1 APR 2024 · 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. 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

16 APR 2024 · Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand-born American composer. Her compositions range from sound art and environmental sound installations to concert music. During the 1960s, Lockwood created works such as the Glass Concerts, and the Piano Transplants series, in which defunct pianos were burned, drowned, beached, and planted. Water has been a recurring focus of her work and her three installation sound maps of rivers: The Hudson River, the Danube and the Housatonic River. In 1973 Lockwood moved to the US, settling in Crompond, NY. She is an Emerita Professor at Vassar College. Her music has been issued on CD, vinyl and online.
 In 2022 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. – – – 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. Additional editing by Marion Nicvert.  This episode features excerpts from the following pieces by Annea Lockwood: “Glass World”, “Tiger Balm”, “A Sound Map of the Danube”, “Ceci n'est pas un piano”, “Dusk”, and “Namaste”. Produced with support from the Faculty Research Awards Committee, School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University. https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND

16 APR 2024 · Eleanor McDowall is co-director of Falling Tree Productions, which makes a host of award-winning podcasts and radio features including BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts, of which Eleanor is the series producer.  Her documentary work has received several awards, including a Prix Europa and a Third Coast: Best Documentary award. Eleanor also runs Radio Atlas, an English-language home for subtitled audio from around the world, and produces the podcast Field Recordings. – – – 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. Additional editing by Marion Nicvert.  This episode features excerpts from the following pieces: "The Dreams" by Delia Derbyshire and Barry Bermange (1964); "The Clock" by Dennis Funk (2015); "Inventions in Sound" by Raymond Antrobus and Eleanor McDowall (2021); "A dancer dies twice' by Eleanor McDowall (2016); "A Kiss" by Rachel Long (2023); "Writer" by by Katharina Smets (2015). Produced with support from the Faculty Research Awards Committee, School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University. https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND

1 MAY 2024 · Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist, and sound ecologist. She performs, writes, and presents soundscape workshops and lectures internationally. Westerkamp was born in Osnabrück, Germany, and emigrated to Canada in 1968. Her compositions have been performed and broadcast in many parts of the world. Some of her pieces appear in Gus van Sant’s films “Elephant” and “Last Days.” In 1993, she was instrumental in helping found the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. In 2003, Vancouver New Music invited her to coordinate and lead public soundwalks as part of its yearly concert season. This, in turn, inspired the creation of The Vancouver Soundwalk Collective, whose members continue the work on a regular basis. – – – 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. Additional editing by Marion Nicvert.  This episode features excerpts from the following pieces by Hildegard Westerkamp: “Whisper Study”, “Cricket Voice”, “Kits Beach Soundwalk”, “Once Upon A Time”, “Attending to Sacred Matters”.It also features an excerpt from the radio-documentary “The Idea of North” by Glenn Gould. Produced with support from the Faculty Research Awards Committee, School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University. https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND