Transmissions
Invisible Body (Raw Noise)
Sylvain Souklaye (US 2024)
Sylvain Souklaye (US 2024)
10 min
"A bodily and sonic experience about parenthood.
The piece was recorded at LEIMAY CAVE during my stay at the Incubator, a few days after the birth of my daughter. Between an unknown euphoria and sleep deprivation, my body and my senses were in a shamble. I was not myself anymore, but not yet someone new. The fatigue existed everywhere except in the studio, where I found an untapped energy and a balance into chaos.
During those days of experimentation, I wanted to rediscover my relationship with touch. I blindfolded myself every time I entered the studio. I had to forget myself, my vision of things and my definition of my body in a space. I had to become invisible to myself to explore and attempt to reach this other me with a newborn waiting on the other side of the studio.
While moving and trying to make sense of what it means to be again, I felt, hurt myself, and finally found ground. It was an out-of-body experience ; I became invisible and reached immaterial spaces.
I was learning to walk again, step by step, stomping my way to feel the joy and the pains to feel alive.
INVISIBLE BODY (RAW NOISE) is a bodily and sonic lover letter to my bones, muscles, and skin. More importantly, through this piece, I question what will be their purpose outside, in the real world.
PS: I’d like to thank Ximena Garnica, Shine Moriya, Krystel Copper and Brandon Perdomo from LEIMAY CAVE for their support during this crucial moment of my life.
PS2: Please use your headphones to experiment the raw granularity of the experience.”
Produced by Sylvain Souklaye
XMTR Radio Hour Ep33: Audio shorts selection 2024
Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
60 min / Episode 33 of 33
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour features a selection of short audio works that have been submitted to XMTR over the past year by both new and seasoned audio makers from around the world. Works featured are: The Magic of Waves by Eve Marie Bouche, I’d Rather be Swimming by Clair Urbahn, Smugglers Song by Mary Hooper, Knife, Fork, Keys by Hye Young Sin, The Human Jukebox by Stella Sims, Application Declined by Alice Foxall, We Will not Stop, We Will Not Rest by Melanie Marich and Sajina Shrestha, Jim, Human Waste Expert by Patrick McNameeKing, Crush Tango by Eloïse Bertil and Times Square–42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal by Tom Sayers
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Jean
Nathan Gibson (UK 2024)
Nathan Gibson (UK 2024)
12 min
How would it feel to suddenly lose your hearing in one ear? And then the other? How would your world change? How would you? A writer, educator and advocate, Jean Straus talks about her experience of loss, her journey adapting to a life with hearing aids and her mission to fight for representation and public awareness.
Produced by Nathan Gibson
Music by Chris Zabriskie
Listening To The Soundosphere: An Academic Manifesto - FreshEd Flux Podcast
Peter Browning (UK 2024)
Peter Browning (UK 2024)
33 min
Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative based podcasts. This episode was created by Peter Browning explores the power of the Soundosphere. His meta-engagement highlights the importance of sound in creating immersive experiences, the emotional and embodied aspects of ethnographic research, and the political and social implications of podcasting.
Peter recently graduated with his PhD from the Institute of Education at the University College London. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies.
Written, edited and produced Peter Browning
Executive Producer: Johanna Fahey
Producers: Will Brehm and Brett Lashua
Characters Played by:
Narrator – Peter Browning
Will Brehm – Will Brehm
Brett Lashua- Brett Lashua
Johannah Fahey – Johannah Fahey
Dorothy – Siobhán Maycraft
Teacher – Rommy Anabalón
Simon McBurney from Complicité – Simon McBurney from Complicité
Jon Holmes from The Skewer – Jon Holmes from The Skewer
Playing With Blocks: The Square Root Of Tree - FreshEd Flux Podcast
Michael Rumbelow (UK 2022)
Michael Rumbelow (UK 2022)
34 min
Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative based podcasts. This episode was created by Michael Rumbelow, a PhD student at the University of Bristol. In his Flux episode, Michael takes listeners on a sonic journey to explore block play. He weaves together sounds and ideas to show the power and possibilities of play.
Written, edited and produced Michael Rumbelow
Executive Producer: Johanna Fahey
Producers: Will Brehm and Brett Lashua
Vicki Mitchem played Virginia Woolf and Bertha Ronge, Dave Jackson played Friedrich Froebel, Karl Marx, and Charles Dickens, and Simone Datzberger played Melanie Klein.
Studio audio technicians were Patrick Robinson and Simon Vause.
In The Realm Of The In Between: An Ode To Ethnography In Mauritius - FreshEd Flux Podcast
Ijaaz Jackaria (MU 2024)
Ijaaz Jackaria (MU 2024)
32 min
Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative based podcasts. This episode is an ethnography of Mauritius and its colonial past, where he creates his own Southern epistemology by bringing together cosmology, philosophy, and Islamic theology.
Written, edited and produced Ijaaz Jackaria
Executive Producer: Johanna Fahey
Producers: Will Brehm and Brett Lashua
Departures / Arrivals - Every Floor Has A Different Color
Umi Hsu (US 2024)
Umi Hsu (US 2024)
9 min
Departures / Arrivals is a bilingual experimental audio memoir that follows my search for where memory is held within a diasporic time/space. After having immigrated to the United States as a pre-teen 33 years ago, I return to sites significant to my life in Taiwan: the apartment building I grew up in, walks I took with family, the school I attended, and more. Each track on the album is an audio meditation on memory surrounding a specific place and relationship with unscripted dialogs. Each composition presents a diasporic architecture, where a particular time/space is stretched and compressed at once. It’s an invitation to listen in and between the cracks of sound, language, and memory.
Composition, performance, recording, and mixing by: Umi Hsu
Ian
Nathan Gibson (UK 2023)
Nathan Gibson (UK 2023)
9 min
A bomb disposal expert by trade, Ian Jones MBE spent over 35 years on the frontline of historical events, disarming bombs and incendiary devices in the most challenging of circumstances. His experiences reveal to us a hidden side of war and the lives of the people literally trying to defuse conflict. But these days, you’re more likely to find him tending his allotment.
Produced by Nathan Gibson
XMTR Radio Hour Ep32: Sono Electro and XMTR Festival Unpacked
Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
60 min / Episode 32 of 32
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is a retrospective conversation about the inception and outcomes of sound art and sonic storytelling festivals Sono Electro and XMTR Audio Arts Festival that took place in St Leonards on Sea in September. James Wilkie from Sono Electro and Lucia Scazzocchio from XMTR talk to Isobel Anderson - host of Girls Twiddling Knobs, about how the worked together on the festival(s), the learnings from behind the scenes and their ambitions for the future - could St Leonards on Sea become a sonic destination? This is a candid conversation about collaboration, curation and working with and within an established creative community, with clips and and extracts from artists and performances featured at the festival.
You can access full audio works from the tracklist at xmtr.fm/festival.
Tracklist:
Anam Cara - Ear to the Ground - Dan 'you are tuning in to the Lido graveyard'
Limbo Tapes - Radio Limbo Live at XMTR Festival
Blanc Sceol - Orbit Meditation
Stellaria Media (Lucida Guy and Alice Armstrong) Blue Heart
Ben Philipps - Home Sounds
Ben Chennett - A Choir for Hastings and St Leonards
Marcia Farquar - The Lido
Jem Finer - Pinball Machine
Phil Smith - Zwischenzeit
Will Gore + Esme Curtis - Invisible Cities, Argia
Ed Baxter + Anthony Moore - Life Sentence
Jem Finer - Pinball Machine
Blanc Sceol - Orbit Meditation
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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