Transmissions
Stopping To Notice: Soho Square, Part One
Miranda Keeling (UK 2023)
Miranda Keeling (UK 2023)
5 min
Pause for a moment and take the time for some reflection. The small but magical moments of everyday life can provide calmness when things get busy. Author, actor, and social media personality Miranda Keeling invites you to join her on her walks to share these experiences, and to encourage you to stop and notice the world around you. Through her keen observations, Miranda brings to life the often-overlooked details of the world around us.
A man suddenly rises up from the lawn, like steam from the lid of a kettle.
Please note before you start listening: this podcast is recorded in 3D sound! So make sure that you’re wearing headphones for the very best experience.
Produced by Fresh Ait
Hosted and Recorded by Miranda Keeling
XMTR Radio Hour Ep29: Lowlines
Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
60 min / Episode 29 of 29
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is dedicated to Lowlines - a sonic scrapbook, a passport to roam, tuning in to the pulse of place, with 2 episodes from this series follows food entrepreneur & urban place-maker Petra Barran as she travels through the Americas, meeting people with profound connections to the places they’re from. We’ll join Petra as she travels from London to New Orleans immersing herself in a Second Line parade and then on to the Amtrak slow train from New Orleans to Arizona connecting with strangers along the way.
Featured:
1. Lowlines Prologue
Petra Barran isa gatherer of people and food on the kerbs of London. She began as a food truck owner, cruising the UK, selling chocolate to any and everyone - and grew a whole multi-pronged street food organisation from there. But as her business took off and gave way to more and more meetings in glass buildings, the energy and genuine, spontaneous human connection that she thrived on started to fade away..
2. Episode 1: Second Line Footwork in New Orleans (excerpt)
New Orleans - the most human city Petra Knows know has to be the first stop on her pull to tune into the pulse of place. It’s the most magnetic of places. Here it feels like the air is thicker, the light has currents in it and the ground is …bouncy. And bubbling up from those streets is the second line, a rolling block party, a neighbourhood parade, a high-voltage current coursing through the city’s veins every Sunday with music, community, freedom and culture. For many Black New Orleanians it’s the day when you own the streets, so you better bring that FOOTWORK
The series kicks off with Petra getting her feet back on the ground at the Ole & Nu Style Fellas parade in the 6th Ward.
3. Episode 3: Trainline: Slow Train to Tucson
The Sunset Limited, Westbound - Fly or take the Amtrak? The journey or the destination? Taking the slow train to Tucson just felt right. You know when your whole body craves a more gentle, almost human tempo to carry you onto the next place? So, whilst keen to get to the wide open desert, the opportunity to stretch out the journey, savour the changing landscape through Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and have time to meet my fellow passengers was too much of a pull.
In Episode 3 we follow the lowlines of the train tracks and the hiss, groan and gentle gyrations of the 36 hour journey as I talk off-grid living, denture cream woes, magic mushrooms and marrying the same man three times with a raft of fellow travellers - all while trying to get a decent bite to eat and a bit of shut eye.
Narrated by Petra Barran
Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio (Social Broadcasts) and Lina Prestwood (Scenery Studios)
Original score by Hannah Marshal
Mastering by Jobina Tinnemans
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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XMTR Radio Hour Ep28: A swimming event, A Requiem, Toilets, Silence and Salt Beef
Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
60 min / Episode 28 of 28
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour celebrates works that have been submitted to xmtr.fm over the past year with an episode from Bristol based radio project Limbo Tapes' new podcast Limbo Calling, an exercise in mischief and the mundane from New York based Icelandic composer/sound designer Andrea Kristindottir, Berlin based photographer and audio story teller Miri Berlin takes on a haunting journey from intensive care unit to crematorium and musician and sound engineer Ivan Eastley contemplates silence.
Works featured:
1. Limbo Calling: Fear Swim
Pete Hazel (UK 2024)
https://limbotapes.podbean.com
2. Requiem for a Mother
Miri Berlin (DE 2023)
3. The Peephole
Andrea Kristinsdottir (US/ISL 2023)
4. Silence
Ivan Eastley (UK 2023)
5. Salt Beef and Carrots
Lucia Scazzocchio / Social Broadcasts (UK 2018)
https://soundcloud.com/socialbroadcasts/sets/cherrytree-chronicles
Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Over Westside
Emile Klein (US 2023)
Emile Klein (US 2023)
27 min
Over Westside is a meditation on psychogeography and relationship.
Musicians Carly Ptak and Twig Harper, known as Nautical Almanac, are long time residents of West Baltimore. The American noise music scene evolved within their home, T-Hill. West Baltimore is also where, in 2015, police officers killed Freddie Gray. Protests expanded from this point.
These recordings take place after the streets emptied back into homes. But a departed flame leaves a different heat in the walls. Thanks to contributors: Carly Ptak, Twig Harper, Davy Rothbart, Chiara Giovando, Andrew WK, Liz Armstrong, Xander marrow, Brian Chippendale, Max Eisenberg, WFMU, the people of West Baltimore, and all others who shared time.
Produced by Emile Klein
Field Recordings: The Sound of 2023
Eleanor McDowall (UK 2023)
Eleanor McDowall (UK 2023)
57 min
A slow weave of some of the past year’s Field Recordings, from a church in Vilnius to a floating choir in Copenhagen. As 2024 begins what do we remember of the past year? Let these sounds lull you into the new year away from the noise.
Orthodox Christmas service, Catholic Church of St. Johns, Vilnius, Lithuania on 7th January 2023 – by Vaida Pilibaitytė
Whistling wind rattling the windows, inside the library, London, UK in January 2023 – by Siddharth Khajuria
Summer dusk with birds near Vedia, Buenos Aires province, Argentina in January 2023 – by Joaquín Conde
The bells at St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, Kyiv, Ukraine on Sunday 13th February 2022 at 4.43pm – by Barny Smith
Sounding stairs, Kaunas, Lithuania on 19th January 2023 – by Marta Medvešek
Goose night, Eskdalemuir, Scotland, UK on 24th January 2023 – by Geoff McQueen
Crows, Vancouver, Canada on 27th January 2023 at 4pm– by Martin Zaltz Austwick
Thawing ice, Tammisalo canal, Helsinki, Finland on 4th February 2023 by Miia Laine
Department of Education, Westminster, London, UK on 15th February 2023– by Tash Walker
Walking in the snow, Vancouver, Canada on 25th February 2023 at 11.30pm – by Martin Zaltz Austwick
Underwater, Førdefjord, north of Bergen, Norway in February 2023 – by Jay Richardson
Woodpeckers in Wandle Park, London, UK on 3rd April – by Andrew Strangeway
Pigeon in the cinema, London, UK on 15th April 2023 – by Sam Clements and Louise Owen
Argentino Lake shores in front of Spegazzini Glacier, Santa Cruz, Argentina in April 2023 – by Joaquín Conde
Emergency alert system test, Oxford Circus, London, UK, around 2.58pm on 23rd April 2023– by Anthony Ing
Jack in the Green procession, Hastings, UK on 1st May 2023– by Jorge Stride
A rickshaw journey through Bengaluru, India, at dusk, as heavy rain begins to fall on 1st May 2023 – by Siddharth Khajuria
Musical cacophony pouring through the open windows of practice rooms, London, UK on 18th May 2023 – by Eleanor McDowall
Whistling wind, Reykjavík, Iceland on 20th May 2023 – by Agnieszka Czyżewska Jacquemet
Eider ducks in the glacier river lagoon (Jökulsárlón) as rain falls, Vatnajökull National Park, south coast of Iceland on Friday 26th May 2023 – by Eleanor McDowall
Outside the Black Lion in Plaistow, London, UK, at 7.45pm on Thursday 8th June 2023, for the passing of the open top bus following West Ham’s victory in the Europa Conference League Final – by Alan Hall
Spanish Point (Rinn na Spáinneach), County Clare, (Contae an Chláir), Ireland on 8th June 2023– by Kalli Anderson
Chair lift to the Wolzenalp, Switzerland, on Saturday 10th June 2023 – by This Wachter
Thunderstorm, Abney Park Cemetery, London, UK on 12th June 2023 – by Joe Harvey-Whyte
Royal Courts of Justice, London, UK on Saturday 17th June 2023 at 1.30pm
Mountain goats, Kefalonia, Greece, in June 2023– by Tash Walker
Carillon, Sint Janskerk, Gouda, Netherlands in June 2023 – by Paul Ridout
Frogs of Lac Labelle at 1am, Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard, Quebec, Canada on 4th July 2023 – by Mira Burt-Wintonick
Competing fireworks, Hamilton Heights, Harlem, New York City, USA on 4th July 2023 – by Jon Moskowitz
Loons of Lac Forbes at Sunset, Mont-Tremblant National Park, Québec, Canada on 19th July 2023 - by Mira Burt-Wintonick
Demonstration at the Italian Embassy, London, UK on 2nd August 2023- by Lisa Hack
Delta del Tigre, Argentina on 4th August 2023 by Eva Moeraert
Tywardreath ringing the bells of St Barts, Lostwithiel, UK on 9th August 2023 – by Celia Robbins
Electrical storm, East London, UK on 18th September 2023 at 1am – by Joe Harvey-Whyte
Gaggles of geese, River Thame, England, UK on 23rd September 2023– by Paul Ridout
Midnight Soundscape, Sedona, Arizona, USA on 5th October 2023 – by Joe Harvey-Whyte
Palestinian Solidarity March, London, UK on 11th November 2023
Chimes outside the monastery, Stanstead Mill Stream, after dark on Sunday 10th December 2023- by Eleanor McDowall
Edith purring, Glasgow, Scotland in December 2023 – by Steve Urquhart
Santa Lucia kayak parade, Copenhagen, Denmark on 13th December 2023 – by Kara Oehler
Produced by Eleanor McDowall
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Requiem For A Mother
Miri Berlin (DE 2023)
Miri Berlin (DE 2023)
9 min
This sound composition combines field recordings with electronic elements to document the acoustic and atmospheric character of various stages – from the intensive care unit to the vigil and on to the crematorium.
In the intensive care unit, the rhythmic sounds of the ventilator and the beeps of medical devices are the first things you hear. Afterward, we find ourselves in a Berlin courtyard where the casket, on a metal trolley, is transported from the mortuary to the room where the vigil takes place.
In the middle of the room, the casket is open. The door to the courtyard is ajar, allowing ambient sounds to permeate the space. The final stage is the crematorium, where the sounds of powerful ventilation fans and a relentless drone dominate. The furnace door opens with a loud mechanical sound as the casket glides on the rails. The fire becomes visible, hissing and crackling before the door quickly closes again.
Produced by: Miri Berlin
In The Dark What’s New- Hey I'm in a Bit of a Hurry
Rasmus Malm (SE 2023)
Rasmus Malm (SE 2023)
3 min
Rasmus Malm is a journalist from Sweden who has made documentaries for Swedish radio and podcast platforms, but this is his first time experimenting with a personal story.
Hey I'm in a Bit of a Hurry" is short piece made up of fragments from Rasmus’s diary. Telling this story may have even changed his life.
Produced by Rasmus Malm
CoMute 6
Phaune Radio (FR 2023)
Phaune Radio (FR 2023)
18 min
Daydreams are easier than it steams between two stops, letting ideas grow between the lines, keeping track.
Glide happily from station derailing time and then getting back on track.
From platform to platform, we glide through these daydreams following a thread thanks to a cat helping to choose the right path. Have you forgotten anything?
Listening with headphones recommended • Binaural recordings
Produced by Phaune Radio
Featuring: Gaston Bachelard.
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Wochende (Weekend)
Walter Ruttmann (DE 1930)
Walter Ruttmann (DE 1930)
11 min
Wochende was presented in theaters as a sound-only experience. No images were projected on the screen. The 11 minute of music fragments and sounds represent a weekend in Berlin, including Saturday afternoon at a factory, a night in the city, a pastoral Sunday, and the city returning to work on Monday. The effect was a sonification of the visuals one would expect from a film, but a film without images.
Wochende, as a sound narrative, was also broadcast on radio and so is sometimes referred to as a radio play. In that context Wochende may be the first significant recorded experiment with montage for radio
Producer: Walter Ruttmann
The Solitude Trilogy: The Idea of North
Glenn Gould (CA 1967)
Glenn Gould (CA 1967)
56min Episode 1 of 1
A visit to the archives with Canadian pianist Glenn Gould's landmark radio documentary, The Idea of North, first aired on CBC Radio in 1967.
In his boldly experimental program about the Canadian north, the pianist used a technique he called "contrapuntal radio," layering speaking voices on top of each other to create a unique sonic environment situated in the space between conversation and music.
The North provided Gould with an ideal subject matter for exploring the condition of solitude.
"hybrids of music, drama, and several other strains, including essay, journalism, anthropology, ethics, social commentary, and contemporary history."
The densely layered radio pieces presented a real challenge to audiences at the time, and they still do. Yet their enduring cultural impact — a rare feat for radio programming — speaks to the inspired balance of music and meaning that Gould was able to achieve.