Transmissions
Brothers
Giacomo Bagni, (IT 2024)
Giacomo Bagni (IT 2024)
13 min
Giacomo and his father have had a fragmented relationship for years. Then, all of a sudden, a new character appears, replacing Giacomo as a son. Based on the author’s biographical story, Brothers is a trip in his inner world while he tries to understand what happened and make peace with it. A fresh take on autofiction, the piece is constructed by using a mixture of first person narration and re-constructed dialogues from the past, with the author inhabiting and voicing all the characters as a way to materialize his inner discussions and trying to make sense of them.
Written, Produced by Giacomo Bagni
Music by ST.ELVIO
The Stone Men of Newcastle
Daniel Hinds (UK 2022)
Daniel Hinds (UK 2022)
14 min
The Stone Men of Newcastle is a sequence of poems told through the eyes of The Commuter, the speaker and poet-figure, as he encounters the statues of Newcastle as part of his daily life working in the city. The sequence takes in Sir Antony Gormley’s vandalised Clasp sculpture, the St George and the Dragon war memorial at Eldon Square, another monument for the First World War, The Response 1914, and the Mercutio statue in Newcastle’s Theatre Royal. The Stone Men of Newcastle concludes with a consideration of the future figures we will immortalise in bronze and stone. The sequence enters into the current debate, typified by the Rhodes Must Fall movement and the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol, on how we engage with art and history in the form of statues. The statues sometimes co-exist uneasily with their setting: they are surrounded by the distractions of modern life, represent a past impossible to compete with or at odds with our values, and are vulnerable to defacement. Yet, they can also be sources of inspiration, beauty, and connection to the past, sites of contemplation as well as conflict.
Writer Daniel Hinds
Cast: Dan Pyre and Stacey Ghent
Lead Audio Production Partner: Naked Productions
Partners: BBC New Creatives, Tyneside Cinema, Arts Council England, BBC Arts.
Beast Country: Chapter One
Ewan Cameron (UK 2024)
Ewan Cameron (UK 2024)
17 min
Chapter one of a three-part audio fiction series with elements of folk horror and magical realism.
“Don't let this die. Don't let us die. Because I'll never forgive you if you do.”
Phil Ainsworth is 54 and deeply sad. He is preparing for the annual village Beast Hunt. For hundreds of years, the men of his family have led a march in to the woods in search of a mystical pig-like creature. But for Phil it is a time for reopening old wounds and coming face to face with the reason for all his sadness.
Written, Produced by Ewan Cameron
Application Declined
Alice Foxall (UK 2024)
Alice Foxall (UK 2024)
7 min
A dystopian fiction focusing on themes of race and the benefits system. Sara and Claire meet up over coffee (well, a turmeric-matcha latte) and finally have a decent catch up. But niceties turn sour and lattes grow cold as the government’s new rules on child applications create rifts between old friends.
Written, Produced by Alice Foxall
Actors: Verity De Cala, Ese Osamede
Mixed by Transmission Roundhouse
In The Dark What’s New: The Diaries of Netovicius the Vampire
Hugo Martin (US 2024)
Hugo Pierre Martin (US 2024)
6 min
A piece about vampires, as well as recovery — from trauma, from alcoholism, from cults, just from life.
Produced, written and performed by Hugo Pierre Martin
Bin Juice
Emma Tindall (UK 2024)
Emma Tindall (UK 2024)
48 min Episode 1 of 10
BIN JUICE is a fresh take on the traditional British sitcom, but make it ‘Millennial’ and for your ears... In the first of its kind ‘scripted audio comedy/drama podcast mash-up... we follow the lives of four unlikely friends from different walks of life across the UK, attempting to navigate early adulthood together.
BJ: A middle class ‘mess’ navigating the dating scene for the first time and slowly realising that a degree in ‘fine art’ probably isn’t going to get her all that far in the real world.
GABRIEL: First generation immigrant originally from India, working as a nurse for the NHS. In a long-term monogamous relationship with his childhood sweetheart, Cameron.
RACHEL: Half Irish, half African corporate queen with a sassy spiritual side… Trying to navigate her sexual orientation while burying the multi generational trauma of growing up in the troubles.
JACK: Working class northerner, a literal ‘jack-the-lad’. He’s the guy you warn all your female friends about, but really he’s just a trundling mess of insecurities, rejection and undiagnosed mental health issues.
Every week, one housemate at 37 Bellenden Road takes the bins out, only to find an item amongst the rubbish which sparks the story for that particular episode… from a mouldy chicken carcass to a giant pink dildo, they give us the ‘juice’ of the week through recollecting the chaos, carnage and often cripplingly cringey events of the week.
Think ‘Fleabag’ meets ‘The Archers’ with a dabble of ‘Fresh Meat’ sprinkled over for good measure.
This is the pilot episode from what is designed to be a 10-part series.
Written, Produced and Directed: Emma Tindall
Co-written by Scott Longwell
Dimetapp
Olga Gonithellis, US 2023
Olga Gonithellis (US 2023)
2 min
A young child can't resist the sweet grape flavor of Dimetapp cold medicine, and nearly overdoses. This autobiographical short story, written by Janet Lawrence, is revisited through a comedic lens, and told through the perspective of the young child.
Produced by Olga Gonithellis
Music written by Olga Gonithellis
The Ecco: Take an Acorn from Your Past Life and Plant it
Marta Medveșek (DE 2024)
Marta Medveșek (DE 2024)
10 min
A piece about nature, and the nature of letting go. In dialogue with Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree and Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. We bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Produced by Marta Medveșek
Featuring Hana Medvešek Ujaković, Milena Matijević Medvešek and 참나무. Additional voices Matko Jovanović and Medvešeki.
The Ecco: Please Hold the Rage
Mitsuo Iwamoto (DE 2024)
Mitsuo Iwamoto (DE 2024)
8 min
Delivery driver Norman confronts his landlord, the Berlin Housing Corporation, about the broken elevator in his building. An emotional power struggle ensues that blurs the lines between fact and fiction, empathy and manipulation.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. They bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Written by Alex Blanc and Mitsuo Iwamoto
Performed by Liz Mowforth as Susie, Dennis Svensson as Norman, and Becky Morrison as Housing Corporation Voice
Editors: Lena von Holt, Luisa Beck and Jasmin Bauomy
Executive Producer: Jasmin Bauomy
Delphis Vol I. - The Eternal Fountain, an Insignificant Miracle
Will Gore (UK 2024)
Will Gore (UK 2024)
244 min Episode 1 of 4
Delphis is a fictional creative agency operating out of Soho London. They currently run a quarterly audio-zine following them behind the scenes as we work on their projects.
Vol 1: Discovering an infinitely pouring office water cooler in a Brighton office, an elderly janitor, journalist and identity fluid cowboy-come-mod become embroiled in an outlandish fight for ownership.
Written, Produce and Performed by: Will Gore
Mixing and Mastering by Oscar Corriette