Transmissions
Listening To The Soundosphere: An Academic Manifesto - FreshEd Flux Podcast
Peter Browning (UK 2024)
Peter Browning (UK 2024)
33 min
Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative based podcasts. This episode was created by Peter Browning explores the power of the Soundosphere. His meta-engagement highlights the importance of sound in creating immersive experiences, the emotional and embodied aspects of ethnographic research, and the political and social implications of podcasting.
Peter recently graduated with his PhD from the Institute of Education at the University College London. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies.
Written, edited and produced Peter Browning
Executive Producer: Johanna Fahey
Producers: Will Brehm and Brett Lashua
Characters Played by:
Narrator – Peter Browning
Will Brehm – Will Brehm
Brett Lashua- Brett Lashua
Johannah Fahey – Johannah Fahey
Dorothy – Siobhán Maycraft
Teacher – Rommy Anabalón
Simon McBurney from Complicité – Simon McBurney from Complicité
Jon Holmes from The Skewer – Jon Holmes from The Skewer
Playing With Blocks: The Square Root Of Tree - FreshEd Flux Podcast
Michael Rumbelow (UK 2022)
Michael Rumbelow (UK 2022)
34 min
Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative based podcasts. This episode was created by Michael Rumbelow, a PhD student at the University of Bristol. In his Flux episode, Michael takes listeners on a sonic journey to explore block play. He weaves together sounds and ideas to show the power and possibilities of play.
Written, edited and produced Michael Rumbelow
Executive Producer: Johanna Fahey
Producers: Will Brehm and Brett Lashua
Vicki Mitchem played Virginia Woolf and Bertha Ronge, Dave Jackson played Friedrich Froebel, Karl Marx, and Charles Dickens, and Simone Datzberger played Melanie Klein.
Studio audio technicians were Patrick Robinson and Simon Vause.
In The Realm Of The In Between: An Ode To Ethnography In Mauritius - FreshEd Flux Podcast
Ijaaz Jackaria (MU 2024)
Ijaaz Jackaria (MU 2024)
32 min
Flux, a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative based podcasts. This episode is an ethnography of Mauritius and its colonial past, where he creates his own Southern epistemology by bringing together cosmology, philosophy, and Islamic theology.
Written, edited and produced Ijaaz Jackaria
Executive Producer: Johanna Fahey
Producers: Will Brehm and Brett Lashua
Departures / Arrivals - Every Floor Has A Different Color
Umi Hsu (US 2024)
Umi Hsu (US 2024)
9 min
Departures / Arrivals is a bilingual experimental audio memoir that follows my search for where memory is held within a diasporic time/space. After having immigrated to the United States as a pre-teen 33 years ago, I return to sites significant to my life in Taiwan: the apartment building I grew up in, walks I took with family, the school I attended, and more. Each track on the album is an audio meditation on memory surrounding a specific place and relationship with unscripted dialogs. Each composition presents a diasporic architecture, where a particular time/space is stretched and compressed at once. It’s an invitation to listen in and between the cracks of sound, language, and memory.
Composition, performance, recording, and mixing by: Umi Hsu
Ian
Nathan Gibson (UK 2023)
Nathan Gibson (UK 2023)
9 min
A bomb disposal expert by trade, Ian Jones MBE spent over 35 years on the frontline of historical events, disarming bombs and incendiary devices in the most challenging of circumstances. His experiences reveal to us a hidden side of war and the lives of the people literally trying to defuse conflict. But these days, you’re more likely to find him tending his allotment.
Produced by Nathan Gibson
XMTR Radio Hour Ep32: Sono Electro and XMTR Festival Unpacked
Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2024)
60 min / Episode 32 of 32
This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is a retrospective conversation about the inception and outcomes of sound art and sonic storytelling festivals Sono Electro and XMTR Audio Arts Festival that took place in St Leonards on Sea in September. James Wilkie from Sono Electro and Lucia Scazzocchio from XMTR talk to Isobel Anderson - host of Girls Twiddling Knobs, about how the worked together on the festival(s), the learnings from behind the scenes and their ambitions for the future - could St Leonards on Sea become a sonic destination? This is a candid conversation about collaboration, curation and working with and within an established creative community, with clips and and extracts from artists and performances featured at the festival.
You can access full audio works from the tracklist at xmtr.fm/festival.
Tracklist:
Anam Cara - Ear to the Ground - Dan 'you are tuning in to the Lido graveyard'
Limbo Tapes - Radio Limbo Live at XMTR Festival
Blanc Sceol - Orbit Meditation
Stellaria Media (Lucida Guy and Alice Armstrong) Blue Heart
Ben Philipps - Home Sounds
Ben Chennett - A Choir for Hastings and St Leonards
Marcia Farquar - The Lido
Jem Finer - Pinball Machine
Phil Smith - Zwischenzeit
Will Gore + Esme Curtis - Invisible Cities, Argia
Ed Baxter + Anthony Moore - Life Sentence
Jem Finer - Pinball Machine
Blanc Sceol - Orbit Meditation
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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The Negro of The Abyss
Maleek Dapaah (UK 2024)
Maleek Dapaah (UK 2024)
16 min
Set in the heart of Victorian London, The Negro of the Abyss reimagines the infamous Jack the Ripper murders from the perspective of Jane Doe, a forgotten black woman whose story unveils the harrowing truths of racial and social injustice.
Written/Directed by Nifty Noel.
Produced by Maleek Dapaah
The Lido Cafe
Charlotte Petts (UK 2024)
Produced by Charlotte Petts (UK 2024)
32 min
Charlotte has been intrigued by this place ever since she and her dog took refuge there from the wintery Worthing seafront to have a steaming hot pot of tea and a tunnocks tea cake. With its metal grills over the windows and a heavy door to strain open, it almost always looks closed, except for a little neon red 'Open' sign glowing in the gloom. Inside, there were mainly older people, sitting alone. It's part of an old lido complex, with a bandstand built in the 1920's jutting out into the sea, almost like a mini pier.
The tablecloths are chequered, you can get breakfast for a fiver and despite sitting separately, everyone seemed to know each other. One lady leaned over and chatted to her about her dog. It was just... friendly. She wanted to spend more time there, see what is was like in the warmer months and spend more time with the people that go there and the people that run it. And so she did. And she took her recorder with her.
Produced and presented by Charlotte Petts
Invisible Cities
Will Gore and Esme Curtis (UK 2024)
Will Gore + Esme Curtis (UK 2024)
14 min
A sonic interpretation of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities created for an immersive installation at the XMTR Audio Festival 2024.
Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities is an architectural exploration of the complex relationships between memory, place, subjectivity and desire. Told through accounts of 55 fictitious cities, Will stands in as our tour guide, inviting us to look out of ‘sound windows’ that look out onto some of Calvino’s fantastical spaces.
In Ersilla, to establish the relationships that sustain the city's life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationship of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the mesh of strings becomes too much and the inhabitants can no longer walk through the streets, they leave to set up a new city. All that remains is a labyrinth of taut strings and poles that rise in the plain; spider-webs of intricate relationships seeking a form.
“These are fantastical, beguiling places, where things are never as they seem. There's Hypatia, a city of beautiful blue lagoons but where "crabs were biting the eyes of the suicides, stones tied around their necks"; Laudomia, the city of the unborn, whose inhabitants have constructed a parallel city for those yet to come; Octavia, the spider-web city, whose residents live suspended over an abyss, supported by a net they know won't last long; and Argia, a city with earth instead of air.”
Written, Produced by Will Gore
Assistant Producer/Voices Esme Curtis