Transmissions
16 Curious Thoughts: A Cognitive Visual Art Exhibition
Stephen Richardson (AU 2025)
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
Guided Hypnosis: Cabin Pressure
James Trice (UK 2025)
James Trice (UK 2025)
4 min
A surreal guided hypnosis cassette to ease your fear of flying. Intercut with the hypnosis, we hear from a survivor, someone who lives with a deep, sometimes paralysing fear of flying, that lets you know you're not alone.
Best heard with headphones. No passport required.
Produced by James Trice
RadioActive: On Water - Liquidation
Meira Asher (PS 2024)
Meira Asher (PS 2024)
57 min
RadioActive - on Water is a six episode podcast series, exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist/group of artists who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio. ‘Liquidation’ by Meira Asher interrogates the politically engineered water crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Jordan Valley where Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian shepherd communities of access to water.
Producer - Meira Asher
Series - Co-curated by Stephen Shiell & Meira Asher, produced by Meira Asher. Episodes by Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White), Lisa Blackmore and Leonel Vásquez, RE-PEAT collective, Margarida Mendes, Carlos Monleon and Nathaniel Mann, and Meira Asher
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XMTR Radio Hour Ep34: Radio Commons
Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
60 min / Episode 33 of 33
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour hands the reins over to film maker and sound artist Ian Nesbitt from Radio Commons, on online platform of sonic interventions seeking to practice solidarity by building collective agency. It is an assembly of audio works structured as an online archipelago. The show features a selection of sound pieces from several of these mythical islands, all connected by the watery themes works from a new sonic island « Counterflows »
This show brings together exempts of the following works: Thread by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Dark Sloshing by Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sames, Sonic Rituals by Alifiyah Imani, An Ear to River – Counterflows by Blanc Sceol, Solemn Debt by Akka (Shareeka Helaluddin), Cockles of my Heart by Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe).
1. Thread by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/thread/
2. Dark Sloshing – Traffic into Crayfish by Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sames
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/dark-sloshing/
3. Sonic Rituals by Alifiyah Imani
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/sonic-rituals/
4. An Ear to River – Counterflows by Blanc Sceol
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/an-ear-to-river-counterflows/
5. Solemn Debt by Akka (Shareeka Helaluddin)
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/solemn-debt/
6. Cockles of my Heart
Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe)
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/cockels-of-my-heart/
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
Hosted by Ian Nestbitt
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The Graves In The Ocean Are Burning
Per Wilhelm Wahlroos (SE 2025)
Per Wilhelm Wahlroos (SE 2025)
4 min
The Graves in the ocean is a poem by the Swedish poet Per Wilhelm Wahlroos recorded with EAM music and Buchla at EMS, Stockholm.
Produced by Per Wilhelm Wahlroos
Lyrics and Music: Per Wilhelm Wahlroos
Invisible Body (Raw Noise)
Sylvain Souklaye (US 2024)
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
XMTR Radio Hour Ep33: Audio shorts selection 2024
Social Broadcasts (UK 2025)
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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Departures / Arrivals - Every Floor Has A Different Color
Umi Hsu (US 2024)
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
XMTR Radio Hour Ep32: Sono Electro and XMTR Festival Unpacked
Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
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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