Transmissions
Festival Selects: Habitual Rituals
Lucinda Guy and Alice Armstrong (UK, 2025)
Stellaria Media (UK 2025)
10 min
A composition made from the sounds recorded by participants of The Habitual Rituals Workshop at XMTR Festival, paying attention to habits and routines of how we open doors, walk across a room, use kitchen implements, pour water and other everyday moments. Participants recorded themselves repeating familiar actions, along with descriptions of what they were doing to create a a generative, multi-speaker sound installation that allows rhythms of existence to emerge and interact.
Stellaria Media are based in South Devon and within two community radio stations, Soundart Radio (Totnes) and Skylark (Dartmoor). Our background as artists means we are always exploring, listening, responding and creating together with communities
Produced by Lucinda Guy and Alice Armstrong
Jarman's Garden
Sherre DeLys (AU, 2000)
Sherre DeLys (AU, 2020)
15 min
Throughout a long illness towards the end of his life, filmmaker Derek Jarman put extraordinary passion into creating his unique garden at the edge of the sea in the shingle desert of Dungeness, Kent.
Years later, Sherre DeLys made this audio portrait of the garden - at the time, still tended by Derek’s partner Keith Collins. Keith stayed, he said, because he was held by the silence.
Mirroring Jarman’s own improvisatory process of assembling flotsam and jetsam from this rugged landscape to create the garden, the radio piece weaves manipulated recordings of wind playing on its sculptures created from old tools, chimes fashioned from rusted metal post-war debris and other features of the place, with Keith’s reflections, and music by Chris Abrahams to create an impressionistic rendering of a garden that Jarman described as haunted by paradise.
Produced by: Sherre DeLys
A Climate Revolution with Songs
Jess Hamilton (AU 2025)
Ned Hartford (US 2025-6)
19 min
Episode One of the 12-episode, Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs, available wherever you get your podcasts.
Metra is an original musical fiction podcast about how we change the world. The show weaves myth, magic, and music to tell a story about the power of collective action—and about all we have that’s still worth saving. Featuring a Broadway cast including Tony nominee Jeannette Bayardelle, Fred Inkley, Cherrye J. Davis, Corinna Schulenburg, and many more.
Written and created by The Hartfords.
The year is 2043. The world is hot, water is scarce, the weather is unpredictable…and the fossil fuel industry continues to thrive. The wealthy are comfortable in their air-purified, cooled, humidified, superbly hydrated Bubble cities. But in a roadside bar on the Outside, an unlikely group of revolutionaries is about to demand a new story.
Script co-written by Emily and Ned Hartford
Dialogue directed by Emily Hartford
Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford
Sound Design and Sound Editing by Ned Hartford
All audio produced, mixed, and mastered by Ned Hartford
Communication Across The Field
Lindsay Bodanza (US, 2026)
Lindsay Bodanza (US, 2026)
26 min
Communication Across the Field asks how we understand an experience that feels like communication when no source can be identified. Beginning with a personal encounter involving four identical, overwhelming notes heard in the middle of the night, the piece draws on philosophy, psychology, and art to explore experiences that seem to arrive beyond familiar channels of perception.
Through Rudolf Otto’s concept of the numinous and reflections on attention and receptivity, it considers how we might honor the force of such encounters while remaining uncertain about their source or meaning.
The piece is Episode Seven of The Space Between: Beneath the Surface of Everything, an independently produced, eight-part cinematic audio essay series exploring consciousness, identity, perception, and the limits of human understanding.
Created by Lindsay Bodanza
Music and Sound Design by Joel Cox
Festival Selects: All-American Ruins: Sober
Blake Pfeil (US 2023)
Blake Pfeil (US 2023)
15 min
A multimedia travelogue where Blake Pfeil recounts experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and reimagines them through multimodal storytelling.
The cornerstone piece of the project is abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast, an award-winning audio series which guides listeners through immersive sonic fantasies, recreating experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and around the world. Along the way, the show asks critical questions about American history and culture, community, capitalism and economics, the environment, and mental health while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations as a tool for healing.
The show was recently featured as an Official Select at On Air Fest in Los Angeles, California. The finale for season two is the most personal journal yet. In the episode, which takes place at an abandoned brewery in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Blake reflects on his journey to sobriety, and how his spiritual connection to abandoned places pulled him through the darkest time in his life
Produced by Blake Pfeil
Music by Indigo Days, Lotus, Joseph Beg, Lama House, and Brett Gregory
Featuring Isabel Wilder, Nik Magill
Festival Selects: All Under One Magnetosphere
Hannah Kemp-Welch + Oliver Sanders (UK 2025)
Hannah Kelp-Welch & Oliver Sanders (UK 2025)
28 min
Electromagnetic waves fill the universe, radiating from solar storms and bursts of lightning, but also from our electronic devices and infrastructures. Using simple, DIY tools, a community of audio enthusiasts translates these waves into sound, uncovering hidden sonic worlds.
Five dedicated ‘natural radio’ enthusiasts venture beyond the electromagnetic pollution of the city, tuning into the Earth’s natural static to reveal a rich, textured soundscape rarely heard.
Stephen McGreevy, a cult figure within this practice, shares stories of his recordings during the geomagnetic storm of 1989. Hannah Kemp-Welch travels to northern Norway in search of the electromagnetic waves of the aurora borealis, struggling to escape the omnipresent hum of the mains power grid. Alyssa Moxley captures the crackles of shooting stars in southern France; Matt Parker ventures into the National Radio Quiet Zone in Virginia, USA; and Anonea experiments with antennas from a remote location in northern Spain.
This audio feature encourages listeners to contemplate the vast, often invisible role electromagnetism plays in our daily lives. It invites us to look up at the sky and imagine radio waves bouncing off layers of the atmosphere, connecting us all under one magnetosphere.
Produced by Hannah Kemp-Welch and Oliver Sanders
Research & Development: Hannah Kemp-Welch
Editing & Sound Design: Oliver Sanders
Executive Producer: Lucia Scazzocchio
Special thanks to Anonea, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Tapper, Francesca Thakorlal, Matt Parker, Rob Stammes, Rebekah Breding, Ruth Stewart, Sébastien Robert and Stephen P. McGreevy.
A Social Broadcasts production for BBC Radio 4- Illuminated
Festival Selects: Shorn Women
Chloe Turpin (UK/FR 2025)
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
Festival Selects: Gigi Riva and I
Cristina Marras (IT 2025)
M. Cristina Marras (IT 2025)
12 min
A story about childhood, wonder, memories and (a bit) about mischievous revenge. Well, the story is about the soccer player Gigi Riva who became an actual god in the mind of all Sardinians, my fellow people, when he "led the very modest soccer team of Cagliari to win the Serie A championship in the 1969-70 season." All I can tell you is to advise you that this is not a story about sport, but I’d rather not spoil the plot as I am certain it will surprise and enchant, if you have 12 minute to spare.
Produced by M. Cristina Marras
Festival Selects: Radio Limbo Live From St Leonards-on-Sea
Pete Hazell/Limbo Tapes (UK,2025)
Pete Hazell / Limbo Tapes (UK, 2025)
47 mins
Radio Limbo returns to St Leonards for another guided audio-trip — an unusual quest through original music, collage, soundscapes, and disembodied voices. The show celebrates radio as a shape-shifting portal to other worlds, a wilderness of its own, and its unique qualities of companionship. Join Pete for this curation and performance of surreal scenes and sonic experiments, using local intrigue and lost histories as the jumping-off point.
Pete Hazell is a music and audio artist based in Bristol. His various projects fall under the ‘Limbo’ umbrella, known for their signature blend of curious music, sound design, storytelling, and collage. His cassette label Limbo Tapes focuses on releasing music, monthly residency on Bristol’s Noods Radio is both a mix of new , and in 2024, Pete self-produced and released the audio series Limbo Calling as a podcast, expanding the Limbo universe through character, voice work, and surreal audio fiction.
His latest focus is performance — bringing Limbo sonics to a live audience.
Limbo Tapes
Written, recorded and produced by Pete Hazell
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Festival Selects: The Gold Line 2026
Dinahbird (FR 2026)
Dinahbird (FR, 2026)
27 min
High-frequency trading uses complex algorithms to scan multiple markets and execute orders in microseconds, demanding the fastest, most direct links between exchanges. In 2012 traders began using microwave radio networks, relayed by antennas on tall, often unnoticed structures, to send data between the New York Stock Exchange’s data centre in Mahwah, New Jersey, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in Aurora, West Chicago, in about 4.01 milliseconds along a route insiders call the Gold Line.
Sound artists Dinah Bird and Jean-Philipe Renoult, fascinated by these antennas and the paths they forge, have been documenting the physical routes the money makes since 2016.
In 2018 they made a ‘slow’ high frequency road trip along the Gold Line that took 6 weeks. Following towers in the Allegheny mountains of rural Pennsylvania, past Amish homesteads, through the flat plains of Ohio and past the immaculately mowed lawns of Indiana, they made extensive location recordings, both next to the antennas and by tuning into their frequencies over the airwaves.
This is an invitation to the listener to reimagine the movement of money. What exactly does this sound like? We hear the static pops and dissonant hums of radio signals intercut with the wind blowing in the antenna wires and the whirring of huge ventilation systems as we drive along Interstate 80. The road trip is punctuated by interventions from experts such as sociologist Donald Mackenzie who tells us how HFT works and just who takes part in these 'speed races'.
With contributions from : Donald Mackenzie, Alex Pilosov, Night Owl and Stéphane Tyc.