Jens Jarisch
Jens Jarisch has spent half his life in Berlin, where he currently works as an independent producer of one-hour radio documentaries.
He has squandered valuable years studying literature, occupying himself with random travels to peculiar places all along. Spellbound by the world's sound, he began recording what he found most difficult to grasp, trying to reveal the hidden and make it audible. Jarisch's work runs to twelve documentaries and has been awarded with several national and international media prizes.
producer
Sodom and Gomorrah is a hellish place in Accra, Ghana, where children eke out a living on a scrap heap of discarded computers that the West no longer needs.
The sounds of the city resonate as Hong Kong comes to life through audio mosaic and three voices: a traveler remembers, newscasters rattle off facts and statistics, a young woman recalls a legend from her fading childhood.
This hour: Children try to survive in, and escape from, a Ghanaian slum called Sodom and Gomorrah.
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts this year's national broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2011 TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
presenter
Microphones cannot capture situations as they are percieved. A car crash on tape lacks everything that the experience of an accident amounts to: the surprise, the holding of breath, the shock, the sadness.
participant
October 9-11, Orrington Hotel, Evanston IL