Transmissions
The ECCO #2: Kissing
Phoebe McIndoe (Uk/DE 2025)
Phoebe McIndoe (UK/DE, 2025)
6 min
Do you remember a special kiss?
Phoebe McIndoe is an award-winning radio journalist and co-producer of the podcast Telling Stories which featured in Bello Collective's top 100 Outstanding Podcasts for 2021 and was nominated for most Inspiring podcast in the The International Women's Podcast Awards.
Her work has been nominated for Prix Marulic, HearSay and 60 Sec Radio. At the ARIAs in 2022, her co-production ‘Lights Out: The Last Taboo’, won the Silver Award for Best Factual documentary and her more recent work County Lines was nominated by DIG's awards for outstanding international journalism.
Phoebe also runs her own audio playground project called Small Audio Art, where she regularly invites people to submit playful audio pieces.
Produced by Phoebe McIndoe
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The ECCO #2: Midtown
Nadia Mehdi (UK, 2025)
Nadia Mehdi UK, 2025)
5 min
A woman walks around Midtown, Manhattan, searching for a lost childhood memory.
Nadia Mehdi is a documentary artist living in Sheffield - audio storytelling is the most prominent string in her bow but she also works with collage and textiles. She is the recipient of a Rising Star award from the British Podcast Awards, and Best New Producer at the Audio Productions Awards, as well as Arts Council Funding. She has produced work for BBC Radio 4 (Intrigue, Sideways, Archive on 4, Short Cuts) as well as Turner Classic Movies, Africell and the Leo Baeck Institute.
Produced by Nadia Mehdi
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The ECCO #2: Der Hochzeitspakt /The Wedding Promise (German)
Gina Steffens, (DE 2025)
Gina Steffens (DE, 2025)
10 min
Was passiert, wenn dich ein Versprechen einholt?
What happens when a promise catches up with you?
Regina (Gina) Steffens is an audio and video journalist at DER SPIEGEL. She studied media law in Cologne and Istanbul. She completed her training as an editor at the German School of Journalism in Munich, subsequently working as a freelance reporter for Deutschlandfunk, the ARD Brussels studio, and various podcast projects e.g. for Audible Germany. In 2020, she was named one of the top 30 up-and-coming journalists under 30.
Since February 2021, Regina has been working at SPIEGEL as a reporter for the podcast "SPIEGEL Daily" and as host of the podcasts "Climate Report" and "Crypto Guru,". In 2024 she started as a host of the daily video and audio format "Shortcut" and became a fellow of the George Weidenfeld Fellowship in London.
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The ECCO #2: Night Without Memory (German)
This Watcher, (CH 2025)
This Wachter (CH, 2025)
3 min
During nighttime sleep, the brain organizes memories of the day. The night itself remains in darkness for us. What comes to light when a recording device is running during sleep? An unexpected soundtrack of memory.
This Wachter is an audio maker based in Bern, Switzerland. After many years in print and radio journalism, he started his own audio production studio and creates audio documentaries for media companies, for one of the most popular Swiss rock bands ("8424 Züri West"), for an evening stage show or just for fun. A long time ago, he wrote a thesis on the ecology of alpine grasshoppers - the acoustic world has always fascinated him. To clear his head, he works as a part-time bus driver in the city of Bern.
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The ECCO #2: A Prayer, A Poem
Julie Censullo (US 2025)
Julie Censullo (US, 2025)
3 min
A Prayer, A Poem is an exploration of routine as ritual. What we do in daily routines shapes who we are — and with careful, intentional repetition, routines can shape who we become. This piece weaves together a past memory with the sounds of a daily morning routine to reflect on a future that lies ahead.
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The ECCO #2: My Body And The Women Who Touched It
Mae Nagusko (US 2025)
Mae Nagusko (US, 2025)
2 min
Mae Nagusky is an audio maker based in Brooklyn. Her work is steeped in observation and play. She's pursuing a masters in audio journalism and just released a podcast called Creatures of the Wind. Before that, Mae has worked on shows such as Other Men Need Help and Brave Little State.
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Sounds Like Lisbon
Eloïse Bertil (UK, 2025)
Eloïse Bertil (UK, 2025)
13 min
A sonic postcard from Lisbon, told through the perspective of artists in residence at Prisma Estudio during July. Blending soundscapes and interviews, this audio piece explores how the city's atmosphere has influenced their inspiration and creative process, with each sound filtered through their artistic minds. A sensory journey through Lisbon, seen (and heard) through outsider eyes.
Produced by Eloïse Bertil
XMTR Radio Hour #37: Festival Retrospective 1
Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
60 min / Episode 37 of 37
This XMTR Radio Hour is a retrospective from the XMTR Audio Arts Festival that took place in St Leonards on Sea in East Sussex on the last weekend of September. This is a little taste of the scope of sonic storytelling, radio art and immersive audio that people got to experience by the sea that weekend.
1. Across the Sea by Camilla Hannan (Extract)
2. Safe + Sound The Sea: Running into the Sea - Arlie Adlington
3. Safe + Sound The Sea: The Wave - Sarah Cuddon
4. Safe + Sound The Sea: 10 Green Bottles - Susie Dolton + Kit Callin
5. Radio Limbo Live - Pete Hazell (Limbo Tapes) (Extract)
6. The Golden Tape: Visión Quest with Grandmother Margarita by Juliana Bohoquez Pinzon
7. The Golden Tape:The Perfect Lead by Nico Ganzalez Wisler
8. Tom’s House by Jacob Dwyer (Extract)
9. Audio Flux Circuit 6: Rubber Bands (most commonly beige), by Joyce De Badts & Frederik De Clercq
10. My Bip Bip Neighbour (blue, like Nico’s eyes) by Sarah-Lou Lepers
11. Audio Flux Circuit 6: POTATO (aquamarine), by Emma Alabaster, with Tenaz and Rafa
12: Surface Bruit Live by DinahBird (Extract)
For the full versions of the work and more from the XMTR Festival head to xmtr.fm/festival
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Kumbha Mela 2025 and Planets Aligned
Bhavisha Patel (UK, 2025)
Bhavisha Patel (UK 2025)
10 min
Kumbha Mela 2025, a spiritual festival observed in India, was the world's largest gathering, it also coincided with the planetary alignment. This is a soundscape, featuring recordings from pilgrims and NASA recordings of the planets.
Produced by Bhavisha Patel
Shine A Light On The Darkness (In French, English and German)
Candice Savoyat (FR, 2025)
Candice Savoyat (FR, 2025)
53 min
80 years after the end of World War II, what remains?
Candice Savoyat retraces her family’s footsteps. First to Chemnitz, Germany, where her maternal grandmother was born to a Polish Jewish father, before fleeing to France. Then to Mauthausen, Austria, where her paternal great-grandfather, who had joined the Resistance, was deported.
By connecting these two family histories, she brings them into dialogue with the present, gathering the voices of strangers met along the way.
An intimate and universal journey, to be listened with headphones.
Producer by: Candice Savoyat
Music by: Amédée de Murcia
Mixing: Jules Wisocky
Translation: Céline Gay A Stim Matter production With the support of the City of Geneva, the FSRC, the Loterie Romande, and Phonurgia Nova as part of its annual support program for radio and sound projects