International Audio Arts Festival
April 4th-7th 2019
Kilfinane, Co. Limerick, Ireland
HearSay
HearSay Audio Prize Winners 2019
Johanna Fricke is an audio documentary storyteller, oral historian and social-anthropologist. She is based in Leipzig and works for public radio as a freelance author/producer.
Listen to Das Lied der Salatschleuder (A Salad Spinner's Song) HERE.
GERMANY
After 158 entries from 28 countries we are thrilled to announce the HearSay Audio Prize 2019 Winners featuring entries of new work and existing work via two separate streams, CREATE (new work created for the HearSay Prize 2019) and CELEBRATE (exisiting work reimagined for HearSay). All entries to both streams were also eligible for SPECIAL CATEGORY AWARDS.
The prize winning audio works were presented at a very special HearSay Prize 2019 ceremony at the festival on Friday 5th April 2019.
You can now experience the 8 winning pieces yourself below.
CREATE - Gold Award Overall Award for work created especially for the HearSay Prize 2019
AND CREATE - GanBéarla Award For new work in a language other than English
Das Lied der Salatschleuder (A Salad Spinner's Song)
by Johanna Fricke
CELEBRATE - Gold Award Overall Award for pre-existing/re-imagined work
Last Requests
by Hannah Dean
Hannah Dean is a freelance radio producer based in London UK. She has recently produced features for broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Listen to Last Requests HERE.
UK
CELEBRATE - GanBéarla Award For pre-existing/re-imagined work in a language other than English
Helene
by Joyce de Badts & Wederik de Backer
Joyce de Badts (pictured) started making audioworks for the first time just three years ago. Wederik De Backer makes audio fiction, radio documentaries and podcasts.
Read more about Joyce at www.joycedebadts.com and Wederick at www.deziekesteur.be.
RISING AWARD For those in full time education and/or under 21yrs
Summer is Gone
by Ping Zhao
Ping Zhao is a Chinese student studying in the UK. She majors in Ethnographic and Documentary film in UCL. A radio documentary course opened up a new world of audio for Ping. She hopes to continue making creative audio in the future.
Listen to Summer is Gone HERE.
CHINA
STORY AWARD
A Simple Act
by Helene Thomas
Helene Thomas' passion is crafting people’s stories into beautiful audio experiences. She has been producing audio features and documentaries for ABC Radio National for over ten years. Read more about Helene on her wesbite www.thewayfinder.com.au and on SoundCloud www.soundcloud.com/kusikiliza.
Listen to A Simple Act HERE. Listener discretion is advised due to the sensitive nature of the piece's theme.
AUSTRALIA
RADIO / SOUND ART AWARD
Amy Hanley is a Melbourne based sound artist whose practice considers relations of space, bodies, technology and contemporary ecologies. Engaging forms of performance, installation, and collaboration, Hanley’s work often explores gender, sexuality and queer expression/s. Read more about Amy at www.amyhanley.org.
Listen to Sirmadamsir: Oriented Performativity HERE.
AUSTRALIA
Sirmadamsir: Oriented Performativity
by Amy Hanley
FICTION AWARD
ROW-Cub
by Neena Pathak
Neena Pathak is an audio producer based in NYC. She currently produces the Still Processing podcast at The New York Times.
USA
BALLYHOURA AWARD Created by a producer normally resident in Ireland
Fence, River, Driúillín
by Ultan O'Brien
Ultan O’Brien is a fiddle player and violist active in the worlds of performance, composition, and education. Ultan began learning the fiddle at a young age from a variety of musicians in county Clare. He is currently completing an M.Phil in composition in Trinity College, Dublin.
Listen to Fence, River, Driúillín HERE.
SPECIAL CATEGORY AWARDS Selected from all entries submitted to CREATE / CELEBRATE
