Audiocraft Podcast

We make stories for the ear, but there’s no escaping the highly visual nature of the work we produce.

No other medium allows its audience to see as imaginatively, as privately, and as sensitively, as audio. But how do we go about accessing this visual capacity of audio? Sophie Townsend shares tips for using narration to allow our audience to see what they’re hearing.

This episode is shared with us by our friends at Third Coast International Audio Festival. It was recorded at the 2018 Third Coast Conference. Listen to the Third Coast Pocket Conference podcast for more, and find a transcript here.

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Two moments are colliding: An oppressive politics of hate and repression, and a boom in narrative storytelling. So how do we use one to confront the other? Chenjerai Kumanyika and Sandhya Dirks offer techniques to explode traditional narratives.

This episode is shared with us by our friends at Third Coast International Audio Festival. It was recorded at the 2018 Third Coast Conference. Listen to the Third Coast Pocket Conference podcast for more, and find a transcript here.

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There’s a wall between our ideas, dreams and desires and the real world: our body. Meat is a podcast about our bodies and the lives we live because of them. Experience Jonathan Zenti’s masterful storytelling and hear about the creative process behind the project, full of audio experimentation and buoyed by international collaboration. 

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In the Arrogant Aunt episodes of the Sisteria podcast, guests answer questions ‘with authority they just don’t have’—an exercise in defeating imposter syndrome in all of us. In this Audiocraft edition, Sisteria’s Stephanie Van Schilt, along with Shantel Wetherall (Hey Aunty!) and Christina Choi (Spotify, NYC) take your questions about creativity, motivation and mastering that pod/life balance, by reflecting on their own podcast practice.

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Spotify’s Sound Up Bootcamp worked with ten First Nations storytellers to develop their podcasts, taking the seed of an idea and shaping it into a reality. Important stories about climate disaster, sex, history and frontier warriors. Steve Bunbadgee Hodder Watt, Nicole Hutton, Boe Spearim and Rowdie Walden then received a grant to continue development, and in this session they share how their idea is growing and changing and present their work. Moderated by Lorena Allam (Guardian Australia).

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Four Audiocraft attendees pitch their projects live to a panel of experts from PodcastOne, ABC and Spotify and get on the spot feedback on their idea. Listening to this session, you’ll learn what it takes to deliver a clear pitch that cuts through the noise and gets noticed.

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You’re out in the field and your carefully laid plan is blown to bits. You’re all alone, sweating hard, with no story to show for it. How can you embrace the chaos and make the very best story possible? Avery Trufelman (99% Invisible) shares the story of a time it all went wrong and what she did next.

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In both fiction and non-fiction podcasts, the possibilities of world-building through sound are endless. How can you use sound to evoke a fleshed-out sonic universe that your characters can inhabit and change in? And how can you turn organic sounds and landscape into characters themselves? Four expert world-builders – Bec Fary, Chris Magilton, Joseph Michael and Becky Sui Zhen share how they think about sound and space.

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If you’re sitting on a podcast idea and unsure about how to dip your toe in the water, go under the hood with the team who dive-bombed right into it. Erin Kyan and Lee Davis Thalbourne take us through the creative process and planning that goes into making Love and Luck, Australia's first queer audio drama. You can see their slides here: http://bit.ly/AudiocraftLNLSlides

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