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Three children care for their mother as her words start to fall away.
By Aurélia Balboni (2015)
‘My Mother’s Words’ (‘Les Mots de Ma Mère’) tells the everyday life of a woman who loses her words. By her side, her three children, each in their own way, watch over her, set the tempo and organise her daily life. To move her out of the house she has lived in for 40 years would break her down. She carries inside her layers of a story, of a territory. Her house, the barn, the little river, the trees are the last landmarks of a space which shrinks a little more everyday.
This feature won the 2016 ‘Archives de la parole’ Phonurgia Nova prize and received a Special Commendation at the Prix Europa in 2015.
Aurélia Balboni is an author, editor and producer of radio documentaries and fictions. She also teaches radio documentary in Belgium (IAD – Institut des Arts de Diffusion). She founded Cineke in 2014 to conduct workshops and produce films and radios with a group of independent authors – Sonia Ringoot, Nicolas François, Pascale Brischoux, Celia Dessardo. Her latest documentary “Brothers”, was co-directed with Nicolas François.
‘My Mother’s Words’ features the voices of Françoise Gibert, Florence and Raphaël Balboni, Ismaël Gomih and Laurence Courtois.
Editing: Mathieu Haessler, Christophe Rault, Aurélia Balboni.
Sound editing: Philippe Charbonnel
With the support of the radio creation support fund of the Wallonia-Brussels federation and the « Du côté des ondes » programme fund of the RTBF.
In co-production and with the help of the creative radio workshop and Cinétroupe asbl
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A grandfather and granddaughter explore a silence in their family history.
By Max-Lena Vanden Eynde (2022)
Max-Lena Vanden Eynde’s grandfather grew up in a family of fifteen children. In 1940, the two eldest sons – Pol and Louis – were called up as reserve recruits. Only one of the two brothers returned home after the war. Any clue to Louis is lost. Together with the third son – her grandfather – Max-Lena goes looking for him. Since his disappearance, the family has been silent. His name is not spoken, nor the grief surrounding it.
Nominated for the IFC AudioDocs 2022
Credits:
Max-Lena Vanden Eynde: researcher, interviewer, editor
Brecht Mertens: music composer
Wederik De Backer: editor-in-chief
Simon Kremar: mixer
Pieter Serrien and Geert Lecompte: historical researchers
Max-Lena Vanden Eynde is a radio documentary maker. She works as a maker and editor-in-chief for the production house The Podcast Planet. You can follow her work on her personal Instagram as well as The Podcast Planet.
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A homage to the Giallo film genre, set within the True Crime podcasting scene.
By Ross Sutherland for Imaginary Advice (2022)
Story by Ross Sutherland
Translated by Cristina Marras (cristinamarras.com)
Performed by Cristina Marras and Ross Sutherland Additional voice acting by Andrea de’Cesco, Gianfranco Bitti, Fausta Laddomada
Original music by Jeremy Warmsley (jeremywarmsley.com)
Produced by Ross Sutherland
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For further listening on a similar theme, listen to Cristina’s story “Games We Play in the Dark”: https://soundcloud.com/kommunic8/explorations-on-darkness-1-games-we-play-in-the-dark
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An audio feature for the animal world
By Saška Rakef, Tina Kozin, Bojana Šaljić Podešva, Matjaž Miklič and Pia Brezavšcek (2021)
Plunge into the sonic landscape of the jackal, as they stalk around a human settlement. Listen as voices from the Anthropocene emerge from busted radios, talking into the night.
Directed by Saška Rakef
Script by Saška Rakef and Tina Kozin
Music by Bojana Šaljić Podešva
Sound Design by Matjaž Miklič
Dramaturgy by Pia Brezavšček
Field recording, ambience and effects by Matjaž Miklič and Martin Florjančič
Expert collaborator: Petra Veber
Thanks to Sebastijan Lamut, MSc; Miha Krofl, ScD and Tomaž Grušovnik, PhD
Produced by RTV Slovenia, Radio Slovenia, Program Ars and Društvo Za Umetnost Avgus, Ljubljana
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A vision from beneath the waves
By Caroline Sascha Cogez (2021)
Winner of the Københavns Radiobiograf Shortdox 2021
With Andreas Skovby Hansen
Interview, edit and sound design by Caroline Sascha Cogez
For a longer Danish version of Andreas’ story click here.
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An elderly couple tumble into a dialogue with the frogs in their pond.
By Ruben Nachtergaele and Eva De Groote (2021)
For ‘City of Fables’ six people were scouted in the city of Bruges, each of them with a remarkable story about an encounter with an animal. These interviews were the starting point for six pieces in which the animals get a voice of their own throughout each episode. In Celtic and other animistic traditions, an encounter with an animal is never without meaning. Ruben Nachtergaele and Eva De Groote used this as a ‘red thread’ throughout the episodes. Subsequently connecting to the wisdom and playfulness brought by a running deer, a dead fox, a love bird, a bee and a bunch of frogs. The animals get the final say. This is the second episode of the podcast: ‘Heralds of Rain’.
‘Heralds of Rain’ won the FearLess Audio prize at HearSay International Sound Arts Festival 2021 in Ireland and was nominated at finalist at Third Coast International Audio Festival 2021.
City of Fables was realised with the support of Concertgebouw Brugge and KAAP
Eva De Groote: interview, script, text, voice
Ruben Nachtergaele: editing, bruitage, fieldrecording, music
Special thanks to Herman, Jacqueline and Sara Prové for their frog story
After training as an architect Ruben Nachtergaele took on several shapes as a sound artist and musician. As a composer and performer of electro-acoustical music, Ruben has collaborated with several live arts companies such as C.R.E.W. , Stevie Wishart, Ultima Thule and Tuning People. A recent solo performance is the audio ritual ‘Dust to Dust’.
Eva De Groote is a writer and audiomaker. Together with Ruben Nachtergaele she forms Audiobrewery Selkie, creating sound works in the form of podcasts and audio-experiences. In ‘Eardoor’ people living in the same street were portrayed, it turned out they had more in common than presumed. In ‘City of Fables’ remarkable encounters between people and animals are revealed.
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Two lives intersect at a country’s edge.
By Sigita Vegytė for LRT (2021)
In the summer of 2021, dozens, and later hundreds, of people started illegally crossing the Lithuanian border from Belarus every day. As a result, Lithuania reinforced its border protection, building a metal fence and a barbed-wire barrier and assigning troops to help the border guards.
Lithuania and the European Union say that this is a “hybrid attack” orchestrated by the Minsk regime, which has taken advantage of the desire of thousands of people to reach Western Europe and have a safer and better life there.
This is the story of two people – one guarding the border, the other crossing it illegally – and the circumstances that have led to the intersection of their lives.
I Remember His Look: The Story of a Soldier and a Migrant won the Gold Award for Best Documentary at Third Coast International Audio Festival (2023) and was presented at IFC Audiodocs 2022
Produced by Sigita Vegytė.
Editors Vaida Pilibaitytė and Adomas Zubė.
English translation by Ieva Žvinakytė
Sigita Vegytė is a Lithuanian radio journalist and documentary producer. She has worked as a news reporter and produced and presented programmes on foreign affairs and science for the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT. In 2019 she joined an award-winning team producing radio documentaries for LRT RADIJAS.
To hear more work (with subtitles) from LRT visit their website here.
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Radio as a lifeline, a trembling nerve, to the rest of the world.
By Christina B. Kjeldsen (2020)
A seemingly quiet existence makes far-reaching connections across the airwaves. Winner of the Københavns Radiobiograf Shortdox 2020
Click here for more of Christina’s work
Arne’s HAM-radio name: OZ7MA
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A musical evocation of landscape, language and tender attention to the ground beneath your feet.
By Nyokabi Kariũki (2021)
“In December 2020, my family and I were able to visit my Cũcũ (Grandmother) in her home in Githũnguri, Kenya. We walked around the farm — just as we always do when we visit — but this time, I found myself paying more attention: to the ground, to our languages of Kiswahili and Kikuyu; to the trees and fruit. It felt like the things around us were silently teaching me.”
Nyokabi Kariũki (b. 1998) is a Kenyan composer based between Kenya and the US. Her sound is ever-evolving, ranging from classical contemporary/experimental music to film, sound art, and (East) African musical traditions. She performs as a pianist, vocalist, and on instruments from the African continent – particularly the mbira and djembe. Nyokabi’s works have been seen at events around the globe, including the Hearsay International Audio Festival, where ‘A Walk Through My Cũcũ’s Farm’ received the 2021 Hearsay ‘Art’ Award; and her concert music has been regularly sought after, with commissions from the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Men’s Ensemble, to performances by Chromic, Third Coast Percussion, and more. Nyokabi continues to explore music and its impact in different ways, ultimately driven by a yearning to explore sound as a tool to not only re-discover the stories of her culture, but also to highlight its significance, and contribute to the preservation of African stories.
Listen to Nyokabi Kariũki’s music – and an extended version of this piece – on her Bandcamp and learn more about her work on her website.
