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"Cicatrix" resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness, and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war.
Cicatrix was produced for the 2008 TCF ShortDocs Challenge: Radio Ephemera.
Producer
Joan Schuman's audiophilia whispers into the radio’s ear. Documentaries and poetic narratives have aired in the States, Canada, Europe and Australia in festivals, online and on CD compilations. Though she's a child of the East Coast (Philadelphia) and an adult of the West (Northern and Central California, the U.S. Southwest), Schuman now lives at the coast in Santa Cruz, California, and, since 2004, teaches online audio/radio production and theory classes in the Media Studies department at The New School in New York.
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Radio Ephemera challenged any/everyone to produce a short audio work inspired by two books from the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, and featuring the voice of a stranger.
Cicatrix
Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens
Stranger: Salima, survivor of a cluster-bomb lobbed into her village in Lebanon during the Israeli August 2006 war; her voice (and that of various translators) was shared with me by radio colleague Jessica Dheere, who interviewed her and numerous other cluster-bomb victims in Beirut that fall.
Read about and listen to all 72 Radio Ephemera submissions.
Hear more audio work from Joan Schuman.
Check out Joan's website, HyperAcousia.