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Anonymous — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:03:09 CDT

This was My First IFC. I'm sure we listened to a lot of programs (I had one myself ('The one that killed my father'), but most of them - or perhaps better: all of them - are gone now. Can't remember them anymore, probably because I had my first one over there.
But there are moments I will never forget: the beers with Michel van Bergen Henegouwen (where did HE go?) and Hannu (the beerhunter in the harbour), My First Harri (production that I heard), the amounts of shrimps I ate at a ship sailing across the fjord, Salmon, salmon and salmon (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and my morning meetings with Danish producer Stephen Schwartz, who was still a smoker at that moment. It was my first meting with King Leo, and Helmut Kopetzky. And from the US of A: Gregory Whitehead. Or was this Warsaw? I'm getting older...

Testing Willem. Did you receive?

IFC report thursday september 4 by Ljubo Pauzin

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:10:54 CST

Ljubo Pauzin

September 4, 2003

Dear feature family,

the longest day is almost over - longest because it is the last day of the conference. It started with my program "The Scent of a Kitchen" so I'm lucky to be suggested to write the report.

Just a joke: I will not praise the program, just tell you what it is about - it is actually about the impossibility to catch the shape, the materialization of a memory and we could hear the real cooking session with an old lady during Christmas in Croatia.

Following was the personal story from YLE Finland about the boy in circuss told by an old man, so it was another memory program. This brings us to the listenin order of the program at the IFC Toronto done by Lorelei Harris from Ireland. Bravo Lorelei!

After disscusion and lunch we came back for some more listening : first 365 Days of Mourning, a Polish program on the problem of disasters in mines which are taking many human lives, a strong program with investigative journalistic approach and a microphone being there in the ambience, in the miner's reality.

Then we herd another Ake Bloomstrom winner - Carmen Petcu from Romania and her program Freedom is Inside Us, about a prisoner who is going out of jail after being there for fourteen years, but he felt more free in the joint then outside.

The day was closed with the ABC Australia program "Ambush" about the ambush slaughtering people during The World War Two on the Pacific islands.

The special and promissing event closed the morning part of the day. It was the presentation of EBU Masterschool course for young featuremakers and four (out of twelve) young feature makers presented excerpts of their programs that they did during the course.

They were all fresh, dynamic, exteremly interesting and inspired an enthusiastic applause from the IFC audience. They have shown the face of the future and made us all to look optimistically towards it.

2 Chairs Toronto, Bernie and Steve

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:42:20 CST

Bernie Lucht & Steve Wadhams

FROM BERNIE LUCHT... CO-CHAIR OF THE COFERENCE.

Yesterday began with many people hung over from the banquet we'd had the night before which was in a revolving restaurant 500 meters at the top of the CN tower. The evening light was beautiful and we could see right across lake Ontario to New York State about 60 km away.

I noticed that - perhaps because of the banquet and the great time we had the discussion groups the next morning seemed more collegial and spirited. One of the pieces we heard that sparked a lot of discussion was called "Easy Miracles". The programme maker, who is Canadian, is married to an Indian man and the feature described and documented a journey to a goddess shrine where people pray and make wishes. When we discussed the programme people were very divided. Some loved the story, because it was lively and warm and there was a very emotional and personal ending. Others disliked very much the fact that there was so much narration. It showed me that people here have such different aesthetic values. We didn't resolve anything but people did listen carefully to other points of view and I hope respected them too. After all this is why we are here. To enlarge our perspectives and open our minds to new ideas and other people's points of view.

FROM STEVE WADHAMS. ALSO CO-CHAIR OF THE CONFERENCE!!

I had an interesting experience yesterday. With Edwin Brys, the President of the IFC I went into a studio here at CBC Toronto to discuss things with two of our Polish colleagues.. Both called Anna by the way! We had arranged an ISDN line to their radio station in Katovice in Poland. Edwin spoke about what the IFC does and how it tries to support feature making. Anna then asked me to say what my favourite programme was so far. What a question!! But I could see in her eyes that I had to come up with an answer and NOW! I said that a programme played as part of "The Classics" by Rene Farabet was my favourite so far. It was produced by an American cameraman who had gone to Vietnam to document the war there all those years ago. I liked it a lot because it was so unusual. It told its story entirely without narration, just by the sounds and the juxtaposition of the sounds which were very varied and powerful. I said that for me I felt as if I was being immersed in this war. It took me right there. I could hear it and almost smell it.
No narration needed. But I have nothing against narration! I think a feature maker should use any way that works to get a listener into someone else's world and allow the listener to experience something and to learn something there.

2001, Nov 30, John Theocharis reporting

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:45:48 CST

John Theocharis reporting

John Theocharis, who worked for many years for drama and features
at the BBC, is a very well known and highly appreciated colleague on the
international scene of radio documentary.
He also was a attentive listener at the SOS Feature hearing in Berlin.
A vision of an enlightened witness.
---

The Feature deserves to survive

Of all the time-honoured Radio genres, no one can employ the full potential of the medium of sound to greater advantage than the Feature.

At its best, it can assimilate any other formats; juxtapose and merge then to create new perspectives.

It can inform, scrutinise, entertain and excite through an imaginative aural experience.

It is Total Radio.

Yet for some time, feature-makers all over the world have been feeling under threat, beleaguered and insecure, -both for themselves and for the radio form they love so well.

Why?

Once again this year, Prix Europa provided a rare opportunity for practitioners to take stock of the situation, share their personal or national experiences, air their concerns, and propose ways of getting out of their perceived blind alley.

'SOS Feature' did not imply that we are dorwning.

It was rather a timely prod, a jolt, a crack of the whip. It warned : 'Watch it! We have a marvellous tool here.

Let's not neglect it, and waste its potential! Otherwise, all of us, and especially the listeners, will be the losers.'

Around seventy-five programme-makers came along; most of them having flown to Berlin defyning the current miasma of terrorist scare.

It was an evening of statements presented by a wide cross-section of Featurists.

As a form of self- Diagnosis, it concentrated the mind wonderfully, (even though the symptoms described varied personally, but also nationally, across Europe).

Easily the evening could have been a flood of moans and accusations. Refreshingly however, this was stemmed by self-criticism, -by a healthy self-questioning, and an honest admission that we are part of the problem.

Speaker after speaker pleaded guilty to a variety of collective sins : choosing stories that seem to interest us rather than the listener; or often treating them superficially; or falling into the trap of formula programme-making; or caring more for presentation than content; in some cases unwittingly encouraging a stale polarization in the output, thus spawning programmes that are either straight reportage or self-indulgently "arty".

There is still mediocrity and glibness around, we were warned.

Are the important issues that help to explain the world sufficiently addressed ?

Do we communicate effectively enough?

If the feature is "a fragment of reality recreated for radio", does it usually function as 'a witness of the times'?

Authenticity can be compromised by over-editing and technological tinkering.

Perhaps now as never before does the Feature need its magic, its sense of originality, its freshness, to help Good Radio cast its spell on younger listeners as well.

It is a matter of sadness if the Feature is perceived as ' a beautiful landau making its elegant way among speeding cars on the autobahn

Disarming and courageous self-flagellation! But the feature-maker, far from being the only culprit, is also a victim.

Something of an unsung hero, perhaps; certainly someone who doggedly has been cultivating his or her craft, - often in spite of alleged administrative indifference, inadequate resources, limited time and poor pay.

What about these complaints?

In the prevailing system, it was certainly felt, there is a dichotomy, in that the commissioning editor ( or 'producer') for some time now has had "to combine his creative skills with a managerial way of thinking".

For good or ill, gone is the feature-maker's splendid isolation of yore; a poet up in the garret!

But in the real world, passion for one's craft is not enough.

It takes time to compose a decent feature; time to think and research, often to travel to different locations, to listen, to select, to edit, to compile, to re-mix.

By all accounts, (including my own experience as a freelance), this time is poorly paid for.

Funding was also identified as being at the root of several complaints about studio facilities, and their availability.

Perhaps the point should be made that a feature need not to be an élitist, 'high-falutin' form of radio.

In this fairly typical year, for instance, the vast majority of features were stories of human interest; about what is going on in our societies, in the lives of some fellow-humans, and in our individual lives.

Some features may / must deal also with the cultural landscape around us.

We need thought-provoking, beautifully-crafted, imaginative radio programmes that are interesting and a joy to listen to.

As wholly commercial broadcasters may not provide this wider range of choice, the intelligent listener expects the tax-or-licence-funded national broadcasters to offer good, challenging, 'custom-made programmes, rather than competitive mass-production'.

This year too we heard some excellent specimens of the species; and indeed there was a nice symbolism in the two winners :

the first one by a veteran feature-maker,

the second one by a young newcomer.

But in a competition no one expects every single programme to be of the highest standard, -and the truth is that there were several cases where the language of radio, the grammar, the magic somehow didn't quite coalesce to produce that particular excitement we feel when the feature is 'on song'.

One common denominator among those attending the "S.O.S. Feature" evening, was the fact that we were all essentially powerless programme-makers.

I really wish that some of the high-powered people who have it in their gift not only to tighten but also to loosen the purse-strings, - could be urged to come to Prix Europa, to take part in our discussions, and have a chat with the common herd of programme-makers. I'm sure we'll all be thrilled to meet them over a glass of German wine next year.

Times have moved on; crafted radio has lost its sense of occasion; listening habits and expectations have changed.

And yet, the Prognosis for the Radio Feature is good.

It may be a traditional form, but it is not condemned to be old-fashioned.

It has plenty of flexibility, vitality and sap to be able to adapt, renovate, reinvent itself, move with the times, widen its audience appeal.

To identify any weaknesses is to take the first step towards getting rid of them.

So what's the Therapy? (Good word, 'therapy'; not only does it imply that maybe we ought to have our heads examined, but its original meaning was "waiting on", "serving".)

What can be done then to 'serve' the listener better?

No quick fixes, by all accounts.

We need not only judgement, talent, passion and some money, - but also a different mindset.

There was a unanimous appeal for a re-thinking of Radio Management philosophy; for a reappraisal of the values, the power and priorities of Radio; for simply realistic budgets for radio features, to allow for fairer remuneration, adequate time, better conditions.

Radio authors and feature-makers to be encouraged to address "the concerns of the world", to use the imaginative panoply of radio to dig deeper into stories of the present and of the past; to strive for a balance between form and content and have a wider appeal; to attract younger listeners without condescension.

With improved conditions and stronger programmes, listeners will be tempted, challenged and willing to make their vital contribution.

Voices were also raised in favour of more cross-fertilization between the Feature and Current Affairs documentaries.

More co-productions; workshops; seminars; exchanges of views in contexts like the remarkable forum of the annual International Features Conference.

But there's hardly anything new here, you may protest; most of the points have been rehearsed before.

Well!

Perhaps they cannot be rehearsed often enough!

Maybe they should be addressed to all concerned again and again, (as 'formal appeals', it was suggested), until a concerted effort is made in terms of programme policy, but also financially and artistically.

The Feature deserves to survive.

But it has to be stimulating, eagle-eyed, sparkling, dynamic.

The process from the Idea through to Completion appropriately nurtured.

For its real significance is not in the end the acoustical experience; not its craftsmanship; nor anything 'élitist.

It lies in the fact that it embodies the essence of Good Radio; that it is the lifeblood of Radio; its DNA.

How can then this radio form par excellence be allowed to decline further, to withdraw into some ghetto and wither away?

American Radio (stagnant, commercial-spewing, attention-span-conscious, listener-patronising,) looms as a dreadful warning; an import that Europe can ill afford.

It seems sensible, therefore, that those who control the schedules and the purse, but also the commissioners and the feature-makers themselves, should beware.

The present unsatisfactory state of affairs may continue, but ultimately, I fear, only at the peril of Good Radio itself.

And surely, it needn't come to that.

John Theocharis London, 30-11-2001

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a report by Pat Donnez

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:11:28 CST

SUNDAY 31 ST AUGUST 2003
An intriguing day full of listening and discussion

MORNING
Some of the hundred or more participants, still suffered from a jetlag. You only had to look at the eyes, to know who is coming from Europe and who plays at home.
Maybe therefore, the organisation decided to start with what is probably the shortest entry ever.

- FUN THINGS TO DO WITH SILLY WORDS NUMBER 342
(USA - INDEP.)
A 2 minutes cartoon microfeature by the American Gregory Witehead.
Nice, simple idea. While you hear chalk on a chalkboard, Greogory puts letters in motion. He starts from the word EVIL AXIS and comes to combinations such as ILAX ISEV and ISEV ILAX

.- ROB MUNTZ AVONTURIER
(NETHERLANDS/ RVU)
The first, 'real' feature of this conference. An entrance made by the enfant terrible of Dutch radio and television: Rob Muntz. In a series of five so-called Radiodocurettes, Muntz sets out on a quest forsheer male bliss.
In the episode we hear, Robs final chauvinistic pig male aim is to hunt a giraffe. It's full of humour - black, Cynic and tender at thesame time. Most of the listeners really enjoyed it. A real new toneof voice on this - sometimes too - serious gathering of internationalradiomakers.

- DON'T HANG UP
(BBC RADIO 4)
A good idea is half of the work. The other half is how to tell your story. In 'Don't hang up,' presenter Alain Dein wonders out what would happen if you'd call BT telephone boxes all over the country.
Splendid idea, though the storydevelopment could have been better worked out.
Anyway, this programme let hear a nice paradox : intimate, vulnerable stories that are captured out of the public domain.

- HIGLIGHTS/THE DAY OF THE CATASTROPHE
(ORF - AUSTRIA)
Catastrophes can shape our lives. The assasination of John Lennon, the tragic death of Lady Diana or the Supergau at Chernobyl. Finaly the great catastrophe: 09/11.
The makers, who start from a beautiful premisse - how one deals with
collective memories - don't fully succeed in their ambitious project.
Too many quotes, too little story.
Author and director Peter Klein brought his work to the conference for the sake of the discussion. A brave attempt in participating into the real core of this IFC: reflection and criticism amongst professionals.

- THE VIETNAM TAPES OF LANCE CORPORAL M. BARONOWSKI
(NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO - USA)
This programme won the Gold Prize at the Third Coast Festival's inaugaral competion in 2001.
In 1966, a young Marine took a reel-to-reel tape recorder with him into the Vietnam War. For two months, until he was killed in action, Michael Baranowski made tapes of his friends, of life in combat, and then sent those audio letters home his family in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Astonishing radio. Remarkable and breathtaking.
If this Baranowski would have not been killed that early, he should have been in our midst: being an outstanding radiomaker.

- IMMEMORIAL EPIC COMES DOWN UNTIL TODAY
(CHINA NATIONAL RADIO)
Most of the time, China comes out with nice told epic stories about lost myths. Kirghiz is a minority nationality around Tianshan and Pamirs area in China. Interesting, but not breathtaking story.
Maybe, next a little more critical.
Up to now, it was a very intriguing day.

Pat Donnez

Belgium

'an annual conference of shoemakers'

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:35:43 CST

'....He (Peter Leonhard Braun) set up what he liked to call 'an annual conference of shoemakers', a forum for discussing each other's work with somethimes ruthless honesty.
The number of participants grew steadily up to the maximum of 70, and in the recent years it has been difficult to keep the number that low....'

Edwin Brys

In 1995 Leo handed over power to an EBU commitee chaired by Belgium's Edwin Brys.(statement E Brys: 1999, March 25)

2000, Never bore the listener

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:27:00 CST

Voice, personality and suspense

(by Helmut Kopetzky)

From a contribution to the International Feature Conference

in Berlin, 2000

... Some observations while listening recently to a number of Orson Welles programmes, in particular to my favourite called "The Hitch Hiker":

The words and sound effects, even the subject itself seems to be a little dated after 60 years.
You might call it trivial. But there is a message behind it - still convincing and motivating for radio producers.

Rule number one, two and three: Never bore the listener.

As a matter of fact, there are different philosophies and techniques how to attract and entertain (= not to bore) listeners.
"Attraction" is one of the keywords in the world of radio today.

The air is filled with programmes, like an oriental marketplace.
And programme makers tend to act like camel vendors, trying to outroar the others at the top of their voices.
In 1994 the legendary sound processor L 1 turned up, a combination of Limiter and Maximizer, and this software from Israel initiated a cold war in the skies with one single objective: acoustic predominance.
Sound processing is the technique of enforcing and optimising acoustical signals.
The result of this manipulation of sounds and voices is not merely an increase of "loudness" (which is a more subjective perception) but of punch and pressure.
Listeners must catch the - commercial - message even, if they lower the output of their amplifiers.

Unfortunately, people get used to the punch of those virtual baseball bats on their ears and minds.
So the commercial media industry

2003 IFC Toronto - Selected programmes

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:01:15 CST

On March 1st and 2nd the EBU Radio Documentary Group selected the programmes for the listening sessions at the next IFC in Toronto. We listened to 32 entries and finally selected 20 programmes (+ 3 Ake Blomström-entries selected by the A.B. committee).
The purpose of this preselection is to assure the presentation of a broad variety of formats, topics, styles, genres and new approaches, and to generate a lively discussion on the different aspects of feature making. The selection commitee choosed those programmes that best fit these goals.

Highlights. The day of the catastrophe. ( P.Scheiner, M. Lamine, P.Klein) ORF –Austria

Ambush. ( T.A.G. Hungerford, Tony Mac Gregor) ABC – Australia

Even Miracles ( Carma Livingstone) CBC – Canada

The Buffalo Bitches ( Eva Moeraert) VRT – Belgium

Thoughts on the 10th Anniversary of the Cod Moratorium ( Chris Brookes) Battery Radio

The scent of a kitchen ( Ljubo Pauzin) HRT – Croatia

After The Celebration ( Lisbeth Jessen) DR – Denmark

A son of the circus ( Katariina Lillqvist) YLE – Finland

Spring in Zagreb, 2002 ( Barbro Holmberg) YLE –Swedish Programme)

If I forget Thee Oh Jerusalem ( Lorelei Harris) RTE – Ireland

32 Betrachtungen über Grete Sultan. Eine Pianistinnen-Karriere ( Jean-Claude Kuner) WDR 3 – Germany

Rob Muntz, avonturier (R.Muntz, L.Knikman, V.Van Merwijk) RVU –Netherlands

A room is locked off ( Kari Hesthamar) NRK – Norway

365 Days of Mourning (Anna Sekudewicz) Polski Radio Katowice – Poland

Don’t hang up ( Mark Burman) BBC – Great Britain

The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal M.A. Baronowski ( Christina Egloff, Jay Allison) Lost and Found Sound – USA. Third Coast Festival submission

Fun Things to do with silly words. Number 342. ( Gregory Whitehead) – Indep. –USA

Sound of the Rose (Jim Mckee, Rob Wasserman, Harri Huhtamäki )

Radio Atelier YLE and Earwax Productions, USA

May Day Parade (Zdenek Boucek) CR – Czech Republic

Tarkovski, the Sound of the Earth ( Charles H. de Brantes, Gilles Mardirossian) France Culture – France

Ake Blomström – programmes :

Diagnosis M.S. ( Karina Schwann) ORF – Austria

The freedom is inside us ( Carmen Pectu) Romanian Broadcasting Corporation

Veils and Mini Skirts ( Myriam Fymbry) Société Radio Canada

Very Old Links

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:47:37 CST

Very very very Old IFC Links

for the record (found somewhere on Internet)

Archived Newsletters 01-28 (2000, Nov 21 - 2003, May)

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:23:37 CST

Archived

28th IFC Newsletter - May 2003

--"But how could this happen ???..."
--IfC 2003 - Toronto
--2003 Prix Radiomix
--Radio colleagues, take the money, and run ...for Europe
--Atelier de création sonore radiophonique
--The Third Coast International
--Winners 7th Int Fest of radio plays and doc radio dramas, Prix Marulic
--'Boundless Sound' Radiodoc. Festival, June 20/22, 2003, Amsterdam

--New Articles on '@Meetingpoint'
--New Links on 'Add a Link'
--By the way ,,, radio boundless sound, June 20 till June 26 FM, AM and Internet

27th IFC Newsletter - Apr 2003
--IFC Toronto 2003. Change of dates: 30 August to 4 September 2003
--New SARS cases suspected (May 01, 2003, CBC)
--SARS interviews on CBC radio
--Third Coast Festival (Chicago): call for entries (Chicago: Sister City of Toronto since 1991)

--New Articles on '@Meetingpoint'
--New Links on 'Add a Link'
--By the way ,,,

26th IFC Newsletter - Mar 2003
--IFC, Toronto (17-23 May) . Full House!
--CBC, the home of Glenn Gould
--Producing historical documentaries and features for radio
--Third Coast Festival, Chicago, 16-19 October 2003 – Short Documentaries
--Prix Radio Mix 2003
--School of Sound – London, 23-26 April 2003

25th IFC Newsletter - Feb 2003
--IFC Toronto (17-22 May 2003) deadline
--IFC Toronto - Selected programmes
--CBC - Our next home for the IFC - Discover the Webone !
--More on the CBC websites at the IFC
--And try this Canadian one. Radio 3!
--Fake documentary and real fiction. The absurd striving for perfection
--New wind at Romanian Radio
--Ars Acustica (Madrid, 21-23 November 2002)
--Competition Phonurgia Nova - Arles (France)
--Electro-acoustic Festival and Competition of Bourges (France)
--New Mexico-oooo!

24th IFC Newsletter - Jan31, 2003
--My First Radio
--IFC Toronto Rendez-Vous (17- 23 May 2003) – deadlines
--Radio Art Festival in Toronto (right after the IFC)
--The School of Sound 2003
--Radio Documentary and Internet. Do you remember Ireneusz Bialek?
--Prix Marulic 2003
--New discoveries. Radio and Poetry

23th IFC Newsletter - Dec31, 2002
-- 2003 : THE YEAR OF BLUSHING...
-- IFC 2003 - Toronto - 17- 23 May 2003...
-- Annual Ake Blomström Grant 2003...
-- Prix Marulic 2003 - 10 to 16 May 2003 - Isle of Hvar, Croatia...
-- News from the USA -by Teal Krech...
-- The Teen Reporter Handbook ( new link)
-- Discover the site of Battery Radio (Chris Brookes - new link)
-- Are you hearing voices? (new link)
-- New Articles on '@Meetingpoint'
-- New Links on 'Add a Link'
-- By the way ,,, A FEW 'HAPPY NEW YEARS'..

22th IFC Newsletter - Nov30, 2002
-- 29th International Feature Conference - Toronto (Canada) - 17 - 23 May 2003
-- ... and our guest for "The Classics" is ...
-- Chicago. The Third Coast Festival as if you were there!
-- Prix Europa 2002 - A personal report from Holland
-- Prix EX AEQUO (Slovak Radio) for Radio Drama (children and adults)
-- This Winter the Boundless Sound festival

Prix Euopa 2002 winners (radio)

21th IFC Newsletter - Oct 09, 2002
-- IFC 2003: Toronto
-- Prix Italia 2002
-- PRIX EUROPA 2002 From 12 to 19 October, Berlin and Potsdam-Babelsberg
-- Winners of the 2002 Third Coast International Audio Festival
-- What is the Third Coast International Audio Festival
-- Third Coast International Audio Festival conference schedule

20th IFC Newsletter - Sep 11, 2002
-- Dear Friends
-- Musicians and Radio Features : New from London , Resonance FM
-- New York Radio : My So-Called Lungs - news from Radiodiaries by Joe Richman
-- Rule Romania! The First Feature Slot by Mihaela Helmis
-- EBU Masterschool for Radio Documentaries - Second Meeting - VRT Brussels, 23-25 June
-- Alfred in America
-- Useful links for the weeks to come: Prix Italia, Prix Europa, Third Coast Festival (check out ifc-online.org • actual)
19th IFC Newsletter - (Jun/Jul/Aug) Jun 30, 2002
-- Happy holidays ! .

18th IFC Newsletter - May 31, 2002
-- THE SONIC MEMORIAL PROJECT
-- The Zest of Zagreb (I.FC. April 2002)
-- Prix Marulic ( Hvar, Croatia, 11-17 May 2002)
-- Prix Europa ( Berlin, 12-19 October 2002)
-- EBU Masterschool for Radio Documentaries ( Brussels, 23-25 June 2002)
-- The School of Sound ( London, 23-26 April 2003)
-- Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF)

17th IFC Newsletter - Apr 15, 2002
-- Upcoming IFC, 28th IFC, Zagreb, 2002, Apr 20 - 25. program :: latest news :: info

16th IFC Newsletter - Mar 31, 2002
-- IFC 2002 - Zagreb - 20 to 25 April 2002 By Edwin Brys
-- Prix Marulic Festival By Pavlica & Darko
-- Voices and Faces from Oslo By Edwin Brys
-- On The Night Air By Tony MacGregor
-- Prix Ex Aequo By EBU
-- Radio, Multimedia and public performance: By Jove, I fly!
-- As all of you know By Willem and the gang

15th IFC Newsletter - Feb 28, 2002
--- IFC - Zagreb (20-25 April 2002) by Edwin Brys
--- EBU Radio Documentary Masterschool (Oslo, March 10-13, Brussels, June 23-25)
--- NEW YORK WORKS AT THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY FREE EVENT - FEB. 27TH 6PM.
By Joe Richman and Emily Botein
--- ...CHEZ MONICA

14th IFC Newsletter - Jan 30, 2002
--- Love to the IFC world from Zagreb by Ljubo Pauzin
--- A plea for turbulence - about Croatian apiculture by Edwin Brys
--- Media Art Festival / Intermedium Award by (EBU) Laurent Marceau
--- The 6th Prix Marulic Festival by Darko Tralic
--- EBU Masterschool - Radiodocumentary Development Project - And the coaches are ...

13th IFC Newsletter - Dec 28, 2001
--- Best Wishes! by Edwin Brys
--- More 2002 Wishes
--- IFC Zagreb 2002
--- Ake Blomström Prizes 2002
--- EBU Masterschool - Radiodocumentary Development Project

12th IFC Newsletter - Nov 30, 2001
--- IFC 2002, Zagreb-Croatia, April 20-25
--- SOS Feature - Prix Europa 2001 John Theocharis reporting
--- SOS Feature - Prix Europa 2001, Diagnosis, Therapies and Opportunities (Summary) by Edwin Brys
--- Tuning the world (innovation is inspiration and ... adventure) by CBC radio
--- This website needs you : looking for an editorial staff

11th IFC Newsletter -Oct 30, 2001
--- Dear Friends By Edwin Brys
--- Join HEARING 'SOS Feature! Diagnosis and Therapy' - Prix Europa 2001
--- The winners of the first ever Third Coast International Audio Festival Competition
--- Prix Europa 2001, 20 Oktober 2001. PRIZE-WINNERS
--- This website needs you : looking for an editorial staff

10th IFC Newsletter - (Aug/Sep) Sep 27 , 2001
--- Prix Italia Winning Programs 2001
--- Rumors in the corridors of the Prix Italia, or an informal top ten of people I met By Edwin Brys
--- This website needs you : looking for an editorial staff
--- Prix Europa 2001 - SOS Feature! Diagnosis and Therapy
--- New IFC Address List 2001 !
--- Thinking features bi-medially' By Stephen Schwartz

9th IFC Newsletter - Jul 14, 2001
--- Travelling Light! by Edwin Brys
--- The Third Coast Festival ? Registration, by Johanna Zorn, USA
--- Phonurgia, Arles, France. Results of the competition by Marc Jacquin

8th IFC Newsletter - Jun 29, 2001
--- ..few Sydney Pics
--- IFC 2001 Sydney - review of evaluation forms - by Edwin Brys
--- Next IFC 2002. April in Paris
--- Looking back to the IFC 2001 in Sydney by Edwin Brys
--- And what happened to Roz? by Edwin Brys
--- Prize Winners !
--- Competition Chasseurs de Son 2001, organized by Radio France
--- Lapinlahti on Demand and the right address by Katarina Blomqvist
--- Introduce myself as new webmaster of ifc-online by Hans Stibbe

7th IFC Newsletter - May 29, 2001
--- Sydney 2001 - The earth is not flat! by Edwin Brys
--- The workshops on 'Feature & Multimedia', Sydney, IFC 2001
--- Gregory Whitehead and Delivery System No.1

6th IFC Newsletter - Apr 28 - May 3, 2001
---'Sydney Post' (IFC 2001)

5th IFC Newsletter - Mar 29, 2001
--- A welcome and a question : Does Ear rhymes with Fear ?
--- New updates on SYDNEY 2001 pages
--- Grenzeloos Geluid 2001/Boundless Sound 2001 team'
--- Phonurgia Nova in Arles - France
--- New tool on IFC-ONLINE
--- Daily Newsletter from Sydney (2001, Apr 28 - May 3)

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Radiofutura -- International Radio Maker Discussion Platform

About Radiofutura

Welcome!
We finally set up (2003) the place where we can meet and exchange ideas on radio feature and fiction, sound, storytelling, structure, contacts, ask for sounds, look for a feedback...etc. The mailing-list is open to everyone making radio fiction or feature, working on sound, stories, dramaturgy ... [...]
Happy mailing!
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radiofutura Mail Thread Index

Date Index

[Radiofutura] sorry!, robinamer
- Re: [Radiofutura] sorry!, Roger Mayer
[Radiofutura] combining, Marie-Luise Goerke
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: [Radiofutura] combining, priscille caz
  - RE: [Radiofutura] combining, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] australia/ABC, robinamer
- Re: [Radiofutura] australia/ABC, Eurydice Aroney
  - Re: [Radiofutura] australia/ABC, robinamer
    - Re: [Radiofutura] australia/ABC, Eurydice Aroney
    - Re: [Radiofutura] australia/ABC, robinamer
    - Re: [Radiofutura] australia/ABC, Eurydice Aroney
[Radiofutura] more fossy-information, Matthias Pusch
[Radiofutura] IFC 2005, carmen petcu
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: [Radiofutura] IFC 2005, priscille caz
[Radiofutura] live vs studio sound, priscille caz
[Radiofutura] more vox and fostex, seaudio123
Re: [Radiofutura] vox pops, priscille caz
- Re: [Radiofutura] vox pops, Matthias Pusch
  - Re: [Radiofutura] vox pops in drama, priscille caz
[Radiofutura] basics, priscille caz
- Re: [Radiofutura] basics, Jaume Piqué
  - Re: [Radiofutura] basics, priscille caz
- Re: [Radiofutura] basics, mortley kaye
[Radiofutura] Sorry, please do not answer this spam!, Matthias Pusch
[Radiofutura] OEM software at wholesale prices, Sarah Gee
[Radiofutura] IFC news! (0502, WillemD
[Radiofutura] rf-meeting, Sanja Lovrencic
[Radiofutura] Re: Radiofutura digest, Vol 1 #177 - 1 msg, Anna Dudzinska
[Radiofutura] Hannu Karisto/YLE is out of the office., hannu karisto
- <Possible follow-ups>
- [Radiofutura] Hannu Karisto/YLE is out of the office., hannu karisto
[Radiofutura] Originalton, Julia Tieke
[Radiofutura] radiofutura-meeting, Marie-Luise Goerke
- Re: [Radiofutura] radiofutura-meeting, carmen petcu
  - Re: [Radiofutura] radiofutura-meeting, Marie-Luise Goerke
  - Re: [Radiofutura] radiofutura-meeting, priscille caz
    - Re: [Radiofutura] radiofutura-meeting, carmen petcu
    - Re: [Radiofutura] radiofutura-meeting, priscille caz
[Radiofutura] IFC 40th 'Newsletter' - Jan 2005, WillemD
[Radiofutura] Selected Works 1984-2004 on UBUnet, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] some informations, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] [ifc.blog-city.com][new post] bulletin d'info n?34 - janvier 2005 @ ATELIER DE CREATION, Blog-City
[Radiofutura] Stephen and Klaus, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] Klaus Lindemann a memory, SEAudio123
[Radiofutura] [ifc.blog-city.com][new post] Klaus Lindemann died @ Peter Leonhard Braun, Edwin Brys, Blog-City
[Radiofutura] Re: Radiofutura digest, Vol 1 #163 - 1 msg, Anna Dudzinska
- Re: [Radiofutura] Re: Radiofutura digest, Vol 1 #163 - 1 msg, mortley kaye
[Radiofutura] uusi osoite/new address, Matti Ripatti
[Radiofutura] The New Year: hope, fear and a resolution, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] IFC 39th 'Newsletter' - Dec 2004, WillemD
[Radiofutura] [ifc.blog-city.com][new post] Best Wishes @ Willem & Vincent, Blog-City
[Radiofutura] IFC 38th 'Newsletter' - Nov 2004, WillemD
- <Possible follow-ups>
- [Radiofutura] IFC 38th 'Newsletter' - Nov 2004, WillemD
[Radiofutura] trending toward re-evolution?, sherre delys
- Re: [Radiofutura] trending toward re-evolution?, Joe Milutis
[Radiofutura] Healthy Helmut comes Home, SEAudio123
- Re: [Radiofutura] Healthy Helmut comes Home, edwin brys
- Re: [Radiofutura] Healthy Helmut comes Home, mortley kaye
[Radiofutura] time for the public, to do what?, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] public broadcaster radio internet hybrids, sherre delys
[Radiofutura] pirates, margins, markets and ethics, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] the sun radiates from inside out, gregory whitehead
- Re: [Radiofutura] the sun radiates from inside out, mortley kaye
[Radiofutura] RE: [Radiofutura]Progression............., Jean Ni Bhaoill
[Radiofutura] molotovs, museums and graveyards, gregory whitehead
- Re: [Radiofutura] molotovs, museums and graveyards, Sanja Lovrencic
- Re: [Radiofutura] molotovs, museums and graveyards, Joe Milutis
[Radiofutura] poisoned, WillemD
[Radiofutura] radio is a hungry night owl, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] mother radio is an old-fashioned bitch, gregory whitehead
- [Radiofutura] Radio is Sheherazade, edwin brys
- [Radiofutura] Re: mother radio is an old-fashioned bitch, Matthias Pusch
  - Re: [Radiofutura] Re: mother radio is an old-fashioned bitch, Sanja Lovrencic
[Radiofutura] downloads and radiations, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] 'radio' ?, eugene quinn
[Radiofutura] no trespassing: slow burn, gregory whitehead
- Re: [Radiofutura] no trespassing: slow burn, mortley kaye
- Re: [Radiofutura] no trespassing: slow burn, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] digital radio, eugene quinn
[Radiofutura] podcasting, WillemD
[Radiofutura] 21C radio, eugene quinn
- Re: [Radiofutura] 21C radio, Marie-Luise Goerke
Re: [Radiofutura] Re: 21st century radio, HenryBernh
- Re: [Radiofutura] Re: 21st century radio, Matthias Pusch
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: [Radiofutura] Re: 21st century radio, Jean Ni Bhaoill
  - Re: [Radiofutura] Re: 21st century radio, edwin brys
[Radiofutura] development of radio in the 21st century, Marie-Luise Goerke
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: [Radiofutura] development of radio in the 21st century, Jean Ni Bhaoill
[Radiofutura] RE: Radiofutura digest, Vol 1 #143 - 1 msg, Jean Ni Bhaoill
- [Radiofutura] Re: 21st century radio, Matthias Pusch
[Radiofutura] IFC 37th 'Newsletter' - Oct 2004, WillemD
- <Possible follow-ups>
- [Radiofutura] IFC 37th 'Newsletter' - Oct 2004, WillemD
[Radiofutura] Prix Europa Results, Matthias Pusch
- Re: [Radiofutura] Prix Europa Results, kaye mortley
[Radiofutura] IFC 36th 'Newsletter' - Sep 2004, WillemD
- <Possible follow-ups>
- [Radiofutura] IFC 36th 'Newsletter' - Sep 2004, WillemD
[Radiofutura] From RTE radio, powera
[Radiofutura] futura, Karina Schwann
[Radiofutura] a prix italia among us!, edwin brys
- Re: [Radiofutura] a prix italia among us!, carmen petcu
  - Re: [Radiofutura] a prix italia among us!, anna dudzinska
    - Re: [Radiofutura] a prix italia among us!, kaye mortley
[Radiofutura] Re: Radiofutura digest, Vol 1 #134 - 5 msgs, anna dudzinska
[Radiofutura] (PREVIEW) IFC 36th 'Newsletter', WillemD
- <Possible follow-ups>
- [Radiofutura] (PREVIEW) IFC 36th 'Newsletter', WillemD
[Radiofutura] radiofutura-meeting in bucharest, Marie-Luise Goerke
- Re: [Radiofutura] radiofutura-meeting in bucharest, carmen petcu
  - Re: [Radiofutura] radiofutura-meeting in bucharest, Matthias Pusch
  - Re: [Radiofutura] radiofutura-meeting in bucharest, edwin brys
- <Possible follow-ups>
- [Radiofutura] radiofutura-meeting in bucharest, Marie-Luise Goerke
  - Re: [Radiofutura] radiofutura-meeting in bucharest, Sanja Lovrencic
  - [Radiofutura] call for programmes, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] doc meeting, priscille caz
[Radiofutura] re-broadcast of abortion documentary at CKUT, Marian van der Zon
[Radiofutura] Reconstructing Providence: radio documentary to air next weekendon WRNI, robinamer
- [Radiofutura] broadcast of "Talking About Abortion: A Resurgence in Sound" on CFUV Friday Aug 27th, Marian van der Zon
[Radiofutura] IFC 35th 'Newsletter' - Aug 2004, WillemD
[Radiofutura] Fostex FR2, Kåre Johan Lund
- Re: [Radiofutura] Fostex FR2, Matthias Pusch
[Radiofutura] [ifc.blog-city.com] A link has been forwarded for you, info
- <Possible follow-ups>
- [Radiofutura] [ifc.blog-city.com] A link has been forwarded for you, info
[Radiofutura] IFC 34th 'Newsletter' - Jul 2004, WillemD
- <Possible follow-ups>
- [Radiofutura] IFC 34th 'Newsletter' - Jul 2004, WillemD
[Radiofutura] ifc-collection-cd-box, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] libel, Ljubica Letinic
[Radiofutura] ms-mixing 3dB question, Matthias Pusch
- <Possible follow-ups>
- SV: [Radiofutura] ms-mixing 3dB question, Kåre Johan Lund
- [Radiofutura] ms-mixing 3dB question, priscille caz
- SV: [Radiofutura] ms-mixing 3dB question, Kåre Johan Lund
RE: [Radiofutura] involving and narrating, priscille caz
- RE: [Radiofutura] involving and narrating, Marie-Luise Goerke
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: [Radiofutura] involving and narrating, priscille caz
  - RE: [Radiofutura] involving and narrating, Marian van der Zon
[Radiofutura] archive, Marie-Luise Goerke
- [Radiofutura] Drama: live scenes and sound, priscille caz
[Radiofutura] involving and narrating, Ljubica Letinic
RE: [Radiofutura] mp3 exchanges, priscille caz
RE: [Radiofutura] involving yourself, priscille caz
Aw: Re: [Radiofutura] involving yourself, kopetzky
- Re: Re: [Radiofutura] involving yourself, Sanja Lovrencic
[Radiofutura] New Subject: a book..., Jaume Piqué
- Re: [Radiofutura] New Subject: a book..., robinamer
  - Re: [Radiofutura] New Subject: a book..., kaye mortley
    - Re: [Radiofutura] New Subject: a book..., kaye mortley
    - Re: [Radiofutura] New Subject: a book..., robinamer
[Radiofutura] No Soap Radio, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] IFC Newsletter - Jun 2004, WillemD
[Radiofutura] MS mic, Kåre Johan Lund
[Radiofutura] september in dubrovnik?, Hege Dahl
- Re: [Radiofutura] september in dubrovnik?, kaanasso
[Radiofutura] report on croatian recordings (technical), Matthias Pusch
- <Possible follow-ups>
- SV: [Radiofutura] report on croatian recordings (technical), Kåre Johan Lund
- SV: [Radiofutura] report on croatian recordings (technical), Kåre Johan Lund
  - Re: SV: [Radiofutura] report on croatian recordings (technical), Matthias Pusch
    - [Radiofutura] involving yourself, Marie-Luise Goerke
    - [Radiofutura] radiofutura providence, robinamer
    - Re: [Radiofutura] involving yourself, carmen petcu
    - Re: [Radiofutura] involving yourself, Jaume Piqué
    - Re: [Radiofutura] involving yourself, Sanja
    - Re: [Radiofutura] involving yourself, Marie-Luise Goerke
    - Re: [Radiofutura] involving yourself, carmen petcu
[Radiofutura] radio theory, links and intros..., gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] hello julia, Eurydice Aroney
Aw: [Radiofutura] (Academic) Literature on Feature, helmut kopetzky
[Radiofutura] (Academic) Literature on Feature, Julia Tieke
[Radiofutura] IFC newsletter JUN 04... (preview), WillemD
[Radiofutura] hello I'm new, Eurydice Aroney
[Radiofutura] about translation, priscille caz
- Re: [Radiofutura] about translation, Marie-Luise Goerke
- Re: [Radiofutura] about translation, kaye mortley
RE: [Radiofutura] travel and translation, priscille caz
[Radiofutura] customs and a toast, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] travel, Karina Schwann
- Re: [Radiofutura] travel, edwin brys
Aw: [Radiofutura] mic.-insurance, helmut kopetzky
[Radiofutura] mic.-insurance, Marie-Luise Goerke
Aw: [Radiofutura] awards, helmut kopetzky
[Radiofutura] awards, gregory whitehead
- [Radiofutura] mp3-hosting, Matthias Pusch
[Radiofutura] radio drama and microphones, Matthias Pusch
- [Radiofutura] Gregory Whitehead wins the Sony Drama Award!, edwin brys
[Radiofutura] SV: Radiofutura digest, Vol 1 #86 - 2 msgs, Lisbeth Jessen DR DOKUMENTAR
- <Possible follow-ups>
- SV: [Radiofutura] SV: Radiofutura digest, Vol 1 #86 - 2 msgs, Kåre Johan Lund
[Radiofutura] Edwina and the engaged subject, gregory whitehead
- Re: [Radiofutura] Edwina and the engaged subject, carmen petcu
- Re: [Radiofutura] Orient Express, carmen petcu
[Radiofutura] Re: Radiofutura digest, Vol 1 #82 - 4 msgs, gregory whitehead
- Re: [Radiofutura] essay vs. feature, Marie-Luise Goerke
  - Re: [Radiofutura] essay vs. feature, edwin brys
- Re: [Radiofutura] Re: Radiofutura digest, Vol 1 #82 - 4 msgs, Sanja
[Radiofutura] wither the script?, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] THE VOICE, kaye mortley
[Radiofutura] the actors voice, SEAudio123
[Radiofutura] play the thing, gregory whitehead
- AW: [Radiofutura] play the thing, Helmut Kopetzky
[Radiofutura] sun, acting-like-non-acting and things, Marie-Luise Goerke
- Re: [Radiofutura] sun, acting-like-non-acting and things, Sanja
  - Re: [Radiofutura] sun, acting-like-non-acting and things, Marie-Luise Goerke
    - Re: [Radiofutura] sun, acting-like-non-acting and things, edwin brys
    - AW: [Radiofutura] sun, acting-like-non-acting and things, Helmut Kopetzky
    - Re: [Radiofutura] sun, acting-like-non-acting and things, Sanja
    - [Radiofutura] toys, Marie-Luise Goerke
    - Re: [Radiofutura] toys, edwin brys
    - Re: [Radiofutura] toys, edwin brys
    - Re: [Radiofutura] toys, Sanja
    - Re: [Radiofutura] toys, carmen petcu
    - Re: [Radiofutura] toys, Sanja
- Re: [Radiofutura] sun, acting-like-non-acting and things, carmen petcu
- <Possible follow-ups>
- SV: [Radiofutura] sun, acting-like-non-acting and things, Kåre Johan Lund
[Radiofutura] addresses, hana kolman
[Radiofutura] scrambled utopia and a side of public service, svp, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] introduction, kaye mortley
[Radiofutura] 30th International Feature Conference, IFC 2004, Marie-Luise Goerke
- [Radiofutura] little croatian dream, srdjan nogic
  - Re: [Radiofutura] little croatian dream, kaye mortley
  - AW: [Radiofutura] little croatian dream, Helmut Kopetzky
[Radiofutura] unscrambled, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] scrambled, gregory whitehead
- Re: [Radiofutura] scrambled, Marie-Luise Goerke
- Re: [Radiofutura] scrambled, kaye mortley
[Radiofutura] zagreb lazy friday, Ljubica Letinic
- Re: [Radiofutura] zagreb lazy friday,
- [Radiofutura] Ljubica's case, edwin brys
[Radiofutura] ljubica update?, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] dissent, gregory whitehead
- Re: [Radiofutura] dissent, Sanja
[Radiofutura] Re: Re: [Radiofutura] shell I be ashamed? , Ljubica Letinic
- Re: [Radiofutura] Re: Re: [Radiofutura] shell I be ashamed?, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] shell I be ashamed?, Ljubica Letinic
- Re: [Radiofutura] shell I be ashamed?, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] danse macabre, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] will the will, will?, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] 40 hour mini disc, SEAudio123
[Radiofutura] new 30 minutes on HR 1, Ljubica Letinic
- Re: [Radiofutura] new 30 minutes on HR 1, edwin brys
  - Re: [Radiofutura] new 30 minutes on HR 1,
[Radiofutura] feedback loop, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] Lamento again, toshi
[Radiofutura] FW: Greetings from Ireland, Michael O'Kane
- Re: [Radiofutura] FW: Greetings from cro-Ireland, srdjan nogic
[Radiofutura] bbc radio drama contest, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] interview friction and a danse macabre, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] MD-recording, Karina Schwann
[Radiofutura] zaimoglu author, Karina Schwann
[Radiofutura] Hello, Jane Lewis
[Radiofutura] entropy, freedom, technology and talent, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] SV: Radiofutura digest, Vol 1 #54 - 3 msgs, Hege Dahl
[Radiofutura] Hard disc, soft tape, floppy hangovers., SEAudio123
[Radiofutura] harddisc recording, Marie-Luise Goerke
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: [Radiofutura] harddisc recording, priscille caz
  - RE: [Radiofutura] harddisc recording + net festival, srdjan nogic
    - [Radiofutura] RE:net festival, toshi
    - Re: [Radiofutura] RE:net festival + real time + one more christmass, srdjan nogic
Aw: [Radiofutura] Laughter, Features and Power, helmut kopetzky
[Radiofutura] Laughter, Features and Power, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] radiobaby, kasia michalak
[Radiofutura] SV: Radiofutura digest, Vol 1 #48 - 2 msgs, Hege Dahl
- Re: [Radiofutura] SV: Radiofutura digest, Vol 1 #48 - 2 msgs, srdjan nogic
[Radiofutura] www.emotionsguaranteed.nl, Piet Marsman
[Radiofutura] Archives, priscille caz
- Re: [Radiofutura] Archives & mindflow & sence of humor..., srdjan nogic
[Radiofutura] and now something completely different, antonija letinic
- Re: [Radiofutura] and now something completely same, srdjan nogic
  - Re: [Radiofutura] and now something completely same, srdjan nogic
[Radiofutura] answer, Balázs Attila
[Radiofutura] Broadcast still exists, Helmut Kopetzky
[Radiofutura] appointments with mother radio, gregory whitehead
- Re: [Radiofutura] appointments with mother radio, toshi
[Radiofutura] future, Helmut Kopetzky
[Radiofutura] sex, lines, circles and spirals - story development and radio culture, SEAudio123
[Radiofutura] lines, circles, spirals, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] analog radio and nonlinear stories, toshi
- Re: [Radiofutura] lamento experts and nonlinear stories, Sanja Lovrencic
[Radiofutura] Sisak Second..., Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] in your own voice, gregory whitehead
- Re: [Radiofutura] in your own voice, Marie-Luise Goerke
  - Re: [Radiofutura] in your own voice, Edwin Brys
[Radiofutura] bonjour,
[Radiofutura] sisak, Marie-Luise Goerke
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: [Radiofutura] sisak, priscille caz
- [Radiofutura] sisak, Karina Schwann
  - Re: [Radiofutura] sisak, Sanja Lovrencic
[Radiofutura] development and narration, Marie-Luise Goerke
- Re: [Radiofutura] development and narration, Sanja Lovrencic
  - Re: [Radiofutura] development and narration, Marie-Luise Goerke
    - Re: [Radiofutura] development and narration, Edwin Brys
    - Re: [Radiofutura] development and narration, Sanja Lovrencic
    - Re: [Radiofutura] development and narration, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] Lec, Ljubica Letinic
- [Radiofutura] Re: Poet Lec and Lamento, toshi
  - Re: [Radiofutura] Re: Lamento, Sanja Lovrencic
    - Re: [Radiofutura] Re: Lamento, Edwin Brys
    - Re: [Radiofutura] Re: Lamento, Sanja Lovrencic
    - Re: [Radiofutura] Re: Lamento, Edwin Brys
    - [Radiofutura] narration, Sanja Lovrencic
[Radiofutura] IFC Monthly Newsletter - November Issue, Laurent Marceau
[Radiofutura] art and life, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] Lamento, the pope and me, toshi
- Re: [Radiofutura] Lamento, the pope and me, Edwin Brys
[Radiofutura] the trickster, gregory whitehead
- Re: [Radiofutura] the trickster, Sanja Lovrencic
- [Radiofutura] lamento and tricksters, Edwin Brys
[Radiofutura] lamento, gregory whitehead
[Radiofutura] Lamento s, toshi
- Re: [Radiofutura] Lamento s, Sanja Lovrencic
[Radiofutura] turkish author the second, Karina Schwann
[Radiofutura] huhu, Karina Schwann
[Radiofutura] heads, tails and the nature of memory, gregory whitehead
- Re: [Radiofutura] heads, tails and the 'the old site', WillemD
  - Re: [Radiofutura] heads, tails and the 'the old site', Edwin Brys
[Radiofutura] good headers, Edwin Brys
[Radiofutura] mic, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] html-problems by receiving mail??, WillemD
[Radiofutura] Yeah! It's November!, WillemD
- Re: [Radiofutura] Yeah! It's November!, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] literature and resistance, gregory whitehead
- [Radiofutura] live-to-air-features, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] interview, karina.schwann
- Re: [Radiofutura] interview, toshi
- Re: [Radiofutura] interview, Edwin Brys
[Radiofutura] backsides and cabarets, gregory whitehead
- Re: [Radiofutura] backsides and cabarets, Edwin Brys
[Radiofutura] id/live-doku/sanja, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] greetings, gregory whitehead
- <Possible follow-ups>
- [Radiofutura] greetings, Sanja Lovrenčić
[Radiofutura] new member crossing the ocean?, Edwin Brys
[Radiofutura] Fw: kosovo, Ljubica Letinic
[Radiofutura] from Pavlica, hana kolman
- Re: [Radiofutura] from Pavlica, Marie-Luise Goerke
[Radiofutura] (no subject), karina.schwann
- <Possible follow-ups>
- [Radiofutura] (no subject), kasia michalak
- [Radiofutura] (no subject), Sherre DeLys
- [Radiofutura] (no subject), Pottspyt
- [Radiofutura] (no subject), Liesbeth Van Loock
- [Radiofutura] (no subject), Andreas Horchler
[Radiofutura] hello everybody:), Hege Dahl
- Re: [Radiofutura] hello everybody:), WillemD
- Re: [Radiofutura] hello everybody:), Marie-Luise Goerke
  - Re: [Radiofutura] hello everybody:), Edwin Brys
    - Re: [Radiofutura] hello everybody:), carmen petcu
    - [Radiofutura] withdraw, Marie-Luise Goerke
    - Re: [Radiofutura] withdraw, Edwin Brys
[Radiofutura] formatted mails, toshi

28th IFC, Zagreb, 2002, Apr 20 - 25

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:58:11 CST

report

"28. MEĐUNARODNA FEATURE KONFERENCIJA"

few pictures 2

ifeatureconference — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:59:57 CST

The whole bunch at the 29th IFC Toronto, canada

September 1 - 10.40 am, and everybody is listening

Colorfull Julie Shapiro

Ljubo Pauzin, receiving compliments on his feature "The scent of a Kitchen".

Views from the CN tower

A view from the CN Tower

Another view from the CN tower

29th IFC, Toronto, 2003, Aug 30 - Sep 04

ifeatureconference — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:53:33 CST

Personal IFC stories

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:45:13 CST

My first IFC was 'LONDON' (WillemD, NL)

What's yours...?

(it's a start! ..or not?)

The Genenis of the IFC

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:14:12 CST

The genesis of the
International Feature Conference
Peter Leonhard Braun

The international radio documentary was a pretty bland concoction up until the mid-1960s. Although most radio countries made documentaries, some producing innovative and interesting results, no-one knew anything about each other. The people involved were not acquainted with each other. It was a state of isolation, like standing on a cliff at night, seeing the lights of distant ships or beacons, but having no way of contacting them.
When I first went to the Prix Italia in 1966 to listen to the radio-documentary competition entries, I was the only person in the room.

This ice-age of international radio documentary was also characterised by a rigidity of forms and antiquated technical equipment. Radio documentary was primarily a studio-recorded litany recited by narrators, a narrative dramaturgy in a journalistic or literary style, related to the reportage or the essay. Its main role was always to convey infor-mation. The tingling, exciting potential of radio as a medium was either unknown or ignored. Radio documentary was something akin to a talking head which lacked practically everything below it: a chest, a belly, of course - and especially genitals.

The first three "beacons" with which I began cross-border collaboration were flashing in the Netherlands, Hungary and Poland. Their names were Bob Uschi, chef de cuisine of radio documentary for NOS Hilversum, who, aided by three researchers, served a brilliant half-hour gourmet documentary every week; Lajos Lorand, who was developing inves-tigative radiophonics in Budapest; and Witold Zadrowski, the great reporter with the omnidirectional microphone, who crafted perfect original-sound documentaries despite the limitations of mono. The French were equally pioneering in the art of radio documentary; Zagreb also ought to be mentioned, along with Copenhagen and the experimenting BBC. Change was in the air, and it was emerging in different places simultaneously.

The radical breakthrough for innovation, however, came with stereophonics. This was the time of Berlin, the second half of the 1960s. We learned how to write using acoustic sequences rather than language. We started to forget the typewriter, using the new tools of documentary production instead. We wrote with the microphone, the tape recorder, the scissors and the sound mixer. The exciting thing was that we were able to leave our studios and desks and go out into the open, liberating radio documentary from its traditional and technical fetters. Suddenly, we were no longer tied to an office devoted to writing; the whole world belonged to us.

The portable tape recorder allowed us to give up our sedentary existence and become nomads and hunters once more .... with the microphone as our weapon.

My God, what a feeling of liberation! We no longer wrote about a subject, we recorded it ourselves. We were acoustic cameras, shooting our sound material in the wild, then combining it into productions. We called these documentary works "acoustic films".

Noises and sounds were no longer simply accessories, extras or illustrations of a theme or plot, they became the theme itself. They were no longer playing a supporting role, they had taken over the lead. By contrast, the written and spoken word declined in importance, ultimately disappearing completely from later productions during this development. Voices, too, were no longer feigned studio voices reading scripts, they were living people speaking with their own authenticity and originality - i.e. live recording. It was the real world, not a simulated one.

What was new and difficult for us at that time was learning to write with our ears and for ears, to design or rather compose. In other words, you no longer wrote down clever, informative or pretty things; from now on you dived into your original sound and exploited its potential to compose rational and emotional processes, creating a sentient organism of communication. Just as a composer thinks, guides and feels with his notes, so we could sing our living song from the score of our documentary. A song so alive that it could reach out beyond the loudspeakers to the listeners.

This technical and dramaturgical revolution also revolutionised the international radio documentary. In the early 1970s, there were already a number of groundbreaking productions, so that everyone could hear the profound changes in the genre.
Its aesthetics, its pretensions, its self-image and value system had changed beyond recognition.It was reminiscent of the development from the stagecoach to the rocket.

The Big Bang in international radio documentary came in 1974. The paths of three radio people crossed for the first time at a festival in Ohrid, Macedonia: Ake Blomström from Sweden, the Belgian Andries Poppe and myself. We were like three radio atoms, destined for each other both personally and professionally, converging resolutely on one another. We elected to make it our joint vocation to build and develop the radio documentary on an international level. For radio, it turned out to be a decision of historic significance.

In 1974 Berlin was already a focal point of radio documentary. SFB's Feature Department had been attracting increasing international attention from radio colleagues, due to its novel acoustic ideas on the production of informative radio - and because of the many prizes it had won. This is illustrated by the long list of information visits to Berlin in 1974: BBC London, YLR Helsinki, CBC Toronto, MR Budapest, BRT Brussels, SR Stockholm, RDRS Basel, JRT Zagreb, DR Copenhagen.

However, this early network of the SFB Feature Department had a crucial weakness: it consisted exclusively of bilateral relations, i.e. SFB Feature (P.L. Braun/Klaus Lindemann) only had relations with one other foreign partner station at any one time. There were no contacts between the partners themselves. In 1975, therefore, Blomström, Braun and Poppe decided to convene the first International Feature Conference. It was to be a mega-step in development, pursuing the modernisation and the qualitative progress of radio documentaries not only from the centre in Berlin, but from a whole number of centres.

The very preparations for this first International Feature Conference (Berlin, 23-27 June 1975) were daring and challenging. The organisers did not seek approval from the EBU, the body responsible for international radio conferences, not wishing to risk being forced to set up a committee with equal representation for friend and foe that would then convene and run the conference. On the contrary, this conference convened itself.
It was its own creation.

The second gamble consisted in the total disregard of hierarchies in broadcasting organisations when issuing invitations. People were invited because of their talent and their desire for innovation, not because of their position.

In order to comprehend the need for such unusual steps, it is necessary to appreciate the following:

Radio documentary was not a profession in its own right. Only very few broadcasting organisations even had a documentary department (with its own staff, its own budget, regular programme slots and fixed production times). Documentary was often organised as the poor man in radio drama departments, while more often than not it was a vagrant genre with no organisational affiliation.
Most documentaries expressed traditional formulas, and production and management staff were also correspondingly traditional.
In order to invite documentary makers from both Western and Eastern broadcasting organisations to sit around the same table, it was necessary to circumvent their umbrella organisations (OIRT in the East, EBU in the West), and the political obstacles of their approval procedures.

It all succeeded, and the first International Feature Conference was staged. It was not an expression of the political will of a Western or Eastern umbrella organisation, nor even the result of collaboration between the radio stations Blomström, Braun and Poppe worked for (SR, SFB, BRT respectively). It was something much smaller and much more personal. In essence, it consisted of little more than the professional handshake between Ake, Andries and Leo. It consisted of the idea of acoustic emancipation for the radio documentary, and the vision of cross-border collaboration, bonds of friendship and sticking together. That's the way it was, that's how it happened, that's how it all began.
With the holding of this first conference, the new world of the international radio documentary had been created.

It was a very small world to begin with, numbering only 16 participants from 14 countries: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Yugoslavia, Canada, The Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA . Yet even this first conference brought together protagonists of radio documentary like Zvonimir Bajsic (Zagreb) or Rene Farabet (Paris), who were later to go down in the annals of the genre's history, or people like Karl Schmidt (earplay USA), Knud Ebbesen (Copenhagen), Michael Littleton (Dublin) and Alfred Treiber (Vienna), who were later to enjoy successful managerial careers. It was altogether an inspired, lively gypsy community, none of them high-ranking but many of them important. For many of them, a trick had to be used to bring them to Berlin as official representatives of their radio station.
This trick was a strictly personal invitation which included defrayal of their hotel and other expenses for their stay in Berlin. This meant that they were independent of their bosses and prevented the latter from replacing them around the table at the Berlin conference. Each delegate received DM 32 per day in expenses and DM 35 per night for the hotel. Including entertainment expenses and the scheduled events, the entire conference cost precisely DM†7,537.68. A small price for the launch of a New World.

This first conference had three tasks:

To review the situation of the radio documentary in the participating broadcasting organisations, i.e. staffing, finance, technical facilities, and how the radio documentary was incorporated into the organisational structure of the stations.Conclusion: virtually no staff, little money, frequently no access to professional studios, outdated recording equipment and, with a few exceptions, a low or even non-existent organisational status.
To review the prevailing ideas on documentary production with demonstrations of one typical and one unusual documentary respectively from each participating broadcasting organisation. Conclusion: much traditional trash, some radiophonic gold, and four diamonds worthy of export.
To investigate opportunities for collaboration: How could we give each other mutual editorial, financial and technical support, in order to produce an increasing number of high-quality radio documentaries?

Results:
The first International Feature Conference led to the energetic ascent of a neglected programme genre. In Belgium, Austria and Hungary it resulted in the establishment of new feature departments. Imports and exports of documentary diamonds began.
The era of international co-production was underway.

The conference ended with a unanimous decision that the conference should be held every year, with the next one to take place again in Berlin.

And then we sang the radio documentary Internationale:
"Wacht auf, Verdammte dieser Erde" ("Awake O Damned of this Earth")
Everyone knew that better times awaited the radio documentary.
We would make sure of that ourselves.

04th IFC, Vienna, 1978, May 21 - 26

ifeatureconference — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:53:39 CST

32nd IFC, Vienna, 2006, Apr 29 - May 04

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:49:13 CST