Transmissions
XMTR Radio Hour #46: Sounds from XMTR Festival
Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
60 min / Episode 46 of 46
This XMTR Radio Hour gives a little taste of what people experienced at the XMTR Audio Arts Festival St Leonards-on-Sea followed by a field trip to Dungeness. You’ll hear a montage from works, sound walks, performances and installations made for and experienced at the festival as well as recordings from some of the events, installations and happenings and some short audio pieces made over that weekend.
The works featured are:
Floating in St Leonards by Miri Berlin, Stand at the shoreline and listen a sound walk by- Katharina Smets + Katherina Lindekens, Shanty singing recorded by Helly McGovern, The Pier Sings by Tony Birch, Squid games 1am by Marie Chesteron, All Washed Up a sound walk by Sarah Frosh + Pete Hazell, Hand Pan by Mike Willis, Squirrel pan / recounting a squirrel story -Simon Schaffer Meet me by the Rose Garden with Colour Carver and Jude Montague and Jude Montague on the accordion, Jackson's Sonic Relay / Jackson (aged 3) + horns- Jessica Beck + Jackson, Breakfast by Carrie Rolls, Isobel Anderson on the coach to Dungeness followed by some field recording of Dungeness recorded by Cath Carver, Manhunt in St Leonards a sound walk by M. Cristina Marras and Gianfranco Bitti, Closing ceremony with Balladeste improvising to the sounds you recorded during the festival for the Sonic Relay collected by Suzie McCarthy, triggered by Dinahbird and hosted by Helen Zaltzman.
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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LoveLanguageLoss
Linda Rae Dornan (CA, 2009-2025)
Linda Rae Dornan (CA, 2009-2025)
5 min
his is an audio art piece about dementia and caregiving recorded over many years as Linda cared for her partner, John Asimakos. The journal she kept was too emotionally difficult to read so she eventually transcribed it backwards to alleviate her own response. Transcription uses this reversed journal, cutup techniques and constant repetition collaged with John’s own voice as he tried to communicate. Constant repetition references the incomprehension and deterioration of language evident within the gradual decline of dementia patients. The audio piece attempts to share an interior space of intensity and tenderness within the isolated world of dementia.
Produced by Linda Rae Dornan
The Flyover Gallery
Dirt Poets (UK, 2025)
The Dirt Poets (UK, 2025)
20 min
Dirt Poets is a creative collective between writer Peter Shukie, sound artist Paul Nataraj, and artist Rebecca Taylor Murray.
In this first chapter Shukie is our guide to help us see beyond the emptiness of the liminal spaces of modernity. Instead he allows the void beneath the flyover to be the catalyst for a story which navigates some of the trajectories that led to its creation.
Sound: Paul Nataraj
Words: Peter Shukie
Mastering: Jamie Hamilton
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: 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: Everything And The Kitchen Sink
Martin Austwick (CA 2025)
Martin Austwick (CA, 2025)
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.
Produced and composed by Nicola Mecca (Keplero)
Festival Selects: Siren Song
Kalli Anderson (US 2024)
Kalli Anderson (US, 2024)
7 min
A Ukrainian singer harmonizes with air raid sirens and reflects on the role of artists during wartime.
Produced by Kalli Anderson featuring music by melancholydi
The Stony One
Susanne Lambert (UK, 2026)
Susanne Lambert (UK, 2026)
4 min
This work was created for Flow - a project of artists interpreting the River Lech - a project by Dr Martina Cecchetto, with the scientific contribution of Dr Florian Betz and the artistic curation of Riccardo Fumagalli, in collaboration with Cities & Memory, the University of Padua (Italy), and the University of Würzburg (Germany).
I was intrigued by the changing relationship between humans and river, and the different uses of the natural flowing water in this place. I discovered Augsburg is one of the oldest settled places in Germany (around 2000 years). This fuelled my imagination in considering the scale and scope of change- within both humanity, and the natural environment, that the river has borne witness to over time. I was really struck by the impact of human activity on the river, not least the disruption of its natural flow and use of the Lech for multiple hydro-power plants along its course.
I took a walk along several stretches of the water in and around Augsburg and my overwhelming sense was that it needed our care and attention and that we have a responsibility to the guardianship of its course. Within the composition I wanted to depict contrasting sensations that I felt portrayed something of the complexities of this stretch of river, its history, its present and its future, including flux, chaos, beauty, dischord/disharmony and solidarity.
Working with my long-standing collaborator and dear friend, Nicky Rushton, we shared ideas and musical parts back and forth, and spoke about different aspects of the piece, and slowly over quite some time, the elements that seeemed to belong, began to emerge. We were both interested in the sense of the multiplicity of layers that comprise a river and its environment, thinking vertically as well as horizontally along its course.
Section of the river Lech reimagined by Suzi Lamb and Nicky Rushton.
Composed & produced by Suzi Lamb with Nicky Rushton
Festival Selects: FIELDS
Ariana Martinez (US 2023)
Ariana Martinez (US, 2023)
7 min
The technician seats me in front of a luminous hollow, as if a wide, wide bowl had been turned on its side, its open mouth spilling soft, white light. From this perspective, it’s as if my entire world is the luminous field—swaths of fresh snow, or sun-bleached prairie, or silver sand. In the field, a faint, black cross is joined by tiny, glowing apparitions. Points (each no bigger than a lentil, with a golden center and soft edges) flicker in and out, weave through my field, ask me to chase them. I log each one with a frantic press of my thumb. Thumb to controller, controller to computer, computer to technician. Me, in the field. The computer has generated data from my time in the field: what I caught and what I missed, a ratio of light to shadow. I return to the field every few months to trace its contours, to check that I’m not losing ground. FIELDS is a transmission from the edges of what can be seen and a document of an artist's changing sensory world.