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XMTR Radio Hour #43: The Power of Radio with Tom Roe
Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
60 min / Episode 43 of 43
This XMTR Radio Hour is a radio journey through 20th Century American Radio with radio pirate and sound art enthusiast Tom Roe. He co-founded 87X and free103point9 and the home for sound and radio art in Hudson Valley, New York State - Wave Farm. Tom is a radio artist, DJ and writer. He produces the weekly Donald Drumpf Theatre show and a regular all things radio and sound-art newsletter ’Turn on The News’. This is a personal history tour through the power of airwaves from comedy sketches to phone ins and everything in between.
Tracklist:
Spike Jones and His City Slickers, "The Sound Effects Man"
Orson Welles being interviewed the morning after his "War of the Worlds" broadcast in another great acting role.
Bill Cosby, "Chicken Heart" excerpt.
WFBR baseball radio call Bill O'Donnell, June 22, 1979.
WPLP excerpt of talk radio host Bob Lassiter.
Excerpt of interview by Tom Roe did with pirate radio operator Loni Kobres in 1997 shortly after the Federal Communications Commission came with a SWAT team and helicopters and a battering ram to shut down his radio station in Tampa, Florida.
The Donner Party, "Sickness." sung by Tom Roe
Scanner, "Turning the Dial" from "Warhol's Diary."
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Diana Deutsch's Phantom Words
Gabrielė Griciūtė and Andrius Mack Allosci (LT 2025)
Gabrielė Griciūtė and Andrius Mack Allosci (LT, 2025)
7 min
Diana Deutsch's Phantom Words is the 3rd track of Allosci's debut album Alloscillating, which was released on the 14th of April 2026.
Allosci is a Vilnius/Berlin-based experimental electronic music duo that is heavily rooted in found sound. Their compositions usually have a conceptual field recording foundation, however, for this track the duo worked with material found in a brilliant book they discovered in a charity shop in the UK. The book is called Musical Illusions and Phantom Words by Prof. Diana Deutsch. It is full of all sorts of different auditory phenomena, illusions and detailed explanations of how the human brain works. How human perception can sometimes be quite easily manipulated and tricked. With the author's permission, Allosci took Diana Deutsch's explanation of one of the illusions she invented (Phantom Words) and made a composition interpreting it. The illusion works by having two offset word fragments looping hard panned in a wide stereo field. Even though the fragments are nonsensical, after a while, the human brain starts trying to interpret them into words in all sorts of different languages and accents. Interestingly, sometimes people tend to hear words that are meaningful to them. The music of the track plays with prosody and explores human perception, by sometimes playing fragments of distant human voice recordings and manipulated ambiences, presented in an experimental electronic music context.
Field recordings, music, mix and master by Andrius Mack and Gabrielė Griciūtė
"Phantom Words" auditory illusion invented and explained by Prof. Diana Deutsch
Audio excerpt from Musical Illusions and Phantom Words (Prof. Diana Deutsch)
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SOIL: Rewilding the Underground | Part 1: The Story of Soil
Jess Hamilton (AU 2025)
Jess Hamilton (AU 2025)
40 min,
SOIL: Rewilding the Underground is a narrative audio documentary that gives a voice to the hidden life beneath our feet. It follows First Nations custodians, farmers, scientists and communities as they connect with the underground to turn degraded dirt back into living soils, in order to safeguard our climate, health, food security and biodiversity.
In Part 1: The Story of Soil, we follow the movement of organisms below ground as they interact to build the foundations for life. We hear how this ecosystem - and the way we have treated it - has driven the movement of human populations over millennia: from mass migrations, colonial expansion, displacement during the Dust Bowl era, and even systems of slavery.
Written/Created by: Freya Mulvey & Jess Hamilton
Produced by: Jess Hamilton
Sound design: Adam Connelly
Theme music: 'Daisies' by Cooee
Portland Dreams
Susanne Lambert (DE, 2025)
Susanne Lambert (DE, 2025)
4 min
Suzi Lamb first visited Portland in the early 2000’s, as part of a DIY west coast tour with a band from her, (at the time) home of Brighton UK.
When she saw the option to work with a piece of Portland audio for this latest Cities and Memory project, something resonated, connecting me to the idea of distance between then and now in my own life, and that of her bandmates. That sense of how things move forward, inevitably, but that an aspect can also remain, that can be conjured up, and reconnected with, like a talisman or a map.
Sonically, she was drawn to create a piece consisting of several distinct movements, utilising a broad range of sounds, and a narrative that draws in the listener. She welcomed in happenstance, and several aspects came about by what my former A’level art teacher would refer to as ‘a happy accident’, including some of the vocal work between Suzi and collaborator Nicky Rushton - these were nice surprises, and Ishe kept them in the final piece.
Elsewhere, she used small sections of the original recording, sometimes rhythmically, others atmospherically, and at others to inform melodic phrasing.
She called the work ‘Portland dreams’ in reference to the original audio, and in the way that a dream is a kind of memory, but can also be a vision for the future. Portland, or rather, the symbolism of Portland, can still be that place full of possibilities and freedoms she experienced for the first time back then, despite all the many changes in the world and herself since.
Produced and composed by Suzi Lamb
Main voice and voice recording Nicky Rushon.
XMTR Radio Hour #42: Tom’s House With Jacob Dwyer
Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
67 min / Episode 42 of 42
This XMTR Radio Hour features Tom’s House an audio drama created by British born - Amsterdam based artist Jacob Dwyer. After a short interview with Jacob, we enter Tom’s House with the meanderings of someone who’s returned home for the first time in 15 years. Walking up Haddon Drive he spots the house of an old friend, Tom. The front door is open, so he goes inside. Wandering around the empty Tudor cottage - making cups of tea, rearranging CD collections and zoning in on the minutiae of domestic space - he ruminates on ideas of emotional intimacy, friendship and grief.
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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The Limbotopia Workshop presents... The Widow
Pete Hazell (UK 2026)
Pete Hazell (UK 2026)
3mins
This was made as a promotional micro-drama for the album "Walk With The Militia" by Damos Room (Limbo Tapes 2026).
Inspired by the artist's world-building lore about a Horse Militia, and the title of the last track "Widows" I made this for their show on Radio Al Hara in celebration of the release.
It features the cloned voices of David McCallum, Georgia Ellis, William Conrad and Dick Bentley. In the debate about voice cloning technologies, I offer this in memory and admiration of those actors no longer with us, and the era of audio that they starred in.
Produced by Pete Hazell
Five and Twenty to Eleven
Pete Hazell (UK 2026)
Pete Hazell (UK 2026)
3 min
Inspired by a serendipitous late night listen, this was made for a recent In The Dark event in Bristol. The event was subtitled: The Sleepwalker's Guide To The City, featuring audio work by Dinah Mullen and Michelle MacMahon.
Late one night on the run up to the event, Pete stumbled across a BBC production of "Rope"By Patrick Hamilton, in which Rupert Cadell (played by Alan Rickman) delivers a melancholy monologue that focuses on the city at night.
It was just the kind of thing he was looking for and this resulting piece opened the second half of the event, held at The Wardrobe Theatre.
Produced by Pete Hazell.
Music by Dive Reflex Service
Slaughterhouse Road: Act 1
Jess Hamilton (AU 2025)
Jess Hamilton (AU 2025)
20 min
Slaughterhouse Road is a short and sweet, 3-part tragic alt-country australiana romantic horror musical podcast set in a jaded small town on the East Coast of Australia. If you like open mic night at your local pub, fresh hot snags and sweet young country romance, you might just like this little tale. Featuring original music from Tennessee Ham.
Written/Produced/Sound designed by Jess Hamilton.
Original music by Tennessee Ham
Muine Bheag -- Bagenalstown
Jack O'Driscoll & Mark Buckeridge (IRE 2025)
Jack O'Driscoll & Mark Buckeridge (IRE 2025)
28 min
This episode of Muine Bheag Arts Radio delves into the name of our town -- Muine Bheag/Bagenalstown -- through archival recordings and on-the-street interviews, in order to understand its complex and unique history. We meet with local historian John Murphy, students from two of the local primary schools and members of the community to understand their perspectives on the town’s dual name.
Muine Bheag Arts is an artist-run organisation based in a small town in County Carlow that engages with the local context to present projects in the public realm. Guided by values of collaboration and experimentation, Muine Bheag Arts invites dialogue between artists, audiences, community and place.
The programme includes exhibitions, workshops, events, residencies, publishing and radio broadcasts. These platforms provide opportunities for artists to research, test and make through close collaboration with the organisation and members of the local community.
Produced by Jack O'Driscoll & Mark Buckeridge
Edited by Jack O'Driscoll
Kreuzkölln
Samuel Robinson (UK 2026)
Samuel Robinson (UK 2026)
19mins
Kreuzkölln is a three-part audio drama following a personal and professional entanglement among three people over the course of a year.
Each part moves forward in time and shifts its narrative perspective: first told in the third person, then in the first, and finally in the second person, where the voice turns back on itself. As relationships overlap and shift, people find themselves closer to some, and further from others.
Rather than offering a single account of what happened, the piece presents different interpretations of the same events, shaped by position, responsibility, and emotional exposure. What feels reasonable or careful to one person is experienced as withholding, hurtful, or unfair by another.
Kreuzkölln is not concerned with who is right or wrong, but with how people make sense of situations from within them, and how personal relationships are affected when power, work, and intimacy become difficult to separate.
Written, produced, and edited by Samuel Robinson.
Music composed by Daniel Wilson.
The Narrator is voiced by Samuel Robinson. Franzi is voiced by Allie Cheroutes. Tom is voiced by Brian Stack. Simeon is voiced by Daniel Wilson. Sarah is voiced by Megan Kieldsen.
17 min
Kreuzkölln is a three-part audio drama following a personal and professional entanglement among three people over the course of a year.
Each part moves forward in time and shifts its narrative perspective: first told in the third person, then in the first, and finally in the second person, where the voice turns back on itself. As relationships overlap and shift, people find themselves closer to some, and further from others.
Rather than offering a single account of what happened, the piece presents different interpretations of the same events, shaped by position, responsibility, and emotional exposure. What feels reasonable or careful to one person is experienced as withholding, hurtful, or unfair by another.
Kreuzkölln is not concerned with who is right or wrong, but with how people make sense of situations from within them, and how personal relationships are affected when power, work, and intimacy become difficult to separate.
Written, produced, and edited by Samuel Robinson.
Music composed by Daniel Wilson.
The Narrator is voiced by Samuel Robinson. Franzi is voiced by Allie Cheroutes. Tom is voiced by Brian Stack. Simeon is voiced by Daniel Wilson. Sarah is voiced by Megan Kieldsen.