RADIOPHONICx presents: Only Connect

RADIOPHONICx is a communal listening event that presents international radio art to a live audience. Together we listen to exciting and award-winning audio work from around the world. Experience thought-provoking audio drama, poetic sound pieces, experimental narratives and surrealist radio in a relaxed atmosphere. There will be sofas, but feel free to bring extra cushions. After listening there will be time to share our thoughts and discuss the work with the artists and curator. Each session will have a specific theme, exploring different radio art genres and styles.

The January edition of RADIOPHONICx is centered around Only Connect.

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The Mermaid’s Song, 2025 by Alexandru Sincu, adapted and directed by Attila Vizauer from Radio Romania BroadcastA Mermaid’s Song undergoes the process of a retrospective understanding of surveillance, abuse and manipulation. Looking back to an era where snitching on people was justified even by the whirlwind of a passionate and heart wrenching young love. Attila Vizauer’s adaptation of this short story follows the labyrinth like trail of recovering the truth. The original music score, by Tom Bânduș, conveys the oppressive feeling of anxiety quickly turning to terror on discovering the true identity of the former girlfriend. Just like Ulysses, the hero ties himself up to the mast of lucidity to be able to resist the fictionalisation of love. But why would the voice of the Mermaid come to lure him again? Maybe to reveal the false freedom of a life lived in unbroken duplicity and surveillance.

Waves Of Resistance Tonnta Friotafochta, 2022 by Magz Hall, CanterburyWaves of Resistance is about how radio can help us during times of isolation. Radio waves can cut through forced isolation and invisible boundaries as an act of resistance. We are all kitchen table broadcasters now, online streaming means we have broken free with live streams across the globe for those with technology, power and the internet, However analogue radio is still a mighty force and affordable for many worldwide. This radiophonic poem draws on experiences of enforced isolation first through Brexit and then in lockdown. In the spirit of transnationalism it sends a broadcast from the phantom but once mapped island of Hy Brasil off the Irish coast, relaying a message of peace, hope and unity across all borders.

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Attila Vizauer is a theatre and audio drama director and former head of Radio Drama Department at Radio Romania Broadcast. He has won multiple awards for his theatre and audio work in Rumania and Europe. Attila Vizauer is also a presenter of „Vorba de cultură” (Cultural Talks), a famous radio talk-show broadcasted by Radio Romania. He was the vice chair of the EBU Radio Drama Group and is currently an Associate Professor at the Theatre and Film Academy in Bucharest.

Magz Hall is an award winning radio and sound artist with a focus on expanded radio art. Experimenting with a range of radiophonic sound design to create connections between the public with wireless technology in all its forms across the spectrum. She is a founder of the London based arts station Resonance FM and a passionate supporter of community arts radio in the UK. As a senior lectures at Canterbury Christ Church University she has taught radio art and media production for many years.

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