Transmissions
Jarman's Garden
Sherre DeLys (AU, 2000)
Sherre DeLys (AU, 2020)
15 min
Throughout a long illness towards the end of his life, filmmaker Derek Jarman put extraordinary passion into creating his unique garden at the edge of the sea in the shingle desert of Dungeness, Kent.
Years later, Sherre DeLys made this audio portrait of the garden - at the time, still tended by Derek’s partner Keith Collins. Keith stayed, he said, because he was held by the silence.
Mirroring Jarman’s own improvisatory process of assembling flotsam and jetsam from this rugged landscape to create the garden, the radio piece weaves manipulated recordings of wind playing on its sculptures created from old tools, chimes fashioned from rusted metal post-war debris and other features of the place, with Keith’s reflections, and music by Chris Abrahams to create an impressionistic rendering of a garden that Jarman described as haunted by paradise.
Produced by: Sherre DeLys
The Film That Never Got Made
Iacopo Di Girolamo (UK, 2026)
Iacopo Di Girolamo (UK, 2026)
30 min
What does it take to prevent a rock ‘n’ roll star from fading into oblivion?
Join Iacopo on a personal journey to make a film about rock 'n' roll legend Del Shannon, a film that, for years, Iacopo couldn’t quite figure out how to tell. Over 25 years of searching, he never wrote the script, but he did find something else: the people who keep Del’s memory alive. A passionate biographer, a small-town museum curator in Michigan, a devoted fan from England, and a young hip-hop artist with a spiritual connection to Del. Has he finally found the story he was meant to tell?
Produced by: Produced and narrated by Iacopo Di Girolamo
Music extracts by Del Shannon
XMTR Radio Hour #43: The Power of Radio with Tom Roe
Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
60 min / Episode 43 of 43
This XMTR Radio Hour is a radio journey through 20th Century American Radio with radio pirate and sound art enthusiast Tom Roe. He co-founded 87X and free103point9 and the home for sound and radio art in Hudson Valley, New York State - Wave Farm. Tom is a radio artist, DJ and writer. He produces the weekly Donald Drumpf Theatre show and a regular all things radio and sound-art newsletter ’Turn on The News’. This is a personal history tour through the power of airwaves from comedy sketches to phone ins and everything in between.
Tracklist:
Spike Jones and His City Slickers, "The Sound Effects Man"
Orson Welles being interviewed the morning after his "War of the Worlds" broadcast in another great acting role.
Bill Cosby, "Chicken Heart" excerpt.
WFBR baseball radio call Bill O'Donnell, June 22, 1979.
WPLP excerpt of talk radio host Bob Lassiter.
Excerpt of interview by Tom Roe did with pirate radio operator Loni Kobres in 1997 shortly after the Federal Communications Commission came with a SWAT team and helicopters and a battering ram to shut down his radio station in Tampa, Florida.
The Donner Party, "Sickness." sung by Tom Roe
Scanner, "Turning the Dial" from "Warhol's Diary."
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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XMTR Radio Hour #42: Tom’s House With Jacob Dwyer
Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
67 min / Episode 42 of 42
This XMTR Radio Hour features Tom’s House an audio drama created by British born - Amsterdam based artist Jacob Dwyer. After a short interview with Jacob, we enter Tom’s House with the meanderings of someone who’s returned home 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.
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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XMTR Radio Hour #41: Sounding Colossus
Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
67 min / Episode 41 of 41
This XMTR Radio Hour is a little different. Lucia speaks to Garry Hunter the director of arts and heritage organisation Fitzrovia Noir - and composer/violinist Jack Campbell about a new commission from the educational foundation that has grown out of the Tommy Flowers community pub in Poplar, East London. The pub’s namesake Tommy Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, to help decipher the encrypted messages sent by the German High Command during WW2. 23-year-old composer and musician Jack M.Campbell has recently written and extensively performed a piece inspired by Alan Turing’s Bombe. With a bursary from TFF, he has now composed a score responding to Colossus, the computer built by Tommy Flowers to greatly expedite the reading of Lorenz traffic. The code was cracked by mathematician Bill Tutte, who, after the war, went on to teach at two universities in Canada, Jack’s home country. Following the conversation about outsiders, music, algorithms and maths, is an exclusive rendition of this composition: ‘Colossus’ by Jack Campbell.
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Finding The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2025)
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2025)
3 min
Laurie Gordon MacKenzie began teaching social studies in Concord New Hampshire in 1987 --the year after the Challenger Shuttle Disaster when Concord High teacher Christa McAuliffe was lost. One of the courses that Laurie started teaching that year was American Women's History, which was a course developed and taught by McAuliffe. As part of New Hampshire Public Radio's series ""Remembering Christa" Laurie Gordon MacKenzie reflects on teaching that class, and the lessons we can still learn from Christa McAuliffe.
Produced by Patrick McNameeKing
Music from Epidemic Sound
Shine A Light On The Darkness (In French, English and German)
Candice Savoyat (FR, 2025)
Candice Savoyat (FR, 2025)
53 min
80 years after the end of World War II, what remains?
Candice Savoyat retraces her family’s footsteps. First to Chemnitz, Germany, where her maternal grandmother was born to a Polish Jewish father, before fleeing to France. Then to Mauthausen, Austria, where her paternal great-grandfather, who had joined the Resistance, was deported.
By connecting these two family histories, she brings them into dialogue with the present, gathering the voices of strangers met along the way.
An intimate and universal journey, to be listened with headphones.
Producer by: Candice Savoyat
Music by: Amédée de Murcia
Mixing: Jules Wisocky
Translation: Céline Gay A Stim Matter production With the support of the City of Geneva, the FSRC, the Loterie Romande, and Phonurgia Nova as part of its annual support program for radio and sound projects
XMTR Festival Selects: Lightning Refuge
Kristina Loring (US 2025)
Kristina Loring (US 2025)
4 min
What are the gems that lie beneath the wounds? Ruha's family escaped violent riots in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1983, just three months before she was born. They were targeted because they were Tamil, the minority. Their successful survival could be seen as a string of coincidences, the result of deep human connections. Or was it the result of supernatural intervention?
This piece was created for The Golden Tape project by Kristina Loring, a mixtape of human essence where artists share their secretive and beloved pleasures, grief, ritual, and desires that they want to keep hidden from AI commodification.
Producer by: Kristina Loring
Voices: Ruha Devanesan and AJ Devanesan
Two Dreams of Dolores
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2025)
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2025)
13 min
On the shores of Lake Atitlan, Dolores, a Mayan healer, shares two dreams that shaped her life.
Producer - Patrick McNameeKing
Music - by Patrick McNameeKing
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Windows: Jill - The Edge of Things
Ivan d'Avoine and Derick Armah (UK 2025)
Ivan d'Avoine and Derick Armah (UK 2025)
23 min
To watch the world pass by from your home’s window is an intimate experience: at once deeply personal and yet universal, cinematic even, at times. Although we all do it, when was the last time someone asked you, sincerely; what do you see when you look outside your window?
Featuring experimental sound design that reflects the processes of art-making and city-wandering, we journey to Central London’s Brunswick Centre to meet Jill Rock, who sculpts natural found objects and geometric constructions under the light of her living room window.
Produces by Ivan d'Avoine and Derick Armah
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