Awful Grace: The Treachery Of Sounds

The Champagne's Electric (US 2017)

32 min Episode 4 of 13

You’re never told what you’re hearing but through the sounds you have to piece together what it is that is happening. But is it correct? Have we been mislead? The haunting audio work still has me leaning in at the horror of what I’m hearing, a reality in real-time.

Awful Grace remains a mysterious and understated series of sound art, proving that a podcast can be whatever you want it to be.

Produced by The Champagne's Electric. Originally published for the podcast Awful Grace, or The Tolling of the Void Bell.

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Miss Time

Dinahbird (UK/FR 2011)

DinahBird · Misstime by DinahBird (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

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Radio Ballad: Song of a Road (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: The Everything Is Fine Forecast

Ewan Cameron  (UK 2022)

Randomly Generated Thought · Episode 8: The Everything Is Fine Forecast

7 min

The Shipping Forecast but it's you having a panic attack.

Produced and performed by Ewan Cameron as part of an ongoing podcast called Randomly Generated Thought. 

Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark

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In The Dark - Di Major

D Peterschmidt  (US 2020)

D Peterschmidt · Di major

5 min

An abstract take on the traditional public radio two-way format, D explores the relevance of names.

Produced by D Peterschmidt as part of Union Doc’s “Augmented Audio Realities”

Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark

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In The Dark: Static Winter - 83 and The Visitation

Pete Hazell  (UK 2021)

10 min

Somewhere in a remote outpost, amongst foul weather and radio static, a lone operator scans the bleak signals and reports his findings to HQ.

But why isn't HQ responding?

Is something trying to visit the outpost?

And Who's Leonard?

Improvised and sound designed by Pete Hazell 

Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark

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In The Dark - Penguin Dive

Hanna Brühwiler (DE 2021)

5 min

What is life like for a penguin? 

Put on your headphones and lose yourself as this composition takes you underwater to answer that question. 

Composed by Hanna Brühwiler using recordings from The Berlin Museum of Science’s Data Portal. 

The piece was made as part of the competition “Music Hackathon: Your Ocean Sound”. 

Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark

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The Balloon

Talia Augustidis (UK 2022)

T · The Balloon

5 min

Balloons are usually about celebration, yet this one represents so much more. This subtle and touching piece takes the listener into a deeply personal moment.

Producer: Talia Augustidis

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Transformation Through Repetition

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
Made for Earlid

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."

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep18 : The Devil Museum by Jacob Dwyer

Produced by Social Broadcasts / Jacob Dwyer (UK 2022)

60 min / Episode 18 of 18

The Devil Museum is a one man radio play, the audio diary of a man photographing all three-thousand of the museum’s devil sculptures. (And yes the museum exists, we looked it up)

For a number of reasons, however, the project cannot be completed. As the diary tracks these failings, the piece moves subtly into less tangible subjects such as boredom, isolation and loneliness.

Produced by Jacob Dywer on residency at Rupert (Lithuania) and contains original compositions by Kareem Lotfy.


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