Transmissions
Where@bouts: The Magic Skates
Mad Genius (2016)
Mad Genius (US 2016)
11 min Episode 4 of 13
Where@bouts is the art "popcast" that remixes the world. Found sound addicts Mad Genius build stories linked to a location's ambience. Our guests conduct their world like a song.
Jeanne Du Snark brings the pain for the Mad Rollin’ Dolls, a roller derby league in Madison, Wisconsin. She does this while living with her own persistent pain. “When I have my skates on, I’m awake and I’m alive. I don’t have to take drugs.” We recorded Jeanne’s world, remixing her skates into an arena-shaking stomp. “You could get hit from anywhere. Just be ready.”
Producer: Mad Genius
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Selected by our guest curator: Jesse Lawson - Audio Producer, Sound Designer + Facilitator
“I love how playful this piece is, it's really inspired my approach to sound design. 10/10 would recommend to a friend!”
Afrikan: Congo is Bleeding Part 1
AMBC (GHAN 2021)
Drc. Jaèy, for the AMBC (GHAN 2021)
17min Episode 1 of 5
In August 1998, a war broke out in the Democratic Republic of The Congo - barely a years after the First Congo War (or what was refereed to as the African World War 1 ) of 1996. Over 6 million people have died - massacred, and millions more displaced. And till this day, this war continues. The reality of things in the DRC is horrendous, utterly barbaric and it's well-staged. The Congo is bleeding and it’s said to be a modern-day genocide perpetuated by some world class capitalists geared towards economic and financial benefits. Documenting and addressing relevant happenings in and affecting the African societies.
Created and produced by Drc. Jaèy
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Onirica
Silvia Malnati (2021)
Silvia Malnati (UK /IT 2021)
15 min
An intimate exploration of the auditory impressions that people experience while dreaming.
Onirica x BBC New Creatives in partnership with ICA London
Producer: Silvia Malnati
Composer: Stefano Galli
Mixing & Sound Designer: Andrea Campisi
Executive Producer: Pierre Vella (SPACE)
XMTR Radio Hour Ep17
Social Broadcasts (UK 2022)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2022)
60 min / Episode 17 of 17
This hour is dedicated to sounds from the North Yorkshire Coast and more specifically the Wild Eye Project by Invisible Dust. If you miss the sea or just want to enjoy a moment near the water, the next hour features audio postcards from Scarborough by Lucia Scazzocchio and Silvia Malnati, Sea Songs from beneath the waves by Rob Mackay and words from Alice Sharp from Invisible Dust bringing artists and scientists together to explore environment and climate change.
The Fifth Siren: Water
Fill Productions (IT / UK 2021)
FILL Productions (IT/UK 2021)
22 min Episode 1 of 6
When the high tide reaches Venice, four sirens are sounded to warn the population of the incoming danger. Each one of them represents a growing level of emergency, the level of the rising water. Yet there is no sound after the last siren. In 2019, when the storm hit the city, nothing could have prepared Venetians for the level of destruction it was going to bring.
On the 13th of November 2019 an exceptionally high tide hits Venice, creating damage the city has not seen before. People’s homes and shops are destroyed, the power cuts off and the city plunges into a dark, desperate night, trying to rescue what it can. Could this have been foreseen? Are weather anomalies really an exception, or perhaps just something that’s going to happen more and more often? As the world stands watching, we wonder: is this only a cautionary tale for Venice, or for the world?
Written and Produced by Marco Magini, Paolo Nelli, Giorgia Tolfo, Maddalena Vatti
Sound design by Alex Robertson
Narrator: Emily Naylor
Support by Italian Cultural Institute London
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Radio Ballad: On The Edge (1963)
BBC (1963)
Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Charles Parker (UK 1963)
59 min
This new revolutionary format - radio ballad (BBC) conceived by folk musicians Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and the brilliant radio documentary maker Charles Parker in 1958, combining sound: songs, instrumental music, sound effects, and, most importantly, the recorded voices of those who are the subjects of the documentary. This had never been done before, and still sounds incredibly fresh today.
This Radio Ballad explores the lives of teenagers in the 1960’s with voices of young people from all over the UK. If you’ve seen C’mon C’mon where Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny a radio journalist touring the US to talk to teens, this piece sounds even more ahead of its time.
Producer: Charles Parker
Music: Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
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Trade Winds: Ayurveda to Big Pharma: the Wonder of Healing Plants
Scrolls and Leaves (IN 2021)
Scrolls and Leaves (IN 2021)
33 min Episode 6 of 8 of Trade Winds
Trade Winds explores how movement and migration across the Indian Ocean changed us.
In a windswept mountain pass, more than a hundred years ago, a towering Afghan man hacks a Scottish trader to death. Then the killer disappears. A British officer is determined to track him down and rides along the old Silk Route into western China. No sign of the killer but he does encounter a book of Ayurveda unearthed in the nearby desert. The Sanskrit lettering details the power of Healing Plants.
Produced by Mary-Rose Abraham and Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Sound design by Nikhil Nagaraj
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The Unfiltered History Tour - Hoa Hakananai'a
Vice World News (UK 2021)
Produced by Jesse Lawson For Vice World News (UK 2021)
15 min Episode 2 of 10
In school you learn about museums but you’re never taught to question how their collections ended up in their hands. According to many people, the British Museum is the world’s largest receiver of stolen goods. VICE World News brings you the stories of ten of these objects, told to you by people from the countries they were taken from.
The people of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved Hoa Hakananai’a centuries ago. This living ancestor was taken by British sailors and given to Queen Victoria.
Produced by Jesse Lawson
Research by Marthe Van Der Wolf
A VICE World News production
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XMTR Radio Hour Ep16
Social Broadcasts (UK 2022)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2021)
60 min / Episode 16 of 16
The next hour has a distinctly European flavour and will be showcasing work from the Italian radio platform Radio Papesse, the Belgian space for sonic creations RadioLa as well something from the prolific Italian multi-media artist Cristina Marras and a short from the Social Broadcast archive.
Sound artist Anna Raimondo has four languages in her life, French, Italian, Spanish and English and decided that it would be sensible to get some phonetic training to help her achieve a proper British accent. Her Henry Higgins happens to be Australian and the results teeter between absurd and endearing. Me My
English and all the languages of my life by Anna Raimondo
From Radiola.be (by the Atelier de creation sonore radiophonique in Brussels)
Next, we’re going to take a sort of road trip in Sardinia along the St Barbara Mining trail but also on a personal trip down a memory lane belonging to Italian radio maker Cristina Marras’s memories as she goes on this 500k pilgrimage with her friend who is happens to be called Cristina Maras.
The smell of Naptha by Cristina Marras
Back to the UK now to Peterborough and more specifically to the Portuguese area just off the Lincoln road, where Francesco Costa is having an after-work glass of wine at Tasca, a Portuguese canteen complete with football on the TV and cakes and stews behind glass counter.
Love and Life on Lincoln Road - Francesco Costa by Lucia Scazzocchio
From Radio Local
Now Imagine a camera zooming out up from Lincoln road, up from Peterborough, up from Britain, Europe, the earth and now we can see earth from space. But then we hurtle down towards Alabama in the US, it’s 1954 and a Meteor hits.
Meteor Bodies by Kate Donovan with mentorship from Katharina Metts
From Radio Papesse’s Lucia Festival
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City Of Women - Dicks
Vaaka (IN 2019)
Produced by Radhika Viswanathan and Samyuktha Varma (IN 2019)
22 min Episode 2 of 14
How often have you been walking down the street, running an errand or riding the bus when you see something… and you do a double take. Your eyes keep going back to it and your brain goes into overdrive: ‘IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS?’ Yes, it’s EXACTLY what you think it is. Long before we got unsolicited dick picks in our DMs and inboxes, we got them unsolicited irl. In ‘Dicks’ we talk to women about the whats, whens and hows of all those dicks.
City of Women, explores the calculated strategies, backdoor negotiations, and often absurd lengths women go to have fun and feel free in their city. Universal experiences told from an Indian woman’s perspective. A fun, complex, joyride into the minds of women and the streets of Bangalore.