Transmissions
Festival Selects: Bower
Phil Smith (UK, 2022)
Phil Smith (UK 2022)
6 min
A radio song of summer's ending
Produced by Phil Smith for Short Cuts (BBC Radio 4) exec: Eleanor MacDowall).
Festival Selects: Everything And The Kitchen Sink
Martin Austwick (CA 2025)
Martin Austwick (CA, 2025)
Festival Selects: Our Bodies
Martina Pouchlá (CZ, 2025)
Martina Pouchlá (CZ 2025)
6 min
A photograph of a nude woman raises the question: Are our bodies truly our own?
Produced by Martina Pouchlá.
Music: "Ana" provided by mobygratis.
Produced for Small Audio Art.
Festival Selects: Siren Song
Kalli Anderson (US 2024)
Kalli Anderson (US, 2024)
7 min
A Ukrainian singer harmonizes with air raid sirens and reflects on the role of artists during wartime.
Produced by Kalli Anderson featuring music by melancholydi
Communication Across The Field
Lindsay Bodanza (US, 2026)
Lindsay Bodanza (US, 2026)
26 min
Communication Across the Field asks how we understand an experience that feels like communication when no source can be identified. Beginning with a personal encounter involving four identical, overwhelming notes heard in the middle of the night, the piece draws on philosophy, psychology, and art to explore experiences that seem to arrive beyond familiar channels of perception.
Through Rudolf Otto’s concept of the numinous and reflections on attention and receptivity, it considers how we might honor the force of such encounters while remaining uncertain about their source or meaning.
The piece is Episode Seven of The Space Between: Beneath the Surface of Everything, an independently produced, eight-part cinematic audio essay series exploring consciousness, identity, perception, and the limits of human understanding.
Created by Lindsay Bodanza
Music and Sound Design by Joel Cox
Shatto 39
Jenn Swann (US, 2026)
Jenn Swann (US, 2026)
5 min
This piece was originally made for a sound event that asked producers to envision what it might feel like to lose our favorite places in Los Angeles. It's a work of speculative fiction about a real place, and it's inspired by recent infrastructure failures and climate-based disasters in Los Angeles.
Written and Produced by Jenn Swann
Momster
Suvi Tuuli Kataja (FI 2026)
Suvi Tuuli Kataja (FI, 2026)
4 min
Momster is an audio poem about how everyday life changes when exhaustion awakens the monstrous porridge brain of motherhood. Using documentary voice messages as its source material, the piece explores the boundaries between documentary, sound art and music.
Produced by Suvi Tuuli Kataja ja Jussi Liukkonen
Voice messages: Milla Puolakanaho
Unland
Alina Talipova (BE, 2025)
Alina Talipova (BE, 2025)
38 min
Unland (original title: Onland) is an audio documentary about four young people
navigating the fragile ground between origin and future. Each of them balances
between memory and desire, between a pasts with dark shadows and a future that
remains uncertain. Set in a metaphorical swamp, their voices reveal what it means
to grow up between cultures, carrying histories larger than themselves. Through
field recordings, multilingual voices, silences, and soundscapes, the work explores
identity, migration, and belonging without offering simple answers. Instead, it invites
the listener into an unstable but fertile space where contradictions and connections
coexist.
The characters — Anna (Russian-Georgian, navigating diaspora life), Ignace
(Azerbeidzjani, adopted in Belgium and reconstructing his identity), and Amina
(Ossetian, moving from Russia and Turkey to Brussels) — reflect different but
connected experiences of displacement and belonging but also shaping an identity
faced with controversy. Their multilingual voices (English, Dutch, Russian) overlap
and intertwine, underscoring the impossibility of one clear narrative or translation.
The structure of Unland follows the rhythm of a day, from morning to night and back
to morning. This cyclical movement reflects how migration stories do not always
lead to resolution or progress but move in circles, pauses, and restarts. Rather than
delivering a political statement, Unland creates a sensory and emotional space
where listeners are invited to experience cultural in-betweenness. It is an exploration
of what remains unsaid in migration stories, and a way to listen to the tensions,
silences, and echoes that shape identities across generations.
Unland does not offer political slogans or simple narratives
but creates an auditory landscape of tension, dissonance, and recognition.
Produced by: Alina Talipova
Supported by Katharina Smets
Music Toon van Beek
1001 Stabs
Lina Prestwood (UK, 2025)
Lina Prestwood (UK 2025)
8 min
To be born in Gaza is to be born already bleeding.
Before you take your first step, a blade is pressed gently, precisely, against your soul, the first of 1001 stabs
Fadi Almeghari was killed on Tuesday 26th May 2026 by Israeli forces. He was 25, the main breadwinner of his community and the primary carer for several children orphaned by IOF attacks. His writing and photography were internationally celebrated for their emotionally nuanced and evocative portrayal of life under occupation and more recently, genocide. His work can be seen on his Instagram page @fadimghari and his dependents can be supported at gofund.me
Produced by Lina Prestwood
Written in August 2025 by F. (Gaza)
Read by F. and Lyana Mansour (USA)
With thanks to Fatima Zahra Gahzli (Turkey)
Riley In The Closet
Hannah Frances Johansson (US 2025)
Hannah Johansson (US 2026)
11 min
This is a story about the time Hannah’s friend Riley, who is trans, lived in their closet for two weeks. Outside, it was 70 degrees and sunny, a true California endless summer. But in the closet, it was fall. They played jazz, sipped tea, and left only at night to eat a loaf of bread. Listen like you are in the closet with Riley, as they describe their fall-themed teenage breakdown, inspired by Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. Sometimes, identity can only be formed in isolation.
Produced by Hannah Frances Johansson