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Jean

Nathan Gibson (UK 2024)

Nathan Gibson (UK 2024)

Jean
Nathan Gibson

12 min

How would it feel to suddenly lose your hearing in one ear? And then the other? How would your world change? How would you? A writer, educator and advocate, Jean Strauss talks about her experience of loss, her journey adapting to a life with hearing aids and her mission to fight for representation and public awareness.

Produced by Nathan Gibson
Music by Chris Zabriskie


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Documentary, Sound studies, Audo Essay Lucia Scazzocchio Documentary, Sound studies, Audo Essay Lucia Scazzocchio

Listening To The Soundosphere: An Academic Manifesto - FreshEd Flux Podcast

Peter Browning (UK 2024)

Peter Browning (UK 2024)

33 min

Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative based podcasts. This episode was created by Peter Browning explores the power of the Soundosphere. His meta-engagement highlights the importance of sound in creating immersive experiences, the emotional and embodied aspects of ethnographic research, and the political and social implications of podcasting.

Peter recently graduated with his PhD from the Institute of Education at the University College London. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies.

Written, edited and produced Peter Browning
Executive Producer: Johanna Fahey
Producers: Will Brehm and Brett Lashua

Characters Played by:
Narrator – Peter Browning
Will Brehm – Will Brehm
Brett Lashua- Brett Lashua
Johannah Fahey – Johannah Fahey
Dorothy – Siobhán Maycraft
Teacher – Rommy Anabalón
Simon McBurney from Complicité – Simon McBurney from Complicité
Jon Holmes from The Skewer – Jon Holmes from The Skewer


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Playing With Blocks: The Square Root Of Tree - FreshEd Flux Podcast

Michael Rumbelow (UK 2022)

Michael Rumbelow (UK 2022)

34 min

Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative based podcasts. This episode was created by Michael Rumbelow, a PhD student at the University of Bristol. In his Flux episode, Michael takes listeners on a sonic journey to explore block play. He weaves together sounds and ideas to show the power and possibilities of play.

Written, edited and produced Michael Rumbelow
Executive Producer: Johanna Fahey
Producers: Will Brehm and Brett Lashua

Vicki Mitchem played Virginia Woolf and Bertha Ronge, Dave Jackson played Friedrich Froebel, Karl Marx, and Charles Dickens, and Simone Datzberger played Melanie Klein.

Studio audio technicians were Patrick Robinson and Simon Vause.


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In The Realm Of The In Between: An Ode To Ethnography In Mauritius - FreshEd Flux Podcast

Ijaaz Jackaria (MU 2024)

Ijaaz Jackaria (MU 2024)

32 min

Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative based podcasts. This episode is an ethnography of Mauritius and its colonial past, where he creates his own Southern epistemology by bringing together cosmology, philosophy, and Islamic theology.

Written, edited and produced Ijaaz Jackaria
Executive Producer: Johanna Fahey
Producers: Will Brehm and Brett Lashua


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Departures / Arrivals - Every Floor Has A Different Color

Umi Hsu (US 2024)

Umi Hsu (US 2024)

Departures / Arrivals - Every Floor has a Different Color
Umi Hsu

9 min

Departures / Arrivals is a bilingual experimental audio memoir that follows my search for where memory is held within a diasporic time/space. After having immigrated to the United States as a pre-teen 33 years ago, I return to sites significant to my life in Taiwan: the apartment building I grew up in, walks I took with family, the school I attended, and more. Each track on the album is an audio meditation on memory surrounding a specific place and relationship with unscripted dialogs. Each composition presents a diasporic architecture, where a particular time/space is stretched and compressed at once. It’s an invitation to listen in and between the cracks of sound, language, and memory.

Composition, performance, recording, and mixing by: Umi Hsu

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Ian

Nathan Gibson (UK 2023)

Nathan Gibson (UK 2023)

Ian
Nathan Gibson

9 min

A bomb disposal expert by trade, Ian Jones MBE spent over 35 years on the frontline of historical events, disarming bombs and incendiary devices in the most challenging of circumstances. His experiences reveal to us a hidden side of war and the lives of the people literally trying to defuse conflict. But these days, you’re more likely to find him tending his allotment.

Produced by Nathan Gibson


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Earth Day 2023 - Voices for Nature

Agathe Dijoud (FR 2024)

Agathe Dijoud (FR 2024)

Earth Day 2023 - Voices for nature
Agathe Dijoud

5 min

In this audio piece, Agathe Dijoud joins a march in London on Earth Day 2023, and capture sounds from speeches, music and personal thoughts throughout the day. Nature can take many forms, and has the belief that marches are one form of nature resisting the climate crisis, through a human lens.

Produced by Agathe Dijoud


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Beautiful Writing

Stella Sims (UK 2024)

Stella Sims (UK 2024)

7 min

Calligraphy is a ancient craft where art, language and words intersect. But in a world of screens, phones and computer-generated fonts, what does calligraphy do for us? Take a journey into the magical world of A to Z as calligraphers explore this question and reveal the joy of letter art and handwriting.

Produced by Stella Sims


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I’d Rather Be Swimming

Clair Urbahn (UK 2024)

Produced by Clair Urbahn (UK 2022)

I’d Rather Be Swimming
Clair Urbahn

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


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Walking through the submerged forest

Mary Cooper (UK 2023)

Produced by Mary Hooper (UK 2023)

Walking through the submerged forest
Mary Hooper

9 min

This piece is composed from 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


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