Invisible Body (Raw Noise)

Sylvain Souklaye (US 2024)

10 min

"A bodily and sonic experience about parenthood.

The piece was recorded at LEIMAY CAVE during my stay at the Incubator, a few days after the birth of my daughter. Between an unknown euphoria and sleep deprivation, my body and my senses were in a shamble. I was not myself anymore, but not yet someone new. The fatigue existed everywhere except in the studio, where I found an untapped energy and a balance into chaos.

During those days of experimentation, I wanted to rediscover my relationship with touch. I blindfolded myself every time I entered the studio. I had to forget myself, my vision of things and my definition of my body in a space. I had to become invisible to myself to explore and attempt to reach this other me with a newborn waiting on the other side of the studio.

While moving and trying to make sense of what it means to be again, I felt, hurt myself, and finally found ground. It was an out-of-body experience ; I became invisible and reached immaterial spaces.

I was learning to walk again, step by step, stomping my way to feel the joy and the pains to feel alive.

INVISIBLE BODY (RAW NOISE) is a bodily and sonic lover letter to my bones, muscles, and skin. More importantly, through this piece, I question what will be their purpose outside, in the real world.

PS: I’d like to thank Ximena Garnica, Shine Moriya, Krystel Copper and Brandon Perdomo from LEIMAY CAVE for their support during this crucial moment of my life.

PS2: Please use your headphones to experiment the raw granularity of the experience.”

Produced by Sylvain Souklaye

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep33: Audio shorts selection 2024

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)

60 min / Episode 33 of 33

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour features a selection of short audio works that have been submitted to XMTR over the past year by both new and seasoned audio makers from around the world. Works featured are: The Magic of Waves by Eve Marie Bouche, I’d Rather be Swimming by Clair Urbahn,  Smugglers Song by Mary Hooper, Knife, Fork, Keys by Hye Young Sin, The Human Jukebox by Stella Sims, Application Declined by Alice Foxall, We Will not Stop, We Will Not Rest by Melanie Marich and Sajina Shrestha, Jim, Human Waste Expert by Patrick McNameeKing, Crush Tango by Eloïse Bertil and Times Square–42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal by Tom Sayers

XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio

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Tonic Immobility

Eloïse Bertil (UK 2024)

7 min

A short experimental audio piece inspired by wildlife documentaries and romcoms. It weaves together facts about frogs and nature soundscapes with personal voice messages, drawing a parallel between the two, and blurring the line between reality and fiction.

Produced by Eloïse Bertil

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Departures / Arrivals - Every Floor Has A Different Color

Umi Hsu (US 2024)

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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XMTR Radio Hour Ep32: Sono Electro and XMTR Festival Unpacked

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)

60 min / Episode 32 of 32

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is a retrospective conversation about the inception and outcomes of sound art and sonic storytelling festivals Sono Electro and XMTR Audio Arts Festival that took place in St Leonards on Sea in September. James Wilkie from Sono Electro and Lucia Scazzocchio from XMTR talk to Isobel Anderson - host of Girls Twiddling Knobs, about how the worked together on the festival(s), the learnings from behind the scenes and their ambitions for the future - could St Leonards on Sea become a sonic destination? This is a candid conversation about collaboration, curation and working with and within an established creative community,  with clips and and extracts from artists and performances featured at the festival. 

You can access full audio works from the tracklist at xmtr.fm/festival. 

Tracklist: 
Anam Cara - Ear to the Ground - Dan 'you are tuning in to the Lido graveyard'
Limbo Tapes - Radio Limbo Live at XMTR Festival
Blanc Sceol - Orbit Meditation 
Stellaria Media (Lucida Guy and Alice Armstrong) Blue Heart
Ben Philipps - Home Sounds
Ben Chennett -  A Choir for Hastings and St Leonards
Marcia Farquar - The Lido 
Jem Finer - Pinball Machine 
Phil Smith - Zwischenzeit
Will Gore + Esme Curtis - Invisible Cities, Argia
Ed Baxter + Anthony Moore - Life Sentence
Jem Finer - Pinball Machine 
Blanc Sceol - Orbit Meditation 

XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio

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Kaizen

Carlo Patrão (PT 2024)

5 min

改 善 Kaizen is a radiophonic sound collage of North American "tech speak" and "corporate jargon" that overuses the Japanese term Kaizen, meaning continuous improvement, as a form of control and shield against listening, responsibility, and reparation.

Produced/Collage/Music by: Carlo Patrão

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Brothers

Giacomo Bagni (IT 2024)

Giacomo Bagni · Brothers

13 min

Giacomo and his father have had a fragmented relationship for years. Then, all of a sudden, a new character appears, replacing Giacomo as a son. Based on the author’s biographical story, Brothers is a trip in his inner world while he tries to understand what happened and make peace with it. A fresh take on autofiction, the piece is constructed by using a mixture of first person narration and re-constructed dialogues from the past, with the author inhabiting and voicing all the characters as a way to materialize his inner discussions and trying to make sense of them.

Written, Produced by Giacomo Bagni
Music by ST.ELVIO

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Channeling

Dan Am (UK 2024)

Dan Am · Channeling with Dan Am

7 min

XMTR AUDIO ARTS FESTIVAL is blessed to be framed and mapped by its continued approximation and geolocation to the English Channel. Channeling invites you to stare out into your horizon and tune in further into this oscillating and fluctuating expanse. Channeling is a chance to connect and go somatically deeper whenever you find the opportunity to perch on the many seats, posts and outcrops that are generously dotted along promenade.  Your guided medication to pause and come back to throughout the festival. Whenever you want to step into and separate your own signal from noise and dive in deeper.

Channeling comes from a seminal work called 'Hail The Chimaeran' from Dan Am. Dan Am is a sonic ritualist who explores transmuting his anthemic mythic folk into varying and emanating invocations, incantations and initiations. He is based in St Leonards-on-Sea and his work can be tuned into and explored more deeply via all music streaming platforms.

Produced by Dan Am

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep31: Long Live the New Sound

Produced by Adriene from LLtNS (US 2024)

60 min / Episode 31 of 31

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour hands over the reigns to Adriene and Stuart from LLtNS (Long Live the New Sound) the freeform anti-podcast podcast for creative audio where audio makers and recordists can freely upload their sounds to add to this ever growing archive. They have chosen a selection of unexpected, eclectic, precise, messy and otherwise sounds from what has been uploaded over the years. 

Works featured:

• Misophonic Happenings by Carlo Patrão

• ASLEEPerd by sleep number beds

• 920am by Jazmine (JT) Green

• Episode 1 : The Circles by Matters of Truth

• Rakiura/Stewart Island - 09/23 by Sam Donkin

• Episode 2 : The Change by Matters of Truth

• good and bad and dangerous and dangerously good by  information jewellery

• On the village cricket pitch by SDU

• We Went Camping by Regan Hutchins

• Voies Urbaines: Rue Mespoul by Mathias Guilbaud

• This is absolutely, definitely not a test. And the previous episode was too long by vegetarian nachos

• A Past Life by Olivia Ravioli

• Fish by Cristina Marras

• Engaged by Mr.

• Cracking Through by Lily Sloane

• Sherry's Health Insurance Nachos by Henrici Tai

• Throwing rocks at a frozen river by adriene

XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
This Episode was curated by Adriene and Stuart and hosted by Adriene from LLtNS

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In The Dark What’s New: Knife Fork Keys

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.

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