Transmissions
Channeling
Dan Am (UK 2024)
Dan Am (UK 2024)
7 min
XMTR AUDIO ARTS FESTIVAL is blessed to be framed and mapped by its continued approximation and geolocation to the English Channel. Channeling invites you to stare out into your horizon and tune in further into this oscillating and fluctuating expanse. Channeling is a chance to connect and go somatically deeper whenever you find the opportunity to perch on the many seats, posts and outcrops that are generously dotted along promenade. Your guided medication to pause and come back to throughout the festival. Whenever you want to step into and separate your own signal from noise and dive in deeper.
Channeling comes from a seminal work called 'Hail The Chimaeran' from Dan Am. Dan Am is a sonic ritualist who explores transmuting his anthemic mythic folk into varying and emanating invocations, incantations and initiations. He is based in St Leonards-on-Sea and his work can be tuned into and explored more deeply via all music streaming platforms.
Produced by Dan Am
In The Dark What’s New: Hacking Wagner Act 3 Scene 5
Kjersti G. Andvig & Ioana Mandrescu (NO/BE 2024)
Kjersti G. Andvig & Ioana Mandrescu (NO/BE 2024)
43 min
A wacky reimagining of Wagner’s opera “Die Meistersingers von Nurnberg”, where all the instruments, leitmotivs, soloists and choirs are replaced with with 10,000 individual samples of human voices from famous people.
Composed by: Kjersti G. Andvig & Ioana Mandrescu
In The Dark What’s New: Money
Matt Pope (UK 2024)
Matt Pope (UK 2024)
8 min
A musical remix of the words of Germaine Greer and Martin Amis.
Produced by Matt Pope.
In The Dark What’s New: The Sounding Bell
Composed by Garling Wu and Jessie Leov (NZ 2024)
Garling Wu and Jessie Leov (NZ 2024)
6 min
A composition of field recordings, voice, piano and cello, made in response to the climate crisis. "The Sounding Bell" shifts freely between the concrete and abstract, moving from the real to the imagined to the surreal. Many sounds were recorded in Toyama, an urban city in Japan surrounded by mountains, rivers, rice fields and the sea.