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.
Boring Interesting is the opening masterclass of the II season of YASS! You are so sound. It was recorded last November 10th, 2022. [Due to tech issues, we couldn’t record the first few minutes of our warm-up chit chat… sorry about that!] Not all audio stories are personal; not all are emotional. The Allusionist is […]
Behind the scenes of Welcome to Provincetown is YASS! 2022 second online masterclass. It was recorded on November 17th 2022. In this generous behind-the-scenes review of Welcome to Provincetown, Mitra Kaboli talked about the challenges and choices that have accompanied her over a year of work. She also shared about the tremendous editing work and […]
Listening to the others is YASS! 2022 third online masterclass.It was recorded last December 1st, 2022. More than sound, listening is the central point of Felix Blume’s work: listening as a way to relate to others, to meet and learn from the other(s). Revisiting previous projects, such as his audio piece Los gritos de México […]
How to make exciting youth audio is YASS! 2022 4° masterclass.It was recorded in Florence, on December 9th, on the occasion of the Listening Kids seminar. Sara de Monchy is a theater and podcast director. She graduated from the Royal Theatre Academy in Maastricht, and has several successful theater productions to her credit. Her love for fantasy, audio and theater comes […]
Loss, Rain and Listening as an act of intimacy is YASS! 2022 last masterclass.It was recorded in Florence, on December 10th, on the occasion of Lucia Festival. Due to tech issues, the audio is sometimes slightly echoing. We apologize for that and if you prefer listening to the original and pristine versions of the audio […]
In the 8-part podcast The Plantation Of Our Ancestors, Maartje Duin delves into traces of slavery in her family tree. She discovers that an ancestor of hers used to own part of the sugar plantation Tout Lui Faut in Suriname, then a colony of the Netherlands. Soon she meets Peggy Bouva, one of the descendants […]
Phalena, a creature from the future and member of an underground society, discovers a sound documentary from 2020. She is surprised to hear women talking about menopause, pregnancy, love, ecofeminism, climate change… Inspired by these women, she decides to record a message for the surface. “If you exist, you will hear me through the slit, […]
Being able to visit her Cũcũ – grandmother in Kikuyu – in her home in Githũnguri, Kenya, for Christmas, felt especially meaningful last 2020, given the pandemic’s toll on the world, and its spotlight on the vulnerability of our grandparents. Together with her family, Nyokabi Kariũki walked around the farm — just as they always […]