Stories of Sound

Rikke Houd is a Danish radio maker working in the field of crafted audio storytelling and documentary art.
After completing an MA in Radio at Goldsmiths College in 1998, she worked for the Danish Montage Group and and has worked with sound and storytelling since – in radio and podcasts, theatre, exhibitions, and in collaboration with other artforms and fields.
Rikke has produced work in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and English and her award-winning work has been featured internationally.
She co-founded the youth project Polar Radio and has initiated several transnational audio storytelling projects aiming to support geographical, linguistic and cultural minorities.
She has also coached and taught workshops which focus on documentary storytelling and radiophonic awareness.
Since 2022 she works as editor in chief of podcast for the Danish Association of the Blind. Since 2024, she has also served as a creative advisor for Æteren, an innovative Danish school for sound and storytelling.

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Stories of Sound is an audio series that delves into sound arts and audio storytelling, offering listeners a window into the creative processes, challenges, and inspirations of artists, authors and theorists who tell stories through sound.

Stories of Sound: Conversations on Sound, Art, and Audio Storytelling is curated by Riccardo Giacconi at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University.

Narration by Max Greenstein.

Produced with support from the Faculty Research Awards Committee, School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University.

https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND

Stories of Sound is a proud member of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective.

John York is a British audiobook narrator and voice actor best known for his work on the audio erotica platform "Quinn".
As well as narrating over three hundred audiobook titles, John also hosts the entertainment podcast "The Unsinkable Ship'.
In his free time, you'll often find him livestreaming with his Patreon community or sharing way too much information at his local countryside pub.

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Stories of Sound is an audio series that delves into sound arts and audio storytelling, offering listeners a window into the creative processes, challenges, and inspirations of artists, authors and theorists who tell stories through sound.

Stories of Sound: Conversations on Sound, Art, and Audio Storytelling is curated by Riccardo Giacconi at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University.

Narration by Max Greenstein.

Produced with support from the Faculty Research Awards Committee, School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University.

https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND

Stories of Sound is a proud member of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective.

JJJJJerome Ellis is a disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist, surfer, and person who stutters.
Through music, performance, writing, video, and photography, Ellis asks what stuttering can teach us about listening, generosity, and justice.
Ellis researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time.
Their debut album, The Clearing (2021), won the 2022 Anna Rabinowitz Prize, and it was released with an accompanying book published by Wendy’s Subway.
JJJJJerome’s work has been presented, among others, by the Whitney Museum, Venice Biennale; Haus der Kunst; MASS MoCA and the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
They have received commissions from the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, The Shed, and REDCAT. Ellis has been a lecturer in Sound Design at Yale University.

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Stories of Sound is an audio series that delves into sound arts and audio storytelling, offering listeners a window into the creative processes, challenges, and inspirations of artists, authors and theorists who tell stories through sound.

Stories of Sound: Conversations on Sound, Art, and Audio Storytelling is curated by Riccardo Giacconi at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University.

Narration by Max Greenstein.

Produced with support from the Faculty Research Awards Committee, School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University.

https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND

Stories of Sound is a proud member of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective.

Nanna Hauge Kristensen is an audio producer and anthropologist based in Copenhagen.
Her audio pieces move in the intersection of art, anthropology and documentary, and have won several international awards, including the Third Coast International Audio Award for Best Foreign Documentary, and the Grand Prix Marulic Documentary.
She loves listening and exploring human life through sound. She says, ‘What attracts me, both as a maker and as a listener, are intimate, sensory and open-ended spaces.’
She teaches workshops in Sound Ethnography.

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Stories of Sound is an audio series that delves into sound arts and audio storytelling, offering listeners a window into the creative processes, challenges, and inspirations of artists, authors and theorists who tell stories through sound.

Stories of Sound: Conversations on Sound, Art, and Audio Storytelling is curated by Riccardo Giacconi at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University.

Narration by Max Greenstein.

Produced with support from the Faculty Research Awards Committee, School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University.

https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND

Stories of Sound is a proud member of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective.

Julie Shapiro is a career listener, audio champion, and creative consultant.
She co-founded Audio Flux in 2023 with John DeLore.
She has worked as Executive Producer at Canadaland, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and PRX’s Radiotopia, and she is currently working on a narrative podcast about pancreatic cancer.
In 2000, she co-founded the Third Coast International Audio Festival, where as Artistic Director she nurtured a robust international listening culture.
Shapiro currently serves on the Board of Directors for AIR (Association of Independents in Radio.) She has taught radio to university students, presented at conferences and festivals the world over, and produced stories for the airwaves and podcasts in the US and beyond.

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Stories of Sound is an audio series that delves into sound arts and audio storytelling, offering listeners a window into the creative processes, challenges, and inspirations of artists, authors and theorists who tell stories through sound.

Stories of Sound: Conversations on Sound, Art, and Audio Storytelling is curated by Riccardo Giacconi at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University.

Narration by Max Greenstein.

Produced with support from the Faculty Research Awards Committee, School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University.

https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND

Stories of Sound is a proud member of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective.