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Radiophrenia Glasgow 2026

International open call for sound art and radio works

The Light at the End of the Dial
BROADCASTS ACROSS GLASGOW ON 87.9FM
24 HOURS A DAY: 5th – 20th September, 2026

RADIOPHRENIA is a radio art collective, festival and art radio station broadcasting intermittently across Glasgow on 87.9FM and online.
The broadcast schedule for our 2026 edition includes a series of 20 newly commissioned radio works, public Live-to-Air performances, live in-studio shows and performances, long-form works, shorts and pre-recorded features.
As in previous years the majority of the programme will be made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound art and radio works.

Selected works

Radiophrenia Shorts 39B
6 September 2026  8:30 pm – 9:00 pm

2) Sara Maino & Claudia Ferretti Isonde – A cave’s dream 

A few steps lead us inside an oolite quarry in a mountainous area of Trentino, in Italy. The vocal performance of a group of children transports us into a dreamlike atmosphere. Here, their listening voices try to tune in to the language of the rocks, wishing to start a dialogue of sounds.     

Sara Maino is an Italian Sound and Audio-visual artist, author, poet and performer, film and theatre director, and a community-engaged researcher. 
Claudia Ferretti is an Italian Sound Artist, singer and facilitator of Collaborative Vocal Improvisation, Soundwalk conductor, poet and author.     

Radiophrenia Shorts 5A
9 September 2026  8:00 am – 8:30 am

1) Sara Maino – When the drops meet the mountains

A surreal blue-hour journey unfolds as a displaced spirit wanders through the temporal landscape of an isolated hill in the Apennines.
Guided by a thin wire dividing a field, where faint and fragile raindrops rest, the spirit pauses to observe the layers that slowly reveal themselves to the eye: a chain of droplets, a chain of mountains, a chain of birdsong.
Physical forms and drifting sounds dissolve into a sequence of memories—echoes of past encounters where water meets stone, movement meets stillness. Intrigued by this encounter, the spirit returns home to pose a fundamental question:
“What happens when the drops meet the mountains?”
Where water meets the mountain life begins and danger alike—a threshold of transformation, of new currents, and of motion yet to unfold.  

Sara Maino is an Italian sound and audio-visual artist, poet and performer, film and theatre director, and a community-engaged researcher.       

Radiophrenia

BROADCASTS ACROSS GLASGOW ON 87.9FM
24 HOURS A DAY: 21st August – 3rd September, 2023

RADIOPHRENIA is a temporary art radio station broadcasting intermittently from the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow.
The broadcast schedule includes a series of 16 newly commissioned radio works, 14 Live-to-Air performances as well as live studio shows, screenings, shorts and pre-recorded features. As in previous years the majority of the programme will be made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound art and radio works.

Shorts 23 – 29 August 2023  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
1 – Sara Maino – Cafè Europa (14:41)
2 – TaQuid – Touchy Feely (2:54)
3 – Ash Walker (Rekevant Elephants) – The Certainty of An Uncertain Future (3:35)
4 – João Pedro Oliveira – Neshamah (11:28)
5 – Laird Lee Kirk – Drones (4:29)
6 – Pelayo Del Villar Flores – [in]comunicado (5:07)
7 – Michael Kelly – Compiled journal of Timothy Yod, chrononaut (15:44)

https://radiophrenia.scot/calendar/tue-29/

1 – Sara Maino – Cafè Europa

Editing and direction Sara Maino
Poems and Voices by Sara Maino and Marina Kazakova
Soundscapes recorded by Sara Maino all around Europe
Sound effects from the free archive of BBC Rewind
Traditional Music played on a radio (Katioucha Otchi Tchornye performed by Sirba Octet)

Two characters (Europa and the East-Comer) meet in a café in an unknown city.
They confess their visions, feelings and memories to each other, giving the sense to seemingly solipsistic monologues.

Supported by Research Foundation Flanders and LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven
Premiered at Festival internazionale di poesia Palabra en el mundo di Venezia 2023

Sara Maino (b. Arco, Italy, 1970) is an Italian audio-visual artist, poet and performer, film and theatre director and a community-engaged researcher. She studied Literature and Philosophy at the University of Trento and undertook a non-formal education in theatre, cinema, art. She’s studying Philosophy at the University of Trento. She worked for Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana as an author and multimedia expert and curated two radio programs on poetry and collective memories. As an educator she works with Italian and Belgian schools, museums, associations. Her research is focused on sounds and field recording, on the memory’s collection of local communities, on storytelling. Her goal is to develop the awareness of active listening, being also inspired by the research on soundscape’s studies. 
She’s the author of theatrical shows and multimedia poetry performances. She has performed at literary festivals, events, to art galleries in Italy and in London, Norway, Greece, Lithuania, Bosnia, Ireland, in the Netherlands, Bulgaria, South Korea.  
She won the art national contest “Brocche 2.0” with her sound installation in 2013. Her audiovisual installations, films and paintings have been shown in solo and collective exhibitions in Italian museums and galleries, in Germany and Belgium.

https://www.saramaino.it