FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER
Sonic Relay
AUDIO MAKING
Record 30-60 second micro-documentaries to capture small moments of everyday life: a conversation overheard at a bus stop, a classified ad, a local character, a family ritual, a fragment of history, a joke, a memory, a sound that reveals something about St Leonards-on-Sea. Prizes for great work!
Invisible Hands Exhibition - DinahBird
EXHIBITION
Sound artist and radio maker DinahBird is collecting the silent stories of women working in all aspects of the recording industry, including fabrication, assembly & quality-control.
She will be exhibiting images from a glass plate archive at the pathé record pressing plant in Chatou.
Manhunt at St Leonards-on-Sea - M. Cristina Marras + Gianfranco Bitti
AUDIO WALK - OPEN TO ALL
Manhunt at St Leonards-on-Sea is a 7-episode location-based audio drama unlocked via QR codes at historically significant sites across St Leonards-on-Sea.
Casting Off KNITSONIK - Felix Ford
EXHIBITION
This exhibition showcases Felix’s KNITSONIK era; her creative process from then; and her knack for drawing knitting palettes and patterns from the richly-textured world.
Listening Lounge
LISTENING LOUNGE
This listening lounge features a curated selection of audio from xmtr.fm with works by many of the artists featured during the festival.
The Pier Sings - Tony Birch
LISTENING INSTALLATION
Celebrating the amazing momentary space created under the pier twice a day, The Pier Sings captures the sound of the waves and resonance of the structure at high tide and plays it back binaurally in the same position at low tide.
XMTR Audio Cabaret
LIVE PERFORMANCE / SOCIAL
A night of audio performance and sonic storytelling featuring an ode to mud with Lucy Dearlove, a xx by Phil Smith, a celebration of local hero and TV inventor Logie Baird with Jude Montague and friends, a walk into the manosphere with Jesse Lawson and a bed time story with Helen Zaltzman.