Transmissions
Telephone / Georgia - Iceland Sound Connection
Community Radio Tbilisi (GEO 2022)
Ágústa Björnsdóttir - Martraðarmaðka (GEO 2022)
9 min
A project based on tighter audio connections between several artists living in different places (Georgia, Iceland). Being inspired by the whispering game Telephone, creating a chain of author's audio-works, which respond to each other. 9 young artists were selected from Georgia and Iceland, interested in radio art or sound art. The first artist from the chain produced a sound work that was shared with the second artist from another country. The following produced work as a response to the work and shared with the third artist from the chain etc. The artists had a week to produce the responsive content / audio gesture.
The works are part of a weekly program of Community Radio Tbilisi and Seyðisfjörður Community Radio.
Participants: Rati Eradze – Ágústa Björnsdóttir Gvantsa Jgushia – Mio Storåsen – Khriantel – Brák Jónsdóttir – Archil Tsereteli –Vilhjálmur Yngvi Hjálmarsson –Mariam Abashidze
Concept curator : Bara Gallo
Coordinator, producer: Þórunn Dís Halldórsdóttir
Harness Your Hopes: Ola Owodunni reads ’A Road Often Travelled’
Alan Meaney (2022)
Alan Meaney (IE 2022)
30 min Episode 5 of 6
Harness Your Hopes is a series of 6 podcasts investigating and showcasing fiction. Six of the West of Ireland’s upcoming authors have written a new short story inspired by the theme of ‘harness your hopes’. In each episode the author reads the story and then speaks with the presenter about their craft and inspiration and how the theme inspired them. The aim of the programme is to place the listener at the heart of the artist’s creative process, while finding common ground and some positivity in these difficult times.
Ola Owodunni reads her story 'A Road Often Travelled'. She discusses how the story is based on the life of a friend of hers, the struggles that people in Direct Provision face and the hope in both the story and in life for asylum seekers.
Written and read by Ola Owodumni
Produced by Allan Meaney
Eliza: A Robot Story
Ella Watts / Emma Hickman (UK 2022)
Crowd Network / Ella Watts (UK 2022)
47 min Episode 1 of 4
A dark, near-future science fiction fairytale about a robot who can feel, and the world that attempts to control her. When a robot called Eliza falls in love with Him, they work together to make her fully sentient. But consciousness doesn’t come without consequences. As Eliza gets caught in a web of both loving and abusive relationships, she has to fight to survive.
This all female production explores age-old fantasies about sentient AI and female robots becoming more than they are programmed to be. Unlike ‘Her’ or ‘Bladerunner’ this is from the robot Eliza’s perspective as she analyses the humans around her, especially ‘Him’
Eliza: Tanya Reynolds , Him: Arthur Darvill, Her: Dominique Tipper
Additional Voices: Sarah Griffin and Tom Crowley
Writer: Emma Hickman
Director and Producer: Ella Watts
Sound Design and Mixing / Mastering: Alexis Adimora
A Crowd Network original made in partnership with The Pankhurst Trust / Manchester Women’s Aid
The Gold Line
DinahBird & Jean-Philippe Renoult (FR 2018)
DinahBird & Jean-Philippe Renoult (FR 2018)
17 min
In 2016 DinahBird & Jean-Philippe Renoult began Antenna Gods, a composite art project on the use of radio waves by high frequency traders. In June 2018 they undertook a journey between the New York stock exchange, now a data centre in Mahwah, New Jersey, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in Aurora, West Chicago. The time it takes for data to be transmitted from one centre to the other via a network of microwave repeaters is 4.01 milliseconds, faster than the blink of an eye. These microwave repeaters are placed on towers that follow a geodesic path between the two exchanges. The actual route of the towers takes you over the Allegheny mountains of rural Pennsylvania and past many an Amish homestead, through the flat plains of Ohio, and in front of the immaculately mowed lawns and the blue ‘Make America great again’ flags of Indiana.
Some of the towers are a requisition from the AT&T long lines network and can be found at the end of long dusty roads where the presence of new comers is instantly noticed. Some are new and specially commissioned for the purpose. They are unremarkable, just another shape in amongst the spikey cell phone antennas that litter the interstate. DinahBird & Jean-Philippe Renoult’s ‘slow’ high frequency round-trip along what Chicago traders nick-name the Gold Line, took twenty-four days. Along the way we documented these outposts and their surroundings using image and sound. They learned about the past and present uses of these transmission towers that are both a material memorial to radio history, and a physical reminder of passing time.
Recorded and produced by DinahBird & Jean-Philippe Renoult
Composed for broadcast on Radius FM
Radius is an experimental radio broadcast platform established in 2010 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Radius produces, exhibits, and distributes work by radio and transmission artists from around the world. Listen via wavefarm
Infinity = Zero
Alyssa Moxley (US 2014)
Alyssa Moxley (US 2014)
31 min
Audio Walks for Armchair Listening Mini Series
In Jorge Luis Borges’ story The Library of Babel, the world is made up of an infinite network of hexagonal libraries containing all possible iterations of books with 410 pages and 22 characters. Books can resemble each other in all but one letter. Some volumes can be read in multiple languages with entirely different interpretations. Others have meaning only coincidentally. The librarians who inhabit this world are overwhelmed with information, most of which is nonsense. In a search for deliberate meaning, many wander through the libraries in a quest for the Crimson Hexagon, a library containing books of small format, illustrated, magical, and containing revelatory insight.
Infinity = Zero produces the conditions for radio listeners to sculpt senseless cacophonies into form through their movement as they walk the halls and navigate obscure corners of the stairwells of 37 South Wabash, Chicago. In a participative choreography beginning at The Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, listeners will take the path of those who search for the archival material of insight and meaning within books, people, objects, and architecture. Fractured and collaged narratives create ambiguous worlds where the fictional world of hexagonal libraries interacts with the environment of the Sharp building’s hallways and archival collections.
Produced and Narrated by : Alyssa Moxley
Composed for broadcast on Radius FM from The Joan Flasch Artist Book Library
Radius is an experimental radio broadcast platform established in 2010 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Radius produces, exhibits, and distributes work by radio and transmission artists from around the world. Listen via wavefarm
Fear Of Missing Out: Halima
Jesse Lawson (UK 2022)
Jesse Lawson / Halima Jibril (UK 2022)
30min
Fear of Missing Out gives the microphone to young people living in the UK to talk about about topics we wish we'd learnt in school. Every episode, a new presenter goes on a personal journey through the bits of British history that people aren't talking about enough.
In March 2022, a report came out about Child Q: a 15 year old black secondary school student from London, who was strip searched by the police in her own school. 22 year old Halima moved to England from Ireland when they was 14. Hearing about Child Q felt like a breaking point for her own resilience to racism in the UK. Halima looks into the history of the criminalisation of black communities in the UK, which for Halima – and Child Q – started at school.
Produced by Jesse Lawson
Co Produced and Narrated by : Halima Jibril
A Boldface Production, supported by the Audio Content Fund.
The Lido
Dennis Funk , Paula Barros (US 2022)
Dennis Funk, Paula Barros (US 2022)
36min
On a little island sandwiched between Miami Beach and mainland Florida sits an old pink apartment complex called The Lido. It’s unlike anything around it; a remnant of an old Miami. One of the tenants, Paula Barros, guides us through this colourful building and the colourful people who live there. There’s Eddie, the exhausted HOA Board President, a stickler for rules and a sucker for his cat. Evan, an aspiring travel influencer trying to work through hundreds of bucket list goals. Ragnar, an amateur taxidermist. Payami, who only calls himself that because it rhymes with Miami.
A charming place specific peice narrated and recorded by one of the residents who uses her microphone to get to know her neighbours a little better and starts to get involved in the search for a missing cat.
(The 11th is a podcast that publishes an entirely new and ambitious issue on the 11th of every month. It could be one episode, or three, or more. It’s a mystery box made up of reported series and personal journeys; fiction, musicals, deep investigative journalism and intimate conversations. Inspired by the experience of opening a magazine you love every month and not knowing what exactly you will get, but trusting that something engaging and true will be waiting for you. Each issue, a different voice. Every month, something new.)
Produced and Recorded by Dennis Funk, Kristen Torres, Paula Barros
Narrated by Paula Barros
From Pineapple Street Studios / Written in Air
Come Sunday
Darell Grant (US 2021)
Darrell Grant (US 2021)
108min
Audio Walks for Armchair Listening Mini Series
Designed as a sound walk this piece works equally well as a pure listening experience, let the voices and music take you to the churches of Portland in the US.
Portland’s inner-northeast neighbourhoods were once home to over 200 Black churches. The remaining wooden and brick buildings, ranging from tiny storefronts to imposing brick edifices, are the inspiration for 'Come Sunday'.
Created by jazz artist and composer Darrell Grant, 'Come Sunday' is a pilgrimage in sound and time that winds through the King, Humboldt, and Alberta neighbourhoods — once the heart of Oregon’s largest Black community.
Beginning in DeNorval Unthank Park and culminating at Bethel A.M.E. Church, the oldest continuously operating Black church in Oregon, the soundwalk passes thirteen houses of worship that stand as islands documenting the rich history, hopes, and community ties that wove together a community. Combining oral history, African-American spirituals, poetry, historical texts, jazz piano, new music, and the sounds of the neighbourhood, Come Sunday paints an aural portrait of community inspired by the singular institution at its heart — leading the fight for justice, serving the vulnerable, holding the community in good times and bad — the Black church.
Produced and Narrated by Darell Grant
Commissioned by Third Angle New Music
No Birds Land
Tamsin Grainger (UK 2021)
Tamsin Grainger (UK 2021)
6 min
Audio Walks for Armchair Listening Mini Series
If a bird could write a poem maybe it would sound like this?
This is the sound poem for No Birds Land, an art and sound installation in the Trinity Tunnel on the Edinburgh cycle path network.
Before and after entering the tunnel, the air is full of birdsong; inside there is little or none. This sound-art installation recognises that no birds land or alight there (although occasionally one flies through), that it is a sort of 'No Man's Land' for birds, though humans built the sandstone structure to transport goods and each other between Granton Harbour and the rest of the city.
Written and Performed by : Tamsin Grainger
Bricks: Bristoler Chronik
Cliff Andrade (UK 2021)
Cliff Andrade / Bricks (UK 2021)
45 min Episode 5 of 6
Audio Walks for armchair lsitening
Bricks Podcast is a chance to listen into the individual worlds of artists and creatives. Commissioned by Bricks, the episodes delve into the practice and storytelling of unique topics.
A walk to a place long forgotten becomes the basis for a rumination on memory, place, and the creation of personal identities. Cliff Andrade’s internalised audio adventure into the unique mental state entered into when walking.
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Written and Hosted by Cliff Andrade
Bricks Podcast