Stories of Sound

About Stories of Sound

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. Audio documentaries, radio dramas, interviews, soundscapes, narration, auto-fiction, sound installations, archival material, sound design, radio, podcasting, and much more. – 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 Megan Hyde and Max Greenstein. Additional editing by Marion Nicvert. Produced with support from the Faculty Research Awards Committee, School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University. https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND (https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND) Stories of Sound is a proud member of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective. (https://www.hubspokeaudio.org/)

Publisher

Riccardo Giacconi, Botafuego

Category

arts · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Apr 2024

Latest episode

22 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Jul 2026

   18. Gregory Whitehead

   Gregory Whitehead is an artist, writer, award-winning radiomaker, text/sound poet, singer of tales, playwright and media philosopher. His practice also draws from experiences as a lifelong vocalist and musician, puppet theatre, toy theater, installations and live performance, as well as numerous collaborations with choreographers and filmmakers. Since his first tape and radio experiments made during the 1980s, Whitehead has created a long list of plays, hybrid documentaries and acoustic adventures for the BBC, Radio France, Deutschland Radio, Australia’s ABC, NPR and other broadcasters. Whitehead co-edited the anthology Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-Garde, published by MIT Press in 1992, and his philosophical essays and speculative fictions have appeared in a wide variety of publications, from Ear magazine in the early 1980s through to the recently published Oxford Handbook of Radio and Podcasting. – – – 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 (https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND) Stories of Sound is a proud member of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective. (https://www.hubspokeaudio.org/)

2. 

   15 Jul 2026

   17. Su Friedrich

   Su Friedrich has directed twenty-seven films and videos since 1978, which have been featured in thirty-one retrospectives at major museums and film festivals including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema and the National Film Theater in London and they have been widely screened and extensively written. Her work is the subject of two recent books: Su Friedrich: Interviews, edited by Sonia Misra and Rox Samer, Univ. of Mississippi Press (2022) and Su Friedrich by Barbara Mennel, Univ of Illinois Press (2023). Her films have won numerous awards, including Grand Prix at the Melbourne Film Festival, Outstanding Documentary Award at Outfest and Best Narrative Film Award at the Athens International Film Festival. Fifteen of her films are available on DVD and VOD streaming from Outcast Films and her two most recent films are at Icarus Films. – – – 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 (https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND) Stories of Sound is a proud member of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective. (https://www.hubspokeaudio.org/)

3. 

   8 Jul 2026

   16. Rikke Houd

   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. – – – 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 (https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND) Stories of Sound is a proud member of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective. (https://www.hubspokeaudio.org/)

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