Transmissions
2025 Selects: Marsification: A Tale of Planetary Grief
Lily Sloane (US 2024)
Lily Sloane (US 2024)
49 min
Today we are being increasingly bombarded by the idea that humanity can and should expand to Mars. Coined in 2020 by the art collective Bureau of Linguistical Reality, the neologism Marsification critiques the idea that we can reset civilization by escaping to “Planet B”.
Marsification: A tale of planetary grief is a concept album audio artwork that unsettles seductive astro-colonial fantasies of leaving a damaged Earth for an uninhabited Mars. These 16 vignettes are designed for individual experiences and community dialogues as we process this interplanetary moment in all of its dissonance. Marsification:
A tale of planetary grief weaves together textured soundscapes, spoken dialogue, satire, hyper pop, whimsy, humor and heartache, non-fiction and science fiction, science and poetry, fantasy and history, with travels into inner and outer space. How can we examine assumptions about the future? And how do we listen properly to the ghosts that haunt the present?
Written and created by Lily Sloane and Zara Zimbardo
Narration and voice acting by Lily Sloane, Zara Zimbardo, and Chelsea Kigano
Audio production, music and sound design by Lily Sloane
Editorial support from Keisha TK Dutes;
Sound consultation from Adriene Lilly
XMTR Radio Hour #39: Radio Limbo
Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
60 min / Episode 38 of 38
In this XMTR (Transmitter) radio hour we are taken into the liminal audio apace that is Radio Limbo. This guided audio trip is an unusual quest through original music, collage, soundscapes, and disembodied voices. The show celebrates radio as a shape-shifting portal to other worlds, a wilderness of its own, and its unique qualities of companionship. Join Pete for this curation and performance of surreal scenes and sonic experiments, using local intrigue and lost histories as the jumping-off point. This was recorded live at the XMTR Audio Arts Festival in St Leonards-On-Sea.
Radio Limbo aka Pete Hazell is a music and audio artist based in Bristol. His various projects fall under the ‘Limbo’ umbrella, known for their signature blend of curious music, sound design, storytelling, and collage. His cassette label Limbo Tapes focuses on releasing music, monthly residency on Bristol’s Noods Radio. In 2024, Pete released the audio series Limbo Calling as a podcast, expanding the Limbo universe through character, voice work, and surreal audio fiction.
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Glittering Prospects
Anna Bertmark (UK, 2025)
Anna Bertmark (UK, 2025)
20 min
Set on Brighton Beach in 2098, an local metal detectorist records search-reports for the Council's new Portable Foundle Department; a new requirement since mysterious artefacts have started appearing on the beach...
Glittering Prospects is an immersive audio drama exploring humans' relationships with changing coastal environments through treasure hunting and local folklore. This 20 minute peice weaves together Brighton Beach’s hidden histories, environmental mysteries, and the stories of those who search its shores. Inspired by cinematic interview techniques, found audio recordings, and through interviews with metal detectorists, wildlife and folklore experts, the piece presents a compelling fictional documentary drawing from the world of treasure hunting and local coastal history and superstitions. Through the power of place-based storytelling, this immersive listening experience explores how lost artefacts buried beneath our feet reveal meaningful stories.
Written and Produced by Anna Bertmark
Performed by Rachel Capell
Funded by the National Lottery.
XMTR Radio Hour #37: Festival Retrospective 1
Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
60 min / Episode 37 of 37
This XMTR Radio Hour is a retrospective from the XMTR Audio Arts Festival that took place in St Leonards on Sea in East Sussex on the last weekend of September. This is a little taste of the scope of sonic storytelling, radio art and immersive audio that people got to experience by the sea that weekend.
1. Across the Sea by Camilla Hannan (Extract)
2. Safe + Sound The Sea: Running into the Sea - Arlie Adlington
3. Safe + Sound The Sea: The Wave - Sarah Cuddon
4. Safe + Sound The Sea: 10 Green Bottles - Susie Dolton + Kit Callin
5. Radio Limbo Live - Pete Hazell (Limbo Tapes) (Extract)
6. The Golden Tape: Visión Quest with Grandmother Margarita by Juliana Bohoquez Pinzon
7. The Golden Tape:The Perfect Lead by Nico Ganzalez Wisler
8. Tom’s House by Jacob Dwyer (Extract)
9. Audio Flux Circuit 6: Rubber Bands (most commonly beige), by Joyce De Badts & Frederik De Clercq
10. My Bip Bip Neighbour (blue, like Nico’s eyes) by Sarah-Lou Lepers
11. Audio Flux Circuit 6: POTATO (aquamarine), by Emma Alabaster, with Tenaz and Rafa
12: Surface Bruit Live by DinahBird (Extract)
For the full versions of the work and more from the XMTR Festival head to xmtr.fm/festival
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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XMTR Festival: Tom’s House
Jacob Dwyer (UK/NL 2025)
Jacob Dwyer (UK/NL 2025)
51 min
Tom’s House is a one person performed audio-drama. It incorporates voice, live foley, field recordings and an original soundtrack composed by K.Freund, Kareem Lotfy, Jacob Oostra and Zuza Banasińska.
In Tom’s House, we listen to the diaristic meanderings of someone who’s returned to the UK for the first time in 15 years. Walking up Haddon Drive he spots the house of an old friend, Tom. The front door is open, so he goes inside. Wandering around the empty Tudor cottage –making cups of tea, rearranging CD collections and zoning in on the minutiae of domestic space– he ruminates on ideas of emotional intimacy, friendship and grief.
Jacob Dwyer is an artist based in Amsterdam working with audio, moving-images and writing. His work often centres around personal encounters that could equally be seen as fables or heresy. He has presented in art spaces and music venues, including Cafe Oto (London), David Dale Gallery (Glasgow), Good Children (New Orleans) and De Appel (Amsterdam). In 2022 he released The Devil Museum on vinyl with Mana Records and has since published Notes on Devils with Building Fictions. Most recently he has released his new audio drama, Tom's House, on South of North.
Written, recorded and produced by Jacob Dwyer
XMTR Festival: Radio Limbo Live From St Leonards-on-Sea
Pete Hazell/Limbo Tapes (UK,2025)
Pete Hazell / Limbo Tapes (UK, 2025)
47 mins
Radio Limbo returns to St Leonards for another guided audio-trip — an unusual quest through original music, collage, soundscapes, and disembodied voices. The show celebrates radio as a shape-shifting portal to other worlds, a wilderness of its own, and its unique qualities of companionship. Join Pete for this curation and performance of surreal scenes and sonic experiments, using local intrigue and lost histories as the jumping-off point.
Pete Hazell is a music and audio artist based in Bristol. His various projects fall under the ‘Limbo’ umbrella, known for their signature blend of curious music, sound design, storytelling, and collage. His cassette label Limbo Tapes focuses on releasing music, monthly residency on Bristol’s Noods Radio is both a mix of new , and in 2024, Pete self-produced and released the audio series Limbo Calling as a podcast, expanding the Limbo universe through character, voice work, and surreal audio fiction.
His latest focus is performance — bringing Limbo sonics to a live audience.
Limbo Tapes
Written, recorded and produced by Pete Hazell
patreon.com/radiolimbo
limbotapes.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/limbotapes
instagram.com/limbo_tapes/
XMTR Festival Selects: Posidoniaceae
Giacomo Bagni + Veronica Lugaro (IT 2024)
Giacomo Bagni + Veronica Lugaro (IT 2024)
5 min
In this episode of Botanismi, winter leads us into the sea, where Posidonia oceanica sways in the currents. Once a land plant, it found its way back to the water, weaving vast prairies beneath the surface. A hidden world, fragile and alive, waiting to be heard.
Written, recorded and produced by Giacomo Bagni and Veronica Lugaroy
XMTR Radio Hour #36: Festival Preview
Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
60 min / Episode 36 of 36
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour features a selection of audio works that have been submitted to xmtr.fm: Nanou Thassinda tells her story of belonging and acceptance in the UK through a study of regional accents in Life in Progress by Phoebe Macindoe, Chloe Turpin has uncomfortable conversations with her family in Brittany about a shameful event concerning her grandmother Emmeline during WW2 in Shorn Women, and Giacomo Bagni has to come to terms with the replacement son that his father has chosen to spend time with in Brothers.
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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The Box
Oliver Morris (UK 2025)
Oliver Morris (UK 2025)
4 min
A thought and sound experiment. Initially a blueprint for a shelved audio drama, the piece explores how the sound field could be used to add and take away colour from a scene. The piece consists of a short rambling voice note to the writer by the sound designer, complete with diagetic music and sound, that has then been filtered to add to the emotion of the scene. This is the box.
Produced by Oliver Morris
The Farage Files
Fin Kennedy (UK 2025)
Fin Kennedy (UK 2025)
18 min
An AI-assisted comedy podcast series featuring a voice clone of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in conversation with Applied Stories' artistic director Fin Kennedy. Note: some content NSFW or under 16s!
Written, produced and edited by Fin Kennedy