Tending Transmissions

📡 Broadcast from rtm.fm and live from Turf, 46-47 Trinity Court, Whitgift Centre, Croydon CR0 1UQ

Tending Transmissions is a radio interruption, aiming to help the listener tune into the more-than-human sounds of Croydon. Audio interventions from Turf’s latest exhibition: Tending, draw sonic attention to reflecting, dreaming and resting to the listener. Over 3 days, artists interrupt the echoes of urban spaces and invite you to listen, live or online. Take a moment to put down your shopping bags and pay attention to the unheard beings that occupy the airwaves.

Credits

Collaged, Mixed and Mastered by Laura Selby

Including tracks:

Mangrove Transmission by Meera Shakti Osbourne

Production by MSO, Bok Bok

Bass guitar by Coby Sey

Vocals by MSO, Coby Sey, Hania Mariam Luthufi

Field recordings and spoken words by Priya Jay, Mayun Kaluthantri

*Coby Sey playing a cover of When There Is No Sun by Sun Ra

Munjac Mixtapes by Becky Lyon

Corinne Fowler, Author of Green and Pleasant Land

Hasfah Hafeji, Sustainably Muslim

Sheree Mack, Founder of Earth Sea Love

Phil Young, Founder of Opening Up The Outdoors

Kate Ashworth, Open Spaces Society

Dr. Sadiah Quereshi, Author

Christina Odoreko, Ubele Foundation

Dr. Shahmima Akhtar, Historian

Daniel Rea, architect at Periscope

Yael Roberts, artist and educator

Hair Byles, Community Gardener and founder of Compost Mentis

Dr. Sarah Royston, Senior Research Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute

Dr. Alex Rhys-Taylor, Urban sociologist

Shathuki Perera, Naturalist

London-based, Community Gardener

Founder of a black-led environmental science group

Inside Lina’s Mind by Lina Ivanova

Production by Lina Ivanova

Sound Engineered by Krasimira Butseva

Including attendees of Lina’s workshop Sat 7th March 2026:

Torrell Douglas

Eve Milsom

Bella Galliano-Hale

Lara Phasey

Liudmila Gorchakova

Kay Miss

Marina Ivanova

Nina Trivedi + Family

Clare

Harry

Microcosmos Last Light Call by Laura Selby

Credits for Microcosmos + Last Light Call:

Instrumentalists/ Performers

Laura Selby – Violin

Andra East – Cello

Mandy Selby – Cello

JP Guerrier – Electronic Synth

Elena Shkvarkina – Wind Flutes

Key More Than Human Performers: Sphagnum Moss, Foxglove, Acid Grass, Oak Tree, Wandle Pond and Stump

Field recordings collected from: The Wilderness, The River Wandle, Coombe Woods, The Croydon Flyover and Tram

ARTIST INFO

Lina Ivanova is a Bulgarian artist and teacher based in London. Driven by an investigation into the materiality of photography, her approach to practice is multidisciplinary, experimental and process-led. Drawing analogies between photography and sculpture, Lina’s work is informed by personal histories, social structures, and lived experiences, and reflects on archival and educational processes. Often site-specific in nature, her installations aim to foster a dialogue with local communities, creating a space for reflection and collaboration. Lina graduated with a BA in Photography from the University of Portsmouth in 2015, co-founded Revolv Collective in 2017, and won the Turner Contemporary Portfolio Prize in 2018. Her work has been exhibited by institutions such as the RPS, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, and Peckham 24. Since 2023, Turf Projects has supported Lina’s practice through several community project commissions in and around Croydon, marking a significant step in the evolution of her work toward a more socially engaged practice.

Becky Lyon is an English-Jamaican artist and researcher from Croydon. She explores the politics of ecology, particularly in England, and the role of art as a method for practicing more equitable and flourishing worlds. She is interested in sensory and bodily knowledges as a way of reclaiming our relationship to place and is currently researching for her PhD, “Touch as method for critical ecological stewardship in England: a hands-on artist-led intervention” at Goldsmiths University of London. Her work takes the form of tactile objects, sensory installations, hand-made moving images, audio experiments and publications. She runs Ground Provisions, a ‘schooled-by-the-forest’ for adults and The Department of Artecology, an experiment space for transdisciplinary conversations in the conservation sector. She is a Volunteer Ranger for London National Park City and a member of the All The Elements network.

Meera Shakti Osborne is a multi-media artist and youth worker from London. Meera’s work explores landscapes as sites of reckoning and renewal, exploring the subject of apocalypses and utopias that sit side by side each other. Meera supports a free Palestine and a free Sudan. They support self-determination and believe another world is possible. They are currently working inside archives focused on community safety at Metroland Cultures in North West London. Meera has worked with Whitechapel Gallery, Stuart Hall Library/iniva, Turf Projects, SYSTEMA, Southbank Centre, Reprezent FM, Queercircle, Peckham Platform, Peer Gallery, Newbridge Project, Nottingham Contemporary, Glasgow Zine Library, The Gap Arts Project, Focal Point Gallery, Drawing Room and they are a visiting lecturer at UAL.

Laura Selby is a Croydon based interdisciplinary artist, sonic experience designer and researcher. Fascinated in revealing hidden perspectives and narratives through sonification, from mycelium, moss, concrete to microbe. Her methodologies include extended field recordings, participatory workshops, performance and sculpture to create deeper, empathetic connections. Selby works at the intersection of sound, science, and community, incorporating scientific techniques and emerging sonic machine-learning tools to elevate non-human perspectives and spark critical dialogue. Laura’s crafted workshops engage communities and expand both personal and collective ways of listening – sharing in research-led encounters that inspire discussion and connection. These have produced outcomes such as her Extended Listening workshops developed in Epping Forest and Omved Gardens alongside Mushroom Community Garden design with The South London Urban Growers (The Remakery). Most recently, creating The Listening Garden, a workshop and installation for the V&A (Feb 2025). Selby’s work has been exhibited in shows and festivals across the UK and Europe, including Ars Electronica 2024 (Linz), the V&A, Digital Design Weekend 2023 (London), Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam), Truman Brewery (London), IRCAM Forum – Centre Pompidou (Paris), E20 Lab Regenerative Fashion Hub (London), The Design Museum (London), Old Street Gallery in partnership with LG (London). Performances include Sonic Contamination at Omved Gardens 2024 and the Tate Modern Lates event April 2024, June 2023 (London), Shirley Dawn at IKLECTIK Art Lab (London) and art film: More Than Concrete at Lewisham Home Film Festival (London).