XMTR Festival: Tom’s House

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

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XMTR Festival: Radio Limbo Live From St Leonards-on-Sea

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
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XMTR Festival Selects: Posidoniaceae

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

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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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The Box

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

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The Farage Files

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

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Shadow and Light

Keyari Page (UK 2025)

9 min

Shadow and Light is a historic podcast experience where we embark on a poetic journey, time-traveling to reclaim forgotten narratives. Hosted by Keyari Page, this series shines a spotlight on unsung heroes and ignites their stories through the power of original verse and immersive soundscapes. Keyari masterfully crafts each poem, drawing inspiration from the lives, courage, and powerful words of these remarkable figures, often weaving in lines from their own profound work or documented truths, ensuring their legacy is not just remembered, but reborn.

Produced, sound designed and narrated by Keyari Page

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Witch, Please!

Yasmine Alice (UK 2025)

7 min

Marnie, a mediocre witch with anger issues, faces judgement from her family members and town folks for turning 30 years old and still being unwed. Thereupon, she agrees to go on numerous dates, all of which fail miserably.

This 4-part episodic audio comedy series brings voice actors from all around the world together.

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Directed/Written by Yasmine Alice
Sound Design by Cam Evans, Original
Music by Simone Micieli
Produced by Bastet Productions

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The Man At The Top Of The Stairs

Hugo Pierre Martin (US 2025)

41 min

The Diaries of Netovicius the Vampire is a fantasy audio series. It’s an investigation of trauma. What is time to an immortal vampire? What is trauma? How does trauma shape someone so isolated and misunderstood, and how does it shape all of us? How do we recover, and who do we need in our lives to do so?

This is the final episode of the 5th season
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Produced, written and performed by Hugo Pierre Martin

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