16 Curious Thoughts: A Cognitive Visual Art Exhibition

Stephen Richardson (AU 2025)

30 min

16 Curious Thoughts is a cognitive visual art exhibition created by Stephen Richardson, an Australian conceptual artist now living in London. Stephen is completing his PhD on cognitive visual art exploring the nexus between visual art and the spoken word based on the Cognitive Art Manifesto. 16 Curious Thoughts is a 30-minute broadcast of Stephen's new cognitive visual artworks. It is an immersive visual art audio experience. This is visual art you can listen to! The artworks are accompanied by a unique soundscape composed by Stephen. Stephen has a BA in Fine Arts and a Masters in Visual Art. He has exhibited in the USA (New York), Italy, France, Monaco, and Australia.

Produced by Stephen Richardson
Original music and soundscape by Stephen Richardson
Narration by Diana Carroll and Stephen Richardson

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Guided Hypnosis: Cabin Pressure

James Trice (UK 2025)

MajDuckworth · Guided Hypnosis: Cabin Pressure

4 min

A surreal guided hypnosis cassette to ease your fear of flying. Intercut with the hypnosis, we hear from a survivor, someone who lives with a deep, sometimes paralysing fear of flying, that lets you know you're not alone.

Best heard with headphones. No passport required.

Produced by James Trice

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Shorn Women

Chloe Turpin (UK/FR 2025)

33 min

At the end of WWII, around 20,000 women across France were accused of ‘horizontal collaboration’. Their alleged crime: sleeping with German soldiers. And their punishment was having their heads shaved and facing a public beating. Chloe’s grand-mother’s Émilienne was one of the shorn women of French liberation. Like many others at the time, her story was always shrouded in shame and mystery.

From uncomfortable conversations with family members in Brittany to a trawl through the French National Archives, Shorn Women looks at this controversial and overlooked historical event. Confronting official and personal narratives, it's a story about justice, taboo and the power of speech.

Produced, Written and Music by Chloe Turpin
Voices: James Davey, Naomi Bloomstein and George Roll

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Pasolini in Beirut - Uncovering Roots

Maxim Saakyan (UK 2025)

40 min

In 1974, three revolutionary elements came together in Beirut: a city at the centre of political and cultural change, a filmmaker who challenged ideas of queerness and power, and a cultural space called Dar el Fan. By 1975, all three were gone.

This episode of Uncovering Roots follows not just a moment in history, but a personal search for meaning. For Filmmaker Raed Rafei, uncovering Pasolini’s visit to Beirut became a way to explore memory, loss, and the traces of a city that no longer exists. Through letters, archives, and conversations, the episode pieces together a story that links the past to questions we’re still asking today, about queerness, solidarity, and what it means to remember.

Produces by Maxim Saakyan
Sound Design by Maxim Saakyan
Intro Music composed by Olivia Melkonian

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RadioActive: On Water - Liquidation

Meira Asher (IL/IRE  2024)

57 min

RadioActive - on Water is a six episode podcast series, exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist/group of artists who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio. ‘Liquidation’ by Meira Asher interrogates the politically engineered water crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Jordan Valley where Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian shepherd communities of access to water.

There is currently a structural water crisis in the Palestinian Occupied Jordan Valley. Not a climate or geographical water crisis, a deliberate socially and politically engineered crisis. Israel, since it invaded the West Bank in 1967, controls every public aspect of civilian life in the Jordan Valley. Israel administers two populations, the Israeli settlers and the indigenous Palestinian residents. Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian farming communities of access to fresh, clean and reliable water supplies, water that is needed for crops and herds, as well as for the Palestinian farmers and herders.

This can mean either not permitting them to be connected to municipal water supplies, despite the Israeli settlers having such access. It also entails not permitting Palestinian people to sink new wells on their own land, and blocking their access to existing wells and springs, either by fencing off the water source or destroying pipes bringing the water to the herders and farmers. The end result is frequently that either the farmers have to pay extortionate prices to purchase water from the Palestinian authority, or if they cannot afford this option they are forced to abandon their land and way of life.

Featuring the water truck driver, co-activists Natasha and Nitsan, shepherds community of Khalet Makhul, shepherd ‘W’, shepherds community of Hirbet Samra and Aref Daragmah.

English Transcript

Producer - Meira Asher
Translation from Arabic: Laila Abd El-Razaq
Introductory text: Liam Evans
Series - Co-curated by Stephen Shiell & Meira Asher, produced by Meira Asher. Episodes by Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White), Lisa Blackmore and Leonel Vásquez, RE-PEAT collective, Margarida Mendes, Carlos Monleon and Nathaniel Mann, and Meira Asher

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Two Dreams of Dolores

Patrick McNameeKing (US 2025)

13 min

On the shores of Lake Atitlan, Dolores, a Mayan healer, shares two dreams that shaped her life.

Producer - Patrick McNameeKing
Music - by Patrick McNameeKing

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Life In Progress

Phoebe McIndoe (UK/DE 2025)

6 min

Life in Progress is the story of Nanou Thassinda and her journey for belonging and acceptance in the UK. After Nanou's dad was murdered in The Democratic Republic of the Congo for publicly speaking-out against the government, Nanou lived as an asylum seeker for 11 years in and around London. In that time, Nanou found hope and empowerment, experimenting with english and the specific regional dialects she encountered as she moved from door to door. This piece is about finding voice, hope and the ever-transitory nature of life.

Produced by Phoebe McIndoe
Voice & Story: Nanou Thassinda.
Executive Editor: Ingo Kottkamp

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The Man At The Top Of The Stairs

Hugo Pierre Martin (US 2025)

41 min

The Diaries of Netovicius the Vampire is a fantasy audio series. It’s an investigation of trauma. What is time to an immortal vampire? What is trauma? How does trauma shape someone so isolated and misunderstood, and how does it shape all of us? How do we recover, and who do we need in our lives to do so?

This is the final episode of the 5th season
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Produced, written and performed by Hugo Pierre Martin

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep34: Radio Commons

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)

60 min / Episode 33 of 33

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour hands the reins over to film maker and sound artist Ian Nesbitt from Radio Commons, on online platform of sonic interventions seeking to practice solidarity by building collective agency. It is an assembly of audio works structured as an online archipelago. The show features a selection of sound pieces from several of these mythical islands, all connected by the watery themes works from a new sonic island « Counterflows » 

This show brings together exempts of the following works: Thread by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Dark Sloshing  by Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sames, Sonic Rituals by Alifiyah Imani, An Ear to River – Counterflows by Blanc Sceol, Solemn Debt by Akka (Shareeka Helaluddin),  Cockles of my Heart by Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe). 

1. Thread by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/thread/

2. Dark Sloshing – Traffic into Crayfish by Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sames
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/dark-sloshing/

3. Sonic Rituals by Alifiyah Imani
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/sonic-rituals/

4. An Ear to River – Counterflows by  Blanc Sceol
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/an-ear-to-river-counterflows/

5. Solemn Debt by Akka (Shareeka Helaluddin)
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/solemn-debt/

6. Cockles of my Heart
Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe)
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/cockels-of-my-heart/

XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
Hosted by Ian Nestbitt

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I Just Needed Something A Little Bit... More

Charlotte Petts (UK 2024)

Charlotte Petts · I just needed something a little bit... more

12 min

An immersive, multi narrative piece about how it feels to walk a really, really long way. Featuring voices from others who have gone before her, Charlotte tries to find some peace and a sense of her own path on the South West Coast Path.

Created as a final piece for In the Dark audio course. With huge thanks to Nina Garthwaite, Laura Mitchison, Lorna Flutter and Verity de Cala for their ears and input.

Produced by Charlotte Petts

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