XMTR Radio Hour Ep34: Radio Commons

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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