Nothing about us without us is a masterclass about including the target audience in the process of communicating to and about people with disabilities. How to ensure an including, safe and creative space for the entire team, with and without disabilities?
Kristina Loring shows how narrative audio can be more than just telling a story. She explains how to create an emotional atmosphere so that the listener is more aware of their place: in a body, an environment, and in society. She explores how to use our bodies to create sound work and how to create sound work that resounds in the body.
Radio Papesse (RP) launches the Premio LUCIA for audio productions in Italian, as stated in the announcement.
Premio LUCIA is:
a production agreement for the completion of an unpublished work [PROGETTI].
a reproduction fee for existing works [OPERE AUDIO]
All projects sent, which include a CV, a signed copy of these terms and conditions, the receipt of the € 10 registration fee and the applicant’s portfolio, by and no later than 11pm (CET) on 29 February 2024, are eligible for the award.
The jury’s judgment is final.
Works that have already been produced or published are eligible for the Award category Published Works.
Applicants guarantee the originality of their proposal and release RP and A.D.N. from any liability in case of copyright plagiarism.
In the event that the stories are to be based on the works of third parties, participants release RP from all possible disputes with the authors.
The copyright on the projects submitted to the LUCIA Award remains entirely with the applicants; RP may not develop them independently.
The reading, the selection of the projects and the relationship with the applicants will take place in full respect of their privacy.
By signing the acknowledgement and acceptance of these terms and conditions, participants give their consent to the processing of their data for all that concerns the regular management of the Award.
The contract to be signed between RP and the winners of the LUCIA Award acknowledges a fee of € 2.000,00, which will be paid in two installments: the first within two weeks after the announcement, the second upon delivery of the work.
The payment will be taxed according to the tax regime of the winners.
After three extraordinary editions we’ve shared with our friends at Archivio dei Diari (the Diary Archive), this year the LUCIA Award is changing its format. Though our interest in personal stories and the use of archive materials remains strong, we are moving on from Pieve Santo Stefano and its stories and are now going to listen to yours, those you have already told and those only you have in your ears.
Premio LUCIA awards:
[OPERE AUDIO] existing audio works produced from January 2022 to January 2024 > €500
[PROGETTI] grant for the production of new works > €2000.
In the first case, we ask you to share an mp3 file and a short synopsis. In the second case, please write your idea to us in 2000 characters maximum. In both cases, tell us who you are: you can send CVs, portfolios, audio portraits…
As always, two caveats remain: the LUCIA Prize is open to productions in Italian. The new works are expected to last no longer than 30 minutes.
Who can participate?
The Award is open to young producers and established professionals. You can participate alone or with a production group, as a collective or a theater company: prior experience in narrative audio production or familiarity with audio storytelling will be favourably valued.
Whatever your language might be, the Lucia Award is only for productions in Italian.
What do we expect?
Works already being produced, whether distributed or not, as of January 2022. Single episodes of podcast series are also allowed as long as they have narrative autonomy, i.e. as long as they are stand-alone stories within the single episode.
A project for the production of a new work that is max. 30 minutes. We are looking for good stories and audio rich productions. LUCIA awards audacity and experimentation with formats and sound!
In the first case, we ask you to share the mp3 file and a short synopsis. In the second case, please write your idea to us in 2000 characters maximum. In both cases, tell us who you are: you can send CVs, portfolios, audio portraits…
As always, two caveats remain: the LUCIA Prize is open to productions in Italian. The new works are expected to last no longer than 30 minutes.
A single proposal per entry fee is accepted.
What do you get?
LUCIA awards two projects with € 500,00 and €2.000,00. The audio works will be presented at LUCIA Festival 2024, released on radiopapesse.org and luciafestival.org.
As for the new work, Radio Papesse is committed to supporting its national and international circulation. Radio Papesse also holds the discretion to award one or more special mentions to works that have already been completed.
How can you participate?
To participate you must:
fill in the registration form [where you will be asked to upload a portfolio / bio, the receipt of payment of the € 10.00 registration fee and a link to the audio file in the case of already completed works or a project idea outline for unpublished works],
no later than 11.00 PM on February 29th, 2024.
If you have just submitted a project for the YASS mentorship program, the registration fee is 5 euro. For any further doubts or questions, please write to premiolucia[at]radiopapesse.org
The shortlist of finalist projects and the winner for the category NEW WORKS, as well as the winner and special mentions in the category WORKS ALREADY PRODUCED will be announced by mid-March 2024. The winning audio stories will be presented at the LUCIA Festival 2024, from 13 to 15 December.
The jury’s motivations will be published on the luciafestival.org website.
The jurors are
Orecchiabile – Giacomo Bagni and Chiara Sagramola – is a newsletter that recommends podcasts and audio works from the point of view of listeners, not producers. Edited by Chiara Sagramola and Giacomo Bagni, every now and then it pushes into the real world by organising public listenings, meetings with authors and a few escapades into the world of paper.
Chloé Barreau was born from an extraordinary love story between a priest-labourer and a nurse, whose marriage caused a scandal in 1970s France. She told this story in her first film, My Father’s Fault, awarded at the Biografilm Festival. With a degree in Modern Literature from the Sorbonne in Paris, she wrote and directed short films (Acqua Passata with Riccardo Scamarcio), TV specials (Anna M. with Anna Mouglalis) and docuseries (Blue Is the Colour, Raindance Festival) before joining Fox Channels Italy as Creative Producer. For 15 years, she worked with prestigious brands (National Geographic, History Channel) but also on more personal documentary projects, such as Stardust Memories (Carboluce, 2008).
She has created several audio documentaries, including Stardust Memories (Radio Rai 3, 2020) and Malafemmina (Storytel, 2021). Chloé also works as a voice over artist and speaker: she is the voice of Plumette in Beauty and the Beast, Walt Disney; the voice of Marlena in Maneskin’s album Il ballo della vita and the French voice for Una specie di tenerezza, Chora Media.
In 2023, her documentary film Frammenti di un percorso amoroso (Greenland, 2023), presented in Venice in the Giornate degli Autori – Venice Days, won the DocIt (Italian Documentary Filmmakers Association) Special Prize of the Jury and was selected for the Nastri d’Argento in the category Cinema del Reale.
Radio Papesse – Ilaria Gadenz and Carola Haupt
About us
Radio Papesse is a webradio and online audio archive devoted to contemporary art. It works with museums and cultural institutions to talk about art practices today. It hosts and commissions experimental sound and radiophonic works, inviting artists and producers to renew the rules of broadcasting and audio narration. Among its current projects are: YASS! an international mentorship & training program for audio makers; LUCIA Festival, a festival dedicated to the listening of radio works and podcasts. Between 2018 and 2020 it was associate researcher of Pratiques d’Hospitalité – Platform for critical research and political imagination at ESAD Grenoble • Valence. It is a member of the scientific board of the Interdepartmental Research Center for Radiophony at UNIRSM – Università di San Marino. It adopts the Creative Commons License and is part of the RADIA network.
1. YASS! Mentorship Program & Production Grant 2023 • 2024
YASS! You are so sound! is a one-to-one mentorship program for emerging or experienced authors and audio artists of any age.
Do you have an idea for an audio piece or a work-in-progress you need support for? We are looking for you! If you are willing to learn and share your creative process with an experienced mentor, you are in the right place!
Two audio makers will be selected to work with the YASS! 24 mentors Cristal Duhaime and Yasmina Hamlawi between February and September 2024. The works will premiered at LUCIA festival.
Each mentee will be paired with one mentor whom we think will enhance their work. Our aim is to create a space for mutual creative exchange that supports the individual process of the author. Mentors will respect who you are and what you do but they will also positively challenge you to go beyond your production comfort zone and this means to be fully aware of what the audio materials allow you to do and to which extent you can push their boundaries.
Who can apply?
YASS! is open to authors, producers and artists based in Europe and the MENA (Middle-East and North Africa) area. There are no linguistic or age limits.**
2. What do the mentees get from YASS!?
• 40 hours of the Mentorship Program To be scheduled according to the needs of both mentees and mentors, • Production grant: €1.500/each • International circulation of the final productions • Presentation of the productions at Lucia Festival 2024
The Authors/Producers will keep the rights to their works, but will grant Radio Papesse and LUCIA Festival the permission/right to make them accessible online – on radiopapesse.org and luciafestival.org – in the frame of related events (such as educational programs, listening sessions…), to submit them to international festivals and events and to use them for non-commercial uses in general.
3. How to apply?
Applicants will be required to fill the ONLINE FORM and include a link to a shared folder (Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive…) with:
• information about their background and skills Previous experience in radio storytelling, audio and podcast production is not required, but is preferred, • a short description of the story/idea they would love to work on • audio clips (max 5 minutes) and a short presentation (max 1 page), if the production has already been launched, • payment receipt (via Paypal or wire transfer)
For applications to be considered, shared folders must be accessible and contain all required materials.
All these info will help us not only select the mentees but also pair you with the mentors. The more we know about you, the better to foresee significant collaborations and enriching turning points in your productions.
We are all from diverse latitudes and we welcome every language, but we do ask you to keep our communication in English.
APPLICATION FEE: €15,00 The fee will help support organizational costs only. Students’ participation is free.
DEADLINE: January 31st 2024 – 11pm CET
Review of applicants will begin as soon as the deadline is closed, and all applicants will be notified by mid-February regarding the selection.
Cristal Duhaime is a Canadian audio-maker producing podcasts and documentary work with a focus on personal storytelling.
Most recently she was a senior producer at New York Times Audio where she helped develop First Personand the upcoming Animal. Before that, Cristal was the co-creator of CBC’s Love Me. Her credits also include scripted comedy series, long-form chat shows and art installations with work being featured internationally at various festivals and on Short Cuts, This American Life, and Snap Judgment, among other places.
Cristal is based in Montréal, Canada where she got her start in broadcasting on Jonathan Goldstein’s WireTap, for which the team won a Prix Italia. .
Yasmina Hamlawi
For several years, she wrote as a freelance journalist for various French-language newspapers. From the Arab world to India, from Bangladesh to Iran, Yasmina focuses on women’s access to fundamental rights in a globalized world: social equality, migration, access to water and education, climate impact…
She swapped the pen for the microphone and made her first creative documentary Le prix de l’exil, selected for the 2012 Prix Europa and the 2013 Longueur d’Ondes Festival. Her second radio documentary, Perle, won the Grand Prix de la radio URTI 21-UNESCO and the Prix Europa 22.
She particularly appreciates the poetry offered by sound creation, the silences that say it all, the rhythms and musicality that can be explored. Through her radio creations, Yasmina likes to give a voice to the voiceless and deal with non-visible, almost unspeakable subjects.
YASS! Mentorship Program 2023•24 is possible thanks to the support of Regione Toscana – Toscanaincontemporanea 2023.
1. YASS! Masterclass Program 2023
Radio Papesse and LUCIA support creative authorship, new voices and innovative productions that play with and around the limits and rules of radio production and podcasting.
YASS! You are so sound is a training and exchange program for producers, audio makers, sound artists and cultural workers interested in audio narration. Each masterclass will provide you with tools and behind-the-scenes perspectives to discover how others work and learn from good practice. Thanks to the collaboration and the support of Short Theatre in the frame of Radio That Matters, this edition opens up to investigate the relationships between performing arts, sonic agency, acoustic research, radiophony and disability.
The 2023 edition of YASS! features: Lucia Scazzocchio, Kristina Loring, Lucif Dalin, Astrid Hald & Rikke Houd and Raymond Antrobus.
2. (Almost) everything you need to know about YASS!
Up to 30 people may take part in each masterclass. If the seats in the masterclass(es) you have decided to attend are sold out, please send an email to yass@radiopapesse.org with the following subject line: Waiting list + Masterclass name.
YASS! is free of charge for all students who can prove they are enrolled in the current year and it is free for Radio Papesse members and Radio That Matters’s partners and associates. For all others, it is 5 € per lesson (20 € the full cycle), thanks to the support of our partners which allows us to keep costs low for you.
What are the requirements for participation?
YASS! is a programme designed for authors, artists and audio producers, but also for those who want to fine tune their own voice and improve their tools and techniques. Participants in the masterclasses must have at least a basic knowledge of audio production. Participants must have a good knowledge of English.
Where do the masterclasses take place?
YASS! masterclasses take place online. All participants will be sent detailed instructions and a private link to access the streaming. If you can’t find what you’re looking for here, write to yass@radiopapesse.org
To follow the developments of Radio That Matters, follow its FB and IG profiles.
3. 2023 Digital Masterclasses
Lucia Scazzocchio
A Field Guide to Social Broadcasting November 2nd, 6pm
Social Broadcasting combines contemporary radio/podcast making, community engagement and participatory art practice, setting it apart from more traditional community radio, oral history recording and podcasting formats, although it does draw from these. The objective of Social Broadcasting is to document and present real everyday experiences and conversations, inviting reflexivity both from participants in real-time and listeners in the future. Rather than recording and capturing to tell a pre-determined story for a prescribed audience, conversations and interactions are themselves as much the purpose of the Social Broadcast as the final output.
This workshop will provide practical tools and techniques to open up conversations, narratives and stories with under-represented communities and spaces in a collaborative and open exchange. We will cover: – how to access and engage with different micro-communities; – how to stage conversations in creative ways to facilitate active listening, sharing stories and revealing narratives in both public and private settings; – how to work with groups with varying skill sets and abilities in a truly collaborative and empowering setting.
Lucia Scazzocchio has developed a practice she calls Social Broadcasting. As an audio producer, her work is often collaborative and immersive, creating interactive environments where the public are invited to share and record their own experiences and stories. She also works as a facilitator and teacher, regularly running audio workshops for students at MA level to complete beginners of all ages. She has been a regular contributor, facilitator and audio producer as part of community engagement strategies around place making, co-designing the audio elements integrated into these projects. She has also launched XMTR.FM, a curated space for sonic storytelling.
Kristina Loring
How do you make audio palpable? November 9th, 6pm
Sound has the ability to change our mood, awaken our senses and conjure past memory and future fantasy. In this masterclass, Kristina Loring shows how narrative audio can be more than just telling a story. She explains how to create an emotional atmosphere so that the listener is more aware of their place: in a body, an environment, and in society. We’ll explore how to use our bodies to create sound work and how to create sound work that resounds in the body.
Kristina Loring is a story editor, creative director, and audio producer— who works across genre and form to create media experiences that you can feel in your body. Most recently, she was the Head of Audio at Dipsea, a feminist audio fiction app designed to turn you on. Before that, she created the interactive cooking show Cooking By Ear that invited listeners into the homes of celebrity guests to chat in the interstices of making a recipe. Her most recent sound installation Message in a Bottle (2021) was selected as part of the Sound Scene Festival in partnership with the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. It invited listeners to connect with strangers via the discovery of a glass bottle containing a secret hotline that offered premonitory advice.
Lucif Dalin, Astrid Hald & Rikke Houd
Nothing about us without us November 16th, 6pm
Together with Astrid Hald and Lucif Dalin, Rikke Houd will share some insights into the production of Alt det som ingen ser, a monthly podcast – promoted by Dansk Blindesamfund – that investigates, debates and documents with curiosity the lives of visually impaired people. Nothing about us without us is a masterclass about including the target audience in the process of communicating to and about people with disabilities. How to ensure an including, safe and creative space for the entire team, with and without disabilities?
Lucif Dalin is newly visual impaired, disability activist and MA in anthropology. Astrid Hald is an independent audio producer and documentarian, MA in Radio. Rikke Houd is an internationally award-winning audio documentary maker, podcast editor-in-chief at The Danish Association of the Blind.
Raymond Antrobus
The Word. Spoken. Written. Signed. Conceived. November 21st, 5pm
In this poetry reading and talk, Raymond Antrobus will show materials and videos of works that inspired him, such as the works of artist Chrsitine Sun Kim. He will also discuss language and communication in the light of the experience of his deafness.
Raymond Antrobus is a poet, writer and broadcaster. He was born in London to an English mother and Jamaican father. He’s a Cave Canem Graduate and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. He is the author of To Sweeten Bitter (UK, Out-Spoken Press), The Perseverance (UK, Penned In The Margins / US, Tin House) and All The Names Given (US, Tin House / UK, Picador) as well as children’s picture book Can Bears Ski? (UK, Walker Books / US, Candlewick). He is the 2019 recipient of the Ted Hughes Award as well as the Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award, and became the first poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize. His first full-length collection, The Perseverance was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and The Forward Prize, ‘All The Names Given’ was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize and the Costa Award. Inventions in sound, the radio documentary produced in 2021 with Eleanor McDowall (Falling Tree productions) for BBC Radio 4 was among the winners of the Third Coast/RHDF Competition.
YASS! 2023 is part of the sound training programme on acoustic-perfomative formats and research provided by Radio That Matters and devoted to project partners and other cultural operators. YASS! 2023 is possible thanks to the collaboration with Short Theatre in the frame of Radio That Matters – an initiative funded by the European Union – and the support of Comune di Firenze and Fondazione CR Firenze.
From September 14th to 17th, Pieve Santo Stefano will host the 39th edition of the PREMIO PIEVE. As every year for the past three years, Lucia Festival will premiere Premio Lucia’s 2022 laureates: Perla Sardella with Prima Persona Plurale – based on Tania Ferrucci’s Nei miei Okki – and with Ogni avvenimento è movimento, an adaptation of Non ti avrei conosciuto, a diary by Seydi Rodriguez.
1. YASS! Mentorship Program & Production Grant 2021
You Are So Sound! is a five month one-to-one mentorship program for emerging or experienced authors and audio artists of any age.
Do you have an idea for an audio piece or a work-in-progress you need support for? We are looking for you! If you are willing to learn and share your creative process with an experienced mentor, you are in the right place!
Three audio makers will be selected to work with the YASS! 2021 mentors Katharina Smets, Rikke Houd, Alessandra Eramo and Tempo Reale, between February and June 2021, in order to complete their audio piece before the summer.
Each mentee will be paired with one mentor whom we think will enhance their work. Our aim is to create a space for mutual creative exchange that supports the individual process of the author.
Mentors will respect who you are and what you do but they will also positively challenge you to go beyond your production comfort zone and this means to be fully aware of what the audio materials allow you to do and to which extent you can push their boundaries. That’s also why Tempo Reale will mentor you all, through sound composition and audio design.
It’s a big step into the unknown to be open to such a professional and personal exchange but try to imagine the rich and surprising dialogue you might be engaged in!
2. What do the mentees get from YASS!?
• 40 hours of the mentorship program To be scheduled according to the needs of both mentees and mentors • Co-production grant: €1.200/each • Four digital masterclasses with international audio makers The masterclasses will be organized in collaboration with Oorzaken Festival and Atelier de création sonore et radiophonique • Support to the international circulation of the final productions • Presentation of the productions at LUCIA Festival 2021
The Authors will keep the rights to their works, but will grant Radio Papesse and LUCIA Festival the permission/right to make them accessible online – on radiopapesse.org and luciafestival.org – in the frame of related events (such as educational programs, listening sessions…) and to use them for non-commercial uses in general.
3. How to participate
In order to participate, you are required to fill in the participation form and to include in it the address of a shared folder (Dropbox, GDrive, One Drive…) with:
• your portfolio Put all the info into a document (in English), you may include links for us to listen to • an audio self portrait (max 2 minutes) How would you describe yourself in sound? • project synopsis What is your project about? What is it that you’d like to work on during the Mentorship Program? • if you’re already in the middle of your production, please include an excerpt of your draft audio (max 5 minutes) • 15 € entry fee payment receipt [if you’re a student, you don’t have to pay it] [via Paypal or wire transfer to Unicredit Banca Agenzia: Firenze Nazario Sauro IBAN: IT 06 J 02008 02836 000401118520 BIC SWIFT: UNCRITM1F13]
All these infos will help us not only to select the mentees but also to pair you with the mentors. The more we know about you, the better to foresee significant collaborations and enriching turning points in your productions.
DEADLINE: January 17th 2021 @ 11PM (CET)
**We are all from diverse latitudes and we welcome every language, but we do ask you to keep our communication in English.
Disclaimer: review of applicants will begin in mid-January, and all applicants will be notified by early February regarding the selection.
3. The mentors
Alessandra Eramo
Alessandra Eramois a sound artist and vocalist based in Berlin. She works with performance and installation, text-sound composition, video and drawing, exploring latent acoustic territories of the human voice and noise as socio-political matter.
Combining visual art and contemporary music, she develops artistic projects and live-performances that address questions of the body, memory and identity, often adopting participatory actions, field recording, site-specific modes, and experimental approaches to composition. Central to her practice is extending the voice in all its forms and implications in sonic and visual contexts.
She has exhibited and performed widely at festivals, museums, galleries and institutions such as: SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, Deutschlandfunk Kultur Klangkunst, Liminaria/Manifesta12 Palermo, Tempo Reale Festival Firenze, 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Transmediale Berlin, Heroines of Sound Festival Berlin, Museum FLUXUS+ Potsdam, Roulette New York, Padiglione Italia nel Mondo/54th Venice Biennale.
Her radiophonic piece Tanz Sediment (2020) was commissioned and broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Rikke Houd
Rikke Houdis an independent Danish radio maker working in the field of crafted audio storytelling and documentary art. She came into radio from writing, drawn to it by listening to features from the Danish Montage Group (a department at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation where the genre of radiomontage was developed since the 1930´s). These documentary radio pieces were like novels – literary works in sound. They were cinematographic, poetic, layered, rhythmic.
After completing an MA in Radio at Goldsmiths College in 1998, she worked for the Montage Group and also its experimental off-spring Ultralyd and have worked with sound and storytelling since – in radio and podcast, theatre, exhibition, location/site specific work and in collaboration with other artforms and fields. She also coaches and teaches workshops which focus on documentary storytelling and radiophonic awareness.
As an audio storyteller, she is occupied with what happens in the meeting between the authentic material – voices, sounds, moments – and the creative shaping of the story, the fluidity of sound and the radiophonic space. How do we find our own voice as storytellers and how do we utilize the uniqueness of the sound medium?
Katharina Smets
Katharina Smets is a radio producer, performer and scholar based in Antwerp. She molds documentary materials into live performances, sound guides and radio productions.
With her transmedia collective The Space Between she explores the combinations of sound and live music, video and spoken word. Fascinated by memories and archives, her collaborations with other artists and musicians invariably start from a shared need to give voice to vulnerable or forgotten stories.
Currently working on a PhD in the arts, Katharina teaches audio storytelling at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp. She is a proud co-founder of MIRP, the Meeting of Independent Radio Producers.
Katharina produced work for theatre, musical ensembles and broadcast such as: STUK Leuven, muziektheater LOD & Vooruit Gent, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, BBC World Service, VRT in Belgium and VPRO in the Netherlands. She is currently working on an artistic podcast in collaboration with the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, full of stories and music.
Tempo Reale
Founded by Luciano Berio in Florence in 1987, Tempo Reale is now one of the main European reference points for research, production and educational activities in the field of new musical technologies and electronic music.
Its main subjects of research reflect the polyhedral attitude of Tempo Reale towards music: the conception of great musical events, the study of real time sound processing and of the interaction between sound and space, the synergy between creativity, scientific competence, performative and educational rigour.
2. Who’s been selected? Mentees 2021
Between December 2020 and January 2021 we received over 100 submissions to the YASS! mentorship programme. It has been an overwhelming answer both from acknowledged artists and new authors who have answered to our call from all over Europe and the Mediterranean with a mosaic of local and universal features, timeless tales and urgent stories arising from our interesting times, individual and collective concerns and dreams.
To choose three projects only was a difficult feat, it was a work of subtraction, sometimes a bitter one, but we are happy to award the YASS! Mentorship to Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Kate Donovan e Studiolanda (Giorgia Cadeddu+ Vittoria Soddu) and we are glad they will count on the guidance of Alessandra Eramo, Katharina Smets, Rikke Houd and Tempo Reale.
These three audio makers – all coming from very diverse backgrounds and experiences – have presented three projects that in terms of subject, intent or language respond to our request for narrative experimentation. Three poetically political projects – even though they are not openly so – that tell stories of solidarity care and collaboration.
We do always learn a lot from juries, and so we want to thank the mentors for being able to listen and see beyond our perspectives, and above all we thank all the participants who dedicated their time to YASS! We discovered widespread, vital communities and unexpected scenes of audio makers, young producers, exciting artists and stories worth telling.
