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This month's Radiophrenia. features James Torrance, Rebecca Wilcox, and Doog Cameron.

A thin veneer of fake brick cladding and the bitter sensation of loss by James Torrance

A hörspiel of speculative documentation featuring recordings from the initial demolition stages of Robin Hood Gardens. Voices: Alison Smithson, Peter Smithson, Peter Daniel, Neave Brown and a chorus of anonymous narrators. Organ: Mozart's Fugue in G Minor played by Martin Haselböck. Text extracts: Paul Sheerbart's Glasarchitektur (1914). "God in Christ, why do we destroy our prophets and our poets? Like animals we soil each other and the land around us. Hollow men in a wasteland - it is too late, too late." (PD)

Humming Humming by Rebecca Wilcox

Humming Humming is a short piece made under the influence of Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism. It's an attempt to play out some of the binds that hold us in a state of attentive distractedness.

The Ongoing Drain of the Fight Between the Wild and Tame Part Two by Doog Cameron

This work comprises field and forgotten recordings, small town/city centre conversations and sounds with audio effects, synths and acoustics. It tries to promote then reign back the constant battle experienced, to lesser or greater degrees, of the wild and tame sides of personality and behaviour. We experience brooding on madness with inner thoughts in and out of context of everyday living, or getting in a state where our outer actions and words lead us away from our ‘actual’ personalities, towards the Steppenwolfesque. Contrastingly we can be content in situations where we should be stressed, angry, sad or irritable - sound and music, whether audible to everyone or playing in our minds often play a part in this. Worth listening out for are roaring polar bears, wind up chickens, rusty curtain hooks, clicking reindeer heel cartilage, geese, starlings on a Summers night, diaries, bin store gadgies, drunks, art exhibitions, junior football, domestication as an unattainable myth, sobriety, child's play, shop ambience and last chance yelps.