XMTR Radio Hour #36: Festival Preview

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)

60 min / Episode 35 of 35

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour features a selection of audio works that have been submitted to xmtr.fm: Nanou Thassinda tells her story of belonging and acceptance in the UK through a study of regional accents in Life in Progress by Phoebe Macindoe, Chloe Turpin has uncomfortable conversations with her family in Brittany about a shameful event concerning her grandmother Emmeline during WW2 in Shorn Women, and Giacomo Bagni has to come to terms with the replacement son that his father has chosen to spend time with in Brothers. 

XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio

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XMTR Festival Selects: Radio Incantation - Dzëë

Amanda Gutiérrez (CA / MX 2025)

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8 min

Rooted in the artist’s Zapotec heritage from the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, the work channels ancestral teachings on listening and evoking through the art of terrestrial transmission. In this sonic ritual, radio waves become vessels for connection with unseen and intangible presences, intentionally engaging with the territory of St Leonards-on-Sea — across time, between past and future spectra.

Produced by Amanda Gutiérrez

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XMTR Festival Selects: The Allusionist: Gay Animals

Helen Zaltzman (UK 2023)

22 min

A relaxing list of animals that are gay. Sometimes you just need to listen to a list of animals that are gay.

Hosting/writing/production: Helen Zaltzman
Music: Martin Austwick

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XMTR Festival Selects: Last Station Fog Stories (Extract)

Mary Hooper UK (2025)

5 min

This clip is a new mix from oral history recordings from 2013, Mary Hooper made for 'Last Station' a large scale Touring Project looking at the cultural history and legacy of UK Floating Lightships, devised by herself and Elise Liversedge .

Recording and editing: Mary Hooper

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XMTR Festival Selects: Transition

Kalli Anderson (US, 2023)

7 min

A multi-voice, experimental documentary featuring excerpts from SIMULA, an 8.2-channel sound installation by apè Aliermo and mixed and mastered by Rose Bolton. This composition includes sound recorded during three anonymous births and electromagnetic sound recorded in a hospital during one of the births. The voices you hear speaking are Redzi Bernard, Becky Kenna, Amy Macfarlane and Andrea Gummo.

Produced by Kalli Anderson, apè Aliermo and Rose Bolton
Edited by Eleanor McDowall

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XMTR Festival Selects: In A Cowshell

Miri Berlin (DE 2025)

9 min

The electroacoustic composition „In A Cowshell“ is based on field recordings that capture the sonic microcosm of a cowshed, interweaving and abstracting its sound world. It follows the course of the milking process — from the magical stillness as the cows enter and take their places, to the rhythmic drive of the machines, drawing you in — gradually giving way to calm again as the milking ends. Finally, the cows leave the barn, guided by the farmers’ calls back to the pasture — marking the close of the piece.

Produced by Miri Berlin

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I Dream Of Water: The Well, The Bay, The Sea

Susanne Lambert (UK 2025)

7 min

This is part of a body of work is about people's relationships with water, based around a set of audio recordings from various people Suzanne knows. She asked contributors to share something about a place of water they have strong memories of, or connections to, and to say something about what feelings are evoked in the place.

Susanne set the audio messages within new compositions (including found sounds and field recordings) in different ways to create a series of pieces. She has combined improvised open passages (drums/clarinet/piano/synth) with more considered and formulated sections, in an attempt to echo, mirror and juxtapose the words, and build imagery around the stories shared.

The series will eventually also include factual information, alongside the personal connective elements, as an opportunity to examine the diverse and sometimes contradictory elements of our human relationship to water.

Produced by Susanne Lambert aka Suzi Lamb

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Reality Looks Back

Anne Jeppesen (DK, 2025)

Annejeppesen · Reality looks back

21 min

When you watch a particle it acts like a particle. But when you look away, it does a whole other thing.

This story explores modes of experiencing the strange quantum basis of an everyday life. It journeys through split déja-vu, Schrödinger’s hamster and the clouds of possibilities that are hiding just beyond our reach.

This piece was developed as a part of the YASS! Mentorship program facilitated by Radio Papesse and mentored by Cristal Duhaime.

Written and Produced by Anne Jeppeseen

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XMTR RADIO HOUR #35: Accents, Shame and Substitutes

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)

60 min / Episode 35 of 35

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour features a selection of audio works that have been submitted to xmtr.fm: Nanou Thassinda tells her story of belonging and acceptance in the UK through a study of regional accents in Life in Progress by Phoebe Macindoe, Chloe Turpin has uncomfortable conversations with her family in Brittany about a shameful event concerning her grandmother Emmeline during WW2 in Shorn Women, and Giacomo Bagni has to come to terms with the replacement son that his father has chosen to spend time with in Brothers. 

XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio

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16 Curious Thoughts: A Cognitive Visual Art Exhibition

Stephen Richardson (AU 2025)

30 min

16 Curious Thoughts is a cognitive visual art exhibition created by Stephen Richardson, an Australian conceptual artist now living in London. Stephen is completing his PhD on cognitive visual art exploring the nexus between visual art and the spoken word based on the Cognitive Art Manifesto. 16 Curious Thoughts is a 30-minute broadcast of Stephen's new cognitive visual artworks. It is an immersive visual art audio experience. This is visual art you can listen to! The artworks are accompanied by a unique soundscape composed by Stephen. Stephen has a BA in Fine Arts and a Masters in Visual Art. He has exhibited in the USA (New York), Italy, France, Monaco, and Australia.

Produced by Stephen Richardson
Original music and soundscape by Stephen Richardson
Narration by Diana Carroll and Stephen Richardson

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