Audiocraft Podcast

We make stories for the ear, but there’s no escaping the highly visual nature of the work we produce.No other medium allows its audience to see as imaginatively, as privately, and as sensitively, as audio. But how do we go about accessing this visual capacity of audio? Sophie Townsend shares tips for using narration to allow our audience to see what they’re hearing.This episode is shared with us by our friends at Third Coast International Audio Festival. It was recorded at the 2018 Third Coast Conference. Listen to the Third Coast Pocket Conference podcast for more, and find a transcript here.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Two moments are colliding: An oppressive politics of hate and repression, and a boom in narrative storytelling. So how do we use one to confront the other? Chenjerai Kumanyika and Sandhya Dirks offer techniques to explode traditional narratives. This episode is shared with us by our friends at Third Coast International Audio Festival. It was recorded at the 2018 Third Coast Conference. Listen to the Third Coast Pocket Conference podcast for more, and find a transcript here.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There’s a wall between our ideas, dreams and desires and the real world: our body. Meat is a podcast about our bodies and the lives we live because of them. Experience Jonathan Zenti’s masterful storytelling and hear about the creative process behind the project, full of audio experimentation and buoyed by international collaboration. You can find the transcript for this episode here.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the Arrogant Aunt episodes of the Sisteria podcast, guests answer questions ‘with authority they just don’t have’—an exercise in defeating imposter syndrome in all of us. In this Audiocraft edition, Sisteria’s Stephanie Van Schilt, along with Shantel Wetherall (Hey Aunty!) and Christina Choi (Spotify, NYC) take your questions about creativity, motivation and mastering that pod/life balance, by reflecting on their own podcast practice.You can find the transcript for this episode here.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Spotify’s Sound Up Bootcamp worked with ten First Nations storytellers to develop their podcasts, taking the seed of an idea and shaping it into a reality. Important stories about climate disaster, sex, history and frontier warriors. Steve Bunbadgee Hodder Watt, Nicole Hutton, Boe Spearim and Rowdie Walden then received a grant to continue development, and in this session they share how their idea is growing and changing and present their work. Moderated by Lorena Allam (Guardian Australia). You can find the transcript for this episode here.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Four Audiocraft attendees pitch their projects live to a panel of experts from PodcastOne, ABC and Spotify and get on the spot feedback on their idea. Listening to this session, you’ll learn what it takes to deliver a clear pitch that cuts through the noise and gets noticed.You can find a transcript here.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You’re out in the field and your carefully laid plan is blown to bits. You’re all alone, sweating hard, with no story to show for it. How can you embrace the chaos and make the very best story possible? Avery Trufelman (99% Invisible) shares the story of a time it all went wrong and what she did next.You can find a transcript here.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In both fiction and non-fiction podcasts, the possibilities of world-building through sound are endless. How can you use sound to evoke a fleshed-out sonic universe that your characters can inhabit and change in? And how can you turn organic sounds and landscape into characters themselves? Four expert world-builders – Bec Fary, Chris Magilton, Joseph Michael and Becky Sui Zhen share how they think about sound and space.You can find a transcript here.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sessions recorded at Audiocraft Podcast Festival 2019 are coming soon. The first episode is out August 7 and there’ll be a new one in your feed every Wednesday. So if you haven't already, hit subscribe and tell all your friends!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you’re sitting on a podcast idea and unsure about how to dip your toe in the water, go under the hood with the team who dive-bombed right into it. Erin Kyan and Lee Davis Thalbourne take us through the creative process and planning that goes into making Love and Luck, Australia's first queer audio drama. You can see their slides here: http://bit.ly/AudiocraftLNLSlides  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lisa Tobin, executive producer of audio at The New York Times, discusses what the team learned (and then unlearned) in making The Daily.This episode is shared with us by our friends at Third Coast International Audio Festival. It was recorded at the 2017 Third Coast Conference. Listen to the Third Coast Pocket Conference podcast for more.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

NPR's Planet Money convinced us that economics could be not just interesting, but entertaining too. In this episode, host and producer Robert Smith shares the backstories and spills all his secrets about what goes into the making of this podcast.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alan Hall (Falling Tree Productions) and Sally Herships share how they overcome challenges in crafting highly personal narratives, from maintaining journalistic integrity to creating intimate work that's meant to resonate broadly.This episode is shared with us by our friends at Third Coast International Audio Festival. It was recorded at the 2017 Third Coast Conference. Listen to the Third Coast Pocket Conference podcast for more.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

While there's often talk about creating the Next Big Thing in podcasting, Eleanor McDowall (Falling Tree Productions & Radio Atlas) and Helen Zaltzman (The Allusionist from Radiotopia) are curious about small, quiet acts of invention. In this session, they discuss ways they play with form to create something that sounds fresh and surprises listeners, season after season.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Acast's Katie Rogers helps you make sense of your podcast data and explains how you can turn your insights into a meaningful story that will help you better engage with your audience, reach new listeners and pitch to sponsors.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Where are the powerful voices speaking from a perspective of Bla(c)kness in the Australian podcast scene? This session brings together a panel of Aboriginal, African and Islander voices to critique podcast structures past and present, and explore how we might break through these to make space for underserved and underrepresented voices.Namila Benson (ABC) moderates this discussion with Angelina Hurley (Wild Black Women), Areej Nur (Broadwave) and writer Nayuka Gorrie.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This session covers all those scary questions about the tricky legal stuff you bump up against when making a podcast — like defamation, music rights and IP.Guided by legal eagles Suzanne Derry (Arts Law Australia), Brett Oaten (Brett Oaten Solicitors) and Eliza Sarlos (Hall Payne Lawyers).Note: Arts Law Australia have made available a bunch of free contract templates specifically for Australian podcasters, which were launched to coincide with Audiocraft Podcast Festival 2018.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hear about the ways you can transform your audio story with music. Audiocraft's Jess O'Callaghan moderates this discussion between Jaye Kranz (Audiocraft/independent) and Jon Tjhia (Paper Radio), who are not only great audio producers, but fine musicians as well.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Audible's master storytellers Jesse Baker (Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel) and Collin Campbell (Ponzi Supernova & Sincerely X) tell us how they make, break and bend the rules of podcasting to create longform stories that keep listeners coming back for more, episode after episode.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A taste of the 2018 Audiocraft Podcast Festival. The first episode is out Tuesday, July 31 and we'll be dropping an episode a day. So if you haven't already, hit subscribe and tell all your friends!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.