Transmissions
XMTR Festival Selects: Radio Limbo LIVE in St Leonards...
Pete Hazel (UK 2024)
Pete Hazell (UK 2024)
60min
Behold the first-ever Radio Limbo live show, recorded at XMTR festival 2024 in St. Leonard's-on-Sea. Host Limbo Pete guides the audience through selected gems from the Limbo archive. But as the show reaches the control room of Outpost 83, The Operator becomes intrigued by Pete's curious connections between the town’s history and Limbo lore. Could the seaside town’s saintly namesake hold a deeper, unsettling connection to Old Leonard’s disappearance?
Produced by Pete Hazell
Listen to more
XMTR Festival Selects: Moving House, Moving Kitchen
Lucy Dearlove (2023)
Lucy Dearlove (2023)
35 min
This clip is a new mix from oral history recordings from 2013, Mary Hooper made for 'Last Station' a large scale Touring Project looking at the cultural history and legacy of UK Floating Lightships, devised by herself and Elise Liversedge .
Produced and presented by Lucy Dearlove for the podcast Lecker
XMTR Festival Selects: County Lines | Episode 1 | Their World
Phoebe McIndoe (UK 2024)
Phoebe Mcindoe (UK 2024)
41 min
This powerful and highly personal series investigates how criminal networks systematically exploit vulnerable young people, transforming them from ordinary schoolchildren into drug dealers through manipulation, violence, and trauma. An estimated 50,000 children in Britain have been groomed into county lines drug trafficking, yet their stories remain largely hidden.
In this first episode, Phoebe McIndoe hears from those caught in the web of county lines. Between the promise of quick money and the reality of extreme violence, we reveal how Britain's drug trade is being built on the backs of traumatized children, and why the system often fails to protect them.
Presented by Phoebe McIndoe
Produced by Redzi Bernard and Phoebe McIndoe
With original music by Phoebe McIndoe
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
XMTR Festival Selects: Lightning Refuge
Kristina Loring (US 2025)
Kristina Loring (US 2025)
4 min
What are the gems that lie beneath the wounds? Ruha's family escaped violent riots in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1983, just three months before she was born. They were targeted because they were Tamil, the minority. Their successful survival could be seen as a string of coincidences, the result of deep human connections. Or was it the result of supernatural intervention?
This piece was created for The Golden Tape project by Kristina Loring, a mixtape of human essence where artists share their secretive and beloved pleasures, grief, ritual, and desires that they want to keep hidden from AI commodification.
Producer by: Kristina Loring
Voices: Ruha Devanesan and AJ Devanesan
XMTR Festival Selects: Majd’s Diary: 2 Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl
Sarah Kate Kramer (US, 2016)
Sarah Kate Kramer (US 2016)
25 min
Majd Abdulghani is a young woman from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, who dreams of becoming a scientist — while her parents hope to arrange her marriage. Radio Diaries sent Abdulghani a recorder — and she ended up chronicling her world for over two years.
Produced by Sarah Kate Kramer and Joe Richman
Assisted by Nellie Gilles
Edited by Deborah George and Ben Shapiro
XMTR Festival Selects: Three Rings of Sounds: San Antonio, TX
Radiophonic Institute (UK 2025)
Radiophonic Institute (UK 2025)
10 min
This field recording project sprang out of the Soundscapes class offered in the Spring of 2025 at the University of Texas at San Antonio (taught by Justin Boyd
Assistant Professor, New Media and Sculpture, Art and Art History). As part of the curriculum students were asked to propose ideas around what San Antonio sounds like. Being a large city, they decided to split the recordings into three zones: The Outer Ring is based around Highway Loop 1604, The Middle Ring is based around Loop 410 and the Inner Ring is the downtown/near downtown area. The sounds you hear represent the students' travels within the city and provide a personal snapshot of San Antonio in the spring.
Produced by Louis Gillespie and Ilia Rogatchevski
Student field recordists: Kayla Byrd, Jaila Castro, Ruby Coker, Alma Cuellar Vazquez, Isabelle Davis, Sep Garcia, Elroy Kay, Nina Lemire, Bryce Mcgowan, Andrew Mendoza, Carmen Montoya, Alyssa Narvaez, Aniyah Nick, Aaron Olivarez, Noah Pitman, Kendell Price, A’Isha Walker, Laurel Westphal.
Instructor: Justin Boyd; assisted by Charlotte Irakunda
Mixed by: Justin Boyd and Charlotte Irakunda
XMTR Festival Selects: Transition
Kalli Anderson (US, 2023)
Kalli Anderson (US, 2023)
10 min
A multi-voice, experimental documentary featuring excerpts from SIMULA, an 8.2-channel sound installation by apè Aliermo and mixed and mastered by Rose Bolton. This composition includes sound recorded during three anonymous births and electromagnetic sound recorded in a hospital during one of the births. The voices you hear speaking are Redzi Bernard, Becky Kenna, Amy Macfarlane and Andrea Gummo.
Produced by Kalli Anderson, apè Aliermo and Rose Bolton
Edited by Eleanor McDowall
XMTR Festival Selects: The Spittal
Camilla Hannan (AU 2024)
Camilla Hannan (AU 2024)
10 min
Composition made from field recordings made in and around Glenshee and the Cairngorms National Park Scotland in July 2024
Produced and recorded by Camilla Hannan
XMTR Festival Selects: Making Utopia
Mitra Kaboli (US 2025)
Mitra Kaboli (US 2025)
39 min
Making Utopia is an experimental oral history about Mount Lebanon in upstate New York. This story explores a single tract of land that has repeatedly drawn communities seeking to create their own perfect world.
The narrative weaves together the stories of five individuals from different eras and communities connected to this remarkable place. While Mount Lebanon is most famously known as the central ministry for The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as The Shakers, the mountain's story extends far beyond this well-documented chapter.
Through these interconnected histories, Making Utopia investigates a compelling question: What mysterious qualities draw idealistic communities to this particular place, generation after generation?
Producer & Reporter: Mitra Kaboli
Production Manager & Editor: Jess Shane
Additional Editorial Support: Jackson Roach, Liza Yeager, and Signal Hill
Singers: Annabel Lee, Fiona Feng, Jacqui Cornetta, Kira Josefsson, Rider Alsop, Carly Richman, Savannah Strenz, Hanna Johansson, Sanna Samuelsson
Archival Audio Courtesy of Soundings Mindful Media archive, by Dean & Dudley Evenson.
Making Utopia is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
XMTR Festival Selects: In A Cowshell
Miri Berlin (DE 2025)
Miri Berlin (DE 2025)
9 min
The electroacoustic composition „In A Cowshell“ is based on field recordings that capture the sonic microcosm of a cowshed, interweaving and abstracting its sound world. It follows the course of the milking process — from the magical stillness as the cows enter and take their places, to the rhythmic drive of the machines, drawing you in — gradually giving way to calm again as the milking ends. Finally, the cows leave the barn, guided by the farmers’ calls back to the pasture — marking the close of the piece.
Produced by Miri Berlin