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LIVING THE WHY EXPERIMENT? GONZO STORYTELLING SPACECAMP PRESENTS: THE HEARSAY ANTHROPOCENE: Dylan Gauche (Canada) Mike Williams (Australia) BOOGIE DOWN TO CHOCOLATE BOX OF RETHINKING SOUND & TOPICAL SOUNDS! AURAL DELIGHTS NATURE From workshops, to master-classes, to After a story about a lost cat, this talk Daniel Lewis (Denmark/USA), giving and receiving notes with explores the existential crises facing Various Contributors Robin Parmar (Ireland) collaborators, much of the artistic audio documentary makers. What is it Henrique Hinnerfeldt & Maria WHAT LIES BENEATH - process teaches us how to make clean, that I'm doing here? Who am I in the Dønvang (Denmark) Each 45 minute layer in the HearSay generic works. How can we make art story? Why is it so hard to ‘be myself’ on Chocolate box is curated by a different THE AUDIO MONTAGE We live in The Anthropocene, an epoch without all of the edges sanded off? mic? Using examples from radio and secret HearSay event contributor marked by human influence on species Intrepid DJs, Sound Voyagers and When is following the rules effective? other mediums, Australian digital (chocolatier!) Our Audio chocolatiers Andrea Rangecroft (UK) decline and climate change. As a field Empathetic Earthlings present an How do we know which rules to break? producer and documentary maker Mike have each rummaged through their recordist, Sound artist and composer Evening of Lounge and Boogie We can find the answers by breaking William makes a case for gonzo hard-drives and selected pieces drawn Montage audio features are often Robin Parmar wonders how historical integrating field recordings and open genre, medium, and form, and storytelling; a genre known for its from the best things they have done in credited with giving listeners direct approaches to nature have been conversations recorded in greater taking a hard look at what we're trying to subjectivity. Find out why it suits audio’s their lives (so far) and sounds that have access to an interviewee’s most intimate complicit with these changes. This talk Kilfinane. Featuring DJ and artist Daniel achieve. Dylan Gauche was Winner of the inherent authenticity, what it means to inspired or transported them. Prepare to thoughts, while also allowing will present a sound recording no-one Lewis, DJ, sound and visual artist 2017 HearSay Audio Prize Rising Award. be ‘realer than real’, how to put it all on give time to something beautiful. With interviewees the time and space to tell was meant to hear, the first bird to hit Henrique Hinnerfeldt and audio the line and who to blame when it all Real Artisan Chocolates provided by their story in their own words. But are the Top Ten, and other curiosities. By producer Maria Dønvang. goes wrong. Butlers Chocolate Cafe. the questions we cut out our ‘ghosts’? listening to the past, can we change our Freelance audio producer Andrea future? Rangecroft plays clips from the depths of her own hard drive to open up a discussion on how we shape stories told in montages. CELEBRATE MEMORY, PERSONAL RADIO ATLAS STORY AND TRUTH PRESENTS: THE NIGHT RADIO ATLAS Sophie Townsend (Australia) WATCHMAN PRESENTS: PAPA, WE'RE IN SYRIA Sophie Townsend, senior producer at A rare opportunity to hear the landmark A ROUNDTABLE ON Radio National in Australia, asks: Why do 1971 documentary - 'The Night Christian Lerch (Austria) WHEN EVERYTHING IS we tell our stories, and can we tell them Watchman' from Danish Radio. Made by LEVERAGING YOUR truthfully? What do we gain and what do Stephen Schwartz, the pioneer of a Papa, We’re in Syria is a radio POSSIBLE we lose in the telling of our tales, and highly influential interviewing technique. POWER" documentary about a father searching what is a truth once it's told anyway? Benjamen Walker (USA) AIR (USA) THE HEARSAY AUDIO for his lost sons. It won the Prix CINEMA Europa for Best European Radio Documentary in 2017. Presented by Recently independent radio producer With nearly 200 alumni spanning the In the Dark - Bristol (UK) Geräuschkulisse. and founding member of the Radiotopia past decade, AIR’s New Voices network Benjamen Walker heard a jingle Scholarship has brought bold, fresh from a Canadian commercial radio talent to public media and audio Step into our plush, cosy cinema, and station. It went something like this: storytelling. AIR will gather a selected sink into a comfy chair. Grab a tub of 'Audio content that can't stop being group of New Voices alumni spanning popcorn, and lose yourself in fantastic, radio', or maybe it was 'can't help being the generations of the scholarship for a feature-length audio storytelling. Think radio'. This triggered something that has conversation about how they've cinema without the pictures. With a been gnawing at him for a while about leveraged their skillsets to work toward a packed programme of some of the best 4TH-7TH APRIL 2019 podcasting, radio and formats and sustainable career in storytelling. full-length features, documentaries and THE HEARSAY AUDIO freedom. Join Benjamen as he delves Ariana Martinez, Kyle Norris, Kavita Pillay SOUND OF MY SECRETS dramas the airwaves have to offer, and a PRIZE 2019 AWARDS into these thoughts. (Anthony Martinez & Martina Castro will new show every hour, you'll never have to Ibby Caputo (USA) wait too long for a great story. Look out CEREMONY discuss: How do you navigate the BEG, BORROW, STEAL changing industry while focusing on the for our Director's Cuts Screenings, with KILFINANE, CO. LIMERICK, IRELAND world class audio makers dissecting their HearSay Prize Winners power of underrepresented narratives? Ibby Caputo, the producer of “Losing Jess Bineth (Australia) What have you adjusted about your Yourself” and “Crying Dry Tears”, explores creations and answering your questions. creative practice to protect your own why personal stories can be so The cinemas will also host other events The microphones are warmed up. The A show-and-tell session, where mental wellbeing? compelling in audio, and what you risk in the programme. Jury is in. The Prize winners are known. producers share a piece of someone AIR will host a mingle directly afterward, by sharing them. Hosted by In the Dark, a collaborative The evening will be special. Hear the bringing producers together to mingle, project between a new generation of winning pieces and celebrate with our else’s work that has changed them as an forge new collaborations, or catch up radio producers and radio enthusiasts. nine award winners a very special audio producer. Hosted by Audiocraft with existing connections. ceremony. co-founder Jess Bineth.

Our mission is a simple one: To create a home that celebrates and CONVERSE THINK DEEPEN inspires creative audio all around the world. THE HEARSAY PRIZE THE SECRET SOUND OF DOWN WITH MARIMBA THE FULL IRISH OR SHOULD THE LISTENER THE ART OF FOLEY GANBEARLA AWARD SPORT - MAKING MUSIC DO PRINGLES? GETTING WEST CORK: HAVE A VOICE? Caoimhe Doyle & Jean PREMIERES Peregrine Andrews (UK) McGrath (Ireland) THE HEAVY LIFTING YOUR RADIO STORY PRODUCTION & Nicky Birch (UK) In 2019, that home is once again Kilfinane, a GanBearla Nominees & Radio STARTED REPORTING - ACCESS & Atlas (Worldwide) Drawing from his popular podcast Martin Zaltz Austwick (UK) Foley is one of the most subtle, yet THE UNINTENDED episode, sound designer, mixer and radio Traditionally audio is a passive medium, persuasive special effects used in film. It mountain village in Ireland which for the four OPEN HOUSES CHASING DOGS (AND Neil Sandell (Canada/France) HONOUR but increasingly we now do our listening producer Peregrine Andrews will Music is intrinsic to audio, but so is an art of illusion and creativity. Foley Radio Atlas and the HearSay present a CONSEQUENCES OF on devices with computational Mystery Contributors deconstruct the surprisingly complex HUMANS) frequently seems added as an Jennifer Forde & Sam Bungey artists Jean McGrath (The Lovely Bones, premiere screening of the pieces What's the best way to start an audio functionality. The listener now has a magical days of the HearSay19 will be taken EMPATHY soundtrack of live TV sports coverage, afterthought to make a piece feel (UK) Room) and Caoimhe Doyle (The shortlisted for the Gan Bearla Award story? Like a bag of crisps, a good voice. Nicky Birch has been making comparing it to the techniques used in Lu Olkowski (USA) “produced”. What can music do when it’s Favourite, Game of Thrones) will be Held in local peoples living rooms, the (works not in English). Including: A Caixa Eric Nuzum (USA) films and video games. He'll show we beginning should leave the listener experimental audio for smart speakers revealing the tricks of their trade and over by the worlds' finest audio makers. a more intrinsic, or, dare we say it, fun How do two British journalists (and their HearSay Open Houses are becoming the by Sofia Saldanha, Das Lied der sometimes have to "cheat" to tell the wanting more. Join Neil Sandell, for the past two years and will be sharing talking us through the often-surprising Join independent radio producer Lu part of the process? We will hear pieces American producers) tell an authentic stuff of legend and embody the spirit of Salatschleuder by Johanna Fricke, Time truth. independent producer and a winner of examples of her work and hosting a ways sound is produced for film and There is one common trait among all Olkowski, fresh from the Alaskan that set the tone of a show, echo a story and respectful story that is deeply rooted the festival. Just 12 participants and a to Talk by Miriam Arndts, Espera by Sayre Third Coast and Prix Marulic, for a discussion on the value and future television. During this special Foley successful audio creators: empathy. wilderness where she spent three weeks arc, convey boring information in the culture and character of a rural mystery host who only declares Quevedo, Helene by Joyce de Badts & crunchy investigation of great openings. possibilities these devices offer audio workshop, you will learn how to create Makers can be empathetic towards recording a rookie musher on her first entertainingly, or do other heavy lifting - Irish place? Sam Bungey and Jennifer The HearSay International Audio Arts Festival themselves as the tea (or hot whiskey) is Wederik De Backer, Puzzle of Borders by makers. and record realistic sound effects. poured. Laura Romero & André Cunha. themselves (and their own vision), attempt at the Iditarod, a one thousand so you don’t have to. Forde of the acclaimed "West Cork" hosts international award-winning contributors Discover disciplines & creators that you empathetic towards their subject, or they mile sled dog race over frozen rivers, podcast share their experience might not be familiar with and have can be empathetic towards their mountain ranges and sea ice. You’ll hear embedding into the community, build from all disciplines of creative audio; radio chance, intimate encounters with people audience. Empathy can also be a about: ambitious snow machine trust, gaining access to difficult subjects, whose work you love! dangerous thing. Presented by audio journeys, audio diaries, cold weather and finding a way to tell this story in an producer and writer Eric Nuzum. recording and dogs. #TinPuppy authentic (and accurate way) that features, film sound, sound art, theatre sound, honors both the victim, the local residents, and the place they call home. music and audio fiction. HearSay fosters (one of two "West Cork@HearSay19" sessions that can also be attend on a collaboration and imagination, compelling THE ART OF THE RADIO standalone basis) PHONE-IN SUGGESTING THROUGH insights, creative challenges and unique SOUND SOUND ME OUT Rachel Humphreys (UK) INSIDE THE MIND OF A Benoit Bories (France) experiences with no name badges. HearSay KILFINANE CHILD IS A STORY JUST FROM TAPE TO PAGE HOW TO GET LUCKY “Jan is in Orpington. Jan, what would you BURSTING TO GET OUT means passion and free-flowing inspiration Rachel Humphreys & Andrea like to say?” Every day in Britain, Acousmatic composition at the service of Mary-Elaine Tynan & Marc Scott Carrier (USA) Rangecroft (UK) hundreds of people pick up the phone Jessie Lawson & Isabel narration and story telling of your sound McMenamin (Ireland) rooted in a real sense of community. PLANTING THE SEED IN PRAISE OF HANGING and call a radio station. Their voices fill THE GENTLE ART OF piece. Composer Benoit Bories looks at the air waves for millions of listeners, but Tennant (UK) Scott Carrier, producer and host of the FOR A MULTI-ENGLISH Inspired by HearSay in 2014, Rachel OUT TALKING TO how to think and build a landscape and is there an art to broadcasting this An interactive session with Marc Mc critically acclaimed American podcast Humphreys and Andrea Rangecroft acousmatic sound composition in order humble format? Former talk radio Menamin author of Codebreaker and Home of the Brave, offers you tips on PODCAST founded Sound Me Out (an audio open Joe Richman (USA) STRANGERS An immersive, audio-visual experience to complete a narrative voice. producer and radio phone-in fan Rachel Mary Elaine Tynan author of Life after How To Get Lucky at capturing that mic night in London). Now they are that brings you into our new way of life. Events fall under the categories of Think, This Watcher (Switzerland) Humphreys shares stories and explores Lucia Scazzocchio (UK) Space Kids is an art, science fiction and Life, both having started out as special something that makes a story bringing their audio feedback sessions Part sermon, part confessional, part love the history of the call-in. radio adventure that empowers young Radio documentaries. The session will extraordinary: ‘A lot of what I do depends to Kilfinane. Whether it's a half-made letter... with tape. Radio Diaries producer Meet audio producers from all over the Even for seasoned journalists and radio people to learn new skills and choose deal with the process and challenges of on luck. I try to prepare for a story by Converse, Encounter, Deepen, Experience, feature, a finely tuned documentary that Joe Richman investigates how we world in the Rose Centre of Kilfinane makers the idea of striking up a how to use them. On a weekend that turning your radio doc in a best selling thinking about who I should talk to and you’re still not happy with, raw audio or convey feeling in sound. Those moments while listening to the varieties of English conversation with a total stranger, with involves hundreds of new people WEST CORK: POST . what I want to know, but often when a Celebrate and Performance. even the sound of your dog sneezing, this when voice, scene, plot, and luck accents and smelling the scents of no idea where this encounter will take entering their village, these workshops story works well it’s because of is the place to bring any sounds that you converge to create stories we feel in our PRODUCTION - something that fell out of the blue or different roses. We'll talk about the idea you, can be terrifying. Social Broadcaster and exhibition provide a space for the want some feedback on from a willing bodies. happened unexpectedly. So, is there a of a podcast with one topic or multiple Lucia Scazzocchio explores how she uses children of Kilfinane to show festival SHAPING CHAOS and friendly audience. way to be luckier? Probably not, but I will stories told by producers from different participatory art installations, mobile goers their own creativity. Hosted by Jesse Bake (USA), Jennifer offer up what I’ve learned.’ parts of the world, with different English- radio, props and performance to radio maker Jess Lawson and artist and speaking accents speaking. This Wachter overcome the fear of the unknown and write Izzy Tennant. Forde & Sam Bungey (UK) is a Swiss producer of audio stories, uncover remarkable stories. podcasts and live shows and founder of By the end of reporting, the makers of the Audio Story Lab in Bern, Switzerland. LIKE A PODCAST ON the West Cork Podcasts had over 150 LEGS? DESIGNING interviews, many theories on “who dun 100+ 32 it.”, hundreds of story tangents and rabbit AUDIO WALKS holes and dozens of hours of tape. How Events The number of Jeanti St Clair (Australia) do you possibly make sense of it all and MOVED BY SOUND countries participant FUNDING POSSIBILITIES BE MORE MAGPIE! create a series of that scale. Also, to help come from THE SECRET FEARS OF make the session as relevant as possible, Michelle Fingleton (Ireland) WITH THE BAI Steven Rajam (UK) But is it? Place-based audio comes with the creators will explore how to THE COMMISSIONING its own set of design concerns. This approach these same creative problems Ciarán Kissane (Ireland) workshop by award winning with more modest budgets and staff How sound can enhance the emotion of EDITOR In a golden age of audio never have LOOPING STORIES - documentary maker Jeanti St Claire sizes. Hosted by creators of West Cork a film's narrative. Sound is essential in there been so many storytelling styles, SOUND-DAY BRUNCH Funding innovative audio can be a GET YOUR LISTENERS outlines how to design an immersive esse Baker, Jennifer Forde & Sam creating the rich and layered sensory DANCE, MOVEMENT Jason Phipps (UK) subjects and genres. Audio makers have SECONDARY SCHOOLS challenge. The BAI Sound and Vision and engaging app-based audio walk. Bungey. (one of two "West world of a film. Immerse yourself in the Salon du Chat (Ireland) the unique opportunity to absorb these TO DO YOUR WORK AND SOUND Scheme invest over €1m each year in WORKSHOP Narrative, instruction, sound design, Cork@HearSay19" sessions that can also world of dialogue , Foley, music, Join the BBC’s Commissioning Editor for influences and re-imagine them into audio production and has innovation as FOR YOU route, selecting a locative platform are be attend on a standalone basis) and sound design with examples from - TDP @ HEARSAY19 Podcasts Jason Phipps as he bares his their own work. Yet it feels sometimes Wes Swing and Kelley Sunday morning, time for a coffee, a one of its core objectives. Come along to among the topics discussed. films such as The Favourite, Sing Street soul to talk podcast pitches, public like the audio community is more Iseli-Chiodi Dance Company pastry and a chat with the Salon du Chat see if your ideas match the funding Helen Zaltzman (UK) Libby(USA) and Dirty God. This talk, by Sound service and how the BBC is changing to boxed-up than ever. Why can't we all get 17 1 crew. Sit down with a group of other objectives. Ask the questions you've Designer and Supervising Sound Editor (Ireland) meet the needs of younger audiences in along? And more importantly, fuse the Michelle Fingleton, aims to show the sound heads for a meeting of minds. always wanted to ask in an open and A show's listeners are a fantastic resource Students of Scoil Pol join musician Wes the UK and globally. He’ll bust some best of our brilliant, messy, challenging audience a little about what is involved, Venues Mountain Village Choose from a menu of starters, main friendly conversation. for knowledge, experience, stories that Swing and Audio Feature maker Kelley A unique workshop for HearSay in myths about the BBC and reveal the audio ecosystem in 2019 into something both practically and creatively, in making and dessert, each one with an audio Hosted by Ciarán Kissane of the are heartbreaking and heartwarming - so Libby for workshop on electronic looping collaboration with Tipperary Dance opportunities for audio-makers, from new and bold? Producer, feature-maker these layers so that the emotional and flavour. Topics include The Loud Voice of Broadcasting Authority of Ireland BAI), why don't we hear from them more and the essentials of storytelling (part of Platform that will explore the focus on established indies to talented and Prix Italia winner Steven Rajam subjective elements of sound are Protest, Sound Heads, Who’s Listening operator of the Broadcast Fund (Sound & often? HearSay Engage) the breath as a source of movement and newcomers. Plus he’ll open the floor for accepts the challenge. heightened. In? and Cinematic Sound Moments. Drop Vision). your questions and give instant feedback sound. Facilitated by dance artists in, grab a chair and a coffee and while a Jazmin Chiodi and Alex Iseli. salonistas takes your order on your ideas. THINK CONVERSE ENCOUNTER DEEPEN EXPERIENCE CELEBRATE PERFORMANCE

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DIGGING FOR FIRE WHOSE BODY IS THIS? (OUR) STORIES SCORED THINKING OF A PLACE THE MOMENT LANDSCAPE A BIGGER BRAIN - COILS IN THE DRIVE STRAIGHT AHEAD GHOST ANVIL DE-STRESS WITH THE Kevin Brew, Daragh Dukes & Adriana Disman (Canada) Alex Lewis & Steve Teare JOURNALISM - YOUR INSIDE THE WRITERS CORRIDOR (JAM) Cristal Duhaime, Mira Burt- Danny McCarthy (Ireland) MINDFUL FARMER Eoin O'Kelly (Ireland) Wes Swing & Kelley Libby INTERVIEW - DNA OF (USA) (USA) FOOT IN THE NEWS ROOM FOR PODCAST Wes Swing and Kelley Libby Wintonick & Jonathan Questions without answers must be RADIO TALES Geraldine O'Sullivan & Pat Musician Daragh Dukes and Radio Goldstein (Canada) Short blast of the anvil been struck. Did I asked very slowly' is a series of Chris Brookes (Canada) SERIES (USA) Mulcahy (Ireland) Producers Kevin Brew and Eoin O'Kelly An audio-visual collaborative Torben Brandt (Denmark) really hear that? The sound of the anvil performances. Strange and sudden. What’s it like to collectively create create a live soundtrack of music and original musical scores to stories told live performance between independent Monika Maria Kalcsics Step into the HearSay Car by the once the most prominent sound in every Weird but not rough. An open palm, face Some of us write for it, or work in radio A Live Lunchtime Interactive town and village in Ireland has long Follow the Mindful Farmer, Pat Mulcahy, stories (including stories from the by people in the audience? In this piece, radio producer and musician Alex Lewis Most radio-story-telling includes a lot of (Austria) fountain. Put your Seatbelt on. Place your up, that you can move towards or away newsrooms. Our readers and listeners Performance in the main corridor of Scoil since disappeared. Artist Danny deep into the Celtic landscape as he ALL THAT IS SOLID audience) exploring the creative instincts we listen to a story unfolding over time and illustrator and cartoonist Steve Teare memories and flash-backs. Often the hands upon the wheel. No need to ask from. This performance will respond learn about breaking stories at a remove Pol Secondary School with Wes Swing McCarthy will re-introduce it back into guides you through the forest. Let your we had as younger people. With local and respond with our voices, giving that weaves together fragments of entire story is built on memories. The directions.There’s A Sat Nav that knows MELTS INTO AIR: GAYS, directly to HearSay. I don't think we can from the place and the reality where it Is the writers' room smarter than the and Kelley Libby. the town in a number of locations. mind escape and run with the wild deer actors and audience participation this musical support and interpretation to interviews with Kilfinane locals into a ‘Moment Interview’ technique brings you where you've been as well as where be free but I think we can be free-er. happened. Can we get listeners to "enter" individual author? Can it be that a group and boar across the dark green fields. UNIONISTS AND THE event celebrates creative potential, the emotional tenor of what we are painted sonic tapestry. A world stitched and the story-teller back to the drama you're going. By artists Cristal Duhaime, Created and performed by artist Adriana a news story in an immersive way, that is ultimately more courageous in Hear how the power of listening can still especially that fiery, untutored, childlike hearing. (Our) Stories Scored is an together with the goal of grasping a scene, the then, the ‘now’. In Mira Burt-Wintonick & Jonathan IRISH LANGUAGE Disman. ONLY SUITABLE FOR AGE 18+. brings them closer to the event and breaking ground? Through an example, your mind. With radio documentary creativity we need to protect as screens opportunity to not just passively listen to shared identity. collaboration, you and the interviewee Goldstein. helps them understand? this session with public radio producer maker Geraldine O’Sullivan. Don Duncan (Ireland) scream and deadlines clang. stories, but to actively engage in them brings a story back to life. Together you and a digital audio aficionada Monika through art making reconstruct the drama, the movements, Maria Kalcsics tries to find an answer to the scenography, the smell, the words this ongoing audio adventure. Join writer, audio producer and journalist and the thoughts – all practised during Don Duncan on his journey into the Irish documentary and drama radio maker language – from alienated beginnings as Torben Brandt's session. a gay kid in the 80s to the adult he now is, learning how to make the language his own from unexpected allies: unionist gaeilgeoirí in East Belfast. This narrative performance – in spoken word, recorded RECORDING RATS, A WALK WITH YOUR REAR MIRROR sound and moving images – tells of how those who were once on the margins of DESERTS AND REEFS ENCOUNTER EARS WIDE OPEN Eugene Boyle (Ireland) the language are now making a home PEPTALK - THE for themselves in it. COME KNOCKING A' Kara Oehler (USA) Diarmuid McIntyre (Ireland) HEARSAY AUDIO TOILET There's a car parked in The Square in THE DOOR - A Kilfinane. It's unlocked. If someone in A MILE IN MY SHOES KILFINANE HEARTSONG Last fall, The New York Times Magazine Bring your walking boots and your ears, Diarmuid McIntyre & Mary there already, join them - it's a devoted an issue to 11 sonic destinations SOUND PERCEPTIONS TOTALITY as we explore a dramatic range of McDonnell (Ireland) community. If there it's empty, get in - it's Empathy Museum (UK) Benoit Bories (France) ONE BY ONE TILL MANY around the world. Kara Oehler was the natural sound environments from sanctuary. Close the door. Turn on the Slavek Kwi (Czech Republic) Mae-Li Evans & Calum Perrin audio producer and she'll dig into how cascading waterfalls, to ‘dead’ spaces in ARE HEARD Radio...Breathe. A shoe shop where visitors are invited to (UK) they captured the sound of rats laughing tree tunnels, and reveal a stunning Energy Flagging? It's raining. Take a In December 2018, Benoit Bories walk a mile in someone else’s shoes - Wes Swing & Kelley Libby AN AFFAIR: FILM & TV in NYC, ants crawling on cables in ancient sonic secret at the heart of a moment to yourself in the HearSay A live sonic interaction with the natural immersed himself in Kilfinane life literally. Housed for HearSay19 in Hayes listening intently and recording widely. (USA) ADAPTATIONS OF Northern Italy and the desert cracking in monument three thousand years old. Audio Toilet. Take your place on the world surrounding the performance A woman perches on a desk in a one of the quietest places on earth. bench. Now get out there! Interiors. This working shop holds a space. This will be a unique premiere of a classroom. A row of children sit cross- RADIO AND PODCAST diverse of 150 pairs of shoes compelling new work layering interviews, legged in front of her. The wall clock What happens when you take radio and audio stories that explore our shared field recordings and music. Kaitlin Prest (USA) reads twelve past ten. Full moon. Half storytelling into a live setting where the MESSAGE IN A humanity. From a Syrian refugee to a sex moon. Total eclipse. We can chart audience creates the musical score? worker, a war veteran to a neuro surgeon, astronomic events into the next Using looping technology and recorded As an audiophile, Kaitlin Prest (winner of MATCHBOX and new stories from Kilfinane, visitors millennia with minute precision, so why words from the Kilfinane area, Cellist, the inaugural HearSay Audio Prize in are invited to walk a mile in the shoes of are we still awestruck by the simple singer, and composer Wes Swing and Jess Bineth (Australia) a stranger whilst listening to their story 2014) made a vow never to love film motion of the sun disappearing behind a audio documentary maker Kelley Libby and go on empathetic (and physical) more than audio. She vowed even never moon? Drawing inspiration from home present an interactive experiment in journey. to have dalliances with the world's more A tiny love letter, from one audio creative THE UNHEARD WALKS THE ALLUSIONIST LIVE videos, personal testimonies and that sound, storytelling, and collective favourite medium. Recently, she has to another. The concept is simple, Jess jaffa cake advert, Totality is a live interpretation. considering breaking that vow. In fact, Binet,, co-founder of Audiocraft (an Stepháne Marin - Espaces Helen Zaltzman & Martin performance that explores the she has already broken it. Australian organisation for podcasters Sonores (France) Austwick (UK) inexplicable experience of watching a (This event is also happening at The After negotiating option agreements to BREAK IT DOWN, AND and radio makers) asked producers from ACOUSTIC HEARSAY HAIKU total solar eclipse. Created by theatre Burren College of Arts on 30th March as all over the world to write a one sentence adapt The Heart, No, and The Shadows AUTOGRAPHS Considering the art of listening as an art The linguistics-based edutainment of the maker and audio producer Mae-Li Evans part of HearSay Presents). REBUILD letter to a fellow audio creative. Each THE HEART'S CHORUS with different production companies, John De Lore & Brendan of space, Stéphane Marin takes a group Allusionist podcast exits your earbuds sound designer and writer Calum Perrin. letter will be placed inside an individual Kaitlin offers what she has learned, looks Grace Digney (Ireland) Francis Newman (USA) of 15 people on a walking journey of (re)- and leaps onto the stage. Created by Phil Smith (UK) A WRENCH IN THE Leila Day (USA) matchbox and left around Kilfinane for at different case studies of what has discovery of the audio environment of an host and producer of the Allusionist worked and why, and shares with us her HearSayers to discover. Think of it as a WORKS A HearSay favourite returns. Step into area, through different kinds of listening podcast Helen Zaltzman, and composer first experiment with video. How do you create something that's tiny fortune cookie Easter egg, full of Gabriel Rosenstock is one of Kilfinane’s Private lamentations and public chants Hennessy's Butchers at the crossroads in experiences. Whether using our ears and co-host Song By Song podcast Joe Richman (USA) listenable and consistent when you want audio wisdom. The line you will find in most famous native sons. He's a poet. He of hope; inner monologues and the Kilfinane and Discover the art in your ‘naturally’, or with ‘open’ or ‘anti noise’ Martin Austwick. to do it all? From non-narrated, to each matchbox should spark creativity in writes in Irish. He's written and translated ensembles of voices; competing shouts voice. You can talk, you can sing and headphones, the world sounds different reported pieces, to straight conversation, its reader and urge them onwards. over 180 books. And he’s obsessed with and unison... We wish to live and love in a A live radio story with animation and live using sand and the force of vibration, as soon as we listen to it consciously. there are ways that you can be eclectic haikus. HearSay attendees will take time of collapse and chaos. A piece scoring.... A Wrench In the Works is about capture your own acoustic autograph. but direct with your message. Leila Day is Gabriel's work as a leaping off point to bringing together poetry, pre-recorded how the smallest things can sometimes a producer and co-host of The Stoop create an original set of Haiku's in an speech, and live music. have the biggest consequences. 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STREET LOOPS, LAYER I ASK, SO I LISTEN SOUNDSCAPE & LISTEN (JAM) CARPENTRY THE UNCOOPERATIVE Fatos Vladi & Floris van CARTOGRAPHER: A Wes Swing and Kelley CONFESSIONAL COLLABORATOR Manen (The Netherlands) SOLO EXPEDITION INTO Food Libby(USA) Main Venue Damian Fitzpatrick (USA) Brian Leach, Jesse Halloway DEEP LISTENING This is a workshop about the act of (both Ireland) & Pachypodium listening. Participants can ask any Add your sounds and voices to the layers Daniel Lewis (USA), Johannes Let go of something you've been carrying PRAMBULATE - THE Lamere (Madagascar) question in English, and they will get an and loops in this live outdoor community Bech Dalsgaard & Maria at the carpentry confessional: secrets, answer to their question in a language Pub Loop-Loop-Listen Jam DARK SIDE OF SOUND skeletons, whatever's been weighing you they are not familiar with at all. Dønvang (both Denmark) This event shows us new ways of Information down. Confess while you listen to the Rachel Ní Chuinn & Conor Presented by Floris van Manen, a interacting with sound, new connections software engineer, sonographer and soothing sounds of a carpenter at work. O'Toole (Ireland) between organic life and digital Guests will be guided in a text-based visual artist in an area between art & At the end of the festival, The Carpenter hardware, and new sounds from outside "vision quest" of sorts, to set out into the Pedestrian Path Only (designer and builder Damian technology and Fatos Vladi, an award wilds of Kilfinane and reckon with the Based on the true story of sound artist the realm of human constructs. If there is FitzPatrick) will present to Kilfinane what winning documentary director and sounds and spirits they encounter in a and producer Rachel Ní Chuinn and an intelligent message within these he's built behind the curtain with all journalist. voyage of exploration and deep listening. comedian and radio sitcom producer systems, we’re listening. Created by those confessions. Created by writer, artist, lawyer and DJ Conor O’Toole’s adventures pushing a musician, sound artist and instrument Daniel Lewis, writer, artist and games pram around the town, Prambulate is a maker Brian Leach, winner of the Royal master Johannes Bech Dalsgaard and mash-up of humorous audio fiction and Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden audio producer Maria Dønvang. audio tour. The protagonist is tired, Merit Pachypodium Lamere and audio CONTACT US hungry, and needs to use the maker Jesse Halloway. bathroom...but they’ve just got the baby REINVASIVE SPECIALS to sleep. 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Giving rise WHISPERS experience it is easy to forget about one FESTIVAL PARTNERS to contemplation of topics such as A path in the Kilifinane landscape is the Cristal Duhaime (Canada) of the most underrated pleasures: eating immigration, invasion, confusion and subject of this automatic speaking tour alone. In audio producer and THE AUDIO WAKE interconnectivity, the listener directs by radio and sound artist Antje enthusiastic eater Lucy Dearlove's Table A HearSay fiction that reaches out into Nina Garthwaite (UK) In the their own experience of what they are Vowinckel. After a workshop up to 5 DREAMWAYS For One, you can take your seat at the hearing. participants will be asked to walk the our senses. A local woman decides to most exclusive restaurant in Kilfinane Dark London path one after the other recording Lena Löhr, Martina Weber & cash in on the popularity of ASMR (Capacity: 1). Diners can choose their YouTube videos (a brand of calming themselves. They will speaki without dishes from the menu, each one a A HearSay tradition, at the end of the Carina Pesch (Germany) videos that use props such as scissors interruption, reacting on ther delicious audio story about solitary weekend In The Dark holds an Irish and brushes to elicit “brain tingles”) by surrounding, and try to create a short dining. wake...but for audio - a piece of tape Walk into a room. Lie down. Put on the creating her very own Kilfinane-specific cirquit of perception and speaking. which didn’t make the final cut. Maybe it headphones. We take you into the cosy audio whispers. But in the process of Repetion and movement are the main still excites you, you’ve tried to find a way scenery of a bedroom. Your body gets making the perfect auditory journey for tools in this poetic machinery. The for it to live, you still dream of making heavier and slowly, slowly you walk with her subscribers, she ends up realizing a automatic streams will come together something with it. But, deep down, you one of us into dreamland. From a truth about her own past. Created by and together with field recordings they know it's time to let it go. Participants are common starting point three stories Cristal Duhaime, co-creator of CBC’s Love will build a spoken landscape . invited to bring a piece of audio to evolve. Each of us takes you on a Me and artist and comedian Conor mourn. From raw recordings to elaborate different journey. Listening to all three O’Toole. edits, there are no distinctions in our final dreams you will encounter familiar moments. SCHEDULE & TIMINGS FESTIVAL TEAM voices and places, though a little EVENT & EQUIPMENT PARTNERS ECHOES IN THE NIGHT - Chief mourner Nina Garthwaite different. Brought to you by journalist

A NIGHT WALK WITH and producer Martina Weber, Followed by Festival Closing. BATS anthropologist of sound Lena Löhr and Events in Main Venues : Diarmuid McIntyre, Tereza Reková, Mary McDonnell, director and author for radio features Kate McAney (Ireland) Carina Pesch. PEZ AND GEOFF'S Thursday 4th April 4pm-9.30pm Daniel Clancy, Aoife Allen, Nikki Martin, Katie SONIC PUB QUIZ Friday 5th April 10am-10pm Verling, Kate Landers, Dave Santorum, Greg As dusk falls, Bats dip and dive amongst Peregrine Andrews & Geoff the trees, old buildings and streams of Saturday 6th April 10am-Late McNamara, Tommy O'Sullivan, Sr Patricia Coughlan, Kilfinane. Head out equipped with Bat Marsh (UK) Detectors that translate, to a frequency Sunday 7th April 10am-1pm. Emer Casey, & Kathy O'Hare we CAN hear, the sounds and patterns The Sonic Pub quiz is the ultimate test of the bats use to navigate and hunt. Event how well you listen. Consisting of dozens comprises of a Talk and Walk with Head of fast-paced, broadly-ranging audio Events in the Main Venues are held every 90 SUPPORTERS of Conservation Development in Ireland challenges, it's silly, fun and sometimes Thank to all the crew and artists and partners who for Vincent Wildlife Trust Kate McAney. quite disgusting. But it should make you minutes. They are staggered so that first events have made #HearSay19 possible. Huge thanks as a better sonic storyteller. begin at The Old Church, Teach na Cille and the well to all the people of Kilfinane who have opened Apple Farm. Then 30 minutes later events begin at their businesses, their homes and their hearts to Kilfinane , Sunken Garden & Convent Chapel make audio heaven possible.

For exact timing of events, see hearsayfestival.ie

#HEARSAY19 SCHEDULE OF SONIC INSPIRATION

THURSDAY 4TH APRIL SATURDAY 6TH APRIL

OLD CHURCH TEACH NA CILLE APPLE FARM SUNKEN GARDEN CONVENT CHAPEL PUBLIC LIBRARY AUDIO CINEMA OLD CHURCH TEACH NA CILLE APPLE FARM SUNKEN GARDEN CONVENT CHAPEL PUBLIC LIBRARY AUDIO CINEMA 4pm BREAK IT DOWN, SHOULD RADIO INSIDE THE MIND 9:30am MINDFUL FARMER 4:30pm AND REBUILD EVER TALK BACK? OF A CHILD DIGGING SOUND OF MY CHOCOLATE BOX: 10am MOVED BY LIKE A PODCAST FROM TAPE ECHOSOUNDER FOR FIRE 10:30am TO PAGE THE SECRET SOUND FEARS OF CHOCOLATE BOX: EUGENE BOYLE 5pm SECRETS THIS WATCHER SOUND ON LEGS? THE COMMISSIONING MARTIN ZALTZ OF SPORT 5:30pm BE MORE LIVING THE PEZ & GEOFF'S 11am EDITOR AUSTWICK SECRET 6pm MAGPIE! ANTHROPOCENE SONIC PUB QUIZ GONZO RECORDING RATS, CHOCOLATE BOX: 11:30am CHASING DOGS A BIGGER SCREENING TOTALITY DESERTS & REEFS 12pm THINKING OF A WEST CORK: POST- CHOCOLATE BOX: PREMIERE: 6:30pm STORYTELLING LUCY DEARLOVE (AND HUMANS) BRAIN PRODUCTION - PLACE ANTJE VOWINCKEL CREATE 7pm BREAK IT DOWN, SHOULD RADIO INSIDE THE MIND 12:30pm SHAPING CHAOS SHORTLIST 7:30pm AND REBUILD DIGGING SOUND OF MY CHOCOLATE BOX: 1pm PREMIERE: EVER TALK BACK? OF A CHILD ONE BY ONE TIL LIKE A PODCAST FROM TAPE GAN BEARLA FOR FIRE 1:30pm THE SECRET FEARS OF SHOWCASE 8pm SECRETS LUCIA SCAZZOCCHIO MANY ARE HEARD ON LEGS? TO PAGE THE COMMISSIONINGCHOCOLATE BOX: SOUND OF SPORT SLAVEK KWI 8:30pm (OUR) STORIES PEZ & GEOFF'S 2pm EDITOR SECRET SCREENING 9pm SCORED SONIC PUB QUIZ 2:30pm CHASING DOGS A BIGGER TOTALITY WEST CORK: POST- 9:30pm 3pm (AND HUMANS) BRAIN THINKING OF A CHOCOLATE BOX: PRODUCTION - ZOE COMYNS SCREENS: SOPHIE 3:30pm PLACE SHAPING CHAOS TOWNSEND 4pm AN THE MOMENT WHAT LIES 'MENUET' - KATHARINA SMETS 4:30pm AFFAIR INTERVIEW BENEATH LANDSCAPE IN PRAISE OF CHOCOLATE BOX: FRIDAY 5TH APRIL JOURNALISM HANGING OUT DON DUNCAN 5pm HEARSAY AUDIO PRIZE SELECTS 5:30pm DOWN WITH WHEN EVERYTHING THE GENTLE ART OLD CHURCH TEACH NA CILLE APPLE FARM SUNKEN GARDEN CONVENT CHAPEL PUBLIC LIBRARY AUDIO CINEMA OF TALKING 6pm THE UNINTENDED HEARSAY CHOCOLATE BOX: MARIMBA IS POSSIBLE TO STRANGERS CONSEQUENCES MARY-ELAINE SCREENS: SCOTT 9:30am MINDFUL FARMER HAIKU CARRIER 6:30pm OF EMPATHY TYNAN 10am A WRENCH IN I ASK, GET YOUR LISTENERS 7pm THE ALLUSIONIST THE MOMENT WHAT LIES SECRET 10:30am THE WORKS SO I LISTEN TO DO YOUR WORK THE FULL IRISH WEST CORK: CHOCOLATE BOX: LANDSCAPE PRODUCTION KARA OEHLER & 7:30pm LIVE INTERVIEW BENEATH IN PRAISE OF CHOCOLATE BOX: SCREENING 11am OR PRINGLES? /REPORTING JOURNALISM HANGING OUT IBBY CAPUTO BEN WALKER 8pm RADIO ATLAS: 11:30am BE MORE SOUND ME OUT LIVING THE 'NIGHT WATCHMAN' 8:30pm WHOSE BODY 12pm MAGPIE! KILFINANE ANTHROPOCENE GONZO RECORDING RATS, CHOCOLATE BOX: MAE-LI EVANS & 9pm IS THIS? SPACECAMP PREMIERE 12:30pm DESERTS & REEFS STORYTELLING CALUM PERRIN 9:30pm BOOGIE DOWN 'FOREST 404' 1pm A WRENCH IN I ASK, GET YOUR LISTENERS TO TOPICAL 10pm SOUNDS! 1:30pm THE WORKS SO I LISTEN TO DO YOUR WORK THE FULL IRISH WEST CORK: CHOCOLATE BOX: PRODUCTION DANNY 2pm OR PRINGLES? /REPORTING MCCARTHY 2:30pm OUTDOOR LEVERAGING ALL THAT IS SOLID SUNDAY 7TH APRIL EDUCATION 3pm YOUR POWER MELTS INTO AIR SUGGESTING THE ART OF THE CHOCOLATE BOX: CENTRE 3:30pm FOLLOWED BY THROUGH SOUND RADIO PHONE-IN JEANTI ST. CLAIR OLD CHURCH TEACH NA CILLE APPLE FARM SUNKEN GARDEN CHILL ROOM PUBLIC LIBRARY AUDIO CINEMA MIXER SHAUGHNESSYS 4pm WHY THE HEART'S 9:30am 4:30pm EXPERIMENT? CHORUS HOW TO MEMORY, CHOCOLATE BOX: GRAND OPENING 10am DOWN WITH WHEN EVERYTHING THE GENTLE ART OF THE UNINTENDED CHOCOLATE BOX: SECRET PERSONAL TALKING TO 5pm ADRIANA DISMAN - PREMIERE 10:30am CONSEQUENCES CHRIS BROOKES SCREENING GET LUCKY STORY & TRUTH MARIMBA IS POSSIBLE STRANGERS OF EMPATHY 5:30pm BEG, BORROW, ALL THAT IS SOLID 11am HEARSAY PRIZE 6pm 2019 WINNERS STEAL MELTS INTO AIR SUGGESTING THE ART OF THE CHOCOLATE BOX: 'MATĚJ' 11:30am HEARSAY FUNDING THE MOMENT COME KNOCKING SOUND ME OUT PEREGRINE - TEREZA REKOVÁ CHOCOLATE BOX: 6:30pm THROUGH SOUND RADIO PHONE-IN ANDREWS 12pm HAIKU POSSIBILITIES INTERVIEW A' THE DOOR KILFINANE JONATHAN ZENTI "'THE STOOP & STOOP TALKS'" 7pm 'PAPA, WE'RE IN -LELIA DAY WHY THE HEART'S SYRIA' - 12:30pm 7:30pm EXPERIMENT? CHORUS HOW TO MEMORY, CHOCOLATE BOX: CHRISTIAN LERCH 1pm PERSONAL THE HEARSAY 8pm GET LUCKY JESSICA FOLEY 'ART OF THE SHORT AUDIO WAKE STORY & TRUTH FEATURE' - ANDREA 1:30pm 8:30pm HEARSAY RANGECROFT 2pm 9pm AUDIO PRIZE 'GHOSTS IN THE 2019 MACHINE' - 9:30pm AWARDS STEVEN RAJAM 10pm CEREMONY ENCOUNTERS & EXPERIENCES ACTIVE ALL WEEKEND FESTIVAL PARTNERS Open Thursday 4pm - 8pm, Friday 10am - 8pm & Sunday 10am - 2pm

EVENTS OUTSIDE MAIN VENUES A MILE IN MY SHOES SOUNDS ALIVE: A SOLO WHISPERS (EMPATHY MUSEUM) EXPEDITION INTO DEEP Friday Apple Farm HEARSAY LISTENING THE UNHEARD STREET LOOPS, LAYER & Hayes Interiors (Every 15 minutes OPEN HOUSES 10.30am, 12pm, 1.30pm 11am & 4pm Thursday, LISTEN (JAM) WALKS Tent of Aural Expectation Welcome Point (to start) 3pm, 4.30pm, 6pm, Apple Farm Boardroom Friday Saturday Sunday Street Encounter REINVASIVE SPECIALS 7.30pm TABLE FOR ONE GHOST ANVIL Apple Farm Gardens The HearSay Gazebo Encounter where you will Saturday PLANTING THE SEED 4.30pm COILS IN THE CORRIDOR (Drop in) (Square) 10.30am, 12pm,1,30pm, Just Roses Saturday (one hour) Pre-Festival Scoil Pol AUTOMATIC SPEAKING EVENT & EQUIPMENT PARTNERS 3pm 6pm (Come to Welcome Desk) Tuesday 2nd April 1pm REAR MIRROR PEPTALK Come to Welcome Desk

UN-COOPERATIVE Car in the Square HearSay Toilet - HEARSAY HAIKU COLLABORATOR 11am to 1pm (15 min) Apple Farm CARPENTRY Saturday 3pm, 4pm, 5pm RECORDINGS ECHOES IN THE NIGHT Tent of Aural Expectation Thursday, Friday, CONFESSIONAL Ask at Welcome Desk Pre-Festival - Apple Farm PRAMBULATE - THE DARK Saturday DRIVE STRAIGHTAHEAD Encounter where you will SOUND-DAY BRUNCH Tuesday 2nd April 7.30pm SIDE OF SOUND Car by the Fountain SALON DU CHAT Sunday 11am to 1pm THE ART OF FOLEY A pple Farm (meeting (10 min) MESSAGE IN (Drop in) (WORKSHOP) From 11am-1.30pm room) Apple Farm Cafe A MATCHBOX Come to Welcome Desk Saturaday SUPPORTERS DREAMWAYS Throughout Kilfinane ACOUSTIC AUTOGRAPHS SOUND Saturday 11am to 1pm HearSay Beds Hennessy's Butchers PERCEPTIONS Sunday 11am to 1pm DANCE MOVEMENT SOUND ( Outdoor Ed. Centre ALEXA INTERACTIONS Tent of Aural Expectation (WORKSHOP) From 11am-1.30pm (SATURDAY ONLY) Tent of Aural Expectation (drop in) FRIDAY 5pm to SUNDAY Come to Welcome Desk Saturaday (As requested)