This monthly broadcast from Glasgow art radio station Radiophrenia features "Arena On Energy On Tape" by Stuart Gurden and "The Gardenn" by Katapulto with Bruce McClure.

‘Arena On Energy On Tape’ by Stuart Gurden - Part of a continuing exploration of a ‘distended’ abstraction rooted in everyday activities, Arena On Energy On Tape is a drifting, layered composition woven from field recordings, appropriated and altered sounds, discrete performance, and time stolen back from work. Referencing a found motivational tape, and the BBC2 arts strand and it’s Eno title music, the piece is a soup of binaural immediacy, approximate noise, elusive periodicy, and mangled guitar and natural forces, all filtered through saturated tape loops, and a cannibalised Leslie cabinet.

‘The Garden’ an absurdist radiophonic work by Katapulto with narration by Bruce McClure. The vocal delivery refers to popular styles: the new age yoga teacher, the TV nature programme presenter, the narrator of fantastical children stories. The sound sets the tone for the voice, works as an emotional support for the voice but also as a dense and multilayered set, an autonomous character in its own right.

Radiophrenia was 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. The broadcast schedule included a series of newly commissioned radio works, live shows, pre-recorded features and 12 Live-to-Air performances. The majority of the program was made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound art and radio works. The 2016 Radiophrenia station was managed by Mark Vernon and Barry Burns and was funded through Creative Scotland’s Open Project Funding with additional support from CCA Glasgow.