Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station – an exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts. Broadcasting live from Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, the station aims to promote radio as an art form, encouraging challenging and radical new approaches to the medium. The broadcast schedule will include live shows, pre-recorded features and a series of ‘live-to-air’performances. The majority of the programme will be made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound and radio works.

Broadcasting across Glasgow on 87.9fm, and online at www.radiophrenia.scot 

Supported by Creative Scotland.

Edinburgh-based artist working experimentally across sound, music, sculptural practice and performance, interested in the poetics, pluralities and materialities of sound and the voice.

Working largely in collaboration with Clive McLachlan Powell as sound art duo OOR_Scintilla 

www.louisalove.co.uk
www.oorscintilla.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/oorscintilla

Elm Records is an independent record label specialising in ambient and experimental music.

Talking Experiments by Borealis: A podcast of conversations with composers, artists, musicians and thinkers all engaged in the world of experimental music. Get to know the people beind the music and experiments – spanning the musical, social and political.

OOR_Scintilla (Louisa Love and Clive McLachlan Powell) are an Edinburgh-based artist duo working experimentally in sound, music, performance and sculptural production. 

Interested in the material poetics of sound, voice and place, they produce environmentally-responsive audio works exploring hybrid and enigmatic territories. They work directly with the physicality of environments, instruments, objects, electronics, bodies and vocal performance with reference to ancient folk origins, to 'give voice' to overlooked qualities and narratives that resonate specificities of place. 

'OOR' is a sonorous acronym akin to the sound of resonating clay, embodying what the duo define as a practice of 'object oriented resonance'.

https://oorscintilla.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/oorscintilla/
https://www.instagram.com/oor_scintilla/

https://fogtheoryradio.tumblr.com

For bookings: meagreresource@hotmail.com

Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based sound artist who works with found tapes and acousmatic presence. His work explores themes of magnetic memory, audio archaeology, voyeurism and nostalgia. 

His solo music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Glistening Examples, Flaming Pines, Misanthropic Agenda, Gagarin, Sonoris, Granny, Psychetropes, Persistence of Sound, Flag Day, Entr’acte, Discrepant, Futura Resistenza, Vice de Forme, Calling Cards and Canti Magnetici. 

He co-runs and curates Glasgow art radio station, Radiophrenia and has produced programmes for stations internationally.

The Black Glass Ensemble reveals new music for the anthropocene in the margins of classical and experimental music. Combining the cream of Scotland’s chamber players with longstanding pioneers of the UK’s avant-garde electronic underground, the result of these liminal explorations is an emotionally resonant new music that challenges the senses, confounds expectations and breaks open new sonic ground.

Black Glass was formed in 2018 by New Music Scotland award winner, and Queen’s Hall associate artist in residence, Michael Begg. The ensemble has been developed with support from Creative Scotland, HMUK and the Hope Scott Trust.

Central to Black Glass’s vision is solastalgia, the term combining solace and pain, coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2005 to articulate the sense of existential distress caused by living through environmental change. In it’s innovative use of technology, and palette of bespoke software instruments, the ensemble creatively imbues their work with the mechanisms through which the knowledge of environmental decline comes to us; sonified data streams, satellite and weather monitoring systems; low frequency atmospheric receivers; field recordings; resonance audiograms, and more.

The Black Glass Ensemble are: Michael Begg (scores, samples, data feeds, erosions); Ben Ponton (receivers, recordings, forensics); Clea Friend (cello); Aisling O’Dea (violin); Julia Lungu (violin); Neil Cuthbertson (trumpet); Jen Cuthbertson (French horn); Douglas Caskie (tuned and bespoke percussion).

NOTES
Michael Begg won the NMS Award in 2018 for his work, TITAN, a Cryptic commission for Sonica; Mexico’s CCD Radio named him “one of the most important experimental composers of our time”
Ben Ponton is a founding member of Newcastle’s :zoviet*france: who the Ambient Music Guide refer to as “the ultimate cult electronic band”
Aisling O’Dea is the principal violinist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Clea Friend is one of Scotland’s foremost cellists, and performs regularly with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Royal National Orchestra of Scotland
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Banner photograph by Mike Wilkinson
Profile Collage by 'the engineer'

Music, poetry, ballads and rhymes, from the Whiteadder river valley in East Lothian and the Scottish Borders.

https://precariouspropositions.wordpress.com/

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