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This month's Radiophrenia. features Sally-Ann McIntyre, Catalina Barroso-Luque and Victoria Chen Wei, and gobscure.

Overall, it's drawing on the aesthetics of the earliest field recordings of birds - koch's wax cylinder, arthur allen's ivory billed woodpecker recordings, etc. but it's based on a NZ bird which is "lost" in the present time - which is perhaps extinct. The sound library of a citizen scientist who's spent a lot of time looking for it (and collected a total of 1:26 of audio over 40 years of searching!) is interspersed with recordings of musical interpretations of historic / archival notations used as scores - some from private letters, some published in ornithology journals - played on violin, piano, harpsichord and clavichord. Included are other birds dead or alive which would have been / are in its environment - the huia (exitinct, here on paper music box) and the NZ rock wren - endangered (whose call is so high pitched it's almost outside the range of human hearing - here the audible part itself sounds like radio static or electronic noise). Also some vlf recorded in the mountains, all played back through very unstable microcast transmitters and "flocks" of radios. http://radiocegeste.blogspot.co.uk/

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee by Catalina Barroso-Luque and Victoria Chen Wei

A narrative voice piece, focusing on how the body, the mind, and technology become entangled within inter/intra-personal relationships. The piece is inspired by interviews with my brother regarding his use of GECI viruses to map neural networks, the parallels of working within a hermetic studio and laboratory, and the possibility of slipping into the voices in one’s head. The narration leads the audience through nine hallucinatory episodes within which the narrator slips in and out of consciousness, losing the ability to distinguish inside from outside, body from space, and itself from the ‘you’ it is addressing, Through playing with the desire to become-with an other, the machine and space, the work addresses notions of personal agency. Writing, direction and editing: Catalina Barroso-Luque Voice-over: Victoria Chen Wei. www.victoriachen.co.uk https://soundcloud.com/catalina-barroso-luque

Chalybeate (aka the bees sleep) by gobscure

sound by gobscure / words by sean burn. of llandrindod wells including chalybeate spring. part of our residency with celf, mid-wales a whiles-back, now extensively reworked & dedicated to all folks celf - past-present-futures. spoken-word comes from a poem published as rust never sleeps in otata april 2017 c.e. https://otatablog.wordpress.com/