ARCHIVE

1) Ute Wassermann - Imaginary Habitats

Ute Wassermann interweaves her voice with field recordings of birds, insects, frogs - of creatures that move across the boundaries between air, water and earth and finds new and different resonance places far away from their original environment. Fragile, seemingly natural sounds, such as the buzzing of bees under water, can be transformed into technoid drones. Snippets of soundscapes ghost through objects.

Does the singer retain her identity or does she become the ‘other’? The boundary between self and environment becomes fluid, so that the latter itself becomes an illusion in favour of a more complex reality. The binaries of animal and human, object and human, nature and technology are turned upside down in favour of interwoven relationships based on reciprocity.

A co-commission between Goethe Institute Glasgow and Radiophrenia produced with the support of Creative Scotland.

2) Margherita Brillada - Raw & Baked

"Raw & Baked" is a 30-minute electroacoustic composition with a focus on the disembodied radio voice. Inspired by daily actions in reverse order, the piece uses field recordings from Delft in spring 2024, blending raw and processed sound with found samples. Sharp cuts and softly processed sounds create a dynamic texture, with a tribute to Italian actress Monica Vitti. Premiering on Czech Radio's ARS ACUSTICA on May 29, 2024, this radio artwork showcases the composer's approach to radio art and soundscape composition.

3) Gregory Whitehead - How Still My Brainwaves

“His head was a mess, so his brain was a mess.”

A disintegrative composition for solo voice and cosmic crackle inspired by the structure and rhythm of a Langston Hughes poem, featuring a DIY ventilator that fails to sustain the patient.

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 Multi-Year Funding Programme.