Transmissions
Random Tape: Finding Chick Boyd
Random Tape (US 2023)
David Weinberg (US 2023)
9 min
A cabinet of auditory wonders for the 21st century from David Weinberg
The life and music of a reclusive balladeer.
Produced by David Weinberg
Music by Charles Boyd
Camlann - Ep1 Keep The Homefire Burning
Tin Can Audio (UK 2024)
Tin Can Audio & Ella Watts (UK 2024)
25 min Episode 1 of 6
One day, every apocalypse happened at once.
Follow three survivors and their dog as they try to understand what happened to the world, and build a home from the ashes.
Camlann is a post-apocalyptic fantasy series about the necessity of hope for survival. Dai, Morgan, Perry and their noble wolfhound Gelert venture out into the Welsh countryside to escape the devastation that hordes of folkloric monsters have wrought among the cities.
Not to mention the "Knights of the Round Table", a former university rugby team turned maniacal feudal lordship on the hunt for their Sir Peredur, and the witch Morgan Le Fay.
This haphazard group just want a safe haven, the means to survive, and a fire they can gather around at night and tell stories.
Written by: Ella Watts
Starring Tobias Weatherburn, Robyn Holdaway, Angharad Phillips, Nicole Miners, Paul Warren
Produced by Amber Devereux
Sound Design by Oliver Morris & Cai Gwilym Pritchard
Limbo Calling: Ep.1 ~ Fear Swim
Pete Hazel (UK 2024)
Pete Hazell (UK 2024)
20min
In this new series from Limbo Tapes, mysterious recordings from the Radio Limbo archives have been carefully restored. They reveal a curious world of voices, sounds and music through the dispatches of a solitary, unnamed radio operator.
Episode 1. Controversial water-based event “Fear Swim” is something of a nightlife myth. Founder & promoter Shirley Eelsworth reveals in an interview some of the backstory to this famous nightmare swimming party.
The Operator also reflects on a troubling visitation experience (see prologue) and enjoys a piece of music about a Crocodile's daughter.
Produced by Pete Hazell
Theme music by Alex Lupo. "Please Mr Crocodile" by Titus 12. with contributions from Sean Lee and Karen Dews.
Listen to more
This is Chicago: The Secret
Supraphonic Studios (US 2023)
Stephen Pate and Ashlie Stevens (US 2023)
35 min
In Near North, a hospital visit reveals a secret second family nearby. Six miles as the crow flies.
This series of short audio portraits from Chicago draws from the long lineage of oral history recording in the city, perhaps inspired by the likes of Studs Terkel and the assumption that everyone has a story if you just ask.
Created and produced by Supraphonic Studios' Stephen Pate and Ashlie Stevens
XMTR Radio Hour Ep27: Earlid - Hubris and Humility with Joan Schuman
Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
60 min / Episode 27 of 27
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is dedicated to Earlid a gallery of evolving exhibits of sound art. US based Earlid founder and curator and seasoned radio practitioner Joan Schuman talks through a selection of five audio works that come under the theme Hubris and Humility. Works featured are by Bassel, Meira Asher, Evangeline Riddiford Graham and Joan Schuman.
Works featured:
1. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it
Myra Al-Rahim aka Bassel, 2019
https://www.earlid.org/posts/cycles-of-atrocity/
2. Cicatrix
Joan Schuman, 2008
https://www.joanschuman.com/hyperacousia/posts/cicatrix
3. Still Sleeping
Meira Asher, 2016
https://www.earlid.org/posts/meira-asher-still-sleeping
4. Dog Woman: An Interview
Evangeline Riddiford Graham, 2020
https://www.earlid.org/posts/dog-woman
5. The Hitman
Joan Schuman 2021
https://www.joanschuman.com/hyperacousia/posts/how-you-treat-them-is-what-you-are
Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
Follow the series
The Right to Happiness - At Times Seemingly Pleasant and Friendly
Irna Phillips ( US 1939)
Irna Phillips (US 1939)
13 min
A bit of fun from the Old Time Radio Archive complete with ‘soap’ advertising.
"The Right to Happiness," an American Old Time Radio Soap Opera created by Irna Phillips, was broadcast across the country from its creation in 1939 until its demise in 1960. Irna Phillips creation was originally a spinoff for Guiding Light character Rose Kransky.
The show premiered on NBC's Blue Network on Oct 16, 1939. However Rose seems to have kept her ties the Five Points suburb of Chicago, and the show soon began to revolve around the loves and trials of Carolyn Allen. Carolyn was the daughter of a magazine editor.
First broadcast on NBC’s Blue Network
Follow the series
Ways of Knowing: Cosmic Visions - Moon Stories
The World According to Sound (US 2023)
The World According to Sound (US 2023)
13 min
The World According to Sound work with universities to translate academic research into sound. Each season has a radically different format and topic. This current series Cosmic Visions
explores the spirit of inquiry, which spans tens of thousands of years, was cultivated by civilizations around the globe, and has been shaped by ways of thinking that may seem at first “unscientific,” but which have led to great leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. Cosmic Visions is produced in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University.
Storytelling was one of the earliest ways humans tried to make sense of the heavens. The first object of major study was the moon, and that's because of an uncanny ability it has to keep time.
Produced by Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett
Field Recordings: The Sound of 2023
Eleanor McDowall (UK 2023)
Eleanor McDowall (UK 2023)
57 min
A slow weave of some of the past year’s Field Recordings, from a church in Vilnius to a floating choir in Copenhagen. As 2024 begins what do we remember of the past year? Let these sounds lull you into the new year away from the noise.
Orthodox Christmas service, Catholic Church of St. Johns, Vilnius, Lithuania on 7th January 2023 – by Vaida Pilibaitytė
Whistling wind rattling the windows, inside the library, London, UK in January 2023 – by Siddharth Khajuria
Summer dusk with birds near Vedia, Buenos Aires province, Argentina in January 2023 – by Joaquín Conde
The bells at St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, Kyiv, Ukraine on Sunday 13th February 2022 at 4.43pm – by Barny Smith
Sounding stairs, Kaunas, Lithuania on 19th January 2023 – by Marta Medvešek
Goose night, Eskdalemuir, Scotland, UK on 24th January 2023 – by Geoff McQueen
Crows, Vancouver, Canada on 27th January 2023 at 4pm– by Martin Zaltz Austwick
Thawing ice, Tammisalo canal, Helsinki, Finland on 4th February 2023 by Miia Laine
Department of Education, Westminster, London, UK on 15th February 2023– by Tash Walker
Walking in the snow, Vancouver, Canada on 25th February 2023 at 11.30pm – by Martin Zaltz Austwick
Underwater, Førdefjord, north of Bergen, Norway in February 2023 – by Jay Richardson
Woodpeckers in Wandle Park, London, UK on 3rd April – by Andrew Strangeway
Pigeon in the cinema, London, UK on 15th April 2023 – by Sam Clements and Louise Owen
Argentino Lake shores in front of Spegazzini Glacier, Santa Cruz, Argentina in April 2023 – by Joaquín Conde
Emergency alert system test, Oxford Circus, London, UK, around 2.58pm on 23rd April 2023– by Anthony Ing
Jack in the Green procession, Hastings, UK on 1st May 2023– by Jorge Stride
A rickshaw journey through Bengaluru, India, at dusk, as heavy rain begins to fall on 1st May 2023 – by Siddharth Khajuria
Musical cacophony pouring through the open windows of practice rooms, London, UK on 18th May 2023 – by Eleanor McDowall
Whistling wind, Reykjavík, Iceland on 20th May 2023 – by Agnieszka Czyżewska Jacquemet
Eider ducks in the glacier river lagoon (Jökulsárlón) as rain falls, Vatnajökull National Park, south coast of Iceland on Friday 26th May 2023 – by Eleanor McDowall
Outside the Black Lion in Plaistow, London, UK, at 7.45pm on Thursday 8th June 2023, for the passing of the open top bus following West Ham’s victory in the Europa Conference League Final – by Alan Hall
Spanish Point (Rinn na Spáinneach), County Clare, (Contae an Chláir), Ireland on 8th June 2023– by Kalli Anderson
Chair lift to the Wolzenalp, Switzerland, on Saturday 10th June 2023 – by This Wachter
Thunderstorm, Abney Park Cemetery, London, UK on 12th June 2023 – by Joe Harvey-Whyte
Royal Courts of Justice, London, UK on Saturday 17th June 2023 at 1.30pm
Mountain goats, Kefalonia, Greece, in June 2023– by Tash Walker
Carillon, Sint Janskerk, Gouda, Netherlands in June 2023 – by Paul Ridout
Frogs of Lac Labelle at 1am, Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard, Quebec, Canada on 4th July 2023 – by Mira Burt-Wintonick
Competing fireworks, Hamilton Heights, Harlem, New York City, USA on 4th July 2023 – by Jon Moskowitz
Loons of Lac Forbes at Sunset, Mont-Tremblant National Park, Québec, Canada on 19th July 2023 - by Mira Burt-Wintonick
Demonstration at the Italian Embassy, London, UK on 2nd August 2023- by Lisa Hack
Delta del Tigre, Argentina on 4th August 2023 by Eva Moeraert
Tywardreath ringing the bells of St Barts, Lostwithiel, UK on 9th August 2023 – by Celia Robbins
Electrical storm, East London, UK on 18th September 2023 at 1am – by Joe Harvey-Whyte
Gaggles of geese, River Thame, England, UK on 23rd September 2023– by Paul Ridout
Midnight Soundscape, Sedona, Arizona, USA on 5th October 2023 – by Joe Harvey-Whyte
Palestinian Solidarity March, London, UK on 11th November 2023
Chimes outside the monastery, Stanstead Mill Stream, after dark on Sunday 10th December 2023- by Eleanor McDowall
Edith purring, Glasgow, Scotland in December 2023 – by Steve Urquhart
Santa Lucia kayak parade, Copenhagen, Denmark on 13th December 2023 – by Kara Oehler
Produced by Eleanor McDowall
Follow the series
Requiem For A Mother
Miri Berlin (DE 2023)
Miri Berlin (DE 2023)
9 min
This sound composition combines field recordings with electronic elements to document the acoustic and atmospheric character of various stages – from the intensive care unit to the vigil and on to the crematorium.
In the intensive care unit, the rhythmic sounds of the ventilator and the beeps of medical devices are the first things you hear. Afterward, we find ourselves in a Berlin courtyard where the casket, on a metal trolley, is transported from the mortuary to the room where the vigil takes place.
In the middle of the room, the casket is open. The door to the courtyard is ajar, allowing ambient sounds to permeate the space. The final stage is the crematorium, where the sounds of powerful ventilation fans and a relentless drone dominate. The furnace door opens with a loud mechanical sound as the casket glides on the rails. The fire becomes visible, hissing and crackling before the door quickly closes again.
Produced by: Miri Berlin
Keys to an Unlocked Door
Audioflux - Megan Tan (US 2023)
Audio Flux - Megan Tan (US 2023)
3 min
Audio Flux is an open collaboration, fueled by short audio works that respond to a set of rules established with a different creative partner each time.
The inaugural circuit is partnered with writer and artist Wendy MacNaughton (New York Times, How to Say Goodbye, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat).
Six producers were invited to create three-minute “Fluxworks,” that:
Include some manifestation of the theme: letting go
Include previously unshared personal archival tape
Take inspiration from one of three illustrations by Wendy (keys, gas station, person reading)
Megan Tan merges two stories - one person is looking for the keys to life and another has the keys to life.
Production - Megan Tan