Transmissions
Onirica
Silvia Malnati (2021)
Silvia Malnati (UK /IT 2021)
15 min
An intimate exploration of the auditory impressions that people experience while dreaming.
Onirica x BBC New Creatives in partnership with ICA London
Producer: Silvia Malnati
Composer: Stefano Galli
Mixing & Sound Designer: Andrea Campisi
Executive Producer: Pierre Vella (SPACE)
XMTR Radio Hour Ep17
Social Broadcasts (UK 2022)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2022)
60 min / Episode 17 of 17
This hour is dedicated to sounds from the North Yorkshire Coast and more specifically the Wild Eye Project by Invisible Dust. If you miss the sea or just want to enjoy a moment near the water, the next hour features audio postcards from Scarborough by Lucia Scazzocchio and Silvia Malnati, Sea Songs from beneath the waves by Rob Mackay and words from Alice Sharp from Invisible Dust bringing artists and scientists together to explore environment and climate change.
Radio Ballad: On The Edge (1963)
BBC (1963)
Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Charles Parker (UK 1963)
59 min
This new revolutionary format - radio ballad (BBC) conceived by folk musicians Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and the brilliant radio documentary maker Charles Parker in 1958, combining sound: songs, instrumental music, sound effects, and, most importantly, the recorded voices of those who are the subjects of the documentary. This had never been done before, and still sounds incredibly fresh today.
This Radio Ballad explores the lives of teenagers in the 1960’s with voices of young people from all over the UK. If you’ve seen C’mon C’mon where Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny a radio journalist touring the US to talk to teens, this piece sounds even more ahead of its time.
Producer: Charles Parker
Music: Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
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Edgeland
Hayley Suviste (UK 2021)
Hayley Suviste (UK 2020)
24 min
As Manchester’s streets and skyline are warped by the ever-accelerating process of urban renewal, the city’s edgelands and green spaces are at risk of being swallowed by waves of property development. Not only does this raise questions about the ecology of the city, as carbon sinks are flattened and wildlife is displaced, but it speaks to broader trends pushing urban residents away from shared space, community and local identity.
This project shines a light on these spaces and the activists, academics, and local people who have taken up the daunting fight against corporate interests in the city in the name of biodiversity, urban ecology and community wellbeing. As we are faced with crises of both environment and mental health, the role of public green spaces has become ever more crucial in the eyes of those who enjoy, nurture, and maintain them
Hayley Suviste is a sound artist and composer based in Manchester (UK). She works with field recordings, archival material, electronic hardware, and live instrumentation to create long-form compositions, sonic installations, and multimedia art projects. Inspired by folk traditions and oral histories, Hayley is interested in the role of sound and voice in constructing and reproducing cultural identities and socio-historical narratives and how new compositional technologies can engage communities with overlooked stories about their environments.
Produced by Hayley Suviste
Commsioned by HCMF
Cities of Memory: Paris Dadaphone
Guillaume Loizillon (FR 2016)
Produced by Guillaume Loizillon (FR 2016)
11 min
Dada Sounds marks a century of Dadaism by applying the techniques and practices of Dada to field recordings from around the world, bringing a Dadaist approach to the concepts of sound, place and memory and creating a new, Dada-inspired sound world.
A trip through Paris’ streets with a Dada inspired soundscape.
Producer: Guillaume Loizillon
Part of the Cities of Memory Dada sounds series
La Cafetera
Labrador Basin (US 2021)
Produced by Labrador Basin (US 2021)
13 min, Episode 7 of 9
From somewhere you know, transmitted to you. Listen in, don’t tell anyone. As fantasy intoxicates reality, observation becomes drowned understanding.
The mysterious Labrador Basin combines field recording archive montage and poetry and with each episode we learn a little more about this allusive artist.
Producer: Labrador Basin
Listen to the series (In Spanish an English)
Submitted to XMTR
XMTR Radio Hour Ep16
Social Broadcasts (UK 2022)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2021)
60 min / Episode 16 of 16
The next hour has a distinctly European flavour and will be showcasing work from the Italian radio platform Radio Papesse, the Belgian space for sonic creations RadioLa as well something from the prolific Italian multi-media artist Cristina Marras and a short from the Social Broadcast archive.
Sound artist Anna Raimondo has four languages in her life, French, Italian, Spanish and English and decided that it would be sensible to get some phonetic training to help her achieve a proper British accent. Her Henry Higgins happens to be Australian and the results teeter between absurd and endearing. Me My
English and all the languages of my life by Anna Raimondo
From Radiola.be (by the Atelier de creation sonore radiophonique in Brussels)
Next, we’re going to take a sort of road trip in Sardinia along the St Barbara Mining trail but also on a personal trip down a memory lane belonging to Italian radio maker Cristina Marras’s memories as she goes on this 500k pilgrimage with her friend who is happens to be called Cristina Maras.
The smell of Naptha by Cristina Marras
Back to the UK now to Peterborough and more specifically to the Portuguese area just off the Lincoln road, where Francesco Costa is having an after-work glass of wine at Tasca, a Portuguese canteen complete with football on the TV and cakes and stews behind glass counter.
Love and Life on Lincoln Road - Francesco Costa by Lucia Scazzocchio
From Radio Local
Now Imagine a camera zooming out up from Lincoln road, up from Peterborough, up from Britain, Europe, the earth and now we can see earth from space. But then we hurtle down towards Alabama in the US, it’s 1954 and a Meteor hits.
Meteor Bodies by Kate Donovan with mentorship from Katharina Metts
From Radio Papesse’s Lucia Festival
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Radio Armed Response
Claudia Wegener (ZA 2007)
Produced by Claudia Wegener (ZA 2007)
60 min
London based artist Claudia Wegener from Radio Continental Drift walks the streets of two suburban communities in Johannesburg S.A. In door to door interviews, at times through intercom systems and across gates, she asks questions related to public safety and a privatised security system. The result is a radio artwork mixed from what the artist likes to call dramatic field recordings. In surprisingly intimate, often humorous conversations, narratives of a complex urban patchwork of communities unfold before your ‘very eyes’. Yet what unravels, far beyond ‘issues of security’, social and urban divisions are shared concerns, questions, stories and visions about living together.
Producer: Claudia Wegener
The original half hour audio piece from 2005 is reframed in recent footage for London’s art radio station Resonance104.4fm
Recommended by Paris based sound artist Dinahbird
Ear Of The Edgeland: Breydonsound
Eastern Ear (UK 2019)
Produced by Eastern Ear (UK 2019)
38 min, Episode 2 of 4
Ear of the Edgeland’ is a series of podcasts that takes an explorative and alternative look at Norfolk. Author and curator, Sarah Lowndes is in conversation with Yarmouth-based painter, Bruer Tidman. The conversation is punctuated with music from artist and musician, Jason Parr with field recordings of Breydon Water, Burgh Castle and from under Breydon bridge.
Producer: Richard Fair and Oliver Payne
Eastern Ear
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Soundwalk In The Morning Rain
Lina Chang (US 2020)
Produced by Lina Chang (US 2020)
2 min
An audio collage of field recordings from NYC, made in response to Cities and Memory's collection 'Smithsonian Treasures'. Inspired by a letter addressed to Miss Wheaton, by the artist Elizabeth W. Capron as part of the Smithsonian Treasures online exhibition of recordings submitted in response to the Smithsonian collection.