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://soundcloud.com/clara-lipfert/the-furniture-supper-clubhttps://www.claralou.net/work/the-furniture-supper-club7.  BUMP (from ‘Time Constraints AKA the 32Megabyte Mixtape’)Produced by Alan Bryden, 2017https://soundcloud.com/listentosteve/alan-bryden-bump-from-time-constraintshttps://linktr.ee/alan_bryden

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, and the world around us. A mix of introspection, interviews with thoughts from authors, thinkers and tree-people. 3. Side B of Limbo Tapes  is from a compilation of sounds made for monthly show Radio Limbo on Noods Radio, which is the flagship for cassette label, Limbo Tapes, a collaboration between Pete Hazell and Sean Lee.  You can hear side A of Limbo Tapes here

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 and with it the problems of climate change. Artists Dana Olărescu, Raqs Media Collective, Melanie Manchot and Simon Faithfull give a unique insight into their commissions at the Royal Docks between 11-29th May. 

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

A selection of audio works chosen by sound artist, musician and audio maker Samuel Robinson joining Lucia in conversation as they discuss what audio works bring him joy, as well as unpacking some of the current podcast tropes, listening in on some heart- felt conversations and joining some dots between Sam’s life in the US and the UK through sound.

An audio montage series in six chapters exploring the history of the Isle of Dogs in East London and the potential to create some public realm underneath the DLR.

An hour dedicated to Cites and Memory, one of the world’s largest sound projects, with more than 1,000 artists contributing to our goal of remixing the world, one sound at a time.