Devonstream

04/11/2023

In case you missed it, listen again to Devonstream Discoveries with Mitty James. Including exclusive session performances from north Devon’s Charlie Hewlett and Exeter’s Sideways, recorded at the wonderful On Track Audio studios in .

Devonstream Discoveries, a sonic tapestry of new music by artists from across Devon. Presented by Mitty James, the programme features music from new and established artists. We’ll also share the best of our live Devonstream Sessions, celebrating Devon’s young up-and-coming talent. This episode i...

06/09/2023

Devonstream Discoveries showcases new music from Devon artists with live recordings of up-and-coming artists aged 18–25

25/08/2023

25/08/2023

A gig in your living room (or car, or gym…) at 7pm!

We present Devonstream Discoveries with Mitty James: over an hour of new music from Devon, including two live sessions; an exclusive first play from Sofia Aira; and music from NayLee Stevens, The Legendary Ten Seconds, Saff Juno, Josh DC & The Anti-Heroes and more…

The programme can be streamed from 7pm, just head to https://devon.stream (link in our profile), or ask Alexa to ‘open Devonstream’. You’ll be able to hear it on demand on the website afterwards, too.

If you make music of any genre in Devon, we’d love to hear from you. To upload your music for inclusion in future episodes of Devonstream Discoveries, head to https://devon.stream/discoveries for all the details. We look forward to hearing and sharing your work!

This programme is supported by Youth Music thanks to funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery.

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Devonstream is a not-for-profit online station celebrating audio culture in Devon, south-west England. The station features an eclectic rolling playlist of new and established music, stories, poetry, podcasts and soundscapes. Everything we play has a connection to the county.

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Video description: Light blue hand-drawn illustrations of various musical instruments animated on a dark blue gradient background. The Devonstream Discoveries logo is overlaid in vivid orange. The caption in white text reads “Devon’s new music showcase. New episode tonight, 7pm. Listen live and listen again to previous episodes at devon.stream.”

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03/07/2023

⭐️Opportunity for Devon musicans aged 18–25
📻Record a session for broadcast on Devonstream
💷Receive a £200 grant to support your participation and future career

Devonstream is offering eight Devon-based artists aged 18-25, of any genre, opportunities to record sessions in professional studios. The session recordings will be shared in Devonstream’s new programme, Devonstream Discoveries. To support artists’ participation and their future careers, there’s also a £200 grant.

Session recordings will take place across Devon throughout the summer/autumn. Go to https://devon.stream/sessions for all the details. Good luck!

These opportunities are supported by Youth Music thanks to funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery.

03/07/2023

📻A new music show for Devon artists…

We present Devonstream Discoveries, a sonic tapestry of new music by artists from across Devon.

Devonstream Discoveries will feature music from new and established artists. We’ll also share the best of our live Devonstream Sessions, celebrating Devon’s young up-and-coming talent.

If you make music of any genre in Devon, we’d love to hear from you. To upload your music for inclusion in Devonstream Discoveries, head to https://devon.stream/discoveries (link in profile) for all the details. We look forward to hearing and sharing your work!

Launching on 28 July, the programme can be heard through our website, through various apps, and by asking Alexa to ‘open Devonstream’.

This programme is supported by Youth Music thanks to funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery

11/06/2022

🎧 🕘 Listen at 9pm every day this week…

Art Week Exeter (produced by ) is back, from 6–12 June 2022. Hear new and archive material from Exeter sound artists at 9pm on Devonstream, every evening during the week.

Tonight at 9pm: ‘An Evening Symphony, with Barbed Wire: Freedom, Farming, Blackbirds’, the third and final movement of the sound walk conducted by Emma Welton and Volkhardt Müller (). Part of Art Week Exeter and Dream Festival 2022.

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Devonstream exists to help share the work of the county’s creatives. Upload your own music, poetry, prose, podcasts and soundscapes – just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.

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Image description: A man and a woman face away from the camera, towards a hedge with bright green leaves. They are cupping her ears, as if to listen closely. Graphics of stickers have been overlaid towards the top of the image, one showing the acronym ‘awe’ (for Art Week Exeter), the other showing the word ’new’. (Image credit: Gem Smith, Take-A-Part.)

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11/06/2022

New to Devonstream: ‘Take Me Tonight’ by The Horizons (The Horizons]).

The band say: “It’s the debut single from Plymouth-based band The Horizons. Recorded at Cube Recording Studio () in Cornwall, this track is a moody love song that builds to an epic conclusion to reflect the build of a new relationship.”

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Devonstream exists to help share the work of the county’s creatives. Upload your own music, poetry, prose, podcasts and soundscapes – just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.

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Image description: ‘Take Me Tonight’ single cover artwork, featuring a hand-drawn image of a hand on a solid black background, with the letters of the words ‘Take Me Tonight’ in different fonts, as if individually cut from magazines, suspended by threads from the fingertips.

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The Horizons]: And here it is, our single artwork! We can't wait for the 15th for you guys to hear it!!

10/06/2022

🎧 🕘 Listen at 9pm every day this week…

Art Week Exeter (produced by ) is back, from 6–12 June 2022. Hear new and archive material from local artists at 9pm on Devonstream, every evening during the week.

Tonight at 9pm: stories from the ‘Past Present Future’ run from Exeter Community Centre () in 2013. It contains the voices and views of people who grew up and lived in the St David’s ward of Exeter, plus those who are currently residing and working there. These programmes were directed by artist Laura Denning ().

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Devonstream exists to help share the work of the county’s creatives. Upload your own music, poetry, prose, podcasts and soundscapes – just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.

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Image description: A photograph of Exeter Community Centre, an old red brick building with a pavement and road outside. There a brightly coloured flowers growing in hanging baskets outside the building. The entrance to the building is painted white and the door is open. Further along the road beyond the entrance is an old red telephone box. A graphic featuring Art Week Exeters’ ‘awe’ logo in the style of a sticker is placed on the bottom-right of the photo.

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09/06/2022

🎧 🕘 Listen at 9pm every day this week…

Art Week Exeter (produced by ) is back, from 6–12 June 2022. Hear new and archive material from Exeter sound artists at 9pm on Devonstream, every evening during the week.

Tonight at 9pm: ‘An Evening Symphony, with Barbed Wire: Holloway, Midden, Gorse’, the second of three newly-recorded sound walks around Exeter, by artists Emma Welton and Volkhardt Müller (). Part of Art Week Exeter and Dream Festival 2022.

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Devonstream exists to help share the work of the county’s creatives. Upload your own music, poetry, prose, podcasts and soundscapes – just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.

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Image description: A man and a woman face away from the camera, towards a hedge with bright green leaves. They are cupping her ears, as if to listen closely. Graphics of stickers have been overlaid towards the top of the image, one showing the acronym ‘awe’ (for Art Week Exeter), the other showing the word ’new’. (Image credit: Gem Smith, Take-A-Part.)

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08/06/2022

🎧 🕘 Listen at 9pm every day this week…

Art Week Exeter (produced by ) is back, from 6–12 June 2022. Hear new and archive material from Exeter sound artists at 9pm on Devonstream, every evening during the week.

Tonight at 9pm we go back to 2018, when Art Week Exeter hosted a Longplayer listening post in St Martin’s church on Cathedral Green.

Longplayer is a 1000-year-long musical composition by Jem Finer. Alongside the listening post, Art Week Exeter commissioned a new musical composition inspired by Longplayer (and borrowing some of its mathematics), called Shortplayer IV.

In this programme, Exeter-based composers Emma Welton and Simon Belshaw talk to Phonic FM’s Jez Winship about developing Shortplayer IV; the piece is performed in full; then Jem Finer can be heard in conversation with Devon-based sound artist and radio-maker Alice Armstrong.

This project was produced for Art Week Exeter 2018 with support from University of Exeter Arts & Culture.

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Devonstream exists to help share the work of the county’s creatives. Upload your own music, poetry, prose, podcasts and soundscapes – just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.

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Image description: A diagrammatic illustration of Longplayer’s mathematical score, with several concentric circles, each featuring thick and thin areas, different shapes and colour highlights indicating differing types of sound. Art Week Exeter’s ‘awe’ logo is included in a magenta-coloured graphic of a sticker, overlaid on the top-left corner of the artwork.

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07/06/2022

🎧 🕘 Listen at 9pm every day this week…

Art Week Exeter (produced by ) is back, from 6–12 June 2022. Hear new and archive material from Exeter sound artists at 9pm on Devonstream, every evening during the week.

Tonight at 9pm: ’The Sea in Me’, by Anne-Marie Culhane ().

Anne-Marie writes: “I wanted to explore The Sea Around Us, the inspirational book by Rachel Carson, in the context of contemporary activism, science and the arts and immerse listeners in the watery world of the oceans.”

Read more at https://tidelines.uk/notebook/

The Sea in Me was originally produced for Occupy the Airwaves, a day of programming curated by Dreadnought South West on Phonic FM, Exeter’s community radio station, for International Women’s Day 2021. Anne-Marie is an alumnus of our Audio Academy training course. This will be the first airing of The Sea in Me on Devonstream.

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Devonstream exists to help share the work of the county’s creatives. Upload your own music, poetry, prose, podcasts and soundscapes – just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.

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Image description: An aerial photo of the beach at Orcombe Point, Exmouth, Devon, UK. The blue-grey sea gently laps the thin sandy beach from the left; to the right there are craggy red cliffs with green vegetation on top. A small number of walkers appear as tiny dots in the picture, casting long shadows in the low sunlight. The Art Week Exeter ‘awe’ logo appears on the graphic of a sticker, overlaid on the top-left corner of the image. (Image credit: .zeppelin via @ unsplash.)

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06/06/2022

🎧 🕘 Listen at 9pm every day this week…

Art Week Exeter (produced by ) is back, from 6–12 June 2022. Hear new and archive material from Exeter sound artists at 9pm on Devonstream, every evening during the week.

Tonight at 9pm: ‘An Evening Symphony, with Barbed Wire’, the first of three newly-recorded sound walks around Exeter, by artists Emma Welton and Volkhard Müller.

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Devonstream exists to help share the work of the county’s creatives. Upload your own music, poetry, prose, podcasts and soundscapes – just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.

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Image description: A man and a woman face away from the camera, towards a hedge with bright green leaves. They are cupping her ears, as if to listen closely. Graphics of stickers have been overlaid on the bottom-left corner of the image, one showing the acronym ‘AWE’ (for Art Week Exeter), the other showing the word ’new’. (Image credit: Gem Smith, Take-A-Part.)

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15/05/2022

New to Devonstream: ‘Shame’ by Fable (ғᴀʙʟᴇ]).

Shame is the fourth single from the upcoming debut album of Devon born singer-songwriter, Fable. Having toured with rock legends The Cult, and performed twice at Glastonbury Festival, Fable took some time out after a personal tragedy, but has returned with her quirky brand of genre bending pop. (Thanks to Chris Hawkins] for bringing this one to our attention!)

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Devonstream exists to help share the work of the county’s creatives. Upload your own music, poetry, prose, podcasts and soundscapes – just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.

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Image description: ‘Shame’ single cover artwork, featuring a photo of a shiny gold sheet pulled tight across Fable’s face and torso, against a darker gold-coloured background.

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ғᴀʙʟᴇ]: A huge thankyou to Chris Hawkins] for premiering SHAME on his show this morning! So good to hear it on the radio! Also big up the brilliant and for this lavly bit of art work, which involved being stuck inside a giant gold cloth, hours of fun! All the gratitude, have a great day everyone x

01/05/2022

New to Devonstream: ‘Moulding Heaven With Earth’ by Abrasive Trees (Abrasive Trees]). The band’s Matthew Rochford says: “Moulding Heaven With Earth is, in part, about how we try to line everything up perfectly in our lives – and how this never quite works. But it’s also about some deeper truths about our potential as human beings. It was produced by Lucy Board and Matthew Board from shoegaze/dream pop band Pale Blue Eyes ().”

‘Moulding Heaven With Earth’ is available now on Bandcamp and streaming services.

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Devonstream exists to help share the work of the county’s creatives. Upload your own music, poetry, prose, podcasts and soundscapes – just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.

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Image description: ‘Moulding Heaven With Earth’ cover artwork, featuring a grainy photo of a blue-grey sky with blurred silhouettes just creeping into shot in the bottom-right corner. Abrasive Trees’ logo and the title of the single are in black type to the top-left.

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24/04/2022

New to Devonstream: ‘Broken-Feathered Bird’ by Katherine Olver (Kate Olver]). Katherine says: “I wrote this in 2021, when I was living with my boyfriend in a flat in Plymouth. It wasn’t supposed to be a collaboration but it turns out he’s pretty good with lyrics. I was born in Plymouth, where this song was written, and I'm very lucky to have ‘grown up’ on the edge of Dartmoor. I've since been been stolen away by a Cornishman and now raise my young baby in Cornwall. My heart lives in Cornwall but my soul will always belong to Deb’n.”

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Devonstream exists to help share the work of the county’s creatives. Upload your own music, poetry, prose, podcasts and soundscapes – just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.

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Image description: Still from an IGTV video showing a close-cropped image of Katherine playing guitar and singing.

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Kate Olver]: “I made a song I did, called Broken-Feathered Bird. Inspired by my love of the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence… or was it…?”

24/04/2022

New to Devonstream: ‘Idkwhyidkwhere’ by Region (Region]). They’ve a new EP on the way and they’ll be playing at the Cathedral Sounds () indie rock night in Exeter on Tuesday 3 May.

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Devonstream exists to help share the work of the county’s creatives. Upload your own music, poetry, prose, podcasts and soundscapes – just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.

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Image description: Black-and-white photograph of an energetic live performance, with a guitarist in a checked suit in the foreground and a drummer in the background.

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13/04/2022

New to Devonstream: All I See by Away with Wolves. Away with Wolves is a alternative/indie Folk project based in Exeter, Devon by Ben Norcombe.
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You can listen to more here - https://awaywithwolves.bandcamp.com/track/something-new
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Devonstream exists to share the work of the counties creatives with that ‘ripe and ready world’. Upload your own music, poetry, prose podcasts and soundscapes - Just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.
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12/04/2022

New to Devonstream: Music Machine 26 and 28 by Exeter artist .

“Music Machine 28 was originally intended for live performance using a solo wind instrument and computer. The first program displays the note to play, how long to play it for and then how long to wait before playing the next note. The second program plays prerecorded sound files. This version is adapted for string quartet; each performer is given only one instruction to play a particular note for a certain length of time. The notes are from an 8 bar chord progression, the only time you hear a chord played as one is at the end of the piece. Performed by Julie Hill (violin & viola) and Hilary Boxer ('cello)”

“Music Machine 26 consists of a slow, sustained chord progression played by the quartet. The progression is played three times. During the first play through a computer records a number of clips of varying lengths. In the following two repeats of the progression the computer plays back those clips over the live quartet at random times. Performed by Julie Hill (violin & viola) and Hilary Boxer ('cello)”
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You can listen to more here: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/eQu852odnvAZmm9n7
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Devonstream exists to share the work of the counties creatives with that ‘ripe and ready world’. Upload your own music, poetry, prose podcasts and soundscapes - Just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.
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08/04/2022

Recently added to Devonstream: .autydawemusic is a Devon artist who has contributed some fantastic audio in the past. Her newest track ‘Vanilla’ is now on Devonstream!
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You can listen to more here : https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/F8bVgJ2qfL4Lz3Jb7
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Devonstream exists to share the work of the counties creatives with that ‘ripe and ready world’. Upload your own music, poetry, prose podcasts and soundscapes - Just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.
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07/04/2022

Last week we joined other members of the for a day of great talks from radio professionals held at with lots of interesting and new concepts for future projects on Devonstream. Do you recognise anyone?
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06/04/2022

New to Devonstream: INFECTED SENSES is the, DIY, electronic production & experimental project for Kev Winser aka DJ Louie Louie. Not afraid of pop nor the avant garde. He is also the co-founder and promoter of 'Music Is Murder' in Exeter, UK and currently working on an MA in Sound Design/Sound Art.
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You can listen to more here:
https://infectedsenses.bandcamp.com/album/band-camp-friday-ep
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Devonstream exists to share the work of the counties creatives with that ‘ripe and ready world’. Upload your own music, poetry, prose podcasts and soundscapes - Just head to https://devon.stream and click ‘upload’ to get started.
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11/03/2022

⏳ Just a couple of in-person places left (with plenty of space online)…

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🎓 Announcing new dates for our radio and podcast production training course!

If you’re interested in creating radio features, podcasts or audio guides (for Devonstream or elsewhere), we can point you in the right direction.

Over six Thursday evenings you’ll learn to plan, record and edit your own features. Join our expert tutors (from BBC, commercial radio and podcasting) in-person in Exeter, or online from wherever you are.

Dates: Thursday evenings, 24 March–28 April 2022 (six weeks), 18:30–21:00 (two-and-a-half hours, with break)

Location: in-person , The Quay, Exeter; or online.

Prices: £245 in-person; £220 online. Proceeds support Devonstream.

Find out more and book online at https://devon.stream/academy (or follow the link on our profile and click ‘Academy’).

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Video description: various fast-cut, close-up clips of people editing audio on a laptop computer; putting on headphones; recording audio on a smartphone; connecting a cable to a handheld recording device; and speaking into different types of microphone. Overlaid, text reads ‘Audio Academy: Learn to plan, record and edit your own radio features and podcasts in this expert-led six week course’, alongside the Devonstream and Generator Hub logos.

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31/01/2022

⏳ Last day for early bird prices…

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🎓 Announcing new dates for our radio and podcast production training course, with early bird pricing until 31 January!

If you’re interested in creating radio features or podcasts (for Devonstream or elsewhere), we can point you in the right direction.

Over six Thursday evenings you’ll learn to plan, record and edit your own radio features and podcasts. Join our expert tutors in-person in Exeter, or online from wherever you are.

Dates: Thursday evenings, 24 March–28 April 2022 (six weeks), 18:30–21:00 (two-and-a-half hours, with break)

Location: in-person , The Quay, Exeter; or online.

Early bird prices: £220 in-person; £195 online until 31 January 2021 (rising to £245 in-person; £220 online on 1 February 2022). Proceeds support Devonstream.

Find out more and book online at https://devon.stream/academy (or follow the link on our profile and click ‘Academy’).

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Video description: various fast-cut, close-up clips of people editing audio on a laptop computer; putting on headphones; recording audio on a smartphone; connecting a cable to a handheld recording device; and speaking into different types of microphone. Overlaid, text reads ‘Audio Academy: Learn to plan, record and edit your own radio features and podcasts in this expert-led six week course’, alongside the Devonstream and Generator Hub logos.

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24/01/2022

⏳ Early bird prices for just one more week…

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🎓 Announcing new dates for our radio and podcast production training course, with early bird pricing until 31 January!

If you’re interested in creating radio features or podcasts (for Devonstream or elsewhere), we can point you in the right direction.

Over six Thursday evenings you’ll learn to plan, record and edit your own radio features and podcasts. Join our expert tutors in-person in Exeter, or online from wherever you are.

Dates: Thursday evenings, 24 March–28 April 2022 (six weeks), 18:30–21:00 (two-and-a-half hours, with break)

Location: in-person , The Quay, Exeter; or online.

Early bird prices: £220 in-person; £195 online until 31 January 2021 (rising to £245 in-person; £220 online on 1 February 2022). Proceeds support Devonstream.

Find out more and book online at https://devon.stream/academy (or follow the link on our profile).

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Video description: various fast-cut, close-up clips of people editing audio on a laptop computer; putting on headphones; recording audio on a smartphone; connecting a cable to a handheld recording device; and speaking into different types of microphone. Overlaid, text reads ‘Audio Academy: Learn to plan, record and edit your own radio features and podcasts in this expert-led six week course’, alongside the Devonstream and Generator Hub logos.

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26/12/2021

Did you get a smartspeaker for Christmas? Just say “Alexa, open Devonstream” to connect with the sounds of the county…

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Image description: A graphic with white text reading “Alexa, open Devonstream” surrounded by a blue ring (suggestive of the ring of blue lights on an Amazon Echo device), on a dark grey background.

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23/12/2021

Your sounds of Devon, #2: A tributary stream of the East Okement south of Okehampton, 21 November 2021.

Share _your_ sounds of Devon on Devonstream. It’s easy to get involved:

1. Capture a sound clip – between 30 seconds and a minute should be enough – you can use the voice notes app on your phone, or record directly into Instagram, Messenger or WhatsApp.

2. Share your sound clip with us – email [email protected], send it to us () on Instagram or Facebook, or WhatsApp us on 07400 920950.

3. Tell us a bit about the clip: who you are; when and where you recorded it; what the sound means to you. Maybe even share a photo of the place where you captured the audio.

Sounds can be so much more evocative than pictures, so next time you take out your phone to grab a selfie, why not capture some audio too?

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Video description: A still image of a small fast-flowing stream cascading over rocks in a wooded valley on the edge of Dartmoor. Tree trunks and exposed rocks are covered in moss; the ground is covered with fallen leaves in autumn tones of yellow and brown, with small green ferns peeping through. The image is overlaid with an animated soundwave that responds to the audio in the clip. The audio contains the sound of the water in the stream cascading over the rocks.

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