artist talks
emCeeing at True/False Film Festival | MISSOURI ST. LOUIS | Photo credit: Stephanie Sidoti
REALISTIC AUDIO FICTION + MAGICAL DOCUMENTARY making
How do we break way from the formulas and truly surprise an audience? How can we bring audio storytelling to the level of art? Discussing innovations within podcasting and outside of podcasting. Discussing radio play Movies In Your Head, performance work, installations and sound walks, I illuminate pathways into creating experiences that stay with listeners for life.
NEW YORK | Sarah Lawrence College | 2015 | Skidmore College | 2017
COPENHAGEN | Podcast Days Europe | 2018
BROOKLYN | Union Docs | 2018
TORONTO | U of T & Northwestern University | 2021
And many hours of one on one coaching with production companies and creators.
CREATING EXPERIMENTAL WORK WITH LEGACY INSTITUTIONS
WNYC | WERK IT CONFERENCE | BROOKLYN CBC’s Senior director of audio innovation + I discuss our business relationship. We both get very honest about the rewards and the challenges of an artist and an exec’s collaboration, from both sides of the mic.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER | 2018
THIRD COAST INTERNATIONAL AUDIO FESTIVAL | CHICAGO
Every year at what radio makers call “the Oscars of radio” they select one creator to address the 1000+ radio journalists and artists in the final session of the awards ceremony and conference. Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, Audie Cornish and in the turbulent year of 2018….me (!!!) (???) (!!!)
With the help of a brilliant public speaker and friend Roxanne Zalucky, I had the opportunity to share my 5 favorite things: pieces of work that have inspired me.
My Art friends. (Jess Grossman, Mitra Kaboli, Sharon Mashihi, Phoebe Wang and Brendan Baker).
Wong Kar Wai’s HAPPY TOGETHER
bell hooks: every singe thing she ever wrote.
The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcolm
The Taxi Driver (a real taxi driver…who had an important message)
INTIMACY, REALISM AND PERFORMANCE
STRUER, DENMARK | “THE CITY OF SOUND”NORDIC PODCAST FESTIVAL 2022
With Heather Li of “It’s Nice to Hear You”.
QUEER FEMINIST DOCUMENTARY AT THE DAWN OF PODCASTING
NYU | 2015
Not sure how feminist it is to say this but: I have often struggled wondering if I’m hot. I use the words “conventionally attractive”, “magazine hot”, as a way of separating the people who fit into the category of unquestioned beauty from myself and whatever kind of beauty I have.
Watching this video, I am full of rage that I ever struggled wondering.
A message from the 10 years later 37 year old me who is watching this video to whoever you are that is reading this:
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. YOU ARE HOT. THINK ABOUT THE 10 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE VERSION OF YOURSELF AND ENJOY YOUR HOTNESS ON HER/THEIR BEHALF!!!! ON MY BEHALF! YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND ALL THAT THE WORD BEAUTIFUL WAS CREATED TO MEAN!
This talk has nothing to do with the above. It’s a window into the thoughts I had in early 2015, having just been picked up on the Radiotopia network (PRX).
PARIS | Radiodays Europe | 2016
NEW YORK | WNYC’s GREENE SPACE | 2015 Indie Radiomakers on How They Got Started, Lauren Spohrer of Criminal, Lynn Casper of Homoground, Crissle West of The Read and Hillary Frank of Longest Shortest Time.
CONSENT + POWER | 2018 - PRESENT
narrative Sound design
You want to make radio, but you know nothing about sound. Or you're a musician, but you know nothing about story. You know how to produce audio, but you don't know how to make things sound real. I have dedicated my life to using sound and the techniques of music production to create convincing cinematic narrative audio experiences both fiction and documentary. I can give you the tools.
Third Coast International Audio Festival 2014 | Podcast Movement 2016 | many Universities around the country | Private consulting with shows like Planet Money, Pink Card (ESPN’s 30 for 30), KCRW’s Bodies with Allison Behringer and more.
ARTS + podcasting BUSINESS
How do you start your own podcast? What business model should you use? What is the benefit of being on a network over being independent? How is podcasting different from broadcast? How do I get in on the podcast revolution? How do I tell a good story?
WNYC's Werk It Festival 2015, Hudson Square 3D, Soho House, private consultations with companies like tech startup Betaworks.