Reading for the Listener
On producing the audio essay — and why sound should sometimes know when to remain silent.
What happens when a written essay moves from the eye to the ear? On voice, silence and restraint in service of the text.
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SCHRIFTONJournal
Essays, production notes and conversations on culture, research and the forms ideas take.
Ideas in
their public form.
Articles appear when there is something worth publishing.
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FILM / DEVELOPMENT · 6 min read · S / 001 What Does Freedom Cost?
Developing Rising from Aras — a documentary about flight, motherhood and the difficult act of choosing one's own life.
What does choosing a life of one’s own put at risk? On flight, attachment and the question at the heart of Rising from Aras.
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SOUND / RESEARCH · 8 min read · S / 003 Why Byzantine Studies Needs a Public Voice
What happens when academic research moves beyond the university — and enters the space of conversation, sound and public culture?
How can serious scholarship enter public culture without becoming less serious? On conversation, listening and the possibility of giving academic research another public form.
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