Transmissions
In The Dark What’s New: Dear Mother
Jerry Birch (UK 2024)
Jerry Birch (US 2024)
6 min
A contemplation on life as a son clears his mother's flat.
Produced by Jerry Birch during the In The Dark Short Feature course, taught by Nina Garthwaite.
In The Dark What’s New: The Lost Son
Julianne Chandler (US 2024)
Julianne Chandler (US 2024)
11 min
A father's 27-year search for his son, who was taken from him at birth.
Produced by Julianne Chandler.
In The Dark What’s New: The Diaries of Netovicius the Vampire
Hugo Martin (US 2024)
Hugo Pierre Martin (US 2024)
6 min
A piece about vampires, as well as recovery — from trauma, from alcoholism, from cults, just from life.
Produced, written and performed by Hugo Pierre Martin
In The Dark What’s New: Hacking Wagner Act 3 Scene 5
Kjersti G. Andvig & Ioana Mandrescu (NO/BE 2024)
Kjersti G. Andvig & Ioana Mandrescu (NO/BE 2024)
43 min
A wacky reimagining of Wagner’s opera “Die Meistersingers von Nurnberg”, where all the instruments, leitmotivs, soloists and choirs are replaced with with 10,000 individual samples of human voices from famous people.
Composed by: Kjersti G. Andvig & Ioana Mandrescu
In The Dark What’s New: Money
Matt Pope (UK 2024)
Matt Pope (UK 2024)
8 min
A musical remix of the words of Germaine Greer and Martin Amis.
Produced by Matt Pope.
In The Dark What’s New: Friends of the Wall
Evan Green (UK 2024)
Evan Green (UK 2024)
13 min
Every Friday, a small group of volunteers paint red hearts on the National Covid Memorial Wall, in the heart of Westminster. As the world moves on, why do they keep coming back?
Producer - Evan Green
In The Dark What’s New: The Sounding Bell
Composed by Garling Wu and Jessie Leov (NZ 2024)
Garling Wu and Jessie Leov (NZ 2024)
6 min
A composition of field recordings, voice, piano and cello, made in response to the climate crisis. "The Sounding Bell" shifts freely between the concrete and abstract, moving from the real to the imagined to the surreal. Many sounds were recorded in Toyama, an urban city in Japan surrounded by mountains, rivers, rice fields and the sea.
Composed by Garling Wu and Jessie Leov
Things You Don’t Hear at a Podcast Conference
Lina Prestwood (UK 2024)
Produced by Lina Prestwood (UK 2024)
54 min
Is it an alternative keynote? A lament? A provocation? Or an incitement to revolt? You decide.
With more than a whiff of the corporate in an industry that appears to champion and bolster the indie spirit, some audio conferences can feel like deeply incongruent spaces. Keynotes are usually about markets, ad revenue and content buckets from men (and it is usually men) who appear to have been born in the boardroom - and the big story they tell is of the exciting growth! growth! GROWTH! of the audio space. They value our small shows and our brilliant creativity, they tell us. Bring us your best ideas, they say.
Yet, that’s often not what it feels like for many of the producers in that very audience. Right now, being an audio producer has never been harder, more volatile or more exhausting. And if your show doesn’t come with a dead body or celebrity at the centre of it, it can feel nigh-on impossible to get away.
So, with that incongruence in mind, for the inaugural XMTR audio festival, Scenery Studios asked a selection of producers and creative audio champions to share how they’re really, truly navigating being creative producers in the podcast industry in September 2024.
And that’s EXACTLY what we got - and way, way more - from:
Talia Augustidis // Jasmin Bauomy // Benbrick // Davy Gardner // Sarah Geis // Axel Kakoutié // Starlee Kine // Anna Sinfield // Julie Shapiro // Shreya Sharma // Deborah Shorindè // Ross Sutherland
Just like the live audience at the XMTR festival, follow along with this handout - it shares the questionnaire they responded to, their biogs, the two questions we asked the audience after – and the responses we gathered from a brainstorm about how we might start to better advocate for the creative health of our podcast industry.
It will live here for three weeks on the XMTR Listen Page / Player until 5th November
Transcript available here.
Producer: Lina Prestwood (Scenery Studios) @scenerystudiosltd
Where is my Mind?
Molly-Rose Crossley (UK 2024)
Molly-Rose Crossley, (UK 2024)
11 min
What is it like to living with a condition which turns your mind against you? Having thoughts that go against your morals, ethics and heart? This condition is called POCD, which stands for Pure-OCD. It’s the sibling of the more popularly known OCD and comes with its own unique set of struggles and traits which can be incredibly distressing for those who have it.
We have spoken to someone who has lived with this condition all their life. Most recently the obsessions made her believe she had killed her best friend, who passed away from cancer.
How has she overcome this and what does the future hold when your mind can be your worst enemy?
Produced by Molly-Rose Crossley
The Magic of Waves
Eve Marie Bouche (FR 2023)
Eve Marie Bouche (FR, 2023)
3min
“I discovered that I had magical powers, the powers to transform the world's soundtrack, to make it a better place to live...”
The magic of waves is an English adaptation of "La magie des ondes" (1rst prize - Short forms category - Grand Prix Nova Romania 2023, 3rd prize - UK International Radio Drama Festival 2023).
Produced by Eve Marie Bouche