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This XMTR Radio Hour is a preview of what’s in store at this year’s XMTR Audio Arts Festival 25-27 September in St Leonards on Sea, UK.  Lucia speaks to local multi-disciplinary artist, musician and Resonance FM regular Jude Montague about some of the festival highlights and this celebration of sonic storytelling and all things audio.  The show also features audio works by festival contributors: Floating in St Leonards Miri Berlin Good Clean Fun by Hayley Clarke, Habitual Rituals by Stellaria Media, Manhunt in St Leonards by M Cristina Marras + Gianfranco Biffi, Five and Twenty to Eleven  by Limbo Tapes, Our Bodies by Martina PouchlàFIELDS by Ariana Martinez.  Look out for the live festival broadcast hosted by Ed Baxter on Resonance Extra: 26 + 27 September 10am-6pm.

This XMTR Radio is a tribute to train travel and the pleasure of sharing a journey with strangers or those shared moments on the platform. Here’s a reminder of what taking the time to travel cross country, absorbing the scenery and sharing anecdotes with strangers sounds like. These are two tributes to train life from Social Broadcasts. The first is Trainline, where London based food entrepreneur Petra Barran is travelling in the US, southbound for 36 hours from New Orleans to Tucson Arizona on Amtrak’s Sunset Limited. She gets out of head, ignores her growling stomach and goes on a mission to make new encounters. The second audio work Kings Cross Connections, takes us back in London where we experience some moments of serendipity and coincidence at Kings Cross station as passengers wait for their tannoy announcement to travel north.

This 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."

This 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.

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 an exclusive rendition of this composition: ‘Colossus’ by Jack Campbell.

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, voice work, and surreal audio fiction.

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 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

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 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/

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 Guy and Alice Armstrong) Blue HeartBen Philipps - Home SoundsBen Chennett -  A Choir for Hastings and St LeonardsMarcia Farquar - The Lido Jem Finer - Pinball Machine Phil Smith - ZwischenzeitWill Gore + Esme Curtis - Invisible Cities, ArgiaEd Baxter + Anthony Moore - Life SentenceJem Finer - Pinball Machine Blanc Sceol - Orbit Meditation

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 by Lily SloaneSherry's Health Insurance Nachos by Henrici TaiThrowing rocks at a frozen river by adriene