In The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise (1837) the Victorian polymath Charles Babbage suggested that "The air itself is one vast library. One, on whose pages are forever written all that woman or man has ever said or whispered." This thought is the basis of Anthony Moore's composition "Hello, this is a sentence" on a live performance of which this digressive and deconstructionist broadcast by Anthony and Ed Baxter is in turn based. Life Sentence explores the way in which words both enter the memory of the hearer and continue into the air and addresses the mode of half listening that applies to the medium of radio.

 With a history of live, broadcast and prerecorded collaborations, Bradley is a member of London noise-improv quartet Oscillatorial Binnage since 2013, who released the album Agitations: Post-Electronic Noise on Sub Rosa). As sound art duo Bradley-Weaver, Bradley released a limited edition artist-vinyl record with sound artist and archivist Christopher John Weaver with whom she has collaborated since 2013. The experimental vinyl Systems for a Score released on The Vinyl Factory, UK, was made during a live installation of a full size recording studio, for their eponymous solo show at Tashkeel (Dubai), 2014.

Super High Frequency radio waves, signal noise and field recording recorded at the base of antennas between Chicago and New York, London and Frankfurt. High-frequency trading (HFT) uses complex algorithms to analyse multiple markets and execute orders. In trading vocabulary a signal is a pattern of data that influences these algorithms, inciting them to buy or sell shares or cancel an order. Since 2016 Bird and Renoult have been mapping these radio routes by finding the pylons, frequencies and relay links that transmit HFT data back and forth, in loops that cover the Earth.

Ieva Dubova and Jude Montague will be exploring the ancient music and folk poetry traditions of Latvia with a modern non-traditional sensibility and using improvisation, deep listening and gestural interaction. And like in the UK, this is harvest time.

‘Then Before’ presents sound artist Wajid Yaseen’s response to a series of three poems by three poets – Shamshad Khan, Jack Underwood and Alice Kemp.

Socially engaged artist Ian Nesbitt’s practice spans filmmaking, writing, broadcasting and walking. In 2022, he completed a pilgrimage on foot along the Old Way, a recently unearthed Mediaeval pilgrim route from Southampton to Canterbury, passing close by St. Leonards-on-Sea. For Transmitter, he presents a performance reading of a selection of his writing based on the experience, enhanced by slides and field recordings, inviting the audience into a state of deep listening.

‘Tarkib: Footstep Frequencies’ is an experiment of connection. Tarkib is a Baghdad-based independent art collective, and together we have embarked on a creative process of deep listening, displacing our thoughts and bodies, searching for proximity and distance through walking. These raw and unedited recordings made by Radio Commons’ Marta Belligreri and Tarkib’s Zaid Saad come from this exchange of sonic environments. 

Lina Prestwood (founder of Scenery Studios) will be sharing a collage of voices from an international roster of podcast producers. Followed by an informal conversation hosted by Lucia Scazzocchio (Social Broadcasts/XMTR about how we can make creative audio and make a living!

This interactive exhibition space invites you to reflect on the concept of home and what it means to you, viewed through the lens of your front door.
Listen to Lucia Scazzocchio and Jodie Taylor's Recordings of Hastings Refugee Buddy Conversations, followed by audio works from Small Audio.

Workshop / Hydrophones / Outside and Inside - Connected to Blue Heart Project Eastbourne Listen, Play, Experiment: Voices of Water Come to a creative workshop where we will record our voices and underwater sounds. Together we will make a collective, ever changing, long-form sound installation and broadcast. No experience required.
Followed by a listening session to recordings from the workshop at 2.30pm

Rest up, take a seat, and immerse yourself in a collection of audio and visual pieces in the safe + sound beach hut! There will be mood lighting, projections, zines, and a collection of audio on the theme MURMURATIONS.

A sound exploration and deep-listening workshop for children aged between 5-11 years old.

The sessions aim to encourage attentive deep listening by way of a series of gamified listening exercises that explore various aspects of sound delivered by Modus Arts / Wajid Yaseen