Mexico City Travelogue

Julia Mitrić (US 2023)

13 min

The narrator collects sounds on the streets of Mexico City and weaves them into an audioscape about music and the experience of traveling while recovering from illness.

Produced by Julia Mitrić

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Euphoric Transformations

Charlotte Morlie (US /BE 2023)

11 min

Charlotte Morlie is a Belgian audio producer living in Brooklyn, New York. In her first non-narrated piece, she uses both interview and archival tape to convey a story of transness and queer joy. 

Produced by Charlotte Morlie
Special Thank You to Em Panetta 

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Dancing Ideal: Maja

Ioannis Valasakis (UK 2023)

Ioannis Valasakis · Dancing Ideal: Maja 2023

8 min

Reflections from Maja, a dancer who studied in Gothenburg's Ballet Akademie, on her relationship with dance and her body, shared in hushed nighttime confessions. A poignant sonic portrait of a dancer in the throes of self-discovery and acceptance.

Producer - Ioannis Valasakis

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In The Dark What’s New: Bedstuy Beats

Vivienne Schutz (DE 2023)

1 min

Vivien Schütz is a German radio maker living in Brooklyn, New York. She typically produces radio documentaries and fictional stories for German public radio, but this was her first time experimenting with something non-narrated piece using only field recordings.

The piece was inspired by the prompt "What does your neighborhood sound like to you?". It’s called “Bedstuy Beats”. Bedstuy is short for Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, where Vivien has been living for the last two years. A lot of the recordings were spontaneous — she just grabbed her phone when something interesting was happening around her.

Produced by: Vivienne Schutz

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In The Dark What’s New: For the Love of Reptiles

Grace Heerman (US 2023)

16 min

Grace Heerman is a new audio producer living in New York. She was primarily a copywriter, until she started experimenting with audio last year.

“For the Love of Reptiles” is a fun account of what it means to be a reptile owner today.

Producer - Grace Heerman

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In The Dark What’s New- Hey I'm in a Bit of a Hurry

Rasmus Malm (SE 2023)

3 min

Rasmus Malm is a journalist from Sweden who has made documentaries for Swedish radio and podcast platforms, but this is his first time experimenting with a personal story.

Hey I'm in a Bit of a Hurry" is short piece made up of fragments from Rasmus’s diary. Telling this story may have even changed his life.

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Produced by Rasmus Malm

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In The Dark What’s New: Life Begins in the Stillness

Julie Censullo and Gabriel Rodreick (US 2023)

10 min

Julie Censullo is an audio producer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Her piece, "Life Begins in the Stillness", was produced as part of the Spring 2023 In the Dark short feature course, and was featured on BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts. It’s Julie’s first non-narrated and heavily sound designed piece. It was recorded in the Quaking Bog in Theodore Wirth Regional Park in Minneapolis. The interviewee is a man named Gabriel Rodreick He is a musician and artist who goes by “Freaque”, and he created the bog spirits heard in the piece.

Produced by: Julie Censullo
Music by: Gabriel Rodreick, AKA "Freaque

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In The Dark What’s New- Diary of a Young...

Alexandra Valahu (CH 2023)

13 min

Alexandra Valahu is a writer and emerging audio producer living in Switzerland. “Diary of a Young...” was made over a few weeks during the In the Dark course, and — in Alexandra’s words — “what started as a somewhat lighthearted inquiry … evolved into something deeply surprising”.

This piece is a letter of love from Alexandra to her sister Adri.

Produced by Alexandra Valahu

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In The Dark What’s New: We Were Being Taught a Lesson

Shivangi Mariam (IN 2021)

8 min

Shivangi Mariam is a writer, independent researcher, and translator from India. The piece is about the function of memory in the face of mass violence.

The poem was written in response to a massacre that happened in Shivangi’s home city Delhi in 2020, a massacre where the victims continue to await justice. This is their first time matching their poetry to sound design. To do this, they collaborated with Osloob, a Palestinian rapper, singer, and music producer. For Osloob this is an experiment in style too, because he had never created sound design for spoken word.

Writing and concept by Shivangi Mariam
Sound Design by Osloob

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In The Dark What’s New- Ways of Listening

James Bonney (UK 2023)

4 min

James Bonney, a Bristol-based musician and aspiring audio-producer. He taught himself to record, edit and mix audio in his free time during his studies.

This is his first attempt at making his own piece from scratch — with original script, music and sound design. It’s an audio essay about the chalk downlands, which continue to play a significant role in James’s life.

Produced by James Bonney

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