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This XMTR Radio Hour is a little different. Lucia speaks to Garry Hunter  the director of arts and heritage organisation Fitzrovia Noir - and composer/violinist Jack Campbell about a new commission from the educational foundation that has grown out of the Tommy Flowers community pub in Poplar, East London. The pub’s namesake Tommy Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, to help decipher the encrypted messages sent by the German High Command during WW2. 23-year-old composer and musician Jack M.Campbell has recently written and extensively performed a piece inspired by Alan Turing’s Bombe. With a bursary from TFF, he has now composed a score responding to Colossus, the computer built by Tommy Flowers to greatly expedite the reading of Lorenz traffic. The code was cracked by mathematician Bill Tutte, who, after the war, went on to teach at two universities in Canada, Jack’s home country. Following the conversation about outsiders, music, algorithms and maths, is a

This XMTR Radio Hour is a compilation of short audio works that have been submitted to xmtr.fm over the past year. XMTR is an online portal championing and  showcasing sonic storytelling in its many forms and genres. These short audio works represent the variety and scope of audio craft from both new and more seasoned audio makers from all over the world. No theme, just interesting uses of sound. Works featured: The Box by Oliver MorrisSlag Speaks by Emily CandelaEcho Charmer by Xelis Del ToroLive or Dye by MariaConternoOffleash by Terry HalbertAre We Only Dreaming by Lily Sloan and Zara Zimbardo1001 Stabs by Fari Al Meghari and Lina PrestwoodThe Well, The Bay, The Sea by Suzi LambThe Graves in the Ocean Are Burning by Per Wilhelm Wahlroos. 

In this XMTR (Transmitter) radio hour we are taken into the liminal audio apace that is Radio Limbo. This guided audio trip is  an unusual quest through original music, collage, soundscapes, and disembodied voices. The show celebrates radio as a shape-shifting portal to other worlds, a wilderness of its own, and its unique qualities of companionship. Join Pete for this curation and performance of surreal scenes and sonic experiments, using local intrigue and lost histories as the jumping-off point. This was recorded live at the XMTR Audio Arts Festival in St Leonards-On-Sea. Radio Limbo aka Pete Hazell  is a music and audio artist based in Bristol. His various projects fall under the ‘Limbo’ umbrella, known for their signature blend of curious music, sound design, storytelling, and collage. His cassette label Limbo Tapes focuses on releasing music, monthly residency on Bristol’s Noods Radio. In 2024, Pete released the audio series Limbo Calling as a podcast, expanding the Limbo universe through character, voi

In this XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour, Isobel Anderson (Girls Twiddling Knobs) is in conversation with James Wilkie founder and curator of sound arts festival Sono Electro and Lucia Scazzocchio, founder and curator of XMTR Audio Arts Festival that both took place in St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex (26th-28th September). This is a candid conversation looking back on how the festivals emerged, transpired and developed.We played sound from Ben Branegans’s Sketch for a Garden, Sound from the In Search of Sonic Wonders workshop by Lisa Hack and Robin the Fog, The Statue of Liberty Big band and Habitual Rituals by Stellaria Media. 

This XMTR Radio Hour is a retrospective from the XMTR Audio Arts Festival that took place in St Leonards on Sea in East Sussex on the last weekend of September. This is a little taste of the scope of sonic storytelling, radio art and immersive audio that people got to experience by the sea that weekend. 1. Across the Sea by Camilla Hannan (Extract) 2. Safe + Sound The Sea: Running into the Sea - Arlie Adlington3. Safe + Sound The Sea: The Wave - Sarah Cuddon4. Safe + Sound The Sea: 10 Green Bottles - Susie Dolton + Kit Callin5. Radio Limbo Live - Pete Hazell (Limbo Tapes) (Extract) 6. The Golden Tape: Visión Quest with Grandmother Margarita by Juliana Bohoquez Pinzon 7. The Golden Tape:The Perfect Lead by Nico Ganzalez Wisler8. Tom’s House by Jacob Dwyer (Extract)9. Audio Flux Circuit 6: Rubber Bands (most commonly beige), by Joyce De Badts & Frederik De Clercq10. My Bip Bip Neighbour (blue, like Nico’s eyes) by Sarah-Lou Lepers11. Audio Flux Circuit 6: POTATO (aquamarine), by Emma Alabaster, with Tenaz a

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour features a selection of audio works composed and produced by just some of the audio makers and sound artists participating in the XMTR Audio Arts Festival in St Leonards -On-Sea (26th-28th September). Audio featured: Incantations by Amanda Gutiérrez, What Does your Body Want by Phoebe Macindoe, Transition by Kalli Anderson apè Aliermo and Rose Bolton, Lightening Refuge by Kristina Loring, The Spittal by Camilla Hannan, Making Utopia by Mitra Kaboli, Three Rings of Sounds: San Antonio by The Radiophonic Institute, Birth of a Signal by DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult and In a Cowshell by Miri Berlin. 

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour features a selection of audio works that have been submitted to xmtr.fm: Nanou Thassinda tells her story of belonging and acceptance in the UK through a study of regional accents in Life in Progress by Phoebe Macindoe, Chloe Turpin has uncomfortable conversations with her family in Brittany about a shameful event concerning her grandmother Emmeline during WW2 in Shorn Women, and Giacomo Bagni has to come to terms with the replacement son that his father has chosen to spend time with in Brothers. 

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour hands the reins over to film maker and sound artist Ian Nesbitt from Radio Commons, on online platform of sonic interventions seeking to practice solidarity by building collective agency. It is an assembly of audio works structured as an online archipelago. The show features a selection of sound pieces from several of these mythical islands, all connected by the watery themes works from a new sonic island « Counterflows » This show brings together exempts of the following works: Thread by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Dark Sloshing  by Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sames, Sonic Rituals by Alifiyah Imani, An Ear to River – Counterflows by Blanc Sceol, Solemn Debt by Akka (Shareeka Helaluddin),  Cockles of my Heart by Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe). 1. Thread by Komarine Romdenh-Romluchttps://radiocommons.org/transmission/thread/2. Dark Sloshing – Traffic into Crayfish by Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sameshttps://radiocommons.org/transmission/dark-sloshing/3. Sonic Rituals by Alifiya

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour features a selection of short audio works that have been submitted to XMTR over the past year by both new and seasoned audio makers from around the world. Works featured are: The Magic of Waves by Eve Marie Bouche, I’d Rather be Swimming by Clair Urbahn,  Smugglers Song by Mary Hooper, Knife, Fork, Keys by Hye Young Sin, The Human Jukebox by Stella Sims, Application Declined by Alice Foxall, We Will not Stop, We Will Not Rest by Melanie Marich and Sajina Shrestha, Jim, Human Waste Expert by Patrick McNameeKing, Crush Tango by Eloïse Bertil and Times Square–42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal by Tom Sayers

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 the track list from this show and full audio works on 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 FestivalBlanc Sceol - Orbit Meditation Stellaria Media (Lucida Gu

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour hands over the reigns to Adriene and Stuart from LLtNS (Long Live the New Sound) the freeform anti-podcast podcast for creative audio where audio makers and recordists can freely upload their sounds to add to this ever growing archive. They have chosen a selection of unexpected, eclectic, precise, messy and otherwise sounds from what has been uploaded over the years. Featuring,  in order:  Misophonic Happenings by Carlo PatrãoASLEEPerd by sleep number beds920am by Jazmine (JT) GreenEpisode 1 : The Circles by Matters of TruthRakiura/Stewart Island - 09/23 by Sam DonkinEpisode 2 : The Change by Matters of Truthgood and bad and dangerous and dangerously good by  information jewelleryOn the village cricket pitch by SDUWe Went Camping by Regan HutchinsVoies Urbaines: Rue Mespoul by Mathias GuilbaudThis is absolutely, definitely not a test. And the previous episode was too long by vegetarian nachosA Past Life by Olivia RavioliFish by Cristina MarrasEngaged by Mr.Cracking Through b

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 and Millions Flee as California Burns. 

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour is dedicated to Lowlines - a sonic scrapbook, a passport to roam, tuning in to the pulse of place, with 2 episodes from this series follows food entrepreneur & urban place-maker Petra Barran as she travels through the Americas, meeting people with profound connections to the places they’re from. We’ll join Petra as she travels from London to New Orleans immersing herself in a Second Line parade and then on to the Amtrak slow train from New Orleans to Arizona connecting with strangers along the way. Lowlines was created and hosted by Petra Barran, Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio of Social Broadcasts, Executive-Produced by Lina Prestwood of Scenery Studios, Mixing & Mastering: Jobina Tinnemans, Music by Hannah Marshall To listen to the whole series go to Lowlines or find it on all podcast platforms. 

This XMTR (Transmitter) Radio Hour celebrates works that have been submitted to xmtr.fm over the past year with an episode from Bristol based radio project Limbo Tapes' new podcast Limbo Calling, an exercise in mischief and the mundane from New York based Icelandic composer/sound designer Andrea Kristindottir, Berlin based photographer and audio story teller Miri Berlin takes on a haunting journey from intensive care unit to crematorium and musician and sound engineer Ivan Eastley contemplates silence. 

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 Shuman 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 Shuman. 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, 2008https://www.joanschuman.com/hyperacousia/posts/cicatrix3. Still SleepingMeira Asher, 2016https://www.earlid.org/posts/meira-asher-still-sleeping4. Dog Woman: An Interview Evangeline Riddiford Graham, 2020https://www.earlid.org/posts/dog-woman5.The HitmanJoan Schuman 2021https://www.joanschuman.com/hyperacousia/posts/how-you-treat-them-is-what-you-are

This Transmitter Radio Hour is a selection of audio works chosen by award winning Glasgow based radio producer and sound artist Steve Urquhart. He joins Lucia to discuss why these works inspire, make him laugh and more importantly break the rules and conventions of radio making. Steve has worked for local radio in Cumbria, National Prison Radio and made many many documentaries and shorts for BBC Radio. Works featured: 1. LEAVING A MARKProduced by Emily Hsaio for Transom Story Workshop, 2013https://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/feature/leaving-a-mark2. THE HOT DOGSBBC Radio Cumbria, circa 1999/2000. Presenter: Alan Smith. Producer: Steve Urquhart 3. RABBLE ROUSERS (extract)Produced by Sarah Boothroyd, 2012https://soundcloud.com/sarah-boothroyd/boothroyd-rabble-rousers4. PRISON WALK (unedited)Recorded by Chris Impey inside HMP Brixton, London, 20115. LYN AND MARY (extract)The Listening Project, BBC, 2013https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p6rz36. THE FURNITURE SUPPER CLUBProduced by Clara Lou, 2017https://soundclo

This show is dedicated to the joyful chaos that is Angel Edmonton in Enfield, North London. Once an industrial hub attracting factory workers and their families, the area has been neglected for decades as factories gave way to warehouses and social housing fell into decay.  Today it's a multicultural crossroads undergoing massive redevelopment. Echoes of Angels produced by Social Broadcasts takes us on a trip down the main artery - Fore Street, guided by local residents and business owners.  Echoes of Angels a Social Broadcast by  – Lucia Scazzocchio Commissioned by Fore Street for All  Next we join Enfield People’s Theatre with local producer Soveks Lo behind the scenes of their latest production Bread and Roses - a community play recounting the 1915 Edmonton Rent Strike and the community action (led and won by local women) drawing parallels with the current housing crises. . 

This Transmitter Radio Hour is an ode to tapes and time, featuring Glasgow based sound artist Steve Urquhart’s Doing Bird a mixtape recorded with inmates at Perth Prison (Scotland), a meditation on time by Brighton based composer and sound artists Joseph Wilkinson and a wonky plunderphonic mixtape by Bristol based Limbo Tapes.1. Radio producer and sound artist Steve Urquhart worked with inmates at HMP Perth engage with archive birdsong and oral history recordings from the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club in a unique, creative audio art collaboration.You can listen to side B of Doing Bird here2. Joseph Wilkinson is a composer, sound designer and audio artist based in Brighton, exploring the relationship between sound and our inner worlds. He collaborates with his wife and creative partner Cam Brandow as Farfar Studio, their combined channel for enchanting experiences through bespoke music, sound, and storytelling.I sit in the shade is a short form documentary that is a meditation on time, our relationship to it,

This Transmitter Radio hour is dedicated to a series of 'Audio Postcards' produced by Lucia Scazzocchio (Social Broadcasts) to accompany Sea Change part of At the Docks 2023, a new summer season of arts culture and events at the Royal Docks in East London. Curated by Invisible Dust, Sea Change brings artists together with leading academics and University College London inspired by research into sustainable responses to the climate emergency.  ‘Sea Change’ is a term used for a substantial shift in situation or perspective and was first used in Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, a play with a background, like the Royal Docks, of sea voyages, developing globalisation and colonialism. Sea Change points to the future, to the need for changing practices, but also alludes to a pivot point of the climate crisis in the docks history – the move from sail to steam power. This development led to an enormous expansion in London’s trade and exchange of goods and peoples, which enabled modern day industrialisation, globalisation

This Transmitter Radio Hour explores the sonic theatre of Soundworlds -  in conversation with director Patrick Eakin Young. The award winning Soundworlds is an audio stage for diverse stories where musicians, writers, theatre makers and sound artists collaborate to create a unique and immersive series of musical theatre for the ears. Extracts played are from: 1. Remnants Part 1A three-part auditory excavation, unearthing the songs and stories of love and loss, buried beneath the soil of post-war Bosnia.Featuring: Courtney Angela BrkicComposition: Christian Mason, Shelley Parker2. Town is by the SeaAn audio picture book conjuring impressions from a childhood spent in the coastal mining communities of Nova ScotiaMusic composed and performed by Anna RheingansText by Joanne Schwartz, adapted from her 2017 book with illustrator Sydney Smith3. A Christmas PartyLiving-room concert meets domestic drama in an immersive holiday specialVoice and piano: Douglas Dare