Transmissions
From the Center Out - Archiving Black Dance In The U.S
Laura Marina Boria + Ana Cecilia Calle (US 2021)
Laura Marina Boria + Ana Cecilia Calle (US 2021)
15 min
Gesel, a choreographer living in Austin, Texas, walks us through solos that a hip-hop dancer and an expressionist dancer taught her over 10 years ago. "From the Center Out - archiving Black dance in the U.S." is about how a dancer's body remembers and what those memories sound like. During rehearsal, we're transported to scenes from the solos and we experience the stories and emotions driving them.
As Gesel dances, she talks and through her voice we experience her movement in a visceral sometimes uncomfortable way. If you’ve ever wondered how dance could be represented just through sound, this piece does exactly that.
Submitted to XMTR
Production + Editing by Laura Marina Boria
Production + Sound Design Ana Cecilia Calle
Tape Letters: A Cassette Tape Love Story
Modus Arts (UK 2021)
Modus Arts (UK 2021)
15min Episode 3 of 6
Tape Letters shines a light on the practice of recording and sending messages on cassette tapes by Pakistani migrants who settled in the UK between 1960 and 1980. In this six-part documentary we listen to first-hand accounts of these migration stories through original recordings, interviews with their Britain-born families and commentary by Tape Letters founder and director Wajid Yaseen.
This episode features a special story of a soon-to-be-married couple, who got to know each other more deeply and fell in love entirely through sending cassette tapes to each other between Pakistan and the UK for over 5 years. Telephones were usually expensive and not private, which is why cassettes were their chosen method of communication. We also discuss the retention and loss of cassette tapes, and therefore stories, over the years as people either held onto tapes for sentimental or evidential reasons or threw them away as they simply looked to do some spring cleaning.
Presented by Wajid Yassen (Modus Arts)
Production and Sound Design Oliver Sanders
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Cassie and Corey: I Need Jam Now
Chris Hogg (UK 2020)
Chris Hogg (UK 2020)
13 min Episode 1 of 6
Cassie and Corey is a Drum & Bass Musical Podcast About Eating Disorders
It’s the night before his gastric-band operation and Corey is terrified. He’s 16 years old, weighs 300 pounds and has a BMI of 60*. However, if Corey doesn’t have the operation, his hypertension will literally make him blind. None of this stops him from stealing, in the dead of night, an electric motor-scooter from the hospital. He picks up his best friend Cassie, a recovering anorexic. Like Corey, Cassie has found solace in the jungle beats and liquid rhythms of D’n’B and they toast together all. the. time.
Music by GTA – Girls Take Action Music
Written by Chris Hogg
Produced and Directed by John Wakefield and Jeremy Mortimer
Featuring Tuwaine Barrett , Harriet Main, Yinka Awoni, Jude Akuwudike
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Time and Tide Museum : Migration, Heritage and Belonging
Oliver Payne at Eastern Ear. (UK 2021)
Oliver Payne at Eastern Ear (UK 2021)
29 min Episode 2 of 6
Podcast featuring Dr Sarah Lowndes of Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth, interviewing members of the town's migrant communities. The podcast features excerpts from interviews with 30 people from first, second and third generation migrant communities in Great Yarmouth including people from China, Cyprus, East Timor, France, Germany, Ivory Coast, Lithuania, Madeira, Mozambique, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Russia, all of whom have made Great Yarmouth their home.
Produced by Oliver Payne from Eastern Ear
Sculpting Lives: Making Sculpture Public
Jo Baring and Sarah Victoria Turner (UK 2021)
Jo Baring and Sarah Victoria Turner (UK 2021)
1h02 min Episode 12 of 12
Some of the most globally well-known British artists are women sculptors. Conversely, the profession and practice of sculpture was seen by many throughout the twentieth century (and before) to be very much a man’s world. Often using heavy and hard materials, sculpture was not typically viewed as suitable for women artists. Sculpting Lives explores the lives and careers of these five female sculptors who worked (and are still working) against these preconceptions, forging successful careers and contributing in groundbreaking ways to the histories of sculpture and art.
Over the last year public sculpture has become a hugely controversial issue. No longer passive objects that we simply walk past on our streets, public sculptures are part of a vigorous debate about contemporary society – who is commemorated and represented, and why. In this episode we delve further into this subject, interviewing the people associated with our most recent sculpture commissions of and by women, speaking to critics and researchers who are reflecting on the historical dimensions of this contemporary moment, and the contemporary sculptors who are making objects that occupy our streets and squares.
Written and Presented by Jo Baring and Sarah Victoria Turner
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If I Go Missing the Witches Did It : Do Not Die First
If I Go Missing the Witches Did It (US 2021)
Pia Wilson for Realm (US 2021)
28 min Episode 1 of 9
When a Black writer goes missing, a white podcast host with a saviour complex takes up the cause of finding her and collides with a coven of influencers she suspects are responsible. After a summer in Westchester soaking up how the other half lives, Jenna Clayton has vanished without a trace. The only clue, a set of voice memos detailing an investigation into a group of influencers she suspected were using magic to achieve their means. Elise Edgerton is outraged that no one has found Jenna yet, and decides to take up the cause. But despite believing she is using her platform for good, Elise’s mission threatens to turn her into an even worse villain than a witch: a white saviour.
Written by Pia Wilson
Starring Gabourey Sidibe
Voiced by Sarah Natochenny and Tiana Camacho.
Produced by Realm Media
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Here is Where We Meet : Sunday Life At The Lake
Joel Wanek (US 2022)
Produced by Joel Wanek (US 2022)
50 min
Here is Where We Meet is a sonic celebration of Lake Merritt, a long-form documentary radio project broadcast on KGPC 96.9FM in Oakland. Each episode weaves together field recordings and interviews conducted around the Lake. HWWM explores the unique diversity and biodiversity found around Lake Merrit, the myriad ways that everyday Oaklanders engage with it and with each other, and ultimately affirms that even in this time of rapid gentrification and change, Lake Merritt and Oakland are a place for everyone.
Lake Merritt is Oakland's central social space. It is where you see the beautiful, singular diversity of the city interacting and commingling. On Sundays, this is on full display: bbqs, salsa dancing, drumming, and endless people strolling around. This episode is soundwalk around the Lake on a busy, warm Sunday, taking in the variety of sounds and speaking to people along the way.
Producer: Joel Wanek
Broadcast on KGPC 96.9FM
The Fifth Siren: Water
Fill Productions (IT / UK 2021)
FILL Productions (IT/UK 2021)
22 min Episode 1 of 6
When the high tide reaches Venice, four sirens are sounded to warn the population of the incoming danger. Each one of them represents a growing level of emergency, the level of the rising water. Yet there is no sound after the last siren. In 2019, when the storm hit the city, nothing could have prepared Venetians for the level of destruction it was going to bring.
On the 13th of November 2019 an exceptionally high tide hits Venice, creating damage the city has not seen before. People’s homes and shops are destroyed, the power cuts off and the city plunges into a dark, desperate night, trying to rescue what it can. Could this have been foreseen? Are weather anomalies really an exception, or perhaps just something that’s going to happen more and more often? As the world stands watching, we wonder: is this only a cautionary tale for Venice, or for the world?
Written and Produced by Marco Magini, Paolo Nelli, Giorgia Tolfo, Maddalena Vatti
Sound design by Alex Robertson
Narrator: Emily Naylor
Support by Italian Cultural Institute London
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Radio Ballad: On The Edge (1963)
BBC (1963)
Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Charles Parker (UK 1963)
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 explores the lives of teenagers in the 1960’s with voices of young people from all over the UK. If you’ve seen C’mon C’mon where Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny a radio journalist touring the US to talk to teens, this piece sounds even more ahead of its time.
Producer: Charles Parker
Music: Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
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The Process: What Is Financial Astrology?
Alanna Chance (UK 2022)
Alanna Chance / Somerset House (UK 2022)
29 min Episode 2 of 6
We’re used to experiencing the work of an artist in its final form – in the gallery, on the stage, or mixed on an album. But what has been the journey to get there? Somerset Housemersethouse.org.uk/ is home to a community of over 70 artists and makers.
This series goes behind the scenes of the process that some of these artists go through to get to the finished work.
Gary Zhexi Zhang is an artist interested in exploring the chimeric edges of global systems. Recently his research has taken him into the world of finance, where he’s been drawn to the sorts of speculative ways of thinking we might normally associate with the occult. Enter Financial Astrology, a way of forecasting the markets based on the positions of the cosmos. In this episode of The Process, Gary goes down the rabbit hole to try to understand this field and grasp why cryptocurrency in particular is so obsessed with the stars. He hears about some seismic events on the horizon from Christeen Skinner, a financial astrologist who has been working in the City of London for over 20 years and talks to social anthropologist and former equity fund manager, Philip Grant about how ideas of magic and finance overlap.