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Chop 10

Tarikh Korula (US 2005)

Tarikh Korula (US 2005)

4min

Exploiting the techniques of current commercial radio practice, <em>Chop 10</em> re-mixes a live, dynamic assemblage of commercial radio streams as a commentary on the current state of regulated radio. As "Chop 10" moves from one Arbitron-rated Top Ten radio station in New York City to the next, the hyper "scan" makes it impossible to discern any single station's content, resulting in a jumpy, never-ending parody of commercial radio.

Producer: Tarikh Korula


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Creepy Twisted Asians: Covet

Zag Podcasts (MY 2022)

Zag Podcasts (MY 2022)

11 min

Happy wife, happy life? An unassuming husband is disturbed by the growing conflict between his wife and their attractive domestic maid.

The first of 6 spine tingling, unapologetically Malaysian stories adapted from The Big Book of Malaysian Horror Stories. The following anthology series contains diabolical characters, goosebump inducing soundscapes and chilling performances from Malaysia’s creative community.

A Zag Podcasts production

Writers: Terence Toh, Tina Ishak, Chua Kok Yee, Izaddin Syah Yusof, Lai May Senn and Nurul Hafizah Mat Kamil
Producers & Creative Directors: Sumi & Abirami Durai Sound Design: Kael Lim & Michael Smith

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XMTR Radio Hour Ep21 : Samuel Robinson's audio world

Social Broadcasts (UK 2023)

Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2023)

60 min / Episode 21 of 21

This Transmitter Radio Hour is a selection of audio works chosen by sound artist, musician and audio maker Samuel Robinson who joins Lucia in conversation as they discuss what audio works bring him joy, as well as unpacking some of the current podcast tropes, listening in on some heart- felt conversations and joining some dots between Sam’s life in the US and the UK through sound.

Here is his selection:

1. Captain Maurice Seddon  - May i explain explain my situation?

In the words of william english “captain maurice seddon was a highly unusual and inventive person who took an uncompromising stance on life”. he was the inventor of heated clothing, and made many media appearances in the 1980’s to promote them. 

Seddon recorded his phone calls, this piece is one of 12 from the collection ‘the seddon tapes vol. 1’ put together by his friend William English in 2017 and released on paradigm discs.

2. Emily Naylor - Untitled

This is a piece a friend (Emily) sent me a while ago and recently remembered. Emily made it while doing a radio masters at Goldsmiths.

3. The onion - A very fatal murder (episode 1)

It’s such a clever send up of the true crime ‘genre’ of podcast spawned by the success of serial. it nails it. I listened to this first in 2018 (i think when it came out) and yet despite it feeling so played out then i’ve noticed the production of podcasts with the approach of this podcast is parodying only increase!
 
4. Everything is alive - Grain of sand (inspector sands clip)

This clip is taken is an interview with a grain of sand called chioke. each episode of EIA (or those i’ve heard) has an intermission of sorts that features a short segment that is tangentially linked to the primary interview. in this episode the link is the ‘inspector sands’ announcement used at train stations to alert staff to a fire without scaring the public.
Hosted  by Ian Chillag, produced by Jennifer Mills
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5. Samuel Robinson - Driving to the airport with Larissa

Very few people make me really laugh but Larissa is one of them. in 2021 she gave me a lift to the airport and started talking to the GPS which made me laugh.  I wanted to capture the moment, to document our friendship and its dynamic. I started recording on my watch (i think), and a few months later when home I cut it up and paired with a piece of music i’d made at some point.

6. Raw sounds podcast (cultural exchange segment)

In early 2019 I worked with a group of people at raw material’s raw sounds project to develop their creative audio production skills. It was pitched to me as a podcast course, but there’s so many different types of podcasts, and this group had disparate interests and needs. I chose to work to each week support them to develop skills with interviewing, recording, editing, music production, critical thinking, scripting, ideation, etc. we would record what we did each week with the view to edit it together ultimately to create our own podcast. I have a very good friend who worked as a teacher in Sonoma county, California with a group of younger people with varying special needs. i proposed we do a ‘cultural exchange’, in which members of each group would ask and answer each others questions — the results of which i edited together and assembled over a piece of music composed by someone in my group. 

Recorded and Edited by Lucia Scazzocchio
Curated by Samuel Robinson

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Tales of the Town: The Great Migrations

Delency Parham and Abbas Muntaqim (US 2022)

Delency Parham and Abbas Muntaqim (US 2022)

34min Episode 1 of 12

The first epsiode in a 12 part grassroots series telling over 100 years of Oakland history. There’s over 30 interviews, from elders, ancestors, and peers, that tell the tales of the town. The series starts with the 1st and 2nd Great Migrations that brought Black Southerners in influx to the Bay Area - looking at the circumstances that made these people travel across the country in search of “freedom” and opportunities and the struggles they encountered upon arrival.

Produced and hosted by: Delency Parham and Abbas Muntaqim
Audio Production: Maya Cueva

A Hella Black Podcast

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Dreamt Reality: Sleep Talks

Talia Augustidis (UK 2022)

Talia Augustidis (UK 2022)

15 min, Episode 1 0f 4

Unreality exists where fact and fiction collide. Host Talia Augustidis guides you through four different stories; from dreams and fantasy to curated falsehoods, as each episode wavers precariously between the imagined and the truth.

What happens when a real life relationship gets carried away by dreams? In this episode, Talia gets a glimpse into her boyfriend’s dream world, only to find out she’s not invited.

Produced by Talia Augustidis
Powered by Transmission Roundhouse

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Ties That Bind - Dartmoor

Ian Winterton / Documental Theatre (UK 2022)

Ian Winterton / Documental Theatre (UK 2022)

23 min

In care since the death of her mother, timid 17-year old Shiona sets out to fulfil her childhood dream: to see Dartmoor’s wild ponies. But, having gone to the wrong part of the moor, Shiona instead meets grumpy octogenarian Malcolm, a Royal Marine who has decided to see out the last of his days on his own terms – camping out in a bivouac.
Thrown together by chance and inclement weather, Shiona and Malcolm grudgingly form a friendship that will change both of their lives forever.

Ties That Bind, is a collection of new audio plays interrogating our relationship to Devon.

Written from the perspective of three different writers, each of the plays in the Ties That Bind series use the Devon landscape as a starting point to explore what feels important to the writers today

Documental documents British life in all its colours through playful, thought-provoking audio, theatre and musical productions, often inspired by interviews and archives.

Written by Ian Winterton
Cast: Thea Mackney, Conor Magee, Rosie Race, Heidi Parsons and Naomi Turner

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Field Recordings: The Sound of 2022

Eleanor McDowall (UK 2022)

Eleanor McDowall (UK 2022)

57 min

A slow weave of some of the past year’s Field Recordings, from a clock repair shop in January to snow falling in December. As 2022 comes to a close, what do we remember? Let these sounds lull you into the new year away from the noise.

Clock repair shop, London, UK on Saturday 22nd January 2022 at 11am – by Andrew Strangeway

Trumpeter Swans, Sauvie Island Wildlife Area Portland, Oregon, USA on 28th January 2022 – by Jason Hovatter

Transmission Tower, Portland, Oregon, USA on 8th February 2022 – by Jason Hovatter

The bells at St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, Kyiv, Ukraine on Sunday 13th February 2022 at 4.43pm – by Barny Smith

Ironbark Gorge, Victoria, Australia in the early morning on Sunday 20th February 2022 – by Anouk and Camilla Hannan

Woodpeckers by the water, Buckinghamshire, England, in March 2022 – by Paul Ridout

Night train, Vedia, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina in April 2022 – by Joaquín Conde

In the gloaming, Eskdalemuir, Scotland on 19th April 2022 – by Geoff McQueen

Creaky trees at Rannoch Moor, Scottish Highlands, Scotland on 23rd April 2022 – by Steve Urquhart

Stream in a forest glade, Ambleside, Cumbria, UK in April 2022 – by Geoff Marsh

Rain on the sea, Camber Sands, East Sussex, UK on 23rd May 2022 – by Sam Clements and Louise Owen

Parsley frogs at night, Lérouville, Lorraine, France on 5th June 2022 – by Colin Hunter

Lake swim at sunrise, the morning after midsummer, Groß Köris, Germany in June 2022 – by Eleanor McDowall

Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA in June 2022 – by James T. Green

Bells on sheep, east of Rome around 7pm on 26th June – by Cosmin Sandu

Pondweed bubbles, Raglan Castle moat, Wales, UK in the afternoon on 16th July 2022 – by Paul Ridout

Sitting in the dark, by the fan, reading and writing emails, London, UK on 19th July 2022 – by Siddharth Khajuria

8pm, rural village garden, Suffolk, UK on 19th July 2022 – by Melissa Harrison

Takapou Bay, South Island, New Zealand in August 2022 – by Martin Zaltz Austwick

Katydids in the moonlight, Bearsville, New York, USA on 20th August 2022 – by Joe Dobkin

Cow chorus in the middle of the road, near Te Kao, New Zealand on 30th August 2022 – by Helen Zaltzman

Thunderstorm through skylight, London, UK at 11.20pm on 5th September 2022 – by Eleanor McDowall

Muffled Bells, Cuddington, Buckinghamshire, UK on 19th September 2022 – by Paul Ridout

Binaural bells, St Pauls Cathedral, London, UK on 19th September 2022 – by Joe Harvey-Whyte

Enough is Enough National Day of Action, Outside Kings Cross Station, London, UK on 1st October 2022

Dusk chorus, Ewingar, New South Wales, Australia on 16th October 2022 – by Jaye Kranz

Heavy rain, North West London, UK in October 2022 – by Alex Micu

Winter Bees, Flitwick, Bedfordshire, UK in November 2022 – by Julian Higgs

Westminster Bridge, London, UK on 5th November 2022

Woman, life, freedom, Iran solidarity protest in Trafalgar Square, London, UK on 26th November 2022

Inside the bell tower, All Hallows, Twickenham on the morning of 16th November 2022 – by Alan Hall

Koliada singers rehearsing for the Christmas season, Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montreal, Québec, Canada on 30th November 2022 – by Mira Burt-Wintonick

Bells (church and cow) in the hills of Flüeli-Ranft, Switzerland in the evening of 6th December 2022 – by Charlie Shackleton

Crackling fire and chimes, London, UK on 9th December 2022 – by Eleanor McDowall

Snow falling on the canal, London, UK, near midnight on Sunday 11th December 2022 – by Eleanor McDowall

Produced by Eleanor McDowall

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In The Dark Bristol: Creatures of the Rave

Eve Piper (UK 2021)

Eve Piper (UK 2021)

10 min

In The Dark Bristol - New Producers

Creatures of the Rave is a poem about the temptation, atmosphere and thrill of underground raves. It is a first-person narrative account following the arc of one night’s raving, the anticipation beforehand, the rush at its peak and the come down of its closure. The poem aims to uncover what happens at an illegal rave, an unregulated intervention into often discarded public space that can somehow simultaneously be a thing of stigma and status. Eva worked with producers and sound designers to create an immersive drum & bass soundscape to accompany my poem.

Produced by Eva Piper


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The Letter S

Chris Brookes (CA 2001)

Chris Brookes (CA 2001)

54min

Whispers in the Air
On December 12th, 1901 Guigliermo Marconi received the world's first trans-Atlantic wireless signal on the cliff just above Chris Brook’s Battery Radio studio. Or... did he?

This beautifully poetic audio work combines fact and fiction, reality and construction to tell the story of the beginning of radio and sound waves. The perfect place to start for any budding audiofile.

Produced by Chris Brookes - Battery Radio

Created for the 2001 centenary of Marconi's transmission. First broadcast: ABC "Classic FM" Dec. 12, 2001.
Special Commendation, Prix Marulic 2002
Atlantic Journalism Award 2002


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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

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