Future Artefacts FM

In this episode we welcome our first guest presenter,  Ariane Koek , to discuss Niamh Schmidtke’s work-in-progress,  The diamond’s less sexy sister . Somewhere between a radio essay and a voicenote, the 5 minute piece explores human relations to minerals, specifically with graphite. Combining scripted and organic conversation, prose and academic information, the audio slips in and out of...

For this special episode we are thrilled to share Sienna Rackall’s 11 minute audio, Before the Now. Sienna’s work was developed with us over the past 4 months after being selected from worldbuilding workshops for young people (13-18) led by Future Artefacts through HVH arts in August 2022. Sienna’s work centres on the distant planet, Minerva’s, spoilt queen, Audrea, who doesn’t understand why her...

Bioturbation; Or, The Humiliation of HuMan by WRMS In this episode we welcome Jon K Shaw to discuss his work Bioturbation; Or, The Humiliation of Human by WRMS, a 13 minute sound work. Digging through layers of jazz, poetry, news reports and Jon’s own voice, worms are the central character, an essential creature in the process of making soil, and sustaining life on earth. Together w...

For this episode artist Yuli Serfaty shares their new work, ‘Picnic Zone’ with Future Artefacts FM. Introduced by the voice of Golem, a character from Jewish folklore, this 15 minute soundscape presents an alternate present where surveillance technology has mutated with   the   Yatir Forest. Set at the edge of the Israeli desert and the West Bank,...

In this episode, Mary Hurrell shares and discusses her eleven-minute piece Avalanche Candy, a sonic choreography which explores the idea of falling. Guided by the vibrational and embodied quality of the work, we discuss audio as a way to communicate emotional and physical knowledge and intelligence. Collaging text, synthesised voice and field recordings, Hurrell explores notions of gravity wi...

This month we listen to Erica Scourti’s twelve-minute piece "Nea Oneira", or New Dreams in English. Considering the role of Lauren Berlant’s cruel optimism – when a desired future becomes an obstacle to your present – Scourti’s work dissects the dreams presented by Greek tourism and East London property developments. Fragments of audio collage Greek and English; property advertisements from London...

For this episode, Akinsola Lawanson shares their work Bosode, a 12 minute audio narrative, which follows the tale of Bosode, a girl who is transported to the spirit world and sent on a quest. Combining deities, Orumila and Eshu, from Ifa religion with binary mathematics, Lawanson’s influences of Nollywood horror and early 2000s game aesthetics reveal Yoruba culture outside of contemporary binaries...

​In this episode, our co-host Nina Davies gets into the artist’s seat, sharing her work ‘Bionic Step’, a ​twelve-minute ​fictional conversation with an academic whose research explores techno-faith, a new form of spirituality which attempts to understand human’s changing relationship with technology. In the episode Nina and Niamh discuss how this fictional dance called Bionic Step acts as a future...

In the fifth episode, alongside Nikolai Azariah, we share and discuss his work ‘Visions in the Crucible’, a twelve-minute audio narrative. By following the protagonist through an alternate world in which people become crystallised in salt, Azariah invites us to consider the multiple interpretations of salt. Made in tandem with his real-life observations of salt as a material, the work blends the s...

For our fourth episode, Future Artefacts FM presents MH Sarkis’ work ‘Endoplexed’, a sixteen minute soundscape. Collaging audio snippets from Blade Runner to classical piano, we hear a conversation about a spider laying an egg in the middle of her web, soon after the egg hatches, 100s of baby spiders and released and consume their mother. The brutally brief description of motherhood sets the tone...

This month, Future Artefacts FM features Rebeca Romero’s piece ‘The New Worshipers (El Peregrinaje)’, a thirteen-minute audio work. Using tone, pacing and hypnotic sound loops as tools, the work lures the listener into Romero’s world. We follow the protagonist’s journey as they partake in a mysterious ritual. The work evokes a sense of liminality, transitioning the boundaries between humans and th...

Ep. 2 Walkie-Talkie to the Waves Episode two featured Niamh Schmidtke’s work ‘Walkie Talkie to the waves’, a two-act radio play set in the Irish Sea. Placed in a near future, the dialogue plays with what a Green New Deal might look and feel like in the UK, the Republic and Northern Ireland. Acted across committee meetings and the sea, voiced by parliaments, water and pirates, these conversations s...

Ep. 1 Beyond the Virus Our first episode featured Nina Davies’ piece ‘Beyond the Virus: Past, Present and Future of Zombie Communities with Jamie Lewis’, a fictional podcast which imagines a future in which pockets of communities might communicate through non-verbal languages. This post-pandemic world questions how our interactions with one another will change through mediated online content shari...