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Changing Tracks: Abbey Wood

Lucia Scazzocchio (UK 2019)

Lucia Scazzocchio (UK 2019)

18 min

Here comes the Elizabeth Line, finally. This won’t mean much to anyone outside London, but for many Londoners this has been a long time coming and for some places this means big changes as they join the London Transport map.

Originally commissioned by London Transport Museum to explore the life, community and sense of place around 2 areas soon to be drastically changed by the arrival of Cross Rail or the Elizabeth Line. This is a moment in time captured through voices of people who live and work in Thamesmead and Abbey Wood in South East London around what will soon become a destination station: Abbey Wood.

Recorded and produced by: Lucia Scazzocchio at Social Broadcasts

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Sound Art, Documentary, Music Lucia Scazzocchio Sound Art, Documentary, Music Lucia Scazzocchio

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)


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These Places Should Only Ever Be Imagined

Isobel Anderson (UK 2015)

Isobel Anderson (UK 2015)

15 min

The document of a week spent walking on the Isle of Harris, one of Scotland's Outer Hebrides islands. Through field recordings, an oral walking journal, photographs and objects, the piece interrogates realities of remote locations amid their idealised associations of nature and wilderness. This work examines relationships of ruin and survival, the remote and the fetishised, body and decay, an has existed as a fixed audio piece, an installation and a live performance.

These Places... asks if solely imagining places of wilderness is preferential to inserting our human presence. Places of the remote and wild live and breathe just as our bodies do, but perhaps some places are better left to the mind?

These Places Should Only Ever Be Imagined was performed at Sound Thought Festival in CCA Glasgow in 2016.

Produced by Isobel Anderson


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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.



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Essay, First Person, Dance Lucia Scazzocchio Essay, First Person, Dance Lucia Scazzocchio

From the Center Out - Archiving Black Dance In The U.S

Laura Marina Boria + Ana Cecilia Calle (US 2021)

Laura Marina Boria + Ana Cecilia Calle (US 2021)

15 min

Gesel, a choreographer living in Austin, Texas, walks us through solos that a hip-hop dancer and an expressionist dancer taught her over 10 years ago. "From the Center Out - archiving Black dance in the U.S." is about how a dancer's body remembers and what those memories sound like. During rehearsal, we're transported to scenes from the solos and we experience the stories and emotions driving them.

As Gesel dances, she talks and through her voice we experience her movement in a visceral sometimes uncomfortable way. If you’ve ever wondered how dance could be represented just through sound, this piece does exactly that.

Submitted to XMTR

Production + Editing by Laura Marina Boria
Production + Sound Design
Ana Cecilia Calle


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Tape Letters: A Cassette Tape Love Story

Modus Arts (UK 2021)

Modus Arts (UK 2021)

15min Episode 3 of 6

Tape Letters shines a light on the practice of recording and sending messages on cassette tapes by Pakistani migrants who settled in the UK between 1960 and 1980. In this six-part documentary we listen to first-hand accounts of these migration stories through original recordings, interviews with their Britain-born families and commentary by Tape Letters founder and director Wajid Yaseen.

This episode features a special story of a soon-to-be-married couple, who got to know each other more deeply and fell in love entirely through sending cassette tapes to each other between Pakistan and the UK for over 5 years. Telephones were usually expensive and not private, which is why cassettes were their chosen method of communication. We also discuss the retention and loss of cassette tapes, and therefore stories, over the years as people either held onto tapes for sentimental or evidential reasons or threw them away as they simply looked to do some spring cleaning.

Presented by Wajid Yassen (Modus Arts)
Production and Sound Design Oliver Sanders

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Fiction, Musical, Audio Drama Lucia Scazzocchio Fiction, Musical, Audio Drama Lucia Scazzocchio

Cassie and Corey: I Need Jam Now

Chris Hogg (UK 2020)

Chris Hogg (UK 2020)

13 min Episode 1 of 6

Cassie and Corey is a Drum & Bass Musical Podcast About Eating Disorders

It’s the night before his gastric-band operation and Corey is terrified. He’s 16 years old, weighs 300 pounds and has a BMI of 60*. However, if Corey doesn’t have the operation, his hypertension will literally make him blind. None of this stops him from stealing, in the dead of night, an electric motor-scooter from the hospital. He picks up his best friend Cassie, a recovering anorexic. Like Corey, Cassie has found solace in the jungle beats and liquid rhythms of D’n’B and they toast together all. the. time.

Music by GTA – Girls Take Action Music
Written by Chris Hogg
Produced and Directed by John Wakefield and Jeremy Mortimer
Featuring Tuwaine Barrett , Harriet Main, Yinka Awoni, Jude Akuwudike

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Time and Tide Museum : Migration, Heritage and Belonging

Oliver Payne at Eastern Ear. (UK 2021)

Oliver Payne at Eastern Ear (UK 2021)

29 min Episode 2 of 6

Podcast featuring Dr Sarah Lowndes of Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth, interviewing members of the town's migrant communities. The podcast features excerpts from interviews with 30 people from first, second and third generation migrant communities in Great Yarmouth including people from China, Cyprus, East Timor, France, Germany, Ivory Coast, Lithuania, Madeira, Mozambique, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Russia, all of whom have made Great Yarmouth their home.

Produced by Oliver Payne from Eastern Ear


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Sculpting Lives: Making Sculpture Public

Jo Baring and Sarah Victoria Turner (UK 2021)

Jo Baring and Sarah Victoria Turner (UK 2021)

1h02 min Episode 12 of 12

Some of the most globally well-known British artists are women sculptors. Conversely, the profession and practice of sculpture was seen by many throughout the twentieth century (and before) to be very much a man’s world. Often using heavy and hard materials, sculpture was not typically viewed as suitable for women artists. Sculpting Lives explores the lives and careers of these five female sculptors who worked (and are still working) against these preconceptions, forging successful careers and contributing in groundbreaking ways to the histories of sculpture and art.

Over the last year public sculpture has become a hugely controversial issue. No longer passive objects that we simply walk past on our streets, public sculptures are part of a vigorous debate about contemporary society – who is commemorated and represented, and why. In this episode we delve further into this subject, interviewing the people associated with our most recent sculpture commissions of and by women, speaking to critics and researchers who are reflecting on the historical dimensions of this contemporary moment, and the contemporary sculptors who are making objects that occupy our streets and squares.

Written and Presented by Jo Baring and Sarah Victoria Turner

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If I Go Missing the Witches Did It : Do Not Die First

If I Go Missing the Witches Did It (US 2021)

Pia Wilson for Realm (US 2021)

28 min Episode 1 of 9

When a Black writer goes missing, a white podcast host with a saviour complex takes up the cause of finding her and collides with a coven of influencers she suspects are responsible. After a summer in Westchester soaking up how the other half lives, Jenna Clayton has vanished without a trace. The only clue, a set of voice memos detailing an investigation into a group of influencers she suspected were using magic to achieve their means. Elise Edgerton is outraged that no one has found Jenna yet, and decides to take up the cause. But despite believing she is using her platform for good, Elise’s mission threatens to turn her into an even worse villain than a witch: a white saviour.

Written by Pia Wilson
Starring Gabourey Sidibe
Voiced by Sarah Natochenny and Tiana Camacho.
Produced by Realm Media

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