Transmissions
2025 Selects: Coastal Soundforms : Tymbals and Golden Gallopers, Beach
Andrius Mack (LT 2025)
Andrius Mack (LT 2025)
5 min
Coastal Soundforms is a field recording composition made entirely from acoustic coastal field recordings captured over several years. It features soundscapes from the UK (Dungeness, Camber Sands, Brighton, Bournemouth), Lithuania (Neringa, Palanga), Netherlands (Texel), Portugal (Lisbon, Cascais), Morocco (Taghazout, Mirleft) and Italy (Venice). Sometimes the recordings are presented as faithful sonic representations, sometimes they are heavily manipulated with filters in order to highlight certain features present in the soundscapes. It is an exploration of the contrast between biophonic soundscapes and urban anthrophonies. All set against the backdrop of a relentless, thunderous oceanic geophony.
Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Andrius Mack
2025 Selects: I Dream Of Water: The Well, The Bay, The Sea
Susanne Lambert (UK 2025)
Susanne Lambert (UK 2025)
7 min
This is part of a body of work is about people's relationships with water, based around a set of audio recordings from various people Suzanne knows. She asked contributors to share something about a place of water they have strong memories of, or connections to, and to say something about what feelings are evoked in the place.
Susanne set the audio messages within new compositions (including found sounds and field recordings) in different ways to create a series of pieces. She has combined improvised open passages (drums/clarinet/piano/synth) with more considered and formulated sections, in an attempt to echo, mirror and juxtapose the words, and build imagery around the stories shared.
The series will eventually also include factual information, alongside the personal connective elements, as an opportunity to examine the diverse and sometimes contradictory elements of our human relationship to water.
Produced by Susanne Lambert aka Suzi Lamb
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.