Open Music Lab

🐞 INTRODUCING OUR MENTORS 🐞

#3 - Luisa Beck & Ben Osborn

The second week of the Creative Podcasting Programme is all about creating a concept for a podcast, putting together a production timeline and content framework, as well as getting an intro to audio recording, editing, and how to work with music and sound. 🎵

Luisa Beck is a Senior Producer for Audible EU, where she creates fiction and nonfiction audio dramas, audiobooks, and podcasts. Before joining Audible, she created and hosted "Dear Poetry", an audio advice podcast that turns to poems for guidance, and which The Atlantic named a "Best Podcast of 2022". Luisa has guest lecturto students in many universities in the US and Germany.

When asked what is she looking forward to most about hosting her workshop, Luisa put an emphasis in learning from the participants' experiences and supporting them in realising their story ideas. Above all, she's looking forward to experimenting together, playing around with audio, and having fun together! 💃🏻

Ben is a writer, songwriter, composer and sound designer from Oxford, UK, now based in Berlin, Germany. Coming from a poetic folk song tradition, his work draws also from electronica and classical music to create a space in which highly personal and deeply political stories can be told.

He is one of the founders of the Open Music Lab, where he organizes and teaches in a collaborative learning space for refugees, migrants and others from marginalized communities. Ben's excited to show how, using free software, you can be really creative with the sound world of your podcast and combine sound, music and skilful editing to tell a story or make the listener go through an experience.🫂

will also host a workshop on outlining roles and responsibilities within teams, and will help participants understand which role suits them best.

We can't wait to finally kick off this fantastic workshop series on Monday, and listen to the stories that our course participants will have to share with the world 💚