In The Dark: Surveillance

 Derick Armah + Ivan d'Avoine  (UK 2021)

!VAN · 'Surveillance'

9 min

This audio essay is a young Black man’s observations on hyper-visibility in one of the most surveilled cities in the world.

Produced and written by Derick Armah and Ivan d'Avoine for 'The Hidden Part' on Short Cuts BBC Radio 4.

Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark

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In The Dark - Di Major

D Peterschmidt  (US 2020)

D Peterschmidt · Di major

5 min

An abstract take on the traditional public radio two-way format, D explores the relevance of names.

Produced by D Peterschmidt as part of Union Doc’s “Augmented Audio Realities”

Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark

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In The Dark: So Good So Milo

Ben James (US 2022)

10min

Mac and Claudia lived with their parrot Milo for 25 years. The bird talked and whistled to them all day. Then, one day last spring…

Produced by Ben James. 
Original music composed and performed by Evan Arntzen.

Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark

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In The Dark: The Brown Student’s Fear

Salman Ahad Khan (US 2021)

4 min

This was a story produced in 24 hours for the 2021 KCRW Radio Race and features three delightful perspectives on bidets. 

Produced and narrated by Salman Ahad Khan

Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark

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In The Dark: Static Winter - 83 and The Visitation

Pete Hazell  (UK 2021)

10 min

Somewhere in a remote outpost, amongst foul weather and radio static, a lone operator scans the bleak signals and reports his findings to HQ.

But why isn't HQ responding?

Is something trying to visit the outpost?

And Who's Leonard?

Improvised and sound designed by Pete Hazell 

Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark

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In The Dark: Lithium Mania

Alice Boyd + Laura Grace Simpkins  (UK 2021)

5 min

Laura was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed lithium. Here she recounts the beginning of a troubled new relationship with a mysterious drug.

Co-Produced by Laura Grace Simpkins & Alice Boyd
Written and narrated by Laura Grace Simpkins
Music and Sound by Alice Boyd

Commissioned by the Wellcome Collection

Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark

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In The Dark - Penguin Dive

Hanna Brühwiler (DE 2021)

5 min

What is life like for a penguin? 

Put on your headphones and lose yourself as this composition takes you underwater to answer that question. 

Composed by Hanna Brühwiler using recordings from The Berlin Museum of Science’s Data Portal. 

The piece was made as part of the competition “Music Hackathon: Your Ocean Sound”. 

Selected as part of a new producers listening event be In The Dark

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Soundworlds: Town Is By The Sea

Anna Rheingans / Joanne Schwartz / Patrick Eakin Young (CA/UK 2022)

19 min

An audio picture book conjuring impressions from a childhood spent in the coastal mining communities of Nova Scotia. We follow Davey as he describes his daily routine: from waking up with the sea sparkling outside his window, to playing with his friends, buying groceries for his mother, and visiting his grandfather’s grave. Throughout the day, his thoughts keep returning to his father, working in the coal mines deep beneath the town.

Soundworlds is not just a podcast. It’s an audio stage for diverse stories told in extraordinary ways. It’s a place for an exciting new form of audio drama that we call sonic theatre. Created by musicians, writers, theatre-makers and sound artists, sonic theatre pieces are more than radio plays. They’re immersive sound worlds, intoxicating blends of music and storytelling, sound design, documentary and fiction.

Directed by Patrick Eakin Young
Music composed and performed by Anna Rheingans
Sound design and mixing: Ross Flight
Text by Joanne Schwartz, adapted from her 2017 book with illustrator Sydney Smith

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The Balloon

Talia Augustidis (UK 2022)

T · The Balloon

5 min

Balloons are usually about celebration, yet this one represents so much more. This subtle and touching piece takes the listener into a deeply personal moment.

Producer: Talia Augustidis

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Transformation Through Repetition

James T. Green (US 2022)

4 min

What is a home when objects are not present? Jemma Rose Brown meditates on the routines and loops that invisibly cement the identity of a brand new place.

Producer: James T Green
Made for Earlid

Selected by guest curator: Laura Marina Boria - An independent audio producer based between Texas and Puerto Rico with an interest in stories about our relationship with places, sound or gender.

“Transformation Through Repetition is a piece about inhabiting a new place and the routines that make a place ours. I like the expanded use of loops to show the thoughts and movements of the narrator, Jemma Rose Brown. It is playful and meta."

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