Transmissions
A Seat in Soho - Sandra Taboda
Talia Augustidis (UK 2022)
Talia Augustidis (UK 2022)
11min
A Seat in Soho was a multimedia exhibition celebrating the voices, history and diversity of Soho’s lesser-known but two and half thousand-strong residential community.
Created and Produced by former Soho Resident Stella Cecil and Creative Producer Tiphaine Tailleux, in collaboration with 8 long term Soho residents.
This is one of the 8 audio portraits from the exhibition, all recorded from each resident’s home and from the comfort of their favourite seat. The stories touch on the pressing issues of our times, including social housing, loneliness, nature and the post-pandemic world.
Produced by Talia Augustidis
Exhibition Created and Produced by Stella Cecil and Tiphaine Tailleux
The Lido
Dennis Funk , Paula Barros (US 2022)
Dennis Funk, Paula Barros (US 2022)
36min
On a little island sandwiched between Miami Beach and mainland Florida sits an old pink apartment complex called The Lido. It’s unlike anything around it; a remnant of an old Miami. One of the tenants, Paula Barros, guides us through this colourful building and the colourful people who live there. There’s Eddie, the exhausted HOA Board President, a stickler for rules and a sucker for his cat. Evan, an aspiring travel influencer trying to work through hundreds of bucket list goals. Ragnar, an amateur taxidermist. Payami, who only calls himself that because it rhymes with Miami.
A charming place specific peice narrated and recorded by one of the residents who uses her microphone to get to know her neighbours a little better and starts to get involved in the search for a missing cat.
(The 11th is a podcast that publishes an entirely new and ambitious issue on the 11th of every month. It could be one episode, or three, or more. It’s a mystery box made up of reported series and personal journeys; fiction, musicals, deep investigative journalism and intimate conversations. Inspired by the experience of opening a magazine you love every month and not knowing what exactly you will get, but trusting that something engaging and true will be waiting for you. Each issue, a different voice. Every month, something new.)
Produced and Recorded by Dennis Funk, Kristen Torres, Paula Barros
Narrated by Paula Barros
From Pineapple Street Studios / Written in Air
Come Sunday
Darell Grant (US 2021)
Darrell Grant (US 2021)
108min
Audio Walks for Armchair Listening Mini Series
Designed as a sound walk this piece works equally well as a pure listening experience, let the voices and music take you to the churches of Portland in the US.
Portland’s inner-northeast neighbourhoods were once home to over 200 Black churches. The remaining wooden and brick buildings, ranging from tiny storefronts to imposing brick edifices, are the inspiration for 'Come Sunday'.
Created by jazz artist and composer Darrell Grant, 'Come Sunday' is a pilgrimage in sound and time that winds through the King, Humboldt, and Alberta neighbourhoods — once the heart of Oregon’s largest Black community.
Beginning in DeNorval Unthank Park and culminating at Bethel A.M.E. Church, the oldest continuously operating Black church in Oregon, the soundwalk passes thirteen houses of worship that stand as islands documenting the rich history, hopes, and community ties that wove together a community. Combining oral history, African-American spirituals, poetry, historical texts, jazz piano, new music, and the sounds of the neighbourhood, Come Sunday paints an aural portrait of community inspired by the singular institution at its heart — leading the fight for justice, serving the vulnerable, holding the community in good times and bad — the Black church.
Produced and Narrated by Darell Grant
Commissioned by Third Angle New Music
The Waves: Queens
Erinn Dhesi (UK 2022)
Applied Stories / Erinn Dhesi (UK 2022)
21 min Episode 5 of 5
Waves is five audio fiction productions exploring the contemporary impact of Britain’s colonial past.
A statue of Queen Victoria in Leamington Spa’s town centre becomes much more than an old monument, with dramatic and outrageous results.
Written by Erinn Dhesi
Directed by Gitika Buttoo
Starring : Vimal Korpal, Bharti Patel, Dilan Raithatha, Ravneet Sehra Elexi Walker
Made by Holy Mountain in association with Tamasha Theatre Company and supported by the Audio Content Fund for Applied Stories
Voicing The Archive
Hannah Kemp-Welch (UK 2021)
Hannah Kemp-Welch (UK 2021)
29 min
During the pandemic, artist Hannah Kemp-Welch was in-residence at the Women’s Art Library, based at Goldsmiths. Reaching out to community groups in New Cross, Hannah photocopied and collated packs of ephemera from artists' projects documented in the library and posted these to local residents. Seven women selected an artist from the archive and responded to their work, recording personal reflections as they looked through materials. This audio essay considers access to archives, and how voices can bring the Women’s Art Library to life.
Produced by Hannah Kemp-Welch
Doing Bird
Steve Urquhart (UK 2022)
Steve Urquhart (UK 2022)
20min Episode 1 of 2
Inmates at HMP Perth engage with archive birdsong and oral history recordings from the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club in a unique, creative audio art collaboration. Peesweeps meet hip hop beats, grouse unlock coded prison language, and an unhatched kestrel chick provokes philosophy.
Engaging with Scotland's archive birdsong recordings encourages the men to recall positive memories, to spark creativity, to reflect on the purpose of prison, and to re-evaluate their connection to the world beyond prison walls. They also think deeply about the accessibility and value of oral history recordings, and about who gets to be involved.
Produced by Steve Urquhart
‘Doing Bird’ is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Conversations Over a Brew: Andy and Scarlett on The Book of St Helens
Heart of Glass (UK 2021)
Heart Of Glass (UK 2021)
26min Episode 1 of 6
An insightful chat (recorded over a brew) between artist Andy Field and Scarlett, a school girl from St Helens. The pair reflect on working together and wonder if children have super powers for imagining the future.
The focus is on children's perspectives, and the power and possibility they hold for reimagining the world around us. To explore these themes, we hear from artist Andy Field and Scarlett, a primary school pupil from St Helens. Andy, and his partner Beckie Darlington, make work that starts conversations between children and adults. Over this past year Andy and Beckie have worked with 146 children from across St Helens to create a guidebook about the town from the perspectives of its young people. Simply titled, The Book Of St Helens, this guidebook takes you on a unique journey through the town, highlighting the area's magical possibilities. Scarlett was one of the children who worked with Andy and Beckie to make The Book Of St Helens.
Produced by Heart of Glass
Changing Tracks: Abbey Wood
Lucia Scazzocchio (UK 2019)
Lucia Scazzocchio (UK 2019)
18 min
Here comes the Elizabeth Line, finally. This won’t mean much to anyone outside London, but for many Londoners this has been a long time coming and for some places this means big changes as they join the London Transport map.
Originally commissioned by London Transport Museum to explore the life, community and sense of place around 2 areas soon to be drastically changed by the arrival of Cross Rail or the Elizabeth Line. This is a moment in time captured through voices of people who live and work in Thamesmead and Abbey Wood in South East London around what will soon become a destination station: Abbey Wood.
Recorded and produced by: Lucia Scazzocchio at Social Broadcasts
Time and Tide Museum : Migration, Heritage and Belonging
Oliver Payne at Eastern Ear. (UK 2021)
Oliver Payne at Eastern Ear (UK 2021)
29 min Episode 2 of 6
Podcast featuring Dr Sarah Lowndes of Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth, interviewing members of the town's migrant communities. The podcast features excerpts from interviews with 30 people from first, second and third generation migrant communities in Great Yarmouth including people from China, Cyprus, East Timor, France, Germany, Ivory Coast, Lithuania, Madeira, Mozambique, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Russia, all of whom have made Great Yarmouth their home.
Produced by Oliver Payne from Eastern Ear
Here is Where We Meet : Sunday Life At The Lake
Joel Wanek (US 2022)
Produced by Joel Wanek (US 2022)
50 min
Here is Where We Meet is a sonic celebration of Lake Merritt, a long-form documentary radio project broadcast on KGPC 96.9FM in Oakland. Each episode weaves together field recordings and interviews conducted around the Lake. HWWM explores the unique diversity and biodiversity found around Lake Merrit, the myriad ways that everyday Oaklanders engage with it and with each other, and ultimately affirms that even in this time of rapid gentrification and change, Lake Merritt and Oakland are a place for everyone.
Lake Merritt is Oakland's central social space. It is where you see the beautiful, singular diversity of the city interacting and commingling. On Sundays, this is on full display: bbqs, salsa dancing, drumming, and endless people strolling around. This episode is soundwalk around the Lake on a busy, warm Sunday, taking in the variety of sounds and speaking to people along the way.