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