Stories of Sound

Rikke Houd is a Danish radio maker working in the field of crafted audio storytelling and documentary art. After completing an MA in Radio at Goldsmiths College in 1998, she worked for the Danish Montage Group and and has worked with sound and storytelling since – in radio and podcasts, theatre, exhibitions, and in collaboration with other artforms and fields. Rikke has produced work in Danish, Sw...

John York is a British audiobook narrator and voice actor best known for his work on the audio erotica platform "Quinn". As well as narrating over three hundred audiobook titles, John also hosts the entertainment podcast "The Unsinkable Ship'. In his free time, you'll often find him livestreaming with his Patreon community or sharing way too much information at his local countryside pub. – – – Sto...

JJJJJerome Ellis is a disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist, surfer, and person who stutters. Through music, performance, writing, video, and photography, Ellis asks what stuttering can teach us about listening, generosity, and justice. Ellis researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. Their debut album, The Clearing  (2021), won the 2022 Ann...

Nanna Hauge Kristensen is an audio producer and anthropologist based in Copenhagen. Her audio pieces move in the intersection of art, anthropology and documentary, and have won several international awards, including the Third Coast International Audio Award for Best Foreign Documentary, and the Grand Prix Marulic Documentary. She loves listening and exploring human life through sound. She says, ‘...

Julie Shapiro is a career listener, audio champion, and creative consultant. She co-founded Audio Flux in 2023 with John DeLore. She has worked as Executive Producer at Canadaland, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and PRX’s Radiotopia, and she is currently working on a narrative podcast about pancreatic cancer. In 2000, she co-founded the Third Coast International Audio Festival, where as...

George the Poet is a London-born spoken word performer of Ugandan heritage. His innovative brand of musical poetry has won him critical acclaim both as a recording artist and social commentator and seen his work broadcast to billions of people worldwide. In 2019, his audio offering ‘Have You Heard George’s Podcast?’ won a prestigious Peabody Award and 5 Gold British Podcast Awards, including the h...

Davia Nelson is half of The Kitchen Sisters, along with Nikki Silva. They have been producing radio stories since the late 1970s. They are the producers of two Peabody Award-winning NPR series,  Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project , as well as the series Hidden Kitchens on NPR's Morning Edition and The Hidden World of Girls , hosted by Tina Fey. Their first book,  Hidden Kitchens...

Stories of Sound is an audio series that delves into sound arts and audio storytelling , offering listeners a window into the creative processes, challenges, and inspirations of artists, authors and theorists who tell stories through sound. Audio documentaries, radio dramas, interviews, soundscapes, narration, auto-fiction, sound installations, archival material, sound design, radio, podcasting, a...

Tamar Avishai is an art historian turned finance administrator turned independent radio producer. She worked for years as an art history instructor and an adjunct lecturer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In each episode of her podcast The Lonely Palette , she focuses on one object – a painting, a sculpture, an installation, a very special urinal – and tells its story, exploring the artwork, th...

Axel Kacoutié  is an audio artist and poet who's been crafting sound, music, and words to challenge the familiar and revive a magic in the mundane. Recent collaborations include those with Falling Tree Productions, Shade Podcast, Somerset House, and many more. Previously the Creative Director of Sound at the Guardian, their work has featured on BBC airwaves, Spotify, and in physical spaces such as...

Rick Moody is the author of numerous novels, collections of short fiction, two memoirs, and a book of essays. His debut novel,  Garden State , was the winner of the 1991 Editor’s Choice Award from the Pushcart Press.  The Ice Storm  (1994) was published in twenty countries and adapted into a film directed by Ang Lee in 1997. Other novels include  Hotels of North America ;  The Four Fingers of Deat...

Jazmine 'JT' Green is an audio documentarian by trade and artist by practice. She is the founder of Molten Heart, a creative and commercial studio focused on the texture of sound. She writes and produces electronic music as CMD+JAZMINE. Her works have been featured in places such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Mass MoCA, 99% Invisible, and Pop Up Magazine. Her interests revolve around...

Siobhan McHugh  is a leading podcast studies scholar and multi-award-winning narrative podcast producer. She is also a documentary-maker, oral historian, writer, journalism academic, podcast critic and podcasting consultant. Her book,  The Power of Podcasting – Telling Stories Through Sound  (2022) is an insider’s guide to how narrative podcasts are made and a love letter to audio storytellers old...

Nick van der Kolk is the creator of the podcast Love + Radio . Love + Radio has been produced since 2005, making it the longest running narrative podcast in history. In 2011, it became the first podcast to win the top prize at the Third Coast Festival Competition, and would go on to win three more Third Coast Festival awards. The Love + Radio episode “The Living Room” was the basis for the Academy...

Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist, and sound ecologist. She performs, writes, and presents soundscape workshops and lectures internationally. Westerkamp was born in Osnabrück, Germany, and emigrated to Canada in 1968. Her compositions have been performed and broadcast in many parts of the world. Some of her pieces appear in Gus van Sant’s films “Elephant” and “Last Days.” In 1993, s...

Eleanor McDowall is co-director of Falling Tree Productions, which makes a host of award-winning podcasts and radio features including BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts, of which Eleanor is the series producer.  Her documentary work has received several awards, including a Prix Europa and a Third Coast: Best Documentary award. Eleanor also runs Radio Atlas, an English-language home for subtitled audio from...

Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand-born American composer. Her compositions range from sound art and environmental sound installations to concert music. During the 1960s, Lockwood created works such as the Glass Concerts, and the Piano Transplants series, in which defunct pianos were burned, drowned, beached, and planted. Water has been a recurring focus of her work and her three installation sound m...

Stories of Sound is an audio series that delves into sound arts and audio storytelling , offering listeners a window into the creative processes, challenges, and inspirations of artists, authors and theorists who tell stories through sound. Audio documentaries, radio dramas, interviews, soundscapes, narration, auto-fiction, sound installations, archival material, sound design, radio, podcasting, a...