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XMTR Radio Hour Ep30: Ed Baxter (Resonance FM)
Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
60 min / Episode 30 of 30
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is a conversation with Ed Baxter who has recently stepped down as Resonance FM creative director after being at the helm for over 22 years. Ed has selected a number of audio works that he initiated, directed or produced during this time, with a common theme of 'creating the conditions for something to happen'. These radio experiments are a wonderful example of what occurs when this medium is stretched and contorted, allowing for the unexpected whist setting out imaginative parameters.
Works included are:
Score for Open-heart Surgery on Charlie Watts
Shut Your Eyes to Art
SpeedDataRadio
The Exeter Whisper
Fifth Sketch for Ascent and Descent
Intimacy and Distance
Millions Flee as California Burns
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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The Ecco: Red of Visibility
Phoebe McIndoe (DE 2024)
Phoebe McIndoe (DE 2024)
7 min
Growing up I went to a catholic primary school where the school emblem and colour was red. We had a visiting doctor who would see us in the head mistress' study without our red uniforms on. In this red space I had my first experience of bad touch. Or as I now call it, sexual assault. This piece is an attempt, years later, to explore and reclaim the colour red.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. We bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Produced by Phoebe McIndoe
The Ecco: Wasting Time
Yannic Hannebohn (DE 2024)
Yannic Hannebohn (DE 2024)
9 min
Yannic’s biggest fear is to relax at home. And so he did the impossible.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. We bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Produced by Yannic Hannebohn
The Ecco: The Vibrator
Allison Behringer (De 2024)
Allison Behringer (DE 2024)
10 min
What happens when an old woman and a young woman walk into a sex toy shop?
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. They bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Written and Produced by Allison Behringer
Voice performance and script advising by Kelly Elsasser
Advising and story editing by Jamin Bauomy, Luisa Beck, Lena Von Holt, Phoebe McIndoe and Sara Zarreh
Music by Dara Hirsch
Mastering by Jeff Emtman.
The Ecco: Take an Acorn from Your Past Life and Plant it
Marta Medveșek (DE 2024)
Marta Medveșek (DE 2024)
10 min
A piece about nature, and the nature of letting go. In dialogue with Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree and Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. We bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Produced by Marta Medveșek
Featuring Hana Medvešek Ujaković, Milena Matijević Medvešek and 참나무. Additional voices Matko Jovanović and Medvešeki.
The Ecco: This, a Million Times
Colin Shea (De 2024)
Colin Shea (DE 2024)
10 min
How much control do you really have over your own mind? A story about OCD, PANDAS, and what happens when a brain changes itself overnight.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. We bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Produced by Colin Shea
The Ecco: Margery
Sara Zarreh Hoshyari Khah (DE 2024)
Sara Zarreh Hoshyari Khah (DE 2024)
8min
What happens if someone finds your autobiography and republishes only very specific parts? And what if that almost ends up being the only version? A story about a selective monk, a lucky pingpong match and a woman who's not afraid to cry in public.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. We bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Producer: Sara Zarreh Hoshyari Khah
The Ecco: Sometimes
Jeff Emtman (DE 2024)
Jeff Emtman (DE 2024)
10min
Thirteen participants sing a note at their natural pitch, then recite numbers between 1 and 100 for five minutes. Then, they reach into a bowl, pull out a slip of paper, and complete the sentence written on it (not knowing that every slip has the same, one-word prompt: "Sometimes..."). At times in the piece, the sung notes are mapped onto the participants' numbers: low notes for low numbers, and high notes for high numbers. In this 10-minute version, responses are condensed for time.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. We bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Producer: Jeff Emtman
Participants: Colin Shea, Yannic Hannebohn, Phoebe McIndoe, Ilona Toller, Sophia Wetzke, Jasmin Bauomy, Luisa Beck, Mitsuo Iwamoto, Lena von Holt, Sara Zarreh Hoshyari Khah, Marta Medvešek, Allison Behringer, and Johanna Gilje.
The Ecco: Space
Lena von Holt (De 2024)
Lena von Holt (DE 2024)
7 min
Lena von Holt usually doesn’t sing. But since she started hearing people sing everywhere, she felt challenged to sing, too. So she tried, again.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. They bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound
Produced by Lena von Holt
The Ecco: Please Hold the Rage
Mitsuo Iwamoto (DE 2024)
Mitsuo Iwamoto (DE 2024)
8 min
Delivery driver Norman confronts his landlord, the Berlin Housing Corporation, about the broken elevator in his building. An emotional power struggle ensues that blurs the lines between fact and fiction, empathy and manipulation.
THE ECCO is an international non-commercial initiative designed to tug at the boundaries of the world of audio storytelling, journalism, and documentary work. They bring together talents in different parts of the world — journalists, sound designers, audio producers, sound artists, & writers— all united by a common goal: to push themselves and each other out of their work-related comfort zones and explore the different shapes audio documentaries can take, where they may intersect with art and what the impact of such playful exploration can have.
This was made during an immersive retreat where a curated group of talents collaborate, experiment, and support each other in crafting audio projects that are as diverse as they are profound