Home
We use the magic of audio to retell and
reimagine personal stories and social conversations,
for a fresh transmission of the contemporary narratives that matter most.
[CONVERSATIONS RETOLD] [STORIES REIMAGINED] [BROADCASTING REDEFINED]
Home
We use the magic of audio to retell and
reimagine personal stories and social conversations,
for a fresh transmission of the contemporary narratives that matter most.
[CONVERSATIONS RETOLD] [STORIES REIMAGINED] [BROADCASTING REDEFINED]
About
[SOCIAL BROADCASTS]
About
[SOCIAL BROADCASTS]
ABOUT
‘Social Broadcasting’, combines community engagement, co-creation, audio production and broadcasting techniques, where everyday conversations and narratives can create meaningful insights around broader social themes. Social Broadcasts are often collaborative and immersive, experimenting with many different forms of audio as well as creating interactive environments where the public are invited to share and record their own experiences and stories. We believe that everyone has a story but they need the right context and framework to be heard.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
Silver Award winner for ‘Sustainability’ Audio Production Awards for Wild Eye
Honourable Mention for ‘Voice Archive’ Phonurgia Nova Awards for Loss in Translation
Shortlisted for ARAIS Radio Drama Award In The Beginning
Shortlisted for Short Feature Prix Marulic In The Beginning
Shortlisted for Sandford St Martin Young Audience Award In The Beginning
Shortlisted for The British Podcast Awards - Kids In The Beginning
Shortlisted for Independent Podcast Awards - Children and Young Adults In The Beginning
CLIENTS & PARTNERS
Each brief has enabled us to further develop and refine these tools and techniques in diverse environments, adapting them to different challenges and expectations.
The more we facilitate opportunities and create different frameworks for real life face-to-face participatory audio storytelling, active listening and conversation, the more we realise just how effective this is, creating empathy, understanding and a sense of togetherness for those involved, not to mention the invaluable creation of a locally and potentially globally accessible audio archive of current social history.
We believe that Social Broadcasting will become recognised as a powerful participatory medium, enabling personal stories, experiences and ‘every day’ voices to be heard and shared.
PRESS AND ARTICLES
In The Space With… Lucia Scazzocchio Old Diorama News - Tom Lees (February 2023)
Voices you wont hear elsewhere The Audio Storyteller - Clare Wiley, (December 2022)
Producing stories for Children with In The Beginning - Pod Bible, Francesca Turauskis (December 2022)
Founder
[BEHIND THE SCENES]
Founder
[BEHIND THE SCENES]
LUCIA SCAZZOCCHIO - FOUNDER
Lucia has had a rich and diverse career revolving around print journalism, sound and new media. It is an on-going obsession with radio spanning from her early teens that lead her to work with many broadcast formats from community, student and pirate radio to commercial and online stations. This experience led her to question the value and current formats of internet-radio and to begin experimenting with how radio production and broadcasting techniques can be adapted to our current times.
She is an award winning sound artist and audio producer and has been nurturing and curating divers stories and conversations that weave individual personal narratives as a way to help us better understand the wider social context. She calls this ‘Social Broadcasting’. Driven by creating engaging participatory radio and audio experiences that she 'audioscapes' into imaginative on and off-line broadcast initiatives and formats, Social Broadcasting represents the versatility of audio as an evolving social and artistic medium. She has worked with many of the major museums (Tate, V&A, Van Abbe Museum, London Transport Museum, British Museum, Tower of London) to create immersive community and oral history focused sound works as well as producing shortlisted audio documentaries and radio dramas.
Most Social Broadcasts productions are collaborative, working with a team. We have also commissioned talented audio producers, sound designers, writers and researchers to work on specific projects: Sasha Edye Linder, Mae-Li Evans, Silvia Malnati, Hawa Khan, Leona Fensome, Samuel Robinson
Social Broadcasting
[SOCIAL BROADCASTING]
Social Broadcasting
[SOCIAL BROADCASTING]
FORMATS
Social Broadcasts is a different kind of audio company, putting personal stories and conversations at the heart of everything we produce.
Here are some of the formats that we have developed:
-
Live workshops, immersive broadcasts and live radio experiments that encourage new ways of listening and promote the power of community conversation. Find out more
-
Bringing topics of discussion and conversations to life through thoughtful production and beautifully crafted sound. Examples
-
Capturing the heart of a neighbourhood through the voices of the people that live and work there. Find out more
-
Creating frameworks and contexts in order to record and transmit personal stories and experiences around a specific place or moment in time. (Oral histories) Example
-
Visualising intimate personal audio story-telling through animation. Podcasts for the ears and the eyes. Example
-
A digital platform dedicated to independent speech-based audio works and bespoke curated audio collections. Find out more
A METHODOLOGY
The Evolution of Social Broadcasting:
To learn more about Social Broadcasting:
Read Hyperlocal radio – Reclaiming conversation through Social Broadcasting (The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio, Edited by Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell, Bloomsbury Press, 2023) HERE
Read Social Broadcasting - Reclaiming Conviviality in Radio (Unpublished Academic Paper Oct 2019) HERE
Listen to this Episode of XMTR Radio Hour about how Social Broadcasts uses radio formats to initiate, facilitate and record everyday conversations HERE