RADIOPHRENIA

Tuesday, 17th November

At 9pm tonight:

Stain is a solo radio play written, composed and performed by artist Conor Baird. The piece explores an acutely personal relationship to various fluids and viscosities (biological and inanimate) by recalling real fragmented memoirs that travel through time, addressing the specific environments and experiences surrounding such fluids.  

These confrontations of uneasiness, intimacies and violence hope to release and purify a new lived body from shame and contamination. Initially staged as a visual piece of theatre throughout 2019, Stain has now been reformed into sound and radio.

Tuesday, 17th November

At 7pm today:

NYX EDC is a collaborative drone choir and otherworldly electric chorus, re-embodying live electronics and extended vocal techniques. 

Tonight they present an hour long mixtape made specifically for Radiophrenia from the outtakes and unused materials from a new collaborative work ‘Mutualism’. The full version of this project is a 360 video and music piece to be released in early 2021. 

Tuesday, 17th November

At 6:30pm this evening Kirsty Hendry presents ‘Navel Gazing’.

Ruminating on ‘gut feelings’ Navel Gazing considers how the body is simultaneously thought to communicate essential truths but that this communication is inherently suspect and not to be trusted. Developed through research into the history of ventriloquism at the Harry Price Archives, Navel Gazing uses the idea of belly speaking—which was not originally an entertainer’s trick but rather a rumbling sort of prophetic internal speech—to explore the ways we understand and articulate our bodies. Workshopped through performance exercises with Aby Watson and Joe Howe, Navel Gazing explores science’s predilection for fiction—weaving together personal narrative, archival materials, and contemporary research linking the gut to mental health.

You can visit Kirsty’s current exhibition of the same name at Collective Gallery’s Hillside space in Edinburgh by appointment up until the 22nd November.

Tuesday, 17th November:

At 4pm today – ‘A Day in the Life’ with Paragon Music. Artists from Paragon’s Horizons programme invite you to experience their audio worlds and explore the spaces and places that make up a day. This work for radio brings together music, poetry, found sounds and conversations recorded from various locations in Scotland. Paragon Music is an inclusive arts company inspiring people to create and perform their own music and dance. Two important principles within music – equality and inclusion – guide our work, creating inclusive music, dance and performance opportunities that inspire and empower. Paragon creates environments where people from all walks of life and with a wide range of additional support needs, can come together, develop new skills, meet new friends and discover their true potential through dance and music. Paragon’s work is facilitated by highly trained inclusive arts professionals, and has been delivered online since March 2020.

https://www.paragon-music.org/

Tuesday, 17th November

At 2pm today:

The Sculptor Speaks by Olivia Louvel.

A resounding of a 1961 tape by British sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Having unearthed the tape at the British Library, Louvel has designed for it a complete new sound environment, applying principles of sculpture to her voice to manipulate its texture, as direct carving. By repurposing this archival material, Louvel broadens the understanding of Barbara Hepworth’s legacy through an aural investigation of the voice.

Monday, 16th November

At 10 o’clock tonight. Jude Browning presents an audio essay with recorded performances by Liv Fontaine and clips from a conversation between Jude Browning and Jessa Mockridge. Jessa discusses the agency of listening and her facilitation of a remote residency at Wysing this summer. The latter part of the programme shares an essay read by Jude, she reflects upon coaching the voice for modes of public address, early monologue performances by Karen Finley and posthuman scholar PatricIa MacCormack’s theory becomings cunt.   

Including performances:  
Liv Fontaine BIG BEEF STEAK, 2020. Part of a current collaboration of dance music with Dirk Brooks  
Liv Fontaine people pleaser, 2019. Featuring music by Ed Stevens recorded live at the Doublet (Glasgow).   
Karen Finley – Yam Jam (Bonus Rap/Beat), 1988  
Karen Finley – It’s My Body (Live), 1996  
Karen Finley – Party Animal, 1989  

Monday, 16th November

At 3:30pm today ‘Naming The Orphans’. Written, directed and produced by Rose Ruane with additional material by David O’Flynn and Suzie Ferguson.

Naming the Orphans interweaves creative non-fiction, archive footage and interviews with field recordings and music composed from vocal and instrumental responses to The Adamson Collection; works created in the UK’s first art therapy group, by individuals compelled to live at Netherne asylum during the mid-20th Century. Employing radio’s singular ability to invoke present and past simultaneously, it is equal parts poem,soundscape and documentary. The narrator’s identity mutates, timestreams interpolate, converging and diverging through a drawing of a house, surfacing a lost and found visual collection through audio collage and transmissions from the static of a history riddled with lacunae.

Sunday, 15th November

At 9:40 tonight, Glasgow based producer and sound designer Lauren Gilmour presents ‘Breathe In.’

A spoken word soundscape, exploring how we express ourselves internally and externally when we are under pressure and highlighting how polarising these experiences can be; we might say very little but feel an overwhelming reaction inside.

“The sonic world of ‘Breathe In’ uses the human voice to represent the inside of my brain; how it processes information, uncomfortable questions and harboured feelings in the confines of a therapist’s office. I am fascinated by the interplay betweenour internal and external dialogue and how it can result in physical manifestations of distraction, panic or anxiety.”

Sunday, 15th November

At 4:30pm today:

Finnish sound artist Niko-Matti Ahti presents”Kaivajaiset” – a radiophonic piece that includes excerpts from an interview. The word doesn’t really exist in Finnish, but it more or less means an event where people dig with shovels. The name is derived from an English group called The Diggers (True Levellers) who attempted to farm on common land and published a well-known pamphlet in 1649. It also refers to Michel Foucault’s reinterpretation of the notion genealogy.

”Kaivajaiset” is a cartoonish tragicomedy that touches upon the nature of opinion pieces, algorithms as use of power and the relations of media, capital and power.

Sunday 15th November

At 12.30pm today:

Wild Tracks Radio are a group of young artists who have been working remotely with composer and sound editor Richy Carey since the start of lockdown to create their own sci-fi radio plays, using only their phones as recording devices. Here we present two episodes of our plays, Water Walkers and Under Okta in Peril, with an introduction by the artists to some of the themes and the creative processes involved in their works.

Under Okta in Peril – by Tara, Rona and Moira – is about two scientist friends, Pheen and Ultra-* whose planet is plagued by huge sonic disturbances called “The Crescendo”. Can Pheen and Ultra-* find the source of these sounds and heal their home world?

Water Walkers – by Jamal, Khiana and Khadea, with extra voices and Viking chants by Tasha, Toby and Tiana – is about a wonderful watery world called Sokai, and adventures Katra and Kool, who find a crystal in a dungeon with healing powers. Can they use it to help with the storm that’s coming?