SEASON TWO of Audio Smut is upon us!
We are inviting you to share your ideas and stories with us. In addition to stories, we also like radio drama, sound art, music and any artwork fitting the themes below.
Get your pitches in ASAP!
BEFORE YOU PITCH
Please be familiar with our style an approach before you pitch. We seek first person narratives from a diverse range of voices.
We welcome raw tape, great sexy sounds or any story ideas you have.
Working with Audio Smut is an involved editorial process. But, we welcome different levels of involvement in story production to suit everyone’s time and needs.
We welcome submissions from artists across disciplines. If you have a piece of writing, a performance idea or an installation related to any of these topics, feel free to pitch. We love collaboration.
MONEY
There is currently no financial compensation involved in working with Audio Smut. This is a labor of pure love—we all donate our work to the cause of sexy radio. But we are applying for grants. When we get the dough you will be the first to know! That is a promise.
DEADLINE
All pitches should be submitted by DECEMBER 1, 2013
SEND all pitches to audio.smut.radio@gmail.com
THEME LIST
Coming of Age
This episode is centered around the traditions and rites of passage that surround entering into adulthood. What did becoming a ‘man’ or a ‘woman’ mean to you at the time and what does it mean now.
Getting your first period, having a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Quinceaneras, Purity Balls, getting your driver’s license and losing your virginity are just some examples.
Dream story: Trans person’s perspective and reflection on their gendered coming of age ceremony. For example, a trans man’s perspective on his Bat Mitzvah.
Fu*k Love
Romeo and Juliet was a fucking joke. What kind of love story ends with two dead people? The worst kind, that’s what. Romantic love is relatively new cultural obsession. How did we start using this extremely volatile element as a basis for determining who we start families with? Romantic love was not always the deciding factor for whether a relationship was worth a damn. We want to find stories that explore this history. We are also interested in stories that deal with interesting arrangements, heartbreak so severe that there is no recovery, failures (and successes) of marriage. Dream story: an arranged marriage that works out great.
The Talk
For this episode we are looking stories about ‘the talk.’ You know, the one that your parents had or attempted to have with you about sex. We would like three very detailed and exceptional accounts of this talk. Ideally, you would interview your parents about that very talk, and get their side of the story. After that, we’d like to hear about your first sexual experience—was it before or after the talk? This could have been while you were playing house when you were six, or your first BJ at 16. Through this we’re looking to initiate discussion about the age of consent and parental approaches to sex education.
Sex In the Institution
An institution is any structure or mechanism of social order governing the behaviour of a set of individuals within a given community. When your life is controlled by an institution, sex is rarely included in that, but goddamnit, isn’t sex a constitutional right? We are looking for first hand stories of people fucking within the constraints of a system: Prisons, elderly homes, psych wards, boarding schools and hospitals.
Miscommunication
Have you ever/do you know someone who has been very confused about what is happening in a romantic or intimate situation? We are looking for a story/multiple stories of high stakes situations where there is a disconnect with a person’s perception versus what is actually happening. For example, you are dating someone and you are under the impression that this is some serious-ass-love. You later realize that this situation is nothing more than a casual hook up to your partner. You are destroyed. Or, you are driving yourself completely insane trying to figure out what is going on between you and another person. Please tell us your stories.
Enabling
Enable – enˈābəl verb, give (someone or something) the authority or means to do something.
In what ways do we affect our lovers, friends and the other significant people in our lives’ behavior. Is it for the better or worse? No matter the case, we want to investigate it. Is your love so great and your dynamic so intense that nothing in the world matters? Does anything matter when you have love? This episode is meant to be a celebration of powerful bonds and completely non-judgemental, no matter what the issue at hand is.
We are looking for stories about (dis)functional dynamics, power dynamics, symbiosis (a la hippos and birds), drug addicts and any other destructive (or not) behavior that is enabled by partners. Dream story: a hoarding couple.
Love Letters
We want to explore the idea of analogue love; how communication is different when you’re not using text, Facebook or email. We want to hear your love letters. Letters old and new. Letters between strangers and the most intimate of partners. Long distance or not. Read us your letters and tell us how letters how this old school form of communication affected your relationship.
No
How do you say it? What does it actually sound like, when you are saying ‘No?’ Your ‘no’ might not sound as convincing as you think. We are interested in the subtleties of consent; situations where you didn’t say ‘no’, but you didn’t really say ‘yes’ either. We are interested stories of not feeling like you had an option, or felt it would be easier to just do it. Conversely, we are interested in gaining insight from the other side of the perspective. So, a situation that you perceived as consensual but later you find out that your partner did not see it as such. What went wrong you fool? It’s not that complicated, or is it?
DEADLINE
All pitches should be submitted by NOVEMBER 1, 2013
SEND all pitches to audio.smut.radio@gmail.com
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