Audiocraft Podcast

What are the differences between audio and print journalism? Audiocraft Executive Producer Jessica Bineth talks to Guardian writer and host Cherelle Jackson and Guardian Pacific Editor and Executive Producer Kate Lyons about the making of the Guardian's Full Story series An Impossible Choice. Full Story is the Guardian's daily podcast providing a deeper understanding to the headlines in Australia and beyond. The series An Impossible Choice spoke to Pacific Islanders who have been forced to make devastating decisions due to a climate crisis not of their making.Listen to the An Impossible Choice series hereTranscript available here

How do you create audio that makes you feel as though you're in someone's body? Host Laura Nagy, Audiocraft Senior Producer Jess Hamilton, Audiocraft Sound Engineer Adam Connelly and Composer Freya Berkhout sit down to chat all about collaborating on Audible’s Pillow Talk, a podcast memoir-documentary series detailing Laura’s personal experiences in the ASMR online community.Transcript available here

So how do you have sex? In this episode of the Audiocraft Podcast, Audiocraft producers Bernadette Nguyen and Selena Shannon chat with creator and host Rowdie Walden about developing and producing Spotify Australia and New Zealand’s first original podcast Search Engine Sex, a podcast answering the internet’s most burning sex and relationship questions.Transcript available here

How do you ensure the best outcome for everyone when talking about mental health distress? In this episode of the Audiocraft Podcast, Audiocraft producer Sam Loy talks to Beyond Blue’s Darcy Sutton and Sarah Alexander about the making of award-winning podcast Not Alone, a podcast hosted by Mark Fennell where everyday Australians talk about their mental health journey to help you with yours. Transcript available here

This bonus episode of the Audiocraft Podcast is the Mic on Nature soundscape, collected by Audiocraft attendees all around the world and edited together by the team behind the Brain on Nature podcast.To hear more about the sounds you hear, and about the making of Brain on Nature, listen to Episode 11: Mic on Nature. This episode is pure soundscape, so you can revisit it anytime.Transcript available here

At Audiocraft 2020 we asked you to turn your microphones on the world around you. What we heard back from around the world were city-scapes, chicken clucks, cat meows, rain and footsteps, tui calls and animal grunts. Olivia Rosenman and Sarah Allely (Brain on Nature) took these sounds and turned them into a communal soundscape, sharing where we all were on July 25 2020. In this episode Olivia and Sarah tell Jess O’Callaghan about the making of their podcast Brain on Nature, why their collaboration works, and crafting your soundscape. Transcript available here

One of the breakout independent podcasts of 2020, Birds Eye View is a collaboration between women in the Darwin Correctional Centre and StoryProjects. In this episode, Renae ‘Rocket’ Bretherton and Johanna Bell reflect on the process of making this podcast together, and how they navigated the boundaries of creative collaboration along the way.Transcript available here

Five audio makers give provocations on the theme ‘risk’; what risk sounds like, how it feels to take it, how we make room for taking risk in our storytelling. Who defines what’s ‘risky’ or ‘safe’, in an audio story, a career, an industry? After listening to Pat Abboud (ABC / JCAF), Sarah Dingle (ABC), Marlee Silva (Tiddas 4 Tiddas / Always was, always will be our stories), Jessica Hamilton (Slaughterhouse Road) and Renay Richardson (Broccoli Content), you won’t think about risk in the same way again.Transcript available here

Some stories have sound at their core. A stand-out example of this is BBC eco-thriller Forest 404, where bird calls haunt the mind of the protagonist and archival sounds are wiped from living memory one-by-one. How can we centre sound in our writing and production? In this episode writer Timothy X Atack and director Becky Ripley tell you how they went about creating this very special sonic world.Transcript available here