I was commissioned to write a 50 second intro/outro track to be used for the German podcast 'In Sinnflutten' (find the podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2yuK7CZuj2hO8GUta7tCh4).
Brief: needs to sound like you're sitting by the sea, perhaps on a beach, relaxing under the shade, the sun is shining, there is a gentle breeze.

In Sinnfluten podcast intro/outro

Podcast Intro / outro

This is an extended version of the featured track in episode 1 'Gemeinsam & Anders' (Togetherness & Otherness) from the podcast 'In Sinnfluten'. I worked with residents at 'Horizone' (a theraputic rehabilitation clinic) and this is the finished result. 

Text and translation(mainly German, some English) :

Unterschiede feier - Celebrate differences 
Freundschaft Liebe - Friendship, Love 
Together we are stronger 
Träume - dreams 
Future
Together we are stronger 
Unterschiede feier - Celebrate differences 
Teilen - Share 
Fühlen - Feel
Verstehen - Understand 
Teilen - Share 
Sticking together is a gift 
Together we are Stronger 

Teilen 

Together we are stronger

Together we are Stronger

Together We Are Stronger

A soundtrack created from 126 individual recordings I collected at the shipyard (aka 'werft' in German)in a boat restoration project. 
It's a nod to the journey of the many people involved working on the boat over 6 weeks : architects, carpenters, mechanics, joiners, artists, painters. 

Go to my Instagram to see the storyboard with images of the timeframe here: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CSJhwNoAMX5/

This track was used as an underscoring within a social cultural project I composed for: Altenburg am Meer. It was heard at the entrance to an audio walk/puppet show when the audience arrived, when the boat docked at ports and it was featured in episode 2 ('Wasser & Grenzen / Water & Boarders')of the podcast 'In Sinnfluten'.
In the podcast it acted as an underscore cushioning a heightened dramatic text delivered by a fictitious mermaid, the emblem of the project. 

Listen to the whole episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2zutxkbamzrSN0z6kSd2jM

I also wanted to make this for the boat team as a sort of souvenir, to capture the memory of their work and team spirit.

Image credit: thisismywork.online

Sounds of the shipyard

This is Mermaid Meluzine’s speech in the podcast subtitled ‘water & borders’. The podcast discusses border security and human rights abuses, global warming and the consequences of capitalist structures.
Meluzine is using ‘sprechgesang’- a musical technique in-between singing and speaking. 

Translated English text: (original German text below) 

I am in my element in the water.
If your living world becomes smaller and smaller, mine becomes larger and larger.
So please keep it up, dear human family. I am happy about every centimeter more that melts at the polar caps.
And you? You can admit it gladly opposite me. You do it on purpose.
Up to now, I have taken paths to get to know the world on land. But imagine that everything was under water. I would love it. So please keep it up, dear human family. Mike told you. Altenburg has been by the sea before. What are you waiting for? Full speed ahead!
With full speed ahead, full waters are unavoidable. What do you care!?
At full speed ahead, full waters are unavoidable. What do you care!?
The waters are not deserted.
Cast off, my dear human family. Close the bulkheads. Seal yourselves off!
Form islands, they will sink. The water seeks its way.

German text: 

Ich bin im Wasser in meinem Element.
Wenn eure Lebenswelt immer kleiner wird, wird meine immer größer.
Also mach bitte weiter so, liebe Menschenfamilie. Ich freue mich über jeden Zentimeter mehr, der an den Polkappen schmilzt.
Und ihr? Mir gegenüber könnt ihr es gerne zugeben. Das macht ihr doch mit Absicht.
Bisher habe ich Wege auf mich genommen, um die Welt an Land kennen zu lernen. Aber stellt euch vor, dass alles unter Wasser wäre. Ich fänd’s toll. Also mach bitte weiter so, liebe Menschenfamilie. Mike hat es euch erzählt. Altenburg lag schon einmal am Meer. Worauf wartet ihr!? Volle Kraft voraus!
Bei voller Kraft voraus sind volle Wasser nicht zu vermeiden. Was kümmert es euch!?
Bei voller Kraft voraus sind volle Wasser nicht zu vermeiden. Was kümmert es euch!?
Die Wasser sind nicht menschenleer.
Leinen los, meine liebe Menschenfamilie. Macht die Schotten dicht. Schottet euch ab!
Bildet Inseln, die werden untergehen. Das Wasser sucht sich seinen Weg.After the podcast was aired there was unbelievably, (and ironically!) a terrible flood in the city.

Composition, production and direction: Rosanna Ter-Berg 
Meluzine: Ilana Reynolds @ilanareynolds22
Text and dramaturg: Helena Wölfl @werwoelfl
Dramaturg: Alex Hennig @alex.xx.andrah

find the whole podcast episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2zutxkbamzrSN0z6kSd2jM

Meluzine's Call

'Dream Big, Dream Strong' was written originally for the cabaret 'Der Neue Mensch' (The new Human): https://www.openpavillon.eu/cabaret
but it seemed so apt for episode 3 of the podcast 'Stadt(t)räume & Zukunft / City dreams and futures', so in in went!

The brief : Schlager-esque (1950's German pop music genre positive and sentimental style, sweet kind of romance)... to be sung in English, but it needs to be very simple, accessible language. 

Entire podcast episode found here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0SoJgNz8VYZB9tdnU6EjKj

Dream Big, Dream Strong

Part 1: My first ever attempt at sound design. An audio play landed on my desk for episode 3 of the podcast 'Stadt(t)räume & Zukunft / city dreams and future'. 

Here Marko crashes his car in Altenburg, the mermaid Meluzine appears and takes him on a tour of the city. 

All sounds, production, mixing by Rosanna Ter-Berg. 
Text by Marko Kruppe
Performed (in German) by Marko Kruppe and Ilana Reynolds

Whole episode found here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0SoJgNz8VYZB9tdnU6EjKj

Audio Play Part 1

Part 2: My first ever attempt at sound design. An audio play landed on my desk for episode 3 of the podcast 'Stadt(t)räume & Zukunft / city dreams and future'.

Here Marko walks back to his car, escorted by Meluzine the mermaid. She disappears. He wonders if it was all a dream...? 

All sounds, production, mixing by Rosanna Ter-Berg. 
Text by Marko Kruppe
Performed (in German) by Marko Kruppe and Ilana Reynolds

Whole episode found here:
open.spotify.com/episode/0SoJgNz8VYZB9tdnU6EjKj

Audio Play Part 2

Produced and directed by Rosanna Ter-Berg
Written by Ilana Reynolds
Accordion: Alan Bern

A final 'farewell' from the mermaid Meluzine who appeared throughout the community project 'Altenburg am Meer' (Germany). She's seen and heard throughout in the podcasts, documentary, on the News and in person at the market square.

Lyrics:

I come from a far away land below 
a-ho a-ho a-hoi
It is the sea I call my home, and it is where I'll die
a-ho a-ho a-holi-lo a-ho a-ho a-hoi 
a-ho a-ho a-holi-lo and it is where I'll die

The sailors that come within my reach, I'll lure them to the sea
I take them under my fin, and swim, and sing them to sleep 
a-ho a-ho a-holi-lo a-ho a-ho a-hoi 
a-ho a-ho a-holi-lo and sing them to sleep

The sea is a place of mystery and much diversity
We come from it's ebb and flow, and you are part of thee
a-ho a-ho a-holi-lo a-ho a-ho a-hoi 
a-ho a-ho a-holi-lo  and you are part of thee

I ask you all to stand up high and make your voices heard
The sea, you sea, it must survive or else you will all die
a-ho a-ho a-holi-lo a-ho a-ho a-hoi 
a-ho a-ho a-holi-lo or else you will all die

Meluzine's Farewell Shanty

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