The Munsters Theme

The HearSay Student Award: Karen Robins(US) Espiritu
(the second of Karen's Entries which was tied for first place in this category when judged anonymously. The judges decided to award to both very different entries (the other is Lasagne Days) only to discover both were by the same person!)
[The HearSay Student Award]  – 250 Euros cash prize plus accommodation and participation in the HearSay Festival 2014 awarded to the strongest entry from people under the age of 21 by November 20th  2014 or in full-time education of any age.

HearSay Audio Prize 2014: Karen Robins - Espiritu

Composed, recorded, mixed and produced by Martin Horntveth
Final tweaks by Morgan Nicolaysen in Wallpaper, 2014

Director: Anders Sømme Hammer

NRK Radio -  En Hjelpearbeiders Bekjennelser (Radio Documentary) 2015

A podcast sharing sounds and stories from our new society on the moon, made by the Kings Cross Academy Space Kids, inspired by Ursula Le Guin's novel 'The Dispossesed.'

This podcast was produced by Jessie Lawson and Isabel Tennant with the Kings Cross Academy Space Kids for Space Kids CIC.

Train on the Moon

* Winner - GRAND PRIX NOVA 2020 (Romania)
* 2nd Place - PRIX MARULIC 2019 (Croatia) 

This we much we know. The woman in the portrait is wearing pearls, leaning forward, smoking a cigarette.  But the rest is unknown – who she was, her relationship with an unknown artist. It is open to speculation. This absence of information invites those who see her to project their own stories onto her.  She is like a mirror.  Knocked off balance by the painting, the narrator ponders what lies behind his obsession with the woman in the portrait.  He revisits an upheaval in his life and a stark truth that he has been avoiding.

Writer/Narrator:  Neil Sandell
Producers: Neil Sandell 
         with Mira Burt-Wintonick, Cristal Duhaime,& Sarah Geis 
Sound Design: Mira Burt-Wintonick & Neil Sandell
Remix: Neil Sandell

Music: (Creative Commons license)
   Daniel Birch 		“Weightlessness”
   Jahzzar 		        “Montmartre”
   Scott Buckley  	        “Hymn”

The Painting - Director's Cut

The Irene Taylor Trust is proud to present the latest band to emerge from the Sounding Out programme: The Pinnacle are here! 

This is their debut collection, 'New Release' - a set of original music written and performed by;

Darren – Bass, Guitar, Vocals 
Double M – Vocals, Electric Drums, Keys 
Fly P. – Drums 
G6 – Bars, vocals, producer, songwriter, instrumentalist 
J Jass – Electric Guitar 
Noble – Bars  
Reese – Vocals, music, songwriter  
S.K.P – Vocals 
Sublime – Vocals, Keys 

'New Release' was recorded in August 2019. 'The Pinnacle' were supported by the Irene Taylor Trust's musicians, Charles Stuart, Lucy Drever and Rex Horan. Mixed by Rex Horan. 

Find out more about the Sounding Out programme here:https://irenetaylortrust.com/sounding-out/

Find out how to support the Irene Taylor Trust here;https://irenetaylortrust.com/support-us/

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Please Don't Be The End

"Signal to Noise"
by Paolo Pietropaolo, 2011

This is the story of my tinnitus, which affects my ability to enjoy silence. Through the telling of the story, I've tried to create a kind of music that questions where the edge lies between signal and noise.

Tinnitus (ringing in the ear) is one of the most common medical conditions in North America. I've struggled with tinnitus since 2004. Sometimes, noise is my ally, especially at night. It’s made me think about what makes us call certain things noise, silence or music, and it’s led me to believe we’re suffering from a sort of societal tinnitus.

The original music in this story includes audio derived from everyday sounds that we think of as noise: the hum of my refrigerator, the whine of my TV, the buzz of my computer, and so on.

Featuring the voices of Gordon Hempton (sound ecologist, Grammy-award winning recordist, defender of One Square Inch of Silence) and Dr. Glynnis Tidball (my audologist, who runs the Tinnitus Clinic at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada).

The creation of Signal to Noise was funded by a Sound Bank grant from In the Dark (inthedarkradio.org). Special thanks to Francesca Panetta and Nina Garthwaite.


Signal to Noise

We asked the Kings Cross Academy Space Kids to imagine a world without language - how would we communicate? Each Space Kid designed their own communications device - here they are in radio form.

This podcast was produced by Jessie Lawson and Femi Oriogun-Williams with the Kings Cross Academy Space Kids for Space Kids CIC.

Bubble Machine

This is a soundscape from two weeks' travelling in Chile just after the start of the 18 October revolution.  They are all sounds recorded in the street, in bars, in Santiago, Valparaíso and the Atacama Desert.   I have put this out to mark the three month anniversary of the first demonstration.  The demonstrations continue with the recent burning down of the carabineros' church in Santiago.  President Piñera has promised constitutional change and a review of the pensions system.  Thank you to my friend Manuela for giving us her insight into events.  Listen to the howling dogs of the desert at the end.....

Street Art photographed in Bellavista, Santiago, Nov.2019

Chile Despertó...a soundscape

"Leave means leave", whatever that means - an hour of words, sounds, songs and music that bathe in an atmosphere of departure...

. . . so leben wir, und nehmen immer Abschied . . .  . . . so we live, forever in farewell . . .

I feel so grateful to have had the privilege to live in the city of Berlin, from 2013 to 2017. “The ways of my [...] life have led me elsewhere," to borrow a phrase from Christopher Isherwood; I've been saying a long goodbye ever since.

- - - PLAYLIST - - -

Aretha Franklin - Are You Leaving Me? (demo)
Willie Mason - Fear No Pain
Jess Shane - Pretty Saro
Lou Reed - Berlin
Fennesz - Transit (feat. David Sylvian)
Maria Rita - Despedida
Anne Briggs - Blackwater Side
Mable John - Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
Marlais - Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies
Hildegard Knef - Für Mich Soll's Rote Rosen Regnen
Marlais - Pretty Saro
Brian Eno - Three Variations on the Canon in D Major, I. Fulness Of Wind

NTS: Phil's Jazz Dis-junction [2020]

Jazz Dis-junction - Abschiedslieder, Part I. Goodbyes To Europe [NTS Radio, 2020-01-26]

(This is the last episode of Series 1 of 'Changing Lives'.  Series 2 will start in September 2020)
Children across the world are being taught in a myriad different ways at the moment.  Schools are having to reinvent the very nature of schooling.  Some are relishing the opportunity and encouraging their teachers to be as creative as possible and some are not.  This is one young teacher's story.

I include a few short clips from an interview with the Head of OFSTED (the Office for Standards in Education in the UK), Amanda Spielman, with presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4's morning news programme 'Today' last week.

Miss Bayley's Geography Class

Podcast 'Changing Lives' launching 2020.  An audio plunge into the everyday lives of extraordinary people....thank you, extraordinary people...

Miss Bayley's Geography Class

Changing Lives Podcast

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