Transmissions
The Broomway
Tamsin Howard (UK 2022)
Tamsin Howard (UK 2022)
7 min
An immersive audio drama based on an inquest which occurred after two men drowned on the infamous path at Matlin Sands in Essex.
This short drama cleverly combines two narratives, one describing a tragic event through an inquest and the other takes us to the heart of the tragedy, humanising it beyond a local news story.
Recorded and produced by Tamsin Howard
Everyone Else - Pandora
Eva Kresiak (UK 2018)
Eva Krysiak (UK 2018)
22 min Episode 23 of 47
Pandora is an episode of Everyone Else, an audio-visual oral history project telling the stories of strangers. Each episode is dedicated to one speaker, their words edited to ambient sound design and music.
In this episode, a man recalls the summer of 1965 when he decided to track down and write to an iconic flapper and actress of the 1920s, after reading her article in a magazine.
A surprising love story that shifts from fantasy to reality from this award winning podcast, proving that everyone has a story if they are just listened to in the right way.
Produced by Eva Krysiak
The Assassination of Alex Odeh
Kerning Cultures (US/UK 2022)
Alex Atack / Kerning Cultures (UK / US 2022)
43 min
Alex Odeh was well known in the Arab community in Santa Ana, California. He was often on TV or writing into newspapers, talking about discrimination against Arabs in the US or about his beloved homeland, Palestine. But on the morning of October 11th 1985, he stepped through his office door and a pipe bomb exploded. He died hours later. From the beginning, the FBI had strong leads and a list of suspects. But decades later, Alex Odeh’s murder is still unsolved.
From the Kerning Cultures Network based the Middle East, that also happens to be
emale-led, featuring Arabic and English podcasts
Produced by Alex Atack
Edited by Dana Ballout.
Sound design by Mohamad Khreizat
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Climate Frequencies: Ep 4: Veins of the Planet
Femi Oriogun-Williams (UK 2021)
Femi Oriogun-Williams / Reduced Listening (UK 2021)
30min
Musician and artist Natalie Sharp enters the veins of the planet: its rivers, waterways and oceans. Artist Carolina Caycedo discusses the effects that large dams have on ecosystems across the globe; whilst legal expert Erin O’Donnell talks about the fight to grant rivers the same rights as humans; and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks us to consider what it might mean to become an apprentice to a marine mammal.
Presented by Natalie Sharp
Produced and sound designed by Femi Oriogun-Williams, exec produced by Alannah Chance
A Reduced Listening Production for Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
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)