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 Pouchlà
FIELDS 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:

1. Spike Jones and His City Slickers, "The Sound Effects Man"
2. Orson Welles being interviewed the morning after his "War of the Worlds" broadcast in another great acting role.
3. Bill Cosby, "Chicken Heart" excerpt.
4. WFBR baseball radio call Bill O'Donnell, June 22, 1979.
5. WPLP excerpt of talk radio host Bob Lassiter.
6. 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.
7. The Donner Party, "Sickness." sung by Tom Roe
8. Scanner, "Turning the Dial" from "Warhol's Diary."