Transmissions
Las Voces Del Bosuwe Madidi
Iga Vandenhove (FR 2021)
Iga Vandenhove (FR 2022)
24 min
Emerse yourself in the Madid National Park in Bolivia where the sounds of the forest blend with the rounds of the rangers. Between howler monkeys, drones, vocal frogs, motorised canoes, burning, imitation caimans and birds, human, plant and animal worlds merge. The sound piece is an artistic exploration of an inhabited nature where it is more than a simple landscape, it becomes a subject. The forest rangers are the mediators.
Produced by Diane Barbé
Winner of the Phonurgia Nova Field Recording Prize 2022
African Space
Sound Africa (SA 2015)
Jedi Ramalapa / Sound Africa (SA 2015)
40 min
Africa is hardly thought of as a continent much involved in space exploration.
An episode of 2 halves:
The Afronaut: An introduction to a largely forgotten space program in Zambia in the 1960s. Did the leader of this wildly ambitious project, Edward Nkoloso, have a plan or was he just the delusional eccentric he was later made out to be?
The Telescope: A small town in the Karoo Desert of Northern South Africa has finally found its place in the world with the establishment of one of the biggest international science projects of our time. As the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) begins to take shape, we look at the telescope network that will likely transform the way we understand the universe and our place in it.
Produced by Jedi Ramalapa and the Sound Africa network
Dingus - Ep 1 The House of Glass
Mike Cooter / Resonance (UK 2022)
Mike Cooter /Resonance (UK 2022)
31 min Episode 1 of 6
Dingus is a six-part radio drama produced by CBS and recorded at the height of the 1943 flu pandemic that swept through Hollywood. Denied of a marquee cast and blighted by a curious obsession with the object that drives its narrative, this innovative and formally-reflexive oddity disappeared almost completely without trace.
In 2010 artist Mike Cooter set out to find and rehabilitate this elusive artefact, initiating an 11-year journey that culminates in the re-emergence of Dingus – to be broadcast in full by ResonanceFM, podcast and archived at radiodingus.com
Ostensibly a detective drama, taking its name from an American colloquialism for an object without name or of indistinct identity (from the German ‘ding’ / ‘thing’), Dingus emerges across six episodes and a supplementary documentary as a rumination on objecthood itself: how we claim to understand some-thing, and the effects that it might have. At once both utilising and unpicking the narrative conceit of the MacGuffin, Dingus can be heard to reverse the logic of an object that serves to drive a narrative, functioning instead as an armature for the mysterious artefact at its heart: the MacGuffin as sculpture.
Confused? This series merges fact and reality with a hyper-realistic recreation of the 1940’s American detective Radio Drama genre. Perfect listening for a dark winter’s evening.
Written, directed and produced by Mike Cooter
Executive Producer Ed Baxter
Cast: Mirchell Mullen, John Christian Bateman, Alexendra Metaxa
A Resonance Production with support from Jerwood Arts, The Elephant Trust and The Henry Moore Foundation
On a Green Hill
Diane Barbé (DE 2021)
Diane Barbé (DE 2021)
8 min
An exploration of a multi-species environment, an informal and fallow animal refuge in the Black Forest, built by an old peasant who asks nothing of the animals that haunt him. This piece pays homage to this liminal space, shifting listening perspectives and slowly entering the intimacy of these animals that surround us, with the smells of warm fur and fresh hay.
Produced by Diane Barbé
Winner of the Phonurgia Nova Pierre Schaeffer Discovery Prize
Oscillations - Push To Walk
Jane Curtis and John Jacobs (AU 2022)
Jane Curtis and John Jacobs (AU 2022)
17min, Episode 3 of 4
In Push to Walk: A People’s History of the Pedestrian Button find out how the PB/5 pedestrian button came to be a fixture on Australian streets from the people who helped make it happen: engineers, Vision Australia advocates and the blind and vision impaired communities.
This is part of a series that takes artists and listeners deep into the Powerhouse's collection of half a million objects to unearth stories about the vibrations, fluctuations, and movements woven through our world – and beyond it.
Produced by Jane Curtis and John Jacobs
Narrated by Bernie Hobbs
Language Is Dead
Ewan Cameron (UK 2022)
Ewan Cameron (UK 2022)
12 min Episode 9 of 9
A moment many of us will be familiar with - sharing a space with a bunch of people tapping away at their mac books. No this isn’t a library it’s a co-working space and it’s not just a co-working space it’s a wellness space too. Ewan Cameran unpacks the works ‘co-working’ and ‘wellness’ in this audio essay full of dry wit and clever sound design.
Written, performed and produced by Ewan Cameron (Randomly Generated Thought)
XMTR Radio Hour Ep20 : Sounds Of The Underline
Social Broadcasts (UK 2022)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2022)
60 min / Episode 20 of 20
An hour dedicated to a single project recorded and produced by Lucia Scazzocchio in collaboration with the Tower Hamlets Regeneration team.
Docklands and the Isle of Dogs has changed dramatically since being established as a busy industrial hub centred around the docks to an industrial wasteland in the 1980's and then an ambitious redevelopment with the arrival of Canary Wharf.
The DLR and the infrastructure around this overground railway line has been key to the development of the area.
Talking to local people who live and work on the Isle of Dogs across four generations we will hear about the unique history of the island, how things have changed and how the DLR Underline could be used in the future.
Commissioned by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets as part of the ‘DLR Underline Activation’ project, this audio series recorded from Sept 21-May 22 aims to celebrate the area’s heritage to collectively reimagine the future of the Underline as a public active space.
Recorded and Edited by Lucia Scazzocchio
Recording support Dhevia Sharma
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet’s Street-Corner Oasis
Samuel Robinson (UK/US 2017)
Samuel Robinson (UK/US 2017)
9min
On a street-corner, amidst the pigeons, San Francisco’s invisible stars shine.
Around 10pm to midnight each Thursday, at the nondescript intersection of 16th & Mission in San Francisco, regulars, newcomers, and intrigued passers-by gather around an intricate chalk circle drawn on a concrete plaza; a long-running freeform street happening welcoming poets, musicians, comedians, and all forms of creative expression is about to start.
The Corner' as it's known to the numerous regular patrons is an empathetic and accessible-by-design space to exercise San Francisco's best tradition of free expression. Offering community, solidarity, and a public voice for all it resonates with — it is an opportunity for those in the shadows to shine; creatively sharing the inner workings of their mind and experiences living in city witnessing rapid societal change and greater economic inequality.
This beautifully crafted non-narrated montage piece takes the listener right to the heart of this spot in San Francisco - it has a real Kitchen Sisters feel to it.
Produced by Samual Robinson
Recording support: Bayley McMillan.
A Seat in Soho - Sandra Taboda
Talia Augustidis (UK 2022)
Talia Augustidis (UK 2022)
11min
A Seat in Soho was a multimedia exhibition celebrating the voices, history and diversity of Soho’s lesser-known but two and half thousand-strong residential community.
Created and Produced by former Soho Resident Stella Cecil and Creative Producer Tiphaine Tailleux, in collaboration with 8 long term Soho residents.
This is one of the 8 audio portraits from the exhibition, all recorded from each resident’s home and from the comfort of their favourite seat. The stories touch on the pressing issues of our times, including social housing, loneliness, nature and the post-pandemic world.
Produced by Talia Augustidis
Exhibition Created and Produced by Stella Cecil and Tiphaine Tailleux
Ministry Of Ideas: Forbidden Fruit
Zachary Davis (US 2018)
Zachary Davis (US 2018)
30 min Episode 11 of 24
Contemporary diet culture is only the latest manifestation of a long history of religious fervor about food. This fasinating essay makes the links between religious cults and diet culture. Guilt, shame, virtousity, sin, emancipation it's all in there.
Ministry of Ideas is a podcast about the ideas that shape our lives. Hosted by Zachary Davis and produced at Harvard Divinity School.
Produced and Hosted by Zachary Davis
Audio Producer: Maria Devlin McNair