May 29 th
½ day workshops @ 9 AM and 1 PM

(please note space is limited on these workshops; pre-registration required)

It Goes By Once: Creative Documentary Production - by Steve Wadhams
An intensive workshop in the art and poetry of sound.

Free to conference registrants

Knowing how to create gripping stories for radio means knowing how to grab the ear and keep hold of it. It means listening for the vivid detail in location sounds and spoken words and finding an authentic 'voice' for the storyteller.

This workshop will teach aspiring and experienced documentary producers and reporters, as well as any others who write for broadcast media, how to "compose" for the ear, especially the jittery, impatient ear that's typical of most audiences today. Ears and minds which won't and can't rewind or flip the page back to see what you were trying to say.

You've got just one chance to be understood.

Participants will learn how to maintain interest in a story, how to convey complicated ideas by simple images, how to write and speak so that listeners stay with you. The "grammar" of sounds and their effective, even sensual and seductive use to paint memorable mental images. Rhythm and pacing. Choosing when you want to jar or disturb
your audience.

Wireless Imagination workshop by Tetsuo Kogawa

Free to conference registrants

This workshop will let you experience what radio transmission is like and how the transmission technology has been monopolized by the specialists and authorities. It would be a minimum experience of radio transmission that could also be developed into radio art and micro radio. The transmitter that the participant will make has only a 30 meter radius of transmission, but people would experience a convivial wireless imagination.

Sound Transformation using the Sound Loom/CDP software - Trevor Wishart

Free to conference registrants

Trevor Wishart will give a practical introduction to the Sound Loom/CDP sound transformation software (which runs on both MAC and PC). The Loom is a non-realtime environment for crafting sound materials in sophisticated ways, and contains over 300 different sound-transformation processes (from editing and mixing through sound morphing and spectral tracing to granular texturing and waveset distortion) with time-varying control of all parameters.