Transmissions
In The Dark What’s New: For the Love of Reptiles
Grace Heerman (US 2023)
Grace Heerman (US 2023)
16 min
Grace Heerman is a new audio producer living in New York. She was primarily a copywriter, until she started experimenting with audio last year.
“For the Love of Reptiles” is a fun account of what it means to be a reptile owner today.
Producer - Grace Heerman
In The Dark What’s New: We Were Being Taught a Lesson
Shivangi Mariam (IN 2021)
Shivangi Mariam (IN 2021)
8 min
Shivangi Mariam is a writer, independent researcher, and translator from India. The piece is about the function of memory in the face of mass violence.
The poem was written in response to a massacre that happened in Shivangi’s home city Delhi in 2020, a massacre where the victims continue to await justice. This is their first time matching their poetry to sound design. To do this, they collaborated with Osloob, a Palestinian rapper, singer, and music producer. For Osloob this is an experiment in style too, because he had never created sound design for spoken word.
Writing and concept by Shivangi Mariam
Sound Design by Osloob
In The Dark What’s New- Ways of Listening
James Bonney (UK 2023)
James Bonney (UK 2023)
4 min
James Bonney, a Bristol-based musician and aspiring audio-producer. He taught himself to record, edit and mix audio in his free time during his studies.
This is his first attempt at making his own piece from scratch — with original script, music and sound design. It’s an audio essay about the chalk downlands, which continue to play a significant role in James’s life.
Produced by James Bonney
My Synthetic Thoughts
Samuel Robinson ( 2023)
Samuel Robinson (UK 2023)
14 min
In 'My Synthetic Thoughts' the protagonist grapples with puzzling experiences, seeking meaning in a labyrinth of mental health, medication, memory, and the subconscious. Amidst the fog of unresolved time, their quest for understanding and peace becomes a poignant journey, revealing the intricate tapestry of their psyche.
Produced by Samuel Robinson
The Peephole
Andrea Kristinsdottir (US/ISL 2023)
Andrea Kristinsdottir (US/ISL 2023)
10 min
A deepdive into a workplace bathroom. What exactly happens there other there other the obvious? Why would you not want to do the things that you’re supposed to do there?
Andrea Kristindottir likes to focus on the smallest everyday places that reveal musch more about the wider world around us.
Produced by: Andrea Kristindottir
Soft Life: Time
Alannah Chance and Axel Kacoutié (UK 2023)
Alannah Chance and Axel Kacoutié (UK 2023)
32 min 3 of 4
This four-part series takes the idea of ‘soft life’ as a launch off point to explore alternative ideas around work, time, the body and ecology emanating from Somerset House and beyond. They talk to radical thinkers, artists and writers, who are carving out these new ways of being in the body, centring the soft and the in-between, finding space for rest and looking at ways of expanding time beyond the clock.
How can we make time free?
This episode contemplates different ways of experiencing time beyond the linear, with Somerset House Studios artist Shenece Oretha on transforming time through the practice of listening, sociologist Judy Wajcman on unpicking progress from speed in the digital sphere and psychologist Dr Ruth Ogden on how our experience of time is relational and whether it’s possible to conceive of ‘free time’ in a modern world.
Produced by: Alannah Chance and Axel Kacoutié
Sound by: Axel Kacoutié and additional music by Ellen Zweig
Produced by Somerset Studios
The Battle of Lewisham
Skevos Loizou (UK 2018)
Skevos Loizou (UK 2018)
18 min
On August 13th 1977 The Battle of Lewisham played a major part in the start of the fall of the National Front in the UK. During the 1970s the NF had made major gains in elections and were building a racist movement. The NF organised a march through Lewisham is South London, they were physically confronted by the local comunity, trade unionists, and anti racisits. Even with Police protection the march capitulated. Set with the backdrop of the music of the time here are Stories from the Battle of Lewisham.
Producer - Skevos Loizou
You Didn't See Nothin' - Young Black Male
Invisible Institute / USG (US 2023)
Invisible Institute (US 2023)
31 min
Epsiode 1 of part investigation and part memoir, “You Didn't See Nothin” follows Yohance Lacour as he revisits the story that introduced him to the world of investigative journalism, and examines how its ripple effects have shaped his life over the past quarter-century.
In 1997, Lenard Clark was beaten into a coma by a gang of older white teens simply for being Black in a white neighbourhood. One of Lenard’s attackers was from a powerful Chicago family. The media quickly turned towards stories of reconciliation and racial healing, with cooperation by Black leaders and the attacker’s family. Yohance wasn’t having any of it. At the time of the attack, he was in his early 20s, writing plays, selling weed, and living at his dad’s house on the South Side of Chicago. Unable to stand by silently, he began working with a neighbourhood newspaper to investigate the vicious hate crime.
Reporting on the incident led him to grow increasingly disillusioned with journalism.From USG Audio and the Invisible Institute – creators of the 2020 Pulitzer Finalist podcast “Somebody” – “You Didn't See Nothin” finds Yohance back in Chicago after a 10-year prison sentence, tracking down key players to examine how this story connects to our present moment.
Host - Yohance Lacour
Producers- Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis
Sound Design - Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company
Produced for The Invisible institute by ASG Audio
XMTR Radio Hour Ep24 : Tapes and Time
Social Broadcasts (UK 2023)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2023)
60 min / Episode 24 of 24
This Transmitter Radio Hour is an ode to tapes and time, featuring Glasgow based sound artist Steve Urquhart’s Doing Bird a mixtape recorded with inmates at Perth Prison (Scotland), a meditation on time by Brighton based composer and sound artists Joseph Wilkinson and a wonky plunderphonic mixtape by Bristol based Limbo Tapes.
1. Radio producer and sound artist Steve Urquhart worked with inmates at HMP Perth engage with archive birdsong and oral history recordings from the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club in a unique, creative audio art collaboration.
You can listen to side B of Doing Bird here
2. Joseph Wilkinson is a composer, sound designer and audio artist based in Brighton, exploring the relationship between sound and our inner worlds. He collaborates with his wife and creative partner Cam Brandow as Farfar Studio, their combined channel for enchanting experiences through bespoke music, sound, and storytelling.
I sit in the shade is a short form documentary that is a meditation on time, our relationship to it, and the world around us. A mix of introspection, interviews with thoughts from authors, thinkers and tree-people.
3. Side B of Limbo Tapes is from a compilation of sounds made for monthly show Radio Limbo on Noods Radio, which is the flagship for cassette label, Limbo Tapes, a collaboration between Pete Hazell and Sean Lee.
You can hear side A of Limbo Tapes here
Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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