Transmissions
The Ecco: The Vibrator
Allison Behringer (De 2024)
Allison Behringer (DE 2024)
10 min
What happens when an old woman and a young woman walk into a sex toy shop?
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 and Produced by Allison Behringer
Voice performance and script advising by Kelly Elsasser
Advising and story editing by Jamin Bauomy, Luisa Beck, Lena Von Holt, Phoebe McIndoe and Sara Zarreh
Music by Dara Hirsch
Mastering by Jeff Emtman.
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
The Nut Owl: 1. The Nut Owl and the Tree of Origin
Stuart Russell (UK 2024)
Stuart Russell (UK 2024)
5 min Episode 1 of 18
Adventure awaits the curious Nut Owl who must travel the multiverse to make a very special delivery... This series of narrative poems explores life and meaning in the cosmos, allowing for a brief yet beautiful escape.
Before being thrown into chaos the Nut Owl grows peacefully in space...
Writer, Narrator & Producer: Stuart Russell
Music, Mixing & Sound Design: Peter Baumann
Original poetry, concept & characters created by Stuart Russell
An Eyebrow Media Production
All-American Ruins: Sober
Blake Pfeil (US 2023)
Blake Pfeil (US 2023)
15 min
A multimedia travelogue where Blake Pfeil recounts experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and reimagines them through multimodal storytelling.
The cornerstone piece of the project is abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast, an award-winning audio series which guides listeners through immersive sonic fantasies, recreating experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and around the world. Along the way, the show asks critical questions about American history and culture, community, capitalism and economics, the environment, and mental health while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations as a tool for healing.
The show was recently featured as an Official Select at On Air Fest in Los Angeles, California. The finale for season two is the most personal journal yet. In the episode, which takes place at an abandoned brewery in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Blake reflects on his journey to sobriety, and how his spiritual connection to abandoned places pulled him through the darkest time in his life
Produced by Blake Pfeil
Music by Indigo Days, Lotus, Joseph Beg, Lama House, and Brett Gregory
Featuring Isabel Wilder, Nik Magill
Camlann - Ep1 Keep The Homefire Burning
Tin Can Audio (UK 2024)
Tin Can Audio & Ella Watts (UK 2024)
25 min Episode 1 of 6
One day, every apocalypse happened at once.
Follow three survivors and their dog as they try to understand what happened to the world, and build a home from the ashes.
Camlann is a post-apocalyptic fantasy series about the necessity of hope for survival. Dai, Morgan, Perry and their noble wolfhound Gelert venture out into the Welsh countryside to escape the devastation that hordes of folkloric monsters have wrought among the cities.
Not to mention the "Knights of the Round Table", a former university rugby team turned maniacal feudal lordship on the hunt for their Sir Peredur, and the witch Morgan Le Fay.
This haphazard group just want a safe haven, the means to survive, and a fire they can gather around at night and tell stories.
Written by: Ella Watts
Starring Tobias Weatherburn, Robyn Holdaway, Angharad Phillips, Nicole Miners, Paul Warren
Produced by Amber Devereux
Sound Design by Oliver Morris & Cai Gwilym Pritchard
The Right to Happiness - At Times Seemingly Pleasant and Friendly
Irna Phillips ( US 1939)
Irna Phillips (US 1939)
13 min
A bit of fun from the Old Time Radio Archive complete with ‘soap’ advertising.
"The Right to Happiness," an American Old Time Radio Soap Opera created by Irna Phillips, was broadcast across the country from its creation in 1939 until its demise in 1960. Irna Phillips creation was originally a spinoff for Guiding Light character Rose Kransky.
The show premiered on NBC's Blue Network on Oct 16, 1939. However Rose seems to have kept her ties the Five Points suburb of Chicago, and the show soon began to revolve around the loves and trials of Carolyn Allen. Carolyn was the daughter of a magazine editor.
First broadcast on NBC’s Blue Network
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Where do I Belong: Shock Waves and City of the Richter Scale
New Perspectives Theatre ( UK/IQ 2023)
New Perspectives (UK / IQ 2023)
5 min
7 min
A collection of short poems and stories from twelve writers living in Baghdad and Nottingham, offering a unique window into the lives of those in two distinct UNESCO Cities of Literature, featuring original writing from emerging and established artists, with an emphasis on under-represented voices. The 12 podcast episodes have developed through online conversations, pairing the writers to reflect and explore themes that connect their pieces to create a series of duets:
Episode 1: City on the Richter Scale
by Sadek Mohammed (poet, translator, essayist and academic; Baghdad)
A contemplation of a blood-stained city
Episode 2: Shock Waves
by Andy Barrett (writer and performer; Nottingham)
broken promises and new beginnings
Produced by New Perspectives
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Traffic Circle
Grant Harris (US 2023)
Grant Harris (US 2023)
10 min
A limo driver navigates the road, the weather, her thoughts, and the radio.
A short film for the ears playing with inner, outer voice and recognisable radio tropes, this piece invites you to lean in.
Written, Directed, and produced by Grant Harris
Edited by: Grant Harris & Joe Miles
Featuring: Shamarah Hernandez, Florence Friebe, Kate Scott & Joe Miles
Music by Dandelot