Transmissions
Promenade - Meadh
Andy Gaffney (IE 2023)
Andy Gaffney (IE 2023)
14 min
Promenade is a collection of stories from around the world dealing with memory and the stories they trigger from the sound of the sea reminding you of an old romance, the smell of a perfume in Paris making you yearn for home or a bar of soap reminding you of a loved one - memories can be triggered by the oddest of things
In Paris, a perfume maker ponders what scents she would use to create the fragrance of her own life.
Produced by Andy Gaffney
Written and Performed by Meabh McCurtin
Music used in this episode: Stephen Keech - Watermark Shimmer - Grace
What do Sounds Want: Bodies & Spaces
Radio Papesse (IT 2024)
ALMARE and Radio Papesse (IT 2024)
25 min
WHAT DO SOUNDS WANT is a 5-episode podcast about sound and about listening through a series of questions and intuitions Radio Papesse and ALMARE have shared while they working together on Life Chronicles of Dorothea Ïesj S.P.U., a sci-fi film & audio novel written and directed by ALMARE.
EPISODE 1 | Bodies & Spaces The sci-fi audio novel Life Chronicles of Dorothea Ïesj S.P.U. follows the story of researcher Dorothea Ïesj as she extracts and smuggles sound finds from the past. The world she lives in is inspired by pseudo-scientific theories such as archaeoacoustics (developed in the 19th century at the same time as the invention and development of recording technologies) which suggested the possibility of tracing acoustic phenomena of the past that remained “engraved” in matter. In our world, extracting sounds is currently impossible, but plausible and this hypothesis prompts reflection on its consequences in terms of social control and monitoring and these reflections bring to the surface questions about the political dimension of sound in public space.
The first episode of this podcast reflects on some of those questions and on how listening practices may be used as tools for critical thinking and for the tuning and re-tuning of power dynamics.
This is a fascinating audio essay and an excellent introduction for anyone wanting to engage in sound studies and theory behind sound and listening.
Narrated by Carola Haupt
Produced by ALMARE and Radio Papesse
Featuring the voices of Reem Shadid, Juliette Volcler, Giada Dalla Bontà and Brandon LaBelle
Ways of Knowing: Cosmic Visions - Moon Stories
The World According to Sound (US 2023)
The World According to Sound (US 2023)
13 min
The World According to Sound work with universities to translate academic research into sound. Each season has a radically different format and topic. This current series Cosmic Visions
explores the spirit of inquiry, which spans tens of thousands of years, was cultivated by civilizations around the globe, and has been shaped by ways of thinking that may seem at first “unscientific,” but which have led to great leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. Cosmic Visions is produced in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University.
Storytelling was one of the earliest ways humans tried to make sense of the heavens. The first object of major study was the moon, and that's because of an uncanny ability it has to keep time.
Produced by Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett
Mexico City Travelogue
Julia Mitrić (US 2023)
Julia Mitrić (US 2023)
13 min
The narrator collects sounds on the streets of Mexico City and weaves them into an audioscape about music and the experience of traveling while recovering from illness.
Produced by Julia Mitrić
Euphoric Transformations
Charlotte Morlie (US/BE 2023)
Charlotte Morlie (US /BE 2023)
11 min
Charlotte Morlie is a Belgian audio producer living in Brooklyn, New York. In her first non-narrated piece, she uses both interview and archival tape to convey a story of transness and queer joy.
Produced by Charlotte Morlie
Special Thank You to Em Panetta
In The Dark What’s New- Ways of Listening
James Bonney (UK 2023)
James Bonney (UK 2023)
4 min
James Bonney, a Bristol-based musician and aspiring audio-producer. He taught himself to record, edit and mix audio in his free time during his studies.
This is his first attempt at making his own piece from scratch — with original script, music and sound design. It’s an audio essay about the chalk downlands, which continue to play a significant role in James’s life.
Produced by James Bonney
Language Is Dead
Ewan Cameron (UK 2022)
Ewan Cameron (UK 2022)
12 min Episode 9 of 9
A moment many of us will be familiar with - sharing a space with a bunch of people tapping away at their mac books. No this isn’t a library it’s a co-working space and it’s not just a co-working space it’s a wellness space too. Ewan Cameran unpacks the works ‘co-working’ and ‘wellness’ in this audio essay full of dry wit and clever sound design.
Written, performed and produced by Ewan Cameron (Randomly Generated Thought)
Listening To The Political Protests in Minsk, Belarus
Pavel Niakhayeu (BY 2021)
Pavel Niakhayeu (BY 2021)
29min
Audio Walks for Armchair Listening Mini Series
In this audio-essay you’ll hear how Minsk sounded during the political protests of 2020-2021, how the protesters and the state are fighting for the space with voices, noises and music. The field recordings are the starting points for a discussion on the multifaceted role of sound in claiming the urban and political space in Belarus.
An audio-paper created for 'Walking as a Question' conference (Prespa, Greece, 4-17 of July 2021). Pavel Niakhayeu tells a (part of the) story of the political protests in Belarus through the perspective of a right to walk out your house to voice your protest. There were no Covid-lockdowns in Belarus, but walking in the streets at ‘the wrong time / wrong place’, the very act of coming out of your house is political and can have dramatic consequences – arrest, fine, beating, even death.