In October 2024, the Radiophonic Institute partnered with Margate Radio to deliver a live broadcast that brought the sounds of Margate into focus. Eight locations were chosen for their sonic footprint and importance to the town. They were all captured at the same time – at 1pm on a Friday afternoon. The recordings were played back simultaneously the following week with the public invited to mix their own soundscape. This was followed by an improvised performance by Moon Zero and Melinda Bronstein who remixed the original recordings. This podcast features excerpts from both versions of the piece, which will be preceded by an interview with Margate Radio’s Paul Camo and Tim Garratt.

Location sounds by Chris Cholmondeley, Jack Goldstein, Clementine Blue, Melinda Bronstein, Chase Coley, Tim Garratt, Paul Camo and Buddy Peace. Location images by Ilia Rogatchevski.

Produced by Ilia Rogatchevski for the Radiophonic Institute.

Listen to Margate Radio: https://margateradio.co.uk

Listen to the Travel Agency version: https://li.sten.to/rtamargateatone

Tracklist:

Interview with Paul Camo and Tim Garratt

Margate At 1 (excerpt)

Margate At 1.5 - Moon Zero ft Melinda Bronstein (excerpt)

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Taking place in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Highland Clearances saw people from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland forced from their homes, with whole communities having to seek opportunities elsewhere. These events were sometimes violent and led to famine, displacement and mass emigration.

The Scottish writer and campaigner Kenneth Murray, along with the dramaturg Kirsty Housley, produced a script for a Radiophonic Travel Agency episode that explored this period in history through the prism of a fictional sound journey. The award-winning composer Ella Kay produced the sound design based on their script.

Travelling through time, we hear Scotland from the 1700s to the present day from the perspectives of different characters. With sounds ranging from blacksmiths and farm animals to waulking songs and Gaelic psalms, this episode allows anyone from across the world to visit Scotland before and after the Highland Clearances.

The journey is preceded by interviews with Murray and Kay, where we discuss their respective creative practices and approaches to this unusual time-travelling brief.

Dramaturg - Kirsty Housley

Writer - Kenneth Murray

Sound Design - Ella Kay

The recording “Wool Waulking Display at the inaugural Outlander Day at Highland Folk Museum” (Newtonmore, 2015) appears courtesy of Steve McLeish and Outlandish Journeys. “Gaelic psalms at Back Free Church” (Isle Of Lewis, 2003) was produced by

Calum Martin and appears courtesy of Leum Music. Samples of dialogue are derived from “The Western Isles” (1941, dir. Terence Egan Bishop) and appear courtesy of the British Council film archive under a CC BY-NC 3.0 licence. Images courtesy of The MacKinnon Collection at the National Library of Scotland and David Brooks at Unsplash.

Co-produced by Ilia Rogatchevski and Louis Gillespie for the Radiophonic Institute.

Tracklist:

Calum Martin - Gaelic psalms at Back Free Church, Isle Of Lewis

Interview with Kenneth Murray

Steve McLeish - Wool Waulking Display at the inaugural Outlander Day at Highland Folk Museum

Interview with Ella Kay

Fictional Sound Journey, Scotland Before & After The Highland Clearances

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Join us as we explore sounds that encapsulate 2023 with the Sound Of The Year Awards.

We speak with the judges Jez Riley French, Kate Carr, Rana Eid and Will René about “nature” and sound preservation, the ethics of field recording, sound as a political act, and the poetry of imagined sounds. The interviews are followed by a sound collage composed from this years’ entries, featuring recordings submitted from across the world. If you’d like to revisit any of the sounds, head over to soundoftheyearawards.com where you can listen to them in their entirety, read about their wider context and check out submissions from previous editions of the awards.

Produced by Ilia Rogatchevski for the Radiophonic Institute.

Track list:

Archipelagos - Charles Van Kirk

Todmorden Market - Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School, Hepworth Class (Y5)

Croydon, South London - Ark Oval - Year 2

Community Sounds - Alkis Karagiannis-Avar and Melia Karagianni-Avar

The Disorderly Harmony Orchestra - Yoichi Kamimura

Landschaftspark Rheinbogen (City Park) - The Musikschule Monheim am Rhein

The 1st grade class (1°U) of the Primary School "Livio Tempesta" in Quattro Castella (RE), Italy

Left Ear / Right Ear - Lola de la Mata

Primary School of Volakas - Year 3 and Year 5

R9A Arrowhead - Jake Mehew

The Grain of the Voice - Jake Parry

Eastanbul - Alp Tuğan

Harmonics’ Lettrism - Cateri Muro (read by Laura Michelle Smith)

Amazon river dolphins hunting - Jana Irmert

Voice of the Morteratsch Glacier - Ludwig Berger

Weddellscape - Finbarr Dillon

Surreal Ice Sounds at Medicine Lake - Kelly Rafuse

Tree Hyrax in Mt Kenya - Martha Mutiso

Port Jackson Shark Egg - Vicki Hallett

Co-existing with sound via hearing aids - Geo Aghinea

Left Ear / Right Ear - Lola de la Mata

Subsonic blast waves from military training activities - John Grzinich

Listening Desk - Emily Peasgood

The sound of biodiversity disappearing from London's freshwater ponds - Emily Peasgood

Aural Prespa - Alexandros Hadjitimotheou

The Disorderly Harmony Orchestra - Yoichi Kamimura

Eagle's Cry Amidst Danger - Jakub Orzęcki

Free Palestine Protest - Cosmin Sandu

A wild Feast in Maasai Mara Game Reserve - Martha Mutiso

A sound to stop all wars - Claire Dunn (read by Laura Michelle Smith)

Message to Homeland - danil repin

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