Audio producer Lucy Dearlove has issued a call for submissions to an edition of In The Dark Radio she is curating for XMTR Festival in St Leonards-on-Sea in September. XMTR will be celebrating sonic storytelling as part of the wider Sono-Electro Sound Arts Festival, taking place 17th-29th September at Electro Studios in St Leonards.

The brief:

Terroir. From the French word meaning earth or soil, terroir is a term traditionally used in gastronomy to define and explain how the environmental factors in a wine’s provenance affects its taste. But couldn’t every single thing that is grown or produced for us to eat be affected by its own terroir?

This edition of In The Dark, part of XMTR and Sono Electro, considers the understanding of terroir and how it might more broadly apply to our wider food systems, particularly in an era of climate crisis, declining soil health and food insecurity. Curated by Lucy Dearlove, an award-winning food podcaster and writer based in St Leonards, the evening will bring together a series of thought-provoking audio pieces exploring how local ecology affects what we grow and eat.

If you know of any work fitting this bill either by you or someone else, please email dearloveaudio [at] gmail [dot] com for consideration for the programme. Find Lucy’s full post here.

Find tickets for XTMR (including to the In The Dark slot) here.