Art, in all the wrong places

A haunting monologue, a power struggle between two vastly different entities.  The speaker (a woman trapped in a toxic relationship?) reveals pain and vulnerability, shattered by constant attacks. But amidst the despair, a chilling undercurrent of defiance emerges. The speaker unveils a disturbing truth: a force to be reckoned with, a presence that has infiltrated their tormentor's very being. As...

The narrative explores the complex emotions of returning to your homeland to see, possibly for the last time, an ageing parent.  The salty air, the rocking of the ferry, all becomes sensory details that evoke the physical experience of the journey. Yet, beneath the surface lies a deeper turmoil, a haunting question about goodbyes and the fragility of life.

Shortlisted UK Radiodrama Festival 2026 More of a borderline stream-of-consciousness than a tutorial! It's called a step-by-step guide, and it promises to teach you how to carve a wooden spoon, but despite its promising beginning, the piece soon becomes something completely different, as the advice turns into personal anecdotes and unexpected digressions that touch on paranoia (and maybe even murd...

Night Radio was one of my first podcasts. Unfortunately it required the voice talent of a young girl and of a mature man with a deep voice, and I had no one to ask. But I was really keen on telling the story: a young, impressionable girl who spent her sleepless nights listening to a mature man who covered the graveyard shift on the local radio, philosophising about the world with his beautiful, de...

A comedic game show called You've Got to Be Kidding Me tests contestants' knowledge of a dystopian society's new constitution and the decrees of their Glorious Supreme President . When I created this for the Silver Sound Biannual Sonic Dash competition in January 2025, it sounded like something fun and out of this world.  By May 2025, in the US, they are talking about having people compete for a g...

This is one of the stories created for All The Best Radio 's 24 hour radio challenge, in which producers were tasked with creating audio stories from scratch in a day. I participated from Sardinia (Italy) with a story starting with a recurring dream. Here you can listen to all the entries . Photo by Quinn Korsune on Unsplash [29/11/2024]

I created this story for Small Audio Art , a community created by Phoebe McIndoe with artists and audio makers " looking for togetherness in a scattered world". The prompt was 'window'. I recount a small but poignant moment that reflects my own regret over the way I reacted in a specific moment of our collective lives. A reflection on how easily fear can distort one's perception, making us forget...

This piece was one of the 15 finalists in Audio Flux Circuit 04 . The prompt asked for a three-minute piece that referenced an object related to a first and included the sound of time passing (but not a clock). I decided to tell about the day I did something that no one in my family had ever done before me. I'd rather not tell you what so as not to spoil the narration. Featuring: strong sense of a...

The prompt was 'door'. Created for Phoebe McIndoe's Small Audio Art project "Exploring identity and belonging through the objects that make up a home. Join us every other month for community & creative prompts."  Photo by Elimende Inagella on Unsplash [09/07/2024]

Some things are lost over and over and then are found again and again. But then there are also other things. By Maria Cristina Marras for Sonic Dash June 2024  The Sonic Dash is a 48-hour audio storytelling competition held each winter and summer. With participating audio-makers from around the world, entrants must craft a completely original, from-scratch audio piece within two days of being emai...

Forget your morning latte, folks, because the city's daily dose of WTF is already brewing! Today's public service announcements veer into the delightfully deranged, leaving us scratching our heads and wondering what exactly they're putting in the water cooler at City Hall. Whether a deliberate artistic experiment or a product of a malfunctioning system remains a source of speculation. However, its...

A longing house cat dreams of returning to her old home with a garden, a lost paradise of sunlit playful hunts. In the picture is my beloved Ombra, whom I did not have the heart of forcing to endure a flight that would have lasted several days, followed by a month quarantine inside a cage.  Ombra now plays happy in a beautiful Northcote garden with her friend Tuppy the Puddle.  Created for Audio F...

A sonic reflection on the monotony of our daily routines. With a touch of irony and a hint of existential angst, I present the symphony of mundane sounds that mark the passing of our days, a never-ending loop of bodily functions and technological hums. This is our absurd, repetitive existence. Photo by bady abbas on Unsplash [15/10/2023]

This piece is a reflection on the concept of space as sound. Space understood not as a visual concept, but as an auditory one, as the connective tissue between all of the objects in the world, carried to the perimeter and to the center. A voluminous environment that emerges from an exquisite global polyphony.  This piece was inspired by Mathias Hinke's lesson 'Demonstrations and fun cultures' whic...

Audio Club is a place to meet, workshop and develop ideas through monthly audio challenges. This intriguing experiment launched by All The Best Radio , kicked off with the first challenge: create 5-7 minute pieces about anything and everything in the whole entire world. The catch? The piece had to incorporate 60 seconds of absolute, pin-drop silence .  This is how I tackled the challenge, remember...

A swirl of sounds and sensations, listening to this piece is like entering a circus. Still, instead of clowns and illusionists, you'll find: libraries, librarians mistreating innocent children, thunders, revenge, dark nights, betrayal, tax fraud (just a little bit), more thunders, Berlin in the '80s, translations, revenge, triumph, cautionary tales.  Disclaimer: no books were harmed while making t...

Winner Audionomia's best mini-headphone & Hörspielsommer Kurzhörspielwettbewerbs . Set in one of my favourite non-places, the arrivals at a railway platform, and inspired by Wisława Szymborska's poem "Dworzec" (The Railroad Station) , My non arrival is an emotional journey that explores the intricacies of human connection and the bittersweet dance of hope and detachment. In My non arrival the...

This is a story about Gigi Riva, the legendary Italian soccer player who "led the modest team of Cagliari to win the Serie A championship in the 1969-70 season."  While it portrays Riva as more than a player—a demigod whose name is whispered with reverence and his deeds immortalised—it’s ultimately a tale of childhood, wonder, memories, and a touch of mischievous revenge.  Without giving too much...

La Sposa nel Vento premiered at the Seattle Social Justice Film Festival in front of a stunned and engaged audience, receiving high praise from viewers for its powerful and emotional depiction of the topic of gender violence against women. Directed by Giovanni Coda, the film combines stunning dance moves with graphic and tragic stories to create a work of art that is both beautiful and impactful....

A tale of cultural neocolonialism . This podcast is inspired by my personal experience, as someone who grew up in Sardinia surrounded by stories and boasts about the journey of the famous English writer D.H. Lawrence, and his wife Frida through Sardinia. Lawrence visited Sardinia in 1921, after becoming bored with rainy Sicily. He spent just over a week there, during which time he wrote a book in...

Instructions on how to prepare a clay pot, before using it to cook, presented with a sexy voice. This is part of an exploration on voice that I created as assignment for the ' In the dark ' course (a course that I highly recommend, presented by the fabulous Nina Garthwaite ). Photo by Alfonso Escu on Unsplash

This is part of an exploration on voice that I created as assignment for the ' In the dark ' course (a course that I highly recommend, presented by the fabulous Nina Garthwaite ). This time I looked for actual instructions (on how to prepare a clay pot to be used) presented the same material to the tune of a song. Let's see whether you recognise which one. Photo by Alfonso Escu on Unsplash

This is part of an exploration on voice that I created as assignment for the ' In the dark ' course (a course that I highly recommend, presented by the fabulous Nina Garthwaite ). This piece consists of found sounds mixed up with my original piece. Enjoy! Photo by Alfonso Escu on Unsplash

An audio experiment created while attending Nina Garthwaite's amazing In the dark audio course . Photo by Alfonso Escu on Unsplash

What does the opposite of inspiration sound like? It's an endless litany of audio prompts delivered with horrible audio and without any sense or order. Created as Assignment #13 for Sarah Geis' Audio Playground www.audioplayground.xyz/ [02/10/2020]