Transmissions
Windows: Jill - The Edge of Things
Ivan d'Avoine and Derick Armah (UK 2025)
Ivan d'Avoine and Derick Armah (UK 2025)
23 min
To watch the world pass by from your home’s window is an intimate experience: at once deeply personal and yet universal, cinematic even, at times. Although we all do it, when was the last time someone asked you, sincerely; what do you see when you look outside your window?
Featuring experimental sound design that reflects the processes of art-making and city-wandering, we journey to Central London’s Brunswick Centre to meet Jill Rock, who sculpts natural found objects and geometric constructions under the light of her living room window.
Produces by Ivan d'Avoine and Derick Armah
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Jim, Human Waste Expert
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2024)
Patrick McNameeKing (US 2024)
6 min
Jim, a human waste disposal expert, shares with me the ins and outs of the business.
Producer - Patrick McNameeKing
Music - by Patrick McNameeKing
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In The Dark What’s New: Saltwater Soul
James Trice (UK 2024)
James Trice (UK 2024)
8 min
"Saltwater Soul" is an experimental audio documentary that’s really close to my heart. It dives into the world of sea swimming in Brighton, seen through the eyes of a passionate swimmer. The documentary mixes the peaceful sounds of the ocean with the lively atmosphere of protests against pollution by British water companies.
Creating this piece was a personal journey for me. I even started writing poetry for the first time, which you’ll hear throughout the documentary. It’s a mix of the calm and joy of sea swimming with the serious issue of environmental threats. My hope is that it not only shares the unique experience of sea swimming but also highlights the importance of protecting our waters.
Producer - James Trice
In The Dark What’s New: Knife Fork Keys
Hye Young Sin (KOR/DE 2024)
Hye Young Sin (KOR/DE 2023)
8 min
The experience of a night walk alone in the park, through different cultural, sexual, and social contexts.
Composed by: Hye Young Sin.
In The Dark What’s New: Friends of the Wall
Evan Green (UK 2024)
Evan Green (UK 2024)
13 min
Every Friday, a small group of volunteers paint red hearts on the National Covid Memorial Wall, in the heart of Westminster. As the world moves on, why do they keep coming back?
Producer - Evan Green
Time & Again: Mike
Jack Suddaby (UK 2022)
Jack Suddaby (UK 2022)
14 min
How does it feel to come of age in some of the UK’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods? What really drives inner city crime? What’s it like being sent to jail at a young age and released with nothing? We hear a lot about the issues of gangs, youth crime and county lines, but we hardly ever hear from the people with the best insight of all: young prison leavers themselves.
This is Mike's story - how he makes ends meet with fake money, goes inside and then learns to make coffee.
Produced by Jack Suddaby (Beautiful Strangers)
All men in this series have been supported by award-winning rehabilitation charity Switchback.
We are all Palestinian
Soveks Lo (UK 2024)
Soveks Lo (UK 2024)
18 min,
A ceasefire protest event and vigil in Enfield, North London last December, local people get togther in peace to end ceasefire in Palestine.
Producer - Soveks Lo
Maroon Community Media
All My Friends Are Turning Into Stars
Amber Devereux (UK 2023)
Amber Devereux (UK 2023)
9 min
Originally commissioned for BBC Radio 4's Short Cuts, All My Friends Are Turning Into Stars is an exploration of chrononormativity, the idea that we all follow the same timeline, and what it means to live in opposition to it. It is a journey through space and time by way of Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, the existential angst of turning 30, an astronomer in Chile, and a slightly unnerving 1950s public information film about how to be a person.
Produced by Amber Devereux
Featuring Dr Matthew Temple, Research Fellow, Universidad Diego Portales, additional voices by Lou Sutcliffe and Alessa Catterall, featuring quotes from De Profundus by Oscar Wilde, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and In A Queer Time And Place by Jack Halberstam.
With thanks to Axel Kacoutie
This is Chicago: The Secret
Supraphonic Studios (US 2023)
Stephen Pate and Ashlie Stevens (US 2023)
35 min
In Near North, a hospital visit reveals a secret second family nearby. Six miles as the crow flies.
This series of short audio portraits from Chicago draws from the long lineage of oral history recording in the city, perhaps inspired by the likes of Studs Terkel and the assumption that everyone has a story if you just ask.
Created and produced by Supraphonic Studios' Stephen Pate and Ashlie Stevens
XMTR Radio Hour Ep27: Earlid - Hubris and Humility with Joan Schuman
Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
60 min / Episode 27 of 27
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is dedicated to Earlid a gallery of evolving exhibits of sound art. US based Earlid founder and curator and seasoned radio practitioner Joan Schuman talks through a selection of five audio works that come under the theme Hubris and Humility. Works featured are by Bassel, Meira Asher, Evangeline Riddiford Graham and Joan Schuman.
Works featured:
1. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it
Myra Al-Rahim aka Bassel, 2019
https://www.earlid.org/posts/cycles-of-atrocity/
2. Cicatrix
Joan Schuman, 2008
https://www.joanschuman.com/hyperacousia/posts/cicatrix
3. Still Sleeping
Meira Asher, 2016
https://www.earlid.org/posts/meira-asher-still-sleeping
4. Dog Woman: An Interview
Evangeline Riddiford Graham, 2020
https://www.earlid.org/posts/dog-woman
5. The Hitman
Joan Schuman 2021
https://www.joanschuman.com/hyperacousia/posts/how-you-treat-them-is-what-you-are
Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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