Times Square–42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal

Produced by Tom Sayers (US 2024)

1 min

A sound poem from the depths of the vast space under 42nd Street in New York City.

Produced and sound designed by Tom Sayers

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Earth Day 2023 - Voices for Nature

Agathe Dijoud (FR 2024)

5 min

In this audio piece, Agathe Dijoud joins a march in London on Earth Day 2023, and capture sounds from speeches, music and personal thoughts throughout the day. Nature can take many forms, and has the belief that marches are one form of nature resisting the climate crisis, through a human lens.

Produced by Agathe Dijoud

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Blue Heart + XMTR

Produced by Stellaria Media (UK 2024)

Stellaria Media · Blue Heart at XMTR

30 min

Recordings made in the 'Voices of Water' workshop at the XMTR festival, mixed with archive material from the Blue Heart project.

Residents of the area talk about their experiences of flooding, drought and water management, historians explain how things have changed over the centuries, and engineers look to the future and how systems can be managed to build resilience in the face of climate change.

Featuring the voices of:
Anna Hastings, Blue Heart Project Manager, East Sussex County Council
Evan Jones, Ecologist
Andy Durling, Eastbourne Eco Action Network
Lousie Elms, Eastbourne Allotments and Garden Society
Sally Lee, Grow Eastbourne
Oliver Sterno, Plastic Free Eastbourne
Kate Baker, Agile Rabbit
Andy Payne, Southdown Angling Association
Chantal Feyn, Eastbourne and District Model Yacht Club
Fiona Durling, Pevensey Forest Garden
Robert Slater, Pevensey Court House and Museum
Katherine Buckland, Heritage Engagement Officer, Eastbourne District Council
Brian Bailey, allotment holder
Neil Raymond, The Star Inn, Old Town
Louise Elms, Eastbourne Allotments and Garden Society
Ruth Kenwood, Gather Community Garden
John Hayward, Pevensey Parish Councillor
Dave Roberts, Gather Community Garden
Peter Birchalll, Pete the Pond
Clare Whistler, Artist, Water Week
Adrian Butcher, Treebourne
Caroline Kimber, Gather Community Garden
Chris Sweetapple, Exeter University

Producer: Stellaria Media

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Smugglers Song

Produced by Mary Hooper (UK 2023)

4 min

This track is a remix of Kiplings Smugglers Song created for Hastings Country Park as part of Creative Coast Art Geocache Tour.

Producer: Mary Hooper
Read by Cath Cooper

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Walking through the submerged forest

Produced by Mary Hooper (UK 2023)

9 min

This piece is composed from field recordings and readings of letters from Bexhill Museum archives, layered to bring to life a part of our eroding coastline and an archive which lies quietly unearthed.
The field recordings were made whilst walking at low tide through pre-historic submerged forest remains, at Bulverhythe in EastSussex. This is layered with field recordings made in nearby woods.

Julian Porter, Rother Museums' curator found photographs and letters in the Bexhill Museum archives relating to the forest, which Actor and Theatre Producer Leigh Shine, read for me in a recording session.
”I hope the piece creates a spirit of place, a sense of timelessness and ever evolving change. The magical experience of walking through thousands of years of human and environmental ebb and flow.”

Producer: Mary Hooper

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In The Dark What’s New: The Sounding Bell

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.

Composed by Garling Wu and Jessie Leov

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Crush Tango

Eloïse Bertil (UK, 2024)

4 min

A story about a crush at a rooftop bar during a solo trip. This short audio piece explores romantic body language cues, examining the intricate choreography of a girl-meets-boy scenario and its translatability across cultures. Blending personal experiences with fictional elements, the narrative contemplates flirting as a universal language, where every gesture (or move) carries significant meaning—or at least, one hopes it does.

Produced by Eloïse Bertil around a field recording from the Cities & Memory sound database for their Spring Project.

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Stopping To Notice: Soho Square, Part One

Miranda Keeling (UK 2023)

5 min

Pause for a moment and take the time for some reflection. The small but magical moments of everyday life can provide calmness when things get busy. Author, actor, and social media personality Miranda Keeling invites you to join her on her walks to share these experiences, and to encourage you to stop and notice the world around you. Through her keen observations, Miranda brings to life the often-overlooked details of the world around us.

A man suddenly rises up from the lawn, like steam from the lid of a kettle.

Please note before you start listening: this podcast is recorded in 3D sound! So make sure that you’re wearing headphones for the very best experience.

Produced by Fresh Air
Hosted and Recorded by Miranda Keeling

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep29: Lowlines

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)

60 min / Episode 29 of 29

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is dedicated to Lowlines - a sonic scrapbook, a passport to roam, tuning in to the pulse of place, with 2 episodes from this series follows food entrepreneur & urban place-maker Petra Barran as she travels through the Americas, meeting people with profound connections to the places they’re from. We’ll join Petra as she travels from London to New Orleans immersing herself in a Second Line parade and then on to the Amtrak slow train from New Orleans to Arizona connecting with strangers along the way.

Featured: 

1. Lowlines Prologue
Petra Barran isa gatherer of people and food on the kerbs of London. She began as a food truck owner, cruising the UK, selling chocolate to any and everyone - and grew a whole multi-pronged street food organisation from there. But as her business took off and gave way to more and more meetings in glass buildings, the energy and genuine, spontaneous human connection that she thrived on started to fade away..


2. Episode 1: Second Line Footwork in New Orleans (excerpt)
New Orleans - the most human city Petra Knows know has to be the first stop on her pull to tune into the pulse of place. It’s the most magnetic of places. Here it feels like the air is thicker, the light has currents in it and the ground is …bouncy. And bubbling up from those streets is the second line, a rolling block party, a neighbourhood parade, a high-voltage current coursing through the city’s veins every Sunday with music, community, freedom and culture. For many Black New Orleanians it’s the day when you own the streets, so you better bring that FOOTWORK

The series kicks off with Petra getting her feet back on the ground at the Ole & Nu Style Fellas parade in the 6th Ward.


3. Episode 3: Trainline: Slow Train to Tucson
The Sunset Limited, Westbound - Fly or take the Amtrak? The journey or the destination? Taking the slow train to Tucson just felt right. You know when your whole body craves a more gentle, almost human tempo to carry you onto the next place? So, whilst keen to get to the wide open desert, the opportunity to stretch out the journey, savour the changing landscape through Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and have time to meet my fellow passengers was too much of a pull.  

In Episode 3 we follow the lowlines of the train tracks and the hiss, groan and gentle gyrations of the 36 hour journey as I talk off-grid living, denture cream woes, magic mushrooms and marrying the same man three times with a raft of fellow travellers - all while trying to get a decent bite to eat and a bit of shut eye.

Narrated by Petra Barran
Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio (Social Broadcasts) and Lina Prestwood (Scenery Studios)
Original score by Hannah Marshal
Mastering by Jobina Tinnemans

XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep28: A swimming event, A Requiem, Toilets, Silence and Salt Beef

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)

60 min / Episode 28 of 28

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour celebrates works that have been submitted to xmtr.fm over the past year with an episode from Bristol based radio project Limbo Tapes' new podcast Limbo Calling, an exercise in mischief and the mundane from New York based Icelandic composer/sound designer Andrea Kristindottir, Berlin based photographer and audio story teller Miri Berlin takes on a haunting journey from intensive care unit to crematorium and musician and sound engineer Ivan Eastley contemplates silence. 

Works featured: 

1. Limbo Calling: Fear Swim
Pete Hazel (UK 2024)
https://limbotapes.podbean.com

2. Requiem for a Mother
Miri Berlin (DE 2023)


3. The Peephole
Andrea Kristinsdottir (US/ISL 2023)


4. Silence
Ivan Eastley (UK 2023)


5. Salt Beef and Carrots
Lucia Scazzocchio / Social Broadcasts (UK 2018)
https://soundcloud.com/socialbroadcasts/sets/cherrytree-chronicles

Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio

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