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[Breathe] [Wave] by Elinor Lower
Elinor Lower is a young theatre maker and writer based in the south west of England, whose piece blends vocalisation, song, text, breath and recordings of the wind and waves to explore the mythic world of the coast.

A Toast To The Old Apple Tree, by Hannah Earl
A music graduate from rural Somerset with an interest in lesser-known musical traditions, Hannah has explored the juxtaposition between the ancient tradition of wassailing and its popularity in modern Britain.

Black Boys Cry, by Prince Taylor
Prince Taylor is a creative producer and mentor to young artists in the south west, whose project looks through the keyhole at the complexities and challenges faced when black men attempt to reflect on their masculinity.

Ivan Uncovers, by Theo Watkins
Theo is a writer-director with an interest in sound within filmmaking. Ivan Uncovers is a humorous piece set in a fictional local radio station, as one of the reporters finds himself in unexpectedly sinister territory.

Living In A Box, by Zander Mavor
Based in Bristol, Zander is a producer, sound designer and musician with an interest in short-form documentaries. Living In A Box is an intimate observational portrait, through sound, of student and musician Max Rzepka. Max is living in a caravan but still manages to attend university whilst fighting for settled status.

Pregnant Pause//Daughters with Children, by Isobel Adderley and Alex Arcoleo
Isobel is interested in the architecture of sound, having worked in dance performance and video; and Alex is a composer and producer who writes music for film and TV. Their piece explores noises that sound the same but are different, taking the listener on an immersive, unique journey through the experiences of pregnancy.

19th February, by Thom Hobbs
Thom has a background in graphic design and loves film, photography and sound. His audio work explores personal loss and how, through the prism of grief, we experience sounds with acutely altered perspective.

The Appointment, by Siân Keen
Siân Keen, an artist, clown and writer based in Exeter. The Appointment is an audio project sharing the experiences of Devon women who have experienced body shaming and body stigma during medical appointments. The work weaves together interviews from a diverse mix of women as well as medical professionals.

CattleGrid! by Jonny Hibbs
John is a young writer and actor currently in full-time education. CattleGrid! is an eccentric, laugh-out-loud comedy that showcases rural life as it has never been showcased before.

Still To Come, by Tilly Washer
Tilly works in design and loves film. Still To Come looks at the pressure that society and young people put on themselves regarding their future, investigating the problems that young people face but so often don’t feel like they can talk about.

Institute of Contemporary Arts

10 Lime Street, by Myrto Farmaki
Myrto is a London-based artist. 10 Lime Street explores the séances held by the medium Margery Crandon, a space where the interplay between absence and return, hidden and palpable can be felt.

All Ball, by Joseph Bond
Joseph Bond is a sound designer, curator, community organiser and basketball coach. All Ball is a dynamic meditation on the physical, psychological and communal benefits of basketball and streetball in London.

Decolonization Of A Queer Carcass And Stew, by Tanaka Fuego
Tanaka is a black, queer artist as well as a writer and spoken word performer. Decolonization Of A Queer Carcass And Stew attempts to break down their experience as a queer trans man of colour, through poetry.

Dem Times, by Jacob Roberts-Mensah
A Ghanaian-British creative, Jacob is passionate about adding value to young people’s lives. Dem Times is a young adult comedy-drama following the re-education of British-born troublemaker Samuel Adjei in a Ghanaian boarding school.

Living With The Light On, by Tom Foskett-Barnes
Based in London, Tom trained at the Royal College of Music as a UK BAFTA Scholar, gaining a masters in Composition for Screen. His work is an aural exploration of LGBT+ helpline Switchboard, founded in 1974, illuminating its multifaceted history through previously unheard voices.

New Coal, by Stacie Woolsey
Stacey is a multidisciplinary designer focusing on human behaviours and systems. New Coal is a sound piece telling the stories of three future individuals who have indirectly profited from a revolution in yields of graphene from coal.

Portable Monument, by Madeleine Stack
An artist and writer originally born in the tropics, Madeleine has performed in Brisbane and London. Portable Monument is a performative essay-poem that asks what it means to be intimate across hemispheres and time zones, as well as how intimacy is shaped by modern communications technology.

South x South East, by Belinda Zhawi
Based in London, Belinda is a Zimbabwean born writer and educator. South x South East is in response to exiled South African jazz musicians from the 50s and 60s such as Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba, and examines the journey of claiming a new place as home.

The Experiment, by Kitty Clark
Fine Art graduate Kitty lives and works in London. Her work builds on the story of the Philadelphia Experiment, where sailors reportedly fused with the walls of their ship. Her work, The Experiment, explores the human body and imagines an in-between state of object and person.

The Retoucher, by James Wreford
James studied Film and Television before moving into producing digital artworks. The Retoucher is a science fiction radio play where sound is instrumentalised in espionage, corporate interest and desire.

Wet And Dry, by Estelle Birch (pictured above)
A radio producer, writer and sound artist from London, Estelle has created a short story audio piece written from the perspective of a young child of mixed-heritage, describing her parents’ temperaments, mannerisms and habits.

Rural Media

Where Are You From? By Harry Alimo
Harry is a young spoken word artist, illustrator and filmmaker based in Birmingham. Where Are You From? explores the lives of children of immigrants that live with the duality of a homeland where they weren’t born, whilst still facing the obstacles of race they experience in the country of their birth.

An Ode To Women Who Love Women, by Jane Hearst
Jane is based in the East Midlands and predominantly works in film. Her audio piece is a feel-good sound explosion celebrating the queer women we love and the feisty female leaders we love to admire.

Boxes, by Loz Anstey
Loz is a writer and performance poet. Boxes is a thought-provoking audio piece that aims to lighten judgements and stigmas surrounding gender, sexuality and individualism.

Erasure Island, by Chrissie Hyde
Chrissie is a queer, working-class poet from Hereford. Erasure is a mix of spoken word poetry and interviews exploring bi-sexual and pansexual erasure, particularly having a queer identity in a relationship that appears to be heterosexual.

No Place Like Home, by James Cresswell
James studied an MA in Film and TV at university and enjoys making music. No Place Like Home is an atmospheric story that follows a young woman called Lucy who feels too frightened to enter her own home, conveying her thoughts through dynamic sounds.

Sound Of Play, by Luke Earle
Luke has a Masters in Writing for Performance. His work is an immersive soundscape which recreates a shared experience by all video gamers, that of the moments that precede play.

The Entity, by Luke Beardsley
Luke is an online teacher of English. The Entity follows a young man haunted in his sleep by a monster that made his mother suicidal - he confronts it through a lucid dream.

We Walk, by Georgina Elsom
Georgina is a performer, storyteller and puppeteer who enjoys creating performance for children and families. We Walk explores the stories of a millennial on a walk spanning multiple days, among the sounds conjured by the vivid landscape.

Screen South

The Day The Internet Stood Still, by Max Barrett 
Based in Canterbury, Max is a writer, director and presenter of his own podcast and studies at Canterbury Christchurch University. His piece follows a journalist as, with the internet gone for just one day, they explore the various perspectives of the generation most affected by its disappearance.

A Messy Mentality, by Anthony Mower
Anthony is a young creative writer studying at Anglia Ruskin University. His work is a series of poems taking the audience on a journey through life’s difficulties, transporting them into the moments the poems were written. This unique work allows the audience to feel the loneliness and the struggles the author experiences.

Hidden Sounds Of Essex’s Coastal Arcades, by Frazer Merrick
Frazer is a sound artist who uses field recordings and synthesis to explore the act of play. In this piece he explores the infectious energy of Walton Pier and uncovers its hidden sounds, including the people, the place and even electromagnetic fields.

Paradise Island, by Scarlett Smyth
Scarlett is a multidisciplinary artist with a love of poetry. Her work is a collage of sounds that weave time, memory and poetry together into this sound sculpture.

Tyneside Cinema

Chop Chop, by Afshan D’souza-Lodhi
Afshan is a writer focussing on plays, prose and performance pieces. Chop Chop gives a small insight into the goings-on of all-female halal butchers, where the women try their best not to uphold patriarchal traditions in a world run by men.

Bodies, by Daniel Bryden
Daniel is an electronic musician. Bodies is rooted in dance floor and club culture and considers the many meanings of the word: what it means when bodies are together, bodies in love and in friendship.

Cleopatra, by Bryony Bates
Bryony is a writer and performer. Her piece examines the natural world today, exploring through disorienting experimental sound how we can listen differently to the world around us and each other in the face of a sixth mass extinction.

Voices Of Migration, by Dani Watson
Based in Gateshead, Dani is a writer whose work centres on three individual stories of migration at a time of great political division, which while separate, are connected by a common search for home.

Waves, by Scott Brummit
Based in Grimsby, Scott is a young writer whose work explores a young man’s insomnia as it spirals out of control. He turns to the sounds of the radio as he trawls the night time waves; this piece offers an intimate exploration of teenage angst.

My Dad Writes Poems, by Alexandra McLeod
Alexandra loves audio production and has produced a podcast that explores her dad’s use of poetry to communicate with her and the rest of the family.

Ee, Well, by William Marsey
William is a musician and composer from Hartlepool. Here he explores his connection to his home in the North East through a patchwork of conversations and instrumental music.

Mind, Matter, Perspective, by Benjamin Fitzgerald
Benjamin is a musician and composer and has written three pieces of music that explore how mental health affects us and the world around us.

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