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XMTR Radio Hour #45: XMTR Festival Preview
Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
60 min / Episode 45 of 45
This XMTR Radio Hour is a preview of what’s in store at this year’s XMTR Audio Arts Festival 25-27 September in St Leonards on Sea, UK.
Lucia speaks to local multi-disciplinary artist, musician and Resonance FM regular Jude Montague about some of the festival highlights and this celebration of sonic storytelling and all things audio.
The show also features audio works by festival contributors:
Floating in St Leonards Miri Berlin
Good Clean Fun by Hayley Clarke,
Habitual Rituals by Stellaria Media,
Manhunt in St Leonards by M Cristina Marras + Gianfranco Biffi,
Five and Twenty to Eleven by Limbo Tapes,
Our Bodies by Martina Pouchlà
FIELDS by Ariana Martinez.
Look out for the live festival broadcast hosted by Ed Baxter on Resonance Extra: 26 + 27 September 10am-6pm.
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Festival Selects: Buy Me a Drink and I'll Tell You a Story (S2E1)
Thomas Dudkiewizc - URLAND (NL 2025)
Thomas Dudkiewizc - URLAND (NL, 2026)
29 min
A bar. A piano playing in the background. In the corner, a mysterious man is waiting. If you buy him a drink… he’ll tell you a story.
What follows is a surreal, cinematic tale. Sometimes horrifying, sometimes philosophical, always immersive. Each episode, another drink. Each story, stranger than the last. One man, one bar, infinite stories.
Season 1: From the bottom of the ocean to a storm in the desert, from ancient stones to time loops in Room 304. Thomas weaves a masterful tapestry of reality, myth, horror, and memory.
Season 2: The story continues. The second season promises four new unique immersive stories. Life in the wild west, mindcontrolling government experiments, a film noir detective and a very special kind of cider.
All stories are connected through an overarching storyline. But you can also just listen to the separate stories.
n his neverending pursuit to uncover the Story of all Stories, URLAND’s master storyteller Thomas (known for The Last Chapters, Bedtime Stories, and Bobby Baxter) and sound designer Tomas Loos present Buy Me a Drink and I’ll Tell You a Story, an immersive audio fiction series available online. Thomas, the man of infinite stories, voices all characters and writes all episodes.
Written, performed, directed by Thomas Dudkiewicz (URLAND)
Sound design by Tomas Loos
Festival Selects: Atemübung / Breathing Exercise (German)
Judith Geffert (DE 2025)
Judith Geffert (DE, 2025)
6 min
Wir Menschen atmen jede Sekunde unseres Lebens ohne darüber nachzudenken. Und doch ist es so schwer, sich daran zu erinnern.
We humans breathe every second of our lives without thinking about it. And yet it is so difficult to remember
Judith Geffert is a radio documentary maker from Magdeburg, now based in Berlin. In their work, they like to explore the thin lines between journalism, art and academics. Their work experience comprises experimental radio features, narrative storytelling podcasts, radio plays, reportages and short journalistic pieces. Their latest radio play "Kontaktanzeigen" ("Personal Ads for Lonely Hearts") is exploring the possibilities of dialogue across generations of queer people in East Germany.
Produced by Judith Geffert
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Festival Selects: Star Map
Nanna Hauge Kristensen (DK, 2024)
Nanna Hauge Kristensen (DK 2024)
6 min
A personal piece about human navigation, star maps and star sounds.
Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
Produced for Falling Tree. Featured on Short Cuts, “Constellations”, BBC4. With Ferdinand Hauge Leth.
Music by Kirstine Lindemann, captured by Trawl Hz.
Festival Selects: New Friend Chapter 4 - 1000 Miles
Bitsy Knox (CA, 2026)
Bitsy Knox (CA, 2026)
56 min
New Friend is a 5-part limited series audio documentary that delves into the fascinating story behind photographs taken by the groundbreaking lesbian artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer in August 1973, on Hornby Island, Ja-Dai-Aich, British Columbia.
It's a story of art, archives, single motherhood, long-distance love affairs and liberation across 1000 miles.
Chapter 4 - 1000 Miles:
It’s the Summer of 1973. Barbara Hammer has had a busy summer, zigzagging across California on her motorcycle, camping and visiting ex-lovers, lesbian conferences and festivals. Along the way, she meets Terry Anderson, a feverishly intelligent single mother of two, an academic with an artistic mind.
Together, they embark on a 1000-mile adventure that will lead them to Hornby Island Ja-Dai-Aich along with two 19-year olds, Martha Ross and Rosemary Allenbach. On Hornby, Barbara Hammer takes three rolls of film, documenting a brief moment in all of its charged artistic and romantic energy.
In this chapter of New Friend, we delve into the torrid mystery of Barbara and Terry's long-distance love affair across dozens and dozens of letters, and culminating in an unforgettable, calamitous road trip.
Listener discretion: This chapter of New Friend contains references to addiction.
Hosted by Bitsy Knox.
Production, research, script and sound design by Bitsy Knox.
Mixing and mastering by Robert Steenkamer.
New Friend was originally aired on Cashmere Radio Berlin and 96.5 CHFR Hornby Island Community Radio. Cover image courtesy of The Estate of Barbara Hammer. New Friend is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Thank you to: The Estate of Barbara Hammer Hornby Island Community Archives Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Cashmere Radio, Berlin 96.5 CHFR Hornby Island Community Radio KOW, Berlin Company Gallery, New York City Hornby Arts Centre Florrie Burke Louky Keijsers Koning Martha Ross Derek Anderson Rebecca Dunne Emma Walter Emily Harrison All beings, human and more-than-human, of Hornby Island, Ja-Dai-Aich, and its surrounding waters—where I am a part-time, uninvited guest on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral land of the K'omoks First Nation, the Eitsen, Pentlach, Sasitla and Sahtloot peoples.
Festival Selects: Good Clean Fun
Hayley Clarke (UK, 2026)
Hayley Clarke (UK 2025)
5 min
In the past few years I have become fascinated with sauna culture, and its ability to bring people together. It allows people to connect with new people in a space that can often feel quite intimidating. You may encounter people from different walks of life, and speak to people you might not normally interact with. Yet somehow, you’re all on a level playing field inside this sweat lodge.
A couple of years ago, when I was on a self-imposed writing retreat in Worthing, I booked into a local sauna down the road in Shoreham. This is where I met Dan Lawson - Ultra Marathon Runner, Aufguss Master and one of the co-founders of Nomadic Sauna. This is his story to tell, and it’s all good clean fun.
Produced by Hayley Clarke
Festival Selects: Bower
Phil Smith (UK, 2022)
Phil Smith (UK 2022)
6 min
A radio song of summer's ending
Produced by Phil Smith for Short Cuts (BBC Radio 4) exec: Eleanor MacDowall).
Festival Selects: Everything And The Kitchen Sink
Martin Austwick (CA 2025)
Martin Austwick (CA, 2025)
Festival Selects: nmiigea
Helen Zaltzman (UK 2020)
Helen Zaltzman (UK 2020)
3 mins
Helen Zaltzman reads the lyrics to ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon, with the words arranged in reverse alphabetical order, over music by Martin Austwick, based on the chords of ‘Imagine’ in alphabetical order.
Produced and voiced by Helen Zaltzman
Music by Martin Austwick
Festival Selects: Do You Really Have To Go? (excerpt)
Nicola Mecca (IT 2026)
Nicola Mecca (IT, 2026)
10 min
"do you really have to go?" is a long-form drone composition derived from the closing twenty-two seconds of the last known Nick Drake demo. Room tone, tape hiss, breath and the resonance of the guitar body are radically stretched, layered and processed until the original recording is no longer identifiable by ear.
These sonic remnants are treated as the last known traces of a final departure, and extended into a long-form goodbye drone.
This submission is a ten-minute excerpt from the complete twenty-two-minute work.