Transmissions
Voicing The Archive
Hannah Kemp-Welch (UK 2021)
Hannah Kemp-Welch (UK 2021)
29 min
During the pandemic, artist Hannah Kemp-Welch was in-residence at the Women’s Art Library, based at Goldsmiths. Reaching out to community groups in New Cross, Hannah photocopied and collated packs of ephemera from artists' projects documented in the library and posted these to local residents. Seven women selected an artist from the archive and responded to their work, recording personal reflections as they looked through materials. This audio essay considers access to archives, and how voices can bring the Women’s Art Library to life.
Produced by Hannah Kemp-Welch
Miss Time
Dinabird (FR/UK 2011)
Dinahbird (UK/FR 2011)
4 min
Miss Time, pays homage to the first speaking clocks born in the early 1930s, who were in fact telephone switchboard ladies, chosen for their fine elocution and stamina, who every 15 seconds, 240 times an hour, mechanically told the time to an invisible audience, regardless if anyone called or not. Each country had it's telephone diva, known for her golden voice and accurate timekeeping. Sadly these marathon performances fizzled out in the sixties when technology made these Time Ladies redundant.
Producer: Dinahbird
Not Just Any Bush
Helene Thomas (AU 2020)
Helene Thomas (AU 2020)
17 min
Randal Morrison is a third generation Huon Piner. He lives in Strahan, Tasmania. Helene met Randal at his saw mill in Queenstown and as they talked he reminisced about his times as a young boy going out with his father to the banks of the Gordon River to collect Huon Pine logs.
The Wayfinder is a mobile recording studio designed and built in Tasmania. It is a professional sound booth with acoustic insulation properties and has been carefully designed to make people feel comfortable and relaxed and conducive to conversation. It was an idea born from the imagination of its creator, Helene Thomas. Inspiration has been drawn from the US initiative StoryCorps and the BBC’s The Listening Project, where stories are preserved in order to build connections between people.
Produced by Helene Thomas
Radio Ballad: Song of a Road (1959)
Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Charles Parker (1959)
Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Charles Parker (UK 1959)
59 min
This new revolutionary format - radio ballad (BBC) conceived by folk musicians Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and the brilliant radio documentary maker Charles Parker in 1958, combining sound: songs, instrumental music, sound effects, and, most importantly, the recorded voices of those who are the subjects of the documentary. This had never been done before, and still sounds incredibly fresh today.
This Radio Ballad is a musical journey along the M1 as it was being built in the late 50’s.
Producer: Charles Parker
Music: Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
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In The Dark: Surveillance
Derick Armah and Ivan d'Avoine (UK 2021)
Derick Armah + Ivan d'Avoine (UK 2021)
9 min
This audio essay is a young Black man’s observations on hyper-visibility in one of the most surveilled cities in the world.
Produced and written by Derick Armah and Ivan d'Avoine for 'The Hidden Part' on Short Cuts BBC Radio 4.
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
In The Dark: So Good So Milo
Ben James (US 2022)
Ben James (US 2022)
10min
Mac and Claudia lived with their parrot Milo for 25 years. The bird talked and whistled to them all day. Then, one day last spring…
Produced by Ben James.
Original music composed and performed by Evan Arntzen.
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
In The Dark: The Brown Student’s Fear
Salman Ahad Khan (US 2021)
Salman Ahad Khan (US 2021)
4 min
This was a story produced in 24 hours for the 2021 KCRW Radio Race and features three delightful perspectives on bidets.
Produced and narrated by Salman Ahad Khan
Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark
Transformation Through Repetition
James T Green (US 2022)
James T. Green (US 2022)
4 min
What is a home when objects are not present? Jemma Rose Brown meditates on the routines and loops that invisibly cement the identity of a brand new place.
Producer: James T Green
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Selected by guest curator: Laura Marina Boria - An independent audio producer based between Texas and Puerto Rico with an interest in stories about our relationship with places, sound or gender.
“Transformation Through Repetition is a piece about inhabiting a new place and the routines that make a place ours. I like the expanded use of loops to show the thoughts and movements of the narrator, Jemma Rose Brown. It is playful and meta."
Where@bouts: The Magic Skates
Mad Genius (2016)
Mad Genius (US 2016)
11 min Episode 4 of 13
Where@bouts is the art "popcast" that remixes the world. Found sound addicts Mad Genius build stories linked to a location's ambience. Our guests conduct their world like a song.
Jeanne Du Snark brings the pain for the Mad Rollin’ Dolls, a roller derby league in Madison, Wisconsin. She does this while living with her own persistent pain. “When I have my skates on, I’m awake and I’m alive. I don’t have to take drugs.” We recorded Jeanne’s world, remixing her skates into an arena-shaking stomp. “You could get hit from anywhere. Just be ready.”
Producer: Mad Genius
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Selected by our guest curator: Jesse Lawson - Audio Producer, Sound Designer + Facilitator
“I love how playful this piece is, it's really inspired my approach to sound design. 10/10 would recommend to a friend!”
Afrikan: Congo is Bleeding Part 1
AMBC (GHAN 2021)
Drc. Jaèy, for the AMBC (GHAN 2021)
17min Episode 1 of 5
In August 1998, a war broke out in the Democratic Republic of The Congo - barely a years after the First Congo War (or what was refereed to as the African World War 1 ) of 1996. Over 6 million people have died - massacred, and millions more displaced. And till this day, this war continues. The reality of things in the DRC is horrendous, utterly barbaric and it's well-staged. The Congo is bleeding and it’s said to be a modern-day genocide perpetuated by some world class capitalists geared towards economic and financial benefits. Documenting and addressing relevant happenings in and affecting the African societies.