From cracking ice to creaking trees, mountain goats to broken clocks... drift in and out of the sound of the last four years, as a slow weave of Field Recordings from 2020 - 2024 unravels.
Sit in a beach hut with a view of the sea as you listen to field recordings from around the world.

In a beach hut, neither at sea nor firmly on land, layers of a place - historical, botanical, lived, electromagnetic - unfurl in this micro-broadcast and performance. 

Like the radio waves that carry it, Ecotone is an ephemeral encounter with a transitional space, explored through the act of noticing. BYO Radio

Shortwave Collective invite you to make a very simple radio. Working with a basic set of materials: wire, clips, tent pegs, and chosen or found objects, you’ll become co-researchers and experimenters, attaching our radios to metal structures as makeshift antennas and searching for signals.

Nina Garthwaite brings together audio exercises, reflections and experiments to explore the way we humans tell stories with - and about - sound.

Selected. Hearing at Dark Circles - Coffee and Music Bar.
This listening lounge features a curated selection of audio works from xmtr.fm and many of the artists featured during the festival.

Radio Limbo is the flagship show of Bristol’s label Limbo Tapes, offering listeners a monthly trip through visionary music and audio curios, woven togther with a dub mentality. At times dreamy, others nightmarish, the show navigates the obscure, the beautiful, and the surreal with humour and sharp edits, often re-purposing existing radio material. 

Phil Smith presents Life Cycles, a performance involving speech material, field recordings and live music, that revolves around experiences of beginnings and endings - rocking between the everyday and the ecological.

Tullis Rennie presents Muscle Memory, an invitation to join him in the act of listening to listening.