The set list from Talia Augustidis’s In The Dark event in Philly, where she chose pieces on the theme of “LOVE”.
Community Visions: Outside My Door (2023)
If your community had everything you needed to fully live and thrive, what would it be like outside your door?
This is a beautiful piece imagining what Philadelphia could be, by Anissa Weinraub. She said: “The storytellers featured here are Black youth and a multiracial group of educators; both groups who are far too often vilified, stereotyped or dismissed by mainstream media. With their experiences at the center, we take listeners on the journey from what is to what should be, pushing back against the daily and structural violences that Philadelphians have been forced to normalize and numb ourselves to, and instead, articulate the world and life that we deserve.”
10cm (2022)
One of the strongest kinds of love, we are told, is a parents love for their child. This love can develop even before the child is born.
Produced by Chris Attaway two weeks before the birth of his daughter, who wasn’t named yet. They called her 10cm. It features Chris’s partner Beth Lewis.
Telling You Stories (2018)
Then children grow up, and can walk, and talk, and go about the world, and you can’t control their world… Kaitlyn’s Dad is obsessed with safety. So he, lovingly, tells his daughter bedtime stories about freak accidents.
Produced by Kaitlyn Schwalje, Cristal Duhaime and Mira Burt-Wintonick for CBC’s Love Me.
We Don’t Say It (2021)
A lot of people struggle to communicate their love. This story is by the Australian maker Mike Williams, it was made for Audio Playground, which sets prompts which people can respond to with short works. This prompt was to roll a dice and make a piece about the number that came out.
Grandparent Love (2011)
Certain family members often don’t struggle to communicate their love: grandparents. Even if your parents have a tricky relationship with their parents, it can skip a generation. A charming depiction of this kind of love comes from CBC’s Wiretap, produced and hosted by Jonathan Goldstein:
Voicemails from Mom (2017)
A year after his mum passed away, Jeff Cohen took her voice mails and made a piece out of it. It’s a portrait of sorts. You can feel the love flow in so many directions. From Jeff’s mum to Jeff, to Jeff’s daughters, and — in the making of the programme — from Jeff to his mum.
Kindergarten (2016)
A very pure representation of a first love.
Produced by Elizabeth Friend.
tête-à-tête (1974)
Falling in love is such a magical feeling. In Annea Lockwood and Ruth Anderson’s case, it all started with a telephone call. In 1973, Ruth Anderson was seeking a substitute teacher for the Electronic Music Studio in New York, which she founded. So, on a recommendation, she phoned up meone recommended Annea Lockwood. Within days of meeting in person the pair were, in Ruth’s words, “joyously entangled.”
Over the next nine months, while Ruth was living in New Hampshire, the couple would speak daily by phone in between visits. Ruth recorded these phone calls and, in 1974, surprised Annea with a cassette containing “Conversations,” a private piece. The centerpiece of the cassette is Tête-à-tête, a tender musique concrète piece.
Love at Third Sight (2019)
The road to love is not always so smooth. Abhishek Shah knows that better than most. He went to India from the US to visit his family, and he met a woman and they fell in love pretty instantly — “at the third sight”. After a year of long distance, he proposed, and they planned to move back to the US together. But the problem came when he was trying to win over his new fiancees family…
Performed by Abhishek Shah for The Moth.
Leonard and Marianne (2008)
Marianne was a muse. And not just anyone’s muse, she was Leonard Cohen’s muse.
The next piece encapsulates all of the feelings the previous pieces have explored so far. Young love, falling head over heels, and unfortunately a new emotion, that often comes with the territory: heartbreak.
Produced by Alan Hall and Falling Tree Productions in 2008, based on another work by Kari Hesthamar for NRK, the Norwegian public broadcaster, using some of Kari’s recordings.
Going West (2017)
After 72 years living in Iceland, a man visits Reykjavík for the first time in his life. And in Iceland that is SO rare, that it made national news.
Apart from being a funny, charming piece, the relationship between this man and his wife represents such a beautiful kind of love. A teasing kind of love, which comes with many years, and a lot of respect.
Produced by Rúnar Snær Reynisson for RÚV.
10cm – part 2! (2025)
Chris Attaway recorded an update to his piece 10cm.