XMTR Radio Hour Ep32: Sono Electro and XMTR Festival Unpacked

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)

60 min / Episode 32 of 32

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is a retrospective conversation about the inception and outcomes of sound art and sonic storytelling festivals Sono Electro and XMTR Audio Arts Festival that took place in St Leonards on Sea in September. James Wilkie from Sono Electro and Lucia Scazzocchio from XMTR talk to Isobel Anderson - host of Girls Twiddling Knobs, about how the worked together on the festival(s), the learnings from behind the scenes and their ambitions for the future - could St Leonards on Sea become a sonic destination? This is a candid conversation about collaboration, curation and working with and within an established creative community,  with clips and and extracts from artists and performances featured at the festival. 

You can access full audio works from the tracklist at xmtr.fm/festival. 

Tracklist: 
Anam Cara - Ear to the Ground - Dan 'you are tuning in to the Lido graveyard'
Limbo Tapes - Radio Limbo Live at XMTR Festival
Blanc Sceol - Orbit Meditation 
Stellaria Media (Lucida Guy and Alice Armstrong) Blue Heart
Ben Philipps - Home Sounds
Ben Chennett -  A Choir for Hastings and St Leonards
Marcia Farquar - The Lido 
Jem Finer - Pinball Machine 
Phil Smith - Zwischenzeit
Will Gore + Esme Curtis - Invisible Cities, Argia
Ed Baxter + Anthony Moore - Life Sentence
Jem Finer - Pinball Machine 
Blanc Sceol - Orbit Meditation 

XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio

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Radio Limbo LIVE in St. Leonards...

Pete Hazell (UK 2024)

60min

Behold the first-ever Radio Limbo live show, recorded at XMTR festival in St. Leonard's-on-Sea. Host Limbo Pete guides the audience through selected gems from the Limbo archive. But as the show reaches the control room of Outpost 83, The Operator becomes intrigued by Pete's curious connections between the town’s history and Limbo lore. Could the seaside town’s saintly namesake hold a deeper, unsettling connection to Old Leonard’s disappearance?

Produced by Pete Hazell

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep31: Long Live the New Sound

Produced by Adriene from LLtNS (US 2024)

60 min / Episode 31 of 31

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour hands over the reigns to Adriene and Stuart from LLtNS (Long Live the New Sound) the freeform anti-podcast podcast for creative audio where audio makers and recordists can freely upload their sounds to add to this ever growing archive. They have chosen a selection of unexpected, eclectic, precise, messy and otherwise sounds from what has been uploaded over the years. 

Works featured:

• Misophonic Happenings by Carlo Patrão

• ASLEEPerd by sleep number beds

• 920am by Jazmine (JT) Green

• Episode 1 : The Circles by Matters of Truth

• Rakiura/Stewart Island - 09/23 by Sam Donkin

• Episode 2 : The Change by Matters of Truth

• good and bad and dangerous and dangerously good by  information jewellery

• On the village cricket pitch by SDU

• We Went Camping by Regan Hutchins

• Voies Urbaines: Rue Mespoul by Mathias Guilbaud

• This is absolutely, definitely not a test. And the previous episode was too long by vegetarian nachos

• A Past Life by Olivia Ravioli

• Fish by Cristina Marras

• Engaged by Mr.

• Cracking Through by Lily Sloane

• Sherry's Health Insurance Nachos by Henrici Tai

• Throwing rocks at a frozen river by adriene

XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
This Episode was curated by Adriene and Stuart and hosted by Adriene from LLtNS

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep30: Ed Baxter (Resonance FM)

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)

60 min / Episode 30 of 30

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is a conversation with Ed Baxter who has recently stepped down as Resonance FM creative director after being at the helm for over 22 years. Ed has selected a number of audio works that he initiated, directed or produced during this time, with a common theme of 'creating the conditions for something to happen'. These radio experiments are a wonderful example of what occurs when this medium is stretched and contorted,  allowing for the unexpected whist setting out imaginative parameters.

Works included are:
Score for Open-heart Surgery on Charlie Watts
Shut Your Eyes to Art
SpeedDataRadio
The Exeter Whisper
Fifth Sketch for Ascent and Descent
Intimacy and Distance
Millions Flee as California Burns

XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep30: Ed Baxter (Resonance FM)

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)

60 min / Episode 30 of 30

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is a conversation with Ed Baxter who has recently stepped down as Resonance FM creative director after being at the helm for over 22 years. Ed has selected a number of audio works that he initiated, directed or produced during this time, with a common theme of 'creating the conditions for something to happen'. These radio experiments are a wonderful example of what occurs when this medium is stretched and contorted,  allowing for the unexpected whist setting out imaginative parameters.

Works included are:
Score for Open-heart Surgery on Charlie Watts
Shut Your Eyes to Art
SpeedDataRadio
The Exeter Whisper
Fifth Sketch for Ascent and Descent
Intimacy and Distance
Millions Flee as California Burns

XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio

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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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Limbo Calling: Ep.1 ~ Fear Swim

Pete Hazell (UK 2024)

20min

In this new series from Limbo Tapes, mysterious recordings from the Radio Limbo archives have been carefully restored. They reveal a curious world of voices, sounds and music through the dispatches of a solitary, unnamed radio operator.

Episode 1. Controversial water-based event “Fear Swim” is something of a nightlife myth. Founder & promoter Shirley Eelsworth reveals in an interview some of the backstory to this famous nightmare swimming party. 
The Operator also reflects on a troubling visitation experience (see prologue) and enjoys a piece of music about a Crocodile's daughter.

Produced by Pete Hazell
Theme music by Alex Lupo. "Please Mr Crocodile" by Titus 12. with contributions from Sean Lee and Karen Dews.

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Radio Limbo LIVE in St. Leonards...

Pete Hazell (UK 2024)

60min

Behold the first-ever Radio Limbo live show, recorded at XMTR festival in St. Leonard's-on-Sea. Host Limbo Pete guides the audience through selected gems from the Limbo archive. But as the show reaches the control room of Outpost 83, The Operator becomes intrigued by Pete's curious connections between the town’s history and Limbo lore. Could the seaside town’s saintly namesake hold a deeper, unsettling connection to Old Leonard’s disappearance?

Produced by Pete Hazell

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Running the Goat

Chris Brookes (CA 2005)

25 min

On July 2, 1992 the once-gigantic Newfoundland cod fishery was shut down. Twelve years later, 70,000 people had left, and coastal communities were struggling to survive. The blow to the culture was as dramatic as the economic effect, but how do you measure cultural change? Perhaps with a centuries-old Nfld “set dance”.

Celebrating the life and works of the late Chis Brookes.

Produced by Chris Brookes - Battery Radio

First broadcast by Radio Netherlands April 24, 2005
AWARDS: Third Coast Festival 2005. Grand Prix Marulic 2006

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