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 Morris
• Slag Speaks by Emily Candela
• Echo Charmer by Xelis Del Toro
• Live or Dye by MariaConterno
• Offleash by Terry Halbert
• Are We Only Dreaming by Lily Sloan and Zara Zimbardo
• 1001 Stabs by Fari Al Meghari and Lina Prestwood
• The Well, The Bay, The Sea by Suzi Lamb
• The 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 Adlington
3. Safe + Sound The Sea: The Wave - Sarah Cuddon
4. Safe + Sound The Sea: 10 Green Bottles - Susie Dolton + Kit Callin
5. 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 Wisler
8. Tom’s House by Jacob Dwyer (Extract)
9. Audio Flux Circuit 6: Rubber Bands (most commonly beige), by Joyce De Badts & Frederik De Clercq
10. My Bip Bip Neighbour (blue, like Nico’s eyes) by Sarah-Lou Lepers
11. Audio Flux Circuit 6: POTATO (aquamarine), by Emma Alabaster, with Tenaz and Rafa
12: 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-Romluc
https://radiocommons.org/transmission/thread/

2. Dark Sloshing – Traffic into Crayfish by Sonia Levy and Lucy A. Sames
https://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 Sceol
https://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 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