LIVE PERFORMANCE + AWARD CEREMONY
An evening of live sonic storytelling with ‘Souvenirs’ - Helen Zaltzman + Martin Austwick, a 19th century tale of about a fight over a type-face, motherhood is put to the test in ‘Why Should I Brush My Teeth Mummy’ by artist-parents Eleanor Westbrook and Tara Franks, ‘I Used to Know H.I.M is a sonic history of Hip-Hop from a female perspective by Yasmine Dunkwah and Adeleide Banks. And finally we can all reward ourselves for just being here with the Reward Yourself Awards!

AUDIO SWARM
A participatory audio swarm experience. You will receive an email with three meeting places in St Leonards-on-Sea. Choose a spot, arrive at the appointed time and you will receive a link to one of three audio streams. We will create a swarm of sound streaming via our smartphone speakers as we move as collective murmurations before converging together on the pier.

LIVE PERFORMANCE / LISTENING
Cassette tapes and short wave interferences as a musical instrument.

LIVE PERFORMANCE / TALK
Surface Bruit explores the sonic and sculptural potential of home-made shellac records.

LISTENING SESSION
Listen to the Audio Flux Circuit 06 finalists (first revealed publicly at XMTR) and vote on your favorites! Audio Flux is a home for adventurous audio and bold storytelling. Twice a year we invite anyone/everyone to create three-minute “fluxworks” inspired by a set of prompts designed with a different creative partner each time. For Circuit 06 we worked with XMTR to identify a local creative partner and had the great fortune to be introduced to Hastings-based artist, educator and rock star knitter Lorna Hamilton-Brown. 

TALK / SHOW & TELL
Memory has a colour, scars have songs, and possibility can sound like a dream or a nightmare.
In Sound Anatomy, Axel Kacoutié explores the logic and magic behind the world-building process in selected works, including How to Remember, Empire City, WHITE NOISE and a new special thing.

WORKSHOP
Join Sound Artist Robin The Fog and Audio Producer Lisa (The) Hack for a workshop exploring the magic of composing with the sounds we find all around us using tape.

LIVE BROADCAST
The News Agents on Resonance FM. Experiments in news and arts with Jude Montague weekly on Resonance Fm 3pm-4pm Saturdays. This live broadcast from Montague Armstrong on 15 Kings Road will gives us a taste of XMTR.

OPEN DISCUSSION / LISTENING
2025 has felt like a tug of war between powerlessness and a compulsion to act with urgency and the audio world hasn’t been immune. Using the deliciously democratic Long Table format inspired by artist Lois Weaver (with Chatham House rules in place) we’ll examine where power lies in the audio world, how to navigate it, scope out strategies for resistance and resilience from activist movements, engage in introvert-friendly participation and get inspiration from short audio pieces curated from audio makers around the world. 

PARTICIPATORY SESSION
Foley Nights invites you to make live ‘foley’ in response to a selection of film clips.

INSTALLATION
Delphis Studios share a series of entirely contained ai ecosystems - as we look inside - we find each system filled with custom chat bots caught in cyclical causal relationships: itch bot and scratch bot - sunset bot and nostalgic sigh bot - orchestrated by Delphis own team of engineers these performances weave between waiting rooms of the absurd - paradoxical cute mini universes of robotic poetry and/or purgatory.

WORKSHOP (2 × 45min sessions)
In Throwing, a collaboration between audio maker Lucy Dearlove and ceramic artist Rachel Karasik, participants - potters - will enter the world’s first audio-only ceramics studio and be guided through the process of crafting intricate artistic works from clay, while learning about the South East coast’s rich ceramic practice and history. But all is not as it seems…

WORKSHOP
A sound recording, writing and movement workshop to pay attention to habits and routines of how we open doors, walk across a room, use kitchen implements, pour water and other everyday moments.

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.

LISTENING SESSION
A curated listening experience featuring selected pieces from the international SmallAudioArt_ community, presented in an intimate setting with subtitles for accessibility. This focused session showcases how everyday household objects become vessels for profound storytelling about identity, memory, and belonging.

PARTICIPATORY SESSION
Foley Nights invites you to make live ‘foley’ in response to a selection of film clips.

INSTALLATION
Walk, run, swim, drive, fly and meander around the world as the Radiophonic Travel Agency transports you to places near and far. Freed from guidebooks and narration our journeys allow you to explore unusual and sometimes impossible locations.

INSTALLATION
Walk, run, swim, drive, fly and meander around the world as the Radiophonic Travel Agency transports you to places near and far. Freed from guidebooks and narration our journeys allow you to explore unusual and sometimes impossible locations.

LISTENING INSTALLATION
The Golden Tape is a mixtape of human wonderment. On each tape is a collection of artists sharing their human essence: secretive and beloved delights, pleasures, grief, ritual, desires, and emotions that inform our humanity. Tapes will be hidden throughout the festival venues. Grab one, take it to the Tape Library, and listen to these treasures.

A live talk show in which all involved are blindfolded, have never met, and are given no topic of conversation. What happens next in the acousmatic space of radio?

Learn the SmallAudioArt_ methodology of crafting personal narratives through everyday objects. Beginning with a guided walk to find meaningful items, participants will engage in creative writing exercises that transform their chosen object into a springboard for memory and identity exploration.

TALK / PRESENTATION
How can you make oral history recordings sing? Emily Candela, Mary Hooper and Leona Fensome present their work and discuss working with museums and institutions with local communities.

MASTERCLASS
A practical and playful approach to making your narrative stories sound rich and memorable.

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.

AUDIO WALK
A guided headphone audio work led by the artist along the promenade and beach at St Leonards on Sea. Meet Camilla at sunrise for a walk and if you’re brave enough - a swim.