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Building libraries out of air, a new Falling Tree archive podcast and searching for a shared audio language...

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The Poet and the Journalist Building a Library Out of Air, a new Falling Tree archive podcast and the search for an audio language

“The work from Falling Tree is eclectic, creative and so thought-provoking. Word on the wire is that they’re starting a weekly podcast to share the work from their archive...”

Thank you to Radiotopia's Selects for featuring a mini Falling Tree collection! And the word on the wire is true - subscribe to Falling Tree to get a weekly doc from our archive - first episode this Wednesday...

Link here (or search for Falling Tree wherever you'd like to listen): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/falling-tree/id6812121787

In Selects feed you can currently listen to “an exquisite slow and meditative work” from Pejk Malinovski - A Cow a Day.

Selects is produced by Mitra Kaboli, Benjamin Riskin and Bianca Grimshaw

EDIT *Four* Falling Tree documentaries at this year's Aesthetica Festival - Night Chorus by Shira Golden and Jess Shane, Problems with Julia Masli by Talia Augustidis and Julia Masli, The Metaphor Consultant by Jack Underwood and Eleanor McDowall and Siren Song by Kalli Anderson (originally broadcast in the Short Cuts Podcast episode 'Into the Night')

Listen to all four in the free Falling Tree archive: https://lnkd.in/evArSD4e

🎶 It's the most wonderful time of the year!

It’s that time again. The next edition of Radiophrenia is rapidly approaching. Please note – our amended broadcast dates are now from the 5th - 20th September, taking in an extra weekend. A full 16-days of innovative, ground breaking sound and radio art, 24-hours a day. We received so many amazing submissions to our open call this year that we have had to extend the broadcasts just to fit everything in. Huge thanks to everyone who took the time to send in their work.

We will be broadcasting on 87.9FM from our new studio location at 5 Florence Street in Glasgow’s Gorbals. Our broadcast partners Resonance Extra (UK) and Radio Tsonami (Chile) will also be relaying the entire broadcast on their platforms via their webstream - and on DAB+ Digital Radio in Brighton & Hove, Cambridge, Greater London, Norwich, King’s Lynn and Peterborough.

Our new website is now live. Thanks to Verity Pease for this year’s visual design theme and to David Fulford at Blackhill Creative for the website design. The website includes all of the information on this year’s new radio commissions and live-to-air performances. The full broadcast schedule and information on our public engagement activities will be added over the coming weeks.

https://radiophrenia.scot/

Tickets are on now on sale for our two nights of Live-to-Air performances on Saturday, the 12th and 19th September. These events are limited capacity so don’t leave it too long! You can find details on all of the artists here.

https://radiophrenia.scot/live-to-air/

Tickets are available through Eventbrite here.

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/radiophrenia-live-to-air-events-2026-4861266?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=odclsxcollection

We look forward to being back on the air and to sharing with you some of the incredible radio art we have selected from this year’s open call.

"'The key to radio's future does not lie, as so many broadcasters seem to think, in doing more cheaply what television can do…Rather the key to radio's future lies in another direction: doing the things that television cannot do.'
— Jack Gould, 1952

Broadcast radio did not take Gould’s advice; at least not right away. But in a real sense, all of us making narrative podcasts much later understood his sentiments in a visceral way.

And people are still making the argument that audio matters. I’m heartened by pieces such as Doubling Down on Audio by Benjamin Cannon in Good Tape; or Luciano Banchero’s essay The Ensh*ttification of Podcasting (on LinkedIn).

You hear the argument demonstrated in sonic form with the work of audio production houses like Falling Tree Productions. The best producers continue to push audio-only work for the life-affirming brilliance it brings to listeners.

But we need more. Radio is an art form, not mere data transmission as the tech industry pushes us to believe..."

Great to see this new series of essays from audio producers in Julia Barton's Continuous Wave, this one written by Garrett Tiedemann. Read more here:

Sound is a Time Machine Filmmaker and sound designer Garrett Tiedemann became enchanted by the cinematic capacity of audio. He worries that podcasting is abandoning its world-building superpower for nothing in return.