1) Brunhild Ferrari - ERRANT EAR

This piece was composed at the end of 2024 with this feeling of wandering, of strolling in my memories that I was able to capture with my ears, my eyes, my nose, all my sensations, things that my life is made of and that I keep almost like treasures. Here, I feel free to enjoy surprises, to rediscover my memories, to give them new life.

I had the pleasure of using sound moments lent to me by Luke Fowler, Chris Watson and Luc Ferrari, and I mixed them with my own recent recordings and some of my archives from the 1970s onwards - albeit sometimes with painful joy.

Brunhild Ferrari, 24th of February, 2025

A co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunst zum Hören, Osterreich 1 produced with the support of Creative Scotland.

2) Ash Kilmartin - Cadogan Street, girl with Ribena box

Cadogan Street, girl with Ribena box attempts to describe a moment of complete absorption: a stranger on a Glasgow street, a child, stopping to sip from a juice box. Selected from a series of sketches that witness people in states of intense concentration, observed over days Kilmartin spent walking Glasgow’s inner city grid, the poem is expanded, looped, erased and supplemented in an editing process that, like the writing, tries to get inside the unexpected corners of a consuming, if fleeting, everyday experience.

Written, spoken and edited by Ash Kilmartin with bass improvisation by Dada Phone.

A co-commission between Radiophrenia and WORM produced with the support of Creative Scotland.

3) Timo Kahlen - Resilience. Against All Odds

Timo Kahlen's ‘Resilience. Against All Odds’, 2024 creates an ambivalent and disquieting acoustic metaphor - drawing the fine line between resilience, de-escalation and aggression. The audio miniature is based on growls and purrs.

This monthly program features highlights and commissions from the Glasgow art radio station Radiophrenia.

Presented on an annual basis, Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station – a two-week exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts. Broadcasting live across Glasgow, the station promotes radio as an art form, encouraging challenging and radical new approaches to the medium. Each year, the broadcast schedule includes a series of newly commissioned radio works, live shows, pre-recorded features, and a number of Live-to-Air performances. The majority of the program is made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound art and radio works. Radiophrenia is managed as a co-operative funded through Creative Scotland’s Open Project Funding.