XMTR Radio Hour #37: Festival Retrospective 1

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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Kumbha Mela 2025 and Planets Aligned

Bhavisha Patel (UK 2025)

Epochally · Kumbha Mela 2025 and Planets Aligned

10 min

Kumbha Mela 2025, a spiritual festival observed in India, was the world's largest gathering, it also coincided with the planetary alignment. This is a soundscape, featuring recordings from pilgrims and NASA recordings of the planets.

Produced by Bhavisha Patel 

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XMTR Festival: Habitual Rituals

Stellaria Media (UK 2025)

10 min

An extract from the composition made from the sounds recorded by participants of Saturday’s workshop composed by Stellaria Media. A generative, multi-speaker sound installation that allows rhythms of existence to emerge and interact.

Sound recordings, writing and movement made from a workshop to pay attention to habits and routines of how we open doors, walk across a room, use kitchen implements, pour water and other everyday moments. We will record ourselves repeating familiar actions, along with descriptions of what we are doing, and create a

Stellaria Media are based in South Devon and within two community radio stations, Soundart Radio (Totnes) and Skylark (Dartmoor). Our background as artists means we are always exploring, listening, responding and creating together with communities

Produced by Lucinda Guy and Alice Armstrong

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XMTR Festival Selects: Radio Incantation - Dzëë

Amanda Gutiérrez (CA / MX 2025)

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8 min

Rooted in the artist’s Zapotec heritage from the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, the work channels ancestral teachings on listening and evoking through the art of terrestrial transmission. In this sonic ritual, radio waves become vessels for connection with unseen and intangible presences, intentionally engaging with the territory of St Leonards-on-Sea — across time, between past and future spectra.

Produced by Amanda Gutiérrez

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XMTR Festival Selects: The Allusionist: Gay Animals

Helen Zaltzman (UK 2023)

22 min

A relaxing list of animals that are gay. Sometimes you just need to listen to a list of animals that are gay.

Hosting/writing/production: Helen Zaltzman
Music: Martin Austwick

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XMTR Festival Selects: Last Station Fog Stories (Extract)

Mary Hooper UK (2025)

5 min

This clip is a new mix from oral history recordings from 2013, Mary Hooper made for 'Last Station' a large scale Touring Project looking at the cultural history and legacy of UK Floating Lightships, devised by herself and Elise Liversedge .

Recording and editing: Mary Hooper

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XMTR Festival Selects: Transition

Kalli Anderson (US, 2023)

10 min

A multi-voice, experimental documentary featuring excerpts from SIMULA, an 8.2-channel sound installation by apè Aliermo and mixed and mastered by Rose Bolton. This composition includes sound recorded during three anonymous births and electromagnetic sound recorded in a hospital during one of the births. The voices you hear speaking are Redzi Bernard, Becky Kenna, Amy Macfarlane and Andrea Gummo.

Produced by Kalli Anderson, apè Aliermo and Rose Bolton
Edited by Eleanor McDowall

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XMTR Festival Selects: In A Cowshell

Miri Berlin (DE 2025)

9 min

The electroacoustic composition „In A Cowshell“ is based on field recordings that capture the sonic microcosm of a cowshed, interweaving and abstracting its sound world. It follows the course of the milking process — from the magical stillness as the cows enter and take their places, to the rhythmic drive of the machines, drawing you in — gradually giving way to calm again as the milking ends. Finally, the cows leave the barn, guided by the farmers’ calls back to the pasture — marking the close of the piece.

Produced by Miri Berlin

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I Dream Of Water: The Well, The Bay, The Sea

Susanne Lambert (UK 2025)

7 min

This is part of a body of work is about people's relationships with water, based around a set of audio recordings from various people Suzanne knows. She asked contributors to share something about a place of water they have strong memories of, or connections to, and to say something about what feelings are evoked in the place.

Susanne set the audio messages within new compositions (including found sounds and field recordings) in different ways to create a series of pieces. She has combined improvised open passages (drums/clarinet/piano/synth) with more considered and formulated sections, in an attempt to echo, mirror and juxtapose the words, and build imagery around the stories shared.

The series will eventually also include factual information, alongside the personal connective elements, as an opportunity to examine the diverse and sometimes contradictory elements of our human relationship to water.

Produced by Susanne Lambert aka Suzi Lamb

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XMTR Radio Hour #36: Festival Preview

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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