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This monthly program features highlights and commissions from Glasgow art radio station Radiophrenia. Presented in today's episode is Making Scaffolds by Rebecca Wilcox & Hannah Ellul and Three Sweep Between by Roy Claire Potter & Kieron Piercy.

Making Scaffolds by Rebecca Wilcox & Hannah Ellul

A collaboration at a distance, in which we explore the dynamics of encounter, interaction and (dis)orientation. After a lockdown was imposed, something like a conversation emerged in a to- and fro- of writing and recordings. The process has been marked by the stretches of time that shape this back and forth, by a certain lag, as we catch up with one another—a slowed-down, stretched-out kind of experience that is perhaps characteristic of lockdown itself. The sounds are marked by a disorientation, a stuttering, syncopating, or detaining, where voice is made multiple and diffuse.

Three Sweep Between by Roy Claire Potter & Kieron Piercy

In making Three Sweep Between, their new commission for Radiophrenia 2020, Roy Claire Potter and Kieron Piercy had meltdowns; it’s not an easy time to make work. They used a terraced house layout to build and inform their interrelated recording and writing process, which brings synthesised and manipulated sounds together with visual descriptions to reimagine a total shithole’s lost potential. Commissioned for Radiophrenia 2020 with the support of Creative Scotland.

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 from Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, the station promoted 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 12 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 by Mark Vernon and Barry Burns and is funded through Creative Scotland’s Open Project Funding with additional support from CCA Glasgow.