The art of the short audio feature | Ariana Martinez BUILD | Storytelling

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What’s a short audio feature? What’s the benefits of making them? In this podcast, Arianna Martinez explains how short audio features aren't just a steppingstone to larger work, but an audio form of their own that can provide a unique outlet for the articulation of specific, nuanced ideas.

Ariana Martinez is a multimedia artist making images, objects, and audio documentary. Their practice investigates processes of sensory perception and the simultaneously social and spatial process of navigation.

Additional Resources:
Reading:
'What makes an audio feature', according to Twitter
(https://twitter.com/MartinezAriana_/status/1580300868145946625?s=20&t=GCd1UcL3VaVqfQ1Mj71PRA)

'A Time Based Medium' | Ariana Martinez for Transom
(https://transom.org/2022/ariana-martinez-part-1/)

'What is a radio documentary?' | CBC
(https://www.cbc.ca/radio/docproject/blog/what-is-a-radio-documentary-1.3397538)

Listening (included in course):

'Night Rider' | Ariana Martinez for BBC Radio 4’s 'Short Cuts'
(https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001f0t)
Transcript
(http://www.arianamartinezstudio.com/s/Night_Rider_Draft_2_VocalsOnly_Transcript_111018.pdf)

'What is This Shape?' | Jess Shane for BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts
(https://www.jessshane.com/what-is-this-shape)

'A Tree is Not a Forest' | Ray Pang
(https://www.raypang.fm/home/atreeisnotaforest)

Further Listening:

'ShortDocs' | Best Documentary Shorts curated by the Third Coast International Audio Festival
(https://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/overview/library/shortdocs/newest/any)

Resources for Making:

New Producer Resources | Talia Augustides
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xsZm4n62VpUoS_8ZDkv2C84drZzuYKPc9MHGsPtd2ok/edit)

What’s a short audio feature? What’s the benefits of making them? In this podcast, Arianna Martinez explains how short audio features aren't just a steppingstone to larger work, but an audio form of their own that can provide a unique outlet for the articulation of specific, nuanced ideas.

Ariana Martinez is a multimedia artist making images, objects, and audio documentary. Their practice investigates processes of sensory perception and the simultaneously social and spatial process of navigation.

Additional Resources:
Reading:
'What makes an audio feature', according to Twitter
(https://twitter.com/MartinezAriana_/status/1580300868145946625?s=20&t=GCd1UcL3VaVqfQ1Mj71PRA)

'A Time Based Medium' | Ariana Martinez for Transom
(https://transom.org/2022/ariana-martinez-part-1/)

'What is a radio documentary?' | CBC
(https://www.cbc.ca/radio/docproject/blog/what-is-a-radio-documentary-1.3397538)

Listening (included in course):

'Night Rider' | Ariana Martinez for BBC Radio 4’s 'Short Cuts'
(https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001f0t)
Transcript
(http://www.arianamartinezstudio.com/s/Night_Rider_Draft_2_VocalsOnly_Transcript_111018.pdf)

'What is This Shape?' | Jess Shane for BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts
(https://www.jessshane.com/what-is-this-shape)

'A Tree is Not a Forest' | Ray Pang
(https://www.raypang.fm/home/atreeisnotaforest)

Further Listening:

'ShortDocs' | Best Documentary Shorts curated by the Third Coast International Audio Festival
(https://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/overview/library/shortdocs/newest/any)

Resources for Making:

New Producer Resources | Talia Augustides
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xsZm4n62VpUoS_8ZDkv2C84drZzuYKPc9MHGsPtd2ok/edit)