I had the absolute honour of being artist in residence at HearSay Audio Festival 2026. I created The Strange Mythical Magical Tour of Kilfinane, ran the safe + sound pub, produced new local stories for A Mile in My Shoes, and performed a special HearSay version of No Kids. Thank you so much to Diarmuid […]
As Artist in Residence of HearSay Festival 2026, I worked with the Sonic Historical Investigators (AKA Scoil Fionan‘s sixth class – 24 twelve year olds) to make an alternative audio history tour of Kilfinane. HearSay Festival sees 300 audio producers from all over the world arrive to Kilfinane – a market town with a population […]
I curated and facilitated a panel discussion on queering audio storytelling for Oorzaken Festival 2025, with guests Nicole Kelly and Randy Vermeulen – I cannot recommend listening to both their work enough. We looked at storytelling through a queer lens, what it can look like to ‘queer’ audio, making ‘queer normative’ audio and how to […]
New Year New You?! Sign up to safe + sound’s 12 week Short Form Audio course starting Monday 12th January 2026! Are you an early career audio producer? Someone working in audio looking to push yourself creatively? Someone with editing knowledge from a different craft – musician / sound designer / mix engineer / drag […]
Heard: All About Trans – 2023 – presentI facilitate interactions for All About Trans: a project run by Heard. All About Trans brings together media professionals with a network of trans people for informal, off the record interactions intended as a safe learning space to improve trans representation in the mainstream media. In the Dark […]
JESSE LAWSON