2025 – Open Call for Sound & Radio Works
Radiophrenia announce an open call for sound and transmission artworks for their upcoming broadcasts beginning in March 2025. Radiophrenia is an artist run FM radio station broadcasting in Glasgow and online.
We are seeking soundscapes, spoken word pieces, radio experiments, found sound, innovative approaches to drama and documentary, and radical and challenging new programme ideas. The station will be housed in Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts with a broadcast schedule including live shows, pre-recorded features and a series of in-studio performances.
Radiophrenia aims to promote the medium of radio as an art form and encourage experimental approaches to making radio that are not catered for by mainstream stations. We want to hear from radio makers who are seeking a platform for their work to reach new audiences. The call is open to artists, musicians and producers at any career stage and is intended primarily for existing works. Local artists may also propose live shows or performances that will take place in the studio. Please note that there are no fees available for selected works.
We are able to programme works of any duration from shorts to full length features and longform works. However, shorter works will be compiled into longer shows.
Please note that this project is intended to feature material and approaches that are not already catered for by mainstream programming. We are therefore unlikely to consider DJ mixes, music shows or other conventional genres and formats unless there is a clear and distinctive conceptual basis that differentiates them from broadcasting available elsewhere. As a radio station we do not broadcast programmes or works that are framed as podcasts. Please do not send works that have already been submitted to one of our previous open calls.
How to submit
All radio works and programme ideas should be submitted either as completed pieces (for existing works) or as a written proposal (for live shows). Not all submissions or proposed works will be accepted. Priority will be given to works that are created especially for the medium of radio, that demonstrate originality, a spirit of experimentation and that play to the medium’s unique attributes as a means of disseminating ideas.
We welcome submissions from artists who come from a diversity of backgrounds including global majority, disabled and LGBTQI+ artists.
This is an international open call and we welcome submissions in all languages, however non-English language pieces should be accompanied by a translation or detailed summary of the content.
There is no festival theme but we are especially open to works dealing with environmental topics such as the climate crisis, ecology, global warming and pollution.
Deadline for submissions
20th October, 2024
Broadcasts will take place
3rd – 16th March, 2025
Radiophrenia is managed as a collective by Mark Vernon, Timothea Armour and Stevie Jones. Our Public Engagment programme is co-ordinated by Steve Urquhart. Radiophrenia is funded through Creative Scotland’s Open Project Fund with additional support from CCA Glasgow and the Goethe-Institut.
