Transmissions
Festival Selects: Everything And The Kitchen Sink
Martin Austwick (CA 2025)
Martin Austwick (CA, 2025)
Festival Selects: Do You Really Have To Go? (excerpt)
Nicola Mecca (IT 2026)
Nicola Mecca (IT, 2026)
10 min
"do you really have to go?" is a long-form drone composition derived from the closing twenty-two seconds of the last known Nick Drake demo. Room tone, tape hiss, breath and the resonance of the guitar body are radically stretched, layered and processed until the original recording is no longer identifiable by ear.
These sonic remnants are treated as the last known traces of a final departure, and extended into a long-form goodbye drone.
This submission is a ten-minute excerpt from the complete twenty-two-minute work.
Produced and composed by Nicola Mecca (Keplero)
Festival Selects: Siren Song
Kalli Anderson (US 2024)
Kalli Anderson (US, 2024)
7 min
A Ukrainian singer harmonizes with air raid sirens and reflects on the role of artists during wartime.
Produced by Kalli Anderson featuring music by melancholydi
The Stony One
Susanne Lambert (UK, 2026)
Susanne Lambert (UK, 2026)
4 min
This work was created for Flow - a project of artists interpreting the River Lech - a project by Dr Martina Cecchetto, with the scientific contribution of Dr Florian Betz and the artistic curation of Riccardo Fumagalli, in collaboration with Cities & Memory, the University of Padua (Italy), and the University of Würzburg (Germany).
I was intrigued by the changing relationship between humans and river, and the different uses of the natural flowing water in this place. I discovered Augsburg is one of the oldest settled places in Germany (around 2000 years). This fuelled my imagination in considering the scale and scope of change- within both humanity, and the natural environment, that the river has borne witness to over time. I was really struck by the impact of human activity on the river, not least the disruption of its natural flow and use of the Lech for multiple hydro-power plants along its course.
I took a walk along several stretches of the water in and around Augsburg and my overwhelming sense was that it needed our care and attention and that we have a responsibility to the guardianship of its course. Within the composition I wanted to depict contrasting sensations that I felt portrayed something of the complexities of this stretch of river, its history, its present and its future, including flux, chaos, beauty, dischord/disharmony and solidarity.
Working with my long-standing collaborator and dear friend, Nicky Rushton, we shared ideas and musical parts back and forth, and spoke about different aspects of the piece, and slowly over quite some time, the elements that seeemed to belong, began to emerge. We were both interested in the sense of the multiplicity of layers that comprise a river and its environment, thinking vertically as well as horizontally along its course.
Section of the river Lech reimagined by Suzi Lamb and Nicky Rushton.
Composed & produced by Suzi Lamb with Nicky Rushton
Festival Selects: FIELDS
Ariana Martinez (US 2023)
Ariana Martinez (US, 2023)
7 min
The technician seats me in front of a luminous hollow, as if a wide, wide bowl had been turned on its side, its open mouth spilling soft, white light. From this perspective, it’s as if my entire world is the luminous field—swaths of fresh snow, or sun-bleached prairie, or silver sand. In the field, a faint, black cross is joined by tiny, glowing apparitions. Points (each no bigger than a lentil, with a golden center and soft edges) flicker in and out, weave through my field, ask me to chase them. I log each one with a frantic press of my thumb. Thumb to controller, controller to computer, computer to technician. Me, in the field. The computer has generated data from my time in the field: what I caught and what I missed, a ratio of light to shadow. I return to the field every few months to trace its contours, to check that I’m not losing ground. FIELDS is a transmission from the edges of what can be seen and a document of an artist's changing sensory world.
Produced by Ariana Martinez
FIELDS was produced by Ariana Martinez for terrestrial broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Short Cuts with editorial support from Falling Tree Productions.
Found footage comes from publicly available educational instructional videos for ophthalmology technicians performing a visual field test.
Original music created with visual field testing output data graphics as interpreted by PIXELSYNTH (a web-based electronic instrument created by Olivia Jack).
Jarman's Garden
Sherre DeLys (AU, 2000)
Sherre DeLys (AU, 2020)
15 min
Throughout a long illness towards the end of his life, filmmaker Derek Jarman put extraordinary passion into creating his unique garden at the edge of the sea in the shingle desert of Dungeness, Kent.
Years later, Sherre DeLys made this audio portrait of the garden - at the time, still tended by Derek’s partner Keith Collins. Keith stayed, he said, because he was held by the silence.
Mirroring Jarman’s own improvisatory process of assembling flotsam and jetsam from this rugged landscape to create the garden, the radio piece weaves manipulated recordings of wind playing on its sculptures created from old tools, chimes fashioned from rusted metal post-war debris and other features of the place, with Keith’s reflections, and music by Chris Abrahams to create an impressionistic rendering of a garden that Jarman described as haunted by paradise.
Produced by: Sherre DeLys
Shatto 39
Jenn Swann (US, 2026)
Jenn Swann (US, 2026)
5 min
This piece was originally made for a sound event that asked producers to envision what it might feel like to lose our favorite places in Los Angeles. It's a work of speculative fiction about a real place, and it's inspired by recent infrastructure failures and climate-based disasters in Los Angeles.
Written and Produced by Jenn Swann
Momster
Suvi Tuuli Kataja (FI 2026)
Suvi Tuuli Kataja (FI, 2026)
4 min
Momster is an audio poem about how everyday life changes when exhaustion awakens the monstrous porridge brain of motherhood. Using documentary voice messages as its source material, the piece explores the boundaries between documentary, sound art and music.
Produced by Suvi Tuuli Kataja ja Jussi Liukkonen
Voice messages: Milla Puolakanaho
XMTR Radio Hour #44: Strangers On A Train
Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
60 min / Episode 44 of 44
This XMTR Radio is a tribute to train travel and the pleasure of sharing a journey with strangers or those shared moments on the platform. Here’s a reminder of what taking the time to travel cross country, absorbing the scenery and sharing anecdotes with strangers sounds like. These are two tributes to train life from Social Broadcasts. The first is Trainline, where London based food entrepreneur Petra Barran is travelling in the US, southbound for 36 hours from New Orleans to Tucson Arizona on Amtrak’s Sunset Limited. She gets out of head, ignores her growling stomach and goes on a mission to make new encounters. The second audio work Kings Cross Connections, takes us back in London where we experience some moments of serendipity and coincidence at Kings Cross station as passengers wait for their tannoy announcement to travel north.
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XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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Many Moons Ago
Bárbara Fonseca (PT 2026)
Bárbara Fonseca (PT 2026)
4 mins
Many Moons Ago is an audio piece that reflects on oral storytelling traditions using a family weredonkey story as a starting point. The story, told many times, was transformed along the way, shapeshifting according to each narrator’s will.
In this piece, the artist weaves the voices of her family members with her own, materialising it into an intergenerational narrative. A new collaborative version of the story, containing pieces of each narrators perspective, is created. Not in order to be a definitive version, but to inspire and evoque the fluidity and magic of oral storytelling.
Produced and Recorded by Bárbara Fonseca
Mastered by Wawrzyniec Wróblewski