Transmissions
Landed - The Family Farm
Farmerama (UK 2021)
Farmerama / Col Gordon and Katie Revell (UK 2021)
30 min
What if we’ve been getting this wrong?” Col Gordon is a farmer’s son from the Scottish Highlands. After a decade away, he’s finally returned to the place that he loves: his family farm. Now, he’s eager to start realising his vision for an agroecological future: a future in which rural areas are alive with culture, many more people work on the land, farms operate in sympathy with nature, and nutritious food is available to everyone in society. But now that he’s back, Col’s starting to wonder whether this vision can be achieved within the existing family farm model. Increasingly, it seems the odds are stacked against farms like his.
Many are struggling to survive, let alone to employ people and deliver good food affordably to local communities. As older farmers retire without succession plans, and their land is amalgamated into large industrial operations, the future of the small family farm looks pretty bleak. As he wrangles with all of this, Col stumbles across something that throws his vision – and his very understanding of farming – into doubt. What does it mean to say that “The family farm is a colonial concept”? And might this jarring idea be the key to understanding the problem – as well as its potential solutions?
Produced by Col Gordon and Katie Revell
Executive Producer Abby Rose
Music by Dagger Gordon and Col Gordon
XMTR Radio Hour Ep28: A swimming event, A Requiem, Toilets, Silence and Salt Beef
Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
60 min / Episode 28 of 28
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour celebrates works that have been submitted to xmtr.fm over the past year with an episode from Bristol based radio project Limbo Tapes' new podcast Limbo Calling, an exercise in mischief and the mundane from New York based Icelandic composer/sound designer Andrea Kristindottir, Berlin based photographer and audio story teller Miri Berlin takes on a haunting journey from intensive care unit to crematorium and musician and sound engineer Ivan Eastley contemplates silence.
Works featured:
1. Limbo Calling: Fear Swim
Pete Hazel (UK 2024)
https://limbotapes.podbean.com
2. Requiem for a Mother
Miri Berlin (DE 2023)
3. The Peephole
Andrea Kristinsdottir (US/ISL 2023)
4. Silence
Ivan Eastley (UK 2023)
5. Salt Beef and Carrots
Lucia Scazzocchio / Social Broadcasts (UK 2018)
https://soundcloud.com/socialbroadcasts/sets/cherrytree-chronicles
Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Over Westside
Emile Klein (US 2023)
Emile Klein (US 2023)
27 min
Over Westside is a meditation on psychogeography and relationship.
Musicians Carly Ptak and Twig Harper, known as Nautical Almanac, are long time residents of West Baltimore. The American noise music scene evolved within their home, T-Hill. West Baltimore is also where, in 2015, police officers killed Freddie Gray. Protests expanded from this point.
These recordings take place after the streets emptied back into homes. But a departed flame leaves a different heat in the walls. Thanks to contributors: Carly Ptak, Twig Harper, Davy Rothbart, Chiara Giovando, Andrew WK, Liz Armstrong, Xander marrow, Brian Chippendale, Max Eisenberg, WFMU, the people of West Baltimore, and all others who shared time.
Produced by Emile Klein
All-American Ruins: Sober
Blake Pfeil (US 2023)
Blake Pfeil (US 2023)
15 min
A multimedia travelogue where Blake Pfeil recounts experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and reimagines them through multimodal storytelling.
The cornerstone piece of the project is abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast, an award-winning audio series which guides listeners through immersive sonic fantasies, recreating experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and around the world. Along the way, the show asks critical questions about American history and culture, community, capitalism and economics, the environment, and mental health while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations as a tool for healing.
The show was recently featured as an Official Select at On Air Fest in Los Angeles, California. The finale for season two is the most personal journal yet. In the episode, which takes place at an abandoned brewery in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Blake reflects on his journey to sobriety, and how his spiritual connection to abandoned places pulled him through the darkest time in his life
Produced by Blake Pfeil
Music by Indigo Days, Lotus, Joseph Beg, Lama House, and Brett Gregory
Featuring Isabel Wilder, Nik Magill
Random Tape: Finding Chick Boyd
Random Tape (US 2023)
David Weinberg (US 2023)
9 min
A cabinet of auditory wonders for the 21st century from David Weinberg
The life and music of a reclusive balladeer.
Produced by David Weinberg
Music by Charles Boyd
Camlann - Ep1 Keep The Homefire Burning
Tin Can Audio (UK 2024)
Tin Can Audio & Ella Watts (UK 2024)
25 min Episode 1 of 6
One day, every apocalypse happened at once.
Follow three survivors and their dog as they try to understand what happened to the world, and build a home from the ashes.
Camlann is a post-apocalyptic fantasy series about the necessity of hope for survival. Dai, Morgan, Perry and their noble wolfhound Gelert venture out into the Welsh countryside to escape the devastation that hordes of folkloric monsters have wrought among the cities.
Not to mention the "Knights of the Round Table", a former university rugby team turned maniacal feudal lordship on the hunt for their Sir Peredur, and the witch Morgan Le Fay.
This haphazard group just want a safe haven, the means to survive, and a fire they can gather around at night and tell stories.
Written by: Ella Watts
Starring Tobias Weatherburn, Robyn Holdaway, Angharad Phillips, Nicole Miners, Paul Warren
Produced by Amber Devereux
Sound Design by Oliver Morris & Cai Gwilym Pritchard
Limbo Calling: Ep.1 ~ Fear Swim
Pete Hazel (UK 2024)
Pete Hazell (UK 2024)
20min
In this new series from Limbo Tapes, mysterious recordings from the Radio Limbo archives have been carefully restored. They reveal a curious world of voices, sounds and music through the dispatches of a solitary, unnamed radio operator.
Episode 1. Controversial water-based event “Fear Swim” is something of a nightlife myth. Founder & promoter Shirley Eelsworth reveals in an interview some of the backstory to this famous nightmare swimming party.
The Operator also reflects on a troubling visitation experience (see prologue) and enjoys a piece of music about a Crocodile's daughter.
Produced by Pete Hazell
Theme music by Alex Lupo. "Please Mr Crocodile" by Titus 12. with contributions from Sean Lee and Karen Dews.
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This is Chicago: The Secret
Supraphonic Studios (US 2023)
Stephen Pate and Ashlie Stevens (US 2023)
35 min
In Near North, a hospital visit reveals a secret second family nearby. Six miles as the crow flies.
This series of short audio portraits from Chicago draws from the long lineage of oral history recording in the city, perhaps inspired by the likes of Studs Terkel and the assumption that everyone has a story if you just ask.
Created and produced by Supraphonic Studios' Stephen Pate and Ashlie Stevens
XMTR Radio Hour Ep27: Earlid - Hubris and Humility with Joan Schuman
Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
60 min / Episode 27 of 27
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is dedicated to Earlid a gallery of evolving exhibits of sound art. US based Earlid founder and curator and seasoned radio practitioner Joan Schuman talks through a selection of five audio works that come under the theme Hubris and Humility. Works featured are by Bassel, Meira Asher, Evangeline Riddiford Graham and Joan Schuman.
Works featured:
1. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it
Myra Al-Rahim aka Bassel, 2019
https://www.earlid.org/posts/cycles-of-atrocity/
2. Cicatrix
Joan Schuman, 2008
https://www.joanschuman.com/hyperacousia/posts/cicatrix
3. Still Sleeping
Meira Asher, 2016
https://www.earlid.org/posts/meira-asher-still-sleeping
4. Dog Woman: An Interview
Evangeline Riddiford Graham, 2020
https://www.earlid.org/posts/dog-woman
5. The Hitman
Joan Schuman 2021
https://www.joanschuman.com/hyperacousia/posts/how-you-treat-them-is-what-you-are
Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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The Right to Happiness - At Times Seemingly Pleasant and Friendly
Irna Phillips ( US 1939)
Irna Phillips (US 1939)
13 min
A bit of fun from the Old Time Radio Archive complete with ‘soap’ advertising.
"The Right to Happiness," an American Old Time Radio Soap Opera created by Irna Phillips, was broadcast across the country from its creation in 1939 until its demise in 1960. Irna Phillips creation was originally a spinoff for Guiding Light character Rose Kransky.
The show premiered on NBC's Blue Network on Oct 16, 1939. However Rose seems to have kept her ties the Five Points suburb of Chicago, and the show soon began to revolve around the loves and trials of Carolyn Allen. Carolyn was the daughter of a magazine editor.