Transmissions
Seven Minutes, Seven Years
Anna Van Dine (US 2024)
Anna Van Dine (US 2024)
7 min
As long as Anna has been interested in sound and documentary, she has recorded things. What does it sound like when you take seven years' worth of recording and condense it into seven minutes? What does time sound like? What does memory sound like?
Produced by Anna Van Dine
Echo Charmer
Xelís de Toro (UK, 2025)
Xelís de Toro (UK, 2025)
5 min
Vocal with electronics, sound poetry, concrete poetry.
Xelis de Toro is a Galician writer and performer based in the UK.
Composed by Xelis de Toro
Produced by Paul Dutnall, published in vol. 6 compilation by Chocolate Monk
Kumbha Mela 2025 and Planets Aligned
Bhavisha Patel (UK, 2025)
Bhavisha Patel (UK 2025)
10 min
Kumbha Mela 2025, a spiritual festival observed in India, was the world's largest gathering, it also coincided with the planetary alignment. This is a soundscape, featuring recordings from pilgrims and NASA recordings of the planets.
Produced by Bhavisha Patel
XMTR Festival: Habitual Rituals
Lucinda Guy and Alice Armstrong (UK, 2025)
Stellaria Media (UK 2025)
10 min
A composition made from the sounds recorded by participants of The Habitual Rituals Workshop at XMTR Festival, paying attention to habits and routines of how we open doors, walk across a room, use kitchen implements, pour water and other everyday moments. Participants recorded themselves repeating familiar actions, along with descriptions of what they were doing to create a a generative, multi-speaker sound installation that allows rhythms of existence to emerge and interact.
Stellaria Media are based in South Devon and within two community radio stations, Soundart Radio (Totnes) and Skylark (Dartmoor). Our background as artists means we are always exploring, listening, responding and creating together with communities
Produced by Lucinda Guy and Alice Armstrong
XMTR Festival Selects: Radio Incantation - Dzëë
Amanda Gutiérrez (CA / MX 2025)
Amanda Gutiérrez (CA / MX 2025)
8 min
Rooted in the artist’s Zapotec heritage from the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, the work channels ancestral teachings on listening and evoking through the art of terrestrial transmission. In this sonic ritual, radio waves become vessels for connection with unseen and intangible presences, intentionally engaging with the territory of St Leonards-on-Sea — across time, between past and future spectra.
Produced by Amanda Gutiérrez
XMTR Festival Selects: The Allusionist: Gay Animals
Helen Zaltzman (UK 2023)
Helen Zaltzman (UK 2023)
22 min
A relaxing list of animals that are gay. Sometimes you just need to listen to a list of animals that are gay.
Hosting/writing/production: Helen Zaltzman
Music: Martin Austwick
XMTR Festival Selects: Three Rings of Sounds: San Antonio, TX
Radiophonic Institute (UK 2025)
Radiophonic Institute (UK 2025)
10 min
This field recording project sprang out of the Soundscapes class offered in the Spring of 2025 at the University of Texas at San Antonio (taught by Justin Boyd
Assistant Professor, New Media and Sculpture, Art and Art History). As part of the curriculum students were asked to propose ideas around what San Antonio sounds like. Being a large city, they decided to split the recordings into three zones: The Outer Ring is based around Highway Loop 1604, The Middle Ring is based around Loop 410 and the Inner Ring is the downtown/near downtown area. The sounds you hear represent the students' travels within the city and provide a personal snapshot of San Antonio in the spring.
Produced by Louis Gillespie and Ilia Rogatchevski
Student field recordists: Kayla Byrd, Jaila Castro, Ruby Coker, Alma Cuellar Vazquez, Isabelle Davis, Sep Garcia, Elroy Kay, Nina Lemire, Bryce Mcgowan, Andrew Mendoza, Carmen Montoya, Alyssa Narvaez, Aniyah Nick, Aaron Olivarez, Noah Pitman, Kendell Price, A’Isha Walker, Laurel Westphal.
Instructor: Justin Boyd; assisted by Charlotte Irakunda
Mixed by: Justin Boyd and Charlotte Irakunda
XMTR Festival Selects: The Spittal
Camilla Hannan (AU 2024)
Camilla Hannan (AU 2024)
10 min
Composition made from field recordings made in and around Glenshee and the Cairngorms National Park Scotland in July 2024
Produced and recorded by Camilla Hannan
XMTR Festival Selects: In A Cowshell
Miri Berlin (DE 2025)
Miri Berlin (DE 2025)
9 min
The electroacoustic composition „In A Cowshell“ is based on field recordings that capture the sonic microcosm of a cowshed, interweaving and abstracting its sound world. It follows the course of the milking process — from the magical stillness as the cows enter and take their places, to the rhythmic drive of the machines, drawing you in — gradually giving way to calm again as the milking ends. Finally, the cows leave the barn, guided by the farmers’ calls back to the pasture — marking the close of the piece.
Produced by Miri Berlin