Short Audio Features & Documentary

Selected short features and audio documentary works created for BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts and other outlets. Additional works, such as FIELDS and Perfect Love can be found on their own dedicated pages. Professional sound design and engineering work can be found in my Client Work section.

Slow-Burn Seeking, is a short work of audio fiction inspired by text from dozens of 80's & 90's era personal ads drawn from an archive of the On Our Backs women's erotica magazine. Using only remixed text from these ads and from their own contemporary dating profile, Ariana composed this heart-to-heart conversation between a lovesick queer person still finding their footing and a benevolent queer ghost (voiced by Casey Orozco-Poore).

Produced with support from Falling Tree Productions.

Shortlisted for the 2021 Hearsay Prize.

To Fail as a Witness was created in response to Mary Oliver's Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith (New and Selected Poems, Volume 2, pg. 130-131), a poem that recognizes the slow, incremental processes of the natural world--minute shifts in the environment humans often fail to see. In conversation with Anne Fosburg, I draw connections between observation, storytelling, and the urgent need for environmental action.

Inspired by correspondence with Anne Fosburg and Mitchell Johnson.

Music: Planetary Bands, Warming World courtesy of Dan Crawford and Professor Scott St. George.

Produced with support from Falling Tree Productions.

The People Who Feel documents tenderness, rebirth, and resilience on a farm in the hills of Lajas, Puerto Rico. Featuring Henry Córdova, a farmer raising goats and dairy cows.

Produced with support from Falling Tree Productions.

Night Rider revisits my childhood self in the slightly altered gravity of a lone car on a barren stretch of road. We hear what fills a child’s mind on what seems like a deep space journey as the night leaks in and the stars dissolve.

Produced with support from Falling Tree Productions.

Reverberations was produced as part of an audio/visual installation for historic Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island. The Fort Adams “listening tunnels” serve to remind us that we respond to this fear the only way we know how: by creating something equally unfathomable, dark, and deep with which to fight it.

To the Moon and Back for Now Here This Audio: What happens when a whole neighborhood gazes skyward? Interviews conducted by Eloise Sherrid, edited and mixed by Ariana Martinez. Music: Endless Story About Sun and Moon by Kai Engel under an Attribution-NonCommercial License.