Transmissions
Coastal Soundforms : Tymbals and Golden Gallopers, Beach
Andrius Mack (LT 2025)
Andrius Mack (LT 2025)
5 min
Coastal Soundforms is a field recording composition made entirely from acoustic coastal field recordings captured over several years. It features soundscapes from the UK (Dungeness, Camber Sands, Brighton, Bournemouth), Lithuania (Neringa, Palanga), Netherlands (Texel), Portugal (Lisbon, Cascais), Morocco (Taghazout, Mirleft) and Italy (Venice). Sometimes the recordings are presented as faithful sonic representations, sometimes they are heavily manipulated with filters in order to highlight certain features present in the soundscapes. It is an exploration of the contrast between biophonic soundscapes and urban anthrophonies. All set against the backdrop of a relentless, thunderous oceanic geophony.
Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Andrius Mack
XMTR RADIO HOUR #35: Accents, Shame and Substitutes
Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
60 min / Episode 35 of 35
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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RadioActive: On Water - Liquidation
Meira Asher (PS 2024)
Meira Asher (IL/IRE 2024)
57 min
RadioActive - on Water is a six episode podcast series, exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist/group of artists who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio. ‘Liquidation’ by Meira Asher interrogates the politically engineered water crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Jordan Valley where Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian shepherd communities of access to water.
There is currently a structural water crisis in the Palestinian Occupied Jordan Valley. Not a climate or geographical water crisis, a deliberate socially and politically engineered crisis. Israel, since it invaded the West Bank in 1967, controls every public aspect of civilian life in the Jordan Valley. Israel administers two populations, the Israeli settlers and the indigenous Palestinian residents. Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian farming communities of access to fresh, clean and reliable water supplies, water that is needed for crops and herds, as well as for the Palestinian farmers and herders.
This can mean either not permitting them to be connected to municipal water supplies, despite the Israeli settlers having such access. It also entails not permitting Palestinian people to sink new wells on their own land, and blocking their access to existing wells and springs, either by fencing off the water source or destroying pipes bringing the water to the herders and farmers. The end result is frequently that either the farmers have to pay extortionate prices to purchase water from the Palestinian authority, or if they cannot afford this option they are forced to abandon their land and way of life.
Featuring the water truck driver, co-activists Natasha and Nitsan, shepherds community of Khalet Makhul, shepherd ‘W’, shepherds community of Hirbet Samra and Aref Daragmah.
Producer - Meira Asher
Translation from Arabic: Laila Abd El-Razaq
Introductory text: Liam Evans
Series - Co-curated by Stephen Shiell & Meira Asher, produced by Meira Asher. Episodes by Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White), Lisa Blackmore and Leonel Vásquez, RE-PEAT collective, Margarida Mendes, Carlos Monleon and Nathaniel Mann, and Meira Asher
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XMTR Radio Hour Ep34: Radio Commons
Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
60 min / Episode 33 of 33
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour hands the reins over to film maker and sound artist Ian Nesbitt from Radio Commons, on online platform of sonic interventions seeking to practice solidarity by building collective agency. It is an assembly of audio works structured as an online archipelago. The show features a selection of sound pieces from several of these mythical islands, all connected by the watery themes works from a new sonic island « Counterflows »
This show brings together exempts of the following works: Thread by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Dark Sloshing by Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sames, Sonic Rituals by Alifiyah Imani, An Ear to River – Counterflows by Blanc Sceol, Solemn Debt by Akka (Shareeka Helaluddin), Cockles of my Heart by Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe).
1. Thread by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/thread/
2. Dark Sloshing – Traffic into Crayfish by Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sames
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/dark-sloshing/
3. Sonic Rituals by Alifiyah Imani
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/sonic-rituals/
4. An Ear to River – Counterflows by Blanc Sceol
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/an-ear-to-river-counterflows/
5. Solemn Debt by Akka (Shareeka Helaluddin)
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/solemn-debt/
6. Cockles of my Heart
Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe)
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/cockels-of-my-heart/
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
Hosted by Ian Nestbitt
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I Just Needed Something A Little Bit... More
Charlotte Petts (UK 2024)
Charlotte Petts (UK 2024)
12 min
An immersive, multi narrative piece about how it feels to walk a really, really long way. Featuring voices from others who have gone before her, Charlotte tries to find some peace and a sense of her own path on the South West Coast Path.
Created as a final piece for In the Dark audio course. With huge thanks to Nina Garthwaite, Laura Mitchison, Lorna Flutter and Verity de Cala for their ears and input.
Produced by Charlotte Petts
Asphalt Lullaby
James Trice (UK 2024)
James Trice (UK 2024)
2 min
An abstract poem about city life, the need for sound and the regular rush of cars and traffic that pass James’ window.
Produced by James Trice
XMTR Radio Hour Ep33: Audio shorts selection 2024
Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
60 min / Episode 33 of 33
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour features a selection of short audio works that have been submitted to XMTR over the past year by both new and seasoned audio makers from around the world. Works featured are: The Magic of Waves by Eve Marie Bouche, I’d Rather be Swimming by Clair Urbahn, Smugglers Song by Mary Hooper, Knife, Fork, Keys by Hye Young Sin, The Human Jukebox by Stella Sims, Application Declined by Alice Foxall, We Will not Stop, We Will Not Rest by Melanie Marich and Sajina Shrestha, Jim, Human Waste Expert by Patrick McNameeKing, Crush Tango by Eloïse Bertil and Times Square–42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal by Tom Sayers
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Times Square–42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal
Tom Sayers (US 2024)
Produced by Tom Sayers (US 2024)
1 min
A sound poem from the depths of the vast space under 42nd Street in New York City.
Produced and sound designed by Tom Sayers
Earth Day 2023 - Voices for Nature
Agathe Dijoud (FR 2024)
Agathe Dijoud (FR 2024)
5 min
In this audio piece, Agathe Dijoud joins a march in London on Earth Day 2023, and capture sounds from speeches, music and personal thoughts throughout the day. Nature can take many forms, and has the belief that marches are one form of nature resisting the climate crisis, through a human lens.
Produced by Agathe Dijoud
Blue Heart + XMTR
Stellaria Media (UK 2024)
Produced by Stellaria Media (UK 2024)
30 min
Recordings made in the 'Voices of Water' workshop at the XMTR festival, mixed with archive material from the Blue Heart project.
Residents of the area talk about their experiences of flooding, drought and water management, historians explain how things have changed over the centuries, and engineers look to the future and how systems can be managed to build resilience in the face of climate change.
Featuring the voices of:
Anna Hastings, Blue Heart Project Manager, East Sussex County Council
Evan Jones, Ecologist
Andy Durling, Eastbourne Eco Action Network
Lousie Elms, Eastbourne Allotments and Garden Society
Sally Lee, Grow Eastbourne
Oliver Sterno, Plastic Free Eastbourne
Kate Baker, Agile Rabbit
Andy Payne, Southdown Angling Association
Chantal Feyn, Eastbourne and District Model Yacht Club
Fiona Durling, Pevensey Forest Garden
Robert Slater, Pevensey Court House and Museum
Katherine Buckland, Heritage Engagement Officer, Eastbourne District Council
Brian Bailey, allotment holder
Neil Raymond, The Star Inn, Old Town
Louise Elms, Eastbourne Allotments and Garden Society
Ruth Kenwood, Gather Community Garden
John Hayward, Pevensey Parish Councillor
Dave Roberts, Gather Community Garden
Peter Birchalll, Pete the Pond
Clare Whistler, Artist, Water Week
Adrian Butcher, Treebourne
Caroline Kimber, Gather Community Garden
Chris Sweetapple, Exeter University