International Audio Arts Festival
April 4th-7th 2019
Kilfinane, Co. Limerick, Ireland
HearSay
Think
HearSay2019 provides space to Think deeply about sound. Varied in their approaches and subject matter, join a selection of HearSay contributors as they explore intriguing topics of their choice.
An intimate and powerful auditory experience specifically designed for HearSay by two of the most interesting people working in audio today. Compassionate and challenging, this piece is engaged with by one person at a time.
By appointment only (issued prior to the festival). Come to the HearSay Welcome Point at the time of your appointment for direction.
Date & Time : Secret Time
Venue: Secret Location
Kaitlin Prest (Canada)
Audio Artist, Host and creative director of "The Heart" (Radiotopia).Prix Italia, Overall Winner HearSay Audio Prize 2014
Sharon Mashihi (USA)
Screenwriter and editorial advisor on Radiotopia's "The Heart"
Between You
and the
Bathroom Mirror
In Darkness, (De)light
A weaving of story, theatre, willful narrators and inspiring surprises.
Give yourself over to sumptuous sounds and distilled reflection in a live performance that combines audio with adventure.
Date & Time : to be announced
Venue: Old Church
Diarmuid McIntyre (IRE)
& Friends
PPI, New York Festival,
and AIBs Gold Winners, Prix Europa Nominees
Ballyhoura CCÉ (IRE)
Since their founding in 204, CCE Ballyhoura has driven a renewal of traditional music & dance in the Kilfinane area with over 150 actiive musicians
A Session is a group of traditional musicians/singers playing together.
Explore the six pubs and drop in on one or catch all the scehduled sessions of rich local music.
Take a breather, grab a coffee or grab a pint & setttle in.
Date & Time : to be announced
Venue: to be announced
OPEN TO ALL
The HearSay
Session Trail
Rachel Humphreys (UK)
A freelance producer, currently working on The Guardian's Today in Focus podcast.
There is one common trait among all successful audio creators: empathy. Makers can be empathetic towards themselves (and their own vision), empathetic towards their subject, or they can be empathetic towards their audience. Empathy can also be a dangerous thing
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Sound of My Secrets - The producer of “Losing Yourself” and “Crying Dry Tears” explores why personal stories can be so compelling in audio, and what you risk by sharing them.
(45 Minutes)
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Sound of My Secrets
From workshops, to master-classes, to giving and receiving "notes" with collaborators, much of the artistic process teaches us how to make clean, generic works. How can we make art without all of the edges sanded off? When is following the rules effective? How do we know which rules to break?
We can find the answers by breaking open genre, medium, and form, and taking a hard look at what we're trying to achieve.
(45 Minutes)
When: TBD
Venue: TBD
Dylan Gauche (Canada) Winner of the 2017 HearSay Audio Prize Rising Award in 2017. Writer, performer, and audio artist.
AIR (USA)
New Voices Alum and independent producer Ariana Martinez, Martina Castro, Anthony Martinez, Kavita Pillay and Kyle Norris.
Why Experiment?
TBD
The Unintended Consequences of Empathy
Robin Parmar (Ireland)
The artist who explores the poetics of place through sound installations, musical compositions, experimental video.
We live in The Anthropocene, an epoch marked by human influence on species decline and climate change. As a field recordist, I wonder how historical approaches to nature have been complicit with these changes.
This talk will present a sound recording no-one was meant to hear, the first bird to hit the Top Ten, and other curiosities. By listening to the past, can we change our future?
(45 Minutes)
When: TBD
Venue: TBD
It feels like we're living in a golden age of audio. Never before have there been so many storytelling styles, subjects and genres of programmes: linear radio, interactive narratives, podcasts of every conceivable flavour...and everything in between. Yet it feels sometimes like the audio community is more boxed-up than ever.
"American" vs "European" narrative style... "dusty old dinosaurs" of linear radio vs the sexy new world of the podcast...light-footed solo freelances vs hoary monolithic institutions vs glossy podcast networks.
When: TBD
Venue: TBD
Steven Rajam (UK)
A documentary maker, the Creative Director of Overcoat Media based in Cardiff. Winner Prix Italia, Grand Prix Marulic & The EBU Ake Blomstrom Award
Be More Magpie!
Living the Anthropocene: Rethinking Sound and Nature
With nearly 200 alumni spanning the past decade, AIR’s New Voices Scholarship has brought bold, fresh talent to public media and audio storytelling. AIR will gather a selected group of New Voices alumni spanning the generations of the scholarship for a conversation.
How do you navigate the changing industry while focusing on the power of underrepresented narratives? What have you adjusted about your creative practice to protect your own mental wellbeing?
The networking opportunity will provide producers with the chance to mingle, forge new collaborations, or catch up with existing connections
When : TBD
Venue: TBD
Andrea Rangecroft (UK)
Co-producer of Sound Matters podcast,"True Story" Award Winner HearSay Audio Prize 2017
A Roundtable on Representation and Creativity
About a month ago Benjamen caught a jingle from a Canadian commercial radio station. It went something like this: Audio content that can't stop being radio, or maybe it was can't help being radio. This triggered something that has been gnawing at him for a while about podcasting, radio and formats and freedom.
When: TBD
Venue: TBD
Benjamen Walker (USA)
An independent radio producer and host of the podcast Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything, a founding member of the Radiotopia network.
When Everything Is Possible...
“Jan is in Orpington. Jan, what would you like to say?”
Every day in Britain, hundreds of people pick up the phone and call a radio station. Their voices fill the air waves for millions of listeners, but is there an art to broadcasting this humble format?
Former talk radio producer and radio phone-in fan Rachel Humphreys shares stories and explores the history of the call-in.
(45 Minutes)
When: TBD
Venue: TBD
Memory, personal story and truth
Why do we tell our stories, and can we tell them truthfully? What do we gain and what do we lose in the telling of our tales, and what is a truth once it's told anyway?
(1 hour & 15 Minutes)
When: TBD
Venue: TBD
The Art of the Radio Phone-In
Sophie Townsend (Australia)
A senior producer at Radio National in Australia. Winner of the 2015 Gold Create Prize.
Eric Nuzum (USA)
Senior Vice President of Original Content Development at Audible, ex-VP of programming at NPR
In Praise of Hanging Out
Part sermon, part confessional, part love letter... with tape. Radio Diaries producer Joe Richman investigates how we convey feeling in sound. Those moments when voice, scene, plot, and luck converge to create stories we feel in our bodies.
(1 hour & 15 Minutes)
When: TBD
Venue: TBD
Joe Richman (USA)
The founder and executive producer of Radio Diaries, a Peabody Award-winning public radio series and podcast.
FESTIVAL PASSES
You MUST have a HearSay19 "Immerse" or "Engage" pass to attend (nearly) all the events in the Think, Deepen, Converse and Celebrate Strands & many events in the Encounter & Experience Strands.
For Events marked "Discover-OPEN TO ALL" a "Discover" Pass will be available (without charge) from the Welcome desk.
Ibby Caputo (USA)
An award-winning journalist, essayist, audio producer and editor
Peregrine Andrews (UK)
Sound designer, mixer and radio producer.
Geoff Marsh (UK)
science writer and radio producer from London
Sound of Sport
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Venue: TBD
