FRIDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER

Botanismi - Giacomo Bagni + Veronica Lugaro
INSTALLATION
Botanismi is a gentle journey into the world of plants. An attempt to weave our human experiences with the green world that surrounds us and that we often forget about in our busy animal lives.

SmallAudioArt Treasure Hunt & Sound Walk
AUDIO WALK
Explore the town through a self-guided audio treasure hunt, discovering QR codes linked to windows, doors, and pictures that unlock intimate audio stories from our global community.

Across the Sea - Camilla Hannan
AUDIO WALK
A guided headphone audio work led by the artist along the promenade and beach at St-Leonards-on-Sea. Across the Sea is a sound walk by Australian audio producer Camilla Hannan, created especially for this year’s XMTR Audio Arts Festival.

Bad Radio - Nina Garthwaite
WORKSHOP
There are many resources available to help you improve your audio, but as makers we rarely get the support we need to make things worse. Led by Nina Garthwaite (In The Dark), this session will introduce you to the basics of bad audio making.

Composing Compost : Georgia Walker and Nicola Mecca
PERFORMANCE / HAPPENING
Join Georgia Walker and Nicola Mecca for a participatory compost installation in which we explore grief, rotting, and transformation through the live composting of sounds and objects.

Accessible Sounds with David Littlefair + Sam Dook
TALK / SHOW & TELL
David Littlefair and Sam Dook have both been working on sound a music projects with young people and people with access and accessibility needs. They will each demonstrate their processes and experiences to develop collaborative audio work.

Manifesta for a New Audio Art - Deborah Shorindé (Tiny Lungs)
INSTALLATION / HAPPENING
An immersive sound installation that speculates on the future of sustainable sonic art practice. Featuring seven propositions for another way of making, the installation invites participants to immerse themselves in the Tiny Lungs Manifesta and then to write their own.

Neutrinowatch Presents: The Garden- Martin Austwick + Jeff Emtman
LIVE PERFORMANCE
For XMTR, Neutrinowatch presents a performance of our upcoming episode “The Garden”. (Duration 25mins, performed twice)

Radio Incantation - Amanda Gutiérrez
LIVE PERFORMANCE - SONIC RITUAL
Experience a participatory sonic ritual that transforms radio into a tool for collective listening and connection. Inspired by Zapotec ancestral practices, this live radio performance invites you to tune in, move, and amplify radios to evoke unseen presences across time and territory. Harness FM waves to create a shared, convivial soundscape.
XMTR Audio Cabaret
LIVE PERFORMANCE / SOCIAL
A night of audio performance and sonic storytelling featuring the one man radio play ‘Tom’s House’ by Jacob Dwyer, a participatory exploration of Shaker life with Mitra Kaboli’s ‘Reaping the Bounty’, Jude Montague takes us on a personal history of early radio in ‘What’s in the Air’, Delphis Studios’ presents ‘Autonomous Orchestrations’ a cyclical casual relationship between chat bots and Radio Limbo returns to St Leonards for another guided audio-trip.