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XMTR Radio Hour
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Do you find yourself stuck in the same channels? Unable to break out of the echo-chamber of your media consumption and worldview. Transmitter is here to cut through the noise. Lucia Scazzocchio from 'Social Broadcasts' scans the digital soundscape every other month to bring you original sounds, new voices and archive treasures from podcasts, radio, sound installations and anything that catches her ears.
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XMTR Radio Hour #43 The Power of Radio with Tom Roe
2w ago01:00:00Tap to summarizeThis XMTR Radio Hour is a radio journey through 20th Century American Radio with radio pirate and sound art enthusiast Tom Roe. He co-founded 87X and free103point9 and the home for sound and radio art in Hudson Valley, New York State - Wave Farm. Tom is a radio artist, DJ and writer. He produces the weekly Donald Drumpf Theatre show and a regular all things radio and sound-art newsletter ’Turn on The News’. This is a personal history tour through the power of airwaves from comedy sketches to phone ins and everything in between. Tracklist: Spike Jones and His City Slickers, "The Sound Effects Man"Orson Welles being interviewed the morning after his "War of the Worlds" broadcast in another great acting role.Bill Cosby, "Chicken Heart" excerpt. WFBR baseball radio call Bill O'Donnell, June 22, 1979. WPLP excerpt of talk radio host Bob Lassiter.Excerpt of interview by Tom Roe did with pirate radio operator Loni Kobres in 1997 shortly after the Federal Communications Commission came with a SWAT team and helicopters and a battering ram to shut down his radio station in Tampa, Florida.The Donner Party, "Sickness." sung by Tom RoeScanner, "Turning the Dial" from "Warhol's Diary."
Transcribe →XMTR Radio Hour #42 Tom's House with Jacob Dwyer
Mar 2501:07:11Tap to summarizeThis XMTR Radio Hour features Tom’s House an audio drama created by British born - Amsterdam based artist Jacob Dwyer. After a short interview with Jacob, we enter Tom’s House with the meanderings of someone who’s returned home for the first time in 15 years. Walking up Haddon Drive he spots the house of an old friend, Tom. The front door is open, so he goes inside. Wandering around the empty Tudor cottage - making cups of tea, rearranging CD collections and zoning in on the minutiae of domestic space - he ruminates on ideas of emotional intimacy, friendship and grief.
Transcribe →XMTR Radio Hour #41 Sounding Colossus
Feb 2001:00:01Tap to summarizeThis 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 an exclusive rendition of this composition: ‘Colossus’ by Jack Campbell.
Transcribe →XMTR #40 Audio Shorts 2025
Jan 2300:59:55Tap to summarizeThis 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.
Transcribe →XMTR Radio Hour #39: Radio Limbo
Dec 2901:00:00Tap to summarizeIn 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, voice work, and surreal audio fiction.
Transcribe →XMTR Radio Hour #38: XMTR + Sono Electro Festival Review
Nov 2900:59:58Tap to summarizeIn 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.
Transcribe →XMTR Radio Hour #37: XMTR Festival Retrospective
Oct 2800:59:55Tap to summarizeThis 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 and Rafa12: Surface Bruit Live by DinahBird (Extract) For the full versions of the work and more from the XMTR Festival head to xmtr.fm/festival
Transcribe →XMTR Radio Hour #36: XMTR Festival Preview
Sep 1700:59:55Tap to summarizeThis 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.
Transcribe →XMTR RADIO HOUR #35: Accents, Shame and Substitutes
Jul 1800:59:55Tap to summarizeThis 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.
Transcribe →XMTR RADIO HOUR #34 Radio Commons
Jun 5, 202500:59:55Tap to summarizeThis 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 Alifiyah Imani https://radiocommons.org/transmission/sonic-rituals/4. An Ear to River – Counterflows by Blanc Sceolhttps://radiocommons.org/transmission/an-ear-to-river-counterflows/5. Solemn Debt by Akka (Shareeka Helaluddin)https://radiocommons.org/transmission/solemn-debt/ 6. Cockles of my Heart Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe)https://radiocommons.org/transmission/cockels-of-my-heart/
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