Transmissions
Blue Heart + XMTR
Stellaria Media (UK 2024)
Produced by Stellaria Media (UK 2024)
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
I’d Rather Be Swimming
Clair Urbahn (UK 2024)
Produced by Clair Urbahn (UK 2022)
7 min
Produced especially for the XMTR Audio Arts Festival. This is an ode to living by the sea. It's why we are all here so please stop dumping sewage in it Southern Water. Cheers to the fellow swimmers that helped, young and old.
Clair Urbahn, an audio enthusiast since broadcasting at an independent FM station in Wellington NZ (radioactive.fm) moved from NZ to London in 2008, had a hand in setting up NTS Radio (nts.live) and set up pop-up stations when that was a thing. Currently overseeing podcast production and network infrastructure for Brazen (brazen.fm) as Head of Audio.
Producer: Clair Urbahn
Smugglers Song
Mary Cooper (UK 2023)
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
Walking through the submerged forest
Mary Cooper (UK 2023)
Produced by Mary Hooper (UK 2023)
9 min
This piece is composed from my 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
The Confidential Briefing
Fari Bradley (UK 2017)
Produced by Fari Bradley (UK 2017)
49 min
The third episode of ‘The Far Becomes Near‘ series examines the social and political history of early radio in the United Arab Emirates. It comes as a cassette tape, handed to you, a member of the British diplomatic core, as you board a chartered jumbo jet for the emirate of Sharjah in the UAE. Set in 1978, the scenario imagines that as you settle down in your seat, heed the ‘permission to smoke’ announcement, you put the headphones of your Sony Walkman on. The cassette is background information in preparation for the International Telecommunications Expo to which you are headed, taking place in Abu Dhabi.
You can also hear Fari Bradley on her weekly with Six Pillars radio show on
Resonance 104.4fm
Producer: Fari Bradley
Commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation
Let’s Stick Together : The Calm Before The Storm
Sarah Cuddon (UK 2021)
Produced by Sarah Cuddon (UK 2021)
14 min / Episode 2 of 2
'Let’s stick together’ explores the process of collage, using found image and sound, and how it reflected our lives during the Covid pandemic.
A beautifully produced collage of sound and interviews with the Bromley By Bow Centre participants. The best way to describe this piece is a patchwork quilt of sound.
A collaboration between visual and participatory artist Emily Tracy and writer Line Langebek & radio producer Sarah Cuddon from ‘Library of Change’, working with The Bromley By Bow Centre and The Rotherhithe Picture Library, plus public sessions with participants from all over the country.
Commissioned by The Library of Change
Magneto Mori Vienna
Mark Vernon (UK 2019)
Produced by Mark Vernon (UK 2019)
47 min
A fragmented sound portrait of the city constructed from found sounds, buried tapes and field recordings. In this de-composition sounds from Vienna’s past and present are conjoined in a stew of semi-degraded audiotape.
Using a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder sounds from around the city were recorded direct to tape over a two-day period. This tape was then cut into fragments and buried in a hole in the ground with a number of tacky souvenir ‘Vienna’ fridge magnets that erase the portions of the tape that they come into contact with. After several days steeped in the muddy earth of a Viennese garden the remaining audio fragments were exhumed, washed, dried and spliced back together in random order.