.com/en/
https://tarabust.com/
https://phauneradio.bandcamp.com/
https://instagram.com/phauneradio
https://www.facebook.com/phaune/
https://x.com/phaune
https://www.youtube.com/@PhauneRadio
Ernests Vilsons - catalogue of noisy swing recordings

9 September 2026 9:40 pm - 10:00 pm

"catalogue of noisy swing recordings" is an expanding catalogue of recordings that capture noisy swings co-created with Ada Ruszkiewicz. The catalogue is made up of several dozen sound recordings featuring squeaky, creaking, screeching or otherwise noisy swing sets. The reasons for swing noise are various – loose connections or fasteners, aging of the materials used in the construction of the swing, weather conditions affecting them, as well as the load and overload to which the swing is subjected. Although most of the recordings feature swings that only minimally differ in terms of mechanics, construction and materials used, their noise is never identical, providing a sound testimony to the environment in which the swing is placed. Swinging, photos – Ada Ruszkiewicz; Idea, recording, editing and mixing – Ernests Vilsons.
Since the work is a catalogue, the individual recordings could be played either one after the other or interspersed between other works.

E. Vilsons studied at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. His master's research project “Well-Structured Vocalizations: An Attempt To Imitate Birdsong” was awarded the Konrad Boehmer Foundation Prize in 2020.

Website/social links

https://ernestsvilsons.com/
https://soundcloud.com/ehovi-s
Radiophrenia Shorts 36A

9 September 2026 10:00 pm - 10:30 pm

1 Jonty Harrison - Postcards from Azet (10:00)
2 Ollie Hawker - Four Short Pieces for Somewhere Incredibly Far Away (10:46)

3 Aleatory Music Systems (AMS) - Up/Down (7:79)

1) Jonty Harrison - Postcards from Azet

Four aural snapshots based on recordings made in and around the village of Azet in the French Pyrenees.

Openings – opening and closing the church door…
Bells – marking the approach of the hour…
Fountain – a place to meet and chat at the centre of the village…
Valley – a plane passing high over nearby Vallée d’Arsoué frames the lazy soundscape of insects, birds and cowbells…

Postcards from Azet was composed for and premiered at Aure sonore: festival de paysage sonore, Azet, 2-6 August 2023.

Jonty Harrison (1952) studied at the University of York, before working at the National Theatre and City University, London. In 1980 he joined the University of Birmingham, where he directed the Electroacoustic Music Studios and BEAST. He retired in 2014 and is now Emeritus Professor of Composition and Electroacoustic Music. Gastprofessur, TU, Berlin (2010); Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow (2014-15). Compositeur Associé, Maison des Arts Sonores/KLANG! Acousmonium, Montpellier, France (2014–).

He has received many commissions and prizes internationally, and his work appears on four solo albums (empreintes DIGITALes, Montreal) and several compilations.

https://electrocd.com/en/artiste/harrisonjo/JontyHarrison

2) Ollie Hawker - Four Short Pieces for Somewhere Incredibly Far Away

Four Short Pieces for Somewhere Incredibly Far Away is a piece for singing percussion duo and electronics by Ollie Hawker, written for and performed by the Köng Duo (Bevis Ng and Hoitong Keung) as part of their joint residency at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada.

It utilises text-to-speech, text-to-song and a really janky A.I. text generating software to sketch several miniatures exploring memory and distance in the digital self.

Four Short Pieces... is presented here alongside several interviews in which the duo talk about their memories of Hong Kong, bringing intimacy and meaning to such seemingly trivial memories as public transport.

Text by Thomas Lyle, Josie Rogers, Thomas Moore and Ollie Hawker.

Ollie Hawker (he/him) is a composer and community music practitioner based in Glasgow. His recent work combines a sonic arts training in texture and timbre with a love of simple harmony and stillness. His music strives for a clarity that is both fragile and touching, likely to get blown away by a strong gust of wind.

olliehawker.com
https://www.instagram.com/ollie.p.hawker/

3) Aleatory Music Systems (AMS) - Up/Down

This new work from Robert Baldock’s ‘Aleatory Music Systems’ project takes its starting point with the Shepard Tone. The infamous aural illusion presents a tone that rises, or falls, infinitely.

By introducing the seemingly prosaic interventions of a porcelain butter dish being struck or being submerged in water, AMS conduct their customary exploration of the chaotic edges undermining the border territories of systems music. The work is an invitation to ponder time, and change, and movement. If sound purporting to be rising for ever is just a brief illusion captured in a loop, does it move at all? Can a sound, after all, exist outside of time?

Jez Butler: Mastering
Michael Begg: Narrative
Andy Fielding: Artwork

Robert Baldock is a Scottish-based new media artist who has worked under the name Aleatory Music Systems (AMS) since 2002.

His practice explores the interface between order and chaos through improvised and semi-improvised structures shaped by chance operations. Works are created using Max/MSP alongside modular analogue audio and video synthesis, drawing on analogue synthesizers, General MIDI, shortwave radio, and field recordings.
Since surviving a serious stroke in 2017, Baldock’s work has focused on the loss and reconfiguration of language and expression. Living with aphasia and verbal dyspraxia, his practice addresses disrupted communication, where intention, articulation, and comprehension no longer align.

https://aleatorymusicsystems.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/aleatorymusicsystems/?hl=en
https://soundandmusic.org/discover/composer/robert-baldock/
https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/node/67571
Radiophrenia Shorts 36B

9 September 2026 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm

1 Melanie Sevcenko - Instructions for Finding Me on the Radio (4:09)

2 Magda Lampropoulou - Reflections (13:00)

3 Regan O'Brien & SM Milligan - Make up Play. A soliloquy on light and shadow (5:08)
4 Owen Duff - The Meaning of Alexa (Ambient) - Can we be happy? (7:06)

1) Melanie Sevcenko - Instructions for Finding Me on the Radio

"Instructions for Finding Me on the Radio" is part of a larger literary audio project called "Educated Ear." Currently a work-in-progress, "Educated Ear" is my second poetry collection which contains five chapters – Listen, Field Recordings, Production, Mixing & Mastering, and Performance – with 60-plus poems categorized into each section. The overarching themes of the collection include memory, archiving, recording, interpreting beauty, and the art of listening. Accompanying the collection is a "playlist" that includes ten of the poems produced as pieces of sound art, which will then become an interactive sound installation. "Instructions for Finding Me on the Radio" is a work of sound art produced from one of the poems in the collection of the same name, included in the "Listen" chapter.

https://www.msevcenko.com/
https://www.instagram.com/melaniesevcenko/

2) Magda Lampropoulou - Reflections

“Reflections” is a sound performance with my upcycled kitchen tools and everyday objects as real musical instruments which took place on September 20, 2025 as part of the Processes Festival 2025. In this electroacoustic piece you can listen to some extracts during a 35-minute length performance which was presented at REVMA in Athens.

Magda Lampropoulou (b. 1977 Athens) is a sculptress and sound artist based in Athens, Greece. Her artwork engages with diverse, expressive media including audio, performance, sculpture, installations, and video. With emphasis on issues such as discrimination, prejudice, and moral values imposed by a given society, she assumes a humanitarian approach to her work.
She holds a degree in Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her participation in exhibitions, festivals, artistic radio podcasts and residencies (“Subset Festival”-Athens Epidaurus Festival/ "Tectonics Athens21", Onassis Cultural Centre/ "Works for Radio #4", The Lake Radio), has resulted in her identifying her work methodology.

https://magdoulas6.wixsite.com/magda-lampropoulou
https://www.instagram.com/lampropoulou_magda/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009992858432
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063475181193

3) Regan O'Brien & SM Milligan - Make up Play. A soliloquy on light and shadow

A woman reflects on herself as a young girl who is secretly watching her mother put on make up to go out. Her voice, my shaking breath, their voices, the voices of her ancestors attuning momentarily, in the fading light of dusk. A fragment of a memory unmoored from meaning, adrift in the telescopic reflections of a lineage of powerful women rebuilding their identities.

https://smmilligancom.wordpress.com/496-2/
https://www.reganobrien.com/projects

https://www.instagram.com/reganobrienmusic/
https://www.reganobrien.com
https://smmilligan.com
https://www.instagram.com/bethaniensdust/

4) Owen Duff - The Meaning of Alexa (Ambient) - Can we be happy?

http://www.owenduff.co.uk
http://www.instagram.com/owenduffmusic
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Leon Clowes - Empirical Evidence of the Existence of Angels

9 September 2026 11:00 pm - 11:15 pm

The piece documents 11 days and 11 hours of my early addiction recovery and attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. It is based on an artswork experiment where I noted the thought, time and place of when I saw a feather on my daily routines around London. Sharing intimate inner thoughts within a delicate sound design frankly exposes the internal struggles of someone attempting recovery. Delivered in a calm (yet unsettling) Radio 4 Shipping Forecast/James Alexander Gordon-like tone, the radio piece will give listeners insights to the internal world of private thoughts that we all have.

Artist bio:

I am an artist working with sound, story, and social practice. My artswork navigates taboo, memory, grief, and the uncomfortable. Forms range from participatory performances and installations to sound design, audio collage, and live storytelling, often created with and around communities. Ideas I explore include kinship care, gay male experiences in white working-class contexts, addiction, recovery, and the social systems that shape these experiences. My current major projects are "Absent Fathers" (Birmingham Opera Company/Resonance FM), "Empirical Evidence of the Existence of Angels" (Naviar Records) and "Casting a Fairlight on the Time of AIDS" (New Note Orchestra/The Sunday Boys Choir/Routledge Books)

Website/social links

https://leonclowes.com/
https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes
https://www.youtube.com/@leonclowes
https://www.instagram.com/leonclowes/
https://recovery-arts.org/
Egor Sevastyanov - Firework

9 September 2026 11:15 pm - 11:59 pm

Firework is a radio-based work developed from a live performance recorded during nights of civic protests against the Georgian government. The sound material is drawn from real-time radio broadcasts, live street reports, and audio streams captured directly from moments of confrontation between protesters and police. Fireworks, used in the streets as improvised weapons and signals, became a central acoustic element of the piece. The work was created through a method that depends on simultaneity and chance: modular synthesis and live signal processing were used to transform incoming radio transmissions in real time. The resulting composition could only exist under these specific conditions — when political events, broadcast signals, and live performance aligned. Artist bio: Egor Sevastyanov is a sound artist, composer, and production sound mixer working across experimental music, radio practices, and film. He works with modular synthesis, live radio transmissions, and field recordings, often integrating documentary reality into improvised sound structures. Sevastyanov has worked as a production sound mixer on films screened at major international festivals, including a film awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlinale. Alongside his film work, he develops live performances and radio-based projects that explore chance, instability, and the sonic material of social and political environments. Website/social links https://egorsevastyanov.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@aeroegor

This September we partner with Radiophrenia, the groundbreaking radio art festival and art radio station broadcasting across Glasgow on 87.9FM and online, featuring hundreds of new and original works for radio, a series of 20 newly commissioned special projects, public Live-to-Air performances, live in-studio shows and performances, long-form works, shorts and pre-recorded features.

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Radiophrenia 2026 ▾

A full schedule can be found here