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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 from Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, 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 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.

"Administrative Embrace" grants unprecedented access to the inner workings of the highly secretive and enigmatic Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence. The transmission occurs at the mammoth, highly fortified O.J.A.I. world headquarters. Situation Room offers an overview of this vast, obsessive, and highly bureaucratic entity through an hour of exploration into architecture, tunnels, bureaucratic machinations, camaraderie, and magic. The piece encompasses spoken word, modular sounds, architectural and bureaucratic fiction, lists and ambient musical accompaniment.

Text and voice by Gary Farrelly
Sound and mix by Chris Dreier
Piano by Tim Löhde

Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.) is the collaborative practice of artists Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly based in Brussels and Berlin. The work is fuelled by recurring fascinations with architecture, infrastructure, finance, esoteric practices and institutional power manifesting in postal correspondence, installations, sound, performance and walks as well as limited vinyl editions and publications. The work has been presented at Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin), Damien & the Love Guru (Brussels), Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris), Marres House for Contemporary Culture (Maastricht), De Garage (Mechelen) and Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati, US), among many others.

O.J.A.I. produces a monthly music radio show for Dublin Digital Radio and for Cashmere Radio Berlin.
https://jointintelligence.org/ 

Commissioned with the support of Creative Scotland for Radiophrenia 2025.