LIVE PERFORMANCE / AWARDS
A final gathering of sound and communion as we all come together with some justified praise with the Award Yourself Awards (AYAs) hosted by Helen Zaltzman and and a performance by string duo Balladeste improvising to the sounds you recorded during the festival for the Sonic Relay collected by Suzie McCarthy. This is XMTR Church!

PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION
Pubblicità is a live tape performance and expanded listening environment by Keplero (Nicola Mecca), built from fragments of 1990s Italian television advertising, domestic VHS recordings, cassette transfers, degraded speech, jingles and unstable loops.

PANEL SESSION
How are audio professionals, musicians and artists working in ‘low arts engagement’ areas of the North East to create community art? 

SPATIAL PERFORMANCE
An experimental live docu-audio performance and visual exhibition that explores abandoned spaces as sites of memory, disappearance, and lingering transmissions. The piece combines live storytelling, archival tape, and ambient field recordings, manipulated in order to create the feeling of the audience becoming a rogue radio transmission that drifts into America’s historical underbelly.

WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE
Session 3: Playback and performance: live performance incorporating repeated sounds and movements in multiple combinations.

LIVE PERFORMANCE - OPEN TO ALL - FAMILY FRIENDLY
An improvised duo set of horns, electronics, objects and microphones, set within the immersive Temporary Art Habitat installation.

CACAO LISTENING LOUNGE
A curated selection of audio from xmtr.fm with works by many of the artists featured during the festival with a calming cacao.

HAPPENING
In “Sun, Moon, Rising,” Jazmine Green (CMD+JAZMINE), Lucy Little, and Ariana Martinez engage in an exercise of trust, play, and narrative collaboration. Through spoken word, digital projections, and live musical performance “Sun, Moon, Rising” melds the structure of a three-act story and the improvisational jazz practice of “playing changes” to create a sonic landscape that evolves in real time.

GUIDED SOUND WALK
Washed ashore after an unearthly storm, you awaken on the beach with no memory of how you arrived there!? Step into a parallel town where ley lines, dark magic and strange seaside folklore await. You’ll be moving through an uncanny version of St Leonards where familiar streets become portals into the surreal. Guided by Sirens, broadcasts, music, and mysterious sonic signals, you’ll be led to make a choice…

SPATIAL PERFORMANCE + Q&A
a new quadraphonic performance by Emma-Kate Matthews that explores resonance ass architectural material. Developed through the ongoing Resonant Bodies research project, the work spatialises recordings of bespoke cast bronze and laser-sintered instruments to create a rich sonic environment that is felt as much as it is heard.

WORKSHOP
In this interactive workshop, we take inspiration from Jeremy Deller's History of the World to consider, visualize and draw our own personal histories of our audio worlds. We'll explore the sonic fascinations, influences, touchstones, mentors, schools of practice, genres and lineages that have influenced our own practice as audio makers and/or our taste and preferences as listeners.

LISTENING LOUNGE
Listen to short audio works captured and produced to capture all the States of America.

GUIDED SOUND WALK
Stand at the shoreline and listen' is a soundwalk inviting you to do just that: to look at the sea and explore its myriad meanings. This meditative trio for listener, headphones and St Leonards-on-Sea is inspired by Virgina Woolf’s 'The Waves'.

WORKSHOP
Join Caitlin in this workshop as we co-create our way to empathising with a mollusk.

SPATIAL INSTALLATION
The Seven Stones is an audio installation centred on the wreck of the tanker Torrey Canyon on the Seven Stones reef between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in 1967. It’s an environmental disaster marked in coastlines, archives, data and ecosystems.

LISTENING
A bring-your-own-music listening cafe
Knut’s Kissa invites you to step into a cozy listening cafe where chatting and paying attention to music coexists. Based upon the concept of Japanese jazz kissas, Knut’s Kissa is similarly a cafe whose focal point is an absolutely superb hifi system, perfectly situated at Stereo Retro, St. Leonards’ premier shop for hifi, vinyl and coffee.

PANEL SESSION
The session will examine how co-production can be embedded throughout a project, from early planning and interviewee selection to delivery, interpretation and creative outputs.

SPATIAL INSTALLATION (30 MIN LOOP)
Multi Faith Prayer Room is a black box of wishes and hopes, a cross-disciplinary project that collects todays utopian ideas and future desires from people and transforms them into a polyphony of inclusivity. At the center of MFPR is a data base made up of pre-recorded statements by people from all cultural contexts – encompassing nationalities, genders, and ages.

GUIDED SOUND WALK
Washed ashore after an unearthly storm, you awaken on the beach with no memory of how you arrived there!? Step into a parallel town where ley lines, dark magic and strange seaside folklore await. You’ll be moving through an uncanny version of St Leonards where familiar streets become portals into the surreal. Guided by Sirens, broadcasts, music, and mysterious sonic signals, you’ll be led to question a thing or two...

FAMILY WORKSHOP - OPEN TO ALL - FAMILY FRIENDLY
'A focused, family-friendly moment for participatory activities which will also be available to all visitors throughout the installation times, using sound, colour, cardboard and string.'

INSTALLATION - OPEN TO ALL - FAMILY FRIENDLY
Composite Mashworks presents Temporary Art Habitat, an improvised, immersive and interactive micro art space that will take over the back room at Tough Love record shop.

SOUND INSTALLATION
Enter a mouth of sound, and listen to a tribute to Gyorgi’s Ligeti’s “Poem Symphonique for 100 metronomes” created using mouth sounds taken from your favourite manosphere podcasts.

HAPPENING
An immersive rose encounter in the gorgeous Warrior Square Rose Garden. A part II to 2025. A sensory, social and deep listening happening.

LISTENING
Calling all selkies, dowsers, sirens and Poseidon worshippers, safe + sound are back on the XMTR beach bringing you an immersive sea-inspired listening experience

MEET UP
A get-together for anyone self-employed/freelance. Don't get paid sick days? Ever worried that you might perish from loneliness? Hang out with your peers to discuss career hopes and fears, make connections for ongoing mutual professional and/or emotional support, and share ways to navigate the never-ending chore of carving our own paths.

LIVE RADIO BROADCAST
A two day pop-up radio studio broadcasting live from XMTR Festival. Listen Live via: https://extra.resonance.fm/

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.n interactive session for makers and thinkers to collaborate, connect, and spark new ideas.

GUIDED SOUND WALK
Stand at the shoreline and listen' is a soundwalk inviting you to do just that: to look at the sea and explore its myriad meanings. This meditative trio for listener, headphones and St Leonards-on-Sea is inspired by Virgina Woolf’s 'The Waves'.

LISTENING / INSTALLATION
The Wind Phone is a communication channel between the living and the dead. This Wind Phone features an 11-minute audio piece and invites you to reach out to someone you have loved and lost. In words, in writing, or in silence. Maybe your message will be carried by the breeze.

WORKSHOP: 4 × 40MIN SESSIONS
Come and explore the mysterious sounds of pond life.